A Merman?

This is the story about a girl and a merman. It was an important night for Lucy Heartfilia, this was the night that she would escape the prison she called home.

Her father was a millionaire business man; he was the owner of the Heartfilia bank.

She was sick of that life! Her father wouldn't let her go to school and made her take private lessons on how to be polite and lady-like. She didn't choose that! She wanted to learn new things! She wanted to be free!

Lucy was currently putting a short white dress on and a large cloak to hide her blonde hair. When she finished, she stepped out of her window and gazed at the starry sky. She put her small bag on her back and jumped out without remorse. Big mistake.

She fell on her butt making a loud thud. Meanwhile waking one of her father's servants.

"Ouch! I should've thought before jumping." She mumbled as she stood up and ran away.

Lucy was walking through the woods for one week and hoping that she would be in Magnolia soon. She was dirty. Her dress was torn. It was too hot. On top of that she was hungry and tired, due to her lack of sleep the past week.

"Help!" She heard a boyish voice scream.

"Help!" She heard again, but it was accompanied by small footsteps and the breaking a couple of branches.

She tried to follow that voice…..but the voice came to her.

BOOM

She crashed with a small boy with blue hair.

"Ouch! Hey, Miss! Can you help me please?" The blue haired kid asked. "H-Help you with what?" Lucy asked as she stood up. "With him! He's dying!" He said standing up and tugging on her dress. "Who is dying?" She asked concerned. He didn't respond, he just took her hand in his small ones and started to run. She followed him.

When they stopped she noticed they were in the middle of the forest. There were a lot of bushes with berries, there was a little pond and big old trees rested by the shore.

"Hurry Miss!" The boy exclaimed from behind a fallen tree. She quickly ran over to him and saw something she didn't expect. She saw a pink haired man. Wait what was that on his lower half? A tail?! Is he a mermaid?!

"He isn't breathing!" The boy exclaimed. Lucy never saw strange things, but she kneed beside the mermaid and placed her ear on his chest. She heard a faint beating and started to worry.

So, she knew what she needed to do…CPR. She tipped his chin up, so, he would be looking to the sky and leaned forward. They were a couple of millimeters apart then…..he jolted up, sitting straight and knocking Lucy out.

"What happened? Where am I?" The mermaid asked to the little boy.

"I found you by the seashore and you were mumbling something about mate and pond so I brought you to the forest pond of Magnolia. Oh, and my name's Happy!" He explained. "What's your name?"

"Natsu." The mermaid answered. He took a look around and felt something weighting on his lower body half, it was a girl. There was a human girl laying on his tail. Was she sleeping? Her eyes were closed. She had a little red bump on her forehead. Did she pass out?

"Happy, who is she?" Natsu asked. "I forgot to ask her, but you knocked her out!" Happy exclaimed. "What?! When did that happen?!" Natsu asked. "When you were sleeping." The young boy answered matter-of-factly. "She looks pretty." He commented caressing her cheeks. "I'm going to watch over her. Can you get some food, please?" Natsu asked. "Aye, Sir!" Happy exclaimed as he ran away. Natsu flipped around, put Lucy on his back and crawled under a tree.

"I need water." He thought as he felt his throat run dry and crawled into the water.

It was already night. Happy and Natsu were making a barbecue and waiting for Lucy to get up. She hummed in her sleep as she smelled grilled fish and slowly cracked her eyes open.

"What happened?" She asked as she sat up straight. "I accidentally knocked you out." Was her response. That definitely woke her up.

"You what?!" She screamed.

"So loud!" Two voices exclaimed.

Lucy took a look around the area she was in. She was still in the forest, under a starry sky and beside a pond. She was lying on a 'mattress' made out of dry leaves and flowers. She looked forward and saw a blue-haired boy grilling with a pink-haired man.

"I'm sorry." She apologized. "I'm Lucy." She greeted. "Nice to meet you Luigi! I'm Natsu and this is Happy!" He grinned at her. "My name is Lucy!" She exclaimed. "I made you some fish." He said giving her a big leaf with a fish in it. "And to apologized I made you this." He said giving her a necklace with a fire-stone-like pendant. "T-thank you." She blushed, forgetting she was angry.

She crawled over to where they were sitting and silently ate her fish…just to spit it out again. "Hoooooot!" She screamed and dived into the lake. "My tongue." She mumbled sticking it out of her mouth as she rose from underneath the water.

Then she looked at Natsu. He had no legs, he had a tail. She was in shock.

She looked at him.

He looked at her.

She looked at him.

He looked at her.

"AHHHH! YOU'RE A MERMAID!" She exclaimed pointing at him.

"I'M NOT A MERMAID! I'M A MERMAN!" He screamed back.

"S-so why do you have pink hair?" She questioned.

"It's not pink! It's salmon!" He answered looking away from her and blushing. Then he looked at her again. Her dress was wet and it was…white. Oh sweet seashells! He saw it! And he was staring!

"L-Luce. Y-you…your d-dress…is…ahmm….." He mumbled as he stared at her. "What…" She glanced down at her breasts and quickly covered them. "You pervert!" She accused, turning around.

"You're goin' to catch a cold if you don't get out now." He said, but she didn't respond. So, he and Happy just continued to eat and decided that when Lucy wanted to come out, she would. They wouldn't force her.

It was late at night. Happy and Natsu were already at sleep and Lucy was still in the water. It was freezing! "Achoo!" She sneezed. "I'm so cold. I think it's better to sleep there, than to freeze here." She said to herself and turned herself around. She saw Happy lying near the worn out camp-fire and sleeping peacefully, but where was Natsu?

Strong arms wrapped around her waist and a hot breath tickled her neck. "You're so cold. Let me warm you up." A low voice spoke and its owner snuggled his nose on the back of her neck.

"N-Natsu?" She asked and he hummed. She turned herself in his embrace so she was facing his face. She laid her head on his shoulder and hugged him back, in the need of heat. "Thanks." She said as she drifted of to sleep.