It was beautiful night. The sky was filled with stars and the moonlight was illuminating the road. A girl in her sixteen was running as fast as she can. Her dress was torn and barely covered her body. Bruises and dried blood could be seen underneath the ripped cloth. Her hair was a mess and you could hardly recognize that it is blond because it was covered in dirt and blood. The girl had chains in her wrists which were so tight that they were thrusting deep in her skin making it bleed.

-Catch that stupid wench you morons! Don't let her escape. – screamed a man not so far behind her. As you can see they chased her. She barely had any power left. Her ankle was dislocated making it hard to run, she had two or three broken ribs making it hard to breath and the sweat and blood were blurring her sight making it hard to see. The blond didn't noticed the hill she was running into and fall, rolling in the process. The good thing was that her chasers didn't see that and passed her. The bad thing was that while she was rolling she hit her head multiple times in small rocks or in wooden branches. When she finally came to a stop she was on her back watching the starry night sky through the crowns of the trees. (Yeah there was some forest under the hill.)

-I will die right? – she asked herself – I just wish I can see the sun and feel the warm. All that I saw in my whole life was death, blood, sadness, coldness and torturing. Maybe I just have no luck. I never had it.

That were her last words before she closed her eyes, falling into the darkness. That girl as you may know is Lucy Heartfilia. Once a heiress of the big Heartfilia company and now escaped slave from The tower of Heaven.

Natsu POV

I was heading to my house in the forest after I had a date with Lisanna. I don't actually know what that means. I mean I know what it means but I just don't think I like her that way and that the date was "romantic". It's more like I love her like a sister and it was just hanging out. After that incident she was gone for two years and now that she is back I just want to spend some time with her, but she can be really clingy sometimes. Well I just hope she don't think I love her or something like that because…. I stopped death in my tracks when I saw a body not so far away. I neared it cautiously and what I saw just made my blood run cold. There was lying a girl. She was so beaten and she had bruises and blood all over her body and head. If it wasn't for her faint breathing that I barely heard with my dragon slayer hearing, I could have thought that she is dead. I couldn't help but notice the chains. From where is she and just what happened to her. I didn't have time to think about this and I just picked her bridal style and ran to my house. I kicked the door open startling Happy in the process.

-Natsu what happened? Who is this girl? – he started asking me.

-Happy, please bring me some bandages and morphine from the first aid kid.

-Right away.

I just laid the girl on my bed and started removing her clothes. Well the remains of them. I was trying not to blush because this is too serious situation to think about this kind of stuffs. Then Happy flew to me and gave me the things I asked him to bring me. Then I started to clean her wounds, even the slightest were cleaned. After that I bandaged her and dressed her in one of mine t-shirts. It was long enough to cover her body it ended just to her knees. I noticed how fragile she looked. I thought that just by holding her any harder she can break like a brittle porcelain. I was just about to leave her when I saw that she started shivering. She was cold obviously. I hesitated for a bit before lying down. I took her in my arms and hugged her. As a fire dragon slayer my body heat is really high so I thought that it may help her. After some time she indeed stopped shivering and snuggled closer to me. Happy was already sleeping and the girl seemed to be fine so I also closed my eyes drifting to the dreamland.