This is a Fairy Tail fanfiction.

Hello everyone! This is my first time writing a fanfiction of this length, so I guess I kind of enjoyed it. Constructional criticism would be helpful, as long as it's not rude. Thank You!

~Stacy~

"Lucy!" Happy, a flying blue cat, called for his female team-mate. "Natsu and I found a job!" the cat shook his arm rapidly with the paper in hand with excitement. Lucy Heartfilia, a blonde haired, brown eyed beauty, took the paper. She joined the guild Fairy Tail after running away from her neglectful rich father, so she needed as much money from missions she could get for the rent of her apartment, she was hoping Natsu didn't pick something with no price for her.

"The Dream Catcher?" she thought aloud while reading. "The Dream Catcher. An enemy who manipulates dreams and ones true heart's desire. The Dream Catcher has been attacking the people of Viene Island. Reward: 20,000 jewl + 2 celestial keys" being as she was a celestial wizard, the second part of the reward got her excited. "I like it! Let's get Natsu and get going!" she sounded more pumped than usual, but either way, her rent was coming. There was no time to waste; she needed her rent and those keys!

"Hey, Luce?" Natsu, the Fire dragon slayer began, before he got on the train. They left for their mission soon after Lucy found Natsu.

"Yeah?" she asked. This time around, it was only the three of them (Happy, Natsu, and Lucy), Erza and Grey didn't bother coming along; since Natsu insisted he and Lucy had it.

"I know ya don't like talking about it, but, when you were all rich and prissy-like, what was it like?" The fireball asked. Lucy's eyes didn't even look at him; she gripped her belt from just thinking about it.

"Lonely." Is all she said as the trains doors opened and the team piled in.

Natsu managed to get some more words in before his terrible weakness of transportation started. "Lonely? Oh come on! You must have had people hanging around you all the time! Lots and lots of people! Isn't it awesome having all the attention and money?" he sounded a bit excited by his words, but Lucy had a sad expression she was hiding by looking down.

"Natsu, please..." She began.

"That and you must've had like..A lot of guys lined up right? You did say that your father-" he was cut off.

"Natsu, shut up! You don't understand!" Natsu looked up a little surprised, but then realized her expression and stopped talking. It seemed so sad, so hurt.. Either way, he was losing to the motion of the train. The blonde put one leg over the other, a hand on her cheek, and looked out the window so her teammates couldn't see her saddened eyes.

The rest of the train ride was in complete silence.

Besides Natsu's vomited noise.

"T-Thank you for taking our job!" the chief of the island expressed his happiness. He was a tall, lean man with weird styled brown hair. His eyes were a crazy blue, something about Natsu just couldn't take this guy seriously. "Now, right to business! Once the moon falls, that fiend Dream Catcher comes out and puts some sort of sorcery on my people!" he exclaimed, a frightened tone. The customer looked down, and sadly spoke "Sometimes they never wake up.. We have some people still sleeping, we're assuming they're having some terrible dreams" he looked up and got louder "A lot of the time they're sweating or screaming..Please help us Fairy Tail!" The pink haired fire user smirked wildly.

"Don't worry geezer! We can do this! Right Happy?"

"Aye, Sir!"

"Right Lucy?"

She nodded unenthusiastically. Natsu frowned, he went behind her and grabbed her arms. Using a fake high pitched voice, he said "Yeah! We can do this!" pretending to be Lucy.

The elder left them to explore on their own for the time being. They went two different ways, Lucy went on her own, and Natsu and Happy on theirs. He traveled deep into the forest.

"Why'd she get so upset? All I did was state the obvious! What would you do if you were rich and famous, Happy?" he asked his flying companion.

The exceed thought about it, then answered. "I'd buy a lot of fish!" That was an obvious answer from the cat. Natsu just whined. "I'd buy lots of food too! I mean, someone could even make it for us!"

"It seems you do not understand this girl's point of view." A scratchy female voice said, he quickly turned. A woman dressed in a black cloak with dark purple hair streaking out, which seemed to be completely messy and dead, came into view. She also carried a stick to help her with her hunched back, but this stick had a dream catcher on it. It had to be the enemy.

She was also carrying a girl, with blonde hair, and beautiful brown eyes.

"L-Lucy!" Natsu called. His friend didn't move. "What did you do to her?" he asked defensively, raising his voice.

"Well, I simply put her to sleep." She said smirking, beginning to raise her staff. "How about you join her?" She looked into his eyes, and without any haste, his body felt heavy and he fell over. This hag was using strong magic. His eye lids began to close.

"W-What did you..?" he asked, as he wobbled about trying to fight back, but to no prevail.

"You'll enter her shoes, and once you see what you've done wrong, you'll wake up from this eternal slumber. If you fail, you'll never awake." Her hand was spinning in circles, as the magic began to attack more. The voice trailed off, as she laughed with an evil tone. Natsu could hear Happy calling his name, but everything soon vanished. Learned what he's done? What could that possible mean. He wasn't going to give up though. He's going to pass this trial. He has to save Lucy, but how..?

"Lucy!" Natsu sprung up once he regained consciousness. He jumped up from the bed, but stopped himself. Looking around, the destructive Fairy Tail guild member was absolutely dumbfounded. First thing he noticed was a sharp pain on the top of his head, and a slight bump. Second thing he noticed, he was in a room, when he had passed out in the forest. Not to mention, this room was nothing like anything near Magnolia. The bed was huge, the biggest one he'd ever seen, even bigger then Lucy's! There was a nightstand with an expensive looking alarm, the whole room looked expensive. He looked around more, but then his eyes grabbed attention of his pants, and realized what he was wearing. He was wearing a blue silk dress shirt and a matching pair of pants. The confused fireball walked over and looked in the mirror, and his hair…he couldn't believe it! His hair was cleaned back, not spiky and crazy as it usually was! He loved that crazy hair. Of course, only now was he questioning…where was he? Natsu stepped over to the window and looked out. A large garden was out front. It looked really similar to the one he had seen when he went to Lucy's house to 'save' her, but it was very different at the same time. It was a lot smaller for starters..

His attention was broken when someone knocked on his door. The confused boy didn't hesitate to answer, after all, he must've been dreaming, so he had so many questions.

"Good morning Mr. Derneel." His name was similar to his normal one, just the beginning... "You're up early as usual I see, and your hairs so nice~" the girl had green hair and yellow eyes, she seemed odd, but also seemed nice from her soothing voice along with that, she looked around his age.

"Who are you?" Natsu asked. Obviously she was a maid. "Who am I? Natsu Derneel, right?" he continued. The maid blinked as if confused. But she went along with it.

"Well, I'm your first maid Shira Markugawa. I help you with most of your every day chores. Your Natsu Derneel, and you're the son of the famous, but deceased, Igarl Derneel." That last part angered Natsu a bit. How Igneel's name was used so…rudely. Shira continued. "Your rich due to your fathers selling business, he has stores all around. You must've hit your head really hard yesterday to forget such information…anyway! Master Derneel, later today you have to attend the ball at the Heartfilia home. So you must be prepared. Get dressed and come downstairs for breakfast." The women left.

Natsu's eyes widened. Lucy! He was going to find Lucy! He got so excited he was practically throwing things looking for something to wear.

After getting dressed, he began to walk down the hall. Natsu looked at his hands.

"Is this a lesson? Or a challenge?" he thought for a moment. "I hope it's a challenge, because I'm all fired up!" he quickly ran down the rest of the hall and the stairs, almost knocking over half of the family butlers and maids to get down and eat breakfast as soon as he could.