Lost Love

a new home

"finally, Land!" Sting flops to the ground as soon as the cart stops. Rouge follows desperately wanting to get of the hell machine.

"you two are embarrassing" Lector complains.

"frosh agrees" stepping off the half destroyed cart i look around, we are surrounded by forest.

"where are we anyway?" turning towards Auma i watch as she places a hand on a nearby tree. a tattoo that i had not noticed before glows on her arm. the space between the two trees seem to wobble.

"follow me" she steps through the area and vanishes from sight.

"wow, what kind of magic is that?"

"we're do you think she went?" standing in front of the tree i watch the space as it sort of shivers.

"well there's only one way to find out" Rouge steps past Levy and through the portal like space. i give Levy a why not look and follow him through.

on the other side Auma watches us with a amused expression. ahead of her is a small cottage but around that is another forest.

"where are we?"

"is it some kind of pocket dimension?" Rouge and Levy bombard Auma with questions.

"yes, this is a pocket dimension that has been passed down through generations. only people with the Dreamtime mark can enter."

"but we don't have the mark"

"you do now, your wrist" pulling my sleeve up i gasp at the smallish tattoo on my wrist. "this pocket dimension can travel through space so the leader can make its doorway appear wherever they please, the dimension will also expand itself for however many people it needs to accommodate."

"hang on if you could make the doorway appear where ever you wanted then what was the point of that horrid carriage ride?" Sting complains.

"the point of the ride was to test you. i knew that those bandits would attack us and i wanted to see how you fared against them." Auma leads us to the house. 

"will we be staying here?" Levy looks around the place. it was fairly small with three rooms and one common area with a kitchen and a fire place.

"yes, girls are to the left and guys are to the right. the middle is my room so you are never to go in there." she puts on a serious face and faces the huddle of us. "now i must request that you all wear these" holding out four necklaces we each take one. on the end of it is a medallion with a strange symbol on it.

"owww, why doesn't Frosh get a necklace?" Rough laughs and pats his exceeds head.

"don't worry frosh, i'l find you something."

"what do these do?" pulling one over his head Sting questions.

"these are magic restricting medallions. in order to teach you to become stronger i will first have to train you without your powers. so Lucy i am going to need to take your keys." i stiffen. "don't worry nothing bad is going to happen to them, i just want to make sure that you don't use any magic."

"that's not the whole problem. Aquarius will kill me if i give away her key." Levy Stiffens next to me.

"yeah i'm with Lucy on that one. she is one spirit that you don't want to meet."

"i will deal with that problem when it comes" cautiously i hand over my pouch.

"humph, Lucy nothing without her Spirits" Sting gossips. out of no where Auma's walking stick fly's out and wacks him over the head.

"i will not tolerate the putting down of other students." the stick fly's back into her hand.

"Ow!" Sting gently rubs his head.

"now since it has been such a long drive i guess that you are all quite tired. we will start your training at the crack of dawn tomorrow so get some sleep."

"what but it's still early!"

"the sun's still up!" we all complain. this time when the sick fly's at us i see it coming but that still doesn't give me a chance to dodge as it wacks me over the head.

"do not argue with me" turning on her heel she walk into her room.

"Stupid old lady" Sting complains.

"well that should teach you a lesson" Levy teases.

"just because your the old lady student too it doesn't mean we have to tolerate you."

"the same goes for you." i stand with my hands on my hips.

"we may not be in different guilds anymore but that doesn't change a thing." Lector copy's my movements.

"i don't know Lucy, if were going to be spending all of this time with them, wont it be esayer to just call a truce?" Levy offers, being the voice of reason like normal.