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It was a beautiful day as Lucy Heartfilia walked trough the streets of Magnolia. She was on her way to her guild better known as 'Fairy Tail'. It was already late when she reached it. She opened the door and was chocked to see Natsu chained to a beam.

Lucy's POV

There he was, struggling against the chains that held him captive. But he was not alone. Gajeel and Laxus were also chained up. And nobody was doing anything to help them. I quickly looked for Mira. I'm sure she can explain to me what's going on.

I saw her standing behind the bar as usual. She looked up when I walked in her direction.
"Hi, Lucy. Do you want something to drink?" she asked me. This was so confusing. How can she act like everything's ok when Natsu, Gajeel and Laxus were struggling to get free? "No, thank you," I answered "I just wanted to know why Natsu and the others are chained up." She gave me a smile as she answered "That's because mating season will start this evening. Haven't you noticed that they have been behaving quite weird lately?"

"Now that you mention it, he has been getting in a lot of fight this week. I mean, more than ussual."

Mira continued "That's because they want to eliminate the male competition. You see, once in ten years, dragons have a mating season. They will look for the one dragon, or person in their case, that they want to spent the rest of their lives with. Dragon slayer's are part dragon so they also participate in these mating seasons. When it's that time their instinct will take over. So it can get quite rough. That's why we chained them up. Just for the safety of the others."

"Do you think the chains will be enough to hold them?" I asked.

She smiled "No worries. Even if they get out, they will have to go trough Erza first."
Than Mira leaned in and whispered "You know what? I think Gajeel will go after Levy."

I nodded "Probably, those two are inseparable lately. I'm just curious who Natsu and Laxus will go after. By the way, why isn't Wendy chained up?"

"She's to young." Mira answered "Dragon slayer's start to mate when they reach adulthood. So this will be the first time Natsu mates. At least if he finds her."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

Mira suddenly looked a bit saddened "Well, it can be that they can't find their mate. But then they will certainly find them another year if their mate isn't taken already. That's why they get so competitive."

"I hope everything will be ok. So when will this mating season actually start?"

"Just in a few hours, when it's midnight."

Natsu's POV

When the clock hit twelve everything fated. There was only one thing I could think about.
My mate, Lucy.