Hey guys! Ok I have no exuse why this chapter comes up sooooooooo late! But many things happend like I graduated from school and are now preparing for college. Also I got hospitalized and... and... and... but anyway the chapter is finally here.
Sadly xXhelenahillXx had to quit as a beta for this story and I haven't found another one yet or they did't answer me yet. But I couldn't bear to let you guys wait any longer thats why the story is now updated without being betaed by someone. Thats why I will apologize for every mistake you will find in there. Remember I am from Germany and my english isn't the best...
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A boy, a dragon and a doll?
Chapter 3
The mood in the guild was down. Natsu was sulking in one of the corners of the guild, depress because Lucy was still angry at him. Also she had forbidden Wendy to help Natsu with his wounds, which were still visible to the whole guild. So he unwillingly tried to patch himself up. He ended up tangled in a bandage and was now trying halfhearted to get out of the mess. Gray, Elfman and other male members were gathered around a table near that corner. Gajeel was near them too, leaning onto the wall like he usually would do and he was giving of a bored look. He was listening to the others while they were discussing something with low voices and every now and there one of them looked over to the other side where the girls were.
Lisanna, Levy, Cana, Erza who came back recently from her mission, and other female members were on the other side of the guild, happily chatting or playing with little Hiro, here he was in his element. He chatted happily with Lisanna, asked Levy about the book she was reading, discussed with Erza which cake was the best one, played with Cana cards… yep Hiro enjoyed this time and also he smirked every now and then and the boys or stick his tongue at them. But Hiro was missing something and that was Lucy.
Lucy was by the bar sipping on a drink Mira gave her. Her eyes traveled every five minutes to Hiro, back to her drink, to Natsu and again back to her drink. She was still angry with Natsu for what he had done to her apartment but then she was not angry enough to tell Erza so that she would give the fire mage also a nice treat. Also she wasn't calm enough to go play with Hiro like the other girls did.
It still bothered her that it seemed like Hiro and Natsu didn't get along. Hiro was such a nice boy and Natsu was her best friend, no deep in her heart she knew that Natsu was more than just her best friend. After all Natsu saved her many times, he brought her to Fairy Tail, her new family. He meant much to her and she knew it but she was not ready to tell him anything. Not when he was so dense, not when she wasn't fully sure of her own feelings. In short, Lucy was still in the state of denial which Natsu had already passed.
Mira and Makarov sensed the mood in the guild, it was midday, Gray and Natsu hadn't started a fight yet or destroyed something, no they were even near each other and didn't show any sights that they would insult each other soon. This fact was enough for the two to be worried. Both faced thought hard about what they could do as an idea popped up in Mira's head. She whispered her idea in the old Master's ear and he nodded, giving her permission for it.
Suddenly Mira went forward until she was standing in the middle of the guild. She looked a last time at the Master who nodded again a wide smile placed on his face.
"Please, listen up everyone!" Mira coughed shortly and clapped her hands together, trying to get the attention from everyone, well the girls looked at her while the guys where still discussing something, too busy to even notice her. She then coughed again but still no reaction from the boys. Until Erza throw three of her swords at them as a last choice to get the attention from them and of course nobody would dare to disobey Erza Scarlet. So they looked fearful at her, in particular three of them.
"She said: LISTEN UP!" Erza yelled crossing her arms in front of her armor while she eyed them with her famous death glare. Looks like somebody must had a bad day here, right?
Her swords didn't hurt anyone but well… one of them hit the ground directly in front of Gray's feed who was now sitting on the ground, shaking in fear and sweating like hell. Another one missed Gajeel by inches and was now stuck on the wall, he was leaning on, directly next to his face and his expression was blank, not even the thought of eating the sword was crossing his mind nor to glare or even talk back to her. The last one was directly above Natsus head, it cut a bit of the tips from his hair. His face was very pale like he had seen a ghost… wait Natsu isn't afraid of ghost? Then let's say: like he had to face a very angry Erza, a pissed of Lucy plus and Mirajane in satan soul mode. Yep, Erza overreacted by such a 'little' thing and once again showed to the whole guild that it always was a better idea not to anger her.
Mira who smiled still nicely at Erzas outburst coughed shortly again. "Haha…" she laughed nervously to get the attention back to her, "…well what I was going to say is, that today is such a nice weather why don't we all go to the beach together. The Master has given his permission for this and there aren't many jobs there anyway today. So what do you guys think? Let's have a day off and go to the b-"
Suddenly the whole guild cheered and rushed out of the building. Mira didn't even get the chance to finish her sentence when over the half of the guild run out. That Natsu, Gray and Gajeel were the first ones to run out had of course nothing to do with Erza, even though the three of them left with full speed.
Hiro had run over to Lucy, right after Erzas outburst and his eyes were sparkling now. Lucy, who saw that smiled at him, took his hand and went out of the guild together. Both were chatting happily about what they would do at the beach, discussing what they will wear and so on. Hiro also was already planning how to separate Lucy from the boys and in his pocked he was holding onto the doll.
Erza on the other hand walked up to Mira, she eyed her suspicious and asked directly: "What are you truly planning?"
"Haha… oh come on Erza. It is nice every now and then to relax, isn't it? Everyone worked hard the last days to get money for rents they couldn't pay the last seven years. So a day to relax would do well for everyone." Mira smiled but in her head she added something.
It is also a perfect why to continue my matchmaking. I have to recover the mood between Lucy and Natsu also it is time for Gray to understand his feelings and then there is also Gajeel…
Mira's thoughts continued and so she didn't noticed that Erza nodded in approval and also left. When she finally noticed that she was the last one left behind in the guild she jumped up and hurried to get her things and rushed off to the beach together with her siblings waiting for her.
At the beach
"Lucy-nee! Lucy-nee! Look here! Look!" Hiro yelled. He was swimming in the water with a floating tire. His right arm clenched onto it while he waved with the other to get Lucy looking at him.
Lucy giggled and also went to the water. The cold ocean water hit her legs and it was refreshing. She looked over her shoulder to see that also others of the guild were enjoying their time. Jet and Droy where lazily taking a sun bath. Juvia was following every step from Gray and got a nosebleed when he stripped of his trunks which caused Gray on the other hand got beaten twice from Erza. (One time for stripping and a second time because his trunks were found on her cake.) Levy was reading a book under a sun shade and Gajeel were watching her behind a shadow. Lucy giggled it was obvious that the metal dragon slayer had something for the bookworm. Happy was with Charle, he was trying to give her one of his fish which she refused. Wendy was still healing Natsus wounds. Lucy was nice and allowed Wendy after all to heal Natsu so that he also could enjoy this but a light bit of anger was still left in her and she swore to herself that she would ignore the dragon slayer for a while longer. So she gave him the cold shoulder when he looked at her with pleading eyes.
She went to Hiro and started playing with him. Splashing around water and soon they were joined by Erza, Lisanna and Levy. Erza got too serious about their small water game and Lucy was worried if Hiro would get hurt but then, as long as Erza didn't requip one of her armors or weapons everything should be fine. She didn't worry about Lisanna and Levy. Those two on the other hand had just fun, they used their magic every now and then and so the girls started laughing and giggling together with Hiro while splashing around with water.
At the beach Natsu was grumbling under a sunshade, he was thankful that Wendy had healed him but still he hated the fact that Lucy ignored him. So he was banned to only watch over Lucy while she had fun in the water - with the brat. He growled when he saw that Hiro clenched onto her and pressed his little face into her chest and laughed.
As if the perverted guys on the beach aren't enough. Natsu thought depress but growled again.
Lucy wore a new bikini he didn't recognize. It resembled a bit the white one with pink flowers but then it was entirely different. The flower didn't look like a tropical one, more like petals from a cherry blossom, it suited her perfect thought. It only showed, for his taste, a bit too much of her skin and emphasized her curves a bit to strong together with all that water splashing around, it let her look more attractive. He didn't like those other random men on the beach who were also watching her with perverted lust in their eyes and drooling over her body. In his case he had to hold back the urge to punch them. If he started to punch the hell out of them Erza would beat also the hell out of him for his behavior. But he swore he would punch one of them if they would come to near her or try to flirt with her.
Unnoticed to him, Gajeel joined him sitting under that sunshade. Gajeel maybe was a brick head sometimes and he could be pretty mean and aggressive but he was one of the only ones in the guild who understood him. After all both of them were male dragon slayers.
"You're fucked up as long as that brat is here." Gajeel simply marked as he munched on a piece of metal, who knows from where he got it.
"Don't need to tell me, metal jerk." Natsu muttered. The last thing he needed now was Gajeel to tell him how messed up he was. He likely wanted to punch Gajeel but then his glaze fell on one of the perverts on the beach and he felt like it would rather be more worth to punch this random man who was drooling over Lucy's body.
"When are you going to tell her?"
"Tell who what?"
"How stupid are you?"
"I am NOT stupid, punk!"
"Whatever, idiot. Anyway I meant, when are you going to tell bunny girl that she is your mate?"
"And when are you going to tell Levy?"
If Natsu would have paid attention, he would have seen a light blush on the metal dragon slayers face which was a rare sight. But Natsu was too busy finding out how he could also spend some time with Lucy without Hiro. He didn't really listen to Gajeel he just answered automatically, not thinking anything about what he said.
"We are both fucked up…" Gajeel simply said after a while.
"No kidding, why is it so hard to have a mate?"
"Metalicana that jerk did tell me about it but he didn't say that it was that complicated."
"I remember Igneel saying something about it too. Something like being overprotective…"
"Dump head, it is normal that a dragon slayer will get, like a dragon, protective about his mate."
"Shut it. I know that much!"
"Then you know that you can only fall for one person and when you lose her you're even more messed up?"
"Igneel told me that much and for now I only have to make sure my mate is save and alive!"
"As if. Have you ever thought about why you break in bunny girls house and sleep in the same bed like her? Yeah don't gimme that look. I have heard about it."
"S-shut it! I know what I do!"
"Humph. Obviously: No. You're acting on instinct."
"As if your one to talk! You're following her behind her back! At last Luce knows that I follow her."
"And you can't even let her alone for one night!"
"I said it before: I am only making sure that she is safe!"
"In a city, with no harm around and a guild next door? Yeah, scratch that flame head."
"HA! Don't you also want to keep her safe?"
"And why are you letting that brat stay with bunny girl?"
"As if I would tell you, metal jerk! How about you go and look for your own mate!"
"Shut up flame head I'm trying to be nice so you should shut it!"
"You nice? Who tried to kill my mate after kidnapping her?"
"Your brain must have been burned to ash. That was my mission at that time and I didn't try to kill her I just toyed with her life!"
"What's the difference and what do you mean toying with her life? If you do such a mission so blindly than you have no brain, you freaking metal eating punk!"
"Say that again ash face!"
"You. Don't. Have. A. Brain, metal jerk!"
"That's it fire breather!"
"Bring it on! Metal face!"
Both were head butting each other and started glaring with the intention to kill. Natsu's hand twitched, the need to punch somebody was getting to him again. Gajeel was not better, he wanted a fight and if it was the Salamander than he was fine with it. But suddenly they both 'humph' each other and faced different directions while. They crossed their arms and returned to watch Lucy and Levy. Both looked like little kids who just fought and swore not to talk with each other despite the fact that they were sitting next to each other and still wanted to talk but were too proud to admire it. Soon also Gray joined the two and Natsu only muttered something not understandable even for Gajeel.
What am I today, the meeting spot for everyone? He thought annoyed and was about to leave the spot when he suddenly heard Gray talking to Gajeel.
"Oi! Gajeel, have you asked him yet?" Gray asked and Gajeel looked annoyed at him.
"Do I look like I am your freaking guy-for-everything? Ask him yourself!" He countered.
Natsu wondered about what they were talking, normally he would have already fought with Gray but today was something of with him and suddenly realization hit him. Wait metal jerk didn't tell ice face about what we talked before did he? I swear when he did I will kill both, him and that damn stripper.
"Tsk! You can't even ask a simple question." Gray smirked but regretted it after Gajeel placed his fist in his face.
"Shut up you Ice freak! There are things which are more important!"
"Ok that's it punk! You asked for it!"
"Try to hit me, Snow face!"
Gray and Gajeel started fighting behind Natsus back but it was pretty weird that Natsu wasn't in the fight also. After he figured that Gajeel haven't told Gray anything he sat back and continued watching Lucy instead of beating the hell out of the two behind him. That was when Lucy looked from where the noise came, expecting to see Gray and Natsu fight. It was a surprise for her to see Gray and Gajeel fight while Natsu was sitting depress under a sunshade. This was completely new for her and she instantly knew that something was wrong with the fire dragon slayer.
"Lisanna! Could you watch over Hiro for a moment?" Lucy shouted to Lisanna who was the nearest to Hiro. Lisanna looked shortly at the beach and also understood the situation. Lisanna guessed what was up with Natsu and so she smiled a knowing but sly smile as she saw that Lucy was about to make her way out of the water.
"Lucy-nee? Where are you going?" Hiro suddenly asked, worry was in his voice but he got distract by Lisanna who spun him around in his floating tire.
"No problem Lucy!" Lisanna answered and spun the boy again around in the water which made Hiro laugh. Sometimes Hiro really was only the five years old he was and not some smart kid that could look through you like you were made of glass.
Nobody noticed that the fight between Gajeel and Gray had stopped, Gray dragged Gajeel behind a row palms and started explaining some things to him and Gajeels annoyed expression turned into a freaking scary smirk. Both boys were watching Natsu while talking and were suddenly very quiet when they saw Lucy coming.
Lucy meanwhile had walked up to Natsu. "You ok?"
Natsu looked up from his spot finding Lucy directly in front of him. A light blushed was decorating his face as he noticed that he had the perfect view at her chest. He shortly looked around and saw that Hiro was still in the water together with Lisanna playing something which looked like tag, Levy and Erza had left the water to take a break. So his eyes went back to Lucy. He gave his best not to look too long at her chest and concentrated on her eyes, which wasn't any better because he knew that he could lose himself in warm chocolate colored orbs. So his eyes traveled again, down her body but that wasn't a good idea either. He could feel that his face was about to head up so he hurried to look back at her eyes.
Damn since when is she looking so attractive in a bikini? Wait… she is always looking good… That maid outfit was definitive an eye catcher, then that what she wore when we were in edolas… and those close she wore during the S-class exams… Damn it! Brain, stop thinking thinks like that! I sound like a pervert! I am not Gray for dragon's sake! I am not a pervert!
Natsu shook his head violently, a try to get rid of these thoughts. This action worried Lucy even more. "Natsu, please tell me if something is wrong. You know you can tell me-"
"I'm fine!" He finally grinned but still there was a sight of worry in Lucy's eyes which he didn't like. "Come on Luce! There is nothing to worry about, let's go an-"
Natsu was about to stand up and finish his sentence when Gray and Gajeel suddenly grabbed him from behind by his arms and dragged him with them away from Lucy who looked confused and worried but then shrugged.
"I guess they will take care of him…" She mumbled unsure. "I should be used to them acting strange thought…"
"What the hell…? What are you guys doing?" Natsu shouted as he fought back but both tighten their grip on him.
"Listen up flame head! Hiro is going on the nerves of us all and we need you for a payback." Gray simply answered.
"That brat is going too far. They have a plan. I don't want to admire it but they need your help. I am just helping because I simply hate that brat." Gajeel muttered unwillingly.
The three of them reached their destination, other guys where already there. Elfman was working on something while shouting how manly this was. Macao and Wakaba were looking at a plan they had painted into the sand and discussed how to make it better. To Natsus surprise, Bickslow and Fried were also there listening to Macao's and Wakaba's discussion and Natsu was even more surprised when he saw Laxus also coming up to the group.
"Ok it's starting to get weird. What the hell is going on with you guys?"
Natsu didn't get an answer. No it was more like Gray and Gajeel throw him against a rock and suddenly a rune field from Fried was around him.
"What the…? What is going on here?" Natsu yelled in anger as he started to kick and punch the rune wall. "I swear, Ice face! I will seriously hurt you if you don't let me out of here, NOW!"
"Just shut up and listen to the plan, ash face! That rune wall is just to keep you here so that you don't run to Lucy and tell her something!"
"I'm so gonna hurt ya if you do anything to Luce! Not caring if you are nakama or not!"
"Shut up and listen the only one who may get hurt is the brat!"
"I don't care! Hurt Luce and I will hurt you!"
"Would you just listen you big idiot!"
Both started to insult each other through the rune wall until a very pissed Laxus kicked Gray away and send a bolt at Natsu. Gray was lying against a palm while Natsu lay shocked and a bit black from ash on the ground. He looked like was roasted and black steam was coming off from him.
"You're getting on my nerves! Are we getting revenge on the boy or not?"
Gray, who recovered faster than Natsu – after all he only got a kick not a blow with magic - , sat up and looked at everyone very serious, "If we want to get the boy we need to be careful and distract all the girls from him. So this is the plan…"
Mira sighed, all the boys she needed for her plans had disappeared and to her disappointment, the main pair she was focusing on got interrupted. Yes, Mira was making plans to give the densest pair in Fairy Tail a little help to get together already. Apparently it was not in her plan that Natsu would get kidnaped by Gray and Gajeel when it finally seemed like Lucy was talking to him again.
Lucy was now together with Hiro, they were making a sandcastle. Hiro looked like he really had fun and was chatty also. Mira could see that he was telling Lucy many things while she giggled and smiled kindly at him. But she could see worry in the eyes of the blond, a sign that Lucy was still thinking about Natsu a bit.
"Mira-nee? Is everything ok?" Lisanna asked her sister worried when she noticed the look in her eyes.
"No it is not. Lisanna, you sure Natsu is clear about his feelings? It doesn't look to me like they had made any progress." The grown up woman whined.
Lisanna laughed at Mira's coment. "Of course he is sure. Actually he took the last mission to impress her."
Mira's eyes sparkled. "Really? Well this is a small progress…"
Both didn't see that Natsu and Macao were walking up to Lucy and Hiro.
"So why are you following me again?" Natsu asked as he looked annoyed at Macao who was walking next to him.
"You know why. Just get Lucy and go… I still don't understand why I must be the one to get the boy…" Macao mumbled as he remembered why he was walking up to Lucy together with Natsu.
"Ok did everyone understand it? It is simple, but I will tell the small parts again so that even you Flame head can understand it." Gray smirked at Natsu before he continued. "You ash face will get Lucy. Take her for a walk or other lovey-dovey stuff." Gray laughed shortly at the light blush Natsu was showing now and the others smirked. "Shut up! Stripper!"
"Fried has made a nice rune trap for Hiro but it is set up fast so if one of us steps in we are caught until sunset. So I will distract Juvia, Gajeel will take care of Levy. You Elfman look that Mirajane and Lisanna won't interfere. Laxus can keep Cana and Erza busy. As soon as Jet got the kid-"
"No way will I get the kid! Droy can bring him here!" Jet protested.
"What? Jet! How about you and I will take care of Mirajane and Lisanna, so that Elfman will get the boy?"
"It is not man to escape your duty! But I won't get near him. La- Bickslow should get him!" Elfman was about to say Laxus but changed it to Bickslow when he saw the look on the pissed of thunder dragon slayer.
"Hahaha you think he would come with me and my Babies?" "Come with me, come with me!"
"Shut up everyone! Ok Macao will get him!" Gray yelled annoyed.
"What! Why me?" Macao said surprised.
"Because your – and don't take that personally – are an old man. It will be easy for you to get his trust. So just bring him here and get him into Frieds trap. As soon as he is in there we can relax and when Lucy asked about him we tell her that he playing in the sand or search for something to surprise her. When she believes us we can start with the real plan."
With this all the boys nodded and went into action. Macao and Natsu - who was still unsure if he wanted to be part of this carzy plan but saw his chance to spend some time with Lucy alone - went to find Lucy and Hiro.
"I don't get it. If you want to play with the boy then just ask Luce." Natsu said again confused, that Gray thought about such a complicated plan to get to Hiro. It wasn't like Lucy was a fire splitting dragon who protected his treasure, he chuckled a bit by that thought.
"Natsu… we don't want to play…"
"Then why do you guys want Henry with you?"
"Just forget it and get Lucy for a walk or something." after Macao said a bit annoyed when both arrived in front of Lucy. She looked up a bit confused but a bit relieved also because it seemed like Natsu was back to normal. Well in her eyes he was that.
"Natsu, looks like everything is ok again." Hearing this Hiro's ears peeked up. He looked up to see Natsu and some other man in front of them. In a second he clenched onto Lucy's arm who gave a weak giggle by his action.
Annoying brat! Let go of her! Natsu thought angered as he saw it but kept quiet. He rubbed the back of his neck as he remembered why again he was there. His mind blacked out and he struggled to get the words in the right order to what he wanted to say. Macao elbowed him slightly, reminding him to finally say something.
"Lucy about this morning can we talk? Fewer than four eyes?" was what he wanted to say but out came:
"Luce… this… moron… we talk… Forever for aye..?"
All three gave him a stunned look, Macao held back not to start laughing, Hiro now knew that his personal foe was more of an idiot than he had thought. Well and Lucy… her right eyebrow twitched in annoyance.
"Excuse me? Did you call me a moron? And what's with 'forever for aye'? Are you in Happy2 mode again?" Natsu who finally understood what he had said actually, shook his head in panic. This was definitive not what he wanted to say. But his tongue felt like it was tied and he felt very nervous, this all was too new for him. When was the last time he felt nervous when he was near her? Or did he ever felt that nervous before?
"Hey answer me! Did you call me moron?"
"Uh well how about I take Hiro with me so that you two can talk in peace together?" Macao suddenly suggests lifting the air a bit. Hiro on the other hand tighten his grip on Lucy, so that she could feel his nails digging into her arm. She was still sitting in the sand next to him but her eyes were fixed on Natsu which bothered Hiro a lot. But before he could say anything Macao picked him up from the ground, instinctive Hiro wrapped his arms around his neck to get a safe hold and cursed slightly for his own actions.
Hiro was about to say something again but Macao was already walking away not waiting for Lucy's answer who looked a bit surprised but turned back to Natsu while standing up. Hiro saw that they were starting talking but then Macao went around a corner and he couldn't see them clearly anymore.
"Uncle you can let me down now." Hiro said innocently, using his cuteness to get his will. He already figured out that they were trying to separate him from Lucy. Why else would this guy suddenly take him and walk away with him? Even thought he could remember, that Macao was involved in his little fight with Gray, he thought it was time for another thread to make sure that they wouldn't get to near his Lucy.
Macao, blinded by the cuteness and swimming in memories when Romeo was in that age, let Hiro down to the ground only to regret it a sec later as the boy run of. Not back to Lucy but in Erza's direction, as Macao followed he was suddenly trapped by Fried's runes. He cursed and sat down in the sand, he was banned to watch what the others would do until Fried would help him out of course. Well to bad that Fried was caught up to find Mirajane and didn't notice that Macao got trapped.
Gray and the others saw the boy running and were fast in also chasing after him in this direction. Hiro smirked when he saw them following him and made a sharp turn for a bag under a yellow sunshade. Gray, smart enough to see something like this coming, also turned around running in his direction. Elfman and Gajeel on the other hand did not get the turn in time and crashed into the table Erza was sitting at, enjoying a piece of cake. Elfman crashed it down, the cake flied through the air and it seemed like Erza could manage to catch it but then Gajeel followed, falling over Elfman, cursing heavily under his breath. His face made contact with the cake and smashed it together with his face against the sandy ground. It was esay to tell that Erza was surrounded now by a really dark and demonic aura, worse than the time Elfman stepped on her cake. It is needless to say that Gajeel and Elfman were out for the rest of the day with several wounds and cuts, if it weren't for Wendy than both of them would not only be out, they also would have to spend much time in a hospital.
Gray who only shivered when he heard in the back ground Erzas roars, was now standing in front of the boy who was grinning wildly at him, hiding something behind his back.
"Do you want to know why I like Lucy-nee so much and why I can't get along with you guys?" Hiro said innocently again, blinking with his eyes to make the puppy eyes effect even better.
"I can guess that by myself." Gray answered shortly, not falling one bit for the act. The last time he fall for it was not very pleased in the end. Ok maybe until to the part Juvia took care about him but before that wasn't.
"You sure? Cause I won't tell it again. My mother was one of Layla-sans and Judo-sans best friends after all…" Hiro drifted off, but from the corner of his eyes he was still watching Gray.
"Lucy's mom and your's were best friends?" Gray asked surprised, he wasn't sure if he should believe that boy.
"If you want to know, you should bend down on my level. I will whisper it into your ear. I am afraid that someone who doesn't need to know it will hear too." Hiro smiled, an evil sparkle was in his eyes but Gray didn't notice it and bent down. One of the biggest mistakes he ever did in the past days.
"So what are you-" Gray sentence broke up when Hiro ripped some of his raven black hair of. Gray cursed and stood up fast again, glaring at the boy angered. "You little-"
"Prepare for a nice punishment." Hiro cut him off. Pulling out the doll from behind his back, he stuck Grays hair on its top, before he could stop him. Gray was near enough to choke the boy but suddenly his body stopped moving.
The effects of the doll were already starting. As a test Hiro made a punching move with the doll and Gray punched the air. Losing the control over his own body didn't seem to be normal, it didn't take him long to understand that the doll was the cause of his loss. He faced Hiro while his body was doing some air kicking.
"You! What did you do?" He yelled, not loud enough to get the attention from one of the others but Hiro's.
"You know it was somehow scary, and cool at the same time, when Erza-san beat you up the other day. How about we find out how good you can fight against her. Of course I will help you." Hiro grinned, making a walking move in Erza's direction, who had just calmed down but Gray could still feel a reminding bit of her anger. She was holding a new piece of cake. Lisanna had kept it just in case Erza would go berserker which has happened.
"S-s-stop! You can do anything you want! B-but not Erza!" He screamed but too late.
Hiro made a flying fist move with the doll. Erza naturally dodged Gray and punched him in return. Gray watched in horror has his left hand moved in slow-motion, throwing the cake out of Erza's hands, up into the sky and down onto the sandy ground. Everything went quiet around them while her reminding anger rose again.
I am so death! was the thought that crossed his mind now.
"G-r-a-y! I hope you have a good reason for what you just did." She growled in a way only she could, sending a water fall of shivers down his back.
"E-erza! I can explain! M-my body-" Too late again, Gray's right leg moved on its own and was aiming for Erza's head in a nice round kick. She caught him with one hand, and suddenly Grays left fist went in the direction of her face. She also caught it with her other hand but then unexpected Gray's reminding free left leg kicked her successfully in the face this time.
Every one of the guild who watched gasped in shock. Erza never got hurt by Gray or Natsu and now the ice mage had landed a hit. Gray sweaded heavily, cursing like Gajeel slightly, wishing he never had the idea of getting revenge on the boy, wishing that he had never met that boy, that he should have taken that 3-week-mission so that he would have never met him. Hiro smiled by the result and but the doll back into his bag under the sunshade. He didn't need to do anything more, he leaned back to watch and every now and there he may would interfere with the doll.
"Erza-san will do the rest, now. Hihi hope he learned his lesson this time."
As Hiro had enough of watching, he slowly walked away, humming a song he learned from Lucy. Cries and begging for forgiveness could be heard together with the sound of crashing wood, clacking metal and the cry of pain. Yep, Gray would never forget this day, the day he met hell on earth.
During all that time Hiro didn't noticed that a certain blue haired woman had watched what he did while stalking her love. Juvia was of course worried about her Gray-sama but still the thing what Hiro could do with the doll also worried her. Hiro had said that he couldn't use magic so how did he do that with the doll? Juvia was determinate to find it out, cause she had now nakama. People she loved and saw as a family even her love rival. That's why she was worried now about them and what the boy would do to them with this doll.
How did I get myself into this situation? Lucy questioned herself. She was currently lying in the sand, the waves splashed against her body, leaving a cold feeling behind went they backed away again. Oh, right. Natsu protected me from… what was it? Oh yeah, a big wave and we somehow tripped and fell… but this doesn't explain it very well after all why he is still there for more than five minutes now and what is with that look in his face…
What to do? What to do? What to do? A certain pink haired dragon slayer thought as he came face to face with the girl he loved. Of course the incoming waves and the tripping water let her look even more attractive and he had a really hard time to hold an upcoming blush from showing. It took him most of his willpower to hold it back. But still he somehow felt comfortable so, for him it felt a bit right and he realized that this was something he wanted to do for a long time now.
Yep you guessed right. Lucy was lying in the sand while Natsu leaned over her, his knees on either side of her body, his hands were on each side of her head and his face just inches away from hers. It looked like he would kiss her any moment, but Natsus head was spinning with questions and with what he should do now and so was Lucy's.
Natsu! Stand up already so I can get up too! She shouted mentally but didn't say a word.
Since when does he have such a muscular body? And was he always this hot? Wait! What am I thinking! She paniced but her eyes still traveled down his body and up again to his eyes.
I didn't noticed that his onyx eyes were looking so… heck! What am I thinking! Snap back to reality Lucy! Natsu is your nakama, your best friend, the one who saved you… the one you fell in lo-
Lucy mentally slapped herself again for thinking so much. She noticed that there were only some inches missing before their lips would meet each other and she suddenly wondered how it would feel like. Lucy shook her head. She wasn't supposed to think things like that!
Natsu snapped back as Lucy shook her head. His eyes traveled to her pink, soft lips. The urge to just kiss her doubled after he looked at them. He tried to free his mind from it, actual to think how he even got into this. His body head rose, steam from the ocean water on his body came off and he could feel again how his face was about to became red like a tomato also. "Luce…" He whispered low but she still heard it. What am I to you?
Lucy felt her heart beat faster and louder. His body was so close to her that she could feel his heat and she didn't dislike it. She never did, even all the times he sneaked in her bed and sometimes unconsciously put his arms around her body, bringing her closer to him in his slumber. Lucy blushed by this thought and her heart speeded up a second time. She was nearly sure that Natsu could hear her heartbeat with his sensitive ears of a dragon slayer and he did. When Natsu heard how her heart speeded up, his own heart did the same. It beat wildly against the inside of his chest. Then a thought entered his head and he grinned to himself proud. He was the one who made her heart beat faster, he was the one who made her face blushing now and he was the one who would get her first kiss…
He bend down, the gap between their lips were nearly closed…
Only one more inch and we will kiss… both though until…
"LUCY-NEE!" An all too familiar and annoying voice cried out loud. After hearing it Lucy pushed Natsu away from her in reflex, her face bright red and she struggled to stand up. Her knees lost all their strange soon after some steps and she fell to the ground again. Natsu, who groaned a bit in pain and annoyance as he landed hurtful on the sandy ground, needed some time to get what happened. He saw her falling down and was about to get to her side when the one who he didn't want to see now had beat him to it.
"Lucy-nee! You're alright? What happened, your all red? You're not getting sunburn, are you?" Hiro cried worried while he hugged her and of course he was pressing his little face into her boobs again. Natsu growled low by this sight, clearly pissed by what the boy did. Hiro on the other hand smirked evilly as he heard it.
"Lucy-nee? Let's go and eat some ice cream to cool you down!" Hiro smiled cheerful as he dragged Lucy with him by her hand. Lucy giggled nervous and followed him, not looking back at Natsu. She was too embarrassed to look at him now and she wondered how she will be able to face him again. This wasn't a everyday happening and Lucy was seriously worried how she would be able to talk to him normal after that. She needed someone to talk and there were only three people in her mind who could help her right now.
Hiro looked a last time at Natsu and stuck his tongue out again at him then he turned back to Lucy, giving her his full attention as he started to tell her stories again, subliminally trying to piss Natsu of more.
Natsu growled but didn't make a move to follow. His head was spinning with questions and he was worried if he had just destroyed his friendship with Lucy. And what do I do now? Maybe I should ask stripper or metal head for help after all…
Behind a palm an all too overjoyed Mirajane squealed over what she just saw. But suddenly her face showed a lite bit of disappointment, it was soon replaced when her eyes were sparkling in pure happiness again. "Sigh. Even though Hiro did disturb them… they were near to let each other know about their feelings. Lisanna was right after all it seems like they make a progress in their relationship but I am afraid that I still have to help Lucy a bit…"
Mira giggled and nodded to herself. By the end of this month I will have get them together!
Hope you guys liked it. I think next time I will either let Natsu or Gajeel be the main victim...
Anyway please check this things out:
There is a forum from a friend and me about Fairy Tail so join us in being part of the guild while going on adventures with all the characters there! The forum is called 'We are Fairy Tail' and has the guilds building as a pic!
Also please check this story of Alice Harkey on fictionpress, it is called "Vanished" and it is a really great story!
So thanks for reading and please review!
Review Response!
Firstly thank you all for your reviews! So... now I am going to answer specific ones first:
To phunky: Yeah I know! Lisanna is a nice girl and she will always be! I like her a bit but I am still a NaLu fan. Thats why she will be a bit like a matchmaker in this story! Also I kind of think that she also want them to be together. She said to Lucy that she should stay at his side...
To MashiroLOVE: Thanks! I actually really think that they still have the doll and I believe that it sooner or later will appear again in the manga or the anime. I love how Happy used it... Maybe I will make Happy use it on Lucy again...
To LuffyLoverx: Sorry if it doesn't make sense to you. But the fact is things like that can happen. My own cousin is five now. He didn't know about me personal since he lives with my aunte in thailand but my aunte told him about his relatives in germany including me and when he saw me the first time he got attached to me. That's also how I got the idea for the story. So I am really sorry if it still doesn't make sense, I will try to clear up Hiro's background in the later chapters a bit more and why he is so attached to Lucy.
To Natsu-the-Salamander: Holy shit! Natsu reviewed! Hahaha jk jk sorry just had to do this :P Anyway I will finish this story for sure but I want to write some chapters more and let the males of Fairy Tail suffer for being so dense in the anime/manga. I don't know how many chapters I will make but I already know how I will make the ending and that there will be a sequel to the story also.
To everyone else who didn't get a personally response from me: Thank you all for reviewing! I know that I am not the best with updating but I will continue for sure until this story is finished. Hiro is one evil kid I know but hey you guys kind of like him so yeah he will get his moments where you all will hate him for sure^^ also you guys can still tell me who will get a punishment from in directly or indirect... But I guess Natsu, Gajeel and Gray are the most mentiont one...
Thank you all for reviewing and thanks for the reviews in the future!
See you in the next chapter (^.^)v
