As promised, here's chappie number two! I forgot to mention that some of the characters might seem a little OOC in this ff. The reason is that this is an AU and these guys are also older than their manga/anime counterparts.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything... Pretty sure I don't own the plot either; I'm almost positive there's been a story like this somewhere.

Hey There... Ch. 2

"My name's Lucy you idiot!" Lucy hissed.

"Sorry Lucy," Natsu replied sheepishly. "I'm kinda terrible with names. But anyways, I'm gonna take ya to Fairy Tail now."

At this Lucy raised another skeptical eyebrow. "Ok, so a total hoss with pink hair is taking me to a fairy tale? Did that serial killer actually kill me, or did he slip me something that's highly illegal?"

At this, Natsu pouted. What grown man pouts?! ...He did look kind of adorable though... Lucy shook her head again. What was with my thoughts today?

"Two problems with your question: one, I'm not taking you to a 'fairy tale,' I'm taking you to Fairy Tail; two, my hair is salmon. SALMON. Not some girly color like 'pink.' I do appreciate you calling me a hoss though; that almost redeems your faux pas about Fairy Tail and my awesome hair. Almost."

"Whatever. But seriously, when am I waking up from this dream? I'm even trying to pinch myself and it's not working." As if to prove a point, Lucy had two angry red marks on her arm that looked like they were going to bruise.

"Luigi, this is reality. I'm going to take you to Fairy Tail now before you try any other weird stuff. Can you stand?"

Any comment Lucy would have made was promptly thrust from her mind as Natsu quickly yanked Lucy off the ground to test her remaining strength and balance. Lucy failed that test miserably as her legs wobbled and collapsed immediately. she was barely saved from hitting the pavement again by Natsu catching her arms.

"I'm going to take that as a no..." Natsu trailed off as he frowned again. Lucy didn't even try to lie because clearly, she wasn't in the best shape at the moment. After a minute or two of Natsu's silence, he wordlessly and gracelessly threw Lucy over a well-muscled shoulder as if she were a sack of potatoes.

"Natsu!" Lucy gasped painfully as she tried to clutch at her wounds. "I'm injured! You seriously can't do that."

"Sorry Luigi."

"It's Lucy. Woah, wait! Hold on a sec-" Lucy cut off as Natsu jumped back towards the roof, latched on the edge with one hand, and vaulted effortlessly on top of the roof. The pinkette glanced to either side before taking off in the direction Lucy assumed where this "Fairy Tail" was located.

"So what is Fairy Tail anyways?" Lucy asked to try to keep her mind off her pain and the uncomfortable churning in her gut from sailing over rooftops.

"I'm not sure if that question is safe to answer right now. We don't know who might be listening," Natsu murmured as he stopped on the edge of a rooftop, glancing around once again.

"What do you mean by who-" Lucy was interrupted again as Natsu shushed her. Just as Lucy was about to protest, she noticed that the shadows of buildings were moving.

Natsu cursed lowly as he spotted black cloaked figures emerge from the shadows. He could hear Lucy's heart rate spike and he could feel his eyes burn from his powers itching to be used. The pinkette surveyed the slowly increasing crowd as he gently set Lucy down.

"Stay here," Natsu said softly as he got in a fighting stance. "I don't think this will end pretty."

"Where the hell am I supposed to go?" Lucy snorted as she crossed her arms. "Jump off the roof? No way!"

Before Natsu could give a reply, the first three of the cloaked guys rushed him. He knew that they were testing his reflexes at first because he recognized the small insignia on the bottom right side of their black helmets: Phantom Lord. He purposefully barely dodged the middle guy while catching the guy on his right with a left hook to the jaw and followed through with a right kick for a guy on his left. When the first guy that was now behind him went at him again, the pinkette reached behind himself to throw the first guy over his shoulder into the fourth guy, effectively bowling him over.

Seeing that four men wasn't going to be enough, eight more decided to join the party and Natsu had to stop pulling his punches. Damn, he thought to himself as a punch grazed his rib cage. I might have to actually use my powers. As Natsu sped up his attack pattern, four more cloaked members armed with brass knuckles decided that it was time to make an appearance. Is this really necessary? Natsu thought to himself as he tried his best to avoid the barbed knuckles and sighed inwardly as he saw one coming straight for his face with no time to move out of the way completely.

The attacker chuckled a bit as he watched Natsu catch his fist with his bare hand and smirked until he felt his hand heat up at an alarming and painful rate. While the man yelped in pain as he jumped back throwing off his super-heated, smoking brass knuckle, the pinkette decided that he was done playing subtly. He ignited his fists in molten orange flame and put them up defensively.

"I'm getting fired up now," Natsu smirked as the flames danced along his fists and reflected in his eyes.

Lucy gasped in horror and amazement as she watched Natsu's fists spontaneously combust. She heard similar gasps of astonishment and colorful curses from among the cloaked figures until she heard one clear voice shakily breath out, "It's the Salamander. We've gotta retreat." The cloaked figures then quickly disengaged and darted back to the shadows and into the night from whence they came.

"Damn, that hurt," Natsu chuckled wryly as he turned around to face Lucy, inspecting the hand that caught the brass knuckles.

"You idiot!" Lucy screeched as she tried to push the fear out of her body. "Of course catching brass knuckles with your bare hands is going to hurt! What the hell were you thinking?"

"I was thinking that I didn't want brass knuckles in my face," Natsu deadpanned as he crouched in front of Lucy. "I'm going to pick you up again. We're going to need to move quickly before those guys come back with reinforcements."

"We weren't moving quickly before?" Lucy asked in disbelief as she glanced at the pinkette's injured hand; it didn't look to great from where she was sitting.

"No, I thought it was a good idea to move a little slower since you're injured, but we're not going to have that luxury now."

Lucy was once again unceremoniously thrown onto Natsu's shoulder and much to her dismay, set into swift motion once more. She could feel the wind whipping up her dress and decided that this was officially the most bizarre, embarrassing night of her life.

"You have to slow down!" Lucy plead as she attempted to no avail to keep the skirt of her dress down.

"Why? We're not out of danger yet," Natsu asked in confusion.

"I'm having a wardrobe malfunction!" Lucy squealed in embarrassment and she felt her cheeks burn.

"Luigi, I-"

"It's Lucy!"

"I'm sorry, Lucy," the pinkette emphasized sarcastically as he jumped a long distance between rooftops that Lucy thought for sure was physically impossible. "We can't slow down for any 'wardrobe malfunctions' or otherwise. You're just going to have to sit tight until we get to Fairy Tail." Lucy puffed out her cheeks in annoyance and let out an exasperated breath.

"Fine, how close are we?"

"Just a few more blocks or so!" Natsu said cheerily as he readjusted Lucy against him in mid-flight.

"W-what?"

"Relax! It should be about five minutes tops. You talk a lot; you know that Lucy?"

At this Lucy rolled her eyes and decided that she had a small victory in him saying her name correctly. The last few minutes of their rooftop escapade were silent as Natsu leapt from building to building until he reached the building he was looking for. The multiple story building looked like a run-down bar with a hotel stacked on top. As he approached the dark stained wooden double doors of the entrance, he carefully set Lucy down so she could "readjust" herself from her time in transit.

"Is this it?" Lucy asked as she lifted an eyebrow suspiciously.

"Yep! Welcome to Fairy Tail!" Natsu said as he gave a ridiculously wide grin. Natsu was about to open the door for them when Lucy suddenly felt light-headed and weak and her vision started to blur around the edges. As she hit the pavement, she could barely registered Natsu's low curse. The last thing she saw before her world went went black was Natsu's arms reaching towards her, trying to pick her back up.

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