Chapter one: Understanding a soulmate:

A soulmate is like a best friend but more. It's the one person in the world that knows you better than anyone else. It's someone who makes you a better person, well, actually they don't make you a better person - you do that yourself because they inspire you. A soulmate is someone who you carry with you forever. It's the one person who knew you, and accepted you, and believed in you before anyone else did or when no one else would. And no matter what happens... you will always love them. ~Dawson Creek.

That is what the definition of a soulmate truly means. Someone who will always be with you. Someone who loves you. Someone who will pick you up when you're down.

Also, someone who drives you insane. Someone who you wanna kill here and there. Someone you fight with to make the relationship stronger. Also, someone who apparently loves to gets into random fights.

For the love of God, if you love your soulmate PLEASE STOP GETTING INTO SO MANY FIGHTS.

Anyway I'm off. I'll finish the tips for chapter one later!

~ Lucy Heartfilia.

Lucy shut her MacBook softly and sighed. She got up from her desk hearing a knock on her door.

"Come in!" Lucy said.

Lucy turns, her large soft cocoa brown eyes staring at denim blue eyes. The eyes staring at her rested on a round face, above a cute little button nose. There was a stupid grin and a very small gap between the front teeth.

"I'm jealous," Lucy said staring at the male in front of her.

The guy raised a brow and glanced up. The ink-black short hair was messy and had the perfect contrast to the boy's blue eyes. The male was tall and slightly lanky. He had broad shoulders.

"Jealous of my hair?" The male teased.

"I actually am," Lucy replies, "so where's the boyfriend Blake?"

"He's being all cute wearing my shirt and making breakfast," Zack said looking at his little cousin.

Lucy smiled and rolled her eyes softly. She looked at her cousin's light cocoa skin. She noticed all the new bruises, bite marks, hickeys on his neck and arms. Lucy coughed slightly and felt awkward. She turned away rubbing the back of her neck.

"What happened?" Blake asked.

Lucy raised a brow. She noticed a new bruise on her arm which wasn't there about 10 seconds ago. She sighed softly before looking at her cousin.

"New bruise. Soulmate fighting again," Lucy said wondering what exactly her soulmate was doing. She pushed the thought out of her head.

She had known that her soulmate was a rowdy guy from day one. When she could walk, bruises were always popping up on Lucy. She never had an exactly nice quiet day when it came to her soulmate. He was always getting into fights. Horrible fights. She would have busted lips, black eyes, bruises for months, or hot flashes. She never knew how he got into so many fights but he did. Her father hated this, and her mother well helped her with the pain.

Lucy was an expert by the time her mother passed from an illness and her father from another illness couple years later.

Which landed Lucy here. In the apartment on top of her gay cousin's house. She wasn't complaining, it was quite fun honestly. He always gave her clothes and took her shopping. Though the thought of her soulmate slipped back into her mind silently. Who was he? What does he do? What are his friends like? Are they nice? Does he have friends? What's his family like?

Lucy's eyes were glowing with awe thinking about her soulmate. Blake noticed and snickered softly but happily at her cousin. Now three blocks down, in time square was a college and magical guild called Fairy Tail.

Now three blocks down, in time square was a college and magical guild called Fairy Tail...

Within in the guild halls, was lunch. The guild members/students/teachers were all happily eating, and fighting. A pink haired boy that's hair defied gravity was at his lunch table, having a bruise on his arm just like Lucy did. Natsu was happily eating fire which he found fine to his stomach.

"Natsu you shouldn't be eating so much fire! Your soulmate might burn to death!" Wendy said with pure fear.

Natsu sighed, knowing she was right. He grabbed a sandwich which his mother had made and started eating that. He muttered unhappily, feeling half satisfied with his lunch. His normal wide eyes were dull from not being able to eat his full lunch. His coal colored eyes scanned the room for something fun and excited but then remembered he sent his own 'brother' Gajeel and his friend(kind of…?) Gray to the nurse. His slight tan skin had some bruises on it from all the fights in three days alone. He slowly felt his shark tooth grin form on his face knowing he beat Gray and Gajeel more than once. Natsu licked his now dry, think lips while thinking. He stood up, being average height. He was muscular thought, and every girl could agree on that.

"Hey Wendy I just noticed something," Natsu said.

"Yeah?"

"My soulmate never does anything fun. Like I go into battles and all but like...she never does anything. I never get any bruises from her. I mean a door to the face here and there and sudden cramps for a while but no... battle scars you know?" Natsu said.

"Well everyone's different!" Wendy said and smiled, "besides, I bet she's really pretty and nice. You'll like her, I guarantee it."

"I hope so. Well I'm off for the rest of the day I'm gonna head home," Natsu announced to Wendy.

"You know mama and papa hate you being home alone. Even uncle Matt is out you know the rules."

"Yeah yeah. I'll walk around," Natsu said and left the guild saying bye to his little sister. He went into town and sighed, hoping the 4 hours to kill would go by quite quickly...

Lucy hummed softly while working at the movie theater. She took the night shift since she's starting college tomorrow and her normal hours just couldn't happen anymore. Lucy was in a red and black shirt, black jeans, and some sneakers she had. Her hair was in a high ponytail and had a blue ribbon on top. Her shift was ending and her manager said she just had to check all the theaters and she could leave early.

Lucy thanked her lucky stars for having such a nice manager. Nobody was in any theaters, except one old little theater. The manager played reruns of old movies if anybody got bored. She spotted a figure and turned her flashlight on. She walked over and shined the light onto the sleeping man.

"Sir. Excuse me, sir," Lucy said seeing the guy stir.

Lucy watched as the guy rolled his head to face her. His eyes squinted from being blinded by the flashlight. She watched as the guy sat up rubbing his eyes.

"Oh hey Cinderella," the guy said.

Lucy was taken back and glared at him. She planted a hand on her hip, cocking a brow.

"Excuse me?" She asked. She didn't wanna deal with a sexist guy before her shift ended.

"Huh? Ooh shit sorry," the guy said and got up. His knee popped and sent the popcorn bucket flying and nailed Lucy in the face. Lucy stumbled back and groaned softly feeling the rim of the bucket hit her nose.

"Oh shit! Ah, fuck I'm so sorry."

"It's fine," Lucy said holding a hand up. She held her hand out to stop the guy from trying to get close to her and felt something run down to her lips. Blood.

"Here," Natsu said holding napkins out.

Lucy smiled thanking him. She kindly took the napkins, mentally cursing him out. She blinked noticing Natsu's nose had started to bleed as well.

"It's really stuffy in here," Natsu said.

"Mmm. Maybe that's why your nose is bleeding," Lucy said.

Natsu blinked and felt his lip, seeing blood. He was confused as Lucy continued.

"When the air is very dry sometimes it actually can cause nosebleeds."

"Oh, I never knew that," Natsu said.

Lucy smiled and nodded softly. She held a napkin to her nose and backed up slightly.

"Well I'm gonna have to ask you to leave please," Lucy said slightly muffled from the napkin.

Natsu has a napkin to his nose and nodded walking out. Lucy walked out and went to the counter. Natsu had made his way to the door and turned, before sighing softly and frowning. He turned seeing something blue darting. He caught Happy and chuckled. "Hey, buddy."

"Natsu! How was the movie?" Happy asked.

"Good...good," Natsu said.

"You okay?" Happy asked looking in the direction of his friend.

Happy eyes landed on Lucy who was throwing the bloody napkin out. Lucy grabbed her jacket, telling her manager she would wash her uniform even though he insisted he do it. Happy turned back ago Natsu, who was in awe staring at Lucy. The corner of his eyes crinkled softly and Happy giggled covering his mouth.

"What?" Natsu asked looking at his best friend.

"Nothing," Happy said and held his stomach as it growled.

"Happy you just reminded me. I'm starving!" Natsu said and ran off with his best friend laughing.

Lucy was at the counter and watched the two. She smiled slightly and sighed before turning to her manager who was busy. She left the bloody uniform before grabbing her pink sweater. She was in a short sleeve white t-shirt and black jeans and converse. She would have been in her new black skirt she bought but something told her not to and she's glad she listened to her gut feeling.

Lucy said goodbye to her manager before heading off. She grabbed her white purse on the way out and walked out of the theater. She looked at the deserted parking lot and felt her stomach curl with fear. She opened her purse taking her celestial keys out and car keys before making her way to her car. Sadly when she came here, she was all the way in the nowhere country and that's where her car was now. As she made her way to the silver honda she felt a large hand upon her purse.

"Hey!" She said and got a grip on it, fighting for the purse

She stumbled back when the guy stopped fighting for the purse and pulled a knife out of her. She gasped and fell onto her back before quickly getting up. She crawled back like a crab and remembered her keys. She quickly got to her feet running while the guy chased her. She was heading for her car and glanced down seeing she was holding Loke's key.

"Open, the gate of the lion Loke!" She yelled holding her golden key out.

The guy stopped short as a cloud of dust appeared. Then, there stood a man in a black nice suit, red tie, white button shirt and a gold belt. He ran his hand run through his orange spiked hair and cracked his knuckles.

"What the hell do you think you're doing to her?" Loke snapped, glaring at the guy.

Before the guy could speak, Loke was already using Regulus Impact. Before the guy knew it, Loke's right fist met his face and a sudden lion's face appeared and a blast of light sent the guy flying. Loke stood there and cracked his knuckles again before looking at Lucy.

"You okay?" He asked worriedly.

Lucy smiled and nodded. "Yeah thanks for that," she said.

"No problem. Remember it's kind of my job," Loke teased before disappearing.

Lucy shook her head having a soft smile on her face. She unlocked her car and got in. She made sure she was buckled up before having the engine roar to life. She then proceeded to drive out of the parking lot and make her way home. She was slightly shaken up from the events that just happened, but nothing horrible. Now she could yell at her cousin that she should always carry her keys on her.

Lucy pulled into the driveway and shut the car off. She sat in her car for 5 minutes replaying the last couple of hours in her head. She shook the memories off and unbuckled herself. Of course with her luck, it was all twisted so she was sitting in her car fighting with a freaking seatbelt.