Disclaimer- I do not own Fairy Tail. This is the first time I have ever written something like this... enjoy! :)

Struck by Lightning

As the glow of the morning sun rising breached the once again open window in Lucy's apartment the young mage begins to wake. She tries to shuffle under the blankets it is then she realizes that she is not a lone in her bed. However if the window is open and the blue ball of fur above her head are any indication she knows its just her pink haired partner and his adorable yet annoying cat.

"Luuuccceee…im hungry…" The blonde hears her still sleeping friend mumble into the pillow.

I swear that baka has no understanding of personal space, he is just lucky I have not Lucy kicked his and that stupid cats butt out of here. Mainly because I am still sore and two I guess I owe him since we only took that stupid mission yesterday to pay my rent… Ugh but I already agreed to buy those two breakfast today as a thank you why do they have to push their luck?

With a growl of irritation Lucy gets out of her bed, grabs some clothes and towel, and heads to her bathroom so that she can start getting ready for the day. She knew that Natsu and Happy will be sleeping for a few more hours, and she wanted to get to the guild and find an easy solo job. Even though the celestial mage paid her rent yesterday she still has to feed herself for the rest of the month.

While stripping of her clothes and stepping into the shower the blonde continues her thoughts and sweat-dropped… 'the problem is not feeding myself but the rest of my team. Between Erza's cake addiciton, Happy's constant need for fish, and Natsu and Gray's completely different taste pallets I am amazed that I have survived this long. I love my friends but I do not understand why my kitchen seems to be our base camp.'

Lucy grumbles a few choice words over her frustrating financial situation as she finished scrubbing her scalp with her favorite strawberry shampoo. Putting her head underneath the stream Lucy sighs in relief as the hot water works its way down her curves, relaxing her body. Taking the matching conditioner she lathers that into her hair and then grabs her vanilla body wash to clean off all remaining tension that the previous day caused her. Letting out another sigh the mage lets the water rinse everything away so that she can start today new.

Stepping out of the shower she dries her hair and puts on the clothes she brought in earlier. Starting with her white lacy bra with a small pink bow in the middle and matching white underwear that had pink bows on her hips and over her butt. Over her underwear she pulls on a black short skirt and white cropped tank top and a red fitted cropped jacket. Checking her appearance in the mirror the blonde decides to leave her hair down for a change. Stepping out of the bathroom she quietly writes a note to her partners and sticks in on her fridge, the only way she knows they will see it, puts on her knee high black boots and grabs her belt, whip, and keys and walks out the door.

While walking to her beloved second home Lucy decides to call out Plue to walk with her. After chanting the words the little "dog" pops out and starts his shaky dance with a happy "puunn pun." The young blonde giggles and starts to walk with him along the edge of the canal, ignoring the warnings of the fishermen.

When the guildhall is in site Lucy takes a deep breath and smiles at the site a ways ahead of her. She may fight to pay her rent to have a place to sleep at night but Fairy Tail will always be her home. After releasing the air she forced into her lungs she looks up at the sky. "Plue, there is going to be a meteor shower tonight, do you want to watch it with me?" Lucy asks her little celestial friend, but before he can answer a loud BOOM and bright flash of lightning strikes down next to the girl and the snowman/dog. "KYAAAAAAAA!" The woman jumps back tripping over her own feet and squeezes her eyes shut and clenches her fists to brace for impact.

After a few moments Lucy realizes that she has not in fact hit the ground, but instead has a large arm wrapped around her waist. She had a faint idea as to whom the muscular arm belonged to, but prayed that she would not be right. Taking another moment to take in breath to calm her she opened her eyes to see very amused gray eyes looking back at her, with a smirk across the rest of the face. Dang it, it is him… she thinks to herself.

"H-Hey Laxus…" Of course it just had to be him, the great lightning dragon slayer, one of the strongest guys in all of Fiore and she had to scream and almost fall over right in front of him, how embarrassing. "Umm… thank you for c-catching me… but do you think you can pull me up now?" She felt her face heat up as he pulled her up into his chest, her face at this point felt like it was on fire and he let out a small deep chuckle. She quickly stepped back and brushed her hair behind her ear looking down at the ground.

It was then that she noticed the trembling and crying Plue hiding behind her legs, and all the embarrassment she felt left her body and a new emotion filled her… anger.

If Lucy were like her best friend she would be engulfed in flames, she turned on the lightning dragon slayer and glared at him with such intensity it would rival Erza's. Laxus had only just realized the change in attitude as he felt the dark aura coming off of the small mage in front of him.

"LAXUS! Look what you did!" The man looked at where the girl was pointing and saw a small snowman thing with a tail cowering behind the curvy blonde. He looked back at her rage filled eyes and had to take a step back, 'wasn't she just a sputtering mess a second ago, and what the hell did I do?'

"What are you talking about blondie? And what the Hell is that thing" He asked her, he honestly had no clue what to make of it

'BLONDIE? THING?' Lucy screamed in her head, while bending down to pick up the shaking mess of a spirit and cradled him to her chest. Plue nuzzled his face in attempts to hide himself in the depths of her ample cleavage. Laxus saw this and thought of how he was slightly jealous of the… what ever it was.

"First of all my name is LUCY and second this is my SPIRIT, his name is Plue, and you have now fully succeeded in insulting and scaring him you arrogant, insensitive, blonde, jerk!" The blonde spitfire screamed at him and then stormed off toward the guild, still cradling the small spirit to her chest to comfort him. Leaving the tall blonde mage very confused and surprised staring after her.

With a loud bang the doors to the guild open and the few early risers turned to see a very pissed off celestial spirit wizard. This is a very rare sight to be seen in front of them; normally the bubbly girl is all smiles, which were infectious to everyone in the guild. She is even known to be able to draw out a few, though rather strange, laughs from the estrange iron dragon slayer. Still fuming Lucy heads toward the bar where a very concerned take-over mage is standing.

Pausing slightly to take a few deep breaths to calm herself, the girl looks down at the shaking spirit still hiding his face and smiles. "Plue… hey it is okay now… what would you like from Mira? You can have anything you want."

The spirit tentatively looks up at his master and after taking in his surroundings and her smile for reassurance responds "Punn pun?"

"Yes anything"

"Puunnn!" The spirit looks at the smiling beautiful barmaid and orders. "Puunn Pun"

Lucy giggles at her friend who is trying her best to figure out what the spirit just ordered, to alleviate the confusion Lucy translates, "He wants and ice-cream Sunday, and a strawberry smoothie for me please" Mira looks at her friend and smiles thankfully.

The mage and her spirit move to sit at the bar to wait for their order the rest of the guild went back to what they were doing, but before long Lucy is quickly pulled out of her newfound good mood when she hears the doors to the guild open again. Realizing it could really only be one man, she quickly turns to her spirit and asks that it return to the spirit world and that she will call him back out when his order is ready. Plue looked at Lucy questioningly, but realized the only reason she would have for sending him back for that short amount of time. The spirit smiled thankfully and left. As soon as Plue was safely back in his world her anger began to rise again as she turned to glare at the man walking into the guild.

The people closest to Lucy sensed her anger spike back up and turned to see what made her so angry. Much to their shock they saw her staring down the resident lightning dragon slayer as he entered the guild. Mira too also took notice and knowing that the mage does not normally get angry without reason immediately thought of turning into her Satan Soul form.

Laxus scans the room looking for his target, after spotting her at the bar; he heads over to her and calls out, "Oi, blondie, what the hell? You scream at me, then storm off without letting me respond?"

"As far as I was concerned the conversation was over."

"Clearly its not if I still have no idea what I did wrong." At this point the whole guild was silent listening to the argument that was taking place in front of them.

"What, do you have that thick of a skull? I told you, you scared my spirit and then went and insulted him on top of it!"

"I didn't do anything how could I have scared the thing?!"

Master Makarov could hear the yelling taking place down below, and although fighting is not new to Fairy Tail hearing his grandson and the ever happy celestial mage of all people fighting did not sit well with him, and thus decided he to see what the argument was about.

"Again he is not a THING, he is my spirit and friend, and you scared him when you landed next to me after transporting yourself in your lightning form"

Laxus thought for a moment, then smirked, "Your this upset because that little spirit was afraid of a little lightning? That seems pretty lame don't ya think? It sounds to me like you should just trade his key in for a stronger, better one."

Lucy's world stopped, she could not believe what he just said. Did he really believe that her spirits were used like that, is this really what everyone thought? These people around her are her family, just as her spirits are her family. She knows Team Natsu, Levy, Wendy, Carla, and Juvia understand how important her spirits are to her. But now she wonders if they only understood because they visited the spirit world with her and interacted with them… what about before? What about everyone else in the guild? Were they under the impression that celestial spirits were to be treated as… as… tools? That they could be traded in or replaced so easily?

Her celestial spirits are her friends; the bonds she had made with all of them are irreplaceable. So having to sacrifice Aquarius's key that day was one of the hardest things she has ever had to do, but she did it for them. Then after everything ended and she had time to think about what happened, about the price she and Aquarius paid, had left her devastated. Lucy hadn't been able to talk about it to anyone about it because she was still trying come to terms with it herself. And he has the gall to suggest she do it again, and he had said it so easily!

Before she could register what she was doing Lucy had gotten out of her chair made the few strides to cover the distance between the two, drew back her hand and smacked Laxus across the face, hard, to the point that his face had turned to the side and there was a clear marking of her hand across his cheek.

People gasped around her but she didn't care, she was still in his face and seething. "You listen well Laxus Dryer, my spirits are my friends, my family, just like everyone in the guild is. Saying I should trade in Plue's key is like saying I should trade someone from this guild to another guild. I understand that other celestial mages have abused their spirits and used them as mere tools, but they are living beings and I love all of them. Many of the spirits I have contracts with now have had horrible masters in the past; some have even been beaten, treated no better than trash. And I have been working very hard to show them how a real celestial mage acts. Therefore I will defend my spirits and I wont allow the people that they help me protect and save, like you, to even think about treating them any way I wouldn't. I thought that since I was a member of Fairy Tail, your family Laxus, that you would have the decency to show respect my other family."

Laxus and rest of the guild remained in shock; they had never seen this side of Lucy before. The lightning mage noticed the girl in front of him had started to pale but her eyes still held her furry, she took a swaying step back and continued, "Also because you seem to need a large explanation for something so simple. I am not upset that Plue is now scared of lightning, I am pissed because he is now afraid of you."

After that Lucy turned to Mira after closing her eyes and counting to five, she opened them and gave the shocked take over mage the best smile she could manage, "Mira did you by chances already make Plue's Sunday?" The barmaid looked wide-eyed at Lucy, then Laxus, then back to Lucy. She could only shake her head no at first then added, "No I did not I am sorry it will be just one second."

Lucy calmly replied, "Oh no Mira its fine, I think I will just to take him to an ice-cream shop in town instead, but I promised Natsu and Happy that I would buy them breakfast here as a thank you, so could you please just put it on my tab and Ill be back later to pay?"

"S-Sure Lucy no problem."

"Great, thanks Mira." Lucy turned and stepped up close again to the lightning mage, his face still had a distinct hand mark on, and spoke softly. Intending on having only the dragon slayer in front of her hearing, unknown to her however another dragon slayer had taken a break from eating iron to hear the rest of what she had to say.

"Listen sparky, you think about what I said, and you think all day if you have to if that's what it takes to get it through that thick skull of yours. I will not have any of my family to be scared of one another, celestial or fairy. Therefore you will be spending this evening with Plue and I watching the meteor shower so that he is not traumatized by today's events. That is after I spend most of today assuring him that you wont hurt him. You wont hurt him will you sparky?" Lucy states coldly.

Laxus still stood in disbelief staring at the girl could only managed to shake his head no.

"Good, do we have an understanding then?"

A nod

"Excellent, I will back later today, clear your schedule." Lucy then put on one of her signature smiles and moved past him, heading out of the guild.

After the doors closed and a few moments of silence, Cana looks around and asks what everyone was thinking, "What the fuck just happened?"