WildCard555 here with Child of Darkness chapter 2. Glad you all liked chapter 1. How will Natsu react after losing the bid for Lucy? How will Lucy respond to Natsu's high bids? Who is the man she will have to go out with soon? Enough questions for you? How about now?
Holy Shit this story got 17 reviews off the first chapter, it almost makes me want to cry(almost did).
I forgot to say this in chapter 1. I own nothing.
XbluieLovex: Sometimes you just don't have enough cash, but yes poor Natsu.
LucyScarlet27: I knew I could get some good comedy off of Gajeel, and Gray. It makes me sad that you didn't read the end of my first chapter(For all I know you finished it later.), and hope you read it eventually. I make no promises with update.
GoldenRoseLuceTanya: Like I said in the description in chapter 1 this is going to be a love triangle story between the 3.
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Neko-Tiara: Gajeel stole the show in this chapter(in my opinion after re-reading it.). Yes poor Natsu. That 220,000 was in Jewels, which is most likely the same as the Japanese currency which I am in no way familiar with. In all the bid would have been roughly 2,750 American, but yes that is still a lot of money.
Nindjo: hope I can make this story can live up to expectations. Beautiful thing about Zeref right now is that not much is known about him, other than he doesn't really want to kill anymore, but is ready to end an era to begin a new one. Other than that it's almost an open book.
Kyu-chan: Glad I could bring you back into reading Fairy Tail Fanfiction.
SelfcreatedCharacter: Lucy's character just meshes well with just about everyone in one way or another. Like I said in chapter 1 only 4 ZeLu's in English, 1 in French, and mine was the first one with an M rating. So it an extremely fresh pair.
EchizenRyoma: Keep reading to find out.
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Chapter 2
When should I pick you up?
'Sold to the gentleman in the black dress clothes.' Makarov's words kept repeating in Natsu's head over and over again. 'I lost. I lost. Are you kidding me? I just lost.' Thought Natsu as he began pulling at his pink hair. Normally whenever he lost it was in a fight in which most of the time he could eventually get a rematch against the person who beat him. This time however there were no rematches. Lucy would have to go on a date with the man who just happened to have more money than him. His plan to confess to her was thrown out the window. A storm of emotions was flooding his mind anger, jealousy, sadness, regret and more that he didn't care to name off.
The Dragon Slayer's sensitive ears heard a squeaking noise coming from behind him. He turned around to see what was causing the noise. The window was fogged over with a huge message written from the other side. 'FUCK YOU!' Gajeel popped his head up from behind another window and started to laugh at Natsu for failing to win his girl like he did earlier.
As much as Gajeel just pissed him off, there was another person currently inside the guild who he was even more pissed off at. He turned his head towards the direction of the man who had out bided him. He stated to walk towards the man.
Most of the crowd was still in some shock over the fact he had just spent nearly a quarter of a million jewels for a single date with the blonde bombshell who was stunned after watching her best friend, and a complete stranger placing such high bids on her. The only people who had started to move besides Natsu were the Fairy Tail girls who had been auctioned off trying to break Lucy out of her trance.
Wakaba, Macao, and Gildarts watched as Natsu got closer to the man who just out-bided him. "Should we stop him before he does any damage?" Asked Wakaba.
"Yeah we better before he make the rest of Fairy Tail look bad." Sighed Macao as he stated to walk towards the scene that was about to happen.
Gildarts stopped both mages from going any further. "Let's wait to see what happens. After all this could be entertaining." 'How strong are you're feeling for Lucy, Natsu?'
Natsu got behind the man, and tapped him on the shoulder. He waited until the black-haired man turned around.
Once he turned around he saw anger in pink-haired man's eyes. "Oh, you're the guy who gave me a run for my money." He let out a small chuckle. "You literally gave me a run for my money." He stretched his hand out silently asking for the pink-haired man's name.
"The names Natsu Dragneel." He ignored the man's hand. "Who are you, and what do you think you just did."
"The names Ceadra Talons(Zeref's allies in this story.)." He gave Natsu a confused look. "This is an auction isn't it? So I believe I just beat you for a date with the lovely blonde on stage."
"Her name is Lucy." Natsu said angrily "And why did you wait to bid on Lucy?"
"What can I say I have a thing for blondes (Lucy is the only blonde female in Fairy Tail.)."
"Then why wait till the last second before placing a bid." Natsu got in Ceadra's face.
"Thought I'd make things a little move exciting. After all it was the main-event(whatever is put on last at any show.)
"Why did you go for my Lucy."
He looked at Natsu puzzled for a second. "Sorry I didn't know she was your girlfriend. I was just assuming all the girls were single." Raising up his hands defensively.
"She's not my girlfriend." Natsu let out a small blush. "At least not yet anyway."
'Amusing it appears Natsu has feeling for Ms. Heartfilia. That should make things more entertaining. Let's see who she ends up falling for, Eh Natsu.' "I see then." Lowering his hands back down to his sides. "You're just jealous that someone else is going to get to make the first move on Lucy other than yourself." Giving Natsu a cocky grin. "Am I right?"
"Why you!" Natsu clenched his fist, as he prepared to strike the man. "I'm gonna kick you're a…" Before Natsu could strike his new found rival he felt a something hard hit him on the head, and soon after lost consciousness. He did not however hit the ground as the man who had knocked him out caught him before he even began to fall down.
Gildarts threw Natsu's limp body other his shoulder as if the younger mage weighed nothing. "I think I let that go far enough." He said as he started to walk towards the infirmary. "Sorry about Natsu he can get hot-headed real easily."
"Sorry about Natsu's behavior. I would have hoped he could handle this kind of loss without getting upset." Said Makarov who just walked up toward the black-haired man. 'Natsu is going to be pissed at me after I convincing him to just make sure he won the date with Lucy.' He sweat dropped.
"Apology accepted." The man nodded his head at Makarov.
"Please don't take this as an insult." Began Makarov. "But do you really have that kind of cash on you young man?"
The black-haired man pulled out his wallet from his front pocket. "Of course I do elder." He then started to count out the money in his wallet before pulling it out to give to the old man. "What kind of a person would place a bid without the proper amount of cash on them?" He began to walk to the stage. "Now if you don't mind me I'd like to go meet my future date."
On the stage.
The women of Fairy Tail missed the scene between Natsu, and Ceadra(Zeref), as they were finally able to pull Lucy out of her trance. "Lucy, Lucy are you alright?" Asked Levy.
"Did Natsu just bid 200,000 Jewels on me?" Asked a very confused Lucy.
"Yeah he did Lu-Chan."
"To bad for him though the other guy had 20,000 more jewels than him." Said Mira. 'Now I have to wait longer to see Natsu and Lucy as a couple.' Inner Mira cried a little bit, as she believes the two would be perfect for each other.
"What a complete stranger just bid on me for 220,000 Jewels?" Said Lucy flabbergasted.
"Don't sound disappointed Lucy." Grumbled Erza. "After all you just won."
"Love-Rival. Juvia congratulates you on winning competition, but now Juvia must go find out what Gray-Sama plans on doing on his date with Juvia." Said Juvia as she went to go search for Gray. She would eventually find Gray in the bathroom asking himself what he was going to do. After hearing that Juvia got even more excited for her eventual date with Gray after hearing he couldn't decide what to do for the date. "Gray-Sama must really like Juvia. Gray-Sama can't decide where to take Juvia."
Every girl left on stage (Erza, Levy, Lisanna, Mira, Cana, and Lucy) all had the same thought in their heads after Juvia exited the stage. 'Gray please don't break Juvia's heart.' Or 'be gently with her.'
"Erza for the last time this wasn't a competition." Said Levy.
"Easy for you to say you never had a chance of winning it." Erza again grumbled.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Asked an angry Levy.
A drunken Cana snuck up behind Levy and groped her breasts. "Flat-Chest." Giggled the drunken mage.
Levy quickly broke Cana's hold on her as she hugged her chest. "Enjoy your date with Bickslow." Said the angry Script-Mage.
Cana somehow instantly found herself in a barstool at the counter with a fresh barrel of beer in hand. "Why me?"
"Why do all you girls think I'm ugly?" Asked a depressed Bickslow who was drinking right next to Cana.
"We don't think you're ugly, we think you're creepy." Answered the Card-Mage bluntly. The two mages then continued to drink in silence.
"You know those two might make a cute couple if Cana would give Bickslow a chance." Said Mira to herself. The Barmaid then tried to imagine what their kids would look like, but had troubles doing so as Bickslow's face was always under a mask. "Let's just hope the babies end up looking like the mother."
"What are you talking about Mira-Nee?" Lisanna asked her elder sister.
"I've got a new couple to make." Mira said as she started to walk towards the two drinking mages.
Before she could get to far though Lisanna grabbed a hold of her sister's arm. "Mira-Nee we should probably go talk with our dates before you try to make a new couple. More specifically I need to go talk to Laxus." Laxus won her bid. But unknown to her he did it for Bickslow like he did for Cana sense Laxus knew Gildarts would respond like he did, and wouldn't be able to be in the room to bid for Cana.(In other words Bickslow wants Lisanna, and Laxus wants Cana so each man won the bid for his fellow team member's girl, and plan on switching so they can get the girl they actually wanted.)
The inner Mira screamed 'NO, I HAVE WORK TO DO HERE.' But out loud she agreed with her little sister. "You're right, beside I have plenty of time to hook those two up. After all I don't want to disappoint the man who spent 180,000 Jewels for a date me." She shot Erza a dirty look.
Erza quickly shot Mira a dirty look back.
Before she went to go search for her future date she looked at Lucy. 'After your date I'm going to make you and Natsu a couple.' Inner squeal. 'Yay I now have two couples to make. No wait, three couples. Laxus and Lisanna could be a cute couple as well.' Walking down the stage with Lisanna right behind her.
"Guess I'd better go find out who I have to go out with." Said Erza as she began to walk off stage.
"You didn't see who won?" Asked Levy.
"I was too focused on using my sex-appeal to win the contest to see who was bidding." Erza answered walking into the crowd to find her future date(The poor bastard).
After watching nearly all the girls walk of the stage Lucy finally got back to her usual self as the shock had finally faded. She then saw that Levy was the only with her on the stage. "Levy-chan why do you think Natsu was willing to spend so much money on me." 'Better yet when did he learn how to save that kind of cash?'
"I don't know Lu-chan. All I know is that he came in more prepared than Gajeel. That cheap bastard." She mumbled the last part.
Lucy heard what Levy said. "Looks like someone has a crush on Gajeel." Lucy teased her best friend.
"No I don't." She blushed
"Then why are you blushing?"
Right when Levy had a comeback she saw the black-haired man who had won Lucy walking towards them. "Sorry Lu-Chan, but it looks like your date wants to meet you." At that Levy skipped off the stage to look for her date.
Lucy watched as the petit mage exited the stage, and saw her future date approaching her. She never saw what he looked like until now because of how stunned she was at Natsu's original bid. The man had matted down spiky black hair. He wore black dress pants. A black dress-shirt with both sleeves rolled up, and was unbuttoned a third of the way down revealing a white shirt underneath. His brown eyes were darker than her chocolate brown ones. Lucy then noticed he was starting to unbutton the rest of his dress shirt.
"Wh-What are you doing?" Blushed Lucy watching the man take off his outer shirt.
"It must be kind of embarrassing for you to be wearing that revealing costume." The man said offering her his shirt.
Lucy quickly looked down seeing see was still in her hot pink bunny costume. "How did I forget I was wearing this?" She took the man's shirt and quickly put in on, buttoning up the shirt until I covered the costume up.
"From what I could tell you were shocked by that Natsu guys initial bid."
"That sound right." Admitting she already knew how she forgot.
"Whoever convinced all you girls to were these costumes must be a real pervert." Shaking his head.
On the floor Makarov sneezed "Someone just spoke ill of me."
"You hit the nail on the head." Said Lucy nodding her head.
Makarov sneezed again. "Two people just spoke ill of me." Looking around for the culprits.
"I mean it's not like we have to sleep with the guy who won anyway. So why did we have to wear something so revealing?" Lucy said temporarily forgetting the man who won her was right next to her.
"We don't?" Asked the black-haired man looking a little disappointed.
"Of course not?" She answered with a mix of anger, and embarrassment despite her blushing.
The man let out a chuckle. "I was just joking. I knew that already." Smiling at the girl.
Lucy let out a blush of embarrassment. 'Nice job insulting the guy Lucy.' "Sorry I didn't mean it that way."
"It's alright. If the roles were reversed I'd be the one blushing and embarrassed Lucy…Sorry I never caught your last name." He extended his right hand to the girl.
"My name is Lucy, Lucy Ashley (Lucy changed her last name to protect herself since the Heartfilia last name still has a lot of value to it.) What's your name?" Asked Lucy extending her right hand to meet his.
"My name is Ceadra, Ceadra Talons." He gently grabbed Lucy's hand, and gave it a small light kiss. "It's a pleasure to meet you Lucy Ashley. So when should I pick you up?"
"I don't know I thought you would have had something in mind for the date before hand." Continuing to blush at the fact the guy was old school enough to kiss her hand. It reminded her of when she lived with her father. All the men her father introduced her to always did it. She didn't mind the act as she found it charming, she just didn't like the fact her father always tried to use her as a bargaining chip to his fellow business men. All of them were shot down despite knowing how angry her father would be at her later. Still she found the act to be charming.
Ceadra rubbed his temples thinking for a couple of seconds. "How's about we meet up at the train station at ten O' clock tomorrow morning."
"Why tomorrow?" Lucy had plans to go shopping. "And why the train station?"
"I'm only in town for a couple of days, and tomorrow is the only full day I'm guaranteed left here in Magnolia. As for the train station I admit it sounds like a strange place t meet up, but its one of the few places I know how to get to from my hotel room here in Magnolia." He smiled innocently showing no signs of evil intentions.
Lucy let out a sigh. "Alright then I'll meet you at the train station tomorrow at ten." Smiling back at Ceadra.
"See you later then Lucy Ashley." Ceadra started to walk away.
Lucy realized she was still wearing the man's shirt. "Ceadra hold up. Let me change real quick so you can get your shirt back." She started to head towards the back.
"Don't worry about it. I just get it back from you tomorrow." He gave the blonde a small wave. "Think of it as a additional guaranty you'll meet up with me tomorrow." At that he made his way off the stage, and out of the guild. 'Step one complete.'
"Looking forward to it, Ceadra Talons." Lucy blushed watching the man leave.
End Chapter 2.
I apologize for any and all spelling and grammar mistakes I missed before posting this chapter.
Natsu vs. Zeref for Lucy's heart. So far Zeref has won the first round. What will Natsu do to try to swing things around in his favor.
Not much is really known about Zeref at all especially in a romantic story so he's almost an OC. Although the fact that he's at least 400 years old I'd imaging most of his moves for picking up, charming girls would have to be pretty old school if he has any at all.
I had Lucy change her last name so her father's enemies/competitors wouldn't try to hunt her down to try to use her to take control of the company over, regardless of who the current owner may be. As you can tell I gave her, her Edolas counter part's last name. Ceadra Talons will be Zeref's alias in this story for the obvious reasons he can't use his real name without raising huge alarms.
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