"AHHHHHHHH!"
Everything went in slow motion as Gray watched Lucy fall over the ledge. He bolted over to the ledge immediately and looked down.
Lucy was dangling from a window ledge about 2 – 3 meters away from him. Gray panicked and the first thing that registered in his mind was to try and save her.
"G –Grab onto my hand!" Gray yelled at her, the wind making his voice hard to hear. Lucy could get the gist of what he was saying but just shook her head. The next thing that she did was so shocking that he couldn't even comprehend it.
Lucy flipped her whole body over till she was standing on the window ledge. She then ran two steps up the wall and jumped about 1 metre high into the air and landed back on the rooftop.
"W – wha… H – how?" Lucy just walked off silently, put her hand in her skirt pocket and left Gray alone on the rooftop, still trying to accept the fact she survived.
"H – how…?!"
-X-
"Ugh…I'm so tired…" Lucy groaned, slumping onto her table and pushing her chair out. After that small feat on the roof, the wind had made her hair extremely messy and had taken her quite a bit of time to revert it back to normal.
"I'm telling you, she survived! She flipped over herself and jumped a whole metre into the air!" Gray said, making weird gestures with his hands.
"Did you hit your head, Stripper?" Gajeel asked, using Levy as an elbow rest.
"Gajeel! Stop that!" Levy protested.
"Stop calling me a stripper!" Gray hissed to Gajeel.
"Says the one who just stripped," Gajeel snickered along with Natsu.
"Hey, you two, stop fighting!" Lisanna scolded them.
"We're not fighting, we're just teasing the Exhibitionist," Natsu snickered again, making Gajeel slap his back and laugh with Natsu.
"You guys are so mean to each other! I don't understand how you're still even friends," Levy pouted, trying to pry Gajeel's arm off of her head.
"Ya know you're too weak to move my arm, Shrimp," Gajeel cackled. Levy scrunched her face up and kept trying to make his arm budge.
"Everybody to your seats!" They all turned around and saw Erza standing there with her Student Council wristband on her arm. They all scrambled to their seats and sat down quietly.
Erza looked around the classroom, inspecting everybody's shoes. She stopped when she saw a pair of black converse. She looked up and saw none other than Lucy Heartfilia – a face that she hadn't seen in a while. If she was the right Lucy Heartfilia, that is.
"L – Lucy?" Erza blurted out quite rudely, making Lucy glare at Erza.
"Yes?" She hissed at her.
"We need to go to the Student Council Office. NOW." Erza waited at the door while the class went 'OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH', as if she were in trouble. In this case, she was in trouble.
"G – Gambatte, Lucy…." Gray whispered to her. It was never good when you were called to the SCO.
Lucy followed Erza's big strides quite easily and looked down the whole time. When they finally reached the Office, Erza walked in and stood next to a man with blue hair and a tattoo on his right eye. There was also another blonde haired guy sorted out some papers in boxes.
Lucy walked in and leaned against the wall, her shoes and the chain now visible to the blue haired man, who Lucy presumed was the Student Council President.
"As you may or may not know –"
"Oh god, this is going to take a while," Lucy groaned inwardly.
"- I am Jellal Fernandez, Student Council President. These two are Erza Scarlet and Laxus Dreyar, the two Vice presidents."
…great story. Why exactly do I need to know this?!
"As the Student Council members, we're going to have to ask you to heed our uniform policy. It's not fair to the other students. We'll let you off today since it's the first day and you're a new student but we won't tolerate it anymore, understand?"
Lucy nodded, then got up and waved. "Well, I need to go back to class. Bye."
"Erza, don't you have the same classes as her? Why don't you go to? Don't worry, I've got things covered here." Jellal gave her a small smile and she returned it by smiling and waving at him.
"Hey Laxus, do you think Erza is-"
"Please don't give me your lovey dovey crap," Laxus growled at him, silencing Jellal.
-X-
Lucy opened the door and walked in as if nothing had happened as she was an ordinary student, on an ordinary day, entering class.
Lucy plopped herself into her seat. Unusually enough, Gray craned his body so that he was as far as he could be from Lucy. She looked at him questioningly then turned her attention towards the teacher.
" - you've got to multiply the other side while you bring -5 over. Do you understand?" Everybody nodded and took out their maths text books and their excercize books.
Lucy also got out both of hers and started working. Well, she looked like she was working. All she was actually doing was drawing in her book.
She had flipped to the 2nd last page in her book and was drawing random people and random things. First, she had drawn the SCP. That damn blue headed boy and his tattoo. She drew a small body, his spiky hair and some scribbles around his right eye for the tattoo. She then drew a mini wristband wrapped around his arm.
Next, she drew Erza. First the body, then the hair, the glasses, blazer, shirt, socks then the shoes. After that, she drew Laxus with his spiky hair and weird scar on his face. Seemed like both the boys had weird scars and tattoos. She wrote the letter STUDENT COUNCIL MEMBERS on top of their heads.
"Having fun, Heartfilia?" Lucy looked behind her and saw the black headed teacher with glowing red eyes. Oh, wasn't this the sensei she had met this morning?
"Yes, actually. How about you?" he was taken aback by her reply because he was expecting a 'Oh no, I'm in trouble!' or for her to flip to the front of the book and actually start working.
"G – good. Why don't you get on with your work now?" he straightened his jacket and walked to the front of the classroom, sat down and looked straight down towards his work.
"Hmph." Lucy flipped to the front of her book and started doing her work. After 5 minutes, she sneaked a glance at the teacher – He wasn't looking. She looked up on the board and saw the name MR ROGUE CHENEY in neat handwriting.
"So that's his name, huh…" Lucy whispered to herself. She continued solving the sums one by one and when she was about to have a little break, she felt a paper ball hit her head. She gritted her teeth and grabbed the paper ball that had fallen to the ground when it had collided with her head.
She heard Gray snicker while staring at Gajeel and she punched him in the arm.
"Ow! What was that for?" He whined at her, rubbing his arm. Unfortunately for them, the teacher was right behind them.
"Fullbuster, Heartfilia, detention next break." Before the teacher turned away, she saw him flash a smirk of triumph at her.
"Damn teacher," she growled. Great, two detentions in one day! Honestly, Gray was causing her so much trouble.
"You dumbass, now I've got 2 detentions in one day! And it's my first day here!" Lucy hissed at Gray, stepping on his foot, making him wince painfully. He kicked her in the foot and that's when their fight had started. They had repeatedly kicked each other's feet, and before long, it had escalated into punches in the face.
Oddly enough, Gray was losing. She had thrown punches at him everywhere on his face, and he hadn't even managed to hit her on the face. Not even once.
"Fullbuster, Heartfilia, you now have a more severe punishment. Next warning will be to the Principal's office." She could practically hear the smirk on the teacher's face. She scowled at sent him a death stare, making him flinch a little.
"Stupid idiot," Lucy hissed at him.
-X-
"Dear Kami-sama, what have I done to deserve this?!" Gray yelled, birds sitting in neighbouring trees flying away.
"Who knows." Lucy was sitting on the edge of the school pool – a big pool that hadn't been cleaned in ages – while Gray was cleaning the big space by himself.
"It's so hot as well," he groaned. He unconsciously stripped and Lucy swore she could hear someone going 'AHHH!' in the background.
"Hah, you've still got your habit of stripping, don't y-" Lucy clamped a hand over her mouth. Oh no, what had she done? Now he knew! No!
Gray just stared at her blankly, and after a few seconds, screamed out and pointed his broom a there as if she were a threat to him.
"Y – You're Lucy? Seriously? Lucy Lucy?!" He yelled at her, backing away. Lucy ran a hand through her hair and swung her legs.
"Great, now the cat's out of the bag," she sighed. That soon turned into a smirk.
"Oh well. More fun for me then~" She sang out, throwing a soap bar at Gray's head.
"Oi, what If that landed in my mouth? Hah? What would you do the-" He was silenced when he saw another bar of soap being thrown at him. He opened his mouth to yell at her, which only ended up in the soap bar colliding into his mouth.
"MMF! MMF MMF! MMMMF!" He spat the soap bar out of his mouth and rubbed his tongue vigorously with his hand. Lucy pressed her lips together, trying not to laugh, but it was too hard. She clutched her stomach and laughed her heart out, tears pricking on the sides of her eyes.
Gray wiped his mouth and blushed.
"It's not funny," he sulked, going back to cleaning the pool.
"Oh my god, she's our Lucy!" Levy gasped.
"No way…" Natsu whispered.
"But she looks so different!" Lisanna whispered as well.
"Whatever," Gajeel said, leaning back and enjoying the peace and quiet without Gray and Natsu fighting.
"She does look very different and act very different," Erza readjusted her glasses and squinted at the two.
"But they're getting along pretty well, aren't they?" Levy giggled, sitting down in front of Gajeel, who threw a stick at her. She threw one back and they started a small fight.
"I can't believe she threw a soap bar in his mouth!" Natsu cackled, making a lot of noise.
"I know, right!" Gajeel chuckled with him, chucking bits of ripped up leaves on Levy's head, making her hit him lightly.
Lisanna ran up to Natsu and clamped her hand over his mouth.
"Natsu, be quiet or they'll hear us!" Lisanna whispered to him. Suddenly, she felt something wet on the palm of her hand. Natsu just licked her hand!
"Ew! Natsu, that's gross!" Lisanna yelled at him, recoiling her hand. He grinned at her and kept staring at Gray and Lucy.
"Even so, she's changed, hasn't she? Not the weak girl she used to be, is she?"
"Mmhmm…" Lisanna agreed, playing with some leaves.
"She's pretty interesting, actually," Natsu sneaked another glance at the two and began mashing leaves with some sticks, rocks and unknown things around him.
Lisanna frowned a little. Was Natsu suddenly interested in her now? She felt a sting of pain in her heart but ignored it, sneaking glances at Natsu from time to time.
"Oi, help me out! Seriously!" Gray yelled at Lucy. She was still sitting on the side of the pool and watching Gray work. He had begun getting tired, as he had cleaned one quarter of the pool already.
"Hm… How about no?" Lucy smirked, swinging her legs.
"Here! I don't care if you want to or not!" Gray chucked the broom and a bar of soap at Lucy. She meant to dodge it, but caught them both on reflex.
"Hmph." Lucy grabbed another bar of soap so she had 1 broom and 2 bars of soap. A lightbulb suddenly clicked in her head! She chucked the broom at Gray and stood on the two big bars of soap.
"What the hell are you trying to do?" he asked her, stabbing the ground with the broom.
"Just watch." She held the side of the pool and let go, the bars of soap moving along with her legs. Before long, she had gotten the hang of so called 'soap-skating'. Gray watched her in amazement. How could she think of something so easily?
"I bet you couldn't be able to do thi- OOF!" When Lucy was about to tease Gray, she slipped on a shirt and yelped out. Rubbing her sore backside, she grabbed the shirt and glared at Gray, who put his hands in front of him to signal mercy.
"I – I'm sorry! I – It won't happen again! Eek!" He whimpered. His reply was a smack in the face with his own shirt. He picked it up and put it on.
"Ugh, smells like soap…" he grumbled, sniffing himself.
"That's your fault." Lucy shrugged her shoulders and skated her way towards Gray and sat down next to him.
"Why are you sitting he-" Lucy kicked his back and he yelled out loudly, falling into the empty pool, hitting his head and slid around due to the soap.
"Clean it. I've done enough." Lucy demanded, checking out her nails.
"Bu-"
"No buts. Just do it." Lucy smirked at him and he sighed dejectedly.
"Slave driver…" He mumbled under his breath. He yelled in pain again when a rock hit his head, making Lucy laugh at him.
"I heard that."
-X-
"Finally, we finished," Lucy mumbled, stretching her arms and yawning.
"You mean I finally finished," Gray glared at her, stretching as well. Lucy threw him a small smirk and walked off.
"Well, I'm off." Before Gray had time to react, she was already gone.
"She's so different now… so…pretty…" Gray thought to himself, picking up his discarded shirt and putting it on. He thought back to what he just said.
"Wait, what? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN MY HEAD?!" he screamed mentally, clutching his head.
"I'm going crazy… Or am I?"
A/N: and that ends today's chapter! it feels awesome to accomplish so much on my birthday c:
what do you guys usually do on your birthdays? honestly, I've been doing nothing but lie around all day heheh ;
Make sure to review & read / support my other stories: Valentine's Day, Darkness, Of Dragonslayers love and best friends, The proposal, Fairy Tail Academy and Replacement!
- hime