What a princess would do for her family

Chapter 45: One day to go?

Lucy's PoV

Natsu and I wake up at the sound of someone knocking on our door. While Natsu's taking a shower, I open it. "Hey Lucy-San! We need to get ready to go back to Earth Land tomorrow. Also, breakfast is ready downstairs." Wendy appears below me. "Thanks Wendy! I'll make sure to pass the message on to Natsu." I smile back at her. "You two shared a room last night. You looooooovvvvveeeeee hhiiiiiiimmm." Happy magically appears. "S-Shut up you stupid cat!" I scream before hearing Wendy giggle slightly and slamming the door closed.

The sound of the door must have been loud, because Natsu came running out of the bathroom with a towel lazily wrapped around his waist. "What's wrong?! What happened!?" He called, getting into a fighting stance. I giggle. "Nothing. I just closed the door, silly." I walked up to him. "Then why was it so loud?" He looked like a confused puppy. Cuuuuuttteee. "Happy said something which made me em-embarrassed." I mutter, a dark blush appearing on my face. "What did he say?" He walked closer to me. "That I loved you." I lower my head so he couldn't see me blushing. I heard him walk closer until he was right in front of me and he put his hands on the upper part of my arms. "I love you too. I'd say it to the whole world. I'd run all the way to Galuna Island and further, telling everybody there how great you are." He whispered. I looked up at him, my blush still getting darker. "R-Really?!" I squealed. "Let me show you." He smirk and picked me up, so that I was his height. I rested my forehead in his and he kissed me deeply and passionately. We stayed like this for what felt like an eternity. I suddenly noticed the lack of air and let go. "C-Come on. W-we're going to be late fo-for breakfast." I stutter, blushing as red as Ersa's hair, jumped down and ran to the bathroom to take a shower.

Time skip ~ after breakfast

"So Lucy. Do you wanna show the others around. They haven't actually met everyone yet." My mother asked, twirling her drink in the air with her magic. "Yeah! I totally forgot! Come on guys. We're going on a ride." I grabbed Natsu's hand, because he was sitting next to me, and called for the other dragon slayers. We ran out of the palace and to the edge of the island. When the others saw that I didn't stop they started calling for me. "Bunny girl! What the hell are you doi-" Gajeel was cut off by me jumping off the island. I turned in the air as I fell and saw Natsu flying after me. Panicked, I start flailing my limbs about. "Natsu! What the hell do you think you're doing?!" I screamed, seemingly standing in the air, crossing my arms. "What are you talking about!? You just jumped off a floating island!" Natsu swam towards me. "That's.....a good point." I look to my feet. Let's see if he can activate them. I thought them looked up at him with the most terrified face I could pull. "Natsu! Help!" I cried, falling faster than him. He pulled a determined face and straightened his body to make him fall further. He grabbed my waist and held on so tightly, I thought I'd lose all of the air in my body. I buried my head in his neck, trying to act scared. He muttered something and suddenly the wind that was blowing around us stopped. I looked up and saw the massive red wings behind him. He started flapping them until we were back on land. "What the hell were you thinking!? You could've died!! What if I didn't know how to do this?! We both would be dead and the wedding would be ruined!!" Natsu screamed angrily at me. To his surprise, I had the biggest smile, in my life, on my face. "Why do you have that look Lucy-San?" Wendy asked me as she looked for any injuries on my body. "I'm so proud of you Natsu! I knew you could do it!" I squealed and jump hugged him, he still had his wings out. "What? Huh? What?!" Natsu hugged me back, utterly confused. "You activated your dragon wings! I'm so proud of you!" I squealed as I let go and cupped his face in my hands. "YOU KNEW HE'D/I'D DO THAT?!" All of the dragon slayers screamed. "Of I knew. That's how I learned anyway. It normally takes a huge amount of training. Well done Natsu!" I clapped my hands gleefully. The others sweat dropped. "Does that mean you have you're wings as well, Lucy?" Carla asked. "Yep! Do you wanna see?" I asked the exceed's. "YEAH!" They cheered. I giggled and activated my wings.

As I'm much stronger than the first time I activated them, I don't have to say a word. When the others saw my wings, they were in awe. They also had changed from the first time I activated them, they now had specks of every different colour, symbolising all of my magics. "Wow Lucy-San! They're so pretty." Wendy walked up to touch them. "Thank you Wendy. I grew them myself." I giggled, a little embarrassed. "Cool. So when do we get our wings?" Gajeel asked. "You either can try my method, which is jumping off a island, or train for the rest of your life." I smiled at them. They both sweat dropped then looked at each other and nodded. The next things you know, they jumped off the island. "WENDY! GET BACK UP HERE THIS INSTANT!" Carla screamed. Seconds later, Wendy and Gajeel rose from the ground with air and metal wings. "Wendy! They look so cute!" I squeal. Running over to her. "B-B-But..." She began. "Why are they so small." She cries animatedly. "Th-they'll grow." I reassure her.

After all of the commotion, we set off to meet all of the dragons. To start off, we met Levia, the nature dragon. "Lu-chan! It's a pleasure to see you again!" Levia runs up to us, in her human form, as we float down to the ground. "Le-chan! It's been too long!" I hug her as my wings disappear. "Hi. My names Nat-" before Natsu could finish, Levia tackled him. "So you're the famous Natsu Dragoneel? You've been quite the talk around here for a long time now. And you're marrying princess Lucy. You better treat her right. Do you know how much she means to the dragons!? Will you help her with her work!? You better not hurt her! Don't stress her out..." As Levia goes on and on with questions, the others and I sweat drop at her behaviour.

The same happened with all of the other dragons and by the time we get home, we were exhausted. We all collapsed in the front hall of the palace. "I'm...never.........doing that......again." Luna gasped. "Well, Gajeel and Lily will have to be doing this all over again tomorrow, so you will be too." I stand back up, with some difficulty. "What! Why do I have to?" She moans, sitting on my shoulder as I dragged the rest, who were passed out, into the drawing room. (Don't even know what that is -_-') "Because you are Lily's girlfriend. You are his date so you must help him greet the guests. Also you'll have to help me make the dragons comfortable in Earth Land." I lift them all on to a couch each. "I'm going to make everybody some tea and bring food. Stay here to check on them?" I almost beg her. She jumps on the couch with Lily and snuggles in next to him. I aww in my head and lazily walk to the kitchen.

While making the tea, the aroma makes me even more sleepy than I was and it takes longer than expected. I grab some food from the fridge, put it all on a tray and walk back to the others. They're all awake and we start talking about random stuff. After a while, I lay down on the couch Natsu and I are sitting on, resting my head on his lap. Some where along the way, I drift off to sleep.

Natsu's PoV

While we were talking, Luce fell asleep and I had to carry her back to bed. I guess all the work we did today wore her out. I chuckled to myself as I walked down the corridor, carrying her bridal style. Suddenly, I hear someone say my name behind me and I swerve around. There, in the centre of the hall, is Zeref and The First. "Hey Natsu. How've you been?" He asks, as if he never died. "H-Hey Zeref. First." I bow slightly, making sure not to drop Luce. "I see you wore her out today." Zeref chuckled, walking closer. Then I saw that him and Mavis were holding hands. "Are you two a couple?" I ask and they freeze. "Y-Yeah." Mavis blushed, but they were still holding hands. "Good for you first." I smile at them and they turn back to normal. "So how's the afterlife treating you, Zeref?" I ask causally. "Good. I can spend more time with Maiv now." He smiles. "How's married life?" He asks as we walk down the hall together. "We're not married yet, but yeah. It's great." I smile, trying to keep my voice low, so that I don't wake the sleeping princess. "Good. Guess we'll see you tomorrow, Natsu. Bye." Mavis cheered as we got to our room. "Bye guys. See you later." I opened the door and got Luce ready for bed.

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