Natsu flipped through one of Lucy's books in writing almost greedily. "What's a good part in here to read up?" he thought. "Something good…" he kept repeating in his mind while thumbing through. Some words caught his eyes, and he stopped there and started to read.

Once again, by a stroke of fate the young woman was still alive and breathing. Yet, a sword had pierced her, but the blade upon being removed from her by her own bare hands turned into ash and her wound healed up.

"This must be magic," she said to herself grudgingly and in sickening wonder. Had she swallowed some wondrous potion?... Natsu paused.

"This woman, whomever she is, is very lucky." He picked up where he left off. Then, she pulled herself up in a slow steady motion. A thought clung to her mind's web like a wisp and vanished into eternity, an eternity that this woman was undeniably tied to. Lucy had added a note in her messy scrawling. But aren't we all gathered up into an eternity? Is this eternity a great love or a great evil? One is sure to me! But anyway, too serious, Lucy!

Natsu chuckled at Lucy's indifference to her deep insight. "She always puts herself so low…." Bang! He heard her steps and smelled her scent. "Oh, crap!" he exclaimed and Happy cried out too, for he was also reading over Natsu's shoulders, floating with his conjured white fluffed wings. Happy's triangular ears rose up at the sound of her entrance.

"Hm hum hee hm dee um hm!" Lucy hummed to herself. She was in a great mood. She had finished buying food to restock her pantry and fridge with enough jewel to spare on other things. "Oh, what a good buy!" she thought. Natsu heard her stacking up the food in the kitchen and heard the sound of fruits being stacked on the kitchen table."Mmmmm!" he thought realizing he was hungry, "More food for me and Happy too!" He smiled warmly at Happy and continued reading thinking in his Natsu-like way that it would be safe to read for a while more.

"Ow!" cried out the red-haired woman in agony, not in the physical pain but in the pain of losing this memory. "Damn!" she cursed the mostly clear light blue sky with strings of clouds in it and trudged onward towards the plains that were visible in the distance.

A woman living in that field the other was walking to just woke up from a dream. She, in the dream, was in another field foreign to her, but she was happy for she had seen and met the man of her dreams! She had had no memories of her previous life haunting her for but a second, but they flooded back to her mind too soon- her hungry goats, her never ending quest for water supply, and her aching back that flooded pain every so often in bad weather, all too familiar. She put a hand to her temple while her hair was pushed away from her face by the breezes that blew across the landscape.

"Don't worry, my young one," said the man in love. She smiled the most genuine smile of her life and had followed him. She sighed in contentment. Her visage was interrupted when a woman's voice came through the dream.

It groaned and spoke in despair, "This must be magic."

The woman in the field felt tears come unbidden to her eyes and turned to ask the man for help with her face now flushed, but she woke up with her head under her warm red blanket staring at the brightness of it shining like oxygenated blood under the light of the sun….

"Whoa! What description!" said Natsu in a loud voice.

"Aye!" Happy agreed, his voice chipper. They both heard a crash.

"Hey!" came a light voice, and they heard running towards them!

"Hide!" Natsu cried and threw his hands up in a jagged motion. Happy hid behind him with his front paws on Natsu's left leg. Lucy stood in the doorway in an instant with her blonde hair glowing in the light of the suns rays coming in from her bedroom window. She was wearing a pink blouse that fit loose on her frame and a black skirt that surprisingly almost went to her knees. Natsu stared at her in surprise, his mouth open a slight amount.

Lucy noticed of course his staring dark colored eyes and said in a surprised voice, "Natsu!?" while blushing lightly.

He replied by a teeth showing smile and asking, "What?...Lucy."

Lucy started, " Why are you…." she saw the bound papers in his hand, "…. reading my book?!" She finished the sentence furiously! Natsu tried to run while Happy got out of the way, but Lucy grabbed his shirt collar and Lucy-kicked him into the bedroom wall.

"Must you always?!" she squealed, blushing in agitation feverishly while skimming through the book to see if it was damaged. Natsu pushed himself up quickly and brushed himself off.

"It was good!" he stated rapidly.

"Wha—," Lucy turned to him in his now standing state. "Really?" she asked incredulously. "What part did you read through?"

Natsu scratched the back of his head, "Uhhhhh…." Lucy stared at him while waiting or trying to wait so patiently. "The part where a woman got stabbed! And her sister has a dream or whatever!"

"That wasn't her sister!" barked Lucy exasperated at Natsu always adding his own bits to her stories. "But, maybe she IS in one way," said Lucy in a thoughtful pose.

Natsu looked at Lucy thinking how weird this chick friend of his is and decided to say truthfully, "She just sounds lucky to me."

"Who?" asked Lucy.

"The stabbed woman; I mean, she was still alive after all that!"

"Oh, she's not lucky," said Lucy defiantly. "That's her destiny though a sad one," she added pout fully.

Nastu grinned and crossed his arms. "No pouting and why destiny?!"

"Because, I don't believe in luck," Lucy stated. "Nothing is lucky. Nothing. So many bad things happen and good; I don't believe that's outta luck! I can't believe that! You, I, we all have purpose!"

"You're confusing me Lucy!" called Happy, floating in the air beside her. Lucy realized she said many deep things and promptly shut her mouth.

"Cat-!" She started to reply. Natsu walked over and hugged her. She felt warm at once.

"What about us?" he prompted while smiling. "Are we destiny?"

"He probably doesn't realize how awkward this is," Lucy thought. "Well, if you mean us meeting, I can believe this," she replied awkwardly. Then, in a daring move, Natsu touched his tan forehead upon her lighter one and looked into her dark brown eyes in what looked like a pondering and caring gaze. At this, Lucy opened her mouth in awe at seeing this expression that he had given to the future Lucy before she had met her demise. "Was that her destiny?" thought Lucy, "-to never see his face again? I won't let that happen." She pulled him closer and put her cheek onto his own. "This is all I need," she thought, "his warmth lights me up." Lucy heard Natsu sigh, and she didn't move. They stayed like this for a while longer, and then Natsu pulled away from her in a slow, deliberate manner. He looked Lucy in the eyes while she stared back at him still captured in that glorious moment.

"So, what's for lunch!" he almost shouted grinning from ear to ear. Lucy broke out of the moment to the present, but she smiled and shook her head.

"Natsu!" she whined with a face full of irritation. But, he knew she was just playing even though she didn't know, and Natsu liked that about Lucy, very much!