Lucy stared at her partner as his drool dripped onto the seat he was sprawled across. Even though he was unconscious he still managed to look like he was going to hurl at any moment. It was to be expected though; they had been traveling on a train for nearly 24 hours. When they had met up at the train station yesterday they had boarded a high powered magic fueled bullet train to get them to their destination faster. It was supposed to make it from the west to the east in 23 hours and 45 minutes.

They still had another 15 minutes to go, but the train had started to slow down. The lesser speed was makers by how the scenery was now slightly more distinguishable than colored blobs.

When the duo got on the train, Lucy gave Natsu a pill before the train started to move that knocked him out within seconds. With Natsu out for the count the young girl took advantage of the science and caught up on some sleep she just knew she would miss out on. The sleep didn't last long but she was able to spend the rest of the time working on her novel. Levy would be excited to see the new chapters she had managed to finish.

Sighing, the blond mage leaned back in her seat and stared at the ceiling. Even though she enjoyed writing her novel, something about writing on trains eventually got boring. Her mind wandered as she gazed up blankly. The lack of conversation the last two hours had long since started to become mind numbing. Happy wasn't even there to chat with, just her and the passed out fire mage.

Lucy's eyes drifted back down to the sleeping teen.

Even with the drool he's kind of cute.

….

WAIT! What? I did not just think that! Lucy thought, a blush staining her cheeks. This is Natsu we're thinking about. He is SO not cute… well maybe a little bit… No. Not even a little bit! But he looks adorable passed out like that… NO STOP THAT! NATSU is anything BUT adorable! He's destructive and an idiot and… and… just NOT cute. She thought covering her face with her hands.

More like handsome. A little voice said in her head. Lucy's face was cherry red at that thought. Natsu is not handsome! I must be going insane, I have to be. It's all the silence that's driving me crazy.

"Ugh."

Lucy jumped at the sudden intrusion of sound and whipped her eyes to Natsu with an irrational fear that he had heard her thoughts.

"N-Natsu?" She stuttered unsure if he was awake. He groaned in response.

A small smile crossed her face at his helplessness. "We're almost there. It won't take more than a half hour."

Almost magically the train's intercom buzzed and said in a loud voice that they will be arriving momentarily and asked that all passengers please gather their belongings.

The only response Natsu gave was a soft sigh and Lucy giggled lightly.

"I'll buy you lunch after the mission to make up for the train ride." She said with a grin.

Natsu looked slightly better.

After another few short minutes, the train came to a stop and Lucy dragged Natsu off the train by his scarf.

"Now supposedly they should be waiting for us… do you see four old men anywhere?"

She looked around the train station and saw four figures dressed long in cloaks with only long white beards visible. Lucy hesitantly approached the people still dragging her partner behind her.

"Um, would you be from the Eastern Restaurants Guild?"

One jerked his head up and eyed Lucy with crazy big eyes, "YES!" He replied in an extremely loud voice. "ARE YOU THE PEOPLE FROM FAIRY TAIL?"

Lucy flinched but nodded in affirmative.

"GOOD!" He yelled. "COME WITH US TO THE GUILD!"

And with that, the four instantly whipped around and strutted of the platform. Lucy looked back down at the recovering Natsu, sighed, and followed.

OK, so thanks to a BIG slayers fan and selenas2gz I've decided to continue this story. But to make things easier on my life I'm only going to do short chapters. So I hope you enjoy this little chapter and look forward to the next chapter!

As always, please review! I love reviews!