Hay there my Dragonlings!

Sorry for the delay on this chapter, But now I'll shut the hell up and give you your chapter and your song :)

The Middle By Jimmy Eat World

P.s. I'll answer/ comment on the reviews at the end.

Chapter 8: The Alley Way

Lucy Pov:

Light was streaming in through the hotel window and hitting my face. Peeling my eyes open I squinted into the bright light. Moaning, I flipped away from the blazing sun to see the dragon snoring away. Knowing full well that sleep won't be coming back, I rolled out of bed and fell down in a crouch. With that I went into the bathroom to ready for my morning jog.

Twenty minutes later, I came out of the bathroom clad in a dark green wife beater shirt over my hot pink sports bra and tan cargo shorts with my Lacrima IPod in my pocket. I threw my hair up in a high pony tail and shoved my feet in my pink running shoes.

I walked into the kitchen of the hotel room and scribbled on a piece of paper that I was out running for the sleeping Alec. Taking a look back at Alec's sleeping figure I smiled. I so lucky to have him in my life. Turning back around, I headed out the door and closed it softly. I walked to the elevator and headed down to ground level, stretching during the ride down and putting my ear buds in for my daily dose of music, and ran out of the hotel.

I ran and I ran. Music pumping in my ears and my heart beating fast; the sun going higher into the sky only to be covered by the clouds of the morning. I was quickly nearing some kind of outdoor market that was crowded. Not liking how many people there was; I decided it was best to head back to the hotel for now. Alec should be waking up any time now and then we'd be leaving for the safe house.

When that old woman, Porlyusica, gave me that slip of paper with the addresses and the name on it, I kept it in a safe spot for when a time would come to use it and ever since Kiara disappeared, I had it committed to memory. During my travels around the country I made sure not to visit Porlyusica encase my unwanted followers ever tried to get information out of her or tried to hurt her. I would definitely not allow that to happen. But maybe when all this settles down and my father finally gives up, I can visit and thank her safely for her help.

Looking ahead, I saw an alleyway to the left that seemed it would lead to the street behind the stores. I could round these stores and use that street to get back to the hotel. It sounded like a plan. So slowing down my speed a bit, I ran into the alley. Luck was on my side when I could see another street with houses at the end of the long alley. Smirking, I continued to run down the path, but when I was a little ways in, I felt a stinging sensation in the back of my neck. Confused, I stopped running and reached back to fine the source of the sting. Something metal like was at the spot and I yanked the object off of me. I stumbled a bit to the brick wall of the ally and brought the object to my blurry vision. It was a small tranquilizer needle.

Realizing what was happening, I yanked my ear buds out and shifted my gaze to the opening in which I came from. There two tall bulky men stood in black with a bandana covering up their mouths and one was armed with a large sword. Fuck. I fumbled to lean up against the wall. My hand immediately went to my waist for my keys only to find them missing. I left them back at the hotel. Double fuck.

The men began to advance towards me. Tapping into my magic, I let my fist glow with the light of the stars. I'd be in a matter of a few minutes till the tranquilizer dart knocks me out so I have till then to deal with them, I calculated, but I'll get slower as my clock wears on.

I shoved myself off of the wall and stood with shake feet into my fighting stance. The sword guy came at me first with a slash aimed at my body, but I ducked under the blade. Bringing a golden fist to the man's abdomen, I yelled out, "Iron Fist of the Celestial Dragon!" The man went flying back with the force of my punch and I stumbled back a bit. The second man saw this as his opportunity and came at me without a moment's hesitation. "Water spears!" He called out. Spears made out of water came shooting out his hand his hand that he forced out. The spears shot towards me with remarkable speeds. I brought my hands to my mouth and breathed out "Roar of the Celestial Dragon!" A waving stream of golden light flowed out of my mouth to the water mage.

"Wave!" He barked out with a wave of water crashing into my roar, but my light went right through the water a slammed the man to a wall of the alley ways, effectively knocking him out. Good now one to go, but my condition was worsening blackness was at the corners of my sight. I got to hurry a finish the last guy off quickly. The man who had the sword had recovered and equipped a bow in his hand. Pulling back on the string an arrow appeared out of the air and notched its self on and then he released it. The single arrow turned into 5 and they all came at me. I threw my arms forward and called out "Wing Slash of the Celestial Dragon!" Whip like light slashed out through the air and disintegrated the arrows.

The man went to draw the bow back again, but I was on him before an arrow could appear. I bathed my fist inn golden light again I hit multiple times in the stomach causing him to bend forward. Taking the opportunity I upper cutted him and knocked him out as well. Both men were down and out. Before I could rejoice though, I slumped to the ground, my head hitting the pavement as the tranquilizer took over.

My eyes were drooping with exhaustion when I saw the legs and sandaled feet of someone at the entrance of the alley coming towards me.

"Alec help". I called out to him as everything drowned into darkness.

Natsu Pov:

"Three Mackerels, a Jack, and two Mahi Mahi please," I asked the sales man.

"Coming right up!" The man left to gather the fish. I turned to my best friend, Happy, and started a conversation with him on the best way to cook the fish. Although the conversation turned in to an argument. I thought fish tasted better blackened, but Happy thought it tasted better raw. It's so better blackened.

The man came back with the fish which halted our argument for the time being. I bought for the fish and made our way through the market. Happy jumped up on my shoulder and took a fish from the bag, munching on it happily.

I sighed. Today has been a pretty boring day. I originally wanted to go back out and do some jobs and look for Igneel some more, but happy argued with me saying he wanted to take a break today. We've been doing missions nonstop for the past two weeks trying to fallow up leads on Igneel. We had a small lead on the missing Dragon back in Hargeon, but that lead was a misunderstanding. Then I saw a dragon flying away and disappearing into the clouds. Any clues about that dragon lead into more questions than answers though. At least I proved to me that Igneel could be still around and that got my hope up a few levels. That dragon wasn't Igneel though. I could tell by the color of the dragon and the smell of it.

Continuing down the market, I looked up to the sky. It was a beautiful morning; the sun was blocked every now and then by the clouds and a slight breeze could be felt. The market started thinning on out, the gaps between the stores got larger and larger. The amount of people around started to go down too. It was all calm.

That was until a man went flying right by me.

The guy went zooming passed me and crashing into a brick wall across the street with some of the bricks toppling over him. Happy jumped up from my shoulder and flew to the man to check on him. Igniting my fists on fire, I ran to the alley where the guy had come from. Finally something interesting.

Stopping at the mouth of the alley way, I looked for a threat, but there was none to be found.

"Alec... help," a voice whispered weakly.

Looking down to find the source of the sound and low and behold, a blond girl was passed out on the ground with a stressed expression. Walking up to her and crouching down, I notice she had a cut on her temple and long shallow gash on her arm. Other than that she was fine, so why was she passed out?

I lifted up my face to smell the air. I caught the smell of two men, the smell of the girl, which smells familiar, and something bitter. Taking another look down the alley, I could not find the second man, but I did find a small dart. The bitter smell lingered on the dart. I hurriedly pocketed the dart and lifted the blond in my arms bridal style. For all I know that dart could have poison in it and I'm not going to chance her dying.

Running back out on the street, I saw the man who crashed into the wall be taken away in hand cuffs by the Rune Knights. "Happy! Let's go!" I called out to him. He came flying to me and I took off in a run again to Fairy Tail.

"Who is she?" Happy questioned.

Looking down at the girl in my arms, she had curled up in my arms with her head against my chest. She was quite pretty with her golden blond hair and her now peaceful face. She was curvy and small and looked about my age. Her smell though was familiar, she smelt like strawberries, vanilla, and something else I could not put a finger on. I brought my attention back to making my way to the Guild.

"Don't know Happy. I don't know."

Alec Pov

"Alec... help."

Shooting my head up from the bed, I turned to see the hotel bed empty. Jumping up, I leapt over to the bathroom to find it empty too. She must have gone for a run. I was about to leave the room until I notice something glint in the sunlight.

It was Lucy's keys.

"Shit. Lucy where are you!"

I didn't get a response. Taking the keys in my claws, I hurried out of the hotel. After escaping the building, I shifted my snout up in the air, taking in all of the smells until I caught the one I was looking for. Leaping up in the air, I took flight fallowing Lucy's scent trail down the main street. Soon I was rapidly approaching some kind of market.

Suddenly the trail banked to the left into an alley way. I slowed down and cautiously entered the vacant alley way. Something was off. Landing onto the ground, I took another a deep sniff. Here I caught the smell of multiple people. Three men and Lucy. One of the men's scents was entangled with Lucy's and lead out of the alley, meaning he had taken her.

Growling, I jumped up and bounded off of the wall back into the air. Flying as fast as I can, I went after the scent.

Hay Dragonlings,

Thank you for being patient with me. I wanted to post this chapter on the first day of summer vacation to add to everyone's happiness. I like the way this chapter came out, I had written and rewritten Natsu's Pov quite a few times, but now I'm ok with what's there. Well that's all I got to say about this chapter so thanks for reading! Until next time.

~ The Reaping Dragon

Lizzie2145- Lol I'm glad that you like the story :)

Fanficlove2014 - The way I imagined the "second child" thing was a strength indicator, but I plan to make it into something more later down the road. Also the time line is like this: Lucy is 7 in chapter 1 where she meets Kiara, Then she's 9 in chapters 3 and 2 where Layla dies and the funeral, She's 11 when Kiara is gone in chapter 4, she's 13 when she leaves the manor in chapter 5, and she's 17 in chapter 6 and now. Hope this clears some things up if you are still unshure about the time line and We will see who's the first child is ;)

Sara lovelymusic- Thanks for the encouragement!

yazzyjazzy - Thank you for understanding!

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I know I keep thanking yall, but I'm grateful that you guys are liking the story. If I get more reviews this chapter I'll answer questions again in the next one. See ya Dragonlings later! Bye!