Realization

It was a nice evening in magnolia. The sun was about to set and the sky was a beautiful orange with small pink clouds adoring the scene.
Families were around the dining table, and couples were enjoining a nice walk in the park.
And two people were waking up...

"Agh, my head. What happened?" Lucy at sat up, and looked around. "Hmmm, nobody here. Natsu?! Where are you?" She screamed trough the guild.

"Hmpf, wushi youwr heavy..." She heard coming from underneath her. She looked down, and to her surprise she was sitting right on top of him. The jumped up and Natsu sucking in air like a fish on dry land.

"Oh my! Natsu are you oke? And what did you say about me being heavy?!"

"N-n-nothing... Please don't hurt me." Natsu ducked away behind his arms, trying to shield himself from Lucy's wrath.

"Oh, never mind. Hey Natsu, do you know what time it is? Mira school be here by now, right?"

"You worry too much. I'm sure everything will be fine. Besides there's nothing with a little relaxing every now and than." He laid back down on the ground with his hands beneath his head. "I mean look outside. There's a beautiful sunset and you can see it through the high windows. "

Lucy turned around in shock. "Natsu did you just say sunset?"

"Yea, I did. So what? The sun sets every night, right? Just look at it. The sun sure looks delicious... One big ball of fire. I wonder what it tastes like..." Natsu continued with his day dreaming about the wonderful spicy taste of the sun, until Lucy started shaking him. "Lucy! What are you doing. Stooop!"

"Natsu! It's sunset! Mira was supposed to check and lock the guild a at six. The sun sets at eight." Lucy tried explaining to him.

"So? The sun's a little late, so what? You're late all the time. I don't see what the big deal is."

"Ugh, Natsu, the sun doesn't just get late! The fact that the sun is alto ready setting, means that either Mirajane is late or we're in very big trouble." She could just see in Natsu's eyes he didn't had a clue about what she was saying. "Do I need to spell it out for you? If Mira isn't late, that means that she came by already. If I remember correctly, we were both behind the counter because SOMEONE felt the need to fall of a ladder. Ring a bell?" All Natsu did was grunt in annoyance, so Lucy took that as a yes, and continued her explanation. "So if Mira already came by, that means she didn't see us laying there. So what I meant with big trouble, we're most likely locked in the guild..."

Natsu blinked. Twice. Three times. "What?"

"Oh come on Natsu, you can't really be that stupid right? We're stuck here! We can't go home. We won't be able to leave until everybody comes back from the beach in five days."

"What?! Why didn't you just say so?" Natsu got up and ran towards the door with a flaming fist.

"No you idiot! What did I say about using magic! Think about Mira!"

At the mentioning of Mira Natsu skidded to a stop just half a meter before the door. "Right. Mira, destruction, death. Got it."

"And it wouldn't have a made a difference anyway. There is a special barrier around the guild when it's locked, so burglars can't get in or out. Even when using magic. I overheard Mira and Master talk about it the other day."

"So how are we supposed to go out? And even more important, I'm starting to get hungry..." Natsu started to sulk while rubbing his empty stomach. "Hold on, I think I can solve both problems! And thus time it doesn't involve burning the door down."
He said with a wide grin

Lucy looked at him with hope and a shimmer of disbelief in her eyes. Natsu came up with a solution that doesn't involve fire? Impossible. "So, care to share your plan?"

He started running to the back of guild. "Follow me!"

"What? Natsu wait up!"

After running through the guild and down a couple of flights of stairs, they arrived at the door of the basement. "What are we doing here?" Lucy asked the exited dragon slayer, who opened the thick door for them.

"I just remembered something. I'm not sure if it's still here, but as a kid I used to hide here from Erza whenever she wanted to teach me to read again." He shivered at the thought. "It used to be somewhere around here in the old guild. He was gliding with his hands along the wall.

"What Natsu? Do you mean the basement? How is that going to help us to food and an escape? All I see are stacks of boxes."

"There used to be a... Aha! Got it." Natsu took a brick out of the wall and pulled a lever that was hidden behind it. With a tuft of cold air and with the loud noise of brick scraping along brick, a piece of the wall came out.

Lucy was looking at the moving wall with wonder. "Is that a... Is that a door? Natsu, how did you find it?"

"I came done here once after losing to Gray, and punched the wall with my iron fist, and the brick just fell out." He took hold of the sides of the piece of door and started to pull. After a few seconds it gave and the door opened, only to reveal that the room caved in.

"Damn. This must have happened after the destruction of the guild by the phantom lord guild. This used to be a tunnel towards the mountains behind the girls dorm." Natsu punched the boulders hard, but because of the shock that went through the wall, the door of the basement fell close.

"No! Natsu you idiot! The door fell close behind us! Did you have to punch the rocks? Now we're locked again! That's twice in one day, and twice because of you!"
Lucy ran towards the door and tried pulling it open. "It no use. It won't budge. We need a key to open this door." She told Natsu.

"Lucy I'm sorry... I guess that all we can do now is sleep so we're well rested tomorrow and then you can come up with a plan." He said.

"Idiot, why do I have to come up with a plan? Well, I guess if you did it it would probably involve your lightning clad fire, so I guess you're right. Let's get some sleep."

They both laid down on the ground trying to catch some sleep. The only sound in the room was their breathing until Lucy spoke.

"Natsu? You still awake?"

"Hmm?"

"I'm cold... Could you come a little closer?" She didn't here a response from him, so she took that as a no, until she suddenly felt two warm arms wrap around her, pulling her close.

"That better?" He mumbled in her neck.

"Yea, thanks Natsu, and I'm sorry for blaming you that much. I guess I could've watched the door as well."

"Lucy, it's okay. Sleep. I'm tired."

She smiled at his response, and wished him goodnight. But the only thing she heard coming from behind her, was a light snoring. Not long after that she fell asleep her self.
And so, the to mages escaped into their dreamed to wake ip tomorrow in their second day of lockdown.


I'm sorry if my chapters are really short, but it's just my second FanFiction, so I'm not so good at writing long chapters yet.

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