12A/N: And I'm back again for another chapter of this short story once again! Sorry for the long wait but I'm finally on summer vacation so I have some more free time to write. Thank you for all the kind reviews and follows it's very much appreciated and now one with the show!
Chapter 2: A Train Ride to Clover
"Come back soon..." was all Wendy said as she slightly tightened her grip on her friend, and finally let go.
Romeo then furrowed his face in confusion before giving the bluenette as soft, reassuring smile.
"Don't worry I will," he said and patted her head reassuringly making Wendy blush. "See ya," he said before continuing to go on his job request.
Romeo then walked out the guild doors and Wendy watched him until he was no longer in sight. Wendy slowly brought up her hands to her chest with a slight look of worry, the nightmare she had two nights ago still lingered in her mind.
"Romeo-kun..." she said softly, her voice full of worry.
"Awww, how cute, you're worried about his safety," a sweet voice said, startling Wendy. The Sky Maiden turned around very quickly and saw none other than Mirajane with a teasing smile. The former then blushed a deep scarlet.
"Erm-I-uh…" Wendy stuttered, seeing there was no way out of this particular situation.
"So Romeo huh?" Lucy also said with a small smile, "You guys look really cute together though."
"I don't like him like that!" Wendy exclaimed out of embarrassment as her blush began to deepen, since her 'lovely' dream with the Rainbow Fire Mage was still on her mind.
"Then, why are you so worried about him?" Lucy asked suddenly curious as to why Wendy was acting this way.
"Um-erm-I-uh," Wendy stuttered out trying to keep herself together.
"Why don't we take her outside so she doesn't attract attention to the guild?" Levy suggested. Wendy nodded and all of the girls, including the barmaid, escorted the bluenette unaware the three certain figures eavesdropping on the whole ordeal were following them not to far away, two of them looked like they could severely hurt or kill someone while the third had a smirk on his face.
The group of girls decides to take it to the indoor pool behind the bar as no one was using it at the time and decided to converse there.
"So Wendy, tell us everything," Lucy said seriously.
Wendy began her story of what happened with the help of Mirajane of course to help with some of the explaining her dilemma to the girls. Needless to say they were very sympathetic towards the Sky Dragon Slayer as all of them were still getting over the shock of being turned, almost in Lucy's case, into Ichiya.
"Wendy you don't have to blame yourself for what happened," Lucy said with sympathy, after all he said you had to.
"But I still feel like Carla and I could've done something…" Wendy said softly.
"Well he is still here isn't he?" Levy asked with a small knowing smile.
"Yea, but what if it was something between life and death, I don't want that to happen to him!" Wendy raised her voice surprising all the girls once again, the Sky Dragon Slayer then flushed in embarrassment after a few seconds due to finally registering what came out of her mouth.
"Well why don't you go accompany him on his job?" Mirajane suggested, causing Wendy to look up at the barmaid quickly, "It's not much of a walk to the train station you may be able to catch up to him if you hurry quickly."
"I could, but I don't-"
"I'll give you the jewels you need for your train ticket, besides you do need some closure with him," Mirajane said quickly, knowing what Wendy was going to say, before handing her a bag of jewels. "Now hurry before you'll miss him and the train," she ended it with a suggestive wink that made Wendy blush, but the Sky Maiden's mind was set, and with determination in her eyes she jogged out of the guild, hoping to reach her destination in time.
All the girls had slight smiles on their faces as Wendy was slowly getting out of their sight, then unexpectedly Lucy let out an irritated sigh before saying, "Natsu, you can come out now."
The other girls had shock plastered on their faces as Natsu came out from behind a palm tree with a smirk, followed by "a wild" Gajeel coming out of a set of bushes and Laxus, well, just jumped down from one of the support struts of the ceiling, the Iron and Lightning Dragon Slayers looked like they could hurt someone.
"Were you spying on us?" Lucy asked irritated at her boyfriend, who had actually nodded, surprising the girls even more, normally Natsu would try to lie, but not this time.
"Why?" Lucy asked, shocked as well.
"I was wondering why Wendy was troubled too," Natsu said seriously, "but when I saw and heard why, I couldn't be happier for her and Romeo," he finished before flashing a cheeky grin.
"I'm not; I'll kill that punk in his sleep!" Gajeel said seething with rage. "I can't stand it that blue finds a drunkard's son to be great…"
"Oi! That's my little brother you're insulting metal mouth!"
"When the hell you called Macao's son your little brother, Natsu?!" Laxus asked shocked.
"Ever since he looked up to me!"
All three began to but heads until a slight dark aura started to give off a certain white haired barmaid, despite the sweet innocent smile on her face, when a chilling aura is there anyone would know when the demon, Mira was about to get angry…
In response all three Dragon Slayers decided to leave it… (For now at least).
With Wendy…
Wendy was still jogging on the stone path, when she was at the train station, she saw Romeo about to enter a line to buy his train ticket.
"Romeo-kun!" Wendy yelled, getting the Rainbow Fire Mage's attention.
"Wendy?" Romeo stopped and turned around in confusion and seeing the Sky Dragon Slayer run up to him, "What are you doing here?" He asked in confusion.
"Well...I...uh...I w-w-wanted to come along with y-y-you on your job!" Wendy managed to stutter and breathe out as heat was rising to her face, half was from jogging and the other was from embarrassment.
Romeo was about to protest that he could do the job by himself, but then he saw that she jogged all the way just so that she could catch up to him, to which the Rainbow Fire Mage sighed and finally said...
"Alright, you can come along."
It took a full minute before Wendy composed herself completely before beaming with a smile that seemed to outshine the sun as Romeo felt heat rise to his checks Seeing her smile like that.
"Alright, thanks Romeo-kun!" before she could do register what she was doing Wendy actually pulled the unsuspecting Rainbow Fire Mage into a tight hug, making his face redden even more like a tomato. When Wendy realized what she was doing her face also turned red as a tomato as well, and quickly pulled away embarrassed, and profusely apologized although she stuttered while doing so, "I'm so sorry R-r-romeo, I-I-I-I-I don't know what came over me!"
"I-i-it's a-a-alright," Romeo stuttered out, before finally composing himself although his cheeks were still rosy pink, "well why don't you wait on the bench over there while I go get the train tickets?" he suggested.
"S-s-sure," Wendy managed to say before walking over to the empty bench Romeo pointed out and sat down contemplating on her odd behavior, "What is wrong with me?! Why did I even do that?!" Wendy's mind was still in overdrive that she didn't realize that a few minutes have passed when Romeo sat down next to her.
Noticing Wendy face he wondered if something was wrong with the Sky Maiden. "Uh, Wendy are you okay?"
"Huh?! Oh, I'm fine Romeo-kun!" Wendy said with a cheerful smile, although it was forced.
"You don't sound 'fine' Wendy, something is wrong, you can tell me," Romeo said seriously, concern filling his face.
Wendy mentally slapped herself, Romeo read her like an open book, flashes of her nightmare of the Rainbow Fire Mage appeared, and followed up by her dream last night. Pushing those aside she decided to switch topics.
"It's nothing Romeo-kun," Wendy said dismissively, "Um, I don't know what kind of job we are going on, can you tell me?"
Romeo sighed as he knew Wendy asked that question in order to avoid her current problem, whatever it was. Still he needed to tell her about the job anyway. If Wendy was not ready to say, then he'll wait.
"It's a simple job," he said as he took the job request flyer out of his pocket, he skimmed through it once for a moment before telling Wendy a summarized version. "It says here that the request is to find an old woman's necklace that she lost somewhere in the town park in Clover, the reward is 5,000 jewels."
"That doesn't seem too hard," Wendy said.
"Yea but the problem is the distance, the train won't arrive at Clover Town until nightfall so it will take about two days, and since you didn't bring anything…" Romeo started.
Wendy realized where this was going, she did not have a bag of clothes with her, Romeo did, that was until another voice called out.
"Wendy!"
Turning to the source of the voice the Sky Maiden and the Mini-Salamander saw it was Lucy carrying a bag that looked like it had the essentials that Wendy needed for the trip. When the Celestial Wizard came to the bench the two pre-teens were sitting she handed the bag to Wendy and explained.
"Mira realized that, the request Romeo had would take about a two days, so Levy and I went to Fairy Hills and packed up some spare clothes, pajamas, and all your other essentials."
"Ah, thank you Lucy-san!"
"Anytime Wendy, good luck you two," Lucy said, just as the train arrived in Magnolia Station.
"Thanks, good-bye Lucy-san/Lucy-nee!" the two young mages said as they hopped aboard the train.
As they took their seats Romeo sat by the window and Wendy sat next to him. However, when the train started to move Wendy suddenly felt very tired and looked like she was about to pass out. Her swaying immediately caught Romeo's attention as his France began early to fill with worry.
"Wendy what's wrong?"
"I don't know Romeo-kun…" Wendy softly said before she passed out and her head landed on Romeo's shoulder.
Romeo's worried face turned into utter panic as he frantically tried to look for a train conductor to help, before a small snore escaped Wendy's lips. He turned towards the Sky Maiden in question and what he saw, the panic he had before melted away, as Wendy had a peaceful and serene smile on her face as she was sleeping soundly on his shoulder. Romeo, in his mind, she looked like, dare he admit it, very cute.
His face then turned a deep shade of scarlet when Wendy started hugging his arm and pressing against him, her face buried in his shoulder. Romeo's heart started beating faster as he began to panic again due to the situation he was in. Wendy Marvell was asleep on his shoulder and pressing against him…Gajeel and Laxus would kill him if they found out.
An hour went by in awkward silence as Romeo was trying his hardest not to think of the sleeping bluenette that had not moved an inch.
"Wendy looks pretty relaxed now," Romeo mused, his blush from before had went down to a rosy tint overtime, and soon he did not mind the sleeping Sky Maiden resting on his shoulder. It would not be for another two hours until the train arrived in Clover, he was also getting tired and couldn't really move, and if he did he would probably wake up Wendy from her slumber. "I guess a small nap wouldn't hurt." Romeo then started to rest his head against the seat of the train before drifting off to sleep. However a small bump from the tracks shook to train car and his head fell off its resting spot and landed softly on Wendy's head. The two pre-teen wizards were still asleep, as the train was moving along the tracks its whistle was heard in the mountain tracks, the sun slowly setting towards the horizon, but that did not matter as the two Fairy Tail wizards were sleeping peacefully in the train car.
A/N: That's it for this chapter I hope you have enjoyed, remember to leave a review and favorite and/or follow this story if you like it! Also constructive criticism is very much appreciated. Thank you!
Up Next: Chapter 3: An Awkward Hotel Room and Comfort from a Friend