Chapter 2: You're that Mermaid!

Lucy's POV

I follow Loki and Gray to the art room as I overhear their conversation about what kind of cheesy pick up lines to use when picking up certain girls; apparently, popular sluts like the line 'damn! Your ass looks fine'. What the fuck?! What is wrong with humans?! Did I make a wrong choice choosing this school?!

Back to school, I enter the art room to see it being colorful and big. The art department must be huge if it can afford all of this. I smile as I stand next to the teacher's desk so he can introduce me to the students of the class. The teacher has a... unique hair style with sunglasses on without any sun or sun like object to make him cover his eyes in shade. His clothing taste is... Um... The art teacher, Mr. Cancer is wearing a crab outfit... I know this is the class to be creative but a crab suit? Really? And why ebi!? "Get in your seats class, we have a new student-ebi," he says as he snips his scissors in both hands.

I ignore the weirdness from him and focus on the class,"nice to meet you guys. My name's Lucy, I hope we can get along!" My eyes wander to see Loki and Gray sitting at a table with a small blue-haired girl and a brunette that smells of beer.

"Please take a seat-ebi," the teacher insists. I nod and walk over to the tables.

I sit down between Loki and the blue-haired girl, "hey guys! This is a recently made friend," Gray strips with no signs of him knowing that he did what he did. Is this a medical condition of something?!

"P-Put on some clothes!" I yell with a faint blush on my face.

The brunette grins widely and waves her hands up in the air like as if we were at a concert, "ha! I like this girl!"

Loki starts to talk as well, "so Lucy, this is Wendy." he points at the little girl who is smiling at me with welcoming eyes. "And the drunk is Cana,"

"Great to meet you Lucy-san" Wendy greets with a small bow. She seems like a kind-heart girl.

Wendy being so well mannered. Cana is the exact opposite, "I'm not drunk yet! You stupid player!" Cana laughs and almost falls off her chair from the large giggles.

I pretend as if I haven't seen that and focus my attention on Wendy, "you're Natsu's sister? I don't mean to be rude but how old are you?" I ask, I mean look at her! She looks like a 10-year-old! (In the nicest possible way I mean)

"Oh! I'm 12-years-old! I skipped some grades," she says it with pure happiness and no hint of pride or bragging. This girl is just so kind!

"Another question, how are you Natsu's sister? Your so polite and sweet!" I heard a lot of things from the fish about him. People like him were banished from my old home and sent to be eaten by the sea serpents.

"I'm his step-sister," she says with no shame. She must really love her brother. But being Step made so much sense!

"Today we are doing hair styling-ebi," Mr. Cancer snips his scissors and glares at a wig on his desk. He goes all out into it. I barely manage to see his arms from the light speed. It is as if he has eight arms!

I am handed a blonde-haired wig. I am actually pretty good with doing hair. I used to do Michelle's hair before she died... My wig is a sideways braid decorated with small flowers and stars in the little deep edges. Wendy glaces at my work and gently smiles, "your wig is lovely Lucy-san," Wendy complements.

"Yours too," her wig is a curly, high pony-tail, it is a little sloppy but very well done and elegant for someone her age.

"Hey guys! Look at mine!" Cana grins with pride on her face. It... It is black...?! The hair color is black...?! It was a blonde when she had...! EEKKKK! I think I see something crawl in there!

"Ha!" Gray laughs at the wig.

Loki chuckles lowly but focus back onto his work, "a women's hair should be beautiful and flawless," Loki's hair style looks similar to Ms. Arise's hair-style. It is puffy at the bottom part and straight at the top. The only difference is that the hair color is dark brown.

I smirk as wide as the Cheshire Cat's as I praise my brain for thinking the idea of what I am about to do, "I love your wig Loki."

He gleams proudly with eyes closed and a puff up chest, "why thank you."

I quickly add after he said that, "it looks just like Ms. Arise's~"

Loki simply froze there for what felt like ten seconds. That is a move that could come in handy one day!

"Nice one Lucy," Cana says with her face red as she starts wobbling as if she lost all her balance.

I notice her condition immediately and help her sit straight by holding her back, "are you okay?" my voice fills in concern.

"I-I-I'm fine!"

"How are you drunk again?" Gray groans in annoyance and face-palms.

"I hid some beer in my bag," she whispers roughly and grins as wide as I ever thought was possible. "Look a little puppy!" she adds while pointing at a wig horribly done on the table next to ours. The maker of that wig ran outside and starts crying... Poor guy.

Wendy scolds her and gives her a disapproving look, "Cana-san! That was very rude!"

"Whatever~"

While Wendy sighs and Cana laughs, Gray and Loki decides to search into Cana's bag with pure curiosity, and found some condoms! What is wrong with humans?! Isn't this a elite school!? How did she get in?! No, restate that question, how did anybody here get in?!

*RING

"Looks like 2nd hour ended. What class are you going to next Lucy-san?" Wendy asks as we walk out of art class together.

"I have calculus with Mr. Gemi and Mr. Mini." I answer, everyone else starts to go to other sides of the hallway and we all begin to separate.

Wendy and I go to the same direction, so we have small talk about random things such as what the school can be like and how Natsu does crazy things. We reach my class and I wave good-bye to her outside the entrance to the room. I am about to go in until I feel a shoulder hit me out of the way from the door, "get out of my way," a harsh, rough voice hisses. I remember that voice anywhere! It was that jerk I asked for help, then laughed at me!

"It's you! Bitch boy!" I point immediately with anger in my eyes.

"..."

"..."

I didn't know how loud I was yelling. I turn to see that the whole class hearing me and reacts to that with laughter. I blush in embarrassment until a blue blob with eyes and a 'V' shaped mouth comes over next to me. "You're the new student right? Get to your seat now"

"And Gajeel get to your seat also" another blue blob that is identical to the other besides his clothing and upside-down mouth shape says.

"Whatever" he man I now know as Gajeel clicks his tongue and walks to his seat with grunts being overheard.

I ignore him and focus on the teachers. What the heck are they?! Don't tell me they are the teachers! I studied every type of humans known in my library, and I never seen people like these! "Lucy, your seat is between Laxus and Gajeel," The 'teachers' say as they go back to the board.

I do as the teachers told me and sit on the seat of the desk. While the lessons were going on, I was lucky enough that Laxus was talking with his gang friends. A brunette women with glasses, a man with long green hair, and some weird dude wearing a helmet for some odd reason. Was that even allowed to be worn here? And Gajeel was arguing with a person who kept on yelling 'man'.

"If you're a man then fight me!" the man who is fighting with Gajeel yells.

Some person in the third row throws an empty water bottle at him, "shut up Elfman!" Elfman? What a weird name. Could he be part elf?

A large vain pop out of Elfman and he throws his desk onto some random guy, "whoever did that! Fight me like a man!"

I sigh at the craziness starting to happen and put on my headphones Erza 'lend' me the other day. This can help me block out the insanity in this class for now. Technology is so great~.

~It might seem crazy what I'm about to say. Sunshine's she's here, you can take a break.

I'm a hot air balloon that could go to space. With the air, like I don't care baby by the way.

Because I'm happy. Clap along if you feel like a room with out a roof.

Because I'm happy. Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth.

Because I'm happy. Clap along if you know what happiness is to you.

Because I'm happy. Clap along if you feel if that's what you wanna do. ~

After I finish listening to that song, I realize everyone's eyes are on me. I see Gajeel and Elfman browsed and red from what looks like punch marks. They are also looking at me in a funny way. What did I do now?

"Lucy, you can't sing in class. Even if you have a great voice," Mr. Mini scolds me as he jumps up and down. "I was what?" Dang it! I forget I have a bad habit of singing out loud. But hey, he said my voice was great at least.

"Since this is the first day of school for you, we'll give you one last warning just this once," Mr. Gemi says.

I pout like a child, "but you said my voice was great!" Everyone starts to bust out laughing, great, I'm the new class clown. It dials down later and I feel someone poking me as the teachers resume their lesson.

"You have a really nice voice," the person poking me speaks. I turn to see who it is. A small blue-haired girl wearing a orange dress is smiling kindly at me.

"I'm Levy, you're really brave yelling at Gajeel like that. You must be really tough. He's nicknamed the iron dragon." she innocently says.

Wonder fills my body and without know, I ask her why. "Why do people call him the Iron-Dragon?"

Levy puckers her lips and brows gets closer to each other as she remembers, "he always attacks with iron things; iron crowbar, iron pipe, even an iron sword on several occasions. The dragon part I have no clue of." Before she can say more, the bell rings to announce are dismissal.

*Ring

Levy and I start to pack up and head to lunch. She tilts her head at my direction and grins, "looks like class ended. Do you want to have lunch together?" she asks with hopeful eyes.

"Sorry, I'm sitting with Erza Scarlet," I reply with a frown.

Her eyes become even more radiant. "You know Erza?! I sit with her at lunch!" she cheers.

"Really? Let's go together then!" I grab her hand and run off to a random direction. Levy turns the other way to tell me that the lunchroom is in the other direction.

"Hey Lucy, can I call you Lu-chan?" the small girl asks me as we approach the lunch line.

I nod and share the same enthusiasm in her voice, "only if I can call you Levy-chan." After we agree and giggle some more, we reach the food.

Amazing! That is all I can say when I look at the food. The smell was irresistible, the texture and appearance is incredible, and the sight wasn't too shabby either. My taste-buds are practically yelling to eat it!

"So what are you gonna get for lunch Lu-chan?" Levy asks, trying out the new nickname she gave me. I look at her tray to become shocked. She has buttered lobster with a side of seasonal fries. My mouth shots down. How could she eat a lobster!? I think I met his cousin before!

"Y-You like seafood?" I nervously smile trying not to be scarred for life.

the blue-haired girl smiles and nods. "Yea, most of the stuff at lunch are seafood since we live right next to the ocean," I can't believe a second ago I was drooling and wanting to eat my kind! I have never felt so bad in my whole entire life! How could Erza do this to me?! She brings me to a school where the food is from my home?! I can't eat my kind...! Can I? No! This is just the hunger talking!

"Oh, well I'm not really a big fan of seafood. Is there anything else I can eat?" I lie with sweat being seen.

Levy-chan cups holds her chin lightly and thinks about the other options for me, "all we have are some very limited meat, fruits, and vegetables."

"Great," I replay immediately. I quickly get a regular salad and a cheese-burger. I secretly sigh as we start to walk up to table five. I stare down at my food with lips out to show my sadness. I put my head back up to see many familiar faces I have met so far.

"Hey guys, for the people who don't know Lucy say hi. She's really nice." Levy introduces me in a simple yet nice fashion.

I look at the faces that are staring at me. I see Erza, Gray, Loki, Wendy, Lisanna, Elfman, Cana, Gajeel seating at the table with several other people I never met before. Laxus and his gang were sitting and next to us at table four.

"You're that girl who hissed at Gajeel! You're a man!" Elfman praises(?)

"Yo Lucy, come and drink some beer with me," Cana speaks loudly while most likely drunk.

Lisanna smiles at me, "I'm glad we have the same lunch Lucy."

"Why the hell is she here," Gajeel moans with irritation.

"Hey Lucy, Levy, have a seat next to me," Loki scoots over to give us some room to sit next to him. Gajeel gives him a look that could kill. It looks like he is jealous. That is very useful information.

"So let me introduce you to the others, Lucy-san," Wendy joins into the conversation. "This is Jellal-san, Juvia-san, and Mirajane-san; we call her Mira for short," Wendy says the names of everybody else I haven't met yet. The one known as Jelllal was the guy who Erza ditched me for just today. The Juvia girl seems pretty normal right now. And Mira is like a model! I focus my attention on Jellal. So this is the man Erza loves huh? She hasn't confessed yet... Guess that's gonna change soon. For some creepy reason Jellal stared at me, what was his problem? I didn't do anything bad to him! Right?

"Nice to finally met you Lucy, Erza told me so much about you during last period," Mira gently speaks. Her voice matches her looks very well.

"Good to met you Lucy, Juvia is Juvia. Juvia is president and fastest girl of the swim team," Juvia introduces herself in a unique way.

"Lucy-san! Natsu-san, Jellal-san, Erza-san, Mira-san, and I are gonna have the same class next hour! Mr. Scorpio!" Wendy announces happily. I cheer with her. Grateful that I have friends in the next class with me.

I look at Erza but she didn't look so happy, she just looks really mad for some reason. I leaned over to Mira, "hey what's up with Erza?" I whisper so my scarlet-haired friend can't hear me.

"She's just mad because she lost her headphones," Mira giggles with her hand touching her lips.

"I didn't lose them someone stole them from me and left an 'I owe you sign'! They cost me $300! I'll bring whoever stole them to justice!" Erza yells. Apparently, we weren't quiet enough... Now I think I can just let the whole 'Erza brought me to a school filled with sea-food' thing go. I quickly slip the stolen headphones into Gray's backpack.

"LUIGI!" I hear a voice behind me. The owner of the voice hugs me tightly like I am some sort of teddy bear. It is that pink-haired moron I saw during 1st period.

"It's you pinky!" I swing my leg backwards and hit him in his 'treasures'. He falls to the ground and holds where I hit him. Everyone in the lunch room stares at me in awe. Most of them looks shocked, but some of them are laughing. (Gray, Gajeel, Laxus, Elfman, etc.) Hey I have legs, why shouldn't I use them?

"Aww~ Why did you do that Luigi," The next thing I know, Natsu is up and gives a fake tear. How the heck did he recover so quickly?!

"First of all, it's Lucy. Not Luigi. And don't surprise me like that," I growl lowly. Putting far distance between us.

Gray starts to laugh madly, "I never thought I would see the day another girl besides Erza would kick your ass! Literally!" Gray falls to the ground and clenches his stomach as he continues to laugh.

Juvia starts to glare at me with anger in her eyes, "Gray-sama has never praised anyone like that before! Not even Juvia! Why you, but not Juvia?! Could you be... LOVE RIVAL!" the insanely mad swimmer screams. What is wrong with her!? Sama?!

Suddenly Natsu grabs my hand and rushes me out of the lunch room and into an unknown room. It is dark in here, and I can't see anything but Natsu. I take back my hand I scream at him, "why did you just kidnap me!?"

"I didn't kidnap you Luce, you weirdo," Natsu grins and pretends as if he never did kidnap me. I want to hit him on the head so hard right now. Maybe that can fix him.

"I'm not a weir-did you just call me Luce?" I suddenly realize the new nickname I am now given.

He tilts his head like a child and raises a brow, "yea, you don't like it?"

"I hate it. Now what do you want? You must have wanted something important to do this." I cross my arms and turned my head to the other way to avoid looking at him.

Natsu's tone started to get serious, "...Yea ... I do..." he looks at me with eyes I can't read, "You're that mermaid! You're the mermaid that saved my life!" he bursts out saying.

"Are you insane!" I rush myself to say. So he does remember! Shit... "I-I mean are you alright? Do you need to see the nurse or something?"

"No, I don't. I know you are! I saw you!" he grabs my wrist with enough pressure to not hurt me but not let me escape at the same time. He looks at me with such sad eyes...


Natsu's POV

Why is she denying it? Unless, I am wrong and now this girl thinks I'm crazy... No, I'm right. I can't be wrong! "No, I don't. I know you are! I saw you!" I yell. I feel emotions exploding inside of me. Excitement. Sadness. Hopefulness. Disappointment.

"Please just let me-" Lucy is interrupted as the door to the room opens and the lights suddenly turn on.

It is the Ice-Princess coming at the wrong time. He raises a brow and narrow his eyes on us, "Lucy? Natsu? What are you guys doing in the boys locker room?"

"..." I stay silent... I can't believe I didn't know which room we were in... I thought this was the janitor's closet...

Lucy looks at me with fire in her eyes. As much as I love fire, those flames scare the shit out of me. "You... brought me into a boys locker room?!" she roars like the devil himself(or herself?).

I panic and wave my hands crazily to defend myself, "a-at least no boys are in here L-Luce!" I am paralyzed... I can't move by fear. I can see even see that Gray just shut the door to avoid the sight of Lucy's wrath.

"Natsu... YOU IDIOT!" she punches me. My chin collided with her fist and my head hits and gets stuck in the ceiling. Then I fall out and land on my face. As a result, there is a huge hole in the room... And I think I need plastic surgery. Gray opens the door again for a little peek and immediately laughs at my condition; however, he quickly shuts up after Lucy glares at him.

"What's all the noise?" Erza comes into the boys locker room in wonders. They quickly notice the big hole on the ceiling and just stare at it. "Who did this?" Erza asks turning her head to Gray and I. Her eyes match the terror in Lucy's.

Lucy looks at Erza and starts to sweat a lot from guilt. She is the one who did this after all. "Gray was the one who stole your headphones! I saw it in his backpack during 2nd period! Check right now if you don't believe me!"

"What!?" Erza runs towards the cafeteria, most definitely to check if what Lucy said was true. We stay completely still like still itself stopped until her hear Erza's voice. "GGRRAAAAYYYYY!" Erza comes back with a sword in her right hand and her headphones in her left, "so you were the one who stole my headphones!" she starts swinging her sword at him like a mad man... I mean women... Or demon... Or whatever the fuck she is...

"What!? I didn't even touch them!" Gray kept dodging her attacks. He got pale when one of her swings just missed him by a centimeter and he got a good glimpse at how sharp it is.

"... Where did she get that sword..." Lucy asks herself.

The scarlet-haired women cracks her neck on both sides and her bangs shadow her face to give her an even more terrifying effect, "Lucy said you stole them, and they were in your backpack!"

Lucy just stares at me with eyes filled with both pity and happiness. Now I am really beginning to question if a devil like her really is the mermaid I am looking for. As Erza tries to kill Gray with her sword and I barely manage to get up, Lucy managed to escape this crazy situation...


Schedule

Lucy:

~1st: Physics, Ms. Arise: With Loki, Erza, Natsu, Gray, Lisanna

~2nd: Art, Mr. Cancer: With Cana, Wendy, Loke, Gray

~3rd: Calculus, Mr. Gemi and Mini: With Laxus, Gajeel, Levy, Freed, Evergreen, Elfman, Levy, Bicwick

Lunch Time

~4th: World History, ?: With Erza, Natsu, ?

~5th: Gym, ?: With Natsu, ?