Hi minna~ I'm sorry for not updating for so long! Please enjoy this chapter and review so I can get more inspiration!
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail because I am not as awesome as Hiro Mashima but I do own a Monkey D. Luffy plush! (It's so cute!)
~Previously~
"Lucy... Lucy!... LUCY!" She shook her head and looked at Natsu with teary eyes. Natsu reacted quickly to her tears and embraced her as she sobbed into his chest with him whispering comforting words into her ear.
"Lucy... I promise... I will protect you no matter what!"
Chapter 4: The secret of the letter
Normal P.O.V
The blonde calmed down after some time and wiped her red, tear-stained face while trembles still racked through her body sending shivers down her spine. Natsu rubbed her back gently and pulled back from their embrace to study her face, she looked back up at him with longing eyes that seemed to see through his own. A small smile formed on her lips which caused him to smile as well, she was happy that she finally had someone that she could rely on after all these years. It was everything that she had ever wanted and its right in front of her eyes. She won't let it go this time like she did with her parents back then.
Natsu and Lucy sat beside the lake that day, Lucy told Natsu everything that she had remembered and he listened intently to her story. He comforted her when her feelings seemed to waver at the memories that were brought back to her through talking about her dark past.
While Natsu listened to her, he couldn't help but feel suspicious about the presence that he had felt before. He could still faintly hear the snoring and he knew that it was definitely not an animal. The only thing that could snore like that was a human.
A bit later...
As Lucy finished telling Natsu about her escape from the castle and the long trek through the forest in the storm before blacking-out, the snoring that Natsu was cautious of suddenly stopped.
"Lacy, you kn-"
"L-U-C-Y" Lucy corrected a tad irritated.
"Lucy, sorry. You know that snoring that I said I heard before?"
"Yeah...?"
"Well, it stopped..." Natsu knew it was rude to mention this after Lucy had just finished talking about her past but it was necessary because he could sense a kind of danger.
Lucy seemed a bit scared as she looked around the lake and back at the bushes that they had come from. Natsu stood up, grabbed Lucy's hand and started to lead her away from the lake and back towards their little cave in a fast-walking pace. When they arrived at the cave, Natsu packed the remaining fish in his back pack and wore it. He then went over to where Lucy's bag was and picked it up, hoisting it over his shoulder. Lucy complained that his bag would stink of fish later on but Natsu didn't seem to hear as his face remained in the same worried and confused expression which caused Lucy to be concerned about him.
When Natsu was kicking at the remaining fire on the burnt wood that was used for cooking the fish, Lucy walked up to him and placed a hand on his shoulder. Natsu, being too paranoid, swung his head around in shock and accidently hit his forehead into Lucy's which caused her to get knocked back and fall on her butt.
"Owww~" Lucy whined as she gently rubbed her forehead which was staring to turn red, still sitting on the ground. Natsu blinked blankly as he watched her, when he figured out what had happened, he started to laugh at her pouting face and red forehead.
"Hey! It isn't funny!"
"Hahaha Sorry, sorry" Natsu held out his hand and Lucy gladly took it although still annoyed. He pulled her back upright and something fell from her pocket, it was the letter that they had discovered earlier from Erza.
"Jesus! You really need to get something with better pockets" Natsu said as he picked up the piece of paper. He noticed some kind of wavy design on the back of the paper so he turned it around and saw a symbol that he had seen while he was traveling around Fiore.
His hand came up to touch the symbol but it was like any other normal piece of paper as his hand made contact with the surface. He turned around and grabbed Lucy's hand and placed her finger tips on the same spot where he had put his hand. After 3 seconds, the spot where Lucy's fingers touched the paper glowed a golden yellow colour and her hand started to slowly sink in the page. She shrieked in fear and tried to pull away but Natsu kept her hand in place as she struggled to break free.
Her hand was completely devoured and Lucy stared at it in awe. She flinched when her hand made contact with something cold. She summed up her courage and grabbed whatever it was, it felt like it was some kind of handle and rope so she started to pull it out. When the thing was completely out of the page, the symbol faded away like none of that had just happened and it looked like any other hand-written note.
Lucy looked at what she had just pulled out of the note, it was a whip. She noticed some inscribed letters on the handle and took a closer look at it, it read, 'Heartfilia'.
"My... mothers whip?"
"Wow...Was your mom some kind of epic sadist? HAHAHAHA"
"SHUT UP!" Lucy, out of the spur of the moment, lashed the whip out at Natsu's head which caused him to whine in pain and hold his aching head which was starting to swell up causing a red lump to appear through his hair. Lucy stared in shock at what she had just done, she felt bad for hitting him so hard.
"Ow ow ow~ I guess you're a sadist too then." A vein popped out of Lucy's fore-head and the pity that she had felt before completely vanished as she swung the whip again hitting him in the same spot. Natsu now had a swollen lump upon another swollen lump on his head and is kneeling down in front of Lucy begging for her forgiveness while she loomed over him with a dark aura surrounding her.
"I think I'm pretty good at using this as a weapon for self-defence." She praised herself as she studied the whip.
"Since when do you have to defend yourself from me?" Natsu whined still rubbing his head.
"You were being rude!" Lucy shot him a glare.
"I'm sorry!" Natsu whimpered and backed away from her.
Lucy sighed as she watched the pink haired teen shrink down in fear and shook her head. What was she going to do with such a weird idiot like him. Now that she thought about it, how did he know that there was something in that strange symbol on the letter anyway?
"Natsu, how did you know that the letter could do that?"
Natsu cleared his throat in a deep and manly way while dusting himself off and standing upright and proud. 'He's hopeless...' Lucy thought as she watched him act tough.
"Well, while I was traveling around Fiore, I over-heard these people talking about some kind of magic letter. It sounded interesting so I was curious. When I asked them, they said that it was a letter with a wavy oval symbol on it with something that looks like a house structure in the middle and small wings on top that branched out like trees. It's a special kind of letter because the sender can put one object in it so that no one can see or take it if it's important. The good thing about it is that only the person for whom it's for can retrieve it from the symbol. The symbol can only be used once so when that happens, it disappears and turns back into a normal letter. I've never actually seen it before and when I saw the symbol on your letter, it reminded me of what those people had described." Natsu explained and Lucy nodded still taking in all the information.
(A/N: If you want to see what the symbol looks like then please visit my twitter because I will be posting a sketch of it there. Please look in my bio, fourth line down, for the link to my page.)
Just then, Natsu heard a rustle in the bushes not too far from their cave. He signalled Lucy to be quiet as he grabbed her hand and exited the cave to run in the opposite direction of the rustling. Although they were running at full speed, the noise that seemed to be following them became louder and louder until it suddenly stopped. Natsu felt something strange about the sudden lack of noise but he continued to run.
Just when Natsu thought that they had lost their pursuer, a large figure flashed in front of them which stopped them in their tracks and forced them to jump back in shock. Natsu eyed the silver haired man in front of them cautiously without a single word or noise. Lucy didn't like the feeling that the quietness gave her so she broke the silence and asked in a soft voice, "Who are you? And why are you following us?"
"-yawn- How about this... I will tell you the answers to those questions if your boyfriend over there can beat me in a brawl –yawn-" Challenged the silver haired man.
"H-He's not my boyfriend!" Lucy exclaimed.
"Brawl..?" Natsu smirked handing Lucy's and his bag to Lucy ignoring her protests and got into a fighting stance.
"I'm all fired up!"
I'M SO SORRY THIS CHAPTER TOOK SO LONG WAHHH! I really haven't found the time these days to be writing my fanfics because of everything happening around my house and everything ): I really wanted to update sooner too... :l I've also started to play LoL and I'm getting so addicted to it! Please look forward to the next chapter minna and remember to review! Until next time, Ja Ne~!
