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Typed on: August 11, 2013 at 5:00 PM

Words: 2,087

Chapter Two: Luck

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Natsu and Gray let out their final laugh before eventually calming down. Though tears still pricked the edge of their eyes. Erza proudly smiled at the results that she got from telling the story.

"Now, since I have finished telling you that and you guys are done laughing, let's call Lucy." Erza said, crossing her arms and leaning back against the loft. There was still a dying laugh coming from the boys and they couldn't respond because of it.

Erza sighed and took out her phone from her purse, speed dialing Lucy and placing the phone by her ears. Gray was silent now and was intently watching Erza.

A grin was on Natsu's face and imagined the story in his head while hearing Erza's phone ring also. The fact that Lucy had actually did dumber things than him for once made him chuckle, causing the others to look at him strangely for a second.

"Moshi, Moshi?" Lucy greeted the moment she picked up the call. A deep laughter could be heard in the background. In fact, the moment Erza distinguished it was a man's laugh, she immediately asked, "Who's with you, Lucy? And where are you?"

This stopped Natsu's track of thoughts.

"What do you hear, Erza?" Natsu asked.

Erza raised a single finger up, signaling: Be quiet and wait.

"A friend? Had he tried anything yet?"

"Tell me who she's with right now, Erza!" Natsu demanded with his hands into tight fists. He couldn't stand the fact of someone else with Lucy. Unless he knew him, Natsu didn't like Lucy talking to that person. Selfish, but he couldn't help it. He had seen his best friend get hurt by a male before. He didn't want to witness it again.

Erza didn't reply, but the way her eyes grew wide, represented something Natsu didn't like.

His two feet quickly stood up and he rushed out, without a second thought. Natsu's worried eyes looked around the ballroom, thankfully, there was a lot fewer people this time. So it was easy to find out who wasn't Lucy. There was no one with blonde hair and big brown eyes like Lucy, so he knew he was no where down here.

"She's upstairs, Natsu!" Erza told him, while running besides him. Even if she didn't find out who Lucy was with, she luckily found out where she was at.

Natsu nodded and ran up the curved marble stairs. The second he reached the upper floor though, he saw doors upon doors. Afraid he will open it and find something he didn't like, he, for once, simply knocked with his ear against the wooden doors.

Sometimes, he would hear things he didn't understand. For example, "Oh, harder! Hit me harder!" which made his head spin. Who would want to get hurt even more? People were crazy these days.

"Lucy!" Natsu called out, eventually giving up after five doors. Instead of getting a direct reply, he heard her sweet laughter. Which at first was melody to his ears, then it triggered anger in him. At lightening speed, he ran to where he had heard it. Not caring about the naked bodies on the bed, he stomped his way to the balcony.

Sting and Lucy turned their attention over to whoever barged into their time together and when they saw who it was, Lucy jumped a little in shock and Sting let out a, "Tsk."

Looks like Sting ran out of luck.

None of them said anything, however, Natsu pulled Lucy away roughly and glared at Sting while doing so.

Now, it all was coming together for Sting. He remembered why the pink headed person in front of him looked so familiar. And just before he can think of the last answer, two other people rushed close behind Natsu to the balcony.

Sting only recognized one, and when he saw her, Sting's eyes coward in fear for the first time. There stood not far from him the world's famous kick boxer, Erza Scarlet.

"What's going on here?" Erza inquired, her eyes darting from Natsu to Lucy to Sting. Her eyes were especially sharp on Sting though.

"Sting and I were ju-"

"This guy was going to hurt her!" and even if it was unclear what exactly Natsu was saying, everyone else understood. Sting understood it too.

Lucy shook her head, and pulled herself out of Natsu's grasp.

"No, not at all, Natsu! We were just talking!" Lucy retorted, with eyebrows scrunched together.

"Talk? This guy never just talks." Natsu told her, and the venom in his voice made Lucy freeze for a moment. It was confusing to the girls, since only the boys understood what he meant.

"How would you know?! You know nothing about him!" Lucy yelled, her hands tightening into a hard small fist.

Natsu didn't say anything and growled at Sting, before walking out. He was too angry about Lucy's question that he forgot the reason he even came. Gray followed, rolling his eyes and muttering something unintelligible under his breath.

The two girls both had different impressions on their faces.

Lucy had her eyes wide and mouth partly open. Her heart was telling her to chase after Natsu. After all, he had done the same before.

Erza was surprised, but she didn't show it. She kept her eyes focused on the real problem. Sting and Lucy.

"I want you two to explain, now." Erza said, glaring at Sting and not looking at Lucy. It seemed like Sting was the one she really wanted to hear from.

'Yep, my luck and life has met its ending.' Sting thought, gulping down his saliva while trying to figure out what to say. He had to pick out his words carefully. Or else those words will be the last words.

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Never in Natsu's life would he expect those memories to come back again. They kept on pounding on his head and he swore that this was one of the worst pain he ever felt. Even if it wasn't actually real.

"Wow, who would believe that the girl you love would be the one to hurt you," Gray said, trying to lighten up Natsu a little. Even if they started to fight, it was better than seeing Natsu like this.

"You know what they say, the things we love will be the one to hurt us." now he was just saying something a stalker once sent him through the phone after he declined her date offer.

Natsu shook his head, trying to force a grin. It was too hard when he had nothing to smile at right now.

A certain image suddenly flashed pass his mind, the one he tried forgetting most.

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"I'm sorry, Natsu." a girl no older than seventeen said, looking down at her thighs as tears trailed down her face.

Natsu didn't say anything, too angry and sad to.

"I couldn't help it."

No reply.

"Please forgive me."

Natsu glanced at her, but only for a second before looking back at the view in front of them.

"I'm sorry, Natsu." she said again, her silver short hair moving a little as her shoulder tensed up.

"No you're not." he finally said, biting his lower lip.

"I am!"

Then, something stirred inside Natsu. Anger. No longer sadness. A certain kind of anger too: Jealousy.

"No you're not! If you were sorry you would've pushed him away! If you knew you were going to apologize and feel bad about it, you should have done something. ." Natsu's voice trailed on and a picture grew in his mind. A person with blue eyes that could get anybody, stared back into her big ocean eyes. And the picture continued, his lips on her and she also tasted him. "But you didn't do anything!"

So with that, Natsu brought himself up with such force that the bench chair shifted around a little.

"Natsu. ." but he didn't want to hear another apology, he didn't want to hear anything from her. So he ran, he ran far away. Until he couldn't see her. Until she couldn't see him.

However, sadly, she never saw him again after that. And neither did he.

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"You okay, Natsu?" Gray asked, snapping him out of his head.

"Yeah. ." he replied, getting up from the stair steps and looked at the half empty ballroom. "I'm, I'm going to say sorry for running off. ." Natsu said in a monotone voice. Gray felt worried, but this happened whenever Natsu got lost in himself.

The two walked back to the balcony slowly, neither of them wanted to go back.

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"That's when Natsu came in. And then it brought us all to here."

"See, Erza, we really were just talking." Lucy concluded after a short explanation. Erza nodded, believing what Sting, luckily thanks to Lucy, said about everything.

Sting was more relaxed now. He also got to realize something about the all famous Erza Scarlet. She wasn't as unstable as she seemed in the ring. She was a monster in there.

"I see, but what's your relationship status now, Sting?" Erza questioned, raising her delicate eyebrows. Lucy blushed and Sting chuckled, knowing why she would ask that.

"I'm single." he responded, suppressing the wink that tried to come out.

Erza nodded then asked another question, "What was your motive for tonight?"

Lucy's blush continued to stay on her face, as she waited for Sting to answer.

"Nothing, she was just someone I wanted to talk to."

"Really?" Even Erza knew about Sting's reputation.

"Yeah."

So with that final answer, she grabbed Lucy by the shoulder harshly. Well, to her it didn't seem so. But it surely did jerk Lucy back a little.

"Well, Sting, it was nice meeting you! Say goodbye, Lucy!" Erza hollered, forgetting about the sleeping people in the master room, who were slowly waking up, right beside the balcony. Lucy waved a goodbye, not daring to protest against Erza's commands. No matter how much she wanted to. She was never one to have the strength for that.

But what everyone else didn't know was that despite the fact that her friends didn't want to see them together again, luck was right on their side; and they had already exchanged numbers a little while ago.

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When Erza and Lucy reached out back to the hallways, a silent Natsu and casual Gray had greeted them.

"Everything okay?" Lucy asked, placing her hand on Natsu's shoulder. He gently pulled her hand away and turned their backs to them. Walking ahead to the stair steps.

"Gray, what's wrong with him?" Erza asked, nudging Gray while watching Lucy rush over to Natsu's side.

"I'll explain later, Erza." and when he said him, he meant Natsu. It was time for that boy to explain. We'll, actually, if Erza and Lucy and Gray were lucky enough, then Natsu would explain. If not, looks like everything would stay a mystery.

A/N: Ah, this chapter is a bit blunt but it's my stepsister's birthday so I don't have much time! And, what do you think happened in Natsu's memory? hmm...

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