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Just like the day before, Lucy had woken up before her alarm thanks to the excitement and anticipation of what was awaiting her.
She pulled herself out of bed and raced off to shower and get ready for the school day.
As much as Lucy wanted to check her Tumblr, she didn't. It was kind of like when a new chapter of Fairy Tail is released. She would get up and get ready for school, instead of reading it right away, so that she could be fully awake and conscious to read it.
But in this case, she wanted to see the thing Natsu had made for her without tired eyes.
After about a half hour, dressed in school uniform, she was finally ready to look.
She anxiously raced to her laptop, turning it on while tapping her finger nails against her desk in unconscious manner.
"C'mon, c'mon, c'mon already!" she yelled at it.
The laptop loaded and she quickly opened up her browser, waiting a couple of more seconds for that to finally load.
And at last, she made it to Tumblr. She clicked her activity page and to both, her horror and amazement, she saw nothing but likes and reblogs of her Haru post.
She tried to scroll through it to find where Natsu tagged her, but alas, it was like an endless sea of notes.
Lucy quickly went to her own tag, CelestialMage to see if anything would pop up in there.
She inhaled sharply.
This boy was…Words couldn't describe. Or could they? She didn't know, considering she was a mediocre writer after all…
Natsu had edited two panels.
The first was the scene of Haru shouting at Future Rogue, "Nobody is going to steal Elie's future from her!" And it looked incredible. He graphically made the flames life-like. They consumed Haru in a smoldering passion. Natsu even made the trail of flames that hit Future Rogue, look deadly. A flame to kill. And written in the fiery smoke, was the scene's text.
The second scene he edited was the next panel that read, "I promise you that!" where Haru had tears dripping down one half of his face, while the other half was consumed with enraged flames. Natsu was able to make the tears fall from Haru's eyes and he had set up a wonderful fiery aura around Haru.
How does he do it? she wondered not for the first time.
She pulled out her manga copy and noticed that Haru's body wasn't on fire in those panels, but she didn't care. Natsu's edits were perfect.
He captioned the photo, "For Lucy." Lucy's name was a link that directed straight to her blog. He tagged it, Haru Glory, Fairy Tail, CelestialMage.
There was something about him using her name instead of her URL made her insides flutter.
Lucy glanced at the notes, already close to 2,000. How that was even possible considering how small the fandom was?
With her daze fading, she quickly liked it and reblogged it, tagging a simple thank you.
She right clicked and saved the two images, wanting to keep them forever.
XOXOX
Lucy spent all day wondering if she could consider Natsu her friend after yesterday…Lucy always considered people she talked to at least once as friends, so why did this feel different? Why did she feel so shy?
She heavily sighed as she refreshed her activity. She saw that SolidScriptMage had inboxed her.
Lucy quickly opened the message, "You asked DragonSlayer to do an edit?"
She blushed and replied, "Umm kind of ^_^'."
"What do you mean by 'kind of'?" Levy replied moments later.
"He asked for requests so I gave him one. It wasn't like I went out of my way to ask him to color those scenes for me."
"Oh hehe very interesting."
"What's interesting?" her eyes narrowed with bemusement. Was she missing something?
"Well Dragonslayer never links people's names. He usually just links their blogs."
Lucy swallowed. Was Levy telling the truth? Did Natsu really never link names? It wasn't something she ever paid attention to..."Really? Haven't noticed."
"I guess it's not a big deal," Levy replied a few refreshes later. "I only noticed because I've requested tons of stuff from him before and yet he's never linked Levy, always SolidScriptMage."
"Ohh really?" Lucy wrote back. "That's odd." Her stomach clenched.
"Yupp," Levy responded.
Lucy didn't reply back.
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After dinner, Lucy went on her laptop.
She saw that DragonSlayer had made a long post:
Shiny Pokemon Giveaway
I recently reached 5000 followers so I would like to do a giveaway.
I will be giving away a (bold nature) Shiny Klefki
Rules as followed:
You must be following me.
Likes and reblogs give you a total of 2 entries
Must be willing to give me your friend code
Contest ends in 48 hours
You have to reply within 24 hours otherwise I pick a new winner
GOOD LUCK!
Natsu also included a picture of his Shiny Klefki's stats.
Lucy was nearly drooling. She hastily liked and reblogged the giveaway.
A shiny Klefki was her dream Pokemon. She had spent hours upon hours trying to breed one, but failed miserably. She had also tried the chain method, but alas, failed at that too.
Lucy an awful shiny hunter…
It wasn't that Klefki was her favorite Pokemon, in fact it was far from it, but Klefki reminded her of the gate keys in Fairy Tail. The shiny Klefki was gold instead of silver, specifically reminding Lucy of Elie's zodiac gate keys in particular.
She needed to win the contest.
SolidScriptMage reblogged and liked the giveaway also, tagging it as: Reblogging this for you, Lucy!
Lucy smiled. Levy truly was a great friend.
If only they were friends in real life…Sshe glumly exhaled and refreshed her dash. A small smile crept on her face.
IceMakeMagic had reblogged Natsu's post and added, "Tch, hard to believe 5000 people would want to follow a flaming idiot…"
Natsu replied, "Pshhh you're just jealous that I have more followers than you."
"Don't get so big headed, Flame Brains. You only have 10 more than me. Hell, I was winning last week."
Natsu wrote back, "And now you're losing. Sucks, Ice Princess."
"Shut it, Ash Head."
"Oi!, you shut it, Stripper." Lucy burst out laughing at the stripper insult. She had been following IceMakeMagic, Gray, for a while now and he was known for posting shirtless selfies and what was even more amusing was that Musica, Gray's favorite character, was known for randomly taking off his clothes. Lucy often wondered if Gray did that to be like Musica or if it was all coincidental…
"BOTH OF YOU SHUT IT!" RequipMageTitania interrupted.
"Yes, ma'am!" Both replied back.
Lucy was in tears from laughter from that; it was like reading a scene from the manga.
An inbox notification appeared, interrupting her laughter.
"Sorry to bother you, but could you write a Haru x Elie fic about them sharing their first kiss :3"
Lucy grinned to herself. How could she resist? She spent the rest of the night typing away.
She made it a dramatic first kiss. It was after an intense battle. Elie and Haru had finally performed a unison raid, defeating the final boss. Afterwards, the two turn towards one another, panting heavily, intensely staring into each other's eyes…and then they kiss.
The story reached about 5,000 words and after proof reading it for the millionth time, Lucy posted it in the ask.
After a few minutes, she saw that her story already had three notes. She clicked on it with curiosity.
DragonSlayer liked your post.
DragonSlayer reblogged your post.
DragonSlayer said: a little too mushy for my taste, but besides that, this was awesome!
Her heart thumped widely in her chest.
He read it AND he liked it...It was almost too much for her to handle.
Somehow mustering up the courage of a mouse, she replied, "DragonSlayer thanks ^_^."
Natsu liked her reply, which implied a 'you're welcome.'
She wondered if her blog would blow up again thanks to Natsu reblogging her story…
XOXOX
48 hours later, it was finally Friday after school. Lucy desperately awaited for Natsu to say the contest ended.
And finally at 10 p.m., he did, "Contest is officially over. The winner has been notified."
Lucy frowned with disappointment. No new messages in her inbox.
I didn't win? Her heart sank deep into her chest as though someone tied a weight to it.
But suddenly a notification appeared on her inbox. She frantically clicked on it; that weight on her chest seemed to have vanished.
But the weight returned, ten times heavier than before. It wasn't from Natsu, instead, it was an anon.
"Your story sucks and so does your writing in general."
Lucy sweat dropped and said out loud, "My first anon hate…awesome…"
She wasn't going to let this bother her.
Nope, not at all, but despite her thoughts, she found herself slumping in her seat with a frown on her face.
How does one even handle anon hate?
She decided the best thing to do was to not argue with the anon, so she replied, "Sorry, anon ^_^; ."
Man, did her chest feel heavy and her lips seemed to keep drooping downwards... She logged off, figuring now would be a great time to disconnect from the internet.
She got ready for bed; brushing her teeth, washing her face, and changed into her pink sleep shorts and red tank top
Out of habit, she checked her Tumblr app and refreshed her activity feed for one last time.
Her eyes were the size of bowling balls.
DragonSlayer reblogged your post and added…
Lucy clicked on it and gasped.
"SHUT UP, YOU DAMN COWARD! LUCY IS BY FAR THE BEST WRITER ON THIS SITE! SO WHY DON'T YOU TRY SAYING THAT OFF ANON?!"
A tear trickled down her cheek and fell past her ever-growing smile No one had ever stood up for her before… "Thank you, Natsu." she messaged him through an ask.
He didn't reply, but Lucy already knew he wouldn't.
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"LUCY!" Levy inboxed her. "YOU WEREN'T ON SKYPE LAST NIGHT! DID YOU FORGET IT WAS FAIRY TAIL FRIDAY?"
"OMG I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT IT, LEVY!"
Lucy couldn't believe she forgot about Fairy Tail Friday. Besides Monday's, it was the only other day of the week she looked forward to. It was all that damn Anon's fault. She had been in such a hurry to get off the internet after her hate…And also, she had been distracted by Natsu, not that she would ever admit that.
After watching the new episode, Lucy read Levy's new message, "HOW COULD YOU FORGET!?"
She didn't want to bring up the anon hate or Natsu, so she ignored Levy's question. "JUST WATCHED IT! OMG, Levy, it was amazing! The episode was almost exactly like the manga chapter!"
She refreshed and Levy's reply appeared, "Ahh I thought so too!"
"Can't believe we have to wait another week for the next episode!"
She refreshed again, "At least the manga chapter comes out on Monday!"
"Yeah!" Lucy grinned, going back to her dashboard.
And scrolled down looking for stuff to reblog when a post by Natsu caught her eye.
"Since the winner didn't respond, I have chosen another person."
"Ehh?" She blinked. She never understood the people who reblogged a contest and didn't claim their prize.
A new inbox notification appeared.
No way...
With a racing heart, Please don't be Levy, Lucy clicked on it.
"Congrats, Lucy!"
A scream, worthy for a horror movie, ripped out from her throat.
Suddenly footsteps boomed throughout her hallway and her bedroom door barged open.
"WHAT'S WRONG?!" her father looked around her room, gripping a metal baseball bat tightly in his pudgy hands.
"DAD!" she cried. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
"I heard you screaming!" he explained, looking panicked as he peered around her room with a scrutinizing gaze.
"No I wasn't," she lied.
"But I could have sworn…" He eyed her suspiciously.
"You must have been dreaming," Lucy said quickly, hoping he would believe her terrible reasoning.
Her father scratched his head, "I guess… Well, g'night, Lucy."
"G'night, dad," she watched him exit her room.
She quickly searched for her DS to find out her friend code.
And then replied to Natsu, "OMG ARE YOU SERIOUS?!"
"YES! Now hurry up and gimme your friend code before 24 hours are up." He also included his code in the message.
She rolled her eyes at the message, but a swell of elated joy burned in her chest. "Here you go," she gave him her code.
Lucy didn't have anything great to trade him so she decided to give him one of her feebas', hoping it would be okay.
The trade was completed and Lucy stared in awe at her new shiny Klefki. It was perfect and it truly resembled Elie's key ring…And the fact that Natsu gave it to her…She hugged her DS to her bosom.
She changed her mind, Klefki was officially her favorite Pokemon.
And for the second night in a row, Lucy messaged Natsu, "Thank you, Natsu."
And this time he replied.
"Anytime, Lucy."
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