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A strong light made the blonde mage twitch her eyes and open them. With sleepy eyes she got up and watches around, she was in her home. But it didn´t feel right, she thought and started to move in her bed. Until she hit something hard the memories came rushing in, she saw the pink haired dragon slayer sleep on his stomach with the arms around the pillow. With a loud sigh Lucy poked the sleeping dragon, he didn´t woke up. Just made an annoyed face and turned to his back. The snoring filled her apartment and she wondering for herself how she could possible sleep with this for 6 nights more.
However, the blonde celestial mage decided to get ready, she was going to the guild. Mirajane had her rent money from their last mission and she needed to snatch a new mission so she could secure next month rent too.
The blonde took long time in the bathroom, she put her hair up in a elegant ponytail, placed a green blouse with white decorations over her body and a pair of jeans.
"I´m not going to freeze today" she said with confident and her mirror picture smiled back at her.
Then she went out, found the pink haired boy stilled sleeping and with a rough push he felled on to the cold floor. The reaction was immediately as he jumped up with his fist in flames, ready to fight. But Natsu cooled down when he met Lucys eyes and the flames disappeared.
"Oi Luce, what´s up?" he said with a goofy smile.
"I´m going to the guild now and you´re coming too!" Lucy answered with a small voice, she put her house key in the little bag she bring everywhere.
"Yes ma´am!" Natsu said. "Hey where´s Happy?"
Lucy hadn´t notice the missing cat before now, but she had a pretty god idea where he went.
"I´m sure he´s already at the guild." She sighed and watched Natsu brown skin go pale. "What?"
"We have to hurry." Natsu screamed and dragged Lucy with him, without thinking she grabbed the jacket over the chair and put in on. Natsu dragged her all the way in to the guild, there he let her wrist go and sprint up to the blue cat who was entertaining Carla, Wendy and Grey at the table. Natsu put a hand over the cat mouth.
"May we be excused?" He said with a demon smile and then dragged away his best friend in the tail.
Lucy sighed and sat down next to Grey.
"Morning Lucy- san." Wendy said with a shyly smile.
"Yeah, slept well?" Grey whispered with dark eyes.
Lucy blinked, she turned to the white exceed who didn´t look very entertained.
"Happy told us about the change of beds. You know that you don't have to keep him there. Just ask and I can kick him out." Grey explained next to her.
Lucy shrugged her head. "I can't! If I break a promise I could never live with myself. That's my magic"
Grey let out a loud growl.
"Flame brain, you got to pay for tricking Lucy like this."
Natsus smile got bigger when he met his biggest rival.
"O really, you jealous popsicle?" The flames around his fist where back when he bumped into Greys now naked chest. The black haired mage had something different in his eyes, he was really ready to kill.
"Natsu, Grey. Calm down." Lucy warned as she got up from her place. The two male sparkled with theirs element against each other, ready to start in a second. Lucy had never seen them like that. They always battle, yes. But now it was like watching two dogs fight over their favorite bone. She watched how the rest of the guild stopped what they were doing to look over the new fight.
"What's going on here?" Erzas voice remained heard over the silence. Lucy sighed of relief and expect the two males play Happy2, but they didn´t change positions.
"I´m not going to let you have your way with everything anymore, get ready dragon boy. You´re going down." Grey said in a low growl that only Natsu could her.
"If you know what´s best for you, back down. She belongs to me." The fire mage growled back. But after that the two boys where separated, Erzas deathly glow didn´t affect them much. She let go and the two males turned around and walked away out from the guild. Erza looked a little confused.
"What´s going on here?" she asked again. Lucy shrugged her head, not knowing what to say she walked down to the bar.
"Here" Mirajane gave her the envelope and smiled. "Good job Lucy. You really are starting to improve your skill."
"Thank you Mirajane." Lucy smiled happy at the silver hair bartender and put away the money in her bag.
"So, I hear a rumor." She said with a low expression and put the body over the disk to watch right into Lucys confused eyes. "Something you want to tell me?"
Lucy groaned when a small bluenette girl placed herself next to her.
"Yeah, I´ve was hearing some crazy stuff about a dragon slayer sleeping in your bed. So let's try this again, is there anything going on?" Levy asked and peeked at her best friend trough her glasses. The innocent smiles with the sparkle eyes didn´t match the bluenette.
"Nothing is going on." Lucy said with an easy smile, she even raised her voice a little so the people who was ear dropping (the whole guild) should hear her words without problem. "I just made a promise and Natsu are my partner. Not a lover."
The women become silent, before they started laughing. Lucy watched them dry the tears away from their eyes, she didn´t understand the amusing at all.
"What?" she demanded to know.
"I just tried to see Natsu romantically…" Mirajane gasp and started laughing again, this time the whole guild joined her. Lucy got angry, she might not see Natsu romantic but he was a man like everybody else, and he would work like a man.
"I think that Natsu could be very romantic." She therefore said with a daring smile.
"Oh really?" Mirajane said with a scary flash in her eyes. "You want to make it into a bet?"
Lucy felt trapped, she felt how she was blushing but didn´t look away. "What did you plan specific?"
"Easy, if you show me that in the end of the week that Natsu could feel romantic for someone then I pay your next month rent. But if you lose, then you owe me…"
Lucy gulped, Mirajane could make her do anything, but she knew that Natsu must have some manly feelings. But what did she have do to for showing it, she couldn´t just go kissing him herself that would ruin their friendship.
But she could find him a girlfriend, Lucy smiled for herself. Yes, she would find him the perfect girl. With star eyes she smiled at the bartender, shook her hand and the guild that was silent until now started drinking, eating and screaming again.
"We have a deal, don't forget. You only have this week. Don't let me down." Mirajane whispered. Lucy who nods with a serious face and start search the guild for the pink haired boy. He hadn´t come back since the nearly fight with Grey, even the ice mage where gone.
"If I could find him." She said, more to herself.
"I think he went to the park, he often goes there when he needs to cool down." Erza said who stood behind Lucy and made her jump of horror.
"Erza, you scared me." The blonde said but smiled quickly again. "I´m going to look for him, don't do anything funny while I´m gone."
Levy watch the blonde disappeared out from the door. She then turned to her female friends. Cana, Wendy and Bisca had joined their little group and they now watched the silver haired bartender.
"So, what do you think?" Levy asked them.
"Someone is not going to be that innocent in the end of the week." A drunken Cana said with a not so innocent smile on her lips.
"What do you mean?" a nervous Wendy asked.
"She doesn´t mean anything." Erza said with an angry voice against the drunken woman who just laughed it off and walked away to sit next to Macao.
"I bet that Lucy is going to win." Levy said with big confidence in her friend. "She has a good eye for couple and she´s going to find someone for Natsu."
This made Erza, Bisca and Mirajane laugh in reunion.
"Yeah, sure she is going to find him someone really interesting." Bisca said. "But I don´t believe they´re going to find out anything soon, especially not in the end of this week, so I´m betting against it."
"This got very intense, I´m going to help them at any cost." Erza said and lift one of her sword up in the air. "This weeks mission can wait, love are on the menu tonight."
"Stop Erza, I forbid you to put a finger between those two. We just have to watch and wait." Mirajane said with a terrifying voice which made Erza lowing her sword.
"But…" A depressed Erza said.
"No!"