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~Chapter forty three~

Life becomes more meaningful when you realize the simple fact that you'll never get the same moment twice.
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Lucy's POV

I stared at Nik with sympathy. No human deserves it, yet it still happens.

She wiped away the tiny tears that slipped out and looked back at me. Any trace that she was vulnerable left her face. "I don't need it. What I need is help," she whispered.

I put a hand on her shoulder. "You've got us," I said.

"Get this choker off of me," she begged, looking at us. My eyebrows shot up, it looks like a normal choker to me.

Natsu tried pulling it off her, but it didn't budge. He even went as far as trying to burn it. "What's this?"

"It has a tracker on it, so they know where I am," she said and rubbed the red line that appeared. "I can't take it off and it's suffocating."

Hunter walked to her and carefully touched her neck. Her grabbed the choker and squeezed it till it broke.

Nik's eyes widened and she looked at her broken choker. "H-how?"

"They're not the only one that uses magic," Hunter answered, a smug grin on his face.

"But if they don't know where you are now, aren't you like free?" Natsu asked.

She shook her head. "They're holding my friend captive, so I don't really have a choice."

Great, just when I thought it couldn't be worse.

Natsu made a fist and grinned. "Well then, let's save your friend and burn their guild down."

"It's not as simple as you make it sound. I don't even know where they're holding her captive."

Slowly we sat on the ground in a park. The others we'd played with had already left.

"Let's make a plan," Hunter said, looking at Nik.

I snorted. "Sorry, but this pink haired asshole can't take a plan serious and will end up not following it."

Natsu whipped his head so fast at me I thought his neck may break. He gritted his teeth and shuffled dangerously closer.

"What did you say?"

I know that look. It was the same when he ordered me to kiss him. Those same devilish look. My heart began speeding up. "I said—"

Cut off by him kissing me harshly. He moved his lips fast against the mine and for a while I was frozen.

I closed my eyes and kissed him back, grinning at how mad I can make him if I call his hair pink.

if he's doing this every time, I don't mind saying it.

He forced his tongue into mouth and grunted.

I enjoyed it, a lot, but I'm not really up for public display of affection. A little kiss is fine, but I want this in private.

I planted my hands on his shoulder and pushed him away. My cheeks were bright red and I was embarrassed by knowing Nik and Hunter watched.

Hunter was sitting nonchalantly, having one knee up and resting his arm on it. Nik had her legs crossed.

Natsu looked a little breathless and taken aback. Then he grinned at me, clearly happy with what happened.

"Asshole," I muttered with a smile.

Hunter pointed with the arm on his knee to Natsu. "You don't force yourself on a girl, Natsu," he said sternly.

Natsu narrowed his eyes at him and clenched his teeth.

"You did the same with Nik not so long ago," he countered.

And then they began cracking up. And then they burst out laughing.

Nik and I looked confused. But then I sighed. Boys will be boys.

"Uhm, hello? The plan?" Nik reminded arrogantly. I love it when a girl is showing attitude. But she still has to be sweet, or else she is just a bitch to me.

"Right," Hunter said and turned serious.

The following fifteen minutes we began planning out the rescue mission.

I frowned, skipping through it again. "Don't we need more people?"

A guild full of people, no matter how weak, still shows resistance.

"Don't worry. Most people are out in the night," she assured us.

Then she checked the time on her watch. Her eyes widened. "Shit. I had to be there at four o'clock and ten minutes passed."

She thrusted the broken choker in Hunter's hand. "Make a tracker so you can know where I am. They will be showing up soon," she rushed.

Hunter grabbed the choker and made a replica of it. A device appeared in his hand, no doubt that will show us where she is.

She put his choker on and put the broken one in her pocket.

"Disguise yourself!" she almost yelled. "They can't know I hung out with you guys. They hate Fairy Tail." She looked as if she wanted to break down right now.

Hunter smirked and clicked his fingers. A magic circle appeared under me. White light shone from my clothes and before I knew it, my appearance changed.

I had a yellow baggy jumpsuit on and my hair turned brown. I looked at Natsu. His hair was black and his clothes changed into docters' clothing.

I glared at Hunter. "I know Natsu was my number one asshole, but damn, you easily beat him in that category."

He whistled, apparently finding my make-over pretty hot. "I want my Luce back, not some ugly version of her," Natsu said and scoffed, not the slightest bothered by his own transformation.

Is that a compliment?

"Don't worry, I will later," Hunter said, still smirking smugly.

Natsu wanted to say something, but Nik fake coughed.

"Don't forget the plan," she whispered, tightening her fists.

"And once we save you, you two are going to join Fairy Tail," Natsu said, leaving no room for disagreement.

Nobody said anything as we glanced towards two people in suits stomping at us, or rather Nik. They both looked pissed. One was tall and slim, the other was short and... fuller.

He grabbed her arm roughly, and Nik's face contorted in pain. "Where the fuck were you? Did we not sound clear to you?" the man whispered harshly. Then he looked around and his eyes landed on us three.

"This were the people you decided to spend your time with?" the tall guy said and scoffed. "Unbelievable," he muttered.

"Hey! You're hurting her," Hunter said, acting oblivious. "Who the hell are you?"

"Her brother. Who the fuck are you?"

Hunter smiled, a bitter edge attached. "Just some random stranger. We were playing truth of dare, guess time flew by quickly." He shrugged. "Sorry to worry you. Being a brother must be hard with this kind of girl."

Hunter... shut the fuck up! You're making everything worse.

Nik closed her eyes, trying to controle her breath. "Believe me," the short man began. "it isn't hard to keep her on a leash."

That made every single muscle in our bodies tighten, that of Hunter the most. He narrowed his eyes slightly, but tried to keep up with his oblivious act. He stood up and brushed off his pants. "It's was nice meeting you Lily," he said to Nik.

Her eyebrows shot up, and she immediately understood what he wanted to do. The tall guy looked at Nik with a question in his eyes. But most of the anger disappeared. He probably thought she told on them. But if Hunter didn't supposedly know her real name, then she couldn't have done it.

They're wrong though, she explained everything. From the cleaning till the beatings.

"Natasha, Lucas, let's go," Hunter said and addressed our new names apparantly.

You want to choose those names? I raised my eyebrow and nodded. "Sure, Huntley, let's go."

They turned around without another word. After they were at a safe distance I glared at Hunter. "You could have chosen every other name but you chose Natasha." It's not that it's an ugly name, it's just, choose Luciana or something.

He scoffed. "You too! You chose freaking Huntley!" he exclaimed.

I crossed my arms. "You have to pay dinner, you know? Natsu and I paid for the snacks."

"No way. That guy eats like a beast."

"I don't care, Huntley," I bit the name, making sure to leave a burn. He'd probably end up hating everyone with the name Huntley.

"Fuck you, Natasha," he countered with the same irritation in his voice.

"Get lost. I swear. I bet you made Nik's situation worse."

"None of you even said a thing when she obviously wanted assurance."

"I did!" I exclaimed.

"Get a fucking room!" Natsu interrupted. I glanced at him, and if I had to describe him now, I would say he's ready to explode any moment now, looking as if he wanted to kill Hunter.

"Is my Salmonella jealous?" I said. Honestly, it's so wrong to direct my annoyance towards him, but I just can't. Nik couldn't have a normal childhood and it's makes me so upset. Then those guy who dragged her made my blood boil.

"What's wrong with you?" Natsu asked and glared at me.

"Everything is obviously fine with me. What are you talking about?"

We glared at each other, and I see the vein in Natsu's neck throbbing.

"Stop it guys, Jesus," Hunter said and made us glance at him. "One time it seems like you have the best relationship in the fucking world, and next you are having a glare battle about something stupid."

That made us glare at him.

"I chose Natasha and Lucas for obvious reasons. I don't know how you didn't figure it out. Mirajane, you guys' matchmaker, made the name NaLu. Guess what, the first two letters of the new names I gave you were 'na' and 'lu'."

My mouth hung open, internally face palming. I instantly felt bad. He made thoughtful names and his new girlfriend, or atleast friend who share interest in each other, is abused. And here I am, insulting him.

Hunter put a hand on our shoulders. "I hate the way relationships nowadays aren't appreciated and forced. But with you guys it's natural. You have those auras around each other that radiates happiness. And this may sound cheesy from me, but don't fucking waste that because of something stupid."

I looked down. "Sorry."

"It's fine. No worries. The only thing I care about is Nik at the moment."

Natsu and I looked at each other, his eyes were still hard as he looked at me. I directed my glance somewhere else, ashamed.

He sighed and engulfed me into a hug. "Just apologize."

"Sorry," I whispered in his ear. "I won't call you salmonella again."

I know that isn't the reason I should be apologizing for. "I'll try keep it in, okay?"

"No," he said and broke the hug. "I'm here for you. Good and bad times. Just come to me and we will fix your anger problems."

I raised my eyebrow. "Oh, I have anger problems?" I asked with a smile.

He rolled his eyes. "Obviously."

Hunter groaned. "You guys' relationship is the most confusing one I have ever seen. Sweet, angry, apologizing, teasing. It's too much. I don't want to hear anymore."

One hour later we sat on the train towards the Black Panther guild. We will be eating in the city and once it is nine o'clock we will strike.

"Okay, let's go over the plan again," I said, stuffing my mouth with chicken. We sat at a table near the window in a corner.

Natsu rolled his eyes, clearly knowing I didn't trust him with the plan. "Hunter gets a guy, asks where they're being held captive. We sneak to them, Hunter freeing everybody. I stand on watch and you help Hunter. Also: get in no fight."

I nodded. He said the short version but that's fine.

"Wait, we have a huge hole in our plan," Hunter suddenly exclaimed.

We tilted our heads.

"Once we freed everone, we have to escape, but they would notice the footsteps and everything on our way back."

My eyes widened. Well shit.

Natsu smirked. "Guess I should make a way to go unnoticed?"
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Thank you for reading😊

And sorry for the mistakes.

Goddamnit. I try to make this book not that long....but... I'm failing ofc

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