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Chapter 2: Taking care of you

In a dark room somewhere...

"For what reason did you let her go...milady...?" one of the cloaked men that were looking out of the curtained windows at the fading figure asked in a deep voice, "you have plans for her... don't you...?"

The said woman sitting in a throne said nothing, instead, a mischievous grin made its way to her pale lips and she let out a blood curling laugh.

Lucy P.O.V

.,~Darkness (Yami)~,.

It was pitch black and I was floating in the middle of nowhere. Am I dead?... How did I die?... I couldn't remember anything. My mind was hazy and it was giving me a headache. Where am I?... Why am I here?... Who am I?... Did I get amnesia? ... There were so many questions that were running through my mind right now that it was agonising to count... and why am I nak-... WAHH! I'M NAKED! Lucky no one is around here or it would of been embarrassing...

The only thing that I remember is that I was running away from something... and there was a big storm... and...pink..? Arghh I can't think anymore!

I clutched my head and squeezed my eyes closed while bringing my legs up to my chest. I don't know why but I started to cry, I couldn't help it. After a few minutes, I saw something bright from behind my eyelids so I slowly opened my eyes. It took me a while for my eyes to adjust to the light as I wiped my tears away and squinted to see better. The light was coming from a distance in front of me. Around it, I saw that the darkness looked like strands of hair that wanted to swallow the light. I noticed after a while that the light was getting smaller and the darkness was caving in on it.

Wondering exactly what the light was, I subconsciously started to float towards it. Seeing that the light was starting to fade away, I panicked and tried to do a frog swim to move faster because I really didn't know a better way to accelerate faster in mid-air. Although I might look extremely weird right now swimming like a frog while completely in the nude, I was successfully getting closer to the light.

As I got closer, the light looked more like a glowing ball of whiteness around the size of an oven.

The light started to shrink again so I reached out my arms and tried to froggie swim faster. The glowing sphere was right in front of me and was now the size of a tennis ball. I hesitated to even touch it but when I saw the darkness closing in on it again, I felt a sense of possessiveness so I grabbed it and hugged it to my chest using my body to protect it. Suddenly, the sphere started to shine brighter and the darkness was washed away instantly.

It was turning extremely bright and I had to let the sphere go as I used my arms to cover my eyes as I squinted. I was temporarily blinded so I didn't see when the sphere turned into a semi-transparent figure that was the splitting image of myself but was clothed in a white flowing dress.

I felt something lightly touch my arms that I had covered my eyes with and a soft kind voice that said, "Lucy... open your eyes..."

Ahhh... Is that my name? Lucy?

Just as I was about to open my eyes, I felt everything around me change in a split second.

-End of the 'Dream'-

Still in Lucy P.O.V

The first thing that I noticed was that I was in a laying position now and was glad that there was gravity again but that moment of happiness was short lived as pain struck through my body, mostly my aching head. The next thing I noticed was that the air around me was really warm. Too warm in fact that I was sweating bullets and what was even worse was that I couldn't move because of all the pain. I tried as hard as I could to move but I only managed to wriggle a bit which made the soreness in my body worsen.

I was way beyond relieved when something, a small towel I presume, cold and wet was dabbed around my sweaty face and my body relaxed at the coolness. I didn't notice that my eyes were clenched shut as well so I relaxed them and started to open them lazily as the towel moved on to wipe my sweaty right hand.

Do you know that feeling when soap gets into your eyes while you're washing your hair with shampoo and stings like crazy? Well... my eyes felt like that right now but I tried to ignore the pain as I very slowly blinked the blurriness out of them.

The first thing I saw was a gloomy rocky roof, it must be dark outside. There was also a soft 'shhhhhh' sound coming from outside so I assumed it was raining. I could feel every cut and bruise on my body pulsing with pain but with all of the heat that was around me, I felt unusually cold now.

I was kind of missing the heat, I've always liked summer better than winter but spring wasn't too bad either, the only bad thing about it was that the weather can change too drastically. One day it would be cold and rainy and when the next day came, it would be really hot and stuffy.

My thoughts were cut short as my right hand was placed down and my left hand was lifted up. I tilted my head and looked down towards my left hand and saw the towel that was wiping away at the cold sweat. There was a muscular arm that was attached to the towel... muscular... arm... I focused my eyes more and saw the shape of a person sitting beside me. I panicked a little and started to squirm, I guess the person noticed my uneasiness.

"You shouldn't move, it will only make yourself feel worse. Don't worry I'm only trying to help."

I noted that the person was a guy and his voice somehow lifted my worries. I felt extremely tired and started to drift to sleep, his voice felt relaxing to listen to. I took one more glance at the boy beside me. There it was again. The colour pink. I guess he was the one that saved me from whatever it was that I was running away from. He must be a nice guy since he's helping a complete stranger... or am I a stranger to him...? After that thought, I fell into a peaceful sleep.


~ Two days later ~

Normal P.O.V

After 4 days of constant raining, the storm had finally stopped. The morning after the final night of the storm, the clouds had moved on and the sun that had just risen was shining, although not too brightly. Everything was still damp from the rain and there were big muddy puddles, fallen trees and burnt foliage throughout the whole kingdom. Animals came out from their hiding places in search of food and fresh water.

It had been three days since Lucy had opened her eyes and she was rapidly recovering from her fever with the help from the mysterious boy. He had changed her muddy wet clothes with the spare clothes that she had in her backpack (making sure not to look as he did so.) and heating up the cavern (A/N: He still has his dragon slayer magic in this story and also his trademark clothes from before the time skip. Not all the characters will have their magic. Lucy does not have her celestial magic~) so that she sweats away most of her fever. He also found her first aid kit and used it to wrap up her wounds. When he saw her shivering in her sleep, he took off his vest and used it as a blanket for her although it wasn't perfect, it was all he could do besides heating up the place.

The salmon haired boy had just woken up and was now wiping the drool from his face and stretching his aching joints from sleeping in an awkward position. The boy lazily walked towards the entrance of his cavern and pushed some dangling vines to the side so he could see outside. The thick vines acted as a cover-up to hide the cavern from anyone or anything that was unwelcome.

A small smile formed on his lips when he saw the sun, showing some of his pointed canines. The smell of a new day after a storm is always refreshing. The teen yawned and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes. He turned around and took in the sight of a basket of fish that he had caught the night before and the blond girl that was sleeping soundly on his make-shift leaf bed. He was quite proud of himself for saving her from the storm and also treating her wounds and fever.


~Flashback~

"Hey! Hang in there!" The pink haired teen yelled as he rushed towards the fallen figure in the heavy rain.

He kneeled down beside the person and after getting no reaction from nudging them, he flipped the person over on their back so he could see their face. As he did so, the person's beanie slipped off and revealed long blond hair. 'It's a girl' the boy thought as he picked her and the beanie up to rush underneath a big tree that shelters from the heavy rain, some of the rain drips through the leaves but it will do for now.

He propped her against the trunk of the tree as he shook his head to get his damp hair out of his eyes. He used his arm to wipe the mud off of the girls face and placed his other hand on her forehead. He pulled his hand back and winced, she was heating up and she must have an extraordinary fever to get him feeling high temperatures at all because of the natural body heat that he produces.

With his heightened senses, he heard a twig snap from a distance away so he snapped his head in the direction it came from and tried to see any movement in the rain but saw nothing. After a while, he turned his attention back to the blond and studied her features. He really hadn't seen anyone like this before, she was still breath taking even if she had cuts and bruises all over her. There was something... something that drew him in and he did not want to abandon her here for any reason. He couldn't help but feel attached to her but he didn't know why, all he knew was that he had to save her.

He heard another movement from the rain in the same direction as before. Quickly, he picked the girl up bridal style and dashed the opposite way of where the noise came from and headed towards his temporary hide-out that he had found a few days ago.

Another twig snapped and something ran out from the rain and under the tree that the two had just been. The 'thing' spiralled up the tree and in a little whole in the bark, it was a drenched squirrel. The pink haired teen was just too paranoid from the rain.

~End of Flash back~


Normal P.O.V

The rosy haired teen was now sitting topless in front of a small fire cooking the fish. He swallowed the cooked fish whole making sure not to get anything on his precious scarf and jabbed another fish onto his stick.

At the smell of food, Lucy started to wake up after her 2-day-long sleep. Her nose twitched and she shot up in a sitting position, her hands still unconsciously gripping the vest to her chest like a teddy bear.

The boy turned his head around and smiled, "Oh! You're finally awake, want some fish?" He held up another cooked fish.

Lucy turned her head towards the voice and saw the pink haired boy, she backed away a little and asked, "W-who are you?"

The boys smile widened further, "I'm Natsu!"


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