Wait...You're a Girl?!? [On Hold]

The Plaza de las Flores (part 2)

This story has reached its one year anniversary! Yay! It's also my Birthday today~ so I decided to give u guys a present!

Lucy's POV
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I stood in front of a huge unfinished building made from glass, marble, and gold. A few panes of glass were being put it. It looked almost finished. I guess the inside was all that's left. "Welcome! To the Plaza de las Flores!! I thank you for accepting our job request!" A thin man with a mustache and colorfully patterned clothes said. "My name is Oliver"

"A pleasure. But if it's no problem, could you give us our task?" Erza said formally. The strange man gasped and nodded with extreme enthusiasm. "Oh yes, yes. Of course. Come right this way. You may leave your bags there, someone will soon come to get them. Now, off we go!" He Led us inside the large building. The inside was a lot more unfinished than the outside. The flooring wasn't in, the walls were still showing the skeleton of the building, light lacrimas were not in place and so on. "As you can see, we have a lot of work to do with there only being one day left to finish. Why, if we couldn't finish, our poor king would have to postpone the even. So that is where you come in! You young kids have the energy and strength to help us do this quickly. So your first task is the floor!"

Erza looked at me and I nodded. "No problem at all!" As soon as it was said, Erza grabbed a inhuman amount of flooring and quickly one by one placed them on the ground. I twirled a hammer in my hand, nearly dropping it onto my toe in the process, and nailed down the dark wooden flooring into the foundation. Then we got the the area for the dance floor, filled with floating lacrima and tiles that shimmered with magic essence. We simply placed them into the molding and let it set to dry. The walls were the harder part.....for me at least. Erza had not trouble putting up the walls. I stuck to painting them a pale pink color and the other workers filled it in with gold trim. Soon enough the work was done and I collapsed onto the floor, drenched in sweat. "No No no. That won't do. You are not quite done yet young man!"

"WHAT?!" I yelled, voice high in pitch. I covered my mouth quickly. "Sorry"
Oliver laughed saying, "you're scream is so feminine, oho...ohohoho"

'No duh' I thought. Erza stepped beside me and spoke up. "What he meant is that the building is finished. I cannot see anything else that needs to be done." She gestured to the beautiful and completed ballroom. Oliver held up a finger and caressed his mustache. "Ah, but there is one thing missing! The power!" My eyebrows lowered into an expression of confusion. I saw lights. There seemed to be power. Then it came to me. They were all work lights. "There is a power lacrima that we have ordered, and we need you to fetch it from the mines."

"Since when we're lacrimas made in mines?" I asked. "They're not. But this one was a large crystal infused with magic abilities that is to be presented as a chandelier. Now go along now. You won't be allowed back until you retrieve it."

I looked outside at the starry sky. "Ohhhh.." I whined as I was dragged off into the dark roads. "Come on. This is so unfair. We worked so hard and we can't even take a nap!"
"Calm down Luk-I mean...Lucy. We're doing this for the kingdom. And," she began sparkling," we get to go to their first ball!"

I sighed. "Yeah, but I have to go in a suit..."
"Oh! I'm so sorry. I forgot about your cover for a moment. Please forgive me!"
"It's okay it's n-"

"Feel free to punch me as hard as you want!"

"Oh my goodness no! I'm not going to punch you. I said it's fine. Now can we please just keep walking. I want to go to bed." My feet dragged behind me as I sluggishly made my way to the mines. It was dark along the cobblestone path. I couldn't really see anything ahead of me, the darkness just sucked up the light from our lantern. "It's really creepy here," I said. I saw Erza nod from the corner of my eye. The bushes rustled every once and a while, and my nerves were on edge. Then I was completely set off when my foot slipped and I fell into a large hole. "KYAAAA!"

"Lucy! Are you okay?!" Erza shouted. I rubbed my head and opened my eyes, a large gleam catching my attention. "Yeah! And I think I found the mine!" Erza slid down, careful not to put out the fire in the lantern. "Ah. You were right. Great job Lucy. I expected nothing less."
I glanced at her in confusion. I didn't do anything. I fell. "Come Lucy. I think I saw something." She hauled me up and held the lantern up, lighting up the pathway. "Before we left, Oliver said the lacrima would be in the deepest cavern, most likely protected by some sort of magical being."

"Oh joy..."

"Being that you're so powerful, you should be excited."

"I might be powerful, but that doesn't mean that I have actual battle skills..."

"Well then were going to have to fix that!"

Something about that sentence made me fear for my life. Whether it be that I won't like it, or she'd just kill me in training.  She seemed like that type of person to get so into something that she'd overwork someone. But then again...she seems considerate. I don't really know.

Suddenly Erza stopped and I walked straight into her armor. "Hey! Why'd you stop like th- oh...OH!"

Fog. That's all you saw. Thick blue fog laced with the musky smell of saliva. A low growl vibrated through the cave walls. "Lucy...I don't like the looks of this."

"Yeah.. neither do I"