I didn't use that much time correcting this one... But I still hope you'll enjoy it! It's starting to get really exciting!

Chapter 4: Magical power

Lucy could feel her father's gaze when she walked with Natsu and Happy towards her mother's grave. He was probably angry, or maybe regretful. But as always he wasn't showing any emotions. Personally Lucy felt horrible about acting as she just had towards her father. When they reached the grave she took a rose which Ms. Supetto had given her and laid it on the grave. She paid a minute on recalling memories of happiness with her mother when she still was alive. Then she walked towards the train station with a heavy heart, thinking about the happiness which once had existed in this residence.

Natsu was awkwardly quiet. Usually he would have been the happiest living person, or if not the happiest, the most excited. But somehow he was just as quiet as Lucy. After a little while she smiled towards Natsu, and started telling him what she had found out. She couldn't feel the happiness reach her heart, but in time it would.

"No one has tried to sell him any rubies, but he told me something about them".

Natsu looked at Lucy, she tried not to think about it, but she found the silence a bit weird.

"He told me about this enormous magical power they have concealed inside. He also told me that he believes only one of them is real!"

Natsu's face turned from interested to angry. She could feel the heating air around him.

"Why do you believe what that guy is telling you? He has been neglecting you, been talking bad about you, even hated you! He doesn't accept you as the person you are! I can't stand people like that! I pity them!"

Natsu was almost shouting, and weird enough, Lucy felt warm because of it. He was only thinking about her good, it was a thrilling feeling. But she knew he would have done it for any member of Fairy Tail. Not that it was something bad, but she still felt disappointed.

"I know Natsu, I also pity him. But he's not a liar, and he's probably the most reliable person when it comes to those rubies, as he told me he have no use of them".

The train approached the station, and Lucy knew that she wouldn't have any change to talk Natsu for the next three hours on the train. But before he passed out Lucy could feel his hand touching hers. She probably read too much out of it, but it made her heart lighter.

So it's not money his after, it's power. But I don't see why he would want all the rubies when only one is real, he must be aware of that. Or maybe it's not really the magical power of the rubies he wants. Maybe he's after some kind of stronger magical power. I've heard of some place which should consist of a huge amount of magical power, I read it somewhere, I don't remember where thought. He will probably use the rubies to gather the magical powers and somehow transfer them into himself. If he succeeds, we would get an enemy stronger than anyone else.

The train stopped, and they got off. They were in some little village, they would need somewhere to stay for the night. Natsu was back to normal, and for some reason ran around, spitting fire out of his mouth. Luckily there was no one outside, most people had probably gone inside for the night. Lucy saw a light outside a little house, and she went towards it, hoping it was a hostile.

"What can I do for you My Lady?"

The host asked, with a low voice that revealed his tiredness.

"Do you have a room with two separate beds?"

Lucy asked as Natsu still was too happy to care about anything else than freedom.

"Yes, of course. Just write your name here, and it will cost you 500 Jewels".

The host informed her and then gave her a key. From the other room someone, probably his wife, called his name. He sighed loudly, excused himself, and walked from the room. Lucy in the other hand had more than enough with trying to drag Natsu upstairs to the room. Because when she asked Happy for help he only got this evil gleam in his eyes, and told her she needed the training. Before Lucy could throw whatever she had in her hand at him, he had flied round the corner.

As Natsu fell asleep on the bed Lucy used some time in the bathroom. Trying not to bother herself by thinking about her job. Instead she started thinking about her novel. She had written 200 pages, and was only half way. She was trying to develop the story inside her mind. About how a fairy girl once had approach a human boy, and then even fallen for him. When they had become one it resulted in a child, half human, half fairy. This child had showed an ability never seen by mages before, the ability to open gates between worlds. This was the start of stellar magic. She was quite confident in her story, after all it was based on the myth of the mother of stellar magic.

When she went out of the bathroom again Natsu sat waiting for her. He was fully awake, but what really caught her attention was Happy's snoring. In a weird sense they were alone, and Lucy felt herself getting nervous. For the first time she could see that Natsu had matured the past 3 years. He had gotten taller, but the real change was this concerned look. She could feel her heartbeat, even though she knew she didn't blush easily, she looked down. The heat in the cheeks was enough to cause this kind of reaction.

"I know you loved your father Lucy, and I won't ever blame you if you want to go back to him. But I will do everything in my power to prevent it, because you won't find true happiness by your father's side".

Natsu's voice was strong, and she knew he had understood. She had missed her father, she had missed everything that she had left the day 4 years ago. But as Natsu perfectly reminded her off was that she would have missed Fairy Tail even more if she went back. For some reason she started crying, she tried to push through a smile, try to act as if everything was okay.

"I knew you held back, I've never quite understood how you could hold back your tears. So tonight I'll be the best friend you've ever had".

Natsu walked to her and wrapped his arms around her, so the only thing she could feel was Natsu's hot body against hers. She wanted to stay like this forever. He led her to her bed, and they sat down together. Not a word was said as they sat there. Natsu only patted her head as she cried against his chest, until she fell into deep sleep.

"Do you know a place with a huge amount of magical power?"

Lucy asked Natsu as she stared at her food, unable to look him in the eyes. The mature Natsu was gone, and he was the normal totally childish Natsu.

"Of course! Fairy tail's holy Island! You've heard of it?"

Natsu took a big bite of his bread and was as carefree as always.

"Never heard of it for some reason…"

Lucy answered a bit uncomfortable. Instead of eating her food she used the fork to play with it. She looked at Happy, just to make sure he didn't feel this weird awkwardness. But Happy was perfectly concentrated with eating his fish, and didn't give a care for anything else.

"It has a holy power, which always is gathering magical power, I've always thought about it as some kind of converter. I think it converts magic in over the ground to magic underneath the ground. So it makes a circle. So it should be another place on this planet doing the exact opposite! Converting magic underneath the ground to magic above the surface of the earth! And when talking about our holy island, it's said that the first guild master of Fairy Tail, Mavis Vermilion, is buried there!"

Lucy looked at Natsu for the first time since last night.

"How do we get to this island?"

Tehee, I hope Natsu developed in the right direction! I think he did ^^ Of course... I'm the author after all :D