Captured Hearts
Chapter 1: Their first meeting, A classic one? or a disaster?
Summary: She's a Princess who is in love with Him, the King. They're both from Royalties and a powerful one at that plus their love for each other is MUTUAL. A happily ever after is within the reach of their hands but for a happy ending, it seems too far away. So what's the catch?. She's the Royal Princess and He's the Demon King. Be prepared to be Capture by this forbidden romance between two hearts seeking for the love of their life and see whether they can reach each others Captured Hearts.
Fiore Kingdom, a very peaceful and prosperous country. Everyday the streets are bustling with people who came from different places, a lot of tourist and traders are gathered around the kingdom's capital and the crime rate of this country is surprisingly low and no one from this country is experiencing hunger and poverty since who knows when because for generations the royal family has been in good terms with its people and has protected many of its alliances and properties through a peaceful way, not once have they ever raised their hand for war or let their people drop a single blood. A perfect country, it seems however not everything can be perfect, not when this country's princess is currently missing for two years now!
Two years ago when the princess turned fifteen she ran away from home and from her arrange marriage. For royalties and nobles having an arrange marriage set for you by your parents are normal or you could say thats just common, nothing unusual or any sort. But you see this princess isn't just your typical princess because along with her strong willed and kind heart she's also one heck of a stubborn and bratty of a princess. At a very young age her mother, the Queen died because of an unknown illness and since then this princess has been aware of her position as the heir and princess of a country such as Magnolia but at the same time her witty remarks and times she snuck of the castle is as many as the stars above the sky. But still even with that attitude, at the age of seven she was told that their is a man set for her to be with and of course she accepted that as her fate and responsibility as the princess.
So why the sudden change of attitude? Well lets just say that no one would ever dream of getting married to the Demon King. Princess or not who would want to get marry with him!? And so after getting a huge fight with the King, she ran away from home on the night she turned fifteen, surprisingly enough for two years she was able to hide from her father.
Two years later, today...is that missing princess' seventeenth birthday. As usual a big celebration is happening throughout the country, every citizen wishes to celebrate their princess birthday every year since she was born by the late queen. Its still early but you can already hear the fireworks being set off and the festivity throughout the country can be heard, one can even say that the princess' birthday became one of the important events for the Magnolia kingdom.
"King Jude! King Jude! Its an emergency! an emergency I tell you!" An old man on his middle age man on his 50's said as he ran towards the king's office.
"Sheesh! Beppo, what all the fuss. Calm down already" he said as he sighed at the sighed of the old man in front of him who is currently out of breath.
"Aa *pant* a...letter came! A letter came from the Ryuu-ou Kingdom I tell you (Ryuu=dragons Ou=king)" Beppo said still trying to catch up his breath.
"Hmm...So a letter finally arrived" he said as he placed down the papers he's been working on and started reading the letter.
"Oh...how scary! The kingdom of the demons...they might attack our peaceful country! Cou...Could it be they finally heard about the princess missing! Or that the rumors about the princess not wanting to marry the king! I tell you!" Beppo said as he circle around the room.
"Beppo! I told you to calm down." The king said as he placed down the letter.
"Your highness have you finish reading the letter!? What does it say!? Is it a warning letter for battle? a war? will a war happen? Oh, How scary! They want to attack us! Oooh...the princess is still missing and a warning letter for a war arrives...oh my...thats why I told your highness that the marriage between our princess and the demon king must definitely not happen! That why I oppose it!...huhu...poor princess I tell you" This time he's saying it while circling around the room and cry hysterically making the king sigh at sight of him.
"Beppo...this is an order stop moving around your giving me a headache!" he said
"Oh my! The king has an headache! I need the royal doctor! I tell you!" he said this time circling around much faster.
"Nnggh. Beppo! Don't move and listen to me!" The king roared out it anger.
"Aye sir!" Beppo said, shocked.
"Listen Beppo. The letter that arrive was just a greeting from the king to Lucy so calm down. He might be called the demon king but I know that brat would never do anything to harm our kingdom, this country" The king said as he sat down.
"But...But how would you know such a thing, your highness. According to the rumors he's a very scary and evil. I tell you!" he said.
"Rumors are just rumors. Me and Layle knows his parents for a long time already and we know how kind and big hearted that kingdom is."
"Bu..But those are just his parents! We don't know maybe their son is evil! Plus there's this thing with the princess! She's still missing! Even though today is her birthday even though her coming of age ceremony should have happen when the princess turn fifteen but then before it could even start she ran away from here...Oh...I'm worried. I tell you so!" he said
"Hmm. I, as her father is also worried but if we forced her to come back here then I'm afraid she would ran away more from me, and this country"
"Ooooh. So your highness knows the place where the princess is?" Beppo asked
"Ah. Don't worry. If its about Lucy she's in a safe and trustworthy hands of a friend of mine. I'm sure she would have grown a lot. Oh I'm excited to see her once again" The king said as he smiled just the thought of his precious daughter.
"We-Well if thats what your highness says." he said " But...still about her marriage to that evil king! I am still opposing it! I tell you!" The old man said.
"Sigh...no one can really oppose it. Even I, doesn't want her to get married soon because as her father I don't want her to go far away from home but still no one can oppose this. Its been decided since a long time ago and on the other hand if he'll be the one to care for Lucy then I guess I have no qualms in this marriage."
"Aiiiiy! this might be rude Your highness! But-! I've been serving the royal family for a long time and even I cares for the princess and consider her as my daughter and whatever you say, even if its your highness I'll still say this! I oppose this marriage with the demon king! I tell you so!" Beppo exclaimed.
"Hahaha..Beppo you're acting like you're the bride..ahaha" the king said while laughing!
"Argh! Your Highness this is no laughing matter! I'll protect the princess and stand by her decision always! I tell you so!"
Opposing or not.
Or whether its fate or not.
The question is still...WHERE IS THAT PRINCESS NOW?
Meanwhile at a small town, three cities away from the capital at the city of Magnolia though the fireworks and celebration for the princess' birthday isn't as flashy and busy like the capital it is still bustling with a lot of people who came as tourist, watchers and traders and its no different for the guilds, especially at this town's craziest mage guild: Fairy Tail.
*BOOM*
*BANG*
*BOOM*
"OOOOH! Today is the princess' birthday lets have a flashy celebration!" Cheered by Wakaba "Kampai! (Kampai=cheers)
"Kampai!" toast back by the other guild members.
"Haha. You guys are having fun as ever huh" Mirajane, the one in charge at the guild's bar said while wiping some glasses.
"Mira-san! Ohayo! (Ohayo=good morning)" A girl with blonde hair said as she walk up towards the bar area.
"Ooh! Lucy, Ohayo." greeted back by the silver haired lady
"Hmm...why does it seems like the guys are louder than ever?" She asked as she look at the other guild members who keep on drinking Sake (Sake= beer, wine, liquor)
"Oh..Lucy you didn't know about today's celebration?" Mira asked.
"Eh? celebration? what? a birthday or something?" Lucy asked, totally clueless about it.
"Ah! If it isn't Lucy!" A wavy browned haired girl said as she wave towards the blonde "Hic"
"Cana!? What are you doing its still early in the morning and your drinking dozens of sake's barrels already!" Lucy asked shocke to see the doezens of barrels around her friend and guild mate.
"Lu-chan! You're early today huh!?" Suddenly a short blue haired girl said as she joins Lucy and the others.
"Levy-chan!" Lucy said as she ran towards her and hug her dear friend.
"Ohayou Levy"
"Ohayou Mira-chan" greeted back by Levy. "Hmm..Even though its not surprising how much alcohol tolerance Cana has, but still this much!? even though its not yet noon time"
"Haha..Well thats Cana Alberona for you." Lucy said with a smile "So...guys what's the celebration going around?"
"HUH!? Lu-chan you don't know anything about it!?" Levy asked surprised by the question of the blonde.
"Well...nope. Not a clue at all." Lucy said.
"Well it can't be helped its only been two years since Lucy came here in Fiore and joined our guild maybe she still don't know some things around" Mira said.
"EH!? But she's been a year here already and last year's event was a lot more fancier since it was the princess sixteenth birthday!" Levy exclaimed making a certain blonde haired girl gulp upon hearing the words Princess and Birthday. Oh how could she forgot that today is her birthday!? Even though its only been two years since she came here how could she forgot her own birthday.
'Damn' Lucy thought to herself, if she hadn't forgotten that today is her birthday she would have stayed in her room for a week in order to get away from all the celebration and talk about the "princess" but now that she had forgotten it, now she has no choice but to stay with them or they might get suspicious of her or think that she's running away from something which is true.
"Hey...Hey! Earth to Lu-chan! Are you still with us!?" Levy asked as she waves her hand infront of her.
"Ha? Ah..yeah. I'm sorry I was spacing out" Lucy said
"Ahaha. We know" Levy said "Anyway are you that surprise to hear about the princess' birthday? Don't you have any princess from your country?"
"Aa...eh...umm...yeah. We also have one" Lucy said as she try to lie herself out. Two years ago, when she left home...she only brought a few money with her and after three months of travelling or should I say running away from her pursuers, she was running out of cash when she decided to join a guild to earn herself some money and after a few months of her stay and new friends she met she thought that the palace finally gave up on searching for her, she decided to stay at Magnolia and what can she say? A life together with her new friends in fairy tail made her love guilds and the way she live her life now.
No tiaras, waltz, lessons, public speech and ARRANGE MARRIAGE.
The whole reason that gave her the courage to leave and ran away from her princess duties. Sure she have thought and know that one day she's going to get married to a person that she doesn't love well not like she thought of falling in love with someone and she was even prepared to get married just for the sake of political marriage but still the thought of her getting married to a demon king scared the wits out of her.
Its not like she's the type of person to judge others through appearance or rumors but ever since she was young Beppo was always telling her not to go near the demon king because if she does her mother's soul would fall into hell? And as a child she started to believe in those and even though now that she grew up she just can't help but remember what old man Beppo-said.
"So Lucy..." Mira said.
"Huh?"
"When is your birthday!?" Mira asked.
"Eh?"
"Oh yeah! Lu-chan I still don't know your birthday. Even though we are already together for two years I always missed the chance to asked you about your birthday" Levy said.
Well of course she'll missed it because as much as possible Lucy always tries her best to avoid the topic and question about her birthday. Of course she could just lie her way through but when it comes to birthday and stuff it feels like if she lied about it, it would be the same as denying her late mother's brutal (okay that's exaggerating it -_-) and hard 9 months of being pregnant, labour and the life given to her.
"Err...Umm...that's a little...ummm"
"Oi! Mira! A letter came from THEM!" Macao said interrupting Lucy from answering well she sure is glad that Macao came.
"Hmm? Letter?" Mira said as she opens and read the letter.
"Mira-chan what's the letter saying? Is it from them?" Levy asked excitedly.
"Them?" Lucy asked.
"Oh. Yeah thats right. You haven't met them." Levy said
"Thats right. Hmm.. Since the three..ooopps I mean the four of them went on a mission a week before Lucy arrived from here" Macao said "Hmm was it a week or a month"
"Hmm..So who are them?" Lucy asked curiously "And what kind of mission is it for them to took 2 years?"
"You see its an S-rank mission and if I remember it clearly its about hunting the legendary Black Wizard of Green Meadow's Graveyard" Levy said. "A Second grade S+ rank mission!"
"EH!? THAT Black Wizard!? Astrollturf? from one of the dangerous place that it was even blacklisted as place in the world!?" Lucy said shocked to hear about it. Well now she's surprise that it only took them two years to finish a S+ rank mission and a second grade at that.
"Mm...they're amazing right!" Levy said
"Amazing!? More like they're monsters" Macao said as he fake shiver in fear.
"So...So are they all S-rank mage?" Lucy asked nervously. Since she hasn't met any S-rank mage from the guild since she came and its pretty much rare to see or to have guild mate who is S-rank and though she already knows how famous and powerful the guild, Fairy Tail she's still surprise to know that theres really an S-rank.
"Haha..No. There's only one S-rank mage with them." Levy said
"EH? ONE? only?" Lucy asked surprised.
"Yeah but the other two are pretty much monsters. If they hadn't had that incident during the examination maybe those two would have also become an S-rank" Levy said
"Haha. But I don't really think those two can easily become an S-rank mage considering how scary and inhumane those members of Fairy Tail's S-rank mage unit" Macao said.
"Mm. Well I have to agree with that" Levy said making Lucy go into shocked mode.
"Ne~ Levy-chan the..there's more than one S-rank mage here?" Lucy asked.
"Yeah. There's Laxus, Mystogan, Gildarts, Erza, Mirajane hmmm and the last one I forgot his name" Levy said.
"I see. I see. So theres a guy name Laxus, Mystogan, Gildarts, Erza and Mirajane?" Lucy said "Mirajane? Why does it sounds so familiar?"
"Ahaha. What are you talking about Lu-chan. Of course your familiar with her! She even right in front of you!" Levy said
"Eh?" Clueless, Lucy asked "in front of me?" Then she looked in front of her and see Mirajane smiling.
"Mira-san?"
"Hai? Lucy?" Mira said still smiling.
"Mira-san...Mirajane? EH!?" Then Lucy suddenly get into shocked.
"Oh my. Lucy's turned into stone." She said "Is it really that shocking"
Making Macao and Levy nod in agreement.
Meanwhile Lucy's head is turning and spinning she can't believe that she already met and has been friends with one of the S-rank mages and who could blame her! S-rank mages are supposed to be like super monster-ish while when you look at Mirajane it seems like she's just a normal mage-model who is incharge of the pub area and its just that no matter how much she look at her, she just can't believe it.
"Arara...seems like she's still in the middle of processing it" Mira said.
"haha seems like it" Levy said "Hang in there Lu-chan."
"Anyway Mira-chan what does the letter say?" Macao asked.
"Mm.. its says that Erza, Gray, Happy and Natsu will be back by today and that they finish their money and will be heading here" She said and upon hearing that word Macao hysterically shouted and said "Guys! Erza's coming! An emergency cleaning section start cleaning! We don't know what time but Erza will be coming back by TODAY!"
At first the whole guild went silent and no one was moving, not an inch.
And after a few seconds that seems like ages, the whole guild started this so called cleaning operation turning the guild upside down. Lucy who seems like she's finally finished processing the idea was shocked to see that her guild mates are cleaning the whole place and it seems like they are all petrified as white as if something scary is something.
"Umm...whats up with them?" Lucy asked
"Well you see...Erza is coming back" Levy said
"?"
"You see the four group I was telling you about, Erza's with them" Levy said
"Erza? One of the S-mage?"
"Yup."
"Her name is Erza Scarlet, also known as Fairy Tail's: TITANIA" Mira said "The strongest female mage in fairy tail" Making Lucy gasp in both fear and excitement. "Titani no Erza" Lucy said " The title given to the strongest female mage...I want to hurry and meet her!"
And upon hearing her words the whole guild stop moving and looked at her with a strange expression then they all said "We don't want too!" making her shocked and confused.
"Haha...Well that aside you can all meet Gray Fullbuster, The Ice-mage" Mira said
"Also known as King Stripper" Levy added
"Stri-Stripper?" Lucy asked confused
"Then theres Happy! Who's from a clan known as the exceed" Mira continued
"Exceed? Sounds really powerful" Lucy said
"Also known as Happy: the flying cat"
"Eh? Cat?" Lucy asked dumbfounded.
"Lastly theres Natsu Dragneel, a fire mage dragon slayer" Mira-said
"EH? THAT legendary Dragon slayer!?" Lucy said in shocked and amaze
"Yup. Natsu also known as Salamander and also as Ryuu-Ou Kingdom's..."
'Ryuu-Ou...*gulp* could he be? No...tha...that's not possible!' Lucy screamed to her mind "He can't possibly be a mage in here..."
"...Demon King"
Lucy's eyes widen in horror as she heard those words. Even though she can't believe what Levy had just said but...right now she feels her knees weakening and her whole body was shivering in both fear and shocked and her voice won't come out. Worried Levy and Mira keep on shaking her and asking her if she's alright but right now theres no words that came out of her mouth but right now that not what it matters, right now theres only one thing in her mind.
And that is to run away before he comes.
"I...I...I'm sorry but I forgot I have something very important to do and I ..I just remember it so...See yah Mira-san, Levy-chan!" Lucy said as she ran faster towards the door and just when she was about to step out of the guild she bumped into someone and fell into her butt. Her nose and butt hurts but that doesn't matter now she has to leave this place soon...before he saw her.
Then suddenly a pair of hand was in front of her and asked "Oi...Are you alright?"
"Eh? Ah..I'm fine. I'm sorry. I-I have to leave now" She said not looking at the person she bump into.
"Hmm...She seems new..Hey whats your name?" Another man asked.
"Hey you guys stop scaring her" A girl said "Besides Natsu you should first apologize for bumping into her."
"Eh. Its my fault?"
"Aye sir" Another voice said
"Sheesh this idiot is slow at things like that"
"Aye"
"Hey Grey who is the idiot huh? And Happy stop agreeing!" Natsu said
"Stop fighting!" Erza said "Anyways are you alright? Hmmm...What's your name?"
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...
...
Lucy look up and see that the person in front of her is...
"Na..."
"Na?" The four said
"Natsu Dragneel..."
"Ha!? Natsu Dragneel!? Hey thats my name!? We're asking for your name! YOUR NAME!" Natsu said gong berserk
"Hey calm down idiot" Grey said
"Your Natsu Dragneel...?" Lucy asked as her eyes widen in shock
"Aye. He's Natsu!" the cat said "The one and only Natsu Dragneel!"
"Hey So...you whats your name..." Natsu asked making her flinch.
"My...My name...is..."
Right now there are two things coming into Lucy's mind. First will she tell a fake name? How about Luffy? or Stella? or should she ran away without answering tick tock tick tock.
Diiding! And so she decided...to pick her fist choice... tell a different name.
And just when she was about to say a fake name...
"LUCY!?" Mira asked "Are you alright LUCY"
"Eh? Lucy...could you be PRINCESS?" Happy Said
Making the whole guild members look at her and Natsu Dragneel's eyes widen in shock, upon seeing it...she can't help but think...
"I WANT A HOLE TO JUMP IN!"
So how is it?
Should I continue? or not. (TELL ME YOUR OPINION PLEASE I'M BEGGING YOU GUYS XD)
(Anyway this is the first time I ever made a 3,941 words for a chapter. An hour and half before I could actually finish it.~
Sigh...I hope you guys love it. ^_^
ANYWAY SEE YOU GUYS ON THE NEXT CHAPTER (IF i continue it~ ohoho *evil smirk* ) just kidding. I'll continue it so look forward to it~
I'll try my best to make this enjoyable and to not bore you guys so for those who is not really a fan of princess stuff (same here~) I'll try to make a unique and exciting fic for you guys~
Bye-Bee~
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