This is the story that Lucy from my first fan fic Monster is reading in the garden right before Natsu passes out. It has nothing to do with the other story at all so don't worry J just thought if any readers from Monster read this that it would be cool info! Again DISCLAIMER I don't own Fairy Tail, also may contain SPOILERS if not fully caught up. Enjoy!
Cinder Fella
Natsu scrubbed the floor till it sparkled. He wiped the sweat from his brow, he was exhausted. Natsu glanced at the clock with his dark eyes, almost midnight. He let out a sigh of relief as he stood up, his back aching, his feet throbbing inside his shoes. He picked up the wooden bucket filled with the mixture for cleaning floors. He walked all the way to the kitchen slowly, careful not to slush any of the liquid out of the bucket.
Once he arrived in the kitchen, very clean and tidy. Thanks to him. He put the bucket under the sink where he normally kept it. Then he made his way over to the pot where the stew he made for everyone waited. Natsu removed the lid and poured himself the remaining stew into his wooden bowl, he was forbidden to use any of the china. He sat down by himself at the prepping table, eating it cold. A cold wind blew through, he shivered wrapping a scarf he wore closer to his neck. He dreaded going up to the tower, where he knew without a doubt it would be freezing.
Natsu finished his mean, cleaned the bowl. The sat down by the fire place, he began to relight a fire, something he really wasn't supposed to do but, but he wasn't going to freeze to death. Once the fire was fully lit and roaring with life, Natsu watched the flames dance with life. He was captivated by how the flames flickered and moved but his weariness finally overcame him and he felt his eyes start to droop. He slowly curled up by the fire, drifting into sleep giving into his exhaustion.
He awoke with a sudden splash of cold water drenching his face.
"Get up you wretched boy! Hurry up and make breakfast you no good for nothing bastard!" With that the venomous women kicked him in side. He sat up and bowed his head in apologizes and rushed off to start making the scrambled eggs, bacon, and toast. Little did he know, the cinder from the fire place had dusted his face while he slept. Natsu finished and then served his waiting step mother, and two step brothers. He served in on the normal china, his elder step brother, Sting started laughing with delight.
"Oh look brother! He is covered in ashes from the fire place!" Sting hollered not able to controlling the snorting that followed. Rogue only shook his head.
"You need to clean up, you will disgrace us if we have company." Rogue said coldly.
"Hurry up and eat, I want to take you boys into town for your fencing lessons at once." The cold hearted women, Lady Kyoka, who somehow managed to impress his late father. "You foolish boy, take care of the stables today! Also polish all the china, the laundry, repair the fence." She paused to think, "Then of course prepare diner." She said with a satisfied nod and return to eating.
Natsu left the room and went to the mirror and started to clean his face, he wanted to punch her. He wanted to give Sting a bloody nose, he overall just wanted to walk away and leave these awful people. He knew he could at any point in time, but the house. It's all he had left of his family, of happy memories, besides his scarf. The thought of leaving this place was heart wrenching. He shook his head and made his way out to the stable, not grabbing anything to eat.
The stable was truly beautiful, a luxury palace for the single horse they owned, KemoKemo or for short Kemo. When Natsu entered the Stable Kemo let out the happiest whinny a horse could give. Natsu beamed up at the beautiful black horse.
"Hey buddy! Wanna go for a ride today?" Natsu asked opening up the stall letting Kemo out. "I'll take that as a yes." Natsu hopped on always preferring to ride bareback.
Natsu and Kemo made their way to the forest where Kemo slowly trotted along the path. Natsu took in the beautiful forest wishing he could spend all day here. He then heard some loud yelling coming from behind him.
"Come back here!" a loud male voice demanded, before he knew it a tall very muscular blonde man appeared before him on horseback, wearing a royal guards outfit. "You!" he pointed at Natsu who kept Kemo still. "Have you seen a blonde girl?" He asked, Natsu couldn't help notice the lighting form scar down his face.
"No, sir I haven't" Natsu said a little dazed at the weird question.
"Of course you haven't" He snarled and the continued on his search.
"Come on Kemo, let's get out of here before anything else weird happens." He said and geared Kemo to turn home. Half on their way back some bushes where rustling that startled Kemo. "Woah boy woah." A beautiful blonde headed girl, with the most beautiful brown eyes he ever seen appeared. "Woah…"
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to frighten your horse." The girl said sadly reaching her hand out in a friendly gesture to the horse.
"It's okay." Natsu said unsure what to really say to a girl who was hiding in a bush. "Uh, why where you hiding?"
"Oh… I don't want to go home," She said with a slight frown. I just wanted to explore since I rarely get to leave." The girl explained.
"I got chores to do but, if you want you can come spend the day with me?" Natsu asked sheepishly afraid that he sounded like a pervert. He could sense she was lonely and although he would never admit it he craved for another human's company that wouldn't treat him like dirt.
"R-really?" She gasped.
"Uh… sorry I didn't mean it in a weird way. I-"Before he could say anything the girl screamed yes witch caused Natsu to blush at the girl's eagerness. Natsu had hopped down to give the girl in the beautiful blue dress a boost up onto Kemo after she was safely on he climbed up. She clung on to him around his waist causing him to stir with mixed emotions, it was kind of like a hug. He hadn't been hugged since he was 7. Natsu shook the thought away, act cool, he told himself over and over again in his head. He was bringing the blonde haired girl, that the royal guard was looking for to his house where Lady Kyoka would rip him to shreds if she where to find him with anyone.
What mess did he just get himself into?
