Chapter 4… OMG! I'm soooooo looking forward to writing this chapter. I'm hoping that it's going to be, once again, SOOOO much fun to write! I think I just like to write. In other news though, when I start typing this I have 400 READS! What the hell guys! I uploaded this story like, four days ago! What the hell! I didn't know that this could happen, I'm just really happy. Well, let us get back to SSaA (my abbreviation of the title). I don't own Fairy Tail and all rights to their respective owners. ENJOY!
That was fun. A lot of fun. Leaving Natsu in the dust completely and utterly bewildered. I turned the corner at the end of the hallway into the bar area, and leaned back on the wall. I can't leave him, unfortunately. A few minutes passed and he still hadn't appeared so I poked my head around the corner to see Natsu still where I left him muttering to himself in shock. What's so bad about a human dating a halfling anyway?
"Hurry up!" I yelled down the hall the returned to my leaning position. I saw Levy sitting with her friends, Jet and Droy and she seemed to be telling them what happened. Jet and Droy's faces suddenly looked slightly disgusted and I could tell that she had just told them about the drinking of my blood. Yeah, to others the prospect would seem a little disgusting.
"Right, I'm here, where to now?" Natsu, who was still looking slightly numb in the face, came around the corner and looked at me.
"To my table, my friends wanted to talk to me about what happened." I started off to the table in question. I then felt someone tap my shoulder, it was ,once again, Natsu. "What?"
"You said that your friends are all criminals?" I nodded. Yeah, what other friends would an assassin have? "So… are they dangerous, like will they want to kill me?"
"Why are you of all people scared? You're a serial killer. But no, they won't try to kill you. If anything you'll get along amazingly." I carried on and came up to my groups table. Only Juvia was absent, but that was expected. I sat down on my chair at the head of the table and grabbed another for Pinky to sit on.
"Do we get our explanation now?" Erza asked. I talked about Erza but I haven explained her yet. Erza Scarlet, like me, is by far one of the most skilled people in our criminal circle. She wasn't my partner just because she's one of my closest friends. When I go on a request to just kill someone and the client doesn't care how I kill the target as long as their dead, she comes along and steals their organs, she works on the black market selling them. We've become known as a serial killer of late, one in the entire country because of the state we leave the corpse in. Missing organs, very little blood, what is remaining of them strewn out all over the place. Aside from that she is an excellent swordswoman and has a weird crush on cake. She's been called a demon before because of her scarlet hair. She's great though and I spend a lot of time with her.
"Sure, what do you want to know?" I asked the whole table.
"Why not start at the beginning?" Gray suggested.
"I'd quite like to know what the deal with the fish is." A tall man with long black hair and piercings all over his face stated. This guy is Gajeel Redfox, remember how I was talking to Levy about him back in Hargeon. He hasn't been around that long but settled in with our group pretty quickly, seeing as he was already a criminal when he arrived, he tried to get rid of our guild when we first met him but master being master, had him join. But as I said he settled in pretty quick, I like to think we're friends anyway. Now, I mentioned earlier that I knew six other halflings before I met Natsu… yeah he's one of them.
I'm just gonna make this clear, all people or things with demon blood can use magic, halflings have specialized magic. Gajeel's is iron.
"Oh, right. Guys, Natsu. Natsu, guys. He's the killer and Master had him join the guild, like he always does." Natsu had his head on the table and his hands on his head, I wonder if he's just happy to be sitting on a chair, or if he's still thinking about what I just said.
"So, the beginning?" A young bluenette asked. This little girl is known as Wendy. She is one of the sweetest girls I've ever met, so why does she hang around criminals you may ask. 1) We found her, when I say we I mean Erza, Gray and I and 2) she helps us. Wendy is yet another halfling, a wind one but she has amazing healing powers. She helps out at the hospital in the city for money and comes along with us on dangerous requests. She can use human methods of healing as well as magical. I love her to bits though.
I told them about what happened, with the whole table asking frequent questions in turn.
"So he gets motion sickness as well? Is he a halfling or something?" Gajeel asked. I looked at Natsu and he sat up and nodded.
"Yep, Natsu is a halfling too."
"Another one?!" everyone asked simultaneously.
"Uh huh, that's seven now, weird right?" Everyone was just staring at him. I prodded him to make him say something but he stayed inanimate. "Oh well, mind if I go? I have to go get ready for tomorrow."
"Sure, good story by the way. See you tonight at dinner." I stood up, grabbed Natsu's arm and dragged him off of his seat and towards the door. He obviously began to walk on his own eventually but I had to drag him for quite a while. Why? I don't know.
"Where are we going?"
"My apartment, then I'm going to think of a place for you to live. You are not going to be living with me tomorrow. If it comes to it you will be staying with one of the others." I stormed ahead. As soon as we entered my neighbourhood I put on the innocent façade as my neighbours passed by.
"Hello Lucy!" One of my neighbours waved to me from their window.
"Hi!" I looked back to see where Natsu was and he was gawking at me as he followed behind. "What? Do you really think I'd be me around here?" I sighed and approached my building's door, I walked in and left the doors open. "Ok, you sit down. Don't touch the desk or you'll be dead, I have a whole stash of weapons, everywhere. I'll have one faster than you can say machete. I'm going to have a bath; I won't be more than twenty minutes... mainly because you're here." I turned around and went into the bathroom. I ran a bath and slipped in. How much had happened in today alone? I caught a serial killer, not that I'm not one, got a new guild-mate, have even more responsibility and got landed with a reluctant new teammate. Wow, all this the day before my boyfriend was coming to see me.
"Stupid master landing me with the Satan spawn himself."
I couldn't relax, not with Natsu in the next room over. I got out, dried myself off, wrapped the towel around my torso and used another towel on my hair.
When I went back into the other room to grab my clothes I found Natsu lying sound asleep on the sofa. Taking advantage of this situation, I decided to take my time when choosing my clothes. The bog standard black would do fine but I wore a blue belt, just to spice things up. I then went over to the second fridge that stood by my bed and took out a bottle of blood (yep this is the blood fridge Levy mentioned earlier) and a pot of nail polish that was sitting on top of it. I went over to the sofa and plonked myself down next to Natsu's unconscious figure. It is my sofa. I took a swig from the bottle and after putting it on the coffee table I removed the lid from the nail polish and began to apply it. I had only painted three nails when I felt a disturbance next to me. It seemed Natsu was waking up, but just as I raised the brush back up to my hand Natsu suddenly jumped up and leapt on me. His fangs were bared and his eyes had turned a flaming red, his hair seemed to be more scruffy and had become a harsher tone of pink, if that even exists it just looked a bit darker I guess, but overall he looked aggressive and like he wanted to rip my limbs off one by one. I could have grabbed the dagger that was set inside the sofa arm, but no I just decided to slap him upside the head when somewhere deep inside of me I knew that this would ultimately lead to him getting angrier. However, miraculously, he snapped out of it, stared at me for a few seconds than sat back down on the sofa as far away as he could get.
"U-um err. I… I'm sorry. I have no idea why that happened, it only happens when I smell raw flesh, and… ha there is none." He forced a chuckle which was accompanied by an embarrassed smiled.
"Mavis, that made me jump, but I think I know what set you off." I picked up the nail polish and waved it in his face.
"Um… that's nail polish?" He questioned
"That's made out of a stomach. The powdered muscle makes the paint thicker, and a single drop of hydrochloric acid makes the colour… better somehow. This is what made you go berserk." I then returned to finishing off my nails.
"Who's Mavis?" Natsu poked my arm in question.
"She founded Fairy Tail, she is basically our god, and we refer to her in the same way but it doesn't show offense like it does for others." I finished my last nail and blew on them. I looked up at Natsu and stood up. "Come on then, let's move some furniture then" I rubbed my hands together and made a popping sound for reason other than because I could.
"Move… furniture?" He stood up and looked at me, slightly confused.
"I'm having a house party because it's been ages since I've my little Halfling came to visit. The guys suggested it, they're the only ones coming and I'm guessing that you're coming as well now, but I'm taking advantage of an extra pair of hands and having them help me move furniture." I pulled the chairs away from the table and shoved it against the wall. "You get the coffee table." I pointed towards it then proceeded to stack the chairs in the corner. Next I had Natsu help me roll up the carpet and place it in the bathroom, I am not having a repeat of last time when Juvia soaked it when she accidentally let her hand slip and water shot from it and all over my lovely rug. After that I wrote a list of things I needed to buy in the morning and what I needed to buy now.
"Let's go get this stuff then. Oh and just so you know. You're going to be woken up early tomorrow; the good quality stuff is only available in the morning when dealing with the black market."
"Wait, you're taking me to black market… to buy party food?" I understood his misunderstanding; the black market was for things like drugs, not party supplies.
"There's going to be four halflings present, I'm planning on getting some organs off of Erza, as I said only in the morning, and she packs up shop at ten." I looked at my list again, nodded and walked out the door.
"Who knew going to the black market could be so much fun" it seemed that Pinky over here had never been to one before, and Magnolia's is pretty impressive for what it is.
"Well, we better go back at the apartment now. I need to get ready; he's arriving a little over an hour." I picked up the pace. I had been dragged around the town by Natsu; it had been too long since he could buy anything. After arriving back I threw the TV remote at Natsu and made my way into the toilet, no time for a bath. I brushed my hair out and styled it. I sort of wish I had enough time to get Cancer, one of my old friends, round. He was a renowned hair stylist and treated hair like a canvas. I don't really wear much make up, it makes me look too bright and cheerful, and a small amount of concealer and a little faint lip gloss would do. I put a white t-shirt on to replace the black one and I was done. The way I described the process made it seem pretty fast but in reality, it took half an hour, stupid hair. As I rushed into the main room I grabbed the remote and switched the television off, to many protests from the demon.
"Hey I was watching that!"
"We're leaving, now get out!" I pushed him through the front door and locked it behind me. Thankfully the guild hall is near home so it never took too long to get from point A (my apartment) to point B (Fairy Tail). As I strode through the doors into the underground bar I gained a few surprised looks. I only wear white on special occasions, it's a pure colour and I am by no means pure in any way shape or form, except from when I'm with him.
"Hey Lucy, cutting it a bit short are we?" Gray teased as I sat down.
"Oh, shut up jack frost." I bit back
"Don't be mean to Juvia's Gray-sama!" Juvia grabbed onto Grays arm to which he began to try and shake her off. For some reason it hasn't clicked in Gray's head that Juvia loves him, or so it seems.
"Did you have fun this morning?" Erza quirked an eyebrow at me.
"No, Pinky decided to drag me over half of Magnolia just because he hasn't gone to market and bought stuff for himself for three years."
"Speak of the devil"
"Literally" Natsu sat down next me and looked at us curiously. "We were just talking about how you wasted my time this morning." I glared at him and he just scowled in response. Suddenly I felt something wrap itself around my neck.
"Hey Luce." I sunk back into what I had figured out were arms.
"Wait… Sting?!" Natsu stood up and gawked at the guy with his arms around me.
"Natsu?!"
WOW. WHAT A TERRIBLE ENDING. Did I swear in this chapter? I don't actually remember doing it. Wow that's a first. And for those people who managed to guess correctly who I decided to make Lucy's boyfriend then well done! Though it wasn't hard to figure out, I mean, he's named in the list of featured characters. So do be aware that this is both a NaLu and StiCy just in case anyone is thinking 'I don't like that ship, I'm going to stop reading this meeehh!' just so we're clear. This has been the most difficult chapter to write so far but that's only because I was lacking creative juices, they will return. This was probably because I had a deadline and I work terribly under them and that I have an unhealthy YouTube obsession and I have been watching Capndesdes and CinemaSins the entire time that I've been writing this. Oh well, the next chapter will not have an expected time to come out. Just so you know over here in England as I'm writing this chapter its 10pm and I'm the only one awake, or so I think. Don't forget to leave a review, they help me and make me very excited. Oh well this was Alpha, so long and thanks for all the fish.