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Chapter 2: The One who made him smile again
'Looks like three whole days of stalking Natsu, has left all of you totally exhausted,' Mirajane said smiling. The take-over mage giggled at the sight before her. Lucy had her head down on the bar and was sulking. Behind her, Gray had passed out on a chair and happy was sleeping peacefully in a table with a bubble coming out of his nose.
Erza was pacing back and forth with her hand on her chin. Suddenly her face turned violent and she smashed something. Unfortunately that something was Gray's face. Something white flew out of his mouth.
'What does Natsu think of himself?!,' she "whispered". And then she started to pace around angrily.
'What happened?,' Mira whispered to Lucy.
'I SWEAR, ITS AWFULLY HARD TO STALK A DRAGON SLAYER!,' Lucy screamed. Mira was stunned for a second.
'Lu-chan, calm down,' Levy attempted to calm her friend.
'I REFUSE TO CALM DOWN!,' the stellar mage screamed now standing on top of the bar.
'WHY CAN'T THE PINK HAIRED IDIOT JUST TELL US WHAT IS FUCKING WRONG WITH HIM?,' she yelled. This got the attention of the entire guild. Gray awoke from his sleep and the bubble from Happy's nose popped.
Realizing what she had just done she got down from the bar, her face full of embarrassment.
'Where is Natsu anyway,' she said looking around the guild for the dragon slayer. Mira made a thinking gesture.
'He's on a job,' she said finally. Erza's ears twitched, she came running to the barmaid.
'WHAT?! When did he.. How did he?,' she said full of shock.
'Well… at least he's on job. It's an improvement,' Gray said smiling, who was now standing behind the scarlet haired mage.
'If Natsu is going on solo a solo job, then things must be real bad,' Lucy said with concern.
'Um… actually, he went with Juvia,' Mira said smiling brightly.
'WHAT?!,' Gray screamed, grabbing the white haired girl by the shoulders. Erza grabbed him and tossed him to the other side of the guild. She grabbed Mira by the shoulders and screamed at her face, 'WHY?!,'.
'How should I know? All I know is that is Juvia came early this morning, took a job and requested Natsu to come along,' Mira said covering her ears. Her ears were ringing from all the shouting.
'And he agreed? Just like that?,' Lucy asked.
'Yes! If I remember correctly, he said something like "I would love to!",' the silver haired girl said, doing an imitation of Natsu.
'If Natsu was on normal condition, he would agree to go on a job with anyone. But now…,' Gray said.
Erza's face became calm. She let go of the silver haired girl and approached the table where a young blonde girl was troubling a certain blonde dragon slayer. Erza knelt before her.
'First master, I am desperately in need of your help,'
The Next Day
Natsu was leaning against the walls of a store near the guild. And not far from him a certain blue haired dragon slayer was watching his moments. She got out a miniature communications lacrima.
'Natsu-san's currently leaning against the wall of a bakery shop. It seems that he is waiting for someone,' she said.
'Good, this is a lead in days, so don't lose him,' said Erza from the lacrima.
'Lucy and Gray proceed to the destined locations. Happy, Carla keep an eye on Natsu from above,' the first master said.
'Aye!,'
'You can count on us!,' Lucy said.
A few minutes passed, and still Natsu was there. Someone approached him, he looked up and gave a toothy grin.
'First master, we've got something,' Carla said.
'What is it?,'
'It appears the person that Natsu has been waiting, for has arrived,' the white exceed said.
'Wendy can you give me a description,' Mavis questioned.
But Wendy's mouth failed to work, for she was in shock.
'Didn't you hear her, child?,' Carla asked impatiently. Still there was no response from the little Dragon slayer.
'I'm going in,' Carla said after waiting a few moments.
'Wait!,'
'But -,' Carla began. 'We need both of you on air,' came the voice of the First from the lacrima.
'Natsu-san is…,' came Wendy's voice from the lacrima.
'Yes Wendy Natsu is what?,' asked a restless Erza.
'Natsu-san is currently talking to a girl,' Wendy said bluntly.
'WHAT?!,' Gray and Lucy screamed in unison.
'SHUT UP! LET WENDY FOCUS!,' an angry Erza screamed. Both of them knew better than to respond.
'Something's wrong,' Wendy muttered.
'What's wrong Wendy?,' the first master enquired.
'After girl-san came, I'm not getting Natsu-san's scent and moreover, I can't hear what they are saying. And I'm not getting any scent from girl-san too,'
'Thought projection?,' Lucy guessed.
'If so, then why isn't she able to smell Natsu?,' Erza asked.
'Maybe Natsu's using it too,' Lucy said.
'Wendy, are you sure you don't have a cold or something?,' Gray asked laughing.
'GRAY! THIS IS NO TIME TO BE CRACKING JOKES!,' Erza screamed again.
'No, I am sure. I am getting every scent and sound except their's,' Wendy said in serious tone.
'Girl-san just moved forward and hugged Natsu-san,' Wendy said bluntly.
Gray was about to scream, when Lucy covered his mouth with her hands.
'She llliiiiikes him,' Happy said.
'Go on,' Mavis said.
'Natsu-san looks surprised. Girl-san just grabbed Natsu-san's chin with her right hand. Girl-san turned Natsu-san's head towards her. Girl-san bumped her fore head with Natsu-san's. Her eyes are closed. Both their cheeks are red,' Wendy kept on saying bluntly.
'oh no. Wendy's become a robot,' Happy said.
'Shut it Tom cat!,' Carla scolded.
'Why is she saying "girl-san"?,' Gray said.
'That girl is suspicious,' Erza whispered.
Natsu and "girl-san" started walking. 'We've got movement,' Carla said.
'Follow them, both of you,' the first master said.
'Why is Wendy sleeping?,' asked a confused Happy, looking at the unconscious girl.
'I told you to shut it, Tom cat!,' Carla scolded him.
'Look there,' happy pointed toward the young dragon slayer, who lay unconscious behind the bush she was hiding.
'Wendy?!,' Carla said confused and worried at the same time.
'Wendy's passed out. What should we do?,' Happy said to the lacrima.
'OK, Carla can take care of her. You go after Natsu,' Mavis said.
'Aye!,' Happy said as the blue exceed followed the duo, while Carla flew to aid the blue haired dragon slayer.
As Happy saw the two teens continuing to walk down the street. 'They are still walking on the main road,' Happy said.
'Gray and Lucy, they should be coming towards you, get close and give me a description of this girl,' Mavis said.
'On it!,' both of them said in unison.
Back in the in the guild Mirajane was getting bored.
She looked around the guild. Natsu's team was missing; they were probably out stalking Natsu. Cana was as usual drinking booze, Lissana and Levy were telling her to stop drinking. Nab was hesitating in front of the job request board as usual. Laxus was sitting alone in a table, glaring at the roof. Speaking of Laxus, the thunder legion was nowhere to be found.
At the far end of the guild, Chico was laying her head on the table, silently gaping at the blonde dragon slayer. Mira giggled as the girl continued to watch Laxus, blissfully ignorant of the world around her.
Mira rubbed her hands together. 'It is time to stir things up a bit,' the silver haired girl thought to herself sporting an evil smile.
Mira made way towards the table where Laxus sitting. 'Laxus, I need to talk to you about something,' Mira called out to him. Laxus turned to face the take-over mage as she made his way toward him. Chico's ears immediately shot up. "Why was Mira talking to HER Laxus, and what was she smiling about?,'' were the kind of thoughts that were floating in her mind. Mira stopped talking and Laxus looked at Chico, who immediately looked somewhere else.
Laxus got up and made his way towards the blonde haired girl, looking at her right in the eye. Her heart started racing, her blush got redder. She started panicking, why was he coming there? What did that Mira say to him?
'Can I sit down?,' Laxus asked the blonde girl. She nodded, and the dragon slayer sat down. She could feel her heart beating faster by the second.
'So Mira says that you need my help in your training,' Laxus said. Chico looked at Mira, who was smiling and gave her a double thumbs-up.
'No no that's…okay,' Chico managed to say, still unable to suppress the blush.
'I am not offering my help, just 'cause of Mira. You and I have never really talked, so I want to get to know you better,' he said grinning. Chico's heart skipped a beat. She managed to nod.
In the background, Mira was trying to stop Freed who had just returned from a job, from reaching Laxus.
'So now that it's settled, what kind of magic do you use?,' Laxus asked.
Chico started laughing lightly. Laxus raised an eyebrow. 'What?,' he asked looking at the blonde girl before him.
'This is all just a dream, isn't it?,' Chico said.
'Well, even if it is, I'll cherish it forever,' she said smiling. The blonde dragon slayer brought his face close to hers, their noses almost touching. He brought his right hand towards her left cheek and pinched her.
'Ow! What was that for?,' the girl asked.
'You aren't dreaming blonde,' Laxus said looking straight in her eye. Chico's face turned as red as a tomato. In the background Mira was grinning like crazy. If possible, Chico's face became even redder.
Mira was extremely satisfied with her work. As she saw from the bar, Chico and her Prince Charming left the guild together. She felt like squealing. Now that, they had left, her eyes continued to search for another potential pair.
Chico's mind was desperately trying to start a conversation, as both the teens walked in silence. Laxus said he vaguely remembered reading some book on legend of city in the city library. And so they were currently heading towards the city library. The city library of Magnolia was more than ten generations old, but still well maintained and the old books were well preserved.
'So, your family runs a café, here in Magnolia?,' Laxus said finally breaking the ice between them. Chico nodded. She opened her mouth to say something.
'LAXUS!,' she heard a voice ahead of them. Chico looked ahead and saw a certain pink haired dragon slayer making his way towards them and a blue haired girl following him close behind. Laxus looked ahead and smiled lightly.
'Juvia what brings you to this part of the town?,' Laxus asked, completely ignoring the fire dragon slayer.
'Juvia is helping out Natsu-san,' the girl said looking at the pink haired boy. Laxus lokked at Natsu's direction.
'Oh, when did you get here Natsu?,' Laxus asked. Chico giggled.
'DON'T MESS WITH ME MAN!,' Natsu screamed. Laxus laughed lightly.
'You are back to your old self, I presume,' Laxus asked smiling lightly.
'You were looking all depressed and shit, it pissed the hell outta me,'
'So Chico! You finally told Laxus, huh?,' Natsu nudged the blonde haired girl in a desperate attempt to change the topic. She kicked him in the face.
'Huh? Tell me what?,'
'NOTHING! NOTHING AT ALL,' said Chico, waving her arms, sporting a blush. Juvia was helping Natsu, to get a hold of himself after receiving Chico's kick.
'So, were are you off to?,' Natsu asked rubbing his face.
'To the city Library, I think I saw a book that may be useful to Chico,'
'The two of you? Alone? Hehe-,' Natsu smirked before earning a punch from the blonde haired girl.
'What about you two? I've never seen you hang out together,' Laxus asked.
'Just helping out Natsu-san in his hunger for books,' Juvia said.
'We're novel-buddies!,' Natsu said throwing an arm around Juvia, who blushed.
'You read?!,' Chico asked unable to imagine the dragon slayer sitting quietly and reading a book.
'OF COURSE I READ! HOW DO YOU THINK I PASS THE TIME WHEN I'M BORED?,' Natsu yelled at her.
'I thought you started guild brawls to pass the time,' Chico muttered. Natsu glared at her.
'Ah, so that's why you've been trying to get hold of Lucy's novel,' Laxus said with a satisfied smirk.
'AAHHHH! I really want to know what happens next in that novel!,' cried Natsu. They all laughed at the dragon slayer's behavior.
'Well, I would love to stay and chat but the library will be closing soon, so we better get going,' Laxus said. Chico nodded.
'Later Natsu! Juvia!,' he said. Both of them nodded and went on their way.
Laxus and Chico continued walking till they saw a certain raven haired boy and a blonde haired girl running towards them. Gray and Lucy stopped in front of them. Laxus was little surprised at Gray waring a hoodie, 'cause every time he saw him, he was topless.
'Laxus, did you see Natsu anywhere?,' Gray asked the dragon slayer.
Laxus pointed towards the direction Natsu went. 'He went that way,' he said.
'And Juvia was with him,' Chico added.
'JUVIA?!,' both of them yelled in unison.
'So this mysterious girl who hugged Natsu was Juvia?!,' Gray muttered softly sporting a thinking gesture. Laxus heard it and smirked.
'Thanks guys,' Lucy said before both of them sprinted away in the direction that Natsu went.
'JUVIA SAID THEY WERE GOING TO A BOOK STORE!,' Laxus yelled loud enough for them to hear.
'What was up with them?,' Chico asked.
'They are stalking Natsu,' Laxus said bluntly. Chico almost stumbled and fell.
'What?!,'
'First! We still have no visual of them,' Lucy said to the lacrima in her hand.
'We met Laxus and Chico, and we are going in the direction they saw Natsu and Juvia,' Gray said.
'Keep going and be careful not to get too close,' Mavis warned.
'Wait, did you say "Natsu and Juvia"?,' Erza asked.
'Yes,' both of them said in unison.
'Laxus mentioned that Juvia said she and Natsu were going to some bookstore,' Gray said to Lucy. She looked at him as if he were crazy. 'What did you just say?,' asked Lucy not able to process what she had just heard. 'I said-,' Gray began.
'STOP!,' Happy yelled over the communications lacrima. They abruptly stopped.
'What?,' Gray asked.
'If you go any further, you'll be seen,' Happy warned. He was flying high above them. Just ahead Natsu and Juvia were walking, happily chatting away. Natsu seemed to have heard something. He started to turn. Time slowed down, they were moments away from being spotted. Gray mind started working furiously. He noticed that he still had his hood on, strange. An idea occurred to him. He looked at Lucy. Oh boy! He was not going like the consequences.
He put on his hood, turned his back to Natsu and slammed his mouth on Lucy's. Lucy's eyes widened but she didn't resist. Natsu turned fully. He saw a boy wearing a hood and a girl were kissing. He just smiled and turned his attention back to Juvia.
The duo entered a book store nearby. Gray and Lucy were still lip-locked. A blue haired dragon slayer came running towards them and her exceed followed her. She stopped abruptly when she saw the scene in front of her.
'Lucy- san and Gray-san….,' she said full of embarrassment. The duo noticed her for the first time. They sprang apart, both their faces were red.
'He lliiiikes her,' Happy said floating behind them.
'SHUT IT CAT!,' Lucy screamed.
Erza came running towards them. Where's Natsu?,' she demanded.
'We lost them, 'cause Gray and Lucy were busy making lloooovvvee,' Happy teased.
'In the middle of the street, in broad day light?,' Erza's face bacame as red as her hair.
'IT'S NOT WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE,' Gray and Lucy yelled in unison.
'What are you all doing there, Natsu is in the bookstore,' Mavis said through the lacrima.
'I am inside the shop, excluding the exceeds all four of you come inside now,' she said. All four of them made their way towards the store. 'What's Flame-brain doing in a book shop any way?,' Gray wondered. The four of them went into different sections of the bookstore. Wendy peeped from behind a shelf, looking at Natsu and Juvia. The sky dragon slayer informed rest of the team, soon enough all five of them were peeping at the duo.
'Natsu-san how about this one?,' Juvia asked with a book in the size of a pillow in her hand. Both of them started looking through the book. They started laughing about something.
'Seriously, what happened to Flame-brain?,' Gray asked.
'Did you guys know that Natsu read books?,' Lucy asked. Everyone shook their heads.
'Just what happened between these two? A week ago they hardly spoke to each other and now they are shopping together for books?,' Lucy said.
'But Natsu-san sure seems to be back to his usual self,' Wendy pointed out.
'Scram!,' Erza said. Everyone fled to different directions and hid themselves. Natsu and Juvia went to the shop keeper to buy the book in Natsu was holding in his hand.
'A romance novel ?!,' Lucy whispered loudly.
'Happy! Carla! They are going to exit the shop. Be ready,' the first master said.
'Aye!,' the blue exceed said.
A few hours later, Natsu and Juvia were eating dinner in a restaurant. Gray's stomach growled.
'Can we go home already?,' he asked holding his stomach.
'You are on a mission and all you can think of is food?!,' Erza scolded him. Moments later her stomach growled.
'Natsu-san and Juvia-san are eating,' Wendy said gaping at the food placed in front of Natsu and drooled. Lucy was currently sporting a thinking gesture. She quietly watched Natsu's moments. 'Natsu's eating spaghetti using a fork,' she said.
Gray's stomach growled again. 'Don't remind me that again,' he complained.
'Something's off,' the blonde celestial spirit mage said.
'What do you mean Lucy?' Mavis asked, who being a ghost wasn't affected by hunger.
'Natsu's eating using a fork,' she said again.
'So?' Gray and Erza asked in unison.
'Come on guys! When was the last time you saw Natsu eating so decently and not breathing his food?,'
Suddenly realization hit all of the members of team Natsu. Lucy started walking towards the table in Which Juvia and Natsu were seated. Before any of them could stop her she was standing right in front of Juvia.
'Hello Natsu, Juvia,' she said.
They saw her and Natsu gave her a big toothy grin, While Juvia just smiled.
'Hey Luce! What are you doing here?,' Natsu asked. Lucy ignored the dragon slayer and glared at the water mage. 'You can stop now Juvia, I know what you are upto,' she said. Rest of the members of tem Natsu started making their way towards the table.
'What are you taking about Lucy-san?,' asked a confused Juvia.
'What are you blabbering about Lucy?,' asked a rather pissed looking Natsu.
Lucy just smirked. She raised her hand and slapped Natsu. Team Natsu gasped, Lucy smirked and Juvia had look of horror in her face. Just as Lucy's hand touched Natsu, he turned into water and became a puddle of water.
'Ha! I knew it!,' Lucy said enthusiastically.
By now all of them were standing near the table.
'Juvia had used water clone, a spell similar to your ice clone Gray,' Lucy said. Everyone gasped again.
Erza looked at the blue haired girl. 'Explain youself, NOW!,' she demanded. Juvia looked to the ground full of embarrassment.
'Juvia knew Gray-sama won't return Juvia's feelings. Juvia decided to move on. This was a practice date. Juvia was planning to ask Natsu-san out in a few days. Juvia's sorry it's just that Juvia was feeling lonely,' the blue haired girl started sobbing. Erza's look softened.
'We are sorry we doubt-,' Wendy bagan.
'YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIVE THAT?,' Lucy yelled.
'Lucy stop. That's enough,' Gray said. The blonde haired girl glared at the blue haired girl.
'If I remember correctly, Wendy was able to smell Natsu until you came along,' she said. She grabbed the water mage by the collars.
'Look here Juvia, we've been following Natsu nonstop for the last four days and we are all hungry. So you better start telling the truth or this is going to end bad,' she said.
Juvia started smiling. She turned her body into water and started to run towards the exit. Erza tried to grab her but in vain. Juvia sprinted away in the cold night.
Juvia ran and ran till she reached an alley. She looked back, no sign of the others.
'Juvia are you okay?,' a voice asked her. She violently turned towards the voice to find a pink haired dragon slayer looking at her with concern.
'Natsu-san!,' she gasped.
'Natsu-san they found out about the water clone,' the girl started saying. When she felt someone grab her hands tightly.
'Princess, Juvia-sama has been captured for punishment,' a pink haired girl in a maid uniform said.
'Nice job Virgo,' Lucy said stepping out of the shadows. Erza, Gray and Wendy followed her.
Juvia broke Virgo's iron grip and began to run. She grabbed Natsu's hands and dragged him along.
'JUVIA STOP!,' Erza yelled, running after her, but the water had no intentions of doing so. Just then, Natsu tightened the grip around Juvia's hand and forced her to stop. 'What's wrong Natsu-san?,' the girl asked, totally confused. The fire dragon slayer just smirked.
Juvia was still confused. But she knew something was off with Natsu, his smirk was way too girlish. Natsu's form flickered. His appearance turned to that of a certain 15 year old looking blonde haired girl.
'First master!,' Juvia said totally shocked.
A few minutes a Ezra was looking at a tied up Juvia, the same way a wolf would see its prey. Virgo was offering the scarlet haired mage some suggestions for "punishing" the blue haired girl. Erza nodded and smirked.
'Don't you think this is going a bit too far?,' Gray whispered to Lucy.
'Who knew those too would get along so well,' she said.
'Juvia! You better prepare yourself, I am going to drill the information out of you,' Erza said, a demonic aura fully spread around her. The girl requipped a whip. Juvia shook violently trying to free herself.
'I can't watch this anymore,' Gray said moving forward to stop Erza. A bright light emitted from Erza's hand. When the light died down, the whip was replaced by a feather.
'Behold! My instrument for interrogation!,' Erza said proudly.
'On second thoughts, I might actually see this,' Gray said with a slight blush on his face.
Erza took Juvia by the foot and started tickling her. The blue haired girl laughed uncontrollably. Gray face-palmed and Lucy just laughed nervously, making a mental note that never give Erza a reason to tickle her.
'Pleease….. hehe… ple..hehe stop…. Erza… hehe san,' Juvia managed to say.
'Oh?,' Erza said with the look of a devil. 'Then tell me where is that Natsu?,'
'Ju…hehe..Juvia…will….not yield,' the girl said.
'Suit yourself,' Erza said smirking.
'Erza-san is really enjoying this, isn't she,' Wendy whispered.
'Aye!,' Happy said.
'I didn't know Juvia was this ticklish,' Lucy said.
'On the bright side, if she wasn't Erza sould have really pounded the answer out of her,' Gray said shivering at the thought.
'Perhaps I can explain,' a certain pink haired girl wearing a maid costume said.
'You are still here?,' Lucy asked.
'If you look closely at this feather-,' Virgo began holding up a feather identical to the one that Erza was using.
'-you will notice that this has a tiny lacrima attached to it,' she said. Everyone leaned closer to look at the feather. At the bottom of the feather there was a tiny spherical lacrima attached.
'This uses magical energy to increase the sensation of touch and pain wherever it touches,' Virgo said.
'So if you touch someone's wound with that feather-,' Gray began.
'That person will experience unbearable pain,' Virgo said, her eyes shining.
'Erza-san stop!,' Wendy suddenly exclaimed. The scarlet haired girl stopped tickling Juvia and glances at Wendy.
'What's wrong,' she asked.
'I think I am starting to pick up Natsu-san's scent again,' the blue haired girl said backing away from them.
'Why are you backing away Wendy? Lucy asked.
' When I am close to Juvia-san I am not getting any scent from any of you,' she said. Erza began checking the blue haired girl.
"What do you mean?,' Gray asked.
'FOUND IT!,' Erza exclaimed.
She was holding a cubical object in her hand. In the background Juvia was frantically trying to break the magic barrier handcuffs that Ezra put on her.
'This is a stealth cube,' Erza said.
'It is usually used to mask one's scent and escape from wild animals,'
'So that's why Wendy was unable to smell them,' Gray said.
'Wendy! Lead the way to our Natsu,' Erza said carrying Juvia on her back.
A few moments later all of Team Natsu was running along the road, followed by the first master. 'Erza do you still have that stealth with you?,' Mavis asked. The scarlet haired mage nodded showing her the cubical device.
'Turn it on,' Mavis said. Erza glanced at the girl raising an eyebrow.
'Just in case, since Natsu's got the nose of a dragon,' she said.
'Wendy, you go on ahead,' Erza said.
After a few minutes the group saw Wendy who was running ahead of them, stop. They stopped behind her.
Wendy pointed toward the forest that was ahead of them and they ran in that direction. The rest followed. Juvia knew where this was going to end. She couldn't imagine how Erza was going to react. They followed Wendy along a path which had trees and bushes on each side. They kept on running till they reached a clearing. Ahead of them was a beautiful lake.
'Woah,' Gray said.
'There,' said Wendy pointing towards the shore where under the moon light their pink haired Dragon slayer was sitting with a hooded figure. All the others except Juvia were gaping at the dragon slayer, because he was doing something they hadn't seen him doing for weeks; he was smiling.
'I feel more joyful whenever you are around. Are you sure you can't stay?,' Natsu said looking at the hooded figure.
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