Here we go… Juvia thought while she tried to find her way around the school. "Okay, the first class of the day Juvia has is Astronomy with Professor Fernandes." Or 'Jellal' apparently. Juvia still found it odd how the teachers at Hogwarts were referred to by their first names. This school was unbelievably casual, especially to someone like her.
"Juvia!" she whipped her head around to find the blonde- Lucy. Juvia sighed, she didn't want anyone coming up to her.
"Hello Miss Lucy." Juvia responded, receiving a laugh from Lucy.
"No need to be so formal, you can call me Lucy, or 'Lu' if ya want." she smiled.
"Al-alright, Lucy." she replied, "So which class are you going to?"
"I have potions with Jellal, how about you?" Instinctively that made Juvia happy, sharing a class with someone she knew. Right away she tried to erase that thought, having no idea why that even came up.
"Juvia has that class too right now." was all she said. Lucy gave a little squeal.
"Awesome! Then let's get going."
Juvia always ended up having a class with a wizard whom she met on the night she was sorted. One class in particular however, she shared with not only Lucy, but with everyone else she sat with on her first night here at Hogwarts.
That class was her last one of the day, Defense Against the Dark Arts. She ended up sitting next to the wild one named Natsu.
"Welcome to Defense Against the Dark Arts, and if you don't already know," the teacher laughed, "I am Professor Gilderoy Lockhart."
Juvia could hear Natsu grumble, "I already hate this guy."
"If any of you desire to extend your knowledge in defending the dark arts, I suggest reading my latest novel Wandering with Dragons, which by 'wandering' I mean killing those foul creatures." Immediately Natsu got out of his chair, slamming his hands down on his desk. Of course I ended up next to him… Juvia slouched in her seat, trying to hide herself.
"You don't know anything about them!" Natsu yelled.
The change in Gilderoy's tone and posture was obvious to anyone in the class. "And who might you be, pink hair?" all heads turned back to Natsu, waiting for his response.
"The name's Natsu, Glide-rock." Juvia could see the shirtless one- Gray she recalled, roll his eyes.
"My first name is Gilderoy, thank you," he spat, "and you along with every other one of my students will call me by Professor Lockheart." This time, it was the one with all the piercings who stood up.
"That's not how things work here Gilderoy."
Gilderoy-or Professor Lockhart seemed to grow even angrier, "If I hear one more remark out of either one of you, you'll both be receiving detention until midnight tonight-"
"The name's Gajeel, and for once I agree with the Salamander. Let me ask you this, have you even seen a dragon up close, or even know what a dragon slayer is?" Gasps were heard across the classroom. Juvia wasn't used to this kind of chaos, something like this would never happen at her old school.
"Yes, I do Gajeel. And for the record a 'dragon slayer' is just a title. I did in fact slay those dragons, therefore one could call me a dragon slayer. And your useless remarks has earned you and Natsu detention until midnight every day for the rest of this week." Juvia could see one of her roommates, Levy breaking her pencil.
"Oh yeah buddy?" Natsu screamed, "Well I was raised by a dragon so I think I know a hell of a lot more about them than you ever could! And I still don't believe you actually even found one, no dragon has been spotted for seven years. So how could you have possibly killed one?"
"Alright, I've heard enough out of you Natsu. Both you and Gajeel will be in my classroom for detention from after dinner to midnight tonight and for the rest of this week. And if anyone else wants to join them, than feel free to make a pathetic remark right now." The classroom remained silent after that, even Natsu and Gajeel sat back down. "Good, now let's get on with class today, shall we?"
"I can't believe that freak, he's so unbelievably fake." Natsu complained to his girlfriend during dinner.
"Well, you don't know that for sure Natsu, maybe he really did do all the things he's written about. Either way, his books are really good!" Lucy replied back while Natsu just groaned.
"How could you even say that? Whatever, maybe I'll just not go to detention tonight. I don't care what that liar says." he said with a mouthful of food in his mouth.
"Oh cut the crap Salamander," Gajeel chimed in, "We both have to go tonight. I know it sucks but it's not gonna kill us."
"He's right," Levy said, "You'd be in some serious trouble if you didn't go, even though it's completely unfair how he treated the two of you, especially since you're dragon slayers. But I'm not really sure what to believe, his books don't exactly make logical sense. I mean, with the age he's presented himself as, how could he have done all of those things..." she continued to ramble on about how his stories didn't make sense, but Natsu started to not pay attention. He hated how a teacher like Glide-rock, or 'Professor Lockhart' was allowed to be teaching them. Let alone, one of the most important subjects at the school. Natsu didn't want to just sit by, letting him be a useless teacher. With the threats of dark legions forming, it was especially important for everyone at the school to learn how to defend themselves.
"What's your opinion on this Juvia?" Natsu asked. She hadn't made a comment all of dinner, nor did ice boy. But he was the last person Natsu wanted to hear talking.
"Oh, um it seems to Juvia that he was a rather…unusual teacher. Compared to every other teacher that is. Every class that Juvia had today, they all went by their first names and were all unique in a good way. However, when it came to Professor Lockhart, he was rather harsh." she responded, seeming exhausted after talking so much.
"Ain't that the truth." Ice boy popped in. Natsu quickly turned to him.
"That reminds me," he explained, "why didn't you say anything in class today? You just sat there taking all of his crap!" ice boy just sighed.
"Because pyro, it wouldn't do any good. I'd only end up being a loser like you who has to go to detention tonight."
"So? Take a stand for yourself idiot! I bet the next time Glide-rock mentions something false about your kind of magic, you'll start going at him."
"Juvia would cheer you on if Gray-sama did that." he heard Juvia mumble. No one but Gajeel and Natsu seemed to hear her since they both have really sharp hearing due to being dragon slayers. Natsu tilted his head.
"What was that Juvia?" he questioned. Her face started to grow red.
"No-nothing at all. Um, Juvia was just saying how maybe everyone should-uh, maybe Juvia and everyone else here should teach ourselves how to prefect our magic?" she blurted out. Natsu started to actually think. Teach ourselves… Just as he was about to agree with her, Gajeel started to stand up.
"C'mon salamander. We have to head on over to detention." he grumbled. Natsu rolled his eyes.
"Fine…"
Detention was long and stupid.
"Mavis, why did I waste my time doing that?" Natsu whined to Gajeel as they were walking back to their dorm.
"Beats me, all we did was answer his stupid fan mail." he grunted.
"I know! 'Celebrity is as celebrity does'," Natsu imitated. "Ergh, I hate that guy!" He couldn't believe that he was being forced to deal with him all school year and possibly the one after that. "The worst part is that Lucy doesn't completely hate him too."
"Give her time salamander, she'll learn to hate him soon enough." Gajeel responded. "I can't really get a good read on Levy. She's more of just trying to investigate him, it doesn't seem like she wants to call him out any time soon though." While Natsu and Lucy had been officially going out since last year, neither Gajeel nor Levy would admit how they both loved each other. Just like how me and Lucy were… Gajeel lowered his voice, "Are you going out tonight to do your 'thing'?"
Natsu shrugged, "Probably, someone has got to tell her about Glide-rock. Maybe she or Jellal could do something about him."
"Alright, but you better get goin', it's already past midnight." Gajeel told him.
"Yeah. I'll have to get ice boy up, then go get Lucy. See ya tomorrow." Natsu said, running ahead of Gajeel.
"Later freak."
A/N:
Hey everyone!
I wanted to say 'Hey guys!' but that's amazingphil's thing D:
Anyway, hope your day is going well, and I hope you enjoyed the new chapter!
Just finished writing this hehe (looks like I'm not really ahead anymore).
So yes, Natsu and Lucy are already 'canon' in this fanfic :3
There will probably be a flashback to explain how that happened in some future chapter.
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