A/N: Okay minna, I have decided. Since I'm such a big NaLu shipper, I'm going to make a 30 topic story. Each day, my friend will be giving me a different topic and I have to write a oneshot about it. I can't change the topic and there will be no repeats. Minimum amount of words will be 1,000, maximum, 3,000. Simple enough… I hope. Anyhow, this story will be updated every Wednesday, so look forward to it! It's my first time doing anything like this so I hope it's not too bad…

Disclaimer: Celeste doesn't own anything here. Yadda yadda yadda.

And so the first topic is…

Forgiveness

Oh he was in for it now!

As Happy swirled around the room, tears flowing freely down his face, Natsu was trying to keep calm.

Trying.

Oh what the hell! He followed Happy's lead and started to run around the room, panicking to the gods he knew and didn't know existed!

"Natsu!" Happy wailed, latching onto his scarf for comfort. "L-Lucy will be mad at us! And then she'll never want to be friends anymore, and then we won't be able to visit anymore, and then she won't give me anymore fish! Natsu! I really like Lucy's fish!" And the Exceed broke out in sobs once more.

Natsu held onto the little ball of blue fur, trying to calm him and himself down. Taking one last glance at the object, he couldn't help but cringe and turn away, feeling guilt eat at his heart once more. Oh yeah… Lucy would definitely flip her shit this time.

"It's okay Happy," he told the cat. The blue bundle of tears looked up at Natsu with wide tearful eyes. "I'll get us out of this mess and Lucy won't be mad."

Happy sniffled. "R-Really?"

The salmon-haired mage grinned sheepishly. "M-Maybe… I was getting my hopes a little too high there." Happy wailed again and started pounding on Natsu's chest with his little blue paws.

"Natsu! We can't let her see this!" he exclaimed. "She'll shave me! I don't want to be shaved!"

"Then lets figure a way out of this mess!" the dragon slayer said, letting go of the Exceed. He turned around and faced the bed that was now burnt to a crisp and cringed again. Well… Lucy definitely wasn't going to be happy about this. Hell, he wasn't happy about this! He cared about this bed! He loved this bed! It was so soft and plushy – like Lucy's stomach – nice and cozy, and it smelled of the Celestial Spirit mage. Every time he wanted to relax, he'd hop in through the window, and pass out on the bed, drowning himself in Lucy's scent. He didn't know what it was – and frankly he didn't care – but her smell was just so… so…. Now what was the word for it? Lucy said it all the time. Interpreting? The hell did that mean? Intropical? Was that even a word? Intoxicating? Yeah! That was it! Even though he had no clue what the word meant, he knew it meant something good, like food, and Happy, and fights, and her smell.

But… Now that smell was gone and was replaced by the smell of burnt fabric, which didn't sit well with Lucy's vanilla type scent.

Smoke and vanilla… Hmm…

"Natsu!" Happy cried, breaking the dragon slayer out of his thoughts. Right! The bed! "What'll we do?!"

The fire breather tried to think of a possible solution to this mess, but his brain was being jumbled up! What could he do? Well he couldn't set it on fire again and watch it burn the place down, and watch it as it burned other places down, and soon the whole town, and then the forest…

And then the world. Actually… He might want to see that.

Some people want to watch the world burn.

"Natsu!" Happy screeched in his ear. Said man flinched and stuck his pinky in his ear. "We need a plan!"

Oh right… The bed was still a bundle of ash. Crossing his arms, Natsu looked towards Happy.

"Let's try closing our eyes and counting to ten. Maybe that'll work?" He closed his eyes and Happy followed suit.

One… two… three… wait, what comes after three? Five? Then came eight… Six? Then what was next? Ah fuck it! Ten! Natsu opened his eyes and saw Happy was murmuring to himself, a little trickle of drool flowing down with his eyes closed in relaxation.

"Fish… Fish… Fish…"

"Happy!"

"Ten!" the Exceed exclaimed. "I counted ten fish!"

How did the little blue cat know how to count to ten and he didn't? "Count for me," he commanded, hoping he'd learned a little bit of something.

"Aye sir!" Happy held up his paws and pushed down a finger as he went along. "One, two, three… five… Nine… six… Ten!" the blue cat exclaimed, holding up his paws in a triumphant gesture.

Natsu didn't know whether to trust his counting or not.

Probably not. Happy was only six, he knew that much about numbers from what Erza taught him.

"Natsu… The bed is still black…" he heard Happy whimper.

Oh yeah… The bed…

The door creaked open and in walked the blonde with her hands filled with bags. "Natsu? You still in here? Help me with these bags!" she ordered. Happy and the pink haired mage looked at each other in fright before dashing out of the room and into the living room where Lucy was casually setting down her groceries and keys.

"H-Hey, Luce!" Natsu exclaimed nervously, before grabbing her wrist and a bunch of bags, dragging her into the kitchen while Happy shut the bedroom door. "H-How was shopping? Tiring right? Whatever you do, don't go in your room."

"Yeah! Natsu burned your bed!" Happy said and all three of their eyes widened.

Silence. Something which Natsu and Happy didn't like.

"Come again?" Lucy asked.

Happy looked at Natsu. Natsu looked at Happy. Both looked at the door. The door remained unmoving. They looked at Lucy, who was looking at the door, before looking back at each other. Lucy looked at them. They froze.

"What did you say?" she asked again, her voice a bit lower but all the more scary. Happy and Natsu backed away and looked at her with apologetic eyes.

"I-I'm sorry!" the dragon slayer exclaimed. Really, it surprised Lucy – although she didn't let it show – that he was actually… apologizing. She'd never heard Natsu apologize as to her – and if he did, she must not have been paying attention – so it was sort of a shocker. "I was just bored, so I started playing with my fire, it caught on your curtain – sorry about that too – and then it landed on the bed! I couldn't get water fast enough and before we knew it, there's a big pile of ash on the floor." He looked down guiltily and her eyes softened. He was too adorable when he looked like that.

"We're sorry Lucy," Happy said from beside her. His eyes were filled with tears as he held his paws together in a praying gesture. "Please don't get too mad. We just wanted to wait for you so we could help. We didn't mean to burn your bed... Please let us stay friends." The cat sniffled and Lucy couldn't help but feel a little heartbroken seeing how earnest he was.

Wait… Did they think she wouldn't be friends with them because they burned her bed? Sure she was a little ticked – more like a LOTtle ticked – but that was a stupid reason to ever defriend them! They were Nakama and even if they burned her bed, it would be pretty hard to say that she didn't want to be friends with them anymore!

"Jeez you guys," she breathed. "You always have to destroy something."

The two idiots lifted their heads in confusion with a tad bit of amusement sprinkled somewhere in there.

"Lucy…?" Happy asked softly.

"You're just lucky that I chose today to pick a new bed. I was planning on giving you guys the… charred one anyway." She scowled and started putting her groceries in the cabinets they belonged in. Happy and Natsu just looked at each other. Was she being serious? Lucy observed their reactions with a small smirk. It was funny seeing them confused about things. "Oh well," she sighed. "I guess you guys get no bed."

"Wait… What?" Natsu asked, walking up to the blonde and setting his hands on her shoulders. "Y-You mean you aren't… Mad?"

"No? Why would I be mad?" she asked innocently. Natsu looked at her like she was growing another mouth.

"W-We burned your bed! The thing we sleep on! I pictured you'd be stomping around here with fire spewing –"

"When did you learn the word 'spewing'?"

"– out of your mouth!" the salmon man finished.

"Yeah! And using your squishy belly to suffocate us!" Happy added, causing the blonde to swipe at him with a pink blush tinting her cheeks.

"Well, I told I got a new bed and you charred the one you would've gotten. Either way, I benefit." She grinned at Natsu's scowl. "Even if you did burn my curtain, I forgive you. It wasn't anything major and I could just buy a new one tomorrow, 'kay?"

Natsu stood there with his mouth agape as Lucy smiled brightly. She wasn't mad? Well, she just confirmed it by not stomping on him now so he guessed she wasn't. Slowly his mouth pulled up into a grin as he pulled her in for a quick – but bone crushing hug – and pulled away. "Thanks Luce!" He exclaimed. Said female had a blushed coating her cheeks from the unexpected contact. "You're always so forgiving!"

The Celestial Spirit mage smiled. Well she couldn't be mad at them for very long, especially when they looked at her so apologetically before. Plus she really couldn't stay mad at the man who she liked more than a nakama. But she wouldn't push that on the man, he already had enough to deal with.

That flying blue cat was one.

"But you do have to go clean up your mess," she scolded before pointing at her still closed bedroom door. The two boys saluted with a loud 'Aye sir' before running into the room with a broom and dustpan. She smiled fondly at the two before turning back to her groceries.

She never noticed how much of a forgiving person she was until she joined the guild. Forgiveness takes strength right? She had that! After all, she forgave her father of all people and he was the worst! That's saying something right there. Saying that she had a lot of dang strength. She guessed it was in her nature to be forgiving since most people weren't. If it were any other person's bed, they might not have forgiven Natsu so easily.

"Even though he is a handful, I can't be mad at him for long," she muttered to herself.

"That's because you liiike him," Happy whispered in her ear. She blushed and swatted him away.

"But you are a different story cat!" she exclaimed, running after the poor thing.

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

~Ghandi~

So, there goes the first one. What do you think? Was it too mushy? Too stupid? Should I discontinue it? Wah~ I'm sorry! Anyway, I hope you enjoyed that. I had forgiveness in there even though it was mostly humor. But hey, I can bend the rules a LOTTA bit. Oh! And don't forget, I have a tumblr, used for sneak peeks and favorite ships. Don't know the name, look at mah bio. Maybe I might post a preview for the next chapter, who knows.

Please leave a review and join me next Wednesday or earlier for the next chapter, whatever. Ja ne!

Plue~chan