Managed to update today! Hiro Mashima Owns Fairy Tail, and I own Astrid Moonlea, no, I am not some creepy uncle, trust me. Enjoy! ~


~At the Guild~

~Normal POV~

"What do you mean you think you know where she is?" Erza questioned.

"I heard her, Astrid. She told Luce that they were going back to some village. Kanha? Kalahari? Konhana? I can't really remember, but it was something about the village being hidden in the leaves and forest or something." Natsu said.

"You baka, you can't even remember something important as this." Grey hit Natsu on the head.

"Oi, got a problem, squinty eyes?"

"Yeah flame brain, you."

"Is it me, or are Natsu and Gray fighting?" Erza raised an eyebrow.

Natsu and Gray both stopped bickering and looked at the fearsome Titania.

"F-Fighting? Wh-Why wouth you think that?!" Both boys smiled and high fived each other.

"Hmph." Said the red haired mage.

"Um, did you say something about a village hidden in the leaves?" Asked a small blunette.

"Yeah Levy," Natsu looked at her. "Know anything about it?"

"Actually yes, it is supposedly said to be in western Fiore. The village named Konoha, hidden by the forest and leaves. But it's hard to find by most people. Only those who are lost manage to get there."

"Uh-huh, yeah, and how far away is this Konoha exactly?" The fire mage asked.

"If you take a train, about 3 days' time." The little bookworm calculated.

Natsu moaned, more trains?

"Alright then, let's go find our Nakama!" Erza declared.


~Village of Konoha~

~Lucy's POV~

After we had come back to the village of Konoha, we hid behind some trees and bushes just in case Astrid's uncle and his men were still lurking around. We collapsed on the grass and were panting hard. Teleporting great distances over and over again takes a lot of magical power you know.

"Phew, I thought that would never end." I got up and brushed the dirt off my shorts.

"Hah, yeah. So that was the legendary Fairy Tail? I thought it'd be more impressing." Astrid shook her head in disappointment. "Practically the whole guild was frozen, looking like fools!"

"Yeah…usually they are a bit more, sharp." I scratched the back of my neck.

"Who knows, maybe they have gotten dumber because you left." Ash suggested.

"Haha yeah, maybe."

We looked around and sneakily dashed from tree to tree.

"Looks like the coast is clear, now, let's go and get some ice cream to uuuhh replenish our magic." Astrid came up with an excuse to have a treat.

"Yeah sure, but one problem, we have no money." I said.

"Shit, I am totally going to kill that Natsu, this is his entire fault!" Astrid grumbled.

"How is this his fault? Wasn't Gildarts the one who destroyed our stuff? Thank god my keys weren't in there." I sighed in relief.

"Yeah, I guess you're right. Well, we'll just have to survive off of fish and berries again." Astrid shrugged her shoulders.

"Nooo~ I want to stay in civilization!" I whined. "Plus, we can't go back to that forest ever again, they might still check up on the place." I pointed out.

"Ugh, you're right, again." Astrid sighed in frustration. "Well, guess we'll just have to find another forest."

"Or, we could find a job to do and earn the jewels we need." I brought up a better solution.

I am never, NEVER going to live in a forest, EVER again.

"Yeah, but that would draw attention, and then those guys might find us again." Astrid shot down that option. I pouted.

"But please Ash! Just one, just one really high paying job, because I'm sure we can do it, and then we can have all the ice cream we want~" I said in a convincing tone.

"Fine." Astrid sighed in defeat. "There is a city called Clementine northeast from here. It takes 3 days to get there by train, but since we don't have any jewels, it'll take about aweek on foot. It's a pretty big city, so even if my uncle's men manage to know I was there, it would be difficult for them to pinpoint my exact location."

"Yay!~" I had a mini celebration. All I cared about was real food, not the same old fish and berries.

"But I'm not going to eat that much ice cream, as much as I love it, I don't want to end up fat like you." She flipped her hair over her shoulder and started walking, I quickly followed.

"Ok, yeah, sure, whatever, as long as were headed towards civiliza-" Hold up, fat? "Who you calling fat fat?! Fattie!" I retorted.

"Dude, you are so much fattier than I am." Astrid looked at me.

"Am not!" I defended myself.

"Are too!" Astrid said.

"No!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Yes Lucy, accept that fact."

"Shut up, I'm going to kill you." I glared at her.

"Good luck with that." Astrid laughed.

"I'm still not fat." I mumbled.

And with that, we left the village of Konoha, never to return.


~Train~

~Normal POV~

"Urgmphl." Natsu was making weird noises due to his motion sickness.

They had gotten on the train a little over an hour ago, and no one had paid any attention to the miserable fire mage.

"Hey, Erza." Said Gray.

"What is it?"

"What if Lucy and Astrid had left that village already?" He asked.

"Hmm, we'll just have to hope that they didn't then." She said.

"Yeah…" Gray stared out the window.

"Ugggh help me…" Natsu moaned.


~3 Days Later~

~Lucy's POV~

It's been about 3 days now travelling in this never ending forest, we ran into a few bandits every now and then, but it was nothing we couldn't handle.

I do recall myself saying that I would never live in a forest again, right? Well then why the heck am I staying in yet another cave, in the middle of another forest?! And to make it even worse, I must be delicious or something because the mosquitos just won't stay away!

"I *swat* hate *swat * these *swat* stupid *swat* BUGS!" I whined.

"It's your own fault y'know; you wanted to pick the berries."

"Yeah, but I didn't expect them to be right by the pond *swat*, WHERE ALL THE FREAKING MOSQUITOS LIVE!" I swatted some more.

Astrid on the other hand, was sitting by the cozy fire, the fire that burns any bug that dares to come near, while I was cold, in the shade, next to a stinky pond. It was dusk, and we were getting ready for dinner.

"HA, too bad." Astrid turned the fish over.

"Ugh, how come they *swat* didn't come after you last time?" I asked.

"Easy, they weren't in season, you, my friend, have bad timing." Astrid took a bite of the now crispy fish.

"Mmph, this is SO good, well not as good as normal food, but better than that other nasty fish you caught." She took another bite.

"HEY, let me have some!" It did smell pretty good.

"Not unless you have picked the necessary amount of berries." She said through a full mouth of fish.

"Uhhh, is ten good enough?" I held up the berries.

"Psshhh, we need more than that, maybe like, a hundred or so…" She waved her fish-on-a-stick in the air.

"…Excuse me?" Did I hear her correctly?

"You heard me, 100 and you're good to go." She continued to munch.

"I should just poison the berries and then watch her suffer and…" I muttered under my breath, walking back to the cold and shady spot.

"Hmm? What was that?" Astrid cocked her head, looking innocent, but her eyes said 'Just say it, say that one more time and you'll be lucky to see the next sunrise.'

I shivered. "N-Nothing."

"That's what I thought." She turned back to her fish.

About ten minutes and twenty mosquito bites later, I had gotten the 100 berries I needed.

"There." I plopped down the berries that were covered in banana leaves.

"Oh goody more food! Too bad I already ate all the fish." She sighed.

"Are you kidding me?!"

"Yep, now, berries please~" She reached out to the berries, but I snatched them away before she could get them.

And she calls me fat.

"Aw hell no, you ate the fish, so I'll eat the berries." I started popping them in my mouth, and I climbed up a tree so she couldn't reach me.

"Oh you are so going to get it." She attempted to get up and then climb up the tree but after all that fish, she was just too bloated.

"Ugh, my stomach." She clutched her stomach and then fell back down.

I laughed and then chucked berries as her head. She didn't move.

"Ash?" Silence.

Hmm, did she faint? I climbed back down to check and see if she was alright.

"Ash~ you okay?" I leaned in, she looked okay.

Suddenly I felt a pain in my gut, then some explosive laughter from the girl who supposedly "fainted". She had kneed me in the gut, I can't believe this, I actually had the nerve to go check up on her and this is what happens?

"BWAHAHAHAHA!" She clutched her stomach and rolled around.

I clutched my stomach and rolled around too, but for a different reason.

"I'm going to kill you." I groaned in pain.

Astrid got up and walked towards the cave, taking the berries with her.

"Good luck with that!" She called out.

"Nooo~ my food!" I reached out and then my stomach growled. Ugh, I didn't get to eat anything yet

"Seeya!" Astrid entered the cave and then pushed a boulder in the mouth of the cave to prevent mosquitos from coming in.

I guess I fell asleep there because when I opened my eyes, nightfall had come I crawled towards the berry bush half awake and munched on some of the berries. Once my energy had been replenished, I pushed the boulder that blocked the cave out of the way.

I covered the mouth of the cave once again and turned around. It was pitch black except for the moonlight that streamed from the cave's cracks. It looked like silver, pretty. Then, I noticed Astrid, sleeping horizontally so that she was on both of the beds made of leaves that we hastily made.

I tried to push her off, but she was just too fat. I couldn't budge her at all. I eventually gave up, sighed, and then curled up in the corner of the cave.

"G'night Ash." I whispered.

And as I drifted off into slumber I swore I heard a

"Night Luce."


~Team Natsu~

~Normal POV~

'We are so lost…' It's what they were all thinking, but no one said it. Team Natsu (excluding Lisanna, she wanted to stay behind) had gotten off of the earlier. Then they went off into a forest. Since the village was hidden by a forest, they assumed that it had to be somewhere in there.

"I'm tired, there's no fire here for me to eat." Natsu complained.

"So what, the temperature is hot enough, once I make an ice creation, it melts in less than five minutes." Gray mumbled.

"I don't see any bakery's that sell strawberry cake." Erza pouted.

They stopped by a waterfall.

"Aw yeah! Something to cool us off!" Gray immediately stripped and dove in.

"Ahh! My eyes!" Natsu covered his eyes.

"Stop whining and do something productive, let's go find something to eat."

"Yeah, I hear you." Natsu began to look. "What the hell are these?"

He held up two lizard/snake creatures by their tails. They had sharp thorn like stuff on their spines, a pointy head with horns and scales that flashed an angry red. Their midget limbs flailing everywhere.

"Natsu put them down! They could be poisonous!"

"Hai, hai." Natsu dropped the beings; their scales flashed a calm blue.

"Mm, berries." Erza was popping pink and purple berries that she had found in her mouth.

"Who knows, maybe those could be poisonous too." Natsu said.

"Don't be ridiculous, these berries are called," She stuffed another handful in her mouth. "Armphingl." The name was inaudible with her mouth full.

Natsu's head perked up.

"I smell Luce." He said softly.

Then he began sniffing the trees, dashing from one to another, Erza following him from behind, and Gray, who had left the waterfall a minute ago, behind her. They stopped in a clearing of sticks and dirt.

"It's been a while, but Luce was here. And the scent gets even stronger over here." Natsu made his way towards a rocky path.

All three ended up at the mouth of a cave, if it weren't for Natsu's dragon like nose, they would have never found it hidden behind a bunch of vines. They parted the vines away and explored the cave. They were surprised to see a heap of blankets, some dried up fish and berries, clothing, and some weapons.

"Yeah, Lucy was here alright. This is her bow, isn't it?" Erza held up a scarp of green fabric.

"No doubt about it, Lucy and her bows…" Gray chuckled.

"I can smell Luce's scent mixed with that other girl, Astrid." Natsu snarled at the name. "But, even if they were here, they haven't been for a while.

"I can tell." Gray gestured towards those snake/lizard like things, they were about to attack a slice of strawberry cake. (A/N Remember Astrid gave it to Lucy as a present?)But Titania beat them to it.

"Mmph! So good!" She mumbled.

The boys sweat dropped.

"There might be something wrong with my nose, but I think I can smell some old man and cheap cologne here too." Natsu said.

"Yeah, your nose is messed up." The ice mage clarified.

"Oi, what did you say ice freak?!" Natsu cracked his knuckles.

Erza didn't really care what was happening; at the moment; all that mattered was her cake.


Sorry, this chapter wasn't the best, I had to go to a birthday party earlier, so my energy is drained, plus it's like 11:17PM here.

I don't know what I should call those snake/lizard things, any ideas?

Please review, and hope you liked!

Bye! ~