Chapter 4: Be careful who you play with

Lucy's P.O.V

For a while a couldn't even breath. It felt as if my body had shut down. I felt like I was watching a movie and all I could do was stare at the screen screaming at the characters. Except this wasn't a movie. If Dragneel manages to find me…. I shake my head trying not to let those terrifying thought corrupt my thinking. Now is not the time to be a drama queen. As my thoughts run wild I notice my breathing has gone at a rapid pace, making me see double.

I take deep calming breaths to steady my breathing. When my breathing becomes even again I immediately scramble all over the deck searching for Captain Crux. My eyes continue scourging the deck until I finally find him sleeping at the bar, bottles as far as the eye can see. "Of course he chooses today of all days to have a drinking competition." I mummer to myself.

Knowing it will take forever to wake him I go with the quickest option. So naturally I dump a huge bucket of water on his head. His eyes shot open and he jumps out of his chair in the blink of an eye. His sword which he keeps on him at all times is flinging through the air breaking bottles in its wake. When he finally realized that it was just me he put his sword back.

He has a look of distaste on his face as his eyes seem to burn holes into my skull. If looks could kill… "Captain" his voice says bringing me out of my thoughts. "Is there a reason that well um, I don't know, that you would DUMP WATER ON ME!" I nervously smiled and let out a forced laugh while slowly backing away.

His eyes stay trained on me like a hawk that has just spotted a field mouse. I then remembered the entire reason I had put my life at risk anyway. Crux must have realized my dismay because immediately his attitude changed towards me. He continued to look at me but it was filled with concern. "Captain, what be bothering yah." He said breaking the silence.

Since our time was limited I said one word that would definitely explain everything "Dragneel". Immediately he set into action. I watched as he assembled the crew with a yell of "CODE SALAMANDER!" Immediately everyone was there in the blink of an eye. You see every pirate has a code name, and Code Salamander is Dragneel. Captain Crux's Code name is The Southern Cross.

Every single one of my crew has a code name, except for me. You see I'm not accepted among other pirates. Apparently I don't have enough experience and the laughing stock of the pirate community. Anyway I try not to let that bother me, I'm used to be different.

(Skips Boring Ship Talk)

"So you're telling me we have to fight them?" I ask Aries. Aries is my engineer surprisingly, you might not think it but she's got a few tricks up her sleeves. She is the best of the best when it comes to mechanics, even better than Gajeel who is the mechanic for Dragneel.

Aries answers me a bit shakily "I'm sorry, but after our last encounter we can't push the engine, it's barely stable right now." I stare at her puzzled before asking her "Our last encounter?" She nervously looks at the horizon which holds Dragneel's ship, which is getting closer by the second.

Being the ever slow captain I was it took me a moment before realizing she meant our "run in" with Dragneel the other week. I had gone to Clover Town where all the Pirates go to "discuss business". Since I was a captain of The Celestial Star I was forced to go by Makarov Dreyar. Makarov Dreyar, better known as "Gramps" is the founder of Fairy Tail, one of the many pirating guilds in Fiore.

Seeing as I'm still a newbie I have yet to manage to find a spot in a guild. Even still I'm still forced to go, probably in high hopes of finding me and my crew a guild. I had no freaking idea how complex the entire system was. I thought it was all swords and sailing, but no, some idiot just had to make it all complicated.

Even there in front of everyone I still wasn't safe. As I recalled the events that had occurred that night I felt shivers run down my spine. Dragneel had played a cruel joke that night. Whether or not it was meant to go that far I didn't care, because if one things for certain, it's that he doesn't play fair. One thing he didn't think through though was whether or not I knew had to play. Let's just say, this Heartfilia can bend a few rules as well.

Hey guys sorry for the long wait. I know it's been what, two months since I last updated. Well here are my excuses this time. SCHOOL! It's been driving me nuts. I've had guy troubles, threats, and backstabbing friends, the whole shebang. This chapter was so hard to write because it was kind of more of informing you guys on the setting of this story.

Also I decided I want to give a Shout out to idevourbooks, Xrayxanne, Ryleeunicorn, Lucielle Aye Sir, and Assassin Dezio. I will do 5 shout outs per chapter from now on to honor you guys who actually read my stories. If I didn't get you this time I promise I will try to get you next time. The next chapter will be about what Dragneel did. O_O

Anyway it's been fun talking to you guys, until then this is the ScarletRoseAngel signing out.