Title:- A twist of fate
Rating:- T
Pairing:- Natsu x Lucy
Warning:- Violence, language
Disclaimer:- I don't own Fairy Tail
Summary:- A young girl lost in a much bigger world.
Chapter 1: The beginning of a friendship
Lucy Heartfilia trudged home, her blonde hair flowing in the wind and her deep brown eyes fixated on the ground. Another day of school was over, but the fact that she was ignored continued at home. No one paid any attention to her at all. In class, she sat at the back and at home her father was at work all the time,but that wasn't his fault. He was the one that provided her with a house after all. She absent-mindedly walked into her house, her key scratching against the door, before screaming in shock at the sight of her dad holding up a metal object threateningly toward her. Was that a...?
"What exactly do you intend to do with that?" Lucy started, confused by her father's antics.
"I thought it was a burglar, so I was going to hurt him or something..." Jude trailed off.
"With a spoon?" Lucy retorted, before breaking into a fit of laughter.
Jude looked at his hand in shock. "Well,um... Go take a bath or do homework or something." He said quickly, trying to hide his embarrassment.
Still laughing hysterically, Lucy made her way toward her bedroom and prepared to take a bath.
Meanwhile, at Magnolia High, a fight had broken out, which was a daily occurrence. Students gathered around the pink haired and raven haired boys, shouting words of encouragement but some moans also came from the newly gathered audience.
"You two again?" A voice said clearly over the rest.
"The stripper started it!" The pink haired boy shouted, pointing at the other, before quickly fleeing the scene, catching a glimpse of a red-haired woman ,whose presence is overwhelming enough to frighten the squabbling duo,approaching through the other students.
N-A-L-U
"Dad, I'm going out for a walk!" Lucy yelled out to her father and closed the door behind her.
Lucy strolled through the streets of magnolia, breathing in the cool air. She enjoyed taking walks through town, it made her feel relaxed. She continued to wander, caught up in her own thoughts, until she suddenly found her self on the ground. Assuming that she had bumped in to someone, she blurted out "I'm sorry!" Before hearing laughter coming from multiple people. She looked up, to find five males sneering at her, she stayed on the floor without speaking a word, until one of the blond boys broke the silence.
"Who the hell...apologises...for being punched in the face?" He managed to say through fits of laughter.
Lucy stared up at them, eyes wide in shock and fear as the pain in her face began to set in. Another blond man with longer hair stepped forward and kicked Lucy in the stomach. She lay on the floor, a tear brimming in her eye, confused as to what she'd done to deserve this. She lay still and closed her eyes in anticipation of a beating, as the gang moved forward, and their fists met with her shock-ridden body.
N-A-L-U
The pink haired boy ran through the streets of magnolia. There's no way he would be blamed for the fight this time, he didn't think he could take another punishment from that demon. Not really caring about where he was going, he ran until he heard laughter and stopped in his tracks. He turned around to see a blonde girl laying on the floor, unconscious, with people surrounding her.
He slowly began to make his way to the scene out of curiosity, but picked up the pace when a kick connected with her stomach. Seeing him running towards them with anger, the group scattered, remnants of their laughter lingering in the air. He stood next to the unconscious blonde girl, wondering what he should do. He had no idea where to take her, however he couldn't just leave her there. Pulling his phone from his pocket, he dialled the first person from his contacts, hoping to get advise as to what to do.
"Whatcha want, flame-brain?" He had clearly called the wrong person.
"Stripper? Look, I need help..." The boy began, before being interrupted.
"What did you break this time, Natsu?" The guy on the other end said nonchalantly, clearly missing the panicked tone in Natsu's voice.
"Break? Nothing! There's a girl and she's unconscious, I don't know what to..."
"What the hell did you do? You idiot! Where the hell are you?"
"Uh, by that coffee place where we had a fight? But, I didn't do anyth-" By the time Natsu had tried to explain himself, his supposed friend had hung up.
There was nothing for Natsu to do now except wait. He sat down next to the girl on the ground, ignoring the curious and weird glances and glares he was given. Soon enough, a shirtless boy ran around the corner.
"Gray! Over here!" Natsu shouted, grabbing his attention.
"You idiot! What did you do to her?" Gray began to shout questions at him.
"Nothing! Some guys were beating her up!" Natsu started to explain.
Lucy began to stir on the ground, her body aching all over. She slowly opened her eyes and sat up, only to see to boys arguing by her side. She cleared her throat slightly to get their attention and they whirled round, the pink haired boy talking first.
"Ah, you're awake! How're you feeling? What's your name? I'll walk you home if you want! I'm Natsu by the way!"
Lucy was slightly overwhelmed by the questions being shot at her by the lively boy in front of her. She chuckled as the raven haired boy punched him in the arm. Standing slowly she brushed the dirt from her clothes.
"My name's Lucy." The blonde answered quietly.
Gray and Natsu walked either side of Lucy all the way to her house, after they insisted on being her bodyguards (after arguing of course). Even though they had only known each other a short time, they got along well. When they had reached Lucy's door, Natsu and Gray had given Lucy their phone numbers in case anything else like this happened. The two turned around to leave, when the front door swung open and Lucy was face to face with her father, holding up a spatula towards her. Jude almost immediately put his arm down and walked away, leaving Lucy in yet another fit of laughter.
N-A-L-U
Lucy rushed around her room to get ready for another school day after sleeping through her alarm. She sat on her bed to check her phone when she heard a loud noise behind her. She whirled round to see a flash of pink entering her room via the window.
"NATSU,WHAT THE HELL!" She screamed confused as to why he was in her room.
"Walking you to school." He said nonchalantly. "What school do you go to anyway?"
"Magnolia high." She sighed, wondering how late he would be to his own school.
"Huh?" Natsu was slightly taken aback. He had never seen her at his school before. Looking at Natsu and realising what uniform he was wearing, she joined him in confusion. Although, this was cut short as the earlier screaming had caused Jude to run into Lucy's room, once again holding up something threateningly in his task to 'injure' burglars. Jude stared between Lucy and Natsu whilst holding a block of cheese in the air towards the pink haired boy.
"Lucy... Who's he?" He questioned, not sure whether to hit him or not.
"Um, a friend." She replied and before her father could ask anything more, she added "and we're leaving." Whilst dragging Natsu out of her house.
Flustered from the events that had just occurred, Natsu straightened out his clothes and freed his arm from Lucy's grip around his wrist.
"What was that all about? And what's with the block of cheese?"
"My dad seems to have picked up the habit of threatening people with weird objects." Lucy replied, embarrassed that the friend she had only made the day before had to see that so soon.
Natsu's reaction to this, however, was not what Lucy had expected at all. She had expected him to cal her weird or tease her, but instead, he let out a small chuckle and smiled a toothy grin. Glad that he wasn't going to say anything more, they began to make their way to magnolia high.
The pair had made it at least halfway to their school, before their conversation was interrupted by a familiar voice.
"Oi, flame-brain!" Natsu's head snapped in the direction of the voice.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE, ICE PRINCESS?" He shouted back, unaware of the stares he was attracting.
"Can't trust an idiot like you by yourself with Lucy." Was his only reply.
Natsu had opened his mouth to retaliate once more, when Lucy pointed out the stares, he huffed continuing to walk. The atmosphere was tense the rest of the way to magnolia high, and it was clear that Natsu was itching to fight Gray. When they had reached their destination, Lucy stopped in her tracks. Natsu and Gray noticed what was wrong within seconds, and positioned themselves in front of her defensively. Lucy took another step back as one of the boys from the group In front of them took a step forwards and sneered.
"Got bodyguards now, blondie?" With a shudder, the teen took a step back shrinking away from the hatred filled gazes. Her new friends wouldn't want to be anywhere near her...