Chapter 2

"A little to the left… more… more…" Lucy instructed as Gray and Natsu lugged her new wardrobe into it's new home.

"How the heck did we get stuck doing this," Natsu complained. "I'm supposed to be having a fight with Erza."

"Because Erza's favorite bakery is having a sale, so she ran over there to stock up on strawberry cake," Lucy repeated for the third time.

"Then why do we have to carry around your fancy dresser," he snapped back.

Lucy gave him a glare. "Consider it punishment for smashing my last one."

"If it's his punishment, why am I here?" asked Gray.

"Because he smashed it while he was ranting about some prank you'd played on him. You're just as much to blame."

"It's a great view from up here," said Happy sitting on top of the wardrobe.

"THAT'S MAKING IT HEAVIER!" shouted both Natsu and Gray.

Lucy held up her hands to frame the wardrobe. "Perfect. Okay put it down there."

Gray, who was itching to get back at Natsu for roping him into this, made sure to drop the wardrobe onto Natsu's foot.

Natsu roared in pain, and immediately retaliated by punching Gray in the face. The two immediately dissolved into a brawl in Lucy's living room.

Lucy tried shouting at them to stop, but they were oblivious to it. Finally she had enough. "LUCY KICK!" she managed to kick both boys hard enough to send them flying into a wall, knocking them out.

"Idiots," she grumbled as she looked at the two snoozing on the floor.

"Aye," Happy agreed. Somehow having found a fish (Lucy suspected from her own fridge) to snack on.

With a sigh, Lucy decided to ignore them for now, and start moving her clothes into her new wardrobe.

Soon she filled up the first rack with clothes, and moved behind it to hang her clothes on the second rack behind it. As she moved along she noticed something poking her in the back.

She sighed. "Figures, it looks nice on the outside, but the back edge need sanding. Maybe I can get Max to do it. He's a sand wizard after all," she muttered to herself.

Suddenly she put her foot down on something that was definitely not hard wood. It was cold and slippery, and she found he foot sliding forwards, causing her to fall backwards.

With a startled yelp she fell, instead of hitting the back of the wardrobe like she was expecting to she kept falling till she landed in a soft snowy cushion.

Immediately she sat up with a yell of "Gray, don't make it snow in my apartment!"

A second later she realized she was no longer in her apartment. Okay that technically wasn't true. In front of her hung the racks of her clothes, and through them she could see her apartment. She could even still hear Natsu's snoring though it sounded farther away than a second ago. But that didn't change the fact that she was currently sitting in the middle of a forest with snow falling all around her.

"WHAT THE HECK IS THIS DOING IN MY CLOSET!" She shrieked.

Unfortunately the only thing her earsplitting shriek accomplished was dislodging some snow from the trees, and causing it to fall on her. She let out another shriek from the cold, and scrambled back to get out of it.

She kept going until she felt something cold and metallic against her back. Looking up she saw that she was now leaning against an old-fashioned lamppost.

She stared up at it for a few seconds and slowly got to her feet. Hesitantly she reached out and rapped her knuckles against it resulting in a soft metallic clang.

"It's official," she said to herself. "I've finally lost my mind. The guild's insanity is contagious. AND WHY IS A LAMPPOST IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WOODS IN MY CLOSET!?"

As she was mulling over her apparent break in sanity she became aware of the sound of footsteps behind her. Instinctively she reached for her key ring, having Taurus' key readily in hand, she turned to face whoever was coming.

What she didn't expect was a short man with horns and a pair of goat legs to come out of the trees. When she saw him her jaw dropped and Taurus' key was held limply in her hand.

The goat man saw her a second later. When he did he jumped in surprise, dropping the parcels he had been carrying and stared at her in shock. "Goodness gracious me!" he exclaimed.

Lucy turned and slumped against the lamppost. "Ooooh I really have gone crazy. First woods, then the lamppost, and now goat people," she moaned.

"Beg your pardon," said the goat man, as he scrambled to gather his belongings. "What I mean to say is, and I don't mean to sound inquisitive, Miss, but are you by chance a Daughter of Eve?"

Lucy looked over at him in confusion. "My mother's name was Layla."

"Oh by that I mean, forgive me, but are you what they call a girl?"

Now Lucy was annoyed. "Of course I'm a girl are you blind?"

The goat man shrank back a bit. "Apologies, miss I didn't mean to insult you. I just wanted to be sure. You are in fact human, are you not?"

Lucy frowned, "If that's all you wanted to ask, just say it. Yes, I am human."

"To be sure, to be sure," said the goat man nervously. "How stupid of me! But I've never seen a Son of Adam or a Daughter of Eve before. I am delighted. That is to say-" he paused for a second. "Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Tumnus."

Lucy, who had resolved to just stop caring about all the weirdness (she really should be used to it by now) said, "Nice to meet you Tumnus-san, my name is Lucy. Not to be rude, but what are you? And where am I?"

Tumnus looked bewildered at being referred to as –san, blinked for a moment before replying "Well, I'm a faun, of course."

"You're a baby deer?"

Tumnus looked flustered. "Not a fawn, a faun. And as for where you are, this is Narnia. Everything that lies between the lamppost and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea is Narnia."

Lucy thought about that for a moment. She knew her geography very well, partly as part of her education as the Heartfilia heiress, and partly from traveling all over the country on missions. As far as she was aware, there was no place called Narnia on Earthland. "Then this must be a different world," she muttered, more to herself than to Tumnus. "An Anima or something must have opened in the back of my wardrobe to bring me here." She grinned triumphantly, "I'm not crazy!" she cheered.

She ignored that Tumnus was looking like he doubted that fact.

She turned to Tumnus. "Is this Edolas?"

Tumnus shook his head. "No, it's Narnia. You said you came here through an Anima? What is that?"

"It's like a portal between worlds. I'm from Earthland. Specifically the town of Magnolia in the Kingdom of Fiore." She then realized she was shivering, and she drew her arms around herself. "It's summer over there," she grumbled.

Tumnus looked sad for a moment. "Meanwhile, it's winter in Narnia, and has been for ever so long." He then smiled at her. "We shall both catch a cold if we continue to stand here talking. Might I invite you to have a cup of tea with me?"

Lucy hesitated. "I don't know, the Anima might close any minute now. I don't want to get stuck here.

"It's only around the corner," he persisted. "There'll be a roaring fire, and toast, and cake. As I said you're the first human I've ever met, I'm curious to know more."

Against her better judgment Lucy found herself giving in. She too was curious about this Narnia place. One cup of tea couldn't hurt. And if Tumnus tried anything funny she could sick her spirits on him.

"Alright. One cup of tea, then I go back," she agreed.

They walked together through the forest for a short while, until they came to the entrance of a cave (one with a wooden door over the entrance, no less). Upon entering Lucy was greeted to the site of a quaint little living space with everything one needed to live comfortably. As Tumnus busied himself in the kitchen Lucy browsed through his bookshelf examining the titles. She was amused to find some speculating on whether or not humans actually existed.

She glanced up with a smile as he came back with the tea. As they ate they chatted about various thing, Human culture, Narnian culture, old legends, this and that. Lucy enjoyed their conversation, so much that she soon lost track of time. It wasn't until Tumnus pulled out a flute, and started playing that she realized it.

Her reason for the realization was when she recognized the magic that the flute held. Sleep magic, like what the fake Salamander had tried to use on her the day she met Natsu. Knowing the spell was taking place, she was able to negate the effects.

She kept a cool head and waited until Tumnus stopped playing. Never taking her eyes off him for a second. She didn't believe that Tumnus was a bad person, but he had better have a good reason for trying to cast a spell on her.

Apparently the look in her eyes was enough to tip Tumnus off, and he shakily stopped playing and put the flute down.

"Tumnus-san," she said coolly, "Why were you trying to cast a sleep spell on me?"

Tumnus bowed his head. "Because I'm a bad faun," he said brokenly. Then without warning he sank to his knees and started to cry.

Lucy got up fro her seat, and moved to comfort him, handing him a handkerchief. He sobbed into it saying how he was a bad faun, and that his father would be so ashamed if he could see him now.

"Why?" asked Lucy. "What have you done? What's wrong?"

"I've taken under the service of the White Witch," he said confessed bitterly.

"The White Witch?"

"It is she that has got all of Narnia under her thumb. It's she that makes it always winter, and never Christmas."

"What is she making you do?" Lucy asked. "Maybe I can help."

That just made Tumnus cry harder. "That's the worst of it," he wailed. "I'm a kidnapper for her. I was ordered, that if I should ever come across a human, I was to capture it, and hand it over to her."

Lucy was quiet for a long moment upon hearing that. "Are you going to do that?" she finally asked quietly.

That shocked him out of his tears.

"Are you going to do that?" she repeated. "Because if you do, you'll regret it. But I don't think you will, will you?" she gave him a kind smile. "After all, what kind of kidnapper confesses to their crime, before they commit it. You're a good person Tumnus-san."

Tumnus stared at her for a long moment, before giving her a shaky smile in return. "No, no I won't. I hadn't known what humans were like before I met you. I can't give you up to the Witch."

His smile faded a bit. "I just hope she doesn't find out about this…"

"What would she do?" asked Lucy. "I could protect you?"

Tumnus looked startled. "Protect me? How?"

Lucy grinned and held up her hand displaying her guild mark. "I happen to be a wizard of Fairy Tail, the most powerful guild in my world. I'm even on the strongest team."

Tumnus looked dumbstruck. "A wizard?"

She nodded. "I'm not as powerful as my friends, but I can hold my own well enough."

Tumnus blinked. "As I said the White Witch uses her magic to keep the land in a never ending state of winter. Anyone that gets in her way is either killed by her secret police, or turned to stone by her personally."

Lucy briefly thought of Evergreen, and how she had briefly turned Lucy into a statue during the Miss Fairy Tail contest. That had not been fun.

She stood up. "That settles it." She gave Tumnus a confident grin. "I'm going to go back to my world to get my Nakama. Then we'll come back here, and take that witch down. I promise."

Tumnus stared up at her for a long moment. Here was the person he had been planing to wrong in the most grievous way imaginable, but instead of shunning him like he undoubtably deserved, she was standing before him offering to help and protect him from harm. For the first time in a long time, he began to have hope for a better future.

He stood up and took her hand. "But first, we must get you back to your Anima."

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Lucy and Tumnus hurried as quickly and quietly as they could back to the lamppost where the two of them had met. Once they got there Tumnus asked, "Do you know your way back from here?"

Lucy glanced around and spotted the rack of her clothes. "Yeah, I see it."

"Then be off home as quick as you can," he said, "and, c-can you ever forgive me for what I meant to do?"

Lucy smiled at him, "There's nothing to forgive. Try to stay low until I get back, okay."

"Yes, farewell, Daughter of Eve. Perhaps I could keep the handkerchief?"

"Sure," said Lucy as she sprinted to where she could see her room. Pushing herself through the clothes, she fell forward and onto her apartment floor.

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A/N That was fun to write. It was funny to write Lucy's freak out. I figured this Lucy might be more familiar with the concept of stranger danger than the original Lucy seemed to be, but if it came to a fight, she could probably kick Tumnus' butt easy.

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