Hello my lovely snowflakes!
I have no idea where this story idea even came from, I was just sitting in the car thinking about random things and this suddenly popped into my brain.
I'm not planning on making it a super long series so I think It'll end up being like 3 to 5 short chapters.
Well anyway, lets enter the snowstorm!
DISCLAIMER: AGAIN, I ONLY OWN THE PLOT!
Natsu had been alone throughout his whole life. He never spoke to anyone about anything, not even his parents or younger sister. He just remained to himself and never let his feelings show.
Lucy was the exact opposite. She loved to talk to people, even strangers and her favorite hobby was to make more friends everyday. She showed her affection to everyone whether they wanted it or not.
They both lived in Magnolia, a small town in Fiore. Actually, small town would be an understatement. There was Fiore and then there was a small residential area, the size of a neighborhood, that was connected to it by a single, thin highway. They called it the Magnolia connection route.
There was so much traffic on this one road everyday since it was the only way for people who lived in Magnolia to get to their jobs, schools, and errands.
The mayor of Fiore decided that the only way to fix this was to make a schedule for anyone to use the Magnolia connection route. Each vehicle was assigned ten time slots a day for using the road to get in or out of Magnolia.
Since there were only two roads on the highway, only two vehicles could share a time slot. Each time slot was 2 minutes apart from each other. This system was created during the summer before Natsu and Lucy's 5th grade year.
The Hearfilia family and the Dragneel family both shared the same ten time slots for using the Magnolia connection route. Neither of them really cared who they shared their time slot with, the just wanted to make sure they put put each one to good use.
It was a bright and sunny Monday afternoon, the last one before the day would be classified as the one that ruined a person's good mood.
"So Natsu, are you excited for school starting next week?" said Igneel.
"Mmm," was the response he got from the blank-faced boy. "I'll take that as a no."
"Natsu is always so boring! But I love him anyway!" Wendy started talking nonsense again as she wiggled around in her car seat. She may have always been a strange five-year old, but it was clear that the person she loved the most was her only older brother.
Natsu continued to stare out the window as his father, Igneel, pulled up to the Magnolia connection route to use his 12:34pm time slot. There weren't many things to be observed- trees, the sky, a few small animals- but Natsu was still in deep thought about all of it.
He was pulled out of his thoughts when the car he was in entered the single highway and he came face to window with a little blonde girl who just smiled and waved like a mad woman.
Natsu wondered what on Earth is wrong with this girl or if she some kind of lunatic. Why is she waving at me was she waving at him? Natsu just stared as the girl continued waving, clearly waiting for him to respond. He slowly lifted his hand and moved it back in forth, wanted to get it over with so he could be left alone.
The girl smiled even wider, if that were possible, and stopped waving. Thank Mavis. But much to Natsu's dismay, this young blonde was not done with him. She pulled out a whiteboard and a blue marker from somewhere in her car and began to scribble on it quickly: Do you have a whiteboard? She pressed her board onto her car window to allow him to read what she wrote.
Natsu read it and immediately became confused. Why did she want to know if he had a whiteboard? Why would he even have a whiteboard in his car? Natsu simply shook his head at the girl and she started to pout. She started to scribble something again and showed him her words: Then get one!
Was this girl forcing Natsu to get a whiteboard? Is she seriously messed up in the head?
A few seconds later, the car the little girl was in turned to the right, leaving Natsu to only see her waving goodbye to him while still showing that huge smile.
"Come on Natsu, you have to pick out all your school supplies now. It's not going to be like last year where you made me drive all the way across town just to get a folder in the color you like." The family had finally arrived at their destination to buy everything they would need for school.
Wendy was running up and down the aisles throwing everything that had sparkles or lots of color into her basket. "Hey! Wendy! You don't need all that!" yelled Igneel as he tried to grab the young blunette. "But I'm starting kindergarten!" Wendy dodged all of Igneel attempted and kept throwing random things into the basket. "I now you are! Just let me help you only pick the things you need," said Igneel, giving up on ever catching his daughter. Wendy just looked at with a skeptical look on her face. Igneel sighed "I'll let you pick our any backpack you want if you just let me help you pick out what you need." Wendy squealed with excitement and dropped her basket, running towards the backpack area. Igneel just sighed again and followed after her.
Natsu wasn't paying attention to the entire scene as he was focused on deciding what he would need for his new grade. He was finally entering his last year of elementary school and he would be going to a middle school that was outside of Magnolia instead of going to the one that was in it. He couldn't wait to finally get away from all his annoying classmates and finally go to a place where he could be invisible to everyone. Although it would be hard. considering his natural pink hair.
His basket was already filled with notebooks, folders, pencils, pens, erasers, and a pencil case. What more could he need? As he walked along the aisle, his eyes caught the area with whiteboards. His mind immediately went to the young girl he saw earlier that day. He just continued to stare at the whiteboards and didn't notice his father coming up from behind him.
"What are you looking at?" he asked. Natsu jumped slightly at the sudden noise coming from behind him. "Nothing." he mumbled. Igneel just looked at his son with a confused look until he shrugged. "Well if that's all you're getting, lets checkout so I can hurry up and get home." Igneel began to walk off while holding a shopping basket in one hand and Wendy's hand in the other.
Natsu took one last look at the shelf before grabbing one of the boards and a pack of markers and throwing them into his basket.
"I might need one for school some day," he mumbled to himself as he pulled up his white scaly scarf to cover the tint of red on his cheeks.
And we've made it to the ice castle!
So there's the prologue! It'll probably end up to be a kind of cute little story don't cha think?
I don't know when I'll be able to actually start writing since all my teachers have been deciding to dump tons and tons of work on me for the past few days.
Well anyway, hope you all enjoy your week!
*Stand. Bow. Aye Sir!*
And I'll see ya next storm!