"Hey, Lucy! Where's Zeref?" Lisanna called, sitting next to the girl at the bar.

"How would I know? I'm not his shadow!" Lucy snapped, her head resting on the bar's wooden surface. Lisanna was taken aback by her harsh tone.

"Don't be mad at her. It's just that Zeref came to her house in the middle of the night, looking for Happy, and he woke her up by stepping on her," Mira explained the poor blond's situation, smiling sympathetically. Lisanna nodded.

"Yeah, I heard. That's why I asked her," Lisanna said, poking the Celestial mage. "Sorry about bugging you. I just wanted to know," she said softly, standing up to look for the anti-social mage. Lucy sighed heavily into the smooth wood.

"Great, now I look like a total jerk," she muttered to herself.

"Found him!" Lisanna called. Lucy looked over her shoulder to see Lisanna struggling to pull a surly-looking Zeref out from under one of the tables. He was apparently hiding from Happy, who was trying to get him to go fishing with him.

"Zeref! Come fishing with me!" Happy demanded when he spotted the boy. He got up in Natsu's face like 'look at me, you jerk!', and glared as harshly as his adorable features would allow. Natsu glared back, though it was only half-hearted.

"I don't want to," he said bluntly. Happy seemed to deflate, his head drooping as he sniffled.

"But you promised..." he whimpered. Natsu didn't soften his glare, but winced inside. How did Happy always get him to do something he didn't want to?

"Fine..." he mumbled, giving in to Happy's sad face. Happy, looking just like his namesake, perked up and sat on Natsu's head.

"Great! Now, let's go!" he chirped. Natsu looked as annoyed as he felt, but followed the neko's order anyhow.

"Ufufufu..." Lisanna snickered. "Reedus, can you paint that for me?" The artist grinned.

"Oui," he confirmed, already starting with the paints. Lucy watched it all, unamused and fuming at the dark mage, before groaning aloud and banging her head on the bar.

"Why does Zeref have to be so dense?" she growled to herself. "He doesn't even care for my suffering..."

"Aw, cheer up! I can tell he thinks you're special, not just because you're a Celestial wizard!" Mira piped happily.

"Why does everyone keep saying stuff about me being a Celestial wizard?" Lucy grumbled. But Mira only grinned slyly, winking mysteriously at the girl before lifting up a glass to clean.


"Natsu...?" Happy whispered, seeing the tense look on the mage's face, his eyes shining golden. Natsu blinked, his eyes turning back to normal.

'Sorry, it happened again,' he apologized. Happy nodded.

"Aye. I could tell. It's getting worse, isn't it?" he asked seriously.

'All the more reason I need to get these to Lucy.' Natsu shifted the small bundle in his lap to the side. 'We'll need them really soon. I can feel it.'

Happy didn't doubt him for a second. Because whatever Natsu said was going to happen always happened, no matter how strange it seemed. And his prediction this timne wasn't a good one.

"How come you like Lucy so much?" Happy suddenly asked. Even a cat could tell Natsu was being overly lenient when it came to the Celestial mage.

'She's a good person. This world needs more people like her,' came the answer. Natsu said it as if it was the most logical thing in the world, but Happy smirked knowingly.

"You liiiike her!" he chuckled.

'Shut up and catch something already.'

"Aye!"


Wow, these just get shorter and shorter. I will try to work on making them longer again, but I'm kind of... well... lazy. *Cough cough*