Authors Notes

Thanks for all the follows, favorites, and reviews! Sorry I haven't updated sooner, I've kinda been spending all my free time drawing... Anyway I hope you like this chapter nothing really happens but I needed a cute chapter before the real stuff actually begins (you'll see soon)!

DayInSky: Thx! Was this soon enough?

CopDog: I will put the parts where Lucy thinks in italics, I did in the word program I'm using but I guess it didn't transfer. Also thx!

The most beautiful of lies: Thx! :)

In the outskirts of Magnolia, on a small hill, sat a house. It was a nice enough looking house, Lucy noted. Blue paint with white trim coated its wooden shingles, windows looked out over the town. Slowly they walked up to it's front door, and knocked.

Lucy and Nastu stood listening to the sound reverberate around the inside of the house. Just when it finally died away, and Lucy was tempted to ask Natsu if he sure this was the right place, someone opened the door.

In front of them stood short man wearing Bermuda shorts, and the loudest Hawaiian tee-shirt ever made. His white hair had been haphazardly slicked back so the half of it was flat and the other stood up as if it had been hit with an electric shock. He looked at them for a second, before realizing who they were. He jumped slightly before saying, "Come in!"

Natsu and Lucy exchanged a glance, both of them wondering about the sanity of the strange man.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry! We don't have all day... AND I wasn't born yesterday neither!"

Slowly they followed him into a entryway that smelled strangely like cat. Glancing around, Lucy could see that the strange little man's eccentric taste extended past just his clothes. One wall was painted a lime green, another bright orange, and a third some sort of wallpaper.

"Welcome! My house is your house! Mi casa es su casa!" The short man said rather loudly.

Nervously, Lucy asked, "What would you like us to do with our shoes..." She trailed off because the man's face seemed to be turning a strange shade of purple.

"Didn't you just hear me?!" He practically screamed, "MY HOUSE IS YOUR HOUSE!"

Natsu broke in, strangely calm for the situation, saying, "We're putting our shoes right here by the door... okay?"

Lucy stared at him thinking, since when can he say something that helps a situation? That's almost as weird as this short dude...

Natsu dispersed her thoughts by saying, "Don't just stand there, if it's our house then the least you can do is try and keep it clean." So saying he reached over and took her shoes from her hands. His fingers brushed hers, causing her to blush, for some reason the words our house, had taken up residence in her brain. I'm just as bad as Juvia. She thought.

The short man coughed slightly, then said, "Come along, follow me." He turned down a hallway, only to jump back in surprise, a small cat sitting pleased on his head.

"Shame on you Hubert!" The short man said.

"Meow?" Hubert replied.

The short man sighed, before saying, "Yes, I suppose your right this is the second time so... Shame on me! Shame, Sir Edger Watering-can Pumpkin Jr. the Third!"

"Meow!" Hubert said happily.

"Next time though, it will be shame on you!" Said Sir Edger Watering-can Pumpkin Jr. the Third

"Meow?" Hubert asked, jumping from his perch on Sir E's head.

"Don't meow me! You know the rule; fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. So next time it's back to one!" Sir E finished this sentence triumphant, knowing he had won his argument against his cat.

"Alright where were we..." Sir E asked.

Lucy was ready to get out of here so she said, "You were about to give us the package to deliver."

Sir E jumped, before saying, "Oh, Yes, the package! One second..."

A second later he was back, a package in one had and a bag of apples, "Here you are, the package." He handed the package to Natsu, "Now remember, DO NOT run with it."

Natsu nodded, holding the package like it might explode.

"And here take some apples, I don't want you attacked by doctors." Sir E handed the apples to Lucy. "Now out with you! Early bird gets the worm!" Sir E exclaimed.

Lucy and Natsu pulled on their shoes, and left as quickly as they could without running. In their haste they forgot to ask where they would be delivering the package to. It wasn't until they were a safe distance from the house that they first realized this fact. Sadly a "safe distance" had taken an hour of walking to achieve.

"I suppose we could go back..." Lucy said shuddering.

In response Natsu fell to the ground and pretended to be dying.

"Okay, so what do you suggest?" Lucy said to the figure lying strangely still on the ground.

Natsu leaped to his feet, holding something above his head, and waving it like the winning lottery ticket. "Look, the job request!" He shouted.

"Oh!" Yelled Lucy, catching on at once, "It should say on there!"

Natsu scanned the paper quickly, while at the same time saying, "And we won an all expenses paid trip to..." He stopped his face falling, he said the last word in a much more somber tone, "Sage City."

Lucy was outraged, "That crazy watering-can expects us to walk all the way to Sage City?! That's a day by train!"

Natsu looked at her and said, "We could always go back..."

This time it was Lucy's turn to play dead.

I wonder what they're delivering... Something you shouldn't run with, or at least according to the guy who takes saying seriously... XD