Chapter 2:

Thank you so much for reading the first chapter and wanting to read this one as well. I really thought about what direction I want this story to go in and I'm excited for this journey

"I am NOT marrying ANYONE especially this creep!" Lucy shouted, jumping out of her chair.

"Ouch." Loki said, running his hand through his hair.

"You are marrying him and that is final." Jude replied nonchalantly.

"I refuse. I am not marrying him. You can't make me!" Lucy growled. "I am tired of these stupid meetings. I will not be married off like some pawn."

"Lucy…" Jude started.

"You act all high and mighty like your word is law! I am not -"

"LUCY!" Jude shouted furiously. Lucy stopped dead in her tracks to look at her father who was absolutely seething with anger. "YOUNG LADY YOU ARE MARRYING HIM AND I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER WORD! You may leave now. Loki let's go over the paperwork. You have a month until the wedding to get all of your affairs in order."

Fighting back tears, Lucy ran from Jude's office slamming the door behind her. Hot tears ran down her beautiful face, ruining her makeup. She ran to the stair case, tripping on the way up because of her heels.

"Stupid heels!" she yelled, throwing the damn things off she continued scrambling up the staircase to her room.

"Princess?" Virgo asked as she was passed by the crying Lucy. Handing off the clean sheets to another maid she made her was to her mistresses room. She knocked gently on the door before gently pushing it open.

"Go away!" Lucy sobbed into the pillows on her bed. Virgo ignored her orders and sat on the edge of her bed. She reached out her hand and gently stroked Lucy's back. Lucy sniffled before turning to Virgo and throwing herself in her arms. "Virgo you won't believe what happened."

After crying hysterically and venting to Virgo, Lucy finally calmed herself down.

"Ugh my head is killing me." Lucy muttered. Virgo got up to get some aspirin for her. "What am I going to do, Virgo? I don't want to get married!"

"I don't know, Princess." Virgo cooed, bringing the aspirin and glass of water back from the bathroom.

"I wish I could leave this house and never come back!" Lucy exclaimed, slamming down the pills and water and throwing her covers over her head. "I don't want to be here anymore."

"What…. What if I could help you do that?"

…..

Steam filled up Natsu's bathroom as he whistled a tune to himself as he stripped off his nasty work clothes. A nice hot shower was the perfect thing after a long day of work. He stepped into the shower, hissing at how hot the water was on his skin. It took him a minute to get used to it but he let he shoulders slump forward, allowing the water to hit his sore muscles. He moaned, running his hands through his hair, getting it wet so he can lather shampoo into it. After thoroughly washing his hair and body, he turned off the water and pulled back the curtains, stretching before grabbing his towel and wrapping it around his waist.

Padding his way to his mirror, he wiped off the fog to take a good look at himself in the mirror. His hair was already starting to spike off in its different directions as usual which he frowned at but other than that he liked what he saw. He was tan with a handsome face and white toothy grin that made the ladies melt. He admired his body in the steamy mirror, flexing his large biceps and muscular forearms. But his favorite part was probably his stomach. He had what ladies liked to call the "V". Delicious washboard abs with a v shaped shape around his hips that was an arrow pointing down to their favorite part of him. Giving himself the nod of approval he exited the bathroom and made his way to the kitchen. Opening his fridge, he scanned for something to eat really quick before heading out for the night. He learned his lesson last time about drinking on an empty stomach. Sadly, his fridge was empty, minus the moldy piece of cheese that he kept putting off on getting rid of because he didn't want to touch it.

"I'll just get some nachos at the bar." he shrugged as he closed the fridge.

In his bedroom, he kicked around the clothes on the ground, trying to find something decent to wear. He smirked when he found a pair of red lacy underwear under a pile, recalling the memory of him ripping them off of a busty brunette. He buried them back under the pile again in case he brought someone home tonight. He shuffled through more piles until he was satisfied with a pair of ripped black jeans and a tight fitting white tee shirt. Ladies love the white tee shirt because they could see ever hard edge of his muscular chest. He performed the infamous sniff test before throwing on his clothes. A quick look at the mirror and a thumbs up from his reflection, he threw on his jacket and headed out the door, making sure to lock his apartment door before leaving.

His motorcycle roared to life and he screeched out of the apartment complex. It was about a 15 minute ride to the bar since it was the seedier part of town but no one had better boos than Fairytail. His heart thumped with excitement and adrenaline about the night to come. It was time for this dragon to go on the prowl.

….

"Ugh I've been walking for hours!" Lucy complained as she dragged her seemingly heavy legs forward.

It was very dark out and Lucy knew it had to be very late. Her body ached with how long she had been walking and her arm stung where she got cut by one of the trees she used to hop over the fence of her estate.

She had managed to escape under the cover of darkness with Virgo's help. She was free and ready to start her knew life. Not as the fancy heiress in her thousand dollar dresses but as the girl that was currently in this over-sized hoodie and jeans who was just a nobody.

Reaching her hand into her hoodie pocket she pulled out the wad of cash that Virgo had given her before she left. This was supposed to be enough money to cover the hotel rates for a month. That was supposed to give Virgo and Lucy enough time to come up with a plan. For now she just had to find a hotel but in order to do that she had to know where one was. Drawing up her hood, she snuggled into it, feeling an ounce safer.

Her journey landed her in an especially dark part of town with lots of dark alleys and the shouts of strangers and glass bottles breaking around every corner. It made her jumpy and she was trying to hurry up and find someplace with at least a little bit of light.

Stuffing her hands into her pockets, she continued the direction she was going hoping it would lead somewhere nice. She kept her head down trying to be inconspicuous but keeping your head down has its downfalls. Although, she figured out that one a little too late when she bumped into someone.

"Watch where the fuck you're going!" shouted an angry man.

"Sorry." Lucy mumbled in a low tone. She tried to scurry away when she was grabbed by the nap of her neck.

"What was that?" asked the perpetrator. "I didn't hear you."

Her hood was forcefully yanked down and she squeaked in terror.

"Well look at that guys… we got us a cute little blonde to have fun with."

….

"Natsu, I'm gonna have to ask you to leave." asked a sweet voice.

"He started it!" Natsu shouted, pointing his finger at Gajeel.

"Gajeel may have started it but he isn't the one who broke one of my chairs over someone's head." the female explained.

"Come on, Mira don't do this to me!" Natsu begged.

"Natsu, I'm not going to ask again." Mira stated, her voice going up in octave.

"I'll make it up to you Mira! Come on take me up on my offer! I can help relieve some of that stress." Natsu winked at the bar maid.

"Oh honey I know where you've been and I don't want it." she giggled. "You can come back next week after you've mellowed out."

"HaHa bye Pinky!" Gajeel bellowed as he stuffed nachos into his mouth.

"Screw you metal head!" Natsu yelled before letting out a sigh of defeat. "Okay Mira I'll leave on my own accord. I appreciate you not going demon mode on me."

"Well luckily you didn't push my buttons this time." Mira smiled, waving Natsu goodbye. Natsu shivered at the thought of Demon Mira. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to try and sleep with her. He saw how she got after he broke one of her windows that one time and accidentally hit her with the chair he did it with. He didn't know she would be able to roundhouse kick him so hard through another window which she got mad about that one too and pick him up and tossed him on the street. Gosh if he got Mira into bed she would destroy him. He shook his head, making a mental note not to flirt with her again.

He exited the bar and dug around in his jacket pocket for his cigarettes and lighter. Lighting one up, he let it hang from his mouth as he strolled around the corner to get his motorcycle. He froze when a bloodcurdling scream filled the air.

…..

"Don't! Please!" Lucy cried out. "I'll give you money! Please stop!"

Lucy was currently pinned up against the wall of the alley, a man on each side of her holding an arm. She fought back all she could against their grasp. He muscles were screaming at her from how much they hurt from her thrashing around.

"Don't worry, Blondie. We'll all be quick with our turns with you." he snickered, his hands fidgeting with his belt.

"SOMEONE HEL-" one of the men violently pulled down the front of her hood and knotted it tightly so that she only had a little peep hole to breathe out of. She tried to scream again but was cut off.

"Scream again like that and I'll kill you." said the leader of the group. She could feel something poking her ribs. She knew it was a knife, all those action movies she watched told her that much. She let out a whimper of defeat and went limp in his buddies arms. This is is. So much for being free. She should have just stayed home. None of this would have happened if-

"The fuck?!" came a 4th voice she didn't recognize as these gang members.

Natsu's cigarette fell from his mouth as he rounded the corner, not expecting to see 3 men and the person they were holding hostage.

"Forget what you saw here buddy and keep walking!" Threatened the leader.

"Ooo you do best not to threaten me." Natsu warned.

"Yeah or what?" the leader retorted. "As far as I can tell, I'm the one with the knife which means I have the upper hand."

Natsu stretched up his arms, cracked his neck and then his knuckles.

"Oh so that's what you think?" Natsu snorted, walking towards them. "As far as I can tell, I have the upper hand."

"What makes you say- "WHAM" Natsu headed butted the son of a bitch and knocked him out cold on the ground.

"OWWW!" Natsu whined, rubbing his forehead. "No one ever wins with a head butt. God damn!"

His buddies let go of Mr. Hoodie that was pinned against the wall and he fell to a slump.

They took turns taking swings at Natsu but didn't realize how skilled at fighting he was. They were both knocked unconscious in a matter of seconds. Straightening out his jacket and smirking over there still bodies he turned to the slump of hoodie against the wall. He knelt down by the slump and reached to untie the mess of a knot that had the hood closed around the guy's head. Shaky small hands reached up defensively as soon as she felt someone near her.

"Chill out, dude. Just trying to untie this knot and I'll leave you be." Natsu explained, smacking their hands away. Gosh this guy had some girly ass hands. No wonder he was no good in a fight. "There. See? I'm done. You can at least tell me thank you."

The small hands came up to the small opening of the hoodie and began to tug make the whole bigger. Whoever they were took giant gasps of air before turning their attention to Natsu who was waiting for a thank you.

His breath was caught in his chest when he saw who was actually in the hoodie. She had beautiful blonde hair that was knotted and dirty, pale skin that was flushed bright pink, pump lips that were dry and bleeding and big beautiful brown eyes that were flooded with tears.

"Thank you." she cried, throwing herself into his arms.