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Warning minor cussing in this chappy...srry i can't help it
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Chapter 9
Trapped Fire and Ice
Lucy gapped at the pink-haired man from before and stood up so she could go say thank you. But, before the man had the chance to step forward out of the shadows, the monster from before woke. It started growling softly, drawing the attention of everyone in the room.
"Gray," Wednesday muttered as she approached him cautiously,"change back. You can't win." Gray huffed defiantly before something resembling a grimace crossed his face. The monster sat up, and a glowing white light surrounded it.
(OMG! Grey is actually listening to someone!)
The light faded to reveal a dark-haired man. He stood up and brushed his black jeans off. Then he turned and locked eyes with Lucy.
"You bitch!" he yelled as he started walking to her,"Look at what you did to my face!" Lucy frowned, looked at where he was pointing and then gasped. Everyone else seemed to see it too, but no one stepped forward to help clean him up.
Running from Gray's right temple, all the way to just above his eyebrow, was a huge tear in his skin. It was bleeding profusely, but Gray either didn't notice or was too mad to care. Lucy knew he was angry, ok, furious, but that didn't mean he could call her names or walk toward her like he was going to throttle her. Wait...Is he growing?
(He can change up to 5 times a day so yeah...)
He continued his decent to her as she stood there. Suddenly he broke into a run and charged at her, fury written all over his face. His body started to change again when he was almost to her. Lucy closed her eyes and braced herself for the impact, but there wasn't one. Something slammed into her from the side, effectively knocking her out of the way. However, it didn't stop Gray and he barreled straight into Juvia. She gasped, blushed when she noticed his head had hit her chest, then burst into a spray of water again.
Gray stumbled to a stop and turned to see what had knocked Blondie out of the way. The water (Juvia) had soaked into his hair and pants, however, he could feel it limiting his movement and he felt very tired by the time he had finally managed to turn around. Not only was he fatigued from the first fight but also, unknown to him, Juvia had discovered that she could sap the energy of a person when she was a puddle. And she was LOVING the feel of his energy. (If you know what I mean)
Lucy opened her eyes and the first thing she saw was pink hair. Lucy didn't believe that it was possible to have that PINK of hair so, she decided that she had knocked her head on something and that this was all a dream and she needs to wake up before she starts seeing pink hair when she isn't dreaming.
"Lucy! Are you ok?" A voice asked. She turned her head a little and saw Happy and Levy staring at her, looking worried.
"Yeah, I'm ok." She replied. She then proceded to try to sit up and found out quickly how heavy the pink-haired-thing was. "Uh...Little help, please?"
Levy and Jellal both came over and started pulling on the thing's arms. Wait...Arms?! Lucy managed to free one of her hands and reached up to grab some of the hair in her face still. She pulled on it and the hair lifted to expose a boyish cute face. She couldn't help but stare at it. She couldn't help but notice how soft his hair was.
With mainly Jellal's help, they rolled him off of her. They had to stop halfway so that Levy could reach around and release the death grip he had on Lucy. Grinning softly, Jellal leaned him on his shoulder and started dragging him to the stairs.
"Why are you doing that?" Lucy asked as Happy settled to drape himself around her neck. Jellal sighed slightly before he literally dropped the boy at the foot of the stairs. He then turned back around and gestured for Lucy to have a seat beside the unconcious heap.
(Grey kinda got knocked out by Juvia so he can't interrupt them)
Jellal waited until she did before answering simply, "He doesn't get along with everyone very well so he usually stays in his living area. He doesn't usually join everyone else when we're eating or greeting newcomers so it's odd that he was there at all."
He paused before continuing, "If he had woken up in that room with that many people near him...well, he wouldn't have been able to handle it." Lucy nodded, she would've probably had a heart attack if she woke up around people. Something bugged her though.
"What was he doing, working with you guys, back there then? If he doesn't get along with everyone very well. I mean."
Jean interrupted from the doorway, grinning wolfishly. " If he gets the opportunity to beat the crap out of Gray, he won't pass it up."
"Damn straight I won't." A voice said lazily beside her. Lucy jumped a foot in the air before she realized it was just Pinky.
He laughed at her face, but grimaced apologetically at her when Happy dug his claws into her collar, making her bleed. Pinky reached up to touch Happy and started scratching his chin, causing Happy to relax and let go of Lucy.
"What's your name?" Lucy asked him while he kept scratching her cat's chin. She wanted to know. Happy only let people he thought Lucy could trust touch him. He usually swatted at them until they gave up or got the hell scratched out of them.
Pinky grinned before saying, "Do you only want my name or the whole description like they were giving you?" Lucy stared into his onyx eyes before answering honestly, "whole description."
He grinned even wider, showing off his pointy canines. "Well, then." He stood suddenly and started running up the stairs. "Catch me if you can!"
Jean, Jellal and Lucy sweat dropped and stood there for a second before Lucy said, "You know what? I don't care anymore. I'll just call him Pinky for the rest of the time I'm here."
"It's SALMON!" he cried from the top of the stairs. "I don't care!" she yelled back. She huffed, turned around and almost fell backwards when she saw everyone peeking out from behind pieces of furnature and doors. The trio sweat dropped again when they noticed all the people behind them.
"Seriously, guys?" Jean said, shaking her head, "you know we can see you right?"
"Come on, Jean, don't tell me you aren't curious?! I mean, the only reason you two aren't charred every time you get near him is because he somewhat respects other fire mages and he trusts Jellal." Evergreen whined as she straightened up from behind the couch she had been peeking around.
Jean grinned. "Don't forget the part where I wipe the floor with his face when he challenges me." No one laughed...
It was weirdly quiet until Erza cut in. "I will admit, it is funny, usually, until you wave it in front of his face and make him angry." Some of the girls shivered.
(It's gotta be bad if it's making some of girls shudder)
Erza turned to look at Lucy, "by the way, since you're new, he'll probably challenge you later so he can see how strong you are." she paused a moment before adding, "it's his way of welcoming someone so don't get upset if he goes all out on you."
"But, I don't even know what powers I have! I might not have any!" Lucy cried. She felt Jean's hand on her shoulder. Then another hand, and another and another, until everyone was touching her shoulders, back or arms and Juvia and Wendy held her hands. Lucy's eyes widened as she looked at them. Wed grinned at her and said smoothly, "We'll help you figure it out. Everyone here is family and family always takes care of each other."
Lucy's smile dimmed a little as her heart screamed that that wasn't true. Juvia's hand squeezed her own and Lucy turned her head a little to see her pained face. She nodded in understanding and Lucy decided that she could stand living here. She could learn what having a family bigger then just her and her sisters was like.
(All part of Lucy and sisters' background, all coming up...eventually)
Turning back to everyone else, she released a shaky breath and asked, "I know that you don't really know us, but we don't really have anywhere safe to go...so I was wondering if maybe it was ok if we stayed here?"
Erza stepped forward. "If it's worth anything, I'm sure everyone here wants you to stay." She paused. "unfortunately, you need either Gray or Natsu to say yes. I wish it was just a majority vote, but it's not. This is their castle and we all agreed in the beginning to let them decide who stays." she sighed.
Jean snorted, "True, but that's the only thing they really have control over. When it comes to everything else, it's majority." She grinned gleefully.
Erza nodded. "Yep." Everyone made various noises of agreement. Lucy smiled brightly, "Ok, well, I know who Gray is (cough)sadly(cough) but who's Natsu?"
(ouch..I bet Natsu feels so LOVED by this statement)
"Lucy," Wed said, after a few minutes of silence, "you already met him..."
"Yeah!" Jean exclaimed following her sister's lead, "you kept calling him Pinky." Lucy burst into giggles, "I have to ask Pinky if I can stay?!"
"You know what?" A voice called out from the top of the stairs, "I'm gonna make this hard. You have to beat me using your powers!" Everyone looked up to see Pinky...um, Natsu...hanging off of the banister, giggling madly.
(hey at least we know that he was standing there the entire time!)
"Fine," Lucy answered. "As long as Wendy and Juvia don't have to." She heard her sisters' intakes of breath.
Natsu slid down the banister and landed right in front of her. he bent his head around like an owl. "Deal." Lucy smiled, but it faded quickly at what he had to say next.
"But, if you lose," he laughed like crazy at her face. "I get my own little servant girl." he crawled back up the stairs before vanishing from sight.
(like some creepy spider man)
"Mira, did you spike his fire chicken again?" Lucy heard Erza ask. The only response she recieved was a soft giggle.
R&R PLZ! Mira doesn't spike his chicken often, only when she feels the need to and it kicks in after about 3 hours or so and it was right after he ate that they had to take care of Gray so...
Ok I need song suggestions plz! Not the next chappy but one of the ones after is going to have people singing and I need SONGS!
TANK YOU EVERYONE! I can't express my thanks to you enough!
