Chapter 7: Golden Key

"Are you sure you don't need help Luce?", Natsu asked Lucy for the tenth time.

"Natsu I already told you I'm fine. Besides you are already carrying Lisanna." Lucy said in irritation. Natsu had Lisanna on his back and Lucy was walking behind them.

"I'm sure he'd rather be holding your butt." Lisanna snickered

"Shut up!" Natsu yelled then hit Lisanna's face with the back of his head.

"Ow you dick! That hurt!" Lisanna yelled at him then punched his head.

"Knock your shit off before I drop you on your ass!" He threatened Lisanna. Lucy sighed in irritation and said, "Can't you to get along for five seconds?"

"Hell no! She tried to kill you Luce!", Natsu yelled at Lucy with his back still to her.

Lucy started walking faster so that she was now she was in front of Natsu's face and he stopped dead in his tracks. She was fuming with anger and she yelled, "She's also apologized for it!"

"Oh really?! I haven't heard this apology!"

"Dam it Natsu can't you just give her a second chance?!"

"When hell freezes over I might just think about it!" Natsu yelled and continued walking pushing Lucy out of his way.

"Agh Natsu you're such a goddam hypocrite. How many second chances have you had!? Huh?! How many times did Igneel forgive you when you stole from him?"

Natsu stopped walking again and turned to Lucy with a very pissed off look on his face.

" That's low Lucy even for you." , he said in a low voice. Lisanna was dead silent on Natsu's back.

"Igneel would have..."

"Don't you fucking dare bring my father into this! And last I remembered you fucking stole from him as well!" Natsu said cutting her off. Lucy was about to say something back but the quickly shut her mouth again realizing how much he words hurt Natsu. They stood in silence for a while and stared at the ground.

"I miss him to you know." Lucy said finally braking the silence. Natsu looked up at Lucy and saw that she had tears in her eyes. He wanted to say something but he stood silent.

"He was the first kind person I ran into since my village burned down. He took me in when I got separated from Levy." , it was at this point that Lucy started to cry.

"I felt so horrible when we stole from him. Maybe it was my fault that he died?" Lucy said looking at the ground.

Natsu grabbed Lisanna from his back and set her on the ground. He slowly walked toward Lucy and said in a gentle voice, "Luce you can't take all the blame for that. I was reasonable for his death as well."

"Really I can't? If I hadn't found out about that stupid job! If I hadn't convinced you to go with me! If I hadn't helped you steal money from your dad! If i hadn't done any of that maybe he wouldn't have followed us, maybe he wouldn't have got trapped with us, maybe he wouldn't have die trying to save us. If it wasn't for me coming into your lives he still would have been alive! If it wasn't for me you would still have a dad! You guys should have left me to die on the streets alone." Lucy cried. She was about to fall to the ground but Natsu caught her before she could. He put his arms around her and hugged her tightly.

"Stop it! If anyone was to blame its me! I agreed to go, it was my idea to steal from him, and it was me who got us stuck in that trap! It was my fault and mine alone! So don't you dare say we should have left you to die. When we saved you it was the happiest I've seen my dad since my mom died! He never regretted saving you and neither have I!" , Natsu shouted and started to cry as well.

Lucy hugged Natsu back and said, " I'm sorry. I just miss him so much."

"Me too." Natsu and Lucy continued to cry still hugging each other. Lisanna watched the two in silence and smiled at their heartbreaking but cute moment.

All of a sudden a bright golden light was illuminated form down the hallway.

Lisanna cleared her throat and said, " I'm sorry to interrupt you two love birds but shouldn't we go check out what that light is?"

The two looked at her then looked back at each other and quickly unlocked arms and turned away from each other while blushing. They turned toward the light and Lucy said, " I wonder what that is?"

"Only one way to find out." Natsu said then walked over to Lisanna and put her on his back again. They started to walk towards the light and noticed it got warmer the closer they got to it. When they finally got to the room the light was coming from it suddenly vanished.

"What the hell? Where did it go?!" Natsu yelled in confusion.

"Natsu look!" Lucy shouted while point at the top of a very tall podium. At the top was a golden key that had what looked like the night sky on its bow.

"WOW!" ,all three said at once.

"That must be the Celestial Key!" , Lucy said in excitement.

"I can't believe it exists." Lisanna said in amazement.

"Eh I thought it would be cooler." Natsu said in boredom. Lisanna and Lucy both smacked Natsu in the back of his head.

"OW! That fucking hurt!"

"SHUT UP!" , both girls yelled.

" I wonder how we get it?" Lisanna asked.

"Well according to the book it will only come down for someone with a true heart." Lucy answered.

"Well I guess that means you Luce."

"Why me?"

"Because I could careless and there's no way in hell Miss Psyco over her is true of anything."

"What the hell is that supposed to mean!" Lisanna shouted.

"It means shut up and stay out of this!" Natsu yelled back.

"You're so rude! And you can put me down now jackass!" as soon as Lisanna said this Natsu let go of her and she fell right on her butt.

"Ow that hurt you dick."

"Well you told me to put you down."

"Stop it you two!" Lucy said with a menacing look on her face.

"Aye sir!" , both Lisanna and Natsu yelled in terror.

"Wow Luce you're beginning to be just as scary as Erza." Natsu added. Lucy just rolled her eyes then looked back to the podium trying to figure out how to bring it down. She pulled out the book to see if it had a way.

"What dose the book say?" Lisanna asked.

"It just says 'Place your hand on the podium and let the judgement begin.' I don't like the sound of that." Luce said

"Well there's only one way to find out." Natsu said

"Find out wha-?" , Lucy didn't get to finish because Natsu had grabbed her hand and placed it on the podium. When he did this room started to shake and the podium started to descend.

It stopped lowering when it got about 5 feet from the ground.

"Hey look it worked!" Natsu said in excitement.

"YOU MORON YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IF I WOULD WORK!" Lucy and Lisanna shouted.

"Stop yelling it worked didn't." Natsu said like it was no big deal. Lucy sighed then reached her hand out toward the key. She stopped her hand when it was a couple of centimeters from the key and a took deep breath then picked up the key. As soon as she pick up the key a bright golden light started illuminating from it. Engulfing the whole room in light.

Wow this was a roller coaster of emotions chapter. I was thinking about writing a story on their past or kind of like a prequel to this story. Let me know if y'all would like something like that in the reviews and in till next time ^_^