Ugh! God, my head is pounding!... What the fuck happened to me? Natsu thought squeezing his eyes shut. Groaning, he ran a hand down his face and twitched when he grazed over his chin. As he stood there in his bed, confused by that mysterious pain on his chin, he sighed. He didn't have the strength to get up.
"Ahahahhaha! You've gotta be kidding me! Ahahahaha!"
What the heck? ... That voice...The boy thought as he glanced to his left, noticing two shadows projected on his bed's curtain.
"I told ya! The new chick kicked him right in the face and sent him flying against the old tree in the garden! Ahahaha, and the idiot passed out! Passed out I tell you! Hahahaahhaha!"
"What did you say?" The pink haired boy's husky voice was heard as he suddenly shoved out of his way the curtain, startling the 2 guys who were talking, or rather, making fun of him.
"Fuck! Flame head, don't scare me like that!" Gray snapped back. The startled teen sighed deeply as a hand was resting over his heart.
"Gihihihi, Salamander, you look like shit! Did...Did something happen during lunch break? Pff... " Gajeel snorted, trying his best not to laugh in his face.
"I asked you... What the fuck did you just say." Natsu growled, glaring furiously at Gray, who stared at the pink haired boy for a second before slowly walking towards him. A mocking smirk painted on his face.
"Ehehehe, well, you see dear n.1 of the school..." He slowly said.
"You just got your ass kicked by the new girl, aka ice princess, and all it took was one shot. Oh and yeah, everyone knows it sooo-" Gray's hair almost caught on fire when Natsu's whole body lit up in flames, burning everything around him.
"Grrr!.. I'm gonna make her pay ... Oh, I'm so gonna make her pay!" Natsu whispered as his friends showered him in all kinds of insults for trying to set the infirmary on fire. Natsu was very proud of being the 'Etherious Natsu Dragneel', aka Fairy Tail's strongest fighter ...Well, at least Fairy Tail's strongest delinquent, so being humiliated like that didn't please him at all.
-After lunch, during PE class-
"Ok guys, as the school's protocol says, we need to test your magical power so I want everyone in a line and when I call you out I want you to hit that fuckin' lacrima with all your strength, DID YA HEAR ME BRATS?" The professor said, shouting the last part.
"Yes sir!" Everyone shouted back before forming a line. Person after person, the students attacked the lacrima with all their strength, at which the lacrima reacted showing a number. A girl dressed neatly in her uniform, long red hair and whose name was Erza Scarlet was currently in first position. In second place was Mirajane Strauss, the girl with white hair that fainted into Gray's arms after the incident with Natsu during lunch break. Lastly, in third place was Gray Fullbuster immediately followed behind by Gajeel Redfox.
"Natsu Dragneel!" The man shouted and the so called teen walked towards the lacrima with a carefree air, his hands behind his head and with a huge smirk on his lips.
"Woaaaah! Natsu-samaaaaa!"
"Omg he's so strong! I bet he will destroy the lacrima again!"
"That man is insane! I wouldn't want to piss him off!"
"There's nothing to be expected, he's the strongest of the school, after all!" Lucy silently listened to everyone's chants around her.
This idiot is the strongest of the school? Pfff, don't make me laugh … She thought as she rolled her eyes, before staring at the guy in the spotlight stretching in front of the lacrima.
"Are you ready? If you don't feel good you can do this another day."
"Pft, when did I ever have to be ready?" Natsu said, cracking his neck's bones. He lit up his fists in flames but before hitting the lacrima he looked at Lucy and smirked.
"Oi, Blondie, picture this lacrima is currently you." The blonde slowly raised an eyebrow as she crossed her arms over her big chest, ignoring all the cat calls and teasings around her. Natsu ran toward the lacrima, jumped into the air and screamed at the top of his lungs as he smashed the round ball, destroying it into small crystals in the process.
"80.504" The professor said, not surprised at all by that value. That was the highest value that the lacrima has ever counted and it was obvious that Natsu would have destroyed it, after all, his magic was made to destroy things. Everyone cheered and whistled as some girls fainted while a couple of boys surrounded him, yet the boy ignored them all as he steadfastly made his way towards Lucy.
The girl gulped down once the boy stopped right in front of her. He stared down at her before a cunning smirk made its way on his face as he saw that she was glaring at him intensely.
"Did ya see that, mustard head? Next time you piss me off, you'll end up like that lacrima, catch the drift?" Natsu threatened her before passing beside her, hitting her shoulder on purpose and making her stumble back a little.
"T-tch, brainless pig ..." Lucy murmured, hoping he would hear her and indeed he had.
"What did ya called me!?" Natsu lunged at her but was stopped by Gray and Gajeel in time.
"Oi, calm down bro, what's gotten into you!?"
"That bitch called me brainless pig!" Natsu yelled trying to break free from their grip.
"Natsu Dragneel! if you don't calm down and watch your mouth, I'll suspend you for the rest of the week!" The teacher roared and Natsu bit his lip, cursing under his breath as he was dragged toward the bench next to the others.
"Ahem. Then, the last one is... Lucy Ashley!" As she walked towards the lacrima Lucy could hear Natsu and the others making fun of her.
"I think she won't even do zero! Gihihi!" The girl bit her lower lip.
Lucy calm down, remember. Don't use your magic, don't use all your strength ... She thought as she sighed.
"What's the point in letting her do it? We're only wasting our time here!"
M-maybe I should-No! I can't, I have to restrain myself from using my magic ...If I use it... If I use-
"Oi, pink panties, we don't have all the time for ya, y'know? If you can't do it then don't do it, either way, you won't even be ranked!"
Pink panties !? Ok, that is it! Now I'll just go there and smash his face with my fists! Lucy thought, glaring fiercely at the boy with pink hair as a faint blush lingered on her cheeks. The amused teen raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms over his chest, as he smiled at the angry blonde. He kinda liked her angry face.
"Ready fo-"
"There's no need to ask me, Professor." Everyone 'ooooh-ed' at her answer.
"Look at her, how she boasts of being who knows who! You're pathetic! Get lost!" Natsu yelled as something inside Lucy switched on.
"Natsu Dragneel, another comment and you know what's gonna happen to you!"
"B-but-"
"Do you understand me, brat?!"
"Yes sir..." Lucy stepped back a little with her eyes closed. She was furious. No. More than furious. When she suddenly opened her eyes, she ran toward the lacrima and jumped into the air. She did a little twirl on herself, not caring if everyone could see her panties, and kicked with all her strength the lacrima, destroying it too in the process like Natsu did before her.
"9-9-9-9-9-999.999 ( the value is 999.999, just to make it clear...the professor was stuttering at the beginning) !?" The teacher shouted seeing the value in the air. Lucy landed on the ground and ran a hand through her silky blonde hair, while everyone was open-mouthed staring at her. Even the great Natsu Dragneel, could feel his cheeks getting somewhat warm as he looked at her dumbfounded. This girl managed to break Natsu's famous record with a single kick.
"I can't believe it... She broke Natsu's famous record!"
"S-she's a monster!"
"I-Impossible!"
"Natsu lost again to a girl in terms of strength?!" When Natsu heard the last whisper, he snapped back to reality and was overwhelmed by an enormous amount of rage and something else, something that he didn't care to understand in that moment.
"You ..." Natsu growled, clenching his fists. He got up from his seat and stormed towards Lucy, his friends immediately followed behind as they desperately tried to restrain him.
"How dare you humiliate me again! Let me go, I'm gonna kick her ass!" The angry teen screamed, struggling to get free, while the blonde stared at him. A conceited smirk slowly made its way across her shiny lips.
"I'm really disappointed... To think that the 'great Natsu Dragneel' was so lame..." Lucy said, showing a mocking expression. The pink-haired boy roared, feeling as if he were about to explode.
"Ok, ok, Miss Ashley you've done an impressive good job but I have to disqualify you, because you didn't use your magic." Everyone looked at the professor surprised.
"S-she didn't use her magic?"
"If without magic she's like that, can you imagine how strong she is with magic?"
"Y-yeah, but what kind of magic does she have anyways?"
"I don't know, I've never seen her before today..." Everyone started to gossip again and the question about what kind of magic Lucy had, reached Natsu's ears, but he was too focused on breaking free from his friends' grip than to actually listen to all the voices around him. His sharp angry eyes were glued on the blonde's back as if he wanted to burn some holes into it.
"Tsk." Lucy clicked her tongue, crossing her arms as she looked away. In fact she was relieved that she managed to restrain herself in time. She knew she couldn't risk using her magic in front of everyone, so at the last moment she decided to use her strength amulet, the same one she used earlier that day on Natsu during lunch break.
"Therefore, I invite you to-" At that moment the bell rang announcing that the lesson was over.
"Oh? Already over? Well then, I'll call you back another day to retake the test, Miss Ash- Huh? Where did she go? " Lucy ran towards the class and quickly took her stuff. She had to get out of there before everyone else. She rushed out of the classroom and down the stairs, glad that she didn't bump into her classmates and especially into Mirajane.
After Lucy kicked Natsu in the face, the news spread throughout the school in the blink of an eye and Mira did nothing but stay next to her and talk all the time about how they should become friends and stuff, so it was kinda hard for Lucy to concentrate on her book which she really wanted to read. Moreover, she heard towards the end of the lesson something about going out together. Of course Lucy didn't want to do it, especially with that psychopath, so her only option was to get out of school before Mirajane found her.
Once she felt like she was far away from her classmates, she took the book from her bag and sighed looking at it. Little did she know, that she took a wrong turn and that she was going the wrong way.
"Tch, that freakin' Blondie, after humiliating me again, she ran away! I swear, tomorrow I won't let her get away!" Natsu yelled clenching his fist and looking up at the sky with determined eyes.
"Yes, yes- Oh, look over there, I think you've got a visit from some 'friends'." Gray said, pointing towards the entrance gate blocked by an army of ... Delinquents? Natsu looked down, irritated because he had to get out of his moment of glory and smiled at what he saw. He always liked a good brawl every now and then.
"Are you sure that this is the right place?" The person who looked like their leader asked angrily.
"What? You're so eager to see me? Well now I'm here, ya happy?" Natsu threw his bag somewhere to the side as he slowly walked towards them, cracking his knuckles in the process. The 'leader' looked down at him unfazed and asked:
"Who the fuck are you?" Everyone gasped as even Natsu stared at him dumbfounded.
"O-oi, did he just ask who the fuck is Natsu!? Is he fucking insane?!"Gray asked, stepping back as he felt a deadly aura quickly surrounding Natsu.
First, that Blondie kicked me and humiliated me twice in a day, then there's this fuckin' asshole who says he doesn't know me, is there anything else that can go wrong today? The furious boy thought as flames materialized around him.
"Listen carefully asshole, I'm the Etherious Natsu Dragneel, the No. 1 delinquent in the neighborhood! And you will be sorry for pissing me o-"
"Yes, yes, as you say, look, do you know some chick called Luigi, Lucas ...What the hell was her name again?"
"...Lucy?" Natsu asked confused.
"Eligor?" Suddenly a female voice asked from behind natsu. It was Lucy's, and she didn't seem surprised at all, but rather, angry.
"Oh! My dear Lucy, how are you?"
"Don't call me dear and get lost, I don't want to see you." Lucy hissed coldly and ferociously. The air around them turning strangely cold.
"E-Eligor?"
"D-did she just called him Eligor, isn't he the delinquent whose nickname is Death God?"
"But why does he look...Beaten up?"
"Lucy, explain why you know this man." Erza saw the whole scene unfold before her eyes and thus she quickly approached Lucy, who on the other hand walked right past her and Natsu, her eyes glued on her book. Eligor's eye twitched before he tried to block her path by sending a wave of air, with his scythe, at her feet. Lucy easily dodged it by jumping back and landing on her knees.
"Tch, you cold ass vixen... Perhaps, have you forgotten what you did to me?" Eligor asked before he pulled his black coat off, showing a lot of nasty scars. Those scars obviously proved that he had some serious deep wounds. Lucy slowly raised to her feet and put her book back in her bag, all of it with a cold-stone face.
"Oi, did you hear me, bitc-?"
"So what?" Lucy cut him short.
"I don't care what happened to you! Next time use your freaking head before upsetting me, ok!?" The blonde quickly walked beside him under everyone's astonished gaze.
"O-oi, oi, oi, oi don't treat me so coldly, did you forget when we were comrades?"
"Comrades?" Lucy hissed, obviously offended, as she turned around.
"When was I ever a comrade with a miserable delinquent like you?"
"... Ahaha ... Ahahaahhaha!" Eligor suddenly laughed, as his gang soon followed behind.
"Ahahaha, I really can't fool ya, can't I? I kinda forgot how 'fierce' Lucy Ashley was...Or maybe...Should I call you Lucy Hear-" Everyone's eyes widened when they saw Eligor's body suddenly disappear and then collide against the school's building as Lucy slowly lowered her right leg and glared daggers in his direction.
"Don't you dare say that name."