Eeeeep, I'm already on chapter 9! Omigarsh! I'm am so stoked on how much this story has blossomed, really all the support given by all of you is so overwhelming. It really makes me want to write chapters in one go.

So yeah I'm proud to announce that this story will never be discontinued! Unless I die… But that would be thinking negatively. Yosh! So one more thing if anything so far is confusing to anyone just give me a PM and I will simplify or rectify the chapter that is confusing.

A shout out to Jellybeanbubbles for being the Beta of this chapter, twas nervous about posting this one but she helped a lot :D


Lucy groaned loudly into her pillow, what the hell happened today? One thing she knew she spoke to Natsu over on the phone to make lunch arrangements and next thing she does without hesitation was confess her love to him and over the phone no less! That wasn't the worst part, no, when they went to the café where they had their first date at he acted funny. She would only guess he felt awkward about her confession. She would find him looking at her contemplating what to say, but nothing came out but cliché conversation topics. She grew irritable and didn't say goodbye to him properly which usually was, as shameful as she will admit, a steamy kiss. She didn't want him near her after that lunch whether be it that she was mad at herself for saying something he's not fully comfortable saying back or the fact that he was being a shmuck and not being honest and casual around her. When she arrived home she went into her feeble position we found her in the beginning.

While in this disgracing situation, she looked over if it was true. Did she really have such emotion for the man or was it mere infatuation? But she's never slept with him because she kept to the morals she set for herself of keeping it in wedlock so infatuation was not it. Really to be hones scientifically it doesn't take long to fall in love so perhaps the confession was long overdue. She was utterly embarrassed and confused. Her phone rang multiple times but once she saw the caller ID's of her friends she ignored the adamant hard rock ringtone of Sum41. She chuckled at the ironic lyrics of the song 'How can we fake this anymore, to turn our backs away and choose to just ignore.'

Indeed ironic. She looked at the ID and lifted her eyebrow at who was calling, it was Gray. It took her a minute of contemplating to answer but it came clear to her that Gray only called to give or get information. She swiped her finger on the green phone icon to answer.

"Hello?"

"Yeah Lucy is your idiot boyfriend with you?!" He yelled

"No why what did he do?" she asked

"The idiot came in here, thumped me in the face and ran off!" he yelled over the phone.

"… I don't care where he is so you're on your own." She said bitterly.

Gray grumbled over the phone "I don't know who I dislike more; that poser fire freak or the pink headed pansy."

She was taken back a bit by his dislike of the city's hero. "Why don't you like Salamander?" she asked

He groaned loudly "Don't tell me your supporting him too! Gosh he's got everyone wrapped around his damn finger."

Lucy raised her eyebrow listening to Gray's rants "I can understand Natsu but what grudge to you have on Salamander?"

He stopped groaning as if he was to sound serious "I don't trust him. One day he appears out of nowhere and becomes some great idol. But I'll ask you this, why is he hiding from us? I for one don't think he should have any reason to hide… plus he's an arrogant bastard."

Lucy couldn't disagree with the last point. She remembered clearly that she wanted to sock him when he carried her to her home. But the other points Gray brought up sounded stupid to the blonde so she wasn't going to fuel the fire and ended the conversation with him. Her mind did wonder why Natsu went down there to punch the detective. She had the idea of the dislike between them whenever they went out as a group so maybe Natsu got angry at work and needed to blow some steam. She'd never seen him angry, maybe upset but never to the degree of violence. Was this thought evident that she didn't know him that well still? She retraced her steps of what she didn't know about him and the list was long. Even going to his place longer than an hour was a taboo.

She looked at her phone and missed several of Natsu's calls. Maybe he was mad at her or not answering his calls… But Natsu wouldn't get so easily upset over that, maybe if you took the last dumpling but not over a few missed calls. Lucy collapsed on her bed and threw her phone by her side. She decided to close her eyes and not think of it till the morrow.


The next morning Lucy was in no better mood than she was yesterday. She ran late and didn't eat breakfast and her coffee was cold, reasonably her being grumpy would be justified. When entering her floor she made sure not to make eye contact with anyone she knew but she knew Levy would notice something's up straight away. She sat down on her swirly chair in her cubicle to find a stray sunflower in a vase. There was no card on or indication of who it was from. It did cheer her up slightly and she placed the flower at the corner of her desk.

She saw Sorano walk past with her handbag about to leave "You not working today Sorano?" Lucy asked

"Oh no, I don't feel so well so I handed in my work to Mira, see you Lucy" she said hurriedly walking fast to the elevator

Weird… but she wish she could do the same and leave. She had no assignments to do which meant she would have to go to Mr Makarov, while walking to his office she noticed Levy was in the copy room talking to Jet and Droy who working in the food and exercise columns in the paper. While approaching her boss' door Mira stood in front of her abruptly stopping her. Her face looked worried, Lucy could tell with her features looking so porcelain in a small frown and her eyes dull.

"Sorry Lucy. Mr Makarov is in the middle of a meeting and doesn't want to be disturbed"

She looked at the door hesitantly and back to Mira's pleading face, looks like Lucy wasn't the only one having a bad day. She squeezed Mira's shoulder and gave her a light smile.

She was really going to be restless now, with her boss in a meeting for who knows how long and no stories to write she might as well leave. Albeit she had, let's call it, an intuition that something might happen. So she planted herself in her chair and noticed the sunny day was turning into a tempest. From the distance she saw flashes in the sky coming ever so closer.

While sitting at his desk rubbing his temple the short old man was just near snapping his last piece of sanity. On the other side of the desk was a young blonde man well into his mid-twenties with a large lightning shaped scar on the right hand side of his face going over his eye and eyebrow. The young man looked irritable and just as angry as Makarov.

"Laxus just what do you think you can achieve of this?" the old man stared at the younger one.

The blonde rose his eyebrow at the, what he thought, stupid question. He dropped his angry demeanour and laughed darkly "Really Jii-chan, I have no idea what you're referring to."

Makarov was slowly turning read and reached for his file "We are missing thousands of jewels Laxus…There is only person who might know the password to the Bureau and it's you."

Laxus pulled a face as if her were offended "And why would I do that Jii-chan?"

"I don't know Laxus, I just gave it a thought you know after your little outburst the other day after I told you I'm not retiring."

Laxus scowled at his grandfather. Behind Makarov outside the large window the clear blue sky was getting engulfed in dark storm clouds. Flashes of lighting brightened the sky and thundered roared across the city. Like a beast slowly approaching its prey and roaring out in fury.

"The thing is my boy, why would you take the money..? So I want a clear answer of where you were three weeks ago."

Lucy reached out for her pen and got a static shock from it, her hand jerked away from the reflex and dropping the pen. She wasn't the only one; many in the office dropped their items from the static shock that went through the office. The next weird thing was all the computers had gone static. Lucy had assumed there was a hectic electrical storm heading their way and unplugged her unit of electricity. It made no difference it was still on the brink. Lights flickered above everyone's heads and the lightning storm outside grew closer the building.

The sound of lightning cracked inside the building making all fall to the ground covering their ears. The sound came specifically from Makarovs office. Mira had brought herself to her feet and opened the door to find Laxus standing over a lifeless small body. Her heart wrenching scream pierced through the office which made Lucy to jolt in fear.

Mira's palms covered her mouth to stifle her crying. Laxus looked up to the white haired beauty and smirked "He ain't dead. Just a little overcharged."

His gaze met Mira's, who in fact looked petrified. She couldn't make out what Laxus was now, he was sparking with bolts of electricity and his veins were coursing with power. His eyes looked murderous and crazy with power. He walked over the limp body towards Mira; she backed up immensely to the office room with all the cubicles set up. Laxus came into view in front of everyone looking menacing, he jolted forward and grabbed Mira by her arm and her scream racked his eardrum. She couldn't pry herself from his grip and the jolts of static electricity rippling under her skin.

"Ye know I still like to take you out for dinner Mira-chan" he purred.

She growled at him in anger despite her position. Jet was foolish enough to grab Laxus' hand to take it off Mira. He did too but was electrocute into the wall, twitching and groaning he survived the electrocution. Droy ran to his side to help his friend. Mira stood back with the others while Laxus sneered at all of them.

"Listen here! Fairy Tail Bureau is under new management and you are all fired… or rather electrocuted." He extended his arm and opened his palm for everyone to witness his hand pulsing with lightning he created.

Loke pushed his way through "You take over a business and kill all its employees? That doesn't make sense?"

Laxus' eyes darted to the gingered haired man and chuckled "Don't be stupid I'm not really taking over idiot. I'm just gonna toy with ya and empty every one of yours bank accounts."

Loke shut his mouth having no response. Lucy shifted so very slightly to the phone to dial for the police. When she just lifted it Laxus snapped to her view, his scowl looked vicious and fowl.

"Princess I don't think you noticed" he said while he walked towards her. "I control the power here. Literary." He pushed her away from her desk and looked her in the eye. She held her breath wanting to badly scream in his face. Something clicked while looking at her.

"You're the front page bitch" he laughed loudly "So where's your boyfriend freak now?" he grabbed her by the throat and lifted her up.

Loke tried to walk forward to stop it but Mira stopped him and made him aware of the electrical field in front of all of them. Unaware how badly they would be electrocuted they all wanted to charge at the blonde man but stayed frozen in their spot. The sound of Lucy's gagging made Mira shake from fear.

"He-he'll come" Lucy choked.

Laxus let go of his grip ultimately letting Lucy drop on the ground breathing for air. It didn't feel like any ordinary choke, she felt the sparks flow through her body which made her breathing harder than usual and felt like it would instantly end her. Her body shivered from the residue of the voltage from when he held her.

"The building is protected by my lightning clouds. Anyone who steps one foot in this building will be electrocuted." He smirked.

"Now who's next" he said cracking his knuckles.

No one answered but a body moved to the front of everyone wearing a hoody and jeans. "You say Salamander can't get in 'cause of them clouds" the hooded man asked.

"Are you deaf? No one-"

"But what if he was already inside the building? What would you do?" he hooded man unzipped his hoody and threw it to the side. Red vibrant locks captured Lucy's sight and a wave of gladness and relief poured over her knowing things would get better with Salamander here still unknowing of his real identity. Albeit she felt a shiver run down her back and saw Laxus' fist fly towards Salamander and punching into his stomach, he flew over to the other side of the large room into the cubicle smashing it into many pieces.

Natsu groaned and lifted himself up to charge back at Laxus but noticed the people trying to back off, he looked to Lucy who noticed too. Giving her a nod she understood and ran to the fire escape. One problem was the barrier outside.

Natsu would just have to take him down before they'd get there. One by one the people went through, Mira being the last one carrying Mr Makarov. Everyone evacuated except for Lucy.

Natsu ran at full speed with his fists on fire ready to crisp the bastard. Every punch he threw Laxus took it without any harm inflicted. The blonde male took a fiery punch into eh head and still came out unharmed. He looked to the red head and grinned wickedly and outstretched his arm to punch. When he had he combo moved it with a swift kick to his legs and slammed his electrocuted body into Natsu's into a wall.

Natsu was struggling badly and his energy, strength and breathe was dropping. Lucy could only watch from a distance in fear that Salamander was failing. The room was in shambles and more than half the wall was gone bringing in the cold storm draft. He looked her way and begged her with his gaze to leave but shook her head. He looked to his opponent who had stopped his beating on him and was taking his shirt off.

"Neh poser, I want to show you something neat before you die" Laxus mocked

A huge burst of light filled the room and engulfed Laxus in it. The electric surge of it was too powerful to look at. When it dimmed down Laxus was twitching from power, his muscles double in strength and his arms were completely covered in scales. His irises were white as if his eyes rolled back. Lucy never felt so fearful at the sight of one single being, but Laxus didn't look human; he looked beastly. Once Laxus finished his power up he smiled revealing he had carnivore like teeth.

Natsu looked down to his wounds and winced at the lack of fire around him to refuel himself. He stood his ground awaiting Laxus to come, at lightning speed he did and impacted into Natsu with an unholy amount of power that struck through him like a knife. Natsu jumped back and held his bleeding wound and struggled to breathe. Laxus yawned mockingly at Natsu and looked to were Natsu's wound was. The superhero knew there was a small chance of failing but it wasn't an option.

"Jeez they make a bigger deal out of you than what you are. Or are you holding back?" Laxus asked, he looked around for a motivation and found one straight for the picking.

Natsu saw him look at Lucy and yelled for her to run. She didn't have enough time though because her whole figure lay on the floor under Laxus feet. His foot pushed into her skull and made the blonde woman make an unpleasant sound. Natsu couldn't stand the sound of her groaning and screaming it made his flames grow hot with anger which Laxus was pleased to see, although he threw a cheap shot of a lightning bolt into Natsu's face.

On impulse Natsu tried something that might have killed him but he took in a deep breath and ate the lighting given from Laxus. Laxus stared not believing what his eyes perceived. Natsu shuddered with the lightings power within him but felt the fire sensation in his centre. Lighting his fists the lightning poured threw his veins and settled in his palm just as Laxus did but the lightning Natsu had mixed itself with his flames.

Natsu ignored the pain of his abdomen and ran at top speed to the lightning user and socked him right off Lucy. Feeling his own power hurt him Laxus grew furious and continued to fight with the red head. Every time he jabbed Natsu would swiftly dodge the huge man's blows. Lucy managed to crawl from the brawl and got behind Salamander. She noticed too he was having similar scales that of Laxus' but it wasn't on his arm but on his face and along his cheekbones and forehead. He really did live up to the name Salamander now.

From the enormous power coming from them the roof had fallen to shambles. Natsu was getting back into it by landing many hits on his opponent and by the looks of things they were neck in neck with Natsu slightly stronger. The weather wasn't on his side as it started to rain. His flames were although never dulled or extinguished he kept persevering waiting till Laxus energy depleted. Their fighting became ragged and was slowing down; Laxus stumbled back to the edge of the building looking over to where the people couldn't cross the barrier he put earlier, where his Grandfather couldn't be attended to a medic. Natsu stopped his blows to look where Laxus was gazing unknowing the relationship between the people down there. The storm clouds were slowing lessening revealing the blue sky and sunshine and the rage of the storm became nothing thus letting the medics get to the endured on the other side of the barrier.

Laxus looked back up to the red head with a frown rather than a scowl "Let's finish this another time." Laxus jumped of the side of the building and disappeared by Natsu's sight.

With Natsu's system resting he didn't realise the pain he was really in and another attribute made him slightly ill. One could only assume it was the lightning he ate or the fact Laxus took too many shots to his abdomen. He crouched down trying to catch his breath and felt something covering his back. It was his hoody which he wore as being Natsu not Salamander. Remembering he wanted to come up and talk to Lucy and tell her what he should of told her over the phone yesterday, that he loved her too.

He looked up at his girlfriend who was near tears "I figured you wanted this back"

He put it on not looking at her trying to forget her screams from earlier which ached his heart to the point of breaking but at the same time he was angry at her "Why did you stay? You could've gotten yourself badly hurt." He said in a low raspy voice.

She didn't answer and lowered her head to look at the floor and his gaze poured into her skull. She was about to cry which twisted Natsu's heart with agony and that he was so stupid to put her in all these types of danger. He came up with his resolve but wanted one last thing was Lucy.

He moved closer to the blonde, with his palms he held her face and brought his lips onto hers. His kiss was desperate, needy and passionate for what seemed like the only reason Lucy hadn't moved. She felt his gentleness and affection brought out on her whom she couldn't deny felt magical. He sucked on her lower lip and stroked her hair until his breath went out and he pulled away from her. Her eyes blinked open to see the fire breather looking conflicted.

She was about to say something but the red head beat her "Take care of yourself."

He climbed back onto his feet feeling his energy slip away which meant his disguise would fade away too. He pulled the hoody on and flipped the cover over his head to hide away his pink locks that were returning. He ran off wincing at his wound, before Lucy could see him. She sat frozen on the floor and breathing in threw her nostrils catching her breathe back. Although that was an amazing kiss she kept imagining it was Natsu that was kissing her and not Salamander. She was in love with him after all.

Little did she know that Natsu Dragneel had packed his belongings and left Magnolia that night.


Boom clap! I kept my word!

So I think I did okay for my first super person fight. It's kind of hard making them so equal to another I strength. Keep in mind this has very little reference to the Laxus arc. I made it my own suckers! And well don't get me wrong guys I like Laxus now but I despised him before the Tenrou arc so me making him a baddy for now is justified.

Come closer friend I want you to meet someone special. Just look below… Yes his name is review and I hope you'll be the best of friends.