A Natsu and Lucy fanfiction. I don't own FairyTail

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Starlight Stalker: The Eyes of a Dragon

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Chapter 10:

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Natsu had come back to his house finding it all, but devoid of his most resent treasure.

He had smelt the scent of Gray and Jeza about the front door and when he had kicked down the door in fear that they might have found her. "Lucy! …. Lucy!" He yelled, but too late, she had been taken.

'How dare they break into my house and take Lucy away! I will make him pay!'

For the briefest of a second he imagined Gray acting all surprised to see Lucy and Natsu felt his blood boil.

'Where is She? She had better not be with Gray.'

And then another thought crossed him. Maybe she had just left the house of her own accord and was now on her own way back to the guild. He grabbed another black cloak and a few more essential weapons he was going to need for his next job. And then noticed Lucy night clothes that she had worn the day before beside his spring fountain.

'Maybe not everything turned out so badly afterall.'

"At least now I won't have to ask her to drink any." He threw what he needed over his shoulder and strapped them to his back and bolted out the door.

"Lucy. I'm coming don't do anything foolish."

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Lucy came into the back room where Mira had first taken her to go over what the guild members were supposed to do for one another and for what they stood for as a guild. It had been a busy messy room with piles of paper piled up around a massive desk, but now all she saw was Laxus Dreyar and Mira speaking quietly together.

"Where's Master Makarov?" Lucy asked.

Laxus turned back round to the doorway recognizing a voice from the past. "Lucy!" He gave the most genuine smile she had ever seen him give her and made his way over to great her.

Before he could get any closer Mirajane had beaten him to it knocking over chairs and tables to get to her. "LUCY!"

Erza was the one who answered her question. "Master Makarov has passed on from this life three years ago. And the fourth master asked Laxus and Mira if they could look after the guild together, as a sort of joint fifth."

"Erza don't forget that you were asked to do become the master first." Mirajane interrupted.

"But I refused, and I had my reasons." Erza continued, folding her arms and looking seriously at the other two. "We have no time to chat and drink to happy memories of the past. We need to talk about Natsu. He has to be stopped this time."

Lucy looked up in shock at Erza. What had Natsu done that had them on edge?

Erza turned back to Lucy. "Gray said Natsu abducted you from the past!"

Lucy wasn't sure if she should shake her head and support Natsu or tell the truth to Erza. "He did come back to see me, but he didn't drag me here kicking and screaming like how you're implying."

"Lucy." Mira reached out her hand and held onto Lucy's. "Natsu is very unstable at the moment and has used quite a few black magic spells on his enemies. We are just trying to find him and warn him of the power and pain this dark magic will pour on him."

Lucy shook her head in bewilderment. "I will always help you guys when I can, but I don't know if I can do something like this. I wouldn't know what to say. This is Natsu I've really been able to stop him from doing what he has always wanted to do before."

"Please help us."

"Well, what do you want me to do." Lucy asked worriedly.

Erza frowned. "Well it's obvious he is probably coming to get you sometime in the next couple of minutes so I suggest an …..." (Top secret information)

"Just take this with you." Laxus held out a tiny crystal ball.

(You can't know anything else about this mission at this point)

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Natsu quickly reached the guild and instead of entering he scaled the walls and leapt across the roof tops. Until he came to the another entrance into the guild hall building. He quickly sped through hallways and doors until he came into the one Lucy had a hand on the door handle just about to leave apparently. He pulled the door open wide grabbed her and put her over his shoulders just as he had done many times before, and continued to race away.

"Natsu! What do you think you are doing!" Erza called to him as he jump down three flights of stairs, the tone in her voice not harsh or loud, but rather worried and misunderstood.

"Don't worry I won't be here long." Natsu took a hold of Lucy's waist and carefully and quickly pulled her off him. "And by the way. Don't, interfere with Lucy and me."

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He pulled her along fast behind him and she struggled to keep up with his pace.

"Natsu? What's wrong? Why are you so mad?" He didn't stop and he didn't turn around.

"Natsu, you're hurting my wrist." With that comment he did let go of her and stopped running as well. She massaged her hands and looked up into his face. The gentle expressions she had been used to seeing on his face a day or so before had gone and the hard battle-scared fighter was back.

"What did they say to you?"

"Um, not much more than what you said to me before." Lucy felt confused. Yes, she new that Natsu had always had a bit of thing about laughing at authority, but it had never come across so bitter. Not like this.

"But, what did they tell you? Why did they come to my house to get you? Did you communicate with them or something?"

"What? I don't know what you're talking about."

"Did or didn't you contact the Guild!"

"No!" She could feel the start of tears beginning. What the hell is going on? "I was just sleeping, and Gray and his son Jeza came into your house looking for you. That was all."

"That's all!?" Natsu asked.

"Yes."

She looked up into his dark green eyes and hoped somehow he could read the truth in hers. She noticed again just how dark and mysterious he looked. How much he had lost that essence of youthfulness that he had always seemed to have in an abundance. She saw his eyes soften and a glimpse of a smile, but he didn't pull her into any comforting embrace, but rather he simply turned his back to her and began to walk down through the streets.

Lucy didn't know what to make of it. 'Was this the same Natsu?... Again? What the hell happened to him?'

She noticed how his clothes seemed to really reflect him. He looked like an outcast, like the last warrior of his kind, like he had been betrayed. She sighed heavily wondering what he was wanting to do.

"What are you waiting for, Luce?" she looked back at him feeling slightly on edge.

He saw the worry on her face and calmed himself down before beckoning her with the tilt of his head and waited for her to start towards him.

And before she had reached him he had moved on ahead. "Come on. We're going." He called back to her.

Gone was the carefree man that he had appeared to be in the forest. Was this what he's really like.

"Your strides are so long I can't properly keep up." Lucy said hoping he would slow down just a little bit. "What are we doing anyway?"

"Don't worry it won't take too long."

"Long? Be a bit more descriptive please Natsu."

"We're leaving town."

"What now! But I haven't got any money for a train." That made Natsu stop.

"What on earth makes you think you'll need money or a train for when you're with me?"

"I don't know... for going places perhaps."

"I don't need trains."

She was about to say 'Happy had wings and used to ride on trains', but something in her gut instinct stopped her.

"Okay, so why aren't you just flying up now."

"I don't want people to have any evidence that I was in this city."

It was then that she had noticed that no one nearby was paying her any attention at all to her. It was as if she was ...invisible? As if she didn't exist. "Natsu why isn't anyone looking at us? I mean they seem to be looking through us."

Natsu smirked. "Just a small concealment spell I bought. It hides us from the eyes of non-guild members."

"Why?" Lucy huffed feeling exasperated and tired at being left out of the loop of necessary information.

He came to a stop all at once outside a seedy-looking inn. "Because..." he took her hand in his as he led her inside. "...I don't want too."

He pushed his way in passed the stiff wooden door and through the carved doorway pulling the stumbling Lucy in after him.

'What on earth was it that Natsu was being so secretive about.'

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End of Chapter 10.

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