*Disclaimer: All main characters belong to Hiro Mashima.

Fairy Tail in a fairly odd world

"We the Fairies, blithe and antic, Of dimensions not gigantic, Through the moonshine mostly keep us, Oft in orchards frisk and peep us." ~Thomas Randolph

Chapter 9; Impressions of Natsu

The one day Lucy had spent with Natsu, her impressions varied high to low.

Natsu, the kind.

Natsu the clumsy.

And Natsu the mysterious, Lucy remembered when they were getting ice cream, right before they lost Sydney.

'"First off, 'Layla,' you drew on a mole, you walk stiff, and you look at everything like you've never seen anything like it." He said, hand quotations and all.

"What in Mavis are you talking about?! This m-mole is-"

Natsu's head snapped upward, wide eyes and mouth ajar.

"W-what now?" He's the weird one here.

"What did you just say?" He asked, he sounded horrified. W-what the?

"I-I said 'what in Mavis are you talking about'. I-Is there something wrong with that?"

He stood up, hands on table, staring right into Lucy's very soul.

"Where did you hear the name 'Mavis'?!" 'What, am I being interrogated now?!''

Now that Lucy thought about it, could he know about Mavis? Now that she knows Mavis is a person, the name seems so much more important.

Ah, but the Natsu Lucy admired the most was; Natsu the sleepy. 'But her instinct told her to keep him asleep, plus he was so adorable, his pink hair a halo around his face, his arms rapped tightly around her leg, it was all too much for love struck Lucy.'

And in the last two minutes Lucy had seen two more sides of Natsu. Natsu the fierce, and Natsu, the stupid.

"Hey… You in there?" Natsu snapped his fingers in front of Lucy, bringing her back to reality.

Lucy looked around, seeing the 'Jiggle Butt Gang' defeated, slouched over with their butts hanging dramatically in the air as steam drifted off from their heads.

But Lucy wasn't focused on that. Natsu was currently holding the note she had left in the hotel room in front of her. "What does this say?! I can't read!"

"Y-You can't read?!"
"No. I told you that already. Dragons don't usually pay attention to that kind of stuff. Except the Grandinian clan, they're all a bunch of nerds."

"I-IS THAT WHY YOU CHASED AFTER ME?!" Natsu held his ears as she screamed. "Ouch ouch. Keep your voice down. But kinda…"

Oh Mavis. What am I doing? Wait, but does that mean he couldn't read the reward papers? Can I trust him? Wait, why would I want to trust him?!

"Anyways Luce, let's go!"

"Huh? 'WE' aren't going anywhere!" Lucy objected, holding emphasis on 'we'.

"Whadda ya mean?! You're looking for the fairies right?!"

…

Lucy stood there dumbstruck as Natsu started walking off confidently.

After a minute she stumbled over her feet, running after him with only one thought in her mind. 'Natsu the trust worthy.'

For she knew, anyone who knew Mavis's name, acknowledged Igneel's existence, helped her in her most vulnerable moments, and wanted to find the fairies, was definitely trust worthy.

Lucy stood there under a large willow tree, hours later while the sun was setting, awkward and confused, while waiting for Natsu to return.

During the trip, Natsu had followed Lucy after she told him her plan to visit her mother's friend. She hadn't told him how she knew to visit her mother's friend, and he never asked. But the rest of the trip was silent. Other then the multiple occasions where Lucy had tried to ask Natsu questions and he bluntly refused to answer any of them. They had stopped under this beautiful tree only two minutes ago with Natsu saying he was going to go fetch firewood.

Lucy sighed, guessing this is where they would stay the night, she slipped off her horse she decided to name Celeste and tied her to a close by tree.

A minute later Lucy was startled by the noise of firewood being dropped roughly on the earth. She looked up just as Natsu carelessly pointed his index finger at the wood, and magically lighting it up. Lucy gasped, as she had read about the magic and Igneel had told her but this being the fist time she's seen it.

Natsu paid no attention to Lucy's odd reaction and sat himself don across from her.

"So. How do you know Mavis's name?"

"How do you know her name?"

"Don't answer my question with a question."

"My mother used to say her name a lot. It became a habit."

"Where's your mother now?" Natsu asked, suddenly more interested in her mother then herself.

"Dead. Suicide." It was quiet for a moment, Lucy expecting the usual response, "oh, sorry for your loss."

"… NANI?! HOW COULD SOMEONE WHO IS ABLE TO SPEAK MAVIS'S NAME DEAD? AND FROM SUICIDE OF ALL REASONS?!"

"Huh?"

"You know, not everyone can speak Mavis's name. It's actually physically impossible to most. Don't you know anything?"

"Phh. I knew that… But how do you have that information?" Lucy bluffed.

"Before my dad disappeared, he left behind letters full of information, just talking about the fairies. He said they were the most important beings to society, and that they were highly underestimated and disrespected. That we couldn't live without their power. He said they should have been treated like kings and queens for all they do for the world. Yet a rumor got out that they had a weapon, so evil it could eliminate everything off the face of the planet. And all the stupid people like Elves, Dwarfs, Vampires, and crud wanted to go to war with them. And then for some reason all of them disappeared one day… Including my dad, and the other dragons."

Lucy processed this information. One, she was glad he figured out she didn't know much and had told her everything. Two, she was offended about the 'stupid people' comment, and three, 'all the other dragons'… What did he mean by that?

"Uh Natsu-"

"Sh!" Natsu sat up right and put his hand over Lucy's mouth. "I smell someone close by, it could be a bandit or a thief."

A- A bandit?! Then Lucy heard a twig snap to her left.

The two of them slowly looked over to where the sound came from. There, peaking around the corner of their tree was a small girl, pale as a ghost with curly white hair and mesmerizing pink eyes.

Lucy could tell she didn't mean any harm, so she started to speak a nice greeting. "Hello, what's your-" However she was cut off by Natsu the rude.

"Who the hell'r you?"

Hey guys I'm so so so so sorry for the REALLLY LATE update :C not that you guys care or anything but I just went through my first real heartbreak. And I feel like shit soooo… Sorry… I was too tired to look through and check for spelling or grammar errors so sorry if there is any mistakes. The OC that arrived in this chapter belongs to Kanade Takeda, not much of the oc in this chapter or the next but more of her in later chapters. C: thank you so much for the oc (:

- Also REALLY IMPORTANT: I really want to start a Fairy Tail x zombie apocalypse fan fiction XD cause I'm a really big nerd thats currently heart broken and I REALLY want to kill off characters (: so tell me what you think. Anyways goodnight (: