Soooooo I'm back! Sorry for the delay today. I'm homeschooled and have to finish all my course work by next Friday and take Semester Assessments so I'm trying to finish studying while typing up the chapters! I hope this is a good chapter for you guys!

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Next time this is updated it will probably be late next week. Sorry! I am going to Boarding School next year so I'm using my last week at Ballet to spend time with my amigas!

Anywhoooo~

This chapter is set after the GMG and contains spoilers so BEWARE and read at your own risk!

Chapter 4: Pride and Punishment!

"LUCY KICKKK!" Lucy screamed as the fire dragon slayer was launched across the room.

Lucy was pissed off. Very embarrassed but pissed off to say in the least.

Laxus, Gajeel, and Sting couldn't contain their fits of laughter and were clutching their sides.

"Gi hee, Bunny-girl's still got some fight to her." Gajeel roared.

"Who knew blondie could pack a nice kick?" Laxus snorted.

Wendy regained her composure and scurried over to Natsu who was trapped in a pile of bandages and sheets.

Lucy rose from the floor and dusted her pants off. Her legs trembled and quickly gave out from under the celestial mage. Lucy fell backwards awaiting the cold, hard ground once again, but it never came. Instead, a pair of muscular arms caught her.

Lucy was then hoisted up and plopped back onto her hospital bed.

The spirit mage glanced up at her rescuer and gave a soft smile.

"Thank you, Rogue." She said

"Please, don't go injuring yourself any further than necessary. I wouldn't want to meet the wrath of Titania or even Natsu-san." Rogue said in his usual monotone voice.

Lucy glanced over to the struggling form of her best friend, cracking a small smile when he burned the restraints like the pyro-manic he was.

Lucy sighed, "Typical Natsu."

"Where in Earthland did Natsu go?!" Gray said while grabbing his hair in a frustrated manor.

"Well, let's go ask Wendy or Gajeel if they've seen him. It would be best if Natsu doesn't find Lucy just yet. She's still recovering and I wouldn't be happy if a certain idiot gets her hurt again." Erza said.

'Try explaining that to Flame-Brain." Gray muttered under his breath.

"What was that?" Erza asked while giving her infamous death glare.

"N-Nothing!" Gray stuttered

The two Fairy Tail mages followed the path of destruction to the Dragon Slayer's tent. They weren't surprised to see Natsu trying to set things ablaze. Erza reacted quickly and gave Natsu a punch to the stomach.

"Ughhh." Natsu groaned as he was tossed onto a hospital bed.

The ice mage's glance was redirected to the 'alive and kicking' celestial mage.

"You feeling alright Lucy?" Gray asked to his younger sister figure.

"Yeah, more or less." She said softly.

Erza strode over to the blonde celestial mage. She glared at the Shadow Dragon Slayer as if saying 'I'll kill you if you do anything to her'. The old-Alzack-lookalike nodded and backed away.

The scarlet re-quipt mage returned her focus to Lucy.

"What do you mean by: more or less?" Erza questioned.

"Well, other than being tackled off the bed just after waking up," Lucy sighed, "I'm a little sore and a bit weak in my legs."

Erza gave a death glare to all the Dragon Slayers.

"Who did this to Lucy?" She grimaced.

Laxus snorted. "Who else would have done it besides the pink-haired idiot who was launched half-way across the room by blondie's nice kick?" He finished and jutted his jaw out to the groaning pinkette.

Erza's bangs shaded her eyes as a black, deathly aura surrounded her.

Lucy sweatdropped.

"E-Erza…" Lucy attempted to calm the enraged scarlet haired mage.

"Aye! Natsu was super happy when Lucy woke up! He lllllllllikes her!" Happy grinned and attempted to cover his smile with his blue paws.

"I-It's not like that!" Lucy exclaimed. The familiar blush returned to her face as shetried to swat away the flying exceed.

"Stupid Neko…" Lucy mumbled.

Erza calmed herself and sighed.

"Well, It's great to see you awake again. You've been taking quite the beatings in the past few days, you know… Flare, Minerva, Future Rogue, and the Dragons. Not to mention having an entire castle collapse on you!" Erza huffed.

The room went quiet. All the slayers were looking back on the beatings the celestial mage had withstood. Some shuddered, others glanced down at the ground, and the rest avoided making contact with the frail blonde summoning mage.

Sting cleared his throat, directing the attention to him. "And on behalf of Sabertooth, and Minerva… We're sorry." Sting said while awkwardly rubbing the back of his head.

Lucy blinked.

Once.

Twice.

Did the Great Sting Eucliffe, the White Dragon Slayer of the Twin Dragons of Sabertooth, just apologize to a little blonde Fairy Tail mage? The same weak girl he laughed at when she was being brutally tortured by Minerva? Lucy was at a loss for words.

Rogue coughed. "I'd also like to apologize." He said in his usual emotionless voice.

"No! I mean… It's ok! I'm not the kind to hold a tough grudge." Lucy smiled at the Twin Dragons' apologies.

Gray could of sworn the Sting and Rogue had a light pink blush on their cheeks when Lucy smiled back at them.

Maybe it was just his imagination playing tricks again.

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Re-Chan