❝He and I, we were black and white. So different, yet so similar. Where he was blunt, I was kind. Where I was obedient, he was a rebel. So, when he left me, it truly did feel like I lost my other half. I have no one to balance me out, and no one to...
The wind tangled my hair as I waited for Laxus outside the Magnolia Train Station. We were travelling to our mission today just outside of Clover Town. I looked back down at the job request and read it over once again. It asked for powerful mages to protect a small village and capture a dark mage that has been harassing and kidnapping residents from a small village near Clover Town.
"Ready, princess?" A voice came from behind me. I turned around to be face to face with Laxus' cocky smirk.
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"Took you long enough, you're late." I crossed my arms and walked onto the train with Laxus following me. I took a seat and Laxus sat across from me.
After a couple minutes of us sitting in silence with him staring at me I turned and glared at him. "What are you staring at?" I snapped, slightly annoyed.
I expected him to reply in his typical arrogant jerk tone but he simply stated, "You look older."
I was taken aback and paused for a moment before I replied. "Well, I mean we haven't had a conversation since we were teenagers so of course I look older." I murmured.
We both stayed silent after that, replaying our last conversation, our fight after Ivan got excommunicated, in our heads.
"Where are we even headed?" Laxus asked stoically after a couple minutes of silence.
"A small village outside of Clover Town. Some dark mage has been harassing the village and kidnapping citizens. So we're taking the train to Clover Town then walking to the village." I explained. Laxus grunted in reply and that was the end of the conversation.
We arrived in Clover Town after a painfully uncomfortable three-hour train ride. I stared out the window or read a book most of the time and Laxus just watched me out of the corner of his eye. I gave up on calling him out for staring so I just pretended not to notice after a while.
We decided to get something to eat in Clover Town before travelling to the remote fishing village the mission was located at. After we ate and were walking through the streets of Clover Town towards the forest Jason from Sorcerer Weekly stopped us suddenly.
Oh, great. I thought to myself, though I put on a fake smile for him; it was sorta my thing to always be the smiling 'ray of sunshine' of Fairy Tail, though it pained me to hear that nickname since it was Laxus who originally started calling me it.
"OHMYGOSH are you Laxus and (y/n) from Fairy Tail?!" He screeched, running over to us and already taking pictures.
"Hi, Jason!" I smiled sweetly and waved. "How are you?"
"Wow I can't believe you're actually talking to me! How COOOOL!"
I sweat-dropped and looked at him questionably "Er, Jason we've talked before, you've done interviews and photo-shoots with me."
