Hi! I'm so sorry that it took so long! Speaking of long, here's a chapter that was so long my editor didn't bother editing (that's what Grammar and Spell Checkers are for ;P)!

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Chapter 5

Lucy beamed as Mira picked up the stamp and pressed it firmly against the back of Lucy's right hand. When she lifted the stamp up, she saw the Fairytail symbol there in replace of the pale skin. It was pink with a nice gold outline, making it look like it was shining.

The blonde fairy happily skipped over to Natsu who was looking strangely at a wooden board with large words that read; 'Request Board.' Lucy felt as if she was flying with her wings, as she dodged and leaped over objects and bodies, accidentally kicking a few in the head.

She missed the incredulous looks that a few of the members gave her.

"Hey Natsu! Look, I finally got the Fairytail mark!" Lucy giggled as she cheerfully presented the gold and pink mark on her right hand to the pink-haired boy.

"Oh… really? Good for you, Looney." Natsu deadpanned, not bothered to look over at her.

Lucy's smile faded a tiny bit.

"I-It's Lucy, though?" Lucy corrected, confused at why he called her Looney and not her name. What kind of name is Looney…? Lucy internally shook her head, stopping her weird thoughts from continuing.

She poked her head around Natsu's form, trying to see what he was looking so intently at. 'That's a lot of paper…' Lucy sweatdropped, running her eyes over all the different types of jobs that were sitting on the cork board. Some were even overlapping each other.

Lucy jumped as she heard a little voice shout out.

"Isn't my daddy back yet?!"

She turned her head to the voice, curious. There was a little boy with dark purple hair. 'Eh…?' Why was there a little kid in a booze infested building for mages…? The boy's face was red, his fists were clenched, and he had little tears in the corners of his eyes.

"No," The Master took a sip from his pint of beer, "stop complaining so much, Romeo. You're the son of a wizard, you should go sit at home patiently waiting for your fathers safe return." Makarov slightly narrowed his eyes at the small boy.

"But he said he'll be back in three days... it's now been a whole week!" By now the boy's tears were flowing down his cheeks. Lucy frowned. 'Father…huh? Must be nice to have one...'

"The job was in Mt. Hakobe, right? It's not that far away! Please get someone to go look for him!" Romeo yelled at the Master, his balled up fists shaking.

"Your father is a wizard! Trust him, and go home and have some milk or something!" Master retorted back angrily, though he couldn't deny that he was the slightest bit worried, but didn't allow himself to show it. He had to let the mages in his guild try to take their own paths and learn to grow as individuals.

Lucy heard a loud whack in the middle of the silence of the guild. She saw the boy's fist shoot forward, straight into Master Makarov's face.

The Master of Fairytail just got punched in the face by a little kid...

"You meanie! I hate all of you!" The boys sprinted out of the guild, crying loud enough for the whole world to hear.

Lucy walked over to the bar where Mira was wiping some cups, both of them frowning. "That's awful… your father promising he would come back, but not keeping that vow..." Mira stared at her, silently questioning the golden colour flickering in Lucy's eyes.

Mira slowly continued to wipe the cups, not thinking too much about it. "It may seem like he doesn't care, but the Master does." The blonde heard Mira mutter softly.

"Yeah... It must suck...with his father always going out on dangerous jobs..." Lucy said sadly. A familiar face with that haunting, evil smirk flashed through her mind. "I guess we all struggle with our personal demons..." She muttered looking down, hoping Mira didn't hear what she said. Mira frowned her way.

As Mira opened her mouth to speak, Lucy smiled, shook her head and stood up from the stool she was sitting on.

Just as Lucy was about to talk again, she heard a bang and saw Natsu glaring at the ground.

He had left a dent in the request board. He then stormed out moments after.

Lucy frowned. She slowly got up and walked out, following Natsu. The blonde fairy could hear a few members whispering about Natsu being an idiot behind her, but she just tried to ignore them. She also heard Master muttering something.

"That boy is crazy...he needs to learn to grow up. But... the new member, Lucy… her aura is so familiar, but I can't place my finger on it… I wonder what magic she uses..." She ignores the first part, though her step faltered at the second comment. Ignoring it, she continued on walking.

She found Romeo crying in the middle of the street with Natsu standing next to him, eyes shadowed. Lucy put a gentle, reassuring hand on his head, as he looked up at her with teary eyes.

"Don't worry, Natsu and I will go after your dad." Lucy smiled slightly at the hopeful shine that she could see in his eyes. He was like a younger version of her. But this time, she'll make sure he gets a happy ending.

. . .

Minutes later, they were seated on a carriage with two brown horses pulling them along… much to Natsu's despair, of course.

"Why did you come with us, Lushee?" Happy asked, his mouth munching on raw fish.

Lucy didn't reply straight away, thinking of other things. A couple seconds later, she finally did.

"He seems like he needs someone there for him..." Lucy explained simply, her gaze out the window turning distant. Happy tilted his, confusion evident on his face.

Natsu grumbled incoherent words as his face kept changing colours. He was blue...and green...now purple…?

"Still, I didn't think Macao could get defeated easily. He's not that weak…but Lucy, are you gonna show us some of your magic when we get there?" Happy looks at the blonde fairy, hoping to see some of this 'Fairy Magic.'

"Ah, yes! Of course!" Lucy smiled happily, watching the landscape zoom past, her chin in her palm. "Speaking of, after this job I'll need to find a place to live. Do you guys know any places for sale around here?" Lucy took her chin off her hand and faced the sick dragon slayer and the cat.

Natsu groaned while Happy shook his head. "Nope. Sorry Lucy, maybe you can ask Master when we get back." Then he went back to eating his fish.

The rest of the way was quiet, except for Natsu's weird gurgling noises and Happy's fish munching. Lucy was completely silent.

After the carriage finally stopped a couple hours later, Natsu shot up as fast as lightning, screaming in joy.

"It finally stopped!" He shouted in glee, doing a weird dance once he leaped off, somehow not bothered by the huge backpack on his back.

'Really? I didn't notice...' Lucy rolled her eyes, giggling at his childishness. She was secretly relieved as well. Her butt was starting to get sore. She peeked out of the curtain flap of the carriage as the driver spoke. Lucy couldn't really see anything. Her vision was completely white and the freezing cold wind hit her face.

Of course there had to be a blizzard...

"Forgive me... This is as far as the horse-drawn carriage can go." The carriage driver shivered, wanting to get out of the cold badly.

Lucy paid him some Jewel and thanked him. He nodded and made the horses take him away from there as fast as they could.

. . .

Lucy looked in despair as she stood in the snow, her hand above her eyes, trying to see in front of her.

Completely forgetting that she was in a blizzard, she unconsciously shivered violently. At lightning speed, her hands shot around herself tightly.

A golden light came out of nowhere and filled her vision. She shut her eyes out of reflex. As quickly as it came it was gone, and Lucy felt warmer all of a sudden.

. . .

"I did not expect it to be this cold... she grumbled." Horologium's monotone voice announced to Natsu and Happy as they pushed forward, squinting against the heavy blizzard.

"Tch, just deal with it... is what I say back." Natsu bobbed his head side to side, mocking Lucy and the clock.

"Aye!"

Lucy grit her teeth, attempting to stop them from chattering. 'Best first mission ever… not…' Lucy internally groaned, wallowing in despair.

Lucy looked out of the glass in front of her. "What was this Macao person here to fight?... she asks curiously." The clock stated.

They ignored her question.

But she got her answer either way.

"Macao, are you out there?" Natsu yelled, his hands cupping his mouth, making his voice project louder. "Did the Demon beat you up?"

"Demon?! We're fighting a demon?!... she asks fearfully." Lucy's panicked question was once again ignored.

'Stomp'

The ground started to shake, as did Lucy.

'Stomp'

A loud, inhuman roar that shook the trees and the ground was heard.

Happy fled into the safety of Horologium with Lucy. "T-That-! That doesn't sound like very good!... he yelled fearfully." Horologium said, ever-so calmly, not bothered in the slightest about what's going on.

A large — and when I say large, I mean both in size and body weight — red demon looking monster appeared in their sight. Its eyes were pure black with a glowing yellow pupil in the middle. There were also cracks that were formed around the eyes. It had ugly lips which were stretched in a permanent, creepy grin.

"Ohhh, dear... we're in trouble... she slowly drawled out." Horologium relayed.

"Time to kick some butt!... I yell happily." Natsu commented, well… happily.

Knowing Natsu will most likely protect him, Happy flew out and a smile grew on his face. "Aye!"

"The cat said 'Aye!'..." Horologium told Lucy, who giggled, momentarily forgetting the demon.

"Yes, I know." Her smile vanished as the monster took action once again.

The large beast took a slow but large step forward toward the mages. Lucy got a sense of Déjà Vu as the monsters hand shadowed her vision. The monster picked Lucy and the spirit up.

"Hey, you stupid monster!" Natsu jumped in the air, Happy catching him. "Get back here!"

He lit one of his fists on fire. "Fire Dragon's: Iron Fist!" His fist hit the back of the demon's skull.

It didn't affect it at all.

"What the-?" Natsu growled and went in for another attack, but to no avail. Happy stopped flying after it after a few more tries. "Motherfu-!"

"Natsu!" The said boy looked up into the scared eyes of his best friend.

"What is it?" Natsu immediately stopped flailing as he saw Happy's expression.

"We gotta save Lucy! I haven't got to see her Fairy Magic yet!" Happy whined, almost letting go of the boy he was carrying.

Natsu grinned.

"Sure, buddy!" He pumped his fist in the air. "I'm all fired up now!" And they sped off, following the demon at high speed.

. . .

Horologium was long gone by now, and Lucy was left shivering, her body huddled in a tight ball.

She looked around, examining the cave she was taken to, trying to ignore the monster in front of her. Despite the fact it was made of ice and extremely cold, it was beautiful.

The ice was so clear, it looked like the entire place was covered in crystals. There were sharp stalactites hanging from the ceiling, which look like they could pierce through anything.

Her eyes darted to the grinning monster standing in front of her.

Lucy pouted, trying to hide her obvious fear.

'Oh, this is great… kidnapped by a big red thing and taken to a freezing cold ice cave! What could be worse?'

Her thoughts were interrupted by a weird groaning noise from the monster. Its lips moved as if it were trying to speak.

Lucy found it quite disturbing to look at, to be honest.

She's seen some pretty hideous things in her life before, but this... she just felt sorry for it.

The blonde heard an agitated shout from the entrance of the cave. Lucy tried to look between the monsters legs, and she saw Natsu in the cave panting, annoyance in his eyes.

"Hey!" Natsu pointed at the demon, "I'm not done with you yet!" He stepped forward, ready to charge. The moment he started running, he tripped face-first onto the ground, ass in the air. He slowly slid away from the stunned Fairy and the demon.

Happy's small body popped into the cave, zooming after Natsu when he saw him.

Natsu's body burst into flames, making Happy fly back quickly with a high-pitched scream.

"Natsu~! You big fat dummy~!"

The monster roared out of frustration, bringing up an arm with the intent to squash Natsu.

The Dragon Slayer brought up a fiery fist, and swung it forward. Both of their fists clashed against each other, a large gust of wind and fire shadowing Lucy's vision.

Lucy covered her face with her forearms. "Natsu?!" she looked around wildly for the pyromaniac.

She saw him bringing up his other hand, which was obviously covered in bright orange flames, catching the demon off guard, and smashed his fist into its face… quite painfully…

It recoiled back a few steps.

"We're looking for our friend." Natsu stated seriously, staring into the monsters eyes. "A human man." He said again, hopefully thinking that it knew.

The demon made a noise of understanding and lifted an ugly finger towards the entrance of the cave, the grin still in place. Natsu, being the idiot he was, thought the thing was leading them to Macao, and peeked down at the dark ice ravine below them.

He cupped his hands around his mouth, "Macao?! Are you down there?!" Receiving no answer, he tried again. "Ma~cao?!" Next thing he knew, he was falling rapidly into the deep, dark pit… head first.

"Natsu!" Lucy called, horrified at seeing one of her new friends literally get pushed off of a cliff.

The monster's throat rumbled, as if it were laughing.

A split-second later, the demon had dark red — almost black — blood slowly flowing out of its neck. It made a strangled grunt, foam sitting in its mouth.

One thing burnt into its memory as its vision faded to black…

Piercing gold eyes.

. . .

Lucy stood there panting, her arms crossed in front of her in the shape of an 'X'. Except, there were sharp, wing-shaped blades on her forearms, now dripping with the blood of the dead demon.

She let her arms drop by her sides, her blades automatically dispelling.

The blonde quickly spun around to see both Natsu and Happy, the latter having a tail wrapped around his torso.

"Woah! That was awesome, Lucy!" Happy's shrill voice shouted, eyes sparkling, Natsu saying something similar not long after.

"Holy smokes, Lucy! That was epic!"

"Hehe… thanks," Lucy rubbed the back of her neck sheepishly, "but uh- shouldn't we find Macao, though?"

Natsu froze. Ah, he completely forgot about that…

. . .

The three companions explored the cave to find Macao. Lucy and Happy looked around in wonder, Natsu, in boredom.

'Well,' Lucy grimaced slightly, 'this cave is bigger than I thought…'

The pinkette swung his hands behind his head, complaining. "Argh… where the heck is Macao at? We've been walking for ages!"

"Aye…" Happy's ears drooped sadly, "I'm so tired… when are we gonna find him?" He whined childishly, plopping on Lucy's head, who pat him lightly.

"Don't worry, guys. We'll find him." Lucy smiled, bringing Natsu out of his slump, and Happy smile.

"Aye!" Happy raised a paw, Natsu doing the same with his fist.

Natsu slowed down, his fist lowering. His nose twitched, and eyes brightening, "Macao! I smell Macao!" He ran off in the direction they were going.

"Ah, really?! Alright, let's go!"

They all stopped when they saw the person they've been looking for, panting and covered in a few scratches and bruises. He looked physically and mentally exhausted. He smiled ruefully as he saw his rescuers.

"Macao!"

. . .

Lucy watched the heartwarming scene in front of her. Romeo hugging the life out of his father, both of them crying tears of joy, Natsu and Happy laughing along.

All-in-all, Macao wasn't hurt that badly to the point he couldn't walk, he was just trapped in an ice prison the demon put him in after the fire mage defeated another one of them earlier on.

"Next time those kids make fun of you, ask them if their father is strong enough to defeat a demon. Alright?"

Romeo grinned widely. "Yeah!" He gave his father another hug before he turned and waved at Natsu, Lucy and Happy. "Natsu, Happy! Thanks, you guys!" The two smiled back, laughing gleefully.

Lucy closed her eyes and smiled.

"Thank you as well, Lucy!"

Lucy's eyes widened a bit. He was thanking her? For what? She didn't really do anything... She ignored that and turned to Romeo and waved, a big grin on her face.

"Yeah, no problem!"

Walking on the road, Lucy sighed, thinking to herself. She looked up at the sky, which was nice and clear, not a cloud in sight, and smiled.

'Fairy Tail. That was pretty fun, and I can't wait to go on more adventures soon!'

. . .

Well then! That was the end of that chappie. See youse all later~!