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POV: Gray

We weren't even halfway across the field when Natsu burst from the clouds, and there was no way we were going to make it to Lucy if Natsu couldn't catch her in time.

"Fire Dragon: Roar!" We heard Natsu yell and he sped down at Lucy and the next thing we knew there was a large 'boom' and dirt went flying everywhere. We all stopped running when they landed cause the vibration it almost knocked us over.

"Lucy! Natsu!" We yelled and took off running once more. And when we got there, there was a large crater there wasn't anything there. But once the smoke and dust cleared in the very center was a red pile.

"It's Natsu!" I said and we slid down the edge of the crater, and walked over to Natsu who wrapped his body in his wings, ready for impact with the ground. I went to grab the edge of his wings my hand started burning, and I held my hand.

"What is wrong with Juvia's beloved?" Juvia asked.

"It burns!" I cried. Juvia then took some of her water and washed whatever it was off my hand, and chucked the water at the ground. And it started to eat away at the dirt.

"What the hell?" Gajeel said as we watched it burn a hole in the ground. Levy inspected it a little and then gasped as she realized what it was.

"Juvia wash Natsu off now!" Levy yelled and Juvia didn't hesitate to do what Levy said. While she was doing that we looked over at Levy.

"What is it?" Erza asked the question we were all wondering.

"I'm not sure what kind, but I'm pretty sure that it's a type of acid." Levy said, and then looked back at the small hole. "And since it's destroying the dirt like that, it's got to be pretty damn strong."

"And Natsu's covered in it." Juvia said, as she finished washing off Natsu and chucked the water somewhere away from the crater.

"That had to hurt." I said realizing there was holes all over his wings, and I grabbed the edge of Natsu's wing again and pulled it away from his body. And Erza pulled the other wing away from his body and underneath was Natsu holding Lucy in his arms.

"Thank Mavis, their alright." Mira said from Elfman's arms up at the top of the crater. We looked back at Natsu and Lucy, and Natsu slowly opened his eyes, and looked around at us, and then down at Lucy.

"You alright?" I asked him offering him a hand and he took it. I pulled a little, just enough so he could sit up. And he looked down at Lucy, who had a major bruise on the left side of her face and cuts and other wounds all over the rest of her body.

"What did Ryder do to her?" Levy asked nobody really and Natsu got up.

"We should take her back to the school, and Porlyusica can work on healing her." Erza said, and then looked at Natsu. "You too." And Natsu nodded as he made his way up the side of the crater with Lucy in his arms and we all headed back to the Academy.

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POV: Lucy

I slowly opened my eyes to see multiple pairs of eyes staring back at me.

"Well that's not creepy at all." I commented, and Levy, Gajeel, Gray, Juvia, Mira, and Erza backed off.

"Sorry." Levy said as she realized that they were being creepy. And then Levy and Juvia helped me sit up in the bed.

"What the hell happened?" I asked as I rubbed my head and felt that I had a bandage wrapped around my forehead, and many other placed all over my body. Then I looked to see that everyone in the room had bandages on their body as well. "Oh no." I said as I put my hand to my mouth and looked at the bed sheets. "I'm so sorry."

"Sorry?" Erza asked. "For what?"

"For bringing my problems into your guys lives." I said not looking at them.

"What do you mean? You didn't do anything." Gray said.

"But I did." I told them. "I should have never changed schools, cause now my dad knows that I'm here. And it's not going to be good at all." I said as I started to silently cry. Then I felt arms go around my shoulders and I looked to see that it was Natsu. "Natsu?"

"I think we'll leave you two alone." Mira said as she dragged everyone out the door and out into the Guild Hall, closing the door behind her.

"I'm -." I started to say but Natsu didn't let me finish.

"Don't!" Was all he said and looked at me, wiping the tears away from my eyes. "I told you not to be sorry about this before. What do you think I'm going to tell you now?"

"That none of it is my fault?" I said.

"Exactly." Natsu said, and he smiled a little at me and I hugged him. I opened my eyes, and all I could see was Natsu's wings and there was major holes and large bandages covering his entire body and wings.

"What happened?" I asked him. He looked at what I was talking about and looked back at me. "Did I cause that?"

"No, no." Natsu said. "You didn't do that, Ryder was also a Acid Dragon Slayer."

"And he was here because of me, so I did this." I said.

"No. Look at me!" Natsu said as I started to cry again and he made me look at him. "This is not your fault."

"It's kind of hard for me know that when I've been raised to think that it's my fault." I told him.

"And who told you that?" He asked me.

"My dad." I answered.

"Exactly, by the psychopath." Natsu said, and I laughed a little. "Now come on, say it."

"It's not my fault." I said looking at him and he nodded.

"There you go." He said and hugged me again. Then there was a knock on the door, and Master Makarov came in with Porlyusica.

"Natsu can you please give us a moment?" He asked him and Natsu went to leave.

"No I want him to stay here." I said.

"Are you sure? I'm about to ask you a couple of personal questions." Master asked me.

"I'm sure." I told him and Natsu sat next to my bed in one of the chairs.

"Well Lucy earlier today the school was attacked by Phantom Lord and Jose Porla said something that caught my attention." Master Makarov told me. "He said, and I quote, 'I know for a fact that he can show you a thing or two about hurting the opposite gender' and he was talking about your father." Master looked up at me. "Is there something that I should know?"

'Crap.'

I looked down at the sheets and didn't answer.

"Lucy?" Master asked me. "Is there something going on at home that I should know about?"

"No." I said a bit to quickly.

"Lucy, I would like to know so I can make sure that you are safe." Master told me.

"I'm fine." I said still not looking at him.

"Lucy, I want you to look at me and give me a straight answer, and if you don't I'm going to call the police and have them ask you themselves." Master warned me.

"Like that's going to help." I said.

"Excuse me?" Master asked wondering what I was talking about. I didn't want to answer, but I looked at Natsu and he was already looking at me, and after a moment he nodded to me. I then took a deep breath and told Master and Porlyusica the whole story.

"You poor child." Porlyusica said after I was done. And now, all I could do was cry.

"Umm, Lucy." Master Makarov said getting me to look up at him. "I think you should go to the police."

"I can't, it won't help." I told him. "I've tried to many times and my father just tells them it's nothing." I said honestly.

"Well I know for sure that you shouldn't be staying at your house right now." Master Makarov said. "And until we can figure out what to do, I want you to stay with one of your friends and if needed you can stay here at the school."

"She's staying with me." Natsu said for the first time in front of anybody but me, and Master Makarov and Porlyusica looked at him in shock that he spoke. "I'm not expecting a no as an answer." Natsu told me and he squeezed my hand. And the first time all week, I felt happy, and hope.

"Lucy, are you alright with this?" Master asked me, still a little shocked that Natsu spoke.

"Yeah." I said answering his question.

"Well alright." Master said nodding. "Lucy, your father's away on a business trip correct?"

"That's right." I said confirming his question.

"Natsu, how about you take Lucy home so she can get her things. We never know when Jude is going to come back from that trip of his, and it may be best that he doesn't know why she's gone." Master suggested to Natsu and he nodded. And the two grown ups left the room. Everyone who was in the room before walked in and I wiped the tears off my face.

"Is everything alright in here?" Erza asked, she must have seen my motion.

"Yeah, just sorting somethings out with Master." I said and then smiled at them to let them know I was okay.

"And how are you feeling?" Levy asked me.

"I'm doing okay, master said that I should probably pack up my things." I said as I moved the sheets off my lap and swung my legs over the edge.

"Why pack up your things?" Gray asked.

"I'm temporarily moving in with Natsu." I said honestly and all of a sudden Mira got really excited.

"You're going to be living with Natsu?" Mira yelled as she started to, what looked like she was going to hyperventilate, while jumping in place.

"Easy Mira." Erza said as she sat her down in one of the chairs.

"I can't help it! First Natsu saved her life, then they're holding hands!" Mira said taking a breath and me and Natsu looked to see that she was right, and we pulled our hands away and I felt my cheeks heat up a little. "And now they're moving in with each other! By the way when's the wedding?"

"There's no wedding! And it's just for safety in case Phantom Lord tries to take me again." I yelled, only partly true, at Mira and she seemed to calm down in her chair, but that's probably only to start thinking about our fake wedding. "You're crazy Mira." I said as I got ready to stand up.

"Tell us something we don't know." Gajeel said as he leaned against the wall and we all laughed as I got up, only to land on the floor. Sorta, I landed on top of Natsu, who landed on the floor. That's when Mira stopped her wedding planning to start squealing at me on top of Natsu.

"I think I might need to get a restraining order on Mira." I said as Erza helped me up off of Natsu.

"We all do." Levy said and Mira glared at her.

"What's wrong?" Juvia asked me as I sat on the bed again.

"My ankle hurts like hell." I said, and Levy left Mira's deathly glare to go get Porlyusica.

"What did you do now?" Porlyusica complained as she walked in and sat down in a chair across from me.

"I don't know I got up and practically fell on the floor." I said. Then she grabbed my ankle and examined it.

"You just sprained it." She said as she grabbed a roll of bandage off the bedside table, and started wrapping it.

"What the hell did I do to sprain my ankle?" I asked completely confused of how I did that.

"I was wondering the same thing." Mira said. I started thinking about it and then it hit me, and I started laughing.

"What's so funny?" Gajeel asked me.

"Remember when Jose grabbed the back of my hair and held me in the air?" I asked, and everyone nodded.

"What does that have anything to do with your ankle?" Juvia asked.

"I kicked him so hard in the balls that I sprained my ankle!" I laughed and everyone thought back to that moment and realized that I was right.

"Damn that had to hurt." Gray said, as he cringed to the thought of it.

"I got another ankle, want a demonstration?" I asked him and he backed away from me. And we all laughed at him. Then Natsu helped me up and my ankle didn't hurt to much now that I had pressure around my ankle. And Natsu started walking me home. Once we were outside and were walking down the street Natsu leaned over to me.

"Sorry I'm not flying us over there, I'm kind of on ground duty for awhile." He said gesturing to his wings.

"Oh that's alright." I said. "I think I've had my fill of flying for a little while." And after that we walked in silence, and once we got onto the dirt path I grabbed Natsu's hand and we walked down the path hand in hand.