Chapter 1:
It was a bright day in Verona. The people were happy and everyone was doing their own work. Pasqua Dragon wanders around the street and scans the markets and stalls. She takes a sniff of the air with her nose and she smells the food in the air. Her mouth waters and she follows the scent, and in minutes, she finds herself in front of a takoyaki stand. "Three, uhm actually, no five boxes of takoyaki please." Pasqua orders.
The old lady running the stand chuckles and wraps up her order. "That would be 20 jewels." She said.
Pasqua gives the lady one of her dazzling smiles before she pays and goes home with her takoyaki boxes in hand. Pasqua walks along the streets before she ends up in front of her family shop: DRAGON DESIGNS. People would usually mistaken the name of the shop and assume that they mean that they sell dragon designs. But because it was in Verona, they know that it's the tailor's shop, because everyone puts their name on their shop. Pasqua quickly skips in, her shoe almost getting caught at the door. Her older brother, Loke, was showing a couple of ladies the newest dresses caught sight of her and he smiles to her direction. Pasqua smiles back and waves the bag over her head and walks to the back of the store. She finds her mother and father at the back of the room, quickly working on a few dresses and suits. "Ohayo, mother. Ohayo, father." She greets.
Her parents don't lift their heads up, but they reply in the same greeting. "Good morning to you too, Pasqua. Can you please help us with this sleeve? We're quite full o schedule now so can you please tend to that?" her mother mumbles with pins in her mouth.
Pasqua sighs and nods, heading to her respectful seat and starting to work on the sleeve. But her mind starts to wander and she starts working up her old habit again. She takes the needle and starts scratching it on the surface of the wooden measuring board. She scratches the board and starts making a country and drawing irregular shapes. She continues to draw and scratch when she hears an eerie screech. "Pasqua Rosso Dragon! What in the world? You're back to that habit again? Stop at once and look at how you just scratched my lovely board. This is one of the finest in Verona. We can't afford to let you scratch another one of your designs on the board again." Her mother said, nagging her.
Pasqua sighs and blocks all noise away from her mother. "Pasqua? Are you listening to me? You better be listening. This is the nth time you've done this."
Pasqua rolls her eyes. "Yes mother, I'm sorry. I will try not to do it again."
"Try? Pasqua, you will, and don't roll your eyes on me again. We're very busy right now, and if you have time to draw on that board, then use that time to sew that sleeve." Her mother nags.
"Yes mother." Pasqua said, sighing.
"And when are you going to cover your hair? Pasqua, you should know that you have to put up your hair and cover it. It's already enough that you wear breeches and shirts and not dresses." Her mother said.
Pasqua frowns and ignores her mothers nagging and cries. Her mother finally leaves her alone and Pasqua is all alone, sewing dresses, pants, collars, and shirts for four hours straight.
After what seemed like eternity, it was 12 o'clock, and Pasqua was more than happy to take her leave. "Pasqua, remember to come back at 2." Her mother informs her.
Pasqua just waves her hand and heads to her brother's place with the still uneaten takoyaki bag in her hand. "Loke, do you want to go?" she asks.
Loke glances at her. "Sorry Pasqua, dad wants me to work on this." He said through his glasses.
Pasqua sighs but she puts a box in front of him. "I'll be nice and give you one, but don't expect another from me later." She said.
Loke just grins at her and ruffles the girl's black hair. "Thanks Pasqua."
Pasqua just waves her hand and exits the shop, heading towards the forgery which was only a block away. She enters and is greeted a fire blasting in front of her. Knowing it all too well, she coughs at the smoke. "Natsu! What in the world?" she exclaims.
A pink, now gray haired, guy just looks up with a black face and grins. "Oh, Pasqua, you're here. Just an accident happened. That's what." He replies.
Pasqua rolls her eyes. "Seriously? That's the nth time this week. Where's Gajeel?"
"He went somewhere. I don't know." He replies, wiping his face on his shirt sleeve before taking sight of her bag. "Hey, that's takoyaki, right?"
Pasqua just grins and nods. "Yeah, I got four here, so you better be quick and ready. And when I mean ready, I mean clean." She said.
Natsu grins. "What are you talking about? I'm as clean as a whistle."
Pasqua scoffs. "Yeah right. We need to find Gajeel too."
"No need, I'm here already."
Pasqua turns to see Gajeel at the entrance of the door. "Oh Gajeel, when did you come in?" she questions.
"I got here at the part when flame brain said he was clean as a whistle." Gajeel said, obviously pissing Natsu up.
"What did you say, metal brain?" Natsu roars.
"You knew what I said." Gajeel growls.
Pasqua shakes her head. "If you guys want to fight, no food for you."
The two boys immediately transform. "What are you talking about? We've been angels, right Gajeel? "Totally, I think little fish has something in her ear."
Pasqua shakes her head. "Sure, sure, whatever. And stop calling me little fish!" Pasqua yells, running off.
Gajeel and Natsu laugh and they run after their little sister.
During break, they laugh and fight and eat together that they didn't notice how fast time went. "Shoot, it's two. Mother's going to slice me up." Pasqua squeaks.
"Good luck with that fish." Natsu grins.
Pasqua glares at him and punches him. "Ow, what does that mean?" he yells.
"Serves you right." She replies, sticking her tongue out at him.
"Just get going fish." Gajeel said.
Pasqua nods, but before she leaves, she kicks him and leaves, hearing Gajeel shout and Natsu laugh.
Pasqua sprints down the streets and runs to the store, and she enters, facing an angry mother. "Didn't I tell you to come at 2?" she growls.
Pasqua gulps. "What time is it now young lady?"
She glances at the clock and she sweat drops. "2:15?"
Her mother glares at her and grabs Pasqua's ear and Pasqua yelps. "That shows how much you need to listen from now on." She said, letting go of it.
Pasqua rubs her ear and her mother pushes her up the stairs. "We're closing early. Something came up and we have to leave. You put on your best dress and please, put your hair up." Her mother said before leaving.
Pasqua raises an eyebrow, wondering whatever could make them close.
Pasqua chooses a blue dress that has off shoulders sleeves and a full skirt that reaches the floor. She looks at the mirror, her black hair reaching her elbows, straight, not curled. She sighs before tying it up with a blue ribbon and she exits her room, descending down the stairs. Her mother was already for her in her green evening gown, and all her brothers and her father were styled up and waiting for her. "Natsu? Gajeel? What are you doing here?" she asks.
"Mother told us to come because it was important. Plus there was food. Who can resist?" Natsu said, before earning a smack from Loke.
"I hope you aren't like that when we get there." He growls.
Natsu opens his mouth but their mother glares at them and the boys quiet down. "We're already late." Their mother said, and she grabs their father's arm before they head out.
The family of six arrives in front of another shop: FULLBUSTER'S LACE. Pasqua hears her brothers growl as they get nearer and Pasqua raises her eyebrow up in question. "What's wrong?" she asks.
"It's that Fullbuster's place." Natsu said.
"Fullbuster? What's wrong with that?" Pasqua asks again.
Before anyone can reply, her mother nudges her. "Hush, they're coming." She whispers.
Sure enough, a woman opens the door and Pasqua was stunned with her beauty. "You must be Ultear." Their mother addresses.
The girl nods. "I'm Ms. Dragon. Your parents called us." She said.
The girl blinks and then opens the door widely, allowing the family to see the girl better; black hair that is piled atop her hair, dark black eyes, pale white skin, and she was wearing a purple dress. "This way please."
The family follows the girl to the dining room where they meet a table full of food and…well people. A man with silver hair and blue eyes sits at the head and a woman with short black hair sits on his right. There were two other boys: one with light blue eyes and silver hair and another with dark black hair and black eyes. The woman breaks her conversation with the man and she catches sight of the family. "Ah, the Dragons. Welcome to our lovely home." She said.
The woman reaches out a hand. "Ur Fullbuster. Just call me Ur."
"Charmed, Judy Dragon." Their mother said, shaking her hand.
"This is my husband, Silver Fullbuster, and these are my two other sons. Lyon," Ur gestures to the silver haired guy, "and Gray." She said, pointing to the raven haired boy.
"Gray? So that's him." Ms. Dragon said.
Pasqua raises an eyebrow at her mother, wondering why she would say that. "And you must be Pasqua." Ur said.
Pasqua curtsies. "Yes ma'am."
"Wow, you're so beautiful. You have a lovely daughter Judy." Ur said.
"Of course, she's my daughter." Judy said with pride.
Ur smiles while Pasqua starts to pink.
"Let's sit and we can eat and talk." Ur said.
Everyone sits and the Dragon boys glare at the Fullbuster siblings. "Is there a problem?" Pasqua questions so silently, only her brothers could hear. A sibling thing.
Gajeel just glances over to her side and then says, "They're our rivals."
Pasqua raises her eyebrows and before she can say another word, Ur claps her hands. "So Pasqua, how old are you?" she asks.
"I just turned 16 miss." Pasqua replies.
Ur smiles. "16? That's a good age if you ask me. Tell me, have you had any suitors or boyfriend? It's okay, you can be honest."
Pasqua widens her eyes, wondering if such questions can be discussed at the table. "Uhm, I don't think I should say; however, I have none and no, I didn't carry an interest in boys or courtship." Pasqua replies.
Ur beams, her smile getting bigger. "Judy, your daughter is spectacular. I want the date to be pushed to next week."
Judy smiles. "That's awesome; I think we can handle that."
Pasqua looks at her mother in question. "May I ask what you two are talking about?"
Her mother and Ur look at her and grin. "Oh I'm sorry, you must be confused as a fish." Ur said.
Pasqua hears her brother's scoff and whisper something about her actually being a fish.
"Pasqua, your parents and I along with my husband, have decided to put you in an arranged marriage with my son, Gray."
Pasqua's eyes widen along with Natsu, Gajeel, Loke, and Gray's eyes. "WHAT?!" The five exclaim.
HELLO! I'm back! here's my first chapter.
long but it's ok. I hope you will like it. And like I said before, this is dated closely to the Romeo and Juliet time frame, so there will be Romeo and Juliet moments and scenes. They just won't come soon. Don't worry, I got my characters for who plays Romeo and Juliet, and no, it's not Romeo and Wendy. Haha. Then this story wouldn't be written well. And BTW, do you guys want another fic that stars the Romeo and Juliet concept and do you want me to write stories that are related to other characters? Like a Gajeel and Levy story? or a Erza and Jellal one? I'm asking you so tell me if you do!