Seafarers

Chapter 22: Stolen Bride

(Diamond 💎)
"I OBJECT!!" Natsu bursts through the church doors. I smile at his timing. I put a hand on my hip.
"You're a little late to be saying that aren't you Natsu?" He tries unsuccessfully to hide his smirk and fakes a scoff.
"And I should be hearing about our baby from Wendy?"
"Well kinda I got, you know kidnapped!"
"Why do you think I'm here!" Someone in the audience coughs to break us from our flirty fight. "We'll continue this later!" Natsu says as he ducks out of the way of a guard's sword.
"You bet we will!" I retort as I Lucy Kick a second guard in the head, knocking him out cold.
Natsu pulls out two swords, tossing one to me. I grab it out of the air and realize it's the one he gave me. We take out the rest of the guards together. All of the well dressed higher society members staring at me after I take down the last guard. I notice that the adults are staring at me in horror while the other kids destined for the same fates as I once had look at me with admiration written across their faces. Natsu begins to run towards me, but my father steps between us. "What do you think you're doing?" He booms.
Natsu's eyes harden and I can tell he realized who the man towering over him is. He raises his sword. "I'm taking Lucy back! She's not an object for you to sell! She's a part of Fairy Tail now! She's our family, my family, and you can't keep her!" Natsu knocks him down and runs to me.
He picks me up as gently as possible bridal style and sprints as fast as he can out of the church. He stops and puts me down but still keeps a firm, protective grip on my hand. I look around and see many, many of my father's men lying across the churchyard. The Fairy Tail crew finishes off the last of the guards and cheers loudly as they see us running towards them. Wendy runs up to me with a concerned look on her face. Her eyes search me all over, she checks for cuts and feels my stomach tenderly. "Lucy are you ok? Are you hurt? You didn't fight at all did you?" She gasps as I nod yes to the last question. "Are you sure you didn't get hurt? Did anyone hit you?"
"No Wendy I'm perfectly fine." She sighs in relief but looks at me sternly. "I'm still checking you when we get to the ship." I giggle at her.
Everyone heads to the ship but Natsu tugs on my hand and pulls me back. "You shouldn't have fought back there. I had it handled, if you had gotten hurt..."
"Hey, hey, hey. I couldn't just let you fight alone. If you had gotten hurt I-" My words are cut off when he smashes his lips into mine. I kiss him back.
When we finally break apart he rests his forehead against mine. "I love you Lucy." He says quietly.
"I love you too Natsu." I say back.
We stand there like that peacefully for a few moments that I wish were longer. "C'mon lovebirds!" Gray shouts. "We gotta get back to the ship!"
I giggle and Natsu chuckles. We start to head back hand in hand. I glance back one last time at the castle. I'm never coming back.