Fairy Tail Inc.

Fairy Tail Inc. Chapter 1 - Partners and A Challenge

Fairy Tail Inc.

Chapter 1 – Partners and A Challenge


It was a week after Lucy's 24th birthday and everyone was still buzzing about both department heads, Erza Scarlet and Jellal Fernandez being found in the supply closet making out. Lucy looked at Erza and smiled, with this she turned red blending in with the color of her hair. Lucy found it to be somewhat funny to watch the two heads of department shyly flirt with each other when everyone knew that they've had a thing for each other since they started working together.

There were always rumors of how they went out on a couple of dates but on Lucy's birthday, it seemed to solidify those rumors into concrete facts. They were good together, Lucy knew that and she was so happy that they could finally realize that they loved each other. Lucy walked into her office with her regular cup of coffee with a hint of vanilla and cinnamon in it to make it a bit sweeter. She always thought that she ate too much sweets but couldn't help but eat them anyway.

Pink...

'There isn't supposed to be pink in my office, let alone my chair... right?' Lucy thought to herself as she watched the spinning chair turn from its back-faced position. She gasped.

"You. You're the asshole who was at my party, the one who kissed me. Listen jerk, I don't know who you are but you need to leave, I have an important meeting with a guy who's coming to see me." She saw the smirk on his face; she was tempted to go over there smack it off of that face of his.


"Nice to meet you. Yes, we have met and you are not a bad kisser. Better than most girls that I've met in my lifetime." Natsu seemed smug, even to himself.

She was getting terribly annoyed with this joker, "I'm your new sketch artist." She could have sworn to the heavens above that her jaw fell to the floor at hearing what he had just said.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute. You're the guy that I'm supposed to meet with about being the new artist on a one-on-one basis, the guy who is supposed to illustrate for me." she was wide eyed, shocked.

"Yup." Natsu smiled, inwardly waiting for her to plotz.

"We're supposed to work together, by ourselves." Lucy motioned to each other.

"You know for a woman who has a law degree, you seem to need lot of reassuring," he got up and moved closer "but I'm sure I can fix that after a night or two." His gaze drifted from her face to her bare shoulders in a white, off-shoulder, cotton blouse.

He couldn't help noticing that she had beautiful shoulders that matched her face and made it more appealing. He moved to the cleavage that she was showing, he couldn't help but wonder what she looked like naked especially with her very large chest. He was suddenly jealous of all the other guys that got to spend their time with her, Natsu couldn't understand why he felt this way. Could he have finally found a woman that was immune to his charms?

She looked at him; the better word to use would be survey. She got a good look of him from head to toe before trying to make an assumption but it would be hard to do given the birthday party incident. She could say he was a jerk but he was a good looking one at that no matter how she tried to deny it. 'Some things are better left unthought of.'  


"What makes you think you'll be able to become my illustrator, Mr. Dragneel?" She was very serious when it came to her work and she always thought to keep her professional work and playtime far away from each other, from an embarrassing incident with a coworker a couple months back.

"I'm doing it as a favor to my gramps, I think you know him. He's the chairman of the board for Fairy Tail Inc." He smiled. He felt accomplished, knowing that he could knock her own a level.

"Master? You're not the master's grandson?" she smiled.

"Oh, yeah. Why not then Ms. Heartfilia?"

"Because I personally know Laxus and you're no Laxus Dreyar." She could feel the triumph coursing through her veins, the same rush that made her top of her classes but lost a lot of friends like that. He blushed two times redder that usual but he couldn't help to affectionately refer to him gramps. He grew close to him when his father worked and had to be left at the office with all the older geezers, but he was different in his eyes and loved him like a grandfather ever since.

"He and I are close, so don't worry about it" He smiled a gentle smile at Lucy making her blush.

"Alright then, well let's get to work," she felt determined.

"Whoa, just like that?" Shocked that it didn't take much.

She smiled, "I don't question the master he knows best even if I think you're a complete immature jerk and asshole, you must be good at what you do."

She pulled out some ideas that she had for the next adventure she was writing in the series about a dragon that kidnaps a princess, not because he was mean but because he wanted a friend, he wanted someone to talk to.

"You can start looking at these and see what you can get from them and see where it takes off from there." Lucy handed over the drafts and notes she had written.She watched him read over the written ideas and smile each time he wrote down something on her paper.

He was done and looked at her, "this is a nice children's series. I always thought this is the way that should have been written."

She raised an eyebrow, "You into dragons, Dragneel?"

She watched him pull up his t-shirt sleeve, showing off his Celtic-style dragon tattoo spread across his well-muscled arm and extending onto his chest. She tilted her head to get a better look with no luck.

He chuckled, "Don't worry, I'll let you have a better look up close and personal."

She flushed, quickly returning to normal when he handed over her papers. Noticing that he wasn't writing down anything, he was drawing. She was shocked and impressed at the small detailed image he managed to put together in the margins of the page.

He watched her bend over, watching his doodlings. He spent his time looking at a shadow under her blouse, stretching out his hand tracing the outline of the figure. "You have a tattoo as well Luce."

She looked at him, "Yes, it's stars. My mom loved them, she was astrologist and astronomer. She died when I was really young so the stars are the one thing me and her have left of each other."

Natsu felt like an idiot, always complaining about his stepmother being overbearing about him and his younger sister, Wendy, when she didn't have a mom at all. He suddenly felt lucky to have someone always looking out for him even when he didn't want her to.

"So when are we gonna start working? I'm all fired up." He watched her giggle a bit. "We should go out sometime since we're gonna be working together a lot."

She heard him purr at his own comment, "You're right, we do have a lot of work, but dinner, I like to have by myself. Thanks for the offer though." There she goes again with that stubbornness of hers.

He winked at her, "I'll be right back honey." Mouthing 'I heart you' before walking out laughing. She peeked out to see him heading to Erza's office; she walked back into her office.

'That pink idiot is going to be a challenge not to fall in love with,' she thought to herself.

"Cute asshole."

Levy looked at her friend talking to her, smiling at the thought of her finally finding her match.

"Cute Asshole indeed."