Chapter 3
"My feet hurt and it's hot..can't we take a rest!?" Lucy complained.
"Does she always complain like this?" Jellal whispered to Erza who simply nodded.
"Kyaa!" everyone turned around to see Lucy had tripped and fell into mud."Oh great now I'm all dirty!"
"Just relax I can hear a waterfall not to far from here." Natsu said helping the celestial mage out of the mud.
They walked on until they came to a waterfall and since it was so hot they sripped down into their underwear and jumped in the river to cool off. Natsu was busy playing Marco Polo with Lucy. He disappeared under the water and scooped Lucy up much to the blonde's surprise.
"N-Natsu put me down!"
"No way Luce."Natsu said taking Lucy into a cave not far from the river.
"They liiike each other!" Happy chanted.
"Gray-sama Juvia wants to be carried away too,so you and Juvia can play a little!" Juvia pleaded to the ice mage, she was really trying to seduce him.
"NANI!" Gray screamed as he ran away from Juvia.
Erza and Jellal sighed as they watched their companions ran off. They walked to the cave where they found Natsu and Lucy making a fire.
"Ne Jellal wanna come fishing with me, Happy and Gray?." Natsu asked the bluenette.
"Sure why not?"
-Time Skip (10 mins)-
"We haven't caught any fish yet." Jellal sighed, "Maybe I should've stayed with Erza."
"So you can finish what you started on the beach just before the Grand magic Games?" Gray snickered causing Jellal to blush.
"H-how do you know about that?!"
"Happy told us!" Natsu stated.
"Aye sir" Happy sang.
They all sat quitely until Natsu started to grunt as he pulled up a fish that was at least 2ft long.
-With the girls-
"Open the Gate of the Maiden! Virgo!" Lucy chanted as the maid appeared.
"Is it time for my punishment Hime?"
"No, can you make a pitfall please?"
"Sure Hime." Virgo said as she ot to work.
"Lucy what with the pitfall?" asked Erza.
"Yea what is it for?" Juvia asked aswell.
"It's for the boys...I just wanna see if they'll scream." she smirked,"But I gotta get more fire wood, I'll be right back."
"Okay." Erza and Juvia said simultaneously as Lucy left.
When Lucy left the boys had entered the cave with the fish they caught.
"Hey where's Lucy?" Natsu asked as he sniffed the air for the blonde's scent.
"She went to get fire wood." Erza explained as she helped Jellal fry the fish.
"Ahhhh!" Gray screamed as he fell into the pit fall,"WHAT THE HELL?!"
"Gray-sama!" Juvia screeched as she went to help Gray out the hole.
"Wow Lucy's plan worked...never knew Gray could scream!" Erza giggled.
"Whatever."
Everyone settled down to eat their lunch waiting for Lucy to return.
-With Lucy (Lucy's POV)-
I've been walking for a couple of minutes and my feet are sore as hell! I really need to work out more.
"I think we've got enough...right Plue!" I said to my Nicola who I summoned earlier.
"Pun pun!" he replied.
We began to head back to the cave but I heard rustling in the bushes so i reach for one my keys.
'Please don't be a Vulcan,please don't be a vulcan' I kept repeating in my head.
"Woman!"
"Oh Kami why?!" I screemed as i saw a vulcan before me, "Open the gate of the-"
"Pretty woman!" the Forest Vulcan sang as he slammed me in to a tree then squeezed the life out of me.I was trapped but there was only one thing to do.
"NATSU!" I screamed as loud as I could, but I was losing consciousness from all the squeezing, I hope Natsu gets here soon.
-Back at the cave (Natsu's POV)-
"NATSU!" I heard Lucy scream my name, she sound like she's in pain.
"Lucy is in trouble!...let's go Happy!"
"Aye sir!" he said as we flew off towards where Lucy was.
"Lucy...LUUUUUCCCCY!" I shouted. 'No answer.'
"Natsu mite!" Happy shouted showing me a Forest Vulcan."He has Lucy!"
As soon as we were close enough I decided to attack tthe vulcan.
"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" I roared knocking the Vulcan unconscious, causing him to drop Lucy and as always I caught her. When I got up I looked down in the valley I saw Shadow Haven.
"Happy go call Erza and they others tell them Lucy's hurt and I found Shadow Haven."
"Aye!" Happy said as he flew off.
I rest Lucy's body against a tree as she regained conscious.
"Luce are you okay?"
"Yea, thanks for saving me...again."
"What's the matter you look upset."
"Natsu am I strong?"
"Of course you are Luce!"
"But if I am why do I always lose and why do you always have to save me?" she started crying.
"Luce everyone needs to be saved sometimes,you saved me, I mean remember how defended yourself against Phantom Lord or when you defeated the guys from the dark guild when you went looking for your father...maybe you and I can train after we're done with the mission."She nodded then I rested my forehead on hers and leaned in to kiss her.
"AHEM!" Erza 'cleared her throat' as we sprang to our feet."Are we interrupting something?"
"What..no...we weren't doing anything...yea nothing at all...hehe."
"They liiike each other."
"Shut it you shitty cat."
"Waaah Natsu Lucy's being mean!."
"Anyways where's the Guild?" Jellal asked.
"Down there." I pointed to a structure in the valley.
"Good let's go." Erza said a we began to hed towards the dark guild.
Everytime we got closer to Shadow Haven I couldn't help but notice that I couldn't sense any magic at all..not even one person. It's kind of weird 'cause there's usually alot of strong people...but oh well less work for us.
"We're here." Juvia stated.
We all readied ourselves as I kicked down the door, and just like I suspected it was empty, I went in first and looked around.
"It's empty...?" said Juvia.
Jellal looked around scanning the area,"Something isn't right dark guilds are never empty..."
"Maybe they went on vacation or on a walk...?"
"I don't think they do that ash brains."
"I know! They probably smelt Lucy coming and ran away!" Happy giggled.
"URUSAI!"
We all walked down the hall and decided to search the rooms and found nothing so we decided that we check the basement and man we were in luck 'cause there was alot of treasure and by alot I mean touching the coins, jewels,pearls,and hopefully the amulet might be in here too!
"That's alot of treasure." Gray said.
I ran and jumped into a pile of gold coins and found a crown and put it on.
"Kirei!" Lucy said as she looked at a pearl necklace.
"Look Gray-sama Juvia's a queen!"
"Yea whatever."
Juvia walked over to me and took my crown and put it on that ice bastard's head.
"See Gray-sama your my king!"
"Hey we didn't come to fool around we need to find Sparkle's amulet!" Titania reminded us as she started to search for the missing item.
"Oh yea...I'm all fired up." I pumped my fists in the air and started searching with Gray, Jellal and Happy. For some reason I can't shake the feeling that something's wrong.
-Time Skip (1 hr/ Normal POV)-
An hour passed and still the amulet no has found the amulet and there was still a whole mountain of treasure to go through.
"This is hopeless!" Lucy blurted out and fell back into a pile of gold coins. "We'll never find it!"
"We can't give up just yet, so keep searchin'." Jellal stated still searching.
Natsu was sitting quietly in a corner playing with something while everyone was still searching.
"Oi flame breath why ain't you searching for the amulet?!" Gray scolded the Dragon Slayer.
Natsu got up and turned around with a blank expression on his face, and everyone noticed a small necklace like object in his hands.
"Hey Natsu what are you holding?" asked Erza.
"Wait a second..."Gray said as he stepped closer to Natsu,"NATSU YOU BASTARD THIS IS THE AMULET WE'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR!"
"Ooooh so that's what it is...hehe."
"Seriously what did you think it was...an extremely hard cookie tied to a chain?!" Lucy screamed.
"Umm yea..." he replied scratching his head.
"That's Natsu for ya!" Happy giggled as Juvia nodded in agreement.
Erza took the amulet from Natsu and they left Shadow Haven and began to return to the village.
"That was too easy." Gray stated.
"Juvia thinks so too, normally dark guilds aren't empty."
"Well at least we got the amulet and plus Natsu didn't destroy anything!" Lucy cheered.
"Lucy can you get me a fish please?" Happy asked.
"It's for Carla isn't it..."
"Aye!"
Lucy sighed and smiled at the blue exceed,"Sure why not!"
The rest of the journey went smoothly, well until Juvia tripped and sprined her ankle. However they managed to return the amulet back to Sparkle, after recieving their rewards they checked out of the Hotel they were staying in.
-On the train-
Lucy looked down at the sleeping pinkette whose head was her lap, she was gently stroking her hands through his messy hair to comfort him from his motion sickness. Erza and Jellal were in a deep conversation while Juvia was fast asleep in Gray's arms and Happy was staring out the window.
"Hey Erza what are you gonna do when we get back home?" Lucy asked gaining the red head's attention.
"Well I was gonna go with Jellal to see Meldy and Ultear and check up on Millianna." she replied.
"Oh okay...what about you Gray?"
"I'm gonna take Juvia home then go to the guild, hopefully Wendy can do something about her ankle."
As the train approached the station Lucy decided she should wake up Natsu.
"Oi Natu wake up we're home!"
"Five more minutes Luce..."
"Oh for Mavis sake." Lucy mumbled as she got up causing Natsu to fall on the ground.
"Natsu!" Happy cried as he flew to partner who was wide awake.
"Owww Luce what was that for?!" Natsu roared rubbing his sore head.
"We're home you idiot." Lucy screamed as they got off the train.
Everyone went they're seprate ways and Lucy accompanied by Happy and Natsu went to the market to get Happy his fish for Carla, once he got it he went to go find her. Natsu walked Lucy home and she invited him to have dinner.
-Time skip (20 mins)-
"Natsu the bathroom's all yours." Lucy said as she got out of the bathroom, she had on her pajamas and she gave Natsu a towel and a change of clothes she usually kept when he stayed over.
"Do I have too?" the dragon slayer whined.
"You better take a shower if you're planning on sleeping in my bed tonight other wise it's the couch for you."
"Aye sir!"
As Nastu entered the bathroom Lucy began working on a new chapter for her novel, she was so caught up in her novel that she never noticed Natsu had just come out of the bathroom. When she wa finished she got up and turned around, only to find Natu had just taken the towel from his waist.
"Natsu!" the blonde screamed as she blushed and covered her eyes and turned around.
"Huh...oh sorry Luce." Natsu apologized and quickly got dressed, "I'm done..you could look now."
Lucy turned around and climbed into bed and Natsu did the same after he turned off the light.
"Hey Natsu isn't Happy coming tonight?"
"Nope he's staying with Carla and Wendy."
"Oh ok well good night."
"Night Luce." Natsu yawned and fell asleep.
-At Shadow Haven-
"Sai and Kesain!" a young woman with short purple hair called.
"Yes Mistress?" the two identical boys came rushing down the hall. They had long white hair which they kept in a ponytail, they were dark skinned and wore grey samurai outfits and kept swords at their sides.
"A amulet was stolen from the Warehouse by Fairy Tail, it seems like that little sister of mine asked them to retrieve it." Mistress told them.
"Would you like us to punish her?" Sai asked.
"No...I want the blonde girl from Fairy Tail...the celestial mage."
"Lucy Heartifillia?" Kesain asked.
"Yes...but you need to get rid of the Salamander first, now go and hurry up!" she ordered as they left.
"Why Lucy?" Estelle asked entering the room.
"Because if I can get my hands on her, and turn her against Fairy Tail..Natsu Dragneel would definitely come get her and once he's out of the way I can wipe out evry single fairy!" Mistress explained.
"What about Titania...the Demon Mirajane, Gildarts and Makarov?!...Lucy is no match for them!"
"That's why I'm gonna train her and teach her Death Magic...besides Natsu wouldn't hurt Lucy plus all she needs to do is tire them out and i'll finish them off, she can die for all I care!"
"What if your plan fails?"
"My plan wouldn't fail,I my self can easily surpass Gildarts who isn't back yet...Lucy Heartifilia is just my pawn once the Salamander is gone!"