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Lucy's P.O.V

    "Are you ok, Lucy? I wouldn't expect you to posses the same motion sickness as Natsu." Erza comments after the five of us—including Happy had been riding the train towards Taro village for ten minutes.

"It must've been something I had eaten earlier." I reassure her. In truth I had skipped breakfast this morning, but there was no explanation for the intense nausea I had been feeling since we boarded.

"Ya it's out of character for you to be acting like flame brain over here. Maybe his dumb illness is contagious." Gray mocks the fire dragon slayer who his slumped against the trains window, his face blue with discomfort.

"At least she didn't catch your stripping habits, ice freak!" Natsu retorts before going back to his hunched over position.

"Why you—"

"Enough." The scarlet mage interrupts the boys, effectively shutting them up.

"Our arrival should be at any minute. I want you two to behave yourselves once you get there." She says crossing her arms. "That includes you Happy."

"Aye!"

"Can you tell us more about the mission Erza?" I ask between sickening noises that almost mimic Natsu's . I assume she holds more info on our task since she had picked the job.

"Of course." Erza nods. "Taro village is a rather small village, it's where our clients house is located. The client in particular is apart of the Araceae family—a noble family of the town of high class. Of course that comes with a fancy mansion for members to reside in. Apparently one of the sons of the household suspects lowly thieves to be planning an attack to snatch a precious family heirloom located in said mansion."

"Wow" Happy says. "Maybe that heirloom is a golden piece of fish!"

"I doubt it." I swear drop.

"It must be a pretty protected valuable for bandits to be casing the joint for weeks now. I don't see why they would need us wizards." Gray argues.

"Yes, but our the sender of the request wants us to catch the bad guys for them before they put their well crafted plan into motion. Therefore despite all their careful efforts they'd be defeated." The requip mage explains.

"I'm just wondering what could be so precious that bandits would in fact need to put so much effort into obtaining it." I ponder.

"They are the richest family of the surrounding area." Erza replies. "I'm sure it would bring the bandits great pride to steal something of meaning to the high aristocrats."

"Nah that just makes them scum." Natsu argues. "The only thing stealing anything from anyone should bring is shame."

     No one in the cart couldn't help but agree. But it's or job not to let it come to that.

    The train suddenly comes to a slow stop, I notice Natsu regaining his strength. Yet somehow even as the vehicle stopped moving I still felt the same way.

    Erza is the first one to stand up. "Looks like we're here."

***
Natsu's P.O.V

       As we all leave the train station I couldn't help but notice Lucy look distraught still. She looked like she had a pounding headache despite the fact we were on stable ground.

"Are you okay, Luce?" I ask concerned. She didn't look up to be on a mission.

"I'm fine, Natsu." She replies somewhat bothered. "I told you, it's something I had eaten this morning."

"But you left to head to the Guild early?" I say which catches her off guard—I notice the slight tint of pink in her cheeks.

"Ooooo~" Happy flies close between the two of us. "How would Natsu now when Lucy left her house? Where they allll alone?~" He teases.

"It's not like that, cat!!!" Lucy quickly protests looking spastic.

    I can hear Gray snickering behind me. I'm wondering why I had told him this morning, for him just to let me figure out why Lucy was upset all by myself.

"Look over there." Erza says looking up from the request paper finally. Her armoured hand pointed towards a higher part of the town, and atop a large hill it was easy to spot a wealthy mansion lying on top of it. "That's the house we'll be guarding tonight."

"It's ginormous." Gray comments. "How are all five of us gonna guard that entire building?"

"I'm sure we'll come up with a strategy to effectively protect the house and capture the suspects once we meet our client." She replies as we all continue to make our way through the small village, now trekking up the start of the hill.

"I wish I packed more fish...." Happy complains once he realizes how tedious walking and or flying up the hill might be.

"Don't worry, buddy. Once we collect a portion of the reward we can buy all the fish we need the for the next mission!!" I assure him.

"Is that all you idiots think about?" Gray rolls his eyes at us.

"Might wanna check yourself, ice princess!" I shout back, the ice mage looking down to see himself suddenly topless, the shirt he was wearing prior gone.

"Aw man!"

"Guys, Erza told you to behave yourselves. We're practically there." Lucy reminds us giving me in particular a look of annoyance.

"Right, sorry Luce." I say quickly before I realize the five of us are at the doorstep of the mansion, Erza ready to knock on the large and elegant double doors.

    She rasps the door ring and bangs it lightly three times.

"Why would you need a that when you can obviously use your own hands to knock?" Man rich people really do buy things they don't need.

     Just then the two doors majestically open at the same time. Out comes a small old man with a curly grey moustache and a bald shiny head.

"Ah you Fairytail wizards made it. Splendid." The elder steps aside and ushers us to come in. "Please take a seat on our couches."

   Indoors there's immediately two visible red velvet sofas across from each other. I happily take a seat next to Lucy and Happy me begin playfully rubbing the couches soft rich material—it was so amusing!

"I welcome you all here to my humble abode." The man says once we're all comfortably seated. "My name is Satoshi Araceae."

"I thank you for your hospitality before we take on your task. My fellow guild members and I are to survey the town before heading back here before dawn where we will protect your home." Erza says all politely.

"Ah yes thank you so much for taking he request! I've been noticing for the past few weeks dark figures around the gardens trying to enter through the back!"

"The gardens?" Gray says. "Perhaps would we focus solely on keeping watch there. Erza nods. I couldn't help but almost zone out about this boring talk about gardens.

"What exactly are those thieves after?" Lucy asks snapping me back into focus.

    Satoshi clears his throat before responding. "Close to the back entrance our family has a private library. I'm afraid what these thieves are after is a book kept inside said room."

   Lucy and I looked at each other in shock for a bit. She leans in close. "Wow doesn't this remind you of the first mission we went on together?"

   I nod almost grinning. That brings back happy memories, when Team Natsu was just Happy, Luce and I.

"Although this isn't an ordinary book." The elder continues explaining. "It's actually a hollow safe disguised as a book where a necklace passed on from generations is kept."

"That has to be what those thieves are after." Gray says confidently, which I have to agree makes sense.

"And if the library is close to the back gardens it would only be fair to assume that that's where they'll stake out tonight." Erza adds on.

"Alright I'm fired up!" I exclaimed. It seemed this task was going to be a peace of cake!

"Why don't we explore the town until it's time to return and guard the gardens? Levy told me they have the best crepes in all of Fiore!"

"I could really go for a dessert right about now." Erza agrees and the rest of us seemed on board—crepes sure did sound yummy!!

"It's all settled then! You wizards can explore the area while you wait for dusk to set before heading back." Satoshi says happily.

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Lucy's P.O.V

'This small quaint town is so pretty.' I think to myself as we all walk through various streets in attempts to find a crepe shop nearby. 'Thankfully this job is almost taking my mind off the whole Natsu incident.'

"What's wrong." A familiar voice says as he wraps his arm over me. I could feel my face burn up—memories of last night coming back to me an instant.

   I quickly move away embarrassed by our close proximity, by we were far behind Happy, Erza and Gray.

"D-don't distract me like that!" I complain getting all defensive, he could probably see the pink in my cheeks.

"You've been weird all day." He states. "What happened?"

   Fear strikes me thinking Natsu may have been smart enough to catch on the the fact of what we did last night.

"I mean, I thought you didn't like crepes." He shrugs, which makes me relieved, but also worried about how dense he truly is.

"Heh, yep that's it."

"Hey lovebirds, hurry up!" Gray suddenly shouts. "Erza found a place!"

'Oh Mavis why is this happening to me...'