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Chapter Fourteen
The Call
Lucy's POV:
The train ride back to Magnolia was just as awkward as I thought it would be. Wendy's friend Romeo was a huge fan of Natsu's and pestered him with questions until the train began to move and Natsu's head was on my lap. Poor Romeo looked so confused by Natsu's sickness, since it was obvious that Natsu was his hero. Wendy just told the boy that this always happened and that it was pretty much Natsu's only weakness, which seemed to satisfy the boy, who then turned his full attention to the blue haired girl. I heard Natsu growl a bit at how he didn't like how that punk was looking at his sister, so I decided to add a little fuel to the fire and said,
"I think it's cute, it sorta reminds me of the way you look at me." He looked up at me as he said,
"I know, and trust me that look isn't all innocent." I blushed as he kept looking at me with that look, just then my cell phone started to ring and I used it as the distraction it was as I pulled the phone out of my hoodie pocket and answered it,
"Hello?"
"Is this Lucy Heartfilia?" I looked down at the number and didn't recognize it and said,
"This is she."
"Oh wonderful, my name is Virgo and I am calling on behalf of the GMG to inform you that your band Fairy Tail has passed the preliminaries." I felt my jaw drop as I yelled into the phone,
"WHAT?" She seemed a little taken aback as she said,
"I'm sorry, do you want to punish me?" My eyes widen,
"No, I'm sorry I was just shocked is all."
"There is no need for shock; Your band was one of the six bands that were chosen to proceed to the next round. An email has been sent with all of the rules and regulations for the rest of the contest. Good luck princess, we will see you soon." With that the line disconnected and I looked down at my phone with a huge smile as I said,
"Natsu, we made it." He looked up at me with confusion written all over his face,
"Made what?" I was nearly bouncing out of my seat, which was really bad for him considering he was on my lap as I said,
"The Music Games we passed the preliminaries. We're in."
That night the band as well as Wendy sat in my apartment as we looked at the email regarding the rules. Erza had my laptop on her lap as she began to read,
"Every band must perform only original songs except for the allowance of one cover song that is to be performed at a set time. All bands must write two new songs before arriving at the Grand Music Games. You are allowed to change out singers and instruments as long as the player or singer is still a member of the band, no substitute members are allowed. Every band must perform one acoustic song. Each night of performing will have a new theme and the audience and judges will allot points, the band with the most points at the end of the games will be the winner. There will be surprise rules throughout the games so be wary. The games are scheduled to begin one week from today." We all looked at each other in excitement and fear, we made it, we were good enough to get this far, but we only had one week, to write two new songs, pick a song to cover and get all the way to Crocus. That was about when Gray said exactly what we were all thinking,
"We are so screwed." And Gajeel added,
"Yep." But Natsu chimed in,
"Nah, we got this." Gray and Gajeel rolled their eyes at the pink haired boy as Gray said,
"Are you delusional Pyro, it'll take us a almost a week to get there in Gajeel's death trap, that leaves no time to write a song, much less two and learn them." Natsu just smiled as Gajeel glared and mumbled something about not talking about his van like that, Natsu then said again,
"Ice princess, we got this, Lucy and I will write two amazing songs tonight, we'll practice them tomorrow morning and we'll pick the cover as we go." Erza then turned to me,
"Can you guys write two songs tonight?" I nodded shyly,
"Yeah I think we can." She then smiled at me sweetly and said,
"Then it's settled, everybody be ready to leave tomorrow after practice." Once the rest of the band left, Natsu turned to Wendy and said,
"Not really how you imaged your vacation huh kiddo?" Wendy smiled up at him,
"This is so much better than just sitting around and watching TV the whole time, I mean I get to watch you guys perform in the GMG how cool is that?" Natsu just patted her head and asked,
"Are you going to the guild tonight or are you gonna head home, cause I don't think I'll be coming home tonight." Wendy just waved him off,
"You go make music I'll pack your bag and bring it to the guild in the morning, when I bring Carla in so that she can stay there with Happy." With that the little blue haired girl walked out leaving both of us staring after her, I then leaned closer to Natsu and asked,
"Who's Carla?" He shuddered,
"Wendy's evil cat. She hates everyone but Wendy." I just smiled at him and said,
"I'm gonna pack real quick and then we'll head over to the guild to work, okay?" He just nodded and waved me away as he started an episode of Doctor Who.
Natsu's POV:
Once Lucy was all packed I looked down at her bed and back at her and smiled as I pulled her close and said,
"It feels like the day we met, you over packing and me having to carry it." She pouted at me as she said,
"I didn't know what I'd need so I packed as much as I could." I kissed her temple as I said softly,
"Luce you are going to be amazing just like you always are, and we are going to kick so serious music ass so just relax." I felt her take a deep breath and loosen up next to me as she said,
"You know what you're right." She then wrapped her arms around me and said, 'Thank you for always knowing what to say when I need you too." I held her tight and breathed in the scent of her shampoo as I said,
"Come on, let's go."
Once we were in the practice room we both pulled out our song books and looked over what we had written down but hadn't done anything with yet. We both figured it would be the quickest and easiest way to write songs fast. As I was reading the lines to one of her songs I looked up at her and asked,
"I don't have to be worried do I?" She leaned in closer to me as she looked at the lyrics I was pointing too and laughed as she shook her head,
"Not at all, it was more about the whole dad thing and how that made me feel, but I changed it around to the lover aspect because I'm not sure I want everyone knowing about my daddy issues." I nodded and sighed in relief as she arched her eyebrow at me, "You weren't worried were you?" I felt my cheeks go pink as I looked down at the books in front of us. She then grabbed my cheeks and pulled my head up so that we were eye to eye as she said tenderly, "Natsu you are always telling me how amazing I am so now it is my turn to tell you. You already know that you are an incredible musician but what you don't seem to know is you are also an wonderful boyfriend whom I love dearly." I kissed her right then and said against her lips as the kiss ended,
"This whole love thing is new to me, I've never loved a girl before, so I will probably mess up a lot, I just don't want you to give up on me." I felt her brush my hair out of my eyes as she said,
"I'm not going anywhere." I kissed her again with everything I had, and she kissed he back with just as much that we were both left gasping for air, all I really wanted to do was take her back to her apartment and finish whatever it was we had started, but I knew that we really needed to work on these songs so that we didn't fail before we even started, so I looked down at her lyrics again and said,
"I think we can work with this."
To be continued…