Xīngkōng xuě | GrayLu

One

“Lucy!” the said girl stopped walking, turned to the voice calling her.

“Gray?” She muttered, unsure why the man followed her. Soon, her eyes widen in shock when she saw the mark he was proud of was now erased.

“Why did you..” She was lost for words. She doesn't know what to say.

“If they can't stick up to their promise, at least, there is one,” He smiled cheekily at the young blonde,“There's no way I'll let you go on your own, if you're leaving, so am I,”

He walks closer, and wiped the unnoticed tear that fell on her pale skin,“I'll be with you every step of the way. So there's no need to be sad, Lucy,”

She nodded, and looked at him in the eyes,“Thank you..”

~

“Thank you, good children,” The old man great fully smiled at the two.

This old man are wearing clothes that are similar to a beggar. He was seen by chance by Gray and Lucy as they ended up in Ràngwèi City that is very far from Fiore that it takes a month of travel.

The old man was chased out of the restaurant, because he was a 'beggar'.

“What were doing there knowing that you're going to get chased out?” Gray said, glaring at the guard who thrown the old man out.

“Probably you don't have any money?” Lucy questioned.

“Money? Money ain't a problem for this old man!” The old man laughed out loud, as he was guided by the two to an inn.

“What's your name, sir?” She asked politely.

“Zixin Weizhe, you can call me Old Man Zhe,” The old man said, and looked at the two,“What about you two?”

“Lucy Heartfilia,”

“Gray Fullbuster,”

“Are you perhaps magicians? I can sense a large force of mana coming out of you two,” Old Man Zhe eyed the two.

“Correction, mages. But we come from Fiore,” Lucy said.

“Fiore?”

“Uh-huh, it takes a month to travel to go there,” and so the two teens talked to the man about their lives, and up to their recent situation.

“Good children, do you want to be this old man's disciple?” Old Man Zhe offered,“With you under my sect, no one would dare to touch you,”

“Disciple? Sect?” the old man is shock. Anyone would be willing to be his disciple any day, any night! And these two doesn't know what a sect is?!

“Huángdì shén Sect is the sect I've created a long time ago, and it's the strongest out there! We teach Martial and Alchemy,” Old Man Zhe said,“I've never had any disciple despite the fact I lived many centuries already,”

“But..” The two looked at one another.

“This old man knows, this old man knows. You young las have nowhere to go, so I'm giving you a new family,”

The two looked into each other's eyes, as if they're talking to one another.

Gray turned to the old man and smiled,“Offer accepted,”

“You won't certainly regret it,”

~

“Master! Master!” a blob of raven hair was seen running down, as he approached the old man who was finally out after three years of training in seclusion.