CHAPTER ONE-PINKY AND SHIRTLESS
Lucy took a deep breath and her grip tightened on her bag. She looked at her new school, Fairy Tail High, in trepidation. The school had a strange symbol carved into the granite entryway and there were many windows lining the walls, giving the building an open feel. She always preferred big schools over small ones, because when a new girl came in nobody noticed. Unfortunately Fairy Tail was a small school in the town of Fiore, which meant she would be noticed. Since she had transferred in during the middle of October, everyone else in the school would have friends and settled in to the new school year. All except Lucy. Lucy hated to be noticed. She grew especially shy after her mother died. Without Layla to help Lucy become a confident young woman, she had grown into a shy, introverted girl.
Lucy released a breath she didn't realize she was holding. I just have to walk up. Nobody is going to stare…nobody is going to notice me… Lucy chanted in her mind. Lucy straightened her spine and walked up the front stairs, her skirt swishing with her legs. She heard whispers and saw people pointing out of the corner of her eye. Her stomach tightened. Lucy hated new schools, but she was constantly moving because of her fathers growing business.
"Um…excuse me? I was told to come here for my schedule?" Lucy asked softly. She had fumbled her way to the main office somehow. The office consisted of a few wooden desks lining the front and some chairs. There were a few doors along the back wall, which probably led to other offices. The bleached blonde receptionist popped her bright pink bubble gum, the sweet artificial scent reaching Lucy's nose. She tried not to scrunch her nose in disgust at the sickly sweet smell.
The receptionist—Susan—looked Lucy over through thick fake lashes. "Name," she said in annoyance.
"Lucy. Lucy…Heartfilia." Lucy cringed internally at Susan's shocked expression. Her father's name held great weight recently.
"Of course, of course!" Susan squealed. Lucy hated the reaction people had when they heard her family name. Lucy took the papers hastily and quickly walked out of the office. "If you need anything, just come on back here dear!" Susan called out. Lucy tightened the ribbon holding part of her golden hair in a side ponytail and looked down at her schedule.
1st- Adv. English Studies level III-room G121
2nd- Calculus-room F132
3rd- Adv. History of the World-room G126
LUNCH
4th- Creative Writing-room G121
5th- Adv. Chemistry-room F122
6th- Mythology 101-room K211
7th- Off Period
Lucy looked around for any signs that would help her find G Hall. She saw a faded blue sign hanging from the ceiling that read G Hall with an arrow pointing left. Lucy heard a bell ring twice, and all the people in the halls began rushing around. Not wanting to be late on her first day, Lucy edged her way through the crowd of people standing in front of the entrance to the G Hall and found herself at the front of a ring of people. Inside the ring were two—very attractive—young men. One of them had black, almost blue hair and matching eyes. The bizarre thing about him was that he was in the middle of taking his shirt off, revealing his impressive physique. Lucy tried to step back and blend into the crowd, but the crowd pushed back, restricting her movement. Lucy turned her attention back to the fight about to happen, and noticed the second teenager. He had strange pale pink hair and was wearing a black t-shirt with orange outlining the edges. A small red dragon decorated the chest of his shirt. He wore denim jeans and had a white scaly scarf wrapped around his neck.
"Oi, what did you say, you stripping bastard?" the pink haired one grumbled. He was up in the other boy's face and his arm was flexing menacingly at his side.
"I said you need to cool it you hotheaded idiot," the dark one replied icily.
"Are Natsu and Gray fighting again?" a voice whispered behind Lucy.
"Yea, it's the third time this week," another voice replied.
"Why I oughtta…" Pinky—that's what Lucy decided to call him, since she didn't know his name—mumbled. Lucy heard a commotion from behind her. Something slammed into Lucy from behind and she tumbled forward right into the angry duo. She flung her arms out to catch herself, and grabbed on to a warm body. She looked in front of her to see her hands wrapped around Pinky's waist. She quickly let go and lurched back, losing her balance, causing her to bump into the shirtless one. Lucy froze when she realized she was standing between two very angry teenagers. Lucy looked up and her chocolate eyes met onyx ones. Lucy was looking straight at Pinky, and he didn't seem too happy to see her.
"Who's that?"
"I don't know."
"Do you think she's new?"
Lucy felt her face flush at the comments from the students, but that was the least of her problems at the moment.
"What do you think you're doin'? I was about to beat this ice princess's sorry ass," Pinky said. "Uhh, well…" Lucy mumbled.
"Idiot. Can't you see she was pushed? Tsk," the shirtless one said. Lucy saw Pinky's face turn the same shade as his hair.
"I knew that!" he retorted. Lucy muffled a giggle behind her hand, but apparently Pinky heard her and his attention focused on her once again. He looked her up and down and squinted. "Do you even go here?" He asked her. The whispers from the crowd increased, and a bell tolled during her silence. Lucy felt anger rush through her. Why couldn't she have made it to her classes quietly? Now because of this idiot, the whole school probably knew that she was new. Lucy hated the attention the students were giving her.
"Listen up, Pinky. I just moved here and yes, I am new. Brilliant observation, Sherlock. Why don't you move out of the way for the people that actually want to learn!" She yelled. The dark haired one chuckled, and Pinky just muttered "Pinky?"
"What is going on here?!" A voice screamed. Pinky paled and looked over Lucy's shoulder with an expression of terror. The mob of students quickly dissipated, including the dark haired teen, leaving Lucy alone with Pinky in an empty hall. A short old man with a white suit and white cape adorned with white fur along the collar stood before Lucy.
"Old man…what are you doing here?" Pinky asked nervously.
"Well, many teachers called in saying half of their classes were missing and that there was a commotion in front of G Hall. Now what else was I to do, Natsu?" the old man replied. Natsu blushed and ruffled the back of his hair anxiously. The old man looked as if he were going to scold Natsu even more when he noticed Lucy.
"Ooh! What have we here! Natsu, what are you doing with a beauty like this, eh? You must be the new student, Lucy He—"
"Yes. I'm Lucy," she interrupted. The old man looked at her knowingly. "I was on my way to class when I was pushed into this fiasco between Pink—I mean Natsu—and another student. I'm sorry for the fuss," Lucy blurted. She had a habit of rambling when she was nervous.
"I see. Well, I'll excuse you this time, since it's your first day." He laughed. Lucy thanked him and noticed Natsu slowly inching away. "But you, Natsu…" the old man growled. Natsu froze and squeaked.
"Headmaster Makarov…I was only playin'," Natsu protested.
"No excuses! Since you seem to have no sixth period for some reason, you will now have the mythology class! And detention the rest of the week!" Makarov exclaimed. Lucy's spine straightened involuntarily when she realized the tiny grandpa in front of her was the Headmaster of the school.
"Awww, really? Come on old man, Gray was in it too," Natsu complained. Headmaster Makarov just smiled and walked away, whistling. Lucy saw the same strange symbol from the entrance embroidered on the back of his cape. She sighed and glanced at Natsu, who was kicking the beige wall and muttering. She felt a little guilty for yelling at him earlier, but was too afraid to apologize. Lucy looked back at her schedule and murmured, "G121. I'm going to be even later now."
Lucy walked into G Hall and glanced at each door, looking for G121. She found it in the back right corner of the hall. She took a deep breath and opened up the wood door.
"Now, when Shakespeare decides to—oh hello. You must be Lucy. I'm Mrs. Connell, but you can call me Bisca. Come in, sit down." The green haired woman beckoned Lucy towards a seat in the front row next to the window. There were many empty desks, and there was only about ten people in the class. Lucy smiled nervously at the cowboy hat wearing teacher and hurried to her assigned seat. Mrs. Conn—Bisca, was sitting on a table at the front of the room.
"Now, as I was saying, Shakespeare makes Romeo and Juliet a tragedy between star crossed lovers. I want you to write an essay on whether or not Romeo and Juliet is the epic romance everyone claims it to be. Two pages minimum, and I want all the juicy details. Don't forget to use quotes from the actual play. It'll be due the day after tomorrow, Friday." Some of the students groaned in protest. Bisca then hopped off the table and walked to the back where her desk was, her cowboy boots clacking on the tiled floor. Lucy didn't think Advanced English would be this easy, but she was glad for a quick assignment to get settled in. Lucy had just opened up her notebook when a wad of paper hit her in the head.
"Ow! What the?" Lucy mumbled. The clump of notebook paper rolled onto her desk. Lucy saw writing on the wad, and she spread the paper out on her desk. A big arrow pointed to Lucy's left and the words Look over! Were scrawled beneath it. Lucy's brow furrowed in confusion, and she looked next to her. Bouncing around in her desk was a blue haired girl with glasses and an orange headband. She waved at Lucy with a huge smile on her face. The girl looked back at Bisca, then refocused on Lucy.
"I heard about the fight today. You yelled at Natsu and didn't get beat up! Plus you're new, and we haven't had anyone new in, like, forever. Well there was Gajeel and Juvia from Phantom High, but that was ages ago. My name's Levy, by the way. You're, Lucy. The new girl. Oh! Sorry, you probably don't like to be called the new girl, I mean who would right?" Levy whispered quickly.
"Um. Yeah, I'm Lucy. And I didn't mean to yell at Pink—Natsu. I was pushed into him and, yeah." Lucy laughed nervously.
"Woah. Well, you have to tell me everything. We'll be best friends. I just know it! Plus you're in this class, which means you are actually competent when it comes to books. Ooh! I almost forgot! You have to tell me all the details on Natsu and Gray. They're super hot, but I've never gotten a close up look like you have." Levy squealed. Lucy felt her face heat up.
"Well, I wouldn't say they were hot, I mean, sure they're really attractive. Like, wow. But I don't really focus on that kind of stuff. I move around a lot so…" Lucy trailed off.
"Hey, I want the details. Did you see Gray's rock hard abs? He strips right? I need to see that for myself one day. It's on my bucket list." Levy scooted her desk closer to Lucy's.
"Umm, yeah. He was shirtless. Which is weird," Lucy replied. Levy smiled and then grabbed her schedule off Lucy's desk. Lucy muttered in protest, but let the girl look at the paper.
"Awesome! We have a ton of classes together. First, second, fourth, and fifth! Plus lunch, but everyone has lunch together. We sophmores usually sit in one place. I'm so glad I have you in Chemistry. Ms. Porlyusica can be mean sometimes." Levy gave the paper back to Lucy and smiled. Lucy couldn't help but smile back. Levy seemed like a fun person, and it seemed to Lucy like she made a friend. The rest of the class went quickly with Lucy and Levy debating together on the subject of Romeo and Juliet. Levy thought it was a true romance about soul mates, while Lucy contradicted her by saying it was just foolish lusty teenagers. Before she knew it, the class was over and Lucy was walking with Levy to their shared second period.
"I mean, sure they could have started to fall in love, but the whole play takes place in like a week. In said week, six people die and two families lives are ruined. Romeo was just depressed after Rosaline didn't put out, so he latched on to a young girl to fill his heart. Pure lust, no love really." Lucy argued. Her and Levy had been arguing the whole way to Calculus. Lucy wasn't watching where she was going, and right before Levy could warn her, she slammed into someone, causing her notebooks to spill everywhere in the most clichéd way possible.
"Ah, I'm sorry! I wasn't watching where I was going—" Lucy started, but froze when she realized she had bumped into Natsu again. "Pinky…"she whispered. Lucy saw Natsu's eye twitch at her comment.
"You. I need to talk to you," Natsu said. He dragged her off down the main hallway and into an empty classroom.
"What the hell?" Lucy exclaimed. Natsu turned around to face her with his muscled arms crossed.
"Why did you call me Pinky?" He demanded. Lucy's mouth dropped open, and she quickly closed it. That's what he was angry about? Her nickname for him? Lucy started to laugh uncontrollably, and soon she was leaning against a desk for support. She wiped a tear from her eye and looked over at Natsu, who didn't look amused.
"In case you haven't noticed, you hair is pink. I didn't know your name, so I gave you one. Plus, you're mad about that?" She giggled. Natsu blushed and he stepped up into Lucy's face.
"That plus the fact that ya stopped me from fighting ice princess. And I got put into a stupid class, and I got detention from the old man." He grumbled. Lucy smiled. "Well, I'm sorry about that, but how bout I introduce myself, properly. I'm Lucy. Nice to meet you, Natsu!"
"Yeah, yeah, nice to meet ya. But in order for you to repay me for the detentions, you have to go to the detentions with me. Seventh period, I'll be waiting. Just meet me where ya bumped into me before." Natsu said before opening the door and leaving the classroom.
"Eh…EHHHHHH?" Lucy screamed.
Yay! New story! It's gonna be a drawn out thing i hope...so look out for more updates! High school au's are always fun. DISCLAIMER- I sadly do not own Fairy Tail, that honor goes to Hiro Mashima. My awesome Beta is tumblr user rivendell101