2. Plan

"Of course we have to have a plan!" Lucy said for the third time. She lowered her head onto the table in defeat.

"When do we ever have a plan? My plan is to not have a plan." Natsu argued back.

Lucy kept her head on the table, but turned it a little to look at him. "That makes no sense…"

"Natsu never makes sense." Happy said with a laugh.

Lucy laughed too. "All I'm saying is that we should have some sort of plan and even a backup plan just in case. Anyway, it's getting late. I'm gonna go home."

She got up and started walking towards the door. Natsu ran after her. "Can Happy and I come?"

"No."

"Why not?"

Lucy sighed. Did Natsu even have a house of his own?

Once she got outside, she started walking along the edge of the river like she always did. When she walked through the door of her house, she heard the faint sound of water running.

Lucy cocked her head to one side with a confused expression. "Huh? Did I leave the bathtub water on?"

She slowly crept toward the bathroom and listened through the door. The water was definitely on. She gasped as she came to another realization. Was someone in her house?

"Okay, Lucy. You can fight. You're strong too, right?" she whispered to herself as she took out her celestial keys.

She opened the door and grabbed the key of Aquarius. Bathtubs had water in them, so she could use that key.

"Who's there?" she shouted. "Ahhh!"

"Hey! Welcome back."

"Aye!"

Lucy gritted her teeth. "Natsu…" she said, balling her hand up into a fist.

Natsu and Happy were lying in the steaming bathtub with towels on them. "And why are you wearing towels in the bathtub?"

"You do that too, Lucy." Happy said.

"How would you know?" Lucy screamed.

All of a sudden, Natsu got up and walked toward the door. "Well, Happy, we better get situated for the night."

Lucy looked at him. "Wait, you're spending the night? Who said you could do that?"

"It was Gray's idea." Happy said from behind her. "Natsu doesn't have a house."

"Then where do you sleep?"

Natsu grinned. "Outside. We have a little shack, though."

Lucy sighed. "Well, fine, I guess you can spend the night. But you are not sleeping in my bed."

Natsu and Happy pouted. "Fine."

a.a.a.

"Lucy, wake up. Lucy... get up, lazy. Sheesh, Happy, she can't even hear me."

"Maybe we should pour hot water on her face. I heard that works."

Lucy groaned. "Don't pour water on my face, idiots." She mumbled, still half asleep.

Happy's eyes widened in surprise. "She could hear us?"

"I guess so… but she doesn't seem to be very awake." Natsu commented.

"Uh, I tried to sleep in, but I guess that's not possible with you guys." Lucy said, sitting up.

Natsu looked confused. "You did sleep in. Do you know how late it is?"

Lucy looked at her clock. "Natsu, it's 6 a.m."

"Oh."

"If you want to do something, go make breakfast. Otherwise, you can leave." Lucy said, putting on her robe.

Happy burst out into laughter. "Good one, Lucy! We all know Natsu can't cook!"

"I can too cook!"

All of a sudden, there was knocking on the door. Lucy opened it and Makarov was there, looking worried. "Master? What are you doing here?"

He let out a heavy sigh, and then looked up at Lucy and Natsu. "There's been a change of plans about the Azerath guild quest. They're plotting something that could destroy everything. We need you to go on the quest today, by noon."