Hiya! Okay, I actually spent a few days on this chapter cause I was literally stuck on what to write, I'm just really happy I managed to finish it even if it is short! I spent a total of a week on it… *sigh* Anyway, please read and enjoy! Please leave a Review and Favorite! Farewell and Enjoy!

-Let there be midnight

Me No Own Fairy Tail

Chapter Four— Cold Waters

The water mocked him with its clear lapping waters that just seemed to say "Ha! I'm gonna drown you if you even try to take a step in me!" and he did believe that the water would do just that, making him dread what was soon to come even more than before.

"Well, first to swim you have to get in the water; you do know that… right?" Gray asked just as mockingly as the water next to him, a smirk on his face as he looked down at him. Natsu shot him a quick glare as he looked back down at the water with hatred in him that he was sure was coming off of him in waves.

"I know that. I'm not an idiot." he murmured the last part, poking the water with his big toe, making small ripples form on the surface, taking his foot back as fast as he could as if he was afraid with that small contact the water would try to swallow him whole.

"Well?" Gray urged gesturing to the water with fake impatience. Natsu grumbled under his breath but otherwise did not move. "Go on, I'm waiting." Gray had crossed his arms over his bare chest, that damn smug smile spreading on his stupid face.

"Shut up." Natsu muttered before he made up his mind and walked into the water till he was submerged to his chest. Gray had followed him in while Lucy and Erza (who were already swimming) swam up to Natsu so they could also help out.

"First we'll let you hang off on us so you can just get the motions with your feet." Erza said as she smiled at Natsu in a somewhat reassuring way, the keyword being: somewhat.

"And you promise if water tries it's vengeance on me then you guys won't push me to swim ever again?" he asked, looking up at them as he crossed his arms. All three of his friends nodded making him sigh slightly. "I'm ready to die now."

…

… The outcome didn't turn out as planned.

…

In the end when they got Natsu out to deeper waters, something had caught onto his ankle making him panic and almost drown.

Almost.

And keeping to their word Erza, Gray, and Lucy didn't hound Natsu to swim but allowed him to just sit on the dock silently, kicking his feet back and forth over the edge, never letting the water touch him as he dozed off into his own world.

After a while Natsu laid on his back with his feet still kicking back and forth without hitting the water once, looking up at the clear sky that was barely littered with white fluffy clouds. The shouts of Lucy, Gray, and Erza dying off into the background as he slowly felt his eyelids flutter closed and before he knew it, he was asleep.

He dreamt of when he was three, almost four, the first memory he had which was with his mother. Father was gone somewhere leaving Natsu alone with his mother. He saw Mother standing in front of him with her beautiful smile as she held out her arms and hugged him before throwing him up barely in the air and catching him again.

It was a short dream since it lasted the length of the memory, but it was a sweet one, one that left Natsu feeling light as he was awoken with a splash of slightly cold water on his face. He spluttered awake and fell into the lake out of surprise, nearly drowning himself for the second time that day as he forgot that he could stand up, and when he had finally stood up he quickly jumped back onto the dock and hissed like a feral cat towards Gray who couldn't keep in his laughter.

"You—should've—seen the—look—on your face!" he wheezed out in between laughter, holding onto his stomach as tears started to stream down his face.

"Fuck off Gray." Natsu hissed, crossing his arms as he sat crossed legged on the dock, wet hair drooping into his eyes and making the effect of his death glare seem not so deadly. Erza and Lucy swam next to Gray, both stifling their laughter behind hands and making it so obvious to Natsu that all they wanted to do was burst out laughing. "Oh, laugh all you want, get it out of your systems. I'm not as cruel as to let you three die before you're beheaded." he said with a roll of his eyes, Lucy and Erza doing just that and not paying heed to the last part of what Natsu had said.

After a few minutes of uncontrollable laughter from the three and unamused glares from the pink haired teen, Gray, Lucy, and Erza finally managed to calm down enough to breath properly without dying from laughter.

"Good," Natsu started as he stood up calmly. "Now if you please get out of the water so I can proceed with beheading you, that would be nice." he started to walk in the direction of land, his friends watching him with slightly raised eyebrows.

"Oh, like a hot head like you could." Gray remarked as he floated on his back and closed his eyes to the soft lapping of waves around his body, which was a fatal mistake on Gray's part as Natsu had found a stone and threw it towards Gray, the large round rock landing directly on Gray's chest making him call out in surprise as he was suddenly submerged in water. He poked his head above the water, spitting it out of his mouth like a fountain as he glared at Natsu. "Ha ha ha, real funny Natsu. Real funny." He rubbed the sore spot on his chest where Natsu threw the rock at him and swam a safe distance away just as Mrs. Scarlet poked her head out the back screen window, her head small from where they were and was mostly made up of scarlet hair.

"Dinner!" she shouted, going back into the house. Natsu was a bit surprised that it was already dinner time, looking up at the sky to see that the sun was setting.

Natsu looked back behind him to see Lucy, Erza, and Gray getting out of the water and drying themselves, deciding that they were talking a long time, so he decided to head up to the house alone. When he walked into the house the first thing Mrs. Scarlet said was to get dressed (he was still in his swim trunks) before dinner without looking at him and pointing upstairs.

When Natsu reached the room he and Gray shared the first thing he did instead of getting dressed was look at his phone to see that he had eight missed calls.

"Wow, seems like I'm popular." Natsu joked sarcastically with a small smile, putting his phone on his bed and grabbing a random shirt, but right as he pulled the shirt over his head his phone started to ring. Natsu picked it up without a thought and didn't even looked at the caller ID as he began to start putting his shorts on.

"Hmm, hello?" he asked as he buttoned up his pants and sat on the edge of his bed.

"Ah, Natsu, it's so nice to hear your voice again. How are you?" Natsu froze and his eyes went wide, breath stopping in his throat as his blood went cold.