Hello, Nachii's here..

Man, it's been like what? Three? Four months since I last post something? Forgive me, I was so busy with school, and most of all have no idea what to write.. -_-

but few days ago, this idea was given by someone and then BOOM! This story happened :D

Well, it was unexpected since at first the idea was kinda hard to think, but then inspirations came and blablabla..

So, this is an AU Fairy Tail fiction, coz I admit, I prefer an AU, but it's not like I hate real life FT, it's just..

Uh, cut it out. I'm not good at saying things, weird, huh? So, here you go, Huckleberry chapter 1. xD

Hope you like it~

Gentle breeze flowed softly around the town. Hundreds of flags being held up on the pillars in every side of the street. Children, elderly, and teenagers chatted, making noises around the city. Flowers and trees bloomed and created magnificent scent everywhere.

Clover Town was really a peaceful city.

A young lady, in her age of 20, swept her silky blond hair to the side, uncovering her warm brown eyes from the disturbing locks. Her pink dress swayed side to side every time she walked, her heels clicked on the ground. People greeted her, smiling and waving, even some guys winked at her due to her beauty, the girl just smiled politely.

Lucy Heartfilia, that was her name. An ordinary girl with extraordinary beautiful voice. Curvy body, pretty face, charming smile, and not to mention a hearty calming voice that paralyzed the citizens gained her many offers to perform in some operas. Her performance displayed in many shows, via lacryma visions, or magazines.

She was quite well-known in Clover Town, but she never intended to gain bigger popularity in outer town, she was quite satisfied with what she got now. Her life was quite perfect, until that particular day with particular incident that led her into another particular adventure.

With a particular guy.

What day was that? Ah, that an ordinary Thursday morning. Lucy got the invitation to sing for the opening of today's exhibition. The infamous Oracion Seis Company would hold an exhibition that showed the rare dragon artifacts. Dragons were existed, or so Lucy heard. So when the news about the exhibitions spread through the city, she was excited to see it, so she accepted the invitations wholeheartedly.

Checking her watch, it was 8 in the morning, an early time to see the exhibition. Lucy's heels clicked on the tiled floor as she passed the guard and let them checked her belongings for safety.

"Coming for morning practice for today's performance, Miss Lucy?" the guard asked her, handing her bag her purse. She smiled at him, "Not really. The practice supposed to be at 9, I just want to see the exhibition people talked about these days earlier so I don't have to squeeze my way in between the crowd later." The man nodded and smiled at her.

"Well, hope you enjoy it. The Oracion Seis Company spent million jewels for this." The blonde singer laughed. "Yeah, I hope they won't disappoint me. Is there anyone yet inside there?" the guard shrugged.

"Few people. They have the same reason as you." She nodded and waltzed inside, bowing politely at the guards.

Lucy hummed few soft tones as she walked around. Each artifact was already placed on top of tables on their own spots. Clear glass boxes covered them with red secure line for the visitors border of view. Dim lamps hung under each table, illuminating each artifact with soft lights. She could see why it was called Dragon Artifacts Exhibitions, everything had dragon-like sculpture on them.

There was a very beautiful red dragon shaped ruby, a bright transparent egg shaped crystal that had a small dragon sculpture on it, big black altar that lit fire nonstop, and much else. Most of them were jewelries but some are bigger things like pots, jars, and so on. Everything looked so expensive.

"Wow, they must cost thousands jewels.." she muttered a bit loudly, looking around. Unfortunately some artifacts only had names on the show, but no descriptions.

Something caught the corner of her eye and she spun to see a particular box in the corner of the room. Stepping closer, she found herself speeding up with excitement. There, a pair of necklaces was hung from a rock. The glass box and the red line prevented Lucy from stepping closer.

It was a pair of light red—orange necklace with different sizes. The first one was bigger, with a shape of a dragon looked to the right, small white diamond on the head of the dragon. The other one had softer orange color, almost pink, the smaller dragon shape looked to the left, facing its pair with similar white diamonds on the head. The tails of the dragons curled around their each body.

Lucy gasped at the jewelries. "Oh my.. They are—"

"Beautiful, isn't it?" another small gasp escaped her throat, she spun on her heel to her side, seeing a young man stood beside her, leaning to the box also. She held her breath when he straightened himself and looked at her with a smile that got the butterflies in her stomach fluttered madly.

"A-Ah, I'm sorry, I didn't see you there.. I was.. Uh, I mean.." she stuttered, made him chuckle. "It's okay, they're beautiful, aren't they?" she blushed a bit and nodded, managed a smile. "Yes, they are."

"Do you know what those are?" she shook her head in confusion. There was neither name nor description on the table. The man directed his black eyes to the box once more and Lucy saw faint of green in his eyes, like… onyx? What a weird eye color.

When the man went silent for a while, the singer couldn't help but looking at him from his head to his feet. He was tall, she predicted she only reached his shoulder—maybe chin, muscular arms could be seen from the white long sleeved shirt he wore with a black open vest on it, a pair of trousers, casual shoes, and a weird looking scarf around his neck.

She looked up to his head. His face sculpted perfectly, like a work of art, warm onyx eyes and defined jaw, but what caught her attention most was his pink hair. She shrugged it off, and went back staring at his face.

Gosh, he was handsome.

"Like what you see?" Lucy snapped out of her thought and blushed madly when he laughed, looking at her like she was an idiot. "I wasn't staring at anything!" she denied, looking away. "Anyway, I assumed that you know what are those necklaces." He stopped laughing and nodded.

"Those are called Huckleberry, a dragon amulet." She raised a brow. "You know, when a dragon found their mate, they couldn't stay far away from their mate, stay away from each other for a few miles, and the one who walked away will die." She shivered at the thought. Poor those dragons, she let him continue, finding his story was interesting.

"It's like they have an invisible red string that connected their lives." Lucy 'ooh-ed' and nodded.

"These necklaces have exactly the same function as the invisible threat of dragons. See? Those are for a couple. The bigger one belongs to the male, and the smaller one belongs to—"

"The female…" she continued. The man grinned and nodded. "If some random guy put the male necklace on, and a girl put the female one on, the necklaces will stick to their body and stuck to each other forever, until one of them die." Lucy's eyes watered slightly at the explanation.

"That was… cruel. What if they don't love each other?" the rosette shrugged. "Who knows?" she pouted, wiped her eyes. "But that's romantic.." a soft smile curled on her lips. Silence enveloped them for a while before she came to realization.

"You seem to know much about artifacts." She commented, curiosity played on her face. The man smirked, which made her heart race. He turned around and started to walk away before peeking from his back.

"Let's just say that I know much about expensive things." The blonde singer got more confused, what was that suppose to mean?

"See you later, Ms. Heartfilia." Her eyes widened. "Hey! How do you know my name? I don't even know yours!" she protested. She wanted to know that handsome man's name too! A chuckle left his lips. Without any more word, he disappeared among the crowd that started to grow.

Lucy ran to the city hall quickly. She was almost late! It was already 6 o'clock and she hadn't put on her dress and make up yet! Speeding up, she waved at the guard that nodded at her with a smile and run to the back of the hall, entering her room where she needed to prepare everything for her little show.

The exhibition would start in about two hours and the guards were already readying themselves in their spots. Every artifact indeed was expensive, cost million jewels. That's why the Oracion Seis asked the mayor to guard the hall with many armies he could get, preventing a thief from getting in.

"Lucy! Where have you been?!" the mayor scolded her, the young lady bowed few times, muttering apologies at him. The mayor looked around in anxiety. "I have to meet the Oracion Seis already, just… get in your room, put on the dress and quickly get into the meeting hall. I hope you're not afraid of being alone because everyone is already in the meeting hall."

Lucy gaped, the meeting hall and the main hall were different. The meeting hall was the place she'd be singing at while the main hall was where the exhibitions was. Her changing room was located behind the main hall, so she needed to go there alone?

"B-But, what if there's a thief? Or rapist? Or kidnapers?" she stuttered. The mayor waved his hand. "There's no way, the security is tight. No bad guy can come in!" the mayor laughed at her weird question, the blonde just chuckled nervously. "Ahaha.. If you say so.."

"Right, now move your butt and dress up! Quickly!"

"Hai!" she ran inside quickly.

One of the guards yawned. From their spot now, they could hear the mayor's speech clearly. And none of them liked any single bit of his speech because it always so damn long. Another guard yawned. No one dared to make any sound, the people from Oracion Seis' order, said that chatters would let their guard down, so, no one talked.

Another yawn.

When was this thing going to be done?

"Sleepy?"

The guard yawned in response. "Yes. I don't have much time to sleep."

"Ah, is that so? Watch the game last night?"

He yawned again and nodded. "Yeah, what about you?"

"Me? I watched this very cool movie last night, the lacryma was surprisingly clear."

"Really? What's that?"

"Tutorial how to steal something by fooling the dumb guards." All guards laughed at the person's joke. Before snapping to realization and turned around to see a cloaked figure resting his elbow on the Dragon Crystal Egg's glass box. Twirling the egg with his finger with no mistake before plopping it into his bag.

"You know? I thought this thing would be heavy, but it's pretty light."

The guards made no move, still stunned. The cloaked figure laughed, waving his cloak towards them, "See you later pals. Tell the Oracion Seis guys I like these artifacts." He said, showing the bag full of the artifacts.

One guard made the chance to look around, and he gasped, eyes widening. Every box was empty! With no scratch, no hole, just like new, but empty. They snapped back to realization.

"CATCH HIM!"

The figure laughed, running at speed, the bag bounced with his movements. Looking down, he saw two things caught his attention the most. The Huckleberry. A face of the blonde haired lady flashed in his mind. He smirked at the memory of this morning.

Shoot

The man gasped as an arrow shot his hand that was holding the amulet and caused the bigger amulet to fly off his hand, dragged with the arrow flying into the wall, stab the wall and stuck on it. The amulet hung on the arrow on the high wall. The man cursed his scratched wrist and plopped the female amulet inside his pocket.

Jumping to the second floor without difficulty, he tried to grab the arrow but it was too high. The guards' footsteps echoed loudly, sent him into a panic. Trying again, he pulled the arrow hard, sending it off the wall and the amulet fell to the first floor. He sighed in relief.

Just then, a soft hum was heard and the man looked down, keeping his balance by palming the wall silently, eyes widened when a young lady wearing formal red dress walked in from the dark corridor. Her blonde hair being pinned into a bun, she was gorgeous.

Wait, what was she doing here?

Something fell on the floor right in front of the singer, making her looked down automatically. Her eyes widened slightly at the sight of it and she picked it up. The orange color of it sparkled under the lamp. What was an artifact doing here?

A figure jumped in front of her, earning a squeak from her and she jumped in surprise when the cloak on his head came off and revealed ruff of pink hair. She gasped, "Pinky! What are you doing here?!"

"No time, give me that!" he reached for the amulet but the girl stepped back. "What are you going to do with it, how did you come in, and for what purpose?!" she interrogated. The rosette groaned, "Just give me that!" he reached for her hand but she held it high.

"Don't tell me you're going to steal it!" she gasped at the thought while stepping back again, putting her hands higher as she switched holding the necklace from right to left hand, left to right hand. "Why you—"

"GET HIM! QUICKLY!" the guards' voice got closer. "Ha! So you are a thief!" she glared at him and about to run when she tripped over her own dress and fall on top of him, the amulet slid from her hands and fell around his neck.

They froze.

"AAAA! GETITOFFGETITOFFMEE!" the pinkette screamed in panic and tried to pull the amulet off his neck but the fire inside it lit up and stuck to his chest like a magnet. He glared at the woman, Lucy stepped back with dropped jaw. "Oh.. Uh… Sorry.. That was…" she squeaked when he stood up, she followed him, and stepped closer to her, murderous glare on his face.

"You…" he said dangerously.

"THERE HE ISS!" the guards yelled. The pink haired man cursed and glared at her, grabbing her waist and pulled the female amulet out his pocket. Lucy paled. "Oh, no! Don't you dare!"

"You started it.." he said and encircled the amulet around her neck. She squirmed, his onyx eyes gleamed evilly. The amulets' fire lit and for a second their heart stopped beating, like a lightning just struck them, before they gasped for air, looking at the pair amulets.

The pinkette smirked.

"I'm not going to be blamed for stealing alone now." he said making her face paled as he swung his bag over his shoulder and grabbed her hand, running away from the guards.

"And by the way, yes. I'm a thief, and you're stuck with me now, Lucy Heartfilia."

Done! the first chappie of Huckleberry~ XD Lol, the title always managed to make me laugh.. I mean, Huckleberry.. Moaahahaha.. At first I wanna name the amulets like usual 'Dragon's Mate Amulet' but then this Huckleberry name came fall from the sky through a star.. I figured it really suit the story so, yeah..

Puuh, I really hope you guys like it.. It will make me really happy :D

So, pwetty pwease leave a review guys! That means a lot xD

-Nachii-