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Reality Vs Fiction
Chapter - 10
Face to face

Jan 2nd, 2016

"Hello everyone! Welcome back." the redhead waved her hand enthusiastically, "This is Pepper live from the Newsnine studio and you're watching the Universe One." She leaned in front of the camera, a smirk playing across her glossy red lips. "And I have amazing news for you all."

"Though most will say that this is only a rumor, but I have found from a very very reliable source that Natsu Dragneel's most famous -also his first novel- 'Angel & Demon' is going be made into a live-action motion film!

That's right people you heard me. Now you can see Ustan and Rushi living and breathing in front of you, showing their unforgettable love to each other.

And i can't wait to see baby Ariel!

Anyway, it's going to be produced by the biggest production company in Fiore, Fairy Tail. So we can expect the best of the best, in the cast.

Sources have also said that there is going to be a script read shortly, where Dragneel will meet the A-list cast for the first time. As we all know because of his recent accident, he couldn't be a part of the auditioning team.

And all of this is all going to be happening in the sunny Ga Luna, just in a few days. Fingers crossed.

In other news. A-list actress, Lucy Heartfilia, had signed on to another role. Though her agent Ms. Water's won't say who the production house is or what the film is about. But if you ask me, I have a feeling we'll be seeing her under the Fairy Tail banner in something romantic.

Let's face it. We have been seeing it coming. If Fairy Tail doesn't scoop up the best, then who will?

Now days she is busy shooting her pro bono work with an independent director. The movie is about a girl, who has been mistaken as a terrorist. A government agent is now her only option to stay alive. Guess who is playing the agent?

It's Lucy Heartfilia in another action packed movie! The title though hasn't been decided. But my sources," Pepper winked, "has said that the team is leaning on the title 'Nullification'.

She is working very hard as we all know she will be going on a one year break at the end of this year. Hope's her vacation will be less actioned packed and more into drama and love as her new film!"

Jan 8th, 2016

'Hey, Luce guess what?'

….

'Fine I will tell you. I'm-'

'…coming to Ga Luna!'

'Waiting for your reply'

'Luce?'

'Lucy?'

Jan 9th, 2016

'Hey, why is your phone still switched off? Call me'

'I'm gonna be in Ga Luna tomorrow'

'Call me okay?'

Jan 10th, 2016

'Lucy, I'm in Ga Luna right now. Just reached. Dad sent a pecan pie for you'

'Call me'

'Lucy?'

'Are you mad at me?'

'Bunny?'

'Please call, I'm getting worried.'

'Lucy?'

'Luce?'

'Pick up!'

"Hey?" Natsu looked up at the snow blonde sitting in front of him. She smiled. "Stop looking at your phone. You are with me. So look at me." She smiled once more, her blue eyes sparkling in the sun.

Natsu smiles, nodding, he placed the phone in the table. He stared at her. The girl laughed slightly, leaning in, staring back at him.

It only lasted two seconds before both of them bust into a laughter.

Lisanna sipped her coffee. "I missed this" she sighed.

Natsu nodded. "I missed this too."

"So, how long are you planning to stay?"

"You want me to leave already?" he accused her. Lisanna rolled her eyes and gave a small giggle, shaking her head. Natsu answered, "Two days. But Gray keeps on begging me to stay longer."

"He's not even here."

"Exactly. I don't understand what goes inside of his head."

Lisanna laughed. "Well that's Gray for ya. What else can you expect?"

Natsu nodded, taking a sip of his lemon tea. He took a quick glance at his phone again. Why wasn't Lucy replying to his texts? He had already sent over 50. Then there was the 60 other phone calls. She never picked up.

Was she okay?

"Do you –" Lisanna said, turning towards him, but stopped when she saw Natsu looking at his phone, again. She sighed, taking it from his hand.

"Hey!" he yelled in protest.

"What? You keep on staring at it." She slipped it inside of her purse. "You are not getting it back until we leave."

Natsu huffed, crossing his hands over his chest and looked away from her and off into the distance. Lisanna leaned in and pinched his chubby cheek like a grandma greeting her grandchild after so long. "Oh! You are such a cutie when you get mad!"

He looked away. "Don't call me a cutie. It's unmanly."

The blonde fell back on her chair, laughing.

Jan 11th, 2016

"Where are you now?"

"Going inside."

"It's gonna be okay, mate."

Natsu nodded. "I wasn't even in the script team. I was only there when they were drafting it. And the cast! I don't know what they did with it. It could be completely different now. What if –" he took a shaky breath. "What if they changed the script too much? What if I don't like it? What if I want to say no?"

"Nervous?" Gray asked from the other line. Natsu could hear the smile in his voice. "Relax. It's gonna be okay. Just breathe and everything will be alright. Just bang it."

Natsu nodded again even though Gray couldn't see the action. "I wish you are here."

Gray sighed, "Yeah, I wish that too, but I don't want to impose on Ms. McGarden." He said, referring to the little fight Levy and him had before they came here. Gray wanted to come as well, but Levy clearly cut him off, saying it wasn't a place for an agent.

Those two were always at each other's throat.

"Shut up, Gray" Levy said from behind Natsu. Taking the phone from the pinkets hand, she cut the line with a rushed bye.

She gave the phone back. They stopped in front of the door leading to a room, where the cast and movie writers were waiting for him to arrive.

Levy smiled at him when she noticed his hand shaking. She stood on her tiptoes, going to fix the collar on the suit he was wearing. "Look," Natsu looked down at her. Even with the heels she was wearing, she was still a good few inches shorter. "When we walk inside, smile and shake hands with everyone. Don't say anything." She stepped back, taking a look at him, her head tilting as she examined. She tried to fix his hair, but stopped knowing that it was a lost cause. "If you don't like anyone in the cast or what the writers did with the script, tell me at the end and let me talk to them. Okay?"

Natsu nodded and smiled at her. This was Levy's way of comforting him. Levy nodded once more before fixing her glasses. "Let's get this over with."

"Let's bang it." Natsu said, quoting Gray. He smiled when he saw her give him a dirty look.

Levy rolled her eyes before patting his shoulder. "Let's bang it." she repeated before opening the double doors.

The room was bright. Full scale film lights were placed in different places. There were cameras too, but the actual shooting won't start until the read begins.

Gray had told Natsu about it yesterday night. This was Fairy Tail's hundredth film. They wanted to shoot a special – full of all the behind the scenes videos for the Blu-ray and DvD disc. People were expecting great things for this film. More than great.

Suddenly the pressure doubles on Natsu even though there was nothing that he could do about.

Its different then 'Fire Breath' in all aspects. That was a small scale project. He only agreed to it because Gray signed the contract without telling him, but this was something else. This wasn't a fictional story about a boy mage, but this was his reality. His story. His life, and the very thought, that it was being made into a live-action film, makes him nervous, even scared.

Not only for himself. But all the people around him. All the people who were in the novel even though they didn't wanted too. Specially Lucy.

What will she think when she finds out about this?

And suddenly he regrets saying yes to this all together.

Levy tugged his arm.

The hall was huge. A long table was set in the middle of the room, with water and food set. There was cards in place, indicating who is who and what was his or her part in the production. Voices of people laughing came flooding in. The room was full of people. Famous people. Well known people. Very, famous people.

His nerves worsen. Only person he knows was Levy. Natsu has never meet a single one of them.

Sitting at the left side of the table, drink in hand, sat Loke. No last name was needed for this national heart throb and fame. Aries has a poster of his movie 'Lion Heart' in her bedroom with a huge pink-glittery heart glued to it. The card in front of him read 'Ustan/Loke – Lead'.

Loke's was playing Ustan!

Sitting next to him was Romeo Conbolt, the inspiring young child actor. The card read, 'Ustan - young/Romeo C - Lead'.

Next was the nation's favorite baby girl, Wendy Marvell. She's been acting since she was three. She and Romeo was laughing at something silently. 'Rushi- young/ Wendy M - Lead'. That was her part.

"They actually brought the best of the best of the best." Natsu heard Levy mumbled next to him.

At the head of the table was Makarov Dreyar, the award winning director and co-founder of Fairy Tail. The blonde girl sitting next him was Mavis Vermilion. The young director who won the national award for directing 'Fairy heart', a dark thriller about a girl who was locked inside of a factory.
They both were co-directing this movie.

Natsu actually got chills.

That's when he heard Levy curse. He turned to look at her, but the bluenette was staring in front of him. Natsu turned to see what she was staring at, or better, who she was staring at.

His eyes met those of a blonde sitting on the left, staring back at him with a raised eyebrow.

'Rushi/Lucy H. – Lead', sayed the card in front of her.

Natsu stared in disbelief. No goddamn way. There's just no way! NO WAY! Yet that was happening. He couldn't believe. He just couldn't.

"What if the book became so popular that they wanna turn it into a movie? And cast Lucy as the lead? That will be so damn funny!"

Gray, his best friend since per-school, his words ringed inside Natsu's head. Gray was right. Gray was right. GRAY WAS ACTUALLY RIGHT!

Lucy had her head tilted a little to right. She was smiling. Sinister. Natsu recognized that look, he was terrified of it.

He took a step back. Of all the people in the world, why her?

Lucy was gripping the script so hard in her hand that he could see her knuckles turning white from across the room.

The world around him froze. It cracked. It burned. It was hell.

Natsu couldn't hear nor see anything. Anything but the girl in front of him. They way her brown eyes were glaring at him. The way her face hardened. Her hands clutching the paper tighten. Her back tense and straight. Her eyes, and the fire that was raging inside them.

He had never seen her this angry. Never this upset.

Not when he broke her skateboard.
Not when he lost her favorite ring.
Not when her mother slapped her in front of the whole school for lying.

Yet he didn't understand.

Nothing made even the little of sense anymore.

She knew.

But why was she here?
She knew.
Why didn't she told him?
She knew.
Why didn't she said no?

She knew

Why didn't she said anything?
Why?
Why?
Why?

Why?

Why?

WHY?

The word kept on ringing inside of his head like a shrill cry. He closed his eyes. It's probably all a bad dream, even though he knew it was all very real, yet he kept on saying and hoping it wasn't.

This was bound to happen soon. She was going to find out eventually. One way or another. It was a waiting game, and he was waiting for his turn to burn. But even Natsu didn't anticipated that fate would be this cruel.

Making her play herself? Ironic couldn't even summarize it. It was more than ironic.

It was cynical.

It was brutal.

Natsu took a large deep breath. When he openened his eyes again, she was still there. Still glaring. She still knew.

She hated him.

He knew that. He knew that just by looking at her.

He doesn't blame her. Not in the slightest.

But the thing about her that cut him the deepest, was the look in her eyes beside rage and anger.

Betrayal.

"Natsu?" Levy nudged him. He turned to her, a little disheveled. He looked at his friend. Begging with his eyes for help. For anything.

The bluenette pat him on the shoulder, a small sigh escaping from her lips. She wanted to say something, but stopped. What does one say in this situation?

Levy doesn't get involved. Levi stays far and high. Solves all problem from the outside, from the end, not on the front lines. This, however, she didn't know how to solve.

So, instead she nodded, straighten herself and smiled like nothing was happening. Anything to let her friend know that she was here for him. He has her support. She directed Natsu's sight to the person standing in front of them.

Makarov was standing in front of them, Mavis beside him.

Natsu stole one last glance towards Lucy again. She was talking with Loke now, laughing. If he didn't know her so well, he would have believed the laughter was real.

He turned away in shame.

"Young man." Makarov took Natsu's hand and gave it a firm shake. "I love that book of yours. Don't know why it took us all this time, but this is gonna be a great movie." Natsu gave him a forced smile.

Levy talked for him. "Yes. We can already see that. Fairy Tail brought out all the big guns. Everyone here is award winning. We are very excited to be working with all of you."

"As are we." Makarov winked and Levy laughed. She knew how to get work done good.

Mavis spoke then, softly as always. "We hope you will like the changes in the script."

Natsu smiled at the two of them. "I'm sorry. I'm just a little nervous. But this is," he smiled again, "a dream come true. Nothing can ruin it." Nothing, he thought.

Mavis nodded her head. "I hope so. Shall we begin than?"

Levy gave Natsu's arm a squeeze. He looked down at her and nodded his head.

"Yeah. Let's get started." He smiled.

Levy smiled as well. Today was going to be interesting. She spotted a cameraman setting his camera up, and she walked over to him.

She whispered, "Make sure to have your camera on at all times and fully charged. Pretty eventful things will be taking place shortly." Levy winked before rushing to follow Natsu with Makarov and Mavis.

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