Disclmaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail
Chapter 2: Dragon calloboration
General P.O.V.
It's been several days since the members of Crime Sorcière joined Fairy Tail. Master Makarov gave them a welcome party in Fairy style. Strangely, it lasted 2 days and Lucy still has a headache from her hangover. For the time being the ex-Crime Sorcière members split up, because they haven't found a place to rent yet. Sorano moved into Fairy hills, along with Meredy. Sawyer was able to stay with Jet, considering how both of them are speed mages, they took quite a liking to each other. Jellal stayed with Erza, as expected. Richard stayed in a local inn, while Erik and Macbeth stayed at Lucy's place. Said girl, still isn't used to waking up with 2 men in her appartement. Especially because Erik had the bad habbit of sneaking into her bed, just like Natsu used to do.
Talking about Natsu, he was still under strict supervision from master. Because if he were to attack one more member he would be banished from Fairy Tail untill he had learned his lesson. Lucy frowns at the though of her ex-teammate.
"It's too early to think about that fire idiot. Go back to sleep." Erik wraps his arms tighter around her waist while mumbling something about a 'weird blonde'.
"Well it wouldn't have bothered you if you would be sleeping in your own bed."
Erik groans and shakes his head with a pout. 'Well aren't you just so adorable when you pout.'
Erik pokes her waist and smirks when the blonde squeals in shock.
'Do that again and you can cook your own breakfast.'
"Meanie. Well then, if we have to cook our own breakfast, you'll probably find your kitchen in pieces."
"No no, Erik. I said you would have to cook your own breakfast, not Macbeth. At least he can stay in his own bed."
Erik chuckles and opens his eyes to look at the small blonde. "I'm surprised you haven't kicked me out of bed yet."
"I'm too tired." Lucy pulls her hands out of Erik's arms and stretches slowly. Erik freezes when he notices the state of her wrist. No one knows what Natsu did to Lucy, but the small Sky Maiden was unable to heal her burns.
"Whats wrong, Erik? Where has your happy mood run off to?"
"They ran away at the sight of your wrist. How is it?"
Lucy shrugs and holds her wrist in front of her to look at the bruises and burns. "It's numb, thanks to the ointment Virgo gave me. It'll take a while before it's healed completely."
"Too bad the little one couldn't fix it."
Lucy shakes her head with a small laugh. "Erik, she has a name you know."
"Nicknames are far better, Bright Eyes." Erik tenses when he feels the blonde turning on her side and look at him.
'Bright Eyes, huh? I like that.'
"LUSHIII!" A blue blur flies across the room, causing both mages to sigh hard. Happy had made it a habit to burst into Lucy's room, especially without permission.
"What's wrong happy?"
"Um, well. Macbeth is angry at me. I kept talking about fish and he just got mad."
"He must be hungry as well. Time to let go, Erik. I have to go prepare breakfast before we can go to the guild."
Erik lets go of the small blonde with a loud groan.
Time skip
The guild doors open to reveal quite a special combination of people. One small blonde, with a blue ball of fur in her arms, One scowling maroon haired Dragon Slayer, and one sleeping reflector mage riding a flying carpet. Greeting rise up from the present guild members, when Lucy waves at them. All three of them quickly move to the bar to get their orders up for the day. At least that's what it looks like. Lucy goes for a talk with Mira and Lisanna, Erik goes for some poison, and Macbeth goes simply because he has a crush on the Demon barmaid. No one but Erik and Lucy know about his crush, and both promised not to say anything to anyone.
"Morning, Lucy. The usual?"
Lucy nods with a big smiles. "Yes, please. Thanks, Mira."
Lisanna moves to sit beside Lucy and drops her head on the bar.
"What's wrong, Lis? Are you okay?"
The youngest Strauss sibling nods slowly. "I went to talk to Natsu to see if I could find out anything about his motive for attacking."
"How did that go?" Erik raises an eyebrow in question while popping an Oleander leaf in his mouth. So far that has been his favourite poisonous plant since he joined Fairy Tail.
"Does it look like it went well?"
Lucy pats Lisanna's shoulder gently before turning to the chocolate milkshake wich seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. But just when she picks it up to drink from it, she is interrupted.
"Lucy, come on. The team is going on a mission."
"Enjoy, Erza. But I meant it when I said that I was leaving the team."
"But why? I mean, Natsu is locked up, he can't hurt you."
"I don't care. I'm going solo from now on."
She can see Gray's eyes widen in shock. "But you'd get hurt..."
Her mouth drops open, along with Lisanna's. "Excuse me? Thanks a lot for your confidence in me. I can take very good care of myself, you know."
"Come on, Lucy. Half of the time we're busy rescuing you from the bad guys. Or you get quite badly banged up."
"I keep getting banged up because you three couldn't focus on where to aim your attacks at. I got hurt because of you." Lucy angrily point her finger at Gray, whos eyes suddenly look filled with guilt.
"Well then, perhaps just one last mission together?" Erza's eyes fill with hope when meeting Lucy's gaze.
"Um, well…"
"She can't. She's going on a mission with us. Masters order." Gajeel and Wendy walk over to the bar, with a mission flyer in Gajeel's hand.
"What's the mission about?"
Gajeel shrugs with a bored look on his face. "Dunno. They just asked for the Dragon Slayers, along with you and Yukino."
"Huh? Strange."
"So finish up your milkshake so you and Snakey can start packing. And meet us at the train station in an hour."
Erik glares at Gajeel when he hears the nickname, before popping another Oleander leaf in his mouth. "Shut up, before I poison your metal ass."
"Calm your tits boys." Lucy quickly finishes her shake before handing over a few jewels to Mira. "Lis, when I get back, I'll go on a mission with you, okay?"
Lissana smiles at her blonde friend and holds up her thumbs in approval. "See ya, Lu!" The silver haired girl immediately feels her mood brighten and waves at the leaving girl.
Lucy quickly turns around and waves back at Lisanna. "Bye, Lis!"
Lucy and Erik walk towards her appartement in comfortable silence. Once inside, both split up to pack up some necessary things. Half an hour both are finished and sitting at the dining table, drinking a cup of tea.
"What will you do if Flame Brain gets free?"
Lucy shrugs in response. "After what he did to you, and nearly hurting Wendy, I just want to stay as far away from him as possible." She stares at the liquid in her cup and lets out a deep sigh. "I honestly don't know what I'll do. I'm sure everybody is expecting me to forgive him, like I always do. But I'm not sure I can. He has simply gone too far this time."
Erik nods his head slowly in understanding. He frowns in worry when Lucy rubs her wrist with a hiss. "What's wrong?"
"I have no idea. It just started hurting again all of a sudden." She quickly reaches out for Virgo's ointment, before freezing. Her eyesight starts shifting between clear and blurry.
"Do you need to see Wendy or the old hag?"
Lucy blinks her eyes quickly and her eyes focus on the ointment again. "No, I'm okay now."
"What happened?"
She looks up at her clock and gasps. "We have to go, I'll tell you on the way there." Erik just nods and stands up to grab their bags while Lucy quickly washes their cups and puts them back in the cabinets. She made sure to lock her windows and grabs the key of her front door. They walk outside and Lucy quickly locks her front door.
As soon as they start walking tot he train station, Erik turns his gaze towards her. "Talk."
Lucy sighs and nods. "My wrist started hurting suddenly. It felt like a combination of a burning sensation combined with the feeling of being poked with a needle. And when I reached out for the ointment my eyesight shifted between clear and blurry."
"I think we should definitely tell the others, in case it might happen again on the mission. You could get attacked during an episode of that."
She nods sadly. "I know. And then I'll need rescuing once again."
"Not rescuing, simply assistance."
"That doesn't sound any better, Erik."
He sighs and pulls the blonde to a stop. "Hey, we'll figure it out, okay? We will all be by your side."
She looks up to meet his gaze and smiles gently. "Thanks, Erik. I really needed that."
"No problem. Now let's go before we're too late."
They continue their walk tot he train station in silence and when they arrive, they meet up with the other Dargon Slayers, minus Natsu. Now that everyone has arrived, they board the train and find a private compartement.
"Did the mission flyer say anything else, beside the fact that they need Dragon Slayers and Celestial Mages?"
"Apparently it has something to do with the Dragon Festival."
Lucy groans in annoyance. "Please don't tell me it involves another Eclipse gate."
Gajeel and Laxus chuckle at her comment. "No idea, Blondie. Guess we'll have to wait and see, huh?"
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