HELLO EVERYBODY! This is my second series I'll be working on! I HOPE YOU ALL LOVE IT :)

Edit (Nov.2/12) - For anybody who are here for Edo-Natsu and Edo-Lucy, they come in at chapter 4, but I do not reccomend skipping the beginning chapters.

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail.

Plop. Happy dropped a pebble in the downhill river. Plop. He dropped another one. Plop. Plop. Two more fell in.

"What are you doing, Happy?" Lucy asked, slightly annoyed by the sound the stones made when they hit the water. She and Natsu had just finished off twenty forest Vulcans for a job and she was exhausted, physically and mentally.

"Nothing." Happy replied simply. He flew over to the rocky path Lucy and Natsu were walking on and picked up another pebble before flying back over the river. Plop.

Lucy got more and more annoyed with every plop. They'd been traveling up a hill for the past thirty minutes to reap their reward from their client, but to Lucy, the trip back to the client's home seemed to be ten times longer than the trip from. She'd already tripped four times because of the uneven path they took. Instead of unleashing her frustration though, she turned to Natsu and asked, "Are we almost there?"

Natsu nodded his head and Lucy felt her level of exhaustion decrease. She sighed with relief and picked up her pace, her keys jangling with every step.

"Welcome back," a gray-haired man greeted the pair standing at his door. The old man had requested the team to eliminate the villainous creatures that were stealing from his garden for 200,000 jewels. Natsu had thought that the monsters were probably bunnies or something, but he was proven wrong when he saw the giant gorilla-like beasts pulling up vegetables from the old man's garden. "What took you so long?"

"We had a long way to hike." Natsu replied. He left out the fact that the old man's garden was at the bottom of the hill that he lived on and Natsu didn't have teleportation magic to just poof them back and forth.

The old man grunted, but accepted Natsu's excuse. He handed him the reward and thanked the team for helping him. Lucy smiled and waved goodbye before running after Natsu and Happy who were already leaving. The old man was closing his door when he heard Lucy's keys make metallic sounds as she moved. He froze in recognition to the familiar sound before he hurried back inside his house.

"Lucy?" Natsu poked Lucy in the arm repeatedly.

"Yes?" Lucy looked at Natsu and smiled at him.

He smiled back. "When we get back do y- OW!" Lucy jabbed him in the rib.

"Ha, that's what you get!" Lucy snickered and Natsu gave her a dirty look while he rubbed his side.

Lucy walked ahead with her hands on her hips, still smiling. Suddenly, she felt two fingers poke her sides and she yelped. She immediately turned around and walked backwards so she could glare at Natsu, but her foot got caught by loose tree roots and she started to fall backwards. "Ah!"

Natsu's eyes widened and he leaned forward, grabbing her arm, but he leaned forward too much and lost his balance too. The two tumbled down the hill from the client's house with Happy flying after them, yelling, "Natsu, Lushy! Wait for me!"

The two kept rolling down the hill until they were finally stopped by a boulder at the bottom. Lucy moved her hands away from her head and felt her arms ache, every part of her stung from cuts and scrapes. She opened her tear-filled eyes and saw Natsu on top of her, red-faced. Their eyes met and Natsu practically jumped off of her, landing on top of the boulder and slipping off. Lucy slowly got up from lying on her back and lifted her hands to feel her cheeks: burning hot. She tried to take her mind off of what just happened. Natsu, she thought. His face was just centimeters from mine… Ah, Lucy! Snap out of it. It's just Natsu. What are you so embarrassed for?

She looked sideways at Natsu and saw him staring back. She looked away quickly and felt her cheeks go on fire.

"Natsu! Lushy!" Happy panted as he finally caught up to them. "Both of you rolled away so fast."

"Ha, we did, didn't we?" Natsu laughed. "Well, that was fun."

Lucy turned around to face him since her cheeks weren't burning anymore. She noticed Natsu was covered in scratches from head to toe just like her and he was covered in dirt and dust.

"Lucy! You look like a wreck!" Natsu smirked at Lucy's angry expression.

"YOU AS-" She started to say.

"Lushy!" Lucy looked at Happy and felt her face flush. She was about to talk a little bit too inappropriately for the innocent blue cat.

"Sorry, Happy." She apologized. Natsu was about to laugh but Lucy turned her head sharply and gave him a deadly glare, making him shrink back.

"That's not it, Lushy." Happy replied. "I was just going to say that I have something to give you."

Lucy raised an eyebrow. "What is it?"

Happy pulled out a little blue box from his back pack and handed it to Lucy. "It's from that old man we helped. When I was catching up to you and Natsu, he teleported in front of me and told me to give it to you. Then he teleported away like poof!"

"A bonus reward?" Lucy muttered to herself, taking the box from the cat. "Thank you, Happy!"

"Did I get one too?" Natsu ran up to Happy excitedly.

"Nope!" Happy said simply.

"That's not fair." Natsu said, deflated. Lucy looked at him sympathetically but then he started jumping around with fire coming out of his mouth going on about how he should get something too and all her sympathy for him was replaced with an amused smile.

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"Ah," Lucy sighed as she jumped onto her bed and lay down. "I can finally get some rest."

After Natsu, Happy, and herself arrived at her house, Natsu and his cat raced over to her refrigerator and raided it. Within minutes, the three of them ate all the food she had. Though she felt satisfied from having a full stomach, she felt slightly pissed off since she would have to use her share of 100,000 jewels from that day's mission to buy more food to feed her and Natsu.

Later, they all just hung out at her home until it was late and Natsu and Happy decided to go home. That was a shocker since they would usually just spend the night at Lucy's, but she didn't mind because it meant that she'd have some peace and quiet in her house for once.

Basking in the peacefulness her home, Lucy closed her eyes and felt herself drift off to sleep. Except, she remembered she had gotten a bonus reward that she didn't open yet. Excited, she threw herself off her bed and took the reward that was on her desk.

She sat back down on her bed and slowly opened the blue box, closing her eyes to surprise herself. She pulled the top of the box off and placed it beside her before reaching into the box. Her eyes were still closed, so she felt around the box until she felt a cold, metallic surface. She grabbed it with her hand and the shape of it was familiar. It felt like… a key! She opened eyes quickly and stared in disbelief at the key she was holding. To be specific, a white key.

WOOT! First chapter done! Please leave a review, so I know what you readers are thinking about the story so far! Feel free to leave suggestions/ideas or anything like that if you want to. :D I hope to update daily or almost every day. :)