Another chapter just for you guys cos I loves ya! This chapter has some more Nalu in it, I think you'll like it.. Hope you enjoy it!
Chapter 8 – Strange Urges and Fights!
"Hey Rico, why didn't you do it? We had her all alone!"
"Be patient Felicia, we can wait a little longer. Besides, she's not quite got the grasp of her magic yet."
"But the longer we wait! The more likely she'll remember everything, especially what really happened during that fight years ago!"
"God damn it Felicia! Stop worrying! She'll belong to us long before she remembers what we did! Let's keep contact with her for the time and then we'll strike at the right time."
"I just hope your right Rico, I really don't want to face her wrath again, we nearly lost our lives the last time."
"That won't happen I promise, with this device she'll do whatever we say. With her back at our sides, there's nothing stopping us climbing all the way to the top. Fiore will be in the palm of my hand… hehehehehe…."
"Ok!" yelled Rico and he stood on top of a rock gathering the attention of the two girls chattering on the floor.
"I've got us a mission! Time to make some money for our Guild!"
"A mission? But only official Guilds can take missions!" said Lucy looking away from Felicia to stare at the grinning boy on the rock.
"Well duh…. It's not a real mission! I went around the town nearby asking for work, and this old geezer gave me some!" Rico leaped from the rock and walked over to his two best friends.
"His dog has gone missing and he said he'll pay us 500 jewels each if we find it!"
"Yay! Let's go!" cheered Felicia in excitement as she grabbed her blonde friend in one of her infamous hugs.
"Hey Lucy, this is the dog's old collar. Think you can sniff him out?" asked Rico as he held out a manky chewed red collar to the blonde.
Lucy gingerly took the item with disgust and heaved slightly; she didn't need to bring the collar to her nose. The smell radiating off the collar from arm's length made her want to hurl, it was like a combination of old cheese and vegetables with a hint of custard?
"So Lucy, think you can track him down?" asked Rico as he watched his nakama sniffing the air.
"Yeah… I think I've got it, follow me!" with her nose quivering, Lucy leaped from the floor and began to race through the trees.
"Hey Lu! Wait for us!" yelled Felicia leaping to her feet as well as Rico rushed past her following his blonde friend.
It wasn't long before the three friends stood before a crumply rocky surface producing from the earthy ground.
"I think your nose is broken Lu! There's no dog here!" exclaimed Felicia as she places her hands on her hips.
"It's here!" said Lucy pointing at the rocky wall.
"I can smell and hear it in there! It's scratching at the walls."
"It must be a cave!" stated Rico as he examined the wall.
"By the looks of all the loose rocks the entrance must have caved in. Think you can open it?" Rico asked looking thoughtfully at Lucy who grinned.
"No problem!" exclaimed Lucy happily as she picked up a rather large rock at her feet and began to eat, her sharp teeth slicing through the rock like a knife through butter.
Rico and Felicia watched as she devours her unusual meal without lifting an eyebrow, they were used to her eating like this a long time ago.
Finally Lucy gave a contented sigh and once again faced the rocky wall with a grin.
"Void Dragon's Fist!" yelled the Blonde as she pulled back her fist which began to crackle and flare with grey magical energy. In one swift movement she punched the wall, with a loud CRACK the rocky wall instantly gave in.
"Woof!"
A shaggy large ball of fur and slobber came hurtling out of the dark dusty hole that had once been a wall.
"IIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!" screeched Felicia as the dog collided into the raven haired girl and began to assault her face with its slobbery tongue.
"HELP! GET THIS THING OFF ME! AAAAAAH!" screamed Felicia but Lucy and Rico only fell to the floor, clutching their side with laughter.
Lucy smiled as she felt herself waking up, to think she had such good friends when she left her home. Soon Lucy's body began to wake and she became aware of a warm presence, Lucy wrenched her eyes open when she remember last night and almost scream, her face burning when she saw the position she were in with a certain pink-haired friend.
Both Lucy and Natsu's body were facing each other, Natsu's head above her head while Lucy's face was snuggled close to his well-toned chest. The blonde's arms were wrapped around his waist while his arms were wrapped over her shoulders. And let's not get started on what position their legs were in, overall they were in a very intimate position.
As awkward as Lucy felt, she couldn't help but feel comfortable too. Natsu's more than normal body heat felt so nice to the stellar mage, she couldn't bring herself to kick him off the bed.
The blonde looked at her nakama's face and smiled, he looked so much like an innocent child as he slept with the usual drool dripping from his open mouth as to the raging destructive fireball he is when he's awake.
Suddenly Natsu opened his eyes and looked straight at Lucy who flinched and started to blush, the fire mage simply gave his trademark grinned.
"Morning Luce!" said Natsu and he yawned.
"It's nice not being woken up by you kicking for punching me for once!"
"I'm considering it!" said Lucy darkly as she tried to move but the salamander only grinned and tightened his grip.
"Let's stay like this for a while Luce, it's nice." Breathed Natsu and he closed his eyes smiling.
Lucy stared stunned at Natsu but didn't say anything.
"This isn't like me!" thought Lucy as she stared blushing heavily at her nakama's smiling face, her heart beating fast.
Natsu opened his eyes again and as soon as they both made eye-contact that familiar feeling from before surged between them. They both realized that this is one of those moments that would change how they view each other with one simple act, just one simple act and their best friends status could change to something more.
They were both scared but realized that the uncertainly was less then before.
Without thinking, Lucy place a gentle hand on her friend's face and smiled in which he smiled in return. Slowly their heads began to inch towards each other's; their lips were just about to touch when -!
"You liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike each other! And your dooooooooooooing it!" sniggered a familiar annoying voice.
"Damn cat!" yelled Lucy as she pushed Natsu away from her and jumped out of bed embarrassed, Natsu sat up cross-legged on the bed and pouted, disappointment etched on his face.
"Aye! It's not my fault I woke up to you two making kittens!" grinned the blue exceed with an evil glint in his eye.
"WE WERE NOT DOING THAT!" screamed Lucy beside herself, completely losing her head.
"GET OUT! THE BOTH OF YOU! OUT! OUT! OUUUUUT!"
Lucy began to pick up objects scattered around her bedroom and started to throw them with full force at Natsu and Happy, Natsu quickly picked up his discarded clothes and narrowly missed being hit on the head by a flying red shoe, wretched open the widow and leaped through it.
Lucy hung out of the window shaking her fist and yelling as the salamander ran through the streets wearing only his white boxer's as people walking by stopped and stared in shock.
Lucy sat at the bar grumbling to herself, ignoring the piercing onyx eyes from a certain pink haired mage across the guild.
"What's up Lu?" asked Levy as she sat on a stool besides her blonde friend.
"Nothing…." Muttered Lucy darkly as she tapped the wooden smooth bar with her fingertips.
"Looks like nothing to me, did you have a lover's spat?" laughed Mirajane as she place the drink Lucy had order on the bar before her.
Lucy said nothing but simply slumped her head on the bar, the coolness of the wood feeling pleasant to her burning face. Mirajane looked across the rowdy noisy room and noticed Natsu staring at the stellar mage, when he noticed her looking he quickly turned away, but not before hiding the blush that flushed across his face.
Mirajane gave a smirk.
"Oh my, did the flames get too hot for you to handle last night?" said Mirajane winking as Lucy's head shot up in horror.
Natsu with his excellent hearing also heard the words spoken from the take-over mage and turned his head around, only his face were filled with confusion, he didn't use any fire last night so what was she on about?
Mirajane noticed the confusion on the Fire Dragon's Face and pouted; sometimes the poor fool can be so dense when it came to these things.
"Mirajane!" gasped Lucy blushing and quickly looked around; she flinched when she saw Natsu looking intently at her with slight confusion.
"N-nothing happened last night nor this morning so please shush!" stuttered Lucy snapping her gaze back to her drink.
"OH HO!" screeched Mirajane clearly enjoying herself as she leaned over the counter towards the squirming stellar mage. By now a few guild members had stopped what they were doing and watched the girls at the bar with interest.
"The morning huh? I didn't even mention the morning, I only said last night." Grinned the white haired woman as Lucy felt like dying right there.
"Aye!" piped up a voice.
"Lucy and Natsu were trying to make kittens this morn-hpmth!"
Natsu quickly clamped a hand over his partners mouth, but the rest of the guild pretty much summed up what the exceed was trying to say, a quiet hush fell over the guild as everyone stared at Lucy and Natsu who were blushing furiously.
"YOU'VE GOT IT ALL WRONG!" screamed Lucy in a panic as she launch herself from the bar, flailing her arms about like a madwoman.
"IT'S NOT LIKE THAT! ME AND NATSU DIDN'T DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT! NOT IN A MILLION YEARS! HE'S MY PARTNER!"
"Bed partner…" whispered Gajeel loud enough for the fuming flushed Blonde to hear.
Lucy became so full of rage that she could only stand there and growl at the Iron Dragon Slayer who smirked at her.
"Ah don't worry Luce! Let them think what they want! They're just jealous that they can't sleep in your amazing soft bed like I can!" Grinned Natsu in her direction, his hands at the back of his head.
"YOU DENSE MORON!" screamed Lucy as everyone started to cat-call and whistle. Mirajane was filled with pure bliss and happiness; she had always thought those two would make a good couple.
"Lucy!"
Lucy turned around and froze when she saw Erza standing before her glaring.
"A word please!" said Erza and she grabbed the frozen in horror Lucy by the arm and started to drag her towards the private room behind the bar.
Everyone watched in silent horror as the sound of a door slammed shut.
"Poor Lucy…." Stated Gray as he shivered, he would not like to be in Lucy's position, no matter what she had done to anger the re-quip mage.
"Owww Erza!" whined Lucy at the tight grip on her arm but then froze when she saw that Wendy was in the room too with Charle, looking extremely upset.
"I'm sorry Lucy! I tried really hard not to say anything but Erza was really scary!" wailed Wendy as Charle looked away guilty.
"So… it looks like Fairy Tail has four Dragon Slayers." Said Erza staring at Lucy who sigh deeply and looked away. She decided she would tell Ezra everything that happened, there was no point denying anything now.
So Lucy took a deep breath and explained everything that had happened, all her memories and changes that she had already told Wendy, to the ones she hadn't yet told the Sky Dragon Slayer. Erza watched without uttering a word as her teammate told her everything.
"I thought so." Muttered Erza as Lucy finished explaining.
"I suspecting something like this when that demon we fought was defeated, but I needed to confirm what I knew with Wendy. I had a suspicion that she knew what was going on.
"Now you know Erza, but please don't say anything to anyone! I don't want anyone knowing yet." Pleaded Lucy looking urgently at her scarlet haired friend.
"I..I'm sorry to interrupt!" squeak Wendy as Charle started to glare at the door.
"But I can smell Natsu, I think he's listening at the door!"
A muffled "Ack!" from the door confirm what Wendy had said, and Lucy suddenly felt as if someone had punched all the air from her lungs.
Quick as a flash Erza flung open the door and grabbed the fire mage by his dragon scale scarf; she flung the poor teen into the air and threw him across the room where he smashed face first into the wooden wall next to Wendy who screamed in alarm.
"E-Erza… I think that was over the top…." Muttered Lucy who sweat dropped.
Natsu quickly got to his feet and stared open-mouthed at Lucy who, under the circumstances couldn't help but laugh at his red face where it had hit the wall.
"Y-you're a-a-a….." The pink haired teen stuttered with stunned disbelief pointing at Lucy.
"Yes yes I know, I'm a Void Dragon Slayer!" snapped Lucy crossing her arms and glaring at her nakama, so he did hear everything she said. Great!
"Awesome!" cheered Natsu grinning, his quick mood swing taking Lucy by surprise.
"Welcome to the club!"
"Natsu you idiot…." Groan Lucy hitting herself on the forehead. Natsu frown.
"Says the weirdo hitting herself." Suddenly Natsu froze and began to sweat buckets as Lucy glared at him, a dark dangerous aura surrounding her body.
"Don't you DARE tell anyone what you heard! I don't want people knowing, not yet anyway. Understood!"
"A-Aye!" stuttered Natsu doing a salute as the blonde turned her back on him.
"So Tengoku was your dragon right? Did he disappear like ours?" asked Natsu curiously.
Lucy looked at him and Natsu flinched when he saw the sadness and angst reflecting in her hazel eyes.
"Yeah… I went to look for him, but I never found him." muttered Lucy as she rubbed the back of her head.
"Well… I can't wait to see you in action when your seal finally breaks." Grinned the Fire Dragon Slayer pumping a fist.
Lucy looked stunned at her nakama and then grinned too.
"I have to admit, her new magical abilities will prove quite useful in our missions." Said Erza as she rubbed her chin in thoughtful thinking.
"It's nice to have another girl dragon slayer around." Smiled Wendy gleefully.
"Remember to keep us informed when you remember more of your memories so that we can help you as much as we can." Stated Charle crossing her arms and nodding her head.
"Will do! Now let's head back, I want to finish my drink!" smiled Lucy and the group walked back into the main guild room.
"I'm surprised pinkie even knew what he was doing in bed with bunny girl, though with the way she acted he must have been terrible." Whispered Gajeel to Lily unaware that the two he was talking about had just entered the room and had heard every word he said.
"Terrible? How can I be bad at sleeping?" asked Natsu not understanding what the Iron Dragon Slayer had said, he was a dense moron after all.
Lucy however glared at the man with rage boiling inside her, without thinking she marched up to Gajeel and punched him right across the face, everyone stopped chatting to stare in shock at the blonde.
"If he ever did sleep with me, I bet he would be ten times better then you bent metal!" yelled Lucy as she grabbed a chair and flung it, hitting the growling iron man in the face.
"All RIGHT! FIGHT!" yelled Natsu in joy, flames issuing from his mouth and he leaped across the tables and punched Gray in the face. (lol, typical he would go for Gray first! )
"Gray!" gasped Juvia who had been watching/stalking her beloved Gray as he fell to the ground. Juvia glared at Natsu and swept her arms across, causing a torrent of water to hit the fire mage squarely in the chest.
After that most of the guild members joined in, fists, feet and magic flying everywhere as Fairy Tail had one of its huge usual brawls. Only this time, for the very first time, Lucy was joining in.
"My, looks like I'll have to go shopping again for some supplies!" smiled Mirajane as her sister Lisanna jumped over the bar and hid behind her big sister's legs, avoiding the brawl.
"Take that you bastard!" screamed Lucy as she kicked between Gajeel legs, crushing his crowned iron jewels, Gajeel squealed and then roared with anger and pain.
Just before Gajeel could grab the blonde and make her pay for what she did, Natsu came leaping over them like a fireball and punched a flaming fist in his stomach.
"Wow, I can't believe I actually missed this when I was in Edora!" muttered Lisanna as she peeked over the counter.
"I know, isn't it great!" smiled Mirajane warmly, not noticing Elfman flying towards her after been attacked by Erza, who joined in because her cake she had peacefully been enjoying got smashed.