There Silver stood in front of the door to the guild's confrence room. He opened the door and went in followed by Wendy, Natsu, Gajeel, and a pissed off Lauxus. Lauxus was pissed because Makarov told him to do what Silver said. Silver sat at the far end of a rectangular table that had six chairs at it. Natsu and Gajeel sat across from eachother in the seats closesest to Silver and Wendy sat next to Natsu across from Lauxus. "Why the hell did you bring us here" asked Lauxus clearly unhappy. Silver replied "We are going to kill Acnologia"

"So continue with the story you where telling me" Mira said with a smug look on her face "I'm interested as to why Natsu threw you that really doesn't sound like him". Lucy replied "Well he was hungry and you remember how he takes on dragon characteristics because of his magic", Mira nodded and Lucy continued. "Well it was in the middle of his mating season". Mira grined as she knew where this was going. [flashback] "Why are you always sneaking in here Natsu" "It's fun and I like it when you sing" Natsu said turning back to the refrigerator and blushing. Lucy caught a glimps of his blush and smiled. Getting up to help Natsu with the jar of jerky before he smashed it, she thought about the job he mentioned and remembered that she was short on rent money this month. As she put her foot on his shoulder and grabed the jar to pull she asked "What's the job you where talking about" Natsu in a slightly pained voice said "Some viliage has a problem with dark guild wizards collecting "protection" money from them". Natsu then jerked his hand out of the jar with jerky clenched in his fist and Lucy's foot slipped and she fell on top of him and that's when the world went dark to her.

She awoke in bed and Natsu sitting in a chair next to her staring at when he saw her wake up he imediatly started asking if she was ok and for forgivness. When she finally shut him up by hitting him on the head she said "It's fine, I'm ok" tears rolled down his face and he started sniffling. [Jump out of flashback] Mira wispered sounding astonished "Natsu cried" Lucy shook her head and continued. [Back to flashback]. "I told you I'm fine" she noticed the bandage on her forhead when she touched it it stung. Natsu just sunk deeper into despair noticing the pain she felt and she noticed the blood on his forhead and went to the cabinet where the First Aid kit was but she found it on the table in an absolute mess grabing a wet towel and a band aid she sat on the bed in front of Natsu made him pick his head up and started wiping the blood away. While doing this it dawned on her that Natsu was actually crying and she wondered why after she finished treating it she asked him "Why where you crying" Natsu blushed and said "I hurt you" [End flashback] "You're kidding" asked Mira "No, that's what he said", [Resume flashback] "I find it hard to believe that you would cry over that" "But it's true" Natsu blurted out not realizing what he said "I really like you and I don't want you to get hurt". Lucy was shocked and just sat there eyes wide. Just when she was about done processing what happened stood up and started for the door realizing that he would never be good enough for the daughter of a rich man, but before he got there Lucy stood in front of him and said "so are you just going to leave me like this" Natsu didn't have the slightest clue what she ment. Lucy noticed this and explained "I don't know what's going on your acting so different lately and then something i never thought you'd say you just blurt out with out any warning". She pushed him back to the bed and forced him to sit and she sat in the chair and firmly said "Explain".