Hey guys! Forgive any grammar/spelling errors, I just had a fangirl attack after watching an episode of Fairy Tail so I'm not quite thinking straight ;)
*NOTICE* I went back and changed some dialogue of Erza's in one of the chapters. So Erza is on the lacrosse team now, and the martial arts team.
*ANOTHER NOTICE* So I'm going to bend the space time continuum and make it so that soccer happens during the beginning of the school year. I have no clue what sports take place during when, so I'm just making it all up. I'm sorry if it bugs you, but I'm not going to rewrite my whole story just to follow a sports schedule. So if random sports are popping up during random times, that's why :D
Soccer tryouts were hard, but not bad. Lucy thought she did really well, she did a lot better than most of the guys.
Currently she was in her dorm, showering off the layers of sweat and dirt.
'I hope I make the team. I mean, they've got to let me in. I'm faster than all of them, and a soccer player has to be fast… right?!' she was panicking on the inside while washing her hair. It would look stupid to go through all of that then not make the team. She sighed and stepped out of the shower, grabbing a towel to dry herself.
She slipped into a pair of pajama pants and a big t-shirt, then slid her feet into some comfy slippers.
Just as she was about to crash on her bed, someone knocked on the door.
'What the hell does someone want at 11pm?'
Opening the door, she found the guy she had beat earlier.
"Gray? What do you want?"
"Can I come in?" he wasn't looking her in the eye.
"Sure?" she stepped aside, and he walked in. "How did you find me?"
"I've sort of been knocking on every single door. I figured I would find you eventually," he paused and took a deep breath. "Look, I wanted to apologize for being an ass earlier. I was a total jerk, and you didn't deserve any of it."
"Thanks," she was a bit taken back by his apology. "Do you… do you want a snack or something?"
"Actually, food sounds nice."
"Chips ok?"
"Sure."
Lucy turned around and went over to the kitchen. After looking through the cupboards, she found a bag of potato chips.
"Here I found – KYA!" she turned around to find Gray stripped down to his boxers.
"What?"
She dropped the chips and starting backing into a corner, which made the basically nude teenager slowly follow her.
"Are you ok? What's wrong?"
"Y-y-y your clothes! What the-" her eyes widened in realization. "RAPE! RAPE!" she screamed at the top of her lungs.
"What?! No, I'm not going to-"
"RAPE!"
He ran over to her and put a hand over her mouth, silencing her screams.
"Would you quit that?!" he shouted at her.
"LUCY?!" Erza burst through the door in her pajamas with a baseball bat in her hands, a deadly look in her eye.
Lucy tried to scream, but only muffled sounds came out.
The angry scarlet haired teenager rounded the corner, and saw a man in his underwear holding Lucy against the wall with his hand over her mouth.
"Get your hands off of her!" she swung the bat hard at the attacker. He fell to the ground in pain, and Erza kicked him aside.
"Are you alright? He didn't hurt you, did he?" she looked over Lucy for injuries, but found she was only shaken up.
"Ow, Erza, what the hell was that for?" Gray held his side in pain.
"You were attacking Lucy!"
"No, I wasn't! I came here to apologize, and next thing I know, she screaming 'RAPE!' like bloody murder!" he slowly started getting up.
"He took his clothes off, what – what was I supposed to think?!" Lucy shakily argued back.
"BAKA!" Erza kicked Gray again, and he fell back down in pain.
"You'll have to excuse this idiot. He has a bad stripping habit, and he's an idiot for not telling you!" she yelled the last part to him. "I'm glad to see you're not in any danger."
The accused rapist got up again, and leaned on the wall for support.
"Sorry Lucy, I didn't mean to scare you."
"It's alright. I'm sorry, I didn't know-"
"You have no reason to apologize," Erza interrupted. "Anyways, let's get back to bed. We've got classes tomorrow. Oh, and tomorrow is the first day of practice for the martial arts team. I'll come get you an hour after school ends, ok?"
"Ok. Thanks for coming to my rescue, and I hope you feel better Gray!"
"Yeah, yeah," he mumbled, slowly staggering back to his dorm… on the other side of campus.
Once they had left, Lucy put the chips away and fell into bed. Sleep consuming her the second she hit the pillow.
Lucy walked towards the school with Erza, Levy, Mira, and Lisanna.
"I heard something happened last night, are you ok?" Levy looked at her blonde friend.
"Yeah, I thought I heard someone screaming, but it stopped. So I figured it was a horror movie," Mira added.
"Gray went to her dorm last night to apologize, but Lucy didn't know of his stripping habit, so she though he was trying to rape her," Erza explained nonchalantly.
"That explains it," Lisanna giggled.
"Says you guys! I thought I was going to die!" Lucy flailed her arms around to make her point.
"Well, the important thing is that you're alright. And there was no real danger," Mira smiled. "This is where Lisanna and I have to go, we'll see you at lunch, ok?"
"Ok, bye Lisanna, Mira!" Lucy waved, and the other girls did the same.
"Are you in our class, Erza?" Levy asked.
"I am if Gildarts is your homeroom math teacher."
The blonde and bluenette nodded.
"Well, that's great. I'm glad we have at least one class together."
They entered the classroom to see complete chaos.
"Nothing changes," Lucy sighed, and made her way to her seat.
She couldn't help but overhear two particular people.
"I can't believe you did that, you ice prick, you're so stupid!" that was Natsu.
"Who you calling stupid, ash brain?!" definitely Gray.
"Gray, Natsu, do I hear fighting?!" Erza gave off a deadly aura, and the boys cowered in fear.
"No ma'am! We're best buddies, right?" Natsu wrapped his arm around Gray, who was giving the world's least convincing smile.
"That's right, best buddy!"
"I'm glad to see you're getting along," she turned around and took a seat next to Lucy.
Lucy heard them mumble something along the lines of "that was close" and "when the hell did she get back?"
Actually, the presence of Miss Scarlet in the room seemed to make everyone be on their best behavior. The bell rang, and Gildarts walked in with someone in his arms.
"Erza, glad to see you're back, can you put a desk right here," he motioned his foot on the other side of Lucy.
The red head stood up and grabbed a desk from the back, and someone followed her with a chair.
"Thanks," he set the unconscious person in the seat, and her head fell onto the desk. Brown locks covered her face, so Lucy couldn't see who she was.
"Cana," he shook her. "It's time for class."
"Class my ass," she growled.
"I tried," he shook his head before walking back to the white board and began the day's lesson.
The rest of Lucy's day consisted of science with Ms. Aquarius, gym with Mr. Capricorn, English with Ms. Lyra, History with Mr. Crux, and art with Mr. Cancer. As she was walking back to her dorm, she noticed all of the people gathered around the bulletin board.
'Huh. I wonder what's so important?' she weaved her was through a sea of people, and saw the names of the people who made the soccer team.
With her last name starting with an 'A', it was pretty hard not to miss it.
Lucy Ashley
It was the first name on the list.
"YES!" she screamed, and people began to realize that she was 'Lucy Ashley'. The second it clicked, they started bombarding her with questions.
She ran away quickly, and the people who followed her realized they could never catch up. Going past the dorms, she burst into the girls lounge.
"I made the soccer team!" she announced, and everyone stared at her a moment before cheering loudly.
"Congrats!"
"Nice job!"
"I knew you could do it!" Mira walked over to her, and engulfed her in a bone crushing hug.
"C.. can't.. breathe," she wheezed, and Mira released her.
"Opps, sorry! But that's great news!"
"What's great news?" someone slurred from the couch.
"Lucy made the soccer team, isn't that great, Cana?" Mira went over to her and motioned for Lucy to follow.
"Lucy, this is Cana. Cana, Lucy."
"Nice to meet you," Lucy held out her hand, and Cana limply shook it. "Did Gildarts carry you into class today?"
"Huh, so that wasn't a dream," she took a sip from a bottle. "Yeah he did. Gildarts is my dad."
"Oh," surprise crossed her face before it returned to normal. "That's cool."
"If you say so," she took a swig from the bottle again.
"You have to forgive her, she isn't her usual self," Mira placed a hand on Lucy's shoulder.
"Are you sure there's water in that bottle?"
The angel like girl just smiled, and led Lucy away from the drunkette.
"Cana is just upset because her dad cracked down on her about her drinking habits. She'll be fine in a little bit, I promise she's really nice."
"I look forward to meeting the nice Cana then," she laughed.
"She's much better than this Cana. So, do you want to work on the English homework together?"
"Sorry, but I've got to run. I'm going to the martial arts team practice. We can do it later, ok?'
"Ok, have fun!"
"Thanks," Lucy ran out of the lounge and back to her dorm. She placed her bag down and got the chips from last night. The bag opened with a pop, and the girl began to devour the continents of the bag.
When she was done, a certain someone knocked on her door.
"Hey Erza!" Lucy opened it with a smile.
"Hi, are you ready?"
"To be honest, I'm not really sure what I should wear…"
"Just something comfortable. A tank top and shorts or sweats is perfectly fine."
"Ok, come in. I'll just be a sec," she ran back to her closet and threw on a royal blue tank top and black shorts.
With her hair in a messy ponytail, she came back into the main area.
"Ready!"
"You know, it's so weird. The dorms last year were so crappy, now they're like apartments. I guess it's all thanks to Mr. Heartfilia and his extremely generous donation."
"Yeah," Lucy balled her hands in fists and clenched her teeth. "Extremely generous."
"You ok?" Erza noticed her sudden change of behavior.
"Hm? I'm fine," she hid her anger behind a smile.
They continued to chat as they walked through the campus, and into one of the gyms. Lucy noticed several areas had padding, and others had various types of training equipment.
"Everybody, I would like you to meet Lucy. She'll be joining us on the martial arts team this year," Erza introduced her to the group of boys.
Natsu, Gray, and some other guys made their way towards the gym.
"What are you doing here? I thought I told you I was going to do martial arts as my extra sport," Natsu growled at Gray.
"Yeah, and I decided that I wanted to do it as well. Got a problem with that?" he spat back, he was slightly limping from last night.
"In fact, I do," he was getting ready to throw a punch before Erza came into the room.
"You're so lucky," he said through clenched teeth, and Gray just chuckled.
"Everybody, I would like you to meet Lucy. She'll be joining us on the martial arts team this year," she introduced a blonde girl.
'Luigi, huh? I never thought she would be the fighting type,' Natsu didn't take his eyes off of her, that tank top just hugged her in every right way.
"Natsu," a voice called, snapping him out of his thoughts.
"Yeah," he looked up, and saw the voice belonged to Erza.
"Why don't you take Lucy to the back and show her the basics?" she smirked, obviously noticing the pink haired idiot staring at Lucy.
"S-sure," he stuttered, and Erza's smirk only grew with confidence.
Lucy followed Natsu to the back of the room, where there was a large mat.
"Natsu, right? I'm Lucy," she smiled and held her hand out to him.
"Nice to meet you, Luigi," he shook her hand, feeling a spark when they touched.
"It's Lucy," she said, obviously annoyed.
'Nice work, idiot! You called her the wrong name. Stay cool, you can do this. You're the coolest guy in school! No need to let a beautiful, smart, athletic, amazing-'
"Uh, are you ok? You're sort of spacing out," Lucy waved a hand in front of his face.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Sorry," he smiled his famous toothy grin, and Lucy's heart skipped a beat.
'What the – why are you nervous all of the sudden? Get it together Lucy!'
"Ok, so do you know anything about martial arts?" he asked.
"I've never had any first-hand experience, but I've watched plenty of fights."
"Then let's start at the bottom and work our way up."
"Sounds good."
Natsu then showed her the basics about punching and kicking, some sparring techniques, and self-defense.
"You're a quick learner," he smiled.
"Thanks," she took the bottom of her tank top and used it to wipe the sweat off of her forehead. During this moment, Natsu saw her toned stomach and perfect curves.
He couldn't look away, his stare only intensified.
When she put her shirt back down, he shook his head to clear the thoughts in his brain.
"It is hot in here, isn't it?" he noticed that he was working up a sweat also, and decided to take off his shirt.
Lucy couldn't help but gape as he stripped his body of the clingy fabric, only to reveal a chiseled six pack and perfect pecks. His muscular arms flexed as he pulled the shirt off.
'Bad Lucy! Very bad Lucy! Get those thoughts out of your head this instant!'
When he looked back, he saw her staring at him. He couldn't help but smile.
"You up for a friendly spar?" he asked, snapping her out of her trance.
"Yeah, I guess," she sheepishly looked away and scratched the back of her neck.
"Don't worry, I'll go easy on you. We'll just take it nice and slow and – gah!" while he was talking, Lucy managed to knock him off his feet and onto the floor.
"That's cheating!" he pouted.
"No, you just let your guard down," she looked down at him with a slight smirk on her face.
"Why you," he knocked her feet out from under her, which resulted in her falling down on top of him, her breasts in his face.
So, what did ya think? I know you want to tell me in a review *nudge nudge*. I haven't told you guys but I've had issues with my knee, but my MRI results came back. It's perfectly fine! I guess it's because I'm still growing and I'm extremely active and blah blah blah... Ok, shout out time :D
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