Mom, something inside of me, aches. What is this? I can't believe I'm writing to you while sitting in Fairy Tail's living quarters. I wish I could join. Oh, mom. Is there any way to stop my miserable fate?
I will keep on wishing that it's possible, at least until the week ends.
The bright sunlight pierced through the small window and shine into Lucy's eyes, she groaned as she tossed over in the bed in attempt to block it, eventually ending up laying on her front with her arms above her head and her eyes no longer able to stay shut, she sighed deeply as she stared at the plain ceiling.
'Hmm... whatcha' looking at Lucy? Somethin' on the ceiling?' Natsu's voice came from directly beside her, Lucy jolted up in shock 'Ah! Don't come into a girls room without permission, idiot!' She exclaimed loudly, 'Eh? But I thought you might wanna come with us!' Natsu gave Lucy a sort-of 'puppy dog' look.
'Fine, fine, but first...' Lucy grabs hold of Natsu and Happy and tosses them outside her room, slamming the door before they could reenter, the pair look at each other and shrug. Shortly after, Lucy emerges from the room, she untucks her blonde locks from her blouse and avoids eye contact with the boys, walking towards the stairway that leads to the bar area.
The boys quickly jumped to their feet and followed her, after Lucy had finished eating, she wiped her mouth and turned her attention to Natsu and Happy who were happily shoving down every bit of food they could, 'so... Go with you where, exactly?'
Natsu used his elbow to push a piece of paper forward on the table, 'This' he scoffed, with his mouth full of food. Lucy then examined the paper carefully written on it was:
》Help eliminate rogue beast
5000 jewel reward' 《
'Hmm... Alright. I'd like to come' Lucy slightly sighed, 'Oh, oh, Natsu, can I come? Can I?!' the snow-white like Lisanna who seemingly appeared from no-where squealed excitingly.
Of course, Natsu agreed, and so himself, Happy, Lisanna and Lucy headed out to meet the client who posted the job. However, Lucy soon learned that Natsu... suffered with motion sickness. 'Come on Natsu, it's only another two more hours' Lucy grumbled as she sat opposite the blue-faced Natsu. 'Ugh...I... I'm gonna... barf' Natsu mumbled as he held his hand over his mouth, Lisanna giggled at rubbed his back, this in turn, made Lucy feel that stabbing sensation.
What... is this...? She wondered to herself quietly, avoiding to look at the two. 'You know... me and Natsu, we're childhood friends... We even said we'd get married one day when we were kids, can you believe that?' Lisanna giggled once again, but Lucy just pretended she was asleep.
I see... so they were child-hood friends... I guess that makes sense... what's wrong with me... get a grip, Lucy! Eventually, Lucy drifted off, when she awoke, they had arrived. Natsu crawled off of the train and onto the platform, almost hugging the solid ground. 'I'm hungry!' shouted Happy who, with his small cat legs, slowly followed behind the group. 'Me... too... buddy' Natsu grumbled as he still felt nautious from the travel. 'Jeez. We're off the train now, so can we please go?' Lucy complained.
At last, the four finally arrived at the clients house. It didn't take long to discuss the purpose of the job and confirm the payment, afterwards Lucy and team walked to the woods that where just on the outskirts of Silverfort. As they finally emerged deep into the forest, they soon found themselves head-to-head against this 'rogue beast'.
The beast in question, was a large creature, with toxic green scales, almost like a snake, except it's teeth looked as if they were as sharp as a katana. As it moved towards the three humans, the ground shook as if there were an earth quake, Natsu looked up at it, 'Oh... I'm fired up now!' He smirked and wasted no time in charging onwards to attack.
He jumped up and breathed in heavily making his stomach puff outwards, 'Fire Dragon... ROARRRRRR' he blew out a sea of flames that rushed towards the giant beast, however as the flames passed, the giant looked unharmed.
'Lucy! Lisanna!' Natsu shouted, the girls nodded, Lisanna transformed into a oversized purple bunny and Lucy pulled out one of her golden keys 'I call upon thee... Gate of the Bull... Taurus!' A *ding dong* sound echoed as a cow weilding an axe now appeared in front of Lucy.
'Good moo-rning Miss Lucy, do I get that sm-oo-ch today?' 'Taurus! Just take care of this beast!' Lucy exclaimed. 'I'll show you my moo-ves!' Taurus charged towards the beast, jumping up and attempting to cut his axe into the beast, however, it becomes stuck, the beast roars fiercely and strikes Lisanna, who flings backwards into a tree stump.
'LISANNA! You... bastard!' Natsu exclaimed as he once again charged for the beast, however one hit and Natsu is also sent flying next to Lisanna, Lucy began to panick and gasped hold of her chest as the sharp pain grew in her, ▶No... This is stupid... He's in trouble... I have to beat this beast! ◀ 'Taurus, I'll give you a smooch if you get your axe back and rid of this beast! Do it now!'' Lucy begged as tears began to stream down her face, 'with pleasure, Miss L-oo-cy!'
With new motivation, Taurus managed to yank out his axe and jumped up from the beast's body and above its head, Taurus then forcefully but successfully sliced his axe through the beast.
Lucy panted heavily as she fell to her knees, holding the celestial gate open took a toll on her magic use, Natsu wobbled as he stood up, making him way to Lucy, 'Hey... you okay, Lucy? You did it!' Natsu placed his hand atop Lucy's head and slightly ruffled her hair.
As Lucy peered up at Natsu, the sunlight and the boy himself, almost blinded her from being so dazzling, 'Eh? Lucy, you're crying?! What's wrong?' She hadn't even realised her tears had turned into a full stream. Lucy shook her head and smiled gently at Natsu 'I just got dust in my eye, it's okay... Natsu'
Meanwhile back at the Fairy Tail guild, Gray and Juvia have just returned from a job request, as usual Juvia was glued to Gray, 'Gray-sama, Juvia hopes we get to go on another quest soon, just the two of us!' She squealed as her mind wondered in the world of indecency. 'Juvia, come on! Get off, we need to show the boss what we found' Gray hissed causing Juvia to pout and release her hold.
Gray approached Master Makarov who was sat in his usual place, he slammed another 'request' in front of the master, Makarov spat out his beer as his eyes widen at the paper in front of him, on it had an enlarged picture of Lucy and the following:
》WANTED. LUCY HEARTFILIA. ALIVE. 1,0000 JEWEL REWARD《
'I don't think this is just some form of sick joke gramps', Juvia and I got mixed up with some thugs on the way to our job and one of 'em had this... Who exactly is she?' Gray tsked as his master was silent for a moment, 'Heartfilia... That's the last name of Jude Heartfilia, the richest businessman around... Which means...' Makarov paused but instantly cut off, 'Are you saying she's his daughter?!' Gray threw his fist into the bar top angrily, 'but he made the request himself, it says so here in black and white... If Natsu saw this, you know he'd go kill him! How can her father do this?!' 'Calm down, Gray! Although Lucy isn't a member, she asked her to care for her, and that we will. Natsu will not know about this, you all hear me?!'
Erza appeared behind Gray and grasped his shoulder 'Master is right, Gray, I don't know what sick joke this is, but I'm sure she has her own reasons for not telling us... Beside that, we will protect Lucy because to us... She is already part of the Fairy Tail family'.
Natsu yawned, stretching his arms out behind his back as the two girls sat around their small fire, Happy was his normal self, stuffing fish into his mouth. He even reluctantly gave some to the others to fry for food. 'Mmm... that smells great! Let's dig in!' Natsu wasted no time in taking his place at the fire and chowing down on the fish.
'Hey Lucy, you're celestial spirits are pretty cool, thanks for saving us back there!' Lisanna's smile was almost blinding, 'Well... I guess, but I'm still so weak... I could hardly keep the gate open' Lucy grumbled, letting out a large sigh. 'Water yoo tafin about Luce', yoo were awesome!' Natsu would seem reassuring if he wasn't speaking so happily with his mouth full of food.
A sudden rustling came from bushes near by, 'we found her!' A male voice beckoned as he and his team jumped out and surrounded them. 'Who the hell are you Bastards?!' Natsu and the girls now stood back to back, readying for battle. 'We are from Silverfort's prestige Assassin guild, The Silver Bullet' the leader sneered, pointing his bony index finger at the blonde celestial mage and continuing 'and we are here for Miss. Lucy Heartfilia's... bounty!' Lucy gasped as the men all snickered and drew in closer.
Natsu tsked as he clenched his fist angrily, 'I don't give a damn about some bounty, no one, messes with Fairy Tail!' with this Natsu charged ahead, his whole body emerged with flames, hitting every guy that crossed his path.
'Transform!' Lisanna glowed as leopard-style cat ears and wardrobe clung to her, with this she joins the fight with her new speed, pouncing down one guy after another. 'I can't do nothing, my magical power hasn't recharged enough, I'm sorry guys' Lucy fell to her knees as she watch her two friends taking down the enemy, one by one.
One enemy slipped by Natsu and Lisanna, weilding his sword and charging for Lucy, however he gets cut off by Natsu, throwing his firey fist into the enemy's face.
This... is all my fault... It's not going to stop, this is my fate... with tears rolling down Lucy's face, she stood up and placed her hand on Natsu's shoulder 'I - I'm sorry, Natsu. You have to stop... I'll go... This... This is my fate' 'What are you talk-' as Natsu went to turn around to argue back with her, Lucy's tear streaked face caught him off guard.
'Jeez...' he sighed, ruffling his fingers through her hair before quickly turning around to take out another enemy, 'listen to me, Lucy... No one decides your fate... no one but you! Whether you bare our emblem or not... you... you're still apart of Fairy Tail!' He roared loudly, emanating more and more of his flames, 'FIRE DRAGON SECRET ARTS... EXPLODING FLAME EDGE!' with Natsu's last move, most of the forest became burnt out in the flames and the enemy were overwhelmed.
Lucy smiled but still couldn't hold back the tears even as Natsu looked back at her with his mesmerising yet goofy grin. With that, the four-some finally decided to make their way back to the guild, which meant that Natsu would once again, fail against his worse enemy, motion - sickness.