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Fairy tail Fanfic
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Chapter 8: Found.
The night air had turned cold against Lucy's skin, wishing she had a jumper or a scarf at the least, she hugged herself in an attempt to keep warm.
Andrew saw this out of the corner of his eye, and drew off his own jacket, putting it around her slim shoulders, Lucy threw him a bright smile and they continued on their walk in silence.
Their conversation had dried up quickly, from the introduction, talking about how their day went, and small talk about the books they liked. Things seemed to go downhill for Andrew.
He felt he wasn't keeping her entertained enough, he could only hope that his date was something nice for her. Even a little romantic even, that was the aim after all. But what he still couldn't understand was his Luck!
Lucy Heartfilia was best known for not just being part of Fairy Tail, but being friends with Natsu Dragneel. The boy raised by a dragon and was infamous for his troubling antics. If Natsu was there with her in the library he was sure he wouldn't be on this date.
They were always together. Some might say they were dating. But Andrew knew better, he had always kept a close eye on Lucy. Like a guardian really. Going as far to see she got home safely some nights.
Natsu didn't do that … well sometimes he did. And then slept over.
He grated his teeth together, he was not worthy of this blonde beauty! He looked at her from the corner of his eye, she had her eyes forward and was admiring the scenery around them.
The park. But not any ordinary park. This one was especially for the nights. It was the size of a football field. Having small ponds and fountains everywhere, enchanted orbs that hovered over in the sky to give light. They were about fifty people walking around, and there were some arcade games as well. It looked like a small festival really. And with neon lights that were high in the air, reflecting colourful lights in Lucy's brown orbs.
She had her mouth slightly agape, staring at the place before her.
"It's—"
"Pretty, I like this place. I often come here sometimes." Andrew started, he a sophisticated way of speaking. Even the slightest of a faded accent. But Lucy could not deny, it was pretty. She had only heard of it briefly time to time, mainly from Wendy.
It had been open for about a year now, but the blonde had not found a time to visit it. She would have to take Natsu here, she promised herself.
"I have a friend I must take here sometime …" Lucy muttered.
Andrew only gave a tight smile back, but otherwise put out his arm.
"Let's get something to eat?" Lucy nodded and linked her own arm with his. She made a note not to dress up too much next time.
"LUCY!" A collective roar of voices yelled out into the night. Like small echoes everywhere. Where could she have gone? He couldn't follow her scent, it was to faint, people had walked by and she had only been here once. That's not long enough for a scent to stick to a place. Even for a Dragon Slayer's nose.
But right now he was in a fretful state. The mini Natsu's streaming down every which way, in hope to find a lead to where she was. He could find nothing.
Nothing!
"Natsu!" He heard Lisanna yell from behind him, he was in no mood to listen to her. She had been in on the plan after all, right?
She jumped out of her own window, from the sound of the thump. Natsu, naturally could out run her, in his normal form. She quickly got in pace with a small horde of them.
What type of friend was he if he couldn't find his friend, his partner?
He could still hear Mira's sing song voice from a block over — He was sure she was standing at her window yelling these things out into the night for all to hear.
She was devious.
"Ohh, but where could she be? Where could she be with her new found lover of the night?" Mira's voice rang out into the night. Mira was even throwing in some dramatic movements for the kick of it. He ground his teeth one final time before charging forward — He also needed to get away from Mira's voice.
"Natsu! Stop for a minute!" Natsu continued running, ignoring her. Didn't even bother to look at her. Natsu's continued to yell in a repeated chant.
"Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!" How could she have gone on a date?
Without him!
"Natsu! Stop, and Listen to me!" Her voice held a tone he had not heard before. Demanding.
Natsu slowed but continued to run.
"If we're going to find her. We're doing it my way." Natsu stopped to stare at her with an intense gaze.
"What would you like? It's my treat." Andrew smiled kindly towards the blonde. Every time he looked at her, his heart would speed up. Was this really happening to him? After all that time of watching her in the library. He actually got a date with her?
This was all too good to be true.
Lucy looked at the menu that was on the wall — she had dressed up for this half expecting a fancy restaurant instead of an amusement park, and that was better then what she had hopped.
But not wanting to disappoint, she smiled at him and ordered a burger. After all, she was hungry.
Lucy walked towards a set of seats, she saw a group of boys walk past her—some even doing a double take. She couldn't help but let her heart soar at attention, and this time no one was breathing fire at them.
This might actually be nice. Hell, she might even get a boyfriend from this.
And stop Mira from chucking her with everyone she meets.
Taking a seat at a wooden table, Andrew sat across from her smiling. He adjusted the glasses on his nose and blushed faintly. She pulled his jumper around her tighter, it smiled of cinnamon and strawberry. Almost too sweet, their wasn't the faintest trace of sweat, smoke and incense from it.
Not like Natsu.
"So, like it so far? I don't know what you would have like for a date, movies, and restaurant, picnic …" he pushed his combed hair further back in a rushed state, flustered.
"This is lovely."
"Really?" Relief showing on his features. Lucy nodded.
The table went quiet again. Not wanting it be awkward, Lucy started up a topic of conversation. Something she at least had some knowledge in, not wanting to be in a topic that she knew nothing about; and seeming like a complete idiot the whole time.
"Do you go to any guild, have magic?
He looked surprised, before blushing and shaking his head.
"Are you interested in it maybe?"
"Y-yeah, I guess. My mum was a mage, but she left. Dad, his not a fan of them much now." He mumbled.
She closed her lips in order not to look surprised by the information, not wanting to be rude on a date. And thankfully, the food was dropped off in front of her. A chicken burger, and in front of Andrew was a tray of hot chips.
She could live with a man like this.
"And I ask you something?" His voice nervous, you could almost hear the quiver.
"Sure."
"Do you enjoy Fairy Tail?" His eyes lit up but there was something else in them. Like a small dark shadow moving behind them, but it must have been a trick of the light, right? But it unnerved Lucy, slightly.
"Yeah, it's my home. My family. I will always love Fairy Tail. It's there for me," Lucy studied his face, waiting for a reaction. But he smiled pleasantly back at her.
"Do you have a team?" She studied his voice, it was more comfortable now. No quiver or stutter.
"Yes, seven people. Me included."
"Really?" he didn't sound surprised at all. Maybe a little sarcastic, the blonde must of imagined it. "Who?"
"Erza, Gray, Wendy, Happy, Carla and of course Natsu … he's the team leader. And the reason why I'm in Fairy Tail — I would have been lost without him." the words came a in a string of warmth and passion.
Andrew glared down at his food, Lucy didn't notice.
She was still talking about him.
"How about we take a walk around? Before some of the rides close tonight?" He smiled sweetly, "Silly me, I didn't keep track of the time."
Lucy looked down at her half-finished food. It would be a waste; she contemplated whether or not she could ask for it in take-away. But she didn't want to be walking around with it all night.
Brushing of her dress she stood up, together they made their way towards some arcade games.
"How can you find her?" Natsu asked, they had been searching for twenty minutes now. And Natsu was becoming less impatient. But in truth, Lisanna had no clue on how to find Lucy.
Lisanna didn't even know where she went, or know what the date looked like. Lisanna just knew that Lucy was dressed up, and heading out with a guy she met at the library.
Natsu said he never saw the guy, he had been somewhere else at that time. And the guilt he was feeling was showing.
"Maybe I could do a Transformation?" She felt she needed to appease him, to show she was helping and being supportive.
"Do what you have to do!" He yelled; his words harsh. Lisanna stood still for a moment, she had seen Natsu only once like this. And they were kids than, he had been searching for Igneel and had come across the beast.
It had Lisanna, in its hand threatening to kill her, Natsu had gotten on his hands and knees to save her. Only something she had only ever seen him do.
But thankfully, Gildart's had found them.
But still, there was something in Natsu's words that reminded her of that night. Almost bringing her back to that moment—but now was not the time to be dealing with past histories, she had to find Lucy.
For Natsu's sake.
Nodding her head, Lisanna let her magic push through her skin—making her appear in a small spear of light for smallest of milliseconds before transforming.
White wings appeared on her back, out-stretched and large. Powerful. Bending her knees she pushed of the ground, for small moment gravity fought her, before releasing its hold on her, and she raised high into the air.
"What about this one?" Time had skipped past fairly quickly, and soon they were getting along like old best friends. Completely comfortable around each other.
"Nah …"
"You don't like Panda's?" His voice of mocking shock, Lucy laughed shaking her head.
"More like Lions," She thought of Loke. The Lion was large and puffy, a toy prize. But she liked anything that reminded her of her Zodiac keys, Lions, Rams, Goats … even the mermaid stuffed dolls.
She was nostalgia about things such as these. She wished, for a moment that she brought her keys. Virgo and Aries would have loved this place.
What if he got offended if she gave them to someone else, but then again, he would never have to know.
"Well, I'll win you a lion!" he smiled, aiming the ball at the hoop. For a nerdy looking guy that didn't seem to a sporty person, but had quite the throwing arm.
Lucy's temporarily uneasiness of him had faded, and was left with feelings of delight. This was her first date. And it was going so well.
"Is there anything?" Natsu called from below, honestly, he didn't shut up.
"I can't see where she could be, have you checked the restaurants around?" that's the job she had assigned Natsu to do, and with fifty of them, they easily divided and spread out. She wasn't in any of them, and Natsu was becoming more distressed by the minute.
"I've checked all the ones around, she couldn't have gotten far from the time she left to the time I found out." his voice had turned dark again.
But there was something Lisanna really wanted to ask the dense idiot, to see if he really was as dense as everyone thought he was.
"Why do you want to find her so bad? You're not dating her, and this her choice to go out." Lisanna looked down at him, to see him only glaring back at her.
"Because … she's … my teammate. And we look out for each other," That's what everyone expected him to say, and what she knew he would say. But there was something more to it.
"And …?"
"And what?" He didn't hold a confused expression, he knew exactly what Lisanna meant. Mira would be proud of her, her detection skills were on point. That and she knew Natsu really well.
"But friends want friends to be happy, to find someone to love and … and start a family with …." Lisanna suppressed a smile. "You're not letting Lucy do this — to her knowledge."
Natsu was silent, thinking of what to say in response.
He looked up at the close friend, it was true. Friends wants friends to be happy, and if Lisanna was to be with someone, Natsu would be fine with it, he wouldn't go to this trouble for her (Well he would, but he was sure Elfman would be on it before Natsu even found out).
But Lucy was different, no one made him laugh like Lucy does, no one makes him as happy as Lucy does. Lucy was special.
"Because … she my best-friend," his voice was slow and even, calculating his words.
"Hmmm," her tone of voice was amused. "So, you would do that for me?" Lisanna knew he would, but she had to push him to the truth.
"Of course, if Elfman hadn't already eviscerated him."
She burst out laughing, seeing the scene play out in her head, very vividly she might add.
"Or if Mira hadn't scared him away with baby talk, like future names."
"Or the colour of their eyes …"
"or who would be the godmother …?"
"Or who got to be the godfather — that's me by the way." Lisanna beamed down to him, it was small moments like these that she loved to share with him.
"I wouldn't want anyone else."
They were best friends after all.
"The lion, my princess," And as small joke, even bowed handing it to her. Elderly couples walked past them smiling, Lucy knew exactly what they were thinking.
"You sound like Loke then," She laughed, thanking him quickly afterwards.
She held the plush bear in front of her, admiring it. It was quite large and softer then she imagined.
"Loke?"
"My … friend."
"Just a friend?" A question tone to his voice, even a little intrusive sounding.
"Yes," Replying quickly and that feeling of uneasiness returning back. Lucy had moments like this along the night. She either felt safe and comfortable around him, or had moments when she felt uneasy around him.
She couldn't place the feeling, but it was like something was off. And she couldn't quite figure out why she felt like that.
She would have to be careful what she said around him, she didn't want to anger him. Or make him upset, like it was crucial that she was polite, and chose her words carefully.
"Oh, known him long?"
"A year and a half, he's very special to me. He's my best friend, and we've saved each other a few times." Despite the feelings of uneasiness, she felt she had to push him a little. To see how he would react.
He returned a tight lipped smile back to her.
"Sounds close — let's go somewhere else," He walked off, heading towards the busier area of people. Lucy stood behind, watching him move through the people, a puzzled expression on her face.
Pulling the lion closer to her chest, she followed behind. Skeptical to where he was heading, but there were people everywhere, she couldn't be in danger. Even without her keys.
"There's some festival looking lights, over there. It's worth a try. She's not at a restaurant or park or watching a movie. This has to be our last option."
Natsu stared up at her, to the area she was pointing. But there was a small light of hope in his chest, it had to be the last option.
But even if she wasn't there, he would search the whole town for her.
He would find her. He would do whatever it took.
"Then what are you waiting for?"
Lucy was lead to a seated shady area, at some park benches. Andrew was sitting at one, smiling at her. Smoothing her dress down Lucy sat opposite of him, as a small form of defence.
"I thought it would be nice, to just talk. Thought you might like that, think we should know each other better. So you don't feel like you're with a complete stranger all night." Brushing the small strands of brown hair back, he gave another one of his dazzling smiles. His teeth were perfect, and there was definitely some cuteness to him.
"Sounds … nice."
"Well, Ahhh … you start."
"I'm Lucy from Fairy Tail"
"I'm Andrew— call me Andy — from nowhere. And I work at a book shop half time," And launched into small story of his life, growing up, moving around a lot … coming to Magnolia.
It was quite boring, and talked monotone the whole time. Enough to make Lucy have to suppress a yawn, and time seemed to drag slowly.
Natsu was never boring, he never made Lucy tired.
And she got dressed up for this.
She asked Mira to watch Natsu while she was gone. What kind of friend was she?
Lucy tried to keep her eyes fixed on Andrew, but it was becoming increasing harder by the moment. Nodding at all the right moments, and saying 'yeah and 'really?' at all the right times.
And other times she tried to focus so hard she became unfocused. The night taking turn for the worst.
But at least she got a souvenir of her first date; that was something. And she didn't have to pay. Small bonus towards her rent.
"I've got to say, this had been truly fun for me. We should do this again … maybe see a movie. What do you think?"
Lucy nodded, unaware of what she was agreeing to a moment later.
"I like action movies, but then again I like a little romance. What do you like? And I'll pay of course, what ya think? Do you like popcorn? I don't like popcorn so we won't get that … hmmm, what's on at the theaters these days?"
Lucy inwardly groaned as he continued to babble on, not noticing Lucy's disinterest. Lucy wished Natsu was here, she wanted her idiot of a goof ball with her.
"Oi!" Lucy started at a small echo of voices yelling, it couldn't be. Could it? Her heart racing in her chest, an uneven rhythm.
Andrew stopped talking and looked around, not seeing the location of voice.
"Down here butt face," he looked down, and so did Lucy. And there they were, gathered together glaring furiously.
Even Lucy cringed. She rarely sees him look at someone like that as he was right now. Even with Natsu in this form, she felt like a child being caught out for doing something wrong.
"Butt face?" Andrew's eyes squinting at chibi Natsu's.
"You need to leave," Such small and simple words, but there was power in them. Forceful and firm, controlling even. They had their feet slightly apart, in a stance.
Lucy knew what this meant.
In some other situation, she would have been furious. But this date was going nowhere, she wanted to leave. And besides, just before, wasn't she just thinking of wishing Natsu was here?
A few made their way onto the table, in front of Lucy—glaring at the man in front of her. The small gesture of defence between the two of them touched her heart. Though, it did feel embarrassing to be in this situation in the first place.
Andrew seemed to have gathered his thoughts and shock of the person in front of him. And Lucy saw something behind those eyes, again, something dark and shifting behind them. Like a sense of evil almost.
And those feelings of uneasiness and alarm came back. She just couldn't place why she felt like this.
"Excuse you, Ms Heartfilia and I are no a date," Natsu's glare only intensified more. There was a limited amount of time before Natsu decided he wanted to cook him better than a Christmas Turkey.
"Actually were not — anymore. This was really sweet and all, but I just don't think this would work." Standing up, she started to walk away.
"Wait!" he reached out to grab her arm, and he would have if Natsu hadn't stopped him. He pulled his hand back, gaping at the red burn on it. He turned his attention back on Natsu "You little-"raising the back of his hand, he swung it forward.
Hitting Natsu.
The force of it had taken the small Natsu off the table.
It was silent for a full minute, before all hell broke out.
Caused by Lucy.
