Fairy Tail: This Little Chickie

Someone Help Me

Disclaimer: Fairy Tail® by Mashima Hiro

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The next morning Lucy woke to the sound of loud banging on her door. She sat up and looked around frantically, not recognizing her surroundings. She tried crawling out of bed, but a restless night had resulted in her being tangled in the sheets. With a squeal of alarm, Lucy lost her balance and fell off the bed and landed with a heavy 'thump'.

Laxus looked at the door with mild amusement. He figured she was still sleeping and sure enough, from the sound of her reaction, she had been. The sound of her falling out of bed made him want to burst out laughing, but he held it in. The girl was honestly more trouble than she was worth.

"Hurry it up, Chickie! We don't have all morning!" he called through the door. The sound of his voice reminded Lucy of the previous day's occurrences. Her alarm and confusion melted into pure, utter dread. The day was not going to be fun. Lucy shook her head to rid herself of her depressing thoughts. Pretending that she was with her friends on the job, not Laxus, Lucy managed to increase her mood; it was the power of mind over matter.

She dressed in black shorts and a red T-shirt, her hair pulled back in pig-tails. She made sure everything she had brought with her was packed in her travel pack before checking her keys and pulling her sandals on. Once she was done, she slipped out the door only to literally walk right into Laxus; her little daydream of being with her friends coming to a rude conclusion. She bounced off his chest with a soft thud, but managed to stay on her feet.

"Hey, watch it." She said without realizing it. Once she did though, her hand slapped over her mouth and her eyes grew wide. She looked up at him to see his reaction, but what she saw wasn't exactly the expression she expected.

Lucy was used to him shrugging off others with sarcastic, snide comments and sheer intimidation. She figured his next most common reaction was to loose his temper, considering how he always seemed to be reining it in all the time. She didn't expect him to simply give her a blank look...almost as if he was in a total daze.

To be honest, he was. His mind was still focused on her bumping into him, so her comment had passed him by completely. Laxus, like his Grandfather, had always had a fascination with women in general, but especially with their chests and rear ends. Though Fairy Tail was currently full of weaklings and fools, he had to admit that it was also filled with some of the best looking women he'd seen in his 23 years. Lucy was one of the youngest and one of the weakest, but she was also one of the best of the bunch with perfect curves, flawless porcelain skin, silky blond hair, and expressive milk-chocolate eyes. He heard of men in the guild talking about her charming smile and boundless enthusiasm for life, but had yet to see them himself except for glimpses when she was with her close friends.

When she had left her room, she had been skipping. Clearly she'd been off in her own little world; otherwise she wouldn't have been so cheerful. She had skipped right into him, her perfect body, which he had been fanaticizing about since he had first laid eyes on her, molded to his own for a split second before bouncing off. But it was that second that kept replaying itself in his memory. She felt really soft and was so tiny and delicate looking that his intrigue for the girl nearly doubled at that moment. The best damn moment of this entire trip, he decided.

With a blank look on his face, Lucy's fear quickly vanished. She decided that she liked him better like this, but knew that he would snap out of it soon enough. For the first time, Lucy's stare shifted to his eyes to see some indicator of what had turned his brain off like that. Her own chocolate eyes met piercing blue ones. Lucy gasped. Never before had she seen such a beautiful but terrifying gaze. Lucy closed her eyes in an attempt to escape the weight of his unwavering stare, but she could still picture it as clear as day in her mind.