Summary: Viking AU! Natsu is a Viking on a pillaging missions and Lucy is the Anglo-Saxon bride to be….who is a bit more than willing to be kidnapped.

Pairings: mentions of Laxus/Mirajane, Erza/Jellal, Cana/Booze, Lisanna/Bickslow, Evergreen/Elfman, with some actual Gray/Juvia, Levy/Gajeel, and lots and lots of Natsu/Lucy.

YouTube Prompt: A trailer mashup with How to Train a Dragon.

Fairy Tail was the best of the Viking islands apart from one thing, just one little thing, there was an incredible lack of women….

Well okay, that's not entirely true they had plenty of women, just not women they would want to shag. Or were available to shag. Mirajane (the demon some whispered behind her back) was wife to Laxus, Erza was so terrifying on her own that she went and kidnapped her own husband (traditionally the male thing to do when one wants to wed), Cana's father had issued that no one could take her hand in marriage unless they beat him in a fight which was never going to happen (so Cana had taken to drinking more undaunted by its effects because it tasted too good), Lisanna was being courted by Bickslow (and no one else was stupid or insane enough to provoke Mirajane, her sister and the local demon, into a fight), Evergreen was wedded to Elfman, and finally Wendy was too young to be anyone's wife. And if Gajeel and Natsu had any say in it she will always be too young to be anyone's wife.

So on their annual pillaging of England it was decided amongst Natsu, Gajeel, and Gray that they would come back with their future wives. And lots of gold. In fact the one who brought the prettiest girl and the most gold would have the others bow down and kiss his feet.

And Natsu was so going to win.

The moment they landed on English soil, Natsu leaped off the boat and went racing in search of all the wealth he could bring home and a pretty girl too. Can't forget the pretty girl or Gray, that stupid naked bastard, might win the bet.

"No raping!" Laxus bellowed after him. "Pillaging only or I'll have Mira hang you by the balls!"

"What kind of freakish Vikings do you take us for?!" Gray yelled back. "In landers?"

Natsu ignored whatever response Laxus came up with (knowing the grouchy blonde it was something very rude and insulting) in favour of stealing and terrifying people with his evil laugh. Man he loved his job, it was always fun.

Eventually he stumbled upon a stone house that wasn't made from dung and mud (seriously what is wrong with this English? Then again some Vikings on the main land made theirs out of the same material. Jeeze you'd think they'd realise that wood was much cleaner) and he knew instantly it had to be the local lord's house. Or a church. One of those stupid Christian ones (surely they should know there are more than one God in the world?) that has a lot of gold and silver. With a triumphant roar, after all he found it first, Natsu ran in, hacked the door into pieces, made the girls scream, and went to rip the tapestry (there might be gold underneath!) with his axe when a woman screamed;

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

She then suddenly whacked him over the head repeatedly with a silver candlestick.

"AH!" Natsu yelped in shock. "Ouch!" he complained as the girl continued to whack him repeatedly with the really hard object. Odin's balls! This woman was worse than Erza. "What the hell?" he snarled as he grabbed hold of her wrist. "Is that how you greet all of your guests?"

"You're not my guest, Viking scum!" she shrieked. "Get out and never come back again!"

"Now that's just rude," Natsu commented idly as he loosened his grip on her wrist, and his fingers couldn't resist stroking the silky soft skin there, what on earth did she use? Surely these English people don't have the hot springs Fairy Tail has? "Really rude."

"Says the man that broke into my house waving an axe," she spat out, "I think that's worse than my own behaviour!"

"I was just saying hello!"

The girl gave him a look. The sort of sceptical look that most of Fairy Tail gave him when he was being particularly stupid. This actually gave him a chance to really look at her. She was rather pretty, with gold hair, big eyes, and bigger tits. There was something about her face. Her attitude. Something Fairy Tail…

"Okay I was also going to take your gold, valuables, livestock," he confessed under her look that was enough to rival Erza's raised eyebrow and Mirajane's innocent smile. The most terrifying looks they could give you before the torture happens. "And you," he added as an afterthought. "Definitely you."

"WHAT?!"

She tried to pull away from him but he held onto her wrist tightly and pulled her closer to him. The candlestick dropped onto the floor and rolled away but Natsu didn't care. He had a better treasure to steal now.

"Oh come on!" he protested as he wondered why she was freaking out. It wasn't like he was behaving unusually for a Viking. "It can't be that surprising. Vikings need their gold like any other man."

"Why me?!" she wailed.

"Oh that…." Natsu realised why exactly the girl was acting all weird. Like Evergreen when she found out Elfman liked her. That was really weird. "I don't know," he shrugged, "You're pretty. And strong. Got to have a pretty and strong wife."

"What to bare your babies?!"

"And to help man the farm, fight in our battles, got to have someone who can watch your back, and take charge whenever I'm out pillaging. Need someone who can take care of herself."

"Fight….alongside you?"

"Well yeah…." Natsu shrugged again, "I'd rather have you as my partner than my enemy."

"You don't want me to clean, cook, and other female duties?"

"I want you to be you," Natsu rolled his eyes. Seriously what was with English women? Why did they have to be so weird and ask really weird questions while looking really pretty? He was certain this girl wasn't normal. "And be mine, my wife," he stressed. He didn't want her to think she could run off because he liked her or anything. He was going to have his wife and she was going to like it. "I'm taking you back to Fairy Tail like a proper Viking!"

After all he had his pride to think about.

She blinked her pretty big eyes up at him. "Fairy Tail?" she asked confused.

"My home," he grinned at the mere thought, "it's an island not far off from Denmark. It's small but awesome. The mountains reach up into the sky, the forests are thick with animals to hunt, the beaches are fun to play on, and the town. Run like a tight ship, we look out for our own, we fight for each other, we work with each other, and we live together. We're a community. We make decisions together. Like who will lead us, it's a bit tight right now, Laxus and Erza are sort of tied. Laxus doesn't care if he loses but Erza's worried if she wins the battle then she won't be able to mother her children," he snorted at that, "as if Jellal, that's her husband, she kidnapped him from one of those Saxon countries, would let her forget their children."

"It sounds wonderful…" she whispered in awe, and he suddenly felt a wiggle of happiness that he found someone who will love his home as much as he did. "And a woman might become your leader?"

He frowned at that. What was such a big deal about Erza leading them? She was always bossy and would have done it anyway whether she wins or loses. "Yeah I don't see what the big deal is. We were founded by a woman. So ready to go? I'm taking you whether you like it or not."

He made a move to pick her up when she suddenly placed a hand on his shoulder. It burned. Why did it burn? "Wait!" she cried out, "Let me pack!"

"What?"

"I got to get my clothes, and my book, and my jewellery," she said as she suddenly pulled away and made a move for the door. He would have chased after if he had to but she turned and smiled warmly at him, which made his stomach flip over. "And then I'm all yours!""

"You want to go?" he asked desperately. "Really?"

"Of course I want to go!" she smiled that pretty smile again and Natsu knew, though he would never admit it, he was done for completely. Thor help them all, he no longer cared about that stupid bet. "A place where women can be whatever she wishes to be? To be treated as an equal? Who wouldn't want to go there?"

Natsu's pride took a really big hit at that. She didn't want to go because she liked him. She wanted to go because she liked Fairy Tail.

Well fine, he thought bitterly, I'll just make her like me, and then she'll have no choice but to be my wife.

"Well at least let me carry you." he muttered. "Viking traditions and all that, I've gotta look like I'm a Viking."

"Probably the best," she agreed warmly, "My father might die of heart failure if he heard I went with a Viking willingly."

And with that she ran off, packed a small pack (that was far too heavy, what the hell did she put in there?) and then suddenly jumped into his arms. He staggered backwards into the table at her sudden weight. Her legs wrapped round his waist and her arms were looped round his neck.

"Well?"

"Well what?" he mumbled completely distracted by the fact her lips were mere inches from his.

"Are you going to take me like a proper Viking?"

He growled, hitched her up over his shoulder, smacked her arse for her teasing, and then marched out of the house gleefully as she shouted some abuse at him.

Oh yes, this girl was definitely going to fit in at Fairy Tail.

FTFTFTFTFTFTFTFT

Lucy got to know her future husband a lot better on the way to his boat. He was a talker, and a very cheerful one for someone so violent. Lucy didn't mind though. Years spent with dour men keeping sullen silence around her made her yearn for company like this.

Well….she could live without the axe waving and door destroying bit.

When they reached the boat she saw a sulky blonde man counting his newly stolen wealth, and an even sulkier, brooding, dark haired man scowling at the deck, with an arm wrapped round a very familiar, blue-haired, girl that was tied and gagged, a girl that Lucy knew very well.

"Levy?!"

Levy spat out the gag which for some reason suggested to Lucy that it hadn't been put in there willingly by the person who actually stuffed it into Levy's mouth. "Lu-Chan!" Levy gasped. "They got you too?"

"Eh," Lucy shrugged as Natsu dropped her onto the boat. "Sort of. I willingly participated in the kidnapping."

"Why?!"

"Get away from that arranged marriage," Lucy shrugged again as she settled beside her best friend in the world, "lead my own life, have fun, you know, those sort of reasons."

And because the guy who wants to take me away is really, really, cute, funny, stupidly adorable, sweet, and kind. She did NOT add in her head, not at all, no way, never.

"Lu-Chan!" Levy shouted. "You know why they're kidnapping us, right? It's not because they want to talk about unicorns and rainbows."

"Yeah," Lucy muttered sheepishly, "I'm not so thrilled about that part."

"But you will be married, right?" Natsu asked loudly and worriedly. "To me?" he added unnecessarily (she wasn't exactly going to marry scar face or pierced all over his face, was she?) "Or what was the point of kidnapping you."

"Of course I will marry you, Natsu," she rolled her eyes, "it's my choice, right?"

Natsu nodded, sighed in relief, and Lucy couldn't help but jump when he draped an arm round her shoulders.

None of the local boys were so friendly. Or warm. Or nice. Or….oh bugger.

"At least you got a charmer," Levy grumbled, "My guy just grabbed me without so much as a hello and he won't talk to me at all. About anything. He won't even tell me-"

"Gajeel," the blonde man suddenly spoke up, "Gag her or I swear to Thor I will throw her out of the boat."

Gajeel, the dark-haired one that had all the piercings, obeyed the blonde man wordlessly. And strangely enough Levy complied as she opened her mouth for the gag, and her eyes seemed to be smiling at the terrifying Viking. Lucy strongly suspected there was more to Levy's story that she was letting on. And her irritation about her kidnapper not speaking had something more to do with affectionate reasons than hatred.

Despite that, Lucy was still going to stand for her friend who had the right to talk as much as she wanted to!

"How could you?!" she shouted. "Levy wasn't doing any harm!"

"Natsu," the blonde man barked, "shut your woman up!"

"Hell no," Natsu snorted, "Lucy does what she likes."

Lucy couldn't help but wiggle in pleasure at that. No man had ever said she could do what she liked. She was usually told to obey her betters and do her duty. God, she hated that word, duty. Levy, however, grumbled behind her gag obviously displeased that her Viking hadn't stood up for her like Natsu had for Lucy.

"Where the hell is Gray?!" the blonde man snapped. "It's time to go before the tide turns out again."

"I don't know," Natsu shrugged, "maybe the moron fell in a ditch or something."

"HELP ME!"

As if their words had conjured this mystery Viking, a very naked man was running across the beach with Juvia, another good friend of Lucy's, was glued to his legs.

"GRAY-SAMA! DON'T GO!"

Lucy and Levy face-palmed at that. They might have willingly been kidnapped but at least they kept their dignity. Juvia seemed to have thrown her's out of the window along with her self-respect.

"Jeeze," Gajeel muttered as he looked humiliated, "whatever happened to the old traditional Viking?"

"We're Fairy Tail Vikings," the blonde man pointed out, "who said anything about traditional?"