Hi again for the second time today! :) I'm glad y'all liked chapter 6, I didn't think the story would be this long :D I'm glad y'all are enjoying this :) Thank you for the reviews, and I'm glad I can keep everyone wondering what's going to happen and who they are, you'll find out this time though!

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He smiled at me his goofy smile and pulled me to him once more. I couldn't help but to feel safe wrapped in his arms, his natural body heat radiating and warming me up. I still couldn't shake the feeling we were being watched though.

~Normal POV, that person~

"Hmph, it's just as I say, they entered her house, they're probably still there," the person said, recalling what they had watched a few hours before.

"Good, let's go then, we shall put our plan into action," a strong voice answered, looking surprised at the person who had helped out, amazed they did willingly.

~Normal POV~

"Gihehe," Gajeel laughed, following Erza out of the guild.

"They thought they could trick us, but who would've thought that Natsu would help Lucy out," Erza commented, walking calmly towards Lucy's house.

"You seem to know the way like the back of your hand," Gajeel joked, becoming slightly distracted by the boats on the river.

"I do, I visit Lucy quite often," Erza answered.

"Do you visit her by her inviting you over, or do you show up randomly like that ice-kid and flame-boy?" he responded quickly, his mind beginning to wander.

Erza stopped and responded, "I visit by surprise, but I'm welcomed, I am her close friend after-all."

Gajeel looked at her in surprise and thought, "Oh, so bunny girl doesn't mind if you visit?"

~Normal POV, Lucy and Natsu~

Natsu pulled back entirely, and smelled the air carefully, though Lucy's scent was the most prominent thing in the air, he could smell metal, metal, and more metal.

"Gajeel..," he snarled, imagining the iron dragon slayer walking up, "and Erza too."

"Gajeel and Erza?" Lucy asked, fear entering her eyes.

"Don't worry Luce, we'll get you out of here before they come, but Gajeel has a good sense of smell, he can probably already smell us here," Natsu answered, surprisingly thinking of someone else's abilities.

"How? If he can already smell us here, how will we get away without him noticing?" she asked, her voice shaking, she didn't want to be found.

"Don't worry, if I know metal-head, he is probably getting distracted.. besides, I just happen to know where a certain blue-haired script mage is," Natsu answered, confidence resounding in his whispering voice.

Lucy nodded lightly at this, and began to smile as she thought of Levy helping them out, but even she was trying to find Lucy, how would Natsu convince her to distract Gajeel? Suddenly, she felt warm arms wrap around her and pick her up gently, she faced Natsu with a smile playing on her lips.

"First things first, we need to make sure he can't smell you, and my clothes probably smell like your house slightly, since your scent is everywhere in here, but it's easily fixed, we just need to make sure he thinks that we're still here!" Natsu said, carrying her into her bedroom where she had left the clothes she had borrowed from him.

Setting Lucy down, he picked his clothes up and rubbed his hands against them rapidly, heating them up as if he were wearing them.

"Lucy, pull some of your clothes out and lay them on the floor, that way the scent will be strongest there," Natsu instructed, putting his own clothes on the floor.

Lucy nodded lightly and laid her clothes out, slightly in a pile so the scent would overlap, she was proud of her work.

"Okay," Natsu said suddenly, pulling her closer to him and hugging her tightly.

She automatically knew that he was covering her own scent with his, and she accepted without a fight this time. After standing there for a few seconds, Natsu pulled away and smiled.

"Right, now you can't smell Lucy at all, only Natsu," he said, referring to himself in the third-person.

She nodded and smiled, and began to wonder, "How are we going to get out of my house?"

"Alright!" Natsu spoke, seeming to answer her thoughts, "I know the ways to get out of this house better than anyone, and we don't have much time, I can smell them really easily, they are probably just down the street."

"Okay, so, how do we get out?" Lucy asked him, not wanting to find out by him leading her.

"Well, no time to explain! Come on!" he responded, grabbing her wrist gently, but enough to pull her, and ran to a small window that was hidden by a curtain in her bathroom.

"My bathroom?" she shrieked, surprised he knew about the window there.

"Shh! Gajeel will hear you!" he hissed, not wanting them to be found, he enjoyed Lucy's company without anyone else around.

"Wait... a while ago, I kissed her? Agh! Lucy's weirdness has rubbed off on me!" he yelled in his mind, but decided that it wasn't the time to figure out why he let her weirdness get to him.

He opened the window ever so slightly and jumped out, holding Lucy in his arms as he landed on a small patch of grass. He took off in a random direction, but managed to avoid being seen by Gajeel or Erza.

He continued to run until he was deep in the woods, and then remembered he was supposed to be finding Levy. Deciding he needed to hide Lucy first, he took her to a small cave he knew about and set her down there.

"Luce, stay here for a few minutes, I'm going to find Levy and tell her Gajeel wants her help finding you," Natsu told Lucy when she opened her mouth to question what they were doing.

She nodded in response and watched him take off, hoping that no one would find her while he was gone.

~Normal POV, Erza and Gajeel~

Erza grabbed the door handle and gave a strong turn to the door knob, only to find it was locked.

"Of course it'd be locked, she doesn't want to be found, hehe, too bad for her," Erza said, talking to no one in particular.

Gajeel stood back and watched, wondering how the scarlet-haired woman was going to open the door without a key. He didn't bother to mention he could probably make a key from the metal around, wanting to see her work.

"Alright, since it's looked, time for forced entry, I'll buy her a new door later," she said, stepping back and pulling her sword up.

Gajeel watched in utter shock, amazed that she would break the door down without thinking of his possible key-making abilities. A loud crash came and when he blinked again, the door was gone and Erza had gone inside. He stood wide-eyed for a second, amazed she actually did it.

He walked in the house, not sure if he should follow the woman or not. When he got inside, she was turned towards the door, obviously waiting for him so he could smell them out.

"I don't feel we have the time to search everywhere in this house for them, so use your nose and lead us to where the smell is the strongest," Erza commanded, not showing any sign of worry about ordering the iron dragon slayer around.

After mumbling his protests he began to smell the air slightly, and could smell Natsu and Lucy in the bedroom. When he opened the bunny-girls door, he found the piles of clothes they had left as a present. The scent of wildflowers was very strong in the path leading to what he assumed was the bathroom, maybe they were hiding there.

Erza and Gajeel basically flipped the house upside down searching for the Natsu and Lucy that were supposed to be hiding cleverly in there, but to no avail.

When suddenly, a small voice squeked out, "Hello?"

~Natsu's POV~

I ran quickly through the forest, running a different direction than we had come, that way if someone tracked me, they'd end up leaving the forest. After I ran for a good five minutes, I arrived at Fairy Hills, where Levy stayed with some of the other girls from the guild.

I knocked hard on the door, saying, "Levy? Levy! Come here, someone wants your help!"

After a few minutes of waiting, Levy came to the door, a questioning look on her face. I smiled down at her, letting her see no hint of the lie I was about to tell.

"Levy! Gajeel says he wants your help finding Lucy! He says he knows you'll think of a place where'd she be hiding, since you are her best friend," Natsu told her, making the lie more believable by saying he was going to put her knowledge to use.

"Okay! Lead me to where he is, I'll help him!" Levy answered excitedly.

I smirked and responded, "Great! Follow me!"

I charged off, making sure not to leave her behind, and led her to close to Lucy's house.

"Okay, Levy, he's in there, right now him and Erza are searching, maybe you can help, I'm going to go and search the bookshops around here, so don't worry about them, okay?" I told her, hoping I could make a few new hiding spots if I told her I'd check the area.

She nodded happily and ran towards Lucy's house, having only seen it once or twice herself, she had never stepped inside.

I smiled again and ran off to meet with Lucy again, not wanting to leave her alone for another second.

~Levy's POV~

"Hello?" I squeaked when I walked into her house, amazed at what looked like a scene of carnage before me.

Her house was a wreck, and I was sure that's not how it normally looked, she seemed like a very organized person.

"Lu-chan? Are you here?" I asked, taking another step into the house.

I was greeted by two pairs of eyes glaring at me from the other side of the room, I gulped, not sure what to expect as the two figures began to charge at me.

"Help me!" I screamed, turning to run, only to be stopped by hands pulling me backwards.

To my own surprise, even though Natsu told me they were here, I was greeted by Gajeel and Erza who stood calmly before me.

"Levy? What are you doing here?" Erza asked, confusion layering her voice.

"Uh, Natsu said that you two would want help, since I am Lu-chan's best friend," I responded nervously, having almost just mentioned that he only said Gajeel.

~Normal POV~

Erza and Gajeel looked over to each other and gave a small nod before looking at the small blue-haired girl.

"Okay, your knowledge will come in handy," Erza said, rubbing her on the head.

"Yeah, shrimp," Gajeel added, much to Levy's annoyance of being called shrimp.

The three of them then headed outside, thinking of new places to search with Levy at the head of the team.

Well, that's all for this chapter~ Thanks for reading :) I hope you liked it, I'll try to finish a third chapter by tonight! *sets goal* Tis my new goal :P

Thanks again! :D