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Chapter 3 - Monkeys and Rafts

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The blonde blinked at him. "I'm not swimming." She immediately said as she looked off to the next closest island, which would be the greener one.

"I never said we were swimming." He replied as he started to pick up a couple of driftwoods from the seashore.

"Then how are we supposed to get there?" Lucy asked as she decided to follow Sting, and picked up a long light colored driftwood herself.

"We're going to build a raft." Sting replied smugly, as he took the driftwood from her hands, "Well, at least I'm gonna build a raft for you, since there's no way in hell that I'm gonna ride it." He quickly commented as he started to place the driftwoods into a small pile. He made sure that the bigger pieces would go at the bottom of the pile, while the thinner and smaller one's go on top. Lucy tilted her head as she watched him arrange all the driftwoods.

"I'm gonna take a shower then." She called as she walked back towards the shipwreck area, "Don't you dare go there!"

"Why the hell would I even want to watch you." He muttered as he took a few twigs and threw it at the pile as well.

Walking through the small passageway, the blonde brushed her finger tips on the cold stone that was creating the passageway. Slowly going back to the previous area that they were in, she trotted over to the small waterfall. Looking around to make sure that no one, or nothing was around, she started to tug on her skirt.

Her skirt dropped down, and she also tossed her tank top aside. Still feeling a bit obnoxious because of this new area, a distrusting look was plastered on her face as she took off her under garments and threw them aside as well. Finally walking to the small waterfall, the blonde engulfed herself into the cold water, feeling the coldness pierce through her skin as she swam through to the small waterfall.

It wasn't that deep around here, but it was deep enough for her whole body to be covered under the glimmers of the clear water. The crashing water collided gently with the frame of her head, wetting her hair and shoulder's as she closed her eyes and started to gently massage her scalp. If felt good, getting rid of all that sweat and gunk that used to be residing in her body.

A sudden screech caused her brown eyes to bulge out as she turned her head around. Expecting to see the worse, she ended up seeing something she did not expect. Not in her wildest dream's did she expect to even be in this situation. She did what any girl would've done, she screamed.

"KYAAAAAAA!"

The dragon slayer was mashing up the driftwood together. He grinned persistently as he saw the small dim light that started appearing at the base of the driftwood. Finally, that tiny light bursted into tiny flames. He threw a couple more driftwoods into the pile and watched as the tiny flames emerged into larger one's. 'Heh'

Before he could continue with his job, he heard a sudden scream from where Lucy was. A sweat dropped as he looked in that direction. That was Lucy's scream, and he was sure of it. Immediately jumping off his seat he dashed towards her direction, going through the tight opening, but immediately halting before he actually arrived.

Lucy was taking a shower.

Which meant she was naked.

He couldn't go there, even if he did want to, the other would surely kill him.

"Oi blondie! Are you alright?" He called.

"S-STING? DON'T COME HERE!"

Sting sighed as he leaned on the rocks, his question never got answered.

"Sting," Lucy called out slowly, "I n-need some help..."

Sting's eyes widened, "With what?"

"Just... Come out here."

"WHY?"

"COME OUT HERE!"

Sting gulped as he slowly walked out of the small passageway, staring at the ground so that he wouldn't see her, if she was still out there. Before he knew it, a brown haired chimp dashed in front of him, and circled a banana tree enthusiastically. He raised a brow as he saw that the chimp had been holding a few pieces of cloth on his hairy hands this whole time.

"Could you get that for me...?" Lucy asked as she hid herself behind a couple of bushes that where near the waterfall. Her face was slightly pink as she watched Sting's every movement.

He didn't dare to even catch her glimpse as he watched the monkey dance and hop around the banana tree. Speechless, the dragon slayer walked down towards the monkey and held his hand out.

"Oi." He said as he gave it a stern look, as if the monkey should be understanding were he was getting at.

Instead, the monkey screeched and placed one of the clothing's on his face, which was actually her bra. The monkey stuck his tongue out, as if he was challenging Sting to a competition. A vein popped out. He really wasn't in the mood for fun and games right now. He snatched a banana off the tree and tossed it aside. The monkey, stared at his movements, dropped all of Lucy's clothes, and crawled over to the banana.

Picking up her clothes and undergarments slowly. He couldn't help but stare at it for a bit. He really could just troll Lucy by leaving all her clothes right there.

"HEY!" She called out again as she furrowed her eyebrows together. Sighing, Sting walked over to where he thought Lucy was, and dropped her clothes in front of him.

"Thanks..." The girl whispered which caused Sting to glimpse at her. She was behind a bush, her face was red, but her body was covered and she seemed shy. That 'small' glimpse soon became him staring at her. Feeling himself heat up again, Lucy threw a few pebbles at him. Yelling and shooing him away again. "DON'T LOOK AND GO AWAY!"

"Tch. I'll do what I want to." Sting replied arrogantly. Still though, he ended up flashing Lucy another one of his smiles before he headed back to the beach, unaware that his fellow chimp was following him.

Reaching back to the beach, he noticed the chimp that had been tailing him ever since the shipwreck area. Shooing him away, the chimp gave gave a small whimper, but he ended up running off back into the woods.

Sighing, he picked up some clam shell's that had been washed off onto shore, and took a seat next to the campfire, crossing his arms and waiting for the other to finally get back.

After a few minutes, the stellar mage came running through the small passageway and back to the fireplace, where she looked at the fireplace in awe before she looked back at Sting.

"Did you... Make this?" She asked as she took a seat on the opposite side of Sting.

"No, it magically appeared here." He said with a roll of his eyes, "Obviously."

Lucy sighed and let her shoulders dropped as she looked at the fire. Jeez, you don't have to be that blunt with me.

Sting shrugged and handed a stick that had clam meat at the end of it. Lucy looked up and saw that it was already cooked. Taking the stick, she whispered a small thank you, and started to nibble on the white meat.

Silence again.

They both minded their own business, both having their own thoughts about the situation, their friends, what they should do, and each other. Sting finished his piece and threw the stick back to the small lapping waves. Then he stretched and sprawled himself on the sand, getting ready for his well deserved sleep. Closing his eyes he ignored all his senses and drifted off into a light sleep. He couldn't help but get that feeling, that he had been acting cold to Lucy. But some other part of his mind also told him that she was just being weak.

Lucy watched as he sprawled on the ground and closed his eyes. Deciding that she had to at least try to get some shut eye, she curled up into a ball and edged herself closer to the fire. Forcing her eye's shut, she tried to drift off into sleep, she tried to forget everything that had happened today. She tried to think of Fairy Tail and her memories there.

After an hour or so of tossing and turning, the blonde grumbled as she found that she hasn't met her sleep yet. Sighing, she turned and looked over at Sting, who looked as if he was already sound asleep. How was he just alright with this though? The chimps were making awful screeching noises inside the forest, which caused Lucy to slightly sweat drop. She knew that she was scared.

"Sting.." Lucy whispered softly, hoping that his dragon senses somehow caught that.

Since it didn't, she tried again but louder this time. "Sting."

"What?" He grumbled, a tone of forced annoyance in his voice.

"I'm scared..." She whispered.

"Of what?"

"I'm just scared alright!"

Sting turned around and gently drummed his fingers against the soft sand. She was vulnerable and helpless right now. Not to mention scared.

"You can sleep next to me if you want." He suggested as he felt his eye's getting heavy once again.

"Drop dead."

"Fine then, good night blondie." And with that said, he turned back around and closed his eyes. Hearing the other's movement from behind him, he smirked as he suddenly felt her presence behind him. Turning his head, he met Lucy's wide brown eyes.

"T-This mean's n-nothing alright!" She blushed as she curled up next to him, her smaller body shivering because of the breeze. He blinked a couple of times before smirking, as he wrapped an arm around her shoulder. The girl's brown eye's widened as she felt his arm around her shoulder. About to push his arm away, she decided to give in to it for the night. After all, she was cold, he was warm, and she felt an odd sense of security as slowly started to let her guard down. She forced her eye lids shut, but alas she quickly fell asleep. Smiling, he decided that he needed his own sleep too. And with that the two of them fell asleep below the large crystal moon.

A ray of sunlight tickled his nose, as he wearily opened his eyes. Sneaking over to peek to his side, he noticed that the stellar mage was gone. He let out a sigh, somehow disappointed that she had already fled. Sitting up on the soft sand, he stretched his muscles, yawning blatantly. Scratching his head, he turned to his side to find a few neatly placed fruits right next to him.

A few banana's, strawberries, and mangoes. Freshly picked too. Smiling, he knew that this was the other's way of saying thank you and here's your breakfast. Quickly devouring the fruits, he stood up and dusted himself off. Just before he was going to leave, he heard someone call out his name. Perking his ears up, he saw the other running back to him with vine's, bamboos, and a few other materials cradled in her arms.

Quickly trotting over to Sting, she gave him a smile. Sweat trickled down her forehead and neck as she huffed and pushed all the materials to his chest.

"We're gonna need these to build the raft right?" She asked as she used her forearm to wipe the sweat that was on her forehead. "Oh and I found these too!" The blonde took the 2 hieroglyphics from her arms and placed it in front of him. Then her hand dug into one of her smaller pockets and she pulled out a small piece of paper. It looked like some kind of treasure map, but it was just a piece of it.

The girl was grinning like an idiot and she knew it, but she was glad that she could somehow help out. The reaction she got from Sting wasn't what she expected though.

Sting shook his head no, but he couldn't wipe the small smile that was appearing on his face.

"You didn't have to do that you know? I could've done it." He said as he walked back to the two pillars and started to place everything out in front of him. Lucy huffed and trotted over next to him.

"At least be a little more grateful will you!"

"Alright alright, thanks blondie."

For the next couple of hours, the two of them managed to build a small bamboo raft. It was enough to carry two people, but the two of them could already see that this raft wasn't going to hold out for that long. After all, they weren't engineers.

The two of them sprawled in the middle of the beach, feeling the warmth of the sunlight lightly burn their skins as they were taking a break.

"Let's head off to the other island." Lucy huffed as she sat back up.

"Yeah, I'll swim and you can stay on that raft." He said as he placed both hands behind his head.

"What? It's too far for you to swim, just stay on the raft with me."

"That little girl's 'Troia' spell or whatever probably ran out already."

"But I'm not letting you swim, its dangerous!"

"I do what I want okay?" He hissed as he opened an eye to look at the girl. Suddenly, he felt a small packet lightly drop on his face. Fidgeting he sat back up and saw the small packet fall to his lap.

The chimp hummed and trotted over in front of him, flailing his arms around and pointing at the banana leaf packet. Sting picked up the packet, and unraveled the banana leafs.

Inside of the packet, were a few almonds nuts, white daisies, and also another piece of paper. Another piece of the treasure map. Staring at the packet, then back at the chimp, he couldn't help but feel a bit uneasy.

"A friend of your's?" Lucy asked as she watched the two. Sting shook his head no and shooed the chimp away again. This time, the chimp looked at Sting with sad eye's as it ran off back into the woods.

"That wasn't nice!" Lucy mentioned.

"Not that I care." Sting replied as he walked over to the raft. "Lets get moving, I don't want to get there late."

There's this chapter, it wasn't that long _ and hopefully, this chapter wasn't that boring either was it xDXD? Review please :3~ ^^ Don't worry guys, they'll hopefully find the others. The next chapter will come out in a day or so :3 Any questions :3 ? Go ahead and shoot :3 !