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Hello people! I know I have been gone for a while now. It upsets me so much you have no idea. My grandpa had to have quadruple bypass surgery and I couldn't write. Also, one of my best friends almost committed suicide, so my mind was just torn to pieces. I cannot stress enough how much it hurts me to know people are trying to kill themselves everyday because of abuse. It's just sickening. And I have one more reason for not posting a new chapter.
Is it... A.) I had to go to a party yesterday
or. B.) My unicorn got loose so I had to go get it.
If you guessed B you are totally right. Psht, I don't have friends! Who needs them right guys?
Fairy Tail Cast: ...
Soul 'Eater' Evens: Not cool...
Maka: Hey! We aren't aloud in here! MAKA-CHOP!
Me: *sweat drops* Wrong story guys! Now, I just need some one to do the disclaimer... I guess it won't be anyone from FT because they are mad at me... Death the Kid you're up!
D.T.K: This very unsymmetrical human being doesn't own Fairy Tail
The whole palace was abuzz with life as the first day of the Grand Magic Games was about to start. Maids were getting the rooms ready for the important guests who were visiting to watch the games. This year it was an even bigger deal because the illusive Natsu Dragneel was coming out of the shadows. Along with the rumors of a new female member, the games should be a huge success. Already, the stadium was half full with people who were too excited to wait for the official start time.
The only person who wasn't happy for the games was King Jude himself. He was pacing rather impatiently in his study for an unknown reason.
"Where is he?" He muttered.
Takao glanced bordly at Jude. "Who sire?"
"The man who can do chores that you can't even do. The one man who can get the job done right the first time," Jude spat. "His title is the 'Dragon Hunter'. You shall treat him with respect. Ah, here he comes now."
The huge throne room doors opened to reveal a man with a pretty decent build, wearing a face covering cloak. The room was so quiet, the only thing you could hear was the unusual nawing of rock. Noticing the silence, King Jude coughed in a dignified matter.
"Welcome to Crocus! I hope to hear your journey wasn't too awful?"
Silence.
"I get paid right when the job is done right?" The man stopped chewing.
"R-right. Your job is to bring me my daughter and her dragon slayer. Or you can kill him. I prefer for her not to know that I want him as well. I think you know the drill," Jude mumbled the last part dryly.
The man nodded and exited the room.
"Now we just wait."
Fairy Tail Team A: Natsu and Lucy
Natsu slowly opened his tired eyes. He hasn't gotten much sleep that night. Lucy's strangled cries for help bothered him to no end. Every hour, we woke up to see of Lucy was still asleep beside him. Much to his relief, she was.
"Good morning sleepy head," Lucy walked out of the on-suite bathroom with wet hair. "I thought you might've missed the first day!"
"Nah, I am awake now. Do you want me to dry your hair?" Natsu asked while he picked up a sleeping Happy from the bed.
"N-no. I'm fine," she stuttered. Natsu lifted an eyebrow. "Ok, you can dry it," she huffed.
As Natsu was walking to the couch, his stomach rumbled. He grinned sheepishly before he ran out the door. "One second!" Minutes later, he came back in with a fish wrapped in paper. "I just ate. It's for Happy," he explained. "Now sit on the floor."
Lucy did as she was told. She was actually happy she gave into him so he could dry her hair. The feel of his fingers running through her hair was surprisingly pleasing. When his fingers touched her neck she felt all of her nerves go on high alert. Her necklace grew warm and bright. While he worked on her hair, she would start humming a song Igneel taught them when they were kids. Soon after she started humming, Natsu caught on and hummed with her. When that song ended, they would go through the songs Layla taught them.
I'm not surprised, not everything lasts
I've broken my heart so many times I stopped keeping track
Talk myself in, I talk myself out
I get all worked up then I let myself down
I tried so very hard not to loose it
I came up with a million excuses
I thought, I thought of every possibility
And I know some day that it'll all turn out
You'll make me work so we can work to work it out
And I promise you kid that I give so much more than I get
I just haven't met you yet
Lucy hummed while Natsu sang it softly. When her hair was dry, he stopped singing much to her disappointment. He was a really good singer, he just chose not to let anyone know that.
"Do you like it?" Natsu snapped her out of he thoughts by holding up a mirror. She smiled when she noticed he curled it lightly and put her signature ribbon in it.
"It's so pretty. Thank you for doing that for me," she looked over her shoulder to see his signature grin.
"Your hair is always pretty Luce. I just added a ribbon to it," Natsu said. A blush fanned Lucy's cheeks.
"Natsu, you realize you said 'pretty' and 'Lucy' in the same sentence right?" Happy sleepily said while he stretched.
"I will skin you alive and make your pelt into a purse, you damn cat!" Lucy growled.
Natsu laughed when Happy jumped into his pink hair. "Yes Happy. I meant to do that."
"Humph. Now I am going to change into my outfit instead of my lazy clothes. Tell Erza, Wendy, and Gray I will meet them in the lobby. Don't forget Happy's fish on the coffee table," Lucy said.
"Sure sure. Don't take to long!" Natsu and Happy walked out the door.
Lucy smiled and shook her head.
...
"Let's go down stairs!" Natsu yelled. Erza looked to see if anyone was behind him.
"Where's Lucy?" Erza asked.
"She is changing. Luce said to go to the lobby and she will be down in a minute," Natsu ran toward the door. When he was out, Happy floated slowly behind him.
"This is a really good fish..." The door closed.
"He seems more relaxed," Wendy observed.
"Hmm. Carla, can you see anything happening to him today?" Erza asked.
"Why are you doing that? I don't think it was him he was freaking out about. He doesn't do stuff like that. Flame brain is the kind of person who does that for others," Gray leaned against a corner with his arms crossed.
"Still, we need to be careful about the situation. So far, we know not to make him angry again. For all we know, he could unleash the power that he used at the guild again." Erza glared at the ground. "Power like that..." She shivered.
"I know," Gray replied.
Carla searched through the day for anything that would set Natsu off. Her eyes snapped open when she saw she never wanted to see. Her eyes were wide with fright of what was to come.
"N-no. Lucy... Natsu... There's more of them?!" Carla rambled.
"What's wrong?!" Wendy asked worriedly.
"N-nothing. I don't sense anything bad for us today."
"I asked you to search for Natsu. Not us," Erza fumed.
"I mean, nothing bad will happen to us because of him. I can't say the same thing for the other teams..." Carla drifted off. "Let's go to the lobby now. Lucy should be out shortly."
"Sure," Wendy said questingly.
...
"Aggghh! What is taking her so looonnng?" Natsu and Happy said in unison. "Couldn't she just have kept on what she was already wearing?"
"No Natsu. From what I have observed over the years, is that girls obsess over stupid things like if a belt matches with your shoes or not," Happy said from Natsu's pink locks.
"Who cares? Nobody would judge her with the clothes she had on."
"What exactly was she wearing?" Macao and Wakaba asked eagerly.
"A white shirt with the thin straps. What is that called again?" He turned to Happy.
"A tank top."
"Yeah that! It was in a V-shape around the neck with really tight sweat pants. Why do you want to know?"
Macao and Wakaba along with some other men guild members were trying to cover up their nosebleeds. "No reason."
Natsu just shrugged and continued to moan with boredom. When would she come down? Multiple times he considered checking on her but Erza's watchful gaze stopped him. Why she was that way, he could only guess.
"Sorry it took me so long! I couldn't find my shoes," Lucy jogged over to the guild that came with both teams. Without opening his closed eyes, he replied to her.
"You know, they were right next to the bed on my side right?"
"I figured that out the long and hard way. I could've sworn they were on my side of the bed. Why were they in your side?"
"Remember?" Natsu opened his eyes and winked. She gave him a small sly grin.
"Oh how could I forget? That was fun!" Lucy said.
Across the room, Mirajane's ears perked up. "My match-making senses are tingling."
The duo, along with Happy, grinned. "By the way, why are most of the male population standing in the corner with bloody noses?" Lucy pointed to most of the perverted mages.
"I have no idea. But it might have something to do with your clothes. At least, that's what I hear them talking about." Lucy looked down to see if something was wrong with her attire. She had on a blue coat, like the one Natsu always wears, with the top not buttoned up all the way because they wouldn't go together. Aside from that, she had on really short white shorts with her key pouch hanging around her waist. Her shoes were her brown boots. "I don't see anything wrong with it, because your coat looks like mine!"
"At least you like it. Hey! Guys! I am here now. We may leave!" Lucy called.
Erza walked toward Lucy with a small smile on her face. "Great. Now, we need to figure out how to approach this..."
"Approach what Erza-san?" Wendy walked up behind her with Gray and Carla by her side.
"It has been brought to my attention that the press hasn't seen Natsu in years and has never seen Lucy. By the way, when I mean Jason when I saw press. You can understand my concern for their safety," Erza concluded. Everyone besides Lucy nodded in agreement.
"Wait, what's wrong with Jason?" She asked.
"Jason is an animal when it comes to article interviews. He is sorta like a stalker who says 'cool!' All the time. He's a really creepy dude," Gray explained.
"Says the stripper. Put some clothes on ice princess! Wendy looks like she could faint!" Natsu growled.
Gray jumped in surprise. "When did this happen?! And don't call me ice princess matchstick! I mean flame brain!" Erza's eyes flared to life at the name they all agreed not to call him.
"Gray..." She said in a eerily calm voice. You know what they say, it's always calm before the storm. In this case, a storm of swords.
"I told you not to call me that bastard!" Natsu screamed at the top of his voice. Team Natsu stopped whatever they were doing to try and calm him.
"It's ok Natsu. CALM yourself," Lucy rubbed his back which was currently covered in fire. When he calmed, he growled.
"Lucy, you guys go ahead to the arena in ninja-mode. We will meet up with you as soon as you can," Erza said.
"Nin-nin!" Lucy turned to Natsu who now had his scarf around his head with Happy on his head doing a weird hand formation similar to Natsu's. Lucy looked at them with confused eyes.
"Oh Mavis, help me!"
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Lucy POV
Currently, we were hopping on roof tops. In broad daylight. Yeah, Ninja-mode alright. A man with bright pink -no salmon- hair, a blue cat with wings flying next to him, and me, with my bright blonde hair and shiny keys the glowed in the sunlight. See? Ninjas. My grip on Natsu's back tightened every time we jumped from building to building.
"Are we almost there? The sun keeps rising higher and higher," I whispered in his ear. Natsu must've taken notice to my statement, because he jumped to the alleyways and ran faster.
"We are almost there now. Two minutes tops," he grinned over his shoulder. I smiled back. I was just happy he was being my Natsu again. Did I just say my Natsu? No no no. He's not mine! Right? Uggh, I really need to quit thinking about stuff like that. Where would all those thoughts get me? That's right; in trouble.
The alleys of Crocus were dark and damp. Some of the alleys branched off to other, darker alley that I really wouldn't like to go down. Rats scurried from behind crates and trash cans as he ran forward. I let out a slight 'eeeeepp!' As he jumped over a trash can that had bugs crawling out from it. Toward the end of the endless darkness, there was light. Light that lead to the coliseum. I was mentally rejoicing when we stopped.
"Why did we stop?" I whispered. Happy got off of Natsu's head crawled between my chest and his back.
"We are being watched. We have been since we left the inn," Natsu said. I looked at his profile. His usually cheery onyx eyes were now steely and on high alert. The dragon slayer sniffed the air. His eyes narrowed. "It smells like earth and something I can't put my finger on."
"Can we lose them?" I asked. Natsu was about to reply when a figure came out of the shadows. He had longish brown hair and brown eyes. He was really buff, like Laxus, with just a brown muscle shirt, baggy cream colored pants, combat boots, and a rock in his hand that looked like it had bite marks on it. Around his neck was a piece of metal that was flashing a bright red light.
I have never seen this man before in my life, but it looked like Natsu had. There was an emotion I thought that was never possible in his eyes: fear. He tightened his grip around my legs. Happy crawled around my neck to my back as if he was going to carry me away. "What's happening?" I dug my head into the crook of his neck.
Natsu let out the most vicious growl I had ever heard coming from him. He bared his sharp teeth for multiple seconds. The man did the same but not to that extent.
"Who are you?" I heard Natsu ask.
"I am Drake, one of the five great Dragon Slayer's Slayer that ever lived. Who are you exactly?" Drake stepped forward. Natsu did the same.
"I think you already know that." Natsu walked up closer to him. I then noticed Natsu was a few inches taller than Drake was.
"You're smarter than my boss gives you credit for, Natsu Dragneel." I felt like hissing for some reason when he said that. "I really would love to talk to that blonde of yours, but I am afraid that will have to wait. Good by Lucy Heartifillia. Natsu Dragneel." He left.
When Drake was out of sight, Natsu took off running. As he did so, I thought I saw tears in his eyes. It couldn't be because of the wind. I knew exactly what it was about when I saw him mouth a sentence.
"He's here to take my Lucy."