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Story Untold

Chapter 2: Icy Rain

Natsu burst through the guild doors, panting with the folder clutched in his grasp. He saw that all the guild members were staring strangely at him, so he tried to compose himself a little. For a split second, he felt an unfamiliar presence and an unknown smell lurked around in Fairy Tail, but he shrugged the thought aside to deal with his main objective. He could have imagined it; it was just a split second feeling.

He made his way to one of the table in which Gray, Ezra, Juvia, Levi, Gazille, Happy and Jellal were sitting at. They all looked at him questionably - except Gazille who looked at him with a scowl. He held the folder in front of them and they looked even more lost seeing it.

"Lucy's eyes only…? Did you go through Lucy's stuff again?" Juvia asked, knowing full well of the fact of Natsu's actions after being in the guild for a little while now. He nodded his head vigorously as Erza glared at him.

"What were you doing there, Natsu? Also, why do you have something like that?" Erza asked threateningly. Natsu was sweating at this point so he decided to speak.

"Look, I was bored and went through some of her stuff. While doing that I found this and got curious so I opened it-" Natsu was explaining as Levi cut his sentence short.

"Natsu! You shouldn't do that! It's not nice to invade on others privacy!" Levi explained.

"No, look! I opened it and it was a story that Lucy wrote, but she was planning to discard it! So I wanted to read it before she did that!" Natsu explained as Levi's eyes gleamed.

"Give it to me! I want to read it!" Levi shouted as Gajeel looked at her weirdly.

"Wait! I read the first chapter of it already and I'm all confused now!"

"Then let me read it and I'll explain!" Levi shouted - as loud as her timid voice could go - even more desperately as she tried to snatch the folder away, but Gajeel was holding her back.

"Wait! While I was reading it I realized that it was like a story about us in an indirect way!" Everyone went silent at that, and Levi started glaring at him menacingly.

"Hand it over…" she ordered as he handed it over to her with a shaky hand. "I'll read it and see what the problem here is…"

"Hey! I want to read it also! I want to see if she wrote about me and how sexy I am!" Gray yelled, trying to snatch it from her, but she refused to hand it over to anyone else.

"Levi, why don't you read it out to us?" Jellal suggested, and Erza nodded agreeably. Levi just sighed and read the first chapter out loud so the whole table could hear it.

By the time the first chapter had ended, everyone in the guild were listening in to the story - all of the other Fairy Tail members who also included Makarov and other people who usually don't show their faces, like Laxus and other people. They all slowly turned their heads to the slightly blushing Natsu as he began to panic.

"What the hell Natsu?" Gray asked in a low tone, his eye twitching in irritation, resulting in Natsu blushing even more.

"I don't know! Lucy wrote it, not me! These kinds of things didn't even happen or whatever!" Natsu tried to defend himself from their penetrating stares.

"It should have happened. Natsu, you're so dense…" Mirajane exclaimed with a tired sigh.

"Quiet! Its story time and I'm going to start to read the next chapter," Levi announced as she dug her nose into the folder once again to continue on reading.

"Chapter 2: Icy Rain [Natsu: What kind of stupid chapter name is that? Ezra: I think it's mysterious, gives you a sense of wonder.]

Lucille had been travelling around with Dragon and Harry for a week now. She grew to very much like Dragon, and Harry was just absolutely adorable - a bit on the weird side but still cute nonetheless. [Happy: *whines* Lucy~! *Laughter from guild members*] During this week, she didn't see any signs of a pursuit for the missing Heart member and she felt a little anxious.

'Maybe I was really nothing to him? Maybe he just saw me as a useful - or useless - tool to him? Maybe he really did hate me as much as he showed it, unless more…?' Lucille thought, a bit grimly as she thought the only family she had left - her father - hated her to the depths of his core. He always blamed Lucille for her mother's death, he always blamed Lucille for being so useless, he blamed her for being born a girl instead of the son he always wanted, he blamed her for looking so much like her mother and mostly everything else was basically her fault. [*Some people tearing up - like Elfman claiming them to be manly tears - and others head hung low as Natsu's hands started to clench into fists*]

"You okay…?" Dragon asked suddenly, startling her from her thoughts. She looked up to see with his concerned face and felt a smile creep up her lips. She at least felt a little better to see someone on this planet actually cared about her wellbeing. She knew, definitely, that she will never take it for granted. [Natsu: I am so awesome. Gray: Shut up! I'm listening here!]

"Yeah, I'm fine. Where are we going by the way?" Just as Lucille uttered those words, a sudden rush of cold wind passed her as she clutched her arms for warmth, but it never came. She realized that they had entered a blizzard out of nowhere - wasn't it a sunny day just a minute ago? She looked toward Dragon, who seemed unfazed by the drastic change of the climate.

"Damm, I hate this place," Natsu remarked as he walked forward, unfazed.

"Aye sir!" Harry yelled as he suddenly was wearing a warm jacket, thick pants, gloves, shoes, a scarf and a hat. He was clutching Dragon's jacket to prevent him from flying away into the vast distance of the blizzard.

"Then why are we here?" she shouted out hysterically over the howling wind. She was freezing cold, with goose bumps appearing all over her body, and she was only wearing a short sleeved shirt and jean shorts. Dragon saw her freezing her ass off, so seeing no other solution, grabbed her arm and before she knew it herself, he was giving her a piggy back ride. [Natsu: What the hell? Erza: Natsu, you sly dog. Making a move on her like that, how bold of you… Mirajane: That's so cute! Gray: Shut up so I can hear!] "What are you doing?"

"Aren't you cold?" he asked as she looked questionably, yet irritated back at him.

"Aren't you?" she asked, with utter amazement, as he simply shook his head. "Why the hell are we even here?"

"I got to see an asshole."

"Why?"

"Obviously, I have my reasons." Lucille left it at that as she cuddled into his broad, warm and comfortable back. She moved closer to him as she wrapped her arms around his neck, she found her head to fit perfectly in the crook of his neck. She could smell his scent of pine oak, the forest and some thing smoky all mixed together to give him a relaxing and manly smell that made her blush. She was happy that he couldn't see her face and the extra heat the blush was providing to her body. She didn't know what happened after that as she drifted off into a warm and comfortable sleep.

When she woke up, she saw that she was still on Dragon's back, the blizzard gone to reveal a blanket of snow over the landscape, as he was still walked around to look for something - so it seemed to her.

"Dragon…?" Lucille asked drowsily, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes, as he snapped his head sideways to see her sleepy face mere inches away from his own.

"You're up? Finally, it's been over an hour already," he stated as her eyes shot open. She would have fallen off from his back if he wasn't holding her legs that were wrapped around his waist. "Did you know you talk in your sleep?"

"What?" she almost screamed as he rubbed his ear on his shoulder, stopping the ringing noises.

"You don't need to shout in my ears!"

"Sorry…" she whispered as he just stared dully at her, then he broke out into a grin.

"You're funny when you sleep talk."

"What did I say?"

"Not telling," Dragon teased.

"Dragon! Don't be mean! Tell me! It's a life or death situation here!"

"All I can ask is… you dream of me?" he asked with a smirk as she blushed.

'Holy crap! Why me?' Lucille thought in embarrassment as she buried her face into his back.

"N-no I don't!"

"Then why were you like, 'Dragon… closer… no, not like that… meanie…' and stuff?" His smirk grew larger as he tried to imitate her girlie tone. [Bisca: Does Lucy really talk in her sleep? Natsu: Yeah, but I never heard or said any of this… does she really dream of me? Erza: Don't get so flustered over the fact…]

At this point, she jumped away from him and ran away into a random direction, holding her face in her hands to try and hide in embarrassment.

"Hey! Lucille! Wait!" Dragon yelled out after her.

"Lucille~!" Harry whined in his squeaky voice as they started chasing after her. She didn't know where she was going, and was most definitely not expecting to bump into a hard surface. Yet she did, and there she was, rubbing her numb buttocks as Dragon and Harry finally caught up to her. She found out that she bumped into a wooden door that belonged to the small cabin that stood in front of her in this snow infested land.

"Oh! Lucille, great job! You found the place!" Dragon said excitedly, not even bothering to ask if she was alright, but Harry was different. [Happy: That means she likes me better then you! Natsu: No she doesn't! Shut up! Erza: You tend to not notice her situations at most times… Natsu: What?!]

"You okay, Lucille~?" Harry asked, helping her to her feet. She smiled affectionately at the cat, before nodding her head.

"Yeah, thanks…" Dragon suddenly kicked down the door with a wide grin, not even bothering to knock and stormed in. Lucille peered around and saw Dragon looking frantically around the cabin.

"Grey! Where are you! Show yourself!""

"Wait! Stop the story!" Gray shouted as everyone - especially Levi - looked at him with an annoyed look. "What the hell is this? She changed everyone else's names, so why am I still Gray in here!"

"No, she did change your name. Instead of 'G-R-A-Y', she spelt it as 'G-R-E-Y', get it?" Levi explained.

"What's the difference?"

"There is a huge one, so shut your trap! Now, as I was saying:

""Grey! Where are you! Show yourself!"

"Nice one moron, I really appreciated you breaking down the fucking door and showing yourself in…" said a voice from the open entrance of the doorway. Lucille looked behind her to see a tall, very attractive man with dark blue-black hair, and wasn't even wearing a shirt but only jeans - and boxers that were plainly visible - with a blue tattoo on his chest that resembled Dragon's tattoo.

Behind him followed a pretty girl with short spiky blue hair, blue eyes, pale skin, a nice figure, and a Russian style attire with a clip holding her jacket together that looked similar to the two men's tattoos in blue. [Natsu: What the hell are you doing with Juvia in a cabin in snow land? Gray: How am I supposed to know! Shut up and let me find out!]

"Who are you…?" the one called Grey, asked her as he finally noticed her. Lucille smiled politely, ready to introduce herself even with the other girl glaring daggers at her, but Dragon cut in before she had a chance to talk. [Juvia: I guess she's referring to my behavior toward her when we first met… I feel a bit bad now…]

"Grey, you asshole! We didn't get to finish what we started last time!" Dragon said aggressively and aimed a punch at Grey in which he dodged effortlessly - and so did the other girl who was now standing next to Lucille in a safe corner of the room.

"We did finish it last time, burnt brain! I won!" Grey said, as angrily as Dragon was talking as they went into an all out brawl. Lucille, not really caring about them at the moment, focused her attention on the other girl.

"Hi, I'm Lucille Heart. It's nice to meet you!" Lucille said with a smile as the other girl smiled back.

"I'm Jessica, pleased to meet you, Lucille," she said, shaking her hand. Then her face turned from delight to menace. "You're not, by any chance, interested in Grey-sama? Are you? If you are, then you shall be my rival in love and I don't think you want to be my rival, Lucille…"

"O-of course not," Lucille replied, a bit nervously.

"Of course she isn't. She~ likes~ Dragon~!" Harry said, holding his hands over his mouth in a shy manner.

"No I don't! We've only known each other for a week!" Lucille tried to deny, but Jessica let out a sigh of relief.

"Thank goodness, I was a bit worried there. I hope we can be good friends from now on!" Jessica stated with a bright smile as Lucille tried to smile as well.

'Wasn't she just threatening me a while ago? I meet the weirdest people… well, she does seem nice. She probably has a thing with Grey to act a bit defensive about him… He does seem like a handsome guy, so maybe a lot of girls swarm him…' Lucille thought, but shrugged the thought of her being a weirdo. "So… you like Grey…?" [Gray: All the ladies love me. Juvia: Who? Which ladies? Gajeel: Easy there girl, he's just full of himself. Gray: What?]

"Eh! Um… well… o-ok…" Jessica admitted with a blush, smiling to the ground while twiddling her fingers in a nervous fashion. Lucille smiled and patted her back encouragingly, finally having a friend to talk about such things with. Grey and Dragon were still going at it, and frankly, it was starting to get annoying. Listening to their constant swears and their beating each other senseless for no apparent reason just irritated the girl. Lucille finally slammed her fist on the wall, unintentionally cracking the plaster, as the boys finally stopped and looked at her with frightened stares.

"Stop…" Lucille said with her pissed off look and dark voice. [Gray: Holy shit! Lucy is scary! Natsu: That's what I said!]

"Yes, ma'am!" Dragon shouted from fright and stood back ten feet away from Grey.

"Shit! She's as scary as Elizabeth!" Grey whispered with fear. [Gray: I'm guessing this 'Elizabeth' is Erza… Erza: Did you say something…? Gray: NOTHING!] "Anyways, I didn't catch your name…"

"I'm Lucille Heart."

"Cool, I'm Grey."

"I kind of got that."

"I know you did by the many times this moron called out my beautiful name like a lovesick gay."

"You want some of this?" Dragon threatened, displaying his fist.

"Why are you guys in here anyways?" Harry butted in before another battle broke out.

"Yeah, trying to get some alone time and cuddle together with Jessica? Huh, Grey?" Dragon teased as Jessica went crimson red and Grey was a bit flustered as well. [Natsu: So my assumption was right! Gray: No! It just shows how you both are such morons to think the same thing! Erza: Natsu, do you even know what assumption means?]

"We're on a mission!" Grey said a bit too quickly, with a bit of defensiveness in his tone. [Gray: See! Natsu: Well you could be doing something in the sidelines… Gray: Shut up already!]

"Really? Well, a little birdie told me that you guys hooked up…" Dragon said in a mysterious tone, wiggling his brows as Grey looked at him angrily. [*Gray and Juvia looked at each other in embarrassment, and then looked away from each other, faces glowing red*]

"How did you know?"

"I got my sources."

"Who told you?"

"Miranda…" [Natsu: That sounds like Mira-san… Mirajane: Am I a gossip girl to you people? Cana: Kind of, actually. I get all my juicy gossip from you anyways…]

"Shit!" Grey swore. All of a sudden, Dragon approached Grey and put his palm on his shoulder.

"I'm proud of you Grey," Dragon said in a serious tone, and yet you could hear the slight humor in his tone.

"Want to die…?"

"What? I'm just saying, you finally found love."

"Speak for yourself…" Grey murmured, glancing back at Lucille as she began to blush herself.

"Eh? Lucille? We're just friends, nothing else. As if a weirdo like her can be my girlfriend!" Natsu-" She accidentally cut out Natsu's name here…" Levi stated as she displayed everyone the fact on the folder. Natsu's heart felt like it was about to explode in his chest. How could he be so stupid to say stuff like that about Lucy every day? He already knows - well now anyway - that he was in love with that weirdo and he hurt her so much that she even wrote a story about it to release her repressed anger out. Levi resumed reading from after his crossed out name. "Dragon stated nonchalantly, with a flick of his wrist as Lucille's heart sank. She looked away with a grim look. As Grey noticed her change of mood, he got pissed off at Dragon's idiotic ways and punched him across the face. [Gray: You deserved it… Natsu: Shut up!]

"What the? What was that for?" Dragon asked angrily, caressing his sore cheek.

"For being an ass…"Grey replied as he walked up to the girls and Harry. "Hey, we're on a mission right now, and I'm sure as hell that you don't want to be anywhere near that asshole as much as I do. So do you want to join us?"

"Sure…" Lucille replied hesitantly with a polite smile toward Grey for his sincerity.

"What do you mean she doesn't want to be anywhere near me? Grey! You asshole, don't fill her head with your stupidity!"

"You're the moron here! Shut up already!" Grey then looked toward Lucille with a smile. "So are you strong…? I can manipulate ice so I'm at an advantage here, and Jessica can control water. Do you need someone to protect you like a damsel in distressed princess…?" he said mockingly as Lucille forced a nervous laugh at the term of her being called a princess. She cleared her throat, before replying.

"Um… no actually, I know a little bit of magic myself. I can summon spirits…" Lucille said with a shy grin.

"Like dead people?" Dragon asked incredulously, wonder sparking in his eyes as Grey punched him toward the other side of the room. [Gray: I like this story; I get to punch you a lot, it's hilarious! Natsu: You want some of this? Gray: Not now asshole! I'm listening to the story! Natsu: …]

"You summon stellar spirits?" Grey asked with a smile as she nodded her head. "Alright then, Jessica will help you put on some more clothes since this asshole probably didn't care about your well being," Grey stopped to glare at the pink haired boy sitting in the corner, sulking. "After that we'll head out and explain the mission to you." Jessica happily took Lucille and Harry upstairs as Grey glared at the moron in the corner.

"What?" Dragon yelled out, still confused by everything that was going on.

"Shut the fuck up and go away. I told Lucille that you won't be coming with us," Grey ordered.

"What? You want a harem?"

"No! Don't you understand anything?"

"About what?"

"Jesus! You bird brain!"

"Hey! What did I do?"

"Plenty…"

"Why can't I go on the mission? I heard you guys were going to destroy an ice monster, so I thought I'd come and burnt it!"

"Shut up and stay here, but don't burn down the cabin. It's a rental," Grey instructed before heading out, leaving a confused Dragon behind and hanging.

Grey was on his way to find the monster with Lucille and Jessica by his sides, and Harry decided to stay behind with Dragon. As they were walking, looking around for any signs of an enormous monster lurking around, Lucille noticed that Grey and Jessica were holding hands. She smiled at the couple with admiration.

"You guys are like an icy rain. It might be freezing and a bit gloomy, but with them together you help others. Those who want to cry under the rain can be allowed, take a happy shower in the rain, playing together under the rain because it fascinates others, playing with the mud, feeling the refreshing cold breeze pass by, dance without a care in the world and just being themselves… Oh my! I'm rambling! Sorry, I do that sometimes!" Lucille said apologetically as she saw the couple blushing madly. Jessica looked longingly into Grey's eyes as she smiled and laid her head on his shoulder comfortably. He blushed, but still laid his own head on top of hers. That was, until a loud roar erupted into the air.

Their heads snapped in front of them to find a giant snow monster that stood next to a lake, which had apparently spotted them and - being a stupid domestic monster like it was - wants to kill them for no apparent reason. [Natsu: What the hell? Erza: That is kind of true. Monsters have no apparent reason to kill others, so I guess she's spot on here…]

The monster picked up a large ice bolder - or snowball - and threw it at their direction. Jessica and Grey jumped to the side, and Lucille jumped the opposite side.

"So this is the monster that's been killing the mountain travelers? I'll enjoy beating the crap out of it!" Grey said with a cocky smirk as he gathered his magic and then used the ice beneath the monster to restrain it in place. Jessica used her powers to control water to attack the monster.

Lucille sat on the side and watched the battle that took place. [Gazille: Why isn't the bunny girl doing anything? Gray: Well obviously this is my mission and my fight so she isn't trying to get in the way.] Lucille wanted to fight also, and have some actual experience in fighting with her spirits besides beating up perverts, thieves and bad guys with them. [*Half the guild cracks up*] She pouted a bit, but accidentally let her guard down, which was a huge mistake on her part.

Grey let go of the ice restraint when Jessica had her fill of hits, but before Grey could conjure up enough magical power to give the finishing blow, the monster dashed toward Lucille and was ready to rip her to shreds. Lucille didn't have enough time to dodge the attack so she braced herself with whatever came her way. That was, until Dragon came in between her and the monster and then - which an angry face, which was kind of hot and sexy at the same time, but she wasn't going to point that out in a situation like this - he jammed a huge fire-ball in the monster's face that engulfed the monster, leaving it to burn into a crisp. [Cana: Oh my, Natsu, what kind of hot and sexy angry faces do you make in front of Lucy? Natsu: *blushing beat red* Gray: Don't you know Cana? That possessive angry type of face. Cana: Oh, I know the type! Natsu: Shut up already!]

As Dragon turned around with a smug grin, a snowball collided into his face. He wiped it off, confused, as he saw a smirking Lucille juggling a few more snowballs.

"Forgive me for whatever I did?" Dragon asked hopefully. Lucille pondered on this before smiling. [Alzack: Women... Bisca: What was that you said? Alzack: Nothing!]

"Since you won't ever find out what you did wrong, I guess I can forgive you. However, it's only because you're a complete goofball who just saved me, ok?" Lucille exclaimed, as Dragon picked her up with a happy face and laughed as he swung her around. 'This moron keeps doing things that get my hopes up, only to be crushed soon. Why does he do this to me? If he obviously won't ever see us as anything other than a friend, then don't do such stupid things!' Lucille thought as she started to laugh as well, since Dragon started tickling her. [Natsu: How come she just assumes that nothing will ever happen between us? Gray: That's because nothing would have if you didn't start reading this story. Natsu: …]

"Hey!" The duo stopped abruptly as they heard Grey's sudden shout. "That was my kill, you asshole!"

"Oh really? Well from what I saw, you weren't really doing anything at all! You should be happy that I took it out so quickly!" Dragon shouted back angrily, and then they began another one of their fist fights.

"Are they always like this?" Lucille asked with a sweat drop as Jessica just stared.

"My heart is pounding so much-" Jessica started.

"From the adrenaline rush of the fight just now? You were awesome though!" Lucille said encouragingly with a smile as Jessica just blush.

"-for Grey-sama!" Jessica finished her statement as Lucille sweat dropped again.

"Um… sure… which direction is the way to get out of here?" Lucille asked as Jessica pointed toward the east.

"It's that way; it was really nice to meet you, Lucille! Grey and I have to collect our stuff before heading back, but I hope we can see each other really soon!" Jessica said gleefully as the girls hugged as a goodbye.

"Likewise, Jessica. Thanks for everything, later!" Lucille said with a wave before walking off toward the east direction with Harry walking next to her. Dragon noticed that Lucille and Harry were now walking away from them and started panicking.

"Hey! Lucille! Are you leaving me behind again? What the hell? Harry! Not you too buddy! Wait up!" End of chapter two!" Levi exclaimed with a smile as everyone looked at Natsu, Gray and Juvia.

"What?!" they all shouted simultaneously as they were blushing from the unwanted attention. Everyone in the guild started laughing at them and they could feel the tension spreading around them - between Gray and Juvia, and Natsu getting weird feelings and thought about Lucy, mostly on how he was supposed to approach her the next time he sees her.

To Be Continued