Author's note: Enjoy this week's chapter *winks*
Everyone was amazed to see Eligor fly and bounce against the school's wall like a bouncing ball. Natsu's mouth, like everyone else's, was so wide open that it could have touched the ground.
T-this ...This girl is ... W-wow ... He thought as a smirk formed on his lips and a bit of pink made its way to his cheeks. Lucy was seriously starting to pique Natsu's interest.
"A-attack her!" Shouted one of Eligor's men. Before Lucy could turn around, an army of boys and girls flew through the air with weapons and magic circles around them, ready to hit their one and only goal. Lucy.
Oh boy... She thought as she made a half pirouette on herself, before she closely counted all the teens who were about to attack her. Her eyes widened as she saw a huge man hovering in the air right above her body. It was clear that he would have crushed her if it weren't for a certain pink haired boy. Lucy watched, astonished, as Natsu's flying figure came into her range of vision. The boy high kicked the man in the face and landed right in front of Lucy, before he swiftly took her by the wrist and pulled her behind him.
"W-w-what are you doing?" The baffled girl asked, trying to sound strong and indifferent even though deep down she was very surprised. She struggled, trying to break free from Natsu's grip. He turned his head slightly over his shoulder and a smirk made its way across his lips as he saw the bright pink on her cheeks growing stronger. He watched her fidget as she desperately tried to loosen the grip around her wrist.
Eeeeeh, how cute ... C-cute!? What the hell?! Natsu get a hold of yourself! This girl has humiliated you in front of everyone, she's a cold-hearted bitch! M-maybe if I show her who the real Natsu Dragneel is, she will get sweeter and maybe also fall in love with me ... F-fall in love with me!? Did I fucking lost my hea-!? Natsu's train of thoughts was stopped when a fist collided with his right cheek making him flinch a little, but not move at all.
Natsu moved his furious gaze toward the man, who was now trembling in fear, and took him by the wrist. In less than a second the man's whole body caught fire. The show wasn't pleasant at all. Lucy looked sincerely terrified as the man groaned, cried and screamed in pain under Natsu's furious and indifferent gaze.
"S-Sam! Tch, die bastard!" Yelled another man with a huge sword, before he leaped into the air along with the others. Natsu looked up in surprise, not for the fact that he was about to be attacked, but because a strange force suddenly pulled him back.
Lucy took advantage of the fact that she strongly pulled Natsu behind her and jumped high up in the air. She made a twirl on herself and grasped a thing that looked like a whip's handle, which was close to a pair of keys on the pink garter on her right thigh. She moved it over her head in a circular motion and a river of stars came out from it making it look like a true whip.
"Ahah, and whatcha' gonna do with that whip?! You gonna spank me Buahaha!" One of the men laughed, as he didn't notice the dead serious expression on Lucy's face. She closed her eyes and quickly took a deep breath.
"S-stupid! That's-"
"Fleuve d'etoiles..." The serious girl whispered. As she suddenly opened her eyes a yellow magic circle formed around her right eye. The blonde girl was ready to hit the enemies when a husky voice thundered in the air.
"Lucy!" Startled, her attack deviated and went over her enemies's heads. They then landed on the ground together and suddenly loud noise followed behind. Everyone standing in front of Lucy turned around and immediately regretted what they had seen.
At least 50 km radius from where they were, trees, buildings, street lamps and other things were practically cut in half. Lucy stood up to look behind her, her eyes returning from shiny gold to cold chocolate brown again. Makarov was there. Obviously angry, something that was very rare.
"M-master-"
"Stop Mirajane." Erza said, putting a hand in front of the white-haired girl. Mirajane gulped and looked ahead, worried about the blonde girl who was glaring down at the old man.
"Lucy. I know you're new here, but you have to know something very important..." Makarov said looking at Lucy with burning eyes, while she put back in place the whip on her garter and went to get her bag that wasn't too far away.
"If you do something to this school, or even worse, if a single child in this school gets hurt be sure that the same amount of pain will be inflicted upon you. Did you hear me?" Lucy wiped the dust from her bag and glared at the old man again.
"I'm not interested in this school, Mr. Dreyar. But if I'll be the cause of this pigsty's downfall I will take the blame." The girl turned around and ran beside the old man muttering a weak "thank you", that Natsu didn't fail to notice. The boy stood still, scratching his head. Confusion and curiosity written all over his face as he watched the old man sigh heavily and shake his head in frustration.
"And you, rascals? Disappear, before you feel the wrath of Fairy Tail's president. If I ever see you again, you will see much more than fairies flying around!" Everyone shuddered at the thought and ran away in panic followed by their leader Eligor that ran after them with his tail between his legs.
"Tch, hooligans ...(said the one who has a school made of delinquents)" Makarov muttered under his breath, turning towards his students after observing the sky. It was getting dark.
"What are you looking at? Go home before it gets too late!" The kids nodded and fled towards their homes. Except for a boy.
"Natsu ... Sigh ... Go hom-"
"Why did that chick thank you, Gramps?" Natsu asked. By this time the old man knew how serious Natsu was without even looking at his face, so he couldn't suppress a smirk. He knew this hard-headed brat better than anyone else and a secret couldn't remain a secret no more than a day around him. If he wanted to know something he would've done anything to get it.
Well yes... He was a little of a spoiled brat, stubborn, vain, arrogant but also a loyal, funny, handsome and a real good friend. Natsu tilted his head with a raised eyebrow, confused by Makarov's reaction.
"Ehehe, Natsu. you already know... Even if I won't tell it you'll still find out, no?" The man asked, receiving a smirk from the boy.
And oh boy, was he going to find out. There was nothing that could escape from Natsu. Recently he got really bored in class with nothing to do and hearing the same gossips again and again, so many times that he has memorized them all. He wanted to have fun. He wanted an adventure, and that mysterious blonde chick was just the beginning.
"Ehehe, then let the 'game' begin!" Nastu chuckled wickedly while cracking his hands' knuckles.
Lucy arrived in front of the gate of her house and after she opened it, she ran into her house slamming the door behind her. She bit her lower lip before screaming out loud and starting to throw on the ground the first things that came to hand. Jars, shelves, plates, cabinets, she tossed everything on the ground, ignoring the fact that she was also hurting herself in the process, until she heard her keys move under her now glowing gold skirt.
"N-no ..." Lucy whispered, dropping on the ground a cup.
"NO!" She took the keys and squeezed them tightly to her chest.
"Please! Don't get out! I'm FINE! Don't worry... Please... Don't come out!" Lucy screamed dropping to her knees but this only made her keys tremble even more.
".. I'm begging you ... Don't come out ... Hic ... I'm trying to protect you from him ... Hic ... Do it for me ... Please ... "Lucy started crying and feeling something sticky on her hands, she opened her eyes and looked down. Water was coming out of her keys, as if they were crying with her. The pain that this woman was enduring was excruciating and only her spirits could understand it.
Lucy stood up when her keys stopped shaking and shine, returning to be normal keys, and walked toward her room to fall powerless over her huge canopy bed.
-The 'dream'-
"Lucy, my dear, where are you running? You know you're only making me angry?" A little Lucy turned around shaking, with pure terror in her eyes as she saw a huge man's silhouette with white light coming from behind him. She could see that he was banging a whip against his left open palm.
"N-no ..." Lucy whispered, but she was too scared to run away or to actually shout for help. Those scared big eyes, like a deer's, observed as a wicked smile, pure of evil intent, made its way on the man's face.
"Come, my love~. You're gonna be fine, daddy is here~. Ehehe."
-End of the 'dream'-
"N-nooooooooooooooooooo!" Lucy opened her eyes wide open, breathing with difficulty. She sat up, still holding her keys tight to her chest.
Again... that freaking nightmare ... She thought as she rubbed her eyes before looking at the clock. 6.30. She still had 30 minutes before going to school. Sighing, with effort the blonde girl got up and went into the bathroom after taking a towel and another pair of her uniform as the one she wore was dirty and there was even a bit of her blood on it from all the ruckus she did yesterday.
She quickly showered and went into the kitchen to pick up an apple. She left the house chewing the last remnants of her apple. She felt a sharp pain in her left hand when she touched the doorknob to close it. Looking down she saw a large cut on the palm and many smaller ones on the fingers.
"Tch ..." Lucy muttered, returning inside the house. She quickly bandaged her hand and kind of roughly since she was late, she didn't have any time to lose on a stupid, yet big, cut on her hand. She looked down and her hand was a complete mess. She couldn't go at school with her hand like that and not expect some questions from those annoying classmates and especially from that stupid pink-haired boy, so to cover up the mess, she put on a fingerless black glove made of leather. She closed her house's door once again and when she watched the time on her phone, she discovered that she had 1 min to get to school on time.
"...Stupid glass ..." She constantly cursed under her breath jumping in the air to land on a rooftop and run quickly towards the school by jumping from a rooftop to another.
At the school's entrance, there stood Natsu with his arms crossed over his chest and a frightening yet serious expression as he looked at every street corner in front of him searching desperately with his small onyx eyes for Lucy. He was obviously blocking the way but no one could ask him to move because his expression was really scary and around him, the heat was so unbearable that no one had the courage to approach.
Where the fuck is that blonde chick, don't tell me she wants to skip school today?! Natsu thought, gritting his teeth as he frowned. He looked down at the watch on his right wrist to check the time and saw that she was really late.
"I swear, if she doesn't come right now, she'll regret it for the rest of her life, coming to this school-"
"Move, Pinky, you're blocking the way."
"Hah?" In that moment Natsu looked up and saw Lucy jumping over his head doing a split in the air. She landed a couple of steps behind him doing a roll and then sprinted towards the school's entrance still having her ice expression on, as always. And immediately followed by everyone who did the same thing.
"That girl ... I really like her guts! Ahahaha"
"What are you talking about, brat? Get to your class, before I call prof. Evergreen and turns you into a statue!" Shouted the school janitor and Natsu turned towards him smiling widely.
"Oh, Don't worry, there's no need to call that old hag." The man watched how the school n.1's delinquent and scariest boy picked up his bag and started to run towards the school shouting all the way 'Blondie!' like he was some sort of a lover.
"Tch, kids these days..."
"Okay class, I want you to sit down or if you want to to be standing make no sound while moving, I don't wanna hear any noise but if you want to speak, you can and if you want to talk about the new things on sorceress' magazine call me! Oh, and if you have questions on geography, well..Ummm ... C-consult the book, ok? However, don't give me boredom I have to do something important here. " Prof. Wakaba said, sitting down after his speech taking an erotic magazine and started to laugh as he thumbed through the pages and smoke in the shape of hearts was coming out of his pipe. Everyone, as usual, stood up and did whatever they wanted.
"Oi, Blondie, why did you came late today?" Natsu asked, taking by the collar, the boy who was sitting in front of Lucy and throwing him behind him. Taking a seat, Natsu sniffed something. An unpleasant metallic smell.
Blood.
With his blacks sharp eyes and together with his impeccable nose, he was able to find the path that led straight to Lucy's left hand, covered by a black glove. He grabbed it, pretty harshly, surprising the girl who was reading a book.
"W-w-what are you-"
"What's this?" Natsu interrupted, glaring at her.
"W-what is what? A-and let me go, to be touched by the likes of you, disgusts m-"
"I asked you, what is this." The teen demanded, in a lower voice squeezing her hand in front of her face. Lucy flinched and suddenly froze, when she felt her keys move under her skirt.
Shit ... The blonde girl thought, biting her lower lip and looking sideways to find a quick way to escape from there.
"So w-!?" Natsu didn't have time to ask again. Lucy quickly took him by his scarf and threw him against a couple of desks next to her and especially against Gray who snapped back at Natsu pushing him away.
"What the fuck is wrong with you, Tabasco breath?! Haaah? Wanna go?" The blonde girl took to her advantage the fact that Gray, was shaking Natsu by the collar, to get away from the classroom.
"Let me go, frozen brain, I have more important things to do!" Said that, Natsu pushed Gray away and ran after Lucy.
"Oi, Blondieeeee!"
Hyeeeekk! What the- What is that guy?! How the hell did he get here so fast?! Lucy thought seeing the pink-haired boy run like a beast behind her.
"Stooop!"
And you think I'd stop, if you would tell me to!? As if! Lucy on the contrary accelerated and when she saw in front of her a small bridge that connected the first building with the second one, she went straight toward the side bars and jumped down.
"Lucy!" Lucy heard her name being called as she jumped and looked up to see Natsu's figure, just above her ready to jump from the bridge as she did. She saw a strange expression on his face but she couldn't make out what it was.
Lu ...cy -?! O-oh, no! Lucy fell into the fountain and before Natsu could catch her, she dragged herself across it and towards the edges, in order to jumped out and run again towards an unknown destination.
"Oi, Bondieeee! Where the hell are you !? Come out before I find you and do naughty things to you!"
Urghh! This guy doesn't want to leave me alone, does he!? And what the hell does he mean by naughty things!? The exhausted blonde thought, hiding behind a locker in one of the hallways of the school. Wherever she ran, Natsu would immediately find her. In the girls' bathrooms, in the garbage bins, in the trees, clinging outside the windows and so on... It was as if he had a certain power that allowed him to find her with great ease.
"Blondieeeee!"
"Oh no ..." Lucy again heard his deep growl down the hallway. It was like the 200th time that he had found her, and to make it clear, Lucy was very good at hiding when she was little and when she got older she master it, becoming almost like a shadow.
BUT, it's a shame that Natsu had a formidable sense of smell and hearing, and he could hear her feet and smell her sweet scent perfectly from a mile away. Sniffing, the boy felt the blonde's scent becoming stronger and stronger each step he took forward.
Ehehe! I found... you!... E-eh? Natsu immediately turned the corner and was surprised when he saw no trace of the blonde. Scratching his head, he looked left and right, up and down. He was sure that Lucy would have been there. Her scent was still strong and above all things there was no sign that she had run off in another direction and that made Natsu a little frustrated.
"Tch ..." Natsu continued to stutter curse words slipping his hands in his pockets and kicking an imaginary stone while returning to class, obviously angry.
Lucy sighed after holding her breath for so long, leaning on the wall next to a door. She shook her head thinking how could a 'normal human being' haunt a person for so long, until she heard someone cough. She raised her head and met her savior.
Mirajane.
Mirajane took her by the arm in the last moment and pulled her inside a random classroom that was near there.
"Sigh ... Since you saved me from that mad man, as good behavior demands, now I shall address my thanks to you, but just this time." Mirajane who was sitting on a desk in front of Lucy, swinging her legs back and forth, nodded and smiled before jumping down. She approached the other girl and took her left hand, with a hand-grip strangely very strong for her feminine size, and pulled out the glove.
"W-what do you think you're doing?! L-let me go!" Lucy tried to free herself, but the white-haired girl ignored her and pulled her towards a cabinet where there was a first aid box. Mirajane forced Lucy to sit on a chair and started to remove the 'band aids' that were carelessly slapped around her hand. In about 2 minutes, she finished bandaging her hand and Lucy, though she wouldn't admit it out loud, thought that she did a great job; because now she no longer felt that pulsing pain she had before.
"Better?" The older girl asked and Lucy 'hmph-ed' crossing her arms over her chest, and looking away from her while cutely pouting.
"Ehehe, I'll take that as a yes. Anyway Lucy ..."Mirajane finished her sentence with a serious tone of voice, making Lucy shift her eyes toward her.
"Why did you cheat during the power test?"
"W-what?"
"... Sigh ... There's no need to hide it from me, tell me, why did you use an amulet of strength, instead of your magic?" Lucy bit her lower lip looking at the girl's serious expression.
How did she understand that I was using an amulet!? When I bought it, the cashier clearly said, that it would have been impossible to see the difference!
"How ... H-how did you know I was using an amulet?"
"Let's just say that nothing escapes my eyes ... Sigh ... Lucy, you knew very well that using an object that enhances your powers, wasn't allowed, right? Then, why did you use it?" Lucy again shifted her gaze away and now she was staring at the floor as if trying to set it on fire.
"... Why ... Why do you care? Why do you worry so much about me?"
"Because you're one of us Lucy. You're a member of the school, a member of our family."
F-family? Lucy's eyes widened, and a chill ran down her spine when she heard that word.
"Family? Don't you dare group me with the rest of you. I'm not and will never be, part of your so-called 'family'!" Lucy snapped stressing the last word as if it were poison. She suddenly raised to her foot knocking on the floor her chair.
"Luc-"
"Go ahead, say it to the teachers, tell everyone, I don't care if they will expel me or if they will suspend me, I don't want to have anything to do with you. I want to be left alone. Is it really that hard to understand ?! " The angry blonde girl stepped out of the room like a storm, without letting the other girl have her say.
"... Sigh ... Lucy ... Luckily I was the only one to notice it, otherwise you would have been worse than expelled by now ... I won't tell anyone, but, about the second thing... We can't...Or better we won't let you fall into the deep pits of darkness and despair, Lucy, we... "
Author's note: What was her 'daddy' meaning by having fun? From who is Lucy protecting her stellar spirits? What does Mirajane mean by 'we'? Will Lucy get laid by Natsu? ...wait, wait, wait, wait, w-what? U-ummm never mind the last one! *coughs while blushing furiously* W-well, the future is always a mystery. If it wasn't, what fun would there be?
