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Now on with Chapter 4! :D
Natsu held onto his scarf as he walked down the sidewalk. The sun had almost set, just a few light shown over the town of Magnolia. It was a cold temperature at the time, cold enough that when Natsu took a deep breath, he could see his own breath in a cloud of air.
Hands in his pants pockets, he walked down a few blocks until he found the place he was looking for. Natsu suddenly stopped at the place and looked at the store. He took out a small bag from his pocket. Inside the bag was exactly 813 pieces of yen. (A.N/ Which is about $8.00 in the US.)
"Here goes nothing." Natsu whispered to himself as he walked into the store. A small bell rang as Natsu opened the door.
"I get it." Loke told Natsu. Loke smirked and patted Natsu on the shoulder as he sighed while making a 'tsk'ing sound. "You really are dense when it comes to girls."
"What does that mean?!" A vein begin to show on the side of Natsu's head as he slightly glared at Loke.
A beautiful blonde girl, about 16 years old Natsu suspected, turned away from her magazine and looked at Natsu.
"It means..." Loke started, "You need to buy her a gift. Natsu, girls are fragile, they have bigger emotions then we do. You can't just act like she's okay after your guys' argument." Loke turned to a shyly smile Aries who was playing a card game with Cana. "I may not know much about what type of girl you have, but you better cherish her, Natsu."
"Of course I will." Natsu said and nodded with determinedly. "Now what do I have to do?" Loke turned to Natsu.
"How may I help you?" The blonde girl stood up and smiled. Her blue eyes twinkling in amusement. Not that many guys came her to store nowadays, but if they did, it was most likely to buy their girls something special. And what better then to come to her shop?
"Alright. The only way that you can make her feel better is to buy her..."
"Flowers." Natsu stated bluntly. Ino hid a snicker at his reaction, but couldn't help but smile wider. "Do you guys have any purple hyacinths and chrysanthemums?" Natsu asked as he put his hands in his pockets. Loke had told them that they were the flowers that he needed to give to Lisanna.
"Purple Hycaniths, huh? What happened?" The girl asked as she walked down an aisle with Natsu following behind her. She stopped in front of some purple flowers and reached out for some.
"Huh?" Natsu stood there confused, as the blonde girl clutched the flowers gently in her hand and walked over to the next aisle with Natsu in tow.
"Purple Hyacinths means 'I'm sorry' or 'please forgive me'. So what are you sorry for?" The girl reached out for some yellow chrysanthemums and carefully put them together with the purple hyacinths. Natsu clenched his fists and hesitantly decided to tell the girl about his problem, even if he thought she was nosy.
"Well...I-"
"You had a fight with a girl?"
"Huh?!" Natsu looked at the girl in surprise, his eyes wide. Could she see the future or something?! "H-How did you-"
"Most people who buy these types of flowers are guys. And most of their reasons why they buy these, is because they had a fight with their girlfriends." The girl explained as walked down the aisle. "So don't think I can see the future." Natsu gave a mental sigh of relief and followed on. Half-way through the aisle though, she immediately stopped. Natsu also stopped and looked confusingly at the girl.
"What's wrong?" Natsu asked.
"What's your favorite element?" The girl unexpectedly asked him and turned around to see his onyx eyes. "Choose one: Water, Fire, Earth, or Air."
"..." Natsu looked at the girl surprised at the unexpected question, but quickly smirked, as he thought of only one element that truly was right for him.
"Fire!" Natsu proudly told her and the girl lightly smiled.
"I thought so." She whispered to herself and walked down the rest of the aisle. She stopped at a two aisles full of red flowers and gently added some of them to the pile of flowers that were already in her arm.
"H-Hold up!" Natsu said as he frantically waved his hands. "I-I only asked for the other two flowers! I don't have enough yen for the other ones-"
"Don't worry!" Natsu stopped talking and watched as the girl giggled. "The red flowers are on the house! Besides, it will totally make your girl happy again." The girl gave a thumbs up.
Natsu stood there like an idiot. "B-But she's not my-"
"Whatever." The girl just waved him off and walked over to the counter. She got a light yellow wrapping paper and skillfully -and quickly- wrapped up the flowers. She went to the cashier and began to add up the cost.
Natsu paid her the amount and thanked her. The blonde waved goodbye and smiled, sighing dreamily as the salmon-haired teen ran off. "I wish my boyfriend would do that."
"Oi! I heard that, Ino!" The girl laughed, sat back down in her chair and began to read where she left off.
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Hours earlier, a group of students from Fairy Tail were walking on their way to a familiar cafe nearby. School had been dismissed early. Though it was an unspoken known reason why. A loved member of Fairy Tail had died.
"It's the Strauss' Cafe." Erza explained to the clueless Lucy as they walked down a sidewalk. The sad atmosphere had passed through, though instead, it was replaced by sorrow.
Both Levy and Aries had tried to be strong in front of their male companions -the companions being Loke and Gajeel- but as soon as they saw the cafe, they bursted into tears.
"S-Sumimasen..." Aries choked out as she quickly tried to wipe her tear, causing her to cry even harder. Loke went to Aries' side and hugged her tightly, but not to tightly that it would suffocate her. Aries grabbed at Loke's shirt and sobbed. Loke lightly smiled as he patted his girlfriend's back lightly, "It's okay, Aries. You can cry all you want on me, you don't need to hold it all in."
Lucy sensed something near her. She looked around her, and found nothing unusual. But then she felt a sort of wave coming from both Loke and Aries, like some-sort of aura. 'No way!' Lucy thought as she turned away from them. 'C-Could they really be...?'
Levy wiped her puffy red eyes and sniffled. She felt an arm placed around her, and slowly looked up from her teary eyes to see Gajeel not-looking at her. "You can cry on me, Shrimp."
Levy lightly smiled as she took up Gajeel's offer and attached herself to the studded man. "Arigato."
Though long story short, Mirajane had bursted into tears at the sight of them, and they all tried their best to comfort her. Gray held a large bag in his hands and lightly smiled. "We got pocky."
Mirajane's smile came as it went, but that let them all know that she was alright. They had all helped in cheering Mirajane up, by talking about other things besides the 'incident' and making jokes and laughing at each other, though some of them began to question Elfman's location.
"Mirajane...where's Elfman?" Erza hesitantly asked, but quickly regretted it when she Mirajane's face fall. "I-I'm sorry...Mira..."
Mirajane clenched her fist to keep from crying, but some tears escaped her eyes. Moments passed and everyone was silent. The gloomy tension was so unbearable, that everyone had fought the urge to scream. Seconds of silence past until Mirajane finally spoke.
"...H-He's not here..." Mirajane said quietly. Her hand held tightly to the sides of the pillow she was holding. "H...He's...in the h-hospital." Mirajane looked at the ground, feeling another wave of tears coming. 'Why am I such a baby?!' Mirajane screamed to herself, as she didn't notice that her nails had dug too hard on her palm that she was bleeding. 'I've had already cried for more than enough for these past couple of days, so why...'
The room was so silent, that nobody dared to questioned anything to Mirajane. Lucy looked at Mirajane and felt a need to comfort the poor girl, but was held back by Levy who hugged her.
"Mirajane isn't the type who would want sympathy." Levy told Lucy. "All we can do know, is help her get better."
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"Well I got to go you guys..." Lucy said as she grabbed her bag and swung it over her shoulder as she walked out the door.
"Wait, Lucy!" Lucy stopped and looked at Gray who grabbed her arm. "Do you want me to walk you home?" Lucy lightly blushed as she saw Gray's hand on her arm, but covered on had on her cheek. "Do you want me to walk you home...?" Gray let the question slide as he looked away embarrassingly. Why was he so flustered?
"That's alright," Lucy smiled as she looked around at her new friends, "I can manage." Gray loosened his grip on Lucy's arm and put his hands in his pants pockets.
"Okay." Gray answered coolly. Though the blush on his cheeks said otherwise. With some hugs and goodbye's Lucy finally left the cafe and began her journey home.
"My phone died!" Lucy groaned as she held the dead phone in her hand. She sighed and put the phone away. After 10 minutes of walking, she decided to have a conversation with her mom up in heaven. She knew that as she talked, passers by would think that she's mental, but talking to her mom made her feel...more at ease.
"I have this weird feeling between Loke and Aries." She began as she walked down a sidewalk, she noticed that there was a store nearby and decided to go buy a drink for the trip home. "It's the same ones that I first had when I met Aquarius and Cancer." Lucy explained, "Which is why I think they're-"
A hand quickly covered Lucy's mouth, and began to forcefully drag her to an alley. Lucy screamed and began kicking wildly at her attacker, but her screams were muffled by her attacker's hand. "Looks like we go quite the catch." A burly voice said as her hands and legs were forcefully tied up by a rope that burned her skin. Tears were falling from Lucy's cheeks as many thoughts began to cloud her mind.
"Hehe. She'll make us a lotta cash, won'tcha cutie?" Another voice laughed as she was then blindfolded. Lucy felt her life flash before her eyes as tears streamed down her face. Many "if"'s began to cloud her mind. 'Why didn't I just accept Gray's offer?! I feel so stupid!' Lucy screamed in her mind. Her heart beating wildly in her rib cage.
When her attacker's hand unclasped her mouth, she began to scream at the top of her lungs. "HELP! PLEASE SOMEBODY! HELP ME-" A slap to the cheek stopped her, and she fell to the hard, bumpy cement. Her hair was being pulled up, and she was instantly muffled by a cloth before she could scream.
"Shut the hell up." One of her attacker's voice hissed in her ear, as he pulled Lucy's hair even higher, making her scream. "Trust me girl, I don't give a damn if you wanna go home to your mommy. Unless you want a punishment from me."
Lucy tried to get away by kicking and screaming when she felt a hand touch the helm of her pants, and slowly unbuttoning her zipper. 'This is it...' Lucy thought. 'I'm sorry everyone, mom, dad...'
"Now, let's begin your punishm-" The voice was cut short when the man was kicked with a fiery leg in the face. The man was sent flying, and a loud crash was heard, startling Lucy. 'What's happening?!' Lucy thought frantically, as she felt a different presence in front of her.
Lucy felt strong arms hold her as she frantically thought, 'Who's holding me?!'
"Don't worry," A strong but soft voice told her, "You're okay now." Lucy felt herself being gently laid next to a wall. She surprisingly felt more safe at the reassuring voice.
"Who the hell are you?!" Lucy recognized the voice as one of her captors. "You better get the hell out of here before I-" But the voice was cut short when he was punched in the face, literally sending himself flying.
A crash was heard, as Lucy's rescuer looked at angrily at the two fallen man. The rain began to finally pour harder, making Lucy's hair and clothes wet.
He walked toward them as they both began to back away in fear. Though one of them got his pride the better of him and yelled, "Don't you know who you're messing with?! I'm the Salamander for God's sake-"
"Shut up." Lucy heard her her rescuer's voice say. "I don't care who the hell you are, but," Suddenly Lucy felt herself begin to get warm. Almost like there was a fire in front of her...
"I'm going to wish you never did this," With that, Lucy heard many groans and crashes. Lucy was afraid, as she heard bodies being beaten and thrown to the ground. But what scared her most was when she heard a gun being fired. She screamed and covered her ears, praying that she and rescuer would be okay.
"Heh," Lucy heard as she hesitantly turned her attention the the voice after she realized -and checked- that she was okay. "Bullet's don't hurt." And with that she heard a loud skin-to-skin contact and another huge crash. After that silence.
Lucy felt that was the most longest -and scariest- silent moment of her life as she heard ragged breaths. The sound of shoes walking, began to scare Lucy as she didn't know whose shoes were walking toward her. Was it her captor's or rescuer's?
Her breath hitched when she felt a hand clamp on her shoulder. She quickly -and frantically- tried to move away from the hand's owner but stopped when she heard light chuckling.
"Don't worry it's me. Those bastards won't hurt you anymore." Lucy felt more at ease and slightly relaxed when a thought occurred her. 'Was this person really rescuing her, or was he just another captor trying to kidnap her for a better deal?!' Lucy felt her heart begin to quickly speed up as she prayed that he wasn't another kidnapper.
"It's okay," the voice said again as Lucy froze, almost like he read her mind, the voice responded, "I'm not a kidnapping guy like those bozos. If I was, I wouldn't have saved you, now wouldn't I?" Lucy felt a bit more reassured when she nodded at him. As the rain poured harder, Lucy realized that she was sitting in a puddle all soaked.
"The flowers!" Lucy jumped when the voice unexpectedly yelled and she heard footsteps quickly running. The footsteps came back and an exasperated groan was heard. "They're wet! I knew I shouldn't have thrown them to the ground like that! Now how am I going to get her to forgive me?!"
Lucy was surprised when she heard of her savior's 'guy problems', and when she tried to move her hands, she hissed when she felt pain around her wrists. She jolted when she felt the same strong hands she felt before begin to untie the ropes around her hands.
"Sorry," the voice said as she felt the ropes fall to the ground and her hands wet, but free. She touched her 'freed' hands and gasped when she felt the same strong hands untie her muffled mouth. "I should have done this earlier."
"Thank you," Lucy said as she felt her feet began to get untied. When they did, she sighed in relief and began to untie the folds that were around her eyes, but was stopped when a hand stopped her.
"Wha-"
"I don't want you to know who I am." The voice said, which was surprised Lucy, but quickly added, "It's not like I'm a criminal or anything! It's just...personal." Lucy lightly smiled.
"That's alright, and I respect that." Lucy said as she moved her hands away from the blindfold. Suddenly Lucy felt no rain anymore, but instead all she felt was cold over.
"It's so cold," Lucy rubbed her shoulders as she hugged herself. "When did it stop raining?"
"It hasn't..." The voice said confusingly. Lucy sneezed. "Wait a minute..." That's when the voice realized why she was like that. "Oh shit..." Lucy felt herself being carried by the familiar two strong arms.
"Huh? What're you-"
"You're catching pneumonia! Damn it! I should've taken you somewhere warm sooner!" Lucy's mind was a blur then. She felt herself get colder by the minute and slowly began to fall asleep.
"Don't fall asleep on me! Lucy! Luucccyy..." Was the last thing Lucy heard. Her final thought before she blacked out was:
'How does he know my name?'
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Lisanna wiped her brow as she tiredly smiled at her masterpiece. "I'm done," Lisanna sighed in relief and walked over to the nearby couch. She turned on the T.V in front of her. With a multiple clicks, she began to see multiple channels, but no one seemed to interest her. She stopped when she saw an animation with two figures and watched as the movie began to play.
"Here, for you." A white haired man held out a red rose as a black-haired girl with fair skin blinked at the man. The man was half-naked, only a towel that was wrapped around his waist kept him from being naked. "I'm sorry about everything, Tomoyo. It's my fault. I shouldn't have yelled at you like that. But the truth is..." There was a long pause before the man looked lovingly at the girl 'Tomoyo'. "I'm in love with you.
Tomoyo dramatically gasped and then smiled at the man in front of her. "I forgive you, Tsuki. And the truth is...I've always loved you! Ever since the day I met you!"
Lisanna watched the scene unfold and blushed as the two characters began to have a make-out session. She didn't notice that her eyes were beginning to get droopy, and soon closed her eyes and leaned to the armrest of the couch, and quickly fell asleep.
"Lisanna..." The said girl turned to the side of the couch, facing opposite of the voice calling to her. The voice was persistent, and Lisanna began to feel a hand shaking her shoulder. "Hey Lisanna...wake up Lis."
"Huh?" Lisanna moaned and rubbed her eyes as she forced her tired self into a sitting position. "What is it?" Her vision cleared, and she first noticed that there was a blanket covering her from the waist down.
'But I didn't have a blanket when I accidentally fell asleep. So why do I have one now...?' Lisanna thought to herself. Her face must've shown was she was thinking because a voice said, "You didn't have a blanket when I came back. You were shivering in your sleep so I just put a blanket over you. I didn't want you catching a cold."
Lisanna turned her attention to the voice, and saw Natsu half-naked with only a white towel around his waist. Lisanna could see his chest and blushed when she saw that he was well-built. Water begin to drip from Natsu's hair to the carpet below him, and watched as Lisanna began to lightly blush.
"Is something wrong, Lisanna?" Natsu walked over to Lisanna and placed his hand on her semi-hot forhead. "You're warm Lisanna. Do you feel sick?"
Lisanna blushed even harder, as she tried to turn away from Natsu's well-built and touchable abs... Lisanna mentally slapped herself as she scolded herself for thinking such things. "Oh wait, hold up."
"Hm?" Lisanna's blush slowly began to die down as she saw Natsu walk over to something that was on the table, and gently pick it up. As Natsu walked back, Lisanna curiously tried to peek at what it was -since Natsu hid the item behind his back- and soon found out when Natsu bent down in front of her and showed her the item.
"A flower?" Lisanna was awed as she saw how beautifully red the flower was. She slowly -and gently- held the flower from Natsu's hands and slowly twirled it. It was a bit wet, she noticed, but not too wet that it would ruin the beauty of the flower.
"For you," Natsu answered as he looked away with a small blush. "I'm sorry about everything, Lisanna. I shouldn't have yelled at you like that." Lisanna gasped and blushed deeply when she realized that those were the same words from the movie she saw a few hours ago. 'Is this a...love confession?!' Lisanna began to panic. "But the truth is...I-huh?"
Lisanna hugged before he could say anymore. Natsu stiffened under her touch, not noticing that Lisanna's blush was so deep, that even a tomato would be jealous. "Th-Thank you." Lisanna finally said, as she looked at anything else but Natsu. She mentally sighed in relief and praised herself for making a good move.
Natsu stopped stiffening and slowly hugged her back firmly. The silence lasted a couple of minutes before Natsu softly said, "Does that mean your forgive me?"
Natsu felt Lisanna nod her head, and smiled. "Hai!" Lisanna responded, her blush was still there, though not as dark as it was a few moments ago. "Oh wait! I forgot to show you something."
Natsu watched as Lisanna happily ran to the refrigerator in the kitchen and slowly took out a cardboard box. It was a cake box, Natsu noticed from the form and color. Lisanna gently put it down on the table, and slowly took of the lid, revealing a medium sized round cake that was decorated in white frosting.
The words 'I'm Sorry' were in kanji in red icing. But what caught Natsu's eye the most, was a picture -in icing- of two stick figures. They were both holding each other's hand and wore shape clothing. He could tell by the delicately made pink spiky haired stick figure was him, and the one with black-outlined hair and yellow halo on top was Lisanna. Both stick figures were smiling.
"It's us," Lisanna happily explained, "This one is you," she pointed to pink spiky haired stick figure, "and this one is me!" She pointed to the other figure. Natsu couldn't help but smile his rare toothy grin.
"Alright's let's eat." Lisanna smiled. Her first day back on Earth wasn't so bad after all.
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Lisanna slowly and silently flew over the sleeping Natsu and walked over to the bedroom door. As she silently opened it, she looked back at the sleeping Natsu and lightly smiled. She gently closed the door behind her, and continued on her way to the apartment entrance.
After she left the apartment, Lisanna quickly flew, letting the cold wind cool her warm body. The stars twinkled in the sky as the moon shone brightly. Lisanna laughed as she did a roll, and let herself fly freely over the beautiful Magnolia. A lot of lights were still on, making the town look like a a city of lights.
Lisanna awed at the marvelous sight, but quickly scolded herself to watch where she was flying. When she landed in to her destination she looked around for the person she was waiting for.
"Are you Lisanna?" Lisanna quickly turned around to see two men walking toward her. If Natsu was there, he would've recognized the two as the people who tried to kidnap Lucy.
"Yes I am." Lisanna took out a small brown bag from her sweater pocket. Lisanna smiled. "Thank you, you two. You guys did a good job. This will bring Natsu and the girl Lucy closer for sure!"
The two men began to glow, and when the glowing died, they were replaced instead by two angels. One male, and the other female. They were both twins, seeing as they had the same eye, skin, and hair color.
"Arigato Lisanna!" The female angel smiled as she ran over to collect her and her brother's reward. Her long brown hair swayed as the wind blew. She grabbed the bag from Lisanna and bowed to her.
The male angel did the same. "Arigato Lisanna! You know how much we love your cinnamon rolls!" With a hug from both the twins, they disapeared in a small light. Lisanna smiled, flew up, began her journey back to Natsu's apartment.
Phase 1 of "Give-Natsu-Light" was complete.
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