This story was inspired by Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail. Which means I don't own most of the characters. I do own Mackenzie Oakman. She is my OC from Fairy Tail. NatsuXOC
This is a mystery, adventure, romance and rated MA. There may be some Lemon in this story and some spoilers since I'm all caught up on the manga!
Chapter three: It all Comes Down to LOOOVVVEEE!
A few weeks go by. Natsu and Happy begin to bond and become best of friends. Mackenzie and Lisanna bond with Happy as well. One sunny afternoon the three kids and Happy were out fishing when Mack ventures no too far from the others. She had seen something, rather someone, unusual so she followed it to investigate. This figure realized they were being followed and hid behind a tree. "No please don't hide. I won't hurt you. Please come out." The little girl gets closer and sees that it's a cat like Happy but was older and had a different appearance. "No I'm not ready yet! " the voice said. "Sure you are. Please come out?" The little one sits in front of the tree the cat was hiding behind. The cat swallows deeply and comes out from behind the tree. "That's it. Don't be shy." The little girl said. The cat walks up to the girl. "My name is Stella! And I'm your teacher." The cat stared at the confused girl. "Teacher? Have you been watching me or something?" "You can say that. I was ordered by Xena to watch over you for the rest of your life." The cat replied. "You know Xena!? Where is she? Is she ok?" The little girl got worried. "Yes I know her but I don't know her where abouts. I'm sorry." Stella explained. "It's ok. I just wanna see her again is all." The girl began to cry. "Don't cry... You'll see her again I promise!" Stell hugs the crying girl.
Natsu and Lisanna find Mack crying and the strange cat hugging her. "Hey did you make Mack cry?" The pink one asked. Stella turns her head and notices Mack's friends. "It's ok I mean no harm. I was sent here to look after miss Mackenzie and help her learn her magic more. Please I wish to join your guild." The white cat bows in front of the children. Natsu walks up to the crying girl. "No need to cry anymore Mack! Everything's gonna be ok!" The girl looks up at him with a tearful smile. "Thank You!" She mutters. Natsu then puts out his small hand to her, she takes it and then gets up. "Let's go back home now! All of us!" Natsu grins his big grin and they all head back to the guild.
They arrive back at the guild with Stella. Everyone is shocked but goes up to the new white cat. "She's so cute. Just like Happy!" One guild mate says. "Step aside children!" Out of the crown comes a short old man. "I see you kids found another stow away. She can stay!" "What? Really master? Thank you!" Mack then hugs the master. "I get my own cat!" "You're welcome Mackenzie! What is your name cat?" The old man asked. "Stella Sir!" The cat replied. "Come with me Stella. We need to talk alone" the old man then leaves and the cat follows behind.
The two head upstairs of the guild to talk in private. "I wonder what they have to talk about?" The flame boy asked. "Who cares it's none of you business flame brain." The raven head stated. "What'd you call me!" The flame boy charged over to the raven head. "You heard me!" The ice Mage replied. They begin to brawl each other. Erza, as always, gets in between them. "That's enough you two. Must you always fight?" Scarlet growled. The boys then stop. "You don't scare me Erza." The pink boy glanced away for a moment then glared at scarlet. "Don't glare at me!" Erza gets angry and gives Natsu such a scary look that he trembles.
Stella comes back downstairs. "So is everything ok?" Mack was concerned. "Why wouldn't it be?" Stella walks over to Mack. "We are now a team Mack! Now let's go train!" Stella drags Mackenzie out of the guild hall.
A week later Gildarts returns from his job. He walks up to Natsu who is sitting outside with Mack, Lisanna and the two cats. "Oh hello Natsu and Mack!" The large man said. "Gildarts! You've come back!" The pink haired boy rushed over to him. "I've gotten stronger YA know." "Oh really show me!" The large man teases. "You bet!" The little boy then jumps high over the mans head and attempts to attack but fails, again. "Looks like you could use some help on your magic and combat skills. Lucky for you I'm gonna be around for a while. I could teach you both if you'd like." The large man explained. "I don't need a teacher." Natsu crosses his arms and grunts. "We'd love to Gildarts!" Mack adds on. "Gildarts then notices the two cats and Lisanna. "So. Who are these three?" Mack picks up Stella, "this is Stella! The blue one is Happy! And this little girl is Lisanna!" "Nice to meet you three!" Gildarts pats Lisanna on the head. "You can join if you'd like!" "I'd love to!" Lisanna cheered. "Ok from here on out we will begin training everyday until you three improve especially you Natsu!" Gildarts picks up Natsu and puts him on his shoulders. "I'm all fired up!" The small boy cheers.
Gildarts sticks around to train Natsu, Mack and Lisanna for the next three years. In this time, the two dragon slayers and the take over Mage have really improved their magic. Gildarts has also taught them what 'Love' is and gave all three mages 'the talk'!
They had built a routine with Gildarts but thats all about to change. On a sunny day in year X781, the Master of the guild takes Gildarts aside to talk privately. "There is a mission I would like you to take. It's a 100-year mission. I know it's a lot to take in but I think it'll be a good one for you." The old man explains. "Sounds good to me I guess. I do like long missions so I accept the challenge!" The S-Class Mage replied. "Good. So you leave in three days. You might want to tell everyone goodbye as soon as possible." The old Mage exclaimed. "Wow three days huh? I wonder how Natsu will take this? Oh well. Thanks!" Gildarts stands up and walks downstairs and confronts the rest of the guild. "Hey everyone! The old man wants me to take on a 100-year job and I'm gonna do it! So I'm gonna say goodbye for now! I will always be a part of Fairy Tail that will never change. Be good and stay strong!" "Good luck Gildarts. We will miss you!" Scarlet said. Natsu runs up to him. "Why are YA leaving? What about our training? You can't just leave like that!" "You'll do fine. It's been three years since I went on a job and it's time for me to go for a bit." Gildarts pats Natsu on the head. "You take care my friend!" "Yea but still. Why 100 years?" The fire Mage grunted. "You need to learn to walk on your own. You don't need me anymore, Natsu. You can do it on your own now. This isn't goodbye but farewell." The large man leans in toward the fire boy and whispers, "by the way, you better take good care of those ladies of yours." The pink Mage blushes. "Just shut up about that will YA." He looks away still blushing. Mack and Lisanna walk up to Gildarts. Mack hugs the large man. "Be safe and good luck. I'll miss you, pops!" The dragon slayer slowly backs away. The man pats her head. "Stay strong Mack!" "Goodbye Gildarts! I'll miss you!" The white girl just stands there. The large man moves closer and hugs Lisanna, Mack and even Natsu all at the same time. "You three be good for my sake. If I have to return because you caused trouble, I won't be happy. Be on your best behavior! " he backs away from them. "Thanks for the time spent with you! And good luck to you!" "You're welcome!" The girls cheered. "No problem, I guess." Natsu mumbled. "What was that boy?" The man grunted. "Nothin. Good luck to ya." Natsu walked out of the guild. Gildarts followed behind him. "Walk with me back to my place, Natsu. I have something for you." "Fine." The pink Mage follows.
The two talk until really late in the night. Natsu then leaves but is too tired to walk all the way home so he walks to Mack's place, knowing she lived right around the corner, and sneaks in. The place is dark and quiet, which means she must be asleep. He quietly makes his way to her room and sees her sound asleep in her bed, as he assumed. He removes his clothes until down to his underwear. He then places his scarf next to her face. She, unknowingly what she was doing, grabs the scarf and cuddles with it. She smells it, "hmmm... Smells like my Natsu.. I love the sent of my fiery Mage..." She mumbles but then falls deeper into slumber. Natsu then crawls into her bed and gets under the covers. When he lifted the covers he noticed her bare back and saw her butt and realized she slept naked. He blushed from the sight and covered her up. 'I can't believe what I just saw' he thought to himself, 'but I love it!' He grins and lifts up the covers for another peek. Mack was sound asleep and still had no idea what was happening in her room or did not know she had a friendly guest. Natsu gently pecks her cheek then falls asleep.
The next day Natsu awakens with Mack facing him but still asleep. Natsu lifts up the blanket to glance at her breasts but his scarf seems to be covering them. 'Damn!' The fire breather thought to himself. He then gently put the blanket down and stared at Mack for a bit then he closed his eyes. Mack moved a little then sniffed the air and smelled something very familiar. She opened her eyes and noticed Natsu laying right next to her and her cuddling with his scarf. She sits up fast covering herself with his scarf and blushes really hard. 'Why the hell is he in my room? OMG he saw me naked! What does this mean? I wanna wake him up and kick him out but he looks so peaceful just sleeping like this.' She thought to herself. She got up out of bed, put on a robe, covered Natsu up, and left the room while still holding his scarf. This is the first sight of a very special bond between the two Dragon Slayers.
Mack walks into the living room where she finds Stella. "Morning!" "Oh morning child!" The cat then noticed Mack carrying Natsu's scarf. "Mack where'd you get that? Is that Natsu's?" "Oh yea... About that... He kind of snuck in here last night and fell asleep in my bed beside me." The young woman replied. The cats eyes widened. "He What!? He has no class does he? More importantly how'd you feel about it?" "Surprisingly I was fine with it! It made me realize what Gildarts taught me a few months ago. I... Um... Think... I'm... In... Love... With Natsu..." The Crystal Mage blushes. "Well ok then. I'll support what ever decision you may have. But I feel you're moving too fast. As least wait another year or so." The cat ordered. "I plan to... This is way too much for me to handle right now... I plan to wait and see what happens." The female Mage states.
Suddenly there's a knock on her door. Mack walks to the door and opens it. "Have you seen Natsu!? He didn't come home last night. I'm really worried about him." A worried blue cat flies into the apartment with Lisanna behind him. "Happy came to the guild all worried. And then he told me what happened and we went to Gildarts place and no one was there. So we came here!" The take over Mage freaked. "Calm down. He snuck into my bed last night. He's asleep peacefully there right now." Mack patted their heads. "I'll show you, come in!" Lisanna walks in with Happy hovering over her. Mack leads them to her room. She opens the door and behold a pink haired boy is asleep in her bed half naked. "Why'd he come here?" Lisanna asked. "I'm guessing he was too tired to walk all the way home. I live closer to Gildarts after all!" Mack exclaimed. "Is it that or the fact that he LLIIKKEESS you!" Lisanna chuckled. Mack blushes, "I'm sure he was just tired. Now let's go make some breakfast." "Well maybe you like him back." The girl proclaimed. "What makes you say that?" Mack blushed harder. "Well one you're holding his scarf and two you didn't wake him up and kick him out of your bed. So you LLIIKKEE him! I'm gonna tease you about this for a long time!" Lisanna giggles while having too much fun with the fact that Mack and Natsu are falling for each other. Natsu also has a crush on Lisanna but he doesn't sneak into her place because of Mira. After a while the girls walk into the kitchen and make breakfast. Meanwhile Natsu is still fast asleep.
An hour later his strong sense of smell wakes him from his deep slumber. He sits up in the bed. "Man what a night." He mumbles then realizing he's still in Mack's bed half naked. He grins and remembers seeing Mack's naked body before falling asleep. "Oh Mack is up! Maybe I outta go say hi or something!" He lays back down and stares at the ceiling thinking about the feelings he may have for Mack and wondering if she feels the same way. "Nah maybe I should wait. It's too soon." He finally gets the motivation to get up and put his trousers on. He then walks out into the kitchen as if nothing happened. "Morning sleepy head!" Mack giggled while eating at the table. "Mornin'" the pink Mage groaned. "Whatcha got to eat? I'm starvin'?" Natsu looks through her cupboard to find something tasty. "You could've told me you were sleeping here last night!" The blue cat flies over and lands on the male mages shoulder. "Natsu turns and looks at his cat, "sorry little buddy. I got too tired to walk all the way home so I came here!" He looks over at Mack with a poker like look on his face. "And I'm glad I did!" Mack blushes even harder. "What's that look mean?" Happy giggles, "they LLLIIIKKKEEE each other!" "We do not!" They both said at the same time. "You see you guys are meant to be! Even when you don't admit it, it all comes down to LLOOVVEE!" Lisanna snickered. The three mages eat breakfast. Mack then gets dressed. Natsu finishes getting dressed and they all head to the guild for another fun filled day!
To be continued in chapter four: Until We Meet Again, My Friend!