Another way they could have met
Chapter 1: A runaway and a ditch
It was 12am, Lucy Heartfilia was planning to run away from her father and this horrid mansion called home. Lucy tied up her blanket with her sheet and tied the makeshift rope to the leg of her bed and threw it off the window, she clung onto it and climbed off the window. When she landed on the ground she was caught my one of her many maids, she ran into the woods as fast as she could and lost the maid there. Lucy found a rock for her to sit on, she opened her backpack and got out a bottle of water. When she was drinking she heard a twig crack, she was scared, she was only 7 years old. "W-who's there?" Lucy was terrified until a boy about her age came out from the shadows, "What are you doing out in the woods at this time?", "I'm running away from home.", "You're not doing a very good job at that!" There were an army of maids after her. "Come with me!" The boy grabbed her hand and ran, he was fast, then the two finally lost the army of maids.
The two sat down under a tree, "Ow!", "Are you hurt?" The boy asked with worry, "No, I sat on something." Lucy grabbed the thing spiking her bottom, "A key?" On the back there was some words engraved. "Gate of the golden bull, I open thee?" There was a magic circle in front of her and out came taurus the bull. "Wow, I've never seen anyone this young open my gate!", "What are you?", "I'm a celestial spirit, looks like you're destined to be a great celestial wizzard, a girl at the age of 7 can open the zodiac gate.", "I'd better be going!" The bull disappeared leaving lucy with the boy. "What is this weird feeling?", "Cool you can use magic!", "Magic? What kind do you use?", "Fire.", "Cool! Can you start a bonfire? I'm getting cold.", "Sure.", the boy spat a little spark from his mouth and then it turned into a bonfire. "Didn't get your name.", "Lucy Heartfilia, and you?", "Natsu Dragneel.", "Where are your parents?", "I don't know he diaspeared this morning.", "Who is he?", "He's a dragon, and my foster parent.", "A DRAGON? NO WAY!", before he could reply his stomach growled. "Are you hungry? I have some food with me.", "Sure.", "Take it from the bag, i'm going to sleep.".
Next morning natsu woke up and found himself doing something weird, he was hugging lucy, she was still asleep so she didn't notice. He freaked out and shouted, "What's wrong?", "N-nothing…", "Why not we stick together, we're no good alone.", "Sure!". The two walked into the town finding somewhere to stay for a while, since lucy was a heiress she took a bit of money with her. But the hotels rejected her and natsu cause they were too young. "Aw, where are going to say now?" During their walk Makarov saw the two walking on the street alone. "Where are your parents?", "They left us.", Makarov sensed magic in the two. "Come with me, I have a place for you to stay.", "Wow this place is big!", "Yeah, what he says.", "This is a guild, I believe you will make many friends here." The miniature master opened the doors of the guild. "Wow… Are they all wizzards?", "Yes they are." Then a scarlet haired girl older than lucy a few years came to greet her. "Hi, I'm erza." Erza gave her a warm smile, "I'm lucy.", "Nice to meet you!" While the two girls were talking natsu picked a fight with a boy about the same age as him, he was in his boxers. Erza jumped out of the conversation and went to separate the two, "STOP FIGHTING YOU DIMWITS!" Then erza spotted the boy with pink hair, "I haven't seen you before in the guild, what's your name?", "Natsu.", "Natsu hm? That guy over there is gray.", "You mean underpants man?", "Suddenly the boy in his boxers ran towards natsu and started fighting again, before they could even touch each other erza separated the two. "A celestial wizzard,.", "What ya talking about macao?", "I found this on my last mission, should I give it to her?", "I think you should old buddy!" Macao walked over to lucy and tapped her on the shoulder, "I think you might want this, it's a zodiac key, a very rare one, and you have one of the twelve on you, this is aquarius." Macao gave the little girl the key, "Thank you mister!", lucy looked at the back like she did when she found taurus, "Gate of the water bearer, I open thee.", suddenly a magic circle appeared in front of her, and a beautiful mermaid was in front of her. "Are you my new owner? So young! You must be the one taurus talked about!", "Who is taurus?", "The ugly bull thing.", "Oh, Are you a mermaid? I've read about you in books, you're way prettier than they describe you!", "Well thank you, I better be going." Then aqaurius disappeared.
When gray was sick of fighting natsu he saw lucy, "Pretty…", "OH! SOMEBODY HAS A CRUSH!" Mirajane yelled out, "SHUT UP MIRA!". Ever since gray laid eyes on lucy he fell in love with her, he also knew that natsu likes her because they fought about that once. Natsu and lucy were a team, they usually did jobs together, then one day when natsu found a egg, he was occupied by lissana. Lucy felt lonely without him, then gray stepped up to her. "Hi i'm gray!", "You're the stripper natsu told me about!", "Don't listen to him he's a liar!", "Do you like natsu?" gray asked, lucy was blushing furiously. "I knew it! You do!", "D-don't make false acusations!"Suddenly erza jumped onto the table wth a sword over gray's throat. "Is he bothering you?", "No." Erza jumped off the table and put her sword back. Erza and lucy were best friends, they share a dorm together, lucy couldn't do any jobs today because natsu isn't here, she nearly got lost once on a solo job. So she just went to her dorm, erza was also taking the day off. "I heard you and gray's conversation. You do like natsu.", "Ya, but don't tell anybody.", "I heard gray and natsu likes you.", "How do you know so many things?", "Once they were fighting about you.", 'M-me?", "To tell the truth, you are pretty cute.", "But I think he likes lissana now.", "They might be hanging out, but he might still like you.", "I doubt it.". There was fuss in the guild hall, suddenly a blue cat flew into their dorm. "Uh… A cat with wings?" Erza said in a confused tone. "His name is happy!", "Natsu?", "This is the thing that came out of the egg!".
"Ah, the memories." Lucy said as she closed the photo album, this year lucy was 15. Lucy walked into the guild hall, she was sitting with gray and erza, natsu was on a S-Class job with mirajane, elfman and lissana. Everyone was suddenly gasping at what they saw, it was lissana dead, in natsu's arms.
A day later is was lissana's funeral, lucy missed it. When lucy was going on a solo job she saw saw natsu outside of the guild furious, "What the matter natsu?", "You missed it.", "I missed what?", "YOU MISSED LISSANA'S FUNERAL!" He ran over and gripped lucy's neck and slammed her to a wall. "I was on a job!", "LIAR! YOU AT YOUR DORM! I CAN SMELL IT!", "SO I MISSED IT WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL?", "MISSING A IMPORTANT OCCASION IS UNFORGIVABLE, JUST BECAUSE YOU HATE HER DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN MISS IT! I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOUR FACE AGAIN! I HATE YOU!" Those words crossed the line, lucy didn't hate lissana she just saw her as a aqaintance. "I'll do something you can't forgive.", "Do it! See if I care."
Lucy walked back into the guild furious, she walked to the guild master's office and demanded to quit the guild. "Quit? I thought you liked this guild?", "I just want to quit." Lucy said in the calmest voice she could manage. Then her guild mark disappeared, lucy said a goodbye to master Makarov . She left the office and walked out of the guild doors, natsu was shooting her death glares, he was too busy giving her dirty faces to notice that her guild mark was gone. Gray was the only one who noticed her guild mark was gone, once he caught up to her he grabbed her arm, "Where's your guild mark?", "None of your business.", "I'm not going anywhere till you tell me.", "That leaves me no choice." Lucy gave him a hard kick in the stomach. Lucy was good at hand to hand combat, he fainted after the kick, leaving lucy free to go.
After an hour gray returned and shouted, "LUCY QUIT FAIRY TAIL!", "WHAT?" The guild shouted in unison, natsu realized she said. "I'll do something you can't forgive." Those words echoed through his head. "This is my fault, she left and it was my fault.", "YOU INSANE BASTARD ! WHAT DID YOU DO?", "I said I hate you to her.", "YOU BASTARD SHE LOVED YOU! HOW COULD YOU NOW SHE'S ROAMING THE STREETS GUILDLESS AND IT'S ON YOUR HEAD!", "It's my fault.", "Cana! Can you track her down?" Levy asked, "I'll try.", cana took out a deck of cards laid them down. She arranged them for a while , then her face turned into a horrified expression. "What's wrong?", "I sense a dark magic around lucy."…
Note: I'm sorry if my other stories were making you all impatient and stuff, because I lost my writing spirit! But now it's back!