This is a little bonus chapter I kinda wanted to do, and I don't really know what took me so long. Meh. Well, here it is, just a tiny bit of drabbles about the month between Four Magics and its sequel, Fireflies, which I'm currently working on right now. plus, a little excerpt for Lucy at the beginning, cause it really IS her birthday today! [July 1st!] [well, technically yesterday, but whatever.] XD
The ironic thing was she remembered the moment they were about to get killed.
Lucy and Natsu stood side-by-side, looking up at the giant, Magic-made Earth and Water bird, as its taloned foot came down. The celestial mage squealed; tackling her partner out of the way, just in time.
They got up quickly, now on guard from the giant hawk in front of them. The two Dark Mages behind the bird grinned, watching the twin Fairies struggle.
Lucy pressed her lips together. Attempting to damage the first Earth mage, Clay, was a waste of Magic. She was beginning to regret going against an opponent that she wasn't strong enough to fight. Not that she had much of a choice; he'd dragged her a hundred feet below the ground in the effort to suffocate her, but fighting him was definitely a bad idea.
Suddenly, the strange thought came to her. It was the date. It was July 1st. She had been so caught up on her mission that she forgot. "Hey Natsu."
The pink-haired Dragon Slayer glanced over at her, eyebrow raised, wondering what could possibly be so important to say in the middle of a fight, when she announced, "did I forget to mention it was my birthday today?"
"Wha..? Really? It was your birthday and you forgot to tell me?" he exclaimed, turning to her.
"Just thought it would be nice to tell you sometime. I completely forgot with everything going on."
One of the Dark mages, the Water boy, was pissed that they brushed off the giant freakin magic hawk that was gonna pulverize their very existence, and fumed. "Shouldn't you be more concerned about your impending death?" he demanded.
Lucy put her attention back to the Dark mages and shrugged. "Just a thought."
Natsus hands went on fire. "Hey Luce? I say we beat the living crap outta these two." As a second thought, he added, "And then go celebrate your birthday. FairyTail style."
She was thrilled, and actually kinda looking forward to this fight.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow... goddamnit that hurts!" Lucy cried out as she was tackled by a dozen screaming, crying FairyTail members. With all the casts and bandages she had on because of the recent mission gone wrong, she couldn't get them off of her, with a well-placed Lucy Kick or even a whiplash. So what if she had a near death experience? Natsu came to protect her in the end, right? He eventually defeated Damien and rushed her to the hospital as soon as he could. With Wendy, she'd heal up fine, but her bones and flesh ached from so many broken bones and bruises. The FairyTail assault didn't help.
"Guys! She's still not perfectly better. Guys..." Natsu tried to dig Lucy out from under the pile. Eventually he lit his hands in desperation and anyone that didn't get out of his way fast enough was burned. Everyone got off, and now Natsu was stuck with the problem of getting Lucy up without hurting her. He stared at her on the ground.
"Don't worry, I can bear pain." He hesitated. Very awkwardly, the Dragon Slayer lifted her up, wincing when he heard her sharp intake of air. Finally, she plopped back on her feet. [Or crutches, whatever one you prefer.] She sighed in relief and looked over at her partner, thankful that she had him [quite literally,] to lean on.
"Eat it." Natsu snapped, patience wearing thin, shoving the spoon closer to her mouth.
In defiance, Lucy looked away, closing her eyes and blowing up her cheeks. Natsu slammed the plate onto the table. "Why won't you eat!" he pulled at the roots of his pink hair. Because of the casts on her arms, she couldn't lift her hands high enough to get food in her mouth, meaning that someone had to spoon feed her. Since nobody wanted to deal with grumpy Lucy, and she was now dating Natsu, the Fairies left the job to him.
"I'm not letting you spoon feed me because it's babyish and gross and stupid. I can take care of myself, even if you are my boyfriend." He huffed.
"Is that it?"
"Yes." He shoved the spoon of mashed stew, courtesy of Mira, closer to Lucy's mouth. The girl closed her lips so he couldn't get her to eat.
"God..!" he fumed. "Lucy, it's not poison! Would you prefer to eat like a dog?" she nodded smartly. A plan flickered into his mind. He left the bowl of food in front of her, standing up and leaning against the counter, watching her closely, arms crossed against his chest.
"I'm looking out for your wellbeing. Prove me wrong and go ahead, eat like a dog like you'd prefer to." Lucy looked down in surprise, and Natsu inwardly grinned. Her pride wouldn't let her back down, as he knew Lucy.
The blonde narrowed her eyes. "Fine. I'll do it and I'll enjoy it." The words were practically ground from her teeth; she bent over, face to face with the bowl, and started lapping its contents, occasionally looking up and glaring at him. He grinned back.
He didn't leave until she was done. "Seconds?" he asked 'innocently'.
"No!"
Natsu had left Lucy with the girls for awhile, trusting them [just barely,] to watch her for an hour or two as he went to do a short, local mission. Before he left he said, [in quote,] "if I see Lucy anywhere out of this guild alone, or worse, I with pull you all into hell and burn you in scorching flames for all of eternity." The girls swallowed nervously and 'aye-d.' Looked like there was a new Erza in town, and Lucy was a cake.
Lucy, Cana, Lisanna, Juvia, and Levy were sitting at the table, the girls all keeping careful watches on Lucy so she didn't disappear. "SoOOo... how's your boyfriend?" Cana asked, leaning in and smirking seductively.
"Fine. Just fine." Lucy inwardly groaned. She was expecting this to be two-day gossip and then someone would end up being stupider and destroying half a town so that everything would blow over. The Fairies were STILL talking about it. It had been a week since Lucy had started dating Natsu, one-and-a-half wrapped up like a mummy.
"Has it been nice and home-y with him staying at your house all the time? I'm sure he takes very good care of you." The drunk smiled, slightly tipsy.
"Yes, yes he—" she realized the other implication that she got behind her words. "Oh god, not that way!" Lucy fwapped her with her crutch. The drunk didn't seem to notice, her eyes fogging up.
Levy frowned at Cana beside her. "But anyways, that aside... is he any good at kissing?" her eyes went wide, like saucers.
She had to admit... "Yeah. He's pretty good." The girls smiled in silent congratulations.
"That was so funny what Natsu-san did to Gajeel-san yesterday!" Juvia babbled. Everyone chuckled. Yesterday, Gajeel the Iron Dragon Slayer wasn't watching where he was going and tripped on Lucy's outstretched leg. Lucy had hurt, [a lot, but she wasn't gonna say it aloud,] but was willing to forgive the man for his mistake, but found Natsu practically chewing on his leg. She had to make sure the Fire Dragon Slayer didn't kill Gajeel.
"Yeah, but Gajeel must have been hurt too! Did you see that punch Natsu got in his face?" Levy asked, worry etched on her face for her obvious crush. The conversation turned to the bookworm, letting Lucy think.
Well, sure, maybe he was a little over-protective, especially in this state, but she did have to admit it was funny. Gajeel was practically begging Natsu for mercy; which Lucy found amusing because Gajeel never apologized, [also making her confused,] but before she intervened, the Fire Dragon Slayer got a few good hits on the Iron one.
Also, she didn't tell anyone, but she found a note on her desk that night. Luckily, Natsu hadn't seen it, but she wasn't exactly sure what it meant. Bunny girl, u r certainly his if he goes through such lengths 2 protect u, take it from another Dragon Slayer, even though I only tripped. [P.s. I only said sorry cuz Pinky wuz gonna bite off my head.] [if this is Salamander, BUZZ OFF AND STOP READING YOUR GIRLFRIENDS LETTERS!] –Redfox
She didn't get what it meant, and Gajeel certainly didn't seem one to write notes. Maybe to Levy, but not herself. [Well, she'd also thought Gajeel wasn't one for singing. She was so, so incredibly wrong about that one too.] She sighed; you never knew with FairyTail.
"I'm back!" Natsu announced, breaking the girls from their talk.
"Hey Natsu." "Hi, Natsu-san." "Hello." Natsu bent down to give Lucy a quick peck on the cheek [the girls got hearts in their eyes,] and inspected her closely. Deeming her fit and perfectly healthy, he remained standing behind her, hands on either side of her head.
Lucy looked up at him, careful not to strain her neck. "Natsu, do you wanna go home?" she knew he'd had a fairly difficult mission from his quick breath and slightly dirty clothes." you can tell me all about your mission."
"Uh, ya sure, if that's what you want." He helped her up. Lucy waved behind her at her friends and left with Natsu.
They walked home together, but almost as soon as they reached under her door, the Dragon Slayer shuddered, placing a hand on the wall to steady himself. Lucy looked over at him with wide eyes, panicking slightly when he clutched his stomach.
There was red soaking through his vest. Lucy opened the door quickly and they both helped each other up to her room, the Celestial Spirit mage running into the bathroom to get her first-aid supply. Coming back, seeing Natsu stripped down to his trousers, she saw the tiny but deep wound dug into his skin.
They worked together to patch it up, Lucy cleaning it gently and Natsu placing the bandages on. It wasn't a hospital worthy injury, but it sure made the Blonde panic. "Where the hell did that come from?" she demanded once they were finished.
"Escort mission through... East forest. Bandits... lots, trying to get expensive thing in guys bag... scorched them all, one finally got me." he breathed.
"And why didn't you go to the nearest clinic or hospital?" her voice rose with panic. It would be fine now, but he better have the best reason in hell for why he was here and not at a damned hospital.
"Cause I said I'd be back in an hour or two. If I went to a hospital, then I'd be there for too long and then you'd worry for me. I don't like making you worried."
"And you think letting me see you like this isn't?" she sighed. Natsu would be Natsu, boyfriend or not. "If that had gotten any worse it would have been a hospital-worthy injury." Natsu grinned sheepishly at her.
"Even though that was incredibly stupid, as long as you don't do it again I forgive you." Lucy said, looking at his endearingly cute face. Damn, if he wasn't so cute and she didn't have the casts on she would have kicked the salmon-haired idiot into the next century.
[Four days later,]
Natsu smiled over at the petite blonde girl sleeping in the bed peacefully. Her cute little face was tucked half-way into the warm covers, bunching them in her arms like a teddy bear. She'd finally managed to get into a comfortable position last night, [not easy when you were covered in bandages,] and fell asleep.
Natsu usually woke up later than Lucy, but this morning he made sure to get up early so he could do something. Eyeing the stove to make sure it didn't catch fire; he went and checked the bacon sizzling on the pan.
Does that look okay? He asked himself, inspecting the strips of meat. Happy had always done the cooking in the house, since Natsu's cooking experience was next to none, and the Exceed had watched Mira enough that he could cook meat and eggs fairly well.
Beaten by a cat. Great.
Taking the spatula, he flipped the eggs over, and winced to find they were slightly undercooked; they splattered all over inside the pan. Well, it's like my first try in five years. He hoped it was at least edible by the time he woke up Lucy, but he continued watching carefully as breakfast was made on the stove.
It was about finished, so Natsu put everything onto two plates [Happy wasn't here, currently with Carla and Wendy for a mission, saying that he needed to get out of the house,] placed them on the counter, and went to the bedroom.
He crouched down, inches away from her face. He poked her cheek. "Lucy... Lucy..." the girl smiled dreamily, but rolled over slowly so he couldn't poke her face anymore.
"Comeon Luuucy~" Natsu insisted. "Wake-y wake-y, eggs and bake-y..." he pulled her over, softly so he didn't pull any limbs too hard, and poked her cheek again. Slowly, her brown eyes opened drowsily, and Natsu claimed her in a first-in-the-morning kiss.
He felt her smile lightly, and he pulled back. "Good morning..." he said tenderly, kissing her on her forehead, where luckily the skin wasn't bandaged.
She yawned. "Good morning." She blinked, trying to get the sleep out of her eyes. They were still slightly sleep-drugged, brown orbs trying to settle on her surroundings. "What was it you said about breakfast?"
He smiled. "Move over. We're having breakfast in bed."
Lucy squinted at him. "Did you make... holy crap. Are you sure you're Natsu?"
"Yes, yes, I'm sure! You asked me that yesterday!" he chuckled, kissing her once more time before getting up and getting the now-cooled-off plates of food. He passed the plate, putting it on her lap, and climbed in after her. With Wendy's healing, the doctors gave Lucy permission to remove the bandages on her hands, allowing her to eat normally. Thank the lord. She was getting tired of being spoon-fed.
"Err... wait." Natsu held his hand out to stop her from eating the piece of egg she speared on her fork. She glanced at him, food half-way to her mouth, it snapping shut when she realized it was still open. "Let me try first. I need to check if it's edible."
She started protesting— "Natsu it looks fine, how can you expect it not to be—" but he held up his hand. Diving into his plate, he took a piece of egg, and put it in his mouth. He chewed... chewed... chewed...
Without hesitation he took Lucy's plate away from her and went to dump it in the garbage. "Wha—"
"Never, ever let me cook again. I'll pick something up at the cafe."
Hehehe... doesn't really have any significance to the storyline, but I noticed as I was making FireFlies, I kinda left a month [exactly,] empty. So, this kinda popped into my head, Natsu taking care of Lucy and being notoriously stupid sometimes for the sake of his girlfriend. if you didn't notice, the first aren't when they're couples [as the first one's a Happy Birthday drabble, and the second one's when she gets back to the guild.]
Well, either way, I kinda forgot to do this the last chapter a little; Thank you for all the reviews while making this story! I am sincerely sorry if I forgot to PM you my thanks, as I like to reply to all my reviews... but..! anyway, I really enjoyed making this fic come to life and read everyone's comments! Special thanks to; LifeIsWaiting, ajmonkeygirl99, Squishymeansyay,4fireking, and Luna Rose for the positive reviews! yYu guys made my day!
Look up the sequel to Four Magics, Fireflies! I will be posting on a fairly average basis. [every one-to-three days,] meaning lots of new chapters!