[[Author's Note: (Readers who have read the old version) I would recommend to see what the changes was from chapter 1 but it's your choice :)]]


Chapter Three: Fated to Meet You

The only time when the girl's would go out and do their thing was after 6:30 PM. even if it was a school night. As long as something catches their attention that would make a good profit to sell, they'll make sure to steal it.

There was another scene taking place. The event was happening in an Art Gallery, a museum filled with popular art works and famous pieces created from well-known artists. There was a lot of police cars surrounding the building.

Some policemen's were in patrol, standing on guard around the area. They were scattered all over the place assigned with a task. There was two groups; one outdoors and the other indoors.

People came to see the new painting that was going to be revealed in the grand opening, where it'll take place in the big lobby.

"Man, I never thought we would already get in the police field that quick." Natsu trembled.

"Same here." Said Gray.

The two boys' were assigned indoors, patrolling the area for any suspicious suspects. They were wearing their police uniform and cap. They were also geared up with a radio, flashlight, gun, grenade and a shocker. Everything they had equip was colored in black.

"I really hope I don't end up dying tonight." Natsu teared up.

"Oh come on pal, I am here with you aren't I?" Gray wrapped his arms around him, trying to cheer him up.

"I rather be the one driving the car and chasing. I think being behind the wheel would be a better option for me." Natsu considered.

"Oh, so you rather leave me here all alone by myself?" Gray sulked. "I see how it is… buddy. You don't even care about me, that's alright… at least I have Juvia."

Without any expectations from the boys, the lights in the hallways were quickly turning off one by one. Until it was now nothing but darkness. The only light they were given was from the row of windows. They heard their crew members shouting somewhere in the buildings about splitting up.

"Move it! Go go go!" someone commanded.

"Don't let her get away!" another voice shouted.

Natsu perked up, shaking in fear, "I wasn't ready for this!" he squatted, putting his hands on his head.

"Come on Natsu, we can't just stay in one spot we have to find the suspect!" Gray grabbed onto his collar and drag him along.

At the grand opening, Juvia was once again involved with a big crowd surrounding her. She was wearing a professional business attire that came in navy blue. To match the disguise she had, her hair was up in a bun, and a pair of square frame glasses. Making her look like a wealthy business woman.

"Juvia, could you hear me?" Levy said over the lane. "Give me the signal if things are operating according to plan."

Juvia looked at both of her sides, hearing the nervous voice coming from the auditions that came to see the new painting that was going to be presented on stage. She took a deep breath and made a high pitch voice, "What is going on?! Kyah!" she burst out screaming, "I can't stand being in the dark!" As the master in disguises, it should be easy for them to act the part.

"Ah… Good work Juvia…" Levy let out a sheepish laugh, "Next time warn me before hand, my ears are still ringing…"

"I can't deny that was pretty funny. But could you guys keep it down a bit, I am in an important mission right now…" Lucy whispered.

"Sorry about that," Juvia said in a low tone, "Where are you now Lucy?"

"I am still trying to figure out a way to get in."

Suddenly everyone in the room began to panic even more. Since they already assumed to know what was happening tonight. "Is that legendary thief coming for the painting?!"

"My word! She's going to strike again?!"

"How are the police officers going to capture her in the darkness?!"

While a few of them wondered about the infamous thief, Juvia pressed a small button that was on the side of her eyeglasses frame. Her lens changed into a 'night view,' allowing her to see everything in the darkness. The master in disguises quickly changed her personality into something suiting that goes with a business woman; intelligence and a persuader. "How is she able to get the painting if we are all stuck in the same room where the painting is? If that is possible there should be a hidden place somewhere that gives her a good opportunity to take it."

"Now that you mention it, that's true." Said a random individual.

"That makes a really logical reasoning."

"Otherwise, she must be someone in disguises."

As Juvia continued to distract the guests, Lucy knew that her friend was giving her a clue of a hidden floor that was in the same room. The blonde quickly rushed through the hallways, dodging any officers that were patrolling around the area, and made her way to the second floor to one of the doors.

"Ah-hah! I found it!" Lucy said to herself. She slowly closed the door that said 'Authorized personnel only.'

"I am now on the hidden floor above." Lucy informed them.

"Alright, Juvia make sure you continue your part while I hack into the camera system to make sure there's no one coming. I could delete the film after I finish with the programming." Levy informed.

"Roger." Juvia said as she went back into intimating the personality of a business lady.

As for Lucy, she was quickly preparing her equipment. She attached a small machine from the ceiling that was created by Levy. She then took out the small hook-clip and attach it to the belt that she had wrap around her. For precaution and seeing if it was strong enough to hold on to her for a long period of time, she pulled the small wire by two hands, testing to see if it'll break. Using her full strength to break it apart.

After Lucy gotten her result, she looked down from the bottom, preparing her night vision contacts to operate. She dived down to the big opening in the darkness, grab the painting that was standing on the wooden holder which was covered with a red blanket over it. And immediately pressed the button on her belt that pulled her back up.

The blonde rushed taking off the small machine from the ceiling, attach it back on her belt, and carried the large painting on the side of her arm. "I retrieved the painting, how much time do I have left before they bring the lights back up." Lucy asked while running out from the hidden floor.

"I would say at least thirty-five minutes, but I don't see anyone coming to the room factory to check up on the switch." Levy informed her, "I assumed that they haven't arrived yet. Just quickly get out of there and return to the van!" she ordered.

"You don't have to tell me that, I know!" Lucy growled. She was now making her way through the darkness of the hall way. The wanted thief could hear the voices of the policemen and their footsteps, giving her the opportunity to know exactly what direction to go.

Lucy was taking the opposite way for the exit, hoping that she would find another way out without getting caught. When she was turning to a corner, she end up colliding with someone.

"OOF!" they both made. Lucy dropped the painting and landed on her bottom.

"Ow…" Lucy moaned in pain, rubbing the bump on her forehead. She heard the voice of other figure she had just bumped into, to be a male.

"Darn that hurt…" said the unknown shadow.

"Hey, Natsu are you okay?" Gray said.

"Y-yeah… I guess…" he responded, "But, I'm not sure if the person I bumped into is…"

Lucy looked at the dark shadows in shock. Realizing who they were, "Out of all the people, I end up with them?!" Even though she was only able to see shadows of their figure in front of her, her mind was completely blank.

"Lu—" a voice came over the line.

"Luc—"

"Lucy!"

The blonde didn't realize that her partner was trying to communicate through. Levy's words seem to fade even if Lucy did had the earphones plugged in her ear hole. She was totally spazz out.

"Lucy!" Levy shouted her name over again. "You idiot can you not hear me saying your name! You dumb blonde! The engineers just arrived to the scene and is now heading to the machine factory nearby you!" she quickly informed her. There was a loud clicking sound in the background which what seems like a keyboard. "I am already doing my best with hacking into the video cameras in the building! The programming is still downloading into the system! You better get a move on! Cause I could see a lot of other dots coming towards you on my radius!"

"H-hey" Natsu stuttered, "a-are you okay there?" he asked.

"Are you also looking for the suspect?" Gray questioned, as he flashed his light on Lucy's face. Not knowing that she was the criminal.

The girl put her palms on her face, realizing she forgotten to wear her mask. "Shit!" she shouted inside her head. "No wonder they weren't really reacting as much."

"Ah, I know you!" Natsu pointed out, "you're the new girl that just transferred to our school!"

Gray squinted his eyes and looked closely at her, making Lucy feel uneasy. "Oh, you are! What brings you here?"

"Well… uh…." Lucy hesitated. "What should I do or say? Should I just knock them out and hoping they will forget everything?" she wondered.

"Well, she's probably here to see the new painting that was going to be displayed." Natsu answered for her. "She probably got lost and end up wondering around."

"Ahh! Yes! That's right!" Lucy nodded her head in agreement, "This building is huge!"

"Don't worry, we could take you there." Gray grinned. Right there and then, the battery of the flashlight gave up. "Wha? You got to be kidding me."

"Darn, and mines just gave up on me earlier. Talk about bad luck." Natsu whimpered.

From the end of the hallways, there was a small dim of light coming their way and voices. Natsu and Gray were quite relieved that someone was here to finally bring back the lights.

"Oh, finally!" Natsu clenched his fist and excitedly cheered.

"Now, we wouldn't have a problem looking for the culprit." Gray grinned. "Give me a high-five Natsu!"

Natsu looked around him, "Where are you Gray?"

"Just follow my voice, I am right here next to you." Gray said, lifting his hands up.

Natsu blinked and decided to hit whatever was right next to him. He expected the high-five to be up in the air. He swing his hands and accidentally smacked his palms on Gray's face.

"Augh!" Gray groaned.

"Whoops!" Natsu jumped back in surprise, "I didn't mean to do that Gray! I swear!"

Lucy heard Natsu apologizing over and over to him, "Wow, this two seriously works under Erza's control? This is quite disappointing…" The blonde picked up the painting that was on the floor, hoping that it was still maintained in a fairly good condition as it was before she stole it. She notice how the small dim of light was becoming brighter and larger by the minute. She immediately slipped away while she had the chance.

"Hm, what are you two doing here?" said a strong voice. The boys' turned their heads to see Erza holding onto a flashlight and escorting the Engineers.

"Uh, Erza!" Natsu said, "We found a girl-? Huh, where'd she go?"

"What girl?" Erza questioned.

"She was just right here a minute ago!" Natsu panicked.


"Lucy, find a way to the rooftop! There's already too many police officers looking for you in the building!" Levy told her. "I was finally able to access through the security cameras in the building, successfully. I could see you running in the hallways."

Lucy was running as fast as she could to find a stairway to the top of the roof. "Levy, what's the closes staircase to the rooftop?!"

The mastermind glanced over at her big computer screen, while she was quickly typing on the big keyboard set in front of her. "Hold on, give me a second to download the walkthrough of the building and then locate you inside."

On the other small window screen on Levy's right, you could see a multiple row of where the security camera's in the building is recording.

"How long will that take you?!" Lucy complained.

"Done! It doesn't take that very long!" Levy rolled her eyes to the other screen, "there's a staircase up ahead of you, to the left. Make sure you aren't spotted! There's a few dots on your radius ahead of you Lucy! Either knock them out, or try avoiding them!"

"Got it!"

Levy watched her blonde partner through the screen, she was hiding behind a big pillar. She watched as the three officers slowly made their way past her.

"Man, I just want to go home already…" one of them moaned.

"Same here…"

"I don't think we would ever capture the suspect anyway…"

Once they were out of sight Levy ordered her to move, "Go its clear!" she heard Lucy clicking her tongue from the other lane and watched her enter the door to the staircase and ran up from her screen monitor.

"Alright, mission accomplish once you lose the cops! I'll be deleting this videos now." Levy chuckled as she began to operate the system. "Juvia, the engineers are already malfunctioning with the cords in the factory room. You'll be able to get out of there soon."

"Finally." Juvia sighed.


By the time the power was back on, Gray and Natsu were heading out to their patrol car. "Wow… Erza sure is scary…" Gray shuddered.

"I'm just glad that I finally get to be behind the wheel again." Natsu cried with joy as they both entered the vehicle.

Suddenly they heard their radios going on at the same time with their crew members' voice coming up: "The area in building A is clear."

"Clear on building B."

"No suspect on building C."

It kept going on and on about not seeing anyone suspicious.

"I wonder what happened to the girl we bump into earlier." Natsu wondered.

"I wonder the same thing." Gray frowned, "But, I can't wait to see my sweet Juvia tomorrow!"

Out of nowhere their radios begun to have a lot of commotion going on at the same time, "The painting has been stolen! I repeat the painting has been stol-"

"She's here! She's here! We have spotted the suspect on top of the building!"

Then Chief Erza's voice came up, "WHAT?! Do not hesitate and GO after her!"

Gray blinked in surprised, he shifted his gazes over at Natsu who had a wide smirk on his face. "Alright, as long as I am behind the wheel, there's nothing that could stop me. We are going full speed ahead, are you ready Gray?"

"Ready to take action." Gray grinned.

And without no idle, Natsu stepped on the gas and speed on ahead, tagging along with the other police cars.

The young thief was leaping over to the next building and running towards the other end. She could hear the sounds of the police sirens closed by. "Crap." Just in a nick of time, Levy rushed into the scene.

"Get in!" she demanded. She opened the hood on top of the van wide enough for Lucy to slip in.

"Alright, just in time." Lucy grinned. She leaped down from the rooftop and jumped down on each row of the building's balcony. And drop herself into the opening gap of the vehicle's hood.

"And she made it!" Juvia announced out-loud, reaching for the hood and closing it shut. "Let's go Levy!"

"On it!" Levy quickly stepped on the pedals and drove away.


Right after the incident of the robbery that took place at the Art Gallery, Levy decided it would be best if she sold the items that Lucy stolen once a few weeks passed by. Hoping that by then, things would calm down a bit.

It was another school morning, and Lucy was the last one to get up from bed. Juvia was preparing breakfast and Levy's eyes was glued onto the television.

"Breaking news; last night the famous thief that has been around for four years showed up at the Art Gallery. The new painting that was supposed to be in display today have been stolen after the incident of the missing jewelries' at the auction house. However, no one was able to witness the fact that they saw someone taking the picture."

"Ahah! Scored another one." Levy grinned.

"I am starving…" Lucy yawned as she sat down on the dining chair.

"The pancakes are finished." Juvia said as she brought a mountain of pancakes on one plate.

Levy turned off the TV and joined the girls for breakfast. "I wonder what we might steal next. If we are able to keep this up, no one will get on our way!"

Lucy rise her head as she glanced over at Levy, "Should I mention about what happened last night?" she wondered. "Maybe it's best not to… That kid probably forgotten."

After they finished eating their breakfast, they all walked to school together.

"Ugh, being an innocent, naïve high school girl is too much work!" Lucy complained.

"We have no other choice." Juvia said as she tried to ignore the sore feeling she had on the heels of her feet that she gotten from walking in heels on her previous disguises as a business woman.

"Man, I am sleepy." Levy yawned. "I hope the teacher let us have free time again."

By the time they reached Fairy Tail's High School Academy, they headed to their classroom. When Juvia entered first before the others, Gray excitedly called out to her, "Juvia! Oh my beauty!"

The tall bluenette cringed in disgust, "Ugh, I totally forgotten about you!"

"Have fun Juvia." Levy patted her on the shoulders and walked to her desk.

"Oh Juvia! There's so much that I have to ask about you." Gray squealed, "I want to get to know you!"

Lucy was the last one to enter the classroom as she watched Juvia being suffocated by the on-going questions that Gray was asking about her. Her eyes were still set on the two classmates, not fully aware of where she was walking to. The blonde then turned her head around, and bumped into someone's chest accidentally. "OOF!" Before she could land on her bottom again, someone quickly grabbed onto her wrist and pulled her.

"Woah!" said the boy, "Sorry about that, I wasn't paying attention to where I was going!"

Lucy's chocolate brown eyes locked up with the owner's hazel orbs. At first she was surprised then her facial expression slowly changed, she looked at the pink head boy with a grimaced reaction, "It's this guy again!" Lucy shouted inside her head.

"Oh, it's you!" Natsu smiled with glee. "I was hoping we would have a chance to talk to each other again."

"Again?! I was hoping we wouldn't!" Lucy thought. She glared at the teenage boy with an irritated face.

Natsu noticed the look she was making and nervously panicked as he let go of her wrist. "Uh-um-er, sorry about that!"

"It's fine. You saved me from falling."

"Uhm, I haven't introduced myself. My name is Natsu, it's nice to meet you!"

Right before Natsu could say anything more, Gildarts walked into the classroom, "Alright students, get into your seats I am about to start class!" everyone did what they were told and rushed up towards their desk.


"Man, what a bore. I was able to sleep throughout the whole entire day." Levy yawned as she stretched out her arms.

"How annoying, I am glad that it's lunch time. I don't have to deal with that creep always looking at me in class." Juvia growled.

"By the way, where did the blondie go?" Levy asked.

"She probably stopped by the bathroom." Juvia shrugged.

Inside the building of Fairy Tail Academy, Lucy just finished washing her hands in the girl's restroom. When she exit out, she saw Natsu getting a soft drink from one of the vending machines that was nearby.

"Is this just a coincidence or is this just really bad timing?" Lucy whispered to herself. She made sure to avoid any communications with the boy, so she decided to quietly walk away and pretend not to see him.

"Crap!" Natsu exclaimed. "The machine is jammed again!" he said out of frustration. He opened his wallet and looked inside it, "That was my last dollar too…" he whimpered.

Lucy came to a halt and tilt her head a bit, she pitied the fool and she wasn't the type to just leave someone who needed help. The teen decided to turn back and help the unfortunate one with his problem. Natsu then noticed her presences beside him, "Oh, did you wanted to use the machine?" he asked. He step back a bit to give her space, "Uhm, don't bother buying from this one. This one just took my money away…"

Lucy let out a deep sigh, "I didn't come here for that." She told him. She stand next to the vending machine and hit the back of her fist with it. THONK!

Natsu's drink that he had paid for came out from the bottom. Lucy grabbed the canned juice and toss it over to him. "T-thanks!" Natsu said in surprised.

"I am just returning a favor when you saved me from falling earlier. So don't think this will happen again." Lucy warned him.

"Uh, yes ma'am! Sorry!"

"Well, anyways later." Lucy turned around and slowly walked off.

"Uh-Uhm, wait!" Natsu shouted out, "Where did you go last night?"

Lucy froze before she made another step. The conversation she was hoping to avoid was suddenly brought up. "Shit, I thought he would forgotten and let it be."

"Last night, I went back in the building to see if you were able to find your way. After I finished doing the car chased that is. But you weren't anywhere in sight." Natsu explained. "So I was wondering where did you disappeared off to."

"Uh, well. You see… I really had to go use the bathroom at that time. And I thought it'll be really embarrassing if I told you. So I just left without a word." Lucy sweated.

"Oh, is that so?" Natsu's mouth gapped. "I see, well I am glad that you are safe." He smiled.

Lucy's heart suddenly started to beat rapidly. Her face was slowly turning red just seeing the smile of the young man standing before her. "Hey, are you okay?" Natsu said in a worrisome tone. "Are you running a fever?"

"Say what? No I am definitely fine!" Lucy let out a loud laughter as he smacked Natsu's back pretty hard. "Never been better!"

"ACK!" Natsu yip out in pain. 'Uh-I guess you are…"

Lucy patted her face like a paranoid maniac, "What the heck is going on with me?! I am losing my cool."

End.