Hey Everyone, I've finally got time to create the second chapter, so I hope you enjoy it. Also please review it, I would like to hear your opinions.
July 7, X679
Mavis POV
Mavis gazed up at the pink haired boy who she just tried to hit with a broom not too long ago as he introduced himself.
"Hey I'm Natsu, who are you?"
After seeing that he wasn't an enemy, the tears of grief she had been withholding a while the attack on the guild, now combined with tears of relief as she realized she wasn't no longer in danger.
Natsu started to panic as she started to cry all of a sudden, wringing his hands out for a bit before he kneeled down beside her and put his hand on her back to try and comfort her.
"Hey, uhm, are you alright? Uh, what should I call you?" Natsu asked soothingly, sniffing the air a bit.
Wiping away her tears, Mavis looked at Natsu, who stopped sniffing spontaneously. "Y-yes I'm alright... My name is Mavis...Were you the one to drive off the attacking wizards?"
"I guess so... I mean they just ran once they saw me." Natsu scratched the back of his head sheepishly, as he smiled.
"Thanks for saving us... we would have been in big trouble if you didn't show up..." Mavis said as she smiled a bit.
Natsu sniffed the air once more, as his brows furrowed. "So, there were two people here... where is the other one? Whoever it is, is almost dead..."
Mavis gasped before scrambling over to Zera, and checked her pulse, which was drastically lower than before. "What's wrong with her?!"
Natsu sniffed the hair, not caring to hide it, he frowned. "There's blood. Dunno where it's coming from though"
Mavis's mind raced, going through her memory of all the books she read in secret, after she was alone in the night. 'There are no visible wounds... blood... could it be?' Practically shouting, she told Natsu as quickly as she could. "There's a spell named Bleeding Drain that causes loss of blood without having to injure the target! The antidote is in one of the books in the library!"
Together with her new... friend, ally?, she carefully moved Zara to an old building not too far in the forest with the help of Natsu. Coughing at the dust sent into the air when they opened the door, Natsu rushed in and started sniffing the books that had the scent of Mavis on them, while Mavis followed her memory of picking the book out.
"Found it!" Obviously, Mavis was the one who found the book, having went through these corridors for years. She flipped through the pages of the book until she found the one page she needed just as Natsu returned.
"Well Mavis? What's the antidote?" Sighing, Mavis looked at the pinkette sadly. "Thankfully, all of the plants needed are on this island. Unfortunately, all four of them are... hard to find, to say the least." she finished saying, depressed before she was shocked to see Natsu start to grin. "What is it? Think this is some kind of joke? Well don't!"
Natsu placed his hand on her shoulder placatingly, Natsu grinned widely. "Don't worry, Mavis! I grew up in the forest, I know a lot about the forest! Now, let me see what they are so I can find them!"
Mavis handed him the list of what she needed that she wrote down, mulling over the contemplations of his statement.
Natsu looked over the paper as his smile reached from ear to ear. Looking up to Mavis, he dropped his mature façade, and grinned childishly. "I'll go get these and be right back. Take care of her awhile I'm gone."
She smiled as she watched the boy run out the door, before going over to Zera, checking her pulse once more.
Natsu POV
Dashing through the woods, Natsu recited the list Mavis made in his head. 'Moondew, shiverthorn, silverdrop, and something called aspenbloom. I've never seen aspenbloom before. Igneel only mentioned it once before, though. Said it smelled sweet or something...
He laughed at the irony of something Igneel tried to teach him and thought it would be useless ended up being useful. Natsu had always pretended to ignore him, in hope of him moving on to teaching magic, but had taken in the information as soon as he found out it would be useful.
Soon enough, he found a spot where he smelled two of the ingredients he needed, shiverthorn and silverdrop, which looked exactly the same. He picked what he thought was silverdrop. 'Okay, remember Natsu, silverdrop was cold to the touch and will never burn.' He then put down the silverdrop and a shiverthorn next to the each other on the ground.
"Now, onto the fun part!" Natsu took a deep breath. "Fire Dragon's Roar!"
He picked up the flower that didn't catch on fire as he smiled.
Not long after, he had gotten the moondew flower, and proceeded to follow the scent of 'something sweet'. For some reason, the scent led him back to the library. Before he could leave, Mavis spotted him.
"Oh, your back! Did you get them all?" She asked, jumping up and down with sparkles in her eyes.
Natsu rubbed the back of his head and smiled sheepishly as he handed Mavis his findings. "I only found three of them. I was told aspenbloom smelled sweet, so I followed the sweetest scent... and ended up back here..."
Pondering why he ended up back here, Mavis shrugged. Then caught onto something he said. "Wait, scent? How?" She questioned, confused, before shaking her head. "Wait, no, don't answer that. I know where to get aspenbloom. I'll go get it. The instructions say to ground them into a mixture. Can you go get a wooden bowl from the guild and start?"
Natsu nodded in confirmation as he smiled. She beamed brightly at him, then sprinted off to her hidden sanctuary.
Mavis POV
Years ago, Mavis had built herself a small treehouse near some caves she found. She had stayed there whenever she got lonely, or wanted peace and quiet for reading. Not long after, she decided to try her hand at gardening, which was difficult for her at first. She was determined to find the rarest flower, and to do so she scoured the island and books until she had found the aspenbloom. She ended up finding it on the island, and it was a golden yellow in color, smelled wonderful, and soon enough it started to multiply into a small row next to her window.
Now, she dashed up and grabbed one of the aspenbloom, then smiled as she reminiscently thought about the hard work she put into growing these.
When she arrived at the library, she found Natsu... planting the flowers in three stone bowls, a fourth bowl empty beside him.
Confused, she asked, "Natsu, what are you doing? I asked you to grind them."
Natsu looked up from the bowl. "What do you mean? When you said to ground them, weren't you referring to planting them?"
Mavis giggled as she grabbed the plants and moved them gently to the fourth bowl. Beginning to grind them up, she thought. 'He's an interesting boy...'
Natsu POV
Natsu sighed as he put his hands behind his head and laid back, as a gust of wind ruffled his pink hair a bit. He left the young blond to make the potion, as there was only enough room for one person to work.
"I really hope this works...' he thought, rubbing his forehead out of worry.
As he was doing this, he didn't notice Mavis sneaking up on him. She grinned as she popped in front, surprising him as he practically jumped out of his skin.
Natsu looked up to see Mavis, and frowned for bit, then began to smile. "So, since you are happy enough to sneak up on me, does that mean it worked? She's fine?"
"Yes, it worked, but she lost too much blood to say for sure, although she will most likely pull through. At the least she'll be in a coma for a few days."
Natsu grinned widely, and got up from the ground. "That's great! I'm glad the potion worked!"
"So am I! But I want to know why you helped me?" Mavis asked.
"I helped you because I had a hunch." Natsu tapped his nose as he said this and his smile grew wider as well.
"Oh really? A hunch about what exactly?"
"I could tell that you were a good person. And now that I think about it, you also smelled sweet." He grinned as he said this.
Mavis blushed as he said this. Then shook her head. "I smell sweet?"
Okay, finally done. This took a bit longer to do then planned. I hope you all enjoyed it.
