The Fallout
I forget if I've capitalized Mortal Realm, but starting now, I am. Sorry if I haven't before.
Prince of Light, Prince of Shadow
"Good job Natsu, when she's finally rid of her light, take her back to the Mortal Realm, surely another will revive her," Zeref grinned. The little ball of energy who managed to sympathize her way through Laxus was caught.
"Of course, Master," Natsu bowed quickly and walked out of the room, eager to see how Lucy was faring.
He noticed the blush on her cheek when their lips parted, how she let him deepen the kiss without pulling away, and how cute she was on his approach. He licked his lips, excited to see her reaction this time.
He walked into the prison, slowly approaching her cell. But the sight he saw was not one he enjoyed.
There was no one there; the shackles seemed to be cut by something sharp. Natsu sniffed the air for another scent, but the only one he could smell was Lucy.
Lucy was smart because of that, she knew the shackles only blocked magic in her. So, by uncomfortably curling her toes, she had managed to draw the symbol of the space pocket.
Of course, opening it would burn, as she was still using magic, but she could quickly direct the magic to the symbol before it was sapped.
Lucy whispered aperio as she winced in pain. Luckily, the space pocket opened. Lucy still hadn't been able to retrieve an item from her space pocket, but in the situation she was in, she had to try.
Lucy imagined the smooth hilt, the weight of the weapon, the engravings and diamond on the sword. She imagined the cold metal on her hands, unsheathed and ready for use.
Lucy felt her wrists burn, it felt like they were being squeezed and poked. Her ankles felt like giving out and wishing for her to sit down, but she was immobilized and continued to feel excruciating pain.
Though, it was all worth it, as when the pain subsided and the light from her space pocket faded, in Lucy's hand was the sword that Jellal had given her, it's scabbard was gone to reveal a gleaming blade.
Lucy swung her wrist awkwardly to that the metal would make contact with her chains. She heard a shing and she fell over onto her knees. The sword had swiftly cut through the chains with no trouble at all.
Quickly doing the same thing to her ankles, Lucy flew out of the prison. Wondering what Natsu's face would be when he found out that his captive had escaped.
Natsu stormed out of the prison, quite annoyed. He followed Lucy's scent to a portal to the Mortal Realm. He punched an unfortunate tree and stormed off to go pick a fight with Gajeel.
"Natsu-san!" a voice cried. Natsu turned to see a blonde haired man waving while his friend with black hair sighed.
"Hey Sting," Natsu approached the blonde demon.
"Hello Natsu-san! Are you okay? When we came over a few days ago you didn't really say anything..." Sting asked his idol.
"Err, yeah, I was hungry I guess," Natsu scratched his head, laughing lightly. Sting had looked up to Natsu, and Natsu cared for Sting. "How's Lector?" Natsu asked. Sting, like Gajeel, had found a cat and decided to keep it. Lector was friendly and sociable; he had demonic wings but a sweet smile.
"He's good. He can't wait until he can but a new coat actually," Sting chuckled.
"Gajeel-kun!" the black haired man almost squealed. Natsu turned around to see Gajeel stalking towards them.
"Oi Salamander! I heard ya let bunny girl slip! And Erza's givin' me the shit for it cuz I'm guarding the portal, but you told me I didn't hafta guard anymore!" Gajeel cracked his knuckles.
"Don't insult Natsu-san!" Sting spoke up.
"Are you tryna' start a fight!?" Natsu challenged, taunting in a fighting stance.
"Well, your stupidness is a good enough reason to!" Gajeel countered butting his head against Natsu's.
"You're stupider!" Natsu shouted.
"Gajeel-kun isn't stupid!" the pale man protested.
"You heard the squirt! I'm not stupid!" Gajeel grinned as he pointed the the man beside Sting.
"Yeah? Well Sting thinks I'm awesome! Right Sting?" Natsu asked, not looking behind him.
"Yeah! Natsu-san is awesome!" Sting fist pumped the air with gleaming eyes.
"No, Gajeel-kun is better," the dark haired man mumbled, barely audible, but everyone could hear it.
"Why don't we settle this, huh Salamander?" Gajeel grunted and punched Natsu in the stomach.
"You're on, Screw Face!" Natsu retaliated with a kick to the head and the two exploded into a full-blown battle.
"Ah, we knew this would happen didn't we, Rogue?" Sting asked his companion sweat dropping a little.
"Yes," Rogue agreed, the two would always end up in a fight of some sort, even if it wasn't physical. "Though, Gajeel-kun will still win," Rogue added as an afterthought.
"Nah, Natsu-san will definitely win!" Sting proclaimed as he and Rogue walked away from the brawl that had taken place.
Lucy found a portal to Heaven and stepped into it, thankful for the warm and smooth ride.
She popped out in The Garden of Eden, east of the palace. It wad a beautiful garden that was filled with exotic plants of all kinds.
"Lucy?" a sweet voice asked from behind.
"Wendy! How are you?" Lucy asked, smiling at the little girl who seemed to be helping some other angels water the plants.
"I'm good! How was your mission? Was it a success?" Wendy asked excitedly.
"Yes! I had a few troubles, but I did it!" Lucy smiled, realizing the feats she had overcome, not only that, but with this, she would become a Gold Angel!
"That's good," Wendy smiled innocently.
"How's Capricorn? Is he any better?" Lucy asked. How long had she been down there? Surely not that long.
"He's doing fine it took him a few days to recover, but now he's back on his feet. He can't fight, but at least he's not stuck in a bed anymore!" Wendy answered watering a bush of hydrangeas.
"That's good," Lucy smiled. She must've been gone for almost a week, but it didn't feel like that. Maybe she spent two or three days there, but a week?
"L-Lucy-san..." Wendy started hesitantly.
"Yes, Wendy?" Lucy smiled sweetly.
"I-I, um, I don't mean to be r-rude but..." Wendy's face flushed. How could she be so rude to Lucy? She was the one that brought her here, and she was an amazing angel, Wendy started to hesitate.
"It's okay, you can tell me," Lucy encouraged the young girl.
"W-well, Lucy-san, you smell funny!" Wendy exclaimed, but quickly apologized, her eyes on the brim of tears.
"I do?" Lucy asked, rather startled.
"N-not in a bad way! But you don't really smell like...well, you," Wendy tried to explain. "I-I mean, you still smell like you, but there's something different about it. It smells like a small part was, ruined I guess," Wendy said quietly.
"How do you know what I smell like?" Lucy asked, yes angels could wear perfume, but having your own scent? The only people who could smell her was Natsu and Gajeel who were dragon slayers...oh.
"Wendy, come with me, okay?" Lucy asked. Wendy was a dragon slayer? Then why didn't the Sensory Machine pick it up?
"Sure! Where are we going Lucy-san?" Wendy asked innocently.
"I'm going to teach you how to hunt souls," Lucy replied, leading the young angel to the portal she came out of.
Panic spread across the young girls face, "B-but Lucy-san! I cannot fight! I can heal, but nothing more than that, there is no way I could hunt souls. Levy-san told me that you fought demons, I can't do that!" Wendy shook her head and slowly stepped back.
"Wendy" Lucy smiled, trying to calm the girl, "To collect a soul doesn't mean being able to fight. You release your spiritual power to enclose around the spirit and using that power, you bring it back to Heaven," Lucy explained as they stepped into the portal.
Wendy held onto Lucy as tightly as she could, not wanting to lose her when they came out the other side of the portal. Lucy replied with a tight squeeze as the two angels stumbled out of the portal.
"There are so many humans! Can they see us?" Wendy asked. It had been only two weeks since she became an angel. She had never dared to visit the mortal realm, worried that she'd have to fight a demon.
"No, they can't they just go about their daily lives," Lucy led the girl to a soul that she sensed.
"Now Wendy, this soul has a high amount of positive energy, that means that this human was a very good human," Lucy started, "And when a soul was good as a human, their good is turned into positive energy, which helps fuel the angels."
"But what if they were bad?" Wendy asked.
"Then the bad is turned into negative energy," Lucy shook her head "and that powers demons."
Wendy gave a terrified look, and started to shake her head.
"Hey, don't worry, you've got the advantage, the negative energy on this soul doesn't power the demon as much as it would power you," Lucy rubbed Wendy's back in a comforting manner. "Do you feel your power welling up inside you? Do you feel stronger?" Lucy asked.
"M-maybe a little," Wendy said quietly.
"That's good, now try to focus on the soul," Lucy instructed, "Focus your energy around the soul, once you've encased it in your holy power, you'll be able to bring it back to Heaven, just like I said."
Wendy nodded and focused on the soul, trying to draw her holy power and surround the soul. She felt a small tingle and cracked her eyes open to see a small portion of the soul glowing blue.
Before she could continue, the tingling went away, as did the glowing. Wendy pouted a little, sad that she couldn't collect the soul.
"Don't worry!" Lucy exclaimed seeing the girls face, "You can't always do things on your first try, just try again, okay?" Lucy smiled. Wendy gave a small smile and focused her power again.
"Natsu-san! Please teach me some more magic!" a small voice pleaded.
Erza had found Gajeel and him fighting and quickly broke it up, hitting them both in the head. Erza then ordered Gajeel and Natsu to work, saying they shouldn't be lazy.
"Sure Romeo, show me what ya got!" Natsu grinned. He may have been a demon, but he cared about Romeo and always felt compelled to help him.
Romeo smiled and held out his hand. He stared at it for a while, sweating a little bit. A small light began to glow in his palm before it burst into a dim, small purple flame.
"Very good! You learned how to call on your magic! And you're only what, two?" Natsu asked, patting the young boys head.
"I'm five Natsu-san!" Romeo pouted. Natsu laughed and gave a thumbs up, which caused Romeo to smile.
"Okay Mr. Five-Year-Old, why don't I teach you how to move the flame?" Natsu suggested.
"Sure!" Romeo fist pumped the air with the hand that didn't hold the flame.
Natsu called upon his own flame, "Now, the way you move your flame is like how you called your flame, you need to focus and believe the flame will move. Move all your power to your hand, but instead of concentrating it there, make it seem like it's going beyond," Natsu explained. "Before ya know it, you'll be able to do this!" Natsu made his flame move around trees, over bushes and do loops.
"Wow! Natsu-san! You're amazing!" Romeo exclaimed in awe. He looked at his own flame, staring at it, thinking that the fire would go in a straight line. He felt his vision go fuzzy and his arm get tired from the amount of power that he was sending to his hand.
"Good job Romeo!" Natsu encouraged. Romeo relaxed a little and saw that his purple flame had moved foreword in a flickering line about three inches. Romeo pouted a little, it wasn't nearly as impressive as Natsu's was.
"Aw, don't be down! Once ya get used to it, it's really easy!" Natsu assured. "I gotta go work now," Natsu grumbled, "So practice and I'll help ya again!"
"Wait, Natsu-san!" Romeo called, his face was flushed and tears of nervousness sprung from his eyes.
Natsu turned to face Romeo, "Yeah?" he called back, slightly impatiently.
"T-take me with you!" Romeo cried out.
"Huh...?" Natsu said, raising a brow at what the five year old had asked.
"P-please take me with you! On your job!" Romeo bowed.
"Sure! I'll help ya, and we can defeat strong enemies!" Natsu grinned and held out his hand for Romeo who took it shakily.
"Y-yeah! When I'm an old demon like you-"
"Hey! I'm only eighteen!" Natsu argued.
"I'll be super powerful, when I'm eighteen like you, Natsu-san!" Romeo smiled, his tears drying up. The two entered the portal to the mortal realm.
"Lily-san?" a voice called with slight discomfort.
"Yes, Juvia?" a deep voice replied. Lily appeared from under a pile of dirty clothes where he was supposedly cleaning. However, Juvia suspected that Lily had actually taken a break. She honestly didn't know what gave it away the most, the glass of kiwi juice he was holding, the fact that no movement or sound came from under the pile, or the Hawaiian T-shirt and the sunglasses.
"Why does Gajeel-kun have these?" Juvia asked, pulling out a box. Int he box were many stuffed animals. There were dogs, cats, bunny rabbits, dolphins, lizards and all sorts of other animals.
Lily blushed a bit, but regained his composure. "Don't tell Gajeel I said this," Lily began, looking around as if Gajeel would appear out of nowhere, "But Gajeel loves to collect stuffed animals. He sleeps with them at night sometimes," Lily admitted to the blue haired girl.
Juvie pressed her lips together to suppress a laugh. She and Gajeel were friends, so she respected him, but sleeping with stuffed animals didn't suit his demeanour at all. He was supposed to be rough and tough, not some little girl!
"And," Lily continued with a glint in his eye, "he is currently looking for a shrimp," Lily smiled wickedly.
"A shrimp?" Juvia questioned. What a strange animal to look for.
"Yes, though, I'm sure that the 'shrimp' he claims he is looking for is not the one he wants," Lily nodded wisely.
"Where does Gajeel-kun get these?" Juvia asked, curious. She had known what stuffed animals were, but never saw one. Demon children preferred to train and fight with each other rather than snuggle a fake animal.
"Well, he came across them in the mortal realm, and you know that Gajeel can be a sucker for certain things," Lily looked to Juvia.
"Juvia knows," she responded, giggling.
"So he fixed a few things for people and got some money to buy the stuffed animals," Lily looked almost mortified.
"Perhaps Juvia will knit Gajeel-kun a shrimp animal," Juvie suggested seriously.
"You can knit?" Lily asked, grabbing some clean clothes from Juvia's folded pile and putting them back into Gajeel's drawers.
"Yes, Juvia doesn't like the clothes that are made, so she learned to knit and sew," Juvia explained.
"I'm sure he'd appreciate it, not as much as a real shrimp though..." Lily mumbled. A small "hmm?" came from Juvia but she disregarded what Lily said. After all, she had just found out something hilarious, this was definitely blackmailing material!
Rogue stood lazily at his friend's side. Sting was half asleep in a rather grand chair, unaware of the fact that two guild mates had destroyed a couch and table.
It was only two months ago where the person who sat in the chair Sting was in was a horrible and terrifying person. (Not that Rogue wouldn't say that Sting wasn't terrifying)
Jiemma was the previous master of Sabertooth. He was merciless, powerful and terrifying. He looked over Sabertooth with an iron fist, and if you weren't strong enough, he'd make you strip and wash off your guild mark.
Jiemma was obsessed with power, he scared the guild members into playing dirty and showing no mercy. If you failed Sabertooth's standards even once, you'd be kicked out.
It was when Fairy Tail came over that things changed. Fairy Tail's Natsu Dragneel and Gajeel Redfox had been invited over by Jiemma who set up a plan to attack and defeat them. Natsu and Gajeel were known to be strong, and Jiemma thought that if his guild defeated them, his guild would claim their title and be recognized as powerful.
Unfortunately for Jiemma, Natsu and Gajeel defeated their attackers with ease, including Sting and Rogue. They began to walk back to their guild, disgusted with what had happened when a few guild members stopped them and asked them to help the guild.
Natsu and Gajeel spied on the guild meeting. Jiemma was yelling at the entire guild, calling them a disgrace and weaklings. Apparently, it took all of Gajeel's strength to hold down Natsu.
It was when Jiemma attacked Lector that Sting lost it. He ran at their master screaming with tears in his eyes, a fist ready. Their master, who was ever powerful and almost impossible to defeat was knocked out by Sting in one blow. Sting, of course, rushed to Lector's side and hugged him, apologizing for not being able to protect him.
Now Sting was their master and Sabertooth wasn't a power-hungry guild anymore. It was a place where demons could enjoy time together and laugh. After all, demons weren't as evil as they were made out to be. They just enjoyed a riot and a fight.
"Rogue!" a small, cute voice cried. A little cat in what appeared to be a frog suit was running towards Rogue.
"Frosch! What's wrong?" Rogue asked noticing his little companion was trembling.
"Fro saw them! They're coming this way!" Frosch yelled out, enough that Sting could hear.
"Who's coming this way?" Sting asked, standing up.
"Fro doesn't know! They're running this way!" Frosch exclaimed burying herself into Rogue's arms.
The guild doors slammed open and many figures stormed in, disrupting the peace of the guild. Many demons had started to fight off the intruders.
It was when Orga, one of the burliest and strongest of Sabertooth was thrown onto his back, Sting noticed that these opponents were not to be taken lightly.
"Rogue," he said standing beside his best friend.
"Yes," Rogue replied, a dark aura emanating off of him. Sting seemed to be glowing and he and Rogue charged into the fray.
They both held out their fists, knocking down the small pawns as they ran towards what seemed to be the two commanders.
"It's the Twin Dragon Slayers!" the red haired commander shouted. They both faced them and cracked their knuckles.
"Why are you terrorizing Sabertooth?" Sting asked.
"Because we're stronger than you!" the other commander shouted through his helmet.
"Yeah! You might have beaten us in the Games, but we're still stronger!" the red haired commander exclaimed.
"Why is that a reason to attack our guild!?" Sting screeched.
"Then how about a duel?" the commander with the helmet suggested. "You, the twin dragon slayers, versus us, the Flame Brothers!" The helmeted brother took off his helmet to reveal matching red hair.
"So, the Twin Dragon Slayers are so in sync and are so close, they're like brothers," the previously helmeted brother hissed.
"But can you defeat real brothers?" the other challenged. The other brother threw his helmet back on and they charged.
Sting held out his hand in a fist and ran towards his attacker, the one without the helmet. His fist was covered in light and when it made contact, the brother flew back.
Rogue waited until his attacker was close before disappearing into the shadows. The helmeted brother looked around for Rogue, spouting threats and curses. Rogue slithered his shadow out and jumped up, punching the brother in the back.
The two brothers stood together, mumbling incoherent things that even Sting and Rogue couldn't hear.
"Flame guard," they said together.
Sting and Rogue charged, their fists ready. However, once they made contact with the brothers their fists started to burn.
"Try to touch us now!" the helmeted brother drew his two hands together and opened them again, "Fire missile!"
Two balls of fire charged at Sting and Rogue, catching them off guard. They both dodged, but the missile turned at charged at them again.
The other brother ran at them, his hands open. He grabbed their heads and forced them closer to the missiles, his hands burning them.
The missiles hit them and the brother let go bouncing back to the helmeted brother.
"This is annoying," Sting muttered.
"Should we stop playing?" Rogue asked calmly.
"Yeah, these pests will destroy more of the guild, best finish them off quickly," Sting agreed.
"Demon Technique, Dragon Slayer!" they both screamed,
"White Dragon's..."
"Shadow Dragon's..."
"Roar!"
A beam of light came from Sting's mouth, it was clean and sharp. From Rogue's was a wispy shadow, it was spastic and dangerous. The two beams joined together, each swirling around, showing bits of light and shadow.
"Lava wall!" one of the brothers shouted.
The beam broke through the defence and hit the two brothers. There was an explosion and screams filled the air.
When the smoke cleared two dazed figures were about three feet from a rather large hole in the wall.
"Sting-kun may say they cause damage, but in reality, he and Rogue caused the most," Lector sweat dropped.
"Fro thinks to too!"
"You're almost there Wendy! Just a bit more!" Lucy smiled.
The soul Wendy was trying to collect was almost completely covered in blue light. Wendy had gotten very tired, how did Lucy do this so easily?
"Aha! See there Romeo, that is a strong enemy!"
Lucy turned to see Natsu and a small boy.
"We challenge them then take the soul!" Natsu explained to Romeo, who nodded.
"Wendy, stop!" Lucy ordered.
Wendy complied and stopped focusing her energy on the soul. She looked up to see Lucy facing the other way. Wendy looked and saw two demons. One was around Lucy's age while the other was quite young, younger than Wendy.
"L-Lucy-san, are we going to fight them?" Wendy asked worriedly.
"No, I'm going to, you're going to go back to Heaven, okay?" Lucy said, drawing her whip.
Wendy shook her head, "I'm going to stay! I won't leave you alone!" she declared.
"Wendy, I don't want you to get hurt, besides we've got the advantage, remember?" Lucy reassured.
"L-Lucy-san!" Wendy shrieked. Lucy turned around to see a large ball of fire barely two feet from her face.
"Star Guard!" Lucy screamed.
White dots-stars-appeared in front of Lucy. They glowed brighter and brighter. The fire made contact and was blocked.
"See Romeo, she's a difficult opponent!" Natsu exclaimed, thrusting his index finger at Lucy.
"Wendy, just...be safe okay? If something goes wrong just go back to Heaven," Lucy placed a hand on Wendy's shoulder who nodded.
"C'mon Romeo! You can do it!" Lucy turned to see Natsu encouraging a small boy who was holding a small purple flame in the palm of his hand. "Sick 'er!"
The tiny purple flame left the boy's palm and slowly made it's way to Lucy. The little boy seemed to be sweating and was going cross eyed from looking at the fire.
A woosh was heard and Lucy saw a large flame coming from another direction. Lucy held up her whip to the fire and held it back. Natsu's outstretched hand pushed the fire foreword, causing Lucy's wrist to tire.
Lucy felt her cheek heat up, it was kind of painful, almost like a cat scratch, but it stayed longer and the heat wouldn't go away. Out of the corner of her eye, Lucy saw that the dim purple flame was stuck to her cheek, no longer a ball but a lump on her face.
The boy didn't seem to be using any magic anymore, so how was the flame still there? Even Natsu's flames went out in almost a second after command.
"Yeah! Direct hit Romeo!" Natsu released the fire and it disappeared. He gave a high-five to the little boy who was very proud of what he did.
Lucy rolled her eyes, but couldn't help but smile. Natsu had distracted her so that the little boy's hard work wouldn't go to waste.
Lucy reached up to touch the flame. It didn't really hurt, Natsu's were horrible, but this one was fine. She pulled at the fire, but the flame just stretched out. Lucy let go and felt the flame bounce back.
"Aha! You have my sticky fire on you!" the little boy declared. "One day, I'm gonna be so strong that it'll really burn when you get hit with it!" Romeo looked to Natsu, "Natsu-san! Let's win!" he grinned.
Natsu chuckled, "Yeah!"
"Volcano!" Natsu screamed, Lucy just barely leaped out of the way when a geyser of fire shot up, grazing her feet.
Natsu spread his wings and flew towards Lucy, not letting her regain her composure. He tackled her to the ground and lit his hands on fire, burning Lucy's skin.
"L-Lucy-san!" Wendy shrieked.
Lucy grinned and kneed Natsu in the crotch, causing him to whelp in pain. She grabbed her whip and stood back up.
"Star Dust," Lucy flicked her whip up and a trail of light yellow dust trailed behind her over to Natsu.
Natsu coughed a bit and tried to avoid the dust, but failed. The dust clung to his body, it sucked his magical energy and glowed brighter. Natsu threw out a ball of fire, but it fizzled and disappeared from his lack of magic. The dust clumped with magic then started to explode all over his body.
"Demon Technique, Dragon Slayer! Fire Dragon's Claw!" Natsu shouted, fed up.
A large claw made of fire swooped up and grabbed Lucy, bringing her towards Natsu while burning her.
"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" Natsu lunged at Lucy punching her in the back, his claw still gripping her.
"Constellation: The Bull, Taurus!" Lucy shouted and a bull, in what appeared to be spandex appeared, holding an axe.
"Mooo! Miss Lu~cy!" Taurus flexed his muscle and ran towards Natsu, hitting him with his axe. Natsu let Lucy go and fell foreword, catching himself before he fell.
"Moooo!" Taurus leaped up to attack Natsu.
"Fire Dragon's Flaming Elbow!" Natsu shouted. He lifted his elbow as Taurus came close, hitting the bull.
Taurus shimmered and disappeared, mumbling an apology.
Natsu reeled back, taking a huge breath of air. "Fire Dragon's Roar!"
Lucy flew up, trying to avoid the attack. She dodged successfully, but when she looked down she saw a small figure in front of the spiral of fire.
"Romeo-kun!" Wendy cried. Romeo had been trying to attack Lucy, but didn't notice the fire behind him.
Wendy watched in horror as the small boy was barely a foot away from Natsu's attack.
"Damn! Romeo!" Natsu screamed, cutting of the flow of fire and instead the fire became a large beam. Romeo didn't hear him.
Wendy took a deep breath as she watched Romeo run innocently with a small fire lit on his fist. The spiral drew closer and closer. Word's formed in Wendy's mouth, words she wanted to say to protect Romeo.
"Sky Dragon's Roar!"
Natsu's attack stopped in mid air. It hung there, unmoving.
"Who...?" Lucy whispered. She flew down and grabbed Romeo.
"Constellation: The Water Bearer, Aquarius!" Lucy shouted. A mermaid formed out of stars.
"What do you want?" Aquarius spat.
"Put out the flames please," Lucy asked meekly. Aquarius was terrifying, she often tried to drown Lucy during battles, resulting in Lucy trying not to bother her too much.
Aquarius lifted her urn and water spewed out, washing over the flames and putting them out.
"Don't call me for a while," Aquarius mumbled and went away.
"Romeo-kun!" Wendy shouted, she ran over to where Lucy and Romeo were. "Are you hurt?" she asked. Romeo shook his head.
"Are you the one that saved me?" Romeo stared up at Wendy with innocent eyes.
"N-no, that was Lucy-san..." Wendy replied.
"No, that was you," Natsu's voice rang out. "I felt it, your power. You're a dragon slayer like me, and you stopped my flames with it."
Wendy felt herself blush, a dragon slayer?
"Natsu!" Lucy left Romeo'a side to go hit Natsu in the shoulder, "How dare you put that little boy in danger! You should know how to control tour flames! At least move or something to save him!" she scolded.
"I know, sorry..." Natsu hung his head shamefully.
"I think you should take him back, that was dangerous!" Lucy declared. Wendy came up, holding Romeo's hand.
"Natsu-san!" Romeo said excitedly, oblivious to what had happened.
"Sorry Romeo," Natsu kneeled down and patted Romeo's head, mussing up his hair a bit.
"Look! Natsu-san!" Romeo held up his fist that was surrounded by his flame.
"Good job Romeo! Let's go home, okay?" Natsu extended his hand. Romeo took it and they ran off.
"Natsu-san may be a scary demon, but he's a good person, isn't he?" Wendy sighed.
Lucy's mouth twitched, "Perhaps. So Wendy, let's test out your magic tomorrow. Maybe Levy could help you."
"Why can't you?" Wendy asked.
"Because I'm attending to a ceremony tomorrow!" Lucy squealed with excitement.
"Oi! Macao! You here?" Natsu asked as he kicked down the door. Romeo had managed to fall asleep in Natsu's arms after requesting a piggy-back.
"Your old man ain't here much, is he?" Natsu asked Romeo, knowing that he was asleep. Natsu lay him down gently on a bed and tucked him in, "Well, I'll just leave a note here for 'im. Gotta go, Erza's gonna kill me if I'm not at dinner on time!" Natsu patted Romeo's head and shot out the broken door.
"What and idiot," a voice cackled.
Christmas Omake:
(Set in canon verse)
"Please Lucy!" Happy begged. He was practically in tears, begging his companion.
"That's utterly ridiculous! I will not, I have my own plans," Lucy huffed. She turned away from the exceed and crossed her arms.
"But it'll be the best gift ever! Mira told me!" Happy flew in front of her.
"I still won't participate," Lucy declared.
"Why? Don't you want to see that smile? Come on Lucy, I promise I won't tease you for a week after if you do!" Happy bargained.
"Fine," Lucy gave in to the cat's pleads, "This'll cost me an arm and a leg," she mumbled.
"Don't worry they'll grow back!" Happy grinned.
"Merry Christmas!" the guild cheered. People wore santa hats and presents of various sizes were placed under their grand tree.
People drank and ate in celebration, merrily talking and laughing.
"All right, time to open presents!" Mira shouted. Everyone stormed to the tree grabbing the presents that had their name on them.
Master gave everyone a custom sweater from the shop that had a photo printed of the entire guild. Master received a handful of mugs, sweaters and jewels (for both retirement and guild repair).
Mira got chocolates and jewelry from people both inside and out of the guild. Though, to her, what really took the cake was Laxus' hairpiece that he had shoved into her hands.
Cana got alcohol from everyone and Levy got books from everyone too. Gajeel quickly sneaked a pair of new wind-reading glasses into her gifts though.
Laki got makeup products and a few pair of new glasses. Kinanna got some girly products, but she paid close attention to the card that was sent from someone outside of the guild.
Lisanna got a new comb from her brother, some shoes from her sister and a few miscellaneous items from others. Juvia got new boots from the girls, as well as some bath products. Gajeel gave her a romance novel and Gray shyly gave her a necklace. Erza received enough strawberry cake to last until New Year (a feat, trust the guild) and Evergreen got statues and flowers.
Gajeel received mostly iron products, but Levy gave him new gauntlets. Elfman got some 'manly' weights from his sisters and others just got him shirts that said 'man' or 'I'm the man' on them.
Wakaba got some new cigars and a new lighter while Macao also received some alcohol. Gildarts got some magic rings from everyone that suppressed his power. Master was the one that came up with it, something about too many carelessly destroyed towns...
Max got broom care kits, Warren got magic earmuffs that blocked out thoughts of others from hangovers and Nab was given a list of jobs that he could possibly take.
Laxus was showered in gifts from the rest of the Raijinshuu. Master gave him new headphones and Mira gave him homemade chocolate. Bickslow was given hair products (exclusively from Freed, Evergreen and Laxus) and some anti wood-rot for his babies. Freed got books and sword polish as well.
While people honestly thought about giving Gray new clothes, they figured that the presents would just be thrown somewhere random and be forgotten forever. So, the guys gave him packs of super glue as a joke, but Natsu refused to admit that he once again, climbed Mt. Hakobe for blue fire to give to Gray. Juvia gave Gray a hat that she personally knit. At the back read in big bold letters, 'Property of Juvia Lockser'.
Natsu mostly got food from people, a few others set up some fire too. "Hey where's Lucy?" Natsu asked.
Everyone looked around to see that their favourite celestial mage wasn't present. Erza gave a speech about how horrible of a friend she was that she didn't notice Lucy wasn't there. Levy and a few others grew worried.
"Hey Natsu!" Mira waved, "Look at this big present, and it's yours! Open it!" Mira said excitedly.
"To Natsu, from Happy..." Natsu read aloud. "Thanks buddy!" Natsu grinned at his friend. No, his best friend, but what would that make Lucy? She felt like his best friend too, but more than that. But, Happy was his best friend! Would that make Lucy his bestest friend?
Natsu shrugged and ripped open the wrapping paper and large bow to reveal a large box. He eagerly tossed the top over and when he did, something popped out.
"Merry Christmas Natsu!" Lucy shouted as she stood in the box. Natsu's eyes popped out of his socket as Lucy was dressed in nothing but festive ribbon. The ribbon was draped over her chest and wrapped around her torso, covering her waist and lower. Some guys started to wolf-whistle at Lucy's outfit (if you could even call it that).
"Maybe you should take her home and unwrap her there," Cana elbowed Natsu, wiggling her eyebrows suggestively.
"Or here," Macao voiced.
"We wouldn't mind," Wakaba added.
"Lucy, I didn't think you were so daring!" Erza managed to let out.
"Juvia knows what you're trying to do! You are trying to seduce Gray-sama in such a revealing outfit!"
"She's Natsu's gift!" Mira exclaimed.
"Natsu! Do you like it? I got exactly what I think you wanted!" Happy flew up.
Natsu stood speechless, his face was slowly heating up as his eyes stared at Lucy.
"Don't stare! Just say something!" Lucy blushed.
"Y-you must be cold," Natsu choked out. Everyone facepalmed at Natsu's poor response. He lifted Lucy out of the box and gave her his single-sleeved jacket, leaving him shirtless.
Someone screamed "Shots!" and everyone crowded around the bar. After a drinking contest with Gray and Gajeel, Natsu hobbled over to Lucy and picked her up bridal style. Despite Lucy's requests to stay with everyone, the couple made their way to Lucy's apartment.
"Alright, you're too awesome of a Christmas gift to leave alone," Natsu leaned in close to Lucy, reaching for the zipper on his jacket, "So I'll unwrap you now."
Done! Long chapter, I know! Hope you enjoyed the omake, Happy Holidays!
Hope you liked it, sorry if it was confusing