Hey guys! This chapter is up sooner! I got in writing mood so here is the next chapter.

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A boy, a dragon and a doll?

Chapter 4

The night came fast and almost everyone went back to the guild or back home. Lucy went back home, after all she was too embarrassed to face Natsu again. In the guild on the other hand… well let's see what is happening there…

"Mira! I chance my bet!" Cana shouted after hearing what Mira told everyone.

"You can't just change your bet!" Levy argued with the drunken one.

"Mira is this really true?" Erza skeptically asked. "If so I may have to talk with Natsu to make some things clear…"

"There is no need for this Erza." Lisanna laughed. "I already talked to him about it so…. One month ago?"

"Oh really?" Erza said calm. "But still I have to make sure he does it the right way..."

"Oh my, oh my, what have I done? Maybe I shouldn't have told them about what happened on the beach…" A worried Mira looked at the girls who were making a ruckus about their bets on the couple and also about how they should teach Natsu a bit more about romance. Even thought Lisanna was telling them that she already talked with Natsu about this topic.

Yeah, this is right, the whole guild had set bets about the couple also they were not the only couple bets were on. Gajeel and Levi was one, Gray and Juvia, Elfman and Evergreen, heck even on Erza and Jellal were bets. And those were only bets on relationships.

There was also one for when Cana would finally snap at her father and punch him once for his daughter complex, or when Natsu will try to challenge Erza again. Of course the person who the bet involves didn't know anything about it, after all everyone wanted to have fun in the end. And the reaction of the ones when they finally get to know of a bet was priceless also.

All these bets had one important rule. It was not allowed to help them speed up in any way, it was only allowed to give advises when they would ask for help. No matchmaking, no little push, nothing. Mira had argued with the girls about this for a long time but had given up but in the back of her mind she was still making plans…

Mira giggled again as she saw that now Erza too was getting into the argument of Levy and Cana about changing the bet. But she somehow wondered what Natsu was going to do now and then an idea popped up in the head of Fairy Tails matchmaker, she laughed knowing well that her plan would go against the rule but she didn't care about that she wanted them together already.

It was midnight as a shadow figure climbed through the window of the apartment of a certain celestial mage. But deep in slumber the boy and the mage in the bed didn't notice him. He growled low as he saw that the boy lay next to her, in his spot, where his place was, not the boy's, his. His mood was getting worse when he noticed that Lucy had placed her right arm protectively around the boy.

Natsu looked around in the room, wasn't there another spot where the boy could sleep? He scanned the room carefully.

The chair by the desk? Of course the boy was small enough he could have slept there too.

The kitchen table? Yeah, also a good spot, Natsu remembered that some guild mates often slept on the tables in the guild when they were to drunken to go home.

But also Natsu knew that Lucy was to kindhearted to let a kid – even such a brat like him – sleep on anything else than the bed.

He sighed and his glace fell on the couch. Just then an idea popped up in his head.

Natsu slowly tip toed – ninja style with his scare around his face – over to the bed. He slowly and carefully removed Lucy's arm from the boy, and placed it on the pillow. The blond stirred suddenly and Natsu froze in his movements only to sigh relieved when the blond fell back into sleep. So he continued carefully he took the boy in his arms and he did everything to not wake him up. Natsu imaged that when he would wake up, the boy would make a fuss which would end in waking up Lucy and this would end in him beaten up again. This just gave him more encouragement in being as careful as possible.

He walked over to the couch with the boy and laid him down there, only to be kind and not to get yelled at in the morning he threw a thin blanket over the boy. Then he went back to the reason he originally was there.

When he saw Lucy shivered a bit even as she was under a blanket made Natsu grin, knowing what he had to do. He crawled over her to his usual spot in the bed, his grin got even bigger as the blond snuggled closer to him in search for the warm he was giving her. Natsu put his arms protectively around her and was overjoyed as she returned the hug in her sleep. Soon he felt the tiredness overcoming him and fell into a deep slumber inhaling her scent.

As Hiro heard light snoring his eyes fluttered open and he was shortly confused. He sat up on the couch but be remembered that he felt asleep with Lucy on the bed. He rubbed his eyes and blinked a few times before he realized who snored. He looked over to the bed and saw behind the head of the blond pink hair. Hiro blinked again, remembering that Lucy pillow also had the color pink and when he stood up and walked over to the blond he saw her alone in the bed. Hiro sighed and thought about how the hell he got on the couch and then he noticed that the window was wide open. When he went over to it… he saw nothing only the normal view he would have when he looked out.

Hiro went back. "If I am awake now I could make breakfast for Lucy-nee…" The boy mumbled as he went over to the kitchen, he didn't notice the pink colored envelope sliding in under the front door. Outside above the window Natsu sighed heavily. He had just made it out in time before the boy had spotted him. Natsu knew that when the boy would have found him fist, he would have thrown a fuss why he was on the couch, resulting his Lucy to wake up and to yell at him. So Natsu chose the only choice he saw when he noticed the boy had woke up: He escaped through the window ninja style. He noticed how Mirajane run out of the building but shrugged it off as another thought entered his mind.

Natsu grinned to himself, he was proud that he had tricked the boy and happy that he had spent the night with Lucy so he jumped off from the roof like it was nothing –scaring some neighbors- and made his way to the guild following Mira who didn't notice him. He was determinate to talk to Lucy later for what happened yesterday and he knew he would need the advice of one of his friends but he didn't know who to ask first.

At the guild

Juvia was behind a pillar again, stalking her love. But instead of being all over her Gray-sama, she was thinking about that doll Hiro had. Juvia was still confused why Gray had made the same movements as the doll, why Hiro could use it and why nobody seemed to have noticed it as well? It was confusing for her so Juvia went over to Levy, the official bookworm in the guild. She sat down next to her but Levy didn't notice her she was reading and we all know how Levy and Lucy can get if they read… So Juvia sat beside her keeping quiet about her presence, until she got the courage to speak.

"Juvia would like to ask Levy-san something." She said nervous. Levy didn't bother to look up from her book and simply answered. "You can call me just Levy, Juvia we are friends ok?"

"O-of course…" Juvia hesitated. "Juvia would like to know if there is some kind of magic which could control others…"

"Hahaha…" Levy laughed and finally looked up from her book. "Juvia you can't force love on him with control, this wouldn't be love at all."

"N-no! Juvia doesn't want to control Gray-sama! B-but Juvia was curious! Juvia saw someone using a doll to control someone on her last mission, s-so Juvia wanted to know more about this!" She lied, but Juvia didn't know if it was alright to tell that she saw Hiro using a doll.

"So that's it? Sorry that I misunderstood…" Levy smiled nicely at Juvia while she thought about it. "Uhm well there is puppet magic… there are different versions of it… one version of it can create puppets out of rocks or wood, it's the type of magic Sherry from Blue Pegasus is using.

Then there is that kind which let you control humans or a part of their magic… its and old type of it, it is also called command magic…

At last there is the lost magic one. It is like a curse where the magic user has to use a special doll for it, also the user needs a strand of hair from the person he wants to control. As far as I know is that the magic user can only control the movements of his victim but not their magic. But it is still powerful and dangerous in the wrong hands. I got confronted with it together with Lisanna when we were on Tenrou Island. It can be really dangerous…"

Juvia nodded and suddenly looked like she was deep in thoughts. Levy shrugged shortly and continued reading her book as the guild doors flied open with a loud bang. The guild fell silent in an instant. You could even hear a needle falling to the ground. Then a blond mage stormed in and a small boy followed behind struggling to keep up with her speed and as soon as the blond mage reached the bar she slammed something pink on it and glared at Mirajane, the barmaid, who was the only one who wasn't scared not even one bit. Mira smiled nicely at the girl in front of her, completely ignoring the anger writing all over her face.

"Lucy, is something wrong?" Mira asked innocently while polishing a glass like usually. The whole guild gasped. It was rare to see the bold mage completely angered and if she was then most of the time Gray or Natsu were the source of it but never ever was Mirajane the friendly/scary barmaid the source or any anger of the blond. So why now?

"Something wrong? SOMETHING WRONG? Mira! Are you joking with me! What the….! What are you planning?" Lucy screamed through the guild and Natsu flinched, Gray was searching for the next exit already, Erza stopped eating her cake, Master Makarov looked horrified at the two girls and Happy flied as high as he could to get out of reach.

"But Lucy, didn't you complain that you needed some holidays? Because of your writers block and so many other reasons you named me." Mira was still smiling friendly at the celestial mage and she kept her cool. The others of the guild looked more like a bloody war was going to happen any moment.

"I did! But I did tell you to book me a weekend in a spa! It is too expensive!" Lucy argued back. "And why the hell would you book it for a family of three! And why is Natsu's name standing in there too?"

Now the fire mage got also interested and slowly made his way over to them. Hiro saw him and of course was already next to Lucy on a seat looking at the papers she had slammed down before.

"Hahaha what are you talking about Lucy? Look here, it is for free. There aren't any costs for you to pay. And I don't know why Natsu is included but wouldn't it be more fun if he would go with you and Hiro?"

Everyone knew now what was going on. Mirajane had broken one rule of their bets. It was the first and hardest one for her. She had argued over three weeks with the girls about it. It was the rule that forbid every member of the guild to interfere with the couples and forbid them to try matchmaking. The eyes of every female in the guild flashed and every guy shivered with fear. From now on the bets were war and every girl would start matchmaking for their use if not somebody would stop them. But to be honest, which guy would be dump enough to stop a girl in matchmaking mode when it involved the densest couple in Fairy Tail?

"Mira! You can't be serious! ARG!" Lucy grabbed her hair like she would rip it of every moment. "Hiro! Please stay here while I go and try to solve this! Be a nice boy and behave ok?" With this Lucy stormed out of the guild again, leaving Hiro back at the guild. Of course Lucy knew that Hiro was in good hands in the guild, but was the guild in good hands when it came to the boy?

Natsu looked at Hiro, he thought if he should do something together with the boy, to get slowly on good terms with him. The bad feeling he got with him was still there but for Lucy he would try to get along with the boy. He had expected Lucy to avoid him but that she would march in and yell at Mira had nobody expected not even Cana and she could look into the future with her cards. Speaking of Cana she suddenly burst out laughing. The whole guild changed their glace from the guild door where Lucy had gone out to the drunken mage who was literally laughing while rolling over the floor.

"C-cana? Is everything ok?" Lisanna asked carefully as she saw that the card mage had a hard time catching her breath again after so much laughing.

"I am fine Lisanna! Gajeel!" Cana screamed through the guild. The iron dragon slayer looked annoyed up from his plate of metal. "Brace yourself! I saw in my cards that you will find yourself exposed in your dragon boxers by the end of the day!"

The guild burst out laughing while the iron dragon slayer stomped over to the card mage, ready to choke her. Cana luckily escaped quickly as Levy started to lecture the iron mage about being nice to his guild mates. Hiro was bored and he looked around in the guild. As he spotted Gajeel, he remembered how the dragon slayer had called Lucy bunny girl several times and how annoyed Lucy seemed to be by it. Suddenly the boy smirked evilly and looked for something in his pocked. Yep Hiro had chosen his next victim and he would make sure to make it a warning for all the other males in the guild.

Meanwhile Juvia found herself talking with Lisanna. She had asked Lisanna also about the doll and when Lisanna mentioned that she saw little Hiro with a doll, Juvia told her about what she saw. Both girls looked at the boy from the distance and found him staring at Gajeel and Levy. Something was going to happen and with Canas prediction both girls knew that they should watch the boy closly today and what he was going to do.

Later that day…

Lucy was still not back and Hiro found himself… well he found himself trapped by the boys. He was seated at their table surrounded by them. Without Lucy around the boys were brave enough to get Hiro over to their table, hiding their original plan behind the lie that they wanted to get along with him. Erza accepted this excuse when Gray explained it to her in fear she would snap of his head.

Now Hrio was seated there a rune wall from Fried was around him so he wouldn't escape, Gajeel and Gray were sitting on either side of him. Strange enough Natsu wasn't a part of this. He had disappeared hours ago. It wasn't important for them all they wanted was to get the boy for what he did to them all these days he was here now.

"You guys wouldn't lay a finger on an innocent child, would you?" Hiro smirked; he knew perfectly that they couldn't hurt him in any way. Erza and some other girls would beat them up in a sec. He only needed to let his tears fall and their end would come.

"You think that would scare us? Well sorry but the girls can't hear you and Fried had set the rune so that they can only see you sit there but only we are able to hear and see what you are really doing." Gray answered and watched with pleasure as the face of the boy fell.

"Y-you m-mean I am trapped i-in h-h-here? C-can you guys c-come i-into this r-rune t-trap?" Hiro asked scared and slowly his eyes watered.

"Gi he he he. You can't get out brat and we can't get in." Gajeel laughed and smiled in a scary way at the boy - remember the why he scared the poor boy in Edolas? Well Gajeel was giving little Hiro the same look. Hiro backed away until his back met the rune wall next to Gray.

"Gi he. Looks like the - oh so brave - brat is now a scared little mouse who will wet his pants." Gajeel laughed again in a scary way and Hiro cried. Hiro looked really scared of Gajeel and Gray suddenly felt really bad about this. Sure he wanted to get revenge on the boy but he didn't want to scare the boy to death.

"Gajeel! Stop! You will scare him to death!" Gray finally said after he had watched them for a bit longer. Hiro was crying really this time and he was scared to death of Gajeel. The boy showed mercy with the boy and were slowly trying to calm him down as they saw that Hiro wasn't faking anything.

"I think we went too much over boat…" Macao mumbled as he saw how Hiro sobbed and sniffed. Fried realized the rune wall and Gray took the boy in his arms. "Listen we didn't mean to scare you this much… we only wanted to make you stop tricking us or cause any of the girls to beat us up."

Hiro nodded and looked still fearful at Gajeel. "Is he going to apologize?" Hiro whimpered and all the boys froze. Gajeel and apologizing? The only person he ever had apologized to was Levy but would he do the same for Hiro?

"Never!" muttered the iron dragon slayer as he saw the pleading eyes of the boy. He crossed his arms and left, not one bit letting it seem like he was going to apologize. Hiro smirked and jumped out of Grays arms. He went over to Levy which the stubborn dragon slayer of course noticed. "Levy-san! Levy-san! Ga-" Before Hiro could say anything more he disappeared in a rush of black looking wind. He was dragged away to the back side of the guild by Gajeel who had a firm hold on the boy.

"Don't you dare to say anything to her!"

"Why not?" Hiro asked innocently.

"JUST BECAUSE!" Gajeel yelled as he suddenly felt a light pain on the back of his head. He shrugged it off and set the boy to the ground. "Don't think of telling her anything or I will hunt you down in your dreams!"

Hiro looked wide eye at Gajeel and then the dragon slayer left the boy alone. Hiro suddenly smirked and looked at the bit of black hair in his hand. He twisted and turned it around in his hand before he finally pulled out the doll. "I will have a lot of fun… in his boxers' mmh? That's what Cana-san said…"

He tugged the hair at the top of the doll again and went in. He searched for a good spot and found it near the bar. Hiro searched for Gajeel and found him leaning against the wall right behind Levy who was still reading a book. With the doll in his hands Hiro slowly tried a move and saw with satisfaction the irritated look on the dragons slayers face as his arm moved on his own.

Hiro moved the doll again this time Gajeel was stripping of his shirt unwillingly. He cursed under his breath and Levy looked up to him face bright red. Now Gajeels upper body was shown to everyone in the guild and when Levy screamed out of shock everybody turned to them.

Many guild mates shouted at Gajeel to stop stripping and the angered dragon Slayer just retorted them to shut up. Suddenly the eyes of the dragon slayer fixed on Hiro and the boy gulped as he saw the dragon slayer stomping in his direction. With the doll in his hands he made a run for it with Gajeel hot on his tails. Crazy enough the guild started thinking they were playing tag because Hiro suddenly started laughing.

Gray, Juvia and Lisanna saw the doll in Hiro's hands. All three recognized it and Gray knew why Gajeel had suddenly stripped. Juvia had again this worried feeling in her and Lisanna felt it again. She felt again this strange familiarity when she saw Hiro with it.

Gajeel even thought that his moving was a bit controlled by the doll could still manage to chase the boy through the whole guild. "Get back here! I am gonna kill ya!" He screamed loud but noticed how his hands took off his boots.

Hiro only laughed and run out the guilds door outside he stopped and waited for Gajeel to follow who was now thanks to Hiro removing his trousers. Gajeel stepped nearer each step was heavy and show perfectly how angry the iron dragon slayer was. Gajeel didn't care about the fact that he was left in his boxers – which had really a dragon motive like Cana said it before. His hands reached forward to choke the boy but suddenly Hiro held up the doll and stopped Gajeel.

"What the fu-" Gajeel started but was suddenly lifted to into the air as Hiro throw the doll into the sky. Then Hiro slowly moved the doll nearer to the guilds building and throw up high into the sky again. This time Gajeel nearly hit the building but then he suddenly hung there. He felt the breeze of the wind around his body and felt an not very pleased kind of pain between his legs. As he looked down he saw the boy standing on the ground grinning at him. It was then that Gajeel noticed that he was stuck on the guilds tower, his boxers the only thing that held him there.

"YOU FUCKING BRAT! IF I GET YOU IN MY HAND I WILL KILL YA! I WILL BEAT YOU TO UN BLOODY MESS! I WILL BRING THE LIVIN HELL TO YOU!"

Just then Lucy and Natsu came back to the guild. Lucy looked very exhausted and Natsu grinned like there was no tomorrow.

"Oh come one Luce! It will be fun!" Natsu grinned even wider he was happy that he had finally managed to convince Lucy to that spa-weekend. Also he was more than happy that between the two was no awkwardness, he feared that Lucy would ignore or avoid him but it was somehow like she had totally forgot about the almost kiss…

"Not the kind of fun I would enjoy…" Lucy sighed tired, she had just given in and had agreed that Natsu would accompany her an Hiro to the spa. Was she happy? In a way: yes. Was she worried? Also yes. She still remembered that they had nearly kissed each other but Natsu was acting like nothing happened and so did she. So Lucy decided to play along with Miras plan who knows maybe something good will happen to her there and maybe Natsu and Hiro would finally get along better also.

As they both walked on and the guild came in view they both heard shouting Lucy spotted Hiro who was looking up. Both looked at each other and then at what Hiro were looking. Both spotted Gajeel on top of the guild with only his boxers and as loyal nakama - like they were - there was only one thing they could do…

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU MATAL FACE! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH" Natsu burst out laughing and of course attracted the guilds members' attention from inside, everyone rushed out of the guild and burst out laughing, oh well Levy's face light up in a bright red color. Even Erza, Lucy and even Pantherlily had a hard time not to laugh so both only giggled. Hiro smiled and laughed together with the others as they all watched and how Gajeel cursed and swear to kill them all if they wouldn't get him down fast.

"HAHAHAHAHA I told you so Gajeel! I told you would end up in your boxers!" Cana laughed as she again tried to get her breath back.

"I SWEAR I WILL KILL EACH OF YOU IF YOU DON'T GET ME DOWN NOW!" Gajeel yelled back annoyed at his so called nakamas and his face told already that he meant what he said.

Master who still held back his laughers looked at the others. "I suggest we let him cool down fist before we get him down there so let's get inside so Gajeel can calm down."

Everyone agreed and went inside for the rest of the day while Lucy and took Hiro and went home. They let Gajeel hang outside till he stopped screaming and knowing Gajeel it took hours for him to stop yelling and when he finally kept quiet, Lily flied up to get him down but as soon as Gajeel had set food… He stormed into the guild and started the next all out guild fight in which he beat everyone up who laughed at him despite the fact that he was still in his boxers…

Hope you liked the chapter! So this time it was Gajeel... hehe I hope you guys will look forward when it is finally Natsus turn *evil smirk* wups I shouldn't become to evil... I want Lucy and Natsu together after all...

Please check this things out:

There is a forum from a friend and me about Fairy Tail so join us in being part of the guild while going on adventures with all the characters there! The forum is called 'We are Fairy Tail' and has the guilds building as a pic!

Also please check this story of Alice Harkey on fictionpress, it is called "Vanished" and it is a really great story!

And here is a small response to a review I just had to answer:

To DarkXFeatheredCosmic: Like you see Mira is on her matchmaking and since she broke the first rule of the bets the other will start it soon too so look forward to some crazy stuff and moments with the girls trying to get Natsu and Lucy together with Hiro of course trying to interfere...

Thank you guys for reviewing! You're the best! Oh and like you see a war is starting between the girls so if you have any ideas what kind of matchmaking they could do... you can tell me it if you want...

Geez... I think Gajeel would kill me for this chapter... mmh so as long as Gajeel doesn't kill me I will see you guys again in the next chapter...

Thank you all for reviewing and thanks for the reviews in the future!

See you in the next chapter (^.^)v