A/N- I'm sorry that the first chapter is so short. The first 2 will be, actually. The third chapter will have around 5k or more words, so be patient.

I do not own Fairy Tail. All rights go to Hiro Mashima. If I did, Fairy Tail wouldn't be as innocent.

A Dragon Slayer's Destiny

Chapter 1: Sickness

Lucy plopped onto her bed tiredly. She had finished a girls-only job early this morning with Erza and Cana. Lucy and the girls decided to celebrate by a long shopping trip filled with laughter, smiles, clothes, and free samples of food. She really liked the strawberry vanilla filled doughnut-like thing.

"It's been a long, fun, day." sighed Lucy heavily. Lucy closed her eyes and smiled, loving the relaxing feeling of her bed. Suddenly, her stomach twisted sickly, causing Lucy to feel uncomfortable.

The blonde wizard groaned and felt her key ring. 'Keys!' She thought and sat up instantly. Lucy had bought a silver key earlier today. She reached into her bag to grab it, but then stopped. 'I need to use the bathroom and take a bath.' she thought. 'I can make a contract tomorrow.'

Lucy walked into the bathroom humming a song she vaguely remembered and shut the door behind her. She turned on the bath faucet and began undressing out of her blue tank top and black shorts. All of a sudden, when her top was completely off, she heard the window near her bath open.

"Hiya Luce!"

Lucy spun around quickly and look at the intruder, using her arms to cover her chest. Then she saw the intruder. Natsu.

"GET OUT OF MY HOUSE YOU PERV!" Lucy screamed.

"Wha-" Natsu started.

"LUCY... KICK!" the blonde yelled, kicking Natsu and sending him flying out her window. She heard Natsu's yells fading as he tumbled into the distance. "Hmph." Lucy huffed.

Lucy finished undressing then walked to the bath and soaked in the warm water before shutting off the faucet.

'You know,' she thought to herself. 'I do enjoy his company, and I regret kicking him out like that...' "No no no, pull it together Lucy!" She muttered angrily to herself. "Although, he could be more appropriate with when he comes in."
'And where,' Lucy thought, finishing her conversation.

35 minutes later, Lucy got out of the bath, then continued feeling sick. "It's just my hormones, don't stress. You aren't sick. You're okay." she muttered to herself, drying off.

She walked out of the bathroom and put on an over-sized t-shirt and some sweatpants. Right when Lucy was getting into her bed, she noticed the very end of a white scarf. 'Seriously? If that little hot-head was awake I'm gonna cut him and feed him to Happy!' Lucy thought.

The celestial wizard flipped over the covers and saw Natsu lying on his stomach, drooling in his deep sleep. Having a mental battle with herself, she decided to just leave the pinkette to rest right where he was, instead of punching and screaming at him for intruding and being in her bed.

A few minutes later, Lucy felt a hand lift up and stroke her hair. She shifted her head to look at Natsu, eyeing her with tired eyes.

"Hey, you gonna kick me out?" Natsu said jokingly and quietly. Lucy smiled and met his caring eyes.

"No, Natsu. You can stay. Just don't try anything, inappropriate, okay?" replied Lucy. Natsu lifted his head up and smiled bigger.

"Okay, Luce." Natsu crawled up the bed until his face was level to hers, and only a couple inches apart. He wrapped his arms around Lucy and looked even closer at the blonde.

Lucy's head lifted up a few centimeters and looked at Natsu, eyes big, grateful, and smiling. She closed her chocolate-brown eyes and rested her head on Natsu's shoulder.

Natsu closed his eyes and rubbed her head. "Goodnight, Lucy." he whispered.

"Goodnight, Natsu." she replied, her voice drifting off into sleep.

Natsu woke up to the sound of Lucy's stomach churning and her groaning uncomfortably. She had turned to the other side and was curled up like she was about to hurl.

He sniffed the air and smelled sickness coming from her body. "Hey Luce, you alright?" he asked worriedly.

Lucy turned around and looked at him. "Oh yeah. I-I'm fine." she lied. Natsu's eyes narrowed and he sat up on her bed. Lucy sat up too, and looked down. Natsu grabbed her chin with his left hand and lifted her head up, making the celestial mage look him in the eyes.

"No, you aren't." He said. "You smell sick. Stop lying." Lucy just sighed. Then her face swelled up and she ran to the bathroom.

Natsu could hear her throwing up for two minutes. Then he heard the toilet flush. Natsu smelt her overwhelming sickness and sadness as Lucy walked out, shutting the door behind her.

"The dragon slayer's nose never lies, does it?" she remarked uncomfortably. Lucy walked over to Natsu, silently telling him to get up. He obeyed, looking at her eyes with pity.

"What happened, Lucy?" he said seriously, with a hint of worry to his tone. Lucy walked around a bit, Natsu following, before she finally answered.

"I don't know. I'm not pregnant, and my 'time of the month' isn't due for a while. The only thing I did yesterday was-" Lucy was saying, cut off when she collapsed to the floor.

"LUCY!" Natsu screamed. He got down to the floor and shook her. "LUCY! WHAT'S GOING ON?"

Lucy looked at Natsu, her chocolate eyes almost shut. "Please," the blonde rasped. "Please help me, Natsu..." Lucy's voice faded out as she became unconscious.

"LUCY!" cried Natsu. Tears started falling out of him, flowing like a waterfall. "Oh, Lucy..." he said a minute later.

"I've got to go find Wendy!"

5 minutes before Lucy collapsed, Fairy Tail guild hall...

The guild was abuzz with talking. Team Natsu's Erza Scarlet and Gray Fullbuster were standing by a table near the guild hall entrance.

"That's weird," Gray said to Erza. "It's 9:15, Natsu's normally here by now. I have a score to settle with that flame-brain."

Erza only huffed, listening to the guild. "Now, Gray, this is a guild hall, not a wrestling match. Take it outside, please." the scarlet-haired mage remarked.

"But I do agree with your statement, Gray. Natsu should be here. The weird thing is, Lucy isn't here either."

Gray looked at Erza and nodded in agreement. "Happy isn't here, so there is a possibility they may have taken a job." He said. Gray walked over to the bar where Mirajane Strauss was handing another bottle of vodka to Cana.

"Hey Mira!" He yelled. Mira turned and looked at the Ice wizard and smiled. "What is it, Gray?" She said.

"Natsu, Lucy, and Happy aren't here. Have they by any chance taken a job?" Gray asked. Mira shook her head. "No. Sorry!" She replied.

Gray walked back to where Erza was watching him. He sighed and sat down. Erza sat down across from him.

"You don't possibly think they're doing-" Gray started. Erza gave him a stare harder and colder than his ice. "No, I highly doubt it. Happy is there too, so they must be okay." Erza stated, interrupting Gray.

As if on cue, Happy burst into the guild hall with a worried look on his Exceed face. "Erza! Gray!" the blue cat exclaimed.

"What is it, Happy?" replied Erza.

"Natsu- I can't find him! He's missing! I've looked everywhere, but I can't find him! He told me to go get some fish last night, but then he was gone!" That's when the guild erupted in chaos.

Erza looked Happy straight in the eyes. "Lucy's missing, too. Do you think they went to go find... Igneel?" she told the cat worriedly.

"I-I'm not sure, Erza. They can't be! Wh-" Happy was cut off from his question.

As if on cue, again, Natsu came in with passed-out Lucy in his arms. Everyone could tell he was running quickly, as he was all sweaty, out of breath, and tired.

"Lucy is..." (gasps for air) "Really, really sick, she" (gaps for air) "passed out this morning." (gasps for air) "Need... Wendy... Help her... Please..." Natsu said, rushed and heavily before placing Lucy on the ground.

Wendy rushed over, gasping. She tried casting a healing spell, but it didn't work. "N-Natsu," Wendy said quietly. "I know you don't want to hear this, but I can't heal her. She was poisoned by tempt magic, a lost magic. The creator casts a spell on an object that poisons it. The object is something that will automatically tempt it's target. It is covered up really well, normally by placing more of the exact same object but slightly different."

Erza and Cana looked at each other with guilt stares. "We had free doughnut samples at the mall yesterday. Lucy chose the only strawberry vanilla flavoured doughnut, the baker said it was the last one." Cana stated nervously.

"I will kill whoever did this to Lucy." Natsu muttered, gritting his teeth. He looked at Lucy for a moment then turned to look at the Sky Dragon Slayer.

"Wendy... How do you heal her?" he asked quietly.

The blue-haired mage looked at him straight in the eyes. "Natsu, nothing in this world can heal her. But... Something in another world can." Wendy said then paused.

"Like... Edolas?" Gray asked.

"No, not Edolas, another world known as Earth, not Earth Land. More specifically, a house in Eastern North Carolina, in the United States." She said. "To heal her, you will need one Ibuprofen, a glass of milk, two dashes of cinnamon, and a dash of salt. Mix them together and give it to Lucy."

"Got it. Can you wake Lucy up?"

After 10 minutes, Lucy was fully awake, and fully sick. "N-Natsu... Where am I? Why don't I feel better?"

Natsu looked at his pitiful friend, feeling really sorry for her. "Shhh, Luce. You're in the guild hall. Wendy wasn't able to heal you, because the poisoned magic can only be healed in another world known as 'Earth'. We have to go there to make you feel okay. Got it?"

Lucy took a few minutes to process all the information. "Let's go..." Natsu handed Lucy her key ring. Lucy took out her Virgo zodiac key.

"Open... Gate of the Maiden... Virgo..." Lucy called weakly. Virgo appeared standing beside the sick wizard.

"How can I help you, Princess?" She said. The maiden looked down at Lucy. "Are you sick?"

It took a while, but finally Natsu finished explaining everything to the guild and Virgo. He got several "Wait, you slept with Lucy?" and "Awww, I knew you two would be a couple!" Natsu just told them it was the friendly thing to do, though the answers weren't all agreements.

"Please, Virgo, pass through the gate of the two worlds and bring us with you. It's my only shot..." Lucy rasped. Virgo nodded.

"I will do that, princess. Hold as tightly as you can onto me while I pass through the gate." The celestial spirit replied.

Natsu helped Lucy get onto her feet and latch on tightly to Virgo. Just for protection, he wrapped himself around Lucy as well as Virgo.

"This is awkward, but thanks." Lucy murmured to Natsu. He flashed a toothy smile and replied happily, though no one knew why. "No problem, Luce." he said.

There was a bright flash and the three vanished. One second in Magnolia, the next in North Carolina.