Thank you to everyone again for all the reviews. Thank you so much, Braget, for your amazing review. It made me so happy! I plan for the entire story to be in Lucy's P.O.V. However, I wanted to put this in here.
"Hey, Makarov," a man said.
Makarov looked over to the man that called him. The tall man was wearing a dark blue shirt, black pants, and a black hat. He was also wearing a collar with spikes. Another spiky collar was decorating his hat. "Oh, hey, Goldmine," Makarov said.
"How's Chaos?" he asked.
Makarov gave a defeated sigh and shook his head. "He's just as bad as ever," Makarov said. "Our new girl seems to want to get close to him."
All the guild masters around them shook their heads. "That poor girl is going to get hurt," another man said.
Makarov looked over at the new voice. It was a fat bald man. He was wearing a low cut, light purple V-neck with stripped shorts and purple high heels. The man was also wearing lipstick and blush. Makarov nodded at the man. "You're right, Bob," Makarov said, "but she went on a mission with him already."
All the masters gasped. "How hurt was the poor thing?" Bob asked.
Makarov looked deep in thought. "That's the thing," he said, "she wasn't hurt at all. She didn't have a single scratch."
"That's strange," Goldmine said. "Maybe he hurt her mentally instead of physically this time."
Makarov shook his head. "That's the strangest part," he said. "She looked at us like we were crazy when we asked if he hurt her."
Before anyone else could say anything a small bird flew through the window. It was carrying a letter and yelling, "Letter for Makarov." The bird delivered the letter to Makarov. He opened it, and a hologram of Mira popped up.
"Hello, Master," she said with a smile.
Makarov smiled smugly and held the letter for everyone to see. "Get a good look boys. This is Mirajane, Fairy Tail's cover girl."
"I have some amazing news for you! Erza, Gray, and Dragneel all teamed up," Mira said.
Blood drained from Makarov's face. "That can't be good," he said. "Natsu will pummel both of them then do the job by himself."
"I also sent Lucy with them," Mira smiled even wider now. "She's actually the only reason he's going."
Everyone crowded around Makarov now. "Chaos went because of a girl?" someone asked.
"I told her about his past like you asked me to, and in the process, I found out she's seen him smile twice," Mira gusted. "Happy also mentioned that Dragneel gave her a piggyback ride. He also seems protective of Lucy. He said he's going on the job because she can't protect herself, which she denied. Apparently, he protected her on their job. Well, that's all I had to say, Master. Bye."
Everyone was dead silent. Makarov finally spoke, "If those three actually work together, they might destroy a whole town."
~Back to Lucy's P.O.V. ~
When we finally arrived at Onibus station, there was a giant crowd of people. The station workers were trying to keep them out and away from the station, but people tried to get in anyways. Erza just walked over to the man with the megaphone and asked him what was going on. He didn't answer her question, so he knocked him out.
"And I thought she was normal," I sighed.
"That was a stupid thought," Natsu said from beside me.
I glared at him and pouted. He didn't even look at me. He started walking through the crowd. Some people saw him and gasped. "It's Chaos," one man yelled. Everyone gasped and parted as quickly as they could. I ran up to Natsu and walked beside him. Some people gasped again and tried to pull me away from Natsu.
I just smiled at those people. "I know you're trying to help me, but I'm on this job with him," I explained.
"Lucy," I heard Happy whine. I looked behind me and found a pouting Happy. "I want you to hold me."
I giggled and opened my arms wide for him. He smiled and flew into my arms. I then turned around and caught up to Natsu. "Aki, why do they call you, Chaos?" Natsu gave an irritated sigh but didn't respond. I glared at him. Why does he always ignore me?
"It's because he's the chaos dragon slayer," Gray answered.
I smiled at Gray. "Thank you, Gray, for not ignoring me and for answering my question," I said. I glanced over at Natsu. He rolled his eyes and kept walking. "Wait," I mumbled. Natsu and Gray stopped and looked at me. "He has so many names," I suddenly yelled.
"What?" Natsu asked.
I turned to him. "You have a lot of names. You're called Natsu, Dragneel, Aki, and Chaos," I explained. "If I didn't know any better, I would say you're very popular since everyone is giving you nicknames." I smiled up at him.
They stared at me. I fidgeted. Did I say something wrong? Gray and Happy started laughing. Natsu chuckled and pat my head. I smiled at him again. Then we ran to catch up to Erza. On our way through the station, we saw men from the Fiore Army scattered everywhere. Suddenly very scared, I inched my way over to Natsu. We finally caught up to Erza. We stepped into a giant room and found the entire Eisenwald guild.
I saw Kage and glared at him. I also noticed that he had a bandage on his ear that wasn't there the last time Natsu and I saw him. "Aki," I said, "Kage is here." Natsu nodded and moved a little closer to me.
I made eye contact with Kage and glared at him. Kage's eyes widened. "You're the flies that were on the train," he yelled.
I smiled and waved at him. "Hi, Kage," I called over. "Mind telling me what you're doing with Lullaby? Its death magic, you know?"
He glared at me. "It's your fault Erigor was mad at me," he said. "You'll pay for that." Suddenly, shadows were rocketing toward me.
My eyes widened. Someone suddenly yanked my arm. I stumbled out of the way as black and blue flames incinerated the shadows. I giggled as Kage stared in shock at Natsu. I smiled at him. "Aki will just burn your shadows away."
"What?" Kage asked.
I smiled even bigger. "Aki means autumn, which is cold, but depending on what the type of writing, it can also mean bright." I pat Natsu's shoulder. "Your shadows stand no chance against Aki's bright flames."
"Your name isn't really Aki is it?" I heard Erigor ask. I turn my attention to him. He's staring at Natsu, but Natsu is ignoring him. He's staring at Kage, ready for any attack. Erigor waits for a reply, but one never comes. "Answer me, Fly," Erigor yells. Natsu once again ignores him.
"No," Erza finally says. "His name is not Aki. That is Lucy's nickname for him. What are you going to do with Lullaby?"
Erigor seems to completely forget about Natsu. One track mind? He smirks at her. "Tell me, what do all train stations have?"
Erza and Gray looked at a loss for words. What kind of question is that? All train stations have a lot of things. Erza's eyes widened. "You plan on broadcasting it over the PA system," she said.
"You're smarter than you look, Fly," Erigor said. He started laughing. "People are flocking here to figure out what's happening, and I'm sure that if I turn it up loud enough, the entire town could hear it."
"You won't get away with this," Erza yelled. "We'll stop you."
Erigor just laughed. "Take care of these flies," he said. He started floating and flew away.
I stared after him with wide eyes. "He can fly?" I asked.
"Wind magic," Erza explained. I nodded. "Gray, Dragneel, I need you two to go after Erigor. Lucy and I will take care of the rest of them.
I took a deep breath. I need to show Aki that I can hold my own. I nodded and stepped away from Natsu. Natsu raised a brow at me. I smiled at him. "Don't worry and go kick some butt," I said. Natsu rolled his eyes and started running after Erigor.
"You two be careful," Gray yelled as he ran after Natsu.
Erza and I started fighting. Happy helped too. He started throwing food at some of the men. Where'd he even get the food from? While we fought, Erza decided to start a conversation. "What did you do to make Dragneel listen to you?"
I giggled a little. "Well, at first I just annoyed him a lot by calling him Na-kun," I admitted.
"It still doesn't make sense though," she said. "He just harms anyone who annoys him."
"She has episodes," Happy said. "I don't know why, but he became a bit softer on her once he found out about them."
"Episodes?" Erza asked.
"Aye," Happy said, "she-."
"It's nothing," I said quickly. "So, what's your opinion of Aki?"
Erza goes silent for awhile. "He's very strong. He doesn't care about anyone though," she finally said. "What's your opinion of him?"
We finally took down the last man in the guild. I turned and gave Erza a sad smile. "He's lonely," I said. "Mira and Gray told me his story, so I can imagine what he feels. He feels lonely because the one person he loved abandoned him. He's scared that it will happen again. He's bitter that it even happened. He met a strange man that pretty much kidnapped him. He woke up in a strange place with a boy who wouldn't stop bugging him for a fight. When he did fight him, the boy was seriously hurt. Then everyone turned on him. He probably acts like he does to protect himself."
She shook her head and glared at me. "Are you saying that what he did was ok?" she ground out.
"No," I said quietly. "I'm saying that he grew up with a dragon. He was used to fighting with a dragon, so he must have been shocked when he hurt Gray so much, and when everyone turned on him, he became even lonelier than before."
Erza looked at the ground. "I never thought of it like that," she said quietly. She shook her head. "We need to get back on task. We can talk about this later," she said. "Go after the boys. I'll get information from these guys."
I nodded and started running, but then stopped and turned back to her. "Erza," I called. She looked at me. I smiled at her. "If you want to be his friend, I would start with calling him Natsu instead of Dragneel." With that, I turned around and ran down the hall. I hope she takes my advice. I know what it's like to be alone even though you're surrounded by people.
