A/N: Hope you enjoy this chapter and if you did read the 1st part (which I'm deleting in a minute) there's a line marking where it ended, anyway...hope you enjoy!

Lucy closed the lid on her laptop, let out a frustrated sigh and fell into a slumber, her alarm woke her the next morning at 9 am, she walked downstairs to grab breakfast: a slice of toast with jam on, her parents were just watching the news, it was a normal weekend but not for long.

An Unexpected Couple

Chapter 5

After finishing her breakfast, Lucy walked upstairs and into her room and changed into a pair of black cropped leggings and a top that said 'I Don't Need Saving', once the blonde was changed she walked back downstairs and slipped on a pair of converses'. "Mum, I'm meeting some friends at the mall, so I'll be back later,"
"Okay sweetie text me if you want a ride home later."

"Okay, I will, bye!" After saying their goodbyes, Lucy picked up a celestial themed backpack and left her house. The walk was pretty normal, she had the sound of 'Radioactive' playing into her ears, ten minutes passed and Lucy reached the mall to find Levy, Erza and Juvia. "Hey, Lu!" The petite blue-nette called out. "Hi guys!" Lucy replied as she continued to walk towards them. "I didn't know that Juvia was coming-"
Juvia - "Does Love Rival have a problem with Juvia?"

Lucy - "What? No, I was just surprised to see you, and please stop calling me 'Love Rival', Gray is like a brother to me."
Levy - "Besides Lucy likes Natsu~"

Lucy - "I DON'T LIKE HIM, or anyone for that matter!"

Levy - "Yeah, yeah, what ever you say..."

Erza - "Now is not the time to start fighting."

Levy - "Well, where shall we go first?"

Erza - "I suggest getting your dress, Levy ,"

Lucy - "So I'm guessing you want to go to that boutique we went to a couple of days ago?"

Erza - "Correct,"

Levy - "Oh, and I heard about this new cafe place near here, it's called 'The Tiger's Liar', it's gotten pretty good reviews so far!"

Juvia - "Juvia thinks that is a great idea!"

Lucy - "Shall we get going then?"

Levy - "Yup!"

The four teens walked into a pink and white shop, which was labelled 'Blendy's Boutique', as they walked through the door they heard a familiar yet bored sounding voice which belonged to a female pinkette, "Hello and welcome to Blendy's Boutique how may I help- Oh Hey! You're Mira's friends from a couple of days ago, right?"

Erza - "Correct! We're hoping to get Levy and Lucy-"

Sherry - "A dress? Consider it done, I have the perfect dress for you two!"
Lucy - "Don't bother getting me a dress a probably won't be going-"

Sherry - "WHAT? YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PROM?"

Lucy - "Geez calm down, I said I might not be going,"

Sherry - "BUT WHYYYY?"

Levy - "She thinks she needs to go with someone..."

Sherry - "I'LL ASK MIRAJNE FOR HELP!"

Lucy - "DON'T YOU DARE!"

Sherry - "Oh I will..." at this moment Sherry picked up her phone and began to text someone.

Lucy - "Mira is extremely dangerous when it comes to this stuff..."

Sherry - "Which is why I'm texting her right now..."

Lucy - "You what?!"

Levy - "I hate to intrude but could you show us the 'perfect' dresses?"

Sherry - "Oh yeah..." the pinkette walked over to a rail full of orange dresses and took one of the rack "Here, try this on." She said as she handed the dress to Levy, the blue-nette entered a changing area and pulled the curtain across the opening, after a few minutes, Levy walked out. The rest of the teens stood there shocked, Sherry wasn't joking when she said that the dress was perfect, it had a yellow, fitted bodice, a long orange skirt and small, white ruffles at the neckline, the dress complimented her figure and hair colour perfectly. "Levy, you're buying it." Lucy insisted after ten seconds of silent.

Levy - "I know I am," she returned to the dressing room and changed into her usual clothes and walked over to the desk where a till stood.

Sherry - "That'll be £87.56 please."

Juvia - "Juvia thinks that's very precise."

Lucy - "Wow Juvia, you've been quiet for a while, if I'm honest I kinda forgot you were there..."

Juvia - "Oh, Juvia was just planning ways to demolish all of her Love Rivals..."

Lucy - "Juvia, you don't have any..."

Juvia - "That's what you say, how should Juvia know to trust you or not?"

Lucy - "UGHH...I give up...can we get something to eat now?"

Levy - "Sure...I'm getting pretty hungry now anyway," TING "Oh, Gajeel's just messaged me saying that him and the guys are in town and want to know if they can join us for lunch, is that okay with you guys?" The others nodded in agreement. "Awesome, I'll send a quick reply and we can start walking over." As the four teenagers left, Sherry spoke up to Lucy,

Sherry - "Lucy, are you sure you don't want that dress? I can save it if you change your mind."
Lucy - "Yeah, save it...I guess but I'm not going with anyone so I'm not to fussed about what it looks like..."

Sherry - "Prom only happens once, so I won't hesitate to message Mira, but only if you let me..."

Lucy - "She's already planning something, they were speaking about it last night on Skype, they didn't realise I was there at the time,"

Sherry - "So, who are they planning to pair you with?"

Lucy - "A guy I have to work with, Sabertooth thought it would be funny to wreck and burn our prom hall..."

Sherry - "Oh I heard about that...what's his name?"

Lucy - "Natsu Dragneel,"

Sherry - "Oh I know him, he's been taken in for stealing, the police station's on the other side of the mall,so they often take him through there," She gestured her head to the outside of the shop, where the mall centre is, "He's that delinquent kid, always skipping class but he's pretty tough so he'd protect you..."

Lucy - "Well, isn't it too bad that I'm not into those sorts."

Sherry - "At the moment..."

Levy - "Are you coming or not?" the blue-nette spoke as she walked back through the shop door,

Lucy - "Oh yeah, sorry, bye Sherry!"

Sherry - "Bye!" the two teens returned to Erza and Juvia, after greeting each other, once again, they made their way over too The Tigers Lair. When they got there they were welcomed by a girl with short white hair and brown eyes, "Hello and welcome to The Tigers Lair! How many in your party?"

"around eight," Erza replied

"Okay, follow me- wait a minute...are you Erza Scarlet from Fairy Tail High?"

"Yes I am...Is there a problem?"

"Uh...No...your table is in the far right in the corner, I'll send someone over with some menus."

"Thank you," The four walked over to their table, it wasn't the best, it was right next to the kitchen so they'd constantly be bothered by waitresses and waiters coming in and out with trays of food. It was like the white haired girl had purposely put them there, there were plenty of other spaces around the building."I have a feeling that she doesn't like us..." Lucy said once they were all sat down,

Juvia - "Juvia thinks so too."

Erza - "I have a feeling I know why..."

Levy - "Yeah, I kinda recognise her..."

Erza - "She's from Sabertooth Academy...one of our rival schools."

Levy - "Before you and Juvia transferred here there was a pretty big fight between us it ended in a draw but they still consider us enemies..."

Lucy - "That explains it,"

Juvia - "Juvia's old school and Fairy Tail were never good friends either..."

Levy - "Juvia went to Phantom Lord Prep, after the fight she transferred to us, where did you go before you joined us, Lu?"

Lucy - "I went to Amour et Chanceux Prep," (A/N: Amour et Chanceux translates to Love and Lucky in French, see my lower author's notes for more details)

Levy - "I can't say I've heard of that school,"

Lucy - "It was really small, and it wasn't a normal high school, it was a business school, my dad wants me to carry on in his footsteps...but I'm so glad I convinced him to let me transfer," The four continued to chat, mainly about homework and what prom will be like. After around fifteen minutes of waiting a different waitress with raven hair and green eyes came to their attention,

"Hello, may I take your order, Miss Scarlet?" she said

Erza - "Hello, Minerva,"

Lucy - "You know each other?"

Minerva - "Yes, I go to Sabertooth, we competed against each other a few years ago, is there a problem?" This comment filled Lucy with rage and she clenched her fists,

Lucy - "No, not at all..."

Minerva - "Your expression tells me otherwise..."
Lucy - "That's because I'm not okay..."

Minerva - "Oh no...did someone not have their nap?"

Lucy - "You little bi-"

Levy - "Lu...calm down..."

Minerva - "Listen, blondy, just let me take your order and I'll be going,"

Erza - "We'll have two bottles of sparkling water, a strawberry milkshake and a vanilla milkshake."

Minerva - "Okay, I'll be back soon, fairies..." after that final statement the waitress walked off,

Juvia - "Do any of you know when Juvia's beloved Gray will arrive?"

Levy - "He should be coming with Gajeel and the others, I'll text 'em and find out for you," the blue-nette whipped out her phone to text the black haired male, within seconds he replied saying that they'd be there in around half an hour, "They'll be here in about half an hour."

Juvia - "Ah, so long to wait for Juvia's Gray!"

Levy - "Hey Lucy, you okay?"

Lucy - "I'm fine, just a little bit annoyed..."

Erza - "I understand, just ignore her, and please don't start a fight, she's extremely strong."

Levy - "Yeah, no kidding..." Minutes passed and Minerva returned with the teenager's drinks,

Minerva - "Enjoy..." She slammed the drinks forcefully onto the table causing them to spill slightly,

Lucy - "Do you mind?"

Minerva - "No, not at all."

Lucy - "Drop the attitude, will you?"

Minerva - "I need to drop the attitude? I think it's the other way round sweetie,"

Lucy - "Tell me something, you were the guys that wrecked the prom hall, right?"

Minerva - "Correct, what you gonna do about it?"

Lucy - "...can you leave us in peace?"

Minerva - "Aw, is blondy to cowardly to fight?"

Lucy - "WHO YOU CALLING COWARDLY?!" The blonde stood up with rage flowing through her,

Minerva - "You dumb**s..."

Levy - "Lucy...don't start a fight..."

Minerva – "You going to fight me or not?"

Lucy - "Only if I have too,"

Minerva - "Such a hateful expression you have on your face..."

Lucy - "Just leave us alone please, before a punch you..."

Minerva - "Pffft, like a weakling like you would dare to punch m-" Lucy's fist flew into Minerva's face, "You f**king b**ch," after that comment all the guests (apart from themselves) left as well as some of the staff, then the two females started a full fist fight, unfortunately...Lucy wasn't doing so well...

Erza - "Why..."

Levy - "Honestly...Lucy isn't doing too bad..."

Juvia - "Juvia thinks so too...but Juvia knows that this won't end well..."

Minerva - "Hey, Sting, Rogue and Yukino, we have an issue," the black haired girl stepped back with an evil smirk on her face, then three other teens appeared, two boys, one with blonde hair the other with black hair and the waitress from earlier,

Sting - "These guys causing you trouble, my lady?"

Minerva - "Why yes, they are, but mainly blondy here..."

Lucy - "I'm guessing that you're also from Sabertooth,"

Sting - "Correct...now, were you the one messing with my lady?"

Lucy - "So what if I was?"

Sting - "I'll be teaching you a lesson..."

Lucy - "Isn't that a bit dramatic?"

Sting - "I'll do anything to please my lady..." a smug grin appeared on his face as he began to pick Lucy up by the neckline of her top,

Lucy - "Would you mind putting me down?"

Sting - "I see what you mean, she's pretty damn annoying..."

Minerva - "Just deal with her, and you two can deal with shrimp and that other girl," She pointed towards Juvia and Levy, "I'm dealing with Scarlet here..." and with that a huge fight broke out, well not for Lucy...she was beaten up...a lot. Sting pinned her up against the wall and threw punches at her, she was in pain...a lot of pain until one final punch, then she felt one final blow and Lucy was out, lying unconscious on the ground.

Minerva and Erza were fighting, pretty much, to the death, Levy didn't really stand a chance, she was against Rogue, and Juvia was fighting against Yukino, but this wasn't a strange occurrence, fights between school students were a regular occurrence in Magnolia...minutes of fighting passed and after seeing how bruised the members of Fairy Tail High were, Sabertooth decided to call it a day a day and walked away whilst Yukino said "See ya, Shrimp!"

"No one, I repeat, no one calls her shrimp except me..." a deep voice said,

"Hmph...Let's go," Minerva stated, if they didn't leave now they'd get into serious trouble with the police, it would only be a matter of time before they arrive, (a few windows were broken which set off a few alarms...

After Sabertooth left the four males, who had just arrived ran over to Levy, Erza and Juvia.

Gray - "You okay?" He supported Juvia, like the others, she was slightly weak and barely able to stand, but they were unconscious.

Juvia - "Yes, Juvia's fine, but I haven't seen Love Rival..."

Levy - "Nor have I, the poor thing was against Sting..."

"WHAT?"

Levy - "NATSU? I didn't know you were coming?"

Natsu - "Nor did I, those guys made me..."

Mirajane - "But you sounded veeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrry concerned when you heard Lucy was against Sting...am I right?"

Natsu - "WHEN THE F**K DID YOU GET HERE?!"

Mirajane - "I've been following you guys-"

Natsu - "WHAT THE HELL?"

Mirajane - "Well, why don't you go find Lucy, Natsu..."

Natsu - "And why would I do that?"

Mirajane - "Because," She now had a very dangerous aura around her "I told you to..."

Natsu - "A-aye sir..."
Erza - "She just won't stop till they're together, will she?"

Jellal - "I doubt it..."

Gajeel - "We should probably get this place cleared up,"
Gray - "What shall we do with Lucy?"

Mirajane - "Oh, just leave that to me, hey Natsu?"

Natsu - "Oh god...Yeah, what do you want?"

Mirajane - "Have you found Lucy yet?"

Natsu - "Nope, wait a minute..." as he walked behind the table the girls were originally sat at he found her "Found her!"

Mirajane - "Great! Can you put her in the staff room there should be a couch in there, for her to rest on,"

Natsu - "Okay...but why do I have to-"

Mirajane - "Just do it."

Natsu - "Aye..." he picked Lucy up bridal style and carried her into the staff room, as soon as they were both in the room he heard the door slam shut behind him and a lock click, "You little sh*ts!"

Mirajane - "Sorry Natsu but it's for the best!" he heard her call out from the other side as he lay Lucy down onto the couch, there was no point just sitting there and doing nothing, so he whipped out his phone and began to play a game, every so often he'd hear tables slamming onto the floor and Levy screaming at Gajeel for being so careless.

A/N: Sorry for the delay and sorry this chapters kinda cr *py, but I'll try and write a double chapter, and I literally can't wait for the next chapter in the manga and I'm stiiiiiiill waiting for Dragon Cry to come out here, but anyway, byyyeee