"Well, here it is." Natsu said, motioning to the tall, stone tower. Lucy stood in awe, it looked just like the ones in story books.
After hours and hours of endless walking with a few breaks in between, they had finally arrived. This was the place where Lucy would spend long days of boredom for a week or two.
"Wow...um..how are we gonna get up there, though?" Lucy asked Natsu. Natsu shrugged in return.
"I dunno. Probably climb or something, there has to be at least a rope." Natsu suggested. Lucy sighed.
"How did you get ownership of this tower anyway?" Lucy asked as she followed Natsu, who was wandering around the circular base of the tower. He glanced back at her.
"It's in my family, I guess." He said, continuing to search, "Handed down. Each dragon blood family has a tower or castle." Lucy just nodded her head.
"Found it!" Natsu suddenly exclaimed. He tugged on a rope that was attached to a stone set in the tower. A small door swung open. Lucy stooped down and look inside. Cobwebs lined the walls and Lucy even saw a rat scuttle across the floor. In the middle of the small room a ladder stood up and reached all the way up to the ceiling.
"This is where I'll be living?" Lucy asked, exasperated. Natsu laughed out loud. About the millionth time he had laughed at Lucy, and it was really getting on her nerves.
"No! You're living on the top floor! The one with the windows and stuff." Natsu said, amused, "This is just how you get in."
"Oh..." Lucy said, relieved, "Then you'll live here?" Natsu laughed again.
"Nah, I'm living on the roof." Natsu said as he started up the ladder. Lucy gathered up her night gown and started climbing.
"What if I fall?" Lucy asked crossly.
"You'll die." Natsu said casually.
"Won't you help me?" Lucy asked, agitated.
"I won't be quick enough." Natsu declared, seemingly uncaring about Lucy's well being. Lucy groaned.
Natsu reached the top and punched open the trap door. He quickly climbed into the dusty room. He reached down and grabbed Lucy's hand to help her up.
"Thanks.." Lucy said as she looked around the dusty top floor. It was rather spacious. It had one window which over looked the large field in which they came from. The room itself had a large bed, a sort of shelf full of food way past its time for eating, a trunk, and a small table. Even though some things were dusty, everything was in relatively good shape. There were only a few cobwebs, but it seemed fine to live in otherwise.
"I'm gonna attache rope here by the window." Natsu said. He strolled over to the window and tied a rope to a supporting beam across the top of the window. Natsu climber onto the windowsill and up the rope. Lucy watched, impressed. She walked over to the windowsill and looked up at Natsu who was now on the tile roof.
"How are you going to live on a roof?" Lucy asked. Natsu shrugged. Lucy sighed and rolled her eyes. She pulled her head back into the room. She decided to start unpacking, since there really wasn't anything else to do.
"So, Natsu," Lucy asked as she placed her clothes into the small dresser, How are we going to eat? I brought food, but not enough to last a week or to feed you...Natsu?" Lucy rushed over to the window, wondering why he wasn't responding to her. She still wasn't quite used to being not treated like royalty. She stuck her head out the window and looked up. Natsu looked down at her.
"You should see the view from up here." Natsu said casually.
"Natsu! I was talking to you!" Lucy snapped, "You should normally listen to someone when they're talking!"
"Yeah, Yeah." Natsu said, rolling his eyes, "But seriously, get up here."
"No!" Lucy exclaimed, "I can't get up there!" Natsu held down his hand. Lucy stood stubbornly still.
"Come on." Natsu groaned, "I can't sit here forever!" Lucy gave one puff of disapproval at went to unpack some more. Natsu jumped down onto the windowsill and sat there.
"Maybe..later." Lucy said stiffly. Natsu grinned.
"What, are you scared?" He teased.
"Of course not!" Lucy exclaimed, turning around, "I-I just..um..wanted to finish unpacking." Lucy crossed her arms as if she had just finished winning an argument.
"You're scared." Natsu laughed.
"Am not!" Lucy retorted
"You are." Natsu said, grinning, "You're totally scared of heights."
"You know what?" Lucy said, fuming with anger, "I don't want to have this childish argument right now,okay?"
"Haha you're just avoiding the fact that your afraid." Natsu said smugly.
"Natsu, I am this close to pushing you out that window right now!" Lucy seethed.
"Yeah, try me." Natsu laughed, "You couldn't even kill a fly, princess."
"My name," Lucy said between her teeth, "Is Lucy."
"Right, right." Natsu said, waving it off, "Doesn't change the fact that your afraid of heights and probably couldn't even kill a fly, let alone push me out of this window." Lucy opened her mouth and then shut it. She quickly turned around and began folding random things, steaming with anger. Natsu smiled smugly at Lucy, even though she couldn't see him.
Natsu quickly jumped back up onto the roof again, leaving Lucy to her own personal space. Lucy folded the last thing and shoved it into the dresser. She collapsed onto her bed, exhausted from the journey. Even though she should probably change into new clothes, she was too tired to. So she ended up falling asleep on the dusty bed as the sun slowly sank behind the clouds.
Meanwhile, Natsu lay on the roof, thinking about the upcoming week and how much work it'd be to handle a princess and defeat a couple princes. Too much work. "But at least the princess is interesting." Natsu thought to himself, "That's pretty much the only upside to this whole job, the princess. Great, what am I getting myself into?"