Chapter 1: The New Girl
Natsu's POV
It's been a week since I meet that beautiful mermaid...
No clue yet...
I told everyone about her after they came right over to shore in a lifeboat to find me. After I told them, they all looked at me like I was crazy! It's not that crazy to believe in... Was it?
They keep on telling me it was a dream, and that I needed to see a professional! Why won't they believe me!? I'm not crazy! When I told my dad during a visit, he threw a vase at me and face-palmed himself. The last words I heard from him was, 'what did I do wrong with you son.' My mom also kept on convincing me to see a psychologist...
Well forget them! During the whole week, I've been going to the beach every night but there was still no sign of her... Where could she be?
I was in class and bored as ever. Maybe I should ditch class again... No this is the class Erza was in with me (Along with Lisanna, Loki, and Gray.)
Another boring day again...
Lucy's POV
A week has passed since I saved the pink haired moron. Since then, things looked pretty good for me. After the CPR incident, I immediately got back on land and talked to my good human friend.
That's right! I have a human friend!
Her name is Erza! We meet by accident when she was chasing after two naked morons. She was startled at first, but after taking in all that information, she treated me like she would anyone. She may seem a little scary at times, but she was super nice. We would hang out whenever we had the time too.
I told her I ran away from home and that I had no place to go. Erza was kind enough to help me. She got me into school, found a place for me to live in, and even got me a job. The academy I was supposed to go to was pretty easy to get in since I studied under the sea every day and read books to fill in my free time. This stuff the humans were learning was as easy as pie!
Right now, I am in front of the school with a smirk on my luscious lips. I can totally do this! Definitely! 100%!
"There you are!" Erza's voice came from behind. I turn to see my good friend waving at me, "let me see your classes again," she says taking my schedule without any reply back from me.
"1st hour you have physics, 2nd you have art, 3rd is calculus, next you then have lunch, after that is world history, and then for 5th hour you have gym. Looks like we have the same 1st, 4th, and lunch with me."
"So I'm not gonna have you for three hours? What am I suppose to do or say without you? I barely know how to socialize with humans," I speak with great concern. So much for that confidence I had back then.
"Don't worry you'll do great. Just treat the people how you would treat me, I have to go. Good luck" she runs into the school andSLOWS her paste down when she gets next to a blue-haired guy.
She just ditched me...
Ditched me...
She just DITCHED ME on my first day of school! I don't even know where I am and school is about to start any minute now! What am I going to do?!
I constantly ran around the entire school for several minutes having no clue where I am... Where am I!?
*Bump
"Hey, watch where you're going," I politely say. I apparently bumped into a long raven-haired man with red eyes with many piercings. Wonder why he had so many piercing? I bet you he doesn't have a girl friend, but if he does, I bet she looks just as scary as him.
He glares at me as if I am a wild animal... Did he find out I am a mermaid!? No, as if he did. Calm down.
Erza! I will have my revenge on you once we meet again!
"Are you new here? Never seen your face before," he hisses. What was his problem?!
"Yea, nice to meet you. I'm Lucy" I falsely smile. I really want to kick him right now, "oh hey! Do you know where I can find class room D-17, Ms. Arise, physics class?" He laughs immediately as I finish my sentence! What the hell!? "W-Why are you laughing?!" I yell with a small pout.
"Look above you!" he points over my head. I obey his command and lift my chin up to see the sign D-17... I really hate this bastard... "You idiot!" He laughs loudly with no sign of grace or manners.
I blush in embarrassment, "S-Shut up!" I squeal.
The jerk stops laughing at me and begins to give me a look of death, "look here girly, you don't want to mess with me. Here's a warning." He walks closer, and I feel intimidated, but I don't give in to it.
I glared at him back with no sign of fear. He may look scary, but I once faced a sea monster a size of twice this whole school! Bitch please! I am not gonna be scared my him! "Whatever" I mutter out.
He stares at me and then smirks with approval in his eyes, "you've got balls," he states.
"Thanks. By the way, shouldn't you get to class? The bell's about to ring soon." I remind him out of kindness.
He raises a brow, "so?" the red-eyed man asks with no care in the world. Wow... "See ya later blondie," he left... He just left?! What is up with humans and their ditching? How did someone like that get into the 'elite' school!?
"We have a new student today" I hear the teacher speak on the other side of the door, "please come in Lucy, I-I'm sorry," she apologizes for no reason.
I walk into the class slowly and gracefully. The first impression is the best one after all~.
I notice the teacher has pink, fluffy hair. She is also trembling in nervousness for some reason, and she seems the type of person to be easily shy towards people. I sneak a peek at her ID school card on her neck. Her name is Arise Ram.
I turn back my head to the class smile is full of glee until my eyes widen when I see a pink-haired boy.
...
...
Shit.
He goes to this school too?!
Calm down Lucy! Calm down!
I hold onto my smile which is now filled with nervousness. He probably won't remember me! He was half awake back then! Erza smiles at me to tell me to stay calm. I take a deep breath in and introduce myself. "Hi, my names Lucy Heartfillia. Nice to meet you guys, I hope we can be good friends" I speak kindly. It should be okay to say my real name since this name means nothing in this place.
The class seems nice, but one thing bothers me...
Pinky keeps staring at me...
The pink-haired teacher interrupts my train of thought, "Ms. Heartfillia could you please take the sit right next to Natsu, he's the pink haired boy. I-I'm sorry."
"It's salmon," he yells out with a pout face. I gaze at him. Maybe if he remembers me, I can hit him on the head with a baseball bat after school and he would forget... No can't do that, Erza would kill me.
I take a seat next to him, luckily, Erza is right behinds me. I talk to Erza and ignore the lessons. I already know all this stuff. "Erza, who's Pinky?" I ask in a low voice so nobody but her hears.
"You mean Natsu?" she raises a brow.
I nod, "yea, can you tell me about him?"
She looks at me in confusion then smirks, "so, it's love at first sight huh?" she folds her arms with a satisfied look.
My mouth turns to an 'o' shape and a light blush surround my face, "just answer my question." I pout and turn my head in disbelief.
"He's my friend. One of the two naked guys I was chasing after when we first meet," I can still she her smile.
I stay silent for several seconds, then ask the question I'm afraid to receive the answer too, "did he tell you he meet a mermaid by any chance?"
Erza stares at me with surprise. Her eyes widen, and I see her jaws clenching. "... Shit..."
"He did, didn't he?" I have a desire to smash something or just go in depression in a corner.
The scarlet-haired clicks her tongue in a mixture of aggressiveness and nervousness, "that was you who saved his life?"
"Yea, so he remembers me?" I frown. This was not part of my plan to have a wonderful, normal human life up in the surface.
Nodding, Erza suddenly smirks again, "yep, he even went to the beach every night looking for you. I think he's in love with you." I can her a hint of playfulness in her tone.
"Great! I do something nice and know I have this to worry about!" I sulk and puff my cheeks as I settle my chin onto the desk.
Erza, being the good friend she is, tries to cheer me up, "oh meet me at table five at lunch, I'll introduce you to all my friends." She gives me a gentle smile that slightly gave me calmness.
"Thanks, you're the best" I giggle and blush with happiness.
We chuckled and laughed together until the teacher came next to my desk, "I-I'm sorry, Mr. Drageel are you alright?" The teacher asks the pink-haired idiot.
I turn to the other side to see what all the commotion is about. What is up with Pinky and why is Arise apologizing so much? Humans are weird. Please don't tell me this is what all the humans are like. I look at Pinky with curiosity filling my eyes. Wow... What's wrong with him?
"Your face is all red" Ms. Arise tells him with her hands next to her chest as if she was defending herself.
Natsu blinks at first, then takes in all the information, "what?!" He screams. He takes out his phone from his front pocket and looks at his reflection with the dark screen.
"D-Do you need to go see theNURSE?" Arise takes a small step back from his screech. I look at him as if he is going to explode.
"I-I'm fine!" Pinky shouts as he waves his hands everywhere like a mad man.
I scoot away from him by several inches. A raven-haired, topless man laughs at my reaction. Why is he topless? Is he a pervert? Molester? 35 minutes left until this hour ends...
Oh this will be fun!
~~~xXx~~~
1st hour is finally over!
I survived!
I rush out of the classroom with Erza's hand in mine as I drag her out along with me. I give her a thumbs up and a wink to show my happiness.
"Hey there!" A voice came up to me. I slowly turn towards the voice to see it is Pinky.
"Hi," I simply reply with a straight face. I don't want him to notice me too much! Why him?! Why me?!
"Name's Natsu, you probably heard of me. I'm pretty popular around here. I even got my own fan club that I suggest you should join," He winks with the confidence he was missing in the classroom.
"Natsu, leave this princess alone," A spike orange-haired male with glasses approaches me. I can hear Natsu growl in the background. I stiff my body by the word princess and immediatly release my tension after realizing it was a simple nickname. "Hi there princess, nice to meet you. I'm Loki, at your service." He takes out a piece of paper and writes down his phone number, "here. Call me whenever you need me darling~" He puts my hands into his and kisses my hand with his soft lips.
I roll my eyes and bite my tongue to stop from growling. I change my expression to a smirk after thinking of a clever come-back, "how many times have you used that line to get girls darling?" I grin in victory.
Everyone looks at me shocked... Maybe I went to far?
"Oh! player down!" The topless raven-haired man who I saw in class yells out. He swiftly turns his head to me and puts out his hand, "sup, I'm Gray. You're pretty funny," Gray smiles.
I shake his hand boldly. "Thanks, I have one question?" I look at his lower body and quickly look at the ceiling.
Gray tilts his head in confusion, "what is it?"
I can hear Natsu growl again as my cheeks blush madly, "where is your underwear?" I ask calmly.
Slowly, he lowers his head to see nothing is covering his treasure, "My underwear?!" he screams and covers his private part with his bear palms. I looks at me which I react with a small jump. "Do you mind if I borrow your underwear?" he suddenly calmly asks with one arm reaching out towards me.
I walk back a step and laugh nervously...
"You're scaring her you ice brain" Pinky yells as he harshly hits Gray's face with his fist.
Gray growls with no hiding his anger, "shut up hot head!" He charges back at Natsu by punching him under the chin.
I am dumb-found by them... Morons...
"Enough!" Erza stops the fight while standing tall and brave like always.
"A-Aye!" "Y-Yes mam!" They stop with some hugging including.
"There you are Natsu!" A short white-haired girl runs towards us. I think I saw her sitting behind Natsu back in class. She has pretty blue eyes and looks somewhat normal besides the unnatural hair color. "We're gonna be late for economics," she says. The girl suddenly notices me and gives me a friendly smile, "hi! You're Lucy right? Any friend of Erza is a friend of mine!" Her smile is gleeful and bright like the sun. She holds out her hand for me to shake it. "I'm Lisanna!"
Finally! A normal person other than Erza... Well Erza was normal most of the time when she wasn't thinking about strawberry-short cakes or 'justice'. I gladly shake her hand and imitate her smile, "nice to meet you too Lisanna!"
When are hands let go of each other, she curiously asks, "so what class do you have next?"
"I have art!"
"Oh! Loki, Gray, Wendy, and Cana have that class!" Before I can ask who the last two are, she answers take who asked question. " Wendy is Natsu's little sister, and Cana is our friend! Tell them I said hi okay!"
"S-Sure"
*Ring
"Oh no! The first bell rang! Come on Natsu, Erza. We only have two more minutes left to get there! See ya later Lucy, it was nice meeting you!" Lisanna waves off with her hand grabbing Natsu's arm while Erza quickly followed.
They were gone as fast as an blink of an eye... Wow
"So, lets head to art class princess~" Loki take my hand carelessly and holds it next to his chest where his heart is.
"Don't you already have a crush at the physics teacher?" I smirk as I see him let go of my hand immediately after I finish my sentence.
Gray laughs his butt off, and Loke blushes unexpectedly. "How do you know that?"
"The way you kept staring at her was creepy like a stalker in love," I smoothly lie. There were some fish in the classroom. I was able to communicate with them and they told me some juicy secrets. Like how Pinky once almost set the classroom on fire, Erza having a crush on a guy named Jellal, and other juicy things.
So far today...
Made some friends with a hot, sweaty, huge egoed man. A stripper. A playboy. And a kind yet hyper white-haired girl.
...Mama how am I going to survive?
Natsu's POV
We are currently walking towards economics down the long straight forward hall filled lockers. Lisanna is talking to Erza about how Lucy seems really nice and Erza nods in agreement.
"So Natsu? What do you think of Lucy? You were all sweaty when she was staring at you!" Lisanna giggles teasingly like an annoying sister trying to get into her brother's love life.
"She's okay. I guess," I lie, she was more than okay! I'm 72% sure she's the mermaid! "Speaking of Lucy, how do you know her Erza?" I raise my brow. I am filled with curiosity of knowing how they know each other and what they were talking about in class.
She blinks and plainly answer, "we meet about a few months ago when I was looking for you and Gray during one of Cana's party. I'm the one who got her here into this school."
"Really?!" I burst out asking accidentally.
"Why do you ask?"
I quickly reply, not facing her in the eye. "N-No reason!"
"Looks like Natsu has a crush!" Lisanna teases and joins in with pure delight.
"S-Shut up!" I hiss with embarrassment that I can't hide.
Satisfied with themselves, Erza changes the subject, "oh, by the way Natsu," Erza mumbles. "Lucy has two more classes with you so help her out if she gets nervous or gets into some trouble."
We have three classes together?! Hell yes! Thank you! My excitement is perfectly hidden. "What classes?" I say nonchalantly.
"Gym and History"
"What about me?" Lisanna points at herself.
"Sorry, but you only have 1st hour together"
The white-haired girl puff her cheeks and narrows her brows, "booo~"
I got tired of the conversation. As much as I love to talk about her, I want to think to myself about all this. "Come on, let's just get to class."
Erza and Lisanna looks at me like I am going into combustion, "he said he wants to get to class! Is something wrong with him?!" Lisanna whispers as she covers the side of her mouth to try and not allow me to hear which miserably fails.
"I don't know. We better be careful. Next thing you know, the world might end" Erza says back, mimicking her actions with worrying eyes.
"I can hear you!" I scream in irritation.
Lucy huh? Interesting...
Schedule
Lucy:
~1st: Physics, Ms. Arise: With Loki, Erza, Natsu, Gray, Lisanna
~2nd: Art, ?: With Cana, Wendy, Loki, Gray
~3rd: Calculus ?
Lunch Time
~4th: World History, ?: With Erza, Natsu, ?
~5th: Gym, ?: With Natsu, ?
