"Oi, Loki, ya survived? It's been a while since I didn't see your stupid face and heard your girly shouts. Kekeke, how was it?" Natsu asked, followed by a wave of laughter. Loki has been missing from school for 2 weeks and everyone started worrying that he might have actually died.

"Gah! Don't make me remember!" Loki yelled covering his ears while crouching down.

"Ahahaha, I told you, this guy has no balls, now pay your money!" Cana yelled while a crowd of demoralized people came around her desk.

"Oi! What do you mean by that, you drunk-!?" The orange-haired boy raised his head and to his surprised he found himself face to face with Lucy, who had her hands on her hips and an emotionless gaze down on him.

"L-Lucy!?" Screaming, he got up and went crashing into a desk that was behind him. The blonde girl slowly and dangerously approached him while keeping the same gaze. Her brown cold eyes fixed onto his hazel eyes. She watched him as if she tried to freeze his soul in order to discover his most hidden secrets.

Loki was surprised by Lucy's behavior and especially by the evil smirk that found its way to her glossy pink lips. The girl approached his ear and whispered a few words before the break bell rang. She took her bag with her book and walked away, leaving the boy turned to stone. And not only. Everyone watching that scene was surprised to see Loki trembling ... From fear?

While a boy.

A certain boy. In anger and perhaps another mysterious emotion, managed to make another big hole in the wall behind him before disappearing, leaving no trace behind him.

The next day.

God, please make sure that he won't mess with me today, that stupid salmon-head sure knows how to make me go crazy! Please! Lucy prayed inside her head as she walked towards the school's entrance and as usual, since luck is always on her side, Natsu was there speaking with his friends.

Tch ... Thanks a lot, eh? ... The blonde thought sarcastically, passing beside the boy, but secretly taking a peek at him and she was amazed to see he was watching her with a look full of disgust... And anger? Lucy swallowed and turned her head around immediately. Not knowing how to react, she kept walking towards the school, with all kinds of thought flooding her brain.

During the first period and the second and even the third period, in other words for the rest of the day, she was surprised to be left alone to read her book. No, rather, she was surprised that no one approached her or even looked at her. It was as if they were afraid to do so. Especially the males.

Once she stopped a couple of guys in the hallway to ask them where she could find a trash can. Before a boy could answer her, his expression turned into a terrified one, like he had seen death behind Lucy, tell him that he, along with his friends, will soon die. Lucy watched them run away like there was no tomorrow, screaming and shouting bloody murder, and confused she turned around to see what had frightened them so much to make them run away like crazy monkeys, and her blood froze (like it wasn't already cold) in her veins.

Natsu was leaning against a couple of lockers a little away from her, his arms crossed over his chest. It wasn't his stance that attracted or better, drove away everyone, it was his murderous look, with which he looked at her intently as if to make a hole between her eyes.

He slowly stood up and walked towards her at a slow pace with his hands in his trouser, giving off a powerful and dark aura. Lucy tried to looked at him with her ice expression. She was a little startled that she didn't notice him standing right behind her. Her eyes widened when she saw an evil smirk make its way on his face and immediately the horrific images of her childhood passed in front of her eyes making her tremble. She stumbled back against some lockers and Natsu stopped right in front of her. He leaned down, close to her left ear and with his right hand he cupped her right cheek to bring her closer to his lips.

"Luce. If you still want to use that tongue of yours to speak, better watch out who you talk to. Engrave this little thing in that brain of yours, I'm sure you don't want to piss me off..." The crazy guy, whispered in a low, slow and sensual voice, touching her ear with his lips every time he spoke and letting his hot breath warm it up.

He moved his face slowly to see her expression and smirked when he saw Lucy look in front of her with trembling eyes and clenching her right hand on her chest tightly. He walked away, leaving the poor girl petrified against the lockers.

The next days during break time whenever she met Natsu in the school's hallways, sometimes they would 'not intentionally' collide and Lucy would always fall to the ground while Natsu instead of helping her as he would usually do, he would laughed in her face and teased her rudely. Once he had even put on her head a banana peel saying that he has never seen a trash can so fat.

What the fuck is wrong with that stupid pink idiot?! Lucy shouted in her head while looking at Freed, her literature teacher talking about stuff that Lucy would always listened to, but not this time since a group of people from a specific part in the back of the class would occasionally throw paper balls at her.

Arghh! I so want to turn around and smash his head under my foot until his hair turns red! Why the heck is he making fun of me? Sometimes even ignorin-... D-don't tell me... No...It can't be, he's got no balls to do it...B-but, What if...What if he's actually bullying me? Lucy thought, looking a bit surprised then frowning darkly. She couldn't understand why all of a sudden he decided to make fun of her and above all ignore her. He was always running after her, making jokes and stuff. It got to a certain point where she didn't care anymore that he was next to him, and now she actually felt a little betrayed.

Want to play hard, eh? Okay chewing-gum head! I'll show you who's got the last laugh. I-If you like it soooo much, I will start ignoring you too. Y-Yeah! So now, I can devote myself to reading my book instead of running away from you! At that time Loki walked into the room, surprisingly covered in wounds, and passed by Lucy's desk, who strangely stopped him while smiling falsely (yes, smiling) and winking at him.

Suddenly they heard a loud thud from the back of the room and everyone turned to see Natsu surrounded by flames and with his practically nonexistent desk, on the ground in front of him. He was still sitting on his chair with his hands in his pockets and with a leg stretched in front of him. His bangs hiding his left eye while the right, strangely turned green, staring furiously at Loki.

"Hey, Loki. How 'bout a nice chat between good bros? Hmmm?" He said in a dark and malicious voice, while he stood up to leave the room. Lucy watched confused at Loki following Natsu out of the classroom, muttering inaudible words, while all the other guys who remained in the class had a sad and pitiful look.

"It's his fault for flirting with Salamander's girl ..."

"Sigh... I feel sorry for Loki... That guy is a monster..."

"I heard that he also killed someone, for actually staying in his way for too long! "

"One thing I've learned from this place, is to not piss off and never touch anything that belongs to Natsu. You might find yourself in paradise in less than a second. "

"What do you mean by that? "Lucy said, calling a couple of guys' attention who were whispering to each other.

"W-what was what? D-don't talk with us!"

" I said, what do you mean by 'don't touch anything that belongs to Natsu?'" Lucy repeated, her voice low and cold as she glared at the boys.

"I-i-i-it's obvious, r-right? Y-you're Natsu's woman-"

"I'm nobody's woman! Got that?! Who told you that?"

"W-well frankly no one has told us, it's just that ... w-well, isn't it normal?"

"Isn't it normal?" Lucy repeated raising one of her fine eyebrows. In a second that room became strangely cold. As if Gray had used his magic, but he wasn't there since he followed Natsu and his gang out of the class with an amused smirk on his face.

"Listen well, since I'm not going to repeat this 2 times. I'm nobody's woman and especially that stupid pinky's. Is that understood?" Lucy asked slowly, and the boys nodded, afraid of their future.

Like boyfriend, like girlfriend.

"Tell me, where did they go?" Lucy asked, taking another boy by the collar.

"Hyeek! P-p-perhaps behind the s-school, I d-don't know!" The boy said, shaking.

"Lucy, stop. If you go there you'll be in danger!" Mirajane said, putting a hand on Lucy's shoulder that she slapped away immediately.

"None of your business." Lucy growled, before running off but was stopped in the track by Erza.

"Move it." Lucy said coldly, obviously not knowing who she had in front of her eyes. Everybody gasped, stepping back quickly.

"You won't step out of this room, Lucy Ashley. I won't allow it."

"Oh yeah, and who's stopping me?" To this question Erza raised an eyebrow, crossing her arms over her chest.

"Lucy, please don't anger Erza ..." Said a couple of people, or rather the whole class, in unison but Lucy ignored them.

She was one of the few people in Fairy Tail's high school's history, to stand up to Erza with so much courage, not knowing of course, who she truly was. Erza was glaring at Lucy, who was glaring back at her with the same intensity. If you had a bit of imagination you could have seen everything go black around them and 2 huge monsters one red-haired and one blond-haired standing above them ready to kill each other until the last drop of blood.

Suddenly they heard a male scream and Lucy understood immediately that she had no time to lose with this woman. In the blink of an eye, Lucy punched Erza in the stomach and as the red haired girl bowed, Lucy raised her right leg placing it on Erza's shoulder before making weight on it and jump behind the hurt teen and out of the room.

"Erza, are you okay!?" Mirajane said approaching Erza who was on the ground. She suddenly took the white-haired girl by the wrist, and with a scary look she said, breathing hard:

"I'll ...get her for this!"

Lucy was running through the halls and when she came to a huge window overlooking the school's back, she opened it and sighed in relief when she saw Gray. How did she know it was Gray? if you see a topless boy laughing with hands on his hips, who else can you think of, if not Gray? Lucy was putting one foot on the edge of the window when she heard her name being shouted behind her.

"Lucy Ashley!" Lucy turned around and saw Erza running towards her, with an expression to say the least "angry" (sarcasm). The red-haired ex-quipper, materialized a spear in her left hand and before it could hit Lucy, the blonde threw herself out from the window falling perfectly on Gray.

"Grrrr! Lucy!" Erza roared from above before disappearing. It was too obvious that she was already running to catch her and that only meant that she had even less time to save Loki.

"... So scary..."

"Lu...cy?"Lucy moved her head where the voice came from, and her cold brown eyes widened when she saw Loki almost unconscious and in bad shape, pinned to a wall while Natsu held him by the collar with his left hand and with his right hand on fire, ready to throw another punch.

"Loki!" Lucy screamed before running towards them to remove Natsu's hand from his collar, but with no results.

"What do ya think you're doing, Lucy? Go away-"

"What do YOU think you're doing!? Are you insane!? Let him go, now!" Lucy looked around as she strongly pulled Natsu's hand and yelled:

"And you!? Why didn't you stop him!?" She turned around towards her classmates, but she only received a few snickers from them.

"We can't, or rather don't wanna, Blondie. We're here to enjoy the show. Gihihi" Gajeel said while snickering. To be expected from Natsu's loyal followers. Natsu furrowed his eyebrows even more and with a quick movement he threw Loki somewhere as if he were a useless piece of paper and took Lucy to the collar to fill back Loki's place.

"Lucy." The pink-haired boy said, his voice low and cold. Lucy had her eyes closed tight and her teeth clenched as she struggled to break free from his dead grasp, she opened her left eye trying to glare at him.

But that didn't please Natsu. He pushed Lucy deeper into the wall, forming her body shape, before moving dangerously close to her face. His left hand on the wall on top of her head and his right leg between her legs.

"I told you... to be careful with who you talk, if you don't want to piss me off! What part of that sentence, you didn't understand?" He spoke with that famous voice of his. Even dead people buried under the ground would quiver in fear hearing that voice. His friends along with Lucy shivered together.

"….W-w-w-who ..." Lucy stuttered to say, finding a bit of voice even though she was practically trembling in Natsu's grip.

"W-who are you... T-t-to decide who I can talk t-to?" Natsu glared at Lucy, starting to get really angry.

"Lucy ..."

"I-I decide who I want and when I want to talk with!" Natsu by now was already starting to shake, biting his lower lip while the temperature around them was getting too hot to withstand it.

"Lucy."

"Y-you can't tell me what to do-!"

"Lucy!" Natsu growled in her face. His growl was so strong that the ground beneath them trembled tremendously strong.

"Stop making me go nuts! You need to watch out who you talk with, if not...Ugh!... If not you'll see what's gonna happen to him and you! I'm not afraid to punch women!" Natsu yelled, tightening his grip on Lucy's collar raising her up the wall. Lucy was looking down with narrowed eyes that threatened to cry from one moment to another.

Scary. It was too scary. There were no words that could describe Natsu's expression at that time. His now green eyes were piercing into her brown ones, taking out all of her fears and shattering all of her courage like it was made out of glass. That's why, whenever the name 'Salamander or Natsu Dragneel' is heard, everyone starts to tremble as if they had seen the most wicked demon alive.

"Lucy!" At that moment they heard Erza's tired voice. She came out from behind the nearest corner making a side sliding, and followed right behind by Mirajane.

"Youuuuu! You'll pay for what you did to me!" Erza yelled before lashing out at Lucy and Natsu with a sword before being stopped by the principal's voice.

"ENOUGH!" Everyone shivered for a second before turning towards Makarov who had appeared out of nowhere behind Gray.

"P-principal-"

"Shut up!"Everyone swallowed and looked at him with trembling eyes.

"Natsu, let go of Lucy." And as he uttered those words, Natsu suddenly dropped her on the ground. She put her hands to her throat and began to vigorously cough and occasionally spit, thankful that now she can breath normally.

"All of you, including you, Erza, I want you in my office. Now."

"B-but, master-"

"Are there any complains Erza? Was I not clear enough?" Erza swallowed and shook her head dissolving her sword. Everyone started to go towards the principal's office with their heads hanging low, and with their hands in their pockets while cursing in various ways.

Lucy put her right hand on the wall and tried to get up. Her legs didn't wanted to move, but she wouldn't have stopped for nothing in the world. If someone would have seen her this powerless and fragile, everything that she did until now would've been in vain.

"Lucy, you ... Sigh ... You'll come tomorrow. Just go home now." Makarov breathed, watching Lucy nod slowly without making eye contact. She had her head hanging down and her fringe was covering her eyes. She slowly walked towards Loki that was laying unconscious on the ground. Without saying anything she took him by the arm, put it around her shoulders, and dragged him away.

Makarov watched Lucy until she was no longer in his view before sighing and turning around, shaking his head before walking to his office.

Lucy reached her house and with all the remaining strength left in her body, she bowed down to pick up a spare key she had hidden in a small pot near a couple of steps leading up to her door. She hid a copy there, in case she had forgotten or lost her original key. Passing through the door with fatigue, she carefully laid Loki's wounded body in one of her armchairs in the living room near the fireplace.

Before going to take the first aid kit, she decided to sit on the couch to catch her breath. If Loki would have seen her in that condition it would have been a massive uproar. With her elbows on her knees, and her forehead resting in her hands, she stood still for a few minutes, trying to regulate her breathing and steady her heartbeat.

With the corner of her eye, she decided to finally look at Loki and was surely taken aback. He got beaten to a point where you couldn't see his face anymore. Before she didn't have time to consider it, but now that she looked better at him, she felt stupid to decide to take a break while he was practically dying in front of her. She ran into the bathroom and in a small cabinet, baroque style, where she kept all her bathroom things, she found the first aid kit and ran back into the living room.

Loki had bad burns all over his body. First-degree, second, God, maybe even third. Wondering how could a 'person' do so much harm to one of his friends, or rather, where he could find so much strength, sadism and fun in doing this. She knew who Natsu was, she heard all kinds of stories about him before moving to that school, but to see up close what that boy was capable of doing, was entirely another story. After a long time Lucy managed to bandage Loki's body, and heal some small wounds. At least now his life was no longer in danger.

Maybe.

Lucy stood up and looked at the clock attached on the fireplace, above the large tv.

6:56 pm.

"Shit ..." Lucy murmured storming towards the bathroom. Coming back, she saw Loki sleep in her armchair in an uncomfortable position and decided to move him, at least, on the couch because it was longer and wider.

The blonde girl went into the kitchen and as she tried to cook her dinner she turned on the tv (she also had a small one in the kitchen). Lowering the volume so that it won't wake up the boy who was sleeping in the next room, she sighed.

"And now the line to Shinningstars, (yeah that's me :3 Ehehehe, fuck yeah I'm a reporter!) Who is about to say the new headlines, live." Lucy sat on the swivel stool at the bar in her modern kitchen, munching on her hot lasagna her eyes fixed on the Tv.

"Thank you, Cassie, you won't believe your eyes or rather, your ears for what I'm about to tell you. Sirius black, the famous prisoner said he had never been serious his entire life ... Ok, ok I'm kidding xD back to the story.

The famous mysterious assassin, who terrorized Fiore, and now even Magnolia in the last few months, has escaped from prison yesterday, leaving no trace! It's almost as if he had magically vanished! Cops are desperately looking everywhere around the city, unfortunately we don't know his appearance but we know that he/she has some kind of cat ears hidden in his/her hair and knows how to use magic. Some people reported that His/her hands glows a powerful yellow light. (I wonder who uses the same magic...)

We recommend not to go out at night, and not to accept strange people inside your house. If you see someone strange walking around your house at night, don't hesitate to call the police. That man is very dangerous. From Shinningstars that's all. Now, the line - " Lucy turned off the tv, tired of hearing so many lies.

"If this assassin, is sooo famous then how the hell did he ended up in prison without showing his face? Hah, how stupid ..."

"No one has said, though, for how long he was there, or why he got there." Lucy jolted when she heard Loki's voice behind her.

"Loki!" She said, surprised by his sudden appearance and wiping her mouth with a napkin. He smiled at her with his arms crossed over his bandaged chest and leaning against the doorway.

"Hmmmm. That looks really inviting, what is it?" He said, walking over to her.

"Not much...just lasagnas..."

"Oh, lasagnas!? Can I have a piece?"He chirped, while his stomach began to grumble.

"S-sure, wait a minute." Lucy said, walking towards the cupboard to take a plate and put a piece of lasagna freshly baked under the orange-haired teen's nose. The young boy politely, took a piece with a fork and immediately cheered.

"This lasagna is delicious!"

"I didn't make them." Lucy tartly replied.

"O-oh ..."

"Sigh ... Eat all you want, I still have a lot left and I don't like to waste food unnecessarily ...Even if I'm already doing it …" Lucy whispered the last part looking away from him.

"Ouch! Cold as usual, ehehe." He laughed sheepishly. They both continued to eat in a silence that was slowly becoming unbearable and when they finished, at the same time, Lucy got up and went behind the bar to clean the dishes Loki on the other hand, got on Lucy's nerves by making himself at home, that is, taking freely a cool drink from the fridge and turning on the TV, not surprised to see the same news on every channel.

"Sooo, Lucy what do you think of this famous assassin?" The blonde girl stopped from cleaning the dishes and lifted her head for a few seconds before returning to clean the dishes responding with a simple:

"Stupid."

".. Ahaha ... Lucy ... You always make me laugh." Loki laughed bitterly but Lucy didn't answer him.

"I rather think that people should really start to believe what they say on TV. That assassin, is an expert, really strong and dangerous-"

"Loki." Lucy stopped him from continuing, not turning towards him.

"To be a killer you must be able to move around unnoticed, if he has already been caught by the police once, this doesn't make him an "expert" assassin at all. Much less strong and dangerous."

"Eeeeh...Sorry girl, but I have to disagree with you on that. I think he's pretty good at moving around unnoticed. Entering people's houses and making them think that he's an innocent person...that his life is threatened... it always works."

"It depends if the person in whose house he infiltrated, is smart or just stupid."

"Smart or just stupid?" Loki repeated, his voice strangely near.

"Yes."

"Hmmmm, and you Lucy? What are you? Smart ..." He said, stroking her left cheek and by doing so, startling her for the second time that night.

When did he get so close!? Lucy thought surprised, stepping back a little when she saw Loki approach her with a way too calm and normal look, unlike hers.

"Or just plain stupid? Tell me, Lucy. If I told you that... I'm that killer, what would you do?" The young girl looked at the boy, surprised. She was now surrounded, enclosed in Loki's arms. Without realizing she had backed off so much that she hadn't noticed that she had touched the wall behind her.

S-shit ...

Back to Natsu.

"Tch, that old fart...Always a pain in the ass." Natsu muttered kicking a stone on the ground.

"Ahahaahah, this time we managed to escape. I can't believe that even the almighty Erza Scarlet, was called to the office!" Gray said holding his stomach from laughing.

"Gihihihi, you're right! If you could see her expression when the old dwarf asked that question, how was it? "Any complains, Erza?" Gihihihihi!"Gajeel said, laughing and imitating Makarov's voice.

"And then Lucy! have you seen how -" Before another guy started to comment, a fist collided into his face, sending him a couple of meters back through a wall.

"Don't say that name." The pink-haired teen growled, obviously disturbed by the fact that he heard another guy say Lucy's name, without his permission.

"Oi, Banana flambé calm your tits down, bro!"

"Wanna die, stripper?"

"Woah, Etna, if you don't stop, your hair will catch fire and you'll be like Voldemort's younger brother!"

"Do ya wanna get turned into a sideshow circle, ice freak?"

"Ahahaha, that stupid chimpanzee really knows how to tell you off ice brains!"

"Hah? What did ya say mailbox?"

"Mailbox!? You little piece of-" Before they could insult each other in other ways, Gajeel and Gray began to fight in the middle of the street.

"Will you... SHUT THE FUCK UP?!" Natsu yelled, reaching the peak of his patience. The 2 boys on the ground stopped suddenly fearing a bit that they might had unleashed Natsu's wrath, but he was only a little revved up, especially after what happened.

"Disappear from my sight, before I tie you to a rocket and send you to the moon." He finished, turning his back to go away.

"Bye to you too, asshole."

"Fuck you, Gray." Natsu answered from afar and Gray snickered at his response.

"That boy and his super hearing, one thing that mother nature wrongly bonded together."

"The same thing goes for you and your stupid habit of undressing." Gajeel said walking away from Gray who was now screaming like crazy as running around to find his clothes.

Natsu was only revved up. Maybe a little more. Okay, he was angry.

Since he got out of school he smelled Lucy's and that scumbag, Loki, fragrance mixed together. With his impeccable sense of smell, ignoring it was like trying to ignore the fact that when it rains the water comes down from the sky.

Walking home or rather, rushing home, Natsu stormed in and threw his bag somewhere in the living room. He took his shoes off and ran up the stairs like a thunderstorm, completely ignoring a small blue-haired girl, who had come to greet him. The boy went inside his room and slammed the door behind him. He started screaming like a madman and punching a sandbag that was in there, imagining that it was Loki.

"Loki! You fuckin' piece of shit! I'll make you pay, I'll make you regret being born! Wait and see! I'll burn you to shreds if you do something to Lucy!" Natsu yelled and snarled as he punched, kicked, nudged or head-butted the punching bag. All of a sudden he stopped and punched it lightly with his left hand, stopping it with his right hand, and resting his forehead on it, almost like embracing it.

"... Lucy ..." He whispered, his eyes hidden by his bangs.