A/N: "Gears are turning in the fire dragon slayer's head, is that ever a good thing? From what we know of Natsu, no…no it's not." Has gone back to her matcha, and prepares five cups for her new followers. "You guys made my day: Glass Dragon's Rose, MThereze, Nova1487, lopezxitalic29 and msfemjem you all are awesome. Also I think my war with the chapter bar...I feel...I lost." Begrudgingly sips tea.

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Chapter 5- A Date

Lucy dressed in a fairly saucy way, her hair was nicely done in a high ponytail while her bangs framed her face. She wore a strapless pink cocktail dress with a sweetheart line that fit in all the right places, adorned with silk red embroidery, almost like fire wrapped around her waist as the dress ended at mid-thigh. Her three inch high heels were a deep crimson red lacing up the calf. She grabbed her black very long sleeve coat that went almost to her ankles, zipped it up and tied its sash around her slender waist.

After one last make-up check in the mirror, to be sure her lip gloss hadn't smeared, deemed herself ready. "I look like a Yakuza wife, almost a shame Natsu couldn't see this one, since I picked fire as my theme."

SsS

Fire glowed from the palm of his hand as it revealed Natsu's dragon like eyes keenly watching her leave with Jax on his motorcycle. In a deep and steady voice called for Happy to fly them close enough, but not so much they'd be spotted, he stood from his crouch for the Exceed to lift him as the fire vanished.

SsS

Lucy and Jax finally got to the bar as he continuously whispered sweet nothings in her ears, however she couldn't bring herself to remove her coat since her mind kept going back to the moment with Natsu in the sick bay. Natsu not once kissed her. It was her fault in part since Asuka demanded he kiss her once when babysitting and she used Happy as a shield in a last ditch moment since he was going too, and he has groped her more than she could count, as well as hold her close a few times… Now thinking more on the subject, it seemed that he did at least like her. So why hadn't he made a move. One thing she knew about Natsu, he never withheld from something he wanted. That grim thought made her feel more rejected. When she got Aquarius back, the mermaid berated and boxed her ears off for never dating, let alone kiss a guy. Though that was taken care of today.

Which brought her here to "Water Vibe" with Jax. The more she was with him, the bigger the guilt settled within, leading to a small case of anxiety. "Ahh maybe a drink would be good?"

Jax, more than delighted with the suggestion, perked up his gorgeous head and left her at the booth they settled into.

SSS

Off in the corner, leaning behind a blue tiled pillar, was pink hair with a black open short sleeveless vest, over a quarter sleeved red silk collared shirt that was unbuttoned to his chest for flare. Natsu left it partially untucked, revealing his old metal belt with a fire emblem in its center around his waist. Tilting his sunglasses downward as he eyed Lucy all dolled up, instantly could tell the unsettled atmosphere she was producing, then looked towards Happy as he began to pull on his black pants leg over dress boots.

"What're you gunna do Natsu?" The music was loud, and rainbow strobe lights drowned out their presence, however the man in question gave Happy a very sharp grin which accentuated his canines.

"We're going to light up this joint with a little fire." Flame began to escape from his mouth, as portions of where he stood began to melt.

"WHA?!" He flailed, "You can't! Lucy won't forgive you!" Nervous about the fire mage's antics flew up so he could speak face to face. "Can we crash it another way?"

"Relax Happy, just watch." With that, he disappeared into the crowd leaving Happy to fly up to the next balcony, so he could watch his father figure encroach on his prey as though it were another enemy.

SsS

Lucy continued to wait for Jax, heat from all the bodies started to get to her and for some weird reason, still didn't want to remove her coat despite the unnatural increase in temperature. She placed rested her chin to her palm with her elbow on the table and groaned to herself. "Uggghhh... this heat. I think I'm going to die..."

SsS

Natsu found Jax flirting, in his point of view, with another girl close to the exit of the club away from everyone. "Ahh, so this is how it is?", cracking his knuckles, smiled with pleasure, as he slammed Jax out cold with a fist, then tied him up and tossed him outside. The poor woman who happened to witness the scene screamed while running. Fortunately the exchange went down without much thought from anyone, since events like that happened nightly. He then took a deep gulp of air to channel such excretion of hot air, it stalled the A.C. and melted the vents.

SsS

Happy looked on from his perch on balcony to the second level to the club through bars, as electronics started to glitch while club goers began to sweat so bad, they had to leave or suffer dehydration.

"Hehehe" if anyone paid attention, they would see a blue Exceed laughing rather evilly.

SsS

"Why does this feel... so damned familiar…" Her coat was now melted off her body and her dress began to liquefy in tatters, when realization dawned. "I'm going to kill him." Lucy continued her struggle to stay as modest as possible.

SsS

The D.J. who was still playing music in all this commotion, had his equipment catch on fire from overheating. Natsu then proudly strolled up and sucked it away. "Thanks for the meal." Wiping his forearm to his mouth watched as the D.J. run in fear.

SsS

Lucy at this point had most of her dress melted away, save for it covering important areas, witnessed Natsu eating fire from the D.J. equipment. Her knees went weak as he strode over, her heartbeat quickened with palpation as he approached. Silently he grabbed her hand to pull her out the door with a firm, yet gentle yank. She had no time to ogle at how devilish Natsu looked as her temper sored. Once they were out she gave the fire mage a piece of her mind.

"What, did you do, with Jax?" Hands on her hips, leaned in which gave Natsu a very solid view of how well that dress used to fit her and how much of it melted off. He gave Lucy his vest to cover with. To him she looked like fire itself, and he wanted to know what that fire tasted like. Though he didn't show it.

"I did you a favor, found him flirting with other girls. It's an invitation for a beating." Crossing his arms behind his head, stubbornly made his case against blonde hair, brown eyes and curves he still could not ignore.

A sharp clipped tone was all that was needed."So you had to turn the club into a roasting pit?"

"If I hadn't, you would've still been waiting for that girly man. He smelled like a thousand different parfumes Ichiya made."

Calm deep breaths needed to be taken as she heard him out. "What, are you even doing here, in the first place?"

At that Natsu beamed with an incredibly boyish grin, "Thought it would be fun."

It took all Lucy had not to sock him with that one comment, instead gave him a verbal reprimand enough to make his ears bleed, "My date is ruined, you melted the club with my favorite coat and dress! You never think things through"

" I'm not sorry I ruined your date. He was bad news Lucy." They were nose to nose arguing. They argued before, however not quite like this. The closer he got to her, the more he wanted to devour her. The feeling startled him, so he backed off first stuffing his hands in his pocket.

Her palm repetitively smacked lightly against her forehead, till with a final calming inhale and exhale sadly smiled at him. "I guess, I owe you one. I wasn't having fun anyway."

"Why did you agree? Making me bail your ass out n all. I could tell from the start you didn't want to go with him." The duo walked back to her apartment as he stated in a matter of fact way.

"At least you didn't literally set the place on fire, or blow it up." Just as she said it, the entire building went up in flames.

Natsu and Lucy looked on awestruck, though he was first to respond by picking her up bridal style and ran.

Happy had followed them out once he saw Natsu achieve his goal, he watched during the argument a little worried about the two of them. But after he saw the club explode yelled at the offender. "We're in trouble now! I told you not to go overboard!"

"Ah shut it Happy!" Still holding Lucy, saw she clung onto him while he was running.

"Will you put me down! I have legs!"

"Ha says the girl who is holding me tighter..."

"Put me down!"

He sighed "Fine." He dropped her and then all three booked it to her place as officials came in through the background.