Chapter 1
It started as a typical day for the strongest team in the Fairy Tail Guild. Erza, Gray, Natsu, Lucy, and Happy accepted a job request to fulfill Lucy's never ceasing need for rent money. Carla despite a bad premonition about the mission, she and Wendy had come along on it, and Romeo had asked to tag along as well.
Like usual, Natsu and Gray got into an argument on the way to meet their client, resulting in Erza dragging them along behind their by their ears, followed by a laughing Happy, and a sweat dropping Lucy, Wendy, Carla, and Romeo.
The two were still fuming by the time they reached their client's location. It was a large Historic Art Museum in the next town over. A woman who worked at the museum had sent out a request, and Erza had snapped it up, never once thinking of the consequences of putting a highly destructive Pyromaniac in a building full of priceless art (much to Lucy's dismay).
The woman was waiting for them outside the museum. Upon seeing them come up with two of their members being dragged by their ears, she sent a questioning glance at the more sane looking members of the group.
"Trust me, don't ask," said Lucy with a shake of her head.
The woman shrugged it off and addressed them all. "Thank you for coming. My name is Holly Wreath, I am the manager of this museum."
"It's nice to meet you," said Erza with a respectful bow. "Please, tell us what made you send out your request?"
Ms. Wreath bit her lip worriedly. "I sent that request because I have reason to believe that someone who works at this museum is planning to rob it." She glanced up at the large building behind her. It was tall and fashioned to look like an old stone castle. "Within this museum there are many works of art that would be worth millions of jewels on the black market."
Lucy started sweating bullets at the mention of millions of jewels, and shot a worried glance over at Natsu, who was indifferent about it. If the Dragon Slayer were to run rampant in this place, none of them would ever have any money ever again in order to pay off the debt they'd owe.
Oblivious to this line of thinking, Gray asked the manager, "How do you know one of your staff is going to rob it?"
Ms. Wreath glanced at him and said, "Because the other day, I accidentally locked myself in the supply closet of the employees only break room. While I was in there waiting for the janitor to fetch the key, I overheard the potential thief conversing on a communications lacrima about it. I didn't recognize who it was, or hear how they would do it, but I know they plan to strike today. That's why I've called you here."
"Understood," said Erza, "We will make sure that doesn't happen."
Ms. Wreath gave them all a grateful smile. "Thank you, I'll leave you to it."
With that she turned and entered the building. As they moved to follow her, Lucy spoke quickly. "Natsu and I call staking out the gift shop!"
At that her teammates turned to give her bewildered looks. "We do?" asked Natsu.
"Yes," said Lucy pointedly. "This place is full of things worth more than all of us combined make in a year. We can't let a certain Fire Breathing Maniac loose in it to wreck the place. At least in the gift shop we have a better chance of affording to pay for the damages."
Natsu pouted at her assessment, but Lucy ignored it and continued, "And since said Pyro can't be trusted to stay in the gift shop on his own, I figured it would be best if I stay there and baby-sit."
Gray, who had started snickering as Lucy made her point, burst out laughing at the last part.
"Shut up, Popsicle Pants," snapped Natsu.
"Why? Will you tattle on me to your Sitter?" Gray howled.
Natsu growled, but it quickly turned into a whimper as Erza grabbed his ear again.
Erza, however, nodded in agreement with Lucy's statement. "In that case, keep an eye on Romeo in there as well," she said.
"What! Why?" Romeo protested.
Erza gave the boy a stern look. "Because you are still technically a novice at fire magic, and as such you are a danger to the art as well."
Romeo pouted, but didn't protest to much as it meant he could spend time with his idol and his nice partner.
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"I can't believe this," grumbled Natsu as he glared at a row of bobble heads in front of him. He and Lucy had been sitting around the gift shop for the last half hour, and already the Dragon Slayer was bored stiff.
"Oh stop complaining," said Lucy as she browsed the shelves. "If you had better self control, and didn't cause more destruction than the bad guys, we couldn't have to do this."
"Aye," agreed Happy, who had gotten bored wandering the halls of the museum and came to join them in the gift shop.
Lucy chuckled and glanced over at Romeo, who was looking at some panting replicas nearby. "I know you want to be like Natsu, Romeo. But try not to mimic that aspect of him."
Romeo looked up from a painting, and gave the Celestial Mage a sheepish grin. "I wasn't planning to."
Natsu huffed indignantly, and turned to glare at the poor cashier who'd had to put up with all of them. "What are you looking at?" he griped.
Lucy shook her head at his antics, then something caught her eye. She moved over next Romeo and took a closer look at the painting he'd been examining. "What 'cha got there?" she asked.
Romeo held up a painting of a ship on the sea. "The figure head on the boat is a dragon, so I thought Natsu-nii might like it, but then I remembered… it's a boat."
Lucy laughed, knowing Romeo was referring to Natsu's ability to get petrifying motion sickness on any form of transportation he didn't consider his friend.
She then looked closer at the painting and her face broke into a wide grin. "Or maybe he'll like it more than you think." She called over her shoulder, "Hey Natsu!"
Natsu, who had been attempting to sneak out of the gift shop, froze upon being caught. He quickly straitened up and pretended he hadn't been disobeying orders. "Yeah, what?"
"Come over here," Lucy called back. "You too Happy."
Natsu took one last look at the gift shop door and sighed heavily, before moving to join his partners.
Lucy held up the painting for him to see as he got close. "Check it out, doesn't it look kinda like the ships we rode back during our time in Narnia?"
Natsu looked at the ship in the painting. He had to admit it did look like the ones they'd ridden. Thinking such made him remember actually riding them, and he slumped over feeling sick.
Lucy sweatdropped at his reaction. "I guess that answers that question."
"Sir, please do not get sick on the merchandise," called the cashier.
Romeo looked at the painting again with renewed interest, he had never been to Narnia himself, but he had been fascinated by the stories Team Natsu had told about it. "So it really looks like the ones from that other world you went to."
Lucy gave the painting a fond smile and nodded. "Yes, those trips were usually pretty fun for everyone except Natsu."
"Aye!" Happy agreed. "Natsu always hated going on them, but he always had to because Erza made him."
Lucy turned to the cashier. "How much is this painting?" she asked holding it out. "And is the original work in the museum? I'd like to see it."
The cashier took the painting and looked it over. "This is the original," he said. "This museum often sell the works of local artists in this shop in order to encourage the next great artists."
The cashier then set the painting on the cashier counter and gave Lucy a price, and she began reaching for the money to pay for it.
"Lushiiiiiiii," Natsu whined, still looking sickly from the bad memories. "Don't buy that."
"Why not?" Lucy asked, looking at him in surprise. "It reminds me of fond memories. Just because you don't look back at them as such, doesn't mean I don't."
"But its making me sick just looking at it," Natsu groaned as he looked over at the piece. "The waves all look like they're going up and down."
Lucy glanced over at the painting and realized Natsu was right. The waves on the canvas were bobbing up and down like a real ocean.
She glanced at the cashier in confusion. "Does this painting have magic in it to make it do that?" she asked.
The cashier was staring at the painting in confusion. "No ma'am. If it did, it would have been much more expencive."
Romeo moved over to look at the painting as well. "Hey, is it me, or does the ship look bigger than before?"
Looking at the painting again they all saw that the ship in the painting did indeed look much closer than before, and as they watched it skimmed over a large wave and came even closer.
"What in the-?" the cashier started to say, before jumping back in surprise as a spout of water burst out of the painting and squirting him in the face.
The Fairy Tail Wizards and the cashier watched in shock as more spouts came out of the painting until the whole thing was gushing water all over the floor.
"Hey! Stop that!" yelled the cashier, trying to stop the flow of water as it filled up the shop. But his efforts only seemed to make the water gush out faster, and within seconds the whole shop was flooded.
"Do you think this has to do with the robber?" Romeo asked, as the water rose to his chest.
"Whether it is or not, we need to tell the others about this," said Lucy as the pushed her way through the water towards the shop door.
Then with a roar like a tidal wave, the water surged out of the painting even faster, filling the room up to the brim. Then all of a sudden the water resided leaving a soaked cashier in an otherwise unoccupied and dry shop.
The cashier looked down at the painting that was still sitting on his counter. "What the hell?"
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'Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink,' thought Lucy ironically, as she gagged on seawater and tried to tell up from down.
The last wave of water out of the painting had pulled her under and sent her tumbling. She was no longer able to tell which way was the surface.
A hand gripped her around the wrist and started pulling her. She glanced up to see Natsu pulling her upwards, and she kicked her legs to follow him.
The two of them broke he surface to see Happy and Romeo treading water a little ways away from them.
"What just happened?" asked Romeo in confusion. "Did the robbers send us somewhere else so we wouldn't stop them from stealing?"
"I don't know," Lucy called back.
Natsu noticed something behind them and began pushing Lucy forward. "Come on we gotta swim!"
"Why?" she asked, glancing behind her. She saw the boat from the painting was about to bear down on them. She let out a startled squeak, and began swimming away as quickly as she could, her Nakama beside her.
There was a shout from the deck of the ship. Upon looking back they saw someone dive off it, and swim towards them.
The Wizards halted their swimming and watched the approaching swimmer, all of them ready to defend themselves if need be.
Upon getting a clear look at the swimmer's face, Lucy removed her hand from Aquarius' key and gave a friendly wave of greeting. "Caspian!"
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A/N here's the start of my Fairy Tail/Voyage of the Dawn Treader crossover. It takes place after the Tartaros arc, but since at this time I have no idea how it ends, I'm going to assume the good guys win, and keep the status of Earthland vague. This is my favorite book in the series, and I have some fun ideas for it.
Reviews and suggestions are a big help.
Important! Please read: I lost interest in this story about halfway through chapter 6. As per requested I'm going to post the 6 chapters that I have, and I'll come back and finish this up when I get over my writer's block.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or The Chronicles of Narnia or any of it. I'm just a crossover obsessed fangirl with too much time on her hands. Fairy Tail belongs to Hiro Mashima, and The Chronicles of Narnia belongs to C. S. Lewis