*under editing* The Power Of Love (NaLu fan fiction)

12.Shit gets real

-Lucy-

I run faster, further away from Sting. I blush at the thought. Stupid Lucy! Don't think about that. I stop and put my hands on my knees breathing heavily. A few feet in front of me there is a lake.

You may be wondering why i'm doing this. Well apparently Sting wants us to become stonger.after all we are up against dragons.By us i mean all the dragonslayers out there in fiore. They even let cobra out for this mission.we only have another 5 more months before the planned attack.

So in total there were about 8 of us:

Sting

Rouge

Wendy

Cobra

laxus

Natsu

Gajeel

and me

He wouldn't tell us anymore details....just the minimal.

What happened just was just plain weird. I felt my cheeks burn up. NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO THINK ABOUT IT! Well in summary of what happened Sting and i were making out.I don't know what got to me but yea..we did anyways things got heated up but then i remember Natsu. I pushed him away and ran away from him. So here i am.

The water reflects the grey sky and looks unwelcoming and freezing. Out of nowhere a breeze springs up and I shiver. I turn to go back but something stops me. A large, heavy something. When I turned around, Natsu, who was apparently racing Laxus, hadn't been looking where he was going and had barreled into me full force sending both of us tumbling into the water.

"Luce!" His surprised voice reaches me seconds before the water covers my ears. I open my mouth to reply but instead get a mouthful of salty water. Salty? What the heck? I feel Natsu's arms enclose around me and pull me up out of the knee deep water. I splutter and cough, expelling water from my lungs and try to breathe at the same time.

"Lucy! Hey are you okay?" Natsu stare at me in concern. I cough and keep trying to rake in air. I couldn't have swallowed this much water in the second I was underwater. Could I? Black spots dance in front of my eyes and I feel myself swaying in Natsu's arms.

"Lucy! Hey! Lucy!" His voice is getting louder but further away, I shiver as the cold air bites my skin. I'm drowning above water.

"Lucy!" He's panicking now, I can hear it in his voice. He pulls me out of the water and lays me on what I assume to be the ground. I can't see him or anything else. My lungs demanding air now. Something hard and hot strikes my chest, purging my lungs of the icy water. It streams out of my mouth and my face is tilted to the side, so it doesn't run back down my throat. The thing strikes again, this time with more force and more water cascades out of my body and trickles down my chin. I cough again and blink, there's no water left and I can breathe again. I take a deep breath and wince. The thing that struck my chest had been Natsu's hand and it slides my shoulders to curl around my head. He leans over me eyes crying out in relief.

"You okay?" No. My throat's burning. I mumble something unintelligible but he must've understood that I wasn't going to die anytime soon because he sits up pulling me with him. The wind attacks me, now soaked to the bone and shivering like nothing else.

"Cold." I whisper. He shrugs out of his cloak and peels off his shirt. "What are you-?" He grabs the bottom of my shirt and roughly yanks it over my head. His face blushing furiously. He's seen me naked often enough and it didn't bother me when he saw me anymore. Other people, were different matters entirely.

"Um... Body-to-body contact works right?" He pulls me closer to him and I snuggle into his chest. I was definitely warmer now, Natsu's natural temperature was about twenty degrees higher on cold days so he was my personal, portable heater. I try to get as close to him as possible without exposing myself to the wind.