⚡Lightning Dragon Slayer⚡

Chapter 6

Lucy Heartfilia woke up groggy and cranky the next morning, to her blaring alarm clock. Without opening her eyes, her left hand reached over and repeatedly smashed the annoying contraption until it gave one last feeble shrill and stopped. The blonde rolled over and slowly opened one eye to check the time. Her eye slowly focused on seeing that the little hand was pointed straight down while the long hand was pointed straight up. 'Eugh... 6:00 AM.' She groaned softly and stretched her stiff muscles. The celestial mage hadn't had a good night's sleep at all.

Looking out the window, she saw that the sun was slowly peeking through the mountain tops and that there were no clouds in sight. 'Looks like there won't be any rain today.' After a few minutes of watching the sunrise, Lucy started to get ready to leave and meet with Laxus.

Her top priority was a nice hot bath. 'Who knows when I'll get another chance with where we're going for the mission.' she figured while she soaked and scrubbed herself pink. All she knew was that it was going to be cold. 'Man, I really hate the cold...' she blanched.

Wanting to look a little nice in front of the lightning dragon slayer, she threw on a blue soft-knit jumper over a short black skirt, a pair of black tights and her favorite brown boots. Inspecting herself in the mirror, she decided to summon Cancer to fix her hair. Pulling out Cancer's key, Lucy called out, "Open, Gate of the Giant Crab!" In a flash of light, the black haired man with cornrows appeared in front of Lucy.

"What kind of hairstyle would you like today? Ebi." Cancer asked while snipping his twin scissors.

"Morning, Cancer. I'm not sure. I want to look nice but not too nice as I'm heading out for a mission. Can you do a style that's pretty but won't get in the way?" Lucy requested while twirling her hair in front of her. It was as long as Erza's now as she had let her hair grow out after the GMG. The blonde always wanted to and after making friends with Flare, the redhead had convinced her to do so.

"Of course. Ebi." The celestial spirit then got to work.

Magnolia Train Station - 7:52am

A bored looking Laxus was leaning against one of the pillars just next to the entrance at Magnolia station. Listening to his sound pod, with his eyes partially closed, passersby assumed that he was oblivious to the world. In reality, he was focusing his senses so he could locate a certain blonde amongst the crowd.

Women and young girls alike, when spotting the handsome young man, would try to get his attention by fluttering their eyelashes at him or swaying their hips as they walked by. The dragon slayer simply ignored them all and continued to wait for Lucy to arrive.

One of the women, eyeing Laxus, boldly approached him. Swaying her hips, she sauntered towards Laxus and stopped directly in front of him. She was slim, well-endowed and was wearing far too revealing clothing for it to be appropriate in public. She would even put Cana's attire to shame.

"Hey, handsome. My name's Nikki and I'm just passing by this town. If you're not too busy, do you want to show me around? I'm sure you and I can have a really good time." she purred while running her hand up and down Laxus' arm.

Laxus gave her an unimpressed look and tsked. "Go bother somebody else, lady. I'm busy and ain't interested," he replied with disdain.

"What?! How dare you speak to me like that?! Do you know how many guys would kill to have a chance with me?" she indignantly screeched.

Not even bothering to look at the fuming woman now, Laxus bluntly said, "Good for you but I ain't one of them. Now like I said, go bother someone...." he trailed off, distracted when he smelled that Lucy was nearby. Moving away from the pillar and completely forgetting about the woman, Laxus picked up his travel bag and walked towards where he could smell strawberries, chocolate and a hint of jasmine.