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Lucy took her stance before Laxus, holding her hands out before her. When Jellal signalled the fight had started, she dodged around behind a tree, narrowly avoiding the lighting she knew had been aimed at her.
Gathering her magic, she fed it out through her hand until it was hovering in front of her. Reaching out, she gave it a push and aimed it at Laxus. However, the ball went off course, crashing into a tree right beside where Freed was perched, taking more notes for the three of them to look over later.
Laxus appeared behind her and instinctively she, she shot a ball directly from her hand, hitting the blonde in the chest and throwing him back against a tree. "Oh my god! Laxus, are you okay?" She asked, running over to where he had fallen.
"I am so sorry. I didn't mean to do.." She was cut off as Laxus began to laugh. Getting to his feet, he brushed of the dirt which had gotten on his coat and smiled at Lucy. "That was really cool! I'm guessing you didn't really mean to do it though. Instinct perhaps?"
Lucy nodded. "Let's continue then" Laxus said. "Try and control it this time." Then he disappeared once more. Lucy looked around, scanning the trees surrounding her. Seeing a small flash of blonde swishing through the braches, she fired a ball. It felt a tiny bit more controlled this time but still it wobbled mid-air and went completely off target.
Deciding to try another technique, Lucy grabbed her bow, which she had holstered on her back. Quickly climbing one of the trees, she dodged the lightning that came about her, surprised by her own speed. 'Must be that boost of agility I got from my short reign.' She thought.
Finding she was in a good position, she decided to use one of the spells the king had taught her. Waiting until Laxus had shot another bolt of lightning, she whispered, "Reflect against those what they do against my will."
Laxus picked up her words but had no time to question Lucy on them as a portal opened and the lightning bolt he had just sent at her went inside. "Nice shield Lucy." He said, impressed. However, a second later, his own lightning bolt shot out of a different portal, this one appearing in front of his face.
After being flown through the air for the second time that afternoon, Laxus figured Freed had gathered enough information from this fight. 'Time to go full out.' He thought.
"Lightning dragon roar!" The roar came barrelling towards Lucy. She only just got out of the way of the attack when another one came. After one or two minutes of Lucy dodging his attacks, Laxus came close quarters.
Lucy grabbed her whip and twirled it expertly. Expecting a direct attack, Laxus thought she'd missed when the whip flew off to the left of him. Then a tree branch fell, missing most of Laxus but grazing his cheek. Seeing his glare. Lucy realised she should probably use another energy ball or risk being electrified.
But as she was forming the required magic, Laxus attacked, causing her to lose concentration. The ball, instead of looking hard and sharp was a blurry blob which shot straight past Laxus. Laxus laughed and grabbed Lucy's touching where her heart was with a dagger he had pulled from his boot.
However, what neither mage saw coming was that soft looking ball of energy, which had rebounded off a tree and struck Laxus in the back, not hurting him but knocking him off balance. Reacting quickly, he chucked the blade away as he fell, taking Lucy down with him.
The two shook their heads, recovering from the fall, then noticing the position that they found themselves in. Awkward didn't even cover it.
Their legs were intertwined and Laxus was above Lucy, is somewhat of a plank position. Lucy, blushing bright red, wiggled out from underneath him, jumping to her feet before offering her hand to help the large man up.
Freed and Jellal exchanged looks, jealousy written all over their faces. Lucy and Laxus walked over to the pair and looked expectantly at Freed, who was holding a wad of paper. He shuffled though the notes, occasionally placing a page aside.
Once he had gathered the information he needed, he began to speak. "Okay. From that fight, I have noticed a few things about your new weapons and skills. First and most obvious is the energy ball thing."
He blushed as Lucy giggled at his description. "You definitely will need to work on that. The next is how you dodged for so long before using your weapon and even when you did use it, it was only for a brief amount of the fight. You need to remember that they are there. Lastly, your other big mistake was your compassion. Sorry Lucy but you can't rush over to every enemy your defeat and check if they're okay."
Lucy accepted these criticisms. After all, that's what she was here to do. Work on her skills. Then she remembered they would be here for around two more weeks, or until Gramps called them on the Lacrima.
"Hey Jellal, could you please start setting up our camp with Laxus while Freed and I talk about my magic? Please?" Lucy said, giving her best pleading expression. Jellal smiled, a small smile but a smile none the less. "Of course Lucy." He said, setting off towards a nice spot near the clearing but far enough away that fights wouldn't be heard. Laxus followed him, grabbing their bags.
"Okay," said Lucy, getting down to business. "You've seen some of my magic. What so you think?"
Freed though about her question analysing the data he had recorded from the fight. "I think your magic is very versatile. I'm guessing you have a couple of spells like that one that branch of the Urano Meltria." Lucy nodded, impressed. "Also, the energy balls have great potential, but you definitely need more work with them." Again, she nodded, agreeing with that statement.
"Now, there are a couple of ways to test how much magic you can have when you are full. The first is with runes. This is the simplest. The other is to go to the magic council and get a permit for a magic test. The only problem with that is if your magic is too high, they will force you to wear limiters."
Lucy immediately replied. After all, the answer was pretty simple. "I'll have the runes." She said, smiling. Freed nodded, and took out his sword. Motioning for her to hold out her hand, she did so and his eye glowed purple.
He slowly began to write. The language was foreign to Lucy but as the words were completed, she got a sense of what was being written. Basically, her magic level would be displayed above her head. As there was not measurement for magic energy, it would be displayed as a number, with 0 being no magic ability and 100 being the most powerful mage to ever live.
As Freed carved the last rune into her arm, she felt slightly light headed and saw a glow of purple from above her head. Hearing Freed gasp, she looked up. There, glowing above her head was the number 99.