What on EARTH?

Hiya peeps, how's it going? Thanks again to the people to enjoyed this story so far, guess what? Spoiler alert for future: Lucy, Natsu, Happy and Mavis are staying for a long time! But let's just wait and see...

Reputation and a Job Interview

10 minutes, and the news had spread like wildfire. Everyone knew about it as they watched an ambulance come for the injured boy whose name was revealed to be Sam. He was lifted up by some paramedics and driven away from the school sites. It was also revealed that he had a broken nose and fractured jaw.

Natsu had consequently received an earful by Mr Ran, who droned on about bad behavior and controlling temper. He was given a punishment, to clear up every classroom for a month since giving time-outs would result in him staying indoors for practically the rest of the year. And no teacher would want that, right?

As soon as he was starting to recover from Mr Ran's yelling, Lucy shattered his eardrums by lecturing him for "beating up that poor guy." but stopped when he told her that it was because of Happy.

"But, you still went overboard! Didn't you see the state of him?!" She protested.

"Yeah, he was a state of art." Natsu replied quietly, but she still heard him.

"NATSU!"

After the incident, every single child had avoided the pink-haired bully, watching him nervously and not wanting to go to hospital. They shied away from him or just legged it whenever he came near. They still tried to make friends with Lucy though, and that, thankfully, wasn't very difficult. Her bright, kind personality seemed very different from her friend's violent ways. Everyone wondered why they were such good friends even though the blonde had insisted that Natsu wasn't always like that and that he was a good person.

They had Maths afterwards, which Lucy excelled at and Natsu completely confused since Igneel never bothered with all that. Mr Ran clapped when Lucy answered another question right. "Lucy Heartfilia! You deserve a house point!" He said. "Oh wait, I need to tell you about your houses. You're both in Sapphire!" (A.N: I remember that they always had weird names for these houses.)

The lesson continued on about fractions and stuff, the girl had become quite popular with everyone with her intelligence and kindness. However, Natsu was the opposite, barely talking to anyone else and ditto, everyone didn't talk to him either.

When Mr Ran split everyone up for P.E afterwards, he was grouped up with a bunch of other males, including the one that called him gay. They weren't exactly pleased about this which was pretty evident when they pushed him away.

"We don't need freaks like you here!"

"Yeah, Sam was hurt cos of you!"

"Pinky's a loser!"

So Natsu just sloped around that lesson whilst the teacher was explaining the rules of rounders. To be honest, he had no idea what was going on and he was sure that Lucy was too, until he saw her drinking in all the details quietly. And it was proved that his girl knew what she was doing when she swung the bat with precision and hit the ball all the way across the field and all her team mates ran around, gaining their team a tremendous amount of points.

"That's the way to do it." Natsu murmured to himself. So he stepped up in line and hit the ball with all his might. The ball was ripped in two with all the power and disappeared out of sight.

His team groaned as James, Sam's best friend apparently, shot him the 'loser' sign and called him a petty show-off. He huffed as Lucy comforted him even though they were both confused as heck when he shot the hand gesture. In unison, they both raised they right arm up and did the Fairy Tail gesture back at him, thinking that he meant well.

The game eventually ended as Lucy's team won and everyone glared at him. At lunch, he joined the queue with Lucy. "I don't get it, why am I not making any friends?" He asked, a little sadly.

Lucy rolled her eyes, "It's because you beat Sam up pretty badly, they're just scared off you. Don't worry, tomorrow will be different, you'll see." Natsu smiled at her gratefully as he got some casserole served into his plate along with a dessert of strawberry cake. "Oi, Lucy!" Some girls called out, waving, "come sit with us." Lucy smiled politely.

"Sorry, but I'm sitting with Natsu." She apologized and joined her best friend by the corner. She plopped down, as Natsu tucked in. "It's not as good as Mira's but it's good." He said, looking up. "I hate school, it's the perfect place for you, Luce, but I hate it. I don't understand anything, all I know is fighting!" He sighed in frustration. He made a sort on his slice of cake. "This reminds me of Erza, ya know? She loves these but personally, I find them too creamy."

A sharp gust of wind whipped through the canteen, Natsu shivered violently.

Lucy chuckled, "Better not talk about it. And Natsu, want me to help you tidy the classes?"

Natsu smiled brightly at her.

Mavis Vermillion was getting tired, her feet were aching as she strolled past the streets of London. However, she still treated it well, waving to the pedestrians cheerfully and greeting everyone with a smile. No-one replied back though, so she thought it might be something due to the cold. People were often grumpy when it's chilly, Zera always was.

Mavis bit her bottom lip and looked down to her bare feet.

She turned to the left and walked across the road with cars flashing past. Then she arrived at an building named OPUS ENERGY SERVICES (Dunno why but I just chose a random company to use).

Outside, it had a poster showing the words 'Wanted employees, please book an appointment.' Mavis's eyes were shining, this was her chance!

She walked inside, feeling the warmth greet her as she went right up to the receptionist. "Hello, I'm here for an job." She said. The woman didn't look up as she typed furiously. "Uh huh, that's settled then at 11:30." The ghost looked up to see the clock hand striking 11:27. "It's on Floor 2 with Mr Oakes."

"Thanks you so much!" Mavis bowed twice then sprinted towards the elevator and stairs with incredible speed, not wanting to miss her appointment. She stopped, glancing at the elevators curiously, but decided against it- it looks suspicious. So she turned on her heel and ran up the several flights of stairs. When she arrived at the top, she panted heavily before sprinting through the hallways, looking at each signs which read out names.

"Miss K Ko, Mr Qasley, Mrs Gretty, Mrs Boople, ah! Mr Oakes!" She knocked and swung the wooden door open. Inside the room was a tall man with raven hair and glasses. He gasped as he saw her enter. "I'm so sorry Sir, I was running late!" She yelped, adjusting her skirt. She closed the door, but something caught her eye. "Mr Oakley?! Eek, I'm so sorry!" And she ran outside, slamming the door behind.

Mr Oakley was so confused, because he had just witnessed a door opening and closing itself. That was before a ball crashed inside his office, breaking his windows.

Thanks so much for reading this chapter, and to thedeathwidow who asked about people seeing Mavis and such, does this answer your question? I think so!

You know, guys, I was considering being that kind of author who does many stories at once and updates them all regularly. What do you think? I know I have 2 on board already, but I have so many ideas for new stories that I just can't wait, especially how I planned this and Yin and Yang Twins to be long stories! How does that sound?

Review back answering me with logical reasons and I will consider from there. Or, just PM me if you prefer. Because I was thinking Nalu one-shots for all those shippers out there! Or ask if you would want a different paring like GaLe etc, I can't wait!

Over and out,

AquaArtist