AN: This is my first fanfic. I am a HUGE NaLu fan and I have been working on this story for some time. Getting the idea for the story and writing the story out is harder than it looks, so I hope I did an okay job. This story has a lot of twists and turns and I am hoping that it would be different than some other stories out there. Anyway, I'm writing a little too much right now. This first chapter is Lucy's POV. Next will be Natsu's and then a little bit of Lisanna's. I hope you all like it. Please R&R!
Disclaimer: I wish I could claim ownership to Fairy Tail, but sadly I can't.
Lucy's POV:
*Knocks on a door* "Master? Are you in there?" I asked.
"Yes. Come in, my child," Master replies. I entered his office and he put down some papers on his desk that he was reading to look up at me. "Is everything okay, Lucy?"
I closed the door behind me and lowered my head. I didn't want to look Master in the eye while I talked to him. I didn't want to see the look on his face, which I knew would be a look of sadness. "No, Master. Actually everything is not okay. I just decided that I want to leave Fairy Tail for a while."
"Why, Lucy? Why do you want to leave?" I didn't have to look up to know that Master was in shock. I heard the shock and sadness in his voice.
"It's complicated Master, but me leaving is the best thing right now." I built up courage to look Master in the eye so that he could see that I was telling the truth. Me leaving Fairy Tail was for the best, even if it wasn't the whole truth of why I was leaving.
Master looked at me for a moment, and then hopped off his desk. He walked up to me and had a serious expression on his face. "Lucy…if you are in trouble, you can count on your guild to protect you. Even if your guild is the problem, we can work it out."
His words pulled at my heartstrings. There is nothing in the world I would rather do than count on my nakama to protect me, but if I involved them, they would only end up getting hurt, and I'd be damned if I caused them pain. So, I smiled at Master and shook my head. "It's nothing like that, Master," I lied. "I just thought that I would take a few years to train and get stronger. And one more thing Master. Please don't tell anyone that I am gone. If anyone asks, tell them that I am on a solo mission that will take some time to complete."
Master nodded his head and then said, "Okay, my child. Though Fairy Tail will be sad without you, I will honor your request. Just let me hold your hand."
I gave Master my hand and he held it for a moment while tears streaked down his face. Then he covered my insignia with hand and a glow appeared. When he pulled his hands away, my insignia was gone, and I started to cry. From now on I was on my own, but it had to be this way. I looked at Master's face on last time before I left his office and headed for the stairs. I tried to look normal as possible leaving the guild so I wouldn't attract unwanted attention. It's a good thing that Team Natsu was on a mission as well, otherwise I would have never been able to leave peacefully.
As I walked back to my house, I remembered the events that started this all. It played back in my mind like a movie.
Flashback, Lucy's POV:
It was four months after Lisanna's return from Edolas. Everyone was so happy that she was home and the guild was partying nonstop. Team Natsu (with the exception of me) was always by Lisanna's side, and I didn't mind since they had a lot to catch up on. I was truly happy to see Natsu's childhood friend home where she belonged and I was also happy to see Natsu happy to have her back. It didn't bother me so much that they spent less and less time with me and so much with her. After all, two years is a long time to be away from someone, so I busied myself with taking solo missions to pay my rent on time, and I spent some time continuing my book.
Then one day, as I sat on my regular stool at the bar, Natsu came over and sat next to me. He looked at Mira (who was cleaning some beer mugs) to give us some privacy. After she left us, Natsu turned to me. "Luce, we need to talk."
"Sure, Natsu. What's on your mind?"
"Well," he started while scratching behind his head, "since you already take solo missions and had a lot of time to yourself, we were wondering if we could switch you out of the team and have Lisanna take your place."
I was in shock. Granted as a team I was separated from them a lot, but it was only so that they could catch back up with Lisanna. I never thought that they wouldn't want me to return to them, let alone replace me with Lisanna. I was truly hurt, but as I looked at Natsu and saw that he really wanted this, I mustered up a smile and said, "Of course, Natsu. I don't mind."
"Really?" he said with a smile. "This is great, Luce. You're the best!" Then he left me at the bar and returned to Team Natsu and Lisanna to tell them the great news. They cheered after hearing it, and I decided that it was time for me to leave.
I left the guild and headed for my house. I felt the tears stinging my eyes, but I refused to let them drop until I reached the safety of my home. On my way there, I wasn't paying much attention to my surroundings and bumped into someone. I landed on my butt with a thud, and when I looked up, there was a man in a hooded cloak standing over me with his hand stretched out. I took his hand and he helped me up. "I am so sorry I bumped into you. I didn't see you there," I said.
"It is no problem, Lucy Heartfilia," the man said.
I snatched my hand from his and stared at him in shock. "How do you know my name?"
"I know a lot about you. Lucy Heartfilia. Celestial Mage with a moderate magic level, although you are stronger than most average Celestial Mages, but that alone isn't impressive." The man walked over to the alley that was to the side of us and then turned to face me again. "By touching you, I can sense what type of magic user you are and I can sense your magic level. You have potential, but you're not ready yet."
"Ready for what?" I asked him. I was confused by this conversation and a little scared that he could know so much about me just by touching me. I wanted to run away from him, but I needed to know what he was talking about.
"Why, ready to join me silly," the hooded man replied.
"And who are you and why would I join you?"
"You're not ready to know that now," the man said. "And with that, I bid you a farewell, Lucy." The man then turned into a shadow and joined the darkness that called him from the alley.
I stood there staring at the space where the man once stood, with my eyes wide from shock. What was he talking about, I thought to myself, but before I could think or panic over what just happened, I heard a very familiar voice calling my name. I closed my eyes and prayed to Mavis that I was hearing things, and when the calling stopped, I turned in the direction of my home and started to walk.
Then the calling started, and I picked up the pace, but I should have known that I would never be able to out pace him. "Luce! I was calling you," the pink-haired dragon slayer exclaimed. "Why did you leave the guild?"
"I felt a little tired, so I thought it would be best to go home," I lied.
"Wait Luce, you can't go home," Natsu said with a serious face.
"Why not, Natsu?" I asked, hoping that he would notice that I lied about being tired and realized that I was actually sad to have been replaced by his side.
"Well, the guild is having a party to celebrate Team Natsu's new member, and as an old member, I want you to be there."
I couldn't believe what I just heard. Natsu could be real dense, and I know he didn't intentionally mean to make me feel worse, but he did. I just wanted to tuck myself in a corner and cry, but I refused to shed a tear in front of Natsu. I couldn't show that he hurt me, not when he was happy to have Lisanna on his team. "Natsu, I really am tired," I said to try and get away.
"Please, Luce. The party wouldn't be the same if you weren't there."
Yeah right, I thought. You didn't care about me for four months while you were catching up with Lisanna. After I thought that, I mentally kicked myself. I couldn't be mad at Natsu for that. After all, I took solo missions just so he could spend more time with Lisanna. I wasn't mad then so I couldn't be mad now. Then I looked at Natsu's face. He looked as if he really wanted me to be there, so I swallowed back sadness and decided to do this for my best friend. "Sure Natsu, but I'm not staying long."
Natsu grinned his toothy grin that I loved so much and yelled, "Alright! Let's go!" Then he grabbed my hand and headed back to the guild.
Six hours later…
The guild was packed with passed out people lying wherever they landed. My head rested against the bar table while I sat in my regular stool. My head was aching from a mixture of alcohol and all the noise the guild members made while having fun at the party. The only people who weren't passed out were Mira, who was cleaning up the place, and Cana, who was still drinking from her beer barrel.
"Lucy? Can you do me a favor," Mira asked me from behind the bar.
I picked up my head and looked at her. "Sure, Mira. What do you need?"
"Can you take Natsu home?" she asked so sweetly.
I looked around the guild and saw a passed out Natsu lying on top of a table face down with his butt sticking in the air. I smiled at his position and turned back to Mira to see her smiling at him too. "Sure, no problem."
"Oh, that's so helpful, Lucy. I would do it, but there is just so much cleaning to be done."
"Of course I'd help out, Mira," I said to the take-over mage. I got up, shook Natsu awake, got him off the table and balanced his weight with mine by placing his arm around my shoulder.
We left the guild and I was holding Natsu up (who was surprisingly lighter than I thought) heading towards his home, when I realized that I had no clue where he lived. So I took him to my place instead and decided to let him crash there for the night.
When we got to my house, I carried Natsu to my bed, and dumped him there and then took a shower to get rid of the sweat from partying all night. When I returned to my room, Natsu was out cold, sprawled out on my bed, and deciding against waking him up, I changed into my nightgown, climbed in my bed and went to sleep.
I had the weird dream that night:
Natsu woke up from his drunken state and woke me up with a passionate kiss. As I looked up at him with confusion in my eyes, he stared at me with dark hunger in his. "Natsu, what are you doing," I asked, and he replied by kissing me ferociously. I was in shock and didn't know what to do, but the feelings that I had for him rose up inside of me. As if they had a mind of their own, my hands curled around his head and played in his soft pink hair, while I kissed him back. He deepened our kiss since I joined in, and when he found an opening, he plunged his tongue into my mouth and our tongues danced with each other.
He broke the kiss so that we could breathe, but his mouth never left my body. He kissed his way down to my neck and found a sensitive spot where he allowed his tongue to play over. I moaned softly in his ear and my fingers tugged on his hair. Then he rose from me and removed his vest and his trousers. I didn't even have time to be shocked because when he threw his clothes on the floor, he moved back to me and pulled the hem from my nightgown up and over my face. I was embarrassed because I didn't bother wearing a bra, so when he removed my nightgown, my breasts were revealed for him to see.
He stared at me with a hungry grin, and I tried to cover my breasts with my arms, but he grabbed my wrists and held my arms on the pillow above my head. "Don't cover up what's mine to see, Luce," he whispered in my ear and then gently sucked on my earlobe.
"Natsu…" I moaned, trying to speak in between the delicious pleasure, "maybe we should slow down," but Natsu traced his tongue from my ear down to my neck, then to my collarbone, then to my mounds. Before I could protest further, her traced circles around my nipple, causing me to moan loudly, and then he engulfed my hardened nipple into his mouth. I moaned nonstop as he bite, tugged, sucked and just lavished my nipple, while twirling the other between his fingers. Then he switched nipples and repeated his actions. The whole time, I moaned and tugged at his hair, pushing his head down to give him better access.
When he was satisfied, he released my nipple and returned to my mouth, our tongues doing the tango, while his hand headed south for my panties. I felt a little heat over my skin and realized that he burned my panties to ashes. He separated my thighs with his knee, and without warning, he broke our kiss for me to catch air (which was useless) and thrust his shaft into my core. It took my breath away. I wasn't prepared for the pain, and Natsu held his position inside of me so that I could get adjusted to his size. Then he pulled out of me and thrust in again. After a while the pain was replaced with intense pleasure and Natsu's thrusts became fast and deep.
"Oh, Lucy…" Natsu groaned into my ear as he plunged into me. The pleasure was so good I began clawing at his back.
"Natsu…Ah!...Natsu!" I moaned. "You feel so good, Natsu!"
He pounded into me, filling me up with white-hot pleasure, and when I was ready to climax, he sped up his pace, until we both climbed to ecstasy together and came at the same time.
Natsu gently removed himself from inside of me, leaving me feeling empty, and collapsed on the bed next to me. He dragged me into his arms and held me there. "Lucy?"
"Mhm…" was my reply. I was so tired that I barely understood what he was saying.
"Lu…ou…b…ong…o…me…"
"Mhm?"
And then my alarm clock went off. That was one weird yet steamy dream. I reached and turned off the alarm, and that's when I noticed that Natsu wasn't in the bed next to me. He must have left earlier, I thought. I decided to get up and head out to the guild as well.
When tried to sit up, but I was extremely sore between my legs. My eyes grew wide and fear rose inside of me. I threw back the covers to see if my nightgown was gone, but I was still wearing it. I sighed, it was just a dream I thought and got up carefully and headed to the bathroom. I removed my gown to take a shower when I noticed that my panties were missing. Did I forget to wear panties last night? I questioned myself.
When I couldn't find the answer in my head, I started to panic. What if my dream wasn't a dream? But you had your nightgown on Lucy? Shouldn't it be on the floor where Natsu threw it? Natsu… I decided to hurry up and head over to the guild, and ask Natsu if he remembered anything weird last night. If my dream wasn't a dream, he would be the only person who would know.
After I got dressed, I hurried to the guild. When I got inside, I didn't see the pink-haired dragon slayer anywhere. In fact, Team Natsu and Lisanna were nowhere to be found. I went over to the bar and sat at my regular stool and waited for the white-haired barmaid to come from the kitchen.
"Good morning, Lucy. You looked like you slept well," Mira greeted me as she returned behind the bar. "Is there anything I can get you?"
"Sure, some orange juice would be fine, Mira."
"Coming right up," she said gleefully.
She returned with a glass of orange juice and placed it in front of me. "Thanks Mira."
"You're welcome, Lucy."
"Say, Mira? Do you know where Natsu is?" I asked her.
"Yup, the Team took a mission today," she said while cleaning some beer mugs.
"Oh…" was all I could say. I didn't think they would take a mission together so soon.
Mira must have seen my gloomy mode change because she walked over to me and put her hand on my hand that was resting on the bar table. "I know Lucy," she said a little sad. "I miss seeing you with Team Natsu too, but don't worry. Maybe they'll realize that they miss you and they'll make you join the team again," she said with a cheery smile on her face.
I loved Mira's enthusiasm, but I knew in my heart that Team Natsu wouldn't miss me. They had Lisanna now. I was just a temporary replacement, and that hurt. But what hurt more was that I finally recognized my feelings for Natsu before she came back, and now it seemed like my love would be unrequited.
Mira went back to the kitchen when Gajeel came to the bar. He sat next to me and just stared. It was a bit uncomfortable and when I realized that he wasn't going to say anything, I spoke. "Did you need something?"
"You and Salamander must have had one hell of a night," Gajeel said to me.
I looked at him confused and asked, "Why would you say that?"
"Because I can smell him on you, bunny-girl."
Smell him on me? What the hell is that suppose to mean? I thought to myself. "What are you talking about Gajeel?"
"His scent is all over you like you guys slept together."
"Well, yeah he spent the night at my house and he was passed out on my bed. I couldn't move him so I slept next to him."
"Not that kind of slept together," he said with a grin before leaving the bar and going to the table that Levy was sitting at. It took me a moment to grasp exactly what he meant, and when I did, I shot up with wide eyes and a gaping mouth and ran out the guild.
Could Natsu and me have slept together? Was my dream real? I didn't know and since Natsu was on a mission, I thought there was no way to find out. Not paying attention to where I was going, I bumped into someone and fell down. When I looked up, there was a man standing above me with is hand extended for me to take. This gave me déjà vu.
I took the man's hand and he helped me up. "I am so sorry, sir. I should have paid better attention to where I was going," I said to him. When I looked at him, he was wearing a black trench coat, black pants and black combat boots. His hair was a dark purple and his bangs covered most of his deep blue eyes. He was paler than white and his face held a sinister grin on it. I pulled my hand back from him and stared at him, as he stared at me with that horrid smile.
"It is no problem Miss. I should have watched where I was going. It's ungentlemanly of me to bump into such a pretty girl like you, especially when you're expecting. Pardon me," the man said and then walked away from me.
Expecting… that word registered to me the minute he walked by me. I turned around to ask him what he meant, but he was gone, as if he disappeared out of thin air. Then I turned to the alley next to me and something was familiar about this all.
Expecting. Why would he think that I was expecting? And if I were, how would he know? I thought to myself. Then, almost as if it slapped me in my face, I immediately remembered the night I was kicked off of Team Natsu. I met a man in the dark street wearing a hood, and he knew who I was just by touching me. If this guy was the same as that guy, then he would know about me when he helped me off the floor. And, if these guys where the same, then this guy didn't just disappear. He turned into a shadow like the other guy.
Then something else registered to me:
"Ready for what?" I asked him. I was confused by this conversation and a little scared that he could know so much about me just by touching me. I wanted to run away from him, but I needed to know what he was talking about.
"Why, ready to join me silly," the hooded man replied.
"And who are you and why would I join you?"
"You're not ready to know that now," the man said. "And with that, I bid you a farewell, Lucy."
That was part of the conversation that I had the night I met the first guy. If the guy I just bumped into was like the first guy, did he want me to join him too? And what if they were apart of the same guild, what would they want me for?
I ran to my house to get out of the street just in case I bumped into any more people, who could know me just by touching me. After making it to the safety of my home, I found a letter on my desk. Confused on how a letter could have gotten on my desk when my door was locked, I hesitantly opened it.
Lucy Heartfilia,
Allow me to formally introduce myself. My name is Black Raven and I am apart of the dark guild Shadows of Darkness. Our meeting on the street that fateful night was no wishful encounter. My guild has been looking at your magical potential for months now. You peaked our interest when you took down a rival guild of ours a month ago. You knew them as The Holy Grail. We have been looking for a mage with a magic level like yours. To be more specific, we have looking for a Celestial Mage with a magic level like yours for our plans. When we first met, you were not ready to join us and frankly you still aren't, but I have been informed that you are carrying a Celestial Mage inside of you that will have a magic level that will be out of this world. You and your child will be necessary for our plans, and I will not disclose the details of those plans as yet. Just know this, in 10 months, we will come after and retrieve you and your child. Don't bother trying to find us to destroy us because we live in the shadows. You can't find something you can't see. Oh and one more thing, tell your guild about us and everyone of your precious nakama will die. Shadows live everywhere, so when you think you're safe, you're not. So, I think we have a good deal going here. You get to keep your life to nurture your growing baby for 10 months and then we'll come and collect you. And, if you don't tell Fairy Tail about what was disclosed in this letter and about us, then they get to keep their lives. Or do you want to be the reason for your friends' demise? The choice is yours, Miss Lucy. See you in 10 months.
After reading the letter, I couldn't stop shaking. There was so much that my brain needed to process and all of the information was scaring the hell out of me. First, I was pregnant! Which could only mean that me and Natsu had sex last night. Even though there was a small part of my brain that was telling me there was no way that me and Natsu had sex, let alone me be pregnant, the rest of me knew that these guys weren't fucking around. If I were so important to them, then they would know what they were talking about. Second, a dark guild was after me for reasons undisclosed, and not just after me but my baby as well, for our magic levels? What the fuck was that anyway?
I put my hand to my stomach and thought to myself, could I really be pregnant? I mean we only slept together last night, could it really be that fast? I didn't want to take any chances. There was only one thing I could do. The guild gave me 10 months to nurture my baby inside of me before they came after me, which meant that I had to leave town before the guild found out about my baby, which would force me to have to tell them everything.
I left my house and ran to the guild. Pushing open the doors, I headed for the bar. I saw Mira there cleaning the counter. I went to her. "Mira, where is Master?"
"Why do you want to know where Master is, Lucy? Is everything alright?" Mira asked a little startled.
I didn't want to worry her. "Yeah, everything is fine. I just want to talk to him about taking a long mission is all," I lied to her.
Mira looked a little skeptic, but she didn't push the subject. She smiled and said, "Master is in his office."
"Thanks, Mira," I said and then climbed the stairs to the second floor and went to Master's office.
*Knocks on a door* "Master? Are you in there?"… End of Flashback
I entered my house and locked the door safely behind me. I turned on the lights and checked every corner of my home to make that I was alone. Then I remembered that that Raven guy said that they were shadow mages, which meant that they could take the form of any shadow. Taking no chances, I went to my closet, grabbed my suitcase and started packing my bags.
When I was finished, I summoned cancer. "Open the Gate of the Crab! Cancer!"
"What kind of hairstyle would you like today? –ebi"
I smiled at Cancer, trying not to look like what I was about to tell him was actually going to hurt me, which it was. "Cut my hair to my shoulders and then die it brown. We'll be going away for awhile and I need to look different."
"No problem. –ebi" Cancer replied and then he got to work. After cutting and styling my hair, Cancer returned to the Spirit World, and I looked at myself in the mirror.
I looked different, and in a few months, no one would truly recognize me because I would start showing my pregnant belly by then. My hands went to my stomach automatically. It still hasn't fully registered that I was pregnant. But that just motivated me more to do what was best for me and my unborn child. "Open the Gate of the Maiden! Virgo!"
"Punishment, Princess?" Virgo asked.
"No, Virgo. I need your help. I know I disguised myself so I don't look like I did before, but I still want to take precautions. I need for you to dig a tunnel from here to the train station. We need to leave Magnolia," I explained.
"Understood." Then Virgo went to work on the tunnel. As she left, I wrote a quick letter to Team Natsu, hoping that if they realized that I was gone, that they would come to my house and find it. I left the letter on my desk.
Then I put money in an envelope and addressed it to my landlord. I would have Loke deliver it to her later. Just when I finished up, Virgo came back from the tunnel. "Are you ready to go, Princess?"
I took one last look around my house, not knowing when I'd be back and then said, "Yes. I have to be."
Virgo picked me and my suitcase up and carried me through the tunnel. We got to the train station quickly from underground. When we got on the platform, I let Virgo return to the Spirit World.
I bought my ticket to board the train, although I had no idea of where I was going. The train wasn't arriving soon, so to keep me company and to protect me in case anything happened, I called Loke, but before I could even utter a word, he appeared before me.
"Princess." He looked at me with a serious expression and sat next to me on the bench while I waited for the train. "Is this what you really want to do, Lucy?"
"What choice do I have, Loke. I can't tell anyone in the guild what's going on otherwise they'll be killed. I don't know who these guys are except that they seem to read who people are from touching them, and they can turn into shadows. They could be watching me right now for all I knew. This is the best way to protect the guild, and my child." As I said that last part, my hand went to my stomach.
Loke followed my hand with his stare and then he took my hand in his. "No matter what Lucy, I will always be here to protect you, especially since they can't kill me."
Loke was right. Since he was a spirit, the dark guild can't kill him, and him along with my other spirits were the only ones who could help me for the next 10 months. "Thank you, Loke. And to protect me, you can start by calling me Lola Crescent."
"Lola Crescent?" Loke asked.
"Yes. That will be my new name from now on. Since I don't know where this guild will be hiding out, we have to take all precautions. Changing my name is a major precaution."
"Alright, Princess Lola. I hear the train coming. I'm not leaving your side until we get to a safe place, and then I'll still be right by you." He squeezed my hand to reassure me and I felt relieved to know that I wouldn't have to be alone.
The train arrived and Loke and I boarded. As we sat down next to the window facing the town, I noticed a man with pink hair mixed up in the crowd. I looked harder and there he was. Natsu. As the crowd started to disperse, I noticed that all of Team Natsu was on the platform. They must have finished their mission, and they looked happy too. My heart ached looking at their happy faces, knowing that I wasn't apart of them. I wanted to jump off the train, run up to them and hug them, but I knew I couldn't. I couldn't endanger their lives and I already decided to leave them. As the train started to move, tears streaked down my eyes. How I will truly miss them. Especially you, Natsu.