- Chapter 12:

The Dream

It's been a few days since the Winter formal and still no sign of Gajeel. It's like he had disappeared off the face of the earth.

Lucy was out grocery shopping with Gray and Juvia. Natsu would usually go with her, but today he and Happy stopped by.

I draped a pink wool blanket that Aries had made for me when I was sick a while ago. It was pouring outside, the pitter-patter on the rooftop made up for the silence. I could tell from the bags under his eyes that he was indeed doing the favor I asked for him.

Tracking down a Dragon Slayer, even if the tracker is a Dragon Slayer himself, is pretty hard to do. Like dragons, they know the right places to go, where no one will interfere with them.

I went into the kitchen and got out one off the cigarette lighters that Lucy kept in a drawer when Natsu came. I try not to have Gajeel in here when he's hungry other wise he would start eating silverware.

I handed him the cigarette and he started gulping down some fire.

"When I first met Lucy, she was trying out to be a cheerleader for the school. She was amazing, doing all these flips and stuff. I just fell in love with her body, just not her, herself. I got to know her later on since she became a library aid and Gray and I used to fight in the library when Erza used to try and tutor us. She offered to help me with my studies and seeing that she had good grades, Erza agreed."

He ate some more fire, then glared at the wool blanket. "Is this made by one of Lucy's celestial spirits? You know Aries' wool makes people sleepy!"

I removed the wool blanket from him. He was dry now anyways.

He straightened up and Happy sat down in my lap.

"Natsu and Lisanna were dating back then, but Natsu couldn't telll Lisanna that he didn't like her anymore and that he loved Lucy. He also couldn't tell Lucy because he only loved her body and she would hate him and stop tutoring him. So he broke up with Lisanna and went after Lucy. Lucy practically hated Natsu at first until he saved her from one of Laxus' attacks. Fried and Bixlow were practicing outside and Lucy was late for practice. Since Natsu was stalking her, he knew that she was about to be hit. Ever since then, Lucy's been grateful to Natsu, always helping him with what he needs and such."

Happy swished his tail and his ears twitched.

The pink-haired dragon slayer sighed. "Then I saw something amazing. Lucy was being attacked and I couldn't do anything since my legs had temporary paralysis. Despite the fact that I followed her every where and fell in love with her body, despite the fact that she would always be nice, I thought that she was nothing but someone weak in the heart. They reached for her gate keys and threw them to the side. I thought she wouldn't be able to fight now." Natsu smiled at the memory. "Her body starting glowing with a golden lights and unleashed every single one of her Celestial spirits, forcing open their gates. They were all fighting except for Horologium, who had protected her inside him. It was amazing to see. She brought out the best in her Celestial spirits, because she treated them like friends. Ever since then, I fell in love with her. Not just her body."

"And then," Happy said, "When Natsu got detention, she started bringing cigarette lighters since he always complained the day after of not having any food during detention time! She brought Erza strawberry cake too, and Gray used to steal money from Lucy to buy his own snack."

"Seeing her act so natural with my friends drove me to go into Heat. She was perfect for me. As long as she got along with my friends and loved them, I would love her. I was afraid to tell Lucy, so I got Mirajane to explain it. It was hard to do though, since I broke her sister's heart, but since Mirajane was on the cheerleading team as well and knew what type of person Lucy was, she didn't mind doing it. After that, we um, well we had sort of had sex on the circulation desk when you were out sick."

I choked on my water. I turned my head to the side, coughing violently. "ARE YOU SERIOUS, NATSU? DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I PUT MY HANDS ON THAT DESK?!"

He laughed, but stopped after seeing my expression. "My point is, the Heat is very... painful for us Dragon Slayers unless we find 'someone' to relieve that pain. The day before the Winter Formal, Gajeel told me that his Heat might strike the next day since he was experiencing the symptoms then."

"What are the symptoms."

Natsu's cheeks turned red and Happy smiled like and evil Chesire cat. "Constant erections!"

He said it as if he was claiming that I won the lottery.

"Ohhh."

That made sense. Natsu was still red, but he managed to speak without stuttering. "So the Heat lasts for about a week until the Dragon Slayer end up going into Dragon Force and practically rapes anything in sight."

"RAPES? Are you sure you didn't mean grapes?"

Natsu swallowed. "Yeah, I'm sure. Look Levy, I don't mean to pressure you, but you have four days until Gajeel goes on a raping spree. He thinks you've rejected him when we were at the Winter Formal."

"I didn't reject him, I just didn't want to do it right there in front of everyone in public."

Natsu nodded. "I guess that's better than what we went through."

I raised an eyebrow.

"Well you see," Natsu cleared his throat. "Me and Lucy were kind of, um 'getting it on' and then we went into the classroom since Lucy forgot to bring her keys to the library and we went past Laxus and Mirajane, who were kind of having sex on the teacher's desk."

"Well, that's awkward."

"Very."

Happy tugged on my hair. "Do you have any fish?"

I nodded and stood up, carrying him in my arms. Walking over to the refridgerator, I opened the freezer and pulled out a Ziploc bag full of sardines. Whenever Natsu brought Happy over as well, Lucy kept a bag of fish just for him.

"Do you want me to heat it up?"

"Aye!"

After Happy had finished his fish, Natsu and the Exceed to their leave, waving goodbye and walking out. The sun was about to set. I was starting to get worried. Lucy should be back by now.

"Hey, Natsu?"

His head jerked up and he stopped, turning to face me on the sidewalk.

"Can you check on Lucy? She hasn't come back and she left her phone at home."

He nodded, giving me a grin before he ran off.

I sighed and closed the door behind me, stepping out and onto the porch. I sat down on the swing, kicking my legs up, I closed my eyes, letting sleep claim me. I wasn't worried. I had incantations that I (once again) learned from Fried that kept any unwanted people out.

My dream was strange. I was in this white place. It wasn't a box, just a vast white sky and endless plain of white. I was the only thing that had color, as well as the porch swing I was lying on. I blinked and swung my legs over, standing up. The moment that I didn't make any contact with it anymore, it vanished into whiteness. It was weird. There was no shadows either, indicating where things might be.

And then suddenly there was that feeling you get when something creepy was coming up. I saw a pitch black shadow flitter around me in circles, so fast the it connected, closing in on me. For some reason, I couldn't move my feet. It wasn't like they were glued down, but it felt like someone was holding me down. The circles closed in on me, then expanded out like a gray circle of fog. The fog swept away gradually and Gajeel was in front of me. But he wasn't himself. His canines seemed sharper, his hair just a bit darker. His eyes were completely taken over by red, whites and all.

He leaned down, his nose just barely brushing mine. He grinned widely before thrusting his fist into my stomach, I hunched over, coughing a small spray of blood. And then suddenly he turned into Rogue. He became dark and wispy, like a shadow.

His hand curled into my hair, tugging my head up roughly. "Your precious Gajeel has done it." he laughed. "Finding his mate at long last, but you refuse him! He has raped over ten now, killed over thirty," he leaned down and whispered in my ear, "and you're next."

I woke up of with a start, gasping and sweating. No. NO. That was too real to be a nightmare.

"Mate," a hoarse voice muttered. I turned my head to see Gajeel by the lemon tree we had in our front yard. His eyes looked pained. His chest was heaving up and down. He looked...torn.

I got up, rushing toward him, but before I could even manage to get off the porch steps, he was gone.

SUSPENSE! At least I thought it was. So there you have it. Natsu explains how he began to feel the Dragon's Heat. Then the dream with Rogue and Gajeel and now THIS. What? You don't know what THIS is? Oh. Well I'll explain. I'm going to be cookies AND brownies to the top three reviews I see. That's right. I COMBINED cookies and brownies! So that means review. Go, shoo! Starting writing your review there. Hurry!

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