Sorry if I made a big mistake in the previous chapter! It was supposed to be 7 years ago! ^^" Hope you didn't mind it…

Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy this second part!

A year had passed and it was now Month 7, Day 6th in the year X777. Lucy and Natsu were playing by a pond, with Natsu trying to fry all the fishes as Lucy tried to prevent him from annihilating the entire fish race in that pool of water.

"Natsu, stop! Don't hurt the fishes!" Lucy persuaded as she grabbed at his arm. A big change had happened to Lucy. She now wore her hair up and at the side, her clothes being a cut out cloth from her old dress. She was starting to be like Natsu; living in the wild.

"But I wanna eat them, Lucyy!" Natsu complained as he finally succumbed to her. He grumbled as she let out a sigh of relief.

"You shouldn't hurt living animals, you know! They have their own lives too! What if you killed a mother and her children had to live on their own?" She lectured him. He glared at her.

"But they're delicious." He shot back stubbornly. Lucy rolled her eyes. Another fight was about to ensue, when Igneel came back and so both the children ran up to him.

Igneel regarded them with warmth. However, that soon disappeared when he realized what he had to do that night. "Natsu, I'd like to talk to Lucy for a while."

He looked at Lucy and then to his father in confusion before nodding his head and went off far away from them. Lucy was also puzzled. What was going on?

Natsu looked at them as he fiddled with a stone and heating it up before throwing it in the pond water, making steam hiss up into the air. As he gazed at his friend, he wondered why she had gone from shock then sadness. He raised his eyebrows as she slowly walked back to him, her head lowered. He rushed towards her.

"What happened, Luce? Did dad say something mean to you?" He asked her. She made an effort to smile at him.

"Nothing happened. Your dad didn't say anything mean." Natsu knew not to pry and so he left it off.

"Okay. Do you want to go play at the waterfall?"

"Okay!" Natsu sighed inwardly in relief as Lucy's easygoing smile came back. She was old Lucy again. He didn't like her sad face.

"We'll be back for lunch, dad!" Natsu called out to Igneel as both of them went into the woods and towards the direction of the falls.

=.=

"Ne, Natsu."

"Hmm? What is it?"

"What would you do if I was gone?"

Natsu stared at Lucy, speechless. They were sitting inside a cave behind the rushing sheet of water. They were both dripping wet. Natsu clenched his fists. "As if I'd let you do that!" He shouted.

She looked at him. "What do you mean?"

"I won't hand you easily to anyone!" Natsu said protectively.

"But…But what if I had to go? What would you do next?" She persisted. Natsu frowned before grinning.

"I'd mark you! So that wherever you are, I would be able to find you!"

She gave him a puzzled look. He drew in close. "I'll show you."

And with that, he took her hand, placed it over his heart and he kissed her lips, biting the lower lip, drawing up blood, and licked it. When they parted, Lucy was staring at him, her turn being unable to speak.

"Now that I have your scent, I can find you." He said happily. Finally, Lucy smiled.

"Uhn! We'll be friends forever!"

And so inside the cave, the two best-friends embraced each other.

=.=

The light of the moon casted a silvery glow down at the land. Silhouettes of a dragon and a small girl on its back could be seen. Lucy was crying as she looked one last time at Natsu who was sleeping inside the house, oblivious of everything.

"I'm sorry, Lucy, but it is time to go." Igneel said softly to her. She nodded, not daring herself to speak.

And with that, the dragon beat his wings once, twice, and finally lifted them both in the air. He flew towards the mountain gap where they had first arrived. Lucy looked back, having a last glimpsed at the house in the middle of the forest before finally it was out of view.

She cried the whole way to her mansion.

=.=

Lucy Heartfilia was back at her home and she standing on her room's balcony. She gazed melancholically at the dragon.

"I will miss you and Natsu." Lucy said. Igneel bowed his head.

"We both shall miss you too, Lucy. Now, forget."

With those magical words, a dark haze filmed over the girl's eyes. She went to her bed and lay on the cushions, untouched for a year, sleeping soundly. Igneel looked up at the sky. There were dragons flying north and he would have to join them soon. He flew up to the sky and not looking back, he left.

On 7/7/X777, Igneel disappeared and Natsu and Lucy forgot each other.

=.=

7 years later…

"Thanks for breaking the spell." A voice spoke from above a certain pink haired boy and a blue cat.

"What?"

The blonde girl and the boy's eyes met. She smiled at him.

"I'm Lucy. And you?"

"Natsu. And this is Happy."

"Nice to meet you, Natsu."

A fight and then an invitation.

"You want to join Fairy Tail, right? Then,

"Come with me."

And the rest is history.

Fin.

How'd you like it? XD it was really quite fun doing this two-shot! Look forward to more works from me! I'm starting to get a hang with NaLu (Finally!).

Thanks for reading! And please review while you're at it!

*crowd claps, leaves stage*