The Monsters under your Bed – A Sleepless Nightmare in your Head

Hello my lovelies! I am Lucy. I just love writing! This is my first fanfic! I thought I'd start off by writing a Fairy Tail Story, and YES OF COURSE IT IS A NALU STORY BECAUSE THEY WOULD MAKE SOME AMAZING COUPLE!

*Cough*

Sorry about that.

Anyway, Nalu fluff will not be constant, but it will come. It will take you by surprise. *Le Evil Smirk.*

Also, I've rated this a T JUST in case. Just to be safe. : )

Enjoy!

My love, my sweet, my precious love…

Brown orbs fluttered open. A pale finger twitched and flexed against the dry earth beneath it. A leg, pressed against a rough cold stone, struggled against the deafening eerie silence that stooped lower to the ground. The body, belonging to the leg, rose stiffly, breaking the fine mist that flew just above the body.

A silenced gasp escaped the mouth of the body. The brown orbs widened, and a pale hand reached up to cover its mouth. A strong urge to scream overwhelmed the body, although no sound escaped.

Bitter, you call me? Evil, I call you.

An eerie silent wind swept the grey leaves of the blackened trees. The body made another attempt to scream, but all the sound that escaped was the high-pitched empty silence that surrounded her.

A blackened presence gripped its cold concealed hands on the body's shoulders. The body collapsed to the ground in a dead silence.

You broke me, remember? Giving me a false hope. Telling me to run…

One brown orb opened in the eerie silence. It distantly focused on a blackened shadow. In the midst of the fear that suffocated her, lips moved slowly, telling her a word.

But then I ran…

The brown orb closed. And it did not see the word.

And then when you caught me…I was never found.

Long slender legs kicked at her constricting captors. A sheen of sweat covered her forehead, and tearful gasps escaped her small mouth. Lucy rose sharply from her plump mattress and gripped her pillow with her small, dainty hands. Her dark eyes scanned her lightened apartment where the sun broke through her thinned curtains.

A dream…

A sharp knock at her window sent the girl reeling towards her smooth a polished apartment floor. Lucy took in a shuddering breath and slowly crept back onto her mattress. She held out a shuddering hand, and pulled back the curtain. The face of her partner popped into view with his usual infectious grin.

"Hey, Luce!" His cheerful exterior brought a smile of her own to her pale, tear stricken face. The said girl pulled her large window open, and was pleasantly surprised by the comforting breeze of summer brushing her face. Natsu's calculating onyx stare zoomed in on her complexion, and narrowed very slightly. "Have you been cryin'?"

The blonde stiffened and turned her back on the pyro, furiously rubbing her reddened eyes. "N-No…" She sniffed and turned back to him, forcing a smile on her delicate features. She was surprised to see his face closer to hers. "N-Natsu…"

"Who's the bastard that made you cry, Luce?" The seriousness of his voice sent a shiver of surprise through Lucy's spine. His eyes wondered down to her clothing, and confusion quickly demolished the anger. "It's not like you to change into your sleepin' stuff so early."

Lucy allowed a giggle to bubble through her lips. "Nobody's made me cry, idiot." Although I'm grateful for the concern… "I'm still in my pyjamas because I've just woken up." She watched his shoulders slump. He collapsed onto her sofa and crossed his arms behind her head. Her inquisitive gaze looked around the room. "What time is it?"

"Time you got a watch…" Natsu muttered. This earned him a pillow to his unsuspecting face. "Ow, Luce!" He pointed accusingly at the sequins sewn into the lining of the offensive pillow. "That hurt!"

"Well it wasn't supposed to tickle~" She giggled and sat next to him, eyes boring into his own. "But seriously, what time is it?"

"Well-"
"Oi matchstick and Lucy!" Gray's voice echoed from the behind the front door. "Erza's going off her nut waiting for you two to get you asses to the Guild." A fearful pause weighed heavily on both pyro and celestial mage. "You're way over an hour late."

"KYYYYAA~!" Lucy, as though a switch had been flicked, punched Natsu in the face and flung him through the door. She slammed her door harshly and flung clothes out of her wardrobe. She zoomed around her apartment and flung her un-folded clothes into a backpack. "AN HOUR LATE?!" She flung her front door open, locked it, snatched the unconscious Gray and Natsu by the ear, and zoomed towards the guild in a line of smoke.

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"Lucy looks like a tomato…" Happy flew above Lucy's head with his paws covering his small mouth. He wasn't half wrong. From where Erza's metal clad fist had whacked her across the head, a fine red bump had decorated her smooth blonde head.

Natsu and Gray weren't much better off, though. They were unconscious in Erza's overly stuffed horse cart of a luggage bag. They moaned and groaned in discontentment, Natsu the most, as they went harshly over the bumps and creases in the road.

"You had a fair warning," Erza growled fiercely. "We were supposed to meet at the guild for our mission at exactly one o'clock and not a minute over!" She flung her waist bag carelessly into her luggage bag. Of course, it came into fatal contact with Natsu's brick like dense head. He slithered down further into the luggage bag, his eyes replaced with swirls.

Gray blinked out of his unconscious state and jumped out of the card, casually walked beside it with crossed arms. "I think you're forgetting that I was early." He muttered. "Natsu and Lucy were the ones that were late. Happy tagged along somewhere along the way."

"OH YEAH JUST DIG US A DEEPER HOLE, BAKA!" Natsu and Lucy's fists collided with Gray's cool composure, and sent him wheeling back into the cart. Natsu, remembering his travel sickness, collapsed back into the cart and onto a rather large plastic shark.

"Don't drag me into this, Gray~!" Happy cried. He tugged at Natsu's hair and pointed at Gray accusingly. Natsu just slumped further into the cart and drooled in the midst of his motion sickness. His face was nearly the colour of a grape while his cheeks puffed out dramatically.

Erza, coming to a halt on her speeding steps forward, frowned and let go of the cart handle. She closed eyes and crossed her arms over her armoured chest. She rest one arm on the other, and placed her chin in one hand. Apparently, she was thinking. It was either new ways of punishing Natsu, Gray and Lucy, or- "It seems we are lost."

A moment of rare silence blanketed the team. Lucy sunk out of the cart and crouched into a ball on the ground. Natsu jumped out of the cart and jumped around in pure joy that they had stopped moving. Happy was hovering in the air, munching on a fish, and Gray was staring into the open space, bewildered.

They were…lost.

"This is so unfair…" Lucy grumbled. "The one time everyone is up for actually doing a mission and we get lost half way through…" The blonde stiffened when something soft brushed against her arm. Brown eyes focused on a piece of paper hat stuck out of the cart. She pulled it out slowly. A map. "GUYS I FOUND A-!"

Somewhere along the line of Natsu's dancing and cheerful exclamations, a long bead of fire shot from his mouth and came in to contact of the paper. Lucy watched the last remaining pieces of the last bit of hope of finding their way out of forest crumbled before her eyes.

There was no place for mercy where Lucy's mind had lodged itself to. "YOU IDIOT YOU BURNED THE MAP!" She laced her hands around the pyro's open vest and shook him violently back and forth. "NOW HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO GET OUT?!"

"Easy," Gray commented coolly. "We'll build camp for tonight and head out in the morning. There's no point of wandering lost if we don't know where we're goin'." Of course. Gray was there to save the day.

The scarlet haired woman nodded in approval and set her cart down. She pointed a fierce finger. "Natsu, you get fire wood and try not to burn it." She pointed the other at Gray. "You go and get some rocks to keep the fire going and perhaps collect some berries – preferably not poison ones – and Lucy," Her eyes hardened. "You can go and collect some water." Erza's eyes moved towards Happy. "And you can go with her."

Lucy dropped Natsu harshly to the ground and saluted. "Yes, ma'am!" She tilted her had curiously. "What're you gonna do?"

"I will set out our beds. Now go."

"I'LL BEAT YOU TO IT, STRIPPER!" Natsu's faint call resounded further into the forest as a trail of dust followed after him.

Gray glared and raced into the forest. "I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU TRY YOU FLAMING MINCE PIE!"

The blonde sighed and trudged into the forest. "C'mon, Happy. You go that way and I'll go this way."

"I know! Why don't we have a special call for when we find water?" He covered his mouth to stifle his laughter. "You're impression of a pig is good."

"GET GOING YOU STUPID ALLEY CAT!"

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A low hoot of an owl echoed through the dark forest. A chilled breeze curled around the leaves. Fallen branches snapped under Lucy's nerved steps. She wrapped her arms around herself and glared at the ground. "Where would I find water in a forest, anyway? I didn't see a single river on a way here."

Snap

The blonde suddenly stood up straight and ridged at the sound of a snapping branch. Her frozen form shook and slowly turned towards the sound. "H-Happy…is that you?" Her small whimper resounded in the forest.

Silence…

"M-Must be my imagination…" She swallowed her fear and trudged onwards. Her sharp eyes caught sight of a faint glistening in the shrubbery. "Is…is that-?" She picked up her pace and pulled back the branches. A clear river rounded and bended for as far as she could see. The river was thrashing and smashing against the rock in the middle. The blonde haired girl looked further down and squinted to see a sudden drop. A waterfall. She looked across and saw it was wider than she imagined. She bent down and poked the deep and never ending water. "Looks clean…"

And now my dear, as the fear travels through you…

Lucy jumped, startled, at the calm and eerily quiet voice. Just as she was about to turn around, a sudden force shoved her slender form into the unforgiving water. Lucy unlatched her hand from the flask, and thrashed in the icy water. "Ha-Happy!"

Lucy felt panic seize her chest as the icy cold water shot through her veins. The blonde haired woman felt herself being dragged away from the river bank and she trashed and clawed the surface. She choked and swallowed a large amount of the river water.

Drown in the tears and allow me to rule you…

Small black specks danced in her line of vision. Slowly, as her eyes began to shut down, she caught sight of a blacked out figure looming in the river bank. "Na…" Her voice came out as a small, weak whisper. She took in one final breath. "NATSU!" A harsh wave crashed over her form, and Lucy was forced under the unforgiving surface.

And so goodnight my precious, darling love…

O.O What did you think? Good start and good ending? Or horrible start and horrible ending? TEELL MEE IN YOUR REVIEWS! I am planning of making this quite a few chapters! Knowing me, it'll be quite a few! :P

I really hope you liked it! REMEMBER TO REVIEW!

Lucy

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