CHAPTER 1 'IN THE DOG HOUSE..........LITERALY'
"Crap here we go again" Lucy Heartfillia said to herself. Lucy was a rich, beautiful, intellegent, kind and confidant 17 year old girl that lived in London, England ( even though she was an american). But as Lucy backed up and away from the snarling and growling dogs that pursiued her, she didn't feel so confidant.
Lucy turned and ran. Fear crept into her heart as Lucy heard 7 sets of Great Dane paws chasing after her. Lucy had chosen to wear a red leather jacket over a sleavless and short bottomed white top, a pale blue jean skirt and knee high lace up hiking boots. Unfortunetly, Lucys skirt wasn't helping her run much.
'I just got to get to the docks' Lucy thought as she ran. Imidiatly Lucy made a hard right, heading twords the docks.
Soon the docks were in sight. Feeling her hopes rise, Lucy put on an extra burst of speed. As she reached the docks, Lucys hope faded when she saw that there was no place to hide. But when she looked closer, Lucy saw that a single ship was pulled into the harbor.
Lucy ran tword the ship. As she climbed the ladder, Lucy notised the name engraved on the side of the ship. ' 'Fairy Tail'?' she thought, 'what kind of a name is 'Fairy Tail'?'.
Lucy hid herself under the wooden stairs that lead up to the second deck. After sniffing around a bit, the dogs walked away. Lucy let out a sigh, "man I wish that lady would put her dogs away" she said to herself "I think i'll rest here". Just then a shadow fell over Lucy.
Looking up Lucy saw dark green cat-like eyes staring at her. "What in the name of Davy Jones do you think your doing here?" a boy's voise asked.
CHAPTER 2 ' THE INFAMOUS PIRATE CAPITAN DRAGNEEL '
Fear struck Lucy right in the heart. "U-uh I-I was r-running from some d-dogs" Lucy exsplained, stumbling over her words as she went "I c-came in here t-to g-get away from t-them". The guy stepped back and to Lucy's suprise, he burst out laughing. ''You picked a pirate ship to hide in? How stuipid are you?'' the boy asked in between laughs. Lucy was personally offended by this, however, thanks to him rolling on the ground as he laughed. Lucy could get a good look at him.
The boy had on a black vest with gold trimed edges, what ever was over his white pants was the same as the vest, he had on black sandals and a scally looking scarf around his neck. 'Really a scarf?' Lucy thought, 'sure its fall but its not that cold'. As Lucy continued to look at the boy she notised some strange features like; the boys cat-like eyes, his vampier-like teeth and pink spiky hair. Wait pink hair?
PINK!
Lucy bearly could contain her laughter. She didn't think pink hair was wrong, in fact she had dyed her hair that color many times in the past. It was just that Lucy thought pink was such a girly color.
When the boy had finaly stoped laughing he looked at her with confusion in his eyes. ''Hey whats wrong with your face?'' he asked.
Now it was Lucy's turn to laugh. Lucy dropped to her hands and knees as she laughed, ''hey whats so funny?'' the boy asked. ''N-nothing its just...pppppppsssshhhhhd HAHAHA!......y-your hair......HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!'' Lucy answered as she laughed. The boy stood up, obviously offended. ''Yeah, yeah'' the boy said with a cold look on his face, ''laugh all you want, I was born with this''. "H-how can a p-person be born w-with pink h-hair?'' Lucy asked as she tried to calm down, ''its scientificly i-impossible''. Lucys only response was a shake of the boys head.
Once she calmed down, Lucy took a couple of deep breaths to regain the breath she lost while laughing. ''Whats your name?'' the boy asked, Lucy looked at him. ''Why do you need to know that?'' she asked. '' I think i'd like to know the name of the person who snuck onto my ship don't you?'' the boy answered, '' now are you gonna tell me your name or not?''
Lucy thought the boy had a point, ''Lucy'' she answered. The reason Lucy didn't tell the boy her last name was because her fathers railroad company was huge, and this guy was obviously a pirate. Lucy didn't want to get held for ransom, so she kept her mouth shut.
Lucy got to her feet to streach her legs out.
''Loogie, Loogie what?'' the boy pressed on. ''Its Lucy not Loogie, and its just Lucy.'' Lucy answered coldly. The boy shrugged, ''okay, just Lucy'' the boy said '' my name is Natsu, Natsu Dragneel.''
CHAPTER 3 'LUCY BECOMES A PIRATE'
Lucy's eyes widened.
'What!?' Lucy thought, 'this guy is the famous pirate capitan Natsu Dragneel!?'. Lucy had read all about pirates, how they lived and wich one's were famous, and Natsu Dragneel was pretty famous. ''No way'' Lucy said as she shook her head back and forth, ''you can't be that Natsu Dragneel.''
''Is there any other Natsu Dragneel?'' Natsu asked. Lucy looked at him coldly, but he did have a point. ''No'' Lucy answered under her breath. ''Then i'm that Natsu Dragneel'' Natsu said triumfintly.
'Wait how did he hear me?' Lucy thought, she shrugged. ''Hey, how do you become a pirate?'' Lucy asked, she'd always wanted to become a pirate ever since she first read about them.
Natsu let out a chuckle, ''look, you don't become a pirate you just are one'' he answered '' from the moment your born''. Lucy rolled her eyes, ''oh come on'' Lucy said ''there has to be some way''. Natsu sighed, ''why are you so interested?'' he asked ''thinkin' 'bout turnin' pirate yourself?''. Lucy gave natsu a cold stare, ''maybe'' she answered. ''Well why you want to do that?'' Natsu asked, Lucy was geting tired of this.
"Look is there a way or isn't there'' Lucy asked again, ''its a very simple question''. Natsu let out a laugh, ''why don't you go home? The sea is no place for a little princess like you''. Lucy got red in the face, ''LOOK I'M A LOT TOUGHER THAN YOU THINK!'' she yelled. This time Natsu full on laughed, ''sure you are'' the pirate capitan replyed.
This time Lucy lost it, ''oh yeah? challenge me'' she said unawear of the mess she was geting into. The pirate capitan looked intreaged, ''okay, if you really want to be a pirate'' natsu said ''be here at 5:00 AM, tomorow morning and join my crew.''
Lucy agreed. But as she left the ship she began to have second thoughts.
Lucy was at the docks at 5:00 AM the next Monday morning. She had dark circles under her dark brown eyes and her blonde hair was a mess. Lucy was wearing a black t-shirt, a brown leather jacket, black hiking boots and jeans. 'Why did I ever agree to this?' Lucy asked herself, 'He's not even here'.
''Oi, Lucy''
Lucy looked up and saw Natsu on the second deck of the ship, smiling and waving at her. Lucy ran up to him, ''I gotta say i'm suprised, I didn't think you had it in you.''
Lucy didn't know if that was a complement or an insult, so she didn't say anything. ''Hey what's with the name of the ship?'' Lucy asked, she had been thinking a lot about that.
Natsu let out a little laugh, ''thats a long story'' he replyed. Lucy sighed, ''I have time'' she said. Natsu motioned for Lucy to sit, so she did. ''Lucy'' Natsu asked ''do you belive in magic?''
CHAPTER 4 'A STORY AND THE CREW'
''Uh, sure'' Lucy said.
The truth was Lucy belived in magic fully, she even used a type of key magic that let her summon Spirits that are from other worlds called Celestial Spirit magic. However Lucy didn't want to sound like a loonatic so she only told half of the truth.
''Well long ago there were guilds for wizards'' Natsu continued from his question, ''guilds were places that wizards could go to hang out, get jobs and have fun.''
Lucy sat facinated in her seat, she had read a very little portion about giulds and wizards that belonged to them. But now she was going to hear more about them, cool.
''Well when I was little I belonged to one of those guilds and the name of it was Fairy Tail.'' Natsu said. ''Woah wait'' Lucy interupted ''you use magic?''
Natsu nodded and Lucy didn't ask any questions.
''I went on a job one day and came back to see all of the giulds and houses of wizards destroyed'' Natsu said as a sad look pased over his face, ''the goverment had banned magic so I bought a ship and became a pirate, and because I loved the giuld I named the ship Fairy Tail.''
Lucy looked at Natsu, ''wow I kind of feel sorry for you'' she said. Natsu perked his head up, ''don't ever say that again'' he replyed. A few minutes of awkward silence had passed when Natsu finnaly spoke.
''So, what kind of magic do you use?'' Natsu asked, Lucy was taken by suprise. ''What do you mean?'' Lucy asked trying to keep calm, Natsu laughed. ''You can't hide that kind of stuff from me'' he said, Lucy took a deep breath before answering. '' I'm a Celestial Spirit mage'' she answered ''I can summon spirits from other worlds using these keys.''
Lucy held up a key ring that held 10 gold keys and 5 silver keys on it. Natsu looked at the keys, ''cool, what spirits have you got and how many'' he asked. Lucy looked pleased that Natsu had asked that perticular question, ''I have 15 keys so far and not to brag or anything but I even have a couple of types'' she answered confidantly. Natsu nodded to show that he was listening, ''the silver keys are Horologum the Clock, Lyra the Harp, Pixis the Compass, Plue the Dog and Crux the Southern Cross.'' Lucy continued. ''The gold ones are Tarus the golden bull, Aquriaus the Water Berrer, Cancer the Giant Crab, Leo the Lion, the golden twins Gemini, Aries the Golden Ram, Scorpio the Sand Berrer, and the Maiden Virgo.'' Lucy said
Natsu was about to say something when someone else beat him to it. ''Hey flame brain'' a voise floated up to them from below. ''Oh, it's Gray'' Natsu said, ''Lucy meet Grey Fullbuster, part of my crew, and for the love of god put a shirt on Grey''.
After Lucy met Grey she was introduced to the rest of the crew. Natsu seemed to hang aroud Grey, his first mate Erza Scarlet, a little girl named Wendy and 2 flying and talking cats called Happy and Charla the most.
Lucy walked around the ship, it was suprisingly roomy. Just as Lucy made it to the women's quarter's, their was yelling above her and the air felt tence. ''Oi, Lucy'' Natsu's voice called.
Lucy turned around and saw the pink haired capitan staring at her with a paniced look in his eyes. ''Hurry and get up here'' Natsu demanded ''we need all the help we can get''. Lucy stood rooted to her spot, 'what could be so bad that they would need every one's help?' Lucy asked herself. Natsu's voice interupted Lucy's thoughts, ''Thats an order you know'' he said. Lucy finnaly gained the currage to speak, ''what's going on?'' she asked. Natsu's reply struck fear in Lucy's heart, ''we're about to be attacked''.
CHAPTER 5 'FIRST A RAID THEN SEA SICKNESS'
Lucy's eyes widened, 'attacked' she thought 'by what'. Natsu's voice jerked Lucy back to reality, ''DON'T JUST STAND THERE, LET'S GO!'' he yelled.
Lucy imidiatly sprung to the step's that led upward, 'man Natsu is scary when he's angry' she thought. Lucy ran to catch up with Natsu as he ran up the stairs in front of her. When Lucy got to the rail she saw an army heading twards the ship.
In addition to Celestial Spirit magic, Lucy had telepathy magic like all wizards did.
Lucy saw a piece of paper rolled up in one of the soilders hands, this perticular soilder was about 3 feet tall.
Anyways.
Using her telepathy, Lucy saw what the piece of paper said.
This piece of paper here by states that you the soilders of London, England are to capture these pirates imidiatly. The pirates are to be hanged at 2:00 pm, this Friday. If any of the pirates resist or do not come quietly, that pirate is to be shot and killed right on the spot.
signed
KingRamond
This scared Lucy out of her wits.
'What?' Lucy thought 'they can't be serious', Natsu's voice jolted her out of her thoughts once again. ''Oh they're serious'' He said ''some King huh? He doesn't even understand that pirates are people to.''
''So you have telepathy magic to?'' Lucy asked, Natsu looked at her. ''Doesn't every wizard?'' he asked, Lucy nodded, ''stupid question'' she said under her breath. ''Yup'' Natsu said, ''now work on untieing the ropes''. Natsu left Lucy to untie the ropes connecting the ship to the dock, while he went to go give orders to the others.
''Crap'' Lucy said, she was working on the last rope tied to the ship but her fingers kept on sliping."Hey. How's it coming?'', Lucy turned around and there stood Natsu soaking wet. Trying to contain her laughter Lucy mustered up the words, ''What happened to you?''. Natsu rolled his eyes, ''That doesn't matter right now. Just please answer the question'' he said.
Lucy sighed, "the rope's to slipery I cant get a good grip on it'' she answered. Natsu threw a lighter at her, ''then burn it'' he said. Lucy did what she was told.
Just as the fire broke through the rope Lucy felt a jerk as the ship pulled away from the harbor. The air lightened as the ship sailed out into the sea.
A few hours after the ship sailed away from the harbor, Lucy started to feel quesy. ''Oi Lucy'' Natsu's voice called over to her, ''are you okay?''
Lucy turned around to see the pirate capitan with a concerned look on his face. Lucy nodded, ''Just a little sea sick'' she replyed. Natsu threw a bottle of pills at Lucy, ''these are for motion sickness'' Lucy said ''wait! Why do you have these?''
Natsu blushed, ''I have motion sickness'' he said obviously emberassed. Lucy looked at him and then shook her head, ''then why become a pirate?'' she asked. Natsu shrugged, ''don' know'' he said.
A few minutes of silence passed betwween both wizards, with just the chatter of the crew to break it.
''So'' Lucy said trying to break the awkward silence, ''who was the leader of the army?''
Natsu looked at her as if she had asked him to go drown himself in the sea that they now sailed over. A shudder went up Lucy's spine, 'yikes! he sure knows how to scare somebody'. Natsu's face relaxed, ''you must of notised that short guy walkin' in front of the army. Right?'' he asked. Lucy looked at Natsu then burst out laughing.
''You gotta be kidding!'' Lucy said, ''that little guy controlls the army?''. Natsu shook his head as he smiled, ''you may laugh at his size but he's no joke'' he said ''his name is Macerov Dreyar and acording to Wendy he's jailed some of the most dangerous pirates to sail these sea's''.
Lucy looked intreged, ''AYE!''. Just then a voice came from behind them, it was Happy. ''Oh really?'' Lucy asked the blue cat, Happy nodded. ''Wendy said that Macerov has even hanged and executed some of the pirates that he's jailed and Wendy also said that the execution's are not the prettiest site in the world, blood every where''
Lucy's face was almost blue, she colapsed to the ground holding her stomache. ''No more details please'' Lucy pleaded, Natsu let out a little chuckle. ''Whats wrong?'' Natsu asked, he had notised that Lucy looked a little paler than last time.
Lucy looked at him, ''its a combonation of sea sickness and the fact that I'm totally grossed out''.
''I'll go see if we have any sea sickness pills that you can take'' Natsu said, and with that he rushed off.
CHAPTER 6 'THE CAPITAN OF IMATURITY'
After Lucy had taken 2 of the sea sickness pills that Natsu had found, she realised that Natsu was very imature.
As Lucy stood near the rail Gray and Natsu were having a fight. But Lucy had notised that both boys were using magic, Gray had some kind of Ice magic and Natsu had some kind of Fire magic.
Lucy was trying to think of the name for Natsu and Gray's magic, when Gray's voice yelled at her.
''LUCY WATCH OUT!''
Lucy looked up and saw ice coming at her, ''EEEEK!'' she screamed as she dove sideways. Natsu and Gray ran up to the shaken, blonde headed girl. ''Are you all right?'' the two boys coursed, just then Natsu and Gray's heads clashed together. ''Are you copyin' me?'' both boys yelled at each other. ''Stop! you two almost hurt Lucy I think thats the last of the fighting for today'', the yeller was Erza.
Both Natsu and gray stoped arguing with each other and helped Lucy up.
As Lucy was helped up, she notised a red symble on Natsu's arm.
Lucy looked closer and also notised that Gray had a blue one on his chest, but for now she pushed it out of her mind. ''You okay?'' Natsu asked, Lucy nodded. ''Yeah, just shaken up'' she answered, it had been at least an hour after Natsu and Gray's big fight and Lucy was still shaken, anyways. Natsu nodded then leaned on the rail, ''Yo, I have a question'' he said. Lucy sighed 'this can't be good' she thought. However, Lucy leaned against the rail and said, ''shoot.''
''You have any expertese in fencing or sword fighting?'' Natsu asked, Lucy was shocked by this question, mainly because almost all of Natsu's questions were imature and childish. ''Yeah, I know almost every sword and fencing techniche known to man'' Lucy answered, Natsu looked impressed.
''Then you'll make one hell of a pirate'' Natsu said, Lucy looked confused and pleased with the praise. ''So Natsu?'' Lucy asked ''how'd you get that mark on your arm''.
Natsu looked at his arm as if he had just notised the mark for the first time, ''Oh yeah I totally forgot I have yet to explain that to ya'' he said. ''Well I think now would be a good time'' Lucy said, it was 7:00 at night and the rest of the crew had already retired for the day so lucy thought that she could dig more information out of Natsu.
''Well since wizard's were in giuld's, they had a giuld mark somewhere on their body'' Natsu explianed. Lucy nodded, ''so thats your giuld mark?'' she asked. Natsu nodded, ''and since I'm a wizard/pirate any wizard who joins my crew will get one to'' he continued. Lucy's eyes widened, ''Woah! Wait your saying that like its normal'' she inquired.
''It happens on every ship that belongs to a wizard'' Natsu said ''you should have a full one in about.......I d'know 'bout a day or two.''
Lucy looked at Natsu with a shocked/frightened look on her face, ''what d'you mean 'full one' '' she asked. ''Well it takes time to grow in'' Natsu said, just then Lucy remembered some thing.
When Lucy woke up that morning she notised a pink spot on her hand.
At first Lucy thought that she slept on it wrong, but now she was thinking other wise.
Showing her hand to Natsu, Lucy asked ''is this it?''. Natsu looked carefully at the spot then nodded, ''looks like it'' he answered. Lucy was about to say something when Gray's voice rang out behind her, ''Hey flame brain come here and fight me''.
''Your on ice head'' Natsu yelled and then the 2 boys started fighting again. Not wanting to nearly get killed again, Lucy headed for her room. Right as she opened the door Lucy thought, 'Natsu is more like the capitain of imaturity than the capitan of a pirate ship.'
CHAPTER 7 'TELL ME YOUR SECRET AND I'LL TELL YOU MINE'
The Friday after Lucy nearly got killed by Natsu and Gray, she started to re-think her decition on being a pirate. Not only that, her mark had grow in fully.
That Friday had been a long crazy day for Lucy, right after she got up Natsu and Gray started fighting again and then Erza and Lucy had to stop them. Lucy, almost geting burned by Natsu in the prossess. But the fight was only the begining of that crazy day for lucy, the next thing that happened almost had Lucy swimmin' with the fishes. You see Natsu was trying to beat Lucy in a sword fight and he had to admit she was pretty good. Natsu almost got Lucy to drop her sword, but just then Lucy took a wrong step and started to fall over the rail of the ship. If Natsu hadn't caut her, Lucy would have been fish food. A few hours after that, Natsu fell into the water. Luckly Erza was there to see him fall and rescue him. Unfortunetly for some reson unknown to man, Natsu decided to act like a dog and shook his head to get the water off it. To make a long story short, Lucy got soked.
A crazy day like the one she just had sure made Lucy tired. That evening Lucy got into a long, white nightgown with lace at the end of the long sleaves and started to write. Lucy was writing a novel about a little girl named Christy who went on tons of paranormal adventures with her best friends, Cassidy and Mark.
Lucy had just finished writing the sentence ' Christy watched in horror as the bloody ghost walked twords her', when someone knocked on her door. Lucy's hand froze, ''who is it?'' she asked.
Lucy paniced when Natsu's voice answered her, ''Natsu'' he said. ''Hold on'' Lucy yelled, ''No'' Natsu replyed. Natsu walked in to Lucy's room to find her hurridly trying to hide a stack of papers and a pencil in her desk. ''What was that?'' Natsu asked as Lucy slamed her desk drawer shut. Lucy turned to face Natsu, ''What was what?'' she asked. Natsu rolled his eyes, ''don't play dumb with me. I saw the stack of papers you hid in the desk'' he said. Lucy searched for an excuse, ''OH! That was just a letter I was writing to my mom'' Lucy replyed finnaly coming up with an excuse.
Natsu shook his head, ''Lucy, I'm not an idiot'' he said. ''You look like one'', was Lucy's reply. Natsu brushed off the comment and then relised something. ''So thats why your such a book worm'' he said '' your writing a novel aren't you?''
''What! no'' Lucy said trying to hide the truth, ''yes'' Natsu protested.
''No''
''Yes''
''No''
''Yes''
''No''
''Yes''
''No''
''Yes''
''Fine''
Lucy new that no matter how long that they argued, she could never win a fight against her capitan. ''Yes I'm writing a novel'' Lucy said ''but how'd you find out?''
Natsu shruged, ''every time I see your your always reading so it just made sence'' he said. Lucy just shrugged, ''the reason I hid it was because I'm a horrible writer if anyone read my stuf I'd die of emberesment'' she explianed. Natsu laughed, ''don't worry no ones gonna read it''. Lucy looked at him, ''yeah that dosn't make me feel any better''. ''Now tell me one of your secrets'' Lucy said, after a few minutes. Natsu looked at her, ''seem's fair'' he said after a while of thinking. ''Well, my type of fire magic is a very rare type'' Natsu said, ''there are very few people that possess it.''
Lucy didn't see how this was a secret, but she let Natsu continue anyways. ''Ever herd of dragon slayer magic?'' Natsu asked, Lucy nodded. ''Yup I've read everything about every different type of magic out there'' Lucy said, ''dragon slayer magic was discovered around the early 1900's''
Natsu nodded, amused that Lucy hadn't yet predicted what he was about to tell her. ''Dragon slayer was origanaly ment to deal with dragons, unfortunetly this magic could only be taught by dragons'' Lucy continued. Just then relistation came to Lucy, ''do you mean to tell me your a dragon slayer?'' she asked. Natsu nodded, ''that was mean Natsu! You just let me make a fool of myself!'' Lucy said. Natsu smiled, ''HEY! I'm a pirate, I do these things'' he replyed.
''OH! Natsu what did you come in here for origanaly?'' Lucy asked relising that he must have come in her room for a purpose. Natsu looked at her, ''can't a capitan say 'goodnight' to his crew members?" answered Natsu.
Lucy smiled an looked down at her hands, ''I'm not really a crew member you only let me on the ship because I challenged you'' She said. ''Wow you really are dumb'' Natsu said as he walked tward the door, ''I didn't just ask you to become part of my crew because you challenged me although that was one of the reasons''
Lucy looked at Natsu in curiosity, ''What were the other reasons?'' she asked. ''There were two other reasons, 1. cause your real nice and 2. you looked like you needed a place to go and I wanted to. Wait thats 3 reasons'' Natsu answered. Lucy threw a pillow at Natsu, ''thats for callin' me dumb'' she yelled as the door closed.
Lucy wrote more in her novel after that. As Lucy climbed into her bed that night for some reason she felt as if, well as if she could trust Natsu with the most deepest darkest secret she had.
CHAPTER 8 'LAND HO....OOPS I'M LOST'
''Look Natsu look!'' Lucy yelled, it was Saturday so she was happy she had a chance to sleep in for once or even have some time to her self. ''There's land out there'' Lucy said, she was standing on the upper deck of the ship and natsu was behind the wheel. ''Oh cool now we can land and streach our legs. Right Happy?'' Natsu said. Happy nodded, ''AYE SIR!'' he shouted. Unfortunetly for Lucy, Happy was gliding right beside her so his shout was right in her ear. ''OW! Haaapyyy'' Lucy yelled as she chased him around the top deck of the ship. Natsu laughed, ''stop you two your rocking the ship''
''I can't belive that no one else is up yet'' Lucy said as she stopped running, Natsu shrugged. ''When your a pirate you do these thing's'' Natsu said, Lucy looked at her watch. ''Yeah but Natsu, its almost 2:00 in the afternoon, your telling me you guy's sleep that long'', Natsu nodded.
After they 'docked' the ship Lucy, Natsu, Happy, Charla, Wendy and Gray got off the ship and desided to explore. Leaving the rest of the crew a note, the six pirates split into 2 teams of three. Happy, Natsu and Gray went with each other to the west, leaving Lucy, Wendy and Charla to the east.
''This is hopless!'' Lucy yelled, in three hours the three girls had gotten lost. ''Please Lucy calm down'' said the royal blue haired girl known as Wendy, ''I'm sure capitan Natsu will come look for us''. Lucy looked down at her scratched up legs and sighed, ''well I wish he would hurry'' Lucy said.
Lucy and Wendy had both chosen the wrong clothes for exploring. Lucy had on a plain black T-shirt, a pair of blue jean shorts, a brown belt that held her gate keys and her sword, and a pair of leather black hiking boots. Wendy had on a blue T-shirt, black shorts that held a small knife and sword, and a pair of white and blue running shoes.
Wendy nodded, Charla came down from the sky. Charla was looking for the boys by air, ''I can't find the boys anywhere! It's like this place is one masive jungle'' she said. Wendy and Lucy both let out a disapointed sigh, ''well you did your best Charla'' Wendy said. Lucy cut down some vines with her sword, ''well we can't just sit here all day, lets try to find the boys or at least the ship'' she said.
About two hours laters the girls had seemed to only have gotten themselves more lost. ''Thats it!'' Lucy screamed, ''I'm going to go crazy if we don't get out of here.''
''Lucy your not going to help us if you keep getting angry'' Charla said, Lucy took a deep breath. ''Okay. Your right Charla'' Lucy said, then she cut down a vine making a path for the three girls to pass through. ''Plus when you get angry your not setting a good example for Wendy, I mean your 17 and Wendy is 8 so its only natural that she would look up to you'' Charla explianed. Lucy looked at the cat, ''oookay'' she said.
Just then Lucy cut down a vine and a skeleton swung down in the 3 girls faces.
CHAPTER 9 'THE ISLAND OF THE DEAD'
A scream erupted from the tree tops.
Natsu's head perked up, ''Hey you 2 hear that?'' Natsu asked Gray and Happy. ''How could we not'' Gray said, ''that was loud enough to wake the dead''
Happy nodded, the boys arived at the ship two hours ago to find every one up, about and there, exsept Lucy, Wendy and Charla. ''It mite be the girls come on. Oi Erza keep things in check while I'm gone 'kay'' Natsu said. ''Sure thing Natsu'' Erza said, Natsu nodded, grabed his sword and headed twords the woods.
Meanwhile.
Lucy, Wendy and Charla ran for their lives, ''Lucy I think we're safe'' Wendy said. The three girls stoped and looked around, they were in a clearing some place deeper in the woods. Lucy watched as Wendy slumped down to the ground, ''that really scared me and on top of that my feet hurt'' Wendy said. Lucy nodded, ''lets rest here its nice and peaceful'' she said. Charla and Wendy nodded, with that the three girls laid down in the grass and fell asleep.
An hour later Lucy woke up to a rustling sound in the distance, coming from her right. Not wanting to wake the sleeping Wendy yet not wanting to leave her alone, Lucy took her keys and summoned one of her spirts. ''Open gate of the maiden, Virgo I summon thee'' Lucy wispered. Just then a girl appered with pink hair and wearing a maids outfit, ''You summoned me princess? what can I do for you?'' the girl asked. ''Virgo I need you to watch after this girl and this cat'' Lucy said pionting to Wendy and Charla, ''can you do that?''
Virgo nodded and bowed, ''if that is your wish then it is my command princess'' she said. ''Thanks Virgo'' Lucy said, with that she ran into the woods. As Lucy went deeper in the woods she started to become paranoid. Just as Lucy thought looking for that rustling sound was hopeless, a rustle of the bushes to her right told her someone was there.
Lucy swiped her sword at the bush. ''OW!'', the vioce of Lucy's capitan sounded out of the bush. ''Natsu is that you?'' Lucy asked, heading tword the bush. ''No its Lady Gaga. Yeah its Natsu now help me out of these bushes'' Natsu said angrly. Lucy sighed, 'man he's grumpy' she thought. Helping her capitan out of the bushes Lucy asked, ''are you lost to?''
Natsu shook his head, ''I came looking for you, wait don't tell me you lost Wendy and Charla!'' he said. Lucy shook her head, ''no I know where they are. One of my spirits is with them'' she said. Natsu seemed to relax a little, ''oh thats good to know'' he said. Lucy nodded, 'wow he cares a lot about his crew' she thought.
''You know Luce, this island just isn't sitting right with me'' Natsu said as he looked around . 'Oh great now he's given me a pet name', Lucy thought sarcasticly. ''There's just something not right with it'' Natsu continued, Lucy looked around.
''Really? I just think its creepy'' Lucy said, Natsu looked at her, ''I think its cool'' he said. ''Didn't you just say it wasn't sitting right with you?'' Lucy asked, really confused now. Natsu nodded, ''just 'cause I say it doesn't sit right with me doesn't mean I can't think its cool'' he said.
After a few minutes of walking and talking, the two pirates desided to go back to Wendy and Charla. Lucy was actually the one who made the desition to turn around and go back, mostly because her magic energy was running low. ''How much further my leg is killing me'' Natsu whined. Lucy shook her head, ''I know this is asking for trouble but why is your leg killing you?'' she asked. ''Oh I d'know let me think.....Oh yeah 'cause you nearly chopped it off!'' Natsu answered. ''Well you should have seen that coming, plus the key word in there is nearly'' Lucy shot back. ''I am so peeved with you right now'' Natsu growled.
A few minutes later Natsu and Lucy arived at the clearing were Lucy had left Wendy and Charla. Wendy was awake and so was Charla, ''Oh you two are awake'' Lucy said. Wendy's face lit up when she saw her comrades, ''Lucy, you found Natsu'' Wendy said. ''More like nearly killed Natsu'' Natsu muttered, loud enough for the two girls and cat to hear. ''Oh lay off it, it was an accident. Plus you caught me with my guard up'' Lucy replyed. Just then Lucy relised Virgo was still there, Lucy looked at Virgo. ''Do you have new orders princess?'' Virgo asked, notising her masters stare. Lucy shook her head, ''No, you can go back Virgo'' she said. ''Thank you princess. I will take my leave now'' Virgo said, and with a flash of golden light she was gone.
Natsu looked at Lucy, ''princess?'' he asked. Lucy shook her head, ''don't even ask'' she said. ''Already did'' Natsu replyed, ''I was right? Your really a princess?''
Lucy shook her head, ''not even close'' she said. Natsu asked no further questions, but made a note to ask her about her past later. A few minutes passed as Natsu told, Lucy, Wendy and Charla that he came to look for them with Grey and happy.
''I seemed to have lost them in the prosess'' Natsu was saying. Lucy rolled her eyes, 'like we can't see that. Thanks capitan obvious' She thought. ''Hey Wendy in all of your research have you read about this island?'' Lucy asked, Natsu gave her a look as if she spoke in a different languge. ''What? You said you felt uneasy about this place so I'm asking'' Lucy said. ''Let me do that'' Natsu demmanded, ''Wendy, what have you researched about this place?''
Lucy through her hands up in the air, ''of course'' she mubbled under her breath. Lucy stoud up and streached her legs, ''well actually Natsu has a good reason to feel uneasy'' Wendy said. Lucy stopped her streaching, ''and that good reason would be...?'' she asked. Wendy's reply was so frighting it made Natsu shiver, ''They call this island 'the island of the dead'.''
CHAPTER 10 'ZOMBIE PIRATES!'
''Yeah I'd say thats a pretty good reason'' Lucy said, Natsu nodded in agreement. ''Dare I ask why they call it that'' Natsu asked, Wendy started to explian. ''About 10 years ago a spanish pirate was left on this island as punishment for her crimes'', Natsu stopped Wendy from continuing. ''Wait 'her'?'' Natsu asked, Wendy nodded and continued. ''The pirates name was Gracie Hernadez, aperently she was so angry that she learned dark magic and cursed the island'' Wendy said, pausing to take a breath.
''Gracie said that who ever landed here would be attacked by the zombies of pirates that died here before her.'' Wendy finished, Natsu nodded calmly while Lucy hyperventalated. ''Yeah I'd say thats a problem'' Natsu said, Lucy looked at him. ''Problem? No Natsu this is more than a problem, I d'know what this is. All I know is we need to get off this island right now'' Lucy said. ''You must be pretty stuipid then'' Natsu joked. ''This is know time for jokes'' Lucy yelled, but she couldn't help but smile.
Just then, there was a crack of a branch in the woods behind Lucy. Natsu's head turned in the direction of the noise. ''What was that?'' Lucy asked.
''ROAR!"
''AAAAAAAHHHH!" Lucy screamed, as a blue furry animal attached its self to her back. "Oh, its Happy" Natsu said, pulling the blue cat off of Lucy. "Hey! its me to. I threw Happy at Lucy'' Gray said, steping out of the woods behind Lucy. ''Gray your shirt!" Wendy yelled. ''Crap'' Gray yelled as he relised he wasn't wearing a shirt, ''well at least Erza isn't here but then again Lucy is just as scary''. Everyone (exsept Lucy) laughed.
''Thats it!" Lucy yelled.
Lucy launched herself at Gray. Gray was pretty good at dodging Lucy's punches, untill Lucy hit him in the stomache. Gray hit the ground instantly. Lucy drew her sword and pointed it at Gray. Natsu, thinking that this was getting dangerous, grabbed Lucy's sword hand and twisted it behind her back and put her in a head lock. Lucy dropped her sword and started struggling to get free. ''Calm down Luce'' Natsu said, titening his grip. ''Yeah and get a'hold of that temper while your at it, some day you mite kill someone'' gray said, letting out a shakey laugh.
''Shut up!'' Natsu said, keeping his grip on Lucy.
''Your the one who made her angry in the fist place'' Natsu said, Grays attention seemed to be trained on Lucy. ''Uh......Natsu I may be wrong but I don't think girls are suposed to look blue'' Gray said. Natsu looked at Lucy and sure enough she was having trouble breathing. Natsu let go of Lucy imidiatly, ''Sorry Lucy! I guess I don't know my own streangth'' he said. Lucy gave him a look that could have made even the most powerful man on earth, cower in fear.
After Lucy had regained her breath and Natsu ordered her not to kill Gray, they all decided to split up.
''All right Gray, Lucy and Happy will try to search for wood and Wend-'', Natsu was cut off when Gray interupted him. ''And why would we be looking for wood?'' Gray asked. Natsu looked down and kicked a rock, ''I may have wrecked a part of the ship'' he mubbled quitely. ''Sorry what was that?'' Gray asked.
''I-I may have wrecked part of the ship'' Natsu said, Gray looked at him in disbelive. ''Natsu you idiot you know thats our only mode of transportation, Right?'' Gray said. Natsu was red in the face, ''you lookin' for a fight?'' Natsu said angrly.
After Natsu and Gray stopped fighting, the six pirates split up. Gray went with Lucy and Happy to find wood to repair the ship, and Natsu went with Wendy and Charla to find the ship and tell the crew what was going on.
''AAAAAAHHHHGGG!'' Lucy yelled, ''why did Natsu pair me up with you?!''
Gray looked at her, ''look on the bright side, Natsu could have paired you up with him and trust me he uses that capitan privalige to much'' he said. Lucy decided that Gray had a point, ''Still you could at least put a shirt on'' she said. ''I told you I lost it while I was helping Natsu look for you'' Gray yelled. 'How do you loose a shirt?' Lucy thought, and started walking around. Just then Lucy herd a moaning noise, "oh very funny Gray'' Lucy said, imidiatly assuming it was Gray. Gray looked at her, he had an arm full of sticks, no shirt and dirt on his face, so he looked rediculus. ''I didn't do any thing'' Gray said, Lucy shook her head. ''Oh so I supose I was imagining that noise'' Lucy said, Gray nodded and kept on picking up sticks.
Just then 10 things not among the living, jumped out at the trio. Happy screamed and ran behind Lucy, "My brain's no good, take hers instead'' he cried. Lucy rolled her eyes, ''My hero'' she said. Lucy and Gray took out thier swords, ''lets do this Lucy'' Gray said. ''Right!'' Lucy answered, as they both took a swing at the monsters. Lucy got cut almost imidiatly, by a zombie's sword. ''Lucy! Stab their heads'' Gray yelled, Lucy took Grays advise.
Lucy and Gray defeted the zombies sucsesfully, but Lucy did not come out unharmed. Lucy had a bleeding cut on one of her arms spelling the message, GET OUT.
''Creepy!'' Lucy said, looking at her right arm. Gray nodded, ''lets forget the wood and get to the ship'' he said. Lucy and Happy agreed, and they all head tword the ship.
CHAPTER 11 ''THE CREW HEARS THE NEWS''
Lucy and Gray made it to the ship with out any interuptions, but by that time it was night.
''Erza, where's Natsu?'' Gray asked, Erza was a armored wizard, with a quick temper, but don't tell her that other wise she'll rip your head off.
''In his room'' Erza answered, ''he's been actin' strange though, mutterin' somthin' about the undead.''
''Thanks'' Gray muttered. Gray pulled lucy by the arm, to her capitans room. ''Natsu'' Gray said as the two people and cat entered the room. Natsu was sitting at his desk looking at a map, but when he saw Gray, Lucy and Happy he put the map away. ''Whats up?'' Natsu asked, Gray shoved Lucy's arm in Natsu's face. ''Check this out'' Gray said. Natsu looked at Lucy's arm, '' OH MY GOD! what am I looking at exsactly?'' he asked. Gray looked at Lucy's arm and relised that he showed Natsu the wrong one.
Gray grabed Lucy's other arm and showed Natsu the scar. "Woah! What happened?'' Natsu exclaimed. ''Guess'' Lucy answered, Natsu thought for a second. ''Why can't you guys just get along?'' he said, Gray and Lucy rolled thier eyes. ''Natsu we were ambushed by zombies!'' Happy cried. ''Oh, well my guess was way off!'' Natsu said, letting go of Lucy's arm. ''Don't sound so suprised'' Lucy muttered, Natsu paid no attention to the remark.
"Well these things obviously mean business'' Natsu said, ''I mean if they didn't why would they carve that message into your arm, Luce.''
Just then there was a knock on the door, Natsu jumped up, grabed a bandge and handed it to Lucy. ''Wrap up the cut, I don't want to scare anyone'' Natsu said, Lucy quickly wraped up her cut. When the door opened, Erza steped in. ''Hey Natsu, you've been acting strange for a while can you tell me whats going on'' Erza asked.
"Crap here we go again" Lucy Heartfillia said to herself. Lucy was a rich, beautiful, intellegent, kind and confidant 17 year old girl that lived in London, England ( even though she was an american). But as Lucy backed up and away from the snarling and growling dogs that pursiued her, she didn't feel so confidant.
Lucy turned and ran. Fear crept into her heart as Lucy heard 7 sets of Great Dane paws chasing after her. Lucy had chosen to wear a red leather jacket over a sleavless and short bottomed white top, a pale blue jean skirt and knee high lace up hiking boots. Unfortunetly, Lucys skirt wasn't helping her run much.
'I just got to get to the docks' Lucy thought as she ran. Imidiatly Lucy made a hard right, heading twords the docks.
Soon the docks were in sight. Feeling her hopes rise, Lucy put on an extra burst of speed. As she reached the docks, Lucys hope faded when she saw that there was no place to hide. But when she looked closer, Lucy saw that a single ship was pulled into the harbor.
Lucy ran tword the ship. As she climbed the ladder, Lucy notised the name engraved on the side of the ship. ' 'Fairy Tail'?' she thought, 'what kind of a name is 'Fairy Tail'?'.
Lucy hid herself under the wooden stairs that lead up to the second deck. After sniffing around a bit, the dogs walked away. Lucy let out a sigh, "man I wish that lady would put her dogs away" she said to herself "I think i'll rest here". Just then a shadow fell over Lucy.
Looking up Lucy saw dark green cat-like eyes staring at her. "What in the name of Davy Jones do you think your doing here?" a boy's voise asked.
CHAPTER 2 ' THE INFAMOUS PIRATE CAPITAN DRAGNEEL '
Fear struck Lucy right in the heart. "U-uh I-I was r-running from some d-dogs" Lucy exsplained, stumbling over her words as she went "I c-came in here t-to g-get away from t-them". The guy stepped back and to Lucy's suprise, he burst out laughing. ''You picked a pirate ship to hide in? How stuipid are you?'' the boy asked in between laughs. Lucy was personally offended by this, however, thanks to him rolling on the ground as he laughed. Lucy could get a good look at him.
The boy had on a black vest with gold trimed edges, what ever was over his white pants was the same as the vest, he had on black sandals and a scally looking scarf around his neck. 'Really a scarf?' Lucy thought, 'sure its fall but its not that cold'. As Lucy continued to look at the boy she notised some strange features like; the boys cat-like eyes, his vampier-like teeth and pink spiky hair. Wait pink hair?
PINK!
Lucy bearly could contain her laughter. She didn't think pink hair was wrong, in fact she had dyed her hair that color many times in the past. It was just that Lucy thought pink was such a girly color.
When the boy had finaly stoped laughing he looked at her with confusion in his eyes. ''Hey whats wrong with your face?'' he asked.
Now it was Lucy's turn to laugh. Lucy dropped to her hands and knees as she laughed, ''hey whats so funny?'' the boy asked. ''N-nothing its just...pppppppsssshhhhhd HAHAHA!......y-your hair......HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!'' Lucy answered as she laughed. The boy stood up, obviously offended. ''Yeah, yeah'' the boy said with a cold look on his face, ''laugh all you want, I was born with this''. "H-how can a p-person be born w-with pink h-hair?'' Lucy asked as she tried to calm down, ''its scientificly i-impossible''. Lucys only response was a shake of the boys head.
Once she calmed down, Lucy took a couple of deep breaths to regain the breath she lost while laughing. ''Whats your name?'' the boy asked, Lucy looked at him. ''Why do you need to know that?'' she asked. '' I think i'd like to know the name of the person who snuck onto my ship don't you?'' the boy answered, '' now are you gonna tell me your name or not?''
Lucy thought the boy had a point, ''Lucy'' she answered. The reason Lucy didn't tell the boy her last name was because her fathers railroad company was huge, and this guy was obviously a pirate. Lucy didn't want to get held for ransom, so she kept her mouth shut.
Lucy got to her feet to streach her legs out.
''Loogie, Loogie what?'' the boy pressed on. ''Its Lucy not Loogie, and its just Lucy.'' Lucy answered coldly. The boy shrugged, ''okay, just Lucy'' the boy said '' my name is Natsu, Natsu Dragneel.''
CHAPTER 3 'LUCY BECOMES A PIRATE'
Lucy's eyes widened.
'What!?' Lucy thought, 'this guy is the famous pirate capitan Natsu Dragneel!?'. Lucy had read all about pirates, how they lived and wich one's were famous, and Natsu Dragneel was pretty famous. ''No way'' Lucy said as she shook her head back and forth, ''you can't be that Natsu Dragneel.''
''Is there any other Natsu Dragneel?'' Natsu asked. Lucy looked at him coldly, but he did have a point. ''No'' Lucy answered under her breath. ''Then i'm that Natsu Dragneel'' Natsu said triumfintly.
'Wait how did he hear me?' Lucy thought, she shrugged. ''Hey, how do you become a pirate?'' Lucy asked, she'd always wanted to become a pirate ever since she first read about them.
Natsu let out a chuckle, ''look, you don't become a pirate you just are one'' he answered '' from the moment your born''. Lucy rolled her eyes, ''oh come on'' Lucy said ''there has to be some way''. Natsu sighed, ''why are you so interested?'' he asked ''thinkin' 'bout turnin' pirate yourself?''. Lucy gave natsu a cold stare, ''maybe'' she answered. ''Well why you want to do that?'' Natsu asked, Lucy was geting tired of this.
"Look is there a way or isn't there'' Lucy asked again, ''its a very simple question''. Natsu let out a laugh, ''why don't you go home? The sea is no place for a little princess like you''. Lucy got red in the face, ''LOOK I'M A LOT TOUGHER THAN YOU THINK!'' she yelled. This time Natsu full on laughed, ''sure you are'' the pirate capitan replyed.
This time Lucy lost it, ''oh yeah? challenge me'' she said unawear of the mess she was geting into. The pirate capitan looked intreaged, ''okay, if you really want to be a pirate'' natsu said ''be here at 5:00 AM, tomorow morning and join my crew.''
Lucy agreed. But as she left the ship she began to have second thoughts.
Lucy was at the docks at 5:00 AM the next Monday morning. She had dark circles under her dark brown eyes and her blonde hair was a mess. Lucy was wearing a black t-shirt, a brown leather jacket, black hiking boots and jeans. 'Why did I ever agree to this?' Lucy asked herself, 'He's not even here'.
''Oi, Lucy''
Lucy looked up and saw Natsu on the second deck of the ship, smiling and waving at her. Lucy ran up to him, ''I gotta say i'm suprised, I didn't think you had it in you.''
Lucy didn't know if that was a complement or an insult, so she didn't say anything. ''Hey what's with the name of the ship?'' Lucy asked, she had been thinking a lot about that.
Natsu let out a little laugh, ''thats a long story'' he replyed. Lucy sighed, ''I have time'' she said. Natsu motioned for Lucy to sit, so she did. ''Lucy'' Natsu asked ''do you belive in magic?''
CHAPTER 4 'A STORY AND THE CREW'
''Uh, sure'' Lucy said.
The truth was Lucy belived in magic fully, she even used a type of key magic that let her summon Spirits that are from other worlds called Celestial Spirit magic. However Lucy didn't want to sound like a loonatic so she only told half of the truth.
''Well long ago there were guilds for wizards'' Natsu continued from his question, ''guilds were places that wizards could go to hang out, get jobs and have fun.''
Lucy sat facinated in her seat, she had read a very little portion about giulds and wizards that belonged to them. But now she was going to hear more about them, cool.
''Well when I was little I belonged to one of those guilds and the name of it was Fairy Tail.'' Natsu said. ''Woah wait'' Lucy interupted ''you use magic?''
Natsu nodded and Lucy didn't ask any questions.
''I went on a job one day and came back to see all of the giulds and houses of wizards destroyed'' Natsu said as a sad look pased over his face, ''the goverment had banned magic so I bought a ship and became a pirate, and because I loved the giuld I named the ship Fairy Tail.''
Lucy looked at Natsu, ''wow I kind of feel sorry for you'' she said. Natsu perked his head up, ''don't ever say that again'' he replyed. A few minutes of awkward silence had passed when Natsu finnaly spoke.
''So, what kind of magic do you use?'' Natsu asked, Lucy was taken by suprise. ''What do you mean?'' Lucy asked trying to keep calm, Natsu laughed. ''You can't hide that kind of stuff from me'' he said, Lucy took a deep breath before answering. '' I'm a Celestial Spirit mage'' she answered ''I can summon spirits from other worlds using these keys.''
Lucy held up a key ring that held 10 gold keys and 5 silver keys on it. Natsu looked at the keys, ''cool, what spirits have you got and how many'' he asked. Lucy looked pleased that Natsu had asked that perticular question, ''I have 15 keys so far and not to brag or anything but I even have a couple of types'' she answered confidantly. Natsu nodded to show that he was listening, ''the silver keys are Horologum the Clock, Lyra the Harp, Pixis the Compass, Plue the Dog and Crux the Southern Cross.'' Lucy continued. ''The gold ones are Tarus the golden bull, Aquriaus the Water Berrer, Cancer the Giant Crab, Leo the Lion, the golden twins Gemini, Aries the Golden Ram, Scorpio the Sand Berrer, and the Maiden Virgo.'' Lucy said
Natsu was about to say something when someone else beat him to it. ''Hey flame brain'' a voise floated up to them from below. ''Oh, it's Gray'' Natsu said, ''Lucy meet Grey Fullbuster, part of my crew, and for the love of god put a shirt on Grey''.
After Lucy met Grey she was introduced to the rest of the crew. Natsu seemed to hang aroud Grey, his first mate Erza Scarlet, a little girl named Wendy and 2 flying and talking cats called Happy and Charla the most.
Lucy walked around the ship, it was suprisingly roomy. Just as Lucy made it to the women's quarter's, their was yelling above her and the air felt tence. ''Oi, Lucy'' Natsu's voice called.
Lucy turned around and saw the pink haired capitan staring at her with a paniced look in his eyes. ''Hurry and get up here'' Natsu demanded ''we need all the help we can get''. Lucy stood rooted to her spot, 'what could be so bad that they would need every one's help?' Lucy asked herself. Natsu's voice interupted Lucy's thoughts, ''Thats an order you know'' he said. Lucy finnaly gained the currage to speak, ''what's going on?'' she asked. Natsu's reply struck fear in Lucy's heart, ''we're about to be attacked''.
CHAPTER 5 'FIRST A RAID THEN SEA SICKNESS'
Lucy's eyes widened, 'attacked' she thought 'by what'. Natsu's voice jerked Lucy back to reality, ''DON'T JUST STAND THERE, LET'S GO!'' he yelled.
Lucy imidiatly sprung to the step's that led upward, 'man Natsu is scary when he's angry' she thought. Lucy ran to catch up with Natsu as he ran up the stairs in front of her. When Lucy got to the rail she saw an army heading twards the ship.
In addition to Celestial Spirit magic, Lucy had telepathy magic like all wizards did.
Lucy saw a piece of paper rolled up in one of the soilders hands, this perticular soilder was about 3 feet tall.
Anyways.
Using her telepathy, Lucy saw what the piece of paper said.
This piece of paper here by states that you the soilders of London, England are to capture these pirates imidiatly. The pirates are to be hanged at 2:00 pm, this Friday. If any of the pirates resist or do not come quietly, that pirate is to be shot and killed right on the spot.
signed
KingRamond
This scared Lucy out of her wits.
'What?' Lucy thought 'they can't be serious', Natsu's voice jolted her out of her thoughts once again. ''Oh they're serious'' He said ''some King huh? He doesn't even understand that pirates are people to.''
''So you have telepathy magic to?'' Lucy asked, Natsu looked at her. ''Doesn't every wizard?'' he asked, Lucy nodded, ''stupid question'' she said under her breath. ''Yup'' Natsu said, ''now work on untieing the ropes''. Natsu left Lucy to untie the ropes connecting the ship to the dock, while he went to go give orders to the others.
''Crap'' Lucy said, she was working on the last rope tied to the ship but her fingers kept on sliping."Hey. How's it coming?'', Lucy turned around and there stood Natsu soaking wet. Trying to contain her laughter Lucy mustered up the words, ''What happened to you?''. Natsu rolled his eyes, ''That doesn't matter right now. Just please answer the question'' he said.
Lucy sighed, "the rope's to slipery I cant get a good grip on it'' she answered. Natsu threw a lighter at her, ''then burn it'' he said. Lucy did what she was told.
Just as the fire broke through the rope Lucy felt a jerk as the ship pulled away from the harbor. The air lightened as the ship sailed out into the sea.
A few hours after the ship sailed away from the harbor, Lucy started to feel quesy. ''Oi Lucy'' Natsu's voice called over to her, ''are you okay?''
Lucy turned around to see the pirate capitan with a concerned look on his face. Lucy nodded, ''Just a little sea sick'' she replyed. Natsu threw a bottle of pills at Lucy, ''these are for motion sickness'' Lucy said ''wait! Why do you have these?''
Natsu blushed, ''I have motion sickness'' he said obviously emberassed. Lucy looked at him and then shook her head, ''then why become a pirate?'' she asked. Natsu shrugged, ''don' know'' he said.
A few minutes of silence passed betwween both wizards, with just the chatter of the crew to break it.
''So'' Lucy said trying to break the awkward silence, ''who was the leader of the army?''
Natsu looked at her as if she had asked him to go drown himself in the sea that they now sailed over. A shudder went up Lucy's spine, 'yikes! he sure knows how to scare somebody'. Natsu's face relaxed, ''you must of notised that short guy walkin' in front of the army. Right?'' he asked. Lucy looked at Natsu then burst out laughing.
''You gotta be kidding!'' Lucy said, ''that little guy controlls the army?''. Natsu shook his head as he smiled, ''you may laugh at his size but he's no joke'' he said ''his name is Macerov Dreyar and acording to Wendy he's jailed some of the most dangerous pirates to sail these sea's''.
Lucy looked intreged, ''AYE!''. Just then a voice came from behind them, it was Happy. ''Oh really?'' Lucy asked the blue cat, Happy nodded. ''Wendy said that Macerov has even hanged and executed some of the pirates that he's jailed and Wendy also said that the execution's are not the prettiest site in the world, blood every where''
Lucy's face was almost blue, she colapsed to the ground holding her stomache. ''No more details please'' Lucy pleaded, Natsu let out a little chuckle. ''Whats wrong?'' Natsu asked, he had notised that Lucy looked a little paler than last time.
Lucy looked at him, ''its a combonation of sea sickness and the fact that I'm totally grossed out''.
''I'll go see if we have any sea sickness pills that you can take'' Natsu said, and with that he rushed off.
CHAPTER 6 'THE CAPITAN OF IMATURITY'
After Lucy had taken 2 of the sea sickness pills that Natsu had found, she realised that Natsu was very imature.
As Lucy stood near the rail Gray and Natsu were having a fight. But Lucy had notised that both boys were using magic, Gray had some kind of Ice magic and Natsu had some kind of Fire magic.
Lucy was trying to think of the name for Natsu and Gray's magic, when Gray's voice yelled at her.
''LUCY WATCH OUT!''
Lucy looked up and saw ice coming at her, ''EEEEK!'' she screamed as she dove sideways. Natsu and Gray ran up to the shaken, blonde headed girl. ''Are you all right?'' the two boys coursed, just then Natsu and Gray's heads clashed together. ''Are you copyin' me?'' both boys yelled at each other. ''Stop! you two almost hurt Lucy I think thats the last of the fighting for today'', the yeller was Erza.
Both Natsu and gray stoped arguing with each other and helped Lucy up.
As Lucy was helped up, she notised a red symble on Natsu's arm.
Lucy looked closer and also notised that Gray had a blue one on his chest, but for now she pushed it out of her mind. ''You okay?'' Natsu asked, Lucy nodded. ''Yeah, just shaken up'' she answered, it had been at least an hour after Natsu and Gray's big fight and Lucy was still shaken, anyways. Natsu nodded then leaned on the rail, ''Yo, I have a question'' he said. Lucy sighed 'this can't be good' she thought. However, Lucy leaned against the rail and said, ''shoot.''
''You have any expertese in fencing or sword fighting?'' Natsu asked, Lucy was shocked by this question, mainly because almost all of Natsu's questions were imature and childish. ''Yeah, I know almost every sword and fencing techniche known to man'' Lucy answered, Natsu looked impressed.
''Then you'll make one hell of a pirate'' Natsu said, Lucy looked confused and pleased with the praise. ''So Natsu?'' Lucy asked ''how'd you get that mark on your arm''.
Natsu looked at his arm as if he had just notised the mark for the first time, ''Oh yeah I totally forgot I have yet to explain that to ya'' he said. ''Well I think now would be a good time'' Lucy said, it was 7:00 at night and the rest of the crew had already retired for the day so lucy thought that she could dig more information out of Natsu.
''Well since wizard's were in giuld's, they had a giuld mark somewhere on their body'' Natsu explianed. Lucy nodded, ''so thats your giuld mark?'' she asked. Natsu nodded, ''and since I'm a wizard/pirate any wizard who joins my crew will get one to'' he continued. Lucy's eyes widened, ''Woah! Wait your saying that like its normal'' she inquired.
''It happens on every ship that belongs to a wizard'' Natsu said ''you should have a full one in about.......I d'know 'bout a day or two.''
Lucy looked at Natsu with a shocked/frightened look on her face, ''what d'you mean 'full one' '' she asked. ''Well it takes time to grow in'' Natsu said, just then Lucy remembered some thing.
When Lucy woke up that morning she notised a pink spot on her hand.
At first Lucy thought that she slept on it wrong, but now she was thinking other wise.
Showing her hand to Natsu, Lucy asked ''is this it?''. Natsu looked carefully at the spot then nodded, ''looks like it'' he answered. Lucy was about to say something when Gray's voice rang out behind her, ''Hey flame brain come here and fight me''.
''Your on ice head'' Natsu yelled and then the 2 boys started fighting again. Not wanting to nearly get killed again, Lucy headed for her room. Right as she opened the door Lucy thought, 'Natsu is more like the capitain of imaturity than the capitan of a pirate ship.'
CHAPTER 7 'TELL ME YOUR SECRET AND I'LL TELL YOU MINE'
The Friday after Lucy nearly got killed by Natsu and Gray, she started to re-think her decition on being a pirate. Not only that, her mark had grow in fully.
That Friday had been a long crazy day for Lucy, right after she got up Natsu and Gray started fighting again and then Erza and Lucy had to stop them. Lucy, almost geting burned by Natsu in the prossess. But the fight was only the begining of that crazy day for lucy, the next thing that happened almost had Lucy swimmin' with the fishes. You see Natsu was trying to beat Lucy in a sword fight and he had to admit she was pretty good. Natsu almost got Lucy to drop her sword, but just then Lucy took a wrong step and started to fall over the rail of the ship. If Natsu hadn't caut her, Lucy would have been fish food. A few hours after that, Natsu fell into the water. Luckly Erza was there to see him fall and rescue him. Unfortunetly for some reson unknown to man, Natsu decided to act like a dog and shook his head to get the water off it. To make a long story short, Lucy got soked.
A crazy day like the one she just had sure made Lucy tired. That evening Lucy got into a long, white nightgown with lace at the end of the long sleaves and started to write. Lucy was writing a novel about a little girl named Christy who went on tons of paranormal adventures with her best friends, Cassidy and Mark.
Lucy had just finished writing the sentence ' Christy watched in horror as the bloody ghost walked twords her', when someone knocked on her door. Lucy's hand froze, ''who is it?'' she asked.
Lucy paniced when Natsu's voice answered her, ''Natsu'' he said. ''Hold on'' Lucy yelled, ''No'' Natsu replyed. Natsu walked in to Lucy's room to find her hurridly trying to hide a stack of papers and a pencil in her desk. ''What was that?'' Natsu asked as Lucy slamed her desk drawer shut. Lucy turned to face Natsu, ''What was what?'' she asked. Natsu rolled his eyes, ''don't play dumb with me. I saw the stack of papers you hid in the desk'' he said. Lucy searched for an excuse, ''OH! That was just a letter I was writing to my mom'' Lucy replyed finnaly coming up with an excuse.
Natsu shook his head, ''Lucy, I'm not an idiot'' he said. ''You look like one'', was Lucy's reply. Natsu brushed off the comment and then relised something. ''So thats why your such a book worm'' he said '' your writing a novel aren't you?''
''What! no'' Lucy said trying to hide the truth, ''yes'' Natsu protested.
''No''
''Yes''
''No''
''Yes''
''No''
''Yes''
''No''
''Yes''
''Fine''
Lucy new that no matter how long that they argued, she could never win a fight against her capitan. ''Yes I'm writing a novel'' Lucy said ''but how'd you find out?''
Natsu shruged, ''every time I see your your always reading so it just made sence'' he said. Lucy just shrugged, ''the reason I hid it was because I'm a horrible writer if anyone read my stuf I'd die of emberesment'' she explianed. Natsu laughed, ''don't worry no ones gonna read it''. Lucy looked at him, ''yeah that dosn't make me feel any better''. ''Now tell me one of your secrets'' Lucy said, after a few minutes. Natsu looked at her, ''seem's fair'' he said after a while of thinking. ''Well, my type of fire magic is a very rare type'' Natsu said, ''there are very few people that possess it.''
Lucy didn't see how this was a secret, but she let Natsu continue anyways. ''Ever herd of dragon slayer magic?'' Natsu asked, Lucy nodded. ''Yup I've read everything about every different type of magic out there'' Lucy said, ''dragon slayer magic was discovered around the early 1900's''
Natsu nodded, amused that Lucy hadn't yet predicted what he was about to tell her. ''Dragon slayer was origanaly ment to deal with dragons, unfortunetly this magic could only be taught by dragons'' Lucy continued. Just then relistation came to Lucy, ''do you mean to tell me your a dragon slayer?'' she asked. Natsu nodded, ''that was mean Natsu! You just let me make a fool of myself!'' Lucy said. Natsu smiled, ''HEY! I'm a pirate, I do these things'' he replyed.
''OH! Natsu what did you come in here for origanaly?'' Lucy asked relising that he must have come in her room for a purpose. Natsu looked at her, ''can't a capitan say 'goodnight' to his crew members?" answered Natsu.
Lucy smiled an looked down at her hands, ''I'm not really a crew member you only let me on the ship because I challenged you'' She said. ''Wow you really are dumb'' Natsu said as he walked tward the door, ''I didn't just ask you to become part of my crew because you challenged me although that was one of the reasons''
Lucy looked at Natsu in curiosity, ''What were the other reasons?'' she asked. ''There were two other reasons, 1. cause your real nice and 2. you looked like you needed a place to go and I wanted to. Wait thats 3 reasons'' Natsu answered. Lucy threw a pillow at Natsu, ''thats for callin' me dumb'' she yelled as the door closed.
Lucy wrote more in her novel after that. As Lucy climbed into her bed that night for some reason she felt as if, well as if she could trust Natsu with the most deepest darkest secret she had.
CHAPTER 8 'LAND HO....OOPS I'M LOST'
''Look Natsu look!'' Lucy yelled, it was Saturday so she was happy she had a chance to sleep in for once or even have some time to her self. ''There's land out there'' Lucy said, she was standing on the upper deck of the ship and natsu was behind the wheel. ''Oh cool now we can land and streach our legs. Right Happy?'' Natsu said. Happy nodded, ''AYE SIR!'' he shouted. Unfortunetly for Lucy, Happy was gliding right beside her so his shout was right in her ear. ''OW! Haaapyyy'' Lucy yelled as she chased him around the top deck of the ship. Natsu laughed, ''stop you two your rocking the ship''
''I can't belive that no one else is up yet'' Lucy said as she stopped running, Natsu shrugged. ''When your a pirate you do these thing's'' Natsu said, Lucy looked at her watch. ''Yeah but Natsu, its almost 2:00 in the afternoon, your telling me you guy's sleep that long'', Natsu nodded.
After they 'docked' the ship Lucy, Natsu, Happy, Charla, Wendy and Gray got off the ship and desided to explore. Leaving the rest of the crew a note, the six pirates split into 2 teams of three. Happy, Natsu and Gray went with each other to the west, leaving Lucy, Wendy and Charla to the east.
''This is hopless!'' Lucy yelled, in three hours the three girls had gotten lost. ''Please Lucy calm down'' said the royal blue haired girl known as Wendy, ''I'm sure capitan Natsu will come look for us''. Lucy looked down at her scratched up legs and sighed, ''well I wish he would hurry'' Lucy said.
Lucy and Wendy had both chosen the wrong clothes for exploring. Lucy had on a plain black T-shirt, a pair of blue jean shorts, a brown belt that held her gate keys and her sword, and a pair of leather black hiking boots. Wendy had on a blue T-shirt, black shorts that held a small knife and sword, and a pair of white and blue running shoes.
Wendy nodded, Charla came down from the sky. Charla was looking for the boys by air, ''I can't find the boys anywhere! It's like this place is one masive jungle'' she said. Wendy and Lucy both let out a disapointed sigh, ''well you did your best Charla'' Wendy said. Lucy cut down some vines with her sword, ''well we can't just sit here all day, lets try to find the boys or at least the ship'' she said.
About two hours laters the girls had seemed to only have gotten themselves more lost. ''Thats it!'' Lucy screamed, ''I'm going to go crazy if we don't get out of here.''
''Lucy your not going to help us if you keep getting angry'' Charla said, Lucy took a deep breath. ''Okay. Your right Charla'' Lucy said, then she cut down a vine making a path for the three girls to pass through. ''Plus when you get angry your not setting a good example for Wendy, I mean your 17 and Wendy is 8 so its only natural that she would look up to you'' Charla explianed. Lucy looked at the cat, ''oookay'' she said.
Just then Lucy cut down a vine and a skeleton swung down in the 3 girls faces.
CHAPTER 9 'THE ISLAND OF THE DEAD'
A scream erupted from the tree tops.
Natsu's head perked up, ''Hey you 2 hear that?'' Natsu asked Gray and Happy. ''How could we not'' Gray said, ''that was loud enough to wake the dead''
Happy nodded, the boys arived at the ship two hours ago to find every one up, about and there, exsept Lucy, Wendy and Charla. ''It mite be the girls come on. Oi Erza keep things in check while I'm gone 'kay'' Natsu said. ''Sure thing Natsu'' Erza said, Natsu nodded, grabed his sword and headed twords the woods.
Meanwhile.
Lucy, Wendy and Charla ran for their lives, ''Lucy I think we're safe'' Wendy said. The three girls stoped and looked around, they were in a clearing some place deeper in the woods. Lucy watched as Wendy slumped down to the ground, ''that really scared me and on top of that my feet hurt'' Wendy said. Lucy nodded, ''lets rest here its nice and peaceful'' she said. Charla and Wendy nodded, with that the three girls laid down in the grass and fell asleep.
An hour later Lucy woke up to a rustling sound in the distance, coming from her right. Not wanting to wake the sleeping Wendy yet not wanting to leave her alone, Lucy took her keys and summoned one of her spirts. ''Open gate of the maiden, Virgo I summon thee'' Lucy wispered. Just then a girl appered with pink hair and wearing a maids outfit, ''You summoned me princess? what can I do for you?'' the girl asked. ''Virgo I need you to watch after this girl and this cat'' Lucy said pionting to Wendy and Charla, ''can you do that?''
Virgo nodded and bowed, ''if that is your wish then it is my command princess'' she said. ''Thanks Virgo'' Lucy said, with that she ran into the woods. As Lucy went deeper in the woods she started to become paranoid. Just as Lucy thought looking for that rustling sound was hopeless, a rustle of the bushes to her right told her someone was there.
Lucy swiped her sword at the bush. ''OW!'', the vioce of Lucy's capitan sounded out of the bush. ''Natsu is that you?'' Lucy asked, heading tword the bush. ''No its Lady Gaga. Yeah its Natsu now help me out of these bushes'' Natsu said angrly. Lucy sighed, 'man he's grumpy' she thought. Helping her capitan out of the bushes Lucy asked, ''are you lost to?''
Natsu shook his head, ''I came looking for you, wait don't tell me you lost Wendy and Charla!'' he said. Lucy shook her head, ''no I know where they are. One of my spirits is with them'' she said. Natsu seemed to relax a little, ''oh thats good to know'' he said. Lucy nodded, 'wow he cares a lot about his crew' she thought.
''You know Luce, this island just isn't sitting right with me'' Natsu said as he looked around . 'Oh great now he's given me a pet name', Lucy thought sarcasticly. ''There's just something not right with it'' Natsu continued, Lucy looked around.
''Really? I just think its creepy'' Lucy said, Natsu looked at her, ''I think its cool'' he said. ''Didn't you just say it wasn't sitting right with you?'' Lucy asked, really confused now. Natsu nodded, ''just 'cause I say it doesn't sit right with me doesn't mean I can't think its cool'' he said.
After a few minutes of walking and talking, the two pirates desided to go back to Wendy and Charla. Lucy was actually the one who made the desition to turn around and go back, mostly because her magic energy was running low. ''How much further my leg is killing me'' Natsu whined. Lucy shook her head, ''I know this is asking for trouble but why is your leg killing you?'' she asked. ''Oh I d'know let me think.....Oh yeah 'cause you nearly chopped it off!'' Natsu answered. ''Well you should have seen that coming, plus the key word in there is nearly'' Lucy shot back. ''I am so peeved with you right now'' Natsu growled.
A few minutes later Natsu and Lucy arived at the clearing were Lucy had left Wendy and Charla. Wendy was awake and so was Charla, ''Oh you two are awake'' Lucy said. Wendy's face lit up when she saw her comrades, ''Lucy, you found Natsu'' Wendy said. ''More like nearly killed Natsu'' Natsu muttered, loud enough for the two girls and cat to hear. ''Oh lay off it, it was an accident. Plus you caught me with my guard up'' Lucy replyed. Just then Lucy relised Virgo was still there, Lucy looked at Virgo. ''Do you have new orders princess?'' Virgo asked, notising her masters stare. Lucy shook her head, ''No, you can go back Virgo'' she said. ''Thank you princess. I will take my leave now'' Virgo said, and with a flash of golden light she was gone.
Natsu looked at Lucy, ''princess?'' he asked. Lucy shook her head, ''don't even ask'' she said. ''Already did'' Natsu replyed, ''I was right? Your really a princess?''
Lucy shook her head, ''not even close'' she said. Natsu asked no further questions, but made a note to ask her about her past later. A few minutes passed as Natsu told, Lucy, Wendy and Charla that he came to look for them with Grey and happy.
''I seemed to have lost them in the prosess'' Natsu was saying. Lucy rolled her eyes, 'like we can't see that. Thanks capitan obvious' She thought. ''Hey Wendy in all of your research have you read about this island?'' Lucy asked, Natsu gave her a look as if she spoke in a different languge. ''What? You said you felt uneasy about this place so I'm asking'' Lucy said. ''Let me do that'' Natsu demmanded, ''Wendy, what have you researched about this place?''
Lucy through her hands up in the air, ''of course'' she mubbled under her breath. Lucy stoud up and streached her legs, ''well actually Natsu has a good reason to feel uneasy'' Wendy said. Lucy stopped her streaching, ''and that good reason would be...?'' she asked. Wendy's reply was so frighting it made Natsu shiver, ''They call this island 'the island of the dead'.''
CHAPTER 10 'ZOMBIE PIRATES!'
''Yeah I'd say thats a pretty good reason'' Lucy said, Natsu nodded in agreement. ''Dare I ask why they call it that'' Natsu asked, Wendy started to explian. ''About 10 years ago a spanish pirate was left on this island as punishment for her crimes'', Natsu stopped Wendy from continuing. ''Wait 'her'?'' Natsu asked, Wendy nodded and continued. ''The pirates name was Gracie Hernadez, aperently she was so angry that she learned dark magic and cursed the island'' Wendy said, pausing to take a breath.
''Gracie said that who ever landed here would be attacked by the zombies of pirates that died here before her.'' Wendy finished, Natsu nodded calmly while Lucy hyperventalated. ''Yeah I'd say thats a problem'' Natsu said, Lucy looked at him. ''Problem? No Natsu this is more than a problem, I d'know what this is. All I know is we need to get off this island right now'' Lucy said. ''You must be pretty stuipid then'' Natsu joked. ''This is know time for jokes'' Lucy yelled, but she couldn't help but smile.
Just then, there was a crack of a branch in the woods behind Lucy. Natsu's head turned in the direction of the noise. ''What was that?'' Lucy asked.
''ROAR!"
''AAAAAAAHHHH!" Lucy screamed, as a blue furry animal attached its self to her back. "Oh, its Happy" Natsu said, pulling the blue cat off of Lucy. "Hey! its me to. I threw Happy at Lucy'' Gray said, steping out of the woods behind Lucy. ''Gray your shirt!" Wendy yelled. ''Crap'' Gray yelled as he relised he wasn't wearing a shirt, ''well at least Erza isn't here but then again Lucy is just as scary''. Everyone (exsept Lucy) laughed.
''Thats it!" Lucy yelled.
Lucy launched herself at Gray. Gray was pretty good at dodging Lucy's punches, untill Lucy hit him in the stomache. Gray hit the ground instantly. Lucy drew her sword and pointed it at Gray. Natsu, thinking that this was getting dangerous, grabbed Lucy's sword hand and twisted it behind her back and put her in a head lock. Lucy dropped her sword and started struggling to get free. ''Calm down Luce'' Natsu said, titening his grip. ''Yeah and get a'hold of that temper while your at it, some day you mite kill someone'' gray said, letting out a shakey laugh.
''Shut up!'' Natsu said, keeping his grip on Lucy.
''Your the one who made her angry in the fist place'' Natsu said, Grays attention seemed to be trained on Lucy. ''Uh......Natsu I may be wrong but I don't think girls are suposed to look blue'' Gray said. Natsu looked at Lucy and sure enough she was having trouble breathing. Natsu let go of Lucy imidiatly, ''Sorry Lucy! I guess I don't know my own streangth'' he said. Lucy gave him a look that could have made even the most powerful man on earth, cower in fear.
After Lucy had regained her breath and Natsu ordered her not to kill Gray, they all decided to split up.
''All right Gray, Lucy and Happy will try to search for wood and Wend-'', Natsu was cut off when Gray interupted him. ''And why would we be looking for wood?'' Gray asked. Natsu looked down and kicked a rock, ''I may have wrecked a part of the ship'' he mubbled quitely. ''Sorry what was that?'' Gray asked.
''I-I may have wrecked part of the ship'' Natsu said, Gray looked at him in disbelive. ''Natsu you idiot you know thats our only mode of transportation, Right?'' Gray said. Natsu was red in the face, ''you lookin' for a fight?'' Natsu said angrly.
After Natsu and Gray stopped fighting, the six pirates split up. Gray went with Lucy and Happy to find wood to repair the ship, and Natsu went with Wendy and Charla to find the ship and tell the crew what was going on.
''AAAAAAHHHHGGG!'' Lucy yelled, ''why did Natsu pair me up with you?!''
Gray looked at her, ''look on the bright side, Natsu could have paired you up with him and trust me he uses that capitan privalige to much'' he said. Lucy decided that Gray had a point, ''Still you could at least put a shirt on'' she said. ''I told you I lost it while I was helping Natsu look for you'' Gray yelled. 'How do you loose a shirt?' Lucy thought, and started walking around. Just then Lucy herd a moaning noise, "oh very funny Gray'' Lucy said, imidiatly assuming it was Gray. Gray looked at her, he had an arm full of sticks, no shirt and dirt on his face, so he looked rediculus. ''I didn't do any thing'' Gray said, Lucy shook her head. ''Oh so I supose I was imagining that noise'' Lucy said, Gray nodded and kept on picking up sticks.
Just then 10 things not among the living, jumped out at the trio. Happy screamed and ran behind Lucy, "My brain's no good, take hers instead'' he cried. Lucy rolled her eyes, ''My hero'' she said. Lucy and Gray took out thier swords, ''lets do this Lucy'' Gray said. ''Right!'' Lucy answered, as they both took a swing at the monsters. Lucy got cut almost imidiatly, by a zombie's sword. ''Lucy! Stab their heads'' Gray yelled, Lucy took Grays advise.
Lucy and Gray defeted the zombies sucsesfully, but Lucy did not come out unharmed. Lucy had a bleeding cut on one of her arms spelling the message, GET OUT.
''Creepy!'' Lucy said, looking at her right arm. Gray nodded, ''lets forget the wood and get to the ship'' he said. Lucy and Happy agreed, and they all head tword the ship.
CHAPTER 11 ''THE CREW HEARS THE NEWS''
Lucy and Gray made it to the ship with out any interuptions, but by that time it was night.
''Erza, where's Natsu?'' Gray asked, Erza was a armored wizard, with a quick temper, but don't tell her that other wise she'll rip your head off.
''In his room'' Erza answered, ''he's been actin' strange though, mutterin' somthin' about the undead.''
''Thanks'' Gray muttered. Gray pulled lucy by the arm, to her capitans room. ''Natsu'' Gray said as the two people and cat entered the room. Natsu was sitting at his desk looking at a map, but when he saw Gray, Lucy and Happy he put the map away. ''Whats up?'' Natsu asked, Gray shoved Lucy's arm in Natsu's face. ''Check this out'' Gray said. Natsu looked at Lucy's arm, '' OH MY GOD! what am I looking at exsactly?'' he asked. Gray looked at Lucy's arm and relised that he showed Natsu the wrong one.
Gray grabed Lucy's other arm and showed Natsu the scar. "Woah! What happened?'' Natsu exclaimed. ''Guess'' Lucy answered, Natsu thought for a second. ''Why can't you guys just get along?'' he said, Gray and Lucy rolled thier eyes. ''Natsu we were ambushed by zombies!'' Happy cried. ''Oh, well my guess was way off!'' Natsu said, letting go of Lucy's arm. ''Don't sound so suprised'' Lucy muttered, Natsu paid no attention to the remark.
"Well these things obviously mean business'' Natsu said, ''I mean if they didn't why would they carve that message into your arm, Luce.''
Just then there was a knock on the door, Natsu jumped up, grabed a bandge and handed it to Lucy. ''Wrap up the cut, I don't want to scare anyone'' Natsu said, Lucy quickly wraped up her cut. When the door opened, Erza steped in. ''Hey Natsu, you've been acting strange for a while can you tell me whats going on'' Erza asked.