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~I do not own Fairy Tail~

Here I was, hiding near the entrance to the majestic garden in the centre of the school, afraid of what would happen between the two angry mages who stood a few metres away from the door, with Zeref's back facing me. Firstly, Natsu wanted a 'rematch battle' with him in order to gain back some of his stupid pride and Zeref was sadly counteracting.

"Zeref, please don't do this." I begged desperately, trying to stop him as he approached the pink-haired boy, whose fists were shrouded in massive flames. Something seemed different about these specific ones, they were different coloured compared to his prior ones, they were more yellow than red. Zeref bunched his hands into a tight fist, clouding them in a black mist, completely ignoring my plea.

But it was too late. Natsu charged at the aggravated shadow like a bull marked on a red flag and punched Zeref, who flew back into the walls near me with immense force from the contact. The stone wall rumbled under his body and shook the whole school building. I leapt down to the ground and hid behind the wall to avoid being hit by broken-off cement flying in all directions.

"You bastard." Zeref growled menacingly, then jumped back to the ground and shrugged the crushed rocks off his shoulders. He swung off his coat and threw it to the side; Natsu did the same but with his school jumper.

The brunette grunted vexatious sounds, violently shook his head for a second before gathering a massive shadow and stomped on the ground towards Natsu so furiously that I could feel the school's foundations tremor. Then he retaliated and tried to punch him, who dodged it and hit Zeref again, who was too slow and surprised to block the blow.

Zeref limply fell to the floor to the floor with his face planted on the bed of grass, but soon found his feet then faced Natsu with an astounded look on his dirtied face.

"My regular flame may not hit you but I have another which can beat you easily." Natsu answered the surprised expression on Zeref with a proud grin. They were now facing sideways to me, Zeref on the left and Natsu on the right, both determined to win the fight.

"Impossible..." There was something I saw on Zeref's face which I couldn't even imagine he could feel, in all consideration towards his immeasurable power: he's struggling with a fight.

Suddenly, he constricted the temples of his head with his hands and screamed deafeningly, then collapsed to his knees neglecting the fight. When he looked up, his face expressed complete agony and he began shrieking.

"No, no, stop!"

Zeref is in pain, I need to help him!

Instinctively, I pounced out from my hiding and ran over to him but I saw Natsu evilly take a cheap shot and attack Zeref so I regretfully backed away again, unwilling to be in the area when they were fighting; it was a danger risk. Even though he was on the ground with scratches and torn clothing, he took the hit without any refusal and landed a few feet away from me, still clenching his teeth and head.

From afar, I looked into onyx eyes trying to discover a hint of surrender or weakness in them to decide that it was the end of this ordeal; but there was not even a fleck of such emotion in him. He definitely had fighting spirit kicking in him, but I realise he might not just be fighting with Natsu, it seemed like his eyes were escaping to a completely different world than ours.

"Natsu, don't!" I yelled as I saw him charging for another flame-packed punch, but it was too late.

As soon as Natsu made contact to his exposed stomach, Zeref grabbed Natsu by the wrist and violently twisted it, making Natsu shriek in pain, then gathered a large black cloud in his other hand and jabbed him in the stomach. The force made the pinkette blast through the wall across the yard, crumbling the wall behind him.

Panting exhaustedly, Zeref managed to collect himself and stood straight up, waiting for his fallen enemy to rise again, with a cloud like the night sky: specks of gold and silver glittering proudly and a deep, infinite opaqueness gathered behind it. The space between his feet and the ground began spreading, as a similar black cloud levitated him off the ground and moved smoothly to the wreckage.

Natsu jumped from the fallen wall and punched Zeref and they began fighting each other so quickly I couldn't see their arms and squabbling insults back at each other. This continued until a bellowing, echoing voice shouted at them, along with the whole school who had followed the ruckus and trembles.

"What do you blundering idiots think you're doing?" A giant, very pissed off Makarov entered the arena and separated the two of them with his bare hands, "My office, now." Whether or not they were going to go with him, he entrapped them in his giant hands (which looked very humorous because Makarov had returned to his normal, tiny size but kept his hands the same size in order to hold them) whilst the rest of the students looked at me for a full explanation.

Without any warning, I felt arms around me and hugging me tight. At first, I hoped it'd be Zeref, and I don't know why that was so my heart fluttered at the thought but I looked up to see Loke with teary eyes.

"Thank God, my little Lucy didn't get hurt!" He happily cried out and hugged me tighter.

"Loke, you're squashing me." I muffled under his t-shirt, which had a permanent vapour of men's perfume tainted onto it, almost making me choke from its overwhelming odour. He quickly released me and apologised, smiling all-too-sweetly at me. Everyone began crowding around me, asking a dozen of questions per second about what happened. Eventually, I couldn't take the claustrophobia anymore and ran out of a gap I could find and continued sprinting down the corridor, despite my hurting chest, throbbing veins and lack of stamina, until I found the headmaster's office. The sound of a bell made the students who had followed me return to their daily lives of school.

I slowed to a silent walk to avoid anyone realising someone was outside eavesdropping, crouched down near the door and softly rested my ear against the thin, wooden door, concentrating on any voices from within. I heard Makarov's first, and he wasn't happy.

Zeref's P.O.V- these won't happen often

Ignorant, reckless boy, albeit strong, his stupidity made up most of his personality. If I hadn't fought against the evils dwelling within me then he would've been dead by now, then again, so would Lucy and maybe half the school; it was a good decision to control it. Despite that, I couldn't help but want to smack that smug expression on his face, I'm afraid that would just get me in more trouble than I already am. I should just listen to what the aging man has to say.

"Natsu and Zeref, this was your second encounter like this today, wasn't it? I'm afraid that I couldn't just let you guys off with a warning-"

"What, like you do all the time with emo-boy here?" Natsu rudely interrupted, which deserved the icy glares from the Master. I couldn't help but agree with the idiot, Makarov does have a tendency to let me off easily whenever I commit my shenanigans, but he knows my situation, he knows I cannot control what I do when I release my full power. Which I have not done yet, all of the previous unfortunate events occurred under a maximum of half my magic, I am actually quite proud of how I denied my evils any rights to take over, even though it physically hurt me to do so. It doesn't like it when I refuse.

"Your regular punishments seem to have no effect on either of you, so I'm going to give you one which will haunt you for the rest of your teenage lives." Makarov evilly announced to himself, maniacally laughing to himself of his sneaky plan. "You're going to help fundraising for the Fluffy Animals Society, and by that you'll need these to walk around the classrooms as official representatives." He walked over to one of the many back cupboards behind him and pulled out two... oh god.

The only thing heard from that office was the resistant cries and begs for mercy from the poor fire-mage and shadow walker.

Back to Lucy's P.O.V

Why were they screaming, what did Makarov bring out? I tried to force my eyesight to clear through the small opening in the keyhole but I could only see the deep, black hair from Zeref and the bright pink from Natsu. Dammit, I want to know!

I heard Natsu begging desperately, 'Please don't make us wear that!' and then Zeref trying to smoothly reason with him by proposing a halfway agreement of doing the fundraising for the charity without the need of the costumes, but Makarov insisted. They gave up, took whatever clothing Makarov provided them and walked towards the door. I rushed to a corner not far from the office and hid behind it, ever so often peeking out from it.

"Where do we change?" Zeref sighed, asking Makarov whilst standing outside of it, holding something I couldn't see because he had his back to me.

"Out here is fine, good day." Makarov shut the door behind them, echoing one last cackle in the corridors, and left Natsu and Zeref in each other's company. Turn around!

However, they looked back so I hid for a minute until I heard some rummaging. When I looked back, Zeref and Natsu were both topless, parading their perfectly muscular bodies, and taking off their trousers. My cheeks were tainted red with embarrassment and my heart skipped a beat at the unexpected sight, so I quickly turned my head away and breathed out slowly, trying to slow my racing heart.

I turned back to witness the most hysterically perfect, cute (in a sort of weird, creepy way) scene in the world! But I had to abruptly cover my mouth to avoid bursting out in complete laughter, hurting my stomach to restrict anything more than a giggle from my mouth.

Right in front of me was two very, VERY unhappy teenage boys dressing up as a rabbit (Zeref) and a kitten (Natsu). Zeref had white, bunny ears, one which flopped lazily to the side, tiny, black whiskers with a pink upside-down triangle on the tip of his nose and a petite carrot purse. His short dress consisted of white pompoms with a noticeably bigger pompom near his bum, acting like a tail, with knee-high socks and white ballet shoes.

On the other hand, Natsu had little kitten ears with black whiskers and nose, brown freckles on his cheek and a nyancat purse. His fully black dress was a bit kinkier, short and tight all the way throughout, with a long, black cat tail at his bottom and black netted stockings with black shoes. They both hung their heads in shame, their pride and dignity permanently leaving their bodies, and I couldn't help but think they both looked absolutely adorable! (Maybe not Natsu that much, considering he looks like a sex kitten)

"Awww, don't you guys just look soooooo cute!" I couldn't stop myself skipping over to them using my cutesy voice and hugging both of their depressing bodies.

"Lucy?"

"Lucy, don't look at me like this." Natsu and Zeref both reluctantly hugged me back, blushing with utter embarrassment and anguish that everyone in school will see them like this.

"I'm coming with you, I must see this!" I demanded happily, already anticipating the range of reactions they'll receive throughout the day.

"Please don't."

"Yeah! The more, the better!" Natsu exclaimed and thumbs me up, grinning widely. Zeref melodramatically sighed, avoiding any eye contact with me and just looking sadly to the wall.

"Oh, don't forget these!" Makarov opened the door and threw two donation buckets at Zeref and Natsu, both hitting them straight on their heads (which I think Makarov aimed for) and made them fall on their faces, drowning in their sudden tears.

"I don't want to do this!" Natsu and Zeref cried exaggeratedly.