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Natsu Dragneel was sitting at his usual table in the guild. He was doing two of the worst things he was , one : thinking and two : thinking quietly. This came quite as the shocker to his nakama. All their eyes were focused on him as if they were watching a caged animal in the zoo. He scratched his head in frustration as if it felt like a part of his memory was missing. He felt like he forgot an important person. Someone whom he met before Igneel disappeared. Didn't he have some play buddy when he was younger? Why couldn't he remember a damn thing? He clicked his tongue a few times and started digging even deeper into his memory. The thought of meditating did come into his mind, but he had quickly brushed that thought away. He simply didn't have the patience for it.
"What was it again?" He wondered aloud. Leaning back in his chair and placing his feet on the table. His arms crossed over his chest and his face displayed a face of someone who was thinking really hard.
"Oi flame-brain, stop doing that. You're scaring the hell out of everyone, "Gray snapped at him, casually taking off his shirt and pants without noticing it himself.
"Shut up ice princess," He calmly replied, yet another shocker for the guild. Natsu. Dragneel. Just. Reacted. Calmy. To. Gray. Fullbuster!
"Oi oi, Natsu doesn't seem like himself today," Droy said, voice filled with fear.
"O...o," Jet replied, not knowing how to act or comment to this.
"Thinking is man!" Elfman yelled totally out of sync with his guildmates, making Evergreen groan. Deep down Evergreen's heart she cared for Elfman, but sometimes she would get frustrated by that simply word "man", which he keeps shouting at the most random times. She pondered if he was maybe man enough to... a blush crept on both her cheeks as she kicked Elfman in the guts and shouted :"Baka!" before walking away. Elfman kneeled down pain, placed both his hands on his aching jewelry and whimpered in pain, wondering what he had done wrong to deserve this painful experience.
"Ara, I think Natsu might be in love," Mirajane giggled as one hand cupped her cheek, with a cheeky smile plastered on her lips,"Isn't that cute?"
"Yeah yeah," Erza nodded in agreement, half heartedly. After all she was eating her delicious strawberry cake and distraction is absolutely forbidden when eating world's most delicious cake.
"Isn't love a wonderful thing Charle?" Wendy smiled at her white exceed totally going along with the flow of the guild.
"It sure is Wendy," Charle smiled back at her friend, but really having her doubts that the dense dragon slayer is in love. Instead she just wondered if he might have eaten something weird for lunch. Natsu let out a groan of frustration giving up this -thinking-. It was too boring and frustrating. That's why he hated thinking. Nodding his head, he accepted leaving this matter behind.
"Yosh yosh, oi ice perverted princess," He yelled at Gray, obviously picking a fight after composing himself.
"What did you just call me?!" Gray snapped at him, "I dare you say that again Flame brained idiot." They were about to go into fists when suddenly the guild doors opened. Revealing their blonde haired teammate in team Natsu with a flying blue exceed beside her head. A soft breeze blew through her beautiful blonde locks and it was as if Natsu saw sparks flying. Natsu stared at her totally enthralled by her beauty, causing him to be distracted from what he was doing and got punched by Gray to the other side of the guild. He landed with a loud thud on the table breaking the thing in half, but quickly got on his feet again. Instead of fighting back he dash-walked to Lucy and Happy, leaving behind a flabbergasted Gray. This did not only affect Gray, the whole guild stared in awe how Natsu forfeited from the match so easily.
"We're back with the groceries Mira," Lucy said placing the bags on the counter.
"Thanks Lucy-san, I am sorry for the trouble," She flashed her bright smile at her, making Lucy smile an equally bright smile back.
"No, it's fine," Lucy replied, feeling quite happy being able to help her nakama. "Here's your fish, Happy." Mira handed the blue exceed his deserved reward for shopping groceries. Even she kind of figured that all he did was probably nagging Lucy when they were heading back to the guild.
"Aye!" He replied happily and gladly accepted the fish eating excitedly from it.
"So what did you buy?" Natsu asked, popping out of nowhere. "Natsu!" Lucy squeaked, surprised by his sudden appearance, "Don't surprise me like that. You almost gave me a heart attack."
"Heart attack? You look fine to me Luce. Here you go again, saying weird things, " He replied, making Lucy groan in frustration. Sometimes she wondered how he came this far in life with being so dense. Dense. Dense is seriously the ultimate word to describe this dragon slayer. He might be an amazing fighter, but whenever it was about using his brains he is a real sucker.
"No no, Natsu, it's just an hyperbole for saying that you really surprised me, because you suddenly appeared out of nowhere," She explained to her dense friend.
"Ooh, I see," Natsu said nodding understandingly, "So want to go on a mission Luce?" he asked and gave her one of his toothy grins. She pondered about it for a second. Going on a mission with the fire dragon slayer might be easier than going on one on her own, but with the damage he would do on the houses... She could always try holding him back and say... who is she kidding. Natsu was more obligating her than requesting. If she refused him, he would whine to her as if there is no tomorrow or he would look sadly at her with these cute puppy eyes, which she can't resist.
"Sure," she agreed. After all she needed money for her rent and money to fix a few burned places in her house. She is friends with a dragon slayer and a fire one on top of that. Go figure.
"You can pick the mission!" Natsu blurted out. Surprised by his answer, she sort of hesitated. Her eyes drifted off to the calendar that was hanging on a wall. It was the 6th of June. Was it her birthday? Nope. Was it a special occasion? Not that she knew. Was it April fools? It was June so no. Her eyes wandered back to Natsu, studying the fire dragon slayer thoroughly. Sometimes she wished she had the ability to read minds like Cobra.
"Okay,..." she finally said, nodding her head slowly. Natsu, who had been staring at her the whole time, frowned his eyebrows. He seriously wondered what was taking her so long to give him a reply. Lucy walked on her own pace to the request board, often taking a glance or two at Natsu and let her eyes roam over it. She frowned, the requests were all either too dangerous, too less money or just too plain boring.
" Looking for people to work in our coffee shop", she smiled and was about to reach out her hand and take it when the thought of Natsu working in a cafe popped into her head.
"Luce! Look I can juggle with the cups!" said a salmon haired idiot while juggling the cups of the shop in his hands, but accidentally dropping them all and breaking the cups, "Oops?" Lucy gulped and thought for a second. She could prevent that right? Just tell him to not play with the cups. Another possibility popped into her head.
"Bleh this thing called coffee tastes bitter! Why would people even drink this?" complained a Natsu while sitting on the costumers table and gulping down their drink. She quickly retreated her hand and shook her head.
She immediately face-palmed herself for even considering taking the request. That was a big fat NO. Her eyes slowly gazed over the other possible requests. Lost puppy! This request was okay, but... it would just be boring to try and capture a puppy as mission, maybe she should leave requests like this to Romeo. And Natsu would probably burn down the place where we were supposed to look at. Help us planting trees! Okay, she honestly loves nature, but this is just stupid! And the reward was only 5,000 jewels, it wouldn't even cover 1/4th of her rent. Collect a Raven feather. She quickly let her eyes scan through this leaflet.
Our request is simply. All we want is that you climb up a mountain with the name 'Mt. Ventail' which is located between Hsugu city and Lairmon city and retrieve us a feather from the dark crow that lives on the top of that. Reward : 2.000.000 jewels and a silver key. Lucy's eyes almost bulged out. A key and enough money to cover up her rent for a year! She quickly snatched the piece of paper from the request board and skipped to Natsu with it, who had been waiting for her for a while. His face lit up when she came practically skipping towards him. He adored her cuteness even though he didn't even know that himself.
"I got it!" she smiled at him. "Finally, what took you so long though Luce?" he questioned her.
"Sorry!" she half heartedly apologised and shoved the request in Natsu's face for him to read. Actually only the reward part. His eyes almost bulged out and re-read the thing for a good five times before a small whistle escaped his lips.
"Woah! What are we waiting for! Let's go!" he cheered. They both walked to Mira and showed her the request.
"We'd like to take this one!" Lucy smiled at Mira with a Natsu behind her who kept tugging on her wrist.
"It's only you and Natsu?" Mira questioned them, a sly smile lingering on her lips. The two friends felt goose-bumps going down their bodies as they gave her a quick nod and dashed away.
"Happy! Let's go!" Natsu called to his exceed.
"Aye!" he quickly swallowed the last fish on the plate before following his partner and their blonde nakama.
"Oi Mira, did you already put the request about the Raven feather on the board?" Master suddenly asked her when the three friends just left the guild. "Yes I did Master and Lucy and Natsu just departed with that request," she smiled at him. Hearing this he spit out the beer that he had been drinking, "What's wrong Master?
Natsu paled and shook his head vigorously, "No." he simply stated as he slowly backed away. Lucy face-palmed herself and pulled Natsu on board by his scarf.
"You've got no choice Natsu!" Lucy groaned at the struggling dragon slayer.
"I refuse to ride the train! I can fly with happy!" he argued.
"And exhausting the poor cat? No, it's a three hours ride so just bear with it," she told him. Happy muffled his laughter, entering the train after them.
"Happy!" Natsu called pleadingly to his partner with puppy eyes.
"Aye Natsu, Lucy is right!" he totally sided with the celestial mage, only because he simply didn't feel like flying that distance.
"Traitor!" he whined, even though he knew it wouldn't help his situation. Once on board Natsu let groan escape his mouth and felt his stomach starting to make noises and began to churn the moment he set another step on the train.
"Luce, I don't feel so well," he groaned, falling on the floor since the strength in his legs left him and they were now not capable of holding his weight anymore.
"Seriously? The train hasn't even started moving yet." she sighed and dragged Natsu to a bench, dropping him on the seat with a loud thud, "Heavy..." A small
"Ouf!" escaped his mouth, but with the condition he was in now he couldn't make any other sounds. He almost threw up when the train gave out the signal of their departure.
"Wendyyy... troia..." he sickly moaned, trying his best to not let the food he had eaten this morning flow out his mouth. He got paler every second the train was moving, which was a lot of them.
"Natsu... First of all Wendy didn't board the train and second, did you forgot that you became immune to troia?" she explained to the motion sick Natsu, wondering if he had caught on the words that she had just said. She doubted it since he didn't reply to her.
"I... want... stop... train..." the broken words left his mouth at the speed of a walking turtle. Lucy couldn't help but to let another sigh escape her lips. They were only on the train for around thirty minutes. Their destination was another two hours and thirty minutes away. Giving up on ignoring the dragon slayer she started thinking about how to make his motion sickness feel better. She couldn't punch him unconscious like how Erza did it. Distracting him from his sickness was also not an option and she also didn't have the ability to cast any spells to ease him. After thinking about for another few minutes to see if she could do anything to help him she gave up and just thought about doing what her mom would do when she felt sick when she was younger. She got up from her seat and tilted up Natsu's head. Then she took a seat on the place where previously his head was laid on and placed his head back on her lap. Within a few seconds her scent reached his nose, enough distraction to not think about his motion sickness. His face regained a part of his usual colors again as he enjoyed the smell. Also the soft stroking in his hair was very soothing. Within a minute he fell asleep on her lap. Happy stiffled yet another laughter.
"They liiikkkkeeee each other," he whispered, rolling his tongue so Lucy couldn't hear him. Sometimes an angry Lucy is equal to an angry Erza or at worse times even scarier and Happy rather not get on Lucy's bad side.
"We have arrived at Hrugu city." the intercom said. Natsu was still sound asleep on her lap, making it difficult for her to get up.
"Happy, can you carry him out?" she asked the blue exceed. "Aye!" he replied and wrapped his tail around Natsu's limb body carrying him out the doors. Gladly Lucy managed to also get out before the door closed behind her. "I suppose you could let him sleep a little longer, I will have a chat with the requester first," Lucy told Happy, who nodded her and half dragged half dangled taking Natsu with him. Natsu suddenly woke up, missing the scent that had filled his nose.
"Where are we?" he questioned sleepily, still dangling in Happys tails hold. "You're awake, Natsu?" Happy asked him. He let out a yawn and nodded. "Where's Lucy?" he asked Happy.
"She went to talk with the requester and told me to wait here, because she thought we would disturb the requester," Happy explained. Natsu frowned his eyebrows, wondering why they would have been a disturbance to the people who sent this request.
"Lucy said so?" he asked him, feeling offended, but that wasn't the most important part. What if the requester was a creep and would suddenly attack Lucy? He growled softly under his breath and perked his ears for any sign of danger behind the door. What was taking her so long anyways? He must have been asleep for hours, so she should have been there already for at least an hour. He agreed with his failed logic and kept glaring at the door. When the knob of the door finally turned it was also the time when Happy ran out of magic powers and they both fell, Natsu with a loud thud on the floor and Happy just fell on top of him.
"Ah, I ran out of magic power," he said dryly, not feeling the actual impact of the landing.
"Thanks for the warning, partner," Natsu groaned. Lucy could only bow her head in shame and apologise to the requester for her rude comrades. He just shrugged it off and handed her the map of the place they are suppose to find the feather.
"You got three days," the man nodded at them with a blank expression and entered the door again closing it behind him.
"What's his problem?" Natsu asked, crossing his arms and a frown appeared on his face.
"No idea," Lucy sighed, though in the back of her head she wondered if the man didn't like Fairy Tail mages. But that would make no sense right? He wouldn't put a request on their board if he hated them right? Lucy shrugged of the thoughts and spread the map once they have arrived at the forest.
"Raven feather! Here we come!" Natsu grinned widely and dashed ahead with Happy flying beside him at max speed.
"You idiots! Do you even know the way?!" Lucy yelled after them. Her answer was a simply wave saying 'we will figure it out!' Lucy let out another exasperated sigh.
"These idiots..." but the small smile that was tugging on her lips was clearly visible.
And done with Chappy 1! I like to keep my rambling at the bottom of the page ovo. So what you thought of the story? If you have any tips don't hesitate to give them! (Plox!) Before this story I wrote an one shot ~ but I decided that I wanted to write a story with a longer story line, so yeah, here I am xD Writing chu guys a story... Well... Yeah . Oh well!
I'm going to try to at least post 1 chapter a week ^^/ Hue. Hopefully I can keep my promise, if I don't.. would you please shoot me down with a gun? (Asuka's gun though, I don't want to die yet ;w;)