Hey readers! I have already written the first five chapters so two now, then one a week is guaranteed, hope you like it, it is like what you would expect from a StiCy or Lalu, but Nalu... I hope that gave enough of a description... As much as I wish I did, I do not own Fairy Tail, Hiro Mashima does.
Lucy woke up in her bed feeling refreshed after the long week of chasing a small bandit group. "Ahhhh…" she yawned while getting up and heading to her shower. After completing her morning routine of showering, choosing an outfit, grabbing an apple, she headed to the guild.
"Good morning everyone!" she announced as she passed through the guild doors. "Morning Lucy!" chirped Mira as she casually pushed a drunken body that had been sleeping on the bar out of Lucy's seat. *Thud* went Cana as she hit the floor.
"Urgh… Whach the hell Mirwa? Ohh, hey Lushy!" Cana slurred "Morning Cana! Hey Mira, can I please have a-" she was cut off by Mira placing a strawberry milkshake down on the bar. "Thanks!" grinned Lucy as she sat down. "Mira, a-" Cana started while slightly recovering and Mira cut her off by sliding a gigantic mug of beer in-front of the seat next to Lucy.
"Hehe, you're too good at this Mira!" chuckled Lucy and Cana together. They sat in silence as Lucy sipped, Cana chugged and Mira cooked for the soon to arrive starving Fairy Tail members. Mages started to file in, first Erza, then Gray, Juvia, Levy, Droy and Jet, Gajeel, and many others.
The last two to arrive, were Natsu and Happy who appeared close to lunchtime in a panic. "Listen up brats!" shouted Master Makarov from the second floor. "The S-class trials are starting in 2-weeks!" The guild immediately started an uproar.
Lucy was grabbed by Natsu and pulled towards the quest board. Without even so much as asking Lucy, Natsu grabbed a job-sheet and shoved it in Mira's face. "Gimme this job Mira!" Mira jotted down Natsu, Happy and Lucy's names in a large binder.
"Okay! All done, off you go you two!" "Why do I never count?" whined Happy miserably. "Sorry Happy! How about I give you a fish when you get back?" apologized Mira. Happy immediately started drooling and floating subconsciously towards the exit. Lucy finally managed to free herself from Natsu's grip and dusted herself off. "Well then, let's go!" cheered Lucy.
"Meet at the train station in an hour?" Lucy asked. Natsu promptly replied by turning green and throwing up on the floor. "Seriously flame-brain? All it takes is to say train?" teased Gray as he ran out of the guild with a job sheet in one hand and a blue-haired water mage latched onto the other. Natsu couldn't reply. Lucy softened when she saw Natsu in such a defenseless state.
Checking the paper, she said "It's ok Natsu, we can walk, it's only few towns away." "Really?" questioned Natsu, recovering immediately now that the threat was gone. "Yep!" "Thanks Luce!"
An hour later Lucy was patiently waiting in her apartment. Lucy started to count the seconds that Natsu was late. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5…. 1093. 1094. 1095. Seriously, what the hell is taking him so long, it's been 20 minutes already!? Lucy asked herself. So to pass the time, she pulled out the job sheet that she still had.
Skilled Mages Needed
Small group of powerful dark mages are threatening our town
Reward: 150,000 jewels, 1 Silver Celestial Key
Location: Toushigi
Please help us Fairy Tail!
Lucy was surprised, Natsu had managed to grab a quest that had a key as a reward. Although, the chances of him doing that on purpose were low, Lucy thought. "Lucy!" "Natsu!" Lucy exclaimed then sighed, "Why are you always so late?"
"Sorry Luce," Natsu replied guiltily, "I got attacked by a few bears on my way here!" Lucy sweat-dropped that he could say that so casually. "Oh, that explained all the cuts you have. Where is Happy?" "Happy always goes to say goodbye to Carla whenever he leaves for a mission. I wonder why?" Natsu said obliviously. Lucy face palmed. "Anyway, let's go!"
Timeskip: Walking into Toushigi, 8 hours of walking later
"Ne, Natsu. Who is the quest giver?" "Umm... Ohh… That person… I dunno… You usually do this stuff…" "Baka Natsu, why didn't you ask Mira?" They bickered as they walked down the main street. It was just after sundown and Lucy was starting to get nervous.
"Natsu?" "Hm?" "Should we find an inn or something?" asked Lucy. "Sure, why not?" replied Natsu. They found a medium quality hotel for them to stay in called Moonview. "Hello! How may I help you today?" the receptionist asked.
"Could we please have a room for one night?" requested Lucy. "Sure," the receptionist ducked underneath the desk and popped back up holding a key and a pamphlet "10,000 jewels please." He said sliding the key and pamphlet to Lucy.
Lucy paid for the room and took a moment to look at the pamphlet she was given. "Um, sorry, but how many bed are there?" "Only one, why do you ask?" At this response Lucy blushed and said "We aren't a couple. Just job partners."
"Oh, sorry, I'll change to room for you now." He took the key back and have Lucy a different one. "Sorry, but that is an extra 5,000 jewels." "Ok, here you are." Lucy passed the said amount to the man. "Are you two mages?"
"Yep, we are Fairy Tail mages!" Natsu finally added to the conversation. *Ring Ring* went the office phone. As the receptionist went to pick it up he said "Please enjoy your stay here." Lucy and Natsu went to the room number on the key and entered.
It was a simple hotel set-up. Two single bed on one side of the room, a medium-sized viewing Lacrima on the other side and a bathroom near the entrance and a balcony opposite the entrance. "This one's mine!" Lucy shouted running towards the bed closest to the window.
30 minutes later
"Goodnight Natsu." whispered Lucy, knowing that Natsu could hear her with his sensitive hearing. "Goodnight Lucy." Natsu replied slightly louder but still softly. Lucy had always had relatively good hearing so he knew that he could talk that softly.
1 hour earlier at the guild.
"Goodnight everyone!" "Night Mira!" was her response as the guild trickled from the hall. "Mirajane, come to my office." Master announced. Mira walked up the stairs and entered his office. "What is it Master?"
"Do you still have that Toushigi quest?" "Nope!" replied Mira cheerfully. "Who took it?" questioned the Fairy Tail master clasping his hands as if in a prayer. "Natsu, Lucy and Happy. Why?" Mira chirped. The wizard saint stiffened with shock. "That mission has been removed from the guild quest boards, it has been deemed too dangerous for guilds and will only be available to wizard saints."
Mira paled at his answer then jumped into action. "Master, I will contact Erza, Levy, Gajeel, Cana, and Wendy. They are all still in Magnolia so they can help." "Good thinking Mira, I will contact Laxus, Gildarts, Freed, Bixlow, Evergreen and Elfman tell them to meet here in 10 minutes."
20 Minutes later (About when Lucy and Natsu were booking a room)
3 magic 4-wheelers were thundering along through Magnolia's streets, one significantly faster than the others. At the front of the speeding vehicle was Erza. Erza's mind was in complete disarray.
Wizard Saints… Dangerous Dark Mages… Lucy… Little Sister… Danger… Could die… These horrifying thoughts bounced through her head making her drive even faster. "Erza! Slowing down is a man!" yelled Elfman from the back.
"Shut up you stupid idiot." Screamed Evergreen over the roar of the 4-wheeler. Bixlow and Freed looked at the two bickering and snickered. Freed looked at Laxus and asked, "Don't they just look perfect together?"
Laxus didn't reply, he was sitting silently with a thin sheen of sweat covering his forehead. "I'm so sorry Laxus!" Freed practically cried, "I forgot to write the runes!" He proceeded to write runes to counter his motion sickness.
50 minutes later in Lucy and Natsu's hotel (10 minutes after Lucy and Natsu had said their goodnights)
Natsu sat up slowly so as to not wake Happy. He eased his way out of his covers so as to get to Lucy's bed. His feet hit the floor softly and he stood up. He was half-way between his bed and Lucy's when he saw something move in his peripheral vision.
His head whipped around, almost giving himself whiplash. What he saw was the shadows take the shape of three humanoid bodies and launch themselves at him. This all happened so quickly that he didn't have time to raise his hands before something collided with his head and sent him flying across the room. Lucy shot up.
She had secretly been awake and waiting for Natsu to climb into her bed. She found that she slept much more peacefully when he was with her, not that she would ever admit it to anyone. When Natsu's body hit the wall with a crash she quickly shot up and reached for her keys.
Before she could reach them the three shadowy figures attacked, one going to Natsu, one going for Lucy and one for Happy. Lucy's hands grasped her keys but before she could move anymore, she was blasted back into the same wall as Natsu.
Before she even hit the floor, she noted that her body was paralyzed. Happy hit the wall next to her in the same state. Natsu pulled himself out of the wall, he glared at the three mages. He jumped forwards "Iron fist of the fire dragon!" he yelled as he sped towards the three figures. One put up their hand and a large stream of darkness extinguished Natsu's fire.
There was a flash of fire and Natsu fell out of the dark torrent, bleeding all over and coughing blood. He glared at the three mages "Roar of the Fire Dragon!" fire gushed from Natsu's mouth, more and more collecting until it was almost as wide as the room.
Then, it disappeared, along with Natsu's magic power. Natsu gasped at the sudden loss of his magic, falling to his hands and knees. One of shadowed mages ran forwards, slamming their knee into Natsu's face. Lucy started screaming as Natsu was thrown around their room, while Happy was watching in soundless terror.
Natsu's body getting more and more bloodied as her screaming reached new pitches. "No, no, no, NO PLEASE, NO MORE, HURT ME, NOT HIM! PLEASE!" she couldn't move, she couldn't cry she could only scream and watch.
Before long her throat started to feel like sandpaper was being rubbed on the inside of it. All three enemy mages started hitting Natsu, who was still trying to stand and fight, even though he was out of magic, his body was covered in blood and almost all his bones were broken.
Then something happened which made Lucy release her worse scream yet. One of the mages shaped the nearby shadows into a menacing looking, pulsating sword and stabbed Natsu through the stomach. "NOOO NATS-." She felt blood on the inside of her throat, she tried to lean forward to cough it up but, being paralyzed, she couldn't.
She started to choke on her own blood. Natsu lost consciousness at the same time as Lucy, Natsu because of blood-loss, Lucy because of lack of oxygen. Just Happy was still conscious and retreating into his mind in a state of traumatic shock. No, no, please, this cannot be happening, I want to tease Lucy more, I want to go fishing with Natsu, I want to go back to Carla, I want to get that fish Mira promised, this cannot be real, Lucy can't die, it's not possible, and Natsu, no, I don't even want to think about that, there is no way.
The poor exceed was about to lose consciousness as well when a large explosion wrecked the wall. Erza stood there in fit of rage. "REQUIP! ARMADURA FAIRY!" she screamed when she saw Lucy's chin and mouth covered in blood and her lifeless eyes, Happy staring blankly at her and Natsu lying face-down on the ground in a pool of blood, his blood.
A light engulfed the room, so intense that the shadows fled from her, that the dark mages cowered. This amour was normally powered by her love, her love for her family, her guild, her love for her Nakama. But when she saw three of her most precious family members dead or dying, the armor changed, it was blood red, not pink.
The bright golden light in the room changed to a dangerous red. The color of Erza's hair. People in the village remembered that night for the rest of their life the screams, the flashes of light, the blood that went to the air, the explosions caused by a certain, enraged fairy.
"STOP!" screamed a young voice. Wendy was standing at the hole in the wall looking horrified, "Erza! They are already dead! STOP! I need to heal Natsu-san and Lucy-san!" she then rushed into the room, many other Fairy Tail members looked at her, amazed by her bravery.
Telling Erza to stop was one thing, rushing into the room where Erza was fighting was another, but running in between this enraged Erza and the scraps of these Dark mages was something on a different level. Many admired her courage.
Wendy looked at Natsu and Lucy in horror. Then something came over her. She screamed in a different voice, the voice of Grandeeney, "Sky Dragon's Ultimate Healing! Sky's Life!" A bright blue light blinded everyone at the scene. The blood in Lucy's throat disappeared and her heart started again.
The blood around Natsu started leaving its drying state, and flowing back into Natsu as fresh blood. The mental prison of Happy's his mind broke apart and the exceed felt something push him out. All at the same time, Natsu convulsed and flipped onto his side, Lucy gasped and fell forward, and Happy started crying. "T-thank goodness." Wendy said weakly before falling forward. "I-I'm all out of Magic." Gasped Wendy before her consciousness left her.
So how was it? Please no hating, I would love constructive criticism and grammar correcting, but please no hating. This is my first Fanfic.
