Hello! I have a few things to say about this fic. It's going to be exactly thirty chapters long. No more, no less. Each chapter is based off a prompt and they've already all been picked out. You'll know what the name of the prompt was, because it will be the name of the chapter. This story will be well more like chronologically ordered inter-connected one shots. But it'll all fit together to make a story I promise. Some chapters might be really long, while other's may not. It all depends on the prompt. Updates will probably be weekly, maybe twice a week. It's all up to how long of a chapter it shall be.

Couple: NatsuXLucy

Prompt: Water Heater

Word Count: 2,822

Release Date: December 30th, 2012

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Fairy Tail. Sadly...

Dear Mom,

Today Natsu burned down an entire tower; I swear it wasn't my fault.

Lucy sighed, letting her head practically bang into against the guild's bar. It was a very bad day, as in there was no good thing that could happen today to make it even close to being a good day kind of day.

Her hot water heater had broken three days ago and she still hadn't gotten it fixed. Which meant that she hadn't taken a shower in four days and she was really beginning to smell, no matter how much deodorant and cherry blossom body spray she used. Nothing was covering up the smell of sweat and dirt that now lingered around her.

Also because amazingly her hot water heater had broken and due to the hatred the universe seemed to spawn on her, the washer had also magically seemed to break at the same. So now she didn't even have clean clothes to wear and smelled worse than ever due to this reason. And Lucy hated wearing dirty underwear; it just made her feel disgusting.

It really wasn't her day, or rather her couple of days.

"Still haven't gotten your hot water heater fixed?" Mirajane asked, leaning over the bar closer to the young blonde. She regretted it instantly and immediately felt bad when she pulled back from the odor that Lucy was emitting

"I know I stink," Lucy grumble, sighing and wishing that she could just fall into a nice hot bath full of bubbles. It sounded like pure heaven.

"Well, I'm sorry. Why don't you take a job so you have money to pay your rent when it's due?" The barmaid's guilt rose when she realized she made the suggestion partly to get the stink out. She really did love Lucy, but she hated the stink.

"Natsu disappeared on another week long 'I'm gonna look for Igneel' with Happy. I really have no clue where they are. Could be anywhere," once again she sighed, playing with the ends of her hair, sadly. She really missed the pink haired dragon slayer. It wasn't often that he wasn't by her side and even less often that he wasn't at the guild hall. It almost didn't feel the same without him there.

"Why don't you take up a job by yourself? I'm pretty sure that by the time you come home, you're hot water will be fixed," Mirajane tried again, even poking the girl once to try and get her point across. Lucy swatted her hand away in response.

Lucy Heartfilia was not in the mood to be poked.

"Just go take a job Lu-chan," Levy encouraged, smiling at her best friend. The poor blonde had an aura of complete and utter hell around her and she wanted to fix it. "Even if it's a really easy job, just take it. It'll take your mind off things." She gave an even bigger smile, attempting to ignore the smell. Lucy seemed to be ignoring her. "Aww, come on Lu-chan at least talk to me," she tried again, nudging the other girl's shoulder. "It'll make you feel better."

The young mage sighed again and turned towards her best friend, the aura around her growing darker. She figured that she wasn't going to be blissfully ignored like she wanted, so she might as well give them her very stinky attention.

"If I go on a mission, will you all leave me alone?" She asked, grumbling and throwing a heated glare at the two Fairy Tail women. She really didn't want to do this, but she figured that she could use the money.

"Yes!" Both women chorused excitedly, smiling big. Their exclamations only caused the blonde to sigh more, before rising from her seat at the bar and stomping towards the mission board.

"She really isn't happy…" Mirajane sighed, staying quiet so the blonde wouldn't hear her. She took to wiping off the place Lucy had just been sitting, trying to look conspicuous.

"I wouldn't be either and Natsu isn't even here to cheer her up. Hopefully going on an assignment will make her feel better." The blue haired mage whispered, watching their friend grab an assignment off the board and stomp out the guild in anger, slamming the doors behind her. The whole building shook and every mage in the guild hall shuddered.

"I really hope she comes home in a much better mood," Elfman whistled, "And that her hot water heater is fixed before she returns." He knew that even if he was a very powerful mage in his own right, but all of the women, Lucy included, was scary when they were angry. And he really didn't want to deal with a pissed off, non-showered, Celestial Spirit Summoner to go off on him, she might be tiny but she sure packed quite a punch.

Or well Loki did.

Natsu wondered where Lucy was as soon as he entered the guild hall. He'd already been by her apartment; she hadn't been there. So he'd come by the guild hall hoping to find her there.

Not a big chested blonde in sight; he couldn't even smell her nearby.

The pink haired dragon slayer headed to the bar, hoping Mirajane or any of his fellow mages sitting there knew where his teammate was. He knew she couldn't be too far away, but still he hadn't seen Lucy in a week. It was time to have "team bonding time" in her apartment, in which he ate a lot of her food and took a bath.

"Hey Natsu, lookin' for Lucy?" The silvered haired bar maid asked, giving one of her huge smiles. It was good to have him back again. She didn't like when he disappeared by himself; they all worried he'd get into trouble.

"Yea, where is she?" He gave another look around for her, as if expecting her to poof out of thin air. All he found different was Happy was off playing with some of the fellow guild members, telling them about their week away.

"She took a mission since she had nothing better to do," Mirajane smiled brightly, watching as Natsu visibly deflated. She wondered if Natsu even realized that he did it, probably not she mused. The dragon slayer could be pretty dense.

"Why didn't she wait for me?" He whined, resting his head on the bar. "Now I got nothing better to do!" he exclaimed, throwing his hands up in the air.

"You could shut up fire breath!" Gray shouted from across the room, having seen his rival appear.

"Why don't you shut up streaker?!" Natsu growled back, flames forming around his fists.

This was just what Natsu needed. A good fight to entertain him until his partner came home.

It was a really simple mission, or so Lucy Heartfilia thought.

All she had to do was collect a satchel from inside a cave for a client and return it to them for one hundred thousand jewels. There was no reports of monsters or cave ins or dark mages. It was really simple; the guy had simply forgotten it there and because of a broken leg couldn't get it for several months.

And yet every bad thing that could have happened, happened.

First she got there and there was a giant wolf waiting for her at the cave entrance, it had tried to eat her and tore her shirt to pieces in the process. It had also left a very large bloody gash across her upper chest. She'd had Virgo dig holes all around the wolf to weaken the ground and cause it to become trapped inside of a hole.

This then led to a new problem, because of the tremendous fighting between herself and the wolf and then Virgo's digging, the cave had begun to cave in and she was forced to run for all she was worth further into the care to become safe. This left her in a panting collapsed state on the cave floor, her hands attempting to put pressure on her wound as blood poured past her fingers. She'd had to summon Horologium to carry her the rest of the way to the satchel.

Once she'd gotten there, she'd merely touched it and someone had came out of nowhere and sent her flying across the cavern. Apparently a dark mage who held some kind of grudge against Fairy Tail had spotted her before she'd even reached the cave and had summoned the wolf to end her. He could apparently summon rather large wild animals. When that hadn't worked, he'd hoped the cave in would have killed her, but since it obviously hadn't, he'd come to do the job in person.

Which made her day even worse than it already was.

It wasn't an easy battle, between her bleeding like crazy and the power she'd already used to summon the other spirits. The dark mage came at her with all kind of oversized beasts like a tiger and a bear and even another wolf. The young blonde mage took to dodging their attacks and causing them to attack each other when two came at her at once. It was almost amusing when the tiger and the bear slammed into one another and began to fight.

When the wolf came at her, Lucy had had enough. The young mage summoned Loki quickly. He nearly had a heart attack at the state she was in, pulling her out of danger as the wolf's jaws nearly wrapped around her fragile body.

"Lucy! What happened? How did it get this bad?" He screamed at her, setting her down far away from the wolf. "And why are you clutching that satchel as if your life depended on it?" The Spirit asked as an afterthought, examining the young girl.

She looked horrible in his eyes. Blood dripped down the front of her and she wore nothing but her skirt, and without a thought he took his suit jacket and wrapped it around her paling form.

"I'll explain later, just defeat him please," Lucy looked close to tears, her grip on the satchel tightening. Images faded in and out and everything blurred around the edges. Her body felt heavy and cold swept through her whole body. She wished Natsu was there with his overheated body. He was always warm.

The Lion Spirit nodded and was gone within an instance. He hated to leave his summoner alone but he had no choice, quickly dispatching the last wolf and heading straight for the dark mage. He wouldn't let the man who hurt Lucy get away, not a chance on their life. Loki beat the man within an inch of his life, before leaving him.

"Thank god I know how to stay in the human world with my own power, you're completely drained Lucy," his voice was gentle and low, full of sadness and worry as he lifted her into his arms. She wouldn't have been so weak if she wasn't so injured. The blood soaked her skin and his suit jacket and he feared that she would die at this rate.

The lion growled and smiled a sick smile; he was gonna bust them out.

A couple of tons of rock were no match for the strongest of the zodiac.

Natsu was annoyed.

Lucy had been gone for days, too many days. So the dragon slayer took it upon himself to go and bring back his blonde teammate. He didn't know what was taking her so long, but he figured that she was just relaxing, but he needed her.

His team of him and Happy wasn't complete without the blonde girl. And even if he wouldn't admit it, he missed his friend.

"Lucy isn't mad at us is she?" Happy asked before they got on the train, waiting for Natsu's motion sickness kicked in.

"Naaa, she probably is just enjoying her time in the town, probably having a mini vacation!" The pink haired mage exclaimed, taking a seat. He was so happy to be seeing his teammate soon, nearly forgetting about his motion sickness.

That is until the train began to move.

Happy sighed, watching as the Salamander became multiple shades of green and incoherent muttering.

Loki wondered what he should do; to head back towards Fairy Tail and leave Lucy in the nearby tower of the local healing mage or stay with her. He knew he needed to let the guild know, so they could send for their healer and to bring her back to the guild, but he wasn't so sure about leaving his summoner alone in such a strange place.

He didn't trust that no harm wouldn't come to her.

"Why does everything have to be so complicated?" He sighed, standing at the bottom of the tower. He could smell Lucy a few stories above him and her smell of blood still lingered on his clothing. He'd never been that scared then when he'd brought her in. Her face had been paler than he'd ever seen it and her eyes were nearly lifeless, she looked like death warmed over.

The Spirit never thought his solution to the problem at hand would punch him square in the face.

"WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO LUCY?" Natsu was screaming and sending fire flying everywhere. It wasn't aimed really at Loki but everywhere. It soared up into the sky and down into the ground and even singed the lion's clothes a bit.

All Natsu could smell was blood and blood and more blood. Lucy Heartfilia's blood. His rage was fueled and skyrocketed.

"Is Lucy okay?" Happy was crying, flying around the two mages, trying to figure out was going on. He was worried about his human friend, she wasn't always nice and sometimes yelled at him, but he really did love her.

"She was hurt on this mission! She's upstairs sleeping! Calm down before you destroy the tower!" The Spirit yelled; dodging another fire breath sent his way. He might have dodged it but he quickly realized that he should have let it hit him.

The fire ball slammed right into the tower, going through the support beams. The tower shook and swayed from side to side, quickly catching fire. It would go down quickly, being as it was made entirely out of wood.

"Natsu! You fucking idiot!" Loki yelled jumping up to catch a healing mage that had jumped from a window. He set the mage down, already going for Lucy, but realized that the dragon slayer was already going for the blonde mage and was probably the safer bet. He could eat fire after all.

Natsu found his teammate easily, scooping her up into his arms and out of the burning tower. He jumped right through the window, feeling the ground rush up to meet him and landed easily.

He spared a glance down at the woman in his arms, worried out of his mind about his teammate. She looked horrible and now the sheet wrapped around her was burned.

"Eat the flames Natsu!" The spirit yelled at the salamander, waving his arms frantically at him.

It didn't take long before there was no more fire.

Not a minute after the fire was all in the pink haired mage's belly did the tower crumble into nothing but a big pile of rubble.

Okay so maybe it was my fault, I mean I did go running off on my own. But, I really needed the money and everyone kept pushing for me to go on a mission. I know I should have waited for Natsu, but I just couldn't help it. I'm feeling a lot better now though, my wounds are almost completely healed, though we think I'm going to have a faint scar on my chest. You only see it if you know what to look for, so it won't be so bad!

He was really mad at me. After I woke up he yelled and cussed and wove fire around his hands. He kept telling me that I'm never allowed on a mission without him again. It really was cute how worried he was about me. I've really found a great friend in him, mom. Him and Happy and everyone else I've met at Fairy Tail; they're all really great!

Oh and mom my hot water heater finally got fixed! You have no idea how good it felt to take a hot bath and all of that. And even the washer now works too! I think some of my friends at the guild helped fix it, because Elfman and Gray were blushing when I told them my landlord had told me that some boys had stopped by and offered their help. I really love being a part of this guild.

Well I gotta go mom, Natsu wants to go on another mission. Hopefully this one will turn out better than the last!

Love you,

Lucy.

P.S. Don't tell dad.

Well I hope you all enjoyed it! :)