So if some of you read
my other FanFiction's than you will see I updated a Halloween chapter
on those but I didn't with this one
because I couldn't think of anything. Kind of lame but yeah.
Anyway here is the chapter you have all been waiting for!
Where Natsu and Lucy finally meet!
Thanks for reading!
Enjoy!
Still Breathing
'Yeah, you look at me like I'm a stranger-'
Third Breath: Commence
~QOoOQ~
"That was awesome!" He watched as she stared at him with wide eyes, her chest rising up and down rapidly-no doubt from the intense dancing she had just been doing before he made himself known to her. Really, he had been captivated by her dancing, it was so strong and heartfelt, it was amazing to put it simply. "You're really good at dancing." The blonde girl gave him a confused look before turning around and grabbing the rest of her things and pulling her sweater over her head before walking around him. "Hey! Isn't it nice to say thanks after being given a compliment?" Why was he trying to prolong this conversation exactly?
She turned around and placed her hands on her hips. "Thank you for coming into a room that says keep out." Natsu watched as she pointed to the sign on the door which he had not bothered to read before coming in. Way to make yourself look like an idiot Natsu. He followed her out of the room, what was wrong with him today? "Why are you following me?"
"Because I want to talk to you..."
She turned to face him. "Fine, what do you want?" He though a moment. What did he want? He just spoke to her on a split second decision, he hadn't thought about why he did it, he just did.
"What's your name?" She seemed to analyze him, probably debating on whether or not she should give some stranger her name. He decided an introduction was in order. "My names Natsu Dragneel, I'm visiting here today."
"Oh, so you're the one Ms. Porlyusica was speaking about." The old hag had mentioned him, huh? She sighed, "My names Lucy. No if you'll excuse me Mr. Stalker, I'd like to go home." At this time? It was already dark out. Was nobody going to pick her up? She only looked to be in high school, surely someone would come and get her. He had to ask.
"Are you walking home?"
"Why do you ask?"
"Because it's dark out." That should have been obvious. Although with the impression he made on her perhaps she took the question as a way to try and follow her to her house. He wouldn't do something like that, it was just weird.
"If you must know I am, I have homework to work on." So she was a student. He watched as she placed a few things in a locker before locking it beginning to walk out the building.
"Wait!" He jogged up to her. "I came here with a few friends, we're looking for a dancer to hire to be in our music video, none of us can really dance and we need someone who's really good."
"So you're a musician."
"Yes, we recently just got recognized by a record company." He looked at her. "I would like to know if you would want to be in our music video as the dancer..." Lucy looked around him.
"I don't see any of your band members."
"They're still looking at other dancers but we're not really impressed with any of them."
"You must have some really high standards because this school is filled with great dancers." She shouldered her bag and shook her head at him. "Sorry, but I'm not interested. Find someone else to do the part." He didn't want to though. She was perfect to for the part.
"I think you would be the best choice though."
"You haven't even seen all the dancers yet."
"If they're anything like the others than I don't think they would be better than you." He handed her a card. "Here's my number. If you have second thoughts give me a call and we can work something out." He turned around and walked back into the studio, leaving no room for her to refuse him. Natsu couldn't think of having another dancer for the video. Her choreography and form were perfect and they needed someone like that.
…
"I'm telling you guys she's perfect for the part!" Natsu told the group when they sat down in the staff room of the dance studio with Porlyusica. Gajeel, his asshole of a friend since elementary school, glared at him.
"Salamander we haven't even see 'er yet, how are we 'sposed to know if she good enough or not. We all have to agree to this."
"Did you at least remember to get her name?" Jackal, a friend he and Gajeel had met in High School, asked with a bored look on his face.
"Yes I did! Her name's Lucy."
"Lucy?" Porlyusica looked at him strangely. "Good luck with that." Of course the old bat knows who the blonde is. Natsu felt stupid for not thinking of that sooner.
"What do you mean Gram's?" Lyon asked. His dark eyes narrowing on her face as she scowled at them.
"Her names Lucy Dreyar, she's my top student here." She looked over at Natsu. "I don't think she will accept, she is extremely busy at home and between that and coming to her dance practice, she has little time for anything more." He really wanted to have Lucy in their music video. It had been three years since he, Gajeel, Mest, Lyon and Jackal started the band with him being the lead singer. They had been posting videos of them as they practiced their original songs and just recently been contacted by a record company and said they would sign them.
But they need one more song.
The record company suggested they make a love song but with his recent break up Natsu had not been feeling the usual inspiration he did for creating music. But he did it and now they needed to proceed quickly with making this video and everything needed to be perfect. Including the dancer. "Could I persuade you to help me?"
Porlyusica hesitated. "…It better not interfere with my students learning."
"It won't." Natsu tapped his chin before telling her what he was thinking. "What if you told Lucy you wanted her to expand her learning and work in unfamiliar conditions, create her own choreography and teach someone how to do it." She seemed to consider it a moment.
"…Do what you wish. It won't do her any harm." He smiled and high-fived his band mates before she interrupted their cheery mood. "But I have a condition. If Lucy says she needs to take time off for something you best give that child time off or I will not allow her to be in that music video since she is my student."
"Deal!"
~QOoOQ~
"Dad's working late again." Sting told her as she finished up making their dinner two days after her meeting with Natsu. To say she had been shocked to be recruited by an up and rising band was an understatement. If she was being honest with herself, Lucy had considered calling the singer quite a few times but decided against it. Her family needed her and between school, home and dance she would have no time to choreograph a dance for a music video, let alone be the one in it.
Although she decided that she wouldn't take him up on his offer, she still kept his number in her pocket-even now she had it on her. Lucy turned off the stove and poured the noodles in two bowls for herself and Sting before storing the rest away for their father in the fridge as she did every night. "Again? He didn't even eat the dinner I left in the fridge for him the other day." Sting nodded.
"Yeah I know, I was the one who ate the rest of it."
"Well I figured considering you're the only other person inhabiting this house along with Dad and I." He rolled his eyes and shoved a forkful of noodles in his mouth.
"Do you have practice tonight?" She nodded and he heaved a sigh. "Why don't you take a break for tonight Sis? It's not like the old bat even asks you to come to practice anymore, you're her top student! Hell you could even be doing her job about now!" Lucy shook her head at him, she couldn't possibly take Ms. Porlyusica's place, she was too inexperienced despite her brothers insistence.
"I have too much to learn before I could ever be on Ms. Porlyusica's level, Sting."
"Whatever. You should really stop being so modest though, Sis, guys don't find that sexy." She huffed at his smug grin and shoved a piece of noodle in her mouth begrudgingly.
"It's not like I'm looking for a boyfriend anyway."
"But you do need one." Mavis now she knew how Levy felt. She didn't need a boyfriend and even if she had one Lucy was sure he'd break up with her within the first week or two-she wouldn't have any time for him between dance, home and school. It just wouldn't work out and he would be miserable for the whole duration of their relationship.
"I have no time for something so trivial." She was lying. Lucy often felt an emptiness in her heart, one that Sting and her father could not fill-she loved them to death but she wanted something more. Although she was always too afraid to approach someone that could possibly fill that emptiness, she was afraid she would hurt them or they would hurt her. Sometimes she wondered whether the emptiness she felt was from the absences of her eldest brother and her mother. It was something that always held her back.
Another fear she had was not being accepted for who she is. Her friends have been in the dating game longer than her, considering she had little to no experience-there was one in which she regretted, she often overheard her friends speaking of how their boyfriends would point out their flaws and how they should changed them. Lucy didn't want that. She wanted to be able to be herself around the person she loved without them trying to morph her into the perfect image they held for a girl. Everyone has flaws and she didn't want them pointed out when she already knows what they are.
"Come on, Lucy! I want to have some nieces and nephews!" Her face burned red and she huffed away from him, taking her dishes to the sink.
"We already have one!"
"Yeah but that doesn't count!"
"How!?"
"Because I want one form my baby sister!" That was not something a brother should say to their sister.
"I'm only younger by a few minutes Jackass!"
"And I'll take those few minutes." He's impossible. She decided to give up on the argument because there was no way of getting him to see things from her side of the story. Besides she and Sting already have a nephew, she didn't see the point in rushing another so soon. He leaned against the counter, "Speaking of nephews, when are we going to visit Mira again?" She flicked the water off her hands and dried them with the towel before grabbing her bag.
"I don't know, how about we go see her and Ryo this weekend. We haven't seen them in a while anyway and I'm sure Mira won't mind us dropping in."
"Sure." She walked toward the door and slipped her shoes on before turning to him with a stern look.
"No eating Papa's food while I'm gone and leave a note for me so he knows he's got something to eat when he's back."
"He'll know. You've been making dinner for us and Pops for years now, he should know by now."
"Please Sting?" He stared at her a moment before turning around.
"Fine, whatever. Just go and be careful!"
~QOoOQ~
Lucy stared at the small puffs of smoke coming from her breath as she walked down the dimly lit street. It was beginning to get dark out and the darker it got the cooler the night would be. She was freezing. Maybe she should have asked her brother to drive her over to her dance studio. No, she couldn't do that, she didn't want to bother him, although she knew her brother would want to do that for her and even tell her it was no bother at all but she found it a bother when she had two perfectly fine legs that can take her to the studio on their own. A gust of cold air passed her.
Perhaps she should consider getting her own license though.
Her mind wandered to the singer who tried scouting her for his video the other day, he didn't seem to give off a bad vibe but the way he dressed was opposite for that of a 'nice boy look'. He had worn baggy ripped-jeans, a graphic T-shirt and a leather jacket with a dirty-looking scarf around his neck. The worst thing about his outfit was the ugly scarf hanging from his neck, it needed to be washed badly, and she wondered how he could stand wearing it while it was in such a state.
Natsu reminded her a lot of a rock-band singer. Although if his band was a rock band then why were they asking a contemporary dancer for their video, wouldn't a hip-hop dancer be more suited for their style. Lucy had practiced hip-hop before but only because she had necessary requirements for other dance types and unfortunately hip-hop had been one of them. It wasn't her style nor did she enjoy the way they performed their piece, it was flashy and most of the competitors that were against her that won always shook their ass.
Lucy stilled a moment; suddenly the name Natsu Dragneel was oddly familiar. She remembered a time when she and Sting were fourteen and her brother ended up having to go against an older boxer during a match, she could still remember how excited her brother was about going against the man but she couldn't understand why-wouldn't it be more of a challenge for him to win? That was when Sting explained just who he was up against, a top boxer named Natsu Dragneel, apparently he was someone her brother looked up to.
She slapped herself in the face. Lucy could have gotten her brother the autograph he had always wanted from Natsu had she not forgotten about that one match. Maybe this was why Sting always drilled the names of the fighters he went up against into her head, so she could remember their names and possibly get their autograph if she met them before he did. Lucy sometimes wondered how her brother could be so smart at times but when it came to school he was a dumbass. If he put that effort into his work he wouldn't be failing his classes at the moment.
Her brown eyes focused on the small building coming into view, finally she could get out of the cold! She couldn't stand winter and she wished summer would come back and allow its warmth to come over her once again. Although that wouldn't happen for another several months much to her dismay. Lucy huffed before jogging up to the building and racing inside, immediately taking off her excess clothes so she was only in her shorts and tank-tp. What would she be doing today?
Party girls don't get hurt
Can't feel anything, when will I learn
I push it down, push it down
I'm the one "for a good time call"
Phone's blowin' up, ringin' my doorbell
I feel the love, feel the love
It would be smart to continue practicing her solo again or maybe she could practice the dance she had been working on the other day? Lucy finished her stretches and hit play on the stereo, deciding to just do the dance she had made the other day instead of working on her solo. The competition wouldn't be for another little while so she could have these few days to herself.
1, 2, 3 1, 2, 3 drink
1, 2, 3 1, 2, 3 drink
1, 2, 3 1, 2, 3 drink
Throw 'em back, till I lose count
She ran across the room and did a quick twirl before she slammed herself down onto the seat and hands seem as if they were holding cups before going stiff and moving her arms in a pattern as if she was a wooden puppet. Her movements stilled as the music came to an abrupt halt and she turned her eyes to look at a pink haired male standing in front of her stereo with a grin on his face and a few other men next to him.
"Weren't you practicing this yesterday?"
She huffed. "Dances are meant to be practiced more than once, besides I enjoy doing it." Lucy eyed him suspiciously, "What do you want now."
"She's feisty Salamander, 'ya sure she's good enough?"
"Trust me Metal head, she's perfect." Her fists clenched.
"I already told you my answer now if you will turn my music back on and leave me alone-"
"Sorry Luce but Porlyusica said this will be a great learning experience for you and volunteered for you to help us." Her jaw dropped. They got Ms. Porlyusica to make her dance in their dumb music video? What the hell!? "So it looks like you're going to be helping us as your dance assignment."
"…Do you even know how to dance?" She received a shake from him in return; Mavis Porlyusica was going to kill her! She had her solo to worry about and now she has to choreograph a dance for this dimwit. "If it's hip-hop or anything like that, I will choreograph but I will not dance in your video."
"No, this music is meant for contemporary or modern dance as you will…" She asked him to let her listen to the music and sure enough eh was telling the truth, it was soothing to say the least and it was something she could dance to. Something like this, it sounded simple but she could feel something different from it. "We don't usually sing these kinds of things but the music producers want a slow ballad so girls can connect to it and blah, blah, blah." That made more sense. She thought a moment.
"I'll put my all into this on one condition." They nodded at her, the others seemingly a little reluctant. "If Natsu gives me his autograph."
He smirked at her and winked. "Why, you a fan?"
"No. My brother is, he had compete against you a few years ago in a boxing match."
"What his name?"
"Sting Eucliffe Dreyar." He nodded and began signing a piece of paper on the bench next to her stereo as she switched the CD's in the stereo and asked them to take off their shoes.
"Uh, uh." A dark haired male with a scar over his eye shook his head before pointing at the rest of them. "None of us are dancing; the only one who will, will be idiot over there."
"Yeah, the songs a love song so I was thinking a duet…"
"So you want me to dance with you and choreograph a duet for the both of us…" He nodded and she sighed irritably. It wasn't as if she hadn't performed a duet with someone before but, she knew that person well and was comfortable dancing so intimately with him. Dancing with Natsu did not sound appealing to her. She looked at him, "I won't be able to do much without those lyrics you know, I can get the base but the words and meaning behind a song can help me a bit."
Natsu nodded. "Yeah, I'm still working on those so it will be awhile yet." He scratched the back of his head, "Do you think you'll be able to work with that?" She nodded absent mindedly and dragged him out to the middle of the room.
"I want you to follow my steps precisely; I need to see how much work I have to do." She began her solo again and watched as he attempted to mirror her movements. He was awful. She understood that he wouldn't be a perfectionist right from the beginning but she had the feeling that he was not able to imitate people very well either. She held back a smirk when he fell on his ass. "Well that gave me some input along with a small laugh so thank you for that."
"Ha ha…" He was breathing heavy and looked as if he was already breaking out into a sweat. Lucy let out a small sigh and looked at him.
"Do you workout?"
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me," she stared down at him as he looked up at her dumbly. "Do you workout at all?"
"Well, yeah. Nothing intense but we have to keep up a certain image for our career."
"Good so I don't have too much more work to do." She helped Natsu up and handed him a water. "From now on I want you to come with me for evening jogs to build up your strength, yoga would be a good thing too-"
"No way am I doing yoga!"
"You will be if you want this performance to be a success. Not only does your career depend on this but so does Ms. Porlyusica's trust in me." She crossed her arms and watched as he gulped his water down hesitantly. She could see his band mates chuckling at his position, it was obvious that they were not used to having one of them do things like this. Lucy decided to take pity on him. "Anyone who laughs at what we do can join us." That shut them up.
Natsu nodded to her in thanks before walking over as his friends chatted amongst themselves. "Thanks for that, they can be pretty brutal with their teasing." She nodded and grabbed her bag.
"Do you have anything that could prevent you from coming to practice?"
"Yeah, I have morning classes certain days a week but evening and nights I'm free as can be."
"So you're a college student?" She shouldn't be surprised. He was already well in pursuit of his career and she doubted his parents would allow him to do so much if he was a high school student like herself He nodded and looked back at her.
"Do you need a ride? It's already pretty late and I don't feel comfortable letting a girl walk home." Lucy shook her head.
"No, I'm alright-"
"Lucy, you're getting in that car and we will drop you off at home whether you like it or not." Natsu stared at her before grabbing her arm and dragging her behind him. She peered around him as they walked out of the studio,
"You know this is basically kidnapping right?" His grip on her hand tightened before he took her bags from her and continued to walk.
"Shut up."
Still Breathing
'-Yeah, you make me feel like I betrayed you.'
Fourth Breath
Shattered-Nightmares712: Finally they meet! I was originally going to just right the whole chapter with Natsu in it and then end it with him watching Lucy and then the next chapter they would be talking with each other but I decided not to. Thanks for being patient with me! The song used in this chapter is 'Chandelier' by Sia. Sorry this is so short but I wanted to do a quick update before anything big could happen! My next update will be Hell's Gate! Thanks for reading!
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