The Will of the Wind

Summary: Lucy Heartfillia, she's known as the 'Ice Empress' in the high class world she lives in. Loke Celeste, the handsome and sarcastic guy who own a small livelihood farm in Hargeon City. The first day they met they end up in one conclusion. They hated each other's gut. But they have to tie the knot in order for Lucy to inherit their family's Empire Hotel and Resort while Loke needed Lucy's enormous money. The marriage was both a very convenient idea for them with ONE GOLDEN RULE. No emotional should be involved between them. But why on earth was she's angry with Loke's friend, Karen Lilica, the very same girl Loke's suppose to marry?

Disclaimer:Fairy Tail® by Mashima Hiro

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"I said 'no'." a blonde twenty one years old girl hissed at her dance partner one evening. Lucy Heartfillia, the sole heiress of Empire Hotel and Resort, wearing red chiffon off shoulder evening gown with V neckline, criss-cross ruching on the bodice, exceptionally shirred bust line and eye-arresting iridescent broach at the center of the bust. Ruched halter straps connect to the two hand beaded straps that pull across the back and connect to ruched off-shoulder straps. Her gorgeous red dress was partnered with shimmering red stiletto sandals.

Her partner, Rustyrose, pressed his lips together and stared at Lucy; the latter flop her back on the chair's back rest and irritatedly stare at the people dancing in the middle of the dance floor. Rustyrose shrug his shoulders at the blonde beauty.

"I'm getting myself a red wine, would you like something?" he asked.

"Yes, Cosmo please, thank you." Lucy said with her bored expression not tearing her eyes off from the dance floor. Rustyrose nodded his head and instantly disappeared. Lucy's brown eyes trailed at where Rustyrose disappeared, she decided to go to girls' lavatory or anywhere without any man.

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Lucy's feet drag her into the exact replica of Karakuen Garden, the said garden was the famous garden built many centuries ago according to the old books of Fiore Kingdom, when her mother was still a high school student, Layla Heartfillia has been fascinated with the old Fiore Kingdom's history and it's legend garden landscape.

Lucy was about to walk towards the white wash gazebo when she heard familiar voices coming behind the tall bushes surrounding the way towards the garden. Lucy halted and recognized Natsu's voice, her friend and high school classmate. The pink headed boy and Levy McGarden, her female best friend, were the only 'close' friends Lucy can call.

"I want to introduce Lucy to you, Loke." He said. Lucy suddenly rolled her eyes and step back ward. She had enough with those 'no string attached' relationship of her. Rustyrose was more than enough for her, for this month that is, and she doesn't want to add this man Natsu wanted to introduce to her to the collection of the men drooling over her body and not to mention her money. Lucy was about to walk away from the garden when she heard a suave voice that caused her to halt and eavesdrop.

"Iyada, I've seen her just now dancing with Rusty and I must say that I don't like her one bit and besides she's not my type of girl." He said. Lucy gasped silently and scoffed at the bushes that were covering Natsu and the 'rude' guy.

"It'll be my first time to hear that someone doesn't like Lucy." Natsu said with the tone of surprised. Lucy patiently waited for the rude guy's answer.

"She's beautiful and sexy but she acted as if she's going to die if she smiles, as if smiling is included in the seven deadly sins. She's cold and totally reserved girl. Definitely not the type of my girl."

Lucy heard Natsu's chuckled that caused for the blonde heiress to roll her eyes and gave the bushes a sullen look. She wanted to suddenly appear in front of them and slap the rude man's face but Lucy shook her head. It's totally okay with me. She said mentally. At least there was a single man on Fiore Kingdom's not attracted to her. The fewer admirers the better.

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Lucy walked toward the gazebo quietly, not wanting for Natsu and the rude guy to hear her. She just wanted to breathe some fresh air and escaped from too crowded party. It was celebration for the 15th year of their Hotel and Resort Empire that held, obviously, on their large manor. She honestly doesn't want to attend the said party if only her mother didn't beg at her.

Lucy was not dense, the '15th year celebration' her mother was saying was just a front, it's an obvious strategy for her, Lucy Heartfillia, to finally meet and snag a good and rich guy to become a boy friend. It was always been like that. Whenever her mother hold out a party, she'll be inviting bachelors far too many for Lucy's liking. Forced her to exchanged one or two topics with every man in the party. She's only twenty one for god's sake. She's too young to be thinking of marrying and settling down just like that.

"Why on earth do you want me to get married so soon mom?" Lucy groaned looking tired one morning when her mother suddenly barged into her room and asked if Lucy wanted to get marry anytime soon. Her mother caught her still lying on her queen size bed. Still wearing her lingerie and with bed hair, Lucy runs a hand through her blonde hair.

Layla Heartfillia looked young though she's already on her forties. She's looks identical with Lucy as well, sometimes people mistook Layla as Lucy's older sister not her mother.

Layla's eyes soften, she softly seated on her daughter's bed. "It's because I'm afraid that you'll get old without a man to love and take care of you." She said. Lucy rolled her eyes and sit up on her bed, pressing her back on the head board of her bed. "Mommy's getting old and mommy wants to see her future grand children to her only child."

"Mom please, stopped talking as if you're going to die anytime soon because that is totally ridiculous. See, you haven't age a day and about grand children don't you think I'm too young for that?"

Her mother smile mysteriously but a hint of sadness came along with that smile. "But you're acting as if you're a man hater dear and that was scaring mommy."

"Mom, I'm no man hater, it's just so happened that I don't like the men you wanted me to date or the men I came across with."

"You don't like them?" Layla asked looking surprised. "What's wrong with them? They're all exceptionally good looking men and have some college degree and not to mention they came from affluent families."

Lucy pulled her knees into her chest, enclosing her legs with her arms and planting her chin on her knees. "I don't like them. I find them bore. They only kept talking about how rich they are, how successful they are with their life. Blah, blah, yadda, yadda." Lucy said while waving her hand with her bored expression.

"This has to do with me divorcing Wilson right?" Layla asked after a long paused crossed them.

Lucy twitched hearing her father's name but Lucy kept her silence she tilted her face, which was still resting on her knees, to the glass door that leads to the small balcony outside her room. Yep, she came from a broken family. Her mother and father divorced when she's first year middle school, that was eight years ago. Five years after that divorce, news came to them that their father was happily married again and is now living a happy life in West Kingdom. That was when her mother started to date young and handsome bachelors.

"I'm right, am I?" Layla asked again while Lucy continued her silence. "You know the real reason why I divorced your father ne? Oh he's a very good father and husband, but you know the circumstances of our marriage. I divorced him for a very good reason but that doesn't mean that I want my only child to hate all the men. I hate to see my daughter having a cynical attitude towards them."

"I want you to date guys so people stop categorizing you as a man hater. You know what they Christianized you these days? Ice Empress, can you believed that?" Layla said and shook her head as if it's the very insulting words they can bestow upon her daughter.

Lucy shrugged her shoulders. "Don't care." She nonchalantly said.

Layla dropped her shoulders looking disappointed. "Someday, Lucy, I wanted to see you happy."

"Me too mommy, so I repeat I'm not a man hater, I still haven't found the right man for me." Lucy said and crawled off her bed trying to send a cue to end this conversation.

That was the topic between her and her mother this morning and like in a movie, that topic was just a rerun, they always have that conversation every time her mother gets a chance to talk to her. So her mother will always have an excused to hold out a party like this for Lucy. The blond heiress doesn't want to disobey Layla, that'll only cause sadness to her mother, so Lucy can only do was to avoid men as much as she can. Which was a futile effort by the way since these 'men' always finding a way to talk to her (bother her in Lucy's point of view).

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Lucy sat down on the cushioned swing in the middle of the gazebo; she brushed her hands on her arms after the chilly wind blow its way to her. Lucy's thought trailed to her ex boyfriends. Her relationship never last long, the longest relationship she had was almost only a month. The only reason she's dating them was because of her mother asked her but honestly she doesn't like those men and whenever they tried to put an arm around her shoulders or even hold her hands, she always ended up having a goosed bumps and causing for her to slap her date's face.

Lucy decided to return to their manor because the wind is getting colder; she stood up and was about to walk when a figure block her way. Lucy automatically step back ward seeing a man in thirties blocking her way towards the manor. Trap between the swing and the familiar man Lucy tried to act annoyed.

She creased her forehead at the man. "Bora?"

"I have been waiting to talk to you, Lucy-chan." He said and the way he add the honorifics to her name sends a disgusting shivered into Lucy's spine. "But I can't seemed to get a word with you not with all those 'dogs' gawking at you tonight especially that Rustyrose." He added while he took step closer to Lucy. The blonde girl was not able to step backward away from Bora with the swing trapping her to him.

Standing few inches away from Lucy, Bora took an admiring look at Lucy's figure and leaned his face towards Lucy's ear. "Very beautiful and alluring."

Lucy warded off her fear and tried to brush her hands pushing Bora's face away from her. "Thanks but I already know that 'fact', so if you'll excuse me." Lucy tried to step away from him but she's only taken two steps when she felt him grabbed her forearm.

"Ice Empress indeed." He said still his hand on her arm. "You're sure living up the title they gave you huh? But I'm sure behind that poker-face and cold attitude is the warm and alluring Lucy Heartfillia." Bora leaned his face closer to Lucy's face again; their noses nearly touched each other. "Maybe especially in bed?"

Lucy scoffed at Bora. "You're so full of yourself huh? Just because you have a rich widow to answer your entire disgusting whim that doesn't make you a high class man. You disgust me." Lucy sourly said before turning her back at him.

Bora's face turned dark and he harshly pulled Lucy closer to him earning a surprised gasped from the young lady. "Bitch! No one insulted Bora-sama like that and get away unscratched and you're acting as if you're a freaking virgin. I bet those men of yours played with you over and over again huh?"

"Let go of me." Lucy said with her controlled but obviously annoyed tone. She tried to pull her arm from his grip.

He scoffed. "You're going nowhere, not until I tasted those pinkish lips of yours." He said and tried to kiss her but Lucy immediately pulled his face with her free hand.

"Let go of me!" she repeated, panic was obvious on his voice but Bora only caught her other hand, now with both of her hands trapped in his iron grip, Bora pulled Lucy's body closer to him and tried to kiss her again but was cut off when a dangerous voice stop him.

"I think she clearly said to let her go, Bora-san." A stern and familiar voice coming from her back said, halting Bora from kissing Lucy.

Bora and Lucy tilted their heads to the voice in unison. There standing few feet away from her and Bora is handsome young man with dark orange hair wearing a coat and tie appropriate for a party like this. He sports a thicker and larger dark orange hair that Lucy reminded of him of a lion's mane. Though he had multiple piercing, those made him look manly rather than a punk. His dark brown orbs sending a dangerous death glare, his hands were inside his pants' pocket.

"This is none of business, Loke, go away." Bora said at the man he called 'Loke'.

"I don't want to make a scene, Bora-san so you better let her go and scram. NOW." Loke said yet again while slowly stepping closer to her and to Bora, the latter's grip on Lucy's forearm loosen giving Lucy an opportunity to pulled her arms from him and hastily took step back away from Bora. While glaring at Bora, Lucy rubbed her arms still with red hand mark around it.

Bora sends a death glare to Loke and scoffing at Lucy before walking towards the manor, leaving Lucy with the stranger. Lucy lifted her eyes from her forearm to the orange hair man who rescued her which was now standing in front of her. Finally recognizing the suave voice from behind the bushes, Lucy gave him a sullen look.

"Thanks but I honestly didn't need your help. I can totally handle guys like him." She said snootily at him.

"So ungrateful." He said calmly. He moved closer to Lucy while he flirtatiously smirked at her. Her nostrils filled with sweet and manly scent of the man's perfume that cause for Lucy to get distracted a little. "You sound as if you can kick his ass but from the looks of you before I stepped in was that you're about to cry."

Lucy merely stared at his tantalizing dark brown eyes. His husky way of chortling only sends a tickling shiver through Lucy's ears. Lucy was busy admiring his eyes and his husky voice when she felt him tilted her face through her chin upward.

"Fallen in love with me now?" he seductively and playfully asked that only insulted and embarrassed the young heiress. Lucy arched an eyebrow; masquerading a fake annoyed expression at him. The corner of her pinkish lips rose.

Instead of withdrawing her chin from his hand, Lucy tilted her face closer to his face. "Don't be so full of yourself, Mister Stranger." She said with her mocking flirtatious voice. "And did you stop Bora from harassing me so that 'you' can continue what he's planning instead?"

The way snorted earned a subtle twitched from Lucy. He let her chin go and stepped away from her. "As if, you're not the kind of girl I want to have as a girl friend. I prefer my lady to be passionate and sweet and obviously you're not qualified in my category."

Lucy looked at him with disbelief, jaw slightly opened. "How dare you!" the only words she said.

Loke chuckled again and gave her a playful wink. "Ja ne." he said before turning his back at Lucy and walking away from the young lady, leaving the blonde heiress in range of anger. Loke huh? She said mentally. That rude Loke insulted her not once but twice! And what did he say? She's out from his standard to girls? The nerve of him!

"Well the feeling was mutual! I don't really like you as well!" Lucy angrily exclaimed but she knew that he's not going to hear her fuming about his insults.

TBC

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Sabrina's Musing Corner: This is the compensation for the lack of Loke-Lucy interaction in my FTA FF. Hope you enjoy. Google the Karakuen Garden. Lucy's dress is courtesy of the site I just so happened to stumble upon and forgot to save the site.

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-For the future reference, this story is inspired by the song 'The Will of the Wind' and a book that I read before can't seemed to remember the title argh! (Standard Disclaimer is applied)-

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