Chapter 4
Lucy hastily hurries off, pretty pissed now actually. She rounds a corner before ... splich! she comes a cropper a copper covered in –what seems a multi coloured substance that smells slightly of onions and bananas- it splatters all over Lucy's clothes. The policeman runs off urgently yelling something like. ..
"You just assaulted a federal officer, this is a federal crime." Into his magic receiver. Leaving Lucy dazed on the floor. Mumbling..
"Y-ya you b-better run off." She pulls herself together, stands up drunkenly and yells "What is it free doughnut day at the doughnut place" she laughs heartily, totally oblivious to the awful joke. 'Let's just calm down' she repeats to herself mentally, while she slowly breaths in an out. 'Now I have the new edition to the What Witch Weekly here then after I will search for a guild in a calm lady-like manner 'she giggles –perhaps not. She lolls herself on the bench totally immersed into the magazine with random sprouts of "ooh that's nice." and "really? You're joking." She stops suddenly as she hears a not so far off babbling crowd of women.
"Ooh Salamander, won't you show me your magic"
"Sign this, and this, and this"
Lucy gets up. She may have just found what she has been looking for totally by accident and unknowing. She looks across the bridge -where she found the convenient bench- to find just below the bridge a big group of gaggling girls, surrounding something or someone unseen. Lucy races down the steps across the square towards the girly hero worship site. She smashes through unsuspected females, who retort in territorial snarls and swipes. Finally side stepping a very fat little madam. She reaches the centre, huffing from her battle scars. To find a rather girly guy with a weathered face, giving out signed autographs by the magical popcorn cart. However this was not the person Lucy wanted to see. But to her horror her heart began to race like a train, her eyes began to look with longing and her body frame became stock still. After a rather tense few seconds this total stranger finally spots Lucy. He winks. It feels as if her heart is about to break, then a sudden kerfuffle breaks Lucy's reverie. A red-ish haired boy and a blue cat pushes through the bundle of girls shouting
"Igneel!, Igneel!" As they see the fake salamander disappointment hits the boys face like thunder ."You're not Igneel" This statement suddenly infuriated some of the female audience. Who suddenly attack him out of respect for their hero. Lucy hurries up to the boy.
"Are you ok? He was using a disillusion ring. There illegal. What a crummy guy" The boy stands rigid, looking stable and says...
"My n-name is Natsu nice to meet you"
"I'm Lucy let's go to a diner somewhere, I have to thank you somehow" Lucy decides to treat him and his cat to a meal and as Lucy and Natsu walk off toward the dinning district. A pair of eyes are felt watching them beyond the shadows of a not too distant alleyway, as a glint of light dances from a pair of sunglasses...