This part is written in Lucy's perspective. The story will switch perspectives a few times but I will be sure to warn you whenever it happens so there is no confusion! Anyway, I hope you guys like this story! It's a bit long, but I'm confident that it doesn't suck. Please leave comments and all that to let me know what you think!

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I spot him plummeting toward the ground and my lips part in a desperate cry. "Natsu!" I scream, reaching my arms out. "Natsu! Hold on!" I will catch him.

I squint to see his face. He isn't even trying to break his fall. I know he could easily shoot fire at the ground or do something like that to soften his fall. Why isn't he doing that?

I catch his face as his body spins, facing me. he's knocked out.

And green.

"You're motion sick falling off a mountain?!" I ask incredulously, picking up my pace.

Almost there.

But my legs can't carry me fast enough.

No. I will catch him. I will.

When I'm close enough I bend my knees, propelling myself upward and forward. I reach out to grab him and hold on to him. His momentum hits me full force, but I do manage to slow him down before we land.

In a pile of pink fluff.

"I'm sorry! It took me a while to get here! I brought myself here when i realized what was going on! I'm sorry!" Aries squeaks softly from beside us.

"You rock, Aries! Thanks a lot!" I praise her, panting from the andrenaline rush. I grab Natsu's collar and drag him off the fluff and onto the ground next to Aries.

"Is he alright?" Aries asks me, concerned.

"He won't be when I'm done with him," I promise her and glare at his sleeping form.

"Just call if you need me again," Aries offers before going back to the Celestial Spirit World.

I watch her go and then look back down at Natsu. I pinch his nose closed and wait while he starts grunting. His eyes pop open in alarm and he swats my hand away.

"You're an idiot!" I exclaim before he can say a word.

"Nice to see you too. What're you doing here?" he asks curiously, jumping to his feet. "I told gramps I was doin' a solo job."

"You couldn't even wait for Happy to come back from his delivery job?" I inquire darkly, looking up at him. "You took a job vanquishing vulcans on your own."

"That's right," he tells me. He puts his hand on the back of his neck, stretching his muscles a bit. "I took care of most of 'em! One of them snuck up behind me and managed to knock me out and another one pushed me off'a the moutain top," he tells me. "But those were two of the last three…"

"Don't you remember what happened to Macao when he took a job like this by himself? We barely got him out of that alive! And that's after we fought him thinking it was just another vulcan! What if one of them had stolen your body?" I ask him, my anger building. I'd been so worried when I heard he'd gone alone… and when I saw him plummeting down to the ground… I thought for sure… "You're a moron!" I exclaim, finally, pushing the thought out of my head.

"There's three left… and there's a few women up there, captive," Natsu informs me seriously, changing the subject.

"Well lets go take care of it together," i tell him, emphasizing the final word. "I have some anger to work through anyway."

"At what?" he asks as we head up the mountain together.

"You! I'm so mad I can't see straight!" I inform him.

"Why? Were you worried about me?" he asks me, looking back at me.

I blush, turning away so he won't see. "I was just mad you went alone! We're team mates and partners, we're supposed to take jobs like this together!"

He shrugs. "I figured I could take care of it. There were just ten of them." A cold breeze blows some snow around us and I hug my arms, cursing myself that I didn't wear something warmer. He takes notice and stops so I can catch up. "You're slow," he informs me.

"It's freezing," I inform him.

The next thing I know he hefts me onto his back. "I don't want you slowing us down, not when those women need us," he says, picking up his speed, holding my legs so I don't fall off. I have my arms tight around his neck, but I still feel like I might slip off with how fast he's running.

We reach the summit in ten minutes from all the way at the base of the mountain. I summon Loke and Scorpio to fight alongside Natsu, avoiding Taurus so Natsu won't mistake him for a Vulcan like he has three times before. Scorpio is at a bit of a disadvantage in this climate, but he's better than nothing and willing to fight despite his disadvantage as long as he's back in time to meet Aquarius for a date.

I find the three women crouched against a snow mound, cowering from the fight unfolding in front of them. I creep over to them, trying to remain unseen by the vulcans so they won't approach me. I grip my whip just in case I need to defend myself.

"Are you three alright?" I ask them, looking them over. All of their clothes are tattered, and I can see some obvious bruising. If there had been ten of them, I'm just glad the damage isn't worse.

"Please, those monsters are horrible," one sobs to me, clutching at my shirt desperately.

I'm trying to sooth and comfort them when I hear one of the vulcans grunting about how a new woman showed up. He's advancing on me, a stupid grin on his face. I stand up to face him, holding my arm out to block him from the women behind me.

"You're disgusting," I shout at him, cracking my whip on him, letting him get tangled up, and Natsu kicks him so he loses his balance and falls off the edge of the summit.

Loke and Scorpio finish off the last vulcan and I send the two back, turning back to the three women.

"Can you all walk?" I ask them gently.

One of them can't — her leg is broken. Natsu carries her on his back and I walk with the other two back down the mountain.

"I could have sworn there was a warning posted for mountain climbers to stay off the mountain until we took care of the vulcans," Natsu says thoughtfully at one point during the climb down.

One of the women walking with me laughs sheepishly. "Well, yeah there was. It was posted two weeks ago, and usually when notices like that are posted they come down after about a week so we figured someone just forgot to take it down. You see, we're photographers and we were shooting for a feature on Mount Hakobe. We planned on just staying near the bottom for todays shoot. We were going to ask tomorrow if the notice was still valid before going back tomorrow to take some shots from further up. Today while we were there, some of those monsters caught us and took us up to the top where there were more of those terrible things waiting!"

"Really taught us not to chance stuff like that," the woman on Natsu's back admits. "We're sorry if we caused you trouble."

"Thanks so much for saving us!" the third woman exclaims. "Would you mind if we took some photos of you while we're taking nature photos? I'd like to send the story to Sorcerer Weekly!"

Natsu and I agree to it and the three women commense taking photos. Even the woman on Natsu's back managed to take her nature photos, scolding Natsu if he accidentally moved and ruined a shot. We drop them off at the nearest hospital and I hail a car to take Natsu and I back to Magnolia.

"Serves you right," I tell him when we start moving. I watch his back as he starts blowing chunks out the window. "You shouldn't have taken that job on your own. It was stupid."

"I'm sorry," he whimpers between hurlings.

"You should be. I'm not even going to feel sorry for you for having motion sickness," I tell him, stubborn.

"I'm sorry," he repeats, looking back at me, startling me with his sincerely sad eyes. He turns back around to puke again and my disposition softens.

I reach over and rub his back. "I forgive you. I can't stay mad at you, you know that? Hang in there, we're almost home!"

Back in Magnolia Natsu jumps out of the car before it even stopped moving. I jump out after him and pull him off the ground as I start walking back to my apartmwnt.

"I need to change before we go back to the guild hall. You need to clean up the mess you made in my kitchen," I tell him. "I'm done cleaning up after you!"

"Happy's the one who did it!"Natsu protests but lets me pull him along with me.

"Too bad. He's not here so I'm deeming it your responsibility," I tell him.

"You got any food?" he asks hopefully.

I chuckle at that, "I might," I tell him coyly. "Not a lot. I need to go grocery shopping tomorrow. I know there's a box of cookies or something in the pantry."

Nearing my apartment, I notice someone standing outside the building, next to the canal. Natsu notices too and says, "who's that guy?"

I squint to get a better look and my eyes widen. "No way!" I squeal gleefully and sprint toward him. "Oliver?!"