Hello my dorky readers~ Welcome to my chapter three, because of all the nice feedback i've been getting (thank you! :3) I wrote some Natsu p.o.v! Hope you like it~
Natsu groans, reading through the papers in front of him. "This is going to take forever to finish dammit." He grumbles.
"Oi! Fish brain, what were you doing out my the sea?" Gajeel asks entering Natsu's room. He walks up to the prince, who was sulking.
"Tryin to get away from this." Natsu says sweeping his hand over the papers. Gajeel sighs.
"It's gonna get worse when you become king. More work, and complaints. Plus you're gonna haveta find a queen too." Gajeel says glaring at Natsu. Natsu sighs overdramatically.
"Hey! Maybe with the power of a king, I can find the girl who was on the rocks by the shore. I didn't really see her face. A flash of gold and brown eyes it about it." Natsu says perking up.
"Fire freak, there is no way in hell that anyone could get on those rocks. You can't get there swimming alone." Gray says walking in, his shirt and pants were missing.
"Ice stripper, I know what I heard and saw. There was a girl on those rocks." Natsu says glaring ata Gray.
"A girl?! That makes it even harder to believe. Not being sexist here, but you need to have a really strong set of legs. The tide is weird over there." Gray says sitting down, uncaring about his clothes.
"Gihi. The only way someone could get on those rocks by swimming is if they had a tail." Gajeel laughs. "And everyone knows merfolk are a bunch of children stories."
Natsu stares out his window and at the darkening sky. Happy jumps up onto his lap, purring. "Hey bud." Natsu said petting him. He growls in frustration.
"I know there was someone there. I'm going to find her. She seemed strange." Natsu says to Gajeel and Gray. Gray pounders something.
"Well Gajeel, Natsu may not be half wrong. I'm not agreeing with squinty eyes, but not disagreeing. I swear I heard chatter on those rocks. I also felt like I was being watched. Somethings up. Let's check it out after flamebrain's birthday. It's tomorrow remember?" Gray says standing up.
"Oh right. We're going on the family boat." Gajeel says, watching Gray leave to find his missing clothes. Natsu looks up.
"Oh yeah. Igneel set that up. I think he wants to get rid of us for a day, so he can get some time with Grandeeney. Wendy comin with us?" Natsu asks, putting Happy down. Carla and Lily come in, curious.
"Yeah the squirts comin with. She wouldn't miss your nineteenth birthday." Gajeel shrugs.
"Nineteen already?" Natsu speculates.
"Yeah. One more year before you take the crown. Igneel really wants to wait another year, I don't blame him. Puttin you on the throne is already a risk."
"Oh shut up metalhead." Natsu groused.
"Make me pyro." Gajeel says. Natsu growls.
"Now now boys. Calm down." A sweet, older voice says from the doorway. They look up to see Grandeeney. Natsu sighs.
"Fine." He says sitting back down. Grandeeney laughs.
"Oh Natsu you don't have to do all that at once. It will make your brain explode." She laughs. Natsu grumbles, blushing.
"I knew that."
"Of course you did." Gajeel snorts.
"Wanna bet?" Natsu said going head to head with Gajeel.
"Yeah ash breath." Gajeel said, and they went back and forth.
"Honestly, I don't know how he's my son." Grandeeney sighs watching Natsu. He and Gajeel kept throwing insults at each other.
"Natsu! Didn't you say something about seeing a girl by the sea?" Wendy asks, sneaking past her mother. Grandeeney laughs.
"My my, we have a little sneak here." She laughs. Wendy gives her a shy smile.
"Yeah. But tincan doubts I saw anything. Ice stripper too. Even though he had some interesting points…" Natsu says, backing away from Gajeel.
He sighs walking out of the room. Gajeel stares at him, his expression confused. "Natsu seems….different."
Grandeeney sighs, as her son's footsteps disappear. "Maybe he really saw something out there. Maybe someone was there. Natsu would be acting differently if this were a joke." She turns around and walks down the hall.
Natsu was outside, running to the beach where he saw and heard the girl. He almost got her name, but she disappeared.
"DAMMIT! THEY ALL THINK I'M CRAZY!" He yells, kicking the sand, oblivious to how close to the truth Gajeel was about mermaids.
"I wonder how she got out there." He mutters, staring at the rocks. Natsu stares at his hands, then looks up.
The sun finally set over the ocean, Natsu lets out a sigh, messing with his scarf. Even fire chicken couldn't calm him down, and that always did the trick.
"ARG! SHE'S MESSING ME UP!" He growls, spinning around, not hearing the small splash behind him.
"Are you alright?" A timid voice asks. Natsu turns around to see a pretty blonde girl in the water, her legs hidden. Her face also hidden, except her eyes.
"Huh?" Natsu says, startled. She smiles a little, red rimming her lips.
"Did something happen?" She asks, her brown eyes filled with concern.
"I'm fine." Natsu growled, before looking at her face. "What about you? You look like you've been crying." She touched her face, through the curtain of hair.
"I-i'm fine. It's nothing." She says, he narrows his eyes. She's lying.
"Alright then." He said. The waves crash over her body, and the ground shakes a little. The girl pales.
"Oh no." She murmurs.
"What's happening?!" Natsu yells, turning around. Another wave crashes against the shore, and the girl was gone.
"The hell?! She's gone again. I let her go again, without knowing her name." Natsu says, walking back to his castle.
Earthquakes have been happening more often. Something was happening, but where?
The sea, maybe.
Definitely not land. They would know. The ocean seemed affected, and they kept seeing bright lights from the bottom, like a trident.
Little did Natsu know, that girl he wanted to know so badly, was coming up with a plot to come up to the surface, and where she lives, is in danger.
Helllllllllllllllllllllo there! Thanks so much for reading, hope you liked it! (Sorry if it's a little short)
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Because we were so close to my goal (1 off!), i'mma be nice, here's the sneak peak I promised! And based on what I have planned out for the chapter, it's going to be longer (hopefully).
Chapter four: Poor unfortunate souls
"So you're the sea witch Daphne?" Levy says timidly, swimming into the cave.
"Indeed my dears. Come in come in, it's rude to linger in doorways." Comes the reply, slight southern accent, smooth and almost trusting. Almost.
"So you can turn us human?" Lucy asks swimming up next to Levy.
"Why? That's what I do. That's what I live for. But I don't do anything for free."
"W-what do you want in payment?" Juvia asks, now next to the others.
"What I want? I only want one thing from one of you." Daphne said, sliding out of her alcove. She swims up to Lucy.
"What I want is, Atlantis."
