HI EVERYBODY! :D I know I said I wasn't going to post until tomorrow, but I finished this chapter early! :) By the way, this is a filler chapter but what happens in this chapter is important for upcoming chapters. I hope the story isn't getting boring... But there are big things coming, I promise! c:
Lucy's jaw dropped, she hadn't expected anything to happen. She looked at the young celestial spirit in front of her. How could this have happened, she asked herself mentally. No spirit should have appeared from a white key. Still a bit too shocked to speak, she turned her gaze to Natsu, who was standing beside her.
"It's not a celestial spirit chef," was all Natsu had to say before he walked over to Lucy's bed and sat down on it with a disappointed expression. Lucy felt her eye twitch and had a huge urge to slap her forehead with her palm, but instead turned her attention back on the spirit.
"Hello," the celestial spirit looked up at Lucy and smiled. "I'm Twinkle!" She stuck out her arm before continuing, "Nice to meet you!"
"Um, hi Twinkle." Lucy said, still confused. She shook Twinkle's hand and fidgeted awkwardly afterwards.
Twinkle sensed Lucy's confusion and anxiety, so she grinned at her. "Would you like to know who I am?"
Lucy nodded. Natsu, who was bored, fell over on Lucy's bed and laid there, still tired from just waking up.
"Okay! So, as my key name implies, I can grant wishes," Twinkle explained. Natsu sat up at the word 'wishes'. "I'm the one of the only celestial spirits who can do something as amazing as that because I'm part of the royal family, which is why my key is white."
"Wishes?" Natsu asked while walking over to the girl. "So you're the same as a shooting star?"
"You can say that," Twinkle said quietly yet happily, loving what she had just been compared to. "I can grant wishes for up to five people. Each person in not limited to a certain number of wishes but all the wishes have to be approved by Lucy, since she'll be the one who summoned me, but-"
"Wait!" Lucy blurted. In realization of what she just did, she blushed and continued in a soft voice, "Sorry for interrupting, but are you saying that I can make a contract with you, a ROYAL celestial spirit?"
"Yes," Twinkle replied. "But the thing is that I can only grant up to thirty wishes before my key breaks forever and I return to the spirit world permanently. There's always a catch when you use white keys."
"So there's more of you white key spirits?" Natsu eyed Twinkle curiously.
"Aye!" She said shyly. "There are a few more of us." She turns to Lucy. "Lucy, want to do the contract stuff now?"
"Sure!" Lucy said.
Two hours later, Lucy and Twinkle had finished making the contract and after they did, Lucy, Happy, and Natsu all went out to eat before they all decided to visit the guild. When they got to the guild, Natsu got into a fight with Gray and Lucy went to tell her best friends what had happened in the morning.
"And then we finished the contract and now I'm free to make any wishes I want!" Lucy finished explaining the events of that morning to Levy and Mirajane.
"Wow! That's amazing. Celestial spirit royalty, eh?" Levy smiled. "That's not something you hear every day."
"Yeah, I know right?" Lucy smiled back. "I don't know what I want to wish for though."
"I know what you should wish for!" Mirajane said with a mischievous smile on her face. Levy knew what Mira was thinking and they started giggling together.
"What?" Lucy was out of the loop. "What should I wish for?"
"Oh, you know…" Mira teased.
"No, I don't." Lucy replied, confused. "What are you girls thinking?"
Levy pointed over to the right side of the guild, where Gajeel was drinking beer, Natsu and Gray were fighting, and Juvia was at the side, cheering Gray on.
"What?" Lucy was getting more and more confused. What were Mira and Levy thinking? Why did Levy point over to the fight? Lucy's head started to hurt from all the confusion, plus she was starting to get a bit frustrated.
Mira sighed. "She actually doesn't know what we're talking about."
"No, she doesn't." Lucy said, talking about herself in third-person.
"You should wish that Natsu would ask you to go on a date!" Levy blurted out. She immediately covered her mouth after, since she said it loud enough that the whole guild heard.
Lucy gave her a shocked expression and from the corner of her eye, she could see most of the guild members smirking at her.
"Oi."
"AHHHHHH!" Lucy screamed at the sound of Natsu's voice behind her. Her heart was beating really fast. Did he hear what Levy just said to her? Lucy turned around and tried her best to keep calm. "Hi, Natsu!"
"I heard someone say my name while I was fighting with Gray." He replied.
Lucy sighed with relief. Thank goodness, she thought. That's the only part he heard. Wait. Lucy felt uncomfortable for some reason, so she looked up to see Natsu staring at her with red cheeks. HE DID HEAR! Lucy screamed in her mind. She turned to Mira and Levy so that he couldn't see her blush and she saw that they were staring at them, smiling and holding in giggles. I'm so going to kill you two for this, Lucy thought.
"Ha, ha, ha," Lucy laughed nervously. "We didn't say Natsu, we said… Uh… Gnat glue! Yes, gnat glue, because Levy's… dog has a gnat problem."
"How would gnat glue get rid of gnats on a dog?" Natsu asked suspiciously. Lucy's sweat dropped.
"Um, it just will!" She said unconvincingly.
"I don't think so." Natsu replied. Lucy was panicking and her heart wouldn't stop beating terrifyingly fast. She had to keep lying her way out though, because how would she confirm to Natsu that what he heard was true?
"Well, you can continue to think that, but it will work." Lucy replied nervously.
Levy and Mira could feel how uncomfortable Lucy was getting, but they didn't say anything. If they wanted to be good matchmakers, Lucy would have to tell Natsu the truth.
"How?" Natsu walked towards Lucy.
"Uh." Lucy couldn't think of anything to say.
Natsu walked even closer to Lucy. "Yes?"
"Um." Lucy still couldn't think of anything.
Natsu walked right in front of her, placed his hand on table, and leaned in until their faces were centimeters apart. "Hm?"
Lucy froze. Her mind wasn't working properly, her heart was beating way too fast, her breaths quickened, and she felt so pressured. As if by reflex, Lucy spun around in her bar stool; her hair whipped Natsu's face and caused him to fall backward. Lucy took that chance to run out of the guild. She ran and ran and ran, and she didn't stop, not even when she heard him call her name.
Hope everyone enjoyed this chapter! Once again, it's a filler, so maybe it's probably not going to be as interesting as future chapters. Hope you enjoyed it anyways though aha. And remember to leave a review, I'd love to know what you readers are thinking! :)