Disclaimer: I don't own the story line (at least up to chapter four), RoxyStar05 does, and I do not own Fairy Tail, Hiro Mashima does!

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"Did we make it back without her noticing?" Natsu asked as he and Juvia slipped back into the common room. He saw that most everyone had gone off to bed, all except for Pantherlily and Gajeel.

"Yeah, you did," the Dragonslayer informed us. Juvia sighed in relief, clutching the small glass of water that she got on the way back to the dorms.

"Juvia was so worried," she smiled slightly. "Juvia feared detection." She took a slight sip of her water before letting out another sigh of relief. "Good night. Juvia is going to bed now~."

"Night, Juvia," Natsu told her, going over to sit with Gajeel. Once the girl was gone, the black haired male looked at the pinkette for answers to his unspoken questions. Namely, how did they manage to get to the Goblet and slip in their names. The pinkette's hazel eyes glistened. "It was so easy. We just sneaked in, slipped in mine and Gray's names, and we were out of there quicker than the human eye~."

"There's no way that it could have been that easy," grinned Gajeel, his grin seemingly more like a smirk than what it was suppose to be. "Especially for someone like you. What really happened?"

"You don't believe me?" smirked Natsu, leaning back against his seat and crossing his arms and legs. "I'm telling you the truth! The only time we nearly ran into trouble was when a teacher was walking by shortly after Juvia got her water. Luckily for us, he bought our 'just getting water' story."

"I knew there was some sort of complication. No mission like that could be without complications," chuckled Pantherlily from Gajeel's lap. "You didn't break anything, did you?"

"Pfft! No!" Natsu snorted. "I didn't break anything." He then stood and stretched. "Why don't we head to bed? I managed to sneak some fish in for Happy from the little guys behind the painting and I promised to make him fish~." He grinned and offered his hand to the black haired Dragonslayer.

Gajeel chuckled and grabbed his hand, lifting himself up as Pantherlily hopped off of his lap, unfurling his wings. "You got it," he informed him. Together, the three went upstairs and to bed, a sleepy Happy excited to get some fish as he had been promised.

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"She's going to murder you two when she finds out!" whispered Lucy, her eyes wide. It was noon of the next day, all of them sitting in some bleachers in the room that housed the Goblet of Fire. Natsu had just told her what he and Juvia did. When they had left the common room the night before to do it, she didn't believe that they would!

"She won't murder us if she doesn't find out," the pinkette informed her.

"You know that she's going to!"

"No, she won't. I even helped you out by putting your name in the Goblet! I told Lisanna and Levy and they are going to be putting their own names in soon to decrease the chances of any of us to be chosen just in case." Natsu was grinning, thinking that the added part of their friends would cheer the girl up. It didn't, it seemed. It seemed that she didn't even hear that part!

"You. Did. What? Are you insane?!"

"I entered you in the Tournament, too, Lucy! Since you didn't want to be dead weight and all!"

Lucy looked like she had seen a ghost as he spoke those words. She then began to whine and sob incoherent words. Neither one of them saw Erza walking over to them after applying her name to the Goblet. Seeing the crying blond, the red head narrowed her eyes. "What's the matter, Lucy?" she asked her. She didn't seem to notice how the Celestial Wizard nearly jumped out of her skin.

"O-oh! N-nothing! I-I just stubbed my toe while I was stretching, that's all!" Lucy exclaimed, waving her hand in dismissal. "I-it hurt a lot but it's starting to numb itself, now!"

Erza's gaze softened. "Ah, I do apologize, Lucy," she told her. "So long as you are feeling alright now." She looked at Natsu. "Natsu. If Levy and Lisanna ask, I am going to see the Headmaster of this school. If they need me, tell them to go to the dorm and wait for me."

"You got it, Erza," the Dragonslayer told her, grinning at her. After receiving a firm nod, he and Lucy both watched as the woman left. Once she was out of the room, Lucy sighed heavily in relief.

"That was close," she sighed. She then glared slightly at the male. "Now, what are you planning on doing if your name happens to come out of the Goblet? She is going to murder you!"

"I know she is, you keep telling me!" laughed Natsu. He then grinned at her. "I'm a big boy, Lucy. I can handle myself against Erza. Especially if we did a Magic based fight. Man, fighting Erza with Magic again would be the greatest thing ever!"

"You don't get it, do you?! She will be so mad when she finds out what you did!" Lucy frowned. "You might have to deal with Master if he finds out you defied Erza's orders!"

"Ah, ah, ah~! Gramps sent us here to protect the place and compete!" Natsu reminded her. "And I bet that I can tell Gramps that I wasn't really breaking any rules. I'm old enough to enter, I have confidence that I can do this, and he said that we could all enter. His word over rules Erza's!"

Lucy frowned deeply before sighing heavily. "If you think that Master will side with you, then I guess I can't really argue with you..."

Natsu patted the top of her head, grinning from ear to ear. "Don't worry about me, alright? If Erza does find out and she does try to kill me, I'll be fine and I'll remind her of what Gramps said. If she does kill me though, Happy is yours to take care of."

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Sorry it took me so long to finish this! I had no idea what to write until the other day and I've been distracted. TnT

Read and review please!

~Lenore