Hiya People! Here's a new chapter! Again, I'm kind of new at this so some reviews on something I could improve on would be amazing! Thanks! Anyways here we go!
3rd. P.O.V
So, Gajeel, Levy, Natsu, and Lucy made their way to the train station. "THERE'S KNOW WAY! I'm NOT RIDING THAT TRAIN!" Natsu complained. "Fine, you don't have to if you don't want to." Lucy replied coolly. He sighed in relief. "…really?" Natsu asked, a little unsure of how to take this. "Really! I totally understand if you'd rather walk the 89 miles!" Lucy responded joyfully with noticeable humor in her voice. "You suck." He mumbled in response. Dang it! I really hate looking like a weakling in front of the other guild members! Natsu thought to himself. Especially Gajeel and Lucy! They never let me hear the end of it.
"Gaaaaaaaaa" The great, pink haired salamander moaned. Natsu's head rested on Lucy's lap. This is so freaking awkward… Natsu thought. Is it actually possible that she could actually not notice that it was awkward! Lucy's thoughts: I can't believe i can actually see him blushing through the blue-green colored tint to his face when he's in vehicles. He's such a dork… yet still… Lucy's thoughts were interrupted by the train coming to an abrupt stop. Natsu was immediately revived and shouted "SWEET FREEDOM!" While hoofing it out of the train. Lucy smirked and rolled her eyes at the him. Like I said, a complete dork.
Lucy's P.O.V
The frigid air made me shiver. I knew when I accepted this job it'd be in the mountains, but we weren't even in the actual mountain yet! This was not going to be fun… but i really need the rent money, so i was gonna have to just suck it up. Sometimes I wish I was immune to cold too… I mean Gray and Natsu both don't get cold! However, although Gray is immune to the cold, he still is freezing to the touch. Whereas Natsu was just always warm, it's funny how that kind of describes his personality too… "Whatcha thinkin about, Luce?" Natsu asked questioningly. "Wa?... OH… um… nothing." I responded awkwardly. He smirked in return. "That's why you've got that weird grin on your face right?" I sighed and answered in a bored tone. "What are you talking about Natsu?" He through me his own little sigh too while shaking his head. "Never mind." As my teeth began to chatter i decided to summon good ole' Horologium. "Open! Gate of the clock, Horologium!" Suddenly, I was inside a surprisingly roomy wooden and glass case. The air around me instantly grew warmer. "Why do I always go on the jobs where it's cold! Lucy complained quite overwhelmingly." The spirit recited. Horologium may not be the best choice for combat, but I love him all the same. Just like all my spirits, I'd love them like family even if all of them were weak. "Oh come on! We're gonna have fun whether its cold or 100 degrees! Just you wait and see!" Natsu told me cheerfully. I sighed, even though Natsu thinks everything is gonna be fun, it's still comforting to know that one of us will enjoy this. We continued to walk down the icy path until we saw a beautiful mansion about 100 yards ahead. It had a golden gate in front of it with the letter "M" formed in the middle. It was stunning. As I side glanced to see the others reaction i gave a slight smile to see how close Gajeel and Levy were standing. Those to are so adorable! I really don't see why they insist they don't like each other.
Natsu's P.O.V
"I-I would like to thank you f-f-for accepting the job on the request board." The horribly annoying man stuttered. "Anything to help you find your… ummm… staff and return it to you!" Lucy said sweetly, a bit of confusion in her voice as to why someone would pay so much money to get a staff back... and why he lost it in Gantashi Mountain. The nervous man gave a small laugh "W-well it's actually a magic staff, you see. Long s-story short, if it fell into the wrong h-hands it would be just terrible!" "Oh! Well either way we're more than happy to help you out! Right, Natsu?" Lucy gave me a look when she said this that said 'uh say something!' I didn't notice until just then that I hadn't said anything the entire time. "O-oh um yeah!" I responded stupidly, following the pattern of the nervous guy in front of us. Just for extra effect I added a thumbs up. "Well we should really get going now, nice to meet you!" Lucy said kindly, totally unlike how she talks to me. Then, Lucy grabbed my hand and dragged me out, probably because a buffet was just set up and i could smell it with my dragon nose like it was being waved in front of my face. "You just ate like 5 minutes ago!" Lucy chided me. "No way! It was at least an hour!" She sighed. "Whatever." When she released me from her steely grip the blond, and I made our way up the mountain, Gajeel and Levy trailing behind. I walked my famous walk, hands thrown behind my head casually, and stole a glance at Lucy once or twice. This plan's going downhill… plus this is just awkward… she's not even talking to me!
Lucy's P.O.V
This is so awkward. He's not even talking to me! Just then as if reading my mind, Natsu spoke up. "Hey Lucy?" "Yeah?" He gave me one of his cheesy grins and said, "thanks for coming with me… I know you hate the cold." This caught me off guard. "Don't mention it! After all I needed the rent money…" Especially since, no thanks to you Mr. Incinerate, the last job I took with you I ended up having to pay instead of getting paid. I was going to say this but I decided to keep my mouth shut. He was obviously really glad i came along with him I'd hate to ruin that. "So why'd you wanna go on this particular mission so bad anyways? It doesn't look like it's gonna involve fighting… we all know how much you love that." He just shrugged and continued trudging along. I try to talk to him and he just SHRUGS?! I mean I don't really know what exactly I- My thoughts were interrupted by Natsu throwing his arm in front of me, stopping me in my tracks. He lifted his nose up in there air and did his famous 'sniff the air' pose. Suddenly, pain exploded in my shoulder and i spun around, keys in hand. Levy and Gajeel stood there awkwardly, "Sorry Lucy, you just stopped so suddenly!" Levy says with an apologetic smile. I gave a small laugh. "You scared me!" I tell her with a small grin on my face that said ' don't worry about it'. Then, i remembered Natsu, sniffing the air like he always does when there's danger. "What's happening Natsu?" I asked frantically. "Follow me!" And just like that the idiot sprinted away. "NATSU! WAIT UP!" We all shouted in unison. We ran for about five minutes, still with no site of the vanishing pinkette. I'm gonna kill him when we find him. Just then we heard "NO WAY!" It was Natsu. I then noticed a small hut in the distance. I got my determined face on, "This way guys!" I kicked the door open and what I saw was so unexpected I about toppled over. Right there, inside the door I just knocked down, were two men. One, an old man that looked about as kind as they get, the other, Natsu, drooling over a homemade pie. "ARE YOU FREAKING SERIOUS!" "WE THOUGHT YOU WERE IN BIG TROUBLE!" Behind me, an angry Levy and Gajeel stood glaring. He held his hands up in defence. "Don't get your panties in a wad! I just smelled food earlier and my instincts told me to come as fast as i could, okay?" My glare hardened. There were no words between the two of us, just a suddenly terrified Natsu, and a glaring me. Wow, I guess I can be pretty scary… Look out Fairy Tail! I can scare the Fire Dragon Slayer! I thought. I decided to cut the clown a break and turned to the nice looking old man. "Thanks for feeding him, but we really should be going…" Natsu sweatdropped when I said this. "Oh no, please stay for a meal! I have plenty of food and no one to give it to! It's be my pleasure!" He told me. I was about to refuse, but when I looked into his eyes, his kind, kind eyes, I decided i'd hate to let the poor guy down. "W-well I guess one meal wouldn't hurt…" "YAY!" Natsu shouted. I shot him a glare that said. 'This doesn't mean you're off the hook' and with that, we all ate until we couldn't stuff another thing into our mouths. I actually was gonna stop sooner, but I really wanted the man, apparently named Haruhi, to know that we appreciated his hospitality. The weird part was though, I'd completely lost track of time.