Anime: Fairy Tail by Mashima Hiro
Chapter 10 ~ LOVE SQUARE! 0

"L-Loke!" *sniff sniff* "W-What are you doing here?" Lucy looked at him with teary eyes.

Loke sat down next to her on the sand. He dried her tears and moved the hair from her face with his hand. He looked in her eyes and saw how sad they were. Once they made eye contact he smiled and asked "What's the matter my love?"

"Wh-What d-do you m-mean?" she said trying to act happy, but she wasn't a very good actress.

"Lucy, stop lying to me. Now tell me, what is the matter?" He said very sternly.

The tears started to pour out of her eyes again. "Oh, Loke! Why is everything so completed?"

When he saw her like this, it made his heart break. He pulled her towards him and he hugged her. She didn't try pull away, in fact she needed it. She felt the world hated her. She thought she might have done something bad and so she was being punished for it. The feeling that someone didn't hate her made her happy.

As she cried in his chest Loke decided to make her tell him what happened. Sure it might be painful, but it would be the only way to help her. "Lucy, tell me what happened."

She took a deep breath and explained all that happened with the fight between Natsu and Gray.

"Wait. So Natsu was basically upset that you got injured on a mission with Gray, right? Well, you can't really blame him."

Lucy looked up at him with confusion. "What?" She thought he was going crazy.
"Loke, are you alright?"

He laughed. "Yes, I'm fine Lucy. I was just thinking on how I would act if I saw you all broken and bloody. I'd be pretty mad too, but the thing is why would Natsu attack Gray and why was he so upset?"

They both stopped to think then finally Loke came up with something. "You usually go on mission with just Natsu and Happy, right?"

She looked at him wondering what he was thinking. "Yes…that's correct."

"Ok, so have you ever come back from a little mission like that being as injured as you were?"

Lucy thought about it and realized that never happened when she was with Natsu. "No."

"Well maybe that happens for a reason. I think whenever your near danger Natsu takes it on himself to protect you. My hypothesis is he expected Gray to do the same."

"But Gray did try! He just needed to protect the people on the train first and defeat the lizard minions."

"I'm not saying Gray didn't try. No one but you and Gray knew if he tried. I'm just saying Gray failed at protecting you. But now my question is why was Natsu so mad? Mad enough to try to kill Gray, his friend."

They were both confused by that. "Lucy I think Natsu might…"

Lucy looked at him waiting for him to finish his sentence." Might what Loke?"

He took a deep breathe and said "I don't know Lucy. I don't know". They were both sad and confused.

After a few seconds of silence Loke said something unexpected "Lucy, I'm very serious about this. I'm not joking okay." Lucy looked at him and saw the seriousness on his face. "…Loke." He grabbed her in a hug once more and whispered in her ear.

"Lucy… I love you."

She couldn't believe he said that. Her face was redder than a tomato.

He let go and disappeared saying "goodbye my queen."

~In the spirit World~

"Oh! Loke you're finally back!" Aries smiled.

"Yea, I am." He faked a smiled back. He started to think about his confession to Lucy. He decided to confess because he knew that, that dense idiot, Natsu, was falling in love with her and didn't even know it. He also knowing Gray knew he would probably work up the nerve to confess to her himself. "Stay strong Lucy." He mumbled to himself.

~Real World~

Lucy sat there wondering what just happened. She couldn't think she was too much in shock.

She sat there in silence until she was interrupted by these two people.

"Hey girly! What cha doing on our beach? "The man with a black hat and blond hair asked with attitude.

"Oh. I'm sorry. I didn't know this was a private beach. I'll get off you beach now." Lucy said getting up so she could leave.

"It's not our beach." A little girl next to the guy with the black hat said. Her face had no emotion at all.

Lucy took a step back. "What do you mean "not our beach."?" She was starting to think these two were suspicious. They did look pretty dark. Yea, you wouldn't want to run into the guy in an alley way, but that girl looks like something you'd see in scary movie about a dead little girl.

"Binx and I don't own the beach our guild took it." The blunette said. (The little girl)

"Shasha, we do own this beach ok!" The blond started yelling at her.

"Wait…" Lucy noticed a pattern on the Binx's hat and the same symbol on Shasha's ankle. It was a dark guild called Funny Skull's symbol.

"You guys are from a dark guild and this beach isn't yours! You can't make me leave, I'm not afraid of you!" She yelled at them angrily.

"Excuse me Blondie?" He turned to her. "You picked the wrong guy to mess with."

Sand started to swirl around him. "Shasha, stay back."

"Should I go get the others?"

"No, I got her." He smiled.

Lucy grabbed on to her keys. "Haha! You see Shasha, She's weak. She uses keys to fight." He laughed. "I'll make this quick." He smirked.

He raised his hands in crushed them together. It caused the sand to make a crushing cocoon from the ground to her shoulders.

She screamed in pain. "This is trick I call Death Blanket because it wraps around you like a blanket and crushes you to death, breaking every bone in your body it's just a matter of time." He then laughed evilly.

Lucy winced in pain. He bones were on the verge of snapping and one of her keys was stabbing her hand. It was piercing right into her hand, making blood engulf the key. "I-If only I-I could summon one of my keys!" she thought to herself.

Then a thought popped in her head "A-All those times when I don't remember a thing, I summoned a red key. C-Can I summon it again?"

She could tell by the shape of the key it was Scorpio's. "W-Well, it's worth a shot."

She summoned up as much magic as she could. "Forced gate opening! Open up! Gate of the scorpion! SCORPIO!" She shouted at the top of her lungs.

Red smoke started to swirl around her and the sad cocoon broke apart.

Lucy's efforts worked. When the smoke cleared she stood there half Scorpio shouting "I am Sasori's seishin!"

So... was it any good? Please review? tell me what do you might want to see in the next chapter. hum. you no i was wondering, what will happen with the little girl. maybe a double fight... Your just gonna have to wait. :)