A/N: So here is the third chapter. I hope you enjoy!
Chapter 3
I woke up in bed. Hmm, I must've fallen asleep during the movie and Natsu brought me to the bed. He's so sweet, where is he? I said searching my bed and room.
"Natsu?" I called trying to locate my pink headed partner. Huh? I guess he went home. Oh well, I've gotta get ready. I get up and go take a shower and get dressed. I make myself a small breakfast, after I ate, I grabbed my stuff and headed out to meet up with Cana. I met her at the train station.
"LUCY! CANA! " We heard everyone shout.
"Good luck!" Levy said giving me a hug.
"Come home safe." Gray said patting me on the back. Erza just gave me a bone crushing hug.
"Thanks guys." I smiled. "Has anyone seen Natsu?"
"Nope." Levy shrugged.
"I thought I saw him at the guild this morning, maybe Mira knows." Wendy said.
"Thanks Wendy." I said giving her a hug. "Mira?"
"Oh hey Lucy. Good Luck." She said, smiling.
"Thanks. Hey have you seen Natsu?"
"Yeah he took a small job this morning. He said something about needing money for a gift or something. I think he thought he'd be back to send you off but it must be taking him longer than he thought." She answered.
"Oh ok, it's probably for the girl he plans on confessing to." I sighed. "When you see him and Happy tell them I said goodbye and I'll see them soon." She nodded that she would. "Thanks Mira."
'LAST CALL TO BOARD THE TRAIN'
"I guess I better go." I said to everyone. I smiled and waved to everyone then boarded the train.
"Later Bitches!" Cana yelled out the train window as it started to leave.
"So we just have to help a girl who recently lost her mother?" I asked Cana.
That's what the request sheet said." She answered.
"It sounds easy, maybe a little too easy. I think we should be prepared for something much harder." I mused.
"Yeah yeah, so what's up with you and your "Partner" "Teammate" oh whatever he calls it?" Cana asked, using air quotes around partner and teammate.
"What? Natsu and I are great and there's nothing going on. We're best friends and teammates/partners." I said.
"Oh really? Is that so? I don't think that that's all that's going on." She said matter of factly. "He's way more protective of you than anyone else, he's with you way more than anyone else. I've never seen him act like this with anyone, not even Lissanna. Honestly I'm surprised he let you come on this mission with me. He didn't take as much convincing as I thought either."
"It's probably because we're best friends not just partners." I said quickly not thinking about my answer.
"No. He was best friends with Lissanna too remember." She said simply. So what does that mean? He said he has someone he likes though, but when I tried to distance myself last night he said that the girl wouldn't mind him being so close to me. The way we would sleep together sometimes wasn't just best friend behavior was it? But Natsu has always acted so innocent and oblivious to anything remotely romantic or sexual. There's no way he thought that the way we acted was anything more than friendly behavior. He didn't know any better, Natsu doesn't have any boundaries.
"There's no way he could, he didn't even come say goodbye." I whispered to myself.
"Lucy you like him don't you?"
"Yeah but it's more than that. I think I may be in love with him. When he's not around, I wish he was. When we're together I'm just so happy, he makes me happy. Cana I need him and that's why I can't tell him. I can't do anything to jeopardize him being there. Besides he says he has someone he likes, and as long as he's happy, I'm happy." I explained to the older woman.
"Your secrets safe with me, I won't tell that dense idiot anything. I think that you need to, but I'm not going to push you into anything." She smiled, I sighed. There's no way I could handle not having him around anymore. I need him around. I want him to sneak into my room at night; I liked cooking for him and even Happy. I can't do anything to jeopardize that, but I know that there's already someone he likes and that means that it could already be in jeopardy anyways. Gahh! I don't know what to do anymore. Oh well, I don't want to think about it right now, there's nothing I can do about it now anyways. I'll just focus on the mission and worry about it later. I stared out of the window thinking up new ideas and settings for my novel.
"Lucy come on we're here." Cana said shaking me awake. I guess I must've dozed off.
"Right coming sorry." I mumbled getting up and stretching. "Let's check in to the hotel and then go meet the client. If it's not to late after we can grab a bite to eat."
"Sure whatever." Cana agreed. We made our way to the hotel and got checked in. We left our luggage in our room and headed to the clients house.
"You must be the Fairy Tail mages. We've been waiting for you." A young maid said opening the door for us and leading us to a sitting room. The house was more like a mansion, it almost reminded me of the Heartfilia Manor, but not quite as big. "Wait here, I will inform the Master that you are here." We nodded. We sat quietly waiting.
"Ahh So the Fairy's came huh?" A mans voice said entering the room.
"Um…" Cana said.
"You fell right into my trap." The man said. "Though my plan worked better than I thought it would. I figured I'd only get one weak Fairy not two powerful ones." He laughed.
"What do you want with us?" I said venomously.
"Oh aren't you a pretty one." He said grabbing my chin and forcing my head up, so he could get a better look at me. "I really only need one Fairy to complete my plan, I could have some fun with you."
"You picked the wrong Guild to mess with." I stated proudly and signaled to Cana who had gotten her cards out. She threw her some of her magic cards at him, but nothing happened.
"HAHA! You think that's going to work!" He snarled. "There's magic warding runes around the mansion. We knew we were trying to catch a Fairy and even the weakest of you is pretty strong." He smirked. Now what are we supposed to do now? I looked over to Cana who looked just as panicked as I felt. We needed to get out of the mansion and fast. "There's no way our my beautiful hostages."
"Fairy Tail will come save us." I said.
" The plan will be nearly complete by the time they even realize you both are in any danger." He gloated.
"So what is your plan anyways?" Cana questioned.
"Hmm… You're quite beautiful too aren't you. To bad I have a soft spot for blondes." He grinned at me. "I have big plans for you both. You my dear will be drained of all your magic, I need just a smallish amount of magic to make this work." He explained pulling out a small wooden box, with ancient carvings on it. "This box will turn me into a mage. I've always been fascinated with magic and wanted to be a mage. No guild will take a non-magic user. I searched high and low for a spell, ritual, or tool, anything that could make me a mage. Finally after years of waiting and searching, I've found it. I told the Dark Guild, Raven Moon, of my plan and they decided to help me and once I have my magic I will be allowed to join them." He smiled.
"So you're willing to kill one of those that you idolize so much?" I ask disgust dripping from my voice.
"If it means I can become a mage, then I will do whatever it takes." He snarled.
"So you're willing to lose your humanity and all respect from other mages just to become one of us?"
"No! Raven Moon will accept me." He was becoming frustrated.
"They are a Dark Guild, they already don't respect you and will always think of you as a freak a hybrid, a second class half blood."
"No! They will accept me, you stupid wench!" He yelled, hitting me across the face so hard that I fell to the floor.
"Lucy!" Cana screamed lunging to help me, but our crazy captor caught her before she could reach me.
"Haha! Not so fast Sweetie!" I took out my whip and hit him the only place I could, his back.
"You little Bitch!" He said turning on me again. "You will regret doing that!" He screeched, lunging at me again. He knocked my whip out of my hand and kicked it out of reach for me. Cana ran over and got it, while our captor started to beat me. His flurry of fists and feet hurt but it was nothing compared to the beating Gajeel had put me through back when he was part of Phantom Lord. Cana used the whip on him once she figured out how to use it. He turned on her, but he didn't want her to damaged because she was the one he wanted to use.
"Haha, what a pitiful man. Where's Raven Moon now? Are they afraid to fight without their magic or did they abandon you when your plan started to fail?"
"My plan hasn't failed! I still have you both in my reach." I ran over and Lucy kicked
him back and helped Cana up. He came at me with a vase he managed to grab. I dodged his first attempt to hit me, but tripped over a fallen chair. I tried to stand up but my foot was caught in the intricately designed back of the chair. I saw Cana sneak up behind him with a mirror to smash over his head. He sprinted toward me suddenly and smashed the vase across the back of my head. I heard the sound of glass shattering before I blacked out.
A/N: Ok so there's the third chapter. I am currently working on chapter 4 so hopefully I can update again soon. I hope you liked it, and again I'm sorry for any mistakes.
