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Laxus smiled, his palm traced a slight noticable scar on her cheek. "Very very beautiful."

"Laxus, can you let go of her now? We want to hug her too." Mirajane asked loudly, tears were running down her face but she's hiding that fact by cowering her face behind a tray she's holding. The rest of guildmates nodded aggressively, saying they were her family as well, it's unfair how he got to hold her that long. Ah, so his name was Laxus. Laxus only cursed at them under his breath and reluctantly released her. He stepped aside and made some room for others to go to her. Even Master asked Mirajane to help him to push his wheelchair.

Rae immediately bowed. And once she raised her face, a huge teary eyed smile was shown. "I'm home, everyone."

"Rae!"

"Rae-nee-san!"

Everyone ran to her with happy smiles and tears to welcome her back. Everyone had been missing her. But what's really surprising her was, there was girl with blue hair crying a river—literally there was a river in the hall and Rae grew panic as she herself turned into water. "Rae-sama! Juvia misses you very much—every day Juvia wets herself for you—" Hearing such inappropriate sentence from the girl, Rae grew flustered and looked like everyone else thought the same as well. That was very bold of her to confess like that.

"Juvia! That sounds wrong!" A girl with slight short white hair yelled, trying to save the other girl from the second hand embarrassment. Now that Rae had seen her face clearly, it seemed like this girl and the other girl were sisters. They had same eyes and hair. Not long after that, Rae had another girl clinging to her forearm as this Lisanna girl was hugging her waist. "Cana—go away, let me have Rae-chan myself." Whining to the drunk girl, Lisanna pulled Rae away from her—Rae only let herself tugged by them cluelessly.

Meanwhile, Lucy was standing at the corner, biting on her hair angrily. "Nee-san is mine alone."

Haruka and Romeo shared a look then those two laughed simultaneously, saying things like they got another Juvia. The boy was truly glad Rae was home. Now, he can no longer watch her stare at nothing alone when everyone was busy having meals. He was happy for her. That smile on her face—it had been a long time since he saw a pure and sincere one. How he missed those big puppy eyes whenever she's asking something from her mother. How he missed her loud and cheery personality whenever Rae got a job and she wanted to go along.

Romeo put his hand on her head, patted her softly. "I'm glad she's home now, Haruka.".

She nodded vigorously. "I am very very happy! Thank you Romeo-san for believing in me." Her body moved to face him, he was her place to share all kinds of things with. She told him everything about her dreams seeing her mother alive and they even went together to find out more about her clairvoyant ability. From all information she had about her previous family, it seemed like Haruka didn't only have one magic, but two. Acid Magic and Foresight, however she was still lacking in using that ability. As far as she knew, it was only activated by accident.

Just like she had a dream about a black dragon, Acnologia trying to harm her family, same thing happened when she had a dream where she saw Rae alone in a forest. It was a mystery for sure. If only there more people knew her real mother then she would have a lead on this magic. It was quite different than Carla's since it only happened in short term. It can be a brief dream. But she knew it came into her dream. She did ask Ciel for more information but that guy didn't have any clue as well.

"Natsu, put me down instantly!"

Haruka snapped her head towards her mother's screaming and laughed once her eyes caught the Fire Dragon Slayer tossing her around, asking for a duel. "Natsu-san still doesn't change, yeah?"

"That's Natsu-nii for you, right?"

She looked at Romeo, nodding. "Right!"

Back with the crowd, everyone was scolding for Natsu as he was carrying her like a sack. He was stubborn as ever, kept on asking for a duel even when she clearly refused to. He was tossing her in the air and Rae was prepared to close her eyes when she was about to fall anytime now but certainly she's not expecting to have a pair of arms catch her body, her hands quickly held on to them. She's freaking out for real. Her grip on the collar was tightened when Natsu's voice was getting louder. That boy sure was energetic.

"Thank you." Rae finally opened her eyes and it was a young man.

It was a young man with orange hair. He was very good looking and he did reminded Rae of something. Rae snapped out and backed away, pulling her hands from him. She took a step back and nodded. "Thank you." The young man bit his lower lip and fixed his jacket, giving her a small smile then walked away. The Dark Enchantress kept her eyes on his figure as he then ran, being chase by some girls. Curiousity filled in her heart.

Rae stared at those eyes for a quite long time. Did she just have a flashback? That's a first. Almost as if her body was possessed, her lips mumbled the unfamiliar name softly and the way his eyes lit up behind the glasses pained her deeply. "Yes, Rae?" His voice was even smoother than she thought. Was he another guy she hurt before? She could feel the admirations in his style of talking. More like he adored her. Rae exhaled with a smile, it was expected that she would return his kindness nicely.

"Thank you, Loke."

A wide smile was on his face. "Anytime, Rae."

7/2/22

Do you get deja Vu?