Fate Decides

Bolder still

Cana frowned, sitting back in the café chair and watching people setting up to view the eclipse.

She couldn't figure out where her spell had gone wrong. Everything had been perfect, she'd done variations before while working toward this one and they had all gone off perfectly, just not as strong as what her ultimate goal was.

She hated when her magic didn't deliver, she had enough confidence issues where her magic was concerned.

She drank, she flirted, she chased men, had sex, and she felt perfectly confident about all of those things but her magic...not so much.

With a father like Gildarts she should have no trouble with a spell so carefully tested and planned as this one had been, hell Venus was close for Mavis' sake, that should have given a spell like this one more power.

She had to thank Lucy for that tidbit, it had given her the push to try this. But it hadn't worked, and her cards had fucking vanished, not burned up, not blown up, just fucking disappeared, that had never happened before.

Each woman card should have flown to her hands and once in their possession, the spell should have manifested.

Each woman would be infused with the spells directives, which were simple.

They would attract the man best suited for their romantic needs, have the confidence to get him, and he would be equally drawn to her as soon as they were together, compelled to act on his own wants that would, if the spell chose right and magic never seemed to be wrong, match what the woman wanted most from a man.

If all she wanted was a glorious night of sex, that would be all he would deliver, and really, it was all Cana expected, the spell wouldn't have been powerful enough to deliver anything deeper. But hell, it hadn't worked at all.

Lucy was now off on a job, sure she'd gotten a hot kiss and a maybe for later but what the hell was with the choice there being Gajeel? Cana had been thinking of Laxus or maybe Max for Lucy.

Lucy seemed to be the only one who had gotten anything too, Levy was still off buried in books somewhere no doubt, Erza had gone to some armor merchant to have her gauntlets worked on, Mira was inside humming and tending to the bar and here Cana sat, alone and bored trying to figure out what went wrong.

Standing she frowned, deciding to just go look for Levy, maybe she could find a book on card magic, she seemed to need some lessons.

She hadn't made a choice for herself, having no idea which man she really wanted, it had been something she had figured she would leave for fate to decide, the magic always took the initiative when left no clear direction.

All those hours of preparing the cards, having them rest in direct moonlight, touching each one of the men until the cards got a taste of each, even infusing the light of the morning sun into them for more hours.

It really aggravated her.

She was so immersed in her thoughts she almost missed Levy who was walking past her with a dreamy smile on her face.

"Levy? Where have you been? You were supposed to be back 3 hours ago!" Cana started then narrowed her eyes, her frown turning into a slight smile."Um...Levy? What happened?"

Levy met Cana eyes and her mind raced for an answer, it was odd, all of her nerves, all of the flustering was there, but she was just too...happy, to let it get to her.

"I ran into someone at the bookstore." She said softly, her smile turning a little wicked as she thought about how her day had gone, and...it wasn't really over either. She felt a thrill of excitement at the thought.