space | fairy tail

8 | maghoney mountain cabins

True to her word, Galatea spent all of the train ride draped over Evergreen's legs, completely knocked out.

As the train halted to a stop, the female dragonslayer was jolted awake by not-so-gracefully falling off the seat, onto the floor in front of her.

The group laughed, and Galatea grumpily got off the floor.

"I hate you all..."

The group got out of the train, stopping at the platform to let Laxus rest after the painful train ride. Galatea looked around Oshibana Station. Shirotsume was a town that didn't have a train station, and the nearest train station was Oshibana.

Galatea was portaling them to Mt. Hakobe, where they'd rest for the afternoon, and then they'd portal to Shirotsume where they'd walk the rest of the way. She would've portaled them to Mt. Hakobe but Freed had pre-purchased train tickets. Galatea herself could portal all the way to Shirotsume, but with a larger group it made it difficult.

"I'm good." Laxus said.

"Do you guys wanna rest before we start shopping?" Galatea said, "We have time."

"Nah, lets just get our shopping done." Laxus said.

"Okay so we need groceries, Ever needs shoes, and Freed wanted to look for books if we had time." Galatea said, looking at list she made of everything we needed.

"We should split into groups." Bickslow said, "It'll be easier that way."

Galatea nodded.

"Freed, I suppose you would like to look for books by yourself, correct?" Galatea said.

Freed nodded, "If that is fine with everyone."

"Laxus and I could the the grocery shopping while you ladies go get shoes." Bickslow said.

"As much as I love hanging with Ever, I think its better if do grocery shopping. I don't want to us end up having too much or too little food since you guys don't know how much space I have." Galatea said, "Do any of you two want to join Ever?"

The two men shook their heads.

"Well, I guess that's settled." Galatea said, looking up at the clock outside the station. "Meet back here in an hour?"

The group nodded. Galatea handed Evergreen and Freed each a city map she had grabbed in the train station before departing with Laxus and Bickslow.

"The city has changed so much." Laxus commented, as they walked to the grocery store.

"I suppose so..." Galatea commented, "I never really hung around many cities until a few years ago when I became a Mage."

Laxus nodded, "Is the store close?"

"Yeah-"

"Ooh!"

Galatea was cut off by the excited cheer of the Seith Mage. She looked over to see him looking at a toy shop.

"You guys go ahead, I'm gonna get some new dolls." Bickslow said, dashing away before either of them could say anything.

Laxus sighed and Galatea just blinked rapidly.

"Well, lets get a move on. The store is just around the corner." Galatea said.

The two quietly walked into the grocery store and Galatea looked around.

"Would you mind getting the meat?" Galatea asked, "I'm gonna go get the veggies."

Laxus nodded and walked away.