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Natsu pov
As we walk to my house I keep my arm around her waist and I stay on high alert but make it unnoticeable to Lucy. Happy is perched on her head and as we walk she starts humming a song , I smile as I listen to her.
"Y'know I've noticed that we've been quite tired as of late." I start. Lucy stops humming and looks over at me thinking, "yeah actually I did notice but I thought that maybe we were just really comfortable or something". She shrugs.
I think for a second before I pull out the book of the dragon season stuff from my coat "wanna read through?".Lucy looks at the book and then at me and raised a eyebrow,"when did you snatch that?". I shrugsand hand her the book.
She stares at me for a while suspiciously then takes the book and starts reading through it. 
We get to my cabin and I open the door ,  happy jumps off Lucy's head and flys to his room "home sweet home!" Happy sighs as he fly's to his bed and lays down, Lucy wasn't paying us any attention as she reads with her glasses so I lead her through my cabin and clean up my hammock and I set her in it.
Once I set her down ,I turn around to get something before I realized my house is an absolute mess , so with a heavy heart I start cleaning up my room and living room.
"Happyyyy come help!". Happy looks over at me from his spot and sighs and he lazily flys over "ayeee" he grumbles.
After a few minutes Lucy suddenly shoots up in the hammock as I look over at her so fast I almost gave myself whiplash, "I found the reason!" She says as she kicks her legs in an attempt to get out of the hammock and failing, she gives up and beckons me over with her finger. 
I chuckle as I watch her wiggle her finger at me and walk over and part her legs so I can go between them and wrap my arms around her waist. "What'd you find?"
She holds the book up and points at some words.
"It says since I'm also becoming a dragon slayer my body has to prepare itself and it takes a lot of energy apparently."
"Well how about me and happy?" *She looks down at the book and points to another line,"well apparently you body is also adjusting too since you did have a little transformation, and so you magic can gather more to create a stronger mark and to help us bond more I guess, since we're always together when we sleep" she shrugs "oh and happy I guess also gets a little stronger magic by being near us long enough since he's your partner and because he's a cat"
Happy flies over and lands on my head "aye!" ,Lucy giggles and pets his head and he starts purring, I grumble as I growl lowly , totally not because she is not giving me attention ,totallyyyyyy not.
She smiles and caresses my face and I lean into her hand .I start purring too and lay my head in her lap as happy rolls off my head and into the hammock beside Lucy. She starts to hum and I decide I want to cuddle so I take the book from her and set it on the table and pick up happy and I hop into the hammock beside her and I pull her to me as I place happy by our heads.
"When do you think you'll enter the 4th stage?",I look down at her and kiss her forehead "pretty soon I think, I'm sure we'll know when we enter that stage". She nods and snuggles her face into my chest. I watch her as she relaxed into me more and falls asleep in my hold, I admire her pretty sleeping face and long eyelashes, her pretty lips and blonde silky hair. I feel grateful for every second I spend with her, my love, my mate , my luce. I am grateful to have found such a wonderful women. I'm glad I found her in that town , pulled her with me as we ran from those dumb guards, she makes me so happy , I don't think life could get any better.
I bury my face in her hair and take in her scent " goodnight my love~" I purr.
???:pov
"Damn I was so close to getting her" I growl, I try to escape But before I could the red haired wizard stomps up to me , I try to get up as fast as I could but she grabs me by the neck and puts these weird cuffs on me and starts dragging me, "AHH LET ME GO YOU STUPID-" some guy  with black hair and no clothes on stomps up to me and duck taped my mouth before I could say anything  . I screamed and yelled muffled profanities as I get dragged down some stairs and thrown into a dungeon , I slide across the ground my skin scraping on the floor and she stands above me her eyes glowing as she suddenly summons a sword .
I scream out in terror as she stalks towards me as I crawl back as best I could, my back hits the wall and I'm cornered she lifts her hand and brings it down so fast I couldn't see anything , and in a single moment  of pure panic I shield myself with my arms  but it does nothing as the world stops and suddenly becomes calm and everything fades to black and I fall to the ground.