Hey guys! Here's the second chapter, enjoy!
It was 5 Am when lucy first woke up. She had just woken up from a nightmare. It was a silly one really. She had dreamed of Chaos chasing her. She had tripped on something in the ground and saw that it was happy. Chaos was on her in seconds, screaming and growling in her face as he ripped the scarf off of her. He then proceeded in attacking her ruthlessly. When he tried to punch her in the face, she woke up with a jolt and looked around I a panic, only to realize that she was at home, in bed.
Lucy sighed in relief and laid back down, using an arm to cover her face. It was too early for her to be up, but the dream had basically scared her shitless. After a moment to collect her thoughts, she pushed the covers off and went to the bathroom.
'There's no point in going back to sleep now. May as well get ready for today.' She stripped off her closes and jumped into the shower.
After about 15 minutes, she was out and about, sporting gray leggings, a pair of white shorts and a tank top. Lucy was sitting on her couch reading when the sound of someone pounding on her door brought her back to reality.
'What the actual hell? It's only frickin 7 in the morning!' Grumbling, she stomped over to the door and swung it open, only to squeak and dunk when a fist was sent flying towards her head. Looking up from the ground, she growled, "Watch it you fucking dumbass! You almost hit me in the face!"
The stranger clicked his tongue, "Sorry lady. I'm just here to give you something. Take the damn thing so I can get the hell out of here and back to my bed." Lucy frowned. She stood up and yelped in surprise when the man shoved an envelope into her hands. He then turned and walked away, not giving her the chance to say anything.
She blinked in confusion before she closed her door, locking it behind her. She turned her attention to the envelope in her hand.
It was a red envelope with gold writing that said Party invitation. "An Invitation?" Why would she suddenly get an invitation to a party?
'That bastard from before is probably the one behind this hone.'
Lucy rolled her eyes, 'Why the hell would he send me an invitation to a party? That doesn't even make any sense.' Deciding to read it, she opened it.
"Dear Ms. Heartfilia, I invite you to join our annual ball which is taking place on a cruise boat in Hargeon. I would be pleased if you could dress up for the occasion. Everyone in magnolia will be attending. Please follow the directions and notify the guards if you plan to join us. The party will start later on tonight at 7. Sincerely, Unknown~"
Lucy stared at the card with suspicion. At the back of her mind, there was a nagging feeling. Her guts were telling her that it wouldn't be wise to attend. But lucy wanted to figure out who sent it to her. "Guess i'm going to the party."
'Dumbass. tsk tsk..'
'Oh shut up. I know that you want to know what happens if I go.'
'...Whatever.'
Lucy frowned and sighed. It was indeed a bad idea and she should know better than to go to a random party, but she wanted to know what would happen if she went. "Besides, If something happens then I would be prepared. I have my keys and my whip." Taking a deep breath, she got up and walked to her closet. She immediately started to pull out clothes in order to find a nice dress to wear for the party.
Lucy was out and about outside. She still had another 2 hours before she had to get ready for that party. Earlier, after she had found her dress, she went out to buy food and other things for her room. That alone took 3 hours. She spent another 2 hours to carry everything up to her room and put it away.
She then spent the rest of the day cleaning her room, reorganizing her clothes and books, reading said books, writing to her mother, listening to the radio, and taking a nice bath.
Finally, it was time that she head out. Lucy had in a nice black dress that slowly turned into a dark bluish purple color as it reached the bottom. The dress reached her knees and it really showed off her curves. It had a V neckline that showed a bit of her chest. The dress had short sleeves with rhinestones decorating the collar of the dress. The bottom was slightly flared and moved smoothly like water itself. Lucy wore a necklace that had a heart with a red gem in the middle that rested above her breasts.
She had put her hair up into a braided bun, Pinning it with a black ribbon and left some out to frame her face. She also had on a pair of black heels with straps that wrapped around the ankles.
Lucy grabbed a pair of black and silver earrings and her brown belt that was used to hold her whip and keys. She walked to her night stand and placed her keys in a pouch that was attached to the belt and her whip. Walking to the bathroom, she looked in the mirror as she applied light make-up that brought out her eyes and feminine features.
Smiling at herself, she walked out after turning off the light and grabbed the black scarf, 'Can't forget to bring this with me.' She wrapped it around her neck once more and walked out of her apartment.
'Let's get this party started.'
Natsu was having a bad day. He had literally woken up on the wrong side of the bed, resulting in him hitting his nightstand when he fell out. He was angry. Furious really.
With his scarf, natsu was basically a ticking time bomb. He had already snapped at happy when the cat tried to talk to him. When he was at the guild, everyone avoided him because he was giving off a deadly aura. He had to leave when romeo, a kid that was in the guild, started to cry.
And then there was the fact that no matter where they looked, the scarf was no where in sight. They had been searching all day.
Natsu kicked a stone as he glared at the ground. Happy was next to him, worry was all over his little face as he looked at the angry dragon slayer. Happy sighed, flying in front of natsu, he spoke up, "Natsu. I found a request in the guild earlier. You might want to see it." Natsu snatched the paper from happy and looked at it. It was some request in hargeon to capture a dark mage that kidnapped women and sold them as slaves. "Slave trader.."
"Aye. The person that we have to bring in is some guy named Bora."
Natsu looked up at happy, "Bora the prominence. He used to be part of the guild Titan nose." Happy nodded. "The person who requested was a guy. He said his wife was kidnapped last week. He told me that today was the last day that bora was going to be in magnolia. He's holding a party tonight in order to get one last girl." Natsu silently stared at the paper, "Let's just hurry up and get this shit over with. My scarf is still missing."
"There could be a possibility that your scarf is there?" Natsu grunted, "Maybe." Ending the conversation, they both headed towards the harbor.
Lucy hummed quietly to herself as she played with the end of the scarf. She had another 25 minutes before the party started. It took her a while, but she finally arrived at the port. A large boat, or ship, was sitting next to the docks and a guard was there standing next to the entrance.
Lucy gulped. 'Maybe I should turn back now before it's too late..'
'I don't think so. You were the one that said that you wanted to see what would happen if you went. Now's not the time to chicken out.'
'Shut up sub-conscious.'
Lucy took a deep breath before she straightened her back and walked forward confidently.
The guard noticed lucy and tensed. He moved so that he was in front of the entrance and looked down at her, "What is a pretty lady like you doing here?"
Lucy turned her nose up slightly, "I uh... I'm here for the party?" The guard stared at her a bit too long, much to Lucy's dismay before he finally moved. "You may enter... Have fun." Lucy nodded at the male, passing him and walking up the platform. She boarded the ship and another man guided her into a room full of young women.
They were smiling and talking amongst themselves. Music was blazing loudly. Lucy noticed that there were several men standing around. They were standing around the area, looking at everyone. Lucy felt a cold chill run down her spine, causing her to stop and look around. Her senses were on high alert. However, as soon as the chill came, it was gone. Shaking her head, lucy made her way to the middle of the room.
The sound of something tapping glass brought everyone's attention to a stage in front of them. There stood a man in a white suit. He had light brown hair and dark eyes.
"Welcome ladies! Our last guest finally have arrived, so lets get started shall we?" The man grinned politely. Lucy suddenly felt frightened. the hairs on the back of her neck stood on end. 'Something bad is about to happen...'
Lucy gulped when her eyes made contact with the man on stage, lucy wasn't sure, but it looked like he was smirking at her. He suddenly raised his hand and the lights went out.
Screams of fright filled the dark air. Sounds of glass breaking and sounds of something hitting the ground echoed across the room. Someone pushed lucy, causing her to fall and hit the floor with a heavy thud. Lucy cried out in pain when she landed on pieces of glass. all of a sudden, the room grew quiet and the lights flickered on. Lucy gasped in horror as she saw all of the bodies of women being held by guys. all of them were smirking.
Lucy jumped to her feet in a panic and looked around, only to realize that she was surrounded. A few of the men parted, revealing the man from yesterday, "Ah. It's so nice of you to join us tonight my dear. Are you enjoying the party?" Lucy grit her teeth furiously, "You sick bastard. What the hell is this?! Who the hell are you?!"
The man cackled loudly. He smirked at her as he gestured something to the men behind her, she suddenly found herself being held down. The sounds of keys jiggling made her gasp in surprise as one of the men tossed it away.
Larges hands forced her to her knees. Lucy growled as she watched the man step up and crouch in front of her. He roughly grabbed her chin and brought her face up to his, "My name is Bora sweetheart. And i'm going to make you a slave. Remember when I said that I was going to make you pay for humiliating me?" Lucy glared and spit in his face.
He stared at her. He wiped the spit off his cheek before he back-handed her in the face. Lucy cried out in pain, lowering her head. "Why are these women here bora!" He grinned, "Ah yes. I'm a slave trader. I work with the black market. It's my way of making good money." The men around him laughed.
"I'm going to make you pay you bastard!" Lucy started to struggled against the men's grip. Bora snickered, "oh yea? and how are you going to do that?"
'Ass whopping time.'
Lucy slammed her head back into one of the men's face, A sickening crack was heard as he cried out in pain. He released her to grab his broken, bloody nose. Lucy took her free arm and elbowed the other guy in the face, also breaking his nose. The two men were on the ground groaning in pain.
Bora, suddenly alarmed, pointed at her, "What are you buffoons doing?! GET HER!" The men dropped the women and charged at lucy. Lucy clipped off her whip and started to lash out.
One strike, it smacked a guy in the eye.
Lucy flicked her wrist so that the whip wrapped around one of the other guys neck. Using her upper body strength, she flung to man into several others that were charging at her.
She did it again and grabbed another man by the leg, swinging him around so that he knocked back the other men. Bora watched in horror as lucy single-handedly took out his men one by one.
Bora didn't like that. He wasn't going to allow this blonde headed bitch get away with this.
"Prominence Whip!" Several purple beams shot out of a magic circle and launched at lucy. She squeaked and jumped back as one of them crashed into the floor. Lucy dodged and ran around the inside of the ship, rolling out of the way several times as the beams followed. Lucy wasn't paying attention as she dodged when another beam appeared and smacked her towards the opposite side of the room. She shrieked in pain as she collided with the wall head first.
She became disoriented and black spots filled her vision. She groaned in pain as she held her head. Bora laughed and walked up to her, pulling her up by the hair. Lucy yelped in pain, her hands automatically gripped bora's in an attempt to let go.
"You stupid blonde, did you really think that you could take me?" He kneed her in the face, making her fly back into the wall. He kicked her side harshly before he picked her up and slammed her back onto the floor. A silent scream escaped her as he laughed at her misery.
A sudden giant explosion rung out through the room, surprising both mages.
"That's just sick. How could you beat up a lady like that?"
A low growl followed the squeaky voice. Lucy looked up and gasped in shock. Chaos was standing there with a killer intent in his eyes. Bora looked just as shocked and gulped.
'Oh shit.'
Happy and natsu were hovering above the boat when it happened.
The sound of crashing, a female scream and a man laughing was heard.
Happy didn't hesitate as he dropped natsu. Natsu's fist burst into black and blue flames as he punched the roof in. A loud explosion rung out through the room as he landed. Happy flew in a gasped, "That's just sick. How could you best up a lady like that?"
Natsu growled darkly in agreement as the two looked at him. Natsu tensed up as his eyes widened when he saw the girl wearing a scarf. His scarf.
He snarled before he turned his attention to bora in rage. First he had the balls to beat up a chick AND he gets blood on his scarf?
Oh this was going to be fun.
Lucy watched as the cat flew over to her and landed. "are you okay?" Lucy gawked at the cat before nodding. Happy smiled before he summoned his wings again and picked her up. "We're going to get you out of here."
Lucy nodded dumbly before she grabbed her keys that were surprisingly next to her. "Natsu! I'm going to take her back!" Natsu didn't answer happy, but instead continued to glare daggers at bora who was shaking.
"W-what are you d-doing here?!" Natsu walked forward, letting his magic fill the air. Bora fell down. He was as white as a sheet as he looked up at natsu. "I'm going to beat the ever living shit out of you Bora." Before either could react, the boat rocked harshly to the left, throwing natsu down to the floor. Bora used that as an opportunity to make a run for it.
Natsu was on him in seconds, letting his fists rain down on bora. Natsu wasn't having any of this. Not today.
Lucy looked back at the boat, "What are we going to do about the others?" Happy looked over his shoulders slightly, "I don't know. We can't magically bring the boat back just like that."
Lucy frowned and looked down at the water below them. An idea suddenly struck her, "Hey! Drop me in the water cat! I have an idea on how we can bring that boat back to shore."
Happy frowned, "Why?"
"just do it you damn cat!"
"Stop struggling! I'll drop you!"
"That's the point!"
Happy lost his grip on lucy and she gasped in surprise as she plummeted to the water. Lucy pulled out a key just as she hit the water, the waves submerged her underneath. Happy was in the middle of panicking when a sudden glow appeared in the water.
Suddenly, lucy was above the water with a blue mermaid. "You stupid brat! How dare you drop my key AND summon me while I was in the middle of my DATE!" Lucy squeaked out a sorry before she pointed at the boat that was in the distance, "Do you think that you can bring that boat back to shore? Please Aquarius?" Aquarius tsked before she used her urn and let out a battle cry.
A massive wave appeared and swept the boat -and Lucy- to shore.
"Are you TRYING TO KILL ME?! Why did you sweep me up?!" Lucy coughed up water as she glared at Aquarius who snorted, "Oops. I accidently swept the boat too. Don't call me for a week you whiny brat. Now I'm going to go back to my BOYFRIEND! something you will never have." With that, she disappeared with a poof.
Lucy stood up as she wrung her hair and clothes. "I so can get a boyfriend."
'Pfft, you wish.'
'SHUT. UP.'
Happy flew over hovered in front of lucy quietly. He glanced over her shoulder and frowned.
Noticing the frown on his face, she frowned as well, "What's wrong?"
Happy looked at her, "He's done." Lucy gave him a confused stare before turning so she faced the now wretched ship. Chaos was dragging a bloody and unconscious Bora to the pile of men. The women that were in the boat had woken up and were crying as they ran away.
Happy flew over to natsu, leaving lucy behind. Lucy shifted on her feet silently as she watched the two converse with each other. She saw the male turn his attention to her and glare. Lucy, at that very moment, felt the extreme urge to jump back into the water and sink to the bottom. And never come back up.
Chaos walked over to her. Lucy felt fear overcome her entire being as he watched her get closer. She hastily took the scarf off and held it close to her as she kept eye contact with the angry male. As soon as he was in front of her. He opened his mouth but was stopped when lucy shoved the soaking wet scarf into his face.
He watched in shock as she immediately made a run for it. He growled as he wrapped the scarf around him and ran after her.
Lucy yelped in terror when she heard footsteps and growling behind her. She was suddenly tackled to the ground, the air was forced out of her lungs as the heavy weight landed on her. Lucy struggled, tearing up. "I'm sorry I'm sorry! Don't kill me! I was going to give it back, I swear!"
"Shut the fuck up you stupid girl."
Lucy bit her tongue as she stilled. The weight on top of her was gone. She felt herself being picked up and was met with dark onyx eyes. Happy was next to him grinning. I flushed.
Lucy gulped as she looked down. Happy flew down so he was resting in her arms. Chaos started to walk soon after.
"Thanks for finding the scarf miss."
Lucy smiled at the cat, "You're welcome. I'm lucy."
The cat beamed up at her, "I'm happy. This is natsu!" Lucy glanced up at natsu hesitantly. Natsu huffed through his nose as he continued.
'He's pretty hot..'
'God damn right. Look at the face. Hell, he rocks the pink hair!'
'Is it natural?'
'It has to be. The cat is blue too. Like that isn't weird enough.'
'He has a deep voice.'
'Imagine him moaning. I bet every girl that hears him would faint.'
'Oh god no. Don't even say that.'
'Why? It's true. And he's fucking ripped girl. Do you not feel the muscles on him? The strong arms, the fucking abs!'
Lucy blushed a dark red, 'Okay Okay. I get it.'
"Lucy?"
She snapped out of it and looked at happy dumb folded, "Huh?"
Happy gave her a weird look, "Natsu wants to know where you live."
Lucy blinked at him once, twice, then she blushed. "I-I live on strawberry street. My room number is 425..." She felt natsu grunt in response as he turned the corner. He walked until he reached the building and entered. They reached her room and lucy opened it, allowing natsu and happy to walk in.
Natsu set lucy down on the couch gently, as to not aggravate any of her wounds. Lucy sighed slightly, "Thank you. Um...It's kinda late. You guys can stay if you like. You can also help yourselves. I'll go take a bath." Carefully, lucy stood up and walked to her dresser. She pulled out some underwear and pajama's before she entered the bathroom.
Natsu looked around silently. It was a nice place he had to admit. It hade a homey feel to it. Natsu took a deep breath. The sweet smell of vanilla and lavender filled his nose. Happy was on the bed asleep. Natsu took off his scarf. It was still a dripping mess, so he put it on the table. He took his cloak off and set it on a chair. He walked to the bed and laid down.
He looked at the bathroom door and could hear her quietly hiss to herself in pain. He turned around so he was facing the wall and fell into a deep sleep.
Lucy came out in her pajamas. She had bandages on her left arm, right leg, stomach and head. Lucy saw that the two were asleep. She saw the black scarf on the table, a puddle formed under it. Lucy smiled and picked it up before through it in the dryer to dry. Lucy looked at the bed then at the couch.
'You could join him you know~'
'Be quiet conscious.'
Lucy grabbed blankets and pillows for herself as she created her make shift bed. The couch was slightly uncomfortable but she wasn't one to complain.
She thought about the events that happened today and sighed, 'Today was hectic. I really thought he was going to kill me. how stupid.'
'Stupid indeed.'
'Will you butt out?!'
'Neva'
Lucy huffed before she closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
It sucks. I know, I know. You don't have to tell me. I didnt bother putting in any action I guess.. Sorry!
