I. Am so. Sorry. I had a major headache yesterday and fell asleep while writing this in the middle of the day.

Please hit me.

"E-Erza!", both of them stammered, shivering noticeably. Lucy paused. Erza? She slowly peeked at Jellal, who had his eyes fixed on the scarlet-haired beauty.

"Of- of course not!", Natsu and Gray stuttered in unison, hugging each other.

"We were just... g-giving them an example!", Gray said.

"Y-yeah, that's it!", Natsu threw in. "So they know what they shouldn't do..."

Lucy almost rolled her eyes. Like anyone would actually believe that-

Erza was finished with giving them a last, piercing nod, and then nodded in approval. "Good."

She believed it.

"Now, let's welcome the new stude-" Her eyes fell on Jellal.

Jellal gave a little, nervous smile and lifted his hand a bit in greeting. "Hello, Erza."

Erza promptly punched a random person next to her while stuttering incoherent words. The poor guy passed out immediately. "Alzack!", a green-haired girl cried, hastily kneeling down next to him.

Erza seemed to finally snap out of it and turned towards the girl who was holding the slowly coming to Alzack in her arms gently.

"B-Bisca, Alzack, I-I apologize... I don't know what got into me, I-"

"It's fine, Erza", Alzack, who was now fully back to consciousness, interrupted with a from pain strained laugh. "Everybody here is used to it."

"That's right", Bisca joined in. "Fights happen all the time, so getting hit once or twice isn't going to kill anyone."

'Wow, sounds great' Lucy thought sarcastically.

"Don't let it get you down, Erza", a certain blue haired male spoke, "It already happened; It isn't worth worrying over anymore." He nodded towards the duo that was standing up now. "Especially when you have such forgiving friends."

Erza was still for a few more moments before closing her eyes and giving a soft smile. "Yes, I guess that is true."

Suddenly her eyes snapped open. "Wait." She stomped towards Jellal. "You haven't explained what you are doing here yet", she barked, coming to a halt in front of him.

"My, my. You aren't glad to see me?", he chuckled softly. The girl's face turned red instantly, leaving her in a sputtering mess yet again. "N-n-no! I- I mean I-"

Jellal's eyes turned slightly somber. "I see", he sighed. "That's too bad then."

Erza's eyes widened, shocked at the bluenette's reaction. Everybody in the hall was watching the two, most of them not understanding what was going on. Lucy was also observing intently, hoping that what Erza would say next was a good thing.

"I- that's not what I meant!" Erza eventually shouted. "I was just surprised is all", she continued in a quieter voice, avoiding Jellal's gaze. Her face turned the same color as her hair as she looked to the ground, fidgeting. "I'm... I am happy you chose to come here", she almost whispered, but loud enough for most of them to hear. Which was only possible because the lobby had fallen completely quiet, Lucy noted.

Lucy could see the relief in Jellal's eyes; so he had been worried after all, then.

"Wha- what the hell happened to Erza?", the raven haired guy, Gray, spoke up.

"Gross", Natsu snorted. Erza twitched at the rude remark. The dark aura emitted from her once again.

"Well, well", the brunette in bikini top that had announced them earlier tried to

conciliate everyone, sweatdropping. "Don't say things like that Natsu. It's actually really cute, isn't it? You don't get to see Erza like this every day, anyway."

"Y-yeah, Cana's right", Elfman suddenly jumped in. "Besides", he added, a solemn look on his face, taking a deep breath. "Liking someone is MANLY!", he then yelled heartily. Erza choked.

Lucy watched with unease as the raid-haired female turned towards the crowd of students slowly, the menacing aura rolling off her in waves. The glare she sent them was spine-chilling. It had everyone except her and the transfer students fleeing from the lobby shrieking.

Mirajane, who had been standing offside, walked up to the seventeen teenagers, the never-ceasing smile radiating at them merrily. "Well, now that that's settled", she clapped her hands together, "how about we show you to your rooms? Erza, would you mind leading the boys to Fairy Halls?" There was a glint in her eyes while glancing back and forth between Erza and Jellal. Lucy remembered Mira's earlier comment about giving relationship advice.

Erza seemed to have regained her composure after a shy glance in Jellal's direction and straightened her back. "Of course. I don't mind."

"Great. Just leave them in Gildart's care", the white-haired advisor said while leading everybody out the doors. They then split apart, Mira and the girls turning to the left, Erza and the guys to the right.

Lucy sighed as she pushed her suitcase under her new bed. After being shown their rooms (they had been able to pick who they wanted to room with, so Lucy was with Levy and Wendy, of course), they had started unpacking. The blonde had helped Levy put up her bookshelf as their personal stuff had arrived later in the day, and thus was the last one to finish with her own things.

She looked around the surprisingly spacious room with it's adjoined bathroom. Lucy occupied one of the two bunk beds, having decided on sleeping on the bottom one, while the two bluenettes shared the other, with Wendy sleeping on the top bed.

Some boxes still weren't fully unpacked and were standing spread throughout the room; the empty ones were neatly folded and stacked up in the doorway.

Levy and Wendy had been called to the principal's office a few minutes ago. They were always called in pairs, Lucy had been there with her brother over half an hour ago already, since they were called in alphabetic order (last names of course, that's why Wendy and Levy were called together; Marvell and McGarden).

She and Sting had been rather surprised at the small figure of principal Makarov, however he was very understanding and caring towards them; they had also learned that there were students with similar pasts at this school, they formed a group that stuck together closely.

Lucy let her gaze wander to the opened windows – and froze.

There, perched on the windowsill, was a familiar pinkette.

After staring at her for a few more moments – how long had he been there? – he raised a hand in greeting.

"Yo!"

The beginnings of NaLu. There won't be any real romance until later chapters though, since there are still a lot of things that have to happen before that~

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