Here is another one! Whoops, I hope you enjoy!
The scream that reverberated through the house was loud enough to make Natsu visibly flinch. Lucy clung to him as though her life depended on it and he couldn't help but roll his eyes as he tentatively patted the girl on the shoulder.
"You know this isn't real, right? Geez Luce, I didn't know you were such a wimp." This comment earned him a light slap on the shoulder as the blonde pulled herself out of his grasp and folded her arms across her chest with a pout.
"I'm not a wimp. Cut me a little slack, isn't this movie supposed to be the scariest of the year?" Lucy leaned over and reached for the CD case that lay there from when she'd taken the disk out. She squinted as she struggled to read in the dark and blinked repetitively when suddenly the lamp beside Natsu flickered on and she frowned at him.
"It's bad for your eyes to read in the dark," he said with a shrug, causing her to sigh and return her attention to the somewhat graphic cover of the case that she held in her hands. It was the face of what appeared to be a young boy, only instead of eyes there were teeth and where the mouth was supposed to be… there was a zipper.
It pretty much looked like the cover of every other scary movie that Lucy ever had the 'pleasure' of seeing. Which wasn't that many, if she was being completely honest.
Her chocolate eyes scanned the front and back of the DVD case as she searched for the words that she'd been certain that she had seen when they first picked it up. "A-ha! See!" She pointed and held it out for Natsu to take a look, as though he couldn't read over her shoulder. "'Scariest movie of this decade'," she quoted, "So no, I'm not a wimp."
As though her words had summoned some kind of unknown force, there was a loud banging sound from deeper within the house. This time, it was Natsu who tensed.
"What was that?" He asked, his voice suddenly not quite as light as it had been mere moments before.
Swallowing nervously, Lucy felt herself scooting closer to Natsu though he shook his head as he stood up from the couch. "I'm going to go see what that was, Lucy…" he trailed off before looking deeply into her wide and frightened brown eyes.
"Natsu… don't leave me," she whispered as she grasped his sleeve, "I'm…" she shook her head before worrying her lip a bit, "shouldn't we call the police? What if it's a thief?" She didn't care much for the thought of Natsu going off and confronting anything unknown to the both of them.
Of course, she knew Natsu was strong. He had to be considering the fact that he had trained so hard to get into the police force. Lucy had been with him every step of the way, and even though Natsu had always been so strong… he'd definitely been challenged. Natsu had managed to pull through and pretty much ace every single test that he had to take. So it wasn't as though Lucy doubted Natsu's strength, that certainly was not the case.
She supposed that she'd worry about him even if he became the strongest man alive. Even the strongest had their weaknesses.
"Lucy, you can call the police. I'm pretty sure Gray is on the clock right now, he'll be over the second he hears about this. I just don't want them to get anywhere near you, I can't risk something like that." His lips formed a frown and Lucy's heart gave a little bit of a squeeze from within her chest, Natsu was about to pull his arm from her grasp when there was another noise.
This one was much closer, much louder.
Much more terrifying, because they still couldn't see what the cause was. It sounded as though something or someone had deliberately slammed their hand against the wall.
Now Lucy was off of the couch as well as she tried to see past the small halo of light that the lamp provided. It felt as though the actual light switch was too far away to even consider dashing to.
Not that it actually mattered. Moments later, the lamps light bulb flickered once… twice… and then went out completely. Immersing the pair entirely in darkness considering the fact that the tv also shut off.
Lucy would never go so far as to say that she was a superstitious person… except that she totally was. The blonde could feel gooseflesh rising on her arms as she immediately wished that they had chosen a light-hearted movie instead of something from the horror genre.
She wouldn't be so scared right now had they been watching something like Bambi.
She'd be too busy thinking about cute little deer and bunnies, the idea of some psycho serial killer or evil ghost would be nowhere near her thoughts.
The familiar sound of a lighter being flicked was the only warning Lucy had before the light from the small flame illuminated Natsu's face, he looked angry.
"Don't worry Lucy, I'm going to take care of this. You have your cell, right? Call 911." Already, Lucy was fumbling with the pockets of her sweat pants and she felt herself begin to tremble when she saw the small 'x' that sat beside her signal bars.
"Natsu… I'm not getting a signal. I always have a signal, why don't I have signal?" she felt the panic settle in as her breathing began to become a bit irregular.
However, before either one of them could say or do something else… there was another bang. This time it sounded as though it was right next to Lucy. She jumped about five feet into the air and Natsu grabbed her, effectively pulling her back and behind him as he waved the lighter around in an attempt to see who threatened his girlfriend.
"Whoa! Watch it!"
The voice belonged to neither Natsu nor Lucy, though both of them recognized it.
Lucy could feel herself beginning to relax before she felt hands on her shoulders and she could practically feel her soul leaving her body due to the shock.
"Boo!" This was another familiar voice.
"E-Erza?" Lucy asked faintly and she could hear laughter, a lot of laughter.
Was everybody there?
Mere moments later and the lights came back on and she could see that practically everybody was there, even Laxus and his squad.
"What the hell?!" Natsu demanded, though the anger that had been there before was no longer present in his tone.
"We're throwing you two a surprise halloween party, can't you tell? You are such an idiot." Gray waved his hand around as though he'd just stated a well known fact, effectively re-igniting Natsu's anger. The rose-haired young man jumped towards Gray and the two began to fight.
"H-hey! Not in the house!" Lucy shouted, recovering from her temporary state of shock.
The two reluctantly took the rain-check though continued to glare at one another. Lucy couldn't help but giggle a little bit at their antics before she turned her attention onto the scarlet haired young woman who now stood beside her.
"Why do we get a surprise halloween party?" Lucy asked curiously and Erza laughed a bit at the blonde's surprise.
"Do you really need to ask? This is the first year you and Natsu are officially dating! We all decided that we needed to do something special, it was Gray who suggested we try and scare the wits out of you first. I was hesitant, though I do agree that it was quite amusing to watch the two of you freak out."
"Hey!" Lucy tried to hold an angry face, though she couldn't help but smile.
"We brought food!" It was Levy who spoke this time, she bounced over with Gajeel in tow. He was carrying what appeared to be two different dishes. "I made a punch earlier, but I kind of dropped it on the way here." She frowned at this and Gajeel chuckled.
"She tripped over nothing, it was pretty cute."
Levy's cheeks heated up and she spun on her heel to glare at her boyfriend. "Gajeel! You didn't need to say that!" The dark-haired man only laughed before he turned and walked away, looking for a good spot to put the food. Quickly finding the counter where the others had put other snacks and things.
Soon, music was blasting and Lucy was convinced that her stingy neighbors would complain about the noise level.
She supposed it was a good thing that half the police force was there in that house with her.
They liked to call themselves 'Fairy Tail', Lucy was beginning to think about studying to join as well.
