Burning Time

[AU/ROMCOM/DRAMA] Just like a rapidly falling Sakura petal, Natsu descended from the throne of the almighty God of Flame- to lift up the spirits of a seemingly lonely girl who happened to be his lover from when she was still the Celestial Princess. The twist is... this former Celestial Princess was reincarnated into a mortal human and didn't have the memories from her past life. However for Natsu, wether the girl remembers him or not, she's still his girl and will do anything to make her happy. [Friedsoupy Fairy Tail NaLu Fanfic!]

Disclaimer: Friedsoupy only borrows the characters from Mashima-sensei's manga/anime 'Fairy Tail'. Thus, she doesn't own anything other than her life and this fanfiction story. (/ ^ v ^)/~

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A king-sized bed, an enormous shelf of books and a study table- was all that had been left in Lucy's luxurious fifty-meter wide bedroom. Last week, she got rid of all the 'useless' stuff in her room for a change of scenery.

Eighteen years. How was that she did not even think of customizing her bedroom up until now when she had been sitting around there almost everyday for eighteen years?

A sigh escaped Lucy's chest as she stood at the center of the bedroom with her hands on her waists. Now that her room looked empty, she felt more lonely than ever. In her eyes, it looked like a desert without sand.

"..." she raised her lips bitterly. With another sigh, she dropped her hands and headed towards her bed.

It was only nine in the morning. In other words, at such time of the day, she had nothing to do.

Lucy had completed her advanced studies last year, read all the books the people in her country had written, learned how a proper lady should act and tried every activity which earned her father's permit- and so running out of things to do.

"Should I try gardening?" she muttered to herself. She didn't liked working in fields but it could save her from boredom.

Turning around, Lucy slowly strode towards the door. It took her full ten minutes to reach it. Silently complaining about how far she should walk to reach the door every time, she suddenly remembered her father telling her that her room was purposely designed that way so that she could do whatever she desired IN THERE.

She paused. When she was ten, she begged her father to let her fish in the pond she saw just below her balcony. Next day, a fish pond with gold fishes was constructed inside her bedroom. The same thing happened when she wanted to go to a popular library outside the capital city- her father made her a library instead of letting her out to see one.

If she said she wanted to make a garden, a field will surely appear in her bedroom when she wake up the next day.

It took her another ten minutes to go back to her bed. With a shrug she said, "at least I'm burning time like this."

"Who's burning what?"

Lucy raised a brow. Who dared to eavesdrop on her? Perhaps an assassin?

Assassins were like weekly news to her.

She took out a sword from under her bed.

The strange voice came from above- from the ceiling?

"Lucy Heartfilia~"

"What the..." Lucy could only look up and down then left and right. The voice echoed through the whole room unnaturally, it was loud and unsettling. "Who's there?"

"Up here. Outside."

She slowly walked out to her balcony with her sword. Should the enemy corner her, she'd just jump down to the pond below the balcony- which was actually a hundred meters down.

However there was none. She could only hear a loud buzzing sound coming from the sky. While she waited for the enemy to attack, the sound grew loud and louder.

"Well, so much for pond swimming," Lucy told herself. It seemed to her that she was hearing things.

Did a spy enter the kitchen and successfully drugged her breakfast thinking that she'd unknowingly jump down her balcony and die from the height? It happened twice in the past.

Whoever that spy was, it wasn't his lucky day.

She placed her sword on the glass table next to her, sighed and ignored the loud buzzing that sounded like a falling heavy object.

"Then let's go swimming!"

This startled the bored young lady. She guessed that her drugged breakfast was taking effect.

"Hey, hey!"

Starting to feel annoyed, Lucy decided to go back in her bedroom. However right before she could touch the glass doors that was splitting her balcony and bedroom, she saw a figure at the corner of her eye.

It was a person falling from the sky.

Dumbfounded, she watched the figure fall closer at her direction.

"Do you see me now?"

"Oh my gosh, you're falling!" Lucy reflexively replied. She raised her head to closely observe the strange phenomena.

This person, who was currently falling from the sky at the same time magically conversing with Lucy at such distance, had a vibrant salmon hair, wearing a black steel armor and a maroon cape.

"You seem bored, will you fly with me?"

Lucy forced herself to suppress a smile. "You're not flying, you're falling!"

"What's the difference?"

As the armored man was falling closer to Lucy's balcony, it seemed that he was breaking the law of physics- slowing down to have a gentle landing.

When his feet touched the balcony that wasn't welcome to anyone other than her father, Lucy took the handle of her sword. "Who... What are you? Where did you come from? Are you an assassin? Who sent you?"

"Fly with me!" was all he answered. In a poof he took Lucy's hand and jumped down to the direction of the favored pond.

"NOOOOOO!" Lucy could only scream in terror and hold the stranger's body close like it was her life. While she was screaming for her life, the man next to her was laughing heartily.

"Are you still lonely and bored?" In the midst of flying-slash-falling, the armored man held Lucy's face with his silver gauntlets, warmingly smiling as though his love for the girl before him pierced him through the brain.

Lucy never saw such face ever since her mother died. Who is this guy? She could only wonder.

Before she knew it she was in the favored pond- with the salmon haired armored man who looked like an idiot by spouting pond water from his mouth.

"That was strange," she mumbled as she watched a wave of panicking guards, butlers and maids running to her side.

"Young Miss!" Lucy's main attendant, Virgo, was the first one to reach the precious daughter of the house. She took Lucy out of the pond, earning an unpleasant gaze from the stranger in armor who took the Young Miss from her safety zone, and gave him the same gaze.

"Guards, get him. Dead or alive."

With the order coming from the main attendant, the guards charged at the armored man. They thought it would be easy to apprehend the person, but they were wrong.

The armor and the cape wasn't just all for show.

"Give her back to me!" he yelled. The guards and butlers just sneered at him.

"I am the God of Flame, you dare to look down on me?"

The men around the self-proclaimed God of Flame laughed at the ridiculous man before them. However after blinking their eyes once, the pond the God was in was boiling.

Soon, fierce red fire was enveloping the surrounding. The guards did not dare to laugh again.

"Monster! Get the Young Miss out of here!"

Lucy watched the hellish scene- her guards burned and was screaming all over the place.

"Hey, stop!" she yelled. No one heard her, but the fire disappeared. It seemed that the only one who heard her was the man with the armor.

He flew towards her and snatched her from the hands of the main attendant.

"Sorry for the pond and all," he apologized, smiling as if a kid who wanted to be forgiven.

The armored man made a fire barrier around them to keep intruders from taking Lucy away. Lucy didn't felt uncomfortable at all, instead she felt safe and warm.

"You..." Lucy looked at his charming face, "What do you want from me?"

He let out a teethy grin and replied, "It's a long story. All I can tell you now is that you will have a great time from now on!"

Lucy was only irritated at how he answered her questions.

"Whatever," she turned her head away and watched her maids crying outside the fire barrier. "Let me go."

"No."

At least he answered that one question clearly.

"Look, you probably just mistook me from someone else," Lucy told the pouting armored man. "I don't remember having a relationship with a God or whatever creature you are. In fact, I don't have anything to do with anyone or anything."

Saying that made her pity herself.

"Of course," the man in armor looked at her in realisation, "you were reincarnated in this mortal world. You won't remember anything... even just a tiny bit of memory," he said with a bitter smile.

What reincarnated? Lucy was left wondering again.

"Then let me tell you this," the armored man took Lucy's shoulders, " I came to cheer you up."

TBC

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