Next day family ate their breakfast sometimes talking about plans for today. The house library was huge but the stockpile of all books in the world are even bigger. Shopping to find some books about enchantment was necessary. Jude promised to ask his friends about that. Layla and Lucy are going to town to visit bookstores and possibly make orders for books. Lucy was in need to establish new routine of training and education.
Looking for just teachers simply doesn't make sense, because she learned about magic sciences and Celestial Spirit Magic. Obviously there's a risk that using the Celestial Spirit Magic is not simple for Lucy, but Lucy wanted to wait for the moment when her magical reserves are strong enought to safely summon a Celestial Spirit. Summoning Celestial Spirit is not a joke. In previous timeline Celestial Spirit Mage named Karen died because she tried to summon second Celestial Spirit. Another reason to learn new magic at least for some time.
Heartfilia's estate is very huge and have size of town so they left sitting in their stagecoach. Ironically estate was next to Camelia Town so townspeople could see area big as their city that wasn't their city. Naturally Jude couldn't let Lucy go unguarded. Next hours passed and Lucy tried to find good books for the sake of her education. She bought Gale-Force Reading Glasses to reduce time she would spent on reading. She ended finding only one about enchanting. Visit in the library has its result in finding two books. Result was not good but that was enought to start. Also decided to wide her garderobe by cheap training clothes. It's nealy impossible to train without sweating your clothes. Yesterday she sweated her dress and that was not fine. Last thing that Lucy bought was two whips. One for training and one for fight. Layla has her objections about giving weapons to child, but agreed because using nonmagical weapons was a way to not use much magical power.
After they returned Lucy walked around mansion to find and choose a suitable place to arrange her training ground or rather a place with a few trees to strike them with whip and flat piece of land to meditate. Later was dinner. Jude asked about results and when he heard results of shopping, started asking about plans to do training with whip. He was somewhat concerned about possibility of losing her female qualities. He was sure he always wanted a boy that could inherit his company, but not this way. Lucy argued about absurdity of this way of thinking. Layla was smilling because of feelling that familly quickly started to be more like family.
Lucy went to her room to start read books. It's easy to say that the enchantment is about giving and taking magic. Yes, it's true. Enchantment is about giving and taking magic. However way of doing that is another history. You can't just pour magic power on a stick and make stick harder than steel. At least not many magicians can enchant stick. Otherwise magicians would use wooden sticks instead of iron swords. Lucy must admit her lack of interest in art of enchantment. If she sometimes did some talk about it with Wendy, maybe she could even know some basics. Now it's too late for regrets and she has to that harder way. If a mage born without magic skills but with magic power has its talent for certain kind of magic, the mage can learn it and use it after little more than month assuming that mage has a good guidance. That doesn't mean one can't learn more. He can but it's not very effective. It's hard to tell if one has talent for that kind of magic. Most can only try hard to learn it. Lucy Tried to comprehend contents of books. Most of all she looked for ways to control magic power that wasn't even her. Hours passed but even with her Reading Glasses she couldn't learn much. Training with whip went even worse. Her body of eight years old girl couldn't do much in case of wielding weapon. Later she was lying tired on the ground and mumbled.
"Wait for me, Natsu!"
In the meantime Layla was making her own conspiracy. Lucy was her lovely daughter but Layla had to admit that Lucy could forget about what she need to do about her friends. For example in Fairy Tail Guild girl named Canna is looking for her father tormenting herself about being too weak to match his exceptations. If only someone send letter about Canna situation to Makarov, Canna will "find" her father immediately. This is what Layla is going to do.
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"Master, there's a letter for you!"
"Member destroyed something again?"
"Possible, but I don't know. It's rude to read someone else's coresrpondence."
Makarov was drinking his beer and already drunk looked on the letter. Something was off. On the letter in wax was imprinted Heartfilia's crest. Did our mages offend this powerfull organization as Konzern Heartfilia? Makarov opened the letter and started to read.
Dear Makarov Dreyar,
We discovered very interesting informations about one Fairy Tail's young member. Certainly you know Canna is looking for her father. However in fact this is no true! Canna knows who is her father, but in her eyes he's way too great so she's too shy to tell him she's his daughter. Canna is the result of one of Gildarts's romances. Please, inform Gildarts about existence of his child. I'm sure he would be loving father for Cana despite his careless personality. I can't explain how I know about it in one letter but maybe one day I will visit you to tell all of the story.
Regards
Layla Heartfilia
"Master, you're spilling your beer!"
"Whaat! Gildarts! We need to talk! Now!"
"Master, but your bee..."
"It's something important to do. More important than my beer! Gildarts! Gildarts!"
Finally Makarov found Gildarts sitting at the bar and started to talk.
"Gildarts!"
"Master your..."
"Canna is your daughter!"
"Master your pants are wet... What? I have a daughter!"
"My pants!"