Inclination

Chapter 1

Mating season.

Just those two words alone made a certain blue headed dragon slayer groan. She hated this time of year with a fiery passion, her instincts became worse than usual and her mind was in a whole other world, her ways of thinking were the opposite from what they usually were making her common innocent side seem as if never even existed. Wendy didn't feel like she had control over anything when this time of year came around but for her this year seemed worse than the last two. Her awkward dreams that would disturb her peaceful sleep at night were coming two weeks prior to the actual time mating season even began this year, she would wake up feeling flustered almost every other morning if not every morning, and every time she'd even come within twenty feet of the guild only one scent caught her attention more than the others. It was why she'd rather be hiding away in her room at fairy Hills all day until the season was over but if she did that then others would become suspicious. The only one the seventeen-year-old let know about mating season was her partner, Carla, and even then it was embarrassing for the sky maiden to speak about it.

"Wendy I know you're suffering at the moment but wouldn't it be nice to at least get some fresh air?"Carla's voice seeped through the material of Wendy's old light blue blanket.

"I cracked the window so I'm getting plenty of air." The teen groggily replied and shifted herself onto her side underneath her blanket.

"You know what I meant Wendy Marvell now get up and get dressed! You're going for a walk whether you like it or not and if you don't go to the guild soon the others are going to think something happened to you. Do you want all the other girls from the dorm to be swarming outside you door?" Carla asked while tugging Wendy's plush barrier off of her annoyed with the bluenette's behavior.

"No but you know what will happen if I get to close to the guild Carla. I just can't. I'll go out and get some air if you so wish it of me but I refuse to go near the guild." Wendy said sternly trying to reason with the white feline.

"As long as you get out of this room, no get out of that bed I'll be happy." Carla bluntly stated and let go of the blanket.

Wendy threw her legs over the side of the bed and stood up making her way to her oak dresser. Inside of it she found a simple dark blue summer dress and she slipped it on after disposing her pajamas and then slid her feet into a white pair of sandals, her blue locks were pulled up into the usual twin tail style Wendy always went for. The entire girl's dormitory was completely empty due to the fact that all the girls who stayed here at Fairy Hills were probably relaxing at the guild or currently heading off on a job for the day. The only thing the female's exceptionally good hearing could pick up was the beating of Carla's wings against the air as they walked down a different path from their usual one so that Wendy didn't have to suffer going past the guild and losing herself to her instincts.

Magnolia was bustling with a lot of people, both tourists and people who actually lived here like always. Wendy had decided on returning to that clothing store she went to during her last shopping spree with Fairy Tail's bookworm Levy McGarden. There were still a few outfits she had hoped were still on the racks, her lack of money during the shopping spree caused the bluenette to be wise with what outfits she really wanted and which one's she could wait on till next time and since she had already paid the rent for the next two months she was going to gladly buy the remaining outfits she had wanted. Carla had also spotted a few dresses that fit her well so Wendy took them off their racks without hesitation and purchased them along with the three out of the five outfits they still had that she wanted.

Wendy had finally admitted that getting out of that stuffy room at the dorms was actually a good idea which only earned her an "I told you so" from her partner. The sky dragon sucked in another breath of the fresh Magnolia air and caught the scent of baking cinnamon rolls inside a bakery a crossed the street. The teen ran through the crowd apologizing to the people she bumped into on her way to the bakery door, Carla just flew overhead avoiding the entire crowd altogether. In the shop's window she saw an array of cakes and baked goods propped on top of stands for display. The sweet scent of cinnamon, vanilla, and sugar wafted up Wendy's nose making her smile and her mouth water at the thought of all the sweets. Maybe this could be her way to help her forget all about the time of year for her and her fellow slayers.

"Good evening! May I get you anything?" The lady behind the counter asked as she wiped her flour covered hands on the apron she was wearing.

"Do you have cinnamon rolls here?" Wendy asked even though she could smell them from the back room.

"Just freshly made actually, how many would you like?" She asked.

"Three please!"

The dragon slayer watched the lady disappear around to the back where the rolls were waiting. Carla had flown down the length of the counter looking t all of the baked sweets, a sampling of the store's brownies making the feline become overjoyed. Wendy took another breath of air trying to smell the cinnamon rolls but instead of smelling any of the sweets which she happened to be standing right next to the smell of musky smoke mixed with burning pine needles overwhelmed all of the other smells within the store. Wendy's eyes widened to the size of saucers knowing who that smell belonged to and right now couldn't have been a worse time for him of all people to appear.

"You always have your mind on food! Why can't you just think about something else for a change like our date for example?!"

"But this bakery just opened, please Luce I'll buy just one thing and then we can to where you want next I promise."

Wendy knew who those voices belonged to and frankly what they were talking about didn't make her happy in the slightest. She noticed Lucy and Natsu walking in from the bakery's entrance on the other side that could be accessed from another street. Wendy turned herself around quickly and stared at the wall behind the counter hoping that the two hadn't spotted her but of course she should've know Natsu would spot her, he did have the same instincts and senses like her.

"Hey Wendy! That you?" The pyro's overly cheerful voice hammered into her eardrums.

The bluenette bit her lip and slowly turned to face the two behind her nodding, "Yeah it's me."

"You are ok, well that's a relief. I was hearing from Erza and the others in the dorm that you had locked yourself away in your room. It's good to see you out on a stroll." Lucy chimed in while smiling softly at the other female.

"Yeah I uh, had a cold." Wendy quickly lied.

"Oh well you should've told us! We would've come by to see you then and make you feel better." Natsu flashed her his ear to ear grin and leaned forward making the sky dragon's face flush furiously as she leaned away from him to feel the counter jabbing into her back, "Seems like you still have it though, you're face is all red."

"O-Oh yeah." Was all Wendy could utter as the male was literally boosting her instincts ten times higher than normal.

"Even if we knew that, you and Gray wouldn't be able to go there anyway. It's a girls only dorm you idiot." Lucy huffed and crossed her arms while Natsu scratched the back of his head and gave an "oops" upon remembering that little detail.

The bluenette hoped that Natsu would back away, or better yet leave the store so that his smoky scent would leave with him. She knew that if he stayed here to long she would lose control and make a complete fool of herself. Besides even if he was the one her instincts seemed to push her towards there was just one little problem: he was taken. Yep the infamous Natsu Dragneel was already with someone and that someone would be the girl he was standing next to, Lucy Heartfilia. Every time Wendy saw those two together it really took all her will power to not go on some kind of rampage and what made things worse was that Lucy was one of her best friends so for the sky dragon it was a fight between desires and friendships during mating season which she found completely unfair.

"Well the two of us will leave you to your shopping. We hope you get better Wendy." Lucy told her and took Natsu's hand angering the bluenette just a little more.

"But I didn't get what I wanted yet!" Natsu complained as he was pulled out of the store.

"The shop isn't going anywhere you can always come here tomorrow! You're on a date if you've happen to forgot that!" Wendy's ears picked up Lucy's shouting from down the street.

The bluenette sighed and took in the fresh scent of those cinnamon rolls she was waiting on so that the lingering scent left behind by the fire dragon slayer would leave her nose. The lady came back out from the back room and put a bag that contained Wendy's order up onto the counter while Carla finally made her way back around to Wendy. She paid for the rolls and made her way out of the bakery feeling worse than she did when she woke up this morning.

"Wendy are you ok?" Carla asked while looking at the young girl concerned.

"I'm fine Carla." The said girl replied while looking at the cinnamon rolls inside the bag.

Maybe the rolls weren't such a great distraction after all.