A/N I'm here again with chapter two. I ended up creating a one shot that somehow got more views than this. But for those who have not read it please look at my one shot called Natsu's Scarf. I would like to give a special thanks to Silent Reader 6100 for being the first person to review this story, you do not know how happy I was to get my first ever review. Well maybe some other writers know how I feel but back to the topic. I would also like to give thanks to Gmags26, Gordaime, NATSUxERZA 123456, and the 3 unknown guests who reviewed my story, thank you for reading and reviewing the writing of this inexperienced writer *bows*. Now for Chapter 2
"Normal Speech"
'Thoughts'
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail that belongs to Hiro Mashima.
Everywhere Erza looked all she saw were servants running to and from trying to get the castle prepared for her upcoming birthday party. Not only were the servants in rushing around but also the guards and even some nobles who were trying to get things prepared. Though this could all be understood since she is the princess and the party would be anything but small and adding to the fact that the party is tomorrow.
Erza was walking through the hallway alongside one of the generals of the kingdom Pantherlily. Pantherlily is an Exceed which is a cat type race that can use magic to grow wings that allow them to fly. Pantherlily is like no other Exceed though because his size which is as tall as the tallest human. When no one is around though it is said that Pantherlily goes down to the size of his fellow Exceed although no one knows if it is true or not and no one dares to ask him.
Erza was walking with Pantherlily on her way to sword and magic practice for the day. Since a young age Erza has had a natural talent with sword fighting and Ex-quip magic. Seeing her talent in these traits her parents decided to have her trained by Pantherlily in the use of swords and magic. This does not mean she dislikes it, in fact you could say she enjoys it very much.
"Hey Lily what are we going to practice today," Erza inquired to the intimidating Exceed. "Today we are going to have you try out multiple Ex-quipping of your armor and to try to see how many times you can change without getting tired and to try it out in combat," Pantherlily calmly stated to the young woman following behind him, "we will also do some more sword practice with one handed, two handed, and dual wielding sword fighting." After Pantherlily replied to the Princess they continued to walk towards the training room in silence.
Once they reached the training room Erza was trained by Pantherlily for a couple hours before Pantherlily deemed that she was done for the day. Exhausted Erza started to head back to her room to get a change of clothes since her workout clothes are covered in sweat from the hard work out she was put through. Just because she was the princess did not mean that the general would go any easier on her which she liked having not to worry about being babied or looked down upon just because she was the princess and a woman. Smelling the sweat that covered her body she also decided she would need to take a shower or else she would be deemed unsanitary.
After taking a shower and changing she headed back towards the halls of the castle to find anything interesting to do for the day. Just as she was about to give up all hope of finding anything besides rushing servants she saw her friend Lucy Heartfilia. Lucy is the daughter of the Heartfilia family, which is a high ranking noble family; she was also her childhood friend from since she was little.
When she saw Lucy she was about to call out to her but was beaten to it by the young blonde once her gaze finally locked onto the scarlet-haired princess. "Erza I've been looking all over for you where have you been," Lucy exclaimed after finally finding her friend who she has been looking all over for.
"I just got done showering and changing after my morning training practice with Lily," Erza replied to her friend with a frown as to why she would be looking for her. She put that aside though and decided to just enjoy talking with her friend.
"Oh right you have training in the mornings with the general," Lucy then smirked, "so how strong have you gotten now seeing as your fighting prowess has been deemed stronger than a normal knights and even some of the experience veterans." "Well I'm not the only one who has gotten strong," Erza replied with a smirk of her own, "if I'm correct I heard you even got another celestial key." At the mention of her precious keys Erza could have sword that stars appeared in the girl's eyes.
"I did I got a golden and a silver key," exclaimed the excited Lucy. "Wow that's amazing Lucy," Erza chuckled at seeing her friends excitement whenever she was talking about her keys, "so what celestial sprits did you get?" "I got the Gate of the Maiden, Virgo key and I also got the Gate of the Canis Minor, Nikora key," Lucy replied with stars still in her eyes, "I swear you have to Plue he's so adorable."
As the girl was squealing the last part Erza had a confused look on her face she then asked, "Plue?" "Oh sorry that's the name I gave the little guy that came out of the Gate of the Canis Minor," Lucy answered and let out a little giggle at seeing her friends face going from confused to a look of understanding.
It seemed that Lucy decided that she would show her friend anyway she proceeded to take out a key and summon a little white … um dog like thing that was as white as snow with a horn … drill-like nose, the … dog spirit started to shake uncontrollably. Seeing the little dog Erza's reactions was a widening of her eyes and the muttering of the word cute that Lucy had ended up hearing a giggled at the scarlet-haired princess girlish like reaction.
Lucy then remembered the real reason why she was looking for her friend. "Hey Erza lets go out into town I was told by one of my servants that the bakery was selling your favorite strawberry cheesecakes," Lucy then told her friend and was about to say more to convince her friend but then sweat dropped at seeing the stars in her eyes at the mention of her favorite snack 'I guess she doesn't need any more persuading'.
After agreeing to go out into town Erza than decided it was better to change into something that would make it so she wouldn't stand out as she would with what she was currently wearing. After getting change she and Lucy then started walking towards a side entrance to slip out of the castle knowing that her parents wouldn't let her go out into town since it was the day before the big party.
Once they got into town they decided to look around at the shops and stores first and save the bakery for last. Erza was a little disappointed that she had to wait for her delicious cake she soon began to cheer up at the thought of having something good that she would look forward to.
Lucy and Erza then started to walk around looking at all the little clothes stores finding some dresses and clothes they liked but decided that they would have no way of sneaking anything into the castle without drawing attention to themselves.
They then began to look at the little trinkets that some of the stores were selling deciding they would be able to hide those in their pockets when they go back. After passing by a magic store Lucy stopped Erza with the pleading that there might be a new key in stock that they didn't have the last time she went. Erza also decided to go in and look to see if they had any new magic armors that might catch her interest. After looking around for a little while they found nothing of interest so they soon left the store behind.
"Hey Erza it's starting to get late lets head towards the bakery and get your cake and start heading back towards the castle," Lucy stated after noticing how much time they spent looking around. At the mention of her cake Erza had a look on her face that was screaming happiness and joy. Seeing her friend's happiness at the mention of the cake Lucy let out a giggle then they started to head towards the bakery.
After Erza had bought her cake and sat down began to eat while Lucy was ordering herself something to drink. Once they were done they then headed outside with the thought of heading back towards the castle.
Once they walked out of the bakery they soon noticed people starting to crowd around a certain area. Erza felt fear at the thought of being discovered soon relaxed noticing that the people weren't heading towards her. Instead they were crowded around a group of battle hardened men.
Listening to the crowd she soon found out the group belonged to an old friend of her father an old man named Rob. At the mention of the name Rob Erza immediately felt excited at the memories of Rob telling her stories missions he went on while he was doing his job of a mercenary.
Forgetting trying not to get discovered and her friend Lucy she tried to make her way through the crowd to greet the old mercenary. Though it seemed that was not to be as she soon got lost in the crowd, she then remembered about her friend that she was with she started to look around for her but had no luck seeing as she could not find her anywhere.
"How careless of me to get caught up in the moment and memories to let myself get separated from Lucy," she scolded herself. Trying to make her way through the crowd she soon ended up bumping into someone knocking them both down. "Ah sorry are you ok," she heard from the person she bumped into. Looking over she saw a boy of about her age wearing a black waistcoat with gold trimming, white baggy trousers that end at his knees, and a white scarf that's wrapped around his neck. His hair was short, spiky, and pink; his eyes were onyx, and he had an apologetic smile on his face while scratching that back of his head.
Erza found herself blushing seeing how his waistcoat was wide open allowing her to see his muscled chest and abs. She then heard something that she didn't notice seeing how she was too busy staring at his chest with her face dyed red. "Hey are you alright your looking a little red," the pink haired man with a worried look on his face replacing his smile asked her shocking her back into her senses. She soon started to scold herself in her mind for getting distracted and responded, "I'm ok I just wasn't paying attention to where I was going and I ended up getting lost in this crowd."
The man then started to laugh making her glare at him since she thought he was laughing at her for getting lost. "Ah sorry, sorry I'm just laughing because I wasn't the only one who got lost," he hastily said after seeing her glare at him. Her glare soon changing into a smile and letting out a little giggle that even surprised herself she soon told the man, "Well it's nice to meet you my name's Erza by the way." Her eyes then widened because of her moment of carelessness that she let her name slip. Her fear of being found out soon disappeared when the man replied to her greeting.
"Nice to meet yah too, my names Natsu," he replied with a wide grin now on his face.
A/N And there we go another chapter done, I've got to say I had some trouble with some parts in this chapter. The major one though was when I had Erza meet Plue because I completely forgot what her reaction to him was so I ended up improvising. I'm not sure if I got the personalities down right or if they're a little ooc. Well if anyone thinks that their ooc please post in a review on how they think I could fix that or how they think they're ooc. Also if anyone notices any errors please post it in a review and I will try to fix it as soon as possible. Well please R&R and no flames either please. Till next time.
