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Reading is Fun!....damental.

WHO: Lucy Heartfilia, Blake Belladonna
WHAT: A Meeting between Booknerds
WHEN: Today
WHERE: The library in Nova City

While the early morning training with Erza had been a few days ago, Lucy still felt sore, and in places she didn't think she could even be sore. The woman was a demon! She had some free time today though, with her friends out training or (hopefully not) getting into some sort of trouble, she decided to head to the library. Not alone though, oh no. She learned her lesson on that one - trotting along at her side was the little dog spirit (and evil mastermind), Plue.

It took longer than she'd liked to even get the door open, but oh well. A nice hot bath later would help immensely. Once inside the library, she set Plue down and cast a curious look for other booknerds around on her way to one of the bookshelves off the shelf. It wasn't just for fun and relaxation she was here - she was here for information too. "I'm going to grab a few more books Plue - go ahead and wait for me over there." She nodded towards a nice quiet spot by the window.

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It felt like forever since Blake had been able to enjoy some real peace and quiet, and now that Yang was back at home and resting now seemed like the perfect time for a trip to the library.

She was on her own today, true, but she was still on her guard and armed with Gambol Shroud on her back. But the first rule of being a Huntress was to never go anywhere without your weapon at hand.

Still, she wasn't looking for a fight at the moment when she came out of one of the rows with her nose in a book and heading for a quiet-looking spot she'd noticed beside a window. It was there that she just managed to stop herself from stumbling over a little white creature with a bizarre cone-shaped nose.

"Hm?" She blinked, crouching down and tilting her head to get a closer look at Plue while he shivered and shook away at her. "... Er, what are you supposed to be?"

Poor Plue. He just didn't know what to do when Blake peered at him. Well.. okay he did. He could be nice and say hello. "P.. puuh." A little paw raised in a friendly greeting.

He may be the celestial spirit of a chihuahua as much as he shivered around people. However, he wasn't alone long, as Lucy emerged from around the other set of bookshelves, somewhat stiffly. "I'm right here, Plue. What's - oh!"

Spying the dark haired girl, Lucy smiled a greeting. "I didn't know someone else was already here in the library."

Oh no. That... that was....

That was adorable.

A little smile crossed Blake's face and she raised a hand to return the greeting, when she picked up somebody else approaching. She stood up, turning when Lucy made her appearance.

"Neither did I." Well... that wasn't exactly true, she'd heard somebody moving around but actually explaining how she'd managed that would take an explanation. Instead, she glanced down at Plue again. "Is he yours?"

Plue is the master of the adorable appearance all the while plotting 'evil' behind the scenes. He is like a butterfly. No one suspects him. Plue was pleased by the greeting returned, waving his paws at Blake in turn.

"He's a friend of mine, yes." She'd never say Plue belonged to her - even if the contracts are more or less 'ownership' in a way, it just left a bad feeling in her mouth to address someone like that. "My name is Lucy," And freeing up an arm to motion at the little critter. "and he's Plue."

Well, he's definitely the cutest little Master of Darkness that Blake's ever seen. She's usually pretty resistant to cute things too, but something about the little critter waving its arms at her manages to even get to her.

Lucy... Ruby had mentioned meeting somebody by that name, one of those Fairy Tail people. Was this the same girl?

"I'm Blake." She gave a look to the books in Lucy's arms. It seemed she was having a tough time today. "Do you need some help with those?"

"Nice to meet you!" Lucy grinned. The look that followed Blake's offer was one of extreme gratitude. Her hero! Her arms had been aching - but she didn't want to take the books one at a time.

"Aahah - if you wouldn't mind..? I guess I took more than I should have. I'm still sore from training. Were you going to sit here too?" She tilted her head curiously, "Do you mind if I sit here too?"

Blake just gave a nod and reached out to take some of those books off of Lucy's hands. Overloading on books to save time on traveling back and forth between the table and the bookshelf was a crisis Blake knew well. And she wasn't any stranger to a rough day of training either.

"Not at all." She made a note of the page in the book she had picked up herself, before making her way over to the table. "You'll have to make room though."

And as they got closer, Lucy could see just what she meant by that when the stack of books cluttering up a large section of the table came into view.

Apparently that one book had been an afterthought.

"Eh?" She glanced towards the table as Blake mentioned it, her brown eyes widening in surprise.

"You're... reading all of these...!?" Surprise gives way to a grin, and Lucy set the books she had still been carrying on the floor by the chair, giving Blake the table for her book stand.

"I didn't think I'd meet a fellow book lover -" The sight of it made her think of Levy, the brief time she'd spent with her bestie. She collected Plue from the floor and set him on the table near the books, mindful of the tower, and the celestial spirit stared incredulously, letting out a 'Puuuuuuuuuuuh' of admiration.

"Is it research or pleasure?" Or both?

"Well... for starters anyway." She said with a completely straight face as she took her seat again after placing Lucy's books with the rest. She set the book she'd been carrying over down, flipping it back open to the page.

Oh? Another fan of books? She glanced up, giving Lucy a grin.

"It can get pretty lonely, can't it?" She turned her attention back to the books and brought a hand to her chin thoughtfully. "A little bit of both. I had hoped to find out more about this place but... none of these books seem to be about anything here. Unless you count the tourism guides."

She doesn't.

Lucy grinned, carefully inspecting the titles that Blake picked, recognizing a few as ones she'd read already. "Yeah - most of my friends prefer a physical route to sitting and reading all day." Especially Natsu. He'd go out of his mind if he had to sit still for even five minutes, to read.

"Actually I came to do the same thing - especially after that thing that showed up a little while ago. That huge monster? Were you caught up in that too?" She frowns a little, "Strange that there wouldn't be anything on the place though - not even archives. But maybe between the two of us we might find something interesting."

Tourism guides totally don't count.

Blake nodded. That she could sympathize with. Ruby and Weiss could probably manage some time in the library, but Yang would be climbing the walls before long.

"Yes, I was part of the group trying to immobilize its legs. At least, I was until I was separated from them and wound up fighting several of those smaller creatures." She frowned. "I thought, if something like that had happened before, that there might be some record of it. Maybe a clue as to what it was, or where it came from but so far there's been nothing."

"I was too. Erza was helping me at first, and then she joined Natsu to take the beast down from above. I couldn't focus much on what was going with their fights though - it was pretty overwhelming dealing with those gooey things. Taurus was able to help me out against them though."

"But you've had the same idea I did," Lucy noted thoughtfully. "Whatever that thing is, why it showed up, everything about it - it's like one great big secret. Somehow that doesn't surprise me though. That just means that people like us have to dig deep to find out what the mystery is."

She paused. "Speaking of that fight... do you know about a wizard named Kefka?"

Blake nodded.

"She and Ruby were the ones who took it down." With help from the Genessia Guardian and his jet. Honestly, it wasn't a surprise that Ruby had come up with a plan that involved flying an airplane into it.

"And we have no idea if, or when, another one might appear. If we could find something about it happening in the past, maybe we could at least predict it." She frowned at the stack of books as if she almost thought glaring at them would force them to give up some answers, only stopping when Lucy asked her next question. "Hm? Kefka? No, I haven't met anybody with that name."

Lucy nodded. "Natsu too, at first, along with a General. Harpuia I think his name was? I was fighting those things on the ground with Taurus."

She turned her focus briefly to the books, thoughtful. "At least I don't have to read these, if you haven't found any information in them. Likewise, you can eliminate these titles I've read. It'll save you from wasting your time." It'd be nice if there was a clue to what they were looking for though.

When Blake mentioned she hadn't met Kefka, Lucy grimaced. "If you do, I would exercise caution. He's a madman- a self proclaimed God of Magic. When an ally of mine and I were fighting the creatures, he cast some kind of spell to increase their speed and make battle more difficult for us. To tell the truth, I wouldn't have come out of that quite so well if Natsu hadn't shown up when he did." Best timing ever.

Taurus? Another name she hadn't heard. Though the same could be said about Harpuia and Natsu as well. She really needed to start playing closer attention to who was arriving in the city. Maybe now that things were getting back to "normal" she could catch up.

She gave a glance toward the stack of books and nodded. "We should compare notes, make sure we're not going over anything twice."

Talk of Kefka brought a sigh from her, and her eyes narrowed. Another maniac to worry about.

"We certainly don't have any shortage of madmen in this place. I hope somebody warned you about the others?"

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Lucy smiled, nodding agreement, "Sounds good to me." She reached down for one of the books at her side, her smile fading slightly.

"It is a little annoying, to think that no matter where you go there's always someone who wants to ruin things." At the same time she'd miss having something to challenge her - and Natsu would probably get bored with nothing to fight too. Though if they could limit that to just the occasional monster she'd be happy. "Ruby warned me about someone named Skeletor, Bison and an 'M' character - is there anyone else other than that?"

Boy she hoped not.

"There's always somebody like that." She glared at the book in front of her. No matter where you were, or what was happening, there was always somebody out there who valued power over everything else.

"Bison and 'M' seem to be the worst of them so far. We've managed to make enemies of both of them as well." Well, at least Bison. She couldn't say she had any idea what was going through M's mind.

Neither could Lucy. He was pretty creepy, "I spoke to him, briefly - that 'M' guy, I mean. He's pretty mysterious - but I guess you could expect that from someone with a 'name' like that. Still, he's creepier than any of the villains in any of the novels I've written." Maybe she's missing a archetype, most of her villains were pretty uncomplicated. "And that kind of villain makes them the more dangerous." Ones that go around boasting their plans and everything were easy to deal with.

"I never spoke with him myself, but my friend Yang did and she said he... well, that he knew things he shouldn't have." He hadn't outright said that he knew about her not being a human, but it had certainly been implied by that "freak" comment.

She just sighs, rubbing her forehead.

"Sorry, but, would you mind if we talked about something else? I just spent a long time dealing with one of them, and I was hoping to focus on something else for a little while."

Lucy shook her head quickly, "No, not at all. Sorry, I didn't mean to talk about something upsetting for you." Something else, huh? Books were always a nice safe topic.

She glanced at Plue, reaching into her purse to pull out a candy stick she got at the store, handing it to him since he was being such a good boy. Enjoy the sight of the teeny Plue enjoying some candy, Blake.

"So what kind of things do you read, when you're not researching things like this." She motioned at the pile of books.

"It's fine." Blake shook her head with a small, grateful smile. She'd dealt enough with being in danger from other people so upsetting wasn't quite the right word. But it was stressful but that was exactly what she was hoping to avoid today.

That smile widened a little bit while she watched Plue snack away at his piece of candy, and let out a quiet, amused breath. ... You had to know her, she was practically squeeing over him.

"That's a difficult question." She paused thoughtfully, considering. She really did read a little of everything, but she knew that wasn't at all a good answer. "I suppose lately I've been reading a lot of mystery. What about you?"

Lucy knew what it was like to not want to dwell on something like that. Heck, with her guild they could be fresh out of a dangerous situation and they were ready to relax and party and live it up just hours later. Dwelling on the past was lame.

She grinned at Blake's smile, both girls watching Plue snack away - she'd giggle if she knew that was Blake's 'squeeing' face. "Me? Actually I do more writing than I do reading, sometimes. Most of the time it's about my adventures within Fairy Tail, but occasionally I do branch out to write something new now and again."

Her team was more or less the same. The very next morning after a desperate battle against the two largest Creatures of Grimm Blake had ever seen had been spent decorating their dorm room.

She watched Plue snack for a little while longer before turning her attention back to Lucy.

"You mentioned being a writer earlier." Now that was interesting. She was always interested in something new. "Have you been working on anything since you arrived here?"

Clearly her team and Lucy's team were bound to get along famously then. Best team up ever.

As the topic turned to the other favorite thing that Lucy liked to do - i.e. writing, she grinned, nodding to the question. "Yeah, actually. Most of what I've written are about some of the missions I've been on, but I have one or two in the works that are 'original' stories, so to speak."

It was bound to happen. They just had to be careful that Natsu and Yang didn't try to fight each other too much.

Missions from back home? That certainly caught her interest. She'd grown up reading stories about adventures and worlds of magic for so long, it would be something else to read actual true stories of a place like that.

"That sounds interesting. I'd love to read some of it sometime."

That'd be difficult. Natsu's favorite way of making friends with others was sparring with people. He'd probably love to go toe to toe with Yang, not to mention the rest of Team RWBY.

Fortunately Lucy's gotten over her initial shyness of others reading her stories long ago, so she grins at Blake, nodding. "I'd be happy to bring one of them by next time I come to the library- or actually, once our guild is built I know Erza and Natsu are going to want to throw a party. If you think you'd like to come, then you can consider this a formal pre-party invitation."

She chuckled. "I didn't know you then, but I was going to invite Ruby and her friends from Beacon anyway." This just saved time! Sorta.

He wouldn't have any trouble finding takers among the team, that was for sure. She might not be as gung-ho about it as Yang, but even Blake wouldn't turn down the chance to test herself against a strong opponent and there might still be a little disappointment at missing the tournament at the Vytal Festival.

A party? She briefly considers that idea. She wasn't much for groups of people, but she'd liked everyone she'd met from Fairy Tail so far and if the rest of her team were invited as well.

Finally, she nods after a second or two of thought. "I'd like that."

Everyone on Team Natsu loved to challenge themselves - even Lucy in a way. She just didn't like to fight if she didn't have to - she didn't have that same rush Natsu and Erza did. But she fought differently from them.

Watching Blake curiously as she considered the offer, she grinned at the final answer, nodding. "Great! We'll be glad to see you there. I should warn you though, things can get a little crazy sometimes. ... most of the time... all of the time."

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Reading is Fun!....damental.

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This IS the girl who reads two books at once.

Clearly they will be the best of friends. :3

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Sorry for the wait. Work murdered my ability to tag this week.

No problem! :)

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