A/N: I am soooooooooo sorry for the long wait! Life just got in the way and I had no time to write this chapter. Thank you to everyone who review/alerted/favorite my story it means the world to me that you guys are enjoying it! Anyway here are the reviews from the previous chapter.
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You all are all just to sweet! Thank you so much for your wonderful reviews! Honestly, I wish more people liked GrayLu. They are so cute together! But the problem with me is I always tend to go for the unlikely couple, but I still have hope that GrayLu will happen! I mean they are a lot of hints in the anime and manga so you never know ;) Now let me stop my nonsense speaking and continue on to the story!
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After recovering from the run in with the fan girls, the band and their new female member were finally able to find their way back to the studio. When there, each member decided to do their own thing: Jellal began to give Lucy a tour of the building; Gray and his brother headed straight to 'The Spot' to work on a new song; Natsu went to the kitchen and raided the fridge; Gajeel went off to take a nap, saying that all that running from the fans exhausted him and Loke began to flirt with the new assistant, Aries. She was a very shy and quiet young woman with striking pink hair. From her red face, it was obvious that the pink haired adult had a little crush on the renowned player.
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When walking down the long, carpeted hallway, Lucy was observing each poster of famous celebrities and bands signed to Grimoire Heart Record covering the walls. She was listening to Jellal, her temporary tour guide, say each celebrities name. There was one of the blonde's favorite singers, Cana Albarn next to a band called the Thunder Gods.
Soon, the duo approached a large wooden door labeled 'RR'. "And here is the recording section. This is where everyone records all the songs for their albums." said electric blue haired man opening the door. Lucy was in complete awe of the recording room. There was a large mixing board in the middle of the wooden floor, comfortable couches surrounding the perimeter of the room and even a plasma screen on the wall! There was also a large glass window right in front of the mixing board, when you looked through to the other side of the glass you could see a small room filled with all kinds of different instruments and microphones. The glass window was one sided, meaning that the people inside the small room couldn't see what was going on on the outside. The place was absolutely magnificent; the blonde beauty was at a loss for words and continued gazing round the room with stars in her chocolate brown eyes.
"Wow." Lucy was finally able to speak. "This place is so….it's just…wow." She then started to roam the room and look at the cool gadgets. Jellal chuckled at Lucy's childish antics. "You know soon you're gonna be recording in here too."
Lucy instantly stopped playing with the switch on the mixing board and turned to Jellal with wide eyes. "Y-you m-mean I have to s-s-s-sing in front o-of p-people?"
The young bluenette inwardly cursed himself, forgetting about Lucy's stage fright. "Well you have don't worry we can help you overcome your stage fright. But sometime soon- either today or tomorrow- you're gonna have to do a voice test for our boss, Laxus."
The blonde haired female began to tremble from her chattering nerves. "I-I'm sorry J-Jellal-kun but I don't think I can do this. I'm so sorry." She hurried over to the door trying to open it with shaky hands. When her hands were steady enough, she opened the door and then clumsily tripped over the carpet, falling flat on her face.
'Oh great it's starting.' she thought to herself. Whenever Lucy's emotions get out of control, 'Bad Luck Lucy' is released from within her and since she's scared and nervous right now, her unfortunate bad luck is taking over.
Jellal quickly rushed to her side to help the poor girl, but before he was even able to touch her, the said blonde got up and ran down the hallway stumbling every so often.
'Oh man oh man. What do I do now!' a inwardly panicking Jellal, panicked. "Lucy! Wait come back!" he then took off after her"
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"Where are Luce and Jellal? They should've been back already!" yelled a rosey-haired teenager.
"Calm down ash brain, they should be coming soon, Jellal told us to meet them here at 7pm didn't he? It's only quarter to. And since when did you start calling her Luce? We just met her a few hours ago!" replied his raven-haired (best) friend.
"Who you calling ash brain, huh Popsicle? And why are you so hung up on me calling her Luce, oh I see, you're jealous!" Natsu smirked at him.
"Why would I be jealous? I'm so~ not!"
"Are too"
"Am not"
"Are too"
"Am NOT squinty eyes"
"Are TO droopy eyes"
"WILL YOU TWO SHUT THE HELL UP!" screamed Lyon, trying to cease the bickering. "Man, you guys can't go five seconds without arguing. It's a wonder how you became best friends. Great, now look what you did, you woke up Gajeel, now he's gonna be all moody"
"Gehe" the pierced boy mumbled, sitting up from the sofa.
"We are not best friends!" said the pair said in unison. After realizing what happened they both glared at each other than looked off to the side. Lyon, Loke, and Gajeel chuckled at the two. "Sureeee~" They mocked.
Soon after, they saw a young girl with blonde hair run by them tripping every so often. The girl looked an awful lot like Lucy.
"Hey wasn't that that-" Natsu was soon interrupted by a panting Jellal calling out to the girl. "Lucy! Stop running!"
"Jellal? What happened to the chick?" questioned Gajeel.
"I…..told her that…she had to…..do a voice test for Laxus…..and she got scared…..and ran." Jellal panted, pointing the direction the said girl ran.
"You Baka! Did you forget when she told us she had really bad stage fright! We were supposed to break it to her slowly, and help her overcome the stage fright!" shouted Natsu.
"I know that ok! It just slipped!"
"I swear if the fair maiden quits because of you I will make sure you regret it!" threatened the bands playboy, Loke.
"Listen, we just got to go and find her and calm her down. Unless-" Gray was then interrupted by a loud girls shriek.
Six pairs of eyes widen at the feminine shriek. They all rushed over to where the sound came from, and became shocked at the sight. In the middle of the lounge area, was a scared looking Lucy sitting on the floor looking up at an angry looking young woman with blood red eyes and dark scarlet hair going down in two braids reaching till her waist. She had on a tight, revealing, expensive looking white dress. And in the middle of that white dress was a huge coffee stain, courtesy of the clumsy blonde.
"You little…bitch! This was Christian Dior! I'll make you pay!" The angry woman then pulled up Lucy by her hair. The bystanders around were either ignoring the fight or were too scared to do something about it. After getting a good glimpse of the scarlet-haired girl, Gray then recognized who it was and anger overwhelmed him, he was close to intervening, until Lucy spoke.
"I-I'm really sorry miss, I-I-it was an accident! Honest! I'll pay for it I promise! J-just please let go y-your hurting me!" pleaded Lucy now with tears in her eyes. The woman just looked at the crying Lucy with her heartless blood-red eyes and gave a smirk.
Still holding her by the hair she said, "Ha! Don't make me laugh! Judging from your appearance I'm surprised you can even afford to survive. You're just a pathetic little poor girl with nothing better to do then sneak into famous recording studios and fuck with people of higher standers than you." She than raised her hand prepared to slap Lucy. Lucy shut her eyes waiting for the pain to come all the while cursing at herself for letting her bad luck overcome her again. If it wasn't for her getting so scared about performing in front of people then she would have never run into the young woman holding her cup of coffee and spill the contents of her drink on her dress.
A few seconds passed and the pain never came. Slowly, Lucy opened one eye and then the other, surprised to see Gray standing in front of her holding the other girls arm. If looks could kill then the girl would have been withering on the floor right now, drowning in her own blood.
"Flare, don't you dare hurt her" he spoke in a deathly tone. The girl's- Flare- eyes became scared and widened in terror for a split second, then went back to her cold glare.
Realization hit Lucy. This girl was the famous Flare Corona. She was also a singer but she was known to have really bad and bitchy attitude and was nasty to the people around her. Fortunately for her, she has an amazing voice, the only reason she can make it in the singing world. The part that confused Lucy the most was that she's signed to Raven Tail Records. Why the hell was she here?
"Oh hello to you to Gray-kun. It's only been what, 2 years since we've last seen each other?" the scarlet haired girl said in an innocent sounding voice, but even though Gray didn't buy it, he still let go of her arm and Flare began to glare at Lucy who cowered behind the raven-haired boy and held onto his arm.
Seeing the cold glare being directed to Lucy, Gray pushed her behind him and let the frightened girl hold on to his arm tighter. He doesn't know why but when he saw the tears in Lucy's eyes he started to feel strange emotions. He usually hated when girls cried, but with Lucy it was different. Something inside of him did not like the sight of Lucy being in pain and crying. Also after what Flare said to Lucy and attempted to hit her, he snapped. Gray sprinted to aid the blonde girl. Then Lucy cowered behind him and held onto his arm, those strange emotions came running back. Feelings he hasn't felt since her.
"Tch, I don't care how long it's been. I could've gone a few more years, hell decades, without seeing you again. I don't know what you're doing here and I can't honestly care less. Just get the hell out."
Lucy was confused. How did Gray and Flare know each other? And what went on between the two make him hate her so much?
"Aw but Gray-kun I just wanted to catch up on the old times. Me, you and the guys." Flare flashed one of her fake smiles towards the other five FROST members who were still frozen in shock. Gray cleared his throat loudly to gain their attention. It worked.
Now Lucy was even more confused. 'The guys? Does she mean the rest of the FROST members? What's going on? How do they all know each other!"
Finally realizing the situation that is happening the five young men walked over and stood next to Gray, making a shield around Lucy. Each one of them was giving a harsh glare towards the unwanted Flare.
"Aw now come on guys I won't hurt your little blonde friend there. I was just simply talking to her right blondie?" Flare gave Lucy a cruel smile that made the girl whimper.
Loke was the first one to speak up. "Flare, I suggest you get the hell out of here, or else we will call security. You know you aren't welcomed here, since you work for Raven."
Flare narrowed her eyes, and then let out a sigh. "Fine you win. I'll take my leave. I have to go and buy a new dress anyway since mine is now ruined, but don't worry this isn't the last you'll be seeing of me." She sent a wink to Gray and another glare to the blonde female before walking out the door.
Lucy let out a shaky breath she didn't know she was holding in, hearing this all the boys turned to her. They were all quiet for a few moments, and then Natsu broke the silence by giving Lucy a bear hug and yelling. "Luce, oh my gosh are you ok?" I'm sorry we didn't come to your rescue sooner we were all just frozen in shock. But I promise next time we won't hesitate to help you. Your one of us now and we won't let you get hurt." Natsu flashed his infamous toothy grin. So did the other guys surprisingly, Gajeel included. Lucy began to cry.
Natsu began to panic "L-Luce? W-why are you crying? Was it something I said! Or are you mad that I called you Luce? I'm sorry I'll stop just don't cry!"
To the gang's surprise Lucy began to laugh, they all looked at her like she was crazy. One second she's crying the next she's laughing! "Baka! Those were happy tears. All my life I've been picked on because whenever I let my emotions take control of me my bad luck comes out. No one ever wanted to be around me because they were afraid I would rub off on them, that's how I got the name 'Bad Luck Lucy'. I have only met four people who actually stood up for me. They weren't afraid to be around me no matter what the people said. I am proud to call my friends. So when you guys came to my rescue after I almost quit because of my stage fright, you still didn't hesitate to help me and that just made me so….happy. And also I don't mind if you call me Luce. I actually really like it" Lucy then flashed them a watery smile.
"That's why I'm going to overcome my stage fright, just for you guys. Just so I won't be a failure to my new friends." All the boys smiled at her once again, and Natsu gave another one of his bone crushing hugs. Lucy had bad impressions of the boys but that all changed, she thought they were all stuck up celebrities that only cared for the fame and fortune. She was way off on that one. They are just a bunch of boys having fun in a band together and care for one another. Her impression of Gray has also greatly changed. When he stopped Flare from slapping her, and then pushed her behind him, Lucy felt a tug at her heartstrings, she has never felt these strange emotions before, and to be honest….she liked them.
"Well let's not just stand around here. Let's help Lucy overcome her stage fright! To the recording section!" shouted Lyon and he Natsu, Jellal, Gajeel, and Loke went on ahead leaving Gray and Lucy behind.
Both young adults stood there awkwardly for a minute before Lucy looked up with pink cheeks and flashed Gray a smile that made something tug at his heart. "Thank you Gray, for saving me back there. If it wasn't for you something bad could've happened. I had a bad first impression of you but that's all changed now." Her next move greatly surprised Gray.
She gave Gray a hug.
At first he just stood there awkwardly but then he hugged her back. When she released from the hug he turned his head so Lucy wouldn't see his blush. He then scratched his cheek and muttered a "you're welcome".
Their little moment was then interrupted by a booming voice. "GET THE HELL AWAY FROM HER YOU KIDNAPPER!"
Gray turned his head to look at the new stranger. She was a tall, extremely attractive woman with long, scarlet hair tied in a ponytail."Just who the hell-" he never got to finish his sentence, because he was then knocked out cold by this scarlet haired beauty.
"Gray!" screeched Lucy.
Lucy then turned angrily to the mad women. "Look lady I don't know-" she than stopped talking when she realized who the seething woman was.
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"E-E-Erza?"
Well there you have it! Chapter 4 is now complete! I hope you liked this chapter I had fun writing it! Now who do you think the mysterious 'her' is *hint* she is someone you least expect it to be. Will Lucy be able to overcome her stage fright? And what in the world is Erza doing? Review review review! :D