Rave Master Fan Fiction ❯ Upon a Shooting Star ❯ Chapter 6: Contracts ( Chapter 6 )

Author’s Corner:
Lucy: *glare* …SSD: What is it this time, bunny girl?Gajeel: Gihi.Lucy: *twitch* Really? You gave me the Rabbit key last chapter?SSD: *smirk* Oh come on, it lasted to the final rounded and then got a freaking Nat 20, it’s destined. Deal with it, Bunny Girl.Lucy: I hate you so much right now.Natsu: *Looking at Lepus* …can we eat it? Roast rabbit! *fire blazes*Lepus: *squeaks in terror and scampers behind Lucy*Lucy: Lucy Kick! *punts Natsu into a wall* You are NOT eating my spirit!Gajeel: Gihi. Silverserpentdragon don’t own Fairy Tail. Any theft of her character will meet an Iron Club to the face, got it?SSD: Thanks, Gajeel. Onward!
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Chapter 6: Contracts

Lucy yawned widely as she entered the guild the next day. Due to not seeing where she was walking, she walked straight into a brick wall and fell backward. “Wah!” She waved her arms in a pinwheel to try and keep balance and blinked as a large hand caught her wrist. She looked up and paled slightly as she met familiar grey eyes. “L-Laxus…”Laxus raised an eyebrow as he pulled her up. “Never met you before, blondie, but…” His eyes raked over her form with a smug grin. “You can call me in a few years, I don’t go for kids.”Lucy flushed a dark red and her foot reacted before her mind caught up with her mouth. “Lucy Kick!” Laxus’ eyes widened as he doubled over, completely taken surprise by the unassuming blonde. “What the hell?!”Behind him, the Thunder God Tribe watched in shock as their leader clutched his stomach with a grimace of pain.Lucy glared at him. “Pervert! Any girl that would go with you would have to be desperate.” She huffed and stalked into the guild, radiating fury.Laxus growled, narrowing his eyes as he glared after the blonde. “Shouldn’t have done that, blondie…tch.” He straightened up and shrugged the hit off after a while as Freed fretted over him.“Laxus-sama! Are you alright?!”Evergreen looked at him in worry as well. “Laxus, I’ll go deal with her-““No, no…I’ll deal with her eventually. Blondie better watch herself.” Laxus growled as he continued back down the road from getting another job.Bickslow smirked and laughed. “Sunshine really got you good.” “Sunshine” “Sunshine” The totem dolls chirped behind him.“Stuff it, Bicks.”Lucy threw herself into a barstool, scowling at the counter even as a strawberry smoothie slides into view. Azule raised an eyebrow at the normally cheery blonde.“What’s with you today, Lucy?”Lucy huffed. “The youngest Dreyar.”Azule blinked and sighed. “What’d Laxus do now?”Lucy flushed. “He…was a pervert and just leave it at that.”Azule raised her brow again. “He’s a Dreyar, sadly it’s a genetic trait.”Lucy shook her head. “No…he…ugh, he ogled me and said he doesn’t do kids, that I should call him in a few years.” She huffed. “Stupid jerk.”Azule blinked and snorted. “Sounds to me that you’re more upset that he turned you away.” Lucy’s eyes bulged. “What! No way! I wouldn’t like that creep!”Cana popped up beside her, Kalia right behind her as usual. “Who’s a creep?”“Wah!” Lucy fell out of her chair in surprise. “Cana…don’t do that.”The brunette smirked down at her. “What? I just asked who’s a creep? Although, since I saw Laxus leave just before you came in, I can guess that you’re talking about him?”Lucy nodded as she got back in her chair. “Yeah, you can say that. No, I’m telling you what it was.”“He hit on you, called you a kid, and you stormed off.”Lucy blinked. “Er…and kicked him…but otherwise you’re spot on…”Kalia and Cana stare at her before Cana burst into laughter. That laughter dies down slowly at seeing Lucy being completely serious. “Oh…shit…you really did kick him…Damn, Luce. That takes balls of steel.”Lucy sweatdropped. “Umm, you guys wanted to see me make a contract, right?”Kalia nodded, glad for the change of topic. “Y-yes, th-that’s why w-we c-came so e-early.”Lucy hopped off her stool and grabbed her smoothie. “Alright, let’s head outside since you saw how big Pisces is in their normal form.”Azule shook her head as the trio left. She glanced to the side and frowned as Makarov sat on the bar with his typical mug of ale. “Master…why aren’t you doing your paperwork?”Makarov laughed nervously. “Well…hering my own grandson got kicked by our newest member-““Go upstairs and finish your paperwork. Otherwise I’ll make it so certain…publications…get cancelled.” She glared at him threateningly. Makarov hastily took off up the stairs in response to protect his magazines.Lucy, Cana and Kalia stood outside in the sparring field. Lucy nodded and pulled out the first silver key, chanting the Contract Opening. She blinked and stared at the creature in front of her. “…..I suddenly really really want to hurt someone…” [This is cruel irony…damn you, Gajeel!] The small yellow and tan bunny stood on its hind legs as it looked at her, looking like a regular bunny. Lucy forced a wry smile on her face as she started hammering out the details of the contract.Cana blinked. “So…that’s a celestial spirit? It didn’t look like much.”Lucy dismissed Lepus, now named Roger, back to the spirit world. “Each spirit has their own strength, although I’m not sure what his might be.” She then took out Cassiopeia’s key. “Open, Gate of the Prideful Queen, Cassiopeia!”A flash of silver and the group gaped at seeing the “vapid” secretary that greeted them in the Mayor’s office yesterday. “You!”Cassiopeia sniffed in derision. “You are my new owner then. Stupid man, did not know talent when he had it and instead threw it all away for brawn, typical male.” Her silver eyes narrowed at Lucy. “I have you know that I excel in legalities and accounting, if you try summoning me during battle I will nullify our contract on the spot. Are we understood, master?” She sneered at the last word.Lucy regained her composure. “It’s Lucy, none of this master or owner stuff. All my spirits are my friends and family, I won’t have anyone feel like they’re inferior for such a silly reason. So, other than what you just named, you’re free any other time?”Cassiopeia stared neutrally at the girl before giving a soft tsk. “Do not summon me between the hours of 9 p.m or 7 a.m, I require my beauty sleep and will be most displeased if that is interrupted.”Lucy nodded and took down the information. “Alright, I’ll summon you in a couple weeks. I agreed to visit my dad once a month and maybe you can help him out with our company’s finances? I know my mom used to do them before she died, so a second look at them wouldn’t hurt.”Cassiopeia smiled faintly. “I believe that will be agreeable. If that is all, I shall return to the spirit world then, Miss Lucy.” She offered a curtsy as she faded away.Lucy sighed in relief. “That was almost a nightmare…”Cana shuddered. “No kidding, she was pretty strict. You still have that Hero guy and Pisces left, right? How are you feeling?”Lucy shrugged. “I’m fine, I can usually keep out two Zodiacs for about an hour, so this should be fine.” She took out Hercules’ key and summoned him. The Hero knelt before her, his sword out in front of him. “I know what you ask, Miss Lucy. I accept you offer of Contract. I only ask you not summon me on Wednesday and Thursday as I tend to hunt during those days.”Lucy blinked and nodded. “Alright, I can work with that. Thank you, Hercules.”Hercules nodded and faded away.Lucy took a deep breath and held out Pisces’ key. “Open, Gate of the Paired Fish, Pisces!”“Fiiiiish….” Lucy jumped at the creepy voice and looked behind her, seeing a familiar blue cat. “Happy!”“Lugi, are those for me?” The cat stared at the two eels hungrily, a bib tied around his neck with a fork and knife in each paw.Lucy twitched as Pisces laughed nervously. “No way, stupid cat!” She grabbed him and handed him off to Kalia. “Watch over him so he doesn’t get any crazy ideas.”Kalia nodded nervously, holding Happy tight.Lucy sighed and looked at Pisces. “Sorry about that, I wanted to work out the details of our contract, if that’s fine with you now?”They nodded and Lucy got to work, Cana bored at this point. The blonde dismissed Pisces and smiled as she looked back at her friends. “And that’s how contracts are ma-oh no! I forgot about Plue!” She looked panicked and pulled out the key of Canis Minor, quickly forming a contract with Plue again.Cana blinked, staring at where the dog spirit had been. “….that was a dog?”Lucy glared at her defensively. “He’s a celestial spirit, they don’t always match what we assume they would look like.”“I guess…”Kalia smiled. “Th-this was f-fun…th-thank you, Lucy…”Lucy beamed. “No problem, although I think Natsu is going to be pestering me about taking a job with him. I did promise him, after all.”Cana laughed. “No kidding. Erza might try and drag you off too. You’re pretty popular around here for a newbie.”The trio headed back inside the guild as another brawl started up courtesy of Natsu of course. “How long have you been with the guild, Cana?”Cana shrugged. “Well, I came here when my mom died, since my dad’s a Fairy Tail mage. I was four then, but I officially signed up four years ago.” She puffed her chest up proudly. “I was even in the S-class trials last year although Laxus beat me to it.”Lucy blinked and smiled. “Well, if you get nominated again, I’ll help train you for it. I’m sure we’ll be able to get it.”Cana grinned. “Oh yeah, Team Babe for the win.”Kalia smiled slighty. “I-I’m s-sorry I c-couldn’t h-help you l-last year….”Cana wrapped an arm around Kalia. “Hey, not your fault. We didn’t think we’d fight Laxus and Freed in the first round, it was just bad luck.”Kalia nodded slowly as Lucy’s eyes lit in realization. “Oh, I see…that really was bad luck, since Lightning Magic doesn’t affect Laxus.”Cana raised an eyebrow, looking at Lucy suspicious as she grinned impishly at her. “You know, Lucy, you’re starting to sound like a stalker, knowing as much about Laxus as you do. Will we find a secret shrine in your room to him?”Lucy flushed a dark red. “No way! He’s the creep and a pervert! No way I would like him like that!” [Wh-why’d my heart skip like that…just a panic attack, that’s it…stupid Cana and her stupid idea!] Lucy’s blush darkened.“Ha! I’m right, aren’t I? You totally have candid snapshots in there, don’t you?”“I do not! Cana!”Kalia giggled lightly at the good-natured teasing, emerald eyes lighting up. She completely missed the way the guild relaxed at seeing the girl lighten up and smile again.
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Author’s Postscript:
SSD: Meh, a light and fluffy chapter. Cassiopeia is proving to be fun to write, I do have a few ideas with her. One does include keeping the Heartfilia Konzern afloat since, as I mentioned, Layla was the one to manage the finances. We all know Jude’s a little skewed when it comes to monetary value…100000J for a train ride? Yeah right. And *smirk* who else enjoyed Laxus and Lucy’s interaction at the start of the chapter?Lucy: *whimper* I can’t believe you had me kick him…he’s going to kill me…SSD: Nah, make your life harder, maybe. But not kill you. Oh and, in the words of a certain Vengeance Demon…”Never trust the bunny, the bunny is evil.”Lucy: *looks at SSD suspiciously* …what are you going to do to Roger?SSD: …I still can’t believe you named it Roger. Anyway, you’ll just have to find out. It should be……interesting. *twitch*Lucy: SSD? SSD! What did you do to Roger!