Crybaby

Chapter 3: Today There Are 11

"Destroying school property and nearly beating a student to death, knocking another unconscious..." The principal seated across the wooden desk from Lucy, "This... this is unbelievable. Ridiculous. It is your first day here Miss Heartfilia!"

Lucy sat low in her chair, legs crossed on his desk. She popped a large bubble from her gum and chewed before speaking, "Would this kind of 'behavior' be more excusable if I was a veteran of this school like that bitch I 'nearly beat to death?'" The blonde roed her eyes and looked away, "You'll turn a blind eye to all of the rape porn spread across the school," She took out one of the photos of the raped blonde and threw it onto his desk, "But handing the karma that cunt deserved is punishable?" Lucy scoffed with a laugh, her bloody eyes narrowing onto the pathetic authority. "If I didn't do it, someone was gonna."

"What Minerva has done will surely be punished but that is aside from your current predicament." The principal spoke, "Fighting in school-"

"You're running a public school in the center of hell." Lucy spoke, smacking her gum, "And you're saying fighting isn't allowed? Or just to the kids who don't run this shit school?" She laughed, "All principals are the same. You hold little power, only over the kids untouched by gangs." Lucy folded her arms, "And those types are hard to find 'round here."

The old man swallowed down the rest of his argument and looked down to his documents. "If this happens again, I will expel you."

"What? You gonna expel every kid that misbehaves around here?" Lucy snickered, shaking her head, "You're gonna end up having no students, old man." The blonde stood up and walked toward the door. "And also, don't make any rash decisions without your Bosses' consent."

"And just who might my bosses be?" He hissed through his teeth at the insolent brat.

Lucy opened the door and waited a moment. "The Fairies." She spoke, walking out, "I'm sure they won't be able to stand me leaving a second time."

Shut!

The principal watched the door slam closed and he looked down to Lucy's manilla folder. Over her name was the word "SUSPENSION: VIOLENCE." He looked at it for a moment and then sighed with a deep groan. His fingers took the tainted record and ripped it.

"Another one." He rubbed his forehead, "And I thought those brats were troublesome enough."

Lucy walked out of the building's front doors, feeling the brisk wind freeze up her cheeks on impact. She let out an icy breath and searched her pockets for cigarettes. As her fingers touched the tip of the box, her other digits gripped onto her lighter. She brought the tobacco to her lips and lit it, letting out a relaxing gray breath.

She walked along the beat-up concrete, passing an alleyway. And then she stopped.

Lucy let out another smoky exhale and blew up into the sky. "You're not very good at hiding." The blonde chuckled, throwing the cigarette onto the ground. "That hasn't changed."

"You smoke now?" A deep, cold voice spoke behind her.

Lucy turned around, stuffing her fingers into her hoodie's pockets. "Yeah." She looked behind the corner of the alleyway and spot a particularly handsome pink-haired male standing against the wall with the same brand cigarette sticking between his lips. "You too, I see."

Natsu pulled the stick from his mouth and looked at it with a cloudy blow. He was silent. Then, his predatory onyx eyes looked up to hers. Like a tiger's, slitted, daggers. In both of their eyes. The two stared at each other for a moment, feeling the power emitting from each other. Natsu then looked back down to his cigarette, "What happened to you?"