082 : Fight
"YEAH?! Well if YOUR face had 'Welcome' written on it, it would make the perfect doormat!"
Lucy raised an eyebrow at Natsu's loud voice as she entered the guild through it's large, swinging doors.
"Please! YOUR face is such a mess! Why don't you get Happy something different to sharpen his claws on?"
Lucy raised her other eyebrow as she heard Gray's odd reply.
"What's going on?" Lucy asked as she sat down next to Erza who was contently watching her two childhood friends with the ghost of a smile on her beautiful face.
"You know how they always physically fight?" Erza asked, Lucy nodding in an indication for her to continue, "Well, I was getting tired of that so I suggested that they see whose better mentally."
"And that means whoever can say the best 'your face' joke?" Lucy asked as her face fell.
"Hey, they thought of that. Not me." Erza said with a final shrug as both teen girls turned back to pay attention to the boys again.
"Your face is like your mind Natsu." Gray started, pausing for effect before continuing to say, "It's totally BLANK."
Natsu did a faint growl before saying one of his own of, "I don't know where you got your face from, but I hope you have the receipt."
Lucy put her hand to her mouth to hold in a giggle at the joke, thinking of how Natsu really could use that brain of his if he tried.
"Your face is very becoming. It's becoming more and more UGLY every time I see it." Gray retorted with a lazy smirk.
Lucy's laugh bubbled out of her hand.
"Do you know what me and a mirror have in common?" He paused just like Gray had before and then, "When we see your face we both CRACK UP."
Now the blond's rich laughter escalated loud enough for both of the battling boys to turn to her with furrowed eyebrows.
"It's not suppose to be funny. This is a BATTLE." Natsu snorted as he crossed his arms over his chest angrily, giving a glare to Lucy who was still trying to control her laughter.
"Sorry. By all means, please continue." She squeaked out.
But as the two older teens continued to stare at her blankly, she couldn't help but let anouther roll of laughter slip through her glossed lips at their deathly serious face, completely into this joke battle that was something kids half their age did.
"This isn't going to work if you keep interrupting us." Gray informed as he sighed, running a hand through his hair in exasperation.
"Yeah Lucy!" Natsu scolded.
"Ex-CUSE me." Lucy stressed with sarcasm as she rolled her eyes, "It's just too amusing."
But before either ice or fire mage could interject, there was a sudden 'poof' next to Lucy, the smoke clearing in a second to reveal none other then Loki.
"For you my Princess. I picked them myself." The former playboy said with an air of charm as he handed over a bouquet of colorful flowers.
"Do you need something Loki?" Lucy asked as she accepted the flowers with a smile, looking up to the other blond. She knew that he could sometimes do forced summoning since he was one of the more powerful of the zodiac, but it still slightly surprised her that he was suddenly here.
"Do I need a reason for wanting to talk to an angel?" He asked with a sly grin.
But Loki was slightly shaken as he heard a snort to his right, looking up from Lucy's pretty face to Natsu's grimacing one.
"Can I help you?" Loki asked to the fire mage as his winning smile faded.
"If you can stop interrupting us, that'd be great." Natsu said with a little more venom then necessary.
"My dear Natsu, wh-"
"Don't worry about him Loki. I really appreciate the flowers." Lucy interjected with a smile, her nose hidden in the flowers to smell the wonderful fragrances.
"I'm very glad that you do." Loki said as his glittering smile returned, gracefully swooping Lucy's hand in his own and landing a feathery kiss on it.
"Don't make me puke."
Loki's eye twitched in annoyance as Natsu ruined yet another moment with his precious summoner.
"Can you stop interrupting me?" The Leo spirit asked with a growl hidden in his words.
"Yeah, actually, you could maybe...hm...I dunno, LEAVE?" Natsu continued in an edgy tone.
"Why you little SHI-"
"Loki!"
"Sorry Lucy." Loki was quick to apologize, running a hand through his bright hair to calm him down.
"Alright." He sighed as he realized he wasn't going to get any time alone with Lucy like he'd wanted, "I should be going back soon anyway."
"Well, till next time." Lucy said with kind brown eyes.
"But I need directions. Can you give them to me?"
"To where??" Lucy asked in surprise, blinking at Loki's odd request.
"To your lovely heart." He said in his most seducing voice as he once again kneeled down and kissed her hand.
He disappeared in a second later, leaving the four teens by themselves again, one blinking in surprise while the other three stared.
"That was lame." Natsu finally broke the silence with his sneer.
"I'd like to see YOU try saying something even REMOTELY romantic." Lucy snapped as she dived her face into the flowers again, thinking that Natsu was being overly rude to Loki today for no real reason. I mean, sure, he'd broken up their fight, but so what?
"Fine." He snapped as he closed his eyes in thought.
There was silence yet again as the other three waited for the thinking mage.
"I'm like chocolate pudding, I look like crap but I'm as sweet as can be." He finally said with a nod of his head.
Silence.
Natsu blinked as he starred at his three friends who had just gone pale. He was about to ask what was wrong before they all erupted into hysterical laughter.
"I've heard some bad pickup lines...but that was DEFINITELY the WORST! Especially when YOU said it. I mean...SWEET?! YOU?!" Lucy managed to choke out as she put one hand on her stomach that was sore from laughing while the other one wiped away tears.
"I bet you couldn't do better." Natsu mumbled as he lowered his face into his scarf, slightly embarassed for failing so openly.
"Alright." Lucy said as she stood, an air of confidence around her as she walked to stand in front of Natsu. Gray silently sat in Lucy's vacated seat, both he and Erza intrigued on what was going to happen.
"I hope you know CPR because you've taken my breath away." Lucy said, ending with a small pant, as she placed her hands on her hips. Throughout the years, she'd been hit on enough times that she'd actually remembered quite a few of their pickup lines and so was fully prepared to take on the rosy-haired boy.
"Oh..." Erza and Gray cooed in interest, eyes moving to Natsu who had to respond with another.
"Are you an alien?" Lucy's eyebrow raised in confusion, "Because you just abducted my heart."
"That was just freaky." Lucy blanked as she stuck out her tongue.
Natsu could only weakly growl in annoyance, at him or Lucy, even he didn't know.
"Are your legs tired? Because you've been running through my mind all day AND all night long." Lucy practically purred as she poked Natsu in the chest.
"I know I'm not a grocery item but I can tell when you're checking me out." Natsu said as he blew in her face, causing a few of her bangs to rearange.
"Boy, you better have a license, cuz you are driving me crazy!" Lucy said as she flicked his nose, mildly thinking that this one actually fit a little with their lives.
"Wow Natsu, you're getting you ass handed to you." Gray interjected as he laughed, Erza smiling herself.
Natsu's eyes narrowed at his laughing rival before closing his eyes, trying to think of something that wasn't totally out there like his others and more streamline like Lucy's. But he didn't have much time to think before Lucy's voice broke though his thoughts.
"Hi. I'm a thief and I'm here to steal your heart." Lucy continued while she held back her own laugh, daring to place a hand on his bare chest where his heart would be. She was starting to feel the upper hand on Natsu for once and she was enjoying it.
But she was suddenly stunned as she saw him look up and lock eyes with her, the blond seeing something in his dark pools she'd never seen before. She quickly retracted her hand, having the dreaded feeling that maybe the tables were going to turn.
"Apart from being drop dead sexy...what do you do for a living?"
Lucy gasped as he said that with a grin that would make any girl swoon, even though it was slightly lop-sided. If she wasn't so lost in his eyes and fast paced heartbeat in her ears, she might of heard Erza and Gray gasp in surprise as well.
"Do you have a sunburn, or are you always this hot?" He continued as he took a step forward.
Lucy felt the hairs on the back of her neck tingle as she took a step back, not liking how his face was getting dangerously close to her's.
"If looks could kill you would be a weapon of mass destruction."
Lucy's face suddenly felt warm as she took another step back while he took two forward.
"You've been a bad girl. Go to my room."
Lucy found that she couldn't take anymore steps back as she found an empty table in her way. She held down yelp as Natsu placed his hands on the table on either side of her, bringing his face to her neck.
"And like the sheets on my bed, I want to cover you with love."
Lucy couldn't suppress a shiver at his warm breath on her ear and neck when he'd whispered the heated sentence for only her to hear.
The two stayed in that position, his hot breath making Lucy's knees feel weak, for a few minutes as Lucy's mind ran around in circles to try and come up with something, yet she couldn't keep her mind off of how his body was right there, his lips mere centimeters from her flushed skin.
"I win." Natsu finally broke the tense silence as he stood up and so broke his enchantment on the younger of the two. Lucy let go of a breath she didn't even realize she was holding as his body wasn't pressed to hers anymore. Gray and Erza could only gawk at Natsu's sudden mood changes as he continued to smirk their way like an eight year old as usual. The two blinked as they both wondered if they'd just hallucinated.
"Whatever." Lucy snorted as she blew a few long bangs out of her eyes, hoping that her cheeks weren't entirely aflame.
"That was...interesting." Erza coughed, not used to seeing the teammates act close...in that particular way.
"Yeah, well how about...I must be a snowflake, 'cuz I've fallen for you." Gray opted as he stood to challenge Natsu, not at all affected at what had happened. Erza wondered for a second if he was as dense as Natsu.
"Do you have a map? Because I just keep getting lost in your eyes." Natsu countered without any effort, having gotten the hang of this. He glanced at Lucy as she sat down before reverting them back to Gray who was in deep thought for his next one.
"Who knew Natsu was so good at seducing a girl? Should I put Lady Killer on his list of talents?" Erza said as she continued to watch the two boys spit pick up lines back and forth, Natsu's much better overall which was pissing Gray off on an entirely new level.
Lucy could only groan as she hit her head on the table, wondering why her heart wouldn't go back to it's normal, steady rhythm and why her face felt like Natsu had put it on fire.
Damn that idiot for making her feel so thrown off balance like no guy had ever done before.
A/N: I wanted to do a 'Yo Mamma' fight but that wouldn't have really worked what with Natsu being raised by a dragon and Gray's parents dying and all so I went with 'Your Face' and then it just...evolved (?) into what you just read cause I couldn't think of that many straight forward ones, so-o GO OVERLY CHEESY PICK-UP LINES GO!!...yeah. I actually kinda like how it turned out and hope it was at least a little funny and/or amusing to yall :D (which was your fav line?) And no...I don't care if Natsu is OC and I hope you don't either XP Mind reviewing?
