Love Of A Fairy And A Saber

Chapter 10 (unedited)

🎬<Lucy>🎬

"Ah there it is!" I thought as I took my purse down from a shelf. "What's it doing on a shelf? Was it for decoration?" I thought as I sat on the couch and waited for Sting but it took longer than I expected so I decided to take a peek at the door of the room where Sting and Yukino walked in earlier.

When I did, I saw Sting sitting at the side of a bed with Yukino lying down and was sounded asleep. Sting turned at saw me which led me to gasp a little before Sting placed his index finger to his lips telling me to stay quiet. I nodded and carefully walked back to the couch to avoid making careless noise.

"Sorry about that." Sting apologised the second he came out of the room after about 5 minutes.

"So did you find your purse?" he asked as he sat on the floor in front of me with a table between us.

"Yup. But may I ask why was it on the shelf?" I asked pointing to the shelf near the window.

"Oh, sorry about that. Actually today after you left I had something important to do so when I saw your purse I didn't had time to go over to return you."

"Something important?"

"Y-yea" Sting replied worriedly as he stole a glance at the door where Yukino was in the room.

That's when I can't helped but to ask about Yukino. I hadn't seen her since the Grand Magic games so I'm pretty curious how she's doing now.

"S-she's fine." he replied nervously.

I looked at him as my heart beat increases, knowing very well that something was wrong.

"You can tell me Sting." I said with a serious tone while I sat up straight.

"It's not, it's nothing.."

"Sting, Yukino and I are Celestial spirit mage. I think I might know what's wrong with Yukino so please tell me." I finished honestly.

"A-Actually I came to Magnolia with Yukino." he began. "Today, after you left, I decided to go back to the bookstore but when I opened the door of my apartment, Yukino was standing outside. She was drunk. Her hair was messy, her clothes were mostly ripped. She was crying. I had no idea what was going on, so I invited her into my house and take a rest first."

"She rested on my bed while I sat beside her on a chair but I fell asleep after a while. I woke up when I heard my name. Yukino was mumbling my name while she was asleep. I tried to calm her down but she only got more intense. Her arms started moving little my little while her head kept on turning from left to right continuously."

"Is she feeling better now?" I asked.

"No.." he replied, looking down.

"Actually..." I began. "I've studied about Celestial Spirit mage...erm..stuff. If I recall correctly, Celestial Spirit mage can easily get nightmares. It's kind of a 'thing' if you're a Celestial Spirit mage."

"But..that doesn't explain why she's drunk, messy, and crying..." he replied

"Well..that might be the beginning of having nightmares." I explained.