Natsu got out of his hatch this time. He thought this better work otherwise the girl would remain stuck inside my thicket, he thought.  He chopped off some loose ends of the thorns and yanked them loose.

    "Ah!" Lucy screamed. She felt some of what held her captive break free. She could feel something pierce her back and groaned from the pain. She felt tears form.

      "Lucy, hang in there," Natsu shouted. He formed a flame in his hand and burnt the tip off the end, part of the briar stuck in her back. 

   Lucy broke free from the thicket at last. She was in pain. "N-Natsu," She stuttered.

    "Yes, " Natsu said. "Thanks for getting me out of there, you don't know how much it means to me.
 She replied. She spit out blood and wood chunks. She collapsed at his feet.

  Natsu examined her and cringed. He saw a big thorn in her. He carefully yanked it loose and used fire to burn it in half.  Lucy remained unconscious. The burnt remains of the thorn fell as ashes. Natsu put them out to avoid the fire ruining anything.

     Wendy rushed over, and without a word laid her hands on Lucy's back healing her. She smiled and said, "She will live, but she will be a bit terrified after the ordeal she went through. Be gentle with her Natsu."  

     "I will, " Natsu said.

Natsu took her home and laid her on the sofa. He kissed her.  "I will take care of you until you are better, Miss Lucy," He whispered. He blushed. Why was she so pretty? He thought.

     He went to his room. He heard a knock on the door.  Without looking up, he said, "Come in." He thought it was his cat, Happy.  It wasn't. Happy was busy visiting someone.

      "Natsu,"  He heard someone say. Before he could say anything, the same someone jumped on his back and hugged him.  "Hi, " He said. "Hi, yourself," Lucy said.

          "What brings you into my room? If anyone else saw us they would think you were making a pass at me," He teased.  "Well, maybe I am making a pass at you," Lucy teased.  She slid off his back and now stood in front of him.

         She held onto his collar and put her other hand on his chest. "So, fire flame that makes my heart burn," Lucy said. Natsu blushed. He had no idea why she stood so close. He felt it was rather awkward. "Y-yes," Natsu stuttered. "Are you taken?" Lucy asked. "N-no," He stuttered. "Good, 'cause I prefer to have any man I am with all to myself," Lucy stated. Natsu blushed harder. His face was completely red now. Lucy smirked. She pressed her lips into his before he could protest. Not that he was not okay with it. He was shocked. 

         Where had this flirt come from?  How could the flirty personality belong to the same girl caught in his thicket earlier that day? He felt himself respond to her kiss by wrapping his arms around her. He no longer carried who saw them.  He felt her try to pull away and he chose that moment to tighten his grip on her. He kissed her. 

     "Lucy," Natsu whispered against her lips. "Natsu?" She whispered. She kissed him again and this time he gave her a french kiss. She blushed hard. She liked this festy side of him. He did too.  He pinched her gently.  "Keep this up, and we will have to get married," He teased.

      Lucy blushed. "M-married, but we hardly know each other," She protested. "So, why wait, with a kiss like that I am bound to get the wrong impression," Natsu remarked.

     The two laughed as they pulled away. Natsu was unsure why she had been so bold as to kiss him like that but he knew he give anything to have her kisses any day than anyone else's.

    The end...

Until the next Multi-fandom two-shot story,

bye-bye,

little owlets!

Summer out!