She cursed her luck. She damned it to the depths of hell. Wait what luck? If she had any to begin with she would NOT be in this situation currently. How had this happened to her? Oh that's right it's the Natsu's fault! Sighing, she began to attempt to rub the pressure building in her temples away as she remembered how she got stuck in what seemed to be an easy request turned nightmare.

The day had started out bright and sunny for Lucy Heartfilla. She awoke to the sweat smell of the breeze that drifted through her bedside window. It was one of those wonderful days where she was able to wake up on her own with no loud obnoxious team mates yelling at her to get up or making a mess of her apartment. Life was wonderful.

After making a simple breakfast and preparing for the day, she was graced with inspiration for her novel and so was able to get a good chapter and half written. Lucy smiled. A pleasant start to the day indeed. Glancing at the clock on her desk she mused it was time to make her way to her beloved guild Fairy Tail and see what her friends were up to.

As she made her way down the path leading to the guild hall she decided that she would bring out her adorable spirit Plue. He was good for giving entertainment to not only herself but her guild mates as well. Had she known he would be the cause of her later issues she would have forgone the thought of calling the dog spirit out.

"Punn Punn!" The tiny spirit called.

Lucy giggled at the little guy, "Well good morning to you too Plue! Ready to play at the guild for a while?" Smiling as she watched him shake and nod his affirmative, she opened the guild doors cheerfully greeting "Ahoy mina!" She was prepared for the greetings she'd normally hear, however she was not prepared for the one she received.

Lucy had only taken a few steps within the guild hall before she was tackled by something extremely heavy, knocking her back to the floor and pushing the air from her lungs. She didn't even have a chance to scream it all happened so fast. Trying to stop the world from spinning and regain the ability to breath, she was taken back when she heard the loud groan of whatever it was that caused this situation.

"Uhhhh… Stupid damn perverted stripper." The thing grumbled.

Lucy knew that voice as well as the person it was referring to. She let loose a groan of her own as things started to come together and the sounds of laughter filled the room around her. Being the intelligent person she was she realized that Natsu was what knocked her over, Grey had somehow caused him to ram into her, and the pair had more than likely been in the middle of one of their daily fights.

Natsu hearing the groan under him tried to regain his own senses. Upon impact he realized only a few things. Whatever Grey had thrown him into was super soft and comfortable, and smelled amazing. Realization struck him as he recognized exactly WHO he was currently on top of. Smiling broadly and turning around instead of getting off of his make shift pillow he hugged it, "LUCY! Thanks for catching me! You're the best!" He chose to ignore his surrounding, including the stares and whispers of the guild. However, his luck wasn't there because Lucy was completely focused on those things.

Growing a deep shade of red over her current position, she glanced at the annoyingly oblivious man on top of her. She growled in anger at him. Before his little display she was more than fine with just telling him to get off her and leave it at that. It wasn't his fault entirely she had been in the wrong place at the wrong time. However, with his idiotic display in front of the guild no less, she was pissed. "NATSU GET THE HELL OFF ME YOU MORON!" She screeched while trying to scramble away from him. Once she gained enough space she kicked him in the gut pushing him the rest of the way off before she righted herself and stormed off in the direction of the bar.

"Ouch! What the hell was that for Lucy?" Natsu asked to, well, no one. As he looked up prepared to see his favorite person he found the space she had been in empty. Turning around he noticed she had already stormed off. Pouting he got up quickly ready to make his way to the blond, however Grey invaded his space first.

Grey watched with a morbid fascination as the event unfolded. He instantly felt guilty for throwing Natsu, not because he could hurt the fool, but because of who happened to be in the projectiles way. He cringed at the impact, but was thrown into a stupor at the next events. He couldn't help laugh at the idiocy of Natsu as he tried to greet Lucy as if nothing had happened. Not to mention the position he put the two in. So he waited for the up and coming show, and he had not been disappointed. His laughter couldn't be contained when he spotted the pout formed on his rivals face. "Oi, flame brain! You have got to be the STUPIDOUS person I know!"

"What was that Ice Princess?"

"You heard me stupid."

"You wanna go stripper?"

"Like you could ever beat me ash for brains!"

And so, Natsu's previous thoughts were pushed away for now. It was all Grey's fault that Lucy was mad at him, so it only made sense to take his frustration out on the bastard.

Lucy sighed as she took her seat. Of course the dumb asses would be at it again. Looking up she noticed Mira and her creepy smile. Growling again in frustration she looked the takeover mage directly in the eye, "Don't even start Mira! It's too early in the day, I'm in no mood, and let us not forget that my back hurts now."

Mira pouted, but gave in, "Fine, I'll leave it be… For now." With that she went to serve drink orders.

Lucy visibly relaxed at that. Turning in her seat she scanned the guild looking for Levy. However she noticed just how unnaturally empty the guild was. Frowning she turned back to the barmaid, "Where is everyone Mira?"

"Well, mostly on missions. It seems strange, ne? I like it when it's noisy." Mira replied with her normal happy smile.

Before Lucy could comment further she felt a tap on her shoulder. Turning to see who it was, she was somewhat surprised to see Bisca and Alzack standing next to her with a somewhat odd expression on their faces. Confused at seeing the both of them staring at her she hesitantly said, "Ummm morning guys. What's up?"

At this Bisca smiled more normally and pointed to the seen over by one of the tables. There sat Happy, Plue, and Asuka. Plue and Happy were dancing while the young girl giggled her heart's content. When Bisca noticed Lucy's eyes soften and smile warmly she spoke, "Well I know this is out of the blue and all, but there's a mission Al and I want to go on." She waited till she received more of Lucy's attention before continuing, "We were talking about who might watch Asuka for the day and since she's having so much fun with your spirit we were hoping…."

Before the woman could finish her sentence Lucy spoke up, "What time do you think you'll be back?"

Alzack answered, "Well if we catch the 10' o'clock train out we should be getting back on the midnight train."

Bisca spoke up quickly adding, "We know it's a lot to ask but we haven't been able to out on a mission together in a while and we'll pay you for your time! We just saw how much fun she's having and thought it wouldn't hurt to ask." With that both parents smiled pleadingly.

Lucy chuckled lightly, they were acting as if this was a hard decision. Asuka was the cutest little girl and super sweet. Not to mention that Lucy really didn't have any actual plans for the day. "Of course I will! Let me get some paper and a pen so I can get down everything I need to know. You know like bed time and such."