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Chapter 13 – Hidden room

When the kitchen was done and they cleared everything about the little incident back there, they went on with the living room. They were still covered in flour and water but Lucy wouldn't dare to talk about that now since she actually loved to take a shower but how could she seriously point that out now after what happened in the kitchen?

Luckily the living room wasn't that big but still it would be some piece of work.

Natsu was busy fixing all the furniture while Lucy sat on the ground sorting all of the pictures, papers and decorations. Some broke but Lucy wasn't all to sad about that.

She also found an old box with pictures from a few months ago, a sad memory running through her when she saw a picture of her and her ex-boyfriend sitting on a blanket in the park on one summer's day. The smile on both their faces was genuine and the way he looked at her while he leaned in was one of the most favorite looks on earth for her. Had been. Levy took the picture in secret when she followed them because they were always holding back in school and she always wanted to see them kiss at least once in front of her. That's what she told Lucy non stop.

Natsu must have recognized her absence and crouched down beside her.

''Your ex?''

Lucy wasn't surprised that he knew she had a boyfriend or some kind of relationship with guys in her previous time. He should know better than anyone else.

Lucy smiled ironically to herself when she thought about the slightest possibility that he even gave a damn about why she wasn't a virgin anymore. She could have also been raped, a dark, dark memory in her life but he never talked about it. She never talked about it. She knew she wasn't, but still... Sometimes she wondered what he thought about in that moment.

Carefully, she placed the picture back into the box.

''Yeah. His name was Dylan.''

''He's an ass for letting a girl like you go.''

''Oh, he didn't brake up. It was me.''

Natsu blinked a few times at her. From all the time he spent with her he knew that she would say if she wanted something or not but dumping her boyfriend, and even if he didn't like it, her good looking boyfriend? He hadn't thought of that.

''Why?'' He asked in confusion. On the picture it seemed that they were very happy. Not that he would complain.

''He moved away a few months ago and I didn't really want a long-distant relationship.''

A few months ago? He had never seen her in school with another guy...

''How far?''

''Phoenix.''

''Oh.'' He couldn't master anything else. He wasn't sure how much he should ask about her life before all of this happened but he was still curious. The look on her face when she saw the picture bothered him... She looked like she regretted something.

''Well...''

With new confidence, she shove the box back into the shelf and smiled at him.

''Back to work!''

Natsu looked at her a moment longer before he also smiled and went back to his previous action.

Lucy felt kind of stupid for talking with him about her ex but it also kind of felt good to tell him. With a content smile she continued.

What caught her attention this time was the little supernatant of wood on the floor. Defined lines extending fro it, in the shape of a square. She didn't remember that.

The house was an old heirloom from her grandmother and after Layla died it had automatically been hers, but never did she realize this.

It was unlikely that who ever the intruder was, broke her ground...

Curious, Lucy put all the things she was sorting away and crawled over to the little supernatant.

Her hand gripped it tightly and she pulled once. Nothing happened.

With a grunt she sat up again.

''Natsu, can you help me with this?''

''Yeah, what is it?''

She felt his presence next to her in an instant, their shoulders slightly brushing, sending a shiver over her whole being. Now it was her who had to get herself in some kind of control when he was close to her. She shook her head with a chuckle.

''Here, can you lift this up somehow?''

She heard one loud crack and then a bit dust was leaving the little chamber which seemed to be under the piece of wood.

''What is this?''

''I'd like to know myself.''

''Wai- Lucy!''

But the blonde already jumped down into the dark hole. She coughed uncontrollably when her feet touched the ground. Down there, the air was thicker and everything was covered in dust.

''What can you see?''

Lucy tried to orient herself in some way but she was only able to see nothing. The darkness down there was incredible, not even the light from the living room was able to let her see her own hands.

''Nothing, actually...''

''Okay, I am also coming down.''

''No wait. I think it's pretty...''

But she was already greeted with his chest. And just like she expected, the moment he jumped in she was pressed against something and he as well.

''Tight...''

''Sorry.''

Lucy looked away from him although she knew that he couldn't see her. When she thought about it, she actually had no idea if he could see her. He once told her that vampires have higher senses in everything, maybe his eyes were also better than hers in this darkness.

''Can you make some light?''

Natsu's fist enlightened with fire, the flame giving them the chance to a least make out a bit in this chamber. They were both tightly pressed against shelves with the most different book Lucy ever saw. And she already saw a lot of books. But all these were foreign to her. They were old and bound in leather, without any titles at all, no authors.

''Did you know about this?''

''No.''

Lucy crouched down, or at least tried to, resulting with her head bumping his stomach. With a blush she just slipped further down and tried to turn to the side so she could take a closer look at the books.

Natsu had no idea how but she managed to turn around and was now leaning against his legs, taking one big, dusty book out of the shelf.

''I guess it's best if we take all the books out and look at them in the living room.''

Sounded like a good idea to him... But how where they supposed to do that?

''Okay.''

He sighed and bent forward, sneaking his arms under hers and tried to pull her up again. Due to the fact that he was touching her with both his hands, the fire which enlightened the little chamber went out. Startled, like she was, Lucy leaned back against him what made his one hand drop and tried to push against the shelf for support.

He pushed something down though. They heard a strange noise and then they were turned.

The force from the stop made them both lose their balance and they stumbled forward, falling to the ground when Natsu tripped and pushed Lucy down.

The air left her lungs when he fell onto her with all his weight.

''Ah, sorry.''

''No... problem.''

Natsu carefully crawled off her and stood up. When he took a step forward to help Lucy also get up, all the torches at the wall suddenly enlightened. The content of the room was now visible for the two teens and they both just started with open mouths.

The first thing they recognized was that the room was huge. Way to huge if you consider the rather little footprint of the whole house. Lucy fast combined that this room had to reach further under the garden since it was pretty big.

The other thing that caught their attention was all the battle gear at the walls and on several tables which stood in the corners of the room.

In the middle was a kind of fighting ring, limited by a golden chain which was wrapped around some posts.

''This is...''

Lucy gulped and simply took one step further into the room.

''A training room?''

''Something like that.''

Something about this room was to suspicious for Natsu. Maybe he didn't like the way Lucy looked so amazed at all the weapons and the room itself or maybe it were the weapons since they looked just like the old weapons with which they hunted vampires.

But they were way to old... Natsu never really liked remembering that dark time but it was around the 13th century.

Modern weapons didn't exist but the knowledge about the cold ones, how they were called back then. It would be embarrassing if Lucy knew how old exactly Natsu was so he wouldn't tell her about the weapons but still something really bothered him...

If Layla was such a powerful elf, why the hell did she train with weapons which could kill vampires, and especially those old ones?

His attention snapped to the bitter fact that maybe it wasn't Layla who had trained down here, maybe, just maybe it had been her father. Which would mean that he also knew about vampires and probably also about Layla...

Should he ask her? She never talked about her parents... At least not if it wasn't necessary.

And when she did, she never talked about her father.

''Lucy?''

''What is all this Natsu?''

Sure she would ask, he saw that coming. Those were weapons she never saw before, and where should she? Those were secret weapons only vampire hunters were equipped with in the ancient times.

Why where they here?

Natsu cleared his throat once, looking around, trying to figure out a way to tell her.

''Err... I'm not quite sure...''

''Oh really? I think you know exactly what these are. At least your expression looks like it.''

Oh he knew how bad he could be at lying. He never really had it to lie anyway.

A gush of the need to protect ran through him though when Lucy simply pulled one particular dangerous weapon from the wall and held it up.

''Guess, I'll just try one of then.''

Before she could 'play' with it more, her hands were enclosed by his, she was turned in his arms and the weapon was in his one hand while the other held on to her. All of it happening way to fast for her to keep up with it.

''This is nothing a girl like you can handle.''

But she smirked evilly. Her plan worked. She knew exactly that he knew what all of this is, that was the only reason why she took that stupid thing, which was actually pretty heavy when she thought about it. It resembled a simple rifle but something was different about it. Maybe it was that it didn't possess a trigger, like normal rifles do.

''I thought you didn't know what it was?''

The blonde arched and eyebrow at him and he sighed in defeat. It was obvious now that he knew. And why keeping it from her? She would find out anyway.

''Those are all high ranked weapons to kill vampires.''

''Why are they here?''

''How shall I know...? This is your house.''

Natsu's voice was calmer than usual, when he went back to the wall and put the rifle back at it.

He then settled on one of the tables and looked at the ceiling a few minutes.

Before he started to talk about the past, what Lucy didn't know he wanted to talk about, she walked over to the table and sat down on the ground in front of it.

''What is it Natsu?''

She may not be able to see everything he was feeling but she was able to at least see by now when something was bothering him.

''Those weapons... They were used by normal citizens who had the authorization to use them and also by witches...''

He took a break to look at her and study her expression. She was, unexpected by him, pretty unimpressed by what he said.

''So what?''

''The towns principles thought it would be best if also other supernatural beings were able to use them... Supernatural beings who also hated vampires.''

''Wait... The people knew about all of this stuff?''

Natsu only nodded.

''The normal people worked together with the witches, knowing they were able to fight us vampires. But it seemed that back then even those powerful witches weren't able to fight us. So the human race needed to find someone else strong enough to fight us.''

Lucy's eyes widened when realization hit her. This room, the weapons, her mother's role in all of this.

''Elves.''

''Your mother must have kept all of these weapons for later, for her mission she talked about.''

''How do you know all of this?''

A bit ashamed, he avoided her eyes, catching her full attention now since she knew now that he kept something from her.

''I... I've been there.''

''You knew my mother?''

Natsu lifted his hands in defeat and backed away when she stood in front of him with a furious expression.

''No! But I was there when the people decided to ask the elves for help.''

''So you knew about them.''

It wasn't even a question anymore. Lucy tapped her foot to the ground in a steady rhythm and crossed her arms over her chest. He had knowledge about the elves and she was one of them and he didn't tell her?! What was wrong with him, keeping something like that from her?

Lucy though fast counted all his previous actions together and when she thought about the time they were talking about the only plausible explanation for this would be his age...

''Natsu... How old are you actually?''

So she caught up to it... Natsu laughed to himself. She sure was smart.

''I am... Let's just say you could also use me as a history book.''

When he hopped off the table and bumped slightly into her he winked with a grin.

''A much better one than those at school.''

The history books at school? Those reached back to the 12th century...

Lucy turned around in shock when he passed her. He was so old!

And still looked so good!

That was so unfair. She had yet to find out that he was actually way older than she thought at the moment but he wouldn't tell her, not now at least.

With a groan, Lucy leaned against the table. Her mother had been alive for over twenty thousand years...

And she had the duty to kill this vampire king... But what did they know? They had no idea if Layla was telling the truth but what reason would she have as a ghost to lie about something like that?

''Hey, Natsu.''

''Hmm?''

The vampire was currently trying to figure out a way out of this room, starting at the point where they entered it.

''Who is this vampire king?''

''Dunno. Never thought that he was still alive.''

''So something like him existed?''

Natsu looked up now, realizing that she stood right next to him. He didn't feel her presence shifting though.

''Yeah, why?''

He now has fully turned around and leaned against the wall, facing her. He was curious on why she was so interested in this topic.

''I kind of doubt what my mother said... About this mission and all... But if you say that he exists then it must be true, I guess.''

''I know that back then... During the time the vampires were threatened by the humans, witches and elves the vampire king came to help... No one ever saw him before but everyone knew that he existed.''

Natsu looked away slightly, back at all those weapons.

''After the fight with the enemy he disappeared though and no one ever saw him again. Or at least that's what I've been told. I am not that old that I lived through the war between the four races.''

Lucy was actually relieved by his words. So he wasn't as old as her mother, that at least brought her at ease somehow.

The blonde was slightly startled when Natsu took her hand and pulled her back to the table.

''It doesn't seem like we can get out of here any time soon...''

It made her nervous. What was he up to if they were stuck in here?

''So, let's spend our time with something useful.''

First, her whole world started to turn. He couldn't mean what she thought he meant... right? He said that he couldn't go further... That he wasn't able to...

Her hopes, which she didn't realize as hopes, were crashed the very moment he pulled her forward, slid his leg behind hers and snatched it away.

Her back hurt more than she expected. She often saw this in movies and she never thought that it was that effective. But it was. And it hurt.

Natsu laughed when he stood above her, his feet on either side of her waist.

''If you want to use your powers we first have to work on your physical fighting style.''

Lucy grunted in disapproval.

''You could have warned me.''

The air left her lungs when he pulled her up again and hooked his leg up into her stomach. Lucy groaned at the pain which fast spread through her whole being.

He wasn't going easy on her.

''The enemy won't warn you as well.''

Next hit came in a blink of an eye and hit her side hard. That's when she had enough. For some reason, her blood started to run faster through her veins, the adrenaline pushing her to a limit. And then she was facing Natsu on the ground, she on top, and he groaned... in pain.

Her body had moved on its own and Lucy wasn't able to control that. And that scared her.

She had her one leg still on his arm, her other leg pushed up to his throat and her right hand held his other arm so he wasn't able to move.

Shocked about herself, Lucy fast stumbled off him and crawled away slightly, reaching the wall eventually.

Natsu had also been pretty surprised. Never did he think that she would be able to catch his fist mid air and turn him around, kicking him so hard that he lost his balance and then keep him on the ground with all of her strength she possessed. And that had been a lot in that moment.

He coughed a few times, trying to regain some air which she successfully prevented from entering or leaving his throat.

Carefully, he rolled onto his side, leaning his body onto his elbows.

''That was amazing, Lucy!''

He was laughing uncontrollably, impressed by Lucy's previous action.

''You completely beat me up... in a way... And you-''

Stopped by a sob. Natsu was by her side immediately. She was crying waterfalls, shaking.

Did he hurt her that much? Sure, he wasn't holding back but he still was keeping in mind that he was in general way stronger than others and she was pretty fragile.

''Lucy?''

''I don't know how I did it, Natsu.''

Oh, so that was it. She was shocked about herself that she was able to actually land an attack on him. Natsu chuckled softly.

''That's normal I guess. It all happened in a flash so...''
''No... No you don't understand. I don't remember it. It was like something else was moving my body on its own... And I couldn't stop it...''

She took a deep breath, trying to calm down but she felt herself being consumed by her fear.

Natsu also realized that she was already drifting off.

His hands gently rested on her cheeks and turned her head, so she would look into his eyes.

''Lucy...''

How should he calm her down? She was beyond the point where she was able to listen to him.

Actions. Only actions would calm her down now but should he really risk it again?

Back in the kitchen took it all his willpower to stop ravishing her lips like that, touching her like that. What if he lost it this time?

Her skin was already heating up under his hands and it got him worried.

Screw this!

Natsu leaned in without a second thought, carefully, yet hungrily, placing his lips against hers. Only this brief touch showed him just how much he wanted her.

How long was he able to hold back? Did he even want to hold back? She told him indirectly that she wanted everything, that she also wanted more. And she told him that she loved him, though he knew it already. He didn't want her to feel that way for him but was it really that bad? He himself realized more and more that those feelings he held for her grew to such an extent he couldn't hide anymore. He didn't understand his own desires sometimes after he met her but he knew for sure that he wouldn't let her go just like that.

Slowly, Natsu pulled back, studying her now flushed face.

''Lucy?''

''I'm scared, Natsu.''

It was the first time, after a long time that she actually admitted it. He knew it all along but she would never say it out aloud. She tried to fight her fears by trying to train herself to control her powers but it seemed that it only made it worse. And they didn't even get far with training.

Natsu sighed and tugged her head under his chin after he also leaned against the wall and pulled her closer.

''Don't worry about it. We just need to find a way to suppress them.''

Lucy nodded while snuggling closer, his warmth relaxing her in the most comfortable way. Maybe reading those books first and getting to know her powers would be a good start.

''By the way.''

Natsu kissed the top of her head with a hummed answer.

''How do we get out of here?''

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Guys:((

Firstly I have to apologize for the lack of updates... I was pretty sick the last week and actually only able to sleep and lie in bed... So sorry:/

I'll try to make up for it, today I was slightly better so I thought about finishing this chapter which I started before I got sick but tomorrow I need to go to a doctor again, so I can't promise anything.

Hope you liked this one and thanks for all the support, you're so amzing:33

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