The Pirate and the Princess

Chapter 12

(A/n: posted this picture because I related to it on so many levels😂, and because I almost died laughing. But I will shut up so you can read. If you take time to really look at it, it's really funny.)

Levy walked down to the beach, the ocean breeze blew her short blue hair out of her face. She had left the celebration a little early, or early to a pirate. She didn't care much about staying in the hall that late drinking and fighting with each other, instead she'd rather sneak away to read a book she stole with the moonlight shinning down on her. It was the only time she could completely get lost in the books that she read. She did this every so often, when she had the time.

She walked down the path, holding a torch in her hand so she wouldn't trip on anything. Animal life was known to come out in the dark, if they felt threatened they bit the pirates boots. The torch was the only thing that kept her from tripping on an exposed tree branch and get her toes bitten by the animal life on the island. The crickets and toads filled the atmosphere with their sounds. Levy found the sounds quite comforting, while some of the others would grow annoyed or wouldn't take the time to marvel in the sound.

Levy saw a shinny object partially buried in the sand in the middle of the path towards the beach. She glanced around the area and saw no one, she walked towards it and noticed it was a sword. She punctured the sand with the torch handle, she was able to get a clear image of whom the sword belonged to. She pulled the dagger out of the sand and quickly noticed the design, the golden handle and three signs attached to it, it was Lucy's, there was no mistaking it. A glimmer caught her eye as she turned to spot her blonde friend. Reaching for it, she picked up Lucy's gold necklace, it had the initials of L.H. on the back of the necklace. There were footprints leading to the beach, she decided she would follow them.

"Lucy?" She called out, but got nothing in response. She noticed that the foot prints appeared fresh, if they were any older, they would have been partially gone. The prints went directly towards the ocean, a small crevasse in the sand, a small boat was the cause of this. She looked up to see a faint light in the distance, it was far away but she still spotted it. She took out her telescope that was strapped to her side and looked towards it. A large crew with a fairly large crew were heading towards the horizon. There was a man holding a kicking person, the person was thrashing against their grip. The person only ended up removing the head sack for a moment, that person was Lucy. She was struggling to get out of their grips.

"Lucy," Levy whispered. She acted quickly, grabbing all of Lucy's belongings and sprinted towards the main hall. Horrible thoughts raced through her mind, the most important how did they get on the island without anyone knowing. She arrived, opening the huge oak doors, it hadn't been that long since she left so the majority of the people were still in there. She ran through the doors. "Lucy has been taken." Levy shouted, alerting everyone.

Everyone fell quiet, most of them were drunk and delusional. Their heads spun towards Levy, most of them passed out. "Don't just sit there, you drunken bastards help me save her!" Levy furiously shouted.

"Who you calling a drunken bastard?" Cana smugly commented while she continued to drink a huge barrel of booze.

Natsu pushed through everyone, urgently rushed towards Levy. "What do you mean she has been taken?" He calmly asked, a sense of urgency was in his voice.

"Think Natsu! Lucy left the celebration early. I went out by the ocean, I saw her swor- wait why am I explaining this to you? We have to go get her!" Levy shouted.

"Happy," Natsu called for him. "Lily we will need you as well." Both felines began following him. Natsu grabbed Levy's telescope from her hands as well as Lucy's sword and the necklace. "Don'r come, I will get her myself."