Adrift | NaLu |

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If anyone's in mood for some angsty NaLu, you can go check out my friend Mishka-adv story 'Homesick'.
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"So you've felt it too?"

"Yes."

"I knew it! I couldn't have had been the only one!"

"It's so weird." Carla began. "It's like.."

"..she's hiding something big?" Erza sighed, crossing her arms against her chest.

"I know that it isn't something of our concern, but at the same time I do. I feel this overwhelming urge to just know."

"You usually are the one most cautious around new people. What do you think of Lucy?"

"It's... it's so hard to put in words..what I feel around her." Carla sighed. "She isn't someone I can be cautious around. It's like I've trusted her even before I'd known her."

"Mmh. You can say that again." Erza agreed. "But all that magic power I felt earlier...I wonder if it was hers. And if it was..why is she hiding it? From everyone?"

"That monster had resistance against magic. It was weak, but it was there. It would've been almost impossible to defeat it with the feeble power of a weapon."

"She said that Wendy already wore it down before she was hit."

"It's a convincing story, but for some reason I don't believe it. It's almost as if I don't want to believe it."

"It isn't just her power that bothers me."

"Hm?"

"It's the nature of it. It felt so familiar...so very familiar. Like I had known that power for the longest time."

"Do you think we knew her?"

Erza closed her eyes, a small sigh escaping her. "I honestly don't know. I know she says that it was all a joke, but what I've been feeling lately definitely tells a different tale."

"It's like that void is filled, don't you think?"

"Almost." Erza let out a small smile.

"Almost." Carla repeated. "Have you told the others about it?"

"Just you and Wendy. I'm debating whether to tell Gray about it or not, but Natsu and Happy are definitely a no."

"And why is that?"

"Wendy, Gray and you can handle all of this well, but Natsu..Natsu will just burst. Either at us, or at her. And I don't think it is something we would want."

"So what do you suppose we should do? Keep our guards up? I won't lie, that wouldn't be an easy thing to do."

Erza got up, stretching a bit and staring up at the darkening sky.

"I know. It's all so peculiar, but it's true. It'll be hard. But it always is better to be cautious."

Carla got up too, changing back into her exceed form, dusting off her skirt. "It will be hard. Especially for those two." she said, obviously referring to Happy and Natsu. "In such a short while they have grown quite attached to her."