Chapter 4

Disclaimer~ I do not own Fairy Tail, my ships would have sailed by now.

"Come on Luce your falling behind." Natsu called back. I was following Natsu as close as I could but for a dragon he moves fast. Natsu's tail moved back and forth making it a bit hard for me to get closer to him.

"Lucy are you really that fat?" Happy sang while flying above my head.

"You're one to talk cat, your heavier than you look!" I yelled. Ever since we left the cave Happy's been making fat jokes the whole way, was he trying to say something. Seriously how fast can Natsu walk, I was literally sprinting just to catch up with them.

"Will you guys slow down." I whined. Natsu came to a sudden stop, which caused me to trip over his tail, on to the ground. I caught myself before I could really get myself dirty, I really liked this dress.

"Are you trying to get me dirty!" I hissed. I started bringing myself up until I was lifted off the ground.

"What are you doing!" I said while thrashing around. Before I knew it I was sitting on Natsu's back.

"If you can't keep up then I might as well let you on my back." Natsu called over his shoulder. I was about to complain 'till I looked around. It was so beautiful from up here, when you were on the ground it seemed like a normal forest. I never took notice of the scenery before this was really breathtaking, I never got to go outside like this at home. My mother always said to enjoy the little things and I didn't get that until now. I looked back down at Natsu and started to admire his scales. They were my favorite color, scarlet, with a tint of pink at the bottom. I started to feel one of the scales to find them a bit rough, the pink part of his scales were so soft. Who knew a dragon could be so beautiful, I thought they would be scary, but Natsu was everything I didn't expect. Kind, gentle, and a bit annoying but he also quite funny after you get to know him. Now that I think about it I would probably be living under a rock if it weren't for Natsu. I felt a smile crawl upon my face while thinking about these thing.

"Lucy why are you petting Natsu with that creepy smile?" Happy snickered. I was snapped out of my thoughts when the devil cat spoke. I could feel the heat on my face as I turned away from Happy's view.

"I was actually quite enjoying it." Natsu spoke. What did he just say? If I wasn't embarrassed before I am now. Natsu was never one to say stuff like this, it would always be jokes and giggles for him.

"It felt like a massage." Natsu stated. And here I was thinking... wait what was I thinking? All I know is that Happy really does know how to make things awkward. I looked back to Natsu's back then to his neck, that's when I saw it. It was a scar, it was well healed and quite big almost like it was stretched out over the years. I reached my hand up to the scar and gently glided my hand over it. I didn't think dragons skin could be penetrated, I read that dragon skin was impossible to harm. I was about to ask Natsu how he got it but got interrupted by the cat.

"We made it." Happy exclaimed. I glanced up to see only but a cave, a huge cave with a sign attached to it.

"Hey Natsu you can let me down now." Natsu looked back at me then towards the cave then back at me.

"Are you sure Luce, there might be monsters in there." Natsu teased.

"Yes Natsu, I'll be fine." I groaned.

"Fine." Natsu grumbled. I walked over to the opening of the cave and examined the sign.

It read:

THE WATER QUEEN DWELLS HERE.

ALL WHO ENTER YOU WILL BE A RIVAL.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

"Water queen? I haven't heard of her." I spoke. Natsu and Happy glanced at each other and shrugged it off.

"What does it mean by rival?" Happy asked. That is also weird, what does the sign mean by rival, rival in a food competition?

"Who cares, let's just get the treasure and go." Natsu spoke giddily.

"I think you just want to fight something don't you Natsu." I inquired. Natsu and Happy began to enter the cave while I followed closely behind. The pathway was a bit narrow which had me squeezed up against Natsu. The cave didn't have much light 'till Natsu lit up the place with his fire. So I was right, he is a fire dragon! I knew it, Natsu never did actually tell me what kind of dragon he was. He kind of left clues like how he loved spicy food and how he was never cold or even when he made that food with no stove.

"It smells really bad in here!" Natsu whined.

"Now that you mention it, it does smell bad, like someone farted." Happy said while pinching his nose. Both Natsu and Happy looked back at me eyeing me very closely, a little bit too close for comfort.

"Luce," Natsu spoke sternly.

"Yes Natsu?" I replied. They so weren't going to pin this on me were they? They would never do that... right?

"Did you cut the cheese?" Natsu asked. I stand corrected, they did blame me. Happy came over to me and sniffed around.

"Natsu it's her!" Happy exclaimed.

"I did not!" I cried. Natsu brought his face closely to me and began sniffing around me, he then pulled back with a disgusted look.

"I never knew a princess could do such a foul thing." Natsu tired to hold back his laugh.

"You jerks it was probably one of you!" I pointed back and forth to Happy and Natsu.

"We both smelled you Lucy," Natsu groaned. "And boy was it gross." I felt extremely insulted, I lifted my arms and began smelling myself. I smelled perfectly fine, but there was something stinking big time. I stopped moving when I felt something cling on to my leg. I tired getting Natsu and Happy's attention but they kept talking about how bad I stunk and giggling. I picked up a rock that was closest to me and threw it at Natsu's head.

"Oi! Lucy what was that for." Natsu hissed.

"There is something behind me." I spoke slowly. Natsu and Happy started busting out laughing like maniacs.

"Hey what's so funny!" I was literally fuming.

"There's a big huge fart behind you that's what!" Happy sang.

"Man Lucy you really need to cut back on the beans." Natsu chuckled.

"Pun punn!" cried the creature clinging to my leg. Natsu and Happy's face turned pale and slowly turned their heads in my direction.

"I didn't know Lucy made a that kind of sound." Happy stated.

"Neither did I." Natsu said. These two were really dumber than a brick wall when it comes to things like this.

"It's because I don't!" I screeched silently.

"Pun punn!"

"AH! I felt it lick me!" I screamed. I got out of my shock and ran over to Natsu like the baby I was. As I ran over to Natsu I could feel the creature coming after me, what is this monster!

"Natsu help me!" I cried. Natsu grabbed me quickly and hovered over me protectively, Natsu started growling. We watched the figure approach us with precaution, but that's when it hit me.

"Oh Mavis what is that smell!" I hissed. It's was absolutely repulsive. It smelled like rotten cabbages.

"Now you smell it." Happy cried. The creature finally came into light... oh Mavis I certainly felt stupid now. The so-called monster came out from the shadows, it was a snowman but a very cute and small one. I felt so bad, I called it a monster. I moved away from Natsu and walked towards the snowman and lifted it into my arms.

"Pun!" It cried. Natsu and Happy looked absolutely horrified.

"Um Luce do you know that thing." Natsu asked.

"It's not a thing Natsu it's a snowman." I corrected him. "What should I call him?" I asked mostly to myself.

"Bob!" Natsu and Happy said in unison. No way was I going to call this cutie a name like that.

"Stinker!" Happy yelled. I wasn't that mean to call him such a name.

"Hmm.. How about Plue!" I chimed. Plue looked at me excitedly and nodded his head in approval.

"Pun!"

"Alright let's keep going ahead." I beamed. For some reason I became happier. We all began walking until I smelt the thing again, but then I smelled Plue and pulled back right away.

"I think I know what smells so much." I groaned.

"You think." Natsu said sarcastically. I ignored him and kept walking.

"So Natsu do you think the water queen is real?" Happy asked.

"No it's probably just a sign to make people run off." Natsu replied.

"You think they would have come up with something better though, like the Sock Goblins." Happy stated.

"Sock Goblins?" I questioned allowed. Happy suddenly turned to me and whimpered.

"The most evil thing in the world." Happy whispered.

"What are they?" I gulped. What did they do, what could be so bad with a name like that. Plue gripped his hold onto me tighter.

"They steal your socks leaving you with mix match socks!" Happy cried.

"Are you kidding me, it's because you misplace them." I groaned.

"I do not!" Happy bawled. Oh come on, sock goblins, that's the best he could come up with. Natsu turned around to me and came extremely close to my face.

"Don't doubt Happy, the sock goblins are real." Natsu whispered. I literally face palmed, I keep forgetting I'm in Natsu and Happy's world. How could Natsu be so serious over a ridiculous thing like sock goblins.

"Whatever you say Natsu." I said. I felt a chill run up my spine as if someone was watching me. I was going to turn around but Natsu grabbed onto me and pushed me forward.

"Don't turn around." Natsu whispered.

"Did you feel that?' Happy gulped.

"So I'm not the only one who felt that." I whispered.

"What do you think is following us." Happy asked. We all stopped walking when we reached a big open space in the cave. In the middle of the cave there was a huge pool of water. Once I got close enough I put Plue down and began washing him the best I could.

"Y-you don't think the water queen is real?" I stuttered. Before Natsu could reply I heard chuckling coming from the water. It sounded like a women, a scary women. I whipped my head up and saw a women rising out of the water. She had blue hair that was curled at the tips, she wore a sparkling light blue dress that went down to her ankles. She was gorgeous but extremely scary in this lighting.

"The water queen is much real love rival!" chuckled the women. Did she just say love rival?

"Love rival?" I cringed at my words. It sounded so weird coming out of my mouth.

"Are you talking about the cat?" I joked.

"No not the cat you fool! you!" She cried.

"What!?" I exclaimed.

"Who are you?" Natsu asked. Oh my god, of course Natsu wouldn't have gotten who she was by now.

"I am Juvia the Water Queen!" Juvia chimed. Juvia looked towards me in horror and splashed water in my face.

"How dare you wash that creature in Juvia's water!" Juvia cried. I looked down towards Plue to see him clean but realized all the dirt drifted off into the water.

"Juvia is the water and you washed him in Juvia!" Juvia hissed.

"Listen Juvia," I began but Juvia sent me a glare. "I mean water queen I didn't know and I'm really sorry."

"Juvia does not care love rival!" Juvia shouted. Why does she keep saying I'm her love rival!

Authors Note~ Juvia and Plue have showed their faces and more characters we show in the next chapter. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and I will update soon enough! Please leave a comment, those are always fun to read.

Until next time

Glen coco out~