A Natsu and Lucy fanfiction. I don't own FairyTail

A man's best friend is not his dog. Who will simply pant and wag it's tail telling you that everything is all right.

A man's best friend is the one that points out his faults, who tells him what he is doing is stupid, who holds out his hand to the other when he has fallen, who has been with him when he at his worst, and is still friends with him despite all the trouble the other has put him through.

He is the friend that most are too proud to want, or wish we wouldn't have, but what we all need. He is only interested in making you better as a person, rather than filling your selfish head with sickly flattery to fatten your ego as all the others do.

Do you have such a friend?

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Starlight Stalker: Lucy's Lost?

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Chapter 6:

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Lucy...

Lucy...

Natsu could only think of the shocked scream that she had given off when the dragon wizard had taken her. Where could they have gone? Why did she ask him to stop? Nothing made any sense.

"You can consider yourself a fool to have never taken the opportunity when you had the chance."

Lucy's kidnapper's words echoed in his mind. 'Taken the Opportunity' what did that mean? That he should had come onto Lucy beforehand. 'a Fool ... that had the chance'.

Natsu shook his head clear of all the raging emotions that threatened to eat at him. Master Makarov would know what to do. He ran as fast as he could down the cobbled streets until he reached the dark guildhall.

"MASTER MAKAROV!" Natsu yelled at the top of his lungs. "WAKE UP!" He smashed through the doors and charged into the building. There were still a few people sat on chair and at tables that were noctornal and drinking the night away.

Cana woke up from her sleeping arrangement at the bar and turned round. "Natsu... what the hell are you still doing here, didn't you leave like an hour ago?"

"I have to speak to Makarov!" Natsu charged upstairs and smashed into the Master's study only to find he wasn't there. He charged back down again and shook Cana awake once again.

"Where is Makarov?!"

"Shut up!... Not so loud." Cana opened her eyes slightly and noticed the worried look on Natsu's face. "Okay, … What's gone wrong?"

"It's Lucy! We have to save her. She has disappeared. And left nothing but her keys!"

"You drank a little too much today Natsu, it will be fine in the morning." Cana laid back down. He shouldn't get so worried. If she doesn't want to always see him.

"No you don't understand Lucy's been kidnapped! I saw it happen! He stole her from her house!"

Just then Erza came into the guildhall from outside. She had just finished taking some of the girls back to their dormatres. Because it was the proper thing to do. She was disgusted to see Natsu in such a state, but instead of interupting him she listened as he ranted at Cana. After the yelling increased and more drunk people had woken up in their angry and stupidfied state she decided to clear up the matter.

Charging forward Erza kissed him across the face with her metal plated fist, sending him flying into the wall making a large Natsu shaped pattern in the wood. "Stop it! Your being irrational and you're not making any sense!"

"Erza?..." Natsu looked back at her as his body slowly cracked back into shape.

"Now," Erza walked up to him pulling him out of the wall by the scruff of his clothes and set him back on his feet. "Would you care to tell me exactly what happened."

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Under Erza's demands Natsu took her back to Lucy's apartment to see what really happened. Gray having been one of those sleeping at the guild also joined them to find their friend.

"Gosh you really did smash the window didn't you?" Erza said as they approached Lucy's house.

"Yes," Natsu answered and then jump up and stepped through the already broken window.

What Natsu had said seemed to be true, or parts of it anyway.

"Wait a minute. Natsu? Did you really interrupt two people having sex?" Gray looked at him with a creped out expression.

"No!" Natsu spluttered. "He was all over her, but they weren't having sex at that point." Now that Natsu had a few moments to think back on it. Why had they both been wearing clothes if the entire room smelt like they had had sex. It didn't make sense.

"But you dragged him out of Lucy's Bed and threw him through the window?" Erza asked.

"Yes." Natsu answered hoping Erza didn't have another anger fit.

Erza simply nodded, and then turned her head around observing everything within the crime scene. "There is hardly any indication of a struggle from Lucy's perspective. It's almost as if she cleaned up after herself before you came in." She lifted up the sheets of the bed. "Even the sheets look clean."

"Oi Natsu? This is gross you know." Gray came out of the bathroom holding up a bag of dirty pink hair. "I've heard of the concept of leaving stuff round other people's houses as an excuse to move in with them..."

"Hey! That's not mine."

"... but this is a bit much..." Gray looked into the bag with disgust and threw it at Natsu.

Natsu was about to repeat how the hair wasn't his, when he recognized the colour of the hair really did match his. Apart from the fact that there were parts that were badly clumped up together and blackened, it really did look like his.

He looked up at the others. "This is not my hair. I have never had hair like this. Look at how black it is at the ends."

Erza stepped forward and examined the clumps. "Hum... I'll take it and look into trying to identify who the real culprit is." Gray glanced back at Erza, she really did take on the role of detective very seriously.

Erza made her way to the laundrary basket and opened it to find the something that she had been excepting. "Oh gosh." she held it away from her face. "This sheet was the one they did it on." As she unfolded it she noticed the damp patches and red marks on the sheet. 'so she had time to strip the bed afterwards and even put on a new sheet. She must have been with someone who she felt comfortable around.'

'If I had been asked who was the most likely person to have done this I would have thought it was Natsu. There's even burnt areas on the sheet.'

"Natsu are you sure she was rapped." Erza asked as she turned around to see him. Gray was the only one behind her looking very white, and from Lucy's Bathroom came the only sounds froom Natsu bringing up everything he had drunk that night.

Erza sighed, it wasn't his fault, but this was really serious. And they needed to get to the bottom of this as soon as possible.

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After a few days of lots of different tests being done at Lucy's apartment the DNA of anyone other than Natsu could not be found. It was as if this so called kidnapper had never existed.

At the end of the week with still no lead to go on Master Makarov called Natsu to his office. "Natsu my boy." he took a deep breath. "Are you sure you have told us all."

"Yes, Lucy was in her house, I came to see her. She had been hurt by that other guy. I threw him out the window. We fought across the river and on the street. He could use fire and sort of turned in a dragon. And he stole Lucy."

"Are you sure there wasn't anything else? In which direction did he go or fly?"

"They just disappeared." Natsu said frowning. "Oh!"

"What?"

Natsu dug deep down in his pockets and pulled out Lucy's keys. "He also used Lucy's keys I think. I don't know how but he disappeared after using them."

Makarov frowned and leaned back into his seat. He hated it when things like this happened to his children and he wasn't even sure where he should start to look.

"So? Have you got an idea yet?" Natsu approached the master.

"I do not know how to get her back. There are very few Celestrial Mages in this world today and I suggest trying to find one in order to explain what has happened here. Only a celestrial Wizard will be able to find out if Lucy has crossed over into the Celestrial World." he sighed heavily. "That's is the only thing I can think of. A Celestrial Spirit must have come through a portal and taken Lucy back with him."

Natsu could feel himself burning up again.

Makarov glanced back at Natsu. "We can do nothing on this side if that is the case. We must simply rely on Lucy's ability and that she will be able to get back. But if you wish to look for the answers yourself I encourage you to do so. This is very disturbing news. Nothing like this has ever happened to a Celestrial Mage before." He frowned and leaned over his walking stick slowly walking back out his door, ready to announce the outcome to the rest of the anxious guild. "Take care my boy." he muttered over his shoulder.

Natsu didn't really hear him. He had to sit down. What was really going on here? That guy had not looked like one of Lucy's Celestrial Spirits, and yet he could have sworn he had seen him somewhere before.

"You can consider yourself a fool to have never taken the opportunity when you had the chance."

How dare he hurt her!

"She spread her legs for me, she moaned my name while I was in her, she groaned when I bit her again and again."

No! She didn't. But what if she did?

No she didn't.

Natsu bowed his head and held it in his hands looking at his knees. Where was she? Where was she? She needed to be alright. He needed to know she was alright. He needed to tell her everything would be fine.

Natsu clenched his fists shocked at how just the mere thought of someone touching her in that way made his entire body burn and ache with rage. What on earth is wrong with me? Did I really think of Lucy as my possession?

Natsu ran his fingers through his hair and gripped entire handfuls of it. What was he going to do? What if that guy was still at it? What if he was still hurting Lucy in that way?

Natsu blinked when he found he couldn't see out of his eyes any longer. Large drops fell to his knees. He let go of his hair and wiped the tears from his eyes. He had never felt so unable to rescue Lucy before. He had never felt so surprised by an opponent, it was as if the attacker had known everything there was to know about him, and knew he could do no harm to him.

"Natsu?" Erza appeared infront of him. He hadn't even realized she had come into the room. He tried to turn aside, but Erza would have none of that and pulled him up into a bone breaking bear-like hug.

"It must have been horrible to witness what happened back then, but you must pull yourself together if we are to recover Lucy." She pulled away from him and looked him firmly in the eyes. "I won't allow anyone to steal my friends away from FairyTail. And So we shall fight!" She pulled her sword out and swung it near his head. Her eyes locked onto his watching for his reaction.

Natsu nodded his head with appreciation and grasped a hold of Erza's firm shoulder. This was definitely what he needed. He needed a mission. He needed a team. He needed his friends. "Let's go find a way to kick this sorry guy's ass back to embers where his burning backbone was born from."

"That's the spirit Natsu! I'll get a team together." Erza smiled at him as she left him alone once more.

"I will come for you Lucy. I will."

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Sorry this chapter has been a long time in coming, but here it is now. I hope you continue to enjoy the story.

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