Hello!

Well, this is quite a challenge for me: writing after quite a long time, and furthermore in another language than my mothertongue. Do not hesitate to tell me if there are mistakes :) So this is kind of a a sequel of the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but with Fairy Tail characters. From what I've planned, there will be at least 40 chapters, so it's quite a long story :D

Of course, I do not own neither Charlie and the Chocolate Factory nor Fairy Tail. If I did, there would already have some NaLu kids in the latter (after a clear discussion about Natsu's year of training, of course).

I hope you will enjoy it. Do not hesitate to tell me what you think about it :)

Chapter 1: A Checkout Girl's Life

When she was a girl, Lucy was said that she could have anything she wanted. She just had to ask the right person. Her father being most of the time away and her mother gone since she was six, she knew she had to ask her governess, Miss Else, who, doing much more than taking care of the household, was Lucy's best ally for convincing her father to do whatever was her wishes of the day. He was then always making sure to be here to hand the gift to his dear daughter, assuring him that he was indeed 'the-greatest-daddy-of-the-whole-world-no-the-whole-universe'. She would thus hear between two cries of joy his contented sigh. All that was well and just fine. Then it happened. That fateful day where she heard of the tickets for the chocolate factory. Daddy made sure that his precious little daughter could participate, using his own employees to collect the damn ticket. Then, there she was, in front of the factory, determined to get the final surprise, as it was promised.

Of course, she wasn't the only one to get a ticket. There was, if she remembered well, a huge boy with chocolate on his cheeks (named Reedus, but she clearly didn't care at the moment). Then, next to her and her daddy was another pale and annoying boy (nerd!) with jet black hair, mumbling about the irrationnality of the shape of the building and his father, which had her shivering a little due to the fact that he was clearly alike of her teacher. Poor guy didn't even have the time to say his child's name (Gray? Seriously, who would name their kid after a colour?). To her other side, she could see a red-haired girl (finally) with the most hideous sportswear she had ever seen and her mother, the spitting older image of her daughter. Both had their names in their clothes (Erza and Irene) and seemed like they were going to war. Scary...

Then, there was this little boy (again?) and his nearly-dying from-excitement grandfather. He was skinnier than the rest of them, and maybe paler than the nerd (not by excesses of video games like the other, she could tell). He even seemed quite cute, if you put aside the crooked teeth he had. But what was the problem with the hair? THERE WERE FREAKING PINK!

...

Well, that aside, she knew she was going to get the surprise. She was the cute little girl with a daddy at her feet. She just had to stay away from the scary scarlet girl and her mother. The others would disqualify themselves quite easily, she thought: the first by eating too much, the second by becoming mad due to the lack of logic and the other boy certainly by passing out due to the abundance of goodies in the factory.

Well, it seemed at first everything happened as she thought, except for the passing out of the pink-haired boy. The fat boy had been trapped somewhere after attempting to empty the chocolate lake and, to her absolute joy, the scarlet girl was turned into a giant strawberry. The nerd was becoming more agitated by the minute. It was just a question of time.

But then... Hell happened. To the form of a cute, nut-breaking squirrel. Seeing its little eyes gleaming made her heart swooned. She just had to have it. Screw the big surprise at the end. She took a few steps towards the object of her desires. Just the time to say "you're mine" and she was surrounded by the other squirrels and the (annoying) Ompas Loompas began to sing. She was then thrown to the bin, she, her daddy's freaking princess, like some kind of garbage.

She heard after it that the pink kid became the heir of the chocolate factory. The damn cute kid with freaking pink hair... Who would have thought? Well, it didn't matter and certainly wouldn't affect her in any way.

But then, everything did change. She was not a princess anymore, her father made sure of it. He clearly showed to her that he had been humiliated, and it was only fair that she suffered from it. Every toy and pets she had were given to charity (which, in a way, was good now that she thought of it, but well, she didn't find it funny at all). He began to act colder towards her and hired several teachers in order to educate her in every way. Miss Else was fired. He was gone more often than before. It was the end of childhood. Final.

Well, it could have been, if he didn't decide one day that she wasn't capable of taking care of herself (so no taking care of her father's business was in order), and that she had to marry some snobby guy which would become the heir of the nut factory. This led to numerous arranged dates with some dude named Dan Straight who couldn't even say her name right. That was the final straw. Lucy snapped and decided to quit everything, leading to a long and painful quarrel with her father and leaving her penniless and almost nameless... well, until she decides to marry the annoying guy. Geez...

And here she was, in her twenties, checkout girl without the hint of a love story going on, in a shop that sold, among others products, nuts coming from her father's factory. The irony...She sighed. At least, the salary would help her to pay the rent and keep her weird landlady at bay.

"Tsk. Stop sighing, you're creeping the customers out."

Lucy nearly fell from her chair. Her boss, the terrifying Carolina Quarius (Aquarius to be short, also due to her stormy temper and her astrological sign), stood in front of her. From the look she was giving, Lucy could be sure that she was oh so totally screwed if she dared to open her mouth. Damn.

"With that attitude, it's no wonder you don't have any boyfriend yet."

Ouch. That hurt. No matter how many times she said it, it stung her self-esteem! In attempt to justify herself, Lucy stood abruptly. She would have talked, had the shelves next to her decided not to fall due to the sudden gesture, with its visibly-not-wrapped-enough content (damn the kids that always touch the ribbons of the bags of nuts! And damn these ribbons too! Couldn't the nuts be wrapped with plastic, like any other product?) on the floor.

"You better clean that. And don't give Aries candies this time." Aquarius groaned, before leaving like the boss the was.

That was only once! How was she supposed to know that giving her candies could turn that sweet and shy girl to a tipsy wool-obsessed sadist? She seemed to crave some, the poor girl! Anyone with sensibility would have given her these damn candies!

Ruminating these last thoughts, Lucy stood out of the checkout and set the shelves in place and began to fill it with the bag of nuts that weren't opened. She then collected all the nuts and other pieces and threw it in the bin. Satisfied with her work, she returned to her place to welcome the customer that just arrived. From the corner of her eyes, she could see that it was a dark-haired young man with dark blue eyes. Quite handsome, by the way. But wait... Where was his shirt?

Preparing her best smile, she turned towards him, only to meet a familiar red wrapping.

Dragneel. Hazelnut Chocolate Bars.

"I need you."

Well, what kind of girl wouldn't be swooned by a shirtless hot guy that handed her chocolate?