Three-Shot!

Summary After 6 years, Lucy Heartfilia decides to go back to Magnolia to see her father. Her memories of Magnolia have been lost/forgotten and Lucy wants to find out what happened when she was young. For the past 6 years, she has been having nightmares about a dark forest, Magnolia forest. She sees her father beside her talking but she can't hear him. The only thing she can make out is glowing red eyes in the distance.

Pairing Natsu x Lucy

Disclaimer It will never happen

Part One

Lucy POV - THE PAST~

My ball rolled off the hill and into the forest. I looked back to the big house and took off down the hill. My ball kept rolling, I had my eyes locked the orange colour. When I got to the bottom of the hill, my ball was already inside.

I saw it fall off a small cliff and watched it bounce pass rocks and trees and into a clearing. When I saw it stop I raced for it, careful of the webs and dirty puddles. I stepped on sticks and climbed over broken branches.

My orange ball was in view and I ran faster. I was close to the clearing when a dark looking person stood in front of me. He had sharp teeth – they looked like fangs. His eyes were a glowing red and his laugh made me shiver.

"What's a little girl like you doing in the dark forest?"

I didn't answer him, father always said to never talk to strangers. I took a step back – forgetting about my orange ball. The dark man step forward and I trembled with fear. I was shaking and my breathing was coming out quickly.

"It's okay, I don't want to hurt you." He grinned.

"H-Help m-me…"

The dark man laughed again. While he was laughing I turned on my heels and bolted out of there.

I don't want to die…

Father, help me…

Mama…

I glanced back and saw that he was gone. Where did he go? He wasn't behind me… so where was he?

"Kya!"

I got up and looked to my bleeding knee. "Ow."

The blood didn't stop – the pain was stinging. I-I can't walk, my legs feel numb. Tears fell from my face- clear liquid fell onto the solid red blood. My nose was filled with the steel smell of my blood.

"…What delicious blood you have."

I gasped and turned around, my knee grazed over a rock and I cried in pain. The dark man walked closer to me, I tried to pull myself away but my arms felt numb as well. My whole body felt numb – empty.

"You'll make a nice meal - A nice meal indeed." He put his dirty fingers to my face.

I shut my eyes tight. This can't be happening. Someone save me. I cried silent tears – more and more. They just kept coming, no one was going to save me.

He bent down to my knee and put his lips closer. Closer… I clenched my fists and bit my lip.

"Gajeel, what are you doing?"

W-Who was that?

"Tch perfect timing," The dark man stood up and brushed off the dirt from his clothes. "If you don't mind I'm trying to enjoy my meal."

"You already had your meal. Leave the girl alone."

I closed my eyes again. This is just a dream. Nothing is real. Mama…

"I'm still hungry… and this girl is the perfect snack." He laughed.

I heard the other person grunt.

"It's against the rules to bite a human child. You know that."

The dark man laughed, "So what, it's not like the elders are going to find out."

"They surely will."

"What's it to you anyways, Natsu?"

Natsu? Who's Natsu?

"…Just leave the girl alone and be on your way. Or else I'll tell the elders that you're breaking the rules… again."

"Tch fine."

I felt a small breeze of wind and heard footsteps coming towards me. H-He's still here!

"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you."

That doesn't sound like the dark man. Is this… is this Natsu?

I felt something brush against my knee and I flinched - I bit my lip. What's he going to do with me?

"P-Please d-don't hurt me…"

"Shh it's going to be okay. I won't hurt you, I wanna help you."

"H-Help me?"

"Yes. Open your eyes, its okay."

My breathing came in hiccups and I tightened my fists. I nodded at him and slowly opened my eyes. It was blurry at first – I tried to narrow my eyes so I could see him properly. It was too dark to make out his face, all I saw was pink hair.

"There we go," He smiled at me and I saw that he too had sharp teeth. The man wiped away my tears. "Let's look at this knee of yours."

He gently pushed down my knee so it was straight and I grimaced in pain. He coughed and took a few breaths.

"A-Are you okay?"

The pink haired man looked to me and smiled, "I'm fine. It's just your blood is really strong."

"Eh?"

He chuckled at me, "Do you know what I am?"

I pause and answered, "A human."

He shook his head. "No I'm not a human. My name is Natsu and I'm a vampire."

"V-Vampire?" My eyes widen.

"Yeah."

I heard about vampires from father. He said that vampires use to live in Magnolia thousands of years ago. One day they suddenly vanished, no one knew where they went, rumours had it that they were lurking in Magnolia forest. Deep in the dark depths of the forest stand a castle, a castle made of solid bricks.

Stories have been going around that vampires now live there, but no one really knows, for no one has actually been in that deep of the forest. I've only been on the outer parts of the forest with father.

Vampires are dangerous creatures, they have sharp teeth – fangs – and they can eat human food, but their main source of food is blood. When father was out I looked through the library and found some information about vampires. Father doesn't let me go into the library because there is bad stuff in it.

Vampires drink blood. Animal blood can fill them up but they aren't as strong with it. Human blood is the type of blood to make the strong and powerful. Human blood is rich and addictive.

That's why vampires are dangerous, if they taste some of your blood they will want more and more, until they drink you dry.

"Are you afraid of me?" He asked quietly.

I shook my head slowly. Why would I be afraid of him, he saved my life, vampire or not – he's my hero!

"Y-You saved me, so why would I be afraid of my hero." I couldn't help but giggle. I heard him chuckle – it was rough and I liked the sound of it.

"If you're not afraid of me then I would like to clean your wound, if you would let me?"

I looked to my still bleeding knee. "What are you going to do?"

"I have to clean it… by drinking the blood."

"What!" I pushed off the ground and tried to move away.

"No! It's not like that. I'm just cleaning off the dirty blood. While I drink the dirty blood your wound will start to heal with the touch of my lips." I saw Natsu touch his lips.

After a few minutes of nibbling on my lip I sighed and moved closer to the vampire.

"Okay."

I saw him smile and he crouched down to my knee. I heard him cough again – was my blood that strong? His lips came closer and closer, I shut my eyes just in case I felt pain, but nothing came, only the touch of his lips and a light sting.

I thought bites were supposed to hurt, but it's like he's trying not to hurt me. I opened my eyes to see him drinking off the dirty blood. His eyes were turning a glowing red and I gasped with shock.

He caught my gasp and removed his lips from my knee and turned his face away.

"Is something wrong?" I asked trying to get a peek at his face.

"Nothing – it's nothing," He turned back to face me and I couldn't see the glowing red anymore.

I gave him a nod and looked to my knee. It was, like he said – healed. The blood was all gone, my knee was clean, I could only see a pink line - father will just mistake it for a small cut.

"Father," My eyes widen.

"Did you say something?"

"I have to go back home, now!" I shot up from the ground and only a light sting came to my knee, but I ignored it.

"Hold on, I'll take you there. It'll be faster."

"A-Are you sure? I don't want you to get in trouble or get caught."

He chuckled, "Its fine, I've been around for a long time now, I doubt I'd get caught by a human."

He gave me a thumbs up and I hesitated with returning it. He pulled me up onto his back and waited before I was comfortable. Then, everything was just a blur.

…

Red eyes…

F-Father? What are you saying? I can't hear you.

Where am I? A forest? What forest? Is this… Is this Magnolia forest?

Glowing red eyes in the distance… What are they?

Pink hair?

What is all this? I'm so confused!

T-Those eyes… they're getting closer. Father where did you go?

Black hair, red eyes… fangs…

"KYA!"

Lucy panted heavily in bed, her pillow was stained with sweat and her comforter was left on the ground. The alarm clock on top of the nightstand read 3:07am - it was still dark outside.

Lucy looked around in her small room. She gave out a sigh.

"It was just a nightmare."

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