More Than She Bargained For
Today was going to be a good day. Lucy could feel it in her bones as she got ready and headed off to the guild. Little did she know her world was going to turn upside down. She decided it was time to go on another mission with her team. Hopefully this time they won't go over board and destroy a town or something equally important. She needed rent money and that hasn't been working out of late. Lucy let out a huge sigh just thinking about the possible lack of money. "What's wrong Luce?" She shrieked and whirled around to see who was behind her. "Natsu! Don't do that. You almost gave me a heart attack!" she said as she clutched her hand to her chest to try to slow her beating heart. Natsu just smiled his big goofy smile and said, "Aw Luce I couldn't help it. I called your name several time but you were so lost in thought I had to do something to get your attention."
"Yea Lucy, who were you thinking about anyways? Your boyfriend? Oh wait, you don't have one. Ha Ha" said Happy as he flew off to the guild to find Charlie. "Grrr I'm going to filet that cat when I get my hands on him" said Lucy angrily. Natsu and Lucy started walking to the guild after Happy and enjoyed each other's company. Once they got to the guild Natsu spotted Gray and Elfman in a heated conversation about who was the toughest man and ran over to tell them exactly who it was which started another guild brawl. Lucy just ignored them and walked over to the bar saying hello to everyone as she went by. As Lucy sat down, Mirajane placed a strawberry milkshake in front of her. "Thanks Mira. You always know what I want" Lucy said with a smile. "Of course Lucy, you're my nakama" said Mira also with a smile on her face. "Mira? Where's Erza? I was planning on going on a mission" asked Lucy.
"Oh she went on a special request mission. Apparently a mayor of a town only wanted her." She gave Lucy a Yea-I-know-weird-huh look. Lucy laughed and said "Well I guess it'll just be Natsu, Gray, and Me then. Oh and Happy if you count him."
"That is where you are wrong Love-Rival."
"Oh, hi Juvia" said Lucy as she turned to her new companion. "What do you mean I'm wrong?" asked Lucy.
"Juvia and Gray-sama are going on a special mission together" said Juvia with hearts in her eyes as she draws imaginary circles on the counter. "So I guess it'll just be me and Natsu…and Happy." Lucy got up and walked over to the Mission Board.
Laxus, sitting in a dark corner, watched the blonde bombshell walk that sweet, delicious, round ass into the guild with the flame-brain, and sit at the bar and start a conversation with Mirajane. He's been watching her every day since Tenrou Island. Every time she walks by he would get a whiff of her scent and his blood starts to boil. Trying not to jump her right then and there is tough enough. He would get the dirtiest thoughts about her. He just wanted to grab her and crush her to his rock hard chest, bend down till his mouth is centimeters away from hers before he devours hers. He'd slide his hands over her shoulders and down her back to rest upon her plump, soft ass and knead it till she mewls. He snapped out of his train of thought when he saw her get up and walk to the mission board. No way am I going to let her go without me again. He got up and walked out of his dark corner to come up behind her with all the stealth of a cat.
She noticed the big shadow that fell upon the board and she stiffened and turned to see who was behind her. Lucy was surprised to see it was Laxus. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get in your way Laxus-san."
"Just Laxus, please"
"Oh, ok…Laxus." Lucy blushed as she said his name and he looked pleased when she didn't add an honorific at the end. She always thought of him as the cold, silent type but that seemed to somehow change after Tenrou Island. Now he's been more…kind towards her and on occasion he greets her in return. "You were not in my way. I wanted to come over and tell you I would like to join you on your next mission. Possibly you could come with me on an S-class one" he said as he looked down at her. "What? With me? Why?" she asked with a shocked look on her face. Why would a powerful S-class mage like him want to go on a mission with her? Before he could answer her question he was interrupted by Natsu. "Hey Lucy! We going on a mission? Which one did you pick?" said Natsu as he ran up to her. "Natsu, I haven't picked one yet. Laxus…" Lucy trailed off as she looked back at Laxus. He was glaring at Natsu like he wanted to rip his head off. Natsu glared back at him then became surprised when he looked back to Lucy when she said his name. The look he was giving her was like primal heat and he did not like one bit of it. He'd never admit it but he always had a crush on Lucy but never acted upon it for fear of ruining their friendship, but now Laxus was looking at her in that way and all that was going through Natsu's mind was keep Lucy away from him. She's mine. "What do you want Laxus? If you're looking for a fight I'd be gladly to help you out" said Natsu as he got into a fighting stance. "Natsu, he wants to join us on a mission" said Lucy as she put her hand on his arm to calm him down. Natsu immediately dropped his arms and stood up straight and continued to glare at Laxus.
Lucy somewhat relaxed when she realized they weren't going to fight each other. "So…Laxus…why do you want to come with us?" asked Lucy. Laxus stopped glaring at Natsu, looked at Lucy, walked the couple of feet that separated them, bent over so his face was mere inches from hers and whispered in her ear and said, "because, I want to get to know you better…Lucy." She shivered and sighed when he breathed the last word in her ear. Natsu saw what Laxus did to Lucy and he did not like the affect he had on her. Lucy was his partner not Laxus! "Oy! What do you think you're doing to my partner!" yelled Natsu. He grabbed Lucy by the elbow and pulled her away from Laxus and into his arms. Lucy was so in shock she just froze in his arms not understanding what is going on between the two dragon-slayers or why they were acting this way. Natsu was never this protective of her before when it came to other men hitting on her. Well this is the first time someone has hit on her and besides its Laxus for crying out loud, he could be playing around with her for all she knew. She looked up at Natsu's Face and saw how angry he looked. Almost to the point that he might burst into flames any minute. She also noticed that the guild was extremely quiet and when she turned her head to see why she came to face every single guild mate's eyes staring in their direction. Her face turned bright red. "Umm…guys, why don't we just pick a mission and go?" Lucy said tentatively and pushed at Natsu's chest. Laxus continued to glare at Natsu before he looked at Lucy, noticed how uncomfortable she was, and walked over to the S-class board. It took him a minute until he found the one he wanted and he ripped it off the board, handed it to Lucy to inspect it. She almost shrieked at the reward money. That's triple the amount they normally get on a regular mission. She scanned it some more and saw the additional reward at the bottom of the page. Five tickets to a hot springs, and not just any hot springs, but the most famous one in all of Fiore. The exclusive Hotel Luna Dea! She's always wanted to go to that hotel. Hmm…five tickets, maybe she'll invite Levy and Gajeel. They could probably spend more time alone and get closer. Tee hee. She didn't realized she giggled out loud and when she looked up she had two very disturbed looking dragon-slayers staring at her. She shrugged at them, told them it was nothing and walked over to Mira to show her the mission.
"Lucy, what was that all about with you, Laxus, and Natsu?"
"Oh…for some reason Laxus wants to go on a mission with me and Natsu for some unknown reason didn't like him getting close to me. "Hmm…maybe they both like you." Mira said this with hearts in her eyes. Oh no. Mira is in match-making mode I better get out of here before she does or says something. "Who knows, I think he just wants to pick on me like everybody else." Lucy rolled her eyes as she said this, but Mira looked like she didn't believe one word of it. She just grabbed the mission paper and stamped it in the book to approve it. Then she wished Lucy luck with her love life as she walked away. Could she get embarrassed anymore today? "Happy we're going on a mission come on!" yelled Natsu. Happy flew over to them and told them that he was going to stay with Wendy and Charlie while they were gone. They were going to go visit the rest of the Exeeds all week. So the trio left the guild to pack their things and eventually meet up at the train station.
Laxus got to the train station first and figured he might as well get their tickets. As he stepped out of line to wait by the entrance he saw Lucy heading his way. He stepped into her path so she would notice him and he handed her her ticket. Lucy was quite surprised when she took the ticket. She always got her own ticket when Team Natsu went out on missions. "Thank you Laxus" and she gave him her best smile. She figured he was just trying to make up all the bad things he did to her in the past. She didn't think he needed to since she forgave him a long time ago.
He was taken aback by how beautiful she looked when she smiled at him like that. He grabbed her around the waist with one arm and pulled her flush against himself. With the other he reached up and caressed her cheek and whispered in her ear. She squeaked when he first grabbed her but almost swooned at what he whispered in her ear. As fast as he grabbed her he let go of just as fast and took a step back. She felt hurt at first until she felt someone hug her from behind and realized why. "Lucy did you wait long?" She heard Natsu's voice in her ear.