⚡Lightning Dragon Slayer⚡

Chapter 4

Noise inside the Fairy Tail guild rapidly picked up again. Its guild members all speculating why the Laxus Dreyar would make such an offer to Lucy Heartfilia. Natsu was still half-dead on the ground, occasionally twitching from the visible leftover electricity running through his body. Levy looked in between being upset at the ruined chapter and confused at Laxus' behaviour towards Lucy. She had only ever known him to be harsh and a bit secluded from most of Fairy Tail. Gajeel just grinned his signature grin, having an idea on what was going on with his fellow dragon slayer. Mira never having seen this side of Laxus before, started to fantasise about a possible romance between the two flaxen haired mages. 'Blonde haired and blue eyed babies or blonde hair and brown eyed babies!' Mira imagined with stars in her eyes.

Cana noticing Mira, grabbed another barrel of ale behind the bar before quickly moving as far away from the takeover mage as possible. Mira always freaked her out when she was daydreaming about setting people up. It always gave the white haired woman a disturbing expression on her face. Gray continued frowning, looking from Lucy and then towards Laxus' office. 'I wonder what's going on?' he pondered.

Mouth slightly ajar, Lucy still had a stumped look on her face, not believing what just happened. 'Did Laxus just offer to help me out? What should I do? I definitely need the money but the more I hang around Laxus, the more he'll definitely notice that I have feelings for him!' she thought in a panic.

"So, Lucy, are you going to be joining Laxus on his mission?" Mira inquired excitedly. The look in her eyes hinted that Lucy should definitely say yes. "You'll need to let me know by today, so I can log it in the request book." she added, wanting to know straight away, so she could start planning their wedding. 'Oh, the babies!' she squealed in her head.

"Err...can I get back to you later, Mira? I'll let you know before I leave." Lucy knew exactly what Mira was thinking. She had that look in her eyes again. It was similar to when she had wanted to set her and Natsu up, implying that Natsu had feelings for her, when all he really wanted was to dig up some rumoured treasure under the Rainbow Sakura. Lucy could never forget that painfully awkward day. Thankfully, Natsu was none the wiser on what had been going on through the celestial wizard's mind that day.

Thinking back on the current situation, she wasn't quit sure when she started to develop feelings for the lightning dragon slayer, only that it was sometime after Tenrou Island. Between facing Hades, Zeref and lastly, Acnologia, Lucy was grateful that Laxus was there to help them out. He gave Lucy and the others strength and hope when there seemed to have been none left to keep on fighting.

Not long after they were released from Mavis' sealing spell and were reunited with their comrades, Lucy recalled seeing Laxus hanging out with Bickslow, Freed and Evergreen at a cafe in Magnolia. She was curious as to why Laxus still hung around near the guild when he was banished. It was during that time that she suddenly saw him smile at something Bickslow was saying.

It wasn't the boyish kind of smile that Natsu had nor was it a charming smile that Lucy had seen Loke, Gray and often Hibiki used on girls. It was the type of smile that was small, almost unnoticeable, but was full of feeling and emotions. That smile gave the celestial mage pause and since then, she couldn't get the image out of her head. Lucy caught herself staring at Laxus more, whenever she saw him, wanting to see that smile again from the stoic man. She made sure that no one would notice her sudden interest in the blond dragon slayer.

Lucy's attraction became harder to hide when Gildarts reinstated Laxus back into Fairy Tail prior to the Grand Magic Games. She remembered how her heart swelled when he proudly declared that Fairy Tail was his family before soundly defeating his father, Ivan. Lucy couldn't keep her eyes away from Laxus on that day. He had captivated her and that's when she knew she was doomed.

She could see how much Laxus truly cared about the guild. He may have done a terrible job showing it during Fantasia but from what Lucy could see, he meant well in the end. Yes he was gruff and could be mean, but he was also proud to be a part of Fairy Tail. And Lucy felt the same way. She considers Fairy Tail as her family and it made her happy to think that Laxus was the same.

Giving Natsu an exasperated glance on the floor, Lucy walked back over to Levy and Gajeel's table. "Sorry, Levy. It looks like you'll need to wait a little longer for what happens next in my story. I need to try and remember what I wrote in today's one." the blonde sighed in annoyance.

"Don't be sorry about it, Lu-chan! It was those two's fault for destroying it." glared the solid script mage at both Natsu and Gray. "I'm more curious to know why Laxus offered for you to join him. It's very unlike him."

Gajeel merely smirked at Lucy and glanced away.

"Do you know something I don't, Gajeel?" Lucy asked suspiciously.

"Gihi! Nothing ya need to worry about Bunny Girl. I promise ya it ain't nothing bad." the iron dragon slayer stated with amusement. If what Gajeel suspected was true, Lucy was Laxus' mate. Only Mavis knew why it's taken him this long to claim her. Although the dark haired man couldn't say he was any better, subtly glancing at the blue haired girl sitting next to him.

"Fine." Lucy huffed. "Don't tell me then." Gajeel was good at being tight lipped, so she knew that she wouldn't get any information out of him.

Lucy hung around with Levy for a little longer, both trying to remember what Lucy had written down on her chapter. After writing down as much as they could remember, Lucy waved goodbye to Levy and Gajeel, before detouring towards Mira at the bar. She had more time to consider Laxus' offer and she decided to take the bull by the horns and just go for it.

She saw that Natsu was sulking in the corner, with a comforting Lisanna, while an almost naked Gray was busy chasing Juvia around a table, trying to get back his discarded clothes. 'Good, their busy.' Lucy didn't want to argue with them at the moment. She was a big girl and could make her own decisions. Besides she was sure they'd try and break into her apartment later in the evening for some dinner, along with Happy.

Lucy determinedly walked up to Mira and said, "Mira, could you please pass on to Laxus that I'll be joining him tomorrow?"

Mira's eyes lit up and a devious smile adorned on the usual sweet face of the eldest Strauss. "Of course, Lucy!" whipping out the request book, she hurriedly wrote down Lucy's name next to Laxus next to the mission and also secretly drew a love heart around their names. 'Blonde haired and blue eyed babies or blonde hair and brown eyed babies!' Mira was in matchmaking heaven.

"Thanks, Mira. I'm heading home now to get ready for tomorrow. See you when I get back from the mission!" Lucy summoned Plue for company before walking out of the guild.

Upstairs, in his office, a certain blond dragon slayer smirked when he heard that he was going to have company tomorrow. 'Time to make my move.' Laxus thought devilishly.