A/N: I'm BACK! Things have been rough lately, things which will be explained fully in the end note by the way, but for now just let me say that this came out a lot more smoothly than I had thought it would. This was the first chapter in a long time that I was able to blast through in one night, but I don't feel the quality has suffered at all. Enjoy the chapter!

Lucy Ashley's Apartment:

"Lu…Lucy…uhhhh…" His eyes still wide with shock from seeing the girl his soul had been destined to join with in a different form, Natsu at long last felt the blow to his head taking full effect. With the image of the blond babe from Edolas etched into his dark portals, the dragon slayer found himself drifting off into the pits of eternity, his brain not able to handle so much right now.

Her own brown orbs looking over him, watching with a small smirk spread across her pink lips, Lucy Ashley squatted down next the fallen wizard as he seemed to fade away. "Wow…and Levy said there wasn't a man alive with the balls to sneak into my room…" Her smirk grew wider at her words, the very fact that a man HAD broken into the room of a girl with such a deadly reputation as she something to smile about all on its own, never mind the victory over her rival!

"…So…Natsu…" The latex bound beauty leant down, her face mere inches from his, her lips only a small lunge out of reach, the scent…my spirits…the scent of her…Natsu could still SMELL her as he fell into oblivion…the last scent he breathed in as he fell asleep every night…and yet…this wasn't the girl whose hair he buried his nose in, whose soft opening his manhood fit so perfectly… Her opals staring into the faint slivers of his eyes she let that smirk of hers grow larger still as she spoke… "…you still don't know what's special about girls?..."

All of it…her scent, her looks, the sheer aura of her presence…it was too much for him to take as he was…between the day he'd had with his girlfriends and smashing his skull on the tiled floor, he was out. The last of his consciousness slipping away before her very eyes, Lucy couldn't help it as the sneer of disdain overtook the seductive look of confidence she had been wearing. Her eyes narrowing as a small scowl replaced her smirk, it was clear she was done for now too.

Knees straightening, the blonde was soon standing back to her full height, although she wished the man had at least TRIED to put a move on her after so brazenly breaking into her home, she knew she shouldn't have hoped for so much. "Ugh…so I guess that's a 'no'…huh?..." Her hands coming to rest on either side of her curvaceous hips, Lucy rolled her eyes at the fallen male. "…so you ARE just like the Natsu here…" her dislike for the man rolled off her tongue like a bad aftertaste, "…what…a…waste…"

Rearing back her foot in a show of anger, the badass blonde was about to land a rather harsh kick into the side of the man who had DARED to break into her apartment when suddenly a small cloth caught her eye. "Huh?...What's this?..." Her boots carrying her over to the square of damp white fabric, she immediately realized what it was. "A…towel?..." Her gaze returned to the unconscious man, the fact that he was fully clothed telling her that it couldn't have been his, and she knew just from looking at it that it wasn't hers…

Her gaze focused on the towel, its soft, slightly damp texture making her think, it was then that she found herself looking back down at the man in her apartment yet again…Natsu…not the Natsu of her world, but a Natsu none the less… An idea forming in the back of her mind making her brown eyes grow wide, she knew just the way to get back at him for breaking into her apartment like this…and for…

"Thought you were pretty smart, huh?" Lucy grinned, her smirk returning full force as she stared down at him, his breathing the only sign of life from his motionless form. "…yeah…you had it all planned out…didn't you?" the blonde continued as she turned back to look at him again, one eyebrow cocking upwards as she spoke. "…But you didn't expect to be caught, right?" Still no response came from her sole company of the night, but she didn't care…

Eyes on him like the pervert he was, Lucy Ashley slowly reached up to grasp the zipper of her outfit, her fingernails catching it just as the next words left her pretty pink lips. "Yeah…you wanted to sneak in and see all of…this…didn't you?" her fingertips giving a gentle tug, the zipper that held her clothes shut over her body slowly slid downward, the sound of the zipper heralding the unveiling of miles of silky white skin…inch after inch of bouncy flesh…and the body which was forbidden to man because its owner was one who would not…could not be tamed…was unveiled.

The zipper passing under her bust, Lucy Ashley's huge thirty two Gs bounced out and into the open, their creamy masses just as soft and jiggly as those of her Heartfilia counterpart, everything from their consistency to the way her nipples hardened in the presence of the dragon slayer…all of it the same… "Pretty nice…huh?" Letting go of the zipper for a moment, the blonde reached down and cupped her heavy breasts in her hands, billows of supple feminine skin wobbling in her tiny palms and seeping between the spaces of her fingers as she held them up for him, presenting her naked girls like a pair of cannons… If Natsu had been awake right now he surely would have tackled her to the ground and devoured her bouncy treasures right then and there! But he wasn't…and so the show went on…

"Oh? These aren't enough for you huh? You want to see more?" Lucy Ashley's smirk was almost a wide grin as she released her huge boobs, the pair of soft globes jiggling alone on her chest, for there were no masculine hands to coddle them until they turned pink with delight on this night; her fingers taking hold of her zipper once again … That shiny silver zipper sinking ever lower on her body, the sight of the bombshell's bare navel would have reached Natsu's eyes had he been awake, instead the sight of her bare midriff went unseen and unappreciated. "Yeah…I bet you want to fuck this…" she paused as she reached down into her skintight outfit, her hands taking palmfuls of her soft hips, her curves only compounded by the succulent bit of fat she carried in ALL the right places, "…tight…little body…huh, big guy?" she asked as her voice took on a slight moaning tenor.

Her eyes closing for a moment as a series of shivers shot through her spine, Lucy at last peeled the outfit from her hips to let it drop over her thighs, the material pooling at her small feet. "I mean…just look at me…" knowing full well that her audience was completely blind to her self-exhibition, Lucy was sure to make it the best show never seen, "…such big breasts…" her hands reaching back up, thin digits pressed into the soft flesh of her girls, sinking into her white skin and making the small indents from her fingers just as pink as the stiff pebbles capping them, said pebbles standing proudly just aching to be sucked… "a round full ass…" her gloves falling to the floor, Ashley roughly cupped her soft bum, the meat of her backside just as soft and jiggly as her melons, so large and wobbly…and yet…just begging to be spanked…

A soft moan escaping her parted lips, Lucy stepped out of her boots as she took a couple steps forward…her hands moving back around her sleek, supple form, squeezing her breasts together so that they spilled out over her hands before trailing down her sides to her hips, all the while remaining even…that was until they dipped down further… "Oooahhhhh!" Hiss! Had Natsu been awake, he would have seen a sight which all men both in the Fairy Tail of Earthland and its Edolas counterpart would gladly have killed or died to see…

"Yesss…yyeehhhhssss…" With her index and ring finger holding open her outer lips, the blonde's middle finger slipped into her tiny pink slit, its underside teasing her still hidden clit with pressure. "Yeeeehhhhhssss…" Like a siren in heat, Ashley's body was slowly growing hotter and hotter from what was happening. Not only was she naked, and fingering herself so openly, but with NATSU in the room as she was doing it! He may have been out cold, but that still didn't change the fact of just what she was doing.

With one hand busy from the task of pleasuring her pussy, its sister dealt with a much…larger, and far weightier task.

Cupping and squeezing one large breast, her small hand was woefully overwhelmed from the task at, well, hand. The massive jiggling and wobbling globe of flesh yielded to her palm and fingers as much as they could contain before overflowing and enveloping it! Hissing as she squeezed harshly, her mouth parted in a deep sensual moan before a sharp gasp followed. Her head lolling from side to side as her eyes rolled into the back of her head, she felt, then heard another long deep moan escape from her throat, low and airy, it carried such a degree of femininity that it would have shocked anyone who knew her to hear it!

"Ohhhhh…yeeeeesssssssss, you like that, don't you?" she asked, envisioning in her mind the man unconscious on the ground, she quickly snapped her eyes open to look upon his prone form. "Yeah, this is what you want isn't it? AHHHHHH!" A second finger slipping into her tight passage, she withdrew both of the slick nectar coated digits and after making a small show of sticking them into her mouth and licking them clean she then allowed that hand to join its sister in squeezing her melons.

"You like what you see? You want these?" she asked him, knowing she wouldn't get a reply but not caring either as she continued to squeeze and cup her girls, pushing them together as hard as possible so that they created a valley of cleavage deeper than any chasm could hope to reach.

Stepping closer to the unconscious dragon slayer, she used her thumbs and index fingers to pinch her nipples, the tiny pink nubs already hard enough to cut glass, she moaned as she pinched and squeezed them. "Uhh, yeah, you like that don't you? It makes you hard just to think about them doesn't it?" With one hand still slick with her juices and the other still dry, the contrast made the act even MORE arousing! Releasing her breasts so that they bounced around on her chest, Ashley once against slid her hands down her sides to her thighs.

"Aww, that's not good enough for you either?" A mischievous and menacing glint in her eyes, the blonde closed the remaining distance between them. "Heh, I get it, how STUPID of me, no wonder it's not enough for you," one dainty foot stepped over him so that she was now standing with one foot on each side of his chest, her parted slit directly over him, "how could you possibly enjoy all this when it's so far away?" Slowly she lowered herself, her legs spreading wide and bending at the knees so that her body was on shameless display, not one inch of her hidden from view.

Wiggling her soft succulent ass before resting it dead center on his chest, she then spread her legs even further apart in an exaggerated motion so that her molten core was fully revealed, the thick puffy outer lips swollen with need and parted so that her pink inner cavern was visible, her hairless peach dripping with need for the only man in Edolas who could put out her fire…all the while her clear juices oozed out onto his hard chest, soaking it with her fragrance.

"You're just as hard up here as you are down there aren't ya?" she asked, leaning forward so that her massive breasts dangled over his face, she rubbed herself on his exposed chest, leaving a thin trail of her clear juices as she moved across his hard chiseled abs and pecs.

"So which do you like more tough guy? My soaking pussy, or my huge boobs?" she asked as she paused in her movements to lean back, once again spreading herself before his unseeing eyes. "All this, it's what you want isn't it? What you hoped for, what you dream about? What you think about when you're trying to get off!" With a haughty laugh and a sneer, she settled herself on his chest and once again started to finger herself. This time using the opposite hand to spread open and pilfer her slick passage while the juice coated hand she had used before continued to kneed, squeeze and abuse her jiggly globes.

"Is it all you ever hoped for? Huh?" She panted."Is it what you always dreamed to be?" A sigh escaped her lips. Continuing to finger herself, her thin digit driving in and out while her palm pressed down on her now exposed clit, the blonde gasped and shuddered as she gave exaggerated moans and faux desperate cries of pleasure to her audience of one.

"Bet…ya, that-Ahh!... That you never thought you'd get to see-Hmmmmhaaaaa!... This, huh?"

Pleasure shooting through both of her heavy melons and up through her burning core, anyone would think the blonde would be smiling by now; If anything though, her scowl only seemed to deepen.

"What's the matter? Still not easy enough for you? Still too much work? Fine! How about I get on my hands and knees for you!" She yelled down at him, thin strands of golden hair flying over her blushing face as she did.

Twisting her body around, the girl turned to face away from him, once again making a show as she swung her thick thighs over his form, she repositioned herself so that her pussy was hovering just inches from his face as she settled herself down, pressing her pelvis against his chest with her legs pulled up and bent at the knees. Her body flush with his chest as her huge breasts cushioned her above his crotch, those two huge heavenly marshmallows squeezing and smooshing between their bodies. Had the man been awake he would have died and gone to the next life from either the feeling of her boobs on his member or the sight of her heavenly peach bare before him.

"That easy enough for you yet?" she asked as she wiggled her backside and ground into his chest before adding, "oh that's right, I forgot, I can't make you do ANY work, it has to just be GIVEN to you, doesn't it?" Reaching back with one hand as she twisted her body on an angle she slipped one of her hands down the crack of her ass to her tiny pink slit , those fingers of her spreading her core wide open for his uses. "Well? Is THAT easy enough for you? Have I done enough yet or are you expecting me to BEG?!"

Shifting her ass from side to side, waving it before Natsu's unconscious form like a piece of steak in front of a starved dog, Lucy began to finger herself once more, sliding the thin digit in and out of her parted lower lips, her sex completely bare and on display for him, that little pink opening of hers…the center of her flower blossoming as she again and again slid that soft digit of hers back in and out, in and out, pumping it while grinding her hips against his chest, she could FEEL the release she had wanted so badly from him…him…the man who had broken her heart…

Sliding her finger back out again, a few small droplets of ambrosia nectar fell his chest, their sweet taste forever lost without a conscious male to enjoy them. Lucy was on the brink of the climax she so SORELY needed, but just when she could feel it coming, the rush of being so naked and so vulnerable mere inches from the man who mattered most to her…it…it…

"AGH!" The slivers which her eyes had become in the blissful moments leading up to this moment, it was now that they became full again, but it was not with the shocks of orgasm sweeping over her form which they held in their deep circles…but the bitter resentment of what had been lost…and what was now lying under her naked form…

Eyebrows furrowing in anger, Lucy pushed herself up from him and glared down at the man she had just been fingering herself to…who she had been fingering herself FOR… "Why am I even doing this?!" her voice was loud and filled with the shrill pains of a girl for whom things had not gone her way. "…You don't care! You've NEVER cared!" His unconscious form seemingly mocking her, the blonde suddenly felt her rage heighten even further as a cool breeze trickled over her hardened nipples while her juices ran down her legs from her aching slit. The image of how stupid she must have looked to him after what she had done...standing there…naked and horny, throwing herself at him like some kind of slut…for a man who didn't love her…it was enough to make a girl look him in the eye and yell…

"FUCK YOU!" Her middle finger outstretched, it dribbled with her own juices, her final insult to him still mocking her desperate need…feeling her want on her fingers, Lucy Ashley turned on her heel. The girl had had enough for one night…even if it was only her for most of it. Reaching down as she left, the blonde scooped up the towel which the man had arrived with, she needed it FAR more than him after all.

With heavy footfalls, Lucy stormed over to her bathroom door, the door being flung open in front of her, she turned back over her shoulder to look at the man who had passed up his favorite feast in the world without even realizing it. The brown opals which saw passage of the outside world to her soul alight with the flames of anger and lust, the blonde stomped through the open doorway, the marvelous sight of her nude bum the last thing Natsu would have seen had he been awake.

The sounds of the bathtub running followed soon after her disappearance from the room. Her round curves meeting the liquids in her tub, Lucy allowed a small sigh to leave her as the hot water devoured the stress which now inhabited her supple flesh. Sinking down to her shoulders, the most feared girl in Fairy Tail looked down, the fact that her large breasts were floating in the water only making her that much angrier. "Stupid, dumbass…" she grunted, the relaxing feel of the waters taking their toll on her rage, draining it, ebbing it away to leave her with an empty aching feeling within her soul. Her face now blank, almost completely devoid of emotion, she reached up to cup her breasts, the two large and pale orbs that were her shining beacon of femininity, proof that she was in fact a girl, a young woman in the full bloom of her youth before sighing, "…every last part of me is real…" The blonde scowled at her breasts, the fully natural globes bobbing in the water with her slightest of movements as she released them almost as though they were mocking her with reminders of the harsh whispers and biting slights she had heard from other women wherever she went, "…and still…" she let her eyes slide shut as the last of her anger left her, "…you still look the other way…just like everyone else…"

The Next Day:

Clop Clop Clop Clop…

Round eyes full of fascination taking in everything around him, Natsu was awake now…not that he would have been allowed to sleep in that is…not where he had stayed the night. "Aghh…I can't believe you woke me up so early!" The dragon slayer rubbed his still somewhat bruised skull, the time out he'd had the night before not being quite enough to heal the damage from his fall.

Not even bothering with looking over at her new companion, Lucy certainly wasn't in the best of moods this morning…not that she ever was. Edolas was a place of opposites, as Natsu and his friends had found out the last time they'd been here, but at the same time there were just as many similarities too. For instance, as he stole a glance at the blonde girl walking by his side, the dragon slayer realized something. 'It doesn't matter if I'm in Earthland or Edolas…' Natsu couldn't help smirking as he took in the sight of the buxom girl, her large boobs bouncing with each step she took in her skin tight outfit, 'Lucy ALWAYS has a temper…'

The Lucy he knew, the girl he had pinned down in the forest during a mission and claimed as his own was without a doubt, the sweetest…kindest soul he had ever met…with rare exceptions she was never selfish and ALWAYS put others before herself. The Lucy from Edolas on the other hand… "Hey! What are you staring at tough guy?" Her words suddenly breaking his concentration, Natsu had to quickly look away from the bouncing badass, his crumpled lips letting out a short "Nothing" before going back to his thoughts. At least she was satisfied with just proving she held dominance over him…

'Lucy Ashley...' Her last name was about as different from his Lucy's as their personalities… Lucy Ashley was probably the meanest, most aggressive girl he had ever met. Letting his eyes slink back to her once more, the dragon slayer couldn't help appreciating just how similar she looked to Erza when she was pissed. The way her brows furrowed and her brown eyes looked straight forward, ready to castrate death itself if it were to so much as annoy her… 'She's like a super angry mini Erza!' The image of a tiny blonde Erza getting REALLY pissed off and hopping around with a sword popping into his mind, Natsu couldn't hold in the laughter that followed it, the man having to stop in his tracks to keep from falling over!

Bending over to rest his hands on his knees for support, Natsu just kept on laughing at the mental image, "HAHAHAHHAHAAAAAHHHAAAA!" A smile spread across his cheeks, he almost wished he could think about that image all day…but then 'angry mini Erza' spoke up.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU LAUGHING ABOUT!?" The sudden roar of her rough, yet still feminine voice blasting in his ear drums, Natsu looked up to see the intimidating sight of the blonde bombshell of death looming over him, her eyes narrowed into slivers as she stared him down. 'Wow…and I thought I was just seeing things!' The image passing through Natsu's mind, he could almost superimpose the image of Erza Scarlet from his childhood onto that of the rough blonde. Standing over him with a scowl on her lips and her arms at her hips, he could just see the girl who had been a big sister to him for so long…but now… "WELL!? WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL!?"

Those stray thoughts exiting his brain just as quickly as they had entered it, the dragon slayer at last got his breathing under control enough to stand up fully straight again. Regaining his full height, he could now look at the blonde from a more…gratifying perspective. "Oh…uhhh…nothing, Luce!" he smiled at her, the girl still giving him a look as he fixed his clothes.

"Fine…but don't think for a minute I'm going to let you laugh at me like that!" she threatened with one small, albeit balled up, fist, "…Because if ya do, then I'm gonna have to kick your ass until you get it through your thick skull NOT to fuck with me!" The girl still holding her fist to his throat, Natsu waved his hands in submission, the show enough for her to lower her lethal weapon and continue on her way, the girl once again leading the way to the guild hall.

Hanging back for a few moments, Natsu smiled as he was able to enjoy this perspective of the girl. Watching as she started up again, her wide, sensual hips straining against the tight fabric of her skintight outfit, it was easy to see from where he now stood that Lucy Ashley, as much as she probably would have liked the comparison, was NOT as Erza had been in his childhood. Bigger than him, stronger than him…a mighty figure towering over his very being and leaving him helpless to resist her wishes to train more.

'No matter how tough you make yourself out to be…' his smile widened as she stopped once again, her head turning to look over her shoulder in annoyance at having to tell him off again, the fact that he was so much bigger than her coming completely into focus as she stormed back to bark at him, the way her slight frame seemed to be overshadowed by his wider one, how her arms and legs were soft with silky skin while his was with hard muscle. And above all…no matter how tough she really was…she still REAKED of that feminine aura that set his innate predatory urges on fire.

"Hey, would you hurry up!?" She yelled at him in his face all of a sudden, her brown orbs obviously not waiting around any longer for him to get going on his own. His face contorting into one of fright, Natsu was soon on the move again, the battle loving babe of Edolas walking alongside him. Watching her movements out of the corner of his eye, Natsu knew…oh how he knew… 'No matter how loud you yell or how many guys you beat up to show that you're tough…' he smiled at the essence of her being, that one big difference between him and her that made everything she did have such a sensual aspect to it, that one thing that mattered more to him than ANY show of bravado, '…you're still a girl…'

The two walked for some time in silence after that, Lucy doing her best to forget what she had done the night before. How she had stripped down right in front of him like that, teasing his unconscious form with her body before almost fingering herself to orgasm right onto his face!... It was the sort of thing only desperate failures of women did…and she was NOT a failure!

Natsu meanwhile was still thinking over what he had realized earlier about her, his eyes taking pot shots at her body every chance he got. Dark orbs hitting every mark on her he could see, from her pale white boobs squishing up and over the zipper of her outfit, her jiggling flesh spilling out just like any man would dream of…to the way her tight outfit clung to her every round curve. It was the closest thing a man could get to seeing her naked without seeing her; not enough to tell what it all looked like under there, but still enough to KNOW that he was doomed to dine in second class for the rest of his life, the girl's body putting all others to shame without even exposing an inch of leg.

But her dynamo of a body aside, it was her face that really held his attention, it was the face of the girl he loved most of all, the one whose soul and his were bound to lock forms even when their bodies turned to dust…and yet… 'She's so angry…' Whereas his Lucy always exuded joy and happiness wherever she went, Lucy Ashley seemed to do the same with aggression. Erza always intimidated people regardless of where she was, but that was not on purpose, she WAS Titania after all! Common folk couldn't help but to be felled in awe at the mere sight of her when they knew of her accomplishments. Lucy Ashly on the other hand…was just aggressive. She walked around in a skin tight outfit and would beat the pulp out of any man who dared to so much as whistle at her. She scared people on purpose and enjoyed the way everything stopped when she entered the room. It may not have been the nicest way to act, but it was what worked for her; and she was just fine with it.

Seeing as how the girl looked to be on the verge of catching him looking her over again, Natsu at long last spoke up, his hands rising up to fold behind his head as he spoke. "So, Luce, how've things been? You know…without any magic here and all now?" he asked, his companion seemingly unloading the round she had prepared to fire at him when he opened his mouth.

Flicking her eyes up and away from the dragon slayer, Lucy looked as if she were about to just blow him off, but then…she answered. "Better than you'd expect, I guess." The girl turned her stony gaze back over to him now, her eyes locking with his, "…the guild is still up and running, it turns out the way we used magic had more to do with our physical skills than how you and the others over in Earthland use magic." Seeing as how the man beside her looked rather surprised, she went on. "What? Don't tell me any of this shocks you?" The blonde let out a short laugh, "…I mean, even while you guys were here you were throwing fire and swords around while we were using magic to hone our personal skillsets." Her hands rose up to catch her fist in her other palm. "You can't breathe fire without magic, but I can still kick a man's ass just the same…"

Grinning at the way her fist met her glove, Lucy looked back up at the dragon slayer to find not the impressed face she had expected, or the surprised one she had left…but rather one which held a scowl…a scowl directed right at her. "Something the matter, tough guy?" She raised an eyebrow at his hostile expression, his face not changing in the slightest at her words.

Abruptly halting in his tracks, Natsu brought a sudden stop to their trek, his blonde companion, annoyed as she was, digging her boots into the dirt to stop with him. Their eyes meeting, brown on black, she was just about to press her earlier question, with the added threat level of course, when he beat her to it.

"What's wrong, Lucy?..."

The wind blew between them in the seconds which passed following his question, the seconds that were filled with nothing but silence for he had asked the question none dared ask the blonde…the one which concerned a girl's most tender place…her heart.

"Huh?...Wh…What did you just ask—" Ashley went to retort, only to have the question repeated back at her again, this time with the added lacing of that strong, masculine aura Natsu wielded so masterfully, the biggest weakness to a girl's basic instincts. This wasn't something Natsu had learned on his own though…he had HIS Lucy and her using her feminine aura to utterly destroy his male mind to thank for this discovery…after all…what worked for the fairy…

"I said…" he reiterated the question, "…what is wrong, Lucy?"

Her eyes, big brown orbs which usually held a domineering look over her unfortunate victim, now almost seemed to tremble a little at what was happening. She could FEEL that aura which made her body weak in the knees, she could SEE the look of determination on his face, the one that promised to find out what she hid from him…she could SENSE the overwhelming attraction which the male body exuded when it wanted to become one with a girl…she knew what he was asking alright…but she wasn't about to tell him…not the ass hole that…that…

"I don't know what you're talking about..." Brushing it all off, the girl was suddenly turning on her heel, the sleek form of her luscious curves now passing the dragon slayer by as she continued on their path to the guild hall. "…But if you don't want to get left out here to die, you better pick up your purse and get the fuck over here."

Standing there in shock, the man couldn't believe what had just happened. She…she had just…the look, the aura, the feelings…normally pressing one of his girls with these things ALWAYS yielded results…not necessarily sex, but whatever was wrong with them, bringing out the inner feelings that were pulling them down…feelings which it was HIS JOB to dispense with…because it was he more than anyone else who knew just how amazing girls were on the inside…

But for some reason or another his tactics hadn't worked with Lucy Ashley…Natsu had no idea what was wrong with her, but something was definitely up with the tough blonde that hadn't been there last time he had seen her. Watching as she stalked away from him, her image growing fainter and fainter in the misty jungle…the dragon slayer only had one thing to say before sprinting to catch up with her.

"What…the…fuck?..."

Edolas Fairy Tail Guild Hall:

The girl seemed to get farther and farther away with each step he took in her direction, his calls towards her disappearing figure, something that still left him in awe no matter how many times he would ogle Lucy's at night by holding up the covers to expose her nude form to his hungry gaze. The girl at last gone, Natsu soon found himself wandering forward through an endless sea of trees and brush…the only thing on his mind being the constant wish for water…and regretting just how much sweetness he had wasted each night he'd watched as the last of his celestial girlfriend's juices slipped from her abused pussy as she peacefully slept.

"Agh…great…thanks a lot, Luce!" The now rather perturbed dragon slayer yelled out into the empty expanse around him. "Last time I was here I don't remember having to walk through so much jungle to get to the guild!" Crossing his arms angrily over his chest, the man kept on trekking, keeping an eye out for when next the girl might appear before him.

It was then though something else came to mind. "Heh…maybe she got picked up by a plant that ripped all her clothes off…" The naughty thought suddenly slipped its way into the young man's brain like a finger into a certain temperamental blonde. "Heheheh…yeah…I bet she's running around here just as lost as I am…" The dragon slayer drooled, the image of the tough girl version of his other half running around through the dark jungle, her body exposed to the hot sun as her bouncy curves wobbled and jiggled against her thin arms, her limbs practically useless in covering so much feminine sexuality.

A wide, shark toothed grin spread over his features, Natsu kept that image in the forefront of his mind as he made his way through the grass, the shape of the guild hall appearing before him, alongside the silhouette of a certain, fully clothed, blonde. "Yeah…just keep jumping off the bumpy ground, Luce…" he grinned evilly to himself, smirking at how she was forced to dance from one foot to the other to avoid scorching her hurting toes, all the jumping causing her huge boobs to jiggle and bounce around erratically in her arms, her hands barely able to keep her soft pink tips from slipping free as the rest of her flesh jumped for freedom!

That was the one upside in being pissed off with a girl… With a guy all one man could do was think up various ways to beat the crap out of him. Tripping him over, punching him in the face…pushing him off a cliff… but with a GIRL… "Heheheh…" A blush now accompanied his shark teeth in their appreciation of dream Lucy's embarrassed nude form. He didn't know if it was something innate or just his own perverted mind at work, but something about imagining a girl who he was angry with naked just seemed to make her that much less of a problem… Not that he didn't normally imagine most girls he met naked anyhow…but for one reason or another…declawing her with her own supple sexuality was just that much more gratifying…

Lucy Ashley, the girl who had threatened him since he's awoken that day, the girl with all the latex, and zippers, and tough girl attitude, reduced to a blushing, squirming toy for his urges in his mind, the man paid NO attention to where he was going, his back hunched over as the lewd thoughts spun through his mind…until suddenly they seemed to be reality…

Boing!

Stopped…he had stopped all of a sudden… Refocusing his vision and reclaiming his body from the autopilot back when he told his cock to "take the wheel" Natsu looked forward into what seemed to be just what he had seen BEFORE being brought to a sudden halt. Only…instead of a view full of only grey mist, his vision was completely filled in with… "White?..." Natsu asked himself, his mouth seemingly moving up and down against something that felt like latex while his nose was wedged between what felt like a pair of marsh… His eyes growing as wide as the heavenly mounds of flesh they were now undoubtedly pressed DEEP into, Natsu knew EXACTLY why he had stopped.

'Soft…two of them…eyes full of…white…' While that description normally meant he was in his happy place snuggled between Lucy Heartfilia's huge fun bags, THAT Lucy wasn't here…instead, that meant those soft pillows belonged to the OTHER Lucy…a Lucy that wasn't so into the idea of him driving his face into her cleavage and describing the scenery.

The realization hitting him, Natsu soon felt a pair of hands, their size small, but their grip firm reaching down towards him, their thin fingers digging into his pink hair and bruised skull, they were soon pulling him up from the soft valley of her breasts and up to a different pair of spheres…only these weren't a pale white with pink centers…no…these orbs were a dark brown…and their centers…pure hellfire… "You like shoving your face in my boobs, eh, tough guy?" The sweet, yet inherently hostile voice of Lucy Ashley filtered into his ears, the man still too dazed from the images of the badass girl stripped bare and naked in his eyes, the feeling of her soft breasts on his face not helping much to keep him aware of the danger either. Nodding slowly, he had just signed his death warrant.

"Oh, really?" Her portals shrinking to mere slivers before him, Lucy seemed to be about to push him back into her pillow chest, a place none had been allowed before… "So you like the feel of my breasts on your face?" She asked him now, the man's eyes slowly opening as he failed to stop a second nod…not that even a gay man would be able to lie about how amazing her cleavage was. "Well then…" the blonde seemed to lower his head down a little, just a bit closer to her huge melons again…but that's when he felt her turn… "THEN I HOPE YOU LIKE THE FEEL OF MY BOOT TOO!"

"I'm so dea—AHHHHHHHHHH!"

Before the words could even leave his mouth, Natsu was suddenly being pulled up and into the air, his body weightless for a split second, he watched as Luce's huge boobs jiggled in slow motion, the sight one he would have remembered most…if not for the force of an almighty kick which soon slammed into the side of his face. The man rocketing past the rather proud blonde, he shot through the front doors of the guild, his poor frame smashing into a random table and being covered in the ensuring rubble.

"AHHHHH! What on Edolas was that!?" Various screams shrieked and calling out all around him, Natsu felt like he had just landed in Edolas all over again…his vision spinning with the sight of several bikini clad Virgo's doing their hip wiggle and thigh shimmy dance around his head, the man just felt like he was going to pass out when a different figure loomed over him…one A LOT friendlier than the one he'd seen after hitting his head the first time!

White tresses cascading over her thin shoulders, it was obvious who this angel was flying over-head to save him from the terrible blonde. Really, as sexy as Fairy Girls were, they were the sharpest double edged sword a guy could find! Each was as beautiful as a bikini model on the outside and as brilliant as a star on the inside, but they were a major limiter to a guy's life expectancy even if he KNEW how to handle them! Then again that's what made them so damn fantastic… "Yeah…Virgo…dance a little more…" Natsu drooled as he was hefted up onto his ass, the white haired young woman still looking down at him with alarm. "…just keep wiggling until something pops out…"

The cheeks of that white haired beauty growing red at the man's erotic ramblings, she decided she'd better wake him up the old fashioned way. "Okay, Natsu!" She smiled holding a nozzle from the bar over his head, the dragon slayer's words now getting more and more perverted as the spirit in his head had suddenly fallen over, her panties on the ground beside her as he gazed in between her parted thighs… Holding the nozzle right over his drooling maw, she turned it on, "TIME TO WAKE UP!"

BWWWAAAAHHHH! PHHHHIIIIIHHHHHHHZZZZZZZ!" Just as if the lights were suddenly turned on again, Natsu was wide awake! The images of Virgo's parted slit, her inner lips slowly swelling as they ached for his touch disappearing from view, it was clear it wasn't just 'big' Natsu that was awake…

The blush on her cheeks spreading at the sight of his growing erection, Mirajane put a hand to her mouth to stop her giggling, "Oh, my!...Heheheheheh!" Gazing down at the shell shocked man, she smiled warmly at his supposed reaction to being near her, "Looks like someone's happy to see me this morning!" the girl said enjoying the reaction she was getting from him.

His eyes slowly looking down, Natsu suddenly shot to his feet, the dragon slayer somewhat hiding his erection with his vest and scarf more because of how flustered he was than anything else. "Awww! That's okay! You don't need to hide him from me, hun!" Mirajane smiled, the bar maiden standing up beside the dragon slayer, she happily pressed an affectionate kiss on his cheek. "…It's not like I haven't seen him before, after all!"

'Wait…what the hell?! Did…did Mirajane just…KISS ME!?' Standing absolutely still, Natsu was stunned by what had just happened. 'I…I mean…I've kissed Mirajane before…I've done a lot MORE to Mirajane before!' he thought to himself, but then that had been with HIS Mirajane! The Mirajane of Earthland; this was the EDOLAS Mirajane! 'Then…so why…why did she?...' The man stammered, it was all so weird…so wrong…things seemed certain between Lucy Ashley and the Natsu from Edolas when they'd all returned home before…so why then was THIS Mirajane kissing him?

Feeling his body being turned around, Natsu was soon face to face with the very girl he was puzzling over. "Mira…" he gasped, the saddened look in her eyes telling him he had just messed something up…but what? "What's the matter, Natsu? Why are you back so early?" her voice sounded vulnerable and emotional, one that hinted at loneliness for some reason. It reminded him of how Lucy sounded in the mornings when he had sleepily pushed her head down under the sheets for a morning blowjob instead of a kiss. It was a sound that instantly made the idea of a blowjob meaningless as it pulled his love for the girl making it into the forefront of his being. So why then was the Mira from Edolas using that same voice at him?...

"Natsu…please…tell me what's wrong…" she reached up to clasp her hands on his cheeks now, the bar maiden becoming desperate to find out just WHY the man was acting so coldly towards her "Did…something happen?" the white haired barmaid asked searching in his eyes for an answer, the sudden arrival of a certain bad girl blonde answered MOST of the questions she and the other girls who were now gathering around the pair had. Opening her mouth wide as she stopped next to the bar maiden, Lucy spoke as nonchalantly as possible.

"He's not OUR Natsu, Mira…"

"Hu—huh?..." First looking over at the blonde, the skull loving girl having one hand resting on her round hips and the other stretched outward with one finger pointing at the man, Mirajane then shifted her gaze to the man whose head she held in her hands, his cheeks becoming more and more squished with each press of her hands on them, it wasn't long until her face started to contort, realization that she had just kissed someone OTHER than who she thought she was kissing hitting her. "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"

Suddenly dropping the head held in her hands, Mirajane let out a bloodcurdling cry, she may not have been especially afraid of the Natsu from Earthland, but most girls didn't like mistakenly showing affection meant for someone special to someone other than them. "Ah—uhhh, Mira…" Natsu asked the girl now, his composure returning to him a bit faster than the girl's was to her, "…Why…why did you kiss me?..." He looked down at her now, her big blue eyes becoming quite a bit more active now that he had called her action into the open.

The bar maiden waited for a few moments, trying to think of the best way to put it now that the pressure was on her. Luckily for her however, the sound of a feminine grunt seemed to take care of the spotlight problem as all eyes then moved to the form of Lucy Ashley, the blonde looking away from the pair as her crossed arms pressed deep into her ample bosom, forcing the large globes to balloon out even more against the top of her zipper. It was quite clear to Natsu, looking at the blonde now that she was definitely annoyed about something… 'What's wrong, Luce?...' He repeated his question to her in his mind again, the answer closer, but still just out of reach.

Hearing a much softer, and happier sound below him, the dragon slayer redirected his attention back to the bar maiden standing before him, her hands only just now leaving his cheeks to allow them to return back to normal. Mirajane, her cheeks a rosy red, was…giggling in embarrassment… "Natsu, heheheh…" She beamed up at him, her crescent shaped expression a much nicer one to look at than the mortified one she had only just had. "…I kissed you because…I thought you were the Natsu from this world and…" her smile only seemed to grow even larger as she spoke, "…we're a couple!"

"WHAT!?"

Just about falling back over again, Natsu floundered backwards until he was a few feet away from the bar maiden and her very agitated blonde guild mate. Looking around at the various faces all staring at him, faces he never thought he'd see again, the man eventually started to calm down, the shock of finding out the Natsu of Edolas was dating Mirajane instead of Lucy Ashley slowly sinking into his mind. "Wait…" he kept shifting his gaze, moving from Lucy to Mira and back again, "…if you're dating Edo me…" he started, watching carefully the body language of each girl, trying to decipher it for any insight into their ever fluxing emotions, a truly invaluable skill if there ever was one! "…then who are you da—"

"Oh my goodness! Natsu Dragneel! You've finally come back to us!" The dragon slayer suddenly found himself, and his deductions, cut off as a finely dressed brunette had appeared before him. "Uhhh…Ca…Cana?" the fire wizard stuttered at her surprising appearance, the girl being the last one he would have expected to just pop up in front of him given her shyness (in this world). "Why, yes!" she smiled back cheerily at him, his apprehensive expression soon collapsing into a reciprocal smile as the girl directed all attention back towards their new guest rather than the usual two centers of attention. "It's so amazing to see you back here!" Her eyes widened at the sight of him as she looked him over, "…and you're still so young! How haven't you aged in seven years?"

Silence…

That was a very good question…it seemed that as soon as the young bell had asked the Earthland Natsu that question all other concerns ceased for the time being. The girls all leaning forward, it was quite clear to them that this Natsu indeed hadn't aged any more than they had in the time that he'd been away from them, despite the passing of seven years.

"Yeah…why HAVEN'T you aged a ton?" Levy stepped forward, her hazel eyes honing in on the youthful face of their male visitor, his dark orbs peering back at hers with the same suspicion.

Meeting the gaze of the petite bluenette head on, Natsu was soon explaining the events that had occurred on Tenrou Island to the Edolas Faires, their eyes growing huge with wonder and awe at the story of their battle with the mighty black dragon. "…and then after seven years went by we unfroze and returned to the guild," Natsu finished, the man deciding to skip over the events surrounding the activation of the Infinity Clock, 'They look freaked out enough with just the dragon!' he snickered to himself.

His story over, the man looked around the room now, taking in the several sets of eyes all on him the man couldn't help wondering why his friends in Edolas looked the same as well… "Hey," getting all of their attention with a quick Snap! of his fingers, their trance like state after hearing his riveting story came to an end.

"Yeah?..." Her arms still crossed over her ample bosom, Lucy was the only one to answer him, the rest not fully back yet, "…What do you want now?..." she asked, her body language just as aggressive as it had been earlier despite the fact she was the most receptive in the room to his words. It was a paradox that puzzled Natsu to no end. Pushing that aside for now though, he pressed on. "Me and the most of the Earthland Fairy Tail were frozen for seven years…" the dragon slayer stated, looking around the room of youthful girls.

Before he could finish though, that same, responsive, yet highly agitated voice replied, "You already said that." The girl took a couple steps towards him now, her form now just as close to him as Mirajane's, "…what's your point?"

As much as Natsu wanted to call out the girl on her attitude, his instincts told him that was a HORRIBLE idea for more reasons than he could possibly imagine, the fact that it would be being rude to a girl the least of his worries. So, swallowing his annoyance with the confrontational version of his soulmate, Natsu went on. "I didn't age because I was frozen…" he looked around the group, "but…why haven't any of you aged either?"

Like a rainbow of different shades of red, the various girls standing before him suddenly started blushing. Some turned pink, while others red, and then interestingly enough, Lucy Ashley turned a deep scarlet. Silence once more passing over the room as the girls all sucked in their lips, their cheeks burning with embarrassment, it wasn't until a collective sigh was released that he got his answer.

The girls all looking straight at him with bright red faces, they closed their eyes as they explained in the simplest terms just WHY they hadn't aged either.

"…We don't want to talk about it!"

Staring dumbfounded at the collection of blushing ladies, the poor man looked like they had just dropped an etherion bomb on him. Gawking wide eyed at the Edo girls for several brain dead seconds, Natsu was finally able to pull himself together. One hand reaching behind to rub anxiously at the back of his head, a grin spread across his lips as he started laughing, "Heheheh…it's fine," he closed his eyes to let the moment pass faster, and when he reopened them things seemed to have returned to how they were before, at least the girls weren't blushing anymore!

"Hey, wait a sec!..." looking around, the dragon slayer was surprised he hadn't noticed it before! "You're…you're all girls here…" he stuttered, dark orbs moving from female to female, each one more feminine than the last. By far the most masculine of them was Lucy and he KNEW better than anyone just how feminine she was under that wrapping of hers.

The man still looking around amongst the group, he was about to go on when a new voice piped up, one he had somehow completely forgotten about. "Really? We're all girls, how'd ya figure that one out?" Turning his attention over to the one girl not to leave the bar and come over to inspect him, he couldn't help his eyes being drawn down to the unusually LARGEBOOBS on the chest of…WENDY! 'Ooohhh yeah…' His recollection of that especially AMAZING fact returning to him the moment he laid eyes on the smart aleck bluenette, '…the Wendy of this world is…' his eyes traveled up and down her developed figure, from the large swell of her breasts to the flaring hips and the curve of her ass, all with an extra dose of 'Fairy Tail development' where he loved it most, '…big…'

The rather aloof girl brushed several strands of blue hair back over her shoulder as she returned the dragon slayer's slightly aroused gaze with one that just seemed to scream, 'I know I'm hot so would you stop staring?' Dragging his eyes up from the bountiful fruits of his fellow dragon slayer's other self, Natsu got back to what he had been saying. "You're all girls…" He snuck in another good glance at Wendy's tube top clad cleavage before continuing, "…so where are all the guys?..."

Fully expecting another full on blush session from the Edolas fairies, the dragon slayer was happily surprised when they did just the opposite of their uncomfortable silence before and told him quite readily what was going on. "They're all out with Knightwalker on some sort of training mission," Levy said walking up to him, her hands open as if she were challenging him if he so wished to accept it, "…something about toughening up the 'men' of the guild." She smirked, her eyes moving over to the scowling blonde standing just feet away, her eyes squeezed shut as she unconsciously bared her teeth.

Hearing giggles, the dragon slayer was once again brought back to the bell of the ball, Cana giggling while the others couldn't help exchanging knowing looks. "Why, yes! Ever since our good friend, Lucy over there," she waved politely at the scowling blonde bombshell, "…beat up all the guys in an all vs. one bar brawl, Knightwalker has been insistent that they get into better shape should the Kingdom need our help for anything."

"Yeah!" Levy smirked looking over at her increasingly annoyed rival as she spoke, "…we wouldn't want people assuming we're a weak guild because they keep hearing about most of our members being beaten up by a top heavy blonde…" With that, they were at it. A gloved hand reaching over, Levy was airborne before she could even comment on Lucy's breasts moving before she did!

The girls going at it in the background, albeit one-sidedly, Natsu could now return his focus to what had been in the back of his mind since he had first been torn from the holy land of Lucy's boobs and cast into the table of perverseness. "Hey, Mira…" the bar maiden turned around, away from the melee to answer the man, "…you said that you and the me from here are a couple…" he said looking at her nodding smile. "…so what…what happened with other me and Lucy Ashley?"

Meanwhile the melee seemed to have ground to a halt, Lucy now holding an annoyed Levy by her collar, the smaller girl still swinging pathetically as the blonde claimed victory. "Well…" Mirajane looked up at Natsu, her big blue eyes welling with sadness, "…you see…what happened was—"

But before the bar maiden could explain what had happened between the couple that had seemed destined to be when Natsu had left, the voice of an apparently not so defeated bluenette piped up from her swinging. Despite hanging by her collar, Levy was still able to drape one arm around her blonde opponent, the bigger girl starting to shake even before she spoke. "Ahh, don't lose any sleep over it, Natsu!" the bluenette smirked at the increasingly agitated blonde, not at all caring for the emotions building up in her rival with every word spoken on this particularly sensitive topic. "…Blondie here decided she was too good for him and dumped him!" The petite girl eyed her bustier guild mate with a wide grin, "…Now she's regretting it, but it' too late to get him back…"

'What?...Lucy…how?...' Even though this wasn't HIS Lucy…it still…it still hit the young dragon slayer like a stack of bricks to the head to hear she had done something like that. Looking over at the Edo blonde, the girl whose other half he was tied to for eternity, all he could manage to get out through the sheer magnitude of the shock he was in was, "Really?"

Looking up from where she had been scowling at the floor, or to be more precise her breasts than the floor since they kinda blocked her view of it, Lucy chucked the bluenette across the room before meeting his hurt dark eyes with her angry brown ones, her pink lips snapping at him the moment their souls seemed to make contact. "Stop looking at me like that!" the buxom blonde yelled at him while raising a fist in anger towards him, threatening him with another ass kicking like he had experienced earlier, "I don't want a weakling like you!"

Feeling a tug on his vest, Natsu moved his eyes back to the white haired bar maiden by his side, her blue orbs locked on his as they had been before, the only difference now being just how much more intense their shimmering was after Lucy's outburst. "Natsu…" Mirajane pulled him closer to her so that the conversation wouldn't be as much of a public spectacle as Levy had previously made it. "…Listen…I'll tell you everything that happened…" the girl looked up at him, "…I'll tell you…but I don't think you'll like it…"

With his head slowly nodding up and down, the dragon slayer kept his gaze centered on her, his eyes speaking the words he didn't have the breath for right now. 'Okay, Mira…tell me…'

Seeing that she had the go ahead from both his nonverbal response and that she had his attention, the young woman began the sad tale that had unfolded between the Natsu and Lucy of Edolas…

"It all started right after you and the rest of the Fairy Tail members from Earthland returned home," she began, "…during the course of their time in the guild together, our Lucy and Natsu had grown very close…we had always known they would admit their feelings to one another eventually, it was just a matter of time before one of them did…and then the other would follow suit…but…"

Her eyes closing as she took in a deep breath, Mira held it in before letting it out, the stress weighing down on her lessening for the time being, she continued, "…but the timing was just…all wrong…" Taking out a handkerchief from her dress, the girl went on, her eyes starting to well up with tears, "…they opened up to each other right before you left…their relationship had just started when you all went back…" she then started to cry at this point, her tears spilling and her shoulders trembling as she forced herself to keep going, "…and when you all went back home…you…you took your Lisanna back with youuu!"

Not thinking about the blonde still smoldering nearby, Natsu let his instincts take control. She might not have been his Mira, but she was still Mira, and the sight of ANY Mira crying was more than enough to make his heart ache. Moving even closer to the bar maiden, he quickly wrapped his strong arms around her, comforting her in his warm, familiar embrace. He was not her Natsu, and she was not his Mira, but the offer and the need was offered and accepted all the same. Listening to her soft sobs for several minutes, she eventually gave him a signaling nudge to let her go, that she had pulled herself together and could continue. The white haired beauty took only a moment to gather her bearings. "Losing Lisanna the first time had been a heavy burden on us all, no one more so that Natsu, Elfman, and I…" Mirajane explained, "…but when we lost her a second time…when you took your Lisanna back home with you…it was just too much…"

Looking past Natsu now, she tried to lock her blue orbs with the brown ones of the Ashley girl, but to no avail, hers were safely hidden away under the shadow of her silky golden bangs, the beginnings of tears running from under that that gleaming cover. "Natsu was so torn up over loosing Lisanna again that…he just…he couldn't be…strong…" Mirajane shook her head as she suppressed a hiccup, "…he was so afraid of her seeing him as weak, of not being the man she wanted, that she needed, that he…he started to avoid her. He had only just confessed his love to her, promised to be there for her…but before he could…before he had the chance…"

Those blue portals of hers slammed shut as the tears really began to flow, her sorrow for the tough blonde shining through with every last tear drop. "You aren't supposed to run and hide from the person you love when you are hurting, when you are in mourning! You're supposed to hold them tight and go through that horrible time with your love lighting the way through the darkness!" As the white haired girl's tears came faster and faster, Natsu could feel his own ebbing out, his feelings for his Lucy back home drawn out in the tragedy that had befallen the Lucy of this world.

"Natsu…" Mirajane looked up at him, her eyes puffy and red with pain, "…he knew that Lucy wanted, and needed a strong man, one who was loyal and committed to her and her alone…that's why…that's why he started avoiding her," Mira's eyes squeezed shut, her eyes flashing with something unexpected before it could be hidden from him. Pain, sadness, grief, all these he had expected, but what he had just seen…was something else, something else entirely.

Shame

"He thought she would be furious with him for mourning over an old flame so soon after they had become a couple, and feared she would leave him if she saw him as weak, if he wasn't strong in her eyes…so…he neglected her…" Pausing, she swallowed thickly. "He was so concerned with being the strong man he knew she wanted that when he should have gone to her so that they BOTH could get through their loss…"

She shook her head once more, "…he didn't…he left her alone to mourn the loss of her friend and came t-to me and Elfman…" Mira suddenly gripped his arms, her small hands surprisingly strong grip catching him off guard; he was even more shocked by the sudden strength of her words. With her head hanging down in shame, her long white tresses hiding her face from his gaze she continued "I-I don't blame Lucy for leaving him…because even though she was the one who left him, she wasn't the one who ended their relationship…" The bar maiden sniffled and shuddered a bit more, Natsu hinging on her every word, his mind, body, and soul torn between staying and listening to Mirajane…or risking his life going to comfort Lucy Ashley, the blonde's hidden eyes now running with pain soaked droplets soaking into her black outfit, the drops of salty water sliding down her body in a way no man could ever view as erotic.

"I k-know that I should have pushed him away…I know that I should have made him go back to her, but I-I was just…I was hurting so much, I-" her gaze finally raising to meet his, the puffy red and tearful eyes of Mira bore into his soul with a pain that made his heart seize. "I lost my baby sister again," the soul crushing sob that tore through her throat was almost more than the dragon slayer could take. "She was everyone's friend, but she was MY baby sister, she was…I know I should have sent him away, I should have told him to go back to Lucy…but I was just hurting so much that I couldn't…"

"…af…after Lucy told him it was over, Natsu fell into an even deeper depression…" Mira continued, "…we…we found ourselves grieving together…I knew that it was my fault, that I should have sent him back to her…" she paused to swallow, "…Natsu was…he was devastated, and I blamed myself for what happened between them, we were both hurting so much that one night…we found solace in each other's arms…and eventually we went all the way…"

Drying her tears on her now thoroughly soaked handkerchief, Mirajane looked down at the folded up piece of cloth as she concluded her tale. "Ever since that night we have been together…" she finished, her entire story was…was…it was worse than Natsu ever could have imagined it could be.

Within his mind, the dragon slayer could see just how the fledgling relationship between the Natsu and Lucy of this world had been strangled before it even had a chance. It was no one person's fault, but rather a series of events, each caused by the next that lead to the line of dominos falling one after another.

Natsu had feared Lucy would leave him if she thought he was weak, and if that wasn't enough, the 'weakness' that he feared her leaving him over was his mourning over another girl. With their relationship having just started it was easy to see how and why he would have been so worried about either of those possibilities. In his mind, the only way for her to not see him as weak or be angry over why he was weak had been to avoid her and seek comfort from someone else, Mira.

Mira, in her grief over losing her little sister a second time had been so distraught that she welcomed him with open arms, taking any and every offering of comfort and consolation that she could find to help deal with the devastation she and her brother were experiencing. She knew that he should have gone to Lucy, and she knew that she should have pushed him to go to her, that the blonde wouldn't have been angry at him or seen him as weak given the circumstances, but hadn't had the strength to do so.

And finally there was Lucy. Of the trio at the heart of what happened she was the least guilty, but he had already figured out her part in the puzzle just from what he knew of her. The bad ass blonde wouldn't have been one to go after Natsu and offer him comfort or consolation; that's not to say she wouldn't have given it, just that she would have expected Natsu to come to her.

The cruel irony of it all was that in his effort to not anger Lucy or her to see him as weak; he had done both at the same time.

"Wow…" Was all Natsu could really say at hearing such a tale…it was certainly far from his own Fairy Tale with Lucy back in Earthland, THAT was for sure! But this…this was beyond terrible… Moving to look at Lucy, Natsu was suddenly stopped, his attention being drawn back to Mira as she touched his shoulder.

A smile beginning to form on her lips, the sapphire eyed beauty asked the question she had been hoping to hear answered ever since she realized that this was the Natsu from Earthland. "Have…have you gotten together with your Lucy yet?" Her voice was full of hope at hearing his answer, more than hope, but almost a need.

There weren't many things in this world or the next that could get the dragon slayer smiling again after hearing what he'd just heard his girl's other self had gone through…but being asked if he had claimed the heart of Lucy Heartfilia was one of them. A smile slowly spreading across his own chapped lips, Natsu nodded in affirmation, "Yes…" he smiled, "…Lucy Heartfilia is my first girlfriend…"

The reactions of the other girls to such news was probably the same as what would have come with the news of their own set getting together…if it hadn't fallen apart so badly. There was the roll of the eyes from Wendy, a jump of joy from Cana, and of course a mischievous look from Levy. But by far though, the biggest reaction came from none other than Lucy Ashley herself…a low hiss slipping out from between the blonde's clenched lips, the tears were now rolling down her cheeks from under that golden sheet of silk which covered her shimmering opals as they grew wide with pain.

Now that it was her turn to comfort, Mira threw herself at the dragon slayer, her thin pale arms wrapping around his thick torso as she smiled into his chest. "I am so happy for you both…" she looked up at him, "…when the two of you were here together, it seemed that you were meant to be…I'm so glad to hear that it was true…" Squeezing the dragon slayer with all her strength, the bar maiden then let him go, taking a couple steps back as she straightened out her dress. "…She's a very lucky girl...you better take good care of her…" She smiled, happy their love had at least worked out somewhere.

While the collective 'awes' in the room all centered on the love the dragon slayer had professed for his other half back in Earthland, the Lucy of Edolas could only feel her emotional stability breaking down more and more with each and every word of happiness concerning her other self. 'Why her…we're the same person…just…just different worlds…different…different Natsu's…so WHY did I get stuck with the one who…who…' Her scowl growing deeper and deeper, it was only a matter of time before she blew.

The smiles and congratulations going on for a little longer, they were suddenly brought to a screeching halt as Cana spoke up, the fancily dressed bell picking out seemingly the most random word out of everything that had just been said. "Umm, Natsu…" she raised her hand from amongst the gaggle of girls, her comments listened to more often in this world since she wasn't as perverted or drunk as her Earthland self, "You said Lucy is your FIRST girlfriend…what did you mean by that?" she asked.

All eyes in the room once again returning to the lone male among them, the word, "Well?" came up quite a few times from several different parties as the seconds ticked by, the only one dreading what possible answers could come from such a juicy question being the blonde who had only just barely regained her composure. Reaching back to rub the back of his head rather proudly, Natsu soon dropped the biggest bomb they could have ever hoped for… "Well….ya see…heheh…I'm kinda dating more girls than JUST Lucy…heheh…"

The mixed reactions of shocked, embarrassed, and aroused looks being thrown at him all at once, the man who was, without a doubt, a lady killer at that point, decided he may as well come completely clean with them, after all…there's no better gossip than finding out half a dozen friends of yours are all dating the same guy and know about it! "…Ummm…well…so far…" the dragon slayer played it up by counting on his fingers as he spoke, "First there is Lucy…then Cana…" the brunette turning bright red at the inappropriateness of her other self, "…after her was Levy…" hearing her name caused the bluenette to pop up from where she had been thrown through a wall by the blonde, her face just as red as the others.

"Then after her things just kinda went off on their own…" Natsu smirked to himself thinking back on how he had managed to claim so many amazing girls. "…Kinana came after her…with your other self the day after her…" Natsu winked at the bar maiden, her cheeks blushing bright red. "…Oh! And then I got a night with Lucy's celestial spirit, Virgo!" His grin widened at the shocked faces he was seeing, his mind only bragging further, 'Yeah, that's right, I banged a spirit…' His mouth just running on its own, he told them how he had claimed Juvia following a falling out with Gray, then Laki after her… "And did I tell you guys I fucked a dark wizard too?!"

Looks of all sorts being thrown his way, Natsu seemed to be enjoying the attention over his success, especially since the other guys back in Earthland didn't seem too interested in the fact he'd landed almost all the hottest girls in Magnolia…their jealousy of him only heightening when he refused to kiss and tell. As far as the public was concerned the girls of Fairy Tail were clean and proper…but when it came to alone time with him…they were dirty…so very dirty…and he loved them all the more for showing him that side of them which no others would ever know about.

"Wait, you never explained how you ended up being able to date so many girls!" Mira chirped, the lady slayer turning his sly grin into a romantic smile as he remembered just WHY he was able to run loose like he was…and not remain on a Heartfilia leash…not that any man would complain about being limited to just the bubbly blonde though… "Well, that was actually Lucy's idea!" The man felt his smirk returning as their faces were suddenly filled with shock. But how? Why? It didn't make any sense? Why would a girl let her boyfriend have, for all intents and purposes, a harem? These were all things being thrown around by the girls, luckily for them though, Natsu wasn't finished just yet. "…Hey, calm down…" he waved his hands at them, the girls mostly silencing soon afterward. Elbowing Cana, who was sitting beside her, Levy couldn't help muttering, "This is gonna be good…"

A ray of warmth exuding from the muscular wizard of fire, Natsu smiled, "…Lucy didn't let me get a bunch of girlfriends just for fun!" he looked each one in the eye in turn, "…she told me that she wanted me to make as many of our friends as happy as she is, she wanted them to have someone to love them and be there for them like I am for her…a man to hold them…even when they don't ask for it…"

With Mirajane and most of the other fairies now a mess of sniffles and tears, Natsu could now turn his attention back to the one who had REALLY been at stake all day. "Luce…" letting the end of his speech carry over into his beckoning to the blonde, the dragon slayer was ready to do his best to make the Lucy of Edolas as happy as she deserved to be…unfortunately for both of them though…Ashley wasn't anywhere near as soft as Heartfilia…

At hearing her name being spoken in such a manner, Lucy was FAR from what anyone would dare call receptive! She'd gone through enough crap in her life because of one Natsu and she DIDN'T need another putting her through it all over again! Spinning on her heel to face the outstretched dragon slayer, she let her words ring out just as her dark brown opals appeared from under her golden silk. "BACK OFF!" she shouted at him, her pain reigniting as yet another Natsu pined for her heart, "…YOU HAD YOUR SHOT WITH ME THE LAST TIME YOU WERE HERE AND YOU MISSED IT! SO DON'T EXPECT ANOTHER!" The buxom blonde's roars echoing off the walls of the guild hall, she stormed outside, the dragon slayer immediately moving to follow her.

But just as the man was about to take that first step in his pursuit of this most dangerous of game, a voice from behind held him back…one he hadn't been expecting to hear very much from, all things considered. "You're better off waiting for her to cool off before you try your luck with her." Natsu turned around to see the figure standing behind him at the bar, the figure of a girl whose other self was more like him at his core than any other.

Her sapphire blue hair reaching down her body, the long locks stopping just above top of her firm ass, Wendy leaned back against the bar counter so that her already tight tube top was strained with the wonderful task of holding back her sizeable endowments. With his eyes slowly drawn up from the healthy bounce of her bosom, Natsu quickly noticed that the normally aloof expression she wore was replaced with one of immense intrigue. The Edolas form of his dragon slayer companion had heard everything that had been said thus far; the emotions and histories of their two timelines coming together as they had once before. But there was one thing in particular that had caught the attention of the over developed Marvell girl.

Her huge thirty E cup breasts jiggling in her turquoise tube top as she shifted her posture to better face the man who, without a doubt, was successful in ways no other male she had ever met was. Presenting herself to him, the bluenette made sure her tone was exactly what all the men of her guild had wanted to hear from her for so long. "So, Natsu…" Wendy flicked some of her long hair over her shoulder; she could tell already he was something else… Looking over at him from under her long eyelashes the busty Wendy of Edolas gave a sultry grin, "…that whole bit about having a harem…were you serious?"

A/N: OKAY! So things were pretty bad for a bit, I'll just explain now what happened so you all don't think I will be just randomly stopping for stupid reasons. What happened was I was at a particularly down point, a point brought on by some very bad happens lately. While in that down state I focused too hard on how bad a reception chapter 15 had gotten. Which I must say disappointed me because, Laki being the focus aside, it was one of the best in series humor, and plot/character development all around. Most people I have spoken to liked it, but that doesn't change the fact I considered it the most hated of my chapters so far because of the almost zero response I got from regular readers. One person even told me it was 'good' but not worth reviewing so that sucked.

I was just getting out of the funk brought on by all this when, despite my policy on my bio, one very nice reader, whom I had never spoken to before, sent me a message spoiling a MAJOR plot point in the manga and to make matters worse, was making a chapter request out of it! This is not only my story, but it also follows a very fine route. I can't just add whole chapters in for random people on a whim. I do try to involve others with scene requests for good friends and then of course poll results etc, but that's about all I can manage without turning this into a 'request fic' which I think would utterly gut it.

So just as I was building my self-esteem back up, this WONDERFUL person blew it back up again. Because of that I lost all spirit to continue this story and was on the brink of abandoning it because I could barely write a word in my outlines, let alone a chapter. It is here though that I have to thank those of you who, like the spoiler guy, ignored my no message policy and PMed me with your wishes and hopes. One in particular I got out of the half dozen really warmed my heart. You all know who you are and you have my thanks. It really surprised me that almost all of the messages came from people I had never talked to or gotten a review from instead of loyal reviewers, but I will not complain about help…only thank those who offered it when in need.

On Wednesday I wrote the outline and then this chapter. It was going to be longer with a sultry scene, but I hope you all can judge that just WHO that scene would have been with, based on where this chapter ended, that it would have massively overshadowed the emotions I worked so hard on in this chapter. I hope to get back onto my old schedule soon because I truly love writing this fic. The new poll should be up so please check on my bio and vote!

And as always, I can't tell you how much it makes me smile to read your thoughts or opinions of my work in a long…or I guess short, REVIEW!

*Edit 5/28/17: Using Lucy's official measurements as well as references of her waist and rib cage I've estimated she has a 32G cup or 32FF bra size. Bust 36, Waist 24, Hip 35. With her band size being 28. I am certain it goes up in the most recent arc, but for this story it is accurate or extremely close. I am altering all measurements in the story and other stories to reflect this change. Other girls are being measured by comparing them to Lucy's band and bust measurements. Lucy Ashley, being that she is an exact copy of Lucy Heartfilia of course has the same bra size. Lucy Ashley has a bust of 36 and a band of 28 so she is also a 32G. Yeah I am pervy, but I want characters to be accurate in body as well as personality*