As of February 1st, 2017, this story is now under construction and refinement.

Posted: 1.02.2017


On December first, three best friends were preparing for their weekly outing. It tended to be a little bit suffocating on the school grounds sometimes so their trip into the town to shop, laugh and reconnect was a please that was always well received.

"Ouch!" A tall, slender woman squeaked as one of the most gorgeous girls on campus bumped into her, knocking her cell phone out of her hands and sending it skidding across the pavement. "Hey! Watch where you're going." The girl flipped her thick dark hair and cut her eyes towards the other girl causing her to shrink back and cast her eyes downwards in shame. She bent down to reach for her phone but the darker haired girl pout her foot on it, no allowing the other to reach it.

"What did you say, Juvia?" Her voice cast a spark of fear down her back and seemed to pull out a quiet 'nothing' from beyond her thinner lips. "I thought so. Now stay out pf my way." The girl with olive skin and jade green eyes turned her back and stalked away, followed by her ever present posse of spoiled brats. The one named Juvia grabbed her phone and brushed off her jeans before scurrying over to slightly hidden bench where she would continue to wait for her friends.

Juvia Lockser was a strange girl- quiet, liked to be alone, never talked to anyone but her friends on a normal basis but was easily one of the smartest people in her grade- possibly in the whole school. She had recently cut her hair and it now hung down to her collarbone when it was completely straight but only brushed her shoulders because it was curly- there was no point in straightening it since it was a bit of a dreary day. But she loved the weather- the gray of the clouds and the scent of rain in the air was very relaxing and she didn't feel as alone since her family (Aunt really) was from the Western coast where it was always raining. She missed home- anyone with eyes could see it in her massive, dark yet bright ones and any one with ears could hear it in her voice if anyone would graced to hear her voice.

Time flew by and soon an hour had passed before she saw her two friends walking towards where she was waiting for them. She stood and waved them over to her locations and greeted this with a large smile. "Hello Lucy. Hey Levy."

"Hey Juvia!" Both girls said in unison.

It was insane how much alike they were since they looked like polar opposites.

"What took you guys so long? Juvia was starting to think that the outing was forgotten."

Levy, the shorter of the two, gasped. "We would never forget about our Sunday! Lucy here couldn't figure out an outfit so she asked for my help and we went through her entire closet before finding the right one." The blonde, Lucy, flushed a bright red.

"I had to look good! What if we ran into a group of boys?" But everyone else already knew that Lucy always looked great because she was so gorgeous so effortlessly. She had long blonde hair and big brown and hazel eyes. She was just stunning all around and her clothes always scented her- she wore tighter clothes that Juvia or Levy and showed a bit more skin. She liked pinks and bright colors but today she was dressed in neutral tans with a bright flower printed scarf.

"It's not that serious Lucy," Levy laughed.

"I bet it would be if it was Gajeel!"

The young woman instantly turned the color of a beet when Lucy said that. All of the girls knew about her long time crush on the 'oh-so-cool' Gajeel Redfox. Which was ridiculous because Lucy was a cute, innocent angel and Gajeel was a walking metal stud who wore nothing but black leather and sometimes very, very, very dark gray. Levy was silenced at that point and the girls continued to walk and discuss the upcoming semester exams and all the studying they need to do. These Sundays were important for another reason as well, the trio would hang out and spend quality girl time together and de-stress after a week of demanding school work, and escape from the wrath their personnel hell-bringers unleashed onto them. It was what they needed to do to keep their heads from going under.


It was a stunning evening now and the three friends had done some shopping for new clothes and accessories- Lucy found a new ribbon to put in her hair and Levy found a new book in a series she was reading while Juvia was just shopping and picking up a few essentials for school. They had even stopped for brunch and coffee and caught a movie in the park before beginning the trek back to their dorms at the Fiore Institute. It had been a perfect day out on the town. But, as they were about to step through the campus gate, three of the most feared men on campus (in the girls' eyes) appeared in front of them and called out. With nowhere else to go, the three turned, and ran.

Their feet ran frantically through the silent and dark streets of Magnolia.

"Hurry up- we can't be caught!" Levy was gasping as she ran, desperate to get away from her predator. Her heart was pounding in her ears and her eyes were darting around, trying to find some place to duck into and hid- the library was too far and the police station was too. And, of course, there was no one around. Not that they would help anyway.

"It's the weekend!" The brown eyed belle gasped. Tears welling in her eyes, "where is everyone?!" the first of many tears hit her cheek as she looked around and saw that no one was on the street and all the lights around them were out.

"Why do they even do this to us?" The last grunted as they continued to run, her short, curly blue hair flying behind her as she clutched her wallet in her hand. She was angrier than the others, but she wasn't stupid enough to try to take their tormentors on during the night. She had learned that lesson when she was still new to the school. Eventually they ended up on the South side of the campus, near the shutdown cafeteria.

The trio came across a dark and silent alley thinking- praying- it would be a good place to hide from their pursuers. There was another loud call from around the corner, closer than it was a second ago.

"Hurry!" Lucy whispered, pulling her friends in by the arms.

The alley branched off in two directions but it was too dark to see if there were openings on either of them. Maybe they could've been escape routes… or entrances. But it was too late to check because they would be caught if they weren't silent right then. They could only hope they were quiet enough to be over looked and make back home safely.

"C'mon you losers! Where'd you go?" It echoed throughout the alley and the direction of the voice made the girls hearts sink to the bottoms of their stomachs. It came from the left. Lucy's heart was absolutely racing in her chest, she thought they could hear it and that was how they found her and her friends.

"Yeah, we only want to have a little fun." This time it came from the left and it created tears in Levy's eyes because she knew that they were utterly surrounded by their doom.

"Hey! I think they went down here." This time it was dead ahead and Lucy felt a wave of absolute terror and defeat wash over her body at that very moment. She could hear the chuckles because of the 'joke', they already knew where they were. They always knew where they were.

The steps stopped became slower and spaced further apart until they were standing directly in front of the Juvia and Levy who were hiding behind a dumpster while Lucy hid in the shadow of a mattress.

"Lucy! Where are you?" The man with blonde, spiked hair spoke out with a laugh. Sting would've been cute if it weren't for his disgusting behavior towards Lucy and her friends. The blonde girl coward further into the wall she was hiding against when she heard him call out to her. He was here especially for her, she knew it from the way he said her name with a sickening longing. Like she was a lost lover and he was the abusive boyfriend who was always sorry and promised it would never happen again.

Another one of them laughed. "Juvia! You owe me something- where did you go?" The other man, the one with spiky silver hair- though he was still just a senior in college, said punching his left fist into his right palm. Juvia could hear the crack of his knuckles over the thunder of her heart. The young woman held her brave face, but she was visibly quaking silently, trying to keep the tears under control.

"Oh Levy!" The last one whined mockingly, "Come here, all I want is to play!" The third man laughed out. Levy frowned deeper when she identified Jet as the voice that was calling to her.

Everything became silent for a moment and for a moment, the girls thought the boys had moved on. But only for a moment. The boys were waiting for any signs of movement or breathing before they pounced, adding to the horror of the situation. Then a stray came out from beneath the trash can, rubbing against Juvia's leg and purring softly. As the two girls tried shooing the feline away, the cat began to meow as if it was a game. Completely giving away their hiding place to the hunters.

"Boo!" Sting laughed from above the terrified girls.


Beep! Beep! Beep!

"Ugh..." Lucy groaned rolling over.

Beep! Beep! Bee-

The clock fell to the floor with a thud. She hated that devil spawn with passion hotter than hell's fires. The Blonde sat up, stretching her arms and legs before rubbing the drool from her mouth. She yawned and rubbed her eyes, letting out a hiss of pain at the pressure.

"What the..." she asked confused, and then she remembered, "oh yeah... Sting hit me last night." Lucy sighed, remembering the events that unfolded the night before.

The young blonde rose up from the bed and walked tiredly to the mirror, she checked out her left eye, seeing that it was swollen and purple. "Well, it could've been a lot worse if it wasn't for those other guys who came." It was horrible, but she wasn't concerned about her injuries or her experience anymore. She was so used to the abuse and it no longer phased her too much when it should have made her angry and resentful- but now, she simply pays it no mind. Giving it attention is exactly what Sting wants and she'd be damned if she was going to satisfy him like that. Lucy walked to her bathroom, grabbing her uniform and fresh undergarments as she did so, to get ready for school.

Fifteen minutes later, Lucy came out the bathroom in her school uniform, make-up also covering her black eye (Thank you concealer!). She checked herself in the mirror one last time before deciding that she looked decent and was ready to brave the world once again. "Alright! Time to get Juvia, and Levy."

She walked out into the loud, rowdy Girls Dorm hallway and automatically turned to the left and walked that way until she made it to room 303. She knocked on the door; a soft thud was heard on the other side before Levy's muffled voice started on the other side. Lucy stood and waited patiently for her friend- she always woke up late- with her hands behind her back, and humming softly while rocking on her heels, then she heard her name being called.

"Lucy!" Lucy turned her head to see a tall, thin and very pretty blue haired girl walking towards her, waving.

"Good morning, Juvia!" She said, waving back. She hugged the young woman gingerly, knowing she had to have a massive bruise on her ribs from being kicked by the silver headed freak last night.

"Are you waiting for Levy?" Juvia asked. She had come to the same realization as Lucy a while back, preferring to not let the jerks get in their way of having the best education Fiore had to offer.

"Yep, she should be out any second." Lucy replied with a smile.

"H-hey guys!" Levy said energetically to her friends as the door swung open, revealing the petite bookworm with her bag in hand and school uniform on. It always amazed her friends how she could literally roll out of bed then be completely ready in five minutes. Levy had yet to come to the realization completely and both of her friends knew that she would cry at night when she thought no one could hear her, but Lucy and Juvia would often check on her because of her small size, just to make sure her injuries weren't too bad.

"Hi Levy." Juvia said, giving her friend a good morning hug. Lucy smiled and hugged her also.

"So, are we ready?" Lucy asked. Juvia and Levy nodded. "Alright, let's go! Don't want to be late." Lucy said walking away from them.

"Hey! Don't walk so fast!" Levy complained trying to catch up to Lucy.

"Do you want to be stopped by Minerva?" Lucy questioned. Levy became silent and ran to Lucy. Juvia's face fell and she could feel the anger boiling in her belly while remembering the events of yesterday morning. She unconsciously began to slow down.

"Wait for Juvia!" Juvia cried out when Lucy and Levy turned the corner. The trio made it out of the dorm building without incident and was lucky to make it to their first class unnoticed by anyone that would pose a threat to them.

Juvia, Lucy and Levy were the first to enter the room, not even the teacher was there yet. "Thank god we got here first." Lucy smiled walked to her seat. This was the only class that they had together for the entire day and would only meet again during lunch and maybe dinner.

"Now we can get some peace- at least for a little bit." Levy sang out while sitting down. Juvia smiled and sat down as well. The trio waited in silence, Juvia had her headphones in and watched something on her phone, laughing occasionally while Levy read a book and Lucy sat silently as she watched other students walk into the room. She suddenly remembered that she had a quick assignment due for her astronomy class.

While rummaging in her bag for a pencil, Lucy realized that she didn't have any more and forgot to pick some up while in town yesterday. That meant she had to get one from the teacher's desk. And that meant she had to walk down the row, not make a fool of herself, and not cause trouble. She took a deep breath, got up from her seat and walked to the teacher's desk to get a pencil. That just so happened to be at the very moment when Natsu, her (mega) crush, walked into the room. Lucy looked at him and blushed bright when he looked back.

'Oh my god! He's looking at me, he never did that before!' Lucy squealed inside her head. Not paying attention to anything around her, Lucy tripped over someone's backpack on the ground. The Blonde shrieked as she began to fall to the ground. Her eyes closed tight, waiting for the pain from hitting the ground.

It never came. All she felt was a warm pair of arms around her. She opened her eyes to see Natsu, looking at her with concern.

"Sorry! I am so sorry," she squeaked out as he helped her to her feet. "Thank you," Lucy breathed.

"Anytime," he smiled at her. But not just any smile, a heart stopping, cheeky, toothy, and hottest grin she had ever seen in her life. "Just be careful next time," he said walking to his seat.

Lucy blushed madly as she walked back to her desk, forgetting about the pencil and all the hateful stares from the jealous fan girls. She knew that would be a problem later in the day.

"Wow! Lucy, are you ok?" Levy asked. The still dazed blonde absently nodded.

"Natsu caught you! That was so cute!" Juvia said smiling, she was always making fun of the blonde for her crush on Natsu.

"Yeah, it was, but what did he say to you?" Levy asked excitedly. It took a minute for Lucy to speak actual words.

"H-he told me to be careful." Lucy replied. Juvia and Levy were going to speak again, but their teacher walked into the room.

"Good morning class!" He said happily. His class droned a greeting while taking their seats. "We have a lot to do today, so take out your textbooks and open them to page 164."


The classes were hazy memory for Lucy, she was still caught up about what occurred earlier but the bell signaling lunch knocked her out of her daze and she hurriedly gathered her belongings and followed her classmates to the lunch area, still day dreaming about the handsome pink haired boy- no, man. Levy and Juvia joined sometime along the way.

The girls entered the crowded and loud lunch room. "What's for lunch today?" Juvia asked her friends.

"I don't know, but I'm not going to eat today." Levy replied. Lucy nodded in agreement.

"Yeah me neither, I'm going to start on some homework. Mid-terms are coming up and I need to be ready," Lucy said.

"Oh, ok. Well, Juvia will see you in a little." Juvia said walked to the lunch line. As the young lady stood in the slowly moving line, she noticed Lyon talking with a group of guys at a nearby table. Juvia's heart dropped as she prayed that he wouldn't notice her. It seemed her request was heard but, sadly, only for a short time. Lyon stepped in front of her.

"Hello Juvia," he said smirking. Juvia glared at him. She wouldn't give him the satisfaction of intimidating her today.

"What do you want?" she spat.

"Oh, just wondering how my favorite loser is doing." Lyon replied. Before Juvia could retort, a deeper voice cut her off and the young woman's heart nearly stopped and all the blood in her body probably collected in her face at that very moment.

"Lyon, don't call Juvia a loser." Gray said, he happened to be in front of Juvia in the line. She didn't even notice! The new man had messy dark hair and dark blue, closer to onyx, eyes.

'G-gray! He never stuck up for me before.' Juvia thought, wringing her hands in front of her.

Lyon laughed. "Make me," he taunted before he turned around and grabbed his cup of water and tossed it onto Juvia's front. "What the hell Lyon!" Gray yelled before taking a swing at the other man and getting into a brief scuffle.

Guys from the surrounding area pulled the two apart. Gray demanded for Lyon to apologize to blue haired girl. "Oh shut up Gray." Lyon laughed sitting back down. Gray almost punched his sorry ass, but then he saw Juvia begin to cry, and run out the lunch room with her friends trailing behind her.

"Juvia..." Gray whispered quietly. The dark haired man looked back to Lyon, who was laughing with another group of people like nothing even happened.


Levy, Lucy, and Juvia walked out of the school, heading to their dorm. "That was so embarrassing!" Juvia groaned, looking down to her semi-damp sweater vest and white blouse underneath.

Lucy nodded in agreement. "Yes, but Gray stuck up for you!" Levy nudged Juvia's side with her elbow. Juvia began to blush as she remembered him sticking up to Lyon for her. She had the biggest crush on the older man but she did her best to keep that hidden.

The trio was back at the girl's dorm when Levy excused herself. "I need to go guys; I got a lot of homework." Levy hugged her friends. "See you later!" The petite girl disappeared around the corner and back the way they came, probably across campus to library before the next class.

Lucy waved, and then looked at her watch. Twelve thirty-seven. The blonde turned towards her friend. "Hey Juvia, want to go get lunch in my room?" Lucy asked. "We still have time before class is due to start back up again."

Juvia shook her head, "Sorry Juvia can't, Juvia has to go get changed. Some other time, okay?"

"Alright, guess I'll see you later." Lucy gave Juvia a hug, before the blue haired girl left for her dorm room and Lucy went back in the direction they had come earlier.

At her door, Lucy searched her backpack for her room key. Having no such luck, Lucy threw her head back in disappointment and blew a stream of air out of her mouth. "Damn..." Lucy muttered, she must have left her key inside that morning, now she'll have to buy a new one. "Oh, well," Lucy sighed and walked back down to the office. "Let's see..." Lucy muttered to herself. "Today has been a horrible day I guess- I got a test next period, a quiz in Mrs. Aries class, Oh! And also a proj-" Lucy stopped thinking and let out squeal as she tripped- over what, she will never know- for a second time that day. Lucy shut her eyes tight, expecting the impact of the ground this time; however, once again, it never came, and she herd chuckling above her and a thick, muscular arm around her waist. She cracked one eye open her eyes to see a familiar head of rose pink hair again.

"That's the second time I had to save you today." He chuckled.

"Natsu?" Lucy felt her face heating up.

"Hi Lucy." He grinned. "You dropped this earlier." He had her room key between his fingers.