Me: I am back my youngsters! And...Oldsters... Anyways, this chapter will be a little different! Levy, hand me the book.
Levy: Here you go. Why do you need this, again?
Me: Do you see all these blank pages, Levy? I am going to be writing in them! Do you know what that means?
Levy: You're writing a new story?
Me: Correct! I'm writing this chapter in third person!
Levy: That's not what I said...
Natsu: I'm confused...
Gray: Just shaddap, so loco can write, flame-brain!
Natsu: You wanna go, ice-princess!?
Lucy: Erza, they're at it again.
Erza: *Snaps out of daze with strawberry cake* We aren't fighting again, are we?!
Natsu and Gray: No, we're best buds!
Erza: Good. Loco, continue so I may eat my strawberry cake in peace.
Me: Alrighty, then! Now where did I leave off?...
Chapter 3
It's only a name
Here it comes, this rising tide, so come'on! ~The Pheonix-Fallout boy~
Cobra had immediately snapped out of his shocked expression, and rested lazily against the cave wall. "Shit, I thought my ears were playing tricks on me but.." He glanced Lucy's way. "You're seriously Lucy..." She nodded in response, her face still plastered with shock. Little did she know, Cobra was not asking. "Well, I'm not going to be the one to tell, Natsu. You guys have to figure this shit out all by yourselves." Cobra walked off into the depths of the cavern, that had not been lit by torches.
"Is there something wrong with my name?" Lucy asked Wendy.
Wendy took a deep breath, and fiddled with her petite hands."Well, a little over a hundred years ago... Igneel was murdered..." Wendy said. This only seemed to confuse Lucy more. Who was Igneel? What did that have to do with her name?
"Igneel was Natsu's father. And..." Wendy took a deep sigh, as she mustered up the courage to say the following words. "Our king." She finished. That only solved one thing for Lucy. The reason why Igneel was relevant to her situation, was still unknown to her. She glanced around the cave and noticed that all of the boys (Excluding Cobra) were kneeling on one knee, with their heads bowed. "Igneel's last words were to find you, and to keep you safe. Natsu never knew the reason. And it infuriated him. He used to always go on about why his fathers last words were about you. So once he got over it, he spent a hundred years trying to find 'Lucy'. He never found you. He searched all over the realm. But he never met one person named 'Lucy'." Wendy started to shake, and her breaths became short and rapid. "And then, a few weeks ago..." Wendy tried to grasp the words, as she attempted to calm herself down. "Natsu overheard an akuma talking about how they were going to kill you." Wendy shivered at the thought. About how Natsu had said exactly what the 'akuma' said. How it was going to watch Lucy suffer in a pool of her own blood. She just couldn't imagine that actually happening to Lucy. The kind Lucy she had now known."So Natsu followed the akuma to a kingdom. He eventually lost sight of the akuma, and started looking everywhere. Until you fell from the sky." Lucy and Wendy giggled a bit. The laughter seemed to calm Wendy down, and all negative thoughts left her mind.
"Wait," Lucy said after a moment of silence between the two girls. She was trying to put the puzzle pieces together in her head. It was still a little unclear to her. "The a-akuma... Those are the monsters that tried to kill me?" Wendy nodded. The peace inside the cave was suddenly ruined by another voice.
"Holy shit! Who's gonna explain to Natsu!? Oh my Mavis, what if he gets super mad!? What's he gonna do!?"Sting started to have a panic attack, right there on the cave floor.
"Jeez, light-bulb, I knew you didn't have any bulbs, but this just explains it. Gihee." Gajeel said. Sting gave him the are-you-fucking-kidding-me-look, and launched himself at Gajeel. They went on an end less rant while Butting heads.
"Nutless!"
"Bulbless!"
"Nutless!"
"Bulbless!"
And so on, and so forth. Rogue sat in the corner, shaking his head at his idiotic friend. Then again, they're all idiots...
Laxus, who had been hidden this entire time, decided to come into the conversation. "I sure as hell ain't tellin, Natsu. You know how he gets when he's angry." Laxus got up from his ledge of the cavern, and followed Cobra's path into the shadows.
Wendy and Lucy stood, and watched as the scene unfolded around them. Lucy kept thinking of how she had gotten herself into this mess. And Wendy couldn't believe that none of the guys had the courage to talk to Natsu. Their sweats dropped. Just how bad could he be?
"Bulbless!"
"Nutless!"
"Are ya sure, Bulbless? Gihee."
"The hell, you talkin about, Nutless?"
"Aahhhhh!" A sudden scream came from the shadows, and Cobra came running back into the area-of-chaos. "OH MY FUCKING MAVIS!? WHAT THE HELL, GAJEEL!?" Sting (Bulbless) backed away from Gajeel (nutless), as Cobra approached him. Fury yet terror covered his face as he approached the other male. "WHY THE HELL DID YOU SEND ME A MENTAL IMAGE OF YOUR-" Cobra's rant was cut off by an Iron fist to the face, that knocked him to the ground. "Are you serious Cobra!? Wendy is right there!" Gajeel points to Wendy and Lucy who are halfway across the room. Wendy stares wide-eyed at the boys. Cobra can't stand to see her like that. No one can. He calms down after realizing, he doesn't want to scar her beautiful brown eyes for life. Cobra sighs, and turns back to Gajeel. "Your right. I'm sorry. My anger must have prevented me from realizing Wendy was still here." He stood up, and dusted himself off.
And apparently now seemed to be a good time for someone to show up.
Lucy saw a figure descend from the sky, and stand at the entrance of the cave. Its scaly wings were sprawled out to its sides, but quickly retracted out of view. The more Lucy focused on the figure, was when she could tell it was a he. A he with pink hair! And horns! Holy Shit! He had horns! Lucy had never seen anybody with horns! And she could tell that he was a well built person. The darkness from the cave prevented any further inspection. But when she saw him open his eyes...
Her fondness immediately shattered.
She gasped as she saw his eyes peer into the cave. Those blood-red irises. The eyes of a monster-an akuma! He was an akuma! He was going to kill her! And right when she was starting to think he was hot too, dammit...
In just a few milliseconds of his presence, he had scared Lucy. Except, he was yet to learn she was scared and Lucy...
"DO YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT LAY LOW MEANS!?" 'Those seriously had to be his first words?' Wendy thought, as she watched Natsu walk into the cave. "I CAN HEAR YOU FROM A FUCKING MILE AWAY!" Natsu continued. All the boys looked with horror at Natsu. They made him mad...THEY MADE HIM FUCKING MAD! Wendy quickly covered her ears. She knew there was going to be no stopping his language when he was mad.
"Natsu?" Rogue asked weakly. Natsu turned to him, and Rogue withered in fear. "WHAT DO YOU FUCKING WANT!?" Natsu yelled. The cave shook a bit, causing small rocks to fall from the ceiling. Lucy had observed that as soon as 'Natsu' had come in, it had gotten quite hot in the cave...
"Wendyhassomethingtotellyou!" Rogue blurted out, hoping the wrath of Natsu wouldn't fall upon him. Natsu could only make out 'Wendy'. He calmed himself down, and approached the two girls.
"What's going on, Wendy?" Natsu asked. His eyes softened a bit, as he watched the girl uncover her delicate ears. Wendy looked up at him.
"T-the g-girl." Wendy pointed to Lucy, who was now trying to hide behind Wendy.
Lucy yelped, and clutched Wendy, as she peered at Natsu.
"Ha! bunny-girl got scared by just lookin at Natsu! Natsu must be ugly as shit!" Gajeel yelled. Natsu slowly turned towards him, as flames appeared around his body. Lucy yelped, and clutched Wendy so tight, Wendy thought she wasn't going to be able to breathe after this.
"What did you say, metal-mouth?" Natsu said in a voice so low, the ocean would be jealous.
"You deaf or somethin, Salamander? I said you were as ugly as shit!" Gajeel yelled again. Giving his signature laugh, and his skin turning into Iron scales.
"You need to go find a mirror, and say that!" Natsu yelled, as him and Gajeel clashed. Somehow, all the boys got mixed up in the fight. They were either looking for an excuse to fight, or trying to stop them from killing one another.
This went on for a few minutes, until Wendy finally got Lucy to hug a rock, instead of her. Wendy looked at the boys who were destroying parts of the cave, while trying to demolish each other.
"Natsu!" Wendy yelled. All the boys froze, and backed away from Natsu. Natsu scuttled over to Wendy.
"I'm kinda in the middle of something, Wendy. What is it?" Natsu asked the girl. Wendy tried to muster up as much courage as she could.
"Please take off your disguise." Wendy said with her new-found courage.
"Why?"
"Just do it."
"Tell me why, first."
"Take off your disguise, and I'll tell you."
"No. I'm gonna go out soon you know I still gotta find h-"
"Natsu! Just please trust me, and take off your disguise!" Wendy shouted. Natsu looked at her. He saw the tears her her brown orbs. Darn Wendy, and her cuteness...
"ugh, fine." Natsu, begrudgingly closed his eyes, and muttered words no one could hear. Wendy was still trying to plan out how she was going to tell Natsu 'the big news'
"Now what?" Natsu asked in an annoyed tone. Wendy eyed the frightened girl. Should she just tell him? Should he find out on his own?
"You don't have to search any longer, Natsu." Wendy turned back to him. Natsu tilted his head in confusion. "You already found her." Wendy finished. Natsu's eyes widened in shock. "T-That's immpossible, Wendy." Wendy shook her head at the shocked boy, and glanced towards Lucy. Natsu followed her eyes, and saw the girl who had fallen on him, hugging a rather large rock. Weird...
"Ask her what her name is." Wendy said. Natsu walked over to the frightened girl, and crouched beside her. He poked her arm, and she slowly opened her eyes. Fearing the danger the man before her could cause.
She fearfully glanced at Natsu's face. And she noticed... He wasn't an akuma? He no longer had the eyes of a murderer. How was that possible? Does that mean he's not going to kill her? Her thoughts ran a million miles an hour inside her mind.
"What's your name?" Natsu asked. Lucy stared at him blankly, studying Natsu's face. His pointy eyes, his Onyx orbs, his spiky pink hair, his nose...lips...
Natsu waved a hand in her face. "Hello?! What's your name?" Lucy snapped out of her daze. "Lucy," Lucy replied. Natsu's eyes widened. 'She...Is...Lucy?' Natsu stared at Lucy, making her slightly uncomfortable. He still couldn't believe it. Things don't just coincidentally happen like this., and then he realized... "WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T ANYBODY TELL ME SOONER!?" He screamed, now facing towards the group of boys who were staring at them. All of them except Gajeel and Laxus winced. Either of fear or pain.
"N-Natsu, calm down. It was my fault anyways. I should have told you right away. It's just..." Wendy sighed. "I thought you would scare Lucy." She said.
"Why would you think I would scare Luigi?" Natsu tilted his head. He still wasn't ready to accept the fact that the busty blonde was Lucy.
"IT'S LU-CY! NOT LUIGI!" Lucy stood up in front of Natsu. She was ready to punch his (rather attractive) face. As her fist went flying, she only met contact with the air. Natsu had side-stepped, when he saw Lucy's fist coming straight at him. Lucy pouted as she pulled her fist away from nothing. "No fair.." She mumbled. Natsu smirked but quickly turned away.
"WHY ARE YOU ALL STANDIN AROUND LIKE A BUNCH OF STATUES!? GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE!" Natsu bellowed. All the boys flew out of the cave. Wendy jogged up to the entrance, but before she could leave, Natsu's hand wrapped around her upperarm.
"Not you Wendy. I don't want you going out just yet. You have to stay Here. You need to stay safe." He looked back at the pouting blonde. "With Lucy," He said, as he turned to face Wendy again. Wendy relaxed. "What are you going to do, Natsu?" She asked. He muttered to himself before opening his eyes, to reveal glowing read eyes. "You already know." He smirked at the young girl, before taking off into the sky.
Wendy walked back over to Lucy.
"So he's gone?" The blonde started, now looking more depressed, than her previous expression.
Wendy nodded, but radiated the same aura Lucy did. "But don't worry," Wendy piped up, and offered a kind smile to Lucy. "He'll come back... He always comes back." Wendy said. Giving herself reassurance as well. But the fact of Natsu leaving wasn't the biggest issue the elvish princess was having.
"Where did he go?" Lucy questioned.
"Last time I checked, Natsu thought about heading towards the east forest." Wendy replied, putting a finger to her chin in thought.
"Thanks Wendy!" Lucy exclaimed, as she marched towards the cave mouth.
"What do think you're doing?!" Wendy fearfully exclaimed, afraid her new friend was going to do something reckless.
"Well, for one thing, I can't just sit around here when my kingdom has been attacked, and my brother is missing. And two..." Lucy took one last look at Wendy. "He stole my keys." The blonde finished, before running into the woods. Leaving a very confused Wendy in the safety of the cave.
Me: I am really sorry there wasn't a whole lot of interaction with Lucy. I wanted to display more interaction between the dragon slayers. Also, excuse their potty mouths. They have no manners.
All dragon slayers: Hey!
Me: Anyways, I am sure you are all confuzzled! Or emotional confuzzled. But there's no need to fear, locoanime's here!
Everyone: *Shakes head, and whispers no*
Me: I also will not get to update very often. I have sports, school, and a musical to do!
Lucy: What are you talking about loco, you always take forever to update.
Gajeel: *Whispers* She can sing?..
Me: *pouts* Well SORRY for getting distracted!
Lucy: Don't we all? *Points to Levy who is sitting on the floor with a laptop, and headphones. Tears pouring down her eyes.*
Me: Levy! *startles her* What the hell are you doing!?
Levy: You took to long, so I decided to get some episodes of SAO in. *sniffle*
Me: Oh my Mavis, Levy. Is it?...
Levy: Yes.
Me and Levy: Sachiiiiiii!
Gajeel: The hell?...
Me and Levy: Shut the hell up, you over-sized SAO hater!
Gajeel: I am NOT a hater! I just said that I wasn't going to watch it unless Le-... Nevermind.
Me: I know what you were about to say.
Gajeel: No you don't.
Me: Yeah I do! You were TOTALLY going to say 'Lev- *gets punched by iron club*
Gajeel: No you don't.
Levy: *smirks*
Me: Hey! Anyways, I love all of the reviews, and follows, and likes. till next time!
XOXO
~locoanime