So.. You remember when I said that I'd stick to romance for this fic.. yeah, I lied. I just couldn't help it, this was so fun to write! I know it's been a while since I posted the first chapter, I'm sorry, but I hope that it'll be worth it. The romance will return after this chapter, I promise!

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Fairy Tail belongs to Hiro Mashima.

Kidnapped

As daybreak came and the first ray of sunlight found Natsu's drooling face, he jumped up from the moldy ground and threw Happy into the air and watched him save himself just before he hit the ground. "Natsu, stop doing that! I hate waking up feeling like I'm having a heart attack!" he complained and crossed his arms, but Natsu wasn't paying attention. He had just discovered that both Lucy and Gajeel were gone. The fireplace had been put out with water and there was no sign of the dragon and his blonde companion anywhere. "Where the hell are they?" He spun around a few times, looking as far into the forest as he could but still he could not see them. There were no prints for him to follow and the flowers spewing out all kinds of different smells were blocking his nose for any kind of human smell. "Luuuuucy!" He yelled as loud as he could, he sharpened his ears for a few seconds but when he heard nothing in reply he really started wondering if they had left him behind. "Why would you do that to me?" he sobbed, feeling sorry for himself. "I can't see them; the trees are covering the ground." Happy said on his way down from the tree tops. "I don't understand… Why would they leave me?" – "Us" Happy added- "We have a much better chance at finding Levy with my nose! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU GUYS!?"

Previous that night.

Lucy wakes up by the crackling sound of footsteps in the dark forest behind her. Her eyes shoots open and she regrets leaving her keys in her bag on the other side of the fireplace. She sees Natsu sleeping, but she awaits the situation. She tilts her head upwards to see Gajeel on the ground next to her. His eyes are open and he holds his finger over his lips. Is it the attackers? Lucy wonders, she hopes. Gajeel lifts his body up and gives her a signal to stay down. He gets up without any sound and tip toes on his masculine body in the direction of the sound. "Iron Dragon's Sword!" Lucy does not dare to turn around, it's quiet. Minutes pass by and Gajeel has vanished into the darkness. Lucy doesn't hear any sounds, not even her own breathing. She squeezes her eyes together and slowly sits up. She crawls quickly and quietly over to her bag and digs up her beloved keys and breathes out hard in relief that she has them in her hand. She looks around, but Gajeel is gone. Where is he? She sits still for a while, analyzing the situation. She figures it's best to wake up Natsu, he will know what to do. But before she is able to reach his soothing warmth Lucy feels a pair of big rough arms around her waist and a soaking cloth is pressed against her mouth. Her eyelids feels heavy and she knows her eyes are about to roll back. She reaches out her arm in a weak attempt to grab Natsu, but her body is shutting down too quickly. Her keys slips out of her hand and lands with a *clink* on the ground. Her sight goes blurry and a blanket of black silence covers her completely. The sweet-ish smell of chloroform is the last thing she registers before passing out.

"Natsu!" Droy and Jet yelled in union when the dragon slayer kicked opened the door to the guild. "Did you find her!?" they said with big smiles filled with hope. The smiles soon dropped when they took a closer look at Natsu's face. "What happened? Where are Lucy and Gajeel?" Erza said firmly. Natsu took a deep breath and told them how he had woken up alone in the woods. He had been searching all day for his two teammates, but no luck. He had finally given in to Happy's suggestion of going to the guild for help. He was only hesitant to the idea of going back because it was more bad news and it would make everybody even more worried than they already were, he didn't want that. He wanted so badly to find them, but he wasn't stupid either, he knew when to ask for help.

"Good job, pyro, you were supposed to find someone, not lose even more people," Gray huffed. "Shut up bastard, this is serious. It wasn't my fault!" Natsu sneered back. "Both of you stop it! We need to act quickly. It's possible that Lucy and Gajeel were taken by the same people that took Levy, you said you camped near the place she went missing, right?" Erza said and Natsu nodded vaguely and tightened his fists. He felt so guilty and it drove him crazy knowing he wasn't able to protect his teammates, especially Lucy. He knew Gajeel could take care of himself, but if something happened to Lucy… his fist instinctively lit on fire and the fire crackled around his hand. "Natsu, we will find them." Erza knew Natsu well enough to know that he was blaming himself, but at the same time she knew that this way he would try even harder to find everybody. She knew he had been determined on finding Levy, but now that Lucy was gone, he would really put all of his energy into finding her. And maybe finding Lucy meant finding Levy, she could only hope. "Ok, let's go. Jet and Droy you stay here, if anybody else comes back tell them what happened and tell them to keep an eye open for all three." Erza equipped and stormed out of the guild with Gray and Natsu following close behind her. "By the way, it's good to see you up, Jet," Natsu yelled over his shoulder and smiled. "Please find them!" Jet waved back.

"Hey! Blondie, wake up!" Gajeel whispered and tried to poke Lucy with his leg but he couldn't reach her. His hands were tied over his head and attached to the stone wall. "Lucy!" he called again, louder this time. "Hmm…" Lucy mumbled. She opened her eyes slowly and saw the moldy floor beneath her, then the stone walls. Her eyes felt heavy and her mind was foggy, she felt like throwing up but she was able to keep it down. She tried to take her hand to her head to feel the pounding but discovered that her hands were tied behind her back. "Wh-What..?" She looked around the room, where was she? She saw Gajeel across the room, standing up with his hands above his head tied with a chain of metal. "Gajeel..? What's going on?" She asked with a husky voice. "Are you ok?" he was clearly concerned, but mostly relieved that she had woken up. "I'm fine, but where are we? What happened?" She was coming to her senses, but had a headache that made her eyes flinch from the gloomy paraffin lamp in front of her. "I don't know. I remember going into the woods to check out that noise, but someone jumped be and drugged me before I saw who it was, next thing I know, I wake up here," he explained. Lucy looked at the chains holding him up, "why don't you just break the chain? Aren't you the iron dragon?" She said, annoyed that he hadn't done it before. "Do you think I'm stupid? It's not iron, it's chrome, way stronger than iron, I couldn't break it even if I tried right now, I'm too hungry." He huffed, embarrassed to confess that he had a weakness. "But seriously, where are we? I don't understand!" Lucy swung her head around in a frantic movement, "Where is Natsu?" she exclaimed with a hint of panic to her voice. "Don't know, haven't seen him around here. I don't smell him either, maybe he got away, I don't know," Gajeel tried to break the chains again, just in case. It was still no use, his powers were at its lowest, he desperately needed to eat something.

"So this is where you woke up?" Erza inspected the camp thoroughly, but didn't seem to find any clues on what had happened. "Yeah, I didn't smell anything when I woke up though, the flowers interrupted my sense of smell," he complained. "Useless dragon," Gray rolled his eyes. "You wanna go, droopy-eyes? Come at me!" Natsu smashed his forehead onto Gray's and growled while his hands crackled from fire yet again. "I'll kick those flames right of you, pepper breath!" Gray challenged. "Stop it!" Erza shouted, "This is not the time for fighting! Can't you guys just try to focus!?" She pulled both of their heads apart and pulled their hair until they whimpered in pain. They both fell to their knees and looked at each other in shame over not taking the situation seriously, "Sorry…" They said.

"Natsu, you still have Lucy's bag?" Erza held out her hand. Natsu nodded and gave it to her. He had been carrying it since that morning, hoping that Loke would come out to talk to them, maybe he had sensed something? "Are we even sure they were taken? They could've just gone to get some water or something and gotten lost." Gray tried to sound positive, but even he heard how stupid it sounded. "Lucy would never leave her keys behind, and they weren't even in her bag but on the ground. She would never leave them on the ground, something must've happened to her," Natsu sighed. He suspected that Gray had said it to cheer him up, but honestly it had just reminded him of how useless he had been. Why hadn't he woken up? Why hadn't he saved them? Erza saw his expression and padded his shoulder gently, "It's not your fault, Natsu. You can't think like that. We'll find them, I promise."

"Open the Gate of the Lion! Leo!" Lucy ordered, but Loke never came through. She tried again, louder this time, she really needed him to hear her. "I thought he could pass through on his own?" Gajeel questioned. "He can, but he might be busy or something, I can't normally reach him without my keys, and since I'm not in any life threatening situation, he won't just pop out for nothing." Lucy looked around the room to try and find some other way of escaping; the only thing in the room was the paraffin lamp before her. "I have an idea!" Lucy reached her leg out and caught the handle of the lamp between her toes and dragged it over to her. The rope that was tied around her hands had a loose end that was about a meter long and Lucy felt really smart when she grinned over at Gajeel, waiting for him to catch on. She tipped the lamp over on the rope and prayed it would light up. "Are you crazy? You'll burn your hands off!" Gajeel was shaking the chains holding him up trying to make a point. "I deal with Natsu's flames on a daily basis, I think I'll be alright," she winked over at him. As the lamp fell to the floor, the fragile glass broke and the paraffin inside the container spilled over the rope, letting the fire eat its way up to Lucy's hands. The knot untied and Lucy shook the feeling back in her hands and smiled triumphantly. "See?" she walked over at Gajeel and was trying to open the lock on the chains when she heard footsteps coming closer. "Shit! Hurry up!" Gajeel rushed. "I can't open the lock it's too hard!" Lucy whimpered while putting all of her powers into pushing it open, without much luck. Soon a black shadow emerged behind her.

"Well, well, what so we have here?" a dark man's voice sent shivers down Lucy's spine and she turned her head slowly to meet the tall dark figure leaning over her. The man suddenly grabbed Lucy by her hair and pulled her back to lean against his body. "Let me go!" Lucy shrieked by the pain and tried to dig her nails into his hand to make him release his grip. "Hey, let her go!" Gajeel's eyes were burning red and he pulled his arms repeatedly to break from the shackles holding him in his place. "Don't think so, buddy. I kind of need you guys," the man sent Gajeel a wry smile before pulling Lucy across the room and tied her hands behind her back again. He forced her down on the floor and put handcuffs, which were bolted to the wall, around her tiny ankles. "Need us, for what?" Lucy panted. The man lifted his sleeve and a crest came to sight on his lower arm, "You see this crest? It's from the guild Silver Cape, a dark guild that runs this country's largest business in human trafficking. You two are the unlucky ones that get to be sold, but that means money for me, you see?" he laughed a loud echoing laughter before he knelt down before Lucy with a grin. Her face was frozen in panic and she had no words to say. She did not want to believe what this man had just told her. "You're…" she gulped hard, "Selling us?" Her stomach twisted inside her. She knew there had been some problems in Fiore lately with young teenagers, mostly girls, disappearing without a trace, the police suspected human trafficking, but there were never any leads to support it. Now she and Gajeel were in the middle of it all. "Like hell you're selling us!" Gajeel suddenly snapped and almost ripped his arms off trying to break free, a killer instinct had taken over his mind and he knew who his pray was. But the chrome would not break. Lucy had a blank expression on her face, her emotionless voice made Gajeel even crazier, it sounded like she had given up when she muttered the words: "Who are you selling us to?" The man was still on his knees in front of Lucy and he took her chin in his rough hands and lifted her head up to meet his eyes, "I will surely get a nice amount of jewels for a beauty like you." He leaned his face closer and buried his nose in her cold cheek. She fought his firm grip without luck. "Don't touch her! I'll kill you!" Gajeel growled. The man rose to his feet and walked over to the iron dragon. "I don't know about you, but a dragon slayer it's something you come across every day," he chuckled. "How did you know that?"

"You tried to kill me last night with that sword thingy of yours. I almost lost my head asshole!"

"I'm sorry... that I missed," Gajeel grunted back.

"You can't just sell people like that!" Lucy suddenly screamed. The man turned around again and shrugged his shoulders, "But you're wrong sweetie," he licked his lips, "just the other day I sold a pretty little bluenette to a business man up north. She was a mage too," Now, Gajeel was really about to lose it, "WHAT!?" his howl made the entire room shake beneath his feet. "You give her back right now or I swear I'll rip you head off!" Gajeel felt the bolts in the wall giving in and the crackling sound said the same. He smiled. He pulled even harder and finally the bolts loosened from the wall with a bang. He saw the man before him drop his jaws and starting to move his feet backwards, but Gajeel followed him with the intention to get some answers, "Now you're in real trouble boy!" the dragon swung the chains up over his head and smashed them down on the man in front of him, making him fall to the ground. "Tell me where she is!" he screamed. Lucy sat quietly watching Gajeel while he chugged down the chains. His body started glowing and he smiled a devilish smile, "Now that I've eaten, I'm all revved up!"

End of chapter two

Wow that's some serious rage you've got there, Gajeel. I feel kind of sorry for that other guy, but not really. Don't mess with Levy! Please leave a comment, I need feedback on this chapter! Thank you for reading and thank you to all of those who've already clicked favorite or follow, and for all the nice reviews! I love it! And you!