Hey guys, I'm back. I need to do another chapter, but this time I'm going back to lucy and natsu. We haven't seen much of them for quite some time ad I think we're all ready for them or at least I am. It's weird not having every chapter revolve around them like I planned, but I needed to expand on the story instead of starring just them in it. I hope you enjoy this chapter!
Lucy's P.O.V.
we wanted to find the others badly, but instead been aimlessly wandering around for the past hour. It been getting pretty annoying and I wish I could do something.
"Why can't we find anyone? I bet we on the other side of the island by now." I signed dramatically. Natsu silently agreed with me as we kept walking.
"It just doesn't add up. There has to be at least someone around to help get to safety or to help us right hades." Marie pondered. I kept quiet to think. If I was a fairy tail member, where would I be?
"why don't we try to meet up with wendy, I mean she can't be too far and she could certainly help us with our wounds and what not. it could also be helpful for another Dragon slayer to be on our team." I stated quietly, still deep in thought.
"I think we should just right hades right now! We don't need anyone else." Natsu quickly added to the conversation. He could be such a dope at times.
"Yeah, okay sure because dying was definitely on my list for things I wanted to accomplish today." I added on so sarcastically. He glared at me and turned to keep walking. My stern expression softened as I walked up to him, my body language telling him I'm sorry for acting out.
"Why don't we just find Wendy and make sure she's safe. I mean she told us that pantherlilly was fighting with one of the seven kin and I don't doubt for a second that she helped him. She might be hurt and we need to find her, okay." I spoke soft and logically.
"Yeah, okay." He smiled. We stared a little longer at each other and I then noticed his face. He had a sort of round, edgy features with a boyish face. He didn't look tired or wore out, but more energetic like a little boy. It was addicting and I couldn't look away. I started to lean in and he seemed to get the idea and did the same. We came to a screeching halt when we heard snickering from two noisy cats.
"They liiiike each other." They both snickered. My face immediately turned red and I reeled back quickly in embarrassment. I almost kissed natsu on the lips and he didn't stop me. He leaned in too so that must mean he wanted to kiss me as well.
"I-I umm, I didn't want to- well, I did, but- no, I didn't mean-" i was cut off by natsu's shaky voice.
"L-let's find Wendy." Was all natsu said as he turned so we could see his face. He quickened his pace every time happy made a comment about our little moment. He would also start yelling at happy about him being nosy while happy giggled in delight. He surely was just as embarrassed as me. We then heard a noise. I looked around frantically as I tried to pinpoint where the noise was coming from.
"I think you need to rest, child. We don't want you passing out while you walk." Stern words rang through my ears.
"I'm fine, really. I don't need rest, but what I do need is to find natsu and lucy. They have to be around he somewhere and I want to find them." A girly, but determined voice retorted back. I knew who it was and so I ran to where I could hear the voices. I came face to face with Wendy and i felt tears prick in the corners of my eyes. I got on one knee and hugged her close to me. She squeaked in surprise when I hugged her tight.
"Lucy!" I heard natsu he'll in the distance. Once he found us, his eyes widened at the sight of the best up wendy. "Wendy, are you okay? " he asked her. She nodded happily and hugged me and natsu close as we did the same. I faintly heard the voices of each cat talking to one another, but it felt like background noise as I kept part of my family close.
"Pantherlilly, are you okay?" Marie rain to him, worry etched into her voice. I got up and started in curiosity. When did they start talking?
"Yeah just a few scratches." He smiled. She still looked worried and examined his wounds as happy glared a Pantherlilly from afar. I thought back to when we were at the guild and Pantherlilly just joined the guild. Marie did seem a lot happier to see him every time he came to talk to her, but they never could talk long because of games being protective and wanting to go on a lot of jobs together. I never really noticed their relationship until now, but they do look happy to see each other and who am i to stop it.
"Wendy, what exactly happened?" I asked her. She looked up at us in surprise and then proceeded to explain her situation.
"Well, I was with mest, but Carla and Pantherlilly came to warn meme about him. They were right because he turned out to be a part of the magic council and wanted to break out guild apart. Before he could do anything, one of the seven kin, azuma, came to fight one of us. He blew up a magic council ship and decided to fight pantherlilly. Once we came back after warning you guys, mest who is now referred to doranbolt, was knocked out and Pantherlilly was starting to get tired. I headboard him and strengthened him, but we had to flee when his transformed back into his old self." She spat out very quickly.
"Okay..." I said, still trying to process their whole ordeal. It was a strange, but I'm glad she didn't fight as much as I expected her to.
"I'm glad you're all okay, but we've been meaning to gather member to help us fight hades, are you in?" Natsu asked her. He's been extremely quiet for some time. I wonder what's wrong.
Wendy's naturally soft face transformed into one of determination. "Yeah. I definitely will help you guys. I want to prove my strength so everyone and get this horrible man off the streets and sitting, doing nothing won't get me anywhere so yes I will help and we will succeed." We smiled and stood slowly."It's getting dark, we should set up some kind of camp for the night, but we'll need a watch dog." Wendy said.
"I'll do it." Natsu said in a voice of desperation and he looked at me, expectantly
"Oh! Yeah me too." Everyone nodded and proceeded to set up a sort of makeshift camp for the night. We found cloth and decided to use that as a tent while I got fire wood. Natsu set the wood on fire with ease and I set rocks around it like old fashion camp style. It was soothing in a way to watch the warm fire crackle and move.
"Try to keep the fire small," I remebered. "We don't want to attract attention from the enemies. We could easily be ambused." Once it was pitch black, everyone went to bed, except me and natsu. I have a feeling any we're out here, but I don't want to ask him.
"Are...are we good?" He asked me. It surprised me that his normally loud and rough voice dimmed down to a quiet, almost non-existent voice. My heart started to pound against my chest so hard, natsu probably could hear it. That thought made my heart pound faster.
"Of course we are. Why wouldn't we be?" I asked him. I wanted the fire in my chest to subside so that I could breathe again.
"You know, about earlier..." He trailed off. Redness in his cheeks formed as he stopped looking in my general direction. It was adorable in a way. I then thought back to when we first met laxus. I can hear others thoughts If I felt like it because my hearing is stronger than any other slayer and I promised natsu i'd teach him how to get better hearing and right now seems like the perfect time.
"I know this is off topic, but do you want to know how to get better hearing? Like me." He gushed and nodded very fast. I laughed and told him to sit criss cross as I did the same. "This is how draco taught me..." I added. He nodded. "First, center yourself and close your eyes. This took me a moth to master, but if you do this once a day you might be able to achieve this much faster than me."
"Are we finished?" He asked impatiently. A tick mark appeared in my face and I whacked him. He whined in hurt.
"We've barely started, idiot." He whimpered. "Now close your eyes and center yourself like I said before." He did as I asked. "Tune out everything, but my voice. When you've done so I want you to think of a loud sound and focus on that sound as hard as you can.
"Does your voice count? You're pretty loud."
"You're pushing your luck, dragneel." He snickered, but then focused on my voice, I'm guessing. "study the sound you hear, try to make out every up and down of that sound. What's different and what's the same. This can help you notice the little things each person's voice carries and not the obvious stuff." I listened to the waterfall i could hear in the background. I heard the loudness it created but true beauty in it. I could tell when someone stepped in the river as the sound was different when the water fell.
"I can't focus!" Natsu opened his eyes in frustration and crossed his arms.
"Natsu, you must have patience and you won't be perfect the first time you try."
"but I can't focus when it's your voice I'm hearing. It's like a curse or something. " his red face came back and I couldn't tell if it was from embarrassment or frustration. Mine was certainly from embarrassment. Why must be act so oblivious in these situations when I'm still a blushing mess.
"You could try focusing on another sound." I suggested in a meek voice. I can't believe I'm discussing this with him.
"I can't focus on any other voice when I hear yours." He pouted. My face was on fire.
"Why must you say such embarrassing things...?" He pondered, but then got what I meant and he turned as pink as his hair.
"I uh-" there was a rustle, then two bodies fell from the bushes. When I saw who they were, I was too surprised to speak. They're were beaten as unconscious and it looked like they were helping each other for a while before they collapsed.
gray and erza.
I wonder if that was a good chapter of not. Next chapter will be of erza and gray and how they ended up by lucy and natsu. I hope this chapter was entertaining because the next chapter will be a lot more serious.