"This is for Lucy!"

Said girl's eyes widened for a split second. And she frantically searched the arena for someone who could have said her name. Her heart was beating crazily and she didn't know why. She couldn't find the source and her face was showing signs of disappointment. Of course she wouldn't, the whole arena was screaming.

"Lucy, is there something bothering you?" Her head whipped to the speaker, obviously surprised by the sudden question.

"E-Eh? No. Not really. It's nothing." she answered and turned away. She continued searching, subtly this time.

Erza eyed the blonde and noted the desperate look on her face. She noticed that Lucy was searching for something. She wanted to ask again but thought better of it.

Her focus returned to the battle before her and she cursed silently. It is just not possible that Laxus would be beaten up like a sack bag. Or it could be. After all, Raven Tail is his opponent. And we all know how low Raven Tail would stoop just to make Fairy Tail miserable.

But there was something was off place. She was sure of it.

Back to Lucy, she still scanned her eyes for anything that might be looking at her, perhaps waiting for a response. But there was nothing or no one. She sighed.

She gave up and looked back at Laxus' battle. He was being punched and kicked and whatever by Alexei, the mysterious member of their archenemy guild. It was hard to believe what she was seeing. The S-Class wizard, who attempted to take over Fairy Tail, being beaten to a pulp. Something is insanely wrong here.

She squinted her eyes at him. To see if she could spot anything unusual but was all in vain. The only thing unusual was him about to lose the battle.

She tore her eyes away and looked randomly at the crowd. Which was either cheering or booing. The statement earlier popped in her mind and she blushed. It was weird how she felt so flustered about a sentence that could have been from anyone. The question was: who said it?

'I wonder where it came from.." she thought. She stood rigid as a sudden realization came to her. 'Come to think of it, it felt like I heard it in my mind. So I might have just imagined it!' She nodded to herself.

Then stopped midway. 'But it felt so real! I feel certain I heard it!' She held her head in both hands and groaned. Her teammates had all turned to look at her and watched her little show. A few moments of amusement and they had turned back and shrugged to one another. All members of Team Natsu were strange in some way. In Lucy's case she worried about random things at the wrong time.

At the same moment, Lucy was battling with her mind. 'My instinct says it was real! And besides, it even sounded like... like...' She stopped mid-thought and shook her head at the more impossible probability. But since she couldn't find a better or more realistic owner of the mysterious voice, she slowly turned to the arena. Her heart started pounding faster than before. Her face gew hotter and her ears were ringing.

'It sounded like...'

In that instant the punching Alexei and the being-punched Laxus disappeared. Instead the elite members of Raven Tail were unconscious in various parts if the arena and Laxus in the center.

'Laxus.'

In the shocked silence of the colliseum, his name rang loudly through her own shocked mind.

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Why hello there. This is a Lalu fanfic as you have read. It may be slow. But I want this to happen. :3

Review now, my lovelies. And I will pay you back with another chapter. :)

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