Emotionless

Chapter 79, An Unlikely Team

A/N: Hey guys, I hadn't updated this story in a bit of time simply because I wasn't sure if anyone was enjoying it anymore. I'm grateful to be wrong, but this chapter came out later than I wanted it to... Still, I'm determined to get this story updated and so, here's the chapter! Enjoy ;)

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail

"When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up." - Les Brown

Normal Pov

The worldwide known dubbed "Demon" take-over mage gave Lucy a flat look at the blonde's question. "You're a lot of trouble to find, blondie." A tick mark appeared on the side of Lucy's head. "Blondie? Is that the best 'the demon' can think of?" While not technically annoyed she found the nickname ridiculous.

"Tch. You're right. More like bitch."

"Says the one under Erza's thumb." Lucy barked back making Mirajane twitch. "What was that?" She asked through clenched teeth as Lucy waved her hand forwards in a flippant matter. "You know, she insults you and you start a fight just like she expected you to. She comes back from a mission acting all badass and one comment has you cursing her out-"

"What are you, her girlfriend?" Mirajane taunted back.

"Actually, I was thinking you were; being her bitch and all." Having not seen that comment coming Mirajane's arm immediate transformed demon-like in her anger as it slashed downwards at the blonde who blocked it with a sharp bone-white object. Jade's fang, to be precise. As Mirajane pressed harder against Lucy's shielding weapon their faces got closer, a smirking blonde meeting a vicious glaring woman.

"But seeing your reaction, maybe your my girl." Lucy said with a playful wink before pushing Mirajane away with greater force, ultimately using The Demon's own strength against her. The now full take-over demon was now standing ten feet away from Lucy while the citizens of the village were watching them with wary eyes.

"Just kidding! I'm sorry Mirajane, you're just so easy to tease." Lucy said, turning her back away from the snow-head while knowing her guildmate wouldn't dare break her moral and attack her from behind, Jade's fang twirling around her fingers skillfully.

By the time Mirajane decided to catch up with the blonde the S-class mage was eyeing her thoughtfully as Lucy went to work in setting up her place to sleep; in other words using her magic to make the tree branches bend around each other for comfortable sitting arrangement as the blonde leaned her back on the trunk of the tree which was a few dozen off feet off the ground from where The Demon stood on the ground below.

In response Mirajane turned her hands back into claws before using them to climb up the tree on the opposite side of Lucy about twenty feet away before reversing her claws back human only for wings to stretch out from her back to wrap comfortably around her against the trunk of the tree. Neither mages glanced at each other as they looked into the starry night until Lucy told Mirajane to get some sleep, and that she'd take watch.

Though the white-haired mage didn't want to close her eyes and leave Lucy to the responsibility of looking out for trouble because she didn't particularly trust her, even after the Eisenwald incident, she ended up sighing and let it go. Gently lying her head against the trunk of the tree dark eyes closed behind tired eyelids as she finally let sleep claim her, leaving only her soft breathing in her wake.

Lucy glanced over at Mirajane at the sound of her settled breathing before turning back to the sky, looking up and thinking of the Mirajane from her original time. "Imagine what you'd say if you saw her, aye Mira?" Then the blonde's eyes darkened in reminder. "You'd probably convince her to kill me wouldn't you though? Just like everyone else.." Lucy sighed quietly, watching as her breath appeared as a faint whisper in the cool air.

Everyone who she thought were her friends, despite being cast away, turned their backs on her simply because royalty ordered her to be treated as so because they couldn't have the next in line of the crown associated with her - the scapegoat. Opening two gates was a feat on its own and on a normal basis she could summon three that would drain her magic reserves back then and yet she managed to open all twelve gates by herself and lived for the tale to be spread and her name hunted down across a dragon-ruled world of destruction and mankind nearing its extinction.

"Why did it have to come to this, Rogue?"

The man from the future of her past of a different future. He who went mad from loss and self-destruction. Black and white hair, red haunted eyes, and that mask of chilling indifference as he played everyone including the Fiores' themselves like a fiddle to his own orchestra. And like her, he was lost in alternate dimensions searching for her to kill her and somehow save his past self's future by erasing all of Lucy Heartfilia's existence.

And where was she? Off in a world inside a body that isn't truly her own and using an identity that had been given to her by one of the ones who began this whole mess. Or perhaps that was the Eclipse and its creator? Did Eclipse truly just appear as part of time itself or is there more to the mysterious gate?

"This is ridiculous," the blonde muttered to herself as she looked away from the sky. Who was she to question such things when she had sacrificed everything by throwing herself into the very object that took everything away from her. She wouldn't have minded the life she had from her home-world. Yes, it wasn't what she wanted but humankind nearly went extinct because of that gate and nearly all of Fairy Tail went after her to stake her life while the ones who didn't were soon killed allowing her to move freely because of the monstrous creatures known as dragons.

Perhaps the only good dragons were the one's who trained human children to learn their magic to slay them or their kind in the future.

But even then it wasn't enough.

Lucy brought a hand up to her right arm where she recalled her future self mentioning how she lost the very same arm to Kira Tenshi of Eclipse who sought the gate out after being thrown into the same world she threw herself into. The one responsible for forming one of the most feared Dark Guild called Leviathan Skull and slaughtered her guildmates and attack team. She had made the battle formations and yet everyone still died.

If she had never existed - died in her homeland, would none of it have happened? Kira had been looking for her, and for how long? Was she connection to her? The one who held the same magic as Lucy because of what that blasted gate had taken from them both? Would Kira exist whether Lucy was there or not?

She needed answers for those questions and those were ones she doubted she would ever know. More importantly, they were not the questions she needed to ask.

"Where was Dark Rogue? Why did Eclipse exist? Was she running towards Dark Rogue or away from him? Why was everyone dying around her?" Those were questions she needed to ask but wasn't so sure she wanted to know the answers. Trouble always seemed to find her whether Fairy Tail was with her or not, and no doubt those answers would come with that trouble.

Lucy had gotten so lost in her thoughts she hadn't noticed that her guildmate had woken up and was stretching her legs with her wings already gone until The Demon spoke, "I'm awake. I'll take watch now." Lucy craned her neck up to see that time had indeed passed greatly with the moon much further than it had been before.

Lucy didn't say anything at first, her black heart beating loudly in her chest at the thought of sleeping. The truth was, emotionless or not, the blonde couldn't bring herself to sleep and hadn't for so long. The dreams were like something out of PTSD and every time she fell into her body's tire she would meet the worst of memories twisted by other memories and thoughts leaving her feeling trapped and forever alone.

There was a fine line between being emotionless and being understand, in those dreams she understood that she was trapped in eternity with no control until she was forced to wake from a dream, shaking and unstable without really feeling the pain of the nightmare but knowing it was there nonetheless.

But if she rejected Mirajane's offer she'd offend the S-class mage and lose whatever fragile trust the blonde was building with Mirajane.

"Did you even hear a word I just said?" Mirajane grumbled, crossing her arms and clearly awake. Lucy sighed aloud causing the other mage to study her and upon realizing she wasn't getting out of this situation without a fight if she chose to be quiet, Lucy began to explain. "I can't sleep, not really."

The snow-haired raised an eyebrow in question allowing the blonde to elaborate. "When I'm awake I can only be haunted by memories but when I close my eyes and allow myself to sleep there's no escaping the life I left behind," the world she left behind...

"Nightmares, you mean?" Mirajane asked, oddly not taunting or making fun of the blonde's subconscious curse.

"Dreams. Nightmares. Twisted versions of my memories. Whatever you want to call them, when my eyes are awake I don't have to face the things I've been through but when they close I'm trapped in it." Lucy shrugged, looking defeated from Mirajane's angle. "I can take it, I mean. But my mind disagrees with my body and even if I tried I cannot fall asleep: its a curse."

Silence fell over the two while one appeared to be conflicted before said person, Mirajane, sighed and flew over to Lucy's tree with wings that both appeared and disappeared in a flash of dark light. "I won't pretend I understand the feeling," Lucy could've laughed at the statement because she couldn't feel, "and I won't ask you to talk about such things that hurt you like this." Lucy looked up in question, no longer able to assume what Mirajane was doing beside her anymore.

"But you do need to sleep, if not for your mind then for your body. You need your magic to complete the rest of the missions and live your life, so I have a solution to your curse." Mirajane said, a look in her eyes so fierce Lucy wasn't sure what it conveyed having been away from Mira for so long in both worlds with her before. Even as alternates they shared the same expressions. "My younger siblings had a lot of nightmares after our parents died, mostly before we found Fairy Tail, and I learned a magic that would help them sleep without worry of nightmares. Sort of like a spell that takes away your dreams but gives you a full rest. It could help you, I think."

Intense blue eyes stared into assuring dark eyes of her guildmate, deciding whether to trust Mirajane to use her magic on her, but as she tried to think of the cons Lucy couldn't bring herself to actually think what obvious things could go wrong and found herself nodding her consent, laying her exhausted back against the trunk of the tree as Mirajane shifted so that she sat beside Lucy, her back facing the blonde's feet as she looked at Lucy who looked away, eyes lost somewhere Mirajane would probably never know. As the S-class mage lifted her hand she watched as Lucy's body tensed but her eyes remained the same as though her body betrayed what she was really feeling, or was it the other way around.

She had her guildmate's consent however and the blonde didn't try to actually move away and so she pressed the flat of her palm against the girl's forehead and concentrated as her hand lit up in a bright white light so unlike the rest of her magic before fading, and after pulling her hand away she found Lucy completely asleep, pressed comfortably (somehow) against the tree. This girl, Lucy, was not much younger than herself and yet was so different than what she had first expected.

Sure she had seen the blonde when she first arrived in their guildhall and later ended up befriended Gray who had been in the guild long since her siblings and she yet got along well with their newest member. Mirajane wouldn't have thought much of Lucy either had she not split Erza and herself apart during one of their usual brawls and displayed magic unlike anything the S-class mage had ever seen, which was saying something. Even when the blonde said she invented the magic Mirajane had caught something untold in the blonde's eyes and so, obviously, she was suspicious.

Lucy showed throughout the entire ordeal with Eisenwald that she was a capable and clever mage who relied on wit and variant types of magic overcoming obstacles not even she or Erza could break through with their strengths combined. There was Lucy's strange realization when she told the team that only she could go ahead to fight Erigor who couldn't be caught up with unless one of them could find him via flight and location and though she and Erza could fly, including Lisanna, none of them knew where or how to find Erigor yet somehow their newest member could.

Then they found Lucy unscathed and unconscious while Erigor was defeated in a gruesome way, Lullaby unknowingly absent from the death flute by the blonde's side. In Clover Town Lucy was discovered to have been possessed by Lullaby and yet something in the Demon's voice made the answer seem false but when Lullaby was slain Lucy was unharmed though unconscious yet again. When Gray and Lucy became an official team and left with more than a few missions Mirajane wondered what name would become of the blonde only to discover the guild had gained a new member upon Gray's return and surprised herself by stating that she'd go and find the girl.

And after going through multiple towns the blonde had been seen in during her missions she finally found the blonde in Craterside with the mission completed and gazing into nothing, appearing to be relatively fine. Now, she knew something that had been tugging at her.. something she knew the mage wasn't telling anyone and now she knew that one of those things was a curse. Lucy couldn't sleep because of something traumatic from her past.

She had willingly put the blonde to sleep with her magic, with her consent, and now said blonde was sleeping blissfully dreamlessly.

A blonde who flew completely over Mirajane's expectations and hinted at so many suspicions. Yet, Mirajane could no longer view the blonde as a threat. Not just because of what the mage had told her but the way she spoke, the way she held herself, and most importantly what her eyes spoke volumes of - even if Lucy herself was unaware of it. Mirajane was perceptive as she had always been and she knew something was haunting of this blonde like a heavy burden.

But she was also no longer inclined to demand to know.

And she was okay with that. She surprised herself again by that and eventually dragged herself to her feet but didn't bother returning to the other tree she slept in before. Instead she climbed a few branches higher and did exactly what she said she would..

-and took watch with a studying gaze.

By morning the sky was an unusual white as though a thick cloud of fog had rolled in despite the air which was nothing close to moist. A white-haired takeover mage woke up from a light doze she had taken since the blonde changed shifts from her without so much a word an hour or two ago. Despite the lack of conversation Mirajane was certain that the look in Lucy's eyes conveyed gratefulness considering the bags that had always adorned the blonde's face had vanished from existence and her skin seemed to have recovered a few shades darker from the unhealthy pale it had been before.

And then, there were her eyes. Unique electrifying blue eyes that seemed to hold claps of lightning inside of them which Mirajane was sure hid a tale deep within, one that may never be spoken.

Looking down the S-class mage found Lucy on the ground doing the strangest thing Mirajane had ever seen anyone do with their magic. There was this golden glow expanded beyond Lucy's body from where she stood, though Mirajane couldn't see her face from her angle, and shapes were forming slowly out of the aura. The magic was so different from the last time she saw it; more calm and tamed than the wild animalistic vibe it gave off before. There was also the color and the way Lucy wielded it.

For half a second Mirajane wondered if this was the same person she had fought again.. because the Lucy she challenged while intoxicated and the Lucy she was partnering with (were they partners?) feel like two very different people. She still teased Mirajane back fearlessly like before but now it was less insulting and more, well, teasing. Playful.

Mirajane remembered how Lucy's aura seemed limitless as it wrapped around her like a hurricane in waves while the world around her remained unharmed. Untamed power. If Lucy had tamed her magic then, does Mirajane even have a clue as to what Lucy's real potential is? How does someone improve so quickly? Change so much?

And still be the same person who walked into Fairy Tail this year.

Fighting this girl wasn't something Mirajane could easily dismissed. She was ashamed of herself for allowing her pride to get the best of her when Lucy hadn't technically done anything to deserve her wrath. The blonde was just... something different. Something Mirajane couldn't place and she was very protective of her nakanama - of Fairy Tail and the way Lucy just walked in and became apart of their guild while their master hardly bat an eyelid at the suddenness of their newest member.. well, it unnerved her.

And she would've gotten over it too but then the blonde just had to step in between her rivalry with Erza. Yes, it was inappropriate but that was Fairy Tail and Mirajane didn't like the way Lucy walked around Fairy Tail like she owned it - as though she had been a part of Fairy Tail as long as she had. Like it was her own family without having been there for over a day.

Naturally, after the Eisenwald incident she had gotten drunk because she was just so confused about Lucy but any doubts she had about the blonde vanished when she fought her. It wasn't from the blonde's power or her magic. No, it was something the other guild members hadn't noticed. It was something Mirajane knew was there but hadn't figured out what it had been until they fought. Lucy fought with experience, like she had seen war, and knew how to survive but what caught Mirajane's eyes was Lucy.

The mage didn't feel pain. She was sure of it. No one doesn't simply get impaled like that and simply pull herself out of it and fight back again with a damn emotionless grin! Either all her nerves were fried or something took away the blonde's pain and Mirajane knew she didn't want anyone to know that side of her. Perhaps it was because it was ingenious in a battle but it could've been more - like the story that goes with it. She decided to back off, knowing better than to pry into her guildmates lives.

But more so, she was concerned for Lucy. The blonde hid it well, she truly did, and yet there's only so much one can hide before the cracks can be seen.

When Gray returned without Lucy, Mirajane decided to find Lucy and finish the missions with her because it felt like it was something she needed to. The Demon wanted to apologize but more so she wanted to help take away some of the blonde's burdens.. the main one being loneliness. She had seen herself in the blonde when she found Lucy, seen what she hid so well around her nakanama so similar to what Mirajane had down around her own siblings before Fairy Tail (although Lisanna always saw through her façade and later on Erza too).

She's heard of stories that tell how magic often takes on the desire or emotions of the mage that has potential for magic. Sometimes it's inheritance but magic is always a choice with those that have it's potential. Some people are cursed with magic and other times its forced as a part of them, but every time the magic becomes a reflection of its mage. When fighting Lucy the randomness of her attacks and unpredictability were fearsome and efficient but nothing was united.. it was like the magic was lost in its purpose.

And just when things were about to get serious Lucy revealed that she could indeed use both caster and holder magic: which was unheard of to her knowledge.

Mirajane still had nightmares of how she could've killed her with the wound she inflicted on Lucy and decided she would be there for the blonde. Whether Lucy saw it as anything or not, Mirajane felt like she owed it to the blonde after potentially killing her had the blonde not been so tough. If she couldn't do that then Mirajane wanted to at least get to know Lucy - the real Lucy. The Lucy that Gray found himself able to trust enough to form a team with her.

With a quick use of her magic she flew quietly down from the tree and landed a dozen or so feet away from the blonde who seemed to finish whatever she had been concentrating on, her golden aura fading back inside of her just in time to turn around and face Mirajane who was walking towards her with an expression that concealed her previous thoughts of the blonde.

"So what's our next mission?" Mirajane asked, hands on hips.

Lucy raised an eyebrow in response before digging in her pocket to pull out the wrinkled job request papers. After handing them over she watched as Mirajane scanned over them with furrowed brows. "Really? That's it? Find an heirloom ring or tame a wild frostang?" Her response caused Lucy to smile as she took the papers back and replied with a wink- "Guess Gray and I already took all the exciting missions.. although he was the one to pick the jobs out in the first place," ending her trailing sentence as she brushed imaginary wrinkles from her clothes.

"I should've figured it was ice princess's doing," Mirajane grumbled.

"Isn't that Natsu's nickname for Gray?" Lucy questioned, clearly appearing bewildered.

"Ch."

After rolling her eyes Lucy turned around and began walking south. "What do you want to do first?" The blonde asked without turning to look at the S-class mage who was now walking beside her.

"I guess find the ring. That way I can watch you embarrass yourself taming the frostang," Mirajane said with a smirk but had nothing but playfulness in her tone which rather threw Lucy. "Are you sure you won't be the one embarrassed? You know, a well-known S-class wizard doing absolutely nothing during a mission?" Lucy teased back causing Mirajane to bristle. The blonde always had a comeback, it would seem.

"Ch."

"Tsk," Lucy murmured back with silent challenge.

"Ch," Mirajane said louder.

"Tsk."

"Ch," navy blue eyes narrowed.

"Tsk," Lucy hissed while trying not to laugh.

"Ch."

"Tsk."

"Ch."

A roar echoed in front of them interrupting their little contest but neither looked surprised at their new encounter. As Mirajane glowed dark purple to take over one of her demon forms, Lucy had blue flames lighting off her body with her fists holding multiple orbs of fire. The two looked over at each other as though assessing each other's skills before nodding, both launching towards the giant horned beast whose claws were the size of Lucy herself.

It's fur was an odd periwinkle color with onyx eyes glaring down at the two mages at his feet and moved to strike them with a poorly aimed giant fist that was immediately severed by a quick swipe of Mirajane's paralyzing poisoned claws who immediately afterwards darted up the monster's body using her wings and began to quickly strike repeatedly as fast as lightning across the monster's torso causing purple blood to splatter with the monster's shrieks of pain.

Distracted by The Demon the monster was oblivious to the blonde mage approaching him from above, a flaming blue leg suddenly swinging downwards in an aggressive attack, and hit the monster's head full-on slamming the beast to the ground and allowing Mirajane to gain the upper hand in momentum and gravity. Lucy, upon deciding she didn't need to go full-out with her more powerful magic withdrew a golden key, and opened the gate between the Celestial World and this world.

Taurus appeared with his giant axe that looked more like a one-handed axe in his hands and grinned widely in front of Lucy from where he appeared. "Beautiful! I won't let this monster outshine your moo-beauty!" A tick mark scratched against Lucy's forehead but didn't get the chance to reply because the golden bull spirit already charged the monster, delivering a back-breaking blow to the monster's torso followed by a demonic screech as Mirajane landed the final blow leaving the monster barely holding unto his soul.

As Mirajane returned well, human, she turned to Lucy who closed Taurus's gate in the middle of his praise about her body and the two met eyes. Then they smirked at each other and without a word returned to their walk out of the forest.

"I didn't like her," Mirajane boldly stated as Lucy and she left their client's office. Lucy nodded in acknowledgement thinking about the client who all but sneered at them upon their entry. Although, she seemed to back off at Mirajane's angered expression nearing the end while Lucy just rocked quietly on her chair sharing no expression. "I suppose she was rather.. unprofessional," Lucy replied softly. "Unprofessional?" Mirajane squawked in disbelief. "She was-"

"Save that thought," Lucy said making Mirajane glower at her. "Really, we might be dealing with some opponents, so unleash that fury on them.. you'll feel much better afterwards than simply ranting to me." Mirajane's shoulders sagged as she muttered quietly, "Yeah. I guess." Seeing her teammate disheartened Lucy knocked her shoulder lightly against Mirajane's own but with enough force to cause the S-class mage to stumble.

"Besides, I want to see you fight when you're angry without being intoxicated."

The reaction Lucy was hoping for was what she got in seeing Mirajane grin frighteningly and pump her fist. "Heh, you won't know what hit you."

"I won't be the one you'll be fighting," Lucy replied sticking her tongue out teasingly.

"Ch."

Though tempted to tsk again the blonde instead shrugged her hands in her pocket as they walked around the town. The client hadn't really told them much. Just that her ring which was passed down to the women of every generation to show their family emblem had been stolen after a petty robbery and she wanted it back. The ring was gold with silver engravings and a variety of shaded emeralds while engraved on ebony was a shield with the woman's family emblem which both Fairy Tail mage's memorized after seeing the banner in the woman's office.

"What do you say about splitting up and finding some clues?" Lucy suggested as Mirajane glared at a man who was clearly stripping her with his eyes. Although after seeing Mirajane's eyes change with her magic into something fearsome the man practically jumped out of his skin and ran for the hills.

"I say," the S-class mage growled, though not directed at Lucy, "you're on. Let's see who finds where the ring is first!"

Lucy watched as Mirajane practically skipped - but The Demon doesn't skip - but rather sprinted off to interrogate - ask, she meant ask! - the closest civilian. The blonde shook her head, a small grin curving her lips. She really missed Fairy Tail and having the company of her friends. Mirajane wasn't the Mira she knew but she rather found herself fond of the known S-class mage. She was very perceptive and Lucy was beginning to believe that she could see more than she let on.

Changing tactics so she didn't run into her partner, Lucy went into a bar rather than interrogating random civilians in the street. "Afternoon!" Lucy greeted the bar tender as she sat on a stool. "Aren't you a bit young to have a drink?" The man asked her, stroking his goatee with his left hand. Lucy sweat-dropped. The blonde wondered if she would always appear seventeen because of Eclipse considering how many years she's lived from hopping dimensions like she does.

Would she be a hundred years-old and still be seen as seventeen?

Which means she'll never be twenty-one and old enough to legally drink without getting taxed a huge fine! Well, then again there's Cana. She's been drinking since her early teens from what she's heard. Maybe being in a guild had their exceptions.. especially in the case of drinks. Why was she even thinking about drinks? She's turning into another Cana!

"Eh," Lucy coughed, clearing her throat. "Actually I was wondering if you've heard any rumors?" She asked, pushing some jewels forward slyly. Quietly the bartender excepted the bribe before smiling at the deal. "Well, I'm sure you're not interested in the lovers debates going on but I have heard of a robbery in one of the wealthier family homes."

Lucy leaned forward slightly, unconsciously exposing the size of her bosom making the bartender gulp. "Oh?"

"Yes, I wouldn't be surprised if one of the mage's that came through the town was responsible for it. He seemed very sketchy and hardly showed his face under his thick hood but he smelled like soot."

"How did you know he was a mage?" Lucy asked in a curious, non-accusatory tone.

"Well, another man got upset with him that night and was rather drunk but the guy hardly reacted, instead he reached out his hand and everyone expected him to strike the other man and get in a bar-fight but instead the man fell unconscious almost instantly.

Lucy's eyes furrowed as she thought about it before asking a final question. "You wouldn't have happened to know where he went?"

Unfortunately the bartender shook his head in a negative. "Sorry! The mage rather kept to himself. Left as soon as he could and never saw him again."

Lucy sighed and stood up, giving the bartender a wave as she left unknown to his depressing sigh of not seeing more of her chest.

As the blonde stepped out she found Mirajane laying sprawled on a wooden bench with a grin sent Lucy's way as soon as she caught sight of the blonde.

"I found out where the thief is," Mirajane bragged as she polished her dark purple nails. Lucy crossed her arms before replying, "Well I found out about who he is."

"Who the heck cares who he is?" Mirajane challenged, leaping up from the bench.

"Oh I don't know, maybe because he's a mage."

"Pssh, not as important as where he is?"

"And where is that? It's nice to know what we're facing."

"Edge of town, abandoned warehouse. Ch."

Shoulders shrugged and hands tucked in pockets, Lucy sighed at Mirajane in exasperation. "Whatttt. I'm just kidding!"

"Hn."

"So what kind of magic does he use?" Mirajane asked after a moment during their walking.

A tick but Lucy still replied nonetheless. "I think he's using charm magic. Sleep magic being one of them."

Mirajane nodded as though in debate. "That would makes sense. It explains how he was able to steal so easily because he probably made sure our client was asleep with his magic."

"That's what I was thinking," Lucy replied as they stopped in front of a sketchy looking warehouse that was decorated in graffiti.

"So, you want to open the door first?" Mirajane offered, magic enveloping her.

Lucy gave Mirajane a blank but piercing look before grinning, blue flames lighting up around her body in preparation.

"Hell yeah!"

I know, I know, it wasn't as action packed as you were expecting but I had a rough start. Haha, let me know if you guys are enjoying the Mirajane Lucy unofficial rivalry going on!

And huge thanks for everyone's support!

Sincerely,

- Gothic Rain