Hey guys! Thanks for all the people following this story. Please be patient with me in terms of Lemons. I want to build up the story for a few more chapters. I don't want to just do a lemon for the sake of it. I'm trying to make it as realistic as possible for fans and myself. I want to make it as true to their character as possible.
Thank you for being understanding and reviews are more than welcomed. Enjoy!
Lucy sat in the usual booth, sitting across from Wendy, Erza and Charle. She sat like a lifeless body with her spirit continuously attempting to leave her body from her mouth.
"Poor Lucy," Erza murmured.
"Her date didn't go so well," Charle nodded.
"Did she say anything since she came back?" Wendy asked.
"Nothing," Erza sighed. "She's just been like this the whole time."
Lucy's spirit kept mouthing the words to 'I don't want to live any more'.
"I'll go get her some tea," Wendy suggested, hopping from the bench. Erza leaned over the table and looked at her friend.
"Lucy, the date couldn't have been that bad," she smiled at her friend. "Don't worry about it anymore. We'll help you out on the next date."
"There won't be a next date..." Lucy's lifeless body muttered.
"He dumped you?!" Erza gasped. Lucy's spirit returned back to her body.
"I don't want to talk about it," Lucy looked down at the ground. She began twiddling her thumbs, unable to look at her closest friend.
"Lucy, I don't think we should see each other anymore," Sting said, awkwardly scratching the back of his head.
"What?" Lucy looked back at him in shock. "I explained to you I didn't-"
"That's not it," Sting shook his hand. "It's just... It's difficult to be around you when you smell like Natsu."
"Oh," was the only response Lucy managed to muster up.
"I know you told me the truth but, the scent is so strong, it feels wrong being around you when you belong... I mean, when you smell like him."
"Lucy!" Natsu came running over to the booth. Lucy looked up at the pink-haired dragon slayer. He had his usually big goofy grin on him.
"Hey Natsu," Erza greeted him instead.
"I haven't seen you in a while," Natsu said. "Where were you this afternoon?" he asked Lucy.
"Oh, that... I was-"
"She was helping me out on a job," Erza suddenly said.
"Eh? You two on the job? Why didn't you bring me with you?" Natsu looked like he was betrayed.
"Sorry Natsu," Erza apologized, "but it was a one time thing. A small job that required a celestial mage," she explained. Lucy looked at her friend, a thankful smile. Erza wasn't going to tell people who her date was. It wasn't her place.
"Lucy, here's your tea!" Wendy placed a cup down.
"Uh, thank you Wendy," Lucy said, looking down at the steaming cup of tea.
"Lucy, if you're not too tired we can go on another job together," Natsu grinned.
"Not today," Lucy smiled at him apologetically. Natsu felt that something was off about Lucy. He wanted to say more but bit back his tongue.
"Natsu! Did you tell Gajeel that I like to ice-skate like a princess?!" Gray shouted, marching towards him, his fist at the ready.
"Alright," Natsu grinned, fire flowing out of his mouth. "The rumour finally reached you!"
"Get over here you, dragon butt!"
"And here it goes," Charle sighed as the two mages started to fight, kick and punch in a ball of smoke.
"Lucy, please tell me what's wrong?" Wendy asked as Erza stood up.
"Wendy... do I smell different to you?" Lucy suddenly asked, leaning in closer to the sky dragon slayer. Wendy looked down at her hands and nodded quietly.
"I guess Sting told you, huh?" Wendy wondered.
"He said he couldn't date me anymore because my smell of Natsu is putting him off," Lucy explained. "Levy explained to me what Natsu did to save my life but she didn't tell me about this side affect, and what it really means."
In the background, Erza grabbed a hold of Natsu's and Gray's heads and clashed them together.
"You don't need to worry about it Lucy. The only ones who know about it is the dragon slayers," Wendy explained. "We're the only ones who can smell it. Plus, it will wear off eventually."
"Eventually..." Lucy looked down the scar. "Does Natsu know?" Lucy looked up at the blue-haired girl.
"Know what?" Wendy frowned.
"Know about what a dragon slayer bite really means?"
Erza began lecturing the boys, standing in between the two mages.
"As in, the mating thing?" Wendy blushed a little. Lucy nodded in reply. "Well... it's not that simple Lucy. See, it's an instinct that dragon slayer develops over time. I only found out about it once Natsu bit you. I have this strong sense that I should stay away from you. I'm sure Gajeel and Laxus feel it too. That's probably why Sting found it difficult to be around you. It's a strong magical repulsion pushing us away," Wendy explained to her.
"But you're talking to me right now," Lucy pointed out.
"I'm still young and this whole mating thing is weird to me," Wendy chuckled nervously. "I don't think it really affects me."
Lucy turned around to look at Natsu who just got smashed on the head by Erza for talking back to her. His head throbbed in pain as he tried to get away from her hold. Lucy hadn't realized that she was staring at him for a while. Natsu suddenly turned around to look at her.
"Lucy?" he asked, leaving Erza and Gray to their developing argument. Lucy blushed and looked at the table. "What's wrong?" he asked.
"Nothing," Lucy was quick to respond. "Just... thank you."
"Huh?" Natsu cocked his head to the side.
"Thank you for saving me Natsu," Lucy said it again, still staring down at the table, unable to look at him. Natsu bend down to see her face better. He stared at her flushed cheeks and her watery eyes.
"You're weird Lucy, ya know that?" he mumbled.
Lucy sat down at her writing desk and took hold of her pen. She was writing a story that she had started called 'The Princess and the Dragon'. She had the plot prepared so all that was left to do was put pen to paper.
Like many fairy tales, this one starts with the phrase, once upon a time. Once upon a time, there lived a beautiful princess in a faraway kingdom. She was so fragile, weak and hurt that the king and queen couldn't bare to look at her sad face. So they locked her away in a high tower, with a fearsome fire dragon guarding the entrance.
Lucy sighed. Writing the story was beginning to make her distracted. Lucy looked down at the gruesome like wound above her chest. She imagined what it was like for Natsu, to have to see her dying and then bare his teeth into her like that. She blushed a violent red to the cheeks.
"God," Lucy tried to snap out of it, patting her cheeks. "What's wrong with you Lucy? Get a hold of yourself!" she gave herself a pep talk. She stood up and walked over to her tall mirror in the bedroom. She pushed down the collar of her shirt to look at the bite mark. It did look like a vampire bite. Lucy sighed to herself. This wasn't the first time Natsu had saved her life. He had always caught her just in the nick of time to save her. She never really knowingly faced death because she always knew Natsu had a way. Natsu always found a way to save her. This was a little different this time. He didn't catch her, he didn't have to fight some bad guy. He had to poison her with his venom to save her. Lucy caught herself smiling at the mirror.
"I guess... it's not so bad to smell like Natsu," she told herself out loud and grinned even wider.
Natsu was sitting at the edge of the bar, picking at his food. It wasn't usually like him. He would have stuffed the food down his throat quicker than lightning.
"Natsu, what's wrong?" Happy asked, interrupting his fishy meal.
"I don't feel hungry," Natsu moaned, playing with the chicken leg.
"EHHH?! Natsu are you sick or something?" Happy worried.
"No don't think so," Natsu sighed.
"It's just the drawback," Gajeel said, who was sitting close by. Levy was sitting beside him, reading a book as per usual.
"Huh? Drawback?" Natsu asked, raising an eyebrow.
"You really are a dense fireball, aren't you? Tch," Gajeel grunted.
"What you call me, metal toothpick?" Natsu jumped up, fired up and ready. Levy looked up, worried that Gajeel was about to get into a fight.
"He's talking about the drawback symptom you're getting," she clarified for Gajeel.
"What are you talking about?" Natsu hopped off the stool and walked over to Levy.
"I've been reading more on eh...," Levy blushed, "Dragon slayers and stuff. You're having drawback symptom from not being close to Lucy," she stated quickly to change the topic of her readying about dragon slayers.
"Close to Lucy? Why would that affect me?" Natsu frowned.
"Tch, you're really an idiot!" Gajeel muttered.
"Call me an idiot one more time!" Natsu was ready at his feet.
"Idi-" Levy suddenly grabbed Gajeel's mouth, stopping him from saying anything further.
"Gajeel, stop doing that," she gave out to him angrily. She sighed looking back at Natsu.
"Natsu, you do know about the bite you gave Lucy? And how it's something dragons do when they mate?"
"Mate?" Natsu cocked his head to the side.
"Yes mate," Levy nodded her head. "When dragons choose each other and they get intimate, they bite and poison each other so that other dragon slayers know they are together," Levy dumbed it down for Natsu.
"Didn't you notice Lucy smelling different?" Gajeel asked, raising his eyebrow.
"She smells fine to me..." Natsu frowned.
"I guess only other dragon slayers can smell it," Levy wondered out loud.
"Smell what?" Natsu asked. Gajeel was getting pissed off at how the Salamander was so oblivious to everything.
"Anyways," Levy cleared her throat. "You're getting drawback symptoms because you're not with your mate at the moment," Levy said.
"Eh?!" Natsu jumped back. "Lucy's my mate?"
"Congratulations! You're a match made in heaven!" Gajeel bellowed jokingly.
"Wait a minute!" Natsu tried to collect his thought, "Lucy and I, we never, we didn't-"
"I know," Levy calmly told him. "It doesn't matter though because you skipped the... thingy... and went straight to the mate part," Levy said. Gajeel smirked, looking down at the petite blue haired girl. She was so innocent she wasn't able to even say the word 'sex'.
"I don't understand this," Natsu frowned, confusion flooding his face. Levy sighed, giving up on him.
"Natsu," Gajeel decided to take over. "For the next few months while your venom is in the cheer leader, you're going to be wanting to be beside her more, protect her and do funky things with her," he stated. "Therefore you have two options. You can be close with her and hang out with her but try and control your urges as much as possible," Gajeel said after lifting one finger to him. He lifted the second one and continued, "or two, you're going to have to go away, far away for a few months until it's over."
Natsu frowned, looking down at the table. He sure didn't think the second option was going to be possible. And anyways, Gajeel said he would have to be careful about urges around Lucy. He never had them before and didn't have them now. He was sure there was nothing going on.
"You're so silly guys," Natsu finally looked up at them. Levy and Gajeel stared at him, wide-eyed.
"There's nothing wrong with me and Lucy. It's just me being normal and Lucy being herself. She's not my mate. She's my partner and my best friend," he told him, trying to convince his friends.
"Tch," Gajeel sighed and crossed his arms. Levy looked at Natsu and smiled.
"Okay Natsu. If that's what you say it is, then it is."