Omg, so long. I'm finally back in! Wow. Well,enjoy! And read 'A pirate's past' before this, that was my promised one-shot. I uploaded it loooooooooong ago, but it's still important for this story!

Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail. Like always.

Chapter 14

Natsu couldn't believe what that shitty pirate said just now. This goddamn pirate whom name wasn't known nor was he infamous and still-he could destroy Natsu's whole infamy with just a few sentences. Natsu really wanted to strangle him just now but after all it wasn't that pirate's fault that he was the unlucky bastard who came by and announced that this good-for-nothing of a former-pirate-now-businessman hat set up a bounty for his very own daughter. Her reasons to run away were reasonable; hey she had this bastard as a dad, but why was she dense enough to flee?

She was a goddamn girl, who had been raised in a noble family and possibly barely had seen the live outside her own little world, which wasn't even this little, since she had had a large mansion for her to run in and stuff. Her life had been sweet; she hadn't had to handle stuff like coldness, hunger, being an orphan and the lack of money, fun and love. The things normal persons like Natsu and his whole crew and everyone else on Tortuga had to live with every day.

So why? Why did she run away, throwing her sweet life away, changing it with a life in this cruel world? Natsu had had a dream, to become the most infamy person ever, the one and only pirate (captain, since there were other Dragon Slayers on his ship) who was raised by a dragon, having a crew of mages, being rich and happy and stuff and finally die in peace, knowing that even the grandkids of his grandkids will swim in money. That bitch crushed that dream with her stupid decision of running away.

Natsu stared at that pirate for about 5 seconds before the hell broke out. Everywhere around him screamed, laughed and cheered pirates –except his crew. He turned around to them, setting up a halfheartedly smile.

"So what? That girl is haunted too. I don't care, that's only a screwed up welcome-back-present. Let's party, we're back home!" He laughed a bit and much to his relief his crew chimed in. Just a few members like Lisanna, Erza, Wendy (A.N.: Let's say she's already in the crew) and Gray looked through his façade. They knew each other too long so they knew when someone was upset or angered. To let them understand that he was really okay he started a brawl with Gray like always. Only then Wendy and Lisanna smiled a bit and turned around to walk to the bar and greed everyone and Erza shot Natsu and Gray glares and threatened them on her very own way.

Natsu and Gray were about to hug each other like best buddies when a shot from the door was fired. The whole room turned around in disbelief that someone dared to stop a party with a shoot to get the whole attention. In the doorframe stood a very well known face for everybody, a few even knew him as a former crewmember and the most of them as a rich businessman with a pretty high amount of money and a special hate against the one and only Natsu Dragneel.

"Good, now finally I have the attention of everyone. Sorry for busting in but I'd really like to know where my little daughter is so I'd like to know the name of the bastard who helped her to come on this crappy island." Jude Heartfilia said. Natsu flinched. That man wouldn't hesitate to get his head though he said he was here for his daughter. But he couldn't step back or hide because every movement in the petrified room would be seen from the door. Then suddenly he saw how Makarov walked towards Heartfilia. Said man smiled mischievously, probably because he thought Makarov would admit he helped the little Heartfilia girl with her running away. But in fact you could see the not totally hidden fear in his eyes. No one would mess up with Makarov. He was one of the strongest mages in the world and the grounder of the most infamous pirate crew (of mages) and almost all the inhabitants of Tortuga would help him or revenge him. So Heartfilia had no other chance then 'mercy' him when he really had helped the runaway princess.

Natsu watched how the pirates around Makarov stepped back and he constantly walked towards Heartfilia. When he stood in front of him he glanced up and opened his mouth like he was about to say something. Everyone could see how the businessman gulped hard before Makarov simply sighed. The tensed up ambience loosed up a bit. Then, finally Makarov started to talk.

"Jude, first of all, our island isn't crappy. Next, your little daughter isn't here. And next time try to at least greed everyone before you burst in a party and accuse us to help your daughter. And when I'm right, she's already seventeen and then she's old enough to decide where she wants to live and I think we all think so too, right brats?" with the last words he turned around and looked at everyone and they all answered immediately. Everyone started to move and fool around again, talking, laughing and screaming.

This was the chance of Natsu and his crew. He didn't even have to make a sign, everyone started to head back on their own and eventually they all gathered behind the main room in the hallway with the rooms. Natsu stormed forward and so did his crew right behind him, a steadily thomp-thomp-thomp of their feet filling the silence. They ran until they reached a staircase which they stormed up too and they reached the roof of the pub, which was also a veranda because it was at the same height as the hill behind the pub. They slowed down a bit.

"Well done" Natsu said between some pants while they were climbing up the hill.

"Sure"

After a while they reached the top of the hill and they overlooked the other half of Tortuga, the uncivilized one where Natsu lived once in his childhood. (A.N.: Everything 'bout that in 'A pirate's past') Natsu stood there for a bit overwhelmed by the old memories and the other ones took the lead. While Lisanna went past him she locked her fingers around Natsu's wrist and pulled him with her because she knew that Natsu would probably rest there for the end of his live, unable to walk further.

They stomped down the hill, more stumbling then walking and finally they were on the foot of the hill, in a forest where nobody could be seen from above. This was the hide-out the pirate had decided to come to if a cop or someone like that suddenly came by.

"What the hell is that bastard doing here on Tortuga?" Gajeel broke the silence first causing the whole crew to flinch and then relax again, shrugging in annoyance because they were actually scared by the sudden question.

"Don't know. He said he was searching for his daughter but would he actually come here just to watch for her? I don't think simple parent love would go this far." Gray stated.

"Oh I don't think Jude Heartfilia is the kind of man with love for his daughter. Well, some love of course but no way this much to come back to his hated home." Levy said. They nodded in agreement. Everyone knew the story that happened back then, when Heartfilia seduced Layla who was loved by everyone and then she became pregnant and they had to leave because Jude believed that Tortuga wasn't a kind of place where a baby should live and grow up. He was right but there were many kids who grew up on Tortuga as well and they were just as good as everyone else. Well, they left and they became rich and Jude started to hate the pirates because they were ruining his business. Then these ones on Tortuga heard the rumors about the death of Layla and they were all heartbroken. Well at least these ones who met Layla.

"I really don't care why he's here, fact is he is here and I don't want to be locked up in one of his cells again so we have to hide somewhere." Natsu said and he was really pissed that Heartfilia had to ruin their party. They were three months on sea and now finally back home and then this bastard came and it was all gone.

"I suppose we can use that old cave of yours as a hide-out." Erza said glaring at Natsu.

"Aye!" he squeaked. No one wanted to face the wrath of a pissed Titania and Erza was pissed just like everyone else. She had wanted her strawberry cheesecake so much and hadn't had the chance to get some. Now she smiled a bit, nodding with satisfaction and starting to take the lead again, walking in the direction of the cave-at least they thought so.

Natsu sighed. He was annoyed and relieved. Sometimes he really asked himself why Erza was more like the captain then he himself. But the respond on that question was the cause of his relieve because she was the scariest person on the world.

Natsu started to follow his second mate to the beach where they corrected their direction in the real direction of the cave when Natsu heard something. Every Dragon Slayer had a much better hearing then normal persons so he heard the crack on his right side just next to the path they were taking. Gajeel's and Wendy's head shot up too, facing the way of the location of the crack. They looked at each other knowingly but they remained silent so they wouldn't scare the others because of nothing. Just then shouts were heard, loud enough to cause the whole group to freeze.

"She's in that direction! Get her but don't hurt her and don't let her get away! Mr. Heartfilia needs her unharmed!" Natsu hurried to the bushes on his left side and so did his crew. Soon they saw a group of soldiers running in the direction where the crack was heard. One of them had a little thing in his hand.

Natsu and the others stared at the group and didn't dare to move. They watched how the guards ran away in the forest and they sighed in relief. Natsu were about to stand up when he was pulled down by Lisanna again who was sitting on his left side. She pointed on a tree on the other side of the path and Natsu could see the silhouette of a person sitting there. So that was the crack.

Then Natsu heard feet stomps coming again and he gestured his crew to stay where they were. Soon the guards came again and they were stopping on the path. The one with the thing in his hand started to talk.

"I don't know where she went to. The tracking device Mr. Heartfilia planted in her necklace says that she's around here." He scratched his head. Natsu knew where the person they were searching for was, just above them into the tree. There sat that girl who messed up his dream. Lucy Heartfilia. He narrowed his eyes. This bitch was just in front of her and he couldn't get to her because he would run in the arms of the guards. But if he could, he would scream at her like there wasn't tomorrow for making his dream of a better life burst into a thousand scattered pieces.

"Screw it, Matthew. We won't find that little bitch and we aren't paid for running around in forests to search for her. That isn't what we studied so hard for on the elite school. Come on, we'll just say that we lost her and that's it." Another guard said. The first guard named Matthew seemed to be not confident with that idea but he agreed and so they walked away again, in the direction of the civilized part of the island. Now the way was free for Natsu to yell at that girl but before he could do so he saw how that girl more or less fell down the tree and wasn't like he thought hitting the ground but hanging on a rope upside down. And then he recognized the place. Once Igneel taught him how to set traps and obviously he did his job well. It was still working and now that girl was trapped in it.

That girl… oh hell. Natsu thought when he realized who were hanging there upside down.

"Natsu!" Levy hissed next to him, on his right. "That is the girl who saved us back in the prisons of the Heartfilia mansion! Lucy Heartfilia saved us!" Gajeel, who was on Levy's right, looked at her in disbelief. But Natsu just groaned.

Why did he be so dense? Lucy Heartfilia helped them to escape. Lucy Heartfilia sneaked on his ship and he helped her. Lucy Heartfilia was the one with the biggest bounty on her head next to him. She was searched by Jude Heartfilia, his enemy, who wanted to see him dead. And Jude Heartfilia wanted the head of this one who helped his daughter.

In what did I get myself into?

Okay, I'm sorry guys! I'm REALLY sorry! I actually wrote this chapter long ago but I forgot to upload it! Please don't hate me. It really wasn't on purpose! SOOOOOOOORRRRRRYYYYYYYY!