A story about a boy and a girl

Chapter 2: The tree

"And well this is the gym hall. We can't go in now but it's the best class there is!" Natsu pointed at a large building standing a litlle away from the school building. "The teacher is scary though. She is always wears swim gear. But whatever…"

"All right, that was the last part of the school right?" Lucy asked, the boy nodded. "I thought this school would be a lot bigger, because there are dorms and stuff also."

"Yea… well… this school maybe small but is super awesome!" He flashed a toothy grin at her, while putting his arms behind is head "Oh! The dorms are at the other side of the school grounds, dunno if you want to go there?"

"No that's not needed, I'm not going to move in the dorms."

"Me neither."

She smiled at him starting to walk in a direction. "Let's go back to class shall we? I mean, the teacher will get mad if we take too long."

He laughed, Lucy looked at him shyly, maybe she said something wrong. "Lucy, when Laxus ever gets mad because we're late I'll be your slave for one day" He laughed again. After a while his laughing stopped and he looked at Lucy with almost the widest grin she ever saw.

"Allrighty! Let's go back to class then, but I want to show you one more thing. It's that way!" He started running of in the opposite direction of the school building.

"But the school is that way!" She runned after him while pointing behind her.

"We're first going to a special place!"

They runned in a little wood behind some picnic tables. Suddenly Natsu stopped Lucy almost bumped into him. She bowed over, her hands on her knees trying to get some breath.

"W-where… are we?" She looked around, they stood in a open space in the woods. Around them nothing but trees in the middle of the open space stood one tree. This tree was big and had weird carvings into it.

"In the woods, duh! You weirdo"

"I could see that… What is that big tree supposed to mean?" She pointed at the the tree with her hand.

"Ah… That is the tree with all our names on it."

"… Why?"

"Because then we'll stay be in wood forever, or something like that, at least I think Mirajane said something like that."

"Eeh?"

"Yeah, It's stupid but either way we're going to write your name on it so…" His hand wrapped around her wrist and he tugged her to the tree. Once there he dug out a knife between two of the roots. The knife was made of silver and had the same inscription as on the principals door carved on the blade. "what was your name again?"

She looked at him dumbfounded, she had told him her name of five times already and he still didn't know.

"You really are an idiot, I told you my name already! Lucy Heartfi-" She quickly pulled her hand in front of her mouth 'Oh crap! I almost spilled my name, Lucy you have too be more careful. Cover up now!' "It's Lucy Heart, this time you better remember it" With a small 'hmpf' she crossed her arms.

"Ah! Right right, now where shall we put your name?" He seemed unaffected by her weird attitude just now. Slowly Natsu walked around the tree.

"N-Natsu, I don't think you should write my name on the tree."

He stopped walking and looked at her. Lucy swore she could she a glint of seriousness over his face before it turned in a big toothy laugh. "Why not? You're going to school here now, right? You should write your name on the tree, you really are a weirdo."

"Yeah… but -"

"No buts." His tone made clear that the conversation was finished. "Ah! I found a place. Here next to mine." He quickly took the knife and carved her name in the tree. Lucy tried too stope him with some mumbled protests. I he heard them he ignored them. "Done! Your part of the family now!" He smiled at her and pointed at her name.

Her name, 'Lucy Heart', was carved in the tree with thin curly letters, next to her name stood 'Natsu Dragoneel' carved in the bark with short sloppy written letters. Above her name was carved 'Erza Scarlet' in elegant letters. Below her name was carved 'Gray Fullbuster' with sturdy letters. And at the other side of her name was carved 'Happy' in small and jerky letters.
She smiled lightly at how quick she was accepted at this school, she didn't know Natsu 3 hours yet he still had written her name on the bark of a tree. She quickly was ripped out of her thoughts as a Natsu pointed a finger in her face.

"Aha! You can laugh! That was the first real smile I saw from you!" He smirked at her. Lucy looked dumbfounded.

"…yea" A hint of sadness lingered in her voice and eyes. "Of course I can smile you idiot!" She gave him a slap across the head. He clutched his head as he ran away. "Of course I can smile" She mumbled after he was out of hearing range.

"Lucy let's go back to class!"

"Yeah!" She quickly started running to him and they started walking to the school building.
'I don't know him for more than three hours and we act so familiar already…what's up with this school and it's students?'

-~x~-

The high school class of Fairy Tail school was having a normal home room class, which meant that their teacher, Laxus, was gone. Most of the students were talking toe ach other and there was an occasional fight. But it was quite quiet for this class because the loudest student of them all wasn't in, Nastu was taking Lucy for a trip around the school.
Suddenly the door of the classroom burst open.

"Hiya! We're back!"

Natsu jumped into the classroom, Lucy followed him steadily.

"I hope that idiot has showed you the school." The boy called, Gray said.

"ah! Yeah… I think at least." Before Lucy could say something else, Nastu had screamed something and was attacking Gray.
Lucy stood there complete shock written on her face while she saw how the greater part of the class was fighting.

"Lucy!" A blue haired girl yelled. She was sitting at one of the tables in the corners with some other girls. "Come sit here!" Lucy walked up to their corner and sat down o none of the chairs.

"Don't mind those our classmates, it happens once in a while." A white haired girl said. "Meanwhile I shall introduce you too everyone. I'm Mirajane, but most people call me Mira-nee. This is Erza, most people are afraid of her." She pointed towards a red haired girl that sat next to her with her arms crossed. Erza gave a nod to Lucy. "This is Bisca." She pointed to a green haired girl with a cowgirl hat.

"Hi! Nice to meet cha'!"

"And finally the girl that called you is Levy."

Said girl was reading a book and didn't notice she was introduced. Lucy immediately recognized the book.

"That book is really good!" Her voice was full with enthusiasm.

Levy noticed that someone was talking about her book. And immediately looked up to see Lucy's eyes on her.

"You've read it?" Lucy nodded "Nobody has read it! I thought I was the only one!"

"What part are you?"

"The boy just betrayed the girl, it's so sad!"

"Yeah, I know I know."

And so the two girls talked about their shared interest, the other girls just started talking g about other things but still noticed that after awhile Levy started to call Lucy 'Lu-chan' and Lucy had added 'chan' to Levy's name. Everything was peaceful at their tables until some guy was slammed to them, the unlucky fellow hit the side of Erza's chair. Erza slowly stood up and the girls that were chattering happily suddenly became silent. The red head grabbed the guy by his collar and walked to the middle of the classroom as Lucy whispered "What happened?" Into Mirajane's ear.

"Well, Erza is kind of scary when she's angry…that guy that slammed into her chair must have put her switch on. She was ignoring this fight for a record time"

"Stop. This. Fight. Now." The red head spoke slowly but authority was heard in her voice. Immediately the whole room was quiet. Everybody looked at the girl in the centre of the classroom as she started to yell at people for what they've done wrong.
Lucy watched with shock once again written on her face, Mirajane saw this and comforted her.

"This happens once in awhile also, everybody is used to it." Lucy didn't seem very comforted by this. "Ah, well I shall introduce the other class members now. The boy Erza is yelling at is Loke, He's a real playboy. The guy next to him is Gray, Gray and Natsu always fight. The girl with the liquor in her hands is Cana. Next to her stands Elfman, that's my little brother. The guy Erza is yelling at now is Alzack. The guy with the green hair is Freed. The weird fellow that stands next to him is called Bixlow and the girl at the other side to him is called Evergreen. Those last three call them self 'the Rajinshu'. Then we have Jet and Droy. Those two always fight over Levy."

"It's really difficult to deal with those two." Levy sighed.

Mirajane continued to introduce the rest of the class. "And that is Natsu, but you probably know him already."

"Yeah…" Lucy looked at Natsu as he seemed to start another argument between him and Gray, until he was stopped by Erza's fist on his head.

"That's right how was your tour, lu-chan. Did he show you see the whole school and everything?"

"Well, I've seen the school. He didn't spend attention to it, so I mostly don't know where the classrooms are for. But he seemed like he really wanted to show me one thing. A huge tree with all your names, so that you can be together in wood forever or something."

All the girls around her gasped at her as she said it. She wondered briefly if she said something wrong.

"That is so unlike Natsu, normally Mirajane or Erza brings the newcomers to the tree. He never really wanted new names in the trees until the people were Fairy Tail for at least a week." Levy muttered.

Everybody agreed with her, Mirajane looked at Lucy.

"Did he do something at the tree, Lucy?"

"Well, yes, Natsu carved my name in it." Everybody stared at her in shock. Lucy mistook their sudden quietness for anger and started to panicky apologise. "I'm sorry, I tried to stop him but he wanted to carve my name in the tree. I already thought it something to personal for some stranger like me. Because he said that you would be together in wood forever and everything. I'm really sor-"

She was cut of when the girls around her started giggling.

"Together in wood forever, is that what he said? He really is an idiot!" Bisca said in between giggles.

"Huh?"

"I think he meant that we'll stay together forever because we're all on carved into this tree." Mirajane said. "And you don't have to worry Lucy, we gladly have your name on our special tree. But still what made Natsu write your name on it so quickly?"

"Maybe it was love at First sight for him?" Levy said while winking at Lucy. Said girl got a small blush on her face.

"I don't think so, remember that Natsu always talks about this true love he met while he was younger?" Erza said, nobody had noticed her coming to sit besides them.

Lucy looked at her in wonder. "His true love?"

"Yeah, he says he has met the one for him but that she was taken away. And now he is searching for her. She's supposed to be a real beauty and she had long blonde hair. It's kind of hopeless though, I mean there are millions of blondes over the world. And-" Levy wasn't able to finish to finish her sentence as their English teacher stepped into the classroom, yelling that everyone of the student had to go to their seats and that he would give a sudden test because the class was a mess. Everybody groaned at the former and went to their seats.

"I'm so dead…" Natsu muttered as he grabbed the test from his front and passing it to the person behind him. When he looked at his test his face was struck by horror. Lucy looked at him before reaching forward to grab her test and pass the rest on.

"I don't know you, Who are you?" The teacher asked while walking towards Lucy.

"I am the new transfer student Lucy Heart, sir"

"Well, I'm the English teacher you can call me Eido. I'm sorry that you directly have to make a test but it's the only way to make this class to shut up. I'll make sure I don't count this test into your records."

"It's all right, sir. I will try my hardest to make this test."

"All right then. I wish you good luck." With that said he walked back to his table and yelled. "The test starts now! You guys have 50 minutes to complete the test and it will count for one together with another upcoming test which will count for two, except for lady Heart because she has to get used to the school before she will be able to make the test. Good luck. And be quiet."

Everybody quickly turned around their papers and started writing the answers. When Lucy turned around the paper she was utterly amazed at the subject the test was handling.
After 40 minutes of sounds from the pencils scraping on the papers the first student began to turn in their test. Among those student were Erza, Freed, Laki and the newby Lucy. Those students were dismissed, could grab their homework from the teachers desk and could go eat their lunches. In the hall way Erza asked Lucy if she would like toe at lunch with the other girls, and not soon after that they sat at one of the tables near the woods. Just as they sat down all the other girls came out of the school building.

"That test surely was hard!" Cana exclaimed. Before sitting down and grabbing a bottle of strong liquor. Soon all the girls sat down at and everybody was chatting about everything and nothing and mostly the test. After awhile most of the boys came to sit at other tables and some girls went to sit with them while some boys went to sit the girls. Some younger kids, probably from the elementary and middle school branches, went to sit at the other ends of the picnic place. Lucy was happy because this was her first lunch break she had while talking and having fun with other people.

After lunch break they had Gym class from the most frighting teacher Lucy had ever seen. Aquarius was incredible stern and would kick you on the bench if you did something wrong. But because Lucy didn't have any gym clothes with her she had to sit on the bench and look at the other while they sport. To be honest she was actually really grateful for that. All the girls had to do athletics while the boy would play soccer. But before they could start playing everybody had to do a warming up, which consisted of 100 laps around the soccer field and for the boys another 50 push-ups. After that the soccer match began. Because Gray and Natsu both were in different teams they were almost constantly bickering but when the had the ball they could do magnificent actions. Natsu currently had the ball as he was running towards the goal, he quickly evaded almost all the defending players. Only he hadn't seen Loke coming from behind him with some quick actions they ball was in Loke's hands and he turned around to wink and blow a hand kiss towards Lucy. Lucy quickly turned her attention towards the girls. 'Mirajane hadn't lied when she said he was a playboy'. The girls were currently long jumping. Erza had just jumped, she landed six metres from the starting point. Next up was Levy, for a small person she was able to jump an astonishing four and a half metres. From the soccer field were sounds of applauding, Lucy turned her attention to see Jet and Droy jumping for Levy. Just as the ball hit Jet in his side and another fight quickly walked to the soccer field kicked some asses and yelled "All right! That is it for today! Now go shower and change. now!

-~x~-

Gym had been Lucy's last class, after that she had went to the concierge to get her books and stuff and then she went home. She had been tired from her first day at school and she took a bath. After her bath she got to work on her apartment, ordering her stuff and cleaning the dust from some of the shelves. Lucy was able to rent a small but cosy apartment in the centre of Magnolia. It was quite old and had a lot of dust but it was cheap.

After cleaning she made herself a sandwich and went to bed. Not soon after that her thoughts wandered off to the tree and why Natsu directly wrote her name on it, apparently that was very rare for him. She couldn't think of a good reason before falling asleep.

I'm sorry it took so long! I had some problems with my computer.
Next chapter is probably going to take awhile since school is starting next week and the first weeks are probably going to be busy. Anyway please review!
Oh! btw I'll probably change my nickname. I will put it up her when I've changed it.