Sorry that its been technically a decade since I last updated but school work and a bunch of other things made me to preoccupied to write and even when I did have the time, I was suffering from a server case of writers block and this chapter was supposed to be completely different but I felt that I made you guys/gals wait enough and decided to change it up so that I can give you an update and I'll save the other stuff for later. But anyway some of you asked what the pairing are going to be and the ones that I have so far are:
NatsuxLisanna
JellalxErza
There will be some LucyxLoke and LucyxGray
There are a ton more but I'll talk about those later. Anyway on to Chapter 5!
Chapter 5: It Can Always Get Worse
After the commotion of the previous event subsided the bell rung singling the end of lunch and the beginning of the next period. Lucy quickly grabbed all of her things and rushed out of the door. She started heading in a random direction and ended up going up and down a flight of stairs. She didn't know where she was going and at this time she really didn't care, all she knew was that she needed to get away from the crime scene as soon as she can. After turning a couple of more hallways Lucy found herself alone. She put her back against the wall and started sliding down into a pit of despair.
"This day could not get any worse" she though
Not only had she almost been publicly humiliated on national television, she had been knocked unconscious by a random half-naked guy and she also managed to get into a childish fight with that pick haired menace and make a mess all over that poor girl.
"When I'm I going to realize that I don't belong here" she thought; "I belong with all of the other rich and snobby people and that's the way its always supposed to be". Lucy could feel the tears start to fall and knew that there was nothing that she could do to stop them, she was just happy that there was no one to see how pathetic she looked.
"Lucy"
Lucy looked up and saw that she was alone
"Lucy, Why are you crying?
"All of the other kids won't let me play with them, they say its my fault"
Lucy rubbed the tears from her face and started to slowly get up.
"I remember now"
*Flashback*
Layla Heartfilia was tending to her garden when she heard her name being called. She turned around and saw that little Lucy who was no more than 5 was running up to her. It was only as Lucy got closer that Layla could tell she was crying. As Lucy ran up to her mother see immediately grabbed a handful of her blouse and started to cry all over again. Layla bent down to her daughters level.
"Lucy, why are you crying?
Lucy let go of her mother and wiped the tears from her eyes
"The other kids wouldn't let me play with them,*sniff* they said that it was all daddy's fault that their parents were going to lose their jobs and that it was my fault to because he's my dad. Lucy started crying even harder and Layla engulfed her in a hug.
Layla sighed; She tried to tell her husband that his new business deal was going to put a lot of people out of work but no matter what he wouldn't listen, Layla already knew what the townspeople thought of her and her family, she was used to the whispers and the glare's that she would get whenever she went into town and had grown accustomed to it, but now it was effecting her daughter and something had to be done.
"Lucy, Lucy look at me"
Lucy looked up to her mother and jumped back when she saw the stern llok on her face
"Lucy" Layla began "I know what your father does may seem bad and I know that the townspeople don't necessarily like him but we can't change that, do you understand?
Lucy nodded
"People are going to say a lot of hurtful things and try to convince you that you are wrong, but you must learn to stick by what you believe, ok?"
Lucy nodded again
Layla smiled "Good girl" "And I want you to remember something, no matter what happens, no matter how many times you may trip or stumble or make a massive mistake, you must always hold you head up high, do you know why?
Lucy shook her head "No"
Layla grinned and lifted up Lucy's chin "Because you're a Heartfilia"
Lucy gave a big smile and hugged her mother with all she had. Her mom knew just the words to make her feel better and with her around there was nothing that could faze her.
*End Flashback*
Lucy smiled to herself and wiped the tears away, she couldn't believe that she had already given up before she even began. She made a few mistakes along the way but that just proves that she still has a lot of growing to do.
"I may have made a few stumbles along the way but that doesn't mean I should give up" she said to herself. She grabbed her stuff and started heading down the hallway.
"Look out Fairy Tail High because Lucy Heartfilia is coming for you!" Lucy had unconsciously yelled the last part and quickly covered her mouth; she hoped that someone hadn't heard her. Lucy heard footsteps coming from the end of the hallway and a black haired boy with headphones and a bored expression came into view. His eyes meet Lucy's and he stared for about a minute before continuing down the hall, Lucy let out a sigh he hadn't heard her.
Suddenly Lucy felt a cold chill go down her spine and a demonic presence behind her
"So, it seem's we have a straggler" said the voice
Lucy had never felt something like this before and couldn't decide what to do, does she run or does she turn around and face the person. So in this type situation the right thing would be to turn around and face the person with your head held high but of course Lucy did the most sensible yet stupid thing, she ran.
Lucy didn't know how long she was running but she felt like she hadn't gotten anymore away from the cold force. Lucy looked down to her feet and saw that they weren't on the ground and that the person had a strong grip on her.
"What kind of monster is this" Lucy screamed in her head
The "monster" threw Lucy to the ground; Lucy cringed and then looked up to see something she had not expected. Standing there wasn't a monster but a tall beautiful red-headed woman, who didn't look too pleased with Lucy at the time. The red headed woman looked Lucy up and down before giving an evil smirk
"Maybe she is a monster after all" though Lucy as she cowered before the woman
The woman finally opened her mouth to speak "You're new here aren't you?" she asked. Lucy blinked a couple of times before nodding her head, the woman smirked and offered her hand, Lucy hesitated before accepting the hand and being literally dragged from off the floor.
"Sorry about that, I didn't mean to be hard on the newcomer but you should learn not to run from me, but" the woman grinned evilly "I do enjoy a challenge". The woman gave a laugh and Lucy nervously chuckled "Is there at least one sane person at this crazy school!" (Besides Levy) thought Lucy
"So, what's your name newcomer?"
Lucy hesitated to speak "What if she can tell I'm lying"; Lucy was sweating bullets and whatever she was going to do, she had to do it fast. Lucy opened her mouth "Uh, well my name is Ashley!" the woman gave a puzzled look
"So your name is Ashley"
Lucy shuddered "N-NO! I mean my name is Lucy"
"So you're Ashley Lucy"
"NO!" Lucy sighed in frustration and started again
"My name is Lucy Ashley"
The woman gave a pondering look before smiling "Well it's nice to meet you Lucy Ashley" the woman extended her hand "The name is Erza, Erza Scarlet I'm the school's student council president so If you ever have any questions you can come and ask me". Lucy looked at Erza's hand before shaking it and almost having her arm torn off.
"Cool" Lucy said while trying to sooth her crushed hand
"So" Erza started "Why are you in this hallway by yourself, what class do you have?"
Lucy had deliberately avoided the first question not wanting to relive the "event"; she pulled her schedule out and glanced toward the bottom
"Um, it says gym with-" Lucy didn't get the chance to finish before Erza forcefully grabbed her hard and started dragging her in the opposite direction
"If your class is gym then why are you all the way over here in the lower classmen building" Erza said without turning around. She literally dragged Lucy from the current building to another one on the other side of the school and the souls of her shoes were basically burned off. When Erza and Lucy stepped into the gymnasium all eyes were on them but mainly on Erza, all noise ceased and both boys and girl quickly got into a separate lines before bowing their head
"Hello, President Ma'am" they all yelled
Erza completely ignored them before walking into the center of the two lines and looking around gruffly, she then turned to a random boy
"You" she side sternly
The boy stiffened "Yes, Ma'am
"Tell me, where is your teacher?"
The boy looked around nervously "U-Uh" he stuttered
"Well, I'm waiting for an answer!"
The boy started to sweat bullets and his knees started to shake, he looked like he was about to faint or wet his pants or maybe even both
"H-He hasn't shown up yet" he got out
"Then why haven't you told anyone about this then!" she yelled
Lucy heard two boys start whispering and laughing
"Man, sucks to be him" one said while grinning
"Yeah, better him then us" the other said
The boys though that they were being quiet and that Erza hadn't heard them, but they'd be wrong; Erza looked in the area of the two boys and walked right in front of them.
"So we have ourselves a couple of funny guys do we" she said sarcastically
Both boys tried avoid Erza's gaze but were failing miserably
"Well answer this, "funny guys" if an armed robber was to come into this building and start shooting up the place, what would you do?"
Both boys looked at each other
"Uh" one stuttered
"Well, I'd"
"You'd do nothing!" she screeched
Both boys cowered in fear
Erza turned to everyone in the gym "And this is exactly why we need order in this place because people like them" she points to the two boys "think that they can take on an armed man with just their bare hands" she turned to them "If the both of you think you so tough, then why not take a shot at me". She smirked
Since all eyes were either on Erza or the floor no one had really noticed Lucy's presence.
"She's amazing" Lucy thought, she was astounded by the forcefulness and demand for respect that Erza demanded, and it seemed that she got it no matter where she was, it was frightening but at the same time something time a sight to behold.
Laughing could be heard coming from the doors
"And that's when he started coughing up dirt, it was something to see"
"That's nothing's I made at least half of them sissies cry in about 30 seconds the other day"
A blue haired woman wearing a blue scale sequenced skirt and a tall cow like man wearing a green suit entered the building; they both layed eyes on Erza and the woman sighed.
"Here we go again; the red haired harpy is here to chew us out"
Erza walked up two the two teachers
"And were exactly where you Mr. Taurus and Ms. Aquarius" Erza squinted her eyes at them
Since Taurus was taller than Erza and most of the school for that matter, he always had to look down but when it came to the red haired warrior, he never felt smaller
"Uhh, we were just on a lunch break that's all" he nervously scratched behind his head
"Lunch ended exactly 32 and half minutes ago"
"What can I say we lost track of time" Aquarius said grinning
Erza opened her mouth to say something but instead let out a sigh and started rubbing her temples, any longer with these two was going to cause her to be even more stressed out then she already was. Erza beckoned for Lucy to come over.
It was at that time that all eyes were on Lucy and she would be lying if she said that she didn't feel self-conscious. Lucy walked down the middle of the lines and could just barely make out the whispers around her;
"Isn't that the girl that spilled the stuff all over Lisanna"
"Yeah! She was also the one that was fighting with Natsu"
"I heard that she was trying to flirt with Natsu and he totally freaked out"
"No way!"
Lucy made her way over to the teachers and saw that the blue haired lady was looking her up and down while grinning evilly, and the man was looking mostly at Lucy's chest with this perverted look on his face.
"This is the new student Lucy Ashley, I expect you to treat her nicely" Erza said threateningly
Aquarius gave a cheerful smile "Of course, we'll take real good care of her"
"Somehow I don't believe that smile for one second" thought Lucy
"Yeah, we'll take extra special care of her" said Taurus who had drool coming down face
Lucy gripped her bag to her chest; she was not going to be oggaled over by some cow-man-bull thing.
Erza cleared her throat "Alright I'll leave her in you care but" she glared at the two teachers "I'll be keeping my eye on the both of you" Erza walked over to the door and when she was completely out of sight everyone let out a sigh.
"That red haired devil is going to make me lose my nerve with her "Listen to me" attitude" Aquarius said "And what are you looking at Blondie?" she glared at Lucy
Lucy sweat dropped "Is there one normal teacher here" she thought
"What are you all looking at!" she yelled "Boys are going to the track field and the Girls..." Aquarius looked at Lucy before grinning "are going to do a "special" bonding exercise"
"I don't like the sound of that" thought Lucy
The boys groaned
"Hey!" one of the taller boys with gray hair and a scar below his right guy shouted out "All of you quit you whining, If you were real men then you wouldn't be complaining"
"Shut up, Elfman"
"What you say punk!"
Taurus nose flared and steam came out "All of you runts shut up!" he yelled "I want you dressed and ready on the track in 15 so mo-oooove out!
All the boys groaned again and started heading for the locker room. As the boys walked by Lucy had noticed Natsu walking by with this hands in his pocket; He looked mellowed out considered the events that took place. When his eyes caught her's they stared at each other for a minute, Lucy opened her mouth but nothing came out, Natsu turned his head and walked out the door with the rest of the boys.
"This is not going to be easy" Lucy sighed; She knew she had to apologize but not exactly sure how to go about it just yet.
"All right you sissies, line up" Aquarius called "Blondie, you come by me"
Lucy walked over to the teacher and could tell that something was up.
"Everyone this is Blondie and she's new here so I decided to give her a "warm welcome" with a roaring game of dodge ball" Aquarius grinned
"I'm sorry, but did you just say dodgeball?" Lucy asked
"Yes I did, do you have a problem with that?" Half of Aquarius's face turned dark and Lucy shrunk under her gaze
"Uhh,not at all" Lucy said while quivering
"Good, go get changed and meet out me out here in 10 minutes or else you'll be the ball" Aquarius walked out of the gymnasium; With everything that Lucy has seen so far that might actually be possible.
"Wait!" Lucy shrieked "I don't have a.. and she's gone"; Lucy sighed. She walked into the girls locker room and saw that everyone was changing. She walked until three girls stepped in front of her, the one in the middle was holding a designer fan in front of her face, she snapped it close and grinned at Lucy.
"Look girls it seems we have a newcomer among us, and she thinks that she all that" The girl let out a chuckle and the other girls giggled with her; "Look here sweetie" the girl started "This school only has room for one queen and that's me and no "little miss bimbo" is going to come out of nowhere and try to take that from me, are we clear?"
Lucy narrowed her eyes and clinched her fist, she was tired of these people belittling her and she was about to show them she was not someone to mess with. Lucy drew her fist back and thrusted it in the direction of the girl in front of her, the fist connected and drew blood and the other girls only watched as their supposed queen fell to the ground with a thud. Her two lackeys rushed to her aid as the other girls gasped at what just happened, Lucy turned her back and walked out of the gymnasium and the school never to return.
Lucy shook her head and snapped back into reality, no she didn't really punch the living daylights out of this wannabe queen but how she so wanted to.
"Well do you understand your position" the girl grinned "Get on your knees and bow before me and I might just forget about your rash behavior"
"How does she think she is" Lucy screamed in her head; she opened her mouth to say something before a familiar voice rung out
"Leave her alone Evergreen!"
Lucy turned her head and saw that it was Levy who had screamed out. Levy ran in-front of Lucy and stretched her arms out "She's new here but that doesn't give you the right to pick on her"
Evergreen sneered at Levy and smirked "But being new here gives her the right to go around and cause mischief, I mean did you see what happened to Lisanna?"
Levy cringed "But that was just and accident and besides when do care about anyone else."
"A queen is supposed to care about all her subjects and to punish them when they fall out of line"
Evergreen smiled wickedly at Levy and Lucy could tell that she was shivering, Lucy stepped in front of Levy and glared at Evergreen.
"Look I don't know what your deal with me is but that doesn't mean that you can pick on my friends, so if your problem is with me then keep it that way"
Both Evergreen and Levy were surprised by Lucy's boldness, Evergreen only smiled and snapped her fingers
"We're done here" she declared "Let's leave the traitor and her new friend alone, for now"Evergreen whispered the last part and walked off.
Levy let out a huge sigh and backed up into some lockers "That was intense"
Lucy only furrowed her brow and grunted "What's her problem and what does she mean by there can only be one queen"
"Evergreen is known for taking anything she wants and..." Levy pointed her two index fingers together and muttered something
"And what?"
Levy scratched her face nervously "Oh nothing really it's just that people think that your trying to take over Fairy Tail and that your also after Natsu, but it's totally nothing" Levy laughed the last bit off
Lucy was dumbfounded; she couldn't believe that people actually thought that she was that type of person "Why do they think that" Lucy shrieked
"Well, with everything that has happened your kind of a celebrity around here"
Lucy groaned and placed her head against one of the locker doors "Someone just shoot me now"
Levy patted Lucy on the back "It's not as bad as it seems, we haven't had this much excitement since that one time that Natsu had put a hot chili pepper's in the school's celebration cake and everyone went around with chapped lips for a week"
"I'm not even going to ask" Lucy said; It then hit Lucy that she was forgetting something "What did Evergreen mean when she said that you were a "traitor"? Lucy asked
Levy frowned and turn her back to Lucy "I'll explain all about that later but right now we have to get ready for class or we'll have to worry more about Ms. Aquarius more than anything else"
Lucy could tell that something was bothering Levy but decided not to egg her on until she was ready to talk about it. "We'll I might just have to go out there in my uniform because I don't have a sports one"
Levy placed her hand under her chin and though about it for a second before snapping her finger "I got it, you can use my back-up uniform"
Lucy eyes gleamed "Really, wait why do you have a back up uniform?" Levy pulled Lucy's arm and guided her into the changing room "Stop asking so many questions and just change already"
5 Minutes later
Lucy and Levy walked out into the gymnasium floor and stood there with the rest of the girls; Lucy kept tugging at the ends of her t-shirt trying to get it lower
"Levy, why is this uniform so small?" Lucy wined and continued pulling on her clothes trying to get them more comfortable
"I'm sorry but they were from when I was smaller" Levy whispered
"How small were you!?"
A whistle blew and all the girls straightened up, out came Aquarius wearing and all gray track suit and holding a red ball. "Alright listen you maggots" she bellowed "Since most of you are mentally retarded I'm going to explain the rules nice and slow, you throw the ball, you get hit then you're out; for example"
Aquarius chucks the ball and hits a girl dead center in her face knocking her to the ground "You're out!" Aquarius yells
"This woman is crazy!" they all thought
"Let's see, how we are going to do the teams"Aquarius thinks about it for a minute before grinning"OK, if you haven't been here for the past week or so then you're on the right side, everyone else is on the left"
It wasn't until they all separated that Lucy realized that she was the only person on the right side of the gym
"Wait, this isn't fare!" Lucy screamed
"Who said life was fare" Aquarius said laughing
"Ms. Aquarius, I don't think this is really fare" Levy said
"Well, who asked you for your input?" Aquarius yelled; she threw the balls to both side and Lucy quickly picked it up
"First team to knock out all of the other members wins, on your mark!"
Lucy could feel the glares that she was getting from the other girls across the room and was mentally preparing herself for what was coming
"Get set!"
The other girls put their hands in the throwing position and were ready, Lucy gulped and got into the stance herself "If I'm going down then I'm going down fighting!"
"Throw!"
No sooner had Aquarius yelled those words did the balls start flying across the room.
Not bad for someone that hasn't updated in like a bazillion years but whateve's
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