Vampire/Demon-Dragon Mate AU - Nalu

"Ya' know, you're lucky I'm a demon. What kinda weirdo goes and drains their mate, who they just met, dry?"

~CatAttemptsWriting

Lucy's eyes pinch close as she gently rubs her eyelids with her thumb and forefinger, feeling the sense of tiredness she has become accustomed to. She removes her hands so she can rest her chin on her palm as a single eye cracks open to stare at her friend in sitting front of her. A cute, little pout rests on Levy's face as she vigorously writes down notes on the essay they have due.

Lucy can't help admiring her friend's blue locks. How they were natural curled in the front but oddly enough, spiky at the back. Her wild locks are held up by a purple ribbon Levy's boyfriend had given her (Lucy had a ton of fun teasing Gajeel for that). A hairstyle so unique, but not strange in the slightest as it just seemingly fits her character.

And the girl sitting to the right of Lucy, who is much taller than the petite bluenette. Her gentle, wavy hair is coloured with a lighter blue than Levy's. Juvia's hair reminds Lucy of the ocean. So calm and peaceful like the lulling tides on the beach, before crashing into a thunderous wave whenever Gray is mentioned in conversation.

Now that Lucy thinks about it, the colour of their hair is actually how Levy, Juvia and her met. At the start of university, it felt like everyone was trying to avoid her despite all her attempts at making friends. It was the first time she was able to get out of the house and build her own relationships – she was extremely excited for her first year at school! But she quickly realized, making friends is not as easy as movies portray it to be.

Luckily, two bluenettes quickly caught her eyes, reminding her of the comfort of Aquarius, even if her blue haired godmother can be as scary as Satan himself at times. Lucy felt like she was naturally drawn to them. And when she struck up a conversation about their fascinating hair colour, they quickly found out how much they had in common with one another. They all shared a love for reading, but their quirky personalities all accompanied each other well.

But most importantly, they found out that each of them weren't human.

Well actually, Levy and Juvia already knew, but for Lucy, this was the first time she had met other supernatural creatures, excluding her family and godmother.

The giddiness she felt was incomparable at the time. That day quickly became one of the best days of her life.

Lucy was told she was a purebred vampire. But to be honest, she knows nothing about her race other than that they drink blood and eat fruit. Her dad refused to teach her anything about her abilities except for the bare minimum on what she can eat. But even so, it was Aquarius who taught her that her body can only handle either human blood, or certain fruits and vegetables. No meats, no animal blood. Despite Aquarius's words she tried it, but quickly threw up the vile taste. The flavour was equivalent to spoiled milk mixed with rotten eggs. And not to mention the absolutely horrid smell.

Anyways, moving on.

Levy's a pixie of knowledge. She's a joyful creature who sometimes likes to get into mischief, much to Gajeel's demise. If you need any advice whatsoever, Levy is the person to go to.

Juvia is a siren, but unlike mythology says, they are far from the dangerous creatures they represent. Often times they are misunderstood. Her beautiful singing lures sailors at sea away from danger, but of course, mistakes happen that altered the stories to make sirens appear as vile creatures. In reality, Juvia is caring and loyal to a fault, but she also takes any unfortunate occurrences to heart.

All three of them are an odd group of friends, but they make it work.

Thinking about how they met, a small smile grows on Lucy's face as she brings her mug of water up to her mouth, the only other drink she can have other than blood, taking a small sip as her eyes scan her current surroundings. She's too bored to study, her mind choosing to wander rather than focus on her assignment at hand. Lucy looks around her apartment, her mind straying from her friend's.

Her apartment is quite large (well, according to Levy and Juvia). Since she's used to growing up in a large castle, the size was quite a sudden change to get used to, but she did grow to love it much more than the constant emptiness of her previous house.

All in all, Lucy's really glad that she was able to convince her father to let her come to Magnolia University.

"Juvia is so excited to see Gray tonight for our date." Juvia's small squeal interrupts Lucy from her thoughts as Levy takes off her reading glasses. Ah, Lucy was wondering when Juvia would bring him up today. "But Juvia is also really nervous. Juvia doesn't know how to act after their night together." She slaps her hands to her cheeks in an attempt to cool down her reddened face.

Oh yes, Lucy and Levy definitely got an earful after Juvia had her first time with Gray two nights before.

While Lucy flushes as red as Juvia, Levy smirks. "Why don't you go for another round?", she suggests while waggling her eyebrows.

"Levy!" Lucy yelps, covering her face with her hands and moving back to lean against her chair as Juvia starts cackling.

"Levy is a genius!" Juvia cheers. Lucy lifts her head from her hands and stares in defeat at her two friends. Great, they're having this conversation again. "Okay, how should Juvia convince him this time?"

"Maybe give him a lap dance, or maybe get some handcuffs and ask him to arrest you." As Levy goes off, Lucy feels her soul leaving her body. "Or maybe do the cliché tying yourself up in ribbon thing. I did that with Gajeel and he loved it. I couldn't walk, Juvia." Levy leans in close to said girl before grabbing her face between two hands to punctuate her point. "I couldn't walk, for a week."

"Guys, can we talk about something else-" Lucy starts but quickly gets cut off.

"You know how hard it is to live your life without legs!" Levy exclaims, standing up in her seat. "You can't do anything! It's the best thing ever!" What did that even mean?!,Lucy thinks pathetically.

Said blonde tries again, "Um, Levy-".

"Hell yeah!" Juvia joins in and stands up with the pixie.

"Juvia-"

"Hell yeah!" Levy copies Juvia and high-fives the other bluenette. The small girl starts to go off on the fact that she had extra, unused ribbon that the siren could borrow.

"Guys, uh-" But this time, Lucy suddenly regrets ever being friends with the two as the girls whip their head around (in sync) to stare at Lucy with intent.

Oh Mavis.

"Now," Levy starts, turning her head towards Lucy. Juvia turns to look at the now shaking blonde as well.

A thought about how her friends looked like something out of a horror movie quickly flashes through Lucy's head.

"How about you, Lucy?" Levy asks. "We need to find you someone too."

"Juvia agrees. It's only fair."

Lucy shakes her head rapidly in disagreement. "Guys, I'm okay! I don't need anyone right now. I'm really busy w-with school, you know?" She tries to defend herself lamely but her voice squeaks at the end.

"Come on, even if it's not long term, I think you really need to unwind. You've been so stressed and tense lately ever since the hunger started getting painful for you. You need to feed before you get hurt." Levy pushes with a concerned look on her face, making it known that she's more worried about Lucy's health than whether she had some guy or not. If anything, the two girls know Lucy is an 'independent women who don't need no man', but she does need to eat to keep herself healthy.

Juvia nods. "Juvia has to agree with Levy. Lucy has been really out of it and Juvia is worried."

Lucy's heart warms at her friends' care for her, glad that she met these two amazing bluenettes. Although, a small part of her feels guilty for making them worry. She shakes her head no, but her lips form a smile.

"Thank you for worrying, but I really am okay. I wouldn't lie to either of you." Lucy tells them sincerely. She knew herself. The hunger pain will eventually fade…hopefully. "If the pain or anything gets any worse I'll let you guys now ASAP. If anything, I'll ask Aquarius to get donor blood again. But for now, it's barely anything serious. I've been through much worse." And that's the truth.

Levy and Juvia look like they want to press further, looking at each other with concerned looks, but eventually Juvia sighs.

"If that's what Lucy wants, then Juvia will back off." The girl finally relents. "But, the minute you feel anything unusual, you let Juvia and Levy know immediately. Or else Juvia will make sure you regret it." Lucy nods fervently and decides to disregard that threat.

Levy hums in agreement, pointedly eyeing the young vampire.

"Look me in the eye, and tell me you're totally fine, and I'll let you be." The pixie crosses her arms over her large bust on her tiny form. Lucy pouts.

Looking Levy directly in her eyes is really intimidating, but she does it anyway.

"Levy, right now I am absolutely fine. You don't need to worry." Lucy sighs. Her friend frowns but nods, seeing the sincerity in her expression.

"If you say so, I'll give up on the blood and boyfriend thing. But," Levy begins. "I kind of do want to see you date someone. You get so embarrassed when we talk about Gajeel and Gray, I can't wait to see your reactions with your own boyfriend." She giggles while Lucy rolls her eyes in mock annoyance.

They start to settle back into their chairs, planning to get to work again. Levy and Juvia sit back down and look at their work for barely three seconds, before abruptly closing their books and packing their stuff, Lucy joining in as well.

"Yeah, I'm not in the mood to study either. Let's talk." Lucy tells them, laughing along with her friends.

Once everything's filed away, they leisurely talk about school, gossip, and their love lives. Juvia gushes about Gray while Levy complains about Gajeel and his annoying but also sexy draconic side, despite the glint of adoration in her eyes as she rants about Gajeel's intolerable attitude and the fact that he always calls her 'shrimp'.

"Oh and also, apparently Gajeel's cousin is coming into town this week. I don't know his name but I heard he's half dragon, half demon, which a hundred percent spells trouble. If he's anything like Gajeel, then I'm going to commit murder." Levy huffs. Lucy smiles, shrugging.

"Isn't that just a stereotype?" Lucy tries to reassure Levy, Juvia nodding to Lucy's statement. Levy shakes her head.

"Most stereotypes come from some truth. And of all the dragons I met so far, they're all clingy, possessive, bone-headed, really freaking attractive, stupid…" She rambles on as Lucy smiles smugly at her.

In the end they talk about how happy Juvia and Levy are to find someone that seemingly fit the two of them perfectly, both physically and mentally.

Lucy sighs, blush heavy on her cheeks as always when these type of conversations come up. "I kind of do feel a bit lonely now that you guys mention it. It would be nice…to have someone, I guess." She finally admits to the two girls.

Expecting a crazy reaction, she cringes back as she watches Levy and Juvia's eyes comically widen.

"Wait, is Lucy actually serious?" Juvia gasps. The vampire hesitantly nods.

"For once since my last boyfriend, yes…"

"This is great." Levy immediately goes into planning, judging by the sparkling glint in her eyes as she leans towards Lucy. "We need to get you out there."

Juvia nods vehemently, before suggesting, "Maybe we can try going to the club again? Just to start testing out the waters if Lucy doesn't want anyone long-term?".

Lucy frowns. "Maybe not. Last time we did that I met Dan and we know how that went…" Dan was a terrible guy. At first he seemed sweet, like Lucy's ideal prince charming. But it was clear that he had an obsessive, stalkerish nature. He wouldn't stop visiting Lucy and constantly texted and called her. It was all too much so she quickly ended it off.

He was persistent, so Levy sent Gajeel over to scare him away. Since then he's completely left her alone.

"Don't worry." Levy begins, with a familiar, mischievous glint in her eyes as she bores her eyes into Lucy. "Juvia and I will definitely find a way."

Lucy grimaces, knowing that the pixie was quickly plotting a plan that Lucy had a feeling she wouldn't like.

"U-um, let me just get some food for you guys. Do you want popcorn?" Lucy decides to avoid the subject even though she was the one who brought it up again and stands before pushing her chair back into the table. She doesn't need to hear a response before she's already walking into the kitchen, hearing her two friends both yell a 'yes, please!' behind her.

Lucy begins rummaging through the kitchen, filled with snacks and fruits mostly for her friends whenever they came over. The boys always had a crazy appetite and Lucy could only have ghost peppers anyway. She opens her upper cabinets, peering inside in search for the popcorn bags.

While she was busy, in the living room Levy and Juvia were mumbling quietly as Levy looked at her phone.

"You know how I said Gajeel's cousin is coming to town?" Levy asks quietly. Juvia nods with a serious expression on her face. "I asked Gajeel to send me a pic earlier just 'cause I was curious. Here," Levy turns her phone around and shows the picture to Juvia. Unbeknownst to them, a smirk rises on both of their faces.

"Is Levy thinking what Juvia is thinking?" Juvia giggles. Their smirk turns into wide, evil grins. As Levy sends a message to Gajeel regarding his cousin and her blonde friend, Juvia turns around in her chair to face the direction of Lucy's kitchen.

The siren calls out, "Lucy?".

"Yeah! What is it?" The vampire responds back.

"How about a blind date?"

Lucy was lying in bed after her friends left to go home, unable to sleep. One, because she was nervous for the date she had the next day, her fingers twisting the soft texture of her pillow while she gnawed at her lip to distract herself. Why did she ever agree to Levy and Juvia's ideas? But also, her hunger pains have been increasingly getting worse.

She never understood much about how her body worked. Her father refused to educate her on her body and species, which sucked ass. Lucy's a kind soul. Even drinking donor blood made her guilty so she was desperate to find an alternative. She mostly taught herself how to deal with the pains, but in case of emergencies, Lucy found that oddly enough ghost peppers of all things curved her hunger. She blushed when she remembered how she discovered her love for the burning treat.

At the time her hunger was blinding. Of course it happened when Levy wandered off to find snacks. It was a sudden shock as she stumbled against the cereal boxes inside the grocery store. The dull thuds as the boxes were knocked down didn't register in her ears as she tried to claim her normal state of mind back from the vicious creature she was. The vicious creature chanting to her in her head on how absolutely ethereal it felt to have fresh blood flowing down your throat. How tempting it was to have one, small sip of the person rushing over to help her...

As Lucy fought with her mind she failed to fight with her body; it felt like an unknown entity was desperately clawing at her stomach, making her mind waver as her sanity drained bit by bit. Lucy was normally a fast thinker, but the sudden hunger skewed her usually bright mind. She did what she thought was the next best thing at the time to avoid hurting anyone there - eat everything in the store.

In the end, it was a good decision. She doesn't know what would have happened if she left the store instead. Lucy quickly shoved the woman trying to help her in her desperation and ran to the fruit and vegetable aisle (since animal meat is repulsive to her), shoving whatever she could in her mouth.

And that was how she came across the delicious taste of ghost peppers, and also how she got kicked out of the store and was told to never come back again.

Levy felt extremely bad about it for weeks, saying how she should've stayed with her and made sure she was okay. It wasn't the bluenette's fault at all. The pain essentially came out of nowhere. But Lucy guesses that the guilt stuck with Levy until yesterday, which was why she was so worried about Lucy finding someone to feed from.

A spike of pain shocks her system suddenly as Lucy grabs her stomach, curling in on herself as little spikes stab at her core. She just wants to know, why is this happening to me? Her eyes squeeze tightly shut as rogue tears spill out of her eyes.

Recently these pains have been very different. Usually, it's a lasting, dull pain always at the back of her mind ever since she discovered ghost peppers. But starting yesterday it's a repetitive pattern of sharp, stabbing pains that has her doubling over, gripping onto whatever is nearby to steady herself. Even her favourite treat can barely help her now.

Lucy's mind gets hazy and suddenly, it feels like she can barely breathe. Her body takes shuddering breaths but it feels like her lungs refuse air. Her heart starts pounding erratically. This doesn't feel right at all.

She needs to get out. To leave. To just go. She couldn't take it!

In the back of her mind, she knows how dangerous that would be. She's never lost control before other than that time in the store. But despite that, she easily stumbles out of her home and crouches on her front lawn. Lucy gasps for breath, tangling her fingers in her hair and almost sobs as the pain comes again.

This isn't normal.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck..." She chants under her breath. Why does this have to hurt so bad?!

She can only breathe a little better after leaving her home and has the sudden urge to just move. To do anything to get rid of the pain. She needed help. That's right. Her muddled mind was able to gather that much together. Help. Somebody help.

She uses her speed to go to the closest place she knew from here. Gajeel's.

Her vision becomes almost pixelated, a haze of blurry and black spots, but she shakes her head to distract herself from her fading consciousness and the pain. She wills herself to use her inhuman speed, and doesn't even notice when her body gives out, staring at Gajeel's apartment complex in defeat as it wavers in front of her.

Huh, she thinks. That's odd. Why is everything tilting?

Before she reaches the ground, her head and vision wobbles as she faintly recognizes someone catching her. A wonderful scent washes over her dazed form, an aroma so intense that it sends an earthshattering shiver through her body, and all her senses heighten to extreme heights.

The smell emitted from whoever it was, was like ghost peppers, but better. Spicy, woodsy, a sweet campfire that she can almost taste. She didn't understand it, she barely understood if how she described the smell made sense, but she knew her body craved whatever it was.

Lucy wasn't even aware when she threw the body that saved her onto the ground, and without any hesitation, instinctively dug her teeth into the person's neck, gripping the broad shoulders of someone that tasted absolutely divine.

It was like a whole new world opened up to her. Her vision got clearer than it was ever before, her body gained the strength it hadn't experienced in years. She could only describe it as feeling healthy.

A wonderful, unique taste flows through her mouth, flows through her entire being. The smell, the taste, the touch, everything, made her let out a low moan deep in her throat.

This is what heaven is.

She vaguely recognizes someone's hands gripping her wild, blonde hair, tight in their hold as her fangs continue to suck the life force out of them. Neither pulling her away nor pushing her closer. The rough hands latch onto her like a lifeline.

Lucy gulps and gulps, her body cheering at her as she replenishes herself with what she has been lacking for years. As her mind begins to clear, she quickly realizes that not only was the taste amazing, but the zinging feeling of her body pressed against someone else's was even more addicting.

Oh Mavis, she literally felt like crying right now from utter bliss.

Everything felt right. Everything felt perfect.

Finally, as Lucy feels a droplet trickle down her chin, her mind is coherent enough to start imposing her normal thoughts and worries. Who exactly was she drinking? Her mind takes a while to form an answer before her eyes widen.

Oh gosh, please don't be a human! Lucy wrenches herself away, breathing heavily as her body hums alight. With each intake of air, her body brushes against the strangers, sending even more delectable zings through her that has her closing her eyes and biting her lip, tasting the leftover blood.

She wipes the stray droplet of blood, right before realizing how utterly exhausted she was for enduring her hunger for years, and her weakened limbs shake before awkwardly slump on her victim's body. Lucy attempts to will her eyes open as her ear rests on the warm chest, hearing the steady thumping of the person's heartbeat. Her eyes register her victim's broad shoulders and she assumes he's a man.

He's breathing heavily as well, and the breathy sighs that left his mouth was a sure indicator that he was male, and equally as confused but not nearly as exhausted as her, which was odd because she most definitely drank too much for a human to survive. Which brings relief to Lucy that he's alive. She wouldn't know what to do if she ended up severely hurting, or even killing, a stranger.

The man's eyes crack open slowly, feeling his eyes adjust to the darkness around him. The scenery of the dark night and the quivering leaves of the trees above lights up as his eyes switch to night vision. He stares at the girl that drained him dry on top of his body, blonde hair still tangled in his right hand as she simply lays on his chest.

He flicks his head back to move his salmon hair from his eyes, smirking with mischief as he feels the same zings through his body as her.

"Ya' know, you're lucky I'm a demon. What kinda weirdo goes and drains their mate, who they just met, dry?"

The blonde doesn't say anything, and instead just groans and face plants into his chest, in what he assumes is in embarrassment. He snorts, letting out a chuckle at how peculiar this girl is.

Until he heard a gentle snore that most definitely did not come from him.

…

"Yer kidding."

Heyo! Thanks for reading this far ;)

To be completely honest, I had this story half written on my computer for a long time, and thought to hell with it. So I kind of finished it just for the sake of finishing, so I'm sorry if there are (a lot of) mistakes. I wasn't really feeling with what I was writing but hopefully it may be interesting to some of you.

Also, I don't know if they want to be tagged but this was requested by someone who wanted me to do a vampire AU! IM SORRY THAT ITS SHIT BUT I TRIED

Next chapter is like 9000 words so prepare yourself for some wholesomeness. Also, there's some mild NSFW next chapter so prEPARE yOURSELVES

Thanks for reading!

~CatAttemptsWriting