Hello, minna-san. I decided to participate for this week but I already too late haha. So basically I will follow the title according to the day in list first before covering the day that I left. Anyway, enjoy! :)


Day 3: Cuddling

It was a normal day for Team Natsu, which were consist of Natsu, Lucy, Erza, Gray and Wendy with both Charla and Happy. They went for a job that required them to capture a group of robbers that can use basic type of magic. Well, the job was far much easier than they thought, considering how beast are they actually.

While Natsu and Gray picked a fight towards each other like usual, a defeated robber in his pathetic condition tried to cast a spell without they realised.

As a hand slowly approached the leg of a blonde mage, the sharpness of Natsu's nose caught the robber's doing and ran towards her.

"Lucy, be careful!" Natsu quickly averted Lucy away from that place. She was too shocked to realise what's actually happening to her. While Erza and Gray beat the last robber to his death since he's actually brave enough to hurt their nakama, Lucy, on the other hand started to feel the chill in her spine.

She tried to wrap her arms around her body, but the chill became worse. And the cloth she's wearing was not helping too. Natsu, who was near to her, noticed the slightly uncomfortable of his partner. "Luce, are you alright? That jerk doesn't touch you, right?"

"Well, he's not. B-but I don't know… why…" Her body started shaking due to the cold, and her feet felt numbs out of sudden. Lucy fell on her knees. Natsu began to panic. Happy quickly flew to her for a support.

"Lucyyyy!"

"O-Oii! Lucy, are you okay?" He caught her from falling further, but her body was too cold! "Oi, Gray! Look at Lucy!" Natsu called the ice mage since maybe he know how to handle the cold spell. Unfortunately, he seemed does not get any idea. "Maybe it's a rare spell that takes time to dispel," said Gray while frowning.

"How about Wendy?" asked Natsu, still in panic. Seeing Lucy in that condition makes him worried like hell. "I'm sorry, Natsu-san. I've tried, but I only managed to heal Lucy-san numbs state. Other than that, like the chill in her body, I couldn't heal it…"

"I think we should head back to the guild so that we can ask Master about the spell," suggested Erza, since they already reached a dead end. "But, he just cast a simple spell!" Natsu snapped suddenly, but he was stopped by Gray.

"Calm down, Natsu. It may be a simple spell, but the result will still the same if we have no idea how to dispel it."

"Anyway, we have to head back now or else, Lucy-san will caught in the spell forever," said Charla while tried to stop Natsu from continue arguing. Natsu cursed in his breath, but slowly went to Lucy and gave her his scarf. He supported her all the way from the small town to Magnolia. The cold in her body doesn't seem will disappear anytime soon. All of them tried to warm her with any clothes they had while Erza tried to put her own armor for her, but to no vail.

When they finally reached the guild, they quickly went straight to the infirmary and met with Porlyusica to ask for her advice. As expected, her answer almost the same with Wendy. "I couldn't help you in this case, since it's because of a spell, not some wound that can be healed immediately. But I believe this is just a simple spell. You can try by searching some spell books in the library. For now, we'll let Lucy stay here since it'll be advantageous if any emergency occur."

Happy quickly willing to help, including Erza, Levy and Wendy. They started to search any spell that involves coldness as fast as they could, Gray went to ask a few people, while Natsu decided to stay with Lucy.

Although they tried covering her whole body with tenfold of the blanket, the effect was still not enough to warm her body. It's seemed the spell was much stronger that they thought. Natsu frowned, thinking of some things that may be useful for saving Lucy. She seemed suffering with the coldness adding with the heaviness of the blanket on her.

Porlyusica, on the other hand, saw the advantage that only the fire mage could do to help Lucy by keeping her a bit warmer. "Natsu, why don't you cast your own magic on her so that she can feel the warmth?"

"Huh? How should I do that?" asked Natsu, completely confused.

"Figure out that by yourself."

"You're not helping me at all!"

As the old woman left the room, Natsu started to try any sort of style he could do to help Lucy. Finally, after trying a lot of different ridiculous style, he came out with a simple resolution: cuddle. This style was definitely dangerous since once Lucy released from the spell, he'll be dead for sure. He doesn't realised his blood started to creep towards his cheek and he was blushing.

"Well, there was no other choices… t-then…"

His heart pumped fast as he slowly removed all the blanket excluding the last remaining blanket and slide comfortably beside her. He could feel the chill in her body, and started to charge up his entire body in fire, high temperature enough to beat the coldness. When he put out his arm as her pillow so that he could lessen the chill on her face using his palm, the door suddenly opened.

"Porlyusica-san, there're some hint-"

Damn. It's Erza, damn it.

"Natsu! Get out of the bed, now!"

~x~

Natsu was kneeling on the floor. Facing the anger Erza, while Wendy, Happy and Levy couldn't help but giggled softly at the back. Well, not Wendy, since she's blushing when she heard the news. Not by Happy and Levy, though, since they're Natsu and Lucy's shipper from the start.

"Answer me, Natsu. Why are you in Lucy's bed?" The glare was shooting an arrow of darkness.

"I-I was asked by that old woman to keep Luce warm…"

"Are you telling me the truth?" Erza lessen the distance so that her glare eyes met with Natsu's eyes.

"Y-yes! Ma'am!"

"Hmm, that's kind of logic, since you can use fire. You can help her until we found the spell. Do what you should, then."

"I'm trying just now, but you just butted in out of the blue!"

"I just want to confirm you're not doing anything that you should not to her since she's still under the spell!" Both of them sparked to fight but was yelled back by Wendy. "Enough, you two! You're disturbing Lucy-san!"

Erza and Natsu quickly stopped and recomposed themselves. "My bad, Wendy. All this worry has caused me to become unreasonable," said Erza and slowly went back to the library. Natsu, who remained quiet, returned to Lucy and slide beside her once again. His eyes darted to the very face of his partner who still shivering due to the cold. "Sorry, Luce… a bit emotional just now.."

He pulled her closer in his embrace and located her head safely against his chest. His arms wrapped her body and he started to set his body on fire again. After a few minutes struggling to keep the right temperature for the whole time, he felt exhausted out of sudden. He stopped for a moment, tried to catch his breath. 'Oh please, not now… I should be able to extract my power more than that!'

He tried once again to charge, but maybe due to the recent fight with the robbers, his magic was not really affective this time. He cursed himself for being so pathetic. But his anxiety was gone, replaced with relieved when he saw Lucy's face was calmer than before. She seemed to fall asleep in the sudden warm provided by Natsu, although it's not so warm against the cold.

Natsu couldn't help but smiled fondly. 'She so cute when she sleeps…' He cuddled her closer to him and placed his forehead towards hers, while slowly closed his eyes. "Maybe… a short nap won't be hurt…" Slowly, he drifted into a deep sleep.

It's not the first time, but, it's has been a long time since he had a good dream. He's always have Happy by his side, but the warmness in his sleep have gone since Igneel's disappear. Happy was so much smaller than him. And after Igneel's death, he'd never forget how warm Igneel was and how comfortable he was every time he sleep.

Finally, after such a long time, he's able to find the longing warmness in his sleep once again.

It's in her.

~x~

After two days fighting and struggling, they finally found the spell for the cold. Porlyusica cast the spell to release the cold from Lucy, and she finally in a good health back. Lucy told them she completely numbs in the spell, causing her own ability to speak or walk were frozen for a while. She thanked all of them for saving her, and everyone started to go back to their home to get some rest.

At night, when Lucy crawled into her bed, she's surprised to see Natsu and Happy already passed out in it. "Hey, Natsu! Happy! What're you doing in my bed!?"

She pulled his scarf to pull him out of her bed but was stopped by Happy.

"Lucyyy! Natsu was helping to keep you warm all the time and he's already exhausted!"

"But still we can't sleep together!"

Happy came closer to Lucy and poked her pyjamas. "Pleasee… only this time… Natsu already used to sleep with someone beside him and I don't want to ruin the moment…"

Lucy stopped and felt sympathy. After all, he's the one who helped her to keep the cold at the edge so that she could survive in the chillness. "Only this time, okay…"

She slides herself beside him, but far enough as if there's a barrier between them. But the situation changed as she blushed deeply when a strong arm pulled her closer and her head perfectly landed on his chest. The quiet of his soft breathing plus the sweet, warm radiated from his body, causing Lucy to feel extra comfortable and finally drifted in her own dream.

"Maybe… cuddle together like this sometimes, are not bad at all…"

~OMAKE~

"Good job, Happy! She's already asleep!" grinned Natsu evilly when his plan to sleep with her succeed so that she felt sympathetic towards him. Evil Natsu. That was all his plan!

"Aye, sir! You owe me a big fish, Natsu!"

"You can always count on me!"


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