The Princess & The Dragon

Chapter 4 Meeting The Dragon 12 years after the death of Layla

Lucy woke up at around 7:30am as usual. She gets up out of her nice warm comfortable bed. She then made her bed and walks over and in her own personal bathroom and closes the door. She then walks over to the shower and starts it, while it warms up she walks to the sink and grabs her toothbrush applying her tooth paste on the tooth brush and begins to brush her nice pearly white teeth. After she then gets in the shower and begins to wash up.

After her nice shower she goes over to her closet looking for a nice dress to wear. Since Lucy is now 16 she is told to always wear a dress during the days and at nights to wear night gowns. She picks out a beautiful golden dress that used to belong to her mother. She puts on the gown and looks in the mirror. It is a sleeveless beautiful gown with white gemstones. It fit perfectly on her, She then walks over to her beauty vanity and brushed her beautiful waist length hair. She then took out her curling iron and plugs it in and as it warms up she starts to put her hair in a quarter half of hair up in a pony tail and left the rest of her hair down. After she begins to slowly curl her hair, but careful not to burn herself.

After curling her hair she applies on light make-up and sets her beautiful shiny silver crown on her head. She then goes over to her desk where her paper and fountain pen were waiting for her. She then takes a seat at her desk and begins to do her daily letters to her mother.....

Dear Mom,

Hey mom, it's your daughter Lucy again, i miss you... also things have not been the same ever since you left. Dad has gone cold and does not care anymore, and the maids are always scared of him. Mom...I feel like dad does not love me anymore, the only time when he needs me is if i need to do something for him or get ready for my studies. And he does not get me himself, he always sends a maid. Mom i wish you were here and alive and back to earth with us, so we can go back to the way things were....when things were not as dark....anyways i'll write to you again tomorrow mom...I love you.

~Lucy

After Lucy finished writing the letter to her mom she put it in a envelope and sealed it up with a nice red sticker on it. She kisses the letter then opens a medium sized metal box and puts her new written letter in there where all the rest of the letters are and closes it. As Lucy was about to write her novel again there was a slight knock at the door. "Miss Lucy?" one of the maids call from behind the door. "Yes?" Lucy answer back. "Your Father wishes to see you now." the maid says again. "Ok i will be there in a second." Lucy says and sighs thinking 'what does he want this time?' Lucy tells herself in her head as she gets up from her chair and straightens her dress. Lucy then leaves her room making a left and going straight down the long hallways of the Castle going to her father's study. As Lucy gets to the door she knocks "Father, it is me Lucy, you wished to see me?" She asks. "Yes, now get in here you're wasting my time!" Her father yells through the door. Lucy then takes a breath and enters the study and closes the door behind her. She then walks up to her father's desk waiting. "So what is it that you needed to tell me?" Lucy says nervous of her father. "I have arranged a marriage for you to marry Sting Eucliffe." Her father says. "What?! No father please not him! I do not even like him!" Lucy says a little mad and with some tone. Her father being the way he is did not like her tone "Now listen here missy, you are marrying Sting whether you like it or not!" Jude snaps back at her with a more aggressive tone. Lucy stumbled back a bit as tears threatened to fall down her face "This is not fair!" Lucy yells at her father and runs out of the study and to the staircase sniffling. She then makes it down stairs and runs out the front door making her way to the sakura forest to go visit a tree that her mom used to tell her about when she was alive. The all famous and beautiful Rainbow Cherry Blossom Tree, it only glows once every year on a full moon. And that is when you can only see the rainbow colors but on normal days it is just a beautiful light pink tree.

As Lucy makes it to the cherry blossom tree she sits down with her back against the tree and buries her face into her legs and cries. "Why are you crying?" a voice said as it sounded near by, it was a soft deep voice like a male voice. "Because my stupid father is making me marry someone I do not want to marry." Lucy says with sniffles. "Then do not marry him, it is your choice if you want to or not right?" the male voice says again. "Easier said than done, what my father says goes...i can not do anything about it" Lucy says then continues to cry. "Hey do not cry, why ruin such a pretty face with wet tears?" the voice says again making Lucy give off a slight giggle. "Thank you....Where and who are you? I'd like to see you." Lucy says looking up and around. "I cannot do that..." the male voice says. "And why not?" Lucy aks. "I do not wish to scare you...i'm not normal..." the voice replies. "I promise i will not get scared or judge you, you should be proud of who you are." Lucy says. "Ok fine but don't judge me please..." The male says as he comes out of the shadows. "A Dragon?" Lucy says looking at the red dragon with beautiful fire red scales. "Ya..." He says disappointed. "You look cute, now tell me what is your name and i will tell you mine." Lucy says as the dragon nods. "Its Natsu, Natsu Dragneel" Natsu says with a smile. "And my name is Lucy, Lucy Heartfilia" Lucy says also giving off a smile "Let us be great friends!" Lucy says with excitement. "Agreed" was all Natsu said. The rest of the night was spent talking and getting to know each other. They were going to be great friends, is what they both thought.