When we got to the guild, there was a large celebration waiting for us.
"I wonder how the guild has enough money for all these parties." Jasper and I walk into the doors.
"They don't." I laugh. We sit at one of the tables. "You don't care if I drink tonight, do you Jasper?" I ask him.
"No, go crazy. I'll get you home safe." He rests his chin on his hand.
"Don't you want some?"
"I'm not much of a drinker." He glances around.
"Oh okay." I look at him. I felt bad that Jasper always had to be responsible for me.
Just as everyone was starting to celebrate, someone crashes into the door, knocking some of the wall out as well. After the dust clears, my eyes widen in realization.
"Jasper, is that-" he moves in front of me.
"That master of the guild we destroyed?" He finishes my sentence for me. I nod.
"How did he find us?" I exclaim. He walks further in the door, and looks across everyone's faces, finally resting his eyes on me. Jasper stands further in front of me, blocking him.
The guild is dead-silent. He walks closer to Jasper and strikes him, knocking him to the side. I look at him in surprise, Jasper wasn't normally cut down that easily. He grabs me by the front of my shirt, and slowly lifts me up from the ground.
"You." He glares deep into my eyes. I shake, trying to free myself as he lifts me up higher.
"Lucy!" I hear Natsu call.
"Stay back, Natsu." I croak. He throws me over his shoulder, and we both disappear.
I struggle to escape his grasp, but it seems almost impossible.
"Stop moving, it's irritating." He snaps at me.
"How are you holding me down so easily?" I ask him.
"I am stronger than I once was." He replies briefly. It was a vague answer, but it explained how he knocked Jasper away so quickly. I lay limp, over his shoulder and sigh.
"Where are we going?" I mumble.
"You'll see." He turns around a tree. I roll my eyes.
"Could you not be so cryptic?" I tap his shoulder.
"Could you stop talking?" He grits his teeth.
When we finally reach where he was taking me to (I did not know where), he walks down a long stairway. I am thrown down on my back into a stone room, and a barred door slams me in.
"Wait." I run up and stick my head in between two of the bars, my hands on either side. "Are you just going to leave me here?"
"Yes. This is your punishment."
"You're going to leave me in here for punishment? That's not too bad I guess." I back away from the bar and look around the room.
"No, three days from now I'm going to kill you." He says nonchalantly.
"Huh?" My eyes widen I turn around.
"I'm going to leave you in here for three days," he holds three fingers up mockingly. "Then, I'll kill you in front of everyone."
"Everyone." I repeat.
"The guild." I nod, the dark guild was still together. I sit on the ground in the middle of the cell, now worried. He leaves me, and I hear his shoes pad up the stone steps.
I try to magic the cell open, and attack the walls. Nothing works. I exhale and lean on the wall, sliding down to sit. I lay back on the cold floor, and stare at the ceiling.
Jasper
"What just happened?" Gray asks. I lay on the floor and groan, trying to sit up.
"He took Lucy." Natsu replies dumbly. We both look at each other with the same expressions on our faces.
"I'll find her." We both say in unison. I narrow my eyes at him.
"We'll find her." I say. He and I both walk out of the guild, and after Natsu finds Lucy's scent, we were off.
We walk until dusk, where we start to set up camp. We were both hesitant about stopping, because we wanted to find her as soon as possible.
"I hope she's okay." Natsu says as he stares up at the sky.
"Me too." I shut my eyes.
I open my eyes and realize that I am not in Jasper's bedroom, but still in the cell. My stomach rumbles. I walk up to the bars and yell up the stairs. Someone finally runs down.
"What?!" He yells.
"Get me something to eat." I glare at him. He laughs and crosses his arms.
"No." He walks back up the stairs. I groan and slide to the floor. This was unbearable.
Natsu
"Are you ready to go, Natsu?" Jasper shakes my shoulder to wake me.
"Yeah." I squint my eyes open, adjusting to the sunlight. We both start walking in the direction that I smell Lucy. I didn't know how I felt about Jasper, he was a scary guy when he was mad.
I followed him during the S-class trials before I went to look for my item. He was already fighting Gildarts when I found him. I looked closely, and saw Gildarts whisper something into his ear, and Jasper completely lost it. It was amazing how quickly Jasper knocked him down.
"We're getting closer." I smile. I point at a large building out in the distance, on top of a hill, partially covered my large trees.
"It looks like it'll take us another half-day." He sighs. We walk for hours on end, until we can see the building clearly.
"Just a minute Natsu." He grabs the back of my jacket. "Let's think about a plan before we act." He says quietly.
"Okay." We walk around the building, far enough away that no one would see us.
"There." He points. We see a small door in the wall, almost invisible. "Alright," he turns towards me. "We'll both go through that door, and look around for her. If someone finds us, I'll create a diversion and you keep searching for her. Make sure she gets out before you start looking for me, okay?"
"No problem." I turn forward towards the door. We run up to it, and open it slowly. The door leads to a long hallway. He and I both walk swiftly down each side, careful not to make any noise.
The hallway leads to a large, open room. The main entrance also leads to this room. There are two guards on each side of the main doors.
"Screw you guys! Give me something to eat!" Lucy, I hear her voice faintly through a door that must lead to a cellar.
"There she is." Jasper chuckles. He motions me to start moving to the door, and he walks out into the open.
While he is distracting them, I open the door and glide down the stairs.
"Lucy?" I call out.
"Natsu?" She pokes her head out of the bars. I jog over to her and look for a way to open the cell.
"Natsu, how did you find me?" She asks.
"Your scent." She nods. "Is there a key somewhere?" I prod at the lock on the cell. She shrugs.
"There is, but I wouldn't know where it is."
"I'll try to open it by myself." I squat down and look at the lock at eye-level. It is just a simple click-lock. I turn it, and the cell opens.
"I could've done that." Lucy sighs. I pick her up and carry her out of the cell, and then out of the building.
I have a strange sense of deja vu as Natsu carries me out.
"Are you okay Lucy?" He sets me down and moves a lock of hair behind my ear.
"I'm hungry." I groan. He chuckles at me. It had been almost two days until he found me. "What took you so long?" I glare at him jokingly as he searches around himself for something for me to eat.
"S-Sorry, it took awhile for us to find you." He looks at me.
"Us?" I ask.
"Jasper and I." My heart skips a beat.
"Jasper? Where is he?" I say, worried that he is still inside.
"He should be coming out soon." Natsu looks at the doors. "Maybe I should go back in." I hear him say under his breath. "I'll be right back." He holds my cheek for a split-second and runs back to the building.
I sit against a rock, where Natsu set me, and look around. I look up at the sky and hum quietly. I wait for about 5 minutes, then see Natsu and Jasper frantically sprinting away from the building. I slowly stand up, but before I can say anything, Jasper sweeps me up over his shoulder, and flips me over so that I am riding piggy-back.
"Guys, what's going on?" I grab on tightly around Jasper's neck, relieved that he was okay.
"The tattoo guy flipped out. He's going to destroy the guild." Natsu yells. "He's going to blow everyone up. That's what he said. He's crazy." Natsu exhales. I look back at the building, and then hear a large boom. It goes up in flames, and pieces of debris fly around.
"Thanks for helping me guys." I mumble with my cheek against the back of Jasper's neck. They had slowed down to a walk now. "And I can walk by the way."
"I insist, Lucy." Jasper flips me around so that he was holding me with a hand under my back, and another under my legs.
"We'll switch off every couple of hours." Natsu adds.
"Really, I can walk." I look at both of them. No reply.
They both switch off every hour, until the sun goes down, and they set up camp. Natsu sets me down close to the fire, and lays next to me, closing his eyes. Jasper eventually sleeps as well. I lay wide awake in between them, looking up at the stars.
When we reach the guild, Natsu is still carrying me. I try to free myself from Natsu's hold, and I slap his hands. He lets me go. The door was still not fixed. I step over the pile of wood and see that everyone was waiting for me.
"I was only gone for two days." I murmur over to Jasper.
"They missed you." He shrugs. I greet everyone, and sit down at a table with Juvia. I order a glass of water.
"Are you alright Lucy?" She asks. I nod in reply, and look around the guild.
"Is there someone gone?" I look back at her. She cocks her head at me.
"What do you mean?" She questions.
"Has someone been gone since I came back?" I reply.
"Hm." She taps her finger on the table. "Levy, I suppose, her and Gajeel have been on a mission for the past couple of weeks."
"Right! Levy." I smile at her. I wondered if I was missing somebody.
"She should be coming back soon.." She leans an elbow on the table. "I'm sure she'll be excited to see you." She grins at me. "We are all so happy you're back Lucy, we missed you so much."
"Do you mean for the two days, or for the past six years?"
"Both, I suppose." She laughs.
A/N: It's been really hard for me to start on a pairing. I like both Natsu and Jasper, but I can't seem to decide between the two of them. I hope you like this chapter. Please review, and thanks for reading.