Well, this is my first fanfic and I'm an amateur writer. There will definitely be typos, grammatical error and many more mistakes so I apologize in advance!
All ideas in this story are all mine so if ever that it is similar to some works then it's probably just a coincidence.
This whole chapter is in Natsu's POV.
Enjoy!
Yankee Love
Chapter 1
Kneeling Dragon
Hi, I'm Natsu Dragneel. My name Natsu means 'summer'. I think my family's name, Dragneel, whoever had the weird taste to think of it, is a combination of the noun 'dragon' and the verb 'kneel' and therefore it stands as 'kneeling dragon'. A dragon is a mighty mythical creature who is said to be above all creatures, so why would it kneel to anybody?
Beats me.
In a sense, I think I can be compared to a dragon. My family is quite rich. My IQ is a step above many, I'm quite athletic and I was blessed with good looks. Only if I don't have pink hair. Yes, PINK. That's the stone-hard truth about my hair the instant I was born. But most of the time, I always say and consider that my hair is just a lighter shade of red. Just a lighter shade of RED. My hair color aside, you could say that I almost have everything that every person wishes to have. I'm at the top and I consider most people below me as mere plebeians. I sound elitist. Well, yeah indeed I am.
Why am I thinking about these things anyway? You could say that I'm just getting ahead about 'your-whole-life-flashes-about-in-your-eyes-when-you're-about-to-die-thing'.
At the very least I want to relive good memories about myself before my quite early approaching death.
Why am I talking about me going to die, anyway?
I am just in a great pinch you see.
It happened a moment early today.
[Flashback]
Today is supposed to be my first day of high school at a new school, Magnolia High. I woke up extra early today to prepare.
After a few minutes of preparing, I gazed down to my reflection at the mirror and looked quite satisfied that the uniform fitted me perfectly and I totally liked its look. The uniform consisted of black trousers, white shirt, maroon blazer on top of it and a blue tie. I grabbed my bag and decided to left for school.
Instead of riding a car, I decided to walk so I could get familiar with the surroundings. My family just moved here about a week ago because of my parents work.
I was enjoying my walk to school when suddenly I heard a high pitched scream.
'A girl?'
I stopped and ran to find out where the sound came from. Then, I realized that I'm not that familiar to this place since I just moved here so I currently don't know where I'm heading but nevertheless, I decided to continue. I ran through different streets and corners and then I found three people trying to drag a girl in an alleyway. 'She's wearing the same kind of uniform as me. She also goes to Magnolia High!'
They were quite far from me so they don't took notice of my presence.
Confused of what to do, I stopped my tracks and stared at the scene in front of me.
'Delinquents? And they are wearing a uniform that I'm not familiar to! What should I do? Should I run and help her? But can I fight those guys?! Or maybe, I should get help!'
I looked around 360 degrees but saw not a single soul except me. Well, it is still this early in the morning and we're quite in a secluded place. That just added to my anxiety and I looked back to them.
I can see the girls' weak attempts to be freed by punching the guy's grip from her. "Who are you people? Let me go!" she snarled while continuously punching his arm and being dragged roughly. "Let me go! Someone, please help! Hey, I said let me go-" she shouted pleadingly and angrily. "SHUT UP! IF YOU DON'T WANT TO GET HURT!" recoiled angrily by the guy who holds her and drags her more abruptly in the alleyway.
They were not in my line of vision anymore. I cannot hear the girls' shouts anymore. 'I really should do something! Should I get the police? But that will definitely take time! Ugghhh…Tsk! I don't care anymore!'
I immediately sprinted there but decided not to make myself be seen by hiding in the corner of the narrow and dark alleyway and peeked to find out what was going to happen.
There stood a girl with short white hair and blue eyes and in front of her was three delinquent looking people. One is a large dark-skinned bald guy wearing a set of purple shades then there is a small girl with the same skin color with green hair and violet eyes and wears a blue handkerchief tied like a bandana in her head. Lastly, a guy who I supposedly recon as their leader, is a slim tall guy with dark blue hair spiking outwards in every direction. His face clearly says that he has been in a fight. A big purple swollen bump appears on his left cheek and his right eye is swollen too. There are also visible small scratches in his arms.
'This is bad. I know I'm strong and all but I don't like pain. Possibly in the face of danger, I'm definitely sure that I can take on their leader but I can't handle that big guy and I can't possibly hurt that girl. Ughh. What should I do? What bad luck I have for me to encounter such a scene on my first day to school!'
A sinister look can be seen on his eyes while he intently gazes at the girl, "Hey, missy from Magnolia. I don't know or care whoever you are but I heard that the person who had beaten me to a pulp yesterday goes to your school!" he angrily said. The girl looking scared clutched her bag tightly towards her chest.
"You know how much pain is that, huh?" he continued and grabbed the girls' collar. "Kyaaa- Let me go! Someone! Save me!" screamed the girl while she grabs his arm and tries to remove the guys' tight grip.
'Damn, should I charge to them? I debated to myself.'
"Look at what happened to my handsome face! How can I possibly hit on girls now?!" he mouthed angrily while his two friends just stared quite in satisfaction for what he's doing.
And for a second, all the tension in this situation faded from what he said. I nearly laughed to that idea. I'm pretty sure that even though I don't know what he originally looked like because of the scars that deformed his face, he is nowhere near of being handsome. The girl too had the same reaction but the guy was too oblivious to take notice of that.
"She was just some brat," he spitted while gritting his teeth. "How dare she barged in and ruined our business!" screamed the guy in the girl's face.
The girl shut her eyes. "Who do you think has to pay for what she did, huh? Well, I don't care who but you'll do since you're a student there!" he screamed louder and lift the girl higher from the ground,
'Okay, I really should go' But it seems I'm glued to the ground. 'I have never been to a fight before and if I definitely got into one, I'll definitely be in trouble.'
She paused for a second while the guy held her collar more tightly. She suddenly opened her eyes looking horrified and opened her quivering mouth but no words came out.
'Should I just leave? No no no. My conscience wouldn't let me sleep if I left a girl in trouble here. There's really not much time left. There's no telling what that bunch of hooligans can do.'
"Hmmm… As for starters, give me any valuable thing you have on you! Money, gadgets or jewelries would do!" he declared to the girl.
'They're going to steal her stuff!'
The girl while still struggling at the man's grip answered stutteringly, "B-but I don't have much to give! Please, let me go!" Now, tears has threaten to form in her eyes.
I prepared my feet to charge. 'I should help her!' My knees started to shake. 'Ah, what a coward am I.'
The guys' maniacal smirk suddenly reduced to a displeased one. "Eh, is that so?" he uttered and looked at his two companions. "Boze, Sue, search her things," he commanded. The duo immediately grabbed her bag and emptied it.
"No! Please…" the girl pleaded.
"Bora, there's nothing much here except her wallet and a mobile phone," the girl Sue snorted.
"Eh? That's all you have?!" Bora snorted at the girl. "And I thought you are someone rich because of your looks but yeah, looks can be deceiving all right," he laughed and dropped the girl on the ground. His two companions also laughed with him.
I watched the girl who was sprawled on the ground with her head down. She was shaking for a while then when it stopped she raised her head with an expression of both fear and anger at the same time.
"Look you cowards! I don't know who the person you are talking about but one thing I know is that you really deserve to be beaten like that! You're just a bunch of filthy losers-" the girl shouted and then it stopped when the laughter of the three died and they looked angrily at her outburst.
"I mean I-I-" the girl nervously said.
"EH?! WHAT DID YOU JUST SAID?!" Bora loudly asked and grabbed her up again. "I didn't hear you!" Bora mockingly said and prepared her fist to punch her.
'That's it. No more holding back! Whatever happens, happens!' I screamed to myself and run towards the group.
"STOP!" I shouted and then Bora and his companions looked at me. I immediately charged and kicked his arm off the girl. The guy fell in his back and lost hold of the girl.
I glanced at the girl and put a hand in his shoulder while reassuringly saying, "It's okay, you're safe now."
The girl looked at me and muttered, "Thank you."
I faced them and they started charging at me. The leader tried to punch me but I dodged it by holding his arm while going sideways and I kicked his feet then he feel to the ground. The small girl sneakingly tried to kick my feet from behind but I was alert and shoved Bora straight to her. I was about to grab the girl and leave but the big bald guy suddenly grabbed my arm and raised me in the air.
'Damn, his grip is too strong.' I gritted my teeth. Then I realized that it's really strong and he tightens his hold every second.
[End of flashback]
So right now, I'm in the middle of a life and death situation.
I may be over the top saying I would die but I definitely feel that this big guys' punch can definitely blow my head off. I can see his hand forming a ball and raises it towards me going on slow motion. I can hear the girl that I saved saying 'stop, stop, please' repeatedly like a background music.
'Ah, this is my karma for being too full of myself and possibly also for being such a coward. At least in my last day, I was able to stand up and protect someone. I'm too young to die, I know. I have lots of dreams I want to accomplish yet. I never even had the chance to find the person for me either. I even don't know the name of the girl I saved nor she know mine. It's such a waste. She was a cutie too. Ah, I can see the sun shining so brightly. It's time for me to go. I can see the angel sent to me by the heavens to take me to my next life and she flew past me.'
'Wait, what?'
'She flew past me?!'
'Isn't she supposed to take me to the heavens?'
I snapped back to reality when I realized that the angel I saw was not really an angel. It was a figure of a girl with yellow blonde hair who was charging a kick towards the guy holding me. His grip on me loosened when he fell back from the girls' kick and I was dropped to my knees. The mystery angels' back facing towards me.
I can see Bora stood up and yelled, "It's Lucy! Run!"
"No no no, you won't get away with this," the angel said and charged a kick to those three people like she was flying. First, she jumped and landed on the bandana girls' head and jolted a kick to it while also making it a platform to jump and kick the big guys' face and stomach, and then again she jumped and kicked downwards to Bora's head and that knocked them all down. Lastly, she jumped again making a twirl in the air and landed on her feet.
I was in awe watching her that it left my mouth open. The figure of the angel who saved me was in front of me and slowly she turned to me.
I will never forget this image so I will burn it in my mind as hard as I can right now.
The angel who saved me has medium length yellow blonde hair and hazel brown eyes. Now that I can see clearly, she is also wearing the same uniform as me but she wore it differently than the girl I saved. She's wearing the black plaid skirt but with a black leather belt with chains on it, white blouse that has one button on top opened without the blue tie, and the maroon vest left open and its' sleeves rolled up to her elbows. She is wearing 1-inch doll like black shoes instead of the regular brown ones paired with socks. Also, she's wearing a black choker in her neck and on her left arm sprawled an arrangement of a silver watch, black leather bracelets and chains and her nails were painted black. Lastly, black headphones are over her ears.
I never liked this type of girls as I always prefer modest and cute looking ones wearing pastel colored dresses. But this girl just, just…
This angel rocks.
I can feel my heart move from the first time in my life. Probably because earlier for the first time in my lifetime, I just faced a life threatening situation. And also maybe, this is the first time that I experienced being in such a lame and pitiful situation and the first time too that I realized how pathetic I am as a human being. Many first times indeed happened today.
I was consumed by my train of thoughts when suddenly a voice spoke.
"Hey, Pinky, can you stop staring like that and get your ass up and stand?" grunted the blonde girl.
I realized that here am I on my knees, open mouthed and staring at her like a fool. 'Pinky? She called me pinky?!'
"Get the girl and report these guys to the nearest police station," she continued and walked away.
The white haired girl stood up and said, "Lucy-san, thank you for sav-"
Lucy glanced back at her and interruptedly said "I wasn't saving you. You were just in my way and I can't stand how long you lot are pathetically fighting." She then stared at me in the eye and turned back again and left.
It was the first time in my life that I lost all the confidence in me. And I cannot understand the feeling I have right now about the person who was the exact opposite of all my ideal characteristics. It's just too incomprehensible.
And in the end, I never get to decipher what was that last look for.
So, that's it! I cannot promise to update soon but definitely I will.
I'll probably put a cover for the story sometime soon. I'm a new user and I can't put images in the image manager for 24 hours.
Feel free to point out mistakes in my story! I won't bite :)
Have a happy Saturday! Bye!
~chabelli-chan
