Fairy Tail High School

by jalexis4eva

For Lucy Heartfilia, it's a new beginning. As the daughter of the wealthy Jude Heartfilia, she has always attended the finest private schools, but has now made the brave decision to embark into the unknown, Fairy Tail High School. Could anything have really prepared her for the chaos that is this new school? High School fic, definitely friendship, hopefully some romance too.

1. The First Day

So, I'm back. After a couple of months off due to exams, this is my return to fanfiction.

But it's kind of not a return, but a new start, because this is a new story in a new anime. My second Fairy Tail fanfic, but my first was a 400 word One chapter story, which didn't get much notice. So I'm hoping that this will go down well. Not sure if there are many Fairy Tail High School fanfiction stories, but I really hope there aren't, because I'm really excited about starting this.

Not much to say, other than, I really hope whoever's reading this really enjoys it. Please be gentle in the reviews, I am a bit rusty when it comes to writing at the moment.

"Princess, wake up! If you don't get ready soon, you'll be late for your first day!"

Lucy's eyes reluctantly fluttered open. She wearily sat up in bed, trying to process what she'd just heard. Out of the corner of her eye, she checked the digital clock on her bedside table.

08:05

She blinked, before yawning and laying back down, pulling the covers over herself again. What was Virgo shouting about? It was only 8, and she usually didn't get up before 11. Plus what did she mean first day?

First day.

Lucy's eyes shot open. Today was the first day.

She jumped out of bed, scrambling towards the bedroom door, tripping over herself several times. How could she have forgotten? Today was her first day.

She swung open the bathroom door and reached for her toothbrush, cursing when she hastily squeezed far too much toothpaste onto it. "Figures, I was so excited last night about today, that I completely forgot to set my alarm. And now I'm going to be late. On my first day! Talk about making a bad first impression..." she muttered to herself.

"Princess, are you OK?" Virgo called from outside the door, having heard Lucy's rushing around upstairs.

"Virgo! Why didn't you wake me up earlier?"

There was a short pause, before Virgo answered. "I'm sorry Princess. Perhaps you need to punish me?"

Lucy sighed. She swore there was something wrong with her maid. Then again, she probably shouldn't complain. There aren't too many teenage girls who are lucky enough to even have a maid. "N-no. That won't be necessary... Is breakfast ready?"

"Yes, it's ready for you princess."

"Thank you Virgo!" Even though she didn't approve of Virgo's... desires, Lucy was still grateful for Virgo's prescence in the house. Ever since Lucy had been a child, Virgo had always been there, the one responsible for running the house. Lucy's mother, Layla, had passed away when she was just 7, and her father, Jude, was always so busy with work, so they never spent much time together and he was never at home.

Because of this, Jude had hired Virgo to run the house in place of Layla, and to be largely responsible for raising Lucy, along with the other servants. Even though Lucy and her father had moved to Magnolia at the beginning of the summer, Jude had still managed to convince most of the servants to move with them, having to raise the wages of some of them in some cases. Either way, Lucy was grateful that not much had changed at home, despite moving to a new town.

She hurriedly opened her wardrobe, extremely conscious of the fact that she was in a hurry, and pulled down the uniform that she had spent a good hour last night trying on and modelling. She clumsily put it on, twirling around in the mirror, and adjusting it a couple of times, wanting to make it look perfect. She giggled girlishly, admiring herself in the mirror. "Who knows, maybe I'll finally get a boyfriend! It's a new start after all!"

She glanced back at the clock. 08:15. she sighed and momentarily contemplated her dilemma. She could go downstairs, eat breakfast, and definitely be late. Or she could skip breakfast for one morning, hurry to school, and maybe just make it on time.

Despite her moaning stomach, she went for option B. She quickly descended the stairs, hopping down the last 3 in one jump, excitement and anticipation beginning to bubble up inside of her. At the bottom of the stairs, her sickly puppy, Plue, was waiting for her, weakly barking when she reached him. She smiled at his cuteness. "Sorry Plue, I'm running late today. But we'll talk later, when I get home, OK?" Plue yipped in agreement, and Lucy's heart melted a little bit. Plue was too cute for his own good!

She exhaled once to calm herself down, before opening the front door, happy to see that her limo had already pulled up, her butler, Caprico, in the driver's seat, eyeing his watch. He looked at Lucy, and smirked, seeing how excited she was.

Lucy was about to hop down the steps of her porch, when Virgo emerged from the kitchen. "Wait Princess, you forgot your breakfast!"

Lucy smiled apologetically at Virgo. "Sorry Virgo, I'm really going to be late. I'm sure the rest of the staff will enjoy it though."

Virgo slowly nodded, a little disappointed. "I understand." Lucy gave Virgo a small hug, before running to the car and opening the door to the passenger seat. "Oh, wait Princess!" Lucy looked back at her. "Before your father left this morning, he told me to wish you good luck today."

Lucy nodded, getting into the car. "Thank you Virgo!"

She then turned to Caprico, and smiled in greeting. "Morning Caprico! Sorry I'm a little late."

He shook his head. "You need not apologize Miss Lucy. I'll drive quicker to make up for any time lost."

Lucy nodded gratefully. "Thank you Caprico!" She relaxed back in her seat as the car sped down the drive and onto the road. This was it! The day that she had been looking forward to all summer...

Her first day at her new High School, Fairy Tail High!

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"...Also, Mr Heartfilia requested that I drop you off in front of the School gates and escort you into your classroom... Will that be alright?"

No answer. Caprico glanced to the side, where Lucy was staring out of the window dreamily. "Miss Lucy?"

"Huh?" Lucy smiled sheepishly. She had spaced off as soon as the drive had begun, and hadn't been paying attention to anything that Caprico had said.

"Mr Heartfilia requested that I personally escort you to your class today morning. This is the first time you'll be attending a... Public School."

Lucy giggled at the way Caprico scoffed when he said "Public School". Honestly, neither he nor her father had been too pleased when she had suggested attending a public school. She had been unhappy at her middle school, disliking some of her arrogant class mates. Her father was originally completely against the idea, but Lucy had managed to wear him down. And when he was beaten, Caprico, even though he was still very much against the idea, had to begrudgingly accept that Miss Lucy was going to a "Commoner's School" as he had originally called it. Lucy had managed to get him to stop calling it that, but he still wasn't happy about the whole situation.

Lucy gave him her best pleading look. "Oh, you don't have to do that...""

Caprico stared straight ahead, pretending to be completely focused on the road so that he wouldn't have to look at Lucy. She knew he had a soft spot for her 'pleading look'. "I'm sorry Miss Lucy, Mr Heartfilia specifically asked me to do this. I can't-"

"But Caprico..."

Caprico mentally sighed. He couldn't even resist her pleading voice. Just like Virgo, he had been around Lucy ever since she was a small child, and she'd always been able to get him with that voice. "Alright. But you must not tell Mr Heartfilia."

Lucy smiled widely. Victory. "Thank you so much Caprico!"

"Y-Yes Miss Lucy."

The rest of the journey was completed in silence, with Caprico trying to think of ways of secretly following Lucy into the school, whilst Lucy just daydreamed about what was to come.

She looked out of the window, recognizing the streets. A couple of days after they had moved to the new house, Caprico had taken her to the new school, just to familiarize himself with the route since he would be the one dropping her to school every morning, then picking her up in the evening. Because of this, Lucy knew they were close now. "Uh.. Caprico. One last favor."

"Yes Miss Lucy?"

"Can you drop me off here?"

Caprico nearly lost control of the car for a second, his eyes widening. The car skidded to a halt. "B-But why? We're not at the school yet."

Lucy smiled weakly, not meeting Caprico's gaze. She felt her cheeks heat up. "I-It's just... If the other students see me arriving in a limo... they might... you know... judge me. I just... I don't want them to just think of me as a spoilt rich girl. I know father said-"

"OK. I understand."

Lucy's eyes widened, and she looked up at Caprico, who was smiling gently. "But, again, you must not tell Mr Heartfilia..."

Lucy nodded fervently. "I won't! I promise!"

Caprico smiled. "You should get going then. If you don't hurry, you'll be late."

Lucy smiled, gave Caprico a quick hug, and kicked open the car door, excitedly jumping out and hopping onto the sidewalk. She gave Caprico one last wave, before setting of in the direction of the school, opting for a quicker walk rather than a flat out run, not looking back.

Caprico smiled as he watched her retreating form. Regardless of what he wanted, she wasn't who she used to be. She was growing up, no longer the little girl she once was.

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Lucy groaned as she reached the school gates. The front of the school was completely empty, meaning that all the students were in class, which meant one thing.

She was late.

She looked at her watch, it was ten past nine, making her only ten minutes late. "Jeez, the students here are so prompt. I mean, I know it's the first day of school, but still..."

"Hey, Look out!"

Lucy turned around, seeing a boy with pink hair, on a bicycle, set on a collision course with her. He was frantically trying to adjust his handlebars and turn away from her, but he failed, and before she could react, he collided with her, his bike crashing into her, bringing her to the ground with a shriek, whilst he was sent flying a bit ahead of her.

Lucy pushed the bike off her, and looked at the pink haired boy, who was lying stretched out on the ground. Suddenly, he sat up, rubbing the back of his head, not appearing hurt in any way. He looked at her, seemingly just remembering that she was there, before smiling sheepishly. "Ah, sorry about that. I lost control of my bike for a second. I'm usually the only one who's late, so I wasn't expecting there to be anyone here..."

Lucy nodded slowly. He then grinned at her. "But I don't recognize you, so you must be new here! I'm Natsu!" He stuck his hand out, still grinning widely.

Lucy cautiously took his hand and shook it slowly. "I'm Lucy." Lucy opened her mouth to speak again, when she heard a small 'meow'. She looked around for the source of the noise, before realizing it was coming from Natsu's bag, which had been balanced on the bicycle before the collision and was lying just a bit away from her.

Natsu laughed at her reaction, walking over to his bag and picking it up. "Haha, don't worry, that's just Happy." He unzipped the bag, and pulled out a blue kitten. He scratched the kitten behind it's ears, the kitten replying with a content purr.

"Y-You're allowed pets in school?"

Natsu rubbed the back of his head, laughing nervously. "N-no, not really. But I couldn't just leave Happy alone at home... he'd get lonely."

Lucy frowned. "And you were just going to keep him in your bag?"

Natsu opened his mouth, before pausing. "Huh. Yeah, I really didn't think this through..."

Lucy stared at him in disbelief. Was he actually being serious?

"Anyway, Luigi-"

"Lucy."

"Sorry, Lucy. If you're new here, do you know where you're going?"

Lucy shook her head. "Not really. I'm in classroom 7 for registration I think..."

Natsu looked at her, surprised. "Seriously?"

Lucy didn't understand why Natsu was so surprised, but nodded. Natsu grinned.

"I'm there too! We must be in the same class! That's great, I'll show you around!"

Lucy smiled. "Really? Th-thank you."

Natsu nodded, again offering her his hand, this time to help her up. She took it and he pulled her up, not letting go afterwards, but instead pulling her towards the school building. "Wait, Natsu!"

Natsu turned to look at her. "What?"

"Your bike?"

Natsu looked down at the ground, where his bike was still lying in a heap. He gave the same sheepish grin as before. "Oh yeah, Forgot about that."

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After Natsu had made the short trip to the bike shed to drop off his bike, he hurriedly led Lucy into the school, after Lucy had pointed out that the whole incident with the bike had made them both even later than they had been.

"This is it!" Natsu practically shouted outside the door to classroom 7, probably alerting everyone inside the room. Lucy giggled at Natsu. He was certainly... different from the people at her previous school. Lucy was about to knock on the door, when Natsu forcefully rammed it open, not bothering to knock. "I'm here! Sorry I'm late!" He loudly announced, confidently strolling into the classroom. He barely made it a couple of steps before he was stopped.

"Wait, Natsu," the teacher called from his desk. "You're late. As usual. I thought I told you to make an effort this year."

"But Macao-"

"Mr Conbolt."

"Sorry, Mr Conbolt. I overslept, plus I had to feed Happy and then I crashed my bike. It wasn't my fault this time!"

"Natsu, all of those things you listed were your fault."

Lucy nervously watched the interaction from the doorway. She didn't want the teacher to give her a hard time on her first day. "Um..."

Mr Conbolt, hearing her voice, turned his attention from Natsu to her, having not noticed her originally. He smiled kindly. "Ah, you must be the new girl, I've been expecting you. Come inside."

Lucy stepped inside, surprised by the teacher's reaction to her compared to his reaction to Natsu. Mr Conbolt turned to address the class. "Everyone, this is Lucy." He then looked back at Lucy, smiling somewhat playfully. "I'm so sorry that your first impression of this school was Natsu. Must be horrifying..."

Natsu whipped his head around and glared at the grinning teacher. "Hey! What's wrong with me!"

Mr Conbolt opened his mouth to answer, when a boy sitting at the back of the classroom, swinging back on his chair with his legs resting on the table, laughed. He had quite short black hair, and his white shirt was unbuttoned, revealing a very toned torso. "What's not wrong with you, stupid squinty eyes..."

Natsu glared at the boy, "Shut it Gray, stupid droopy eyes!"

"Oh? You looking for a fight?"

Natsu grinned, cracking his knuckles. "Sure, any time..."

Mr Conbolt groaned, getting up. "H-Hey, come on guys, it's the first day... Plus we have a new student. Could you please refrain from killing each other for now..."

"It's fine Mr Conbolt!" A large boy, sitting just in front of Gray, shouted. "They're MEN! Real MEN aren't afraid to fight!"

Mr Conbolt sighed. "Elfman, please, I really don't need-"

Then a boy sitting a couple of seats across from Gray, stood up. He had long, messy, black hair, and what looked like iron studs embedded into his face. "Hey, Salamander, I was watching your fall from the window, when you crashed into the new girl. You're such an klutz!"

Lucy frowned. "Salamander?"

"That's Natsu's nickname," A girl sitting in the front of the classroom, supplied. She had long, brown, wavy hair, and had the top couple of buttons of her shirt undone, showing off some of her ample cleavage."I'm Cana by the way."

Lucy opened her mouth to reply, but was cut off by Natsu. "Gajeel! Shut the hell up you jerk, I'll kick your ass when I'm done with Gray!"

"Like you could!" Both Gray and Gajeel shouted back simultaneously.

Mr Conbolt collapsed back in his chair, groaning loudly. "Why do I even bother..." He looked tiredly at Lucy. "Sit down anywhere, I'll get you your books and show you to your locker after registration."

Lucy took the empty seat next to Cana, when she noticed a pair of eyes staring intently at her from the desk on her other side. She looked to the side, where a girl with long blue hair was looking at her, closely inspecting her. Lucy weakly smiled, but this seemed to put the girl on alert.

The girl narrowed her eyes. "Juvia is watching you. Keep away from my Gray."

"Gray? But I never-"

"Don't try to fool Juvia, Love Rival!"

"But I-"

Cana smirked, nudging Lucy on the back. "Don't worry, Juvia's like that with everyone. She's... protective when it comes to Gray."

Lucy nodded slowly. These people were definitely not like the students from her previous school, that's for sure.

"Besides, I don't want to hear that from you, you pervert!"

"Eh, who're you calling a pervert, Dumbass!"

"You, Droopy eyes! Are your ears full of wax or something?"

Lucy rolled her eyes. Those two were still arguing at the back of the classroom. She looked to the right, where Juvia was staring at Gray, spellbound. Lucy shook her head and looked to the left, where Cana was looking pissed off. She turned around and glared at the two.

"That's it, you two, Shut up!"

Natsu and Gray both whipped their heads around and glared at her. "Or else what?" They growled in unison.

Cana smirked. "Or else... I'll tell you know who."

Lucy frowned. She was about to ask Cana what she meant, when Gray and Natsu instantly sat down and nodded weakly, in perfect sync with each other. "We-We're sorry," They apologized, again speaking in unison.

She looked at Cana, who had a smug smile on her face. "Wh-What happened?"

Cana smiled sweetly at her, winking. "Nothing really. I just know their weak spot."

Lucy was about to probe further, when the bell rang, and everyone got up and began to make towards the door. Lucy, remembering what Mr Conbolt had said, remained in her seat. Suddenly, she felt someone put their hand on her shoulder. She looked up to see Natsu grinning at her. "Natsu? What are you doing?"

"What do you mean? I said I'd show you around, didn't I?"

"Well, yes, but-"

Suddenly, Gray poked his head back into the classroom. "Oy Flame Brain, what are you waiting for now, it's time for lessons."

Natsu shook his head. "Not yet, I'm waiting for Lucy."

Gray looked at Lucy. He stepped back into the classroom and walked up to Lucy's desk. "Sorry, I didn't realize you two knew each other. I'm Gray Fullbuster, nice to meet you." He offered her his hand.

Lucy took it, surprised by the polite introduction. He wasn't as alike Natsu as she thought. "I'm Lucy. Nice to meet you too."

Mr Conbolt then cleared his throat, getting the attention of the three. "If you're ready now, I'll take you to your locker. I was planning to show you around, but if Natsu and Gray are willing to do that, then I could probably just leave them to it."

Lucy nodded. Mr Conbolt smiled. "Excellent. Let's go."

He got up from his desk and opened the door, holding it open. Gray stepped aside, letting Lucy go through first, before slipping through himself, making sure not to let Natsu get out in front of him. The two struggled in the doorway for a bit, before they both squeezed out, Lucy giggling and Mr Conbolt rolling his eyes.

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Mr Conbolt led Lucy through the crowded corridors, whilst Natsu and Gray bickered between each other behind them. The now very annoyed looking teacher finally stopped next to a block of six lockers.

"Gray's and Natsu's lockers are here, so I could give you this locker if you want? I was planning on giving you another one, but I do think I've got the key to this one somewhere..." He mumbled, digging around in his pocket. He smirked and pulled the key out of his pocket, and waved it in front of Lucy.

Lucy nodded, taking the key. "Thank you very much."

"No problem. If you ever need anything, just let me know. I'll now leave you in the... uh... capable hands of Natsu and Gray."

As soon as he was out of sight, Lucy turned to Natsu, who was arguing with Gray about something. "Um, Natsu?"

Natsu looked at her. "Yeah?"

"What are you going to do about your cat?"

Natsu gasped. Lucy sighed. He had completely forgotten about him. Natsu opened his locker and put his bag into it. He then immediately unzipped his bag, so that Happy could poke his head out. Luckily, everyone around them wasn't paying attention to them, and so didn't notice Happy. "Dunno. I guess I'll ask the old man to look after him for today."

"Old man?"

Gray rolled his eyes. "Idiot. You should call him the principal."

Natsu laughed, "Oh yeah, my bad. Principal Makarov."

Lucy frowned. "You call the principal 'old man'?"

"Only Natsu does," Gray replied. "They spend so much time together that they're like pals."

"Shut up Gray, you get in way more trouble that I do!"

"As if, you're the one who's always late, who never does his homework, who-"

"Ah, I've been looking for you two."

Lucy watched as Natsu and Gray froze. Their eyes widened simultaneously at the sound of that strong female voice, and they mechanically turned around, almost in slow motion, until they came face to face with the source of the voice. Lucy turned around too, honestly surprised. She had been expecting some kind of monster. I mean, Natsu and Gray looked absolutely terrified.

Instead, standing there was a girl, slightly taller than her, with long red hair. Regardless of her stern expression, she was very beautiful, Lucy noted, and was staring straight at Natsu and Gray who looked terrified. Lucy noticed it wasn't just Natsu and Gray who were completely silent. No one in the corridor was speaking, and they were all staring at this girl too, looking almost as frightened as Natsu and Gray.

Natsu and Gray didn't say anything, so she continued to speak. "Cana told me that you two were fighting in registration. What did I tell you about giving Mr Conbolt a hard time?"

"E-Erza!"

So that's it, ending the chapter on a kind of cliffhanger I guess. So what will Erza do to them? Guess you'll have to wait until the next chapter, which won't be soon unfortunately, maybe next week.

But that's the first chapter, and I'd love it if I could get some reviews really. It will be tough since this is my first big Fairy Tail story, and I'm not a big writer on this site, but it really would be great if you could take some time now to just drop a review. They really do mean a lot to me.

Anyway, I'm rambling on at this point, so I'll end it now. Hope you enjoyed the chapter, and are looking forward to more!