Authors' notes: Hello all, this is my first fairy tail fanfiction and I hope that you enjoy and please review, but no flaming please oh and sadly I don't own fairy
tail, not even a little bit.
Chapter one:
Come on, let's go
Lucy's POV:
I sighed as I blew my blonde bangs out of my eyes and looked at my bank book once again hoping that maybe money would just appear or that I was just
reading the zero's wrong, but no there it was in printed neatly, three hundred buck, not even close to what I needed to pay my rent. I let out a groan as I hit
my head on the counter, there was no way I was going to be able to come up with the cash for this month's rent. I sighed again as I touched the golden key,
that I always wore, around my neck as I said to myself,
"Well, I guess it's time to move on, I really liked it here in Hargeon, but I can't afford to live here anymore. Or I could always just go back home and give
up." I sat up suddenly and slapped my cheeks as I shook my head, I couldn't give up my dream, not for myself and not for mom, she wouldn't want me to
give up. I really needed steady work right now, not just the random odd jobs during the day so I could sing at the pier at night. I needed to stay strong,
singing was my dream and I ran away from everything to follow it and I was going to do just that until the very end.
I pulled myself together and chastised myself for feeling sorry for myself and placed some change on the counter for the coffee that I had been nursing and
grabbed my old guitar, that I found in a thrift shop and few years back, and although I could only play a little and wasn't all that good, but I was far easier to
carry around then the piano I was taught to play.
I walked to the pier and sat on my normal bench as I pulled my guitar out of its case, which I left open for hopeful tips. I began by strumming a few chords; I
then joined the melody with my voice,
"Another turning point,
Fork stuck in the road.
Time grabs you by the wrist,
Directs you where to go.
So make the best of this test,
And don't ask why.
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time."
People walked by and smiled at me as they placed change and the occasional bill in my case, which made me smile as I thought maybe my dream wasn't so
pointless.
Natsu's POV:
I sat there at the same table at the guild that my band mates and I always sat at and my very scary friend with the scarlet colored hair was standing over me
yelling at me yet again as I fidgeted and played with my lighter, open, light, close, repeat. It was a sort of nervous habit that I developed over the years.
"Natsu, we need to have an audition." I glared up at her, but that just caused her aura to become more menacing, and I will admit that normally that looked
of hers scares the living crap out of me, but where this topic is concerned I was standing my ground. I shoved my lighter into my hoodie pocket, and crossed
my arms over my chest as I said,
"No." To which she slammed her hands on the table, this response caused all of us to flinch as she yelled,
"Damnit Natsu, this isn't just about you. We haven't recorded anything in two years, hence why our record company dropped us. We can't just keep playing
here at the guild or those kamikaze shows that we have randomly so either man up and do the singing like you do at those shows or we get a new singer." I
just continued to glare at her stubbornly and refused to answer, which earned a comment from our friend,
"Erza, you're just wasting your breath, you know how stubborn that moron can be." I quickly turned my anger from Erza to my other friend,
"Can it Grey, and for the love of god put some clothes on." He just looked down at himself in confusion,
'Damnit, when did that happen?" He then stood up and wondered off in search of his lost clothes. I took that as my queue to get up and walk away from Erza
and her pushiness and just then our other band mate looked up from the paper he was reading and said in that scruff voice of his,
"Hey Flame brain, you doing a show in Hargeon without us tomorrow?" I ran my fingers through my salmon colored hair as I said,
"Why the hell would I do that, tin face?" He shrugged as he chuckled to himself and held up the paper he was reading,
"Well this says you are looks like someone has a copy cat. Though why they'd want to copy you is beyond me." I just flipped him off as I smiled to myself
and continued towards the door as I said,
'Good I needed someone to hit."
Lucy's POV:
I finished playing my last song of the night and looked into my case and saw that a very nice person had placed a twenty in there; I smiled to myself as I
gathered the cash and putting my guitar away. I then began to walk towards my apartment, but I probably should have been paying more attention because
then next thing I knew I was stuck in a crowd of screaming girls that were fawning over a guy who was dressed like the guy from the band Fairy Tail, but to
anyone who had actually seen the band live they would know that it wasn't really him. I scoffed at this guys desperate need for attention and tried to turn
back and push through the crowd of girls so that I could go home, but these girls weren't moving and suddenly I was being pushed forward and then before I
knew it I was going down and with this crowd I was going to be crushed, and then I wasn't falling anymore, I was being held up by a guy with a dazzling
smile and pink hair, a guy that looked far more like the guy from Fairy Tail then the poser these girls were screaming for and they hadn't even noticed him.
He leaned in closer and asked me,
"Are you okay?" I just nodded dumbly as I looked up at him, but then I was being pulled out of his arms and facing the fake who was leering down at me as
he said,
"Well aren't you the pretty one, care to join me later?" I looked up at him in disgust and said,
"In your dreams buddy." As I tried to squirm my way out of his grip.
"Well aren't you the feisty one? Don't you know who I am?" I scoffed at him,
"You mean who you're pretending to be?" His eyes widened but if I hadn't been looking I would have missed it because that cocky smile of his returned as he
said,
"No one here would believe you; to all these people I am Natsu of Fairy Tail." Then all of a sudden he was there standing beside me with his hands in the
pockets of his jeans, acting as if he was the calmest person in the world, but I could see the tension in his eyes as he spoke,
"Really? That's strange, because I'm Natsu from Fairy Tail. Isn't weird that we both have the same name and are in the same band?" The guy in front of me
was left dumbfounded and suddenly had a loss for words. At this point the girls all around me begin to think that both Natsu's are fake and therefore began
to walk away from the spectacle, which I think is the real ones plan, that or he just rushed in with no plan, either could be possible at this point. The man
beside me then nodded to the man still holding my arm as he asked, "Mind letting her go?" Then before I knew what was happening I was being thrust into
the real Natsu's arms again as the fake started to make a run for it. The real Natsu gripped my shoulders gently and asked me again if I was okay. I just
nodded again and saw that smile that was like sunshine and he was off chasing the guy pretending to be him.
I just stood there for a few seconds as I thought about the things that I knew about Fairy Tail, they were amazing live, well I guess they had to be, since they
hadn't come out with anything new in a really long time, and they had these really cool shows that you had to find, like a scavenger hunt, and then it hit me
all of the band members were known to have nasty tempers and were more likely to hit first and ask questions later. My savior was going to put his
doppelganger in the hospital or end up in jail or both, before I knew it my feet were pounding the pavement as I chased after the two men.
When I found them the real Natsu had his fake pinned to the ground and was pummeling him into the dirt. I called his name repeatedly but he either didn't
hear me or was ignoring me so I did the only thing I could think of I hit him in the back of the head with my guitar case, which caused him to roll off of the
other man, who promptly ran away.
Natsu's POV:
I caught him and we were having a nice friendly chat, well my fists and his face were anyway and I could have swore that I heard someone with an incredibly
soothing voice calling my name, and just as I was about to answer I got hit in the back of the head with something hard. I heard myself groan as I rolled off
of the fake me and watched him run off and I couldn't seem to care as I looked up at the pretty blonde girl with the big brown eyes that I had saved earlier
and said,
"That really hurt you know?" She placed her hand on her hip as she looked down at me,
"Then maybe you should listen better." I just smiled, this girl had spunk.
"I'm Natsu, what's your name?" She rolled her eyes at me,
"I know who you are. My name's Lucy." Just then I heard sirens and I knew that they were coming for me, and if they found me, they'd find this girl who
upon hearing said sirens looked like her heart was in her throat. I then jumped up and offered her my hand as I said,
"Come on, let's go." She looked at my hand and at me a few times before she took it and we were off...
To be continued, I hope you guys like it.