Hey guys! I felt inspired to write and post a Fairy Tail fanfiction after all of the anime I watched. This puts all of the characters in a school setting. I'm going into my last year of middle school, so if it's bad, I apologize. CONSTRUCTIVE criticism is good. Please no haters. Also these ships may not be cannon, but they are my personal favorites. And if I decided I wanted a character to be alive, they happened to be alive. Also this is after Sabertooth and Fairy Tail became friends. I realize I've been rambling a bit, so on with the fanfiction!

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Fairy Tail, Hiro Mashima does. And that's good too. I can't draw for the life of me..

Lucy heard her alarm go off loudly in her ear. "Rgh…" she muttered, slamming her hand onto it, nearly crushing the poor thing. She was not excited to have transferred to her new school, Fairy Academy, and it was not helping that she was not a morning person. But, unfortunately, work was work, and her father had to come here to the small town of Magnolia to keep food on their table.

As she sluggishly moved to change into her school uniform, a cute little blouse and short navy blue skirt, she mumbled something incoherent, probably having to do with food.

With the same sense of urgency she had displayed up to that point, that being none, she stumbled downstairs, where a cup of coffee and a stack of freshly made pancakes were still warm to the touch. There was also a note. If you took out all of the mushy stuff about how much Jude loved his daughter, it roughly translated to, "Lucy, I hope you have a great first day of school! Please remember to be safe, and that I love you very much. I am so sorry that something came up for work at the last minute, I had really hoped I could see you off. I can't wait to hear all about your day when you come home! Love, Dad."

After the coffee was downed, Lucy felt much better. She walked to school with a skip in her step. As she turned the corner, she crashed into a small girl with blue hair. The girl immediately let out a small of shriek of surprise, and fell forward, all of the books in her hands scattering. "Oh my gosh I'm so sorry!" the girl gasped, scrambling to pick up her fallen books.

"Why are you apologizing?" Lucy questioned, bending down to help, "I'm the one that ran into you."

"I'm sorry!" the girl gasped again. "I didn't mean to!"

"It's ok it was my fault," Lucy reminded her, "What's your name?"

"I'm Levy McGarden." The girl smiled a little bit. "I don't have many friends here yet, people don't like- What's your name?"

"I'm Lucy Heartfilia, nice to meet you." She held out her hand. "Although… I guess we both could have done without me falling into you like that."

"I guess so." Levy grinned, shaking her hand. "Walk with me?"

"Same direction, right?" Lucy helpfully pointed out, only to laugh when Levy's face turned an even brighter shade of red. "It's ok we all get nervous on the first day."

As they reached the school, Lucy and Levy gasped suddenly as a boy with bright pink hair jumped out of nowhere and grabbed them both by the shoulders. "You have got to help me!" he cried out, voice panicked, "She's coming!"

"Gah! Stop grabbing our shoulders like that!" Lucy gasped, shrugging him off. "Who's coming?"

The boy shuddered. "Titania. Queen of the fairies. You may also know her as our student council president; Erza Scarlet."

"NATSU!" screamed a voice from behind them. "You had better come out right now or the consequences will be far worse!"

"Hide me..." the boy whispered pathetically.

The girl came into view. She had long, scarlet colored hair that came down to about her waist, glasses, and was wearing the school uniform, complete with the school's insignia. A blue haired boy with a red tattoo over one eye followed her, looking sheepish. Usually, Lucy would probably have thought that she looked like a model student, someone she could get along with. But the look on Erza's face said anything BUT model student. She looked ticked off, plain and simple. "Natsu!" she screamed again. Her eyes scanned everyone in the crowd. Soon they rested on Lucy, Levy, and their unwanted tag-along. "Ah hah!" she grinned triumphantly as Natsu cowered. "Got you now!"

She stormed over, that strange blue haired boy still trailing her, but hanging back further, as if he knew this would not turn out well if he got any closer.

"Natsu Dragneel." Her barking voice carried the air of command, "This is your third and final offense before detention. For your crimes against this school's reputation, you will report at 4 o'clock today after school ends. Here is your slip." She stalked away, nose in the air. The blue haired boy gave the group one last look before running back to Erza and whispering to her.

"Erza didn't that seem a bit harsh?" he looked worried, "I mean, he only skipped class again…"

"Nonsense Jellal!" The girl scoffed, "You of all people should know the consequences of skipping class. One thing leads to another and next thing you know you're smoking…" She shuddered.

He winced. "You know I stopped smoking when I met you Erza… You told me to be better than that… to live life to the fullest and not throw my money down the drain for something that will only make me get sick and die." He looked over and saw she was nodding and smiling at him.

At that point, Erza and Jellal had gotten too far away for Lucy, Levy, and Natsu to hear them anymore. Natsu breathed out a sigh of relief that sounded rather like "Ohthankgodionlygotdetention…" just as Lucy whirled around to face him, glaring.

"What was that all about?" she hissed, hands on her hips.

"Um… I may have skipped english for the third time in a row and Erza might have found out and I may have tried to use you as a human shield hehe I should go now." He bolted, and after a few seconds, Lucy couldn't spot him in the crowd, despite the pink hair.

"So." Levy asked suddenly. "is it hard to join in the middle of a school year?" she blushed. "You know, since you don't really know anyone and we all kind of have established social groups and boundaries."

Lucy grinned a bit at the shy and awkward girl in front of her. "A bit." she explained, "People tend to accept you if you just keep your head up and smile at them."

"Oh." Levy practically whispered. "That's a skill I'm slightly lacking in."

Suddenly, the crowd outside the doors began to move in. The girls were so caught up in the strange thing with Natsu and their conversation that they hadn't even noticed the crowd gathering in the first place!

And so they proceeded to first period. Lucy didn't know anyone except Levy, who helped her through all of first period and through most of second, until she got the hang of things. It wasn't until third period that Lucy met someone new.

In the middle of third, Lucy was listening to the teacher when a little ball of paper hit her in the back of the head. She looked in the direction it had been thrown from, and saw a red eyed guy with several piercings along his face looking at her from one seat back. He had long black hair, and was lounging back in his seat, clearly not caring what the teacher was talking about. She decided to just turn back to the front and ignore him.

Soon after she made her decision, another piece of paper hit the back of her head. She angrily turned back to the boy, and watched as he mimed opening the little balled up piece of paper.

When she did as he complied, she saw that the first line of the note read "You know the shrimp?"

Assuming that he meant Levy, she looked back and nodded once, though she couldn't see Levy even coming near this strange boy. He grinned, and passed he another note. "I'm Gajeel, has she mentioned me yet?" then she read the second line of that one. "Not that I care or anything!"

She laughed a little. "Something you find funny about Early Modern Philosophy, Heartfilia?" the teacher questioned her.

"No ma'am!" she exclaimed. Curse that Gajeel, she was supposed to just lay low! "I promise I won't disrupt the class again ma'am! I'm so sorry!"

The teacher nodded, and went back to teaching them Early Modern Philosophy, whatever the heck that was. Now Lucy's full attention was on the notes that had been passed to her. She looked back at Gajeel and shook her head and shrugged, watching as his face fell a little bit and he struggled to hide it.

"You didn't tell me you had a boyfriend Levy!" Lucy teased her as they walked to lunch later that day.

"Ugh." Levy put her hand to her forehead, "I'm assuming you mean Gajeel? He's not my boyfriend, probably never will be! He just hangs out around in the library a lot and starts awkward conversations with me, while managing to call me shrimp with a straight face…"

"Whatever you say." Lucy grinned.

"He will be her boyfriend soon." came a voice from behind them. "Especially if I have anything to do with it.

Lucy and Levy turned around to see a pretty girl with long white hair standing behind them. "Oh Mira-chan it's just you." Levy sighed in relief.

"Mirajane Strauss, matchmaker of Fairy Tail High at your service." the young woman bowed, giggling. Her big blue eyes glinted with mischief and fun as she surveyed them. "New student?" she directed at Lucy, "Oh this will be fun! What boys has she had contact with so far?" she directed at Levy.

"Well…" Levy put a finger on her lips, thinking. "She has seen Jellal, exchanged some notes in class with Gajeel, (probably just getting to know him though…) and when we came in today, Natsu grabbed our shoulders and we were kind of forcibly introduced."

Mira smiled. "Sit with us at lunch." she grinned. "I'd love to get to know you better."

Suddenly, behind Mira, a big shadow rose. "Not terrifying the new students again, are you Mira?" came a gruff voice.

Mira turned around, smiling sweetly, "No of course not! When have I ever done that Laxus?" By the end of her second sentence, her smile didn't look so sweet anymore, just deadly.

He smirked. "Lets not get into that again Mira."

She grinned back at him and laughed. "Come on guys!" She gestured for Lucy and Levy to follow her and Laxus into the cafeteria.

When they reached the table, Mira introduced them to everyone. "That's Erza, next to her in the blue is Jellal, that's Gray and his stalker, Juvia, across from them is Natsu and Gajeel. Laxus' group of friends sit at the other end of the table. Freed, Bixlow, and Ever. They are usually joined by Lisanna and clearly dating Ever, even though they refuse to admit it."

Lucy blinked. "Run that past me again?"

Mira laughed. "Don't worry you will learn who everyone is soon enough," she sat down next to Laxus and proceeded to take dainty little bites out of her lunch.

Lucy, unsure of where to sit, followed Levy, and so she ended up with levy on her left (next to Gajeel) and Natsu on her right. Natsu turned to her and smiled.

"Hey! You're that girl from earlier!" he exclaimed suddenly. "The one who practically bit my head off when I was trying to hide from Erza!"

"And I'm sure she did it for a good reason too." came a voice from across the table. Lucy believed that he was called Gray. "Ya pyro."

"Oh you want to fight me, Ice Princess?" Natsu immediately snarled back.

"Juvia's beloved Gray-sama could beat you any day!" exclaimed the girl sitting next to Gray. His stalker-Juvia, Lucy remembered suddenly, and made a mental note to stay a bit further away from Juvia. Her life was crazy enough as is.

"My money's on Natsu." said Gajeel with a grin, before Levy smacked him in the back of the head. "Oof,"

As the rest of the table began to place bets, Lucy looked around in shock. They acted like this was a normal thing to them! Eventually, this began to bother Erza, so she calmly put her fork down, looked up daintily from her strawberry cake, and slammed her fist down as hard as she could on the table while yelling "SILENCE!"

Everyone jumped as one, as Jellal, who got the brunt of the yell, massaged his ear as lightly and discreetly as he could. Erza smiled at them all, and went back to her cake. After she swallowed, she addressed Natsu and Gray personally. "Now then," she dictated, "We are all friends here, correct?"

"Aye!" They both jumped.

"And we wouldn't want to get detention now, would we?" she smiled, clearly enjoying this, "Especially you Natsu, you already have one for skipping class.

"Aye…" His terrified whisper could barely be heard.

"Now that that's settled, my strawberry cake is calling to me." Erza smiled sweetly to all of them, and resumed her cake eating.

Levy smiled grimly as Lucy shuffled her feet awkwardly. Suddenly, Natsu turned to her again, "So what's your name, new girl?"

Lucy silently pondered if it was good for her health to associate herself with this boy before responding. "The name's Lucy. And you're Natsu, correct?"

"Yup!" his grin seemed almost too wide for his face, "So you want to hang out with our group after school Lucy? I think you'd enjoy yourself!"

"Um… Well my dad shouldn't be home to around dinner at five thirty… but hey wait a second! If I remember correctly from this morning, you got detention Natsu!"

He looked down and mumbled something as he poked the table with his finger. "What was that?" Lucy nagged.

"I wasn't going to go, ok?" he yelled out, then froze, as Erza's head slowly turned to look directly at him.

"What was that again?" she questioned, voice husky and foreboding. "You.. weren't going to go to detention?"

W-when did I say that?" Natsu nervously stammered, "Lucy tell her I didn't say it!" his tone became more frantic. "Lucy? LUCY?"

Erza let out a loud laugh. "Natsu you will report to your detention on time, or else. I will know. This is your final warning." The mood around the table became quite still. Lucy got the impression that when Erza said something in that tone of voice, you listened. Or else.

"Aye sir." He trembled. He didn't dare breathe until Erza turned away again.

Lucy chuckled. "To think that a stern look from Erza would reduce you to a quivering pile of frightened mush!" she teased, poking him. He just shuddered and nodded.

Lucy addressed the rest of the group. "How often does this happen?"

Jellal looked up at her gravely. "Several times per day." Suddenly, he too shuddered. "I'm just glad it's not me anymore."

Lucy shook her head sadly. These people were maniacs! They were worse than what she had thought originally.

After school, Lucy had agreed to hang out with all of the group (minus Natsu) to play a fun game of truth or dare! She didn't have a clue why she agreed, she just guessed a certain crazy part of her was drawn to all of them, especially that pyromaniac pink haired boy for some reason. I mean, sure Mira was nice, and she did get along well with Gray when Juvia wasn't around, breathing down her neck and calling her, "Love rival." all the time, but Natsu (apart from Levy) made the most effort to talk to her.

As she reached the destination; a small house on a corner, she shook her head to clear her thoughts. Did she really want to do this? These people seemed nuts. "I'll give it another shot," She decided to herself. "I mean, who knows, we might actually get through the night without breaking anything for once."

As she opened the door and stepped in, a vase flew at her, smashing on the wall right next to her face. She cringed. "So much for my wish about not breaking anything…" she thought sadly.

"Oh my gosh Lu are you ok?" Levy rushed to her, checking for any signs of injury, then, when it was established that Lucy was fine, she turned back towards the boys that had resulted in the vase being thrown. "Gajeel, cut it out! I don't care what Gray did, you almost decapitated poor Lucy here!" He cringed under her glare, and after throwing a quick "Sorry." in Lucy's general direction, went back to fighting with Gray.

"No Gajeel! Not near the books!" Levy squealed, rushing over to him and Gray, trying to break up the fight.

"The whole bloody house is filled with those things!" Gajeel roared, "Where the heck am I supposed to fight?"

"Here's a bright idea," came a voice from the doorway. "Don't."

Everyone looked up to see Erza standing there, fuming, and Jellal awkwardly standing behind her, holding a stack of pizzas.

"O-ok Scarlet." Gajeel faced her head on. "It's n-not like I'm sc-scared or nuthin." he hoped that nobody could see him quaking in his boots. "I-i'm stopping because I feel l-like it, not because y-you told me t-to."

Erza smiled that grim smile again. "Good."

"Now who wants pizza?" Jellal broke the silence, holding up the still steaming boxes tauntingly. "We have cheese, pepperoni, stuffed crust, more cheese and pepperoni, and on special request we also have… Um… Uncooked?"

"That would be mine." Gray raised his hand and grinned. "Darn things are made so hot usually. It's annoying."

After all of the pizza was distributed, Erza faced them. "Now." she began, "This game is played by only the most daring, so therefore, if you lose, there must be dire consequences." She gave them all that smile again, causing Lucy to gulp. "Any suggestions?" She could barely contain her mad giggling at all of their faces.

"If I didn't know better, AND WANT ALL FOUR OF MY LIMBS TO FUNCTION, I would say you were enjoying yourself Erza." Jellal smirked, he had known her longer than the rest of them, and so he figured he should say it, as he had the best chance of coming out of it in one piece.

She nudged him lightly with her shoulder. "But you know better."

"I do," he agreed.

"Now then, since nobody voiced any opinion on the matter, I shall just choose the punishment myself. For the next three rounds of the game after they forfeit, the player who forfeits has to play with a spoonful of cinnamon in their mouths." Erza chuckled. "Happy daring everyone!"

"Can I just not play?" Lucy whispered, quite terrified.

"Mmh… no." Erza grinned demonically, "Unless of course, you wish to consume all of the jar of cinnamon?" Lucy turned a whole new shade of white as Erza smirked. "That's what I thought. Go ahead. Sit down. She patted the ground next to her invitingly.

Lucy slowly sunk to the floor, warily watching Erza the entire time. She head a little snap, and whirled around, but it was only Gray munching on his frozen pizza.

"Honestly Lucy, we don't bite." He laughed at her expression, and the fact that her face was already as pink as Natsu's hair due to her embarrassment.

"I'll go first." Mira spoke up cheerfully. Honestly, it felt like she was the only one excited to play. "Jellal, truth or dare?"

"Uh definitely truth." he knew what he was dealing with. Mira was a devil wearing inch high heels when it came to relationships, or non-relationships in this case.

"Ok." Mira thought for a moment. "What's the most awkward moment you have ever had with Erza?"

Both Jellal and Erza blushed at that. "Probably when we were going to kiss a while ago and I panicked and told her I had a fiancee. Juvia, truth or dare?"

"Juvia chooses dare." she shot a look at Gray quickly before looking back at Jellal.

He whispered something in her ear and she paled. "B-but…"

"Cinnamon!" Jellal sang out, grinning at Erza, who started to open it up and get out a spoon.

She cried out hurriedly, "Please no Juvia will do it!" "I'm sorry Beloved Gray-sama…" she thought as she walked up to Gajeel. "Juvia loves you!" she gasped out quickly, and hugged him.

"Gah!" Gajeel gasped. "I don't do hugs.." He pushed her off. "Wrong bluenette anyways..." he thought.

Levy sat very rigid in her seat. Juvia looked over at Gray, and fell at his feet, crying, big tears pooling in her eyes, and finally spilling over. "Juvia is sorry Gray-sama! Juvia didn't mean it! It was Juvia's dare!"

"Hey now…" Gray said, feeling slightly guilty, "Don't cry so much. You're not made of water, right?" he joked.

Juvia looked up at him and silently shook her head once.

"You'll be ok." He smiled and put a hand on her shoulder, causing her to gasp in happiness, and nod at him.

"So that's how a stalker acts when something like this happens…" Lucy thought.

"Mira, truth or dare?" Juvia suddenly asked.

"Can she even do that?" Lucy wondered out loud, "I mean, Mira started us off, so doesn't that count as a turn for her?"

"If Erza is ok with it, I am." Mira looked over at Erza, who nodded. "Fire away then Juvia!" Mira joked.

"Truth or Dare?"

"I think I'll take truth this time," Mira grinned.

"How long have you been dating Laxus-sama?" Juvia blurted out suddenly, causing everyone to gasp, both in surprise, and relief that Laxus wasn't there.

Mira raised an eyebrow, then grinned and responded, "Oh just a few months now. Im surprised and impressed by you Juvia. You have a good eye."

Juvia blushed. "Thank you Mira-chan."

Mira smiled at her kindly. "Now then." she started, suddenly whipping her head around to stare at Lucy. "Truth or dare Lucy?"

Lucy paled, afraid of getting a dose of cinnamon. "Um… Truth?"

"You don't sound positive about that," Mira giggled. "Whatever it's too late now anyways. Your truth will be…" She paused for effect, watching everyone lean forward a bit. That was good. She had their attention. Lucy looked plain terrified, while the rest of them looked excited to hear it.

"Who do you like?" she smirked. This wasn't for the embarrassment of the person she asked, this was research, plain and simple. "I'll give you a minute." Lucy nodded numbly.

How am I even supposed to answer that? Lucy's brain was racing. She had just met these people for the love of god! Should she just choose a random boy?

She sighed. "I like Gray."

There was a moment of silence, then, Mira responded. "You're lying,."

Sorry GrayLu shippers! You had your moment, but it's over now. So was it good, bad, eh? This is my first fanfic ever. Should I continue? I'm going into eighth grade, so if the writing is horrible, I apologize. So that was it for this chapter, If you guys all like it, I promise to have more Nalu in the next chapter. I really need constructive criticism on the chapter too. I figure each chapter should be 3.5k to 5k words on average, and this one was 4k. Tell me if you want the chapters shorter to get them sooner, or longer to get them later please.

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