UGH. I'm sorry my faitful readers :(

I not only ubdate very late, but ubdate SHORT chapters.

The next one will be longer, PROMISE

but thankyou for all the support I get in reviews,

I'd give you all a shout in the A/U but unfortantely,

THERES WAY TOO MANY OF YOU! haha ;) it's a good thing, thought trust me.

I'm going to work on it though, starting now - because your comments are always so nice and helpful, you need a shoutout! :)

ANYWAY - to the story, (sorry for the gammar issues, and spelling... I'm a horrible editor, I APOLOGIZE!)

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Fairy Tail or it's characters. But, I'll have them if you wanna give me them?

Natsu groaned loudly. His whole body hurt. Mainly his head.

Where was he, anyway?

Shifting from his spot between the couch and the floor, Natsu moved so that he was in a sitting position. The room swam for a few moments from his fast movements before it calmed down and Natsu could see through blurred eyes that he was at Lucy's apartment.

Getting up, slowly this time, he stretched.

He moved from behind the couch so that he was sitting on it. How did he end up behind the couch? What happened last night… ?

Natsu pondered it for as long as his attention span let him-before his mind drifted to that of his empty stomach.

He licked his lips, starting to make his way towards the kitchen on his hunt for food. He'd probably be the only living thing in existence that would crave food after so much alcohol.

Natsu paused. Alcohol. He turned and looked at the bottles that rested on Lucy's small wooden table.

Of course!

That was why he was at Lucy's!

…

Still doesn't explain why he was behind the couch? Now that Natsu racks his memory enough; he remembers passing out on Lucy's bed. So, Natsu wondered, how did he end up across the room? Behind the coach for Christ sakes?

His stomach growled.

Natsu shrugged, proceeding his mission on gathering food.

Opening the fridge, Natsu nearly sobbed.

"Lucy! You need more food!"

Lucy felt like she had fallen off a 100 foot building - only to get run over by a truck. And that truck happened to be beside a railroad track. And that railroad track hurt like a bitch to fall against. Then, Lucy discovered, that railroad track had no working train on it to possible end her misery.

She was not getting up today. No. No way.

She had no school today, she should just call it a sick day and stay curled up in her warm bed.

Yeah. As Lucy will find out, nothing ever goes the way she wants.

"Lucy! You need more food!" A shrill voice, extremely loud voice knocked her out of her close-to-sleeping state.

Grounding her teeth at the pounded her head had started, she ignored the bafoon.

Of course. She had forgotten he was here.

Remembering back, Lucy recalled that said bafoon passed out on her bed last night. Humorously, Lucy realized that her drunk self had picked him up and threw him towards the coach - not checking to see if he landed on it out.

Natsu then proceeded to jump on her bed.

..

Lucy's head pounded with each jump the pink haired boy did. If she was strong, she'd throw him out the window.

"NATSU!" The jumped ceased. ".You.Want?" She shrieked, her own voiced adding to the never ending head ache.

He blinked stupidly. "C'mon Luce. Let's go out for lunch. You have no food here!" He explained as if it would justify jumping on her bed to WAKE HER UP!

Lucy took a deep breathe in order to calm herself. "Natsu?" She said somewhat warningly.

He looked at her completely oblivious, grinning as if nothing was wrong. Lucy melted. She actually melted at the bafoon. She couldn't help it. He was like that cute puppy you got, then realized he'd be a lot of trouble. And THEN when you caught him peeing on your carpet, you hesitated to punish him because he was too damn cute.

Sighing, Lucy pinched the bridge of her nose. She was an idiot.

All of a sudden, something accrued to Lucy.

Bolting upright on her bed, and scarring the hell out of Natsu in doing so, Lucy raised her hands to cup her mouth, "Plue!"

Natsu blinked. What the hell was she saying? Plue?

A little white, shacking (Natsu couldn't tell if it was from trauma caused by last night, or if it was normal) white dog came out from under Lucy's bed. The dog ran up, jumping on the bed and cuddling up to Lucy.

Lucy felt horrible. She had forgotten Plue!

Getting out of the bed, Lucy went to the kitchen, pouring Plue his standard dog food, and watered his pool. I wont forget you again, I promise! Lucy silently declared.

Natsu watched, uninterested. "Lucy? Can we go get some food now?"

Lucy continued to ignore him for a moment, finding her savoir (Advil) and gulped it down. Sighing in contentment with knowing the fact that her aching head would soon cease to hurt, she turned to Natsu.

She smiled, "Sure, let's go."

The diner Natsu chose wasn't so bad.

That wasn't what bother Lucy. Wasn't what disgusted her as she shoved her plat away, only for it to get snatched in greedy hands.

Natsu was eating everything in site as if he'd only have 5 seconds to do so before it disappeared.

"Natsu, I-t's not going anywhere," She started softly. "Maybe you should slow down?"

"Slow down?" Somehow, because Lucy didn't see his mouth move besides opening to shove food in, Natsu learned how to talk around his food.

"Yes. Slow down. Your eating like… like a pig." She admitted to him.

Natsu stopped his eating all together.

Lucy recalled. She didn't mean to offend him! Hurrying to explain her self, Lucy babbled words of apologies.

She stopped when she realized Natsu stared intently at something behind her.

Turning, Lucy caught sight of red hair. Erza! Lucy grinned to herself. Erza was back! Hopefully for longer than she stayed last time.

Said girl was stalking towards the table, looking incredible stone serious.

Lucy blinked, confused. Was something wrong?

By the time Erza got to their table, Natsu was up and already preparing to take off. Erza looked at Lucy. Getting the hint, Lucy put money on the table and stood as well.

Erza nodded towards the exit and both teenagers followed her out of the diner without a second thought.

"WHAT!"

Lucy silently agreed with the loud statement. Erza had her eyes closed, face grim as she nodded.

"WHY?" Natsu was close to attacking Erza for information.

She glared at Natsu and he backed up. "I myself am not completely sure what happened Natsu. No one is." She stated, turning and walking towards the hospital. Lucy and Natsu trailing behind her.

Natsu was positively livid. Fidgeting and looking as If he was about to blow. Lucy felt cold. A cold shock perhaps?

Erza had pulled them away, explaining in monotone words that last night Gray was jumped by a neighbourhood gang that Lucy learned was called Phantom.

Apparently while walking home drunk from Lucy's, Gray was jumped by Atleast 10 people.

Lucy shuddered picturing poor Gray surrounded, drunk and alone.

Tears came to her eyes as she realized that her friend must have been so scared and alone.

Entering the hospital, Natsu and Lucy let Erza do the talking.

Soon, they found Gray's door, number 546. Lucy drew in a breath as Natsu reached for the door knob.

Entering the room first, Natsu ran into a head of white hair.

"Mira?" Lucy realized.

The girl turned around, facing the three whom entered. She had tears in her eyes as she tried to smile at them. Lucy frowned, feeling the tear pick at her eyes. She moved forward to give the girl a hug, but was blocked by Natsu.

Natsu shoved between Lucy and Mira to get around them. Having succeed, He came face to face with an unconscious and bruised Gray. Natsu froze at his spot, staring down at his best friend.

Gray was bruised badly. He had a split lip, black eye, a patch on his forehead and strangle marks on his throat. The blanket was covering most of his body and Lucy didn't think she'd want to see more. His arms were coloured from black to blue to yellow and patch marks that Lucy could only guess were knife marks patched up.

Swallowing, Lucy turned to Mira and Erza. "Has he woken up at all?"

Mira nodded. "He told us what happened," She said softly, "about being jumped. And by who…" She trailed off and Natsu visibly froze.

"I'm afraid their going to ask the police to come in and ask him about what happened." Erza stated, "If the hospital reports the strangle marks-"

"REPORTS?" Natsu roared, "who gives a damn about the police?" He snapped, Erza stopped talking, staring back at Natsu's glare as Mira tried to shush him. "Our friend has been hospitalized!" Natsu's glare shifted from all three of them, although Lucy knew it wasn't directed at anyone in the room.

Natsu huffed, heading towards the door. "Natsu! Where are you going?" Lucy called after him.

Natsu glared over his shoulder, freezing Lucy to her spot. Never has she ever seen Natsu so serious… so angry. It scared her.

"To kick some Phantom ass." He snarled over his shoulder.

AGAIN - I'm sorry for the shortness, terrible, isn't it?

But really, my writing LITTERALLY writes itself, I can't control it I tell ya!

Anyway... On my other fanfiction I've been starting this game :D

Its "What was your favorite line?"

In this chase, it can be from this chapter, or from the whole story so far.

Please tell me! It's always fun to hear what people say :)

THANKS FOR READING! please review ? :)333