A/N: Officially very addicted to Fairy Tail! Thank you so much Mashima-san for making such a great manga/anime (and especially for creating Gray!3) Enjoy :)

- Chapter 2 -

Crap… where the hell does the woman live? Gajeel had stopped in the middle of the street scratching the back of his head, deep in thought for once. And what's with this empty feeling in my chest, I swear I ate all the iron this morning with extra sides too. Tsch, can hardly breath normally-

"OUT OF MY WAY!" the iron mage looked around just in time to see a pink-haired mage zoom towards him, fire erupting behind him.

"Oh sh-," but before Gajeel could finish his insult he found himself flying through the air of Magnolia. That hot-headed moron, I'm gonna kill him for sure! As soon as I find that damn woman's house!

…

"L-Loke… g-get off me!" Lucy said pushing away her Celestial Spirit by the face. The Spirit of Leo backed off slightly, his eyes full of hurt.

"What is it? Don't you like me?" he asked.

"I-It's not that! I just don't-, wh-what was that?" Lucy looked past Loke and outside her window. Her house and the entire street was rumbling, "an earthquake?"

"LUCY!" and suddenly Loke was very much away from Lucy, his figure carving a Loke-shaped indent in the Celestial mage's bedroom wall, "I'm glad you're OK."

"Natsu! Thank-… YOU IDIOT, I'M RENTING THIS HOUSE, DON'T GO BREAKING THE WINDOW SO CASUALLY!" Lucy yelled before aiming a punch at Natsu but she stopped as Natsu caught her attack, then pulled her towards him.

"Thank goodness," Lucy found herself breathing into Natsu hot yet warming chest. What the-?

"N-Natsu, it wasn't like I was dying or anything-," she said climbing out of his embrace.

"No! It was breaking me, seeing you two together! You mustn't give in to that player!" Lucy raised her eyebrow, since when did Natsu understand the concept of 'players'? And since when did he care who I hung around with? Not that I'm not glad he came to disrupt Loke…

"What did you just say, flame butt?" Loke picked himself up from the floor, glaring at Natsu who slowly turned his gaze towards the Celestial Spirit.

"Stay away from my princess," Lucy's jaw dropped feeling completely freaked. A sneer reached Loke's face.

"Oh yeah? You'll have to take her away from me first!" then he pounced both his hands wielding the power of Leo.

"FORCE GATE CLOSURE!" the blonde-haired mage yelled before Natsu took his side of offense, "Natsu, I think you overreacted slightly it was just Loke not an enemy!"

But Natsu didn't listen only gathered her up into a hug again. What's with all this hugging? Since when was he the hugging type?

"Don't leave me like that, Lucy."

"It wasn't my choice to begin with in the first place!" Lucy cried totally confused at Natsu's odd behaviour. The fire mage held her by the shoulders and looked deep into the Celestial mage's eyes. I-Idiot, stop looking at me like that! Although… I swear this gentleman-version of Natsu that I fantasised about once- Gah stop thinking crazily Lucy! A slight blush reached Natsu's cheeks. Am I warm because of Natsu's flames or am I seriously blushing like crazy? Mah, what's going on here? Then her eyes narrowed.

"This isn't some birthday prank is it?" Natsu's eyes widened with shock and upset.

"That's mean Lucy… You know I'd never do that," Lucy expected the mage to suddenly arch back in his manic Natsu-style laughter but it didn't come. Oh geez, he's not serious about it is he? I-I'm not ready, not to mention I've never thought about you in that way!

"NO DON'T LEAN CLOSER!" Lucy yelled, finding herself in the same situation as she was earlier with Loke. Gaw what is with men these days? Seriously lacking originality here-!

"Eh, so that's where the girl lives?" for some reason, Lucy's mood darkened further. Why is Gajeel here?

"Ga-Gajeel! It's not what it looks like-!" last thing I want is to be the talk of the guild!

"It really better not be," the Dragon Slayer said in a dangerously low voice his fists clenched.

"G-Guys, if you're going to fight please could you take it outside please, my house is already ruined as it is?" Lucy said in a small voice cutting through the suffocating silence. Natsu and Gajeel tore their death-dripped gazes away from each other and looked towards Lucy's window.

"Out there," Gajeel grunted.

"Don't need you to tell me," Natsu replied, "stay here Lucy, I'll protect you from those idiots."

"If it weren't for Lucy, I would've killed you right here," that's weird, Gajeel would just destroy Natsu and the house usually… maybe it's a good thing that it's my birthday- but Lucy thought too soon because the iron mage jumped through Lucy's second now-broken-too window.

"You scrap metal piece of rust, don't go breaking Lucy's windows!" Natsu shouted after Gajeel before jumping out too.

"YOU'RE JUST AS BAD!" Lucy screamed.

…

"Please tell me I didn't just hear that," Erza said rubbing her temples whilst glaring at an apologetic Hibiki.

"Seems that I got the potions mixed up…" the Blue Pegasus mage said.

"So, any guy that just touched Lucy would be infatuated?" Mirajane summarised slowly. Hibiki nodded.

"And they would want her to be theirs," Levy's eyes widened. Another nod.

"And it won't wear off by itself," Juvia's eyes narrowed. Nod number three.

"And any guy from now on who touches Lucy would be further engrossed with her," Cana said with slight disgust. Hibiki wailed slightly.

"So how come you're not affected?" Hibiki sighed at Erza's question, "I recall you touching her neck."

"I was wearing transparent gloves to stop the effects of the potion affecting me, but Erza-san-," but he cut off as he saw Erza's aura turn fiery.

"If you were a Fairy Tail, I would've punched you straight to hell but now is not the time," Levy suddenly gasped, "what is it?"

"Wasn't Lucy just kidnapped by Loke?"

"And didn't Natsu and Gajeel tear off after them?" Wendy clicked on too.

"Natsu hasn't even hit puberty even though he should have, Gajeel shouldn't know where Lucy lives so it should be alright in the meantime-."

"The potion's not like that, it causes anyone to become love-stricken… Erza-san there's something I need to-," but Hibiki found himself face-flooring as Erza stamped on his back.

"Girls of Fairy Tail, our fellow princess is in trouble! Let's set out before this gets out of hand!"

"But have you thought about where Loke and Lucy would be?" Erza smirked at Charle's question.

"Loke's a womaniser, bedroom would be his preferred place," the girls all screeched.

"And in the bedroom…" Levy trailed off.

"… there'd be a bed…" Mira continued.

"… to sleep-," but Juvia couldn't continue.

"LET'S GO! Mirajane and Juvia, could you stay and make sure if Lucy comes back you stop her nearing the men? Especially Macau, Wakaba and Elfman?," the three men burst into angry retorting which Erza ignored, "Hibiki, you're coming with us."

"O-Of course," Mira watched the girls set off, a semi blacked out Hibiki being dragged behind Erza, wondering how far Loke's gone already. Poor Natsu or Gray if they see, I don't think either of them are ready to see such scenes…
"I wonder what Gray-sama is doing right now-," then Juvia's eyes widened.

"Juvia?"

"Gray-sama fell over earlier because of Erza-san."

"Yeah, she punched him-."

"And Lucy-san offered her hand to him," Mira gasped, "Juvia will go after Gray-sama! Juvia will not lose to the likes of Lucy-san!"

Mira sighed walking back towards the bar. What a birthday Lucy is having, although… it is a girl's dream to have so many strong men chasing after her! Mira giggled to herself. I wonder who she'll not refuse if they come onto her… Opportunity Lucy, go for it! Then a hand descended on the silver-haired mage's shoulder. Mira looked behind to find a shirtless mage with a serious look on his face staring at her.

"I need a favour."

So Gray wasn't in this chapter much... but he will be! And poor Hibiki... Thanks for reading and the reviews! Much appreciated and inspiring! Stay tuned for the next chapter!

Shaari