Author's note: Sooo here it is! just like I promised ! I would have posted it when they were exactly 210 but I was sleeping you know ? Anyways, we'll talk at the end ;) enjoy the reading *bows*
Lucy sighed, wiping the dry tears from her cheeks as she walked down on the street. She felt bad. Worse than before and did not know why. Keeping, the ring made her feel guilty and scared, and after giving it back she felt hurt and depressed. She really could not understand what was going on with her, and of course to help there was even a little bit of headache.
Lucy sat along the edge of a river, swinging her legs back and forth as she stared in a daze at her distorted reflection in water. To whom she could ask for help? To whom she could address to clear up the numbness that she felt inside her head and heart?
Definitely not the guild's members. Returning to the guild after what happened right now, was practically impossible for her. Her stellar spirits friends have already done so much for her, that asking them another favor would be like to rub harshly salt on her wound. Her parents are no longer there with her to give her advice, so who could she ask to?
Mom and Dad, huh? Lucy looked at the sky, feeling even more depressed than before. She stood up and wiped the dust from her skirt and walked towards the cemetery where her beloved parents were buried.
"Mom ... Dad ... H-How are you?" Lucy whispered, trying to smile happily at the two graves, but she could not resist for much, and her smile turned into a painful one.
"I ... I, instead, not so much... Sigh ... I don't know what's happening to me ... I feel as if the world around me had turned upside down out of the blue ... "She moved behind her ear a few strands of hair out of her face, because of a strong wind breeze.
"I don't understand why... I-I want to stay with Natsu, but I'm too scared ..."
"It's called stupidity." Lucy spun around to come face to face with a woman no longer in middle age, with pink hair and angry red eyes. It was Polushka.
"P-P-P-Polushka!? W-what are you doing here!? I thought you hated humans!" Lucy jumped falling to the ground on her butt.
"One. Yeah, it's me and stop shouting. Two. I came down in the town to buy myself some stocks for my meds. Three. Yeah, I hated them. I'm Hating them and I'm going to hate them. Oh, and stand on your feet, the position in which you are now is not feminine at all. " The woman said, frowning. Lucy did as she was ordered, and immediately jumped to her feet embarrassed. They looked at each other in the eyes for what felt like eternity until Polushka sighed while face-palming herself.
"Stupid humans, they always get in trouble and then look at how they end up after it."
"E-eh-!?" Lucy was taken by the ear suddenly and when she looked startled at Polushka, she smiled wickedly.
"Ouch! Ouch! P-Polushaka, could please stop- OUCH! M-my ear!" Lucy cried, stumbling all the time while she was dragged towards the middle of a forest.
"If you don't stop screaming I'll feed you to the wolves."
"W-WOLVES?!" Lucy shrieked and Polushka shot her a dead glare, making her shut her lips together immediately. They stopped in front of a familiar huge tree. Polushka's house. Lucy looked at her confused and in a matter of seconds she was thrown inside, by the old woman.
"….Ouch...M-my ass...Umm .. Polu-"
"Sit down on the bed."
"Y-yes, ma'am!" Lucy jumped on the bed, holding her hands clasped on her knees and her back straight. She watched Polushka take a pen and paper and then turn toward her and sighed.
"I can't believe I'm doing what that stupid old man told me to." Lucy raised an eyebrow and tilted her head trying to figure out what she said.
"Speak."
"Of what?"
"Sigh ... What are you scared about. The reason you're afraid of that stupid kid with pink hair." Lucy froze on the spot, when she heard what she just said. How did she know that she was afraid of Natsu? Lucy swallowed and bit her lower lip, trying to find the right words.
"Don't look for the right words. Just say split out what's in your head." She looked at her in amazement. It was as if she had read her mind.
"When did it start?"
"M-more than a week ago ...To a party at the guild..."
"What happened?"
"Well, we all have drank a little too much... And gray didn't know what he was doing so he accidentally angered Natsu along with Gajeel ...a-a-and..."
"And?"
"A-and …. Natsu took me to his house, where he …... H-he has done things to me ..." Lucy hugged her arms tightly and began to tremble.
"H-his eyes ... T-they were terrifying ... His evil smile … N-never left his face ..." Tears began to run down her cheeks and she had not even noticed that Polushka stood up to go get a bucket full of ice cold water. Lucy screamed as she came into contact with the water and glared at the old woman who in return she sat on the chair after shaking her head in disgust and mumbling some incomprehensible words.
"Is that all?" She raised an eyebrow hearing the old lady proceeding with asking the questions as if nothing happened.
She toppled over me a bucket of freezing water and now she's pretending that nothing has happened? The blonde thought angrily.
"If you won't answer me, I already have prepared another bucket right behind that couch, but I can't promise you that it's water, and I'm not afraid to do it again." Lucy gasped hearing the old lady's threat and looked at scared about her future.
"W-w-well ... N-no... After that I r-ran away from him, and I always heard a voice like his spoke to me in my brain, a-and I could see him everywhere, following me all the time, like he knew where I was going, what I was doing, with who I was and what I was saying or thinking... "The old woman wrote down everything she was saying on the paper as she nodded, giving her a sign that she was listening.
"B-but ... There was something different about him, f-from that day ... I could see a strange look ... a bad one ... crazy ... a-and evil ..."
"Since when?" Lucy took a while to respond. Honestly, she could not remember. She met that look almost like every day, but she was sure that everything started one day and from that day, Natsu had gone from the sweet, protective and faithful person that he was, to this obsessive, possessive and domineering person, which haunted her every night in her nightmares. Polushka stood up again and this time Lucy noticed it.
"N-no wait! I'll reply, I'll reply! P-pleas-"
"Shut. Up."
"Y-yes, ma'am!" Polushka went towards a shelf full of bottles and pills of all kinds to get a little bag. She walked towards Lucy and stopped in front of her, to reached into her bag and pull out a magic powder that she scattered over the confused girl.
"What the hell is this thing!?" Lucy asked, seeing the golden dust sticking to her body and start to glow strongly. Strangely she began to feel her head spinning.
"Dust of dreams." Was everything that Polushka said and also the last words, Lucy heard before fainting and falling into a deep sleep.
Lucy groaned opening her eyes with effort. She looked around and noticed that she was in a strange distorted corridor, full of the same amount of doors on the left and the right. (you know, like Alice in Wonderland? Where there are larger corridors and smaller ones, which are multicolor and full of other crazy stuff ?) Lucy stood up and walked to the closest door to her.
'Childhood' was written in large gold characters on the red door.
"Childhood?" Lucy swallowed taking the doorknob, as she started to fear what was behind that mysterious door. When she heard a click behind the door, she was overwhelmed by a wave of blinding light.
"Mommy!" Lucy opened her eyes suddenly, recognizing the voice and she felt like her she could not breath anymore and above all like breaking in thousands pieces, seeing the scene in front of her eyes. A small and Happy Lucy with a huge book in her hands who sat in her mother's lap. Layla Heartfilia.
"Yes, sweetheart?"
"What does love mean?" The little Lucy asked tilting her head cutely. Layla's eyes widened and she looked at her daughter surprised.
"Why this sudden question?"
"Because it's written here: 'And their love lived with them even after'" Lucy pointed to a spot on the enormous book.
"Ehehe. Well, you see Lucy, love is …..Well there's no real definition of this word ... "
"Why? "
"Because every one of us expresses their love in a different way, love is a deep feeling that you feel for a person or even an animal, which you cherish very much, my dear Lucy. "
"Deep... feeling? "Layla nodded.
"It's that thing that binds two people together, which can sometimes even be for eternity like in the stories I read to you. It means to have in mind only one person, with who you always want to be and share with him every single thing, of your life, from the most simple and bland to the most harsh and difficult.
If that person is Happy, then you're Happy too, if that person is sad or feels bad, then you feel bad too, it's a very strong affection for a person with whom you want to spend most of the time and a good thing, is understanding each other without speaking, knowing that you will always have a shoulder to cry on, or a person who will always have time and desire to listen to you .. Do you understand? " The little Lucy frowned and pouted.
"I don't understand. "
"Hmmm, let me explain it with an example. You know ... The story of the Sleeping Beauty, right? "Lucy nodded with a huge smile on his lips.
"It's about a princess who can only be awakened from her sleep by the kiss of a prince." Lucy's eyes gleamed with happiness and admiration.
"Eheheh, well, you see, what binds the princess and the prince together is love." Lucy looked surprised.
"Love binds the princess and the prince together?" Layla chuckled at her daughter's reaction.
"Yes, Lucy. Imagine that love is like magic. A mysterious and unpredictable spell that some says that it strikes when you least expect it and others say that it was decided by destiny, as in our story of the Sleeping Beauty."
"Decided by the destiny? "Layla nodded.
"When it was already decided from the beginning, that such a person is your soul mate. "Lucy pouted as she crossed her little arms over her chest.
"What's wrong?"
"I don't believe it."
"What, my dear?"
"In destiny." Lucy turned her head suddenly toward her.
"I think it's just a big and fat lie." The woman tilted her head in confusion.
"And why is that?"
"Because it's impossible for someone to have said that this was the right person for the Princess! W-what if it was somebody else?"
"Like who, sweetheart?"
"Ummm ... A dragon!"
"A dragon!?" the little girl nodded, smiling. Layla looked a little surprise before bursting into laughter.
"W-what?" Lucy pouted, looking away.
"Ahaha, don't get angry, sweetheart. A dragon is ...It's a bit strange that a dragon is the other half of the princess."
"Why?"
"You see, Lucy, the dragon is the one who must be defeated by the prince to get to his beloved princess and win her over." Layla said, wiping her tears, not noticing the surprised and also sad face of her daughter.
"Hmm? What's wrong?"
"Why must the dragon be defeated!? He never did anything wrong! He always protected the princess!"
"That's true, but it's understood that the dragon is an evil creature that blocks the prince from reached his princess." Lucy looked down in her lap, and slowly you could hear the sobs coming from the little girl.
"Oh God, Lucy dear, why are you crying now?"
"... Hic ... B-because everyone thinks... Hic ... T-that the dragon is bad ... Hic ...But even the dragons have a heart like everyone else, they can love too!" Lucy said between her sobs before crying out loud.
"Shhhh ... Now, now .. Don't cry, you'll ruin your beautiful face ... No one said that dragons can't love." Lucy slowly calmed down and stared at Layla in the eyes.
"Dragons, like all mystical creatures on this planet, can love and live happily like humans. There is no creature in the world that doesn't deserve to be loved. People often say that the prince is the right person for the Princess right? But, do you want me to tell you a secret? "Lucy nodded, still sobbing.
"I have always believed that the charming prince in the fairy tales are just some mere images. It can be a human, a dog, or even a dragon! Lucy dear, the charming prince differs from person to person." The little girl wiped the tears from her eyes, helped by her mother and stood in silence for a second before opening her mouth and say:
"Mommy?"
"Yes?"
"Is daddy your charming prince?" Layla looked at her surprised for the third time that day. She wondered sometimes from where the hell her daughter found such questions.
"Well, of course!" The smile appeared again on Lucy's lips.
"I want to find a charming prince like daddy too, and be Happy as a mommy!"
"Ehehehe, you will find him, my love, you will find him." Lucy's eyes lit up again, and stood up startling, the woman.
"When, when, when-?"
"Calm down, Lucy, you'll find him at the right time, you just have to wait until then." Layla replied calmly, moving a few locks from the front, while she looked at her pouting again.
"And how do I know that it is he's the right one?" The woman smiled motherly at her, and stood up taking the book in her right hand and stretching the left towards Lucy, who took it immediately and jumped down from the bench.
"Usually they are the people that you least expect."
"And how will I understand that I'll be Happy with him?" Layla crouched down at the girl and stroked her cheek.
"You will understand it, when you will look at him in the eyes and you will find yourself with him for the rest of his life, living happily ever after. Ehehe. Just like a fairy tale, your own fairy tale." The woman chuckled and soon after, even the small Lucy joined her.
"Mommy, Mommy!"
"Yes, honey?"
"I hope that my charming prince is gonna be a dragon! Someone who can spits fire and is huuuuge, and, and-!" The normal Lucy watched her little figure leave along with that of her mother, laughing and jumping every so often.
She was speechless.
Seeing that scene left her speechless. As a child she was obsessed with dragons and fairies, and that she knew very well, but she would never remembered the moment when her mother explained to her the true meaning of the word love, and that she thought her charming prince would be a dragon.
The same mysterious light, as before blinded her, and when she opened her eyes again she found herself in the corridor as before.
"Dragons, eh? Pff ..." Lucy let out a small chuckle, before walking down the hallway and looking at the titles on the doors. She had the idea that this place was where her memories were locked up, but she was not sure.
"Lucy?" Lucy turned around when she heard her name being called and her eyes widened when she saw who had called her.
"M-mom?" The woman in front of her put a trembling hand to her mouth and nodded slowly and you could see tears in her brown eyes like those of Lucy.
"Mom!" Lucy lunged at her in a strong hug, which was reciprocated.
"Mom I missed you, I missed you very much!"
"Me too Lucy, me too... D-dear, you're suffocating me." Layla patted her daughter's back, who immediately walked away.
"I'm sorry."
"Ehehe, don't worry." Layla stroked her cheek, wiping her tears.
"I missed you, Mom."
"I know, I know, sweetheart." Now it was Layla who embraced her daughter.
"Mom what are you doing here?" The woman smiled and took her by the hand.
"This place is where your memories are locked up, dear." Lucy looked at her mother in surprise and soon after sadly, making the woman tilt her head in confusion.
"So that means that you too ….. y-you too are just a memory ..." Layla stared into her eyes before smiling and nodding.
"Lucy ... You have become so beautiful and smart...I'm so proud of you." The girl smiled and scratched her head shyly, looking at the ground.
"M-mom don't say that, there are still things loads of things that I don't understand."
"That is?" Lucy blushed at the fact that she had to talk to her mother about what had happened to her, with her best friend.
"It has something to do with the pink-haired boy, right?" She lifted her head in surprise immediately.
"H-how do you ..." Lucy got a chuckle from her mother who behaved as if it was a normal thing.
"Could you tell me about this gentleman, it seems that there is something sweet between you and him?" The woman asked, taking her other daughter's hand, who was now blushing.
"N-n-n-n-n-n-no! There's nothing between me and him! W-w-w-we're just f-friends!" Layla laughed at her daughter's reaction.
"It's true you become more intelligent, but you'll always be the same dense girl, Lucy."
"W-what do you mean?" Lucy raised an eyebrow at her mother, who smiled in return. After a few seconds the realization hit her and once again she blushed furiously
"N-no! Mom, Natsu is not my charming prince! He's just a stupid friend! T-that's all! P-plus I don't believe in charming prince anymore!"
"You say so?" Layla said singing, while her body was emanating a strange golden light.
"M-mom? W-what's happening to you? Where are you going?" Lucy asked in surprise, squeezing her mother's hands.
"My time is running out Lucy, and yours too. You have a goal right?"
"Goal? Which goal? Don't leave me, mom! Moooom!" Lucy screamed feeling her mother's hands vanishing from her grasp. She fell to the ground helplessly. She was once again alone. Small sobs could be heard coming from her, but she suddenly stood up, wiping her tears, and continuing to walk down the corridor, which was getting bigger and bigger. She did not want to be a crybaby, not anymore.
"First day in fairy tail, the first time meeting Erza, Phantom's attack ... Dad." Lucy stopped in front of a black door hidden by a lot of chains of various sizes. It was the her dad's memory. When she swallowed and reached out to take the handle, she felt a negative force coming from inside the door, and immediately pulled her hand away scared. Something told her that it was better if she did not pass through that door, she felt that something would have gone wrong.
She backed away slowly and turned around to continue walking down the hallway, when she heard a dreadful scream that brought goose bumps, coming from that door.
W-w-w-what was that?! Lucy thought bumping against the door, that was on the opposite side of the black one. She watched in silence, mostly because her voice was gone, and with pure terror, the chains moving by themselves on the door and falling on the ground one by one.
In a matter of seconds, the door would have been open and god knows what would have happened to her. Until she felt something take hold of her wrist. After screamed like crazy, she looked down and saw a hand coming through the door that was behind her holding tight on to her right wrist.
"H-huh-?!" Lucy fought against the hand to avoid being drawn inside the room, when she suddenly heard another chain fall to the ground and then after the total silence, or better yet after hearing a click coming from the black door.
Oh no ... Lucy thought, feeling her heart beating in her throat and ears, making her numb. She was sure that this was the end for her, when she saw the door opening, but the hand that was still holding on to her wrist pulled her towards the right and then into the room and once again a bright light blinded her.
"Stupid light ..." Lucy murmured, rubbing her eyes.
"Lucy!" The called girl, snapped up her head and saw a boy with pink hair desperately seek for something.
"Lucy! Where you are!?"
"Natsu ..." the 'real' Lucy gripped her right hand on her chest. Of all the people she could meet, she just had to meet him?
"Lucy! Answer meeeee!"
"I-I'm here!" Natsu turned his head towards Lucy and her heart skipped a beat while a strong heat made its way to her cheeks.
Oh no, oh no! He saw me! And now? Shit...Lucy thought scared, squeezing her eyes shut when she saw Natsu getting closer to her. She was still holding her eyes closed when she heard the voice, now behind her say:
"Lucy! Are you okay?" She turned around and saw Natsu, reaching out to pull up a blonde haired girl who was holding a large white cat. It was her other self.
"Yeah, Natsu, thank you." The girl gave him a bright smile.
"Are you stupid?" Natsu yelled surprising both girls. (the real one, and that of the memory) He pulled Lucy's other free arm and hugged her, running a hand through her blond hair.
"You had me dead worried for a second there! Why the hell did you jumped of the bridge. Don't do this again."
"B-but, Natsu ... T-the cat jumped on the bridge, and-"
"I told you, do not do it ever again, did you get it?" Natsu raised his voice, taking her face in his hands. The girl nodded and he sighed.
"Let's go, we need to bring this cat back to that old man, who think he's already freaking out by this time."
"Natsu ..." The 'real' Lucy whispered, looking at the two guys get away with a sad face but a grateful smile, feeling an odd sensation in her belly as if there were butterflies inside.
On the street, returning home after having handed over the cat.
"luuuuucy! I already said I'm sorry!"
"Natsu! How many times have I told you? I don't want to hear your complaints until we'll get to Magnolia."Lucy said menacingly, without turn around towards Natsu who had to walk 5 meters away from her, but he slowly lessened the distance between them, being careful to not be discovered by the angry blonde.
"Natsu, what have you done?" Happy asked, flying around the boy who now had his hands behind his head.
"Nothing, Happy, I only punched in the face that old geezer who in truth was only a middle-aged man in disguise, and that's it!"
"No, you didn't ! You've punched an 'old man' in the face for no reason, and we haven't received the reward!" Lucy spun around pointing a finger at his chest.
"It's because you didn't see the way he looked at you your huge ass, Lucy!" She gasped, blushing furiously as she took a step back, to raise her hand and slap him on the head.
"M-my ass is not huge! A-asshole!" Lucy screamed before turning on her heel and marching forward quickly.
"But Lucy, Natsu is right, you have an ass as big as a palace!" Lucy turned toward Happy with her mouth open. She was surprised in the beginning but she immediately turned angry.
"Haaaaappy ..."She said in a dark voice, making the boy and the cat flying swallow and retreat, from fear.
"Dear kitten, did you perhaps said that my butt is as big as a palace?" She asked, cracking the bones of her hands, without realizing that a carriage was coming from towards her from behind, at a great speed
"Lucy careful!" Natsu yelled grabbing her hand and pulling her into his arms, so that the carriage would pass behind him and hit him instead of her.
"N-Natsu?!"
"God, Lucy, be more alert of what happens around you!" Lucy blushed slightly and nodded.
"T-thank you, Natsu."
"They llllllike each other!" Happy said rolling his tongue.
"We don't!" The girl shouted, trying to get away from the guy, but anyone could see that Natsu did not want to let go.
"Natsu?"
"Eh? Oh, yeah! S-sorry!" He said sheepishly scratching the back of his head after he let go.
"Let's go, I want to go home and take a shower, after I felt in that stinky water I don't think I smell like roses, ehehe." Lucy said pulling him by the sleeve. Natsu looked at her puzzled and then grinned like an idiot.
"Lucy, you're not angry with me, anymore?"
"... Sigh ... No, Natsu, I'm not anymore., .. Although I would really like to smack you for the immense amount of money that you made me lose ... Waaah! And to say that I was able to catch that stupid cat- Natsu would you move a little farther? I need space- "
"Hey!"
"No offense Happy, you're not a simple cat. You're my family!" Lucy said with a wink. Happy, looked at Lucy, surprised and then looked at Natsu who was walking next to her, and too close to her, so close that their hands were touching all the time. Natsu shifted his staring from Lucy's hand and looked at Happy and smiled, putting an arm around Lucy's shoulders to pull her towards him.
"Ahahahaha! This is the weird Lucy I know!"
"What do you mean by weird, I'm not weird at all!" Lucy hissed, pouting cutely, unaware that there was a bit of pink on her cheeks.
"Oh? Is our little Lucy embarrassed by any chance? Eheheh, how cute, don't you think, Happy?"
"Aye!"
"I-I'm not embarrassed!" Lucy screamed trying to shake him off, feeling that her cheeks were slowly becoming more and more hot and thus also red, but Natsu continued to hold his arm around her shoulders.
"Oh, look! They're getting redder!"
"Woah! Lucy looks like a tomato!" Happy commented
"Buahahahahaha, you're right Happy! Who knows, what color they will become if they get even redder!" The boy said, poking Lucy's cheek.
"S-stop it, now!"
"Ahahha, weirdo!"
"Stop calling me weird!"
"Hey, Natsu, can you imagine Lucy older?"
"Older? Hmmm ... Pfff!" Natsu laughed loudly.
"What is it? What's so funny about that?" Lucy asked, offended.
"I guess she will become as Polushka! - Ouch!" The girl tugged a strong nudge in his ribs.
"Ahahha, Lucy-ouch, that hurt me, you know!?" Lucy snorted and looked away from him crossing her arms over her chest.
"Ehehe, and you Happy? How did you imagined Lucy older?"
"Would you stop with this stupid story?!"
"Hmmmm ... With an even bigger ass!" Happy said, making some huge circles in the air with his little paws.
"Happy!" Lucy yelled blushing like crazy, but not only from the embarrassment but also from the anger.
"Oh Happy you're right! Who knows if it will become like our guild ..."
"Enough talking about my ass!" The girl screamed loudly, wanting to run away from the 2 idiots that were making fun of her, but Natsu held her back by her shoulders.
The 'real' Lucy, observed as Natsu teased Lucy and after a couple of seconds it was Lucy's turn to tease and embarrass Natsu. During the whole time she was there, observing that memory, she could see something strange. Something different in Natsu.
The way he looked at her, and stood next to her, the way he spoke to her by giving her hidden compliments here and there in the sentence, which only listening carefully to it you could hear them, and even the way he pushed her from side to the other to avoid contact with other males. It was, protective and sweet. a total other person, she used to know, and that made her heart beat madly.
"Natsu ... I'm sorry ..."
"About what, Lucy?" The normal Lucy jolted forward, but a strong arm wrapped around her waist pulling her back. She looked behind her and found herself face to face with none other than the the memory's Natsu.
"hey, is there something wrong?" He asked tilting his head in a way that Lucy thought it was too damn cute, and flashing her a bright grin. Lucy felt a strong heat within herself but also an unbearable pain in her heart, being in the arms of that Happy man, that a few hours ago she had hurt, did not made her feel Happy at all.
"I-I'm sorry Natsu ... I... I've done something to you that I didn't want ..."
"What's that?"
"I rejected you, even though I knew that you felt real feelings for me ... A-and ... M-maybe even I ... I don't know ... I'm going crazy Natsu ….."Natsu looked at her as she hid her face in his chest and clutched his scarf strongly, leaving out some small sobs.
"Hey, Lucy ..." But she did not answer.
"Sigh ... Lucy look at me .." Natsu took her chin making her look up, and stared into her eyes before smiling softly.
"I've already said it, Lucy. I love you. Even if you'll run away from me, I'll always find you and bring you back to where you belong, which is, in my arms." Lucy's heart skipped a beat and looked in his eyes, as she blushed slowly.
However, there is no happiness for her if she does not remember the annoying memory of what happened that night. A hand took her by the arm and pulled strongly away from Natsu's arms.
When she looked back she saw a dark image of Natsu. It was different from that front. It was more angry, more animalistic, more possessive and especially more frightening than any other time she had seen him.
"Take your hands off my woman." He threatened, glaring at the other Natsu which in turn raised an eyebrow and took Lucy for the other free hand, pulling her towards him.
"Who the fuck are you to say that my Lucy is your woman?" Lucy felt tore apart, since there were 2 guys with equal force that were pulling her for both her right and left hand.
"G-guys .."
"Disappear brat, I have important things to do with this woman."
"Haaaah? What did you say, piece of shit? Don't think that, I'll let you do what you want with Lucy!"
"G-guys ... S-stop it ... You're hurting me ..."
"Ahahaha, I do what I want and what I like with her. She's mine, and she will always be! Keep that in mind, pinky!"
"Lucy isn't yours, she's mine!"
"Guys!" Lucy screamed managing to break free from their grip by pulling them both towards the center and making them banging their heads against each other.
"Ouch! Lucy, why the heck did you do that!?"
"God, woman, don't do stupid things all of a sudden!"
"Shut up!" Lucy screamed, slamming her heels on the ground, furiously, making the two boys stare at her scared, while sitting on the floor with a straight back, not daring to even breathe.
"A-aye!"
"Y-yes, ma'am!"
"Listen well! I got tired of being treated like an object! I don't belong to any of you two and especially not to you!" Lucy yelled pointing to the dark figure, which in return growled when he heard the other Natsu laugh and look at him with an air of superiority.
"Well, this we're gonna find out in-"
"Shut up and sit still if you still want to be a boy." Lucy threatened him, with a dead glare. The 2 guys looked at each other and swallowed.
"Sigh ... I ... I don't understand you ..." The girl crouched scattering hair in despair.
"Hey, Lucy are you okay?"
"Yeah, are you okay, babe?" Lucy looked up, when the 2 guys put a hand on her shoulders. Both of them had the same expression. They were confused and worried, but what bothered her was that, right in that moment they had to be pretty darn cute. She bit her lower lip, leaning her hands over her eyes.
"You really are ... you makes me insane!"
"Why, babe?"
"Because one guy, it's sweet and caring, while the other is perverted and scary, however both of you are doing the same damn cute expression in this moment!" The 2 guys looked at each other and then raised an eyebrow.
"What expression, Lucy?" They said in union.
"Urgh! Stop looking with that false expression of concern!" Lucy stood up and turned around to go away but she was pulled back and was embraced by the 'good' Natsu, and right after by the 'bad'.
"W-w-what are you doing?!"
"Lucy, we love you, of course we're worried if something happens to you." Natsu said, stroking her cheek.
"W-well, m-maybe you will, but I don't think that he thinks the same thing ..." Lucy said, pointing to the other Natsu who frowned and crossed his arms over his chest.
"What makes you think I'm not worried about you?"
"Oh, I don't know, maybe the fact that you don't think of anything but my body?" The boy continued to stare into her eyes and then burst into a laugh.
"W-what is it?" Lucy blushed as she pouted.
"Ahahaa, you're right, I'm crazy about your body, babe, but I don't think only of that." He said, wiping his tears from his eyes and looking serious at her.
"W-what do you mean?" He smirked and walked over to her.
"I love to hear your voice, I love it when you blush " He said, taking one lock of her hair and kissing it. He smirked when he saw her looking at him confused and embarrassed.
"I love watching you when you don't notice it... "
"I love it when you get angry, but you're not serious, and I love it when you can't pout and escapes you that little smile on the corner of your mouth... " The other Natsu said taking her left hand and kissing it gently. Now those words that sounded so familiar, had struck her. They were the words that Natsu said to her when he confessed his love.
"W-what-"
"I love to death even your mouth..." The dark figure said, smiling and stroking her right cheek after he passed his thumb over her lips.
"I love how you walk or how you dress..." Continued the 'good' Natsu stroking the other cheek.
"And I love the pride in your eyes. " They said in union, before kissing her cheeks. Lucy felt like fainting from embarrassment.
"Lucy, if it's me or that asshole there.." Natsu said, pointing to the bad one.
"My feelings for you will never change. I love you, Lucy. I love you madly with all my heart and soul." Slowly the two bodies began to shine the same way her mother did.
"Lucy, don't let a silly memory, to obstacle you from seeing your future, your feelings, the real you ... Lucy ... I'll always be there with you." Those were the last words that Lucy heard before she saw them disappear, and the dazzling light blinding her again, but this time instead of waking up in the hallway, she woke up in Polushka's room.
"W-wha-?" Lucy muttered, sitting up on the bed while holding her head with one hand. Her head was spinning really hard.
"Here, drink this." Lucy suddenly found a glass just a few inches away from the tip of her nose.
"T-thank you ..." She took the glass and drank the white substance. Miraculously the pain was fading, and even quickly.
"Better?"
"Yes..."
"Good, now disappear, this house was intoxicated too much with human scent." Polushka said, taking a broom and starting to wave it in the air furiously. Lucy jumped out of bed and after having taken a few spankings, she went towards the door and stepped out, she ran quickly but unfortunately she fell in a puddle and when she came out, she was covered from head to foot with mud.
"Ugh! Sick! Where the heck did this puddle came from!?"
"If I were you I'd run straight home, that mud dries quickly and once dried it becomes as hard as marble, and it will be difficult to remove it from your body." Polushka said before crossing her arms over her chest. She observed, how Lucy began to scream like a madwoman and run away quickly in panic, and she could not suppress a chuckle.
"Tch...Humans." The old woman said before going inside her house while shaking her head.
"Fast, fast, fast!" Lucy screamed running through the streets of Magnolia, to get home in a blink of an eye and go straight into the bathroom. She tore off her clothes and turned on the water.
"Kyaaaa! C-c-cold!" Lucy yelled jumping out of the shower. She turned the tap until she found the right water for her and walked back into the shower. She sighed when she came in contact with the warm water and slowly she began to hum as she wiped her body from the mud, and she brushed her hair with her favorite shampoo flavored vanilla.
When she finally finished rinsing her hair, the door swung wide open and showed a boy with pink hair getting inside as if nothing happened.
"Lucy!"
Author's note: Congratulation on getting till 210 reviews now let's go with 310! :D joking, joking. *giggles* Anyways I ended it in another cliff hanger, (yes you will never know what happened in that bathroom! muahahaha) I really love u guys! thank you *bows* Actually I'm writing another nalu fan fiction. (I know, I must be insane or want to suicide...)
New school, new life, new love?! Try it out guys, and tell me what you think about it, okay?
Answers:
to Guest: No, Gray isn't going to die! I would never kill him, after all who's gonna be the sexy guy who will always tease, make fun, screw with his life, insult, fight him ?
To the french guest: Sorry I don't speak French... but I tried to use google translator and I won't tell you what happened in the bathroom ;)