Hey everyone here is my new chapter. Sorry it took so long but I've been helping one of my friends write their first fanfic ever and I even started on the story I'm going to write after this one is done. That and school is becoming such a pain. Anyways I hope you enjoy this chapter.

"Text" talking

'Text' thinking

"TEXT" really loud yelling

Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail or any of the characters.

Chapter 11: 1st day on the job

Ayame ran through the halls of the mansion to Lu's room. When she reached said room she came to a sudden stop at the open door. "Lu!" Ayame called when she spotted her new adopted sister reading a book on her bed. Lu looked up from her book towards Ayame. "What is it Ayame?" Lu asked. "I just wanted to let you know that I have to train with Shimmer today." She answered quickly. 'So I'll be on my own today.' Lu thought sadly.

Lu nodded in understand," don't worry I'll find something to preoccupy myself with until you get back later on today." She reassured her. Ayame nodded and turned to leave before she stopped and looked back at Lu. "if you get to lonely you could see if one of my cousins will keep you company." Ayame suggested. "If you don't hurry you'll be late." Lu warned as she started to read some more of her book. "Oh no!" Ayame cried and quickly hurried down the hallway. Lu looked towards the now empty doorway and laughed.

'Ayame is such a character.' She thought as she looked back at her book. "Well I guess I'll finish up this chapter and do a little exploring." She muttered to herself. Once she was done she marked her page and placed the book on her night stand. She then got up and headed out in to the hallway. She headed down stairs to the kitchen where she knew Sophia and Ayame's aunts, Yua and Rika, would be. Lu walked into the kitchen and was immediately greeted by the three women. "Good morning." Lu greeted shyly, "good morning Lu." Yua and Rika greeted in unison.

"Do you need something Lu?" Sophia asked with a smile. Lu shook her head," No I just wanted to let you know that I was going to go out and explore a little." Lu answered. "Oh alright then just be careful and don't wonder to far ok?" Sophia said. Lu nodded in understanding before leaving the kitchen and heading out the door. Lu wandered around the grounds for about two hours before getting board. Lu sat down on a bench in the garden and sighed. 'Well I guess I could explore the woods a little now.' She thought as she got up and headed into the woods.

Lu walked around the forest until about sunset. She stopped to rest and looked up at the sky. "Huh? Is it that late already?" She said quietly as she noticed the bright hues coloring the sky. 'I guess that means I should be heading back soon.' She thought as she started to head back the way she came. After a while of walking she stopped in front of a cave she had not seen when she was exploring the forest and soon realized that she was lost. 'Oh no I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere.' She thought with worry. Just then it started to rain so Lu headed into the cave to wait for the rain to pass.

"Now what do I do?" she asked herself as she looked outside of the cave. Just then she heard a low growl sound from behind her making her turn around. As she turned around she saw a pair of eyes in the darkness causing her to back away in fright. As she backed up she heard a rustling sound as the creature moved towards her. As the creature moved closer towards the entrance of the cave and Lu's eyes adjusted to the darkness she was able to get a good look at said creature. Suddenly Lu stopped moving back and looked at the creature with amazement. 'It's a dragon.' Lu thought as she stared at the magnificent creature, no longer afraid.

"Why are you in my cave?" The dragon asked angrily with a sharp glare. "I'm sorry I was just trying to get out of the rain I had no idea that this was your home." Lu explained. "Please forgive me for intruding. i didn't mean any harm." Lu apologized and bowed politely to the dragon. The dragon reeled back with surprise at the way the girl in front of her was acting. The dragon's eyes seemed to soften as she looked at the shivering child soaked from the rain. "You're a very strange human." The dragon stated making Lu look up in confusion. "Huh?" Lu questioned.

"Tell me child. Why were you wandering around in the rain?" the dragon asked as she took a few steps back and lies down once more. Lu took this as an invitation to move closer to the dragon and relax. "I was on my way back home when I got lost and then it started raining." She answered. "I see. I apologize then for my behavior." The dragon said. "It's ok you were only protecting your home but if you don't mind me asking… what did you mean when you said I was different than other humans?" Lu asked. The dragon chuckled," unlike most humans you seem to treat everything and everyone as equals." She answered. "Oh well I guess that is because of my mom." Lu said with a smile.

"Oh? How so?" The dragon asked. "Well… my mother was a celestial spirit mage and she always treated them kindly. She told me that a celestial wizard is nothing without their celestial spirits so you should always treat them with respect." Lu explained. The dragon continued to look at the girl with interest. "You said you were lost did you not?" the dragon asked. Lu nodded in response confused about where the conversation was going. Just then the dragon once again began to stand. "I'll take you home then." The dragon said as she picked Lu up by the shirt and gently placed her on her back.

The scene faded as the sunlight poked through the window. Lucy slowly opened her eyes and slowly sat up. She stretched and looked over to her left were Natsu was sleeping soundly. She smiled and then moved to get up out of the bed. Lucy then moved towards the arm chair in the corner to gently stroke each of the three cat's heads before making her way to the bathroom to take a shower and changed.

Once she was done she came out to see that Natsu and Happy were still sound asleep. 'I ate to wake them but we have work to do.' She thought. She looked at Luna who sat on the writing desk. "Luna, do me a favor and wake up Happy while I try to wake Natsu." Lucy pleaded. Luna smiled up at her and smiled. "Sure I don't mind." Luna said before hopping down off the desk and heading over to where Happy was sleeping peacefully. Lucy thanked her and headed over to the bed to wake up the sleeping dragon slayer.

Lucy sat down on the edge of the bed and leaned over Natsu. She then used her hand to gently rub his arm. "Natsu, it's time to get up now." She said quietly into his ear. Natsu replied with a low growl. Lucy sighed at how stubborn he can be. 'Hm maybe I should try something else.' She thought before smiling. Lucy used her other hand and snaked it around his waist.

She then slowly and gently trails her hands up and down his chest. "Come on Natsu time to wake up." She whispered to him. She noticed his eyes twitch and a slight blush adorn his cheeks making Lucy smile. 'Just, a little more.' She thought before she continued her plan. "Please." She pleaded sweetly as she wrapped her arms tightly around his waist and kissed his cheek. Suddenly Natsu's eyes snapped open and turned to look at Lucy who was smiling triumphantly. "I got you." She teased as she let go of him and got up off the bed.

"That's so not cool Luce." Natsu pouted as he watched Lucy walk away from the bed. "Well maybe if you got up when I asked I wouldn't have to resort to that." Lucy said walking over to the desk, opening the top drawer, and grabbing her keys. Happy snickered at Natsu's disappointed pout. "You can sleep all you want when or job is over." Lucy stated as she turned to look at him. "Now go get ready. I don't want to get yelled at by Erza for being late." Lucy ordered.

(Time skip)

Once Team Natsu got down stairs they were greeted by Tetsuya and where told which group each of them will be helping and where to go. Once informed The Fairy Tail wizards split up and headed to their respected groups. Lucy watched as everyone walked off before turning towards Tetsuya. "So what do you want me to do?" she asked. "Well because of all of the work we have to do to the guild I haven't been able to find time to make a schedule. I planned to make a schedule in order to keep everyone from becoming exhausted." Tatsuya informed. "Oh so you want me to create one?" Lucy questioned. Tetsuya nodded in response and handed her the clip board he always seemed to carry with him. "This is a list of people in the guild and the groups they have been assigned to." Tetsuya informed as Lucy took the clip board from his hand and looked it over.

"Alright I can have this finished by the end of the day." Lucy said as she looked back at Tetsuya. "Wonderful I'll leave it to you then!" Tetsuya said happily before walking off to help out with the repairs. Luna looked at the clip board from Lucy's left shoulder. "So are we just going to head back to the room to work on it?" Night asked from the top of her head. "Yeah but mostly because I think all of the excitement out here will distract me." Lucy answered. Lucy and the two exceeds then headed back to their room.

(Meanwhile with Natsu and Happy)

Natsu arrived at his destination and was greeted by Katsu. "Hey Natsu." Katsu greeted cheerfully as he walked towards him. "Huh? Oh, hi Katsu." Natsu said and looked around. "So what can I do to help?" he asked. "Hmm give me a minute." Katsu said before turning around towards a guy who had just walked by. "Hey Dominic, can you come here for a minute?!" He called causing the guy to turn around. "Sure." Dominic answered before setting down the large beam he was carrying on his shoulder and walking over.

Dominic had short messy brown hair and sky blue eyes. He wore a black jacket, black jeans and a navy blue muscle shirt. On his head he wore a black fedora and had a pair of black diving googles hanging from his neck. "What's up Katsu?" Dominic asked as he took off his fedora and scratched the back of his head. "Do you need any help on your end?" Katsu asked with a smile. "Um yeah we could use some more help. Why?" He answered as he placed his fedora back on his head. "Natsu here was assigned to our group and was wondering how he could help." Katsu answered as he moved to stand beside Natsu and placed his arm around Natsu's shoulders.

"Oh, alright then." He said before looking over to Natsu. "Well just follow me and I'll get you started." Dominic said with a smile before turning to go pick up the beam he had put down. Natsu followed slowly before Katsu called Dominic's name. Dominic stopped and turned upon hearing his name. "Yeah?" he questioned as he looked back at Katsu. "How is Little Aya?" Katsu asked. "Oh she's doing fine. Why?" He answered with confusion.

"No reason I was just wondering that's all." Katsu said before walking off. Dominic shook his head and chuckled before turning around and motioning for Natsu to follow him. "There are a lot of things you can help out with but I'll let you choose what." Dominic said as they walked.

(Meanwhile with Gray)

Once Gray arrived at his designated area he looked around. He seemed to be both board and annoyed at being there. "Hey what are you doing just standing there?! Find something and do it!" Ryuu called with annoyance as he came up behind Gray. "Yeah, yeah give me a damn minute would you." Gray retorted sarcastically as he turned to look at Ryuu. Ryuu glared at him," I'd watch yourself if I was you." He warned with a slight growl. Gray rolled his eyes in response, "Like I care."

"Ryuu, you better not be harassing our guest. After all he and his guild are being kind enough to help." A female voice called from behind Ryuu. Ryuu stiffened momentarily before turning to look at the owner of the voice. "This has nothing to do with you Ayame. Not only that what are you even doing over here you should be helping weld the beams." Ryuu responded. Gray had expected this Ayame to get angry at the response she got but was surprised when she just smiled at Ryuu. "I know and I'm heading there now." She said before turning to walk away. She only took two steps before she stopped. "Ryuu just do me one favor and don't give everyone such a hard time with this." Was all Ayame said before continuing on her way.

"One question before I get started." Gray said suddenly as he glanced at Ryuu. "What?" He questioned as he continued to watch Ayame until she was out of sight. "Who was that?" Gray asked causing Ryuu to suddenly turn to face him. "None of your business now get to work!" Ryuu growled before walking away. Gray watched him with confusion. 'Is it just me or is he moody. All I asked for was her name.' Gray thought before deciding to get to work.

(Meanwhile with Erza)

Erza marched over to the large group by the entrance. As she walked over a Young teen with Spiky red hair and red eyes noticed her approach and nudged a teen that looked just like him only with white hair and blue eyes. "Huh?" The white haired teen questioned as he looked at the red head who motion towards Erza. The white haired teen noticed her and quickly grabbed the red head beside him, dragging him to meet her. They walked over and stopped in front of her.

Erza looked questioningly at them. The white haired teen smiled kindly at her while the red head just grunted in annoyance. "Hello My name is Makoto and this is my twin brother Nori." he introduced. "Hello I'm Erza." She responded with a smile. "Well it's a pleasure to meet you Erza." Makoto said before noticing his brother roll his eyes," Isn't that Right Nori?" Makoto Asked turning his head towards his older twin. Nori then shot him a look that said "not a chance in hell" before walking away. He hadn't really wanted to be there anyways.

"Uh I'm sorry about him, he is not very sociable." Makoto said with a sigh as he looked back at Erza. "It's fine. Not everyone can be as outgoing as others." Erza reassured making him feel just a little bit better. Just then Nori walked back to them with a girl about the same size and age of Wendy sitting on his shoulders, and a young teen beside him. The girl had long navy blue hair and dark red eyes. The teen beside Nori had long reddish brown hair that was tied back into a loose ponytail and blue eyes. Nori stopped beside his younger twin and looked up at the face of the girl on his shoulders. The girl giggled and looked at Erza.

"Hello there, my name is Aurora." The girl greeted happily before the teen with reddish brown hair got her attention by lifting his hand up slightly in greeting. "And I'm Kaze." He introduced before looking at Aurora who seemed to give him a look of approval. "Oh hey you two this is Erza." Makoto told them before looking at Erza. "Kaze here is our younger brother and Aurora is our baby sister." Makoto explained. "And by baby I guess you mean…" she paused, "the youngest." Nori finished with a nod. Those two words obviously shocked the three siblings for they were looking at him as if he had grown another head. In fact Kaze and Makoto took two steps back.

Erza noticed this and laughed. Nori looked at them with a somewhat confused look. 'Could it be he did not notice he had said that out loud?' the two thought. 'What's with them all of a sudden? Man I have some weird siblings.' Nori thought as they took another step back. 'I mean what do they think I'm about to do? Eat them?' he thought.

(Time skip to later that evening when everyone stopped for the day and went to get some diner)

Lucy sat at a table in dining hall writing something, as she ate her diner. While she was writing the others showed up and took a seat at the table. "Man I'm beat." Natsu wined as he slumped down in his chair with his head on the table. "Aye." Happy said in agreement as he followed Natsu's example by lying in the middle of the table, all sprawled out. "Oh don't be such a wuss; it couldn't have been that bad." Gray responded as he too sat down. "Cut it out you two." Erza warned as she sat down beside Lucy. Lucy glanced up at each of them for a moment before focusing back on her work. Luna who was sitting on the other side of Lucy, with her brother, looked up at them and gave them a sympathetic look.

Night on the other hand was curled up, asleep, beside his sister. "Did you guys speak to Rina before you sat down?" Lucy asked, not taking her eyes off of the paper. "Yeah she said she would get started on our meals right away." Happy answered. Gray glance at Happy and Natsu. "You two are pathetic." He stated. Natsu just glared at him, feeling too weak to move. "As soon as I get some fire we're taking this outside." Natsu growled.

Gray smirked," whatever you say fire breath." He retorted. Just then Rina came over and handed each of them their food. "You know if you two keep insulting each other and picking fights you're going to make things worse for me by making those two want to go at it." Rina said as she motioned towards Katsu and Ryuu. The two were giving each other death glares from across the dining hall. "Well I better get Ayame and see if we can't find a way to keep them from silently or openly trying to kill each other." She said before walking away. Once she left Natsu and the others started eating.

Gray only took a few bites of his food before pausing. Erza noticed him stop and looked to see that he was staring at his pate of food. 'Hm I wonder what's up?' she thought as Gray closed his eyes and sighed. He then opened his eyes back up and stared at his late for a few more minutes before slowly starting to eat again.

(Time skip)

When the group finished eating they headed back to their rooms to get some well-deserved rest. Natsu and Lucy walked into the room and shut the door. Natsu took happy, who was fast asleep, over to the arm chair and laid him down before heading over to the bed to get some sleep as well. Lucy watched him as he did so before taking the two sleeping exceeds in her arms and placing them on the arm chair beside Happy. Lucy changed clothes and then headed over to the desk. She had promised Tetsuya that she would get this schedule done and was almost finished. So she sat down and started working.

As she worked she could feel Natsu's tired eyes on her back. She tried to ignore the feeling and continued working. After a few minutes she placed her pencil down and stretched. She then got up and headed over to the bed where she knew Natsu still laid awake waiting. She crawled in under the covers and curled up next to Natsu. In return Natsu wrapped an arm around her waist and yawned. The two then fell asleep like that a few minutes later.

Well what did you all think? Please let me know. I'll try to update again as soon as possible.