It was another day In the gym, Natsu has tried to defeat Erza though so far he's failed for the last two weeks and at least five times today. His friends had stopped their little fighting session to watch him fail. Natsu tried kicking at her over and over. She dodged at first then grabbed his leg and pulled causing him to fall over. He got up instantly punching at her, she blocked, grabbed his arm and twisted it. With a cry of pain he stepped back rubbing his arm.
" Okay thats enough for today." Loke said, " I told you you wouldn't beat her."
" Whatever..." Natsu growled. Erza smiled. " I feel like my arms gonna break."
" There's no way you'll beat her." Gray said.
" Shut up, of course I'll beat her."
" Sure."
" Anyway you guys should head to the dorm now." Erza said. They looked at her." Look at the time, it's almost ten, If people wonder where you are and what your doing-"
" Yeah Yeah we know, they'll find out and beat the crap out of us before we know it." Gray said.
" No they won't I'll beat the crap out of them before they beat the crap out of me." Natsu said.
" So your saying they can beat the crap out of you?"
" What? No way, I'm stronger than them."
" You just said-"
" I did not!"
" Yes actually you did." Loke pointed out.
" Then forget I said anything." Natsu stormed off to the dorm Loke and Gray following him from behind. As they got closer to the front of the school, they heard a small scream. Natsu headed off toward the sound to find out what it was. Once they got there they found a boy crouching under three other boys. One of them was cracking his knuckles while the other two grabbed the boy and started punching at him and kicking him in the stomach.
" Hey, what do you think your doing?" Natsu shouted walking up to them.
" Whats it look like?" One answered. Natsu walked passed the three boys to the one that was still crouching and grabbed him by the collar.
" Your just gonna let them beat you up? Be a man and fight back!"
" That's what he's worried about?" Loke sighed.
" Dude your starting to sound like Elfman." Gray commented.
Natsu let go of the boy and turned to face the other three. One of the three had black spiky hair on the top, and longer, straighter white hair on the bottom, and he was grinning. The other one has long and spiky blond hair that reaches down to his lower back and had a psychotic grin on his face. The last one has silvery-colored hair in a pompadour style and wearing silver designer glasses.
" Are you friends with Daren?" Loke questioned.
" Who knows? Maybe, Maybe not." The blonde one said.
" I'll take that as a yes."
" Look we have no business with you people so why don't you get lost." The black haired one said.
Natsu grabbed the silvered haired guy and punched him in the face breaking his glasses.
" Look what you did! You broke my favorite glasses. No matter, I have another." He said reaching into his pocket pulling out another and removing the old broken one.
" Tch."
" So your going around beating anyone you see or what?" Gray asked. The black haired boy smiled.
" No, We've just got orders."
" I thought so. That parts pretty obvious since you do work with Daren." Loke said. The black haired boy snickered, still not getting a response from the guy, he went on, " So? What are you doing? Attacking anyone who so much as touch Lucy?"
" Well, if they talk to her we beat them up too." The blonde said. They heard a cell phone ring. The black haired boy picked it up.
" Yeah? Hmm, well yes but we got interrupted. By some pink haired idiot, some guy with dark glasses and a black haired punk. Sure sure whatever. See ya." He hung up. Natsu and the rest were staring at him. " Since you already know, that was Daren."
" Of course. So you were beating people up for him!" Natsu exclaimed.
" Is he stupid or what?" The blonde asked. The black haired boy started walking away.
" O-oi!" Gray yelled.
" We're going, by the way you can call me Midnight, that's Zancrow and Rustyrose." He gave a creepy smile, " We'll see each other soon, very soon."
Its been a while since they met Midnight, there were still beatings and every time they went there they were too late. Natsu wanted to beat them so badly. He waited for five days to meet them again so he could teach them a lesson, but they never ran into each other. And wait, how come he's never even seen them at school? He decided to bring that up with is friends in the cafeteria.
" What, those guys are the school prefects." Erza said.
" WHAT!" Gray and Natsu yelled in unison.
" But. How? How could they become prefects, they beat others up! What was the principle thinking!" Natsu yelled slamming the table.
" Easy there man, the principle just doesn't know their true nature that's all. I'm sure if we told him-" Loke said
" We can't tell him nothing. Without proof of what their really like its impossible for him to do anything, much less believe us." Mira said.
" So what can we do?" Asked Gray.
" We take care of them, and while we do that we could get evidence that their the ones causing this, thus getting them expelled." Erza explained.
Lucy walked in along with Levy, she was smiling, Natsu noticed, but it didn't look truthful.
" How about we talk about happy things?" Loke said changing the subject.
" So what are you guys planning for Christmas and Christmas Eve?" Lisanna asked.
" Well I was thinking that for Christmas Eve we could all go hang out at some restaurant and give out presents or something." Mira said.
" That sounds good." Levy said standing in front of the table with Lucy."
" Then we can all go home and see our parents huh?" Gray said. Lucy frowned.
" Whats wrong?" Natsu asked.
" What? Nothing, I was just thinking, you guys don't know which restaurant you want to go to huh?"
" Well, it depends on what kind of food you want, seafood?"
" How about we go by the pier? Its nice and breezy there, plus they have great restaurants." Erza suggested.
" Alright its settled. Everyone we'll all go over to the pier on Christmas Eve." Loke said, " 3:00 pm?" They nodded.
Lucy ran out the cafeteria to catch up with Natsu. He was already halfway down the hall towards the dorm. She walked behind him.
" Natsu!" She yelled panting.
" Huh? Lucy whats up?" He asked turning around seeing the frown on her face he added a, " Whats wrong?"
" Well about Christmas, that time when you asked what was wrong, well its just that I'm not very happy about going home."
" How come?"
" Well you see, my dad-" She started, but someone grabbed her from behind. She turned around to see Daren.
" Oh Daren its you." She pushed him away lightly, " Don't scare me like that."
" Sorry sorry, anyway I came to see how you were, I haven't seen you for a while."
" Oh sorry, I wasn't in the mood for talking."
" Well it looks like you are now, seeing you talk to him." He glared at Natsu, who also glared back.
" I guess..."
" Is there a reason you came here." Natsu growled.
" Yes in fact I came her to say hi to Lucy." Daren answered scowling.
" Well you said your 'hi' so you can get lost now."
" Tch, whats your problem. Jealous?" Daren sneered.
" What? No I'm not! Why would I be anyway?" Natsu shouted. People in the hall looked toward them.
" Why are you getting so worked up?"
Natsu made a low growl. And started cracking his knuckles.
" Look Natsu maybe you should calm down." Lucy said.
Natsu glared.
"He's just teasing, right?" She turned to Daren.
" Sure whatever. " Daren said half smiling turning away. " Anyway I'll see you later, we'll talk right?"
" Yeah sure." Lucy said.
Once they got at the top floor of the dorm Lucy turned towards Natsu.
" What the hell was that! You almost drew a crowd!" She hissed
" He said I was Jealous!"
" Were you?"
" No." He muttered.
" Then you didn't have to get all worked up about it." She turned and headed in the opposite direction toward the girls area.
" Wait." Natsu called out. She stopped and glanced at him, " What were you going to say, before he came?"
" Never mind, its not important." She left.
~End of Chapter~
There glad I could get another chapter out. Hope you liked it. I'll see if I can make it longer next time.
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