CHAPTER 2: LET'S PLAY TAG!

Right now the ONLY girls around the guild are, Lucy Heartfilia and Levy Mcgarden. The latter is currently fainted, as she feels her soul getting out of her body out of desperation and the former? Well, let's just say she's petrified like a stone as she hears a very familiar footstep of a certain pink-haired lad and as those footsteps get nearer the paler she turns.

"Heeeeeeeeeey!? Anyoooooooone here!?" That, pink-haired lad yelled as he looked around their guild

"This is weird." A long black-haired man said as he notices the iron bars around the guild.

"Weird? What is?" Natsu asked.

"Are your eyes blind?" Gajeel said "Look around, there are a lot of weird iron bars here. As if someone attacked the guild"

"Haah? Bars?" Natsu said, then he looks around once more and finally notice those weird bars "Hmm..you're right! Could it be someone attacked the guild!?"

"Tch. Took you long to finally notice" He said as he continues to look the now-empty guild "There is something going on here"

"Wait..you! Could you be the one who attacked the guild!?"Natsu said to Gajeel as he put his fist in the air making the black-haired lad fall on his knees on how "stupid" Natsu is.

"Are you an idiot!?" Gajeel yelled, "I was with you the whole time how could I even do it!?"

"But your the only one who can use these black bars, right?" Natsu said

"No, idiot!" He said "Besides can't you feel it? There's some weird spell infused in this bars"

"Spell? Infused? Dunno!" Natsu said, not really caring what the iron dragon slayer had said "Besides I'm a fire mage. How would I know a thing or two about those metal stuff"

"Sigh...that's why idiots are..." Gajeel said.

"Oy! Happy! Mira! Ice Freak! Erza! Gramps!" Natsu said as he yelled out their names as his voice echoes around the big guild "Luuuuucy!"

and still nothing.

"Sigh, I wonder if they went somewhere," Natsu said as he slumped down in one of the benches.

"ALL OF THEM?" Gajeel said, "Who would leave the guild empty with these weird iron bars?"

"AH!" Natsu said "Maybe they went on the beach to have a party and left us here! This won't do! I gotta pack my things and also head to the beach!"

"HAAA!? Salamander! did you hit your head somewhere as if all of them would go to a beach!" Gajeel said as he felt his head getting heavy from all the crazy ideas Natsu's been saying. "Even Lily is gone..."

"Then where did they go?" Natsu asked

"I dunno" He replied "But I just know! There is definitely something going on here"

"OOOH! The board request is empty!" Natsu said as he dashes towards the request board.

"HEY! LISTEN TO ME! DAMN IT!" Gajeel exclaimed out of frustration

"Geez. Calm your irons dude" Natsu said while scratching the back of his head "It seems like they just went to some job. Oh well, I guess I gotta go home and leave" And before Natsu can leave the place, Gajeel grabs him by his scarf and said, "Don't you think it weird?"

"HAAAAH? Sheesh. What's your problem?" Natsu said as he brushes off Gajeel's arm from his precious scarf "You keep on saying weird and weird but in the end, it just so happens that all of them went on a job...eh!?"

"See? It's just weird" Gajeel said "Even those people who don't usually go on jobs and just stare at the board is gone"

"Yeah, Even that lazy old geezers! Macao and Wakaba!" Natsu said (Meanwhile Macao and Makaba: sneeze the moment Natsu mentioned their names)

"Now you see the picture." Gajeel said, "Something is definitely happening and it feels like they abandoned this guild with this freaky iron bars." Then suddenly Gajeel touched one of those "freaky" iron bars and suddenly he felt a shock in his body as he slumped down on the floor panting for air, worried Natsu stood up and went to his side and said "Oi! Gajeel are you alright what happened...AAAH!"

Suddenly its Natsu's turn to slumped down on the floor as he suddenly felt every part of his body is on fire as some weird and 'hot' sensation spread all over his body. "Oy! Salamander...is it just me or..."

"Yeah. It feels strange. My whole body is pumping, I can hear a lot more clearly, see more clearly and...*sniff* *sniff*..."

"What's wrong this time Salamander?" Gajeel asked.

"Smell a lot clearer," He said as he smirks and went towards the bar area.

"Huh?" Gajeel said this time he tried sniffing around and then he smirks and said "I see your right"

He followed Natsu towards the bar area while smirking and as they lean each other.

"Gihi" He said as he looks down and smirks at the sight of two, very familiar faces "I see one bunny girl and a little puppy"

"Eeep" Levy said as she shrieks in surprise upon seeing the "scary" expression Gajeel Redfox is doing.

"Oh! Found You! Lucy!" Natsu said as he jumps over the counter and surprises the blonde

"Eeek, Na...Natsu" Lucy exclaimed

"So what are you guys doing here?" Natsu asked as he leaned forward Lucy, making the blond blush. "Are you guys playing hide n' seek? Let me join too!"

"..." Lucy didn't say anything but she was clutching her keys as if she's holding for her dear life.

"It seems like these two know what's going on here," Gajeel said "Right? Levy." This time Levy is trembling as she heard Gajeel say her name which rarely really happens because he usually calls her 'Midget' and stuff like that.

"Eh? So you two aren't playing hide n' seek!?" Natsu asked as he move another step making Lucy blush more.

"..."

"..."

"Hmm...So you won't tell us anything!?" Gajeel said.

"..."

"..."

"Still nothing, eh? Sigh..." He said then for a moment he stops to think of what to do then as if a cartoon-like light bulb appeared and with an evil smirk plastered on his face, he said.

"Oi...Salamander it seems like this time around Midget and your Bunny girl wants to play tag"

"Really? Is that it?" Natsu said making Lucy shake her head in the thought "Well then why don't we four play Tag!? Since it feels like those guys won't be back yet! So why don't we play tag!? We'll be the It so...Ready...start"

The moment Natsu said "start", Lucy and Levy began to run for dear life or rather for their dear 'chastity' making Natsu and Gajeel shocked and at the same time thrilled as their competitiveness of the two awakens together with their adrenaline.

"Hmm...So you won't tell us anything until we catch you eh? Oh well if that's how you want to play it then..." smirking, Gajeel said as he looks over at the running figure of the two "Oy! Salamander you get the bunny girl, Mine is...the midget"

"Hnn. That's what I've been planning from the start" he said as he smirks back at him "Lucy is mine so don't you dare catch her"

"Hmmpph we'll see..." Gajeel said then within a blink of an eye those two dashed off to catch them while Lucy and Levy were doing their best in running away with hopes that they'll be able to protect the thing that they've been protecting for seventeen years.

"Haha...Go on! Keep Running" Natsu said to Lucy "Cause as an IT, I'll definitely catch you. Lucy!"

Making our dear blonde blush at the seductive way and overflowing pheromones Natsu has been unconsciously releasing as he said her name and at that very moment she understands that blushing is no good, an attraction to a sexually frustrated dragon slayer (or is about to be one...) is definitely not good because that just means that she...and her... Chastity is in danger and what she had feared might happen... and that is...

She might actually get EATEN!

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