What's a Soulmate?

Confused With No Answers

The pink-haired boy was on his way to the Fairy Tail guild the day after the prophecy was announced, when he saw Lucy by the corner of his eye. Natsu turned around and walked up to her. Lucy was looking into space, seemingly deep in thought. When Natsu waved his hand in front of her face, she shook her head and stared at him.

"Oh, hey Natsu!" she exclaimed.

"Hi!" he replied. "What were you thinking about?"

"Well.... This prophecy? It doesn't make any sense in my opinion."

"Tell me about it." Levy appeared suddenly out of nowhere. "I was awake all night trying to find out what it means. There is no book that says anything about a 'big bad'. I mean, come on. It's a supid name!"

Lucy giggled. "You'll figure it out eventually! But we know that we're part of this prophecy, who do you think is your soulmate...?!"

Natsu drowned away the sound of their voices. He felt uncomfortable with the soulmate talk, since he didn't get it. Fall in love? Find a best friend? He just didn't know what it meant. What bothered him the most, though, was that he didn't have an answer for Wendy.

"...right? Natsu, Natsu! Hey are you even listening?" He looks up to be confronted by piercing blue eyes. He'd somehow gotten to the guild and sat down with his team to discuss the prophecy.

"Huh?"

Gray sighed. "Baka," he muttered.

"Hey!" he exclaimed. "You're no better, Ice Cube!"

The two rolled off the table as Natsu threw himself onto Gray. The rest of the team ignored them as they continued talking about their plans.

"I was contacted by Jellal. He should be arriving any moment now. He felt the same thing we did," explained Erza.

Lucy said, "So did Loke. I can summon him when we're all ready."

A certain Iron Dragon Slayer came up behind Levy and poked her. She turned around to fuss at him, when he held his hand up. "Count me in for the thing. Everybody in the town stared at me weird yesterday. It's not everyday you see a man suddenly drop to the floor."

"Not as bad as falling in front of a bunch of gay druggies. Man I got away quick enough by luck," Jellal walked in.

Levy clasped her hands together. "We have everybody! Now we need to find the quest! Shouldn't be too hard."

In the distance, the team could hear two bickering voices. Of course, it was just Gray and Natsu.

"This is the easiest one! Your's is hard!"

"No way! Mine is easier than what you have!"

"That's it," Gray growled. He raised his fist to punch the other, when Erza commanded him to stop. He quickly put it down as he and Natsu draped their arms around each other.

"No fighting," she glared at the boys.

"Aye!"

"Makarov said it was the easy one AND the one payed the least. Honestly you two-" Erza was abruptly cut off my Lucy.

"Um, Erza. They're all the same pay."

The team looked at the board and sweatdropped. That could explain the boys's arguing. They all payed the same, and were all similar. Levy decided to step up and inspect the jobs. Considering all of her teammates were used to going on all sorts of jobs, she's probably the only one who could tell which one was the easiest. The one that caught her attention was at the bottom left corner of the board. It was a small paper. The only thing that was written was 'Help Needed'. There was an address in the corner, a town that was probably two days away by train. There was a drawing of a tall man with cold eyes. He had a mischevious smile, and wore a phedora. 'The big bad' Levy smiled widely.

"Found it!" she cheered as she showed the rest of her teammates the paper.

"We must report it to the master and leave as soon as possible," Erza decided. Makarov was one step ahead of them since he was standing right behind them, causing Lucy and Levy to jump.

"I take it you are all ready?" he asked.

"Yes, sir. As soon as Lucy summons her celestial spirit we'll be off. In search for our...soulmates." The word sounded strange on Erza's tongue. She wasn't much of a love crazy person.

"Oh so you guys.... This will be good," Makarov smirked.

"Come on," Erza said loudly. "We have no time to waste."

Lucy quickly summoned Loke, and the team made their way to the door with their belongings already packed. Levy was the last to leave, since she wanted to hear what the master had to say to Mirajane.

"Oh Mira," he laughed. "They think they need to find their soulmates."

Mira frowned. "Isn't that what the prophecy said, though? The eight of them needed to find their soulmates."

"Yes, but they have already found their soulmates. They just need to figure it out. Why do you think their group must be an even number?"

Levy couldn't hear anything else because she was being dragged off by Gajeel.

"Shrimp, hurry up!" They both jogged to catch up with the rest of the team.

"Girls and boys separate. Both groups need a person to keep track of time. We don't wany any mess ups," Erza's glance to the boys didn't go unnoticed.

"We'll be fine! Well, except for Natsu," Loke looked at the Salamander who was already looking sick by just standing in the train station.

"Natsu will be fine!" Happy chirped in. "Erza, knock him out!"

Without hesitation, the redhead smacked Natsu hard on the back. He instantly blacked out and fell on her. Erza shoved him off to Gray, who groaned from the sudden impact.

"Gray-sama!" The ice mage's eyes widened as he recognized the voice who called out for him.

Juvia came running towards him, causing him to drop Natsu by surprise.

"Juvia heard about the prophecy. Maybe Juvia is your soulmate!" The rain woman's eyes shone with hope.

"Yeah, well, we'll find out later! Right now we've got to find this 'big bad'," Gray responed.

"But don't you-"

Lucy cut Juvia off. "Oh well, would ya look at that! It's time for us to go! Bye, Juvia!"

The team quickly walked away. Gray looked at Lucy and mouthed a 'thank you'. He facepalmed himself when he remebered he'd forgotten something. The ice mage ran back to pick up Natsu, and quickly dumped him into the train.

"That girl," Loke said. "She's head over heels for you, man. Why do you ignore her?"

"Used to it," he simply said. The team got organized as the train started moving.

Nobody talked, seeming as they were all thinking about what was waiting for them. Especially Levy, who'd overheard Makarov and Mira. 'So does that mean...' she stopped thinking about it once her head hit the seat and she succumbed into a dreamless sleep.

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The title could be used to express you all, right? Don't worry, more things will be explained. The real action won't start immediately, since I want to take this at a slower pace than all my other stories.

Oh, and the couples! Don't worry, I haven't given any hints as to who's with who.

Unless all you sneaky people are smart.

Then you have it all figured out.

Don't say!