And so let the games begin, thought Lucy as she jumped out of Sting's car when he dropped her off to school to go to college, he was eighteen already but had to repeat a year because he failed his second year due to always being moved around. "Thanks for the lift Sting." She called though the open window.

"Oh Lucy," Lucy turned back and looked at her brother confused.

"Rouge is visiting tonight by the way." He called.

"And you tell me now?" Lucy sighed.

"Yeah, I forgot to tell you last night, I was distracted by the incident." He smiled.

Lucy frowned, "It doesn't bother me," she said, "He's like a second brother, just kinda…darker." She thought of her brother's friend since primary school, even when they moved he would come and visit as often as he could.

"Ok, see you at home Lulu." He smiled and started to pull away.

"Don't call me that!" she growled just before the car drove away.

"Good morning Lucy." Lucy turned to see Erza standing nearby, "Are you coming to tutor?"

"Of course," Lucy smiled, "I'm actually looking forward to it."

"You going to…" Erza started.

"But if course." Lucy grinned. "I was issued a challenge after all."

"You were, when?" Erza asked as they headed to their class room.

"Last night." Lucy smiled.

"Last…night?" Erza blushed.

"ha ha," Lucy laughed at Erza's innocent response "Don't worry, it's too long ad boring to explain."

As they neared their class room the noises of a fight could be heard, "Hey Pinky what did you just say?" a shout came from the room.

Beside her Lucy saw Erza's eyes flash as she picked up speed. "I said that you're stupid droopy eyes!"

With a crash Erza threw the door open and Natsu and Grey froze where they were, gripping each other's shirts, the slowly turned to look at Erza. "What is going on?" she asked, she walked past them and put her stuff on her desk before walking towards them, looking far calmer than Lucy had expected.

"Good morning Erza," Natsu smiled, releasing Grey at the same time he let go his Natsu.

"It would be if you too weren't fighting again." Erza said with a nod.

"The new girl fights." Grey said nodding at Lucy as she walk calmly past to put her bags down and greet Cana, who was slightly more awake than the day before, keeping one ear on the conversation.

"Lucy fought once," Erza said, "And even then she managed to go it without screaming. The one time she shouted was when she needed to know where to go for class."

"Sorry Erza." Natsu said sitting down on his desk and using his chair as a foot rest.

Lucy wondered back over and stood beside Erza, she giggled "Morning Nat-su." She smiled.

"Good morning Luigi." He replied with a smirk.

"Natsu." Erza thumped him on the head, leaving him rubbing his head, "Don't be so rude, Lucy was only saying good morning."

Lucy laughed "It's ok Erza," she said patting Erza's shoulder "It's nice to meet someone who can give what he gets occasionally."

"Ok," Erza nodded. "Sorry Natsu."

"So Natsu, where is the limpet?" she asked.

"Lisanna," he emphasized her name, "Is not here yet, but I'm sure she'll be here…"

"Natsu-kun!" Lisanna burst into the room cheerfully but her eyes narrowed in anger when she saw Natsu talking with that bitch Lucy.

"Oi limpet!" Lucy smiled at the girl, "Good morning."

"What did you call me?" she asked, Lucy kept her smile steady as she noticed the vein on Lisanna's head pop.

"Limpet," Lucy said again, "I noticed some people have nicknames here, like Levy is Shrimp, Mirajane is Mira and Natsu keeps calling me Luigi. So I wanted to come up with some more, and yesterday when you were clinging to Natsu you reminded me of a limpet." She clarified.

"Why you little…" Natsu grabbed Lisanna around the waist and pulled her away as her arm swung for Lucy. Lucy continued to smile as Lisanna swung repeatedly at her Natsu holding her just out of reach.

"Oh no, did I upset you… I'm sorry limpet." Lucy said. Just the Levy entered the class room with Gajeel just behind her. "Oh got to dash," she waved and went to join Levy and Gajeel at the back of the room.

"Lu-chan what did you say to Lisanna, she looks so mad!" Levy asked as she sat down, Lucy lean against her desk, Gajeel sat in his usual seat, the one in front of Levy's and leant back.

"I called her a limpet."

"You did what!" Levy cried while Gajeel just laughed. "No wonder she looked like she wants to skin you!"

"Lucy." Cana came over and clapped Lucy on the back, "Thank you, for the morning entertainment."

"No problem Cana," Lucy smiled "Anything for you."

When the teacher walked in everyone took their seats. They went through the register and read out the announcements. By the time she was done she let the class go early, since they all had PE and they would need to get changed.

Out on the field Lucy was buzzing, wearing black track-suit trousers and a white t-shirt that showed off her well-toned body and larger than average breast. Lucy stood in a group with Erza, Cana and Levy, stretching, Lucy stood on one leg, gripping the foot of her lifted leg and leaning forward, stretching her head back and pushing her foot into her hand, effectively stretching her leg. As she stretched her foot came within a few centimetres of her head where she held it for a few level breaths before lowering her foot and moving to stretch the other leg.

"Lu-chan how do you do that?" Levy asked.

"Years of yoga," Lucy smiled, pulling her arm across her chest, "And when I was a kid, before we started moving around as much, I was training to be a baton twirler, which is basically gymnastics but with a baton.

"Line up!" their PE teacher called. The four friends jogged over to their teacher only to find the boys waiting there.

"Yay, class with Natsu." Lucy heard Lisanna cry behind her.

"Ok class," the two teachers stood side by side, "Today you're going to be paired with someone of the opposite sex."

"Natsu-kun, pair with me ok?" Lisanna called.

"Oh no Lisanna," the female teacher shook her head, "We have arranged the pairs already, based on ability."

Lisanna groaned, Natsu was one of the sportiest people in the year and she was most defiantly not."

Lucy found herself partnered with Grey, Juvia was with Natsu, staring daggers at her back. Her teacher had been told she was good at sport so had put her with one of the slightly above average people.

The pair were then split into larger groups, grouping four pairs together, each group asked to do different activities with their pairs. Lucy and grey were with; Juvia and Natsu, Cana and a boy called Luxas from another class and Erza and Jellal who was also from the other class they had PE with. There group was set to start with running laps, as many as they could.

Lucy and Grey set of, Lucy kept pace with her partner easily, and they did two laps at that pace before he started to slow. Lucy slowed beside him but he noticed. "Lucy, you can go on, just because we were paired up doesn't mean you have to stay in pace with me."

"Ok," she smiled, "You're a good guy Grey." She said before picking up her pace and running ahead of him. It wasn't long before she reached Natsu who was running just ahead of Juvia who looked to be tiring.

"Luigi?" Natsu looked surprised to see Lucy jogging beside him, he also couldn't not notice that her chest bounced precariously around as she did so.

"Juvia," Lucy called over her shoulder, "Grey looked a little lonely."

Juvia look at Lucy with wide eyes and instantly fell back so Grey could catch up with her. "Why did you do that?" Natsu asked.

"Oh come on Natsu," Lucy sighed, "Juvia clearly loves Grey and Grey certainly like having her around, I might even go as far as to say he feels the same way."

"Really?" Natsu asked.

"Geez Natsu," Lucy rolled her eyes, "You're really dense."

"Hey," he complained, he rolled his eyes and let it go, choosing to change the subject, "You're quite athletic aren't you?"

"I did a lot of exercise as a kid since I wanted to be a twirler, that didn't work out so I got over it. I took up yoga instead and so my breath control is good…" it was at this point that they passed Lisanna's group and she had moved away from her group so she could stick her javelin into the track and tip Lucy up. Lucy fell forward, she looked like she was going to land on her face, Natsu was already moving to catch her but instead Lucy put her arms forward and tucked her head and body in, she landed and rolled before landing back on her feet. This all took only moments. "…So I go jogging when I can." She continued as though nothing had happened.

"Did you just?" Natsu stared at her amazed.

"Oh that…" Lucy rolled her eyes, "It's best just to ignore it, make it angrier." She smiled mischievously.

"You know, Lisanna is my friend." Natsu said.

"Natsu," Lucy looked at him and smiled softly, "Tell me this, is she still the same girl you knew as a child, because according to Mirajane and Elfman, she most defiantly isn't?"

"Leave it Luigi." He muttered. Lucy smiled, that had struck a nerve.

"Whatever you say Pinky." She smirked.

"What was that" he turned around suddenly ready to fight again.

"I called you Pinky stupid," she laughed, "something I picked up from Grey this morning."

With a growled Natsu lunged for her, Lucy sped up and out of his way so he set of after her. The rest of PE consisted of them competing over who was better, after the teacher had swapped Lucy and Juvia's pairs around, Natsu one a few, Lucy one a few and the ended it by calling a draw.

The rest of the day went by without a hitch, Lucy left Natsu alone, since they were both tired from PE. They spoke briefly that evening but both went to bed early.

For two weeks they fell into a routine, in the morning Lucy was annoy him, grey and Lisanna, though she had become friendlier with Juvia and Grey both, often never teasing them much at all my speaking with them as friends, which only proved to piss off Lisanna more. In class Lucy would leave Natsu alone, he had enough to deal with, with his fan-girls all over him all the time. At lunch Lucy would put on a show of annoying Natsu, whether that meant going over to him of simply not going over, but having fun and sending him brief glances to show him how much fun she was having, while he had to deal with Limpet Lisanna. So far so good, but what will happen next?