The Rival Popstars

`Chapter 1'

"Thank You! Thank You!" I shouted on the mic as the crowd cheered wildly.

I gave out flying kisses as the grand red curtains closed covering me. The crowd cheered wilder behind my back. I turned around and- Speaking of the devil…

"Bravo, bravo, Lucy… You brought tears to my eyes… Well, not really…" Natsu clapped lamely and faked yawn wiping invisible tears from his eyes.

"What do you want, Pinky?" I shot back clenching my fist.

"What do I want? What do I want?" he asked his guards sarcastically.

"Get out of my way…" I growled.

This is my life… The name's Lucy Heartfilia and I'm 20 years old. I'm a Popstar… I love being one but there is also one thing why I hated being one… Because I need to get stuck with this snobbish, pink-haired idiot named, Natsu Dragneel. Just saying his name sent waves of anger through my spine. I mean, yeah I see him everyday of my sad life, not to mention that everyone (except me) adores him. I guess maybe that is why we never get along...

Natsu- Natsu is a popstar like me too. Ever since I was young I was stucked with Natsu to be my rival. Yeah- I know… We never get along… And if that would ever happen once in my life I swear I would puke!

Why? You ask me? Because Natsu hates my guts… And same goes to me… I hated his guts so like it's the clash of the popstars now… Well I don't wanna talk about that pink-haired idiot anymore- I still need to sign some teen's shirt. And I'm kinda wasting my time just talking about him…

I walked away from Natsu as his guards made way for me. I stomped angrily and walked as fast as my high heels could carry me.

I heard Natsu's voice booming from the mike. I rolled my eyes as he started singing as it vibrated through my external ear, my ear canal making my eardrums wanna explode… Okay- it's not like I'm jealous of his voice- like how juvenile would that be?! I mean- he has a nice voice too and all-

I snapped out of my thoughts thinking about that Bubblegum-Haired Punk for too long. I can't even bare it! Based on my Lucy instincts, seeing, thinking, eye-contacting or maybe even touching with Natsu (if that's possible) would make my brain melt and ooze right through my ears.

As I walked through the hallway, I entered my dressing room. My make-up stylist, Evergreen and the others was there settling my stuffs for my next photo shoot and my night concert at Royal Clover Hotel by 3' later. As soon as they noticed me they stood up and greeted me. I only smiled to see them doing such hard work.

"Lucy-nee! Lucy-nee!" my young choreographer barged in the room catching her breath.

"Oh, hey Liss… what's up?"

"Natsu-kun- he- he's heading this- way…" she panted. Cold sweat strucked me like lightning. I suddenly felt my stomach churned like the old Blender in Freed's office.

"Well, that's okay, Liss… I'm about to leave anyways." I fake grinned though tingling.

"Negative! The president wants to discuss a meeting immediately." Lissanna exclaimed. Then her voice suddenly turned low I can barely hear the words she's saying "In his office... With Natsu..."

"What?!" I panicked, standing up. I'm think about to puke. Wait, this is just a horrible dream. If I open my eyes this would all go away. But it didn't! In fact, I'm standing in my dressing room surrounded by my make up artists, hair stylists, choreographer (etc); dumbfounded and they must've think I've gone nuts due to my trauma of what the meeting would be and why would Gildarts... Hey, Gildarts knew well that Natsu and I despise one another! He better have a good explanation for this! The next thing I know is finding myself inside Gildarts office with Pinky (as much as I would hate to say it) in the same room as us.

"Oh, Lucy… I'm not surprised to see you here…" Natsu put his arms to his chest with the I-hate-you tone, expressing my name.

"So am I." I shot back with the I'm-disgusted-with-you kind of tone.

"That's enough!" Gildarts shouted making Natsu and I stop the small argue Natsu created and began talking. "Ever heard about the Saber Twins? They're A-class singers who won the Clower Awards numerous of times and beating the rank; from 8% to 20%... Whew, wasn't that a record..." he paused to look at us. "Well, the point is, that they're paying a visit. Here. In. Magnolia."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa- wait." It was Natsu's turn to speak. "So you're saying that two A-class singers, are here in Magnolia..." he stopped for a moment as Gildarts turned to his direction.

I thought that he's finally gonna say something smart (if the word smart even existed in Natsu's vocabulary) but then...

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go! Get their autograph, signature t-shirts or maybe let's offer them a playdate." he exclaimed excitedly then stopped to look at me in disgust and as well to scrunch his nose. Idiot- I was about to disapprove when Gildarts cut in.

"IDIOT! The only reason they are here is to beat the record which the two of you made from the past few months. And to think that you wanted to have their signature t-shirts..." Gildarts shook his head in disaproval while clicking his tongue. "Which is why I'm pairing you two up for the time being. Just look at the progress Cana and Bisca made after being paired up three months from now."

I burst out laughing followed by Natsu. Is it April? 'Cause really, Gildarts's pranks are not working this time... But if he's not.. Then... Cold sweat began forming on my forehead as I snapped out of it. "Pffttt... Gildarts, you're- you're kidding, right?" I said with a nervous chuckle. I heard Natsu gulp and turned to his direction. His eyes are wide as saucers thinking about it too.

"Do I look like I'm kidding Ms. Heartfilia?" he sighed and hung his head with his eyes on the floor. "I know... it's tough that this has to happen all of the sudden. But the company has agreed that you have to team up and keep the rank steady. I'm sorry but we have no other choice."

The last sentence echoed in my mind as I felt my eyes twitching. I unconsciously nodded and stared at the floor.

"Oh, and one more thing." Gildarts said startling us. "You better work on those songs. We need at least a number of albums and music videos to be released." he said.

Natsu and I groaned in unison. I rolled my eyes at him.

"Bu-bu-but! YOU CAN'T DO THIS! This is an outrage! Please, I'm begging you! I'd do anything! ANYTHING!..." Natsu screamed. They continued arguing as I walked out of Gildart's office.

OMAGASH. Please tell me this is not happening. I don't know what I'm going to do! I wouldn't last a day with that pig-headed douche! Ain't got no way I'm going to be his teammate! And who says I would? I would leave Magnolia by dawn!

Now, I'm overreacting... Gildarts said that we would be paired up but he didn't say when. Hehehe... But if that "when" is tomorrow I'm sure it would be the end of me.

"Lucy! Tomorrow photo shoot at 5' sharp!" Freed, my manager shouted from the hallway. There's work to be done, people! Come on, come on move it! We need this to be published in the newspapers! There's a new pair of popstars in town! And its Natsu and Lucy!" he instructed the workers.

Great, just what I needed to hear. And... guess the staffs already knew about it too.

…..

"So, this is them? Interesting…" the blonde girl said behind her sunglasses.

"I bet their names are Natsu and Lucy… They're going down." the blonde guy replied smirking at his sister.

"Oh, don't worry. They will." she replied with an evil grin.

A/N: Hello guys! Hope you guys like my story, I did some editing and hope you like it! I would also love to thank everyone who viewed and followed my story! I really appreciate it all! Thank you! :D