Chapter 4
Former Authoress: Primsgirl89 (You can find her on both Wattpad and !)
Beater/Reviser & New Authoress: Kartara (You can find me both on Wattpad and .)
Quick note: I, Kartara, adopted this series form Primsgirl89 and began to write for it. Soon after, Prim and I both agreed that it'd be best if I edited the past chapters (Chapters 1 – 12) in my own style and upload it as my own fan-fiction to avoid copyright. Credit for the original story plot and development should go to her for these lovely chapters!
Lucy woke up in the guild feeling stiff and cold. Nobody was next to her, save for Happy and Natsu; the two sitting across from her. Happy was asleep on the table, his breathing a bit uneven. She picked the cat up and placed him on her lap. His breathing became slightly more smooth and steady as she lightly scratched his head. Surmising that he was having a nightmare, she tried to calm him down. She hummed a sweet lullaby that her mother used to sing to her when she had a nightmare.
Natsu started getting up from his spot. Wasn't he next to me when I fell asleep? Or was that a dream? Oh well, maybe the guild will tell me later.
He jumped up to the rafters again as people began to pile in. Looking around at everyone, she noticed they looked back at her with shock and fear. Why fear? What happened?
Levy came up to her, her wavy blue hair bouncing with every step. Lucy couldn't help but let her gaze wander as she tried to figure out what everyone was so afraid about.
Levy cleared her throat, causing her to change her attention to her. "Where's Dragneel?"
She put on a thoughtful expression that made her look deep in thought when she looked up at the rafters. Natsu shook his head no, meaning she shouldn't tell Levy his whereabouts. "Who?"
She looked at like her like she was crazy. "Um, N-Nat-" She shut up before directing her gaze to the floor. Guessing by the fidgeting of her hands, they didn't usually call Natsu by his first name.
"Oh, you mean Natsu." When Lucy saw the blue-haired woman nod, she looked up, making it seem like she was thinking, when in all actuality, she was wordlessly asking for Natsu's permission to share his whereabouts. He shook his head once more.
"I don't know, Levy. I woke up by myself and Happy. Why do you ask?" She asked her friend kindly.
"That's odd… He's usually in the rafters. He never comes in the guild for the heck of it. Anyway, every time someone came near you, he would growl and make the person back off. I was worried," Levy explained with a concerned gleam in her eye.
"Oh, did you hear about that guild? The one who threatened to attack us?" Someone asked, clearing trying to pass on gossip.
"Oh, I know the one you're talking about! Phantom Lord, right? They were bound to get disbanded, what with all the shady things they were doing. They had it coming," Another person replied.
She winced at the familiar name.
I remember that guild. My father would send me there to be a punching bag for their target practice if I ever got out of hand. That was… until some other guild disbanded them. She began to visibly shudder, feeling sick to her stomach. She suddenly felt Natsu by her side in an instant. She couldn't do anything but tremble. She focused on the warmth emanating from Natsu, and soon she was well enough to move and think properly. She straightened as she looked at the crowd that gathered in concern and smiled.
"Sorry about that. Sometimes I get pain in my side," She lied. Lucy didn't want to focus on it anymore, so she asked around about looking for an apartment to live in. It took all day but she finally found one that was only 70,000 jewels a month. The whole guild, minus Natsu, helped her get settled. They even had a small party in celebration for her new place at the guild.
The whole day, her mind was full of memories of Phantom Lord and her father. It felt as though she was being watched and followed whenever she was alone. Out of anxiety, she stuck with Erza, Mirajane, Levy, Lisanna, Grey, and Happy, but the feeling still wouldn't go away. She gave up and went to bed, hoping for even a wink of sleep.
She was only asleep for a few hours before she was shaken awake by a person. The Fairy Tail wizard looked sluggishly at the person who woke her, trying to get herself out of her half-asleep state. She suddenly screeched as she grasped who it was and gave the man a Lucy Kick, one of her special moves. She heard that familiar voice a million times before. She would never, ever forget that voice.
The voice of her father.
