Beautiful Dreamer

Chapter Two: Starlight and Dewdrops are Waiting for Thee

"I have this one recurring dream-" He looks back at her, cheeks still pink, his lips slightly parted, a nervous smile on his face "-of you."

"What?" Lucy stuttered, unsure she heard right, "you dream of me?"

"Well, yeah, kind of?"

"How can you dream of me! We only just met!"

"I don't know!" Natsu pouted, "and it's not really you, just someone who looks like you."

"So they don't act like me at all?"

"I don't know, kind of."

"But her name is also Lucy?"

"Mhm."

"That's totally not creepy." she says sarcastically.

"Again, it's not you though, cause it's not a dream about like our world, in this world we are always like in a fantasy realm with magic."

"Sounds very unrealistic."

"Yeah but it looks like a good time." Natsu says wistfully. Something about his face confused Lucy, for while she was incredibly frustrated she can't remember anything, this world doesn't seem that bad. Natsu's look tells her that he'd rather be in the dream world. But then again, as a reader of some fantasy novels she guesses she can relate.

"Do you remember anything specific about the dream?"

"Yeah." Natsu says, "like too much."

"Too much?"

"Yeah, I feel like I know more about the dream than I do my real life sometimes." Lucy wonders if she should mention her own inability to remember this life at all, but refrains from doing so. Even if this guy dreams of her, she doesn't know if that means she can trust him. For all she knows he hit her in the head with a rock yesterday and that's why she can't remember.

"Well the subconscious is a strange place," Lucy remarks, "Is anything here similar to the dream world?"

"The people are all the same." Natsu shrugs, "but they're bolder, brasher, more exciting."

"Could be your mind telling you to find more exciting friends by rewriting the ones you have."

Natsu shrugs again, and remains silent.

"Hey Natsu?" Lucy asks, remembering Natsu's slip up earlier, "what kind of magic do you have in the dream?"

"Oh, um. It's fire," Natsu says, "but it is like a part dragon or something."

Natsu's words from before come back to her, The Igneel Academy school for dragons, she's sure she heard dragon instead of boy the first time he said it. That's a few to many coincidences for her liking.

Could Natsu's dream be related to this all? Lucy wasn't sure how she was supposed to know the right answer.

"Ah, Two students hard at work I see," Lucy hears Professor Loki before she sees him, now standing looking down upon the notes she had taken lying on the grass. "And for my class, how wonderful. Though it's a little late out."

Lucy doesn't notice that the sun had set, or that night had crept across the sky. They dew on the grass made where they were sitting damper than she wants.

When did it get dark? She thinks. We weren't talking for that long.

Why can't she keep track of time?

"She's totally the reason I'll be getting an A on this assignment Prof." Natsu says, giving a thumbs up.

"Glad to hear." Professor Loki says clapping his hands together, "Dreams are a very important part of the mind." He turns to Lucy, "you should not ignore them, and often they are not what they seem."