Chapter 4~Heartbroken
The group entered the dining room and saw Igneel in his human room. He ran up to him and gave him a big hug. "Dad!".
He hugged back and began to cry. "Good to see you, son." He pulled away and got a smack in the head. "That was for everything you destroyed!"
"Heh…" Natsu rubbed the back of his head then sat down next to Igneel. Lucy sat down to his right. They introduced ourselves and then went to bed.
Seven days later…
It's been a week since they had started to train. They'd all just finished eating breakfast. Lucy told everyone to meet here and not go to training after because she had news.
"Good morning! We have a new trainee which we all know well, especially Erza." Erza gulped because I had a matchmaker face on. "Come on in, you'll be training with Ren the meteor dragon, Jellal." Lucy smirked.
"Hello everyone!" Jellal said calmly.
He turned to Erza and began to blush after Lucy announced where he will be training and sleeping. "Ren and Rin are twins, so they share an island. You will be training alongside Erza, and sharing a hut with Erza as well. We also need to make you a bed and it won't be ready for few weeks. It may be a training hut, but the furniture inside is custom built to match. You will be sharing a bed with Erza until then."
The dragons were snickering. Jellal was happily talking to Erza as if he wasn't blushing a couple second ago. Then this happened.
"Look here, you try anything and we will kill you!" Gray said sternly with a demonic aura surrounding him and Natsu.
"I will not hesitate to burn you into a pile of ashes if you hurt her!" Natsu looked as serious as he was when he was fighting.
Soon enough, the rest of the guild was surrounding him threatening him. Lucy just smiled and giggled. She missed the way they treated me like a family. She got up, and that's when Igneel walked up to her and told her he needed to borrow her training space because Natsu had destroyed the island.
"Fine, just don't destroy anything there or I will make you train with Cannon instead." He glared at Cannon than turned back to the blonde.
"Thank you, Lucy." He thanked her then started to fight with Cannon.
Erza began to yell at the guild. She smacked Gray and Natsu in the head and they all went of to train.
A couple hours later…
Lucy kept yelling at the two to keep it down so, they decided to take a food break somewhere in the forest.
"Natsu, tell me why you hurt Lucy." Igneel opened the picnic basket then looked towards the dragon slayer.
"We thought she hurt Lisanna, but it turns out she didn't. No one knows who started the rumour either." He began to munch on some chips.
"Could it have been this Lisanna person you're referring to?" Igneel started to eat a sandwich."
"No, she didn't even know about the rumour until after Lucy left. We even used a spell to make sure she didn't lie." He kept eating. "Although, what happen on that day is a fuzzy memory to everyone…"
There was silence until Natsu spoke "She changed though. Something or someone, had changed her and we want her back to normal." Poor Natsu got hit in the head again.
Igneel began to raise his voice, so he could hear but, Lucy couldn't.
"Do you not want Lucy back? When she first got here she wouldn't stop crying, Natsu. Even now she isn't truly happy. You will make her happy once again. If not, we will be forced to do something drastic." He pulled out 2 empty reusable water bottles.
"I know, but she is so distant now. I'm pretty sure she hates me." He was handed the bottles.
"Look here, go get water. There is a river where we were training." I got up and left.
When he arrived at the spring, he noticed Lucy was asleep, she looked peaceful. She soon looked like she as about to cry. She began muttering in her sleep "No, don't... I love the guild...I said nothing about her, the guild is my family..."
He couldn't help but frown "I know, Luce. I'm so sorry." She settled down a bit. He got the water and left back to Igneel.