"Let's go on a quest," he said. "It will be easy peasy!" He said. "You won't totally get kidnapped in the middle of the night and man handled by perverts!" He said.

Okay so maybe he didn't say that last part...

Lucy griped angrily as an aged man with pale, waxy skin and wrinkles beneath his eyes approached her. He had severely chapped lips and exema on several areas of his face. She felt repulsed, but more or less at herself for allowing Natsu and happy to pick this vile quest. Even more so for allowing them to convince her that it would be a slice of cake. If this was a slice of cake, then she didn't want any.

The man smirked melicously as Lucy squirmed and yanked against the ropes that bound her to a metal pole in some concrete looking basement.

All they had to do was figure out what this sicko was doing in his basement. There was suspicion that he was using magic to lure innocent girls in his house, brain washing them, whatever. Nobody knows what he did to them down here. But all they knew was that he was most likely a pervert who prayed on the weak and took advantage of others. Then, they were to reprimand him.

It was supposed to be an easy 160,000 jewel.

Easy her ass.

Naturally, they made Lucy the bait since she was the only female on the team. They'd figured with her big breasts that would definitely lure him in. Natsu was a big, fat, pervert. And the lure worked. But Lucy's acting skills left something to be desired. It wasn't all her fault. Natsu nor happy backed her up like they were supposed to.

The man obviously caught on to their act. Otherwise, she wouldn't be where she was right now (kidnapped straight from their hotel room.)

She knew it was a bad idea to go on the quest. Not after that dream she awoke from this morning. Lucy was so exhausted, her magic was alsmot null. What little she had should only be for emergencies, like life or death situations. Not that she could wiggle her hands free enough to get to her gate keys anyway.

If she had told Natsu about her dilemma, maybe she'd be okay right now. Safe, sound, and asleep. But then he'd ask questions, and she wasn't prepared to explain to him the dream she had. It was impossible for her to make sense of it herself. How was she supposed to explain everything?

"Get away from me you pervert! When I get my hands free, you're going to regret it!" All empty threats of course. With her current state, there was no way in hell that she was going to be able to actually do anything to this guy.

He didn't say anything in response. Instead, he reached his hand out and placed it on her right breast, smiling slyly as if he knew that she wasn't going to be able to fight back. Lucy grimaced from the chubby hands that not so gracefully groped her chest. She felt disgust growing in the pit of her stomach as her face turned beet red out of embarrassment. The things that she did to make some quick jewel.

"Don't touch me!" Lucy shouted, kicking her foot out as hard as she could as a last means of defense. The man grimaced and fell to his knees as the point of her foot cane in contact right were she wanted it to. Bingo.

"Y-You, You wretched woman! You miserable bitch!" He groaned in agony, clutching his groun as he inched around on the floor like a worm. "You are going to pay for this!"

She strained against her bindings a little harder than before, not even wincing when she felt the ropes tearing at the flesh on her wrists and torso. If she pulled hard enough, maybe they would break.

The sicko climbed to his feat, still clutching is groin with one hand as if holding it would relieve any of the pain that she had caused. With his other hand, he grabbed her face roughly, scrunching up her chubby cheeks and forced her to make eye contact with him. His eyes were such a dark brown. that they were almost black. His pupils were enlarged and he had sweat dribbling down the side of his temples.

What a disgusting pig.

"You should not have done that. I was planning to go easy on you. But after the little act of rebellion, I'm starting to think otherwise...I'm going to have fun breaking you to pieces and watching you scream as I-"

Suddenly, he dropped to the ground. Eyes rolling to the back of his head as he fell unconscious. The smell of burning flesh entertained Lucy's nose.

A certain pink haired mage stood behind the man's unconscious body with a 100 watt smile on his face. That idiot! But Lucy couldn't help but smile as well.

"Took you long enough, Natsu!"

"Geez, Luce. Is that the thanks I get for saving your butt? He was actually pretty strong, ya' know! I had to break three wards before I could enter this crappy building."

Happy wordlessly began working at untying the binds around Lucy as she and Natsu bantered like an old married couple.

"Thanks? Why should I thank you!? If you'd been any earlier you could have saved me from getting groped by that pig!" She joked, trying not to let Natsu see how bothered and grossed out she really was by the whole situation. "I think you're going weak on me."

"Who would want to grope you anyway! You're too fat compared to the other girls he's kidnapped. He caught me by surprise, that's all!"

Fat? Lucy bit her lip. She was feeling some sort of way about that comment but she didn't know what. She was just...bothered. It wasn't unusual for Natsu to joke around and call her fat. At least she always hoped he was joking. After all, she only saw herself as curvy with her big breasts and wide hips. Not fat...but still. Something about his typical teasing bothered her more than usual.

Lucy stood up from the chair as soon as she felt the release of the ropes dropping to the floor. She rubbed her raw wrists which had tiny needs of blood forming in several different areas due to the amount of yanking angainst them she had done.

She peered up at Natsu who watched her silently. There was a pregnant pause. She found herself wondering why he had stopped talking. Was he worried about her?

"Why didn't you just save yourself anyway? Ya' know, call on one of those celestial spirits of yours?"

"I couldn't reach my gate keys. My hands were tied, idiot!"

Which was true, but she didn't bother to bring up the fact that she didn't have any magic.

"Can we just take care of this guy, collect our jewel, and then get back to the guild? I'm so tired..."