Chapter one

Normal POV

Lucy walked along the river bank, with Plue following close behind,

"I wonder what will happen today, what do you think Plue?"

"Pun-pun!"

"Yeah, come to think of it, Natsu and Gray probably will be fighting" Lucy imagined the guild hall collapsing due to their fights and shook her head trying to shake the thought off.

-At the guild hall-

"You wanna fight, ice princess!" Natsu exclaimed, getting ready to fight the one and only, you guessed it, Gray.

"You're the one who started it, flame-brain!"

"Oh yeah? Well come and fight me then!"

The boys didn't notice a dark aura looming behind them.

"Fine, then let's go Nat-"

Two firm hands grabbed their heads and shoved them into each other, "That's enough you two! If you don't stop this habit I'll have to…"

Everyone in the hall shuddered at the thought.

"Y-yes Erza, we understand" Natsu and Gray replied together, drifting out of consciousness.

Lucy entered the guild hall, closing Plue's gate, and walked over to the bar.

"Good morning, Lucy" said Mira with a smile on her face.

"Hey Mira, can I have the usual?" asked Lucy.

"Sure, coming right up!" Mira wandered off to get Lucy's drink.

Natsu jumped into the chair next to Lucy.

"Hey Lucy, I found a job and was gonna ask if you wanted to join me."

"Oh sure, my rent is due soon too, so it works for me!" replied Lucy.

"Oh what's the job about, by the way?" Lucy's mind was wandering off, in hope of a gate key being part of the reward.

"Well, we have to get rid of these monsters in the mountains which are attacking people, close to Hargeon. The reward is also 2million j!"

"Really, with that money, I won't need to find money for rent for a while!" Lucy finished off her drink Mira had given her a while before.

"Exactly now let's go!" Natsu jumped out of his chair."Happy, we're going on a job want to come?"

"Aye, sir!" Happy activated his flying magic, and followed Natsu and Lucy.

-In the mountains of Hargeon-

"I- (bleugh) hate carriages" Natsu said as the carriage bumped it's way through the mountains of Hargeon.

"Oh come on, we'll be there soon, so you just have to keep you're strength up till then!" Lucy said, smiling.

The carriage stopped.

"Here you go, guys. This is as far as I'm taking you." said the driver of the carriage.

"It stopped! Whoo-hoo!" exclaimed Natsu

"And there's the cave mentioned in the job request!" Lucy said.

Everyone turned to face the huge cave, waiting for them to enter.

"Aye" Happy said less enthusiastic as Lucy, feeling some thing's presence waiting inside.