The ground was shaking and the air was instantly chilled as Gray had just sent another icy attack towards the giant beaver that was thrashing about. Team Natsu had taken a new job that offered an incredibly high reward - enough to pay Lucy's rent for 4 months, even after being split! The job, however, wasn't a trip in the park. Of course, that would explain why the reward was so high.
Apparantly, the village of Gorgeon that filed the request was having a bit of a problem keeping their home town clean lately. People have been littering like crazy and the pollution had reached a toxic level. It was so bad that the animal who were drinking from the local river had started to mutate and were attacking the villagers! Team Natsu had decided it was best to split up.
Erza, Wendy, Charle, and Happy took on cleaning up the town and river while Gray, Natsu, and Lucy took on all of the mutated animals. Although Erza loves a good fight, she was not happy with Grazy and Natsu. They decided to duke it out at the train station (Natsu was trying to avoid the "death vehicle" and walk himself there and Gray was not having it), and during their fight, Gray had thrown Natsu head-first into the train conductor. They all ended up having to walk and were banned from the train station for two weeks. So as punishment, Erza decided they could handle the creatures on their own.
"I wasn't even apart of your fight!" Lucy whined as she dodged the tree that came flying her way, sent from the giant-sized beaver. The three wizards had managed to get rid of all of the animals except for this one, which just happened to be the biggest. "Why am I being punished too?" The celestial wizard had been crying ever since Erza left them to fend for themselves.
The ice-make wizard was exhausted and just wanted to finish off the last one so he could get away from his teammate's whining and take a nap. "Ice-make Lance!" The attack hit the beaver straight on and sent him falling backwards. The crash of the monster-like beaver hitting the ground was so forceful it caused the whole forest to shake.
The ground was cracking all around and the unlucky blonde was too distracted with her cries that she didn't notice the earth underneath her had split in two. Falling into the crack, her screams just got louder. "Hey Lucy, what are you doing down there?" Natsu called out to her. The girl wanted to scream at him for being so dense but she was way too busy trying to hold onto whatever it was that her hand had grabbed onto.
Gray gave a scoff. "Natsu, you idiot," he started while he head towards the creature who was laying on the ground, "just help her up while I tie this one up."
Lucy was thankful when she felt the hands that grabbed onto her arms and started pulling her upwards, but something didn't feel right. The celestial wizard looked down and there was a sharp stick that was sticking out of the earth and was threatening to rip her tube top in two if she continued going upwards. "Natsu, wait!" she tried yelling towards him, but Natsu, being Natsu, wasn't listening and continued pulling his friend out of the hole she was in.
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The force of Lucy being pulled up was too much and the fire dragon slayer fell backwards, with the girl landing right on top of him. Gray had just put an ice restraint around the beaver when he started to head back to see if Natsu needed any help with pulling Lucy up when he started to topple over laughing at the sight that was infront of him. "Gah, Luce, you're heavy. Will you just get up already?"
Lucy was blushing furiously and was ready to slap her teammate silly, but of course that would make her lose what little coverage she had. Her shirt had been ripped off and her bare chest was being pressed against Natsu's bare chest because, of course, he was only wearing his vest which he had opened. "Nastu, you idiot!"