So, a new story! Yay~! Nothing much to say except enjoy the story while you still can…

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail.

"Hey, Luce, let's go on a job!" Natsu grinned, slinging his arm around Lucy's shoulder, effectively startling her and almost knocking her milkshake out of her hand.

Lucy put down her milkshake and turned around to look at Natsu. "Hey, Natsu! Sure, I need to pay my rent anyway!" She smiled, making Natsu blush a little.

Natsu was confused at the sudden heat in his cheeks but brushed it off as some sort of weird fire from his fire dragon slaying magic or something. "Great! I've already picked out a job! Erza and Gray are coming with us too!"

Sure enough, the two mages were standing behind him. Erza spoke, "We'll meet at the train station in an hour. You should know what will happen if you are late." She finished with a glare, mostly directed at the two rivals, Natsu and Gray.

"Aye!" Natsu said out of habit. He called for Happy and the team left the guild.

The team arrived at the train station. Erza nodded in satisfaction at the punctuality of her members and they all went aboard the train after purchasing their tickets. Lucy settled down beside Natsu and laid his head on her lap as usual. She stroked his hair, and ignoring Happy's teasing, asked, "So, what's the mission about?"

Erza told her, "We have to defeat a dark guild in Hiroshima. It's just a small guild which was formed over the past few weeks and has been causing uncontrollable trouble in the town, but it is easy enough for all of us to take it down. The reward is 280,000 which should be easily divided in the team."

Lucy nodded in understanding. The duration of the train ride was spent in almost complete silence, except for the occasional conversations. Finally, after two hours, they arrived at the town.

"Yes!" Natsu shouted, kissing the ground. "I am never riding a train ever again!"

Lucy shook her head, having seen this scene many times before. They went to a cake shop courtesy of Erza and took their sweet time (pun!) eating the cakes. They exited the cake shop about an hour later, which seemed almost impossible considering they had to compromise with Erza to get her to separate from her heaven on earth which involved the death of many, many heavenly strawberry cakes (does this sentence even make any sense?).

They finally reached the house of the client. Erza seemed to have finally calmed down and decided to take over the role of speaking to the client. The client went over the details and they set off for the dark guild safely hidden in the woods.

Once they reached the guild, Erza turned around to face Team Natsu. "Let's try a sneak attack. Gray and I will attack from the front while Natsu, Lucy and Happy will attack front the back. You three will be the ones to find the master while we hold off the other members. Clear?"

"Got it!" Lucy replied while Happy answered with his signature "Aye!" and the boys nodded their heads.

"Good, now!"

Erza and Gray burst through the front doors while the other three made their way to the back door. There were a few members they had to go through but they fought them. It wasn't easy but they got through the fights with relatively no injuries sustained. They went upstairs and found someone who was presumably the master inside one of the rooms.

Natsu had broken down the door that led inside the office. "We're here to take down your guild!" he said in determination. "Fire Dragon's Roar!"

The attack hit the hulking figure but only mild burns appeared. "You think my own attack can hurt me much? I use fire magic too!" he chuckled. "Red Fire!"

"That's Romeo's magic!" Natsu shouted as Lucy dodged the attack that was coming straight at her. She was then hit by the next attack, except it was blue fire, a very strong flame that caused Lucy to scream as 3rd degree burns appeared on her body. "Lucy!" He gritted his teeth and charged at the master, shouting, "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!"

They were locked into a fierce battle. Lucy got up painfully and tried to get behind the master to help Natsu in his fight. Before she could do anything else though, the master was quickly defeated. "Yes!" Natsu shouted in success.

"Good job, Natsu!" Lucy cheered, trying hard to hide her disappointment. She was unable to help in a fight again. This had happened for so many times she didn't have any more fingers or toes to count.

"Yeah!" Natsu shouted. "Now, let's go!"

They went down to see that Gray and Erza had just defeated all of the members. Lucy's heart sank even further. Natsu reported the battle and the two of them looked pleased, while Lucy stayed behind a little, trying her best not to sulk.

They returned to the client's house, got the money, went to the cake shop, spent hours there and got on the train home again. Everyone was pleased that nothing much was destroyed for once and was able to get the entire reward except Lucy. She looked down on Natsu's soft, pink hair and tried not to think about the battle and worry Gray or Erza.

Gray was asleep. Erza was happily eating her cake, but stopped abruptly when she saw that Lucy was down in the dumps. She frowned and said, "What's wrong, Lucy?"

"E-Eh?" Lucy looked up, startled. "Oh, hey, Erza, I was just thinking. What made you ask that?"

"You weren't stroking Natsu's hair as usual," Erza pointed out.

Lucy blushed. "I, well, just, there's nothing, really!" Lucy laughed awkwardly.

Erza raised an eyebrow but decided to begin eating her cake again; looking up to monitor Lucy's actions once she had lost her attention. She saw that Lucy was really upset. She looked down onto her cake and realized that she had eaten fifty cakes. She then looked at Lucy and decided to do what her heart was telling her to.

She fed Lucy her cake. Lucy gulped down and looked at Erza in shock. "E-Erza?!"

Titania smiled at her little sister figure. "Do you like it?"

Lucy blushed and said softly, "I-I do…"

Erza sat back down again, glad to see that Lucy had taken her mind off of whatever she was thinking and was instead thinking about what had just happened. She felt pleased with herself that she was able to cheer up one of her most precious friends with her beloved cake. She went back to her cake again, now having nothing worrying her at the moment.

Lucy thought, 'If there's anything I didn't expect to happen for the next twenty years of my life, it would be that Erza shares her cake. Stranger things probably have never happened…'

And try as she might, she failed to get her mind off of the strange incident.

This is kind of an prologue to start off the story, so don't be bothered if you think it's too short. The action will come soon. For now, enjoy this chapter! The next one will hopefully come up soon.

Have a great day, everyone~!