A/N Chapter three is now out! *cue streamers and confetti* I have a really important/long author note at the bottom, so don't forget to read that!
Disclaimer- Hiro Mashima (a.k.a not me)
Edited 4/8/14
*Changed grammar, added minor details, and corrected mistakes. Boring stuff.*
"I see you made it on time today, Lucy." said Lisanna with a smile on her face.
Lucy rolled her eyes and took her seat in front of Lisanna, setting down her bag. "Erza said the same thing to me in first period."
"Was Natsu still late?"
Lucy raised her eyebrows and gave Lisanna a look.
"Okay okay, stupid question," Lisanna said, raising her hands in mock surrender, "In his defense, he was busy this morning."
"Doing what?"
"Preparing for the pep-rally today. I heard from Wendy that they are having some sort of game involving the football players and selected people from the stands."
"Natsu is one of the selected football players?"
"Yup." Lisanna said, cheerfully, "Him and about three other people were chosen to do it."
"What do they have to do?"
Lisanna puffed out her cheeks in annoyance, "That is as far as the information goes. I don't even know who the people from the stands are! The cheerleaders are keeping it a big secret."
Lucy grabbed her Chemistry book from her bag and placed it on her desk. "Cheerleaders and their secrets. You can't have one without the other."
Lisanna snorted into her palm before leaning over her desk to whisper in Lucy ear. "You are one to talk, Mavis."
"Completely unrelated to the topic," Lucy said in a matter of fact tone.
"Oh, really?" Lisanna said sarcastically as she sat back in her chair.
Lucy shot Lisanna a grin as the bell rang for the start of class, "Completely unrelated."
"Luuuuccccy!"
Lucy looked up at the sound of her name and saw Mirajane. She was waving to her as she weaved her way through the crowds of people in the halls trying to get to the blonde.
It was lunchtime, so the crowd to get to the cafe was huge. Lucy grabbed her lunch from her locker and swung her locker door shut. The lock clicked just as Mirajane caught up to her.
"You need something?" Lucy asked
"Can you do me a favor, Lucy?" Mirajane asked, placing her hands together in a begging manner with her eyes bigger than normal.
Lucy winced slightly at the sight at the "Puppy dog face". This can't be good.
"What is it?" Lucy asked, bracing herself for the worst.
"Will you help me take pictures during the pep-rally?"
Lucy paused in shock. That was it?
"Of course I will, Mira!" she said, "Although, I am not really good."
Mirajane waved her off, "Don't worry. It will be fun!"
"F-A-I-R-Y T-A-I-L!" shouted the cheerleaders as the crowd cheered back.
A flash went off as Lucy took a picture of the crowd cheering along with cheerleaders. She caught the photo when it came out from the bottom of the old fashion camera. She placed safely in the pouch Mirajane had given her - she had said something about properly developing the photos later- before the pep rally had started.
Lucy turned and took another photo, this time, of a cheerleader as she did a back flip in the air. Once the cheerleader landed, she gave the crowd a big grin, and the crowd cheered even louder. She raised her hand and the crowd fell silent.
"First off, I would like to thank everyone for coming out here today." said the cheerleader, "And the cheerleaders, with some help from the football team, have prepared a surprise for everyone!"
The cheerleader pointed to the door that lead outside the gym and called, "You ready out there?"
"Yeah!" a voice called from the doorway.
With a jolt, Lucy recognized the voice as Natsu's.
"Bring it in!" yelled the cheerleader, as she fell back to the far back of the auditorium where the rest of the cheerleaders had moved.
"PUSH!" yelled Natsu, as he began to appeared in view pulling what Lucy saw was a huge float. The crowd let out a gasp and than calmed into hushed discussions on the float as the football pushed and pulled the float until it was in the middle of the gym.
"This good, Sherry?" called Natsu to the cheerleader who was just talking.
Sherry gave Natsu a grin and thumbs up. She then signaled to the rest of the cheerleaders to get into formation.
Lucy raised the camera again and snapped a picture of the float.
The thing was huge; taking up the entire floor, only saving half of it for the cheerleaders. It was decorated in purple and white streamers and paint. Sherry jumped on top of the float and raised her hand again for silence.
"As you can see this is our float for the parade which is coming up soon! But it is not done yet!" Sherry said, "The cheerleaders need everyone's help to raise money for our float! You in?!"
"Yes!" the crowd cheered in response.
Lucy smiled and took another photo of the float. Now that she was over the sheer size of the thing, she noticed that the bottom of the float was the only thing decorated. The top was still a flat and undecorated, making the float look more like a purple and white table on wheels.
Sherry smiled and waved her pom-poms around, "That's great! But we still aren't done yet!"
Lucy heard the crowd murmur in confusion, while the cheerleaders began climbing up on the float. They formed into four groups equally spread out on the float.
"To get everyone in the mood we decided to play a little game!" Sherry said
She turned to the football players, who were in a group in the back of the gym. "Natsu, Gray, Elfman, and Gajeel!" she called to the football players.
The said four boys appeared from the depths of the group. All four boys were dressed in their football jerseys and jeans, apart from Natsu who also wore his scarf. The boys all climbed up to the top of the float and then separated, one boy going to a different group of cheerleaders..
"Now! When we call your name from the crowd we need to you to go to your selected group. The football player in that group becomes your partner for the game, okay?" Sherry said to the crowd, "The names have already been chosen, so you can't get out of it either!"
Lucy raised her camera again, looking into the lens, waiting for the names to be called.
"Okay, for the first group, it is JUVIA LOCKSER!" Sherry shouted, clapping along with the crowd.
Lucy turned on her heel and snapped a picture of the blue-haired girl rising from her seat in the stands. Lucy recognized her from the swim team. She had heard from Wendy that she had taken the team to State the year before.
"No wonder she is the captain." Lucy muttered to herself.
Lucy watched as Juvia, looking a bit star struck, climbed up on the float and joined the first group. Lucy grinned when she saw that Gray was the boy Juvia was paired with. No wonder the girl was flustered.
"For the second group, it is LISANNA STRAUSS!"
Lucy started giggling, she turned to the far right of the stands and snapped a photo of the shocked Lisanna.
"Go Lisanna!" Lucy yelled, waving at the white-haired girl as she made her way over to the float. Lisanna turned and sent her a small wave as she climbed up the float and joined her brother in his group.
"Group three, it is LEVY MCGARDEN!"
Lucy almost dropped her camera she was laughing so hard. Still laughing, Lucy took several photos of the bookworm as she hesitantly made her way over to the float. She looked like she was trying to reason with Sherry, but the cheerleader just shook her head and pointed at Gajeel's group.
"Finally, for group four we have..."
Lucy looked into the camera lens, pointing the camera at the crowd, waiting for the name.
"LUCY HEARTFILIA!"
Lucy froze with her finger hovering over the button.
"No, no, no, no" she slowly chanted, as she slowly lowered the camera to look at Sherry in horror. Luckily, Sherry had assumed Lucy would be in the crowd, so she was too busy looking in the crowd to notice her on the sidelines.
"Lucy? Where are you?" Sherry called into the crowd. She turned to a nearby cheerleader and asked, "Did she go home?"
Lucy started to sneak deeper into the shadows, praying they wouldn't see her.
"Here she is!" she heard someone yell behind her. At the same time an arm wrapped around her neck, preventing her from moving.
Lucy looked up to see Erza behind her.
"There she is!" Sherry said, waving Lucy over.
"I can't, I promised Mirajane I would take photos." Lucy said desperately to Erza.
"Nonsense, you have taken more than enough." said Erza, as she began dragging her to the float.
Lucy gulped, "But I-"
Lucy stopped talking when she saw Erza's expression. Erza stopped walking and removed her arm from Lucy's neck. She then stepped in front of the blonde and held out her hand.
Reluctantly, Lucy placed the camera and the pouch in Erza's outstretched hand.
"Good. Now go have fun, Lucy. We will be cheering for you." Erza said, walking over to the stands leaving Lucy to stand in front of the float alone.
"Whatcha doing, Luce? We're all waiting for you." said a voice from the above her.
Lucy sighed and turned to Natsu, "Nothing." she responded.
He offered her a hand which Lucy gratefully accepted. He easily hauled her onto the float, and led her to the his group at the end of the float.
"Now that the pairs are ready I will explain the game!" said Sherry, "The game is fairly simple. The girl will be blindfolded and spun around ten times. The football player is now the girl's 'eyes' and will tell her verbally which way she will go. The point of the game is to be the first pair to make it to pom-poms we will place in the center of the float. The rules? Girls, you cannot remove the blindfold. And boys, you cannot touch the girls in anyway. Any questions?"
Lucy raised her hand, "What if-?"
"Great!" said Sherry, happily, "The cheerleaders in your group have your blindfolds. The game starts in two minutes, so you better hurry."
"Come on, Luce, let's pound Ice Freak into smithereens!" Natsu cheered, taking the blindfold a cheerleader handed him.
"Uh, Natsu I don't think we should be doing this." Lucy said, hesitantly.
Natsu ignored her as he went behind Lucy. He reached over and placed the blindfold over her eyes, tieing the ends in a knot on the back of her head.
"Can you see my hand?" asked a cheerleader as she waved a hand in front of Lucy's eyes.
"Nope." Lucy answered.
"Is everyone ready?" Sherry asked.
Natsu nodded his head with the other football players.
"Okay! We have already placed the pom-poms int he center, so once the cheerleaders finish leaving the float, we can start." Sherry said
Lucy heard the cheerleaders land on the gymnasium floor as they jumped down from the float. Once everyone, except Sherry, had jumped off the float they ran to the football players in back of the gym.
"Ready? GO!" Sherry yelled. She scooted to the side of the float as the stands erupted in cheers.
Natsu grabbed Lucy by the shoulders and began spinning her around. When he reached ten he let go and gave a slight push forward.
"Go straight." he commanded as Lucy started walking in what she thought was straight.
Lucy stuck her arms out in front of her and started waving them around, feeling for any sort of contact.
"This way?" she asked as she started walking to her left.
"No! The other way!" said Natsu. He pointed his finger to the right even though Lucy couldn't see it.
"What way?" asked Lucy, turning in a full circle.
They weren't the only ones having problems either. Levy was walking in the opposite direction than she was suppose to. Juvia was almost to the middle, but continued to get distracted by Gray's close proximity to actually listen to his instructions. Lisanna, on the other hand, was already in the middle and on her knees; using her hands to blindly search for the pom-poms.
"To your right!" commanded Natsu
"My right?" questioned Lucy, as she took a blind step to her right.
"Not that far! You're right on the edg-"
Lucy felt her foot meet air as she began to fall off the platform. She was completely airborne for a moment before her head hit the ground painfully, knocking the blindfold off her eyes. Lucy opened one eye to see Sherry looking horrified from the sidelines. Natsu jumped off the float and landed next to her in a crouch. She looked over Natsu's shoulder to see Levy and Jellal running her way, just before she closed her eyes and blacked out.
She was only in the darkness for a few seconds before she regained conscious and the pain pain returned in full force. Lucy opened her eyes in a squint and saw Natsu leaning over her. His eyes were closed and his face was wrinkled as he concentrated on something.
As the rest of her senses came back, she felt her mouth being pried open as a gust of wind filled her lungs.
What was he doing? she thought
The contact on her mouth was removed as Natsu pulled back. She blinked in surprise when he took a deep breath and dipped back down towards her face. It was when she felt her the contact return to her mouth again that it hit her.
Natsu was giving her CPR.
A/N Somewhat of a cliffhanger. Maybe? Don't worry, the next chapter will pick up right where this left off.
IMPORTANT NOTE
Most of you want me to make this into a longer story, and I would be happy to do so...except one problem. Usually when I write a story I know a 'outline' of the main points I want to cover. Then when I am writing, I add details that I didn't plan before. By making this a longer story that would cause me to not get to the 'plot' as fast as I planned. So the summary I wrote for this story will not come into effect until later. If you guys are cool with that, then I will be happy to write more. Tell me what you think in the reviews! Don't forget to rate it!