Hey guys! So I'm back with another chapter. I would have updated sooner but I was so busy with school and gymnastics (our first post-season meet was today). So yeah, enjoy!
Lucy's POV
Hogwarts was an interesting school. The classes were all fun but some, like divination, were more ridiculous than others. I was just glad we split up into two groups because if Gray and Natsu had paired up, the room would have burnt to a crisp. As we made our way to our next class we joined up with Draco, Mirajane, and Gajeel who had the same class as us. "How was divination?" Mirajane asked us.
"Horrible. That room smelled so bad I think it killed my nose," Natsu complained. Gajeel smirked but both he and Draco nodded in agreement.
"Remember to be careful," the second-generation dragonslayer warned us as his voice dropped to a whisper. "If Umbridge finds out we're not technically wizards, and that the rest of you first-gens are basically half dragon and half human she'll go crazy." He gave a pointed look at Natsu and Gray before walking into the classroom.
"Well, good afternoon," Professor Umbridge greeted brightly. There was a half-hearted good afternoon back from a quarter of the class and Umbridge frowned. "Tut tut, that won't do now will it? I should like you, please, to reply 'good afternoon Professor Umbridge.' One more time please. Good afternoon class." There was louder chorus of good afternoons and Draco made eye contact with the mages and I and made a gagging motion. We all smothered our laughter so we could avoid her attention.
"You there," she pointed at Gray who had managed to strip again. "What happened to your shirt?" Gray looked down and jumped.
"Oh for fuck's sake," he sighed. "This needs to stop happening!" All of us burst out laughing at her shocked expression. "Shit! Where'd my shirt go?" he yelled in frustration as he tried to locate where he put his always-missing article of clothing.
"Stripper king," Natsu mumbled earning a glare from the ice alchemist.
"Are you asking for a fight, charcoal breath?" Gray snapped although I'm pretty sure he already knew the answer.
"Yeah, I'm all fired up for a fight with you," he leapt out of his seat ready to start a fistfight.
"Salamander, do you want to die?" Gajeel roared. That and between a glare from Erza got him back in his seat.
"Salamander?" Harry repeated sounding confused.
"Wands away and quills out please," she requested and shocked expressions were exchanged throughout the room. My eyebrows knitted together in confusion; this was a class that could actually be used in real life and we weren't going to practice the magic?
As she began to rattle on and on about how their previous teachers had been lacking in their methods and how this would be a ministry-approved course she tapped her wand on the board and cursive writing appeared. Natsu was squinting up at that and resolved to just copy off of whatever Evelyn wrote. When she told them to read I opened the book. Now I love reading, I'm writing a novel at home and I could spend hours talking with Levy about books or browsing through a library. This one put me to sleep. It was so dull and glancing around the room I noticed everyone was reacting the same way; I caught Mirajane's eye and she smiled and waved. While my gaze wandered over the room I saw Hermione's hand up in the air, her book untouched.
"I've got a query about your course aims," Hermione stated bringing Lucy back to reality. She cast a quizzical look at the brunette and continued to pay attention to the conversation.
"Well, Miss Granger, I think the course aims are perfectly clear if you read them through carefully," Umbridge simpered. I was hit with a strong feeling of hate for this woman.
"Well I don't. There's nothing written up there about using defensive spells," she disagreed. A huge debate spiraled out of control with Umbridge being under verbal attack from the gryffindor students who were shouting about being under attack and how it wasn't practical. My friends and I glanced at each other at what was going on and we tried not to get into too much trouble. We were all startled out of our world when Harry said "maybe…Lord Voldemort." The room fell silent. Shortly afterwards Umbridge gave him detention and sent him out of the room.
My hand shot up and my friends were looking at me like I was crazy. "Lucy Heartfilia," I introduced myself before she asked. "I may not come from around here, but where we come from, we deal with our issues. Whenever someone has said that something dangerous is occurring we at least take necessary precautions even if the idea isn't possible." Draco was warning me to shut up by shaking his head violently. Erza was watching in shock but everyone else's eyes had respect and awe. Hermione and Ron looked up and seemed surprised that I was standing up for Harry.
"Lucy what are you doing?" Gray hissed as Natsu grabbed my hand and tried to pull me to sit down.
"Things that could harm us aren't dismissed because some morons decided to turn the other way because they're too scared to face reality. We accept any challenge that comes our way no matter how terrifying or ridiculous." I finished my rant to stop for breath and the little toad used that to her advantage.
"Well Miss Heartfilia, regardless of where you come, you do attend school here and since this is my classroom I decide what happens. Detention with Potter starting tomorrow," she flashed me a sickly sweet smile before the bell dismissed us.
"What the hell were you thinking, Lucy?" Erza yelled at her. "Do you know how much trouble you could get into here and back home?"
"You shouldn't have done that Lucy," Mirajane worried anxiously.
"Impressive, bunny girl," Gajeel complimented. Natsu was glaring at Umbridge for giving me detention. We all made our way down to dinner together and talk about what transpired in Umbridge's class spread like wildfire. When we took our seat Wendy, Luna, and Lisanna ran up to us.
"Is what we heard true?" Lisanna asked. "Did Lucy really argue with Umbridge in her class?"
"Yep, she did," Natsu confirmed throwing an arm around my shoulders.
"You don't need to sound so proud about it Natsu," Gray grumbled.
"You got detention too?" Harry asked turning to me.
"Yep, starting tomorrow for the rest of the week," I confirmed.
"Cheer up Luce, it can't be that bad," Natsu tried to cheer me up. She shrugged. "See you guys later," Erza waved as the group dispersed going to their different tables. Erza grabbed a piece of paper and a quill and started to write on it.
"Who're you writing to Erza?" Gray peered over her shoulder. His face froze and looked up at Natsu, Evelyn, and I with a horrified expression.
"What? What is it?" Evelyn demanded.
"Oh flame princess we're in trouble. She's writing to Gramps." Our faces paled and we exchanged terrified looks.
"Great," I muttered.
So if some of you are wondering why Lucy, and not Natsu, was impulsive it was mostly because I feel like Lucy would say stuff like that. I thought it would make a nice difference and I planned some Nalu from this so yeah. See you guys next time and definitely check out my new fanfic New Adventures.
