Chapter 2: The Flirty Prince and a Disaster!

                                    

                                          
Natsume's pov 
                          
We were currently heading to Clove Town, since our mission was to escort a visiting Prince to Crocus. The prince was handed over to us and we had to take another train, hoping that there weren't many people on the train. I sighed deeply as I looked at Natsu, who was hanging out of the window of the train. "So miss Natsume, how do you stay so pretty?" Prince Kai asked, his blue eyes gleaming brightly which made me a little nervous. Prince Kai was very handsome, he had short white hair and bright blue eyes that could stop a girl's heart if they were looked at lovingly with these eyes. "Umm... I don't know how to answer that." I blushed, "Hey, keep your paws off my little sister!" Natsu warned, becoming overprotective like always. 
                          
"You're only older than me by an hour." I rolled my eyes as I sat down next to Gray and Erza and Wendy, while Kai sat in between Lucy and Natsu, who was still sick. 
                          
"If you don't mind me asking, Prince Kai... Why are you going to Crocus?" Erza asked, she seemed so polite. 
                          
"I'm visiting the princess, we knew each other when we were much younger." Kai explained, "Lucky, what are you doing?" She was walking away from our seats, "Uhhh....To get a piece of fish for happy and I." She turned towards me and I knew just by the look on her face that she was lying, "Lucky, I know you're lying." I said "Okay... Fine, I was going to go get that cake." She pointed to a giant chocolate cake. I sighed, knowing if I said no it would break her heart. "Alright, go get it." I shook my head. I felt sleepy and since we wouldn't get there for six more hours,  I thought it would be a good idea to take a nap. Just as I laid my head on Gray's shoulder, Lucky came back carrying a large cake. She set it on the table, which was right in the middle of all of us in the booth. "That's a giant cake." Gray said and I sweat-dropped, but knowing Lucky, it wouldn't be easy for her to give up sweets. "I'm going to sleep. Wake me when we get there." And with that I closed my eyes and laid my head back on Gray's shoulder. 
                          
"Natsume, wake up." A voice said, "I don't think that's a good idea." I recognized the other voice to be Natsu's. "Why not?" That voice before must have belonged to Gray, "Just wake her up, we don't have time to be lolly gagging." I could hear Erza's voice, "Stop touching her, she is not gonna wake up." Natsu said, "She needs to wake up. So wake up, Natsume." Gray touched my shoulder and then the two started arguing, loud enough to wake me up. "Will you two shutup!?" I shot up from the seat, punching the two in the face. I jumped onto the two and continued to beat them, until Erza pulled me off. We got off the train, walking through the capitol to get Prince Kai to where he needed to go.
                          
"Why is she so grumpy?" Lucy asked Natsu, as I had a dark aurora brooding around me. "I guess because you woke her up, ice princess." Natsu retorted, sticking his tongue out at Gray who rolled his eyes in response.
                          
"Well, you shouldn't have argued with me, flame-for-brains." Gray snapped, which got the two arguing again as we were walking. Prince Kai watched along with Lucy as the two kept going back and forth, which was only annoying Erza and I. Since I was in between them it didn't help, so I glared at the two of them with a look of 'I'm already in a bad mood and if you don't shutup, you both will die.' which made them shrink back in fear. We took the magic mobile and headed for Crocus, which was going to take a while since the Magic mobile wasn't as fast as the train. We had gotten off the train because Lucy worried for Prince Kai's safety after overhearing some men say that he would be assassinated on the train. Natsu was hanging out the window, while Wendy sat next to Lucy and Kai. Erza was driving, while I sat next to Gray and the exceeds. Kai was next to lucky, who sat near the door and the car came to a sudden stop. "Erza, what's the problem?" Gray turned and suddenly we heard shouts from outside. "Natsu, what's going on?" Gray asked. "Some guys are messing with Erza." He said and I rushed out of the car. "Fire dragon iron talon." I kicked three guys into each other instead of getting back in the car, I jumped on the roof. "Natsume, be careful up there." Wendy called, "I'll be fine. Just make sure the Prince is okay." 
                          
"Step on it, Erza!" I shouted, looking back to see more men running towards the car who were shooting at us with large guns.
                          
"Everyone get down!" I shouted, I let out a loud scream as a bullet came way to close to me. "Are you alright up there, Natsume?!" Erza shouted, "Yeah.. If you count almost getting shot, then yeah, I'm good. Just keep going." I shouted, I noticed where she was driving. I held tightly onto the car, as we hit a stand and drove through a giant crowd. After an hour of driving away from the thugs we ended up in crocus, Erza was driving pretty fast. 
                          
Natsu and the others crawled out of the car, I rolled off the roof landing on Natsu. "Hey, are you alright?" Gray walked over towards us, "Ahhh, get off me!" Natsu rolled me off of him, while Gray helped me to my feet. I felt kinda dizzy so I had to hold onto Gray, we headed to the kingdom. 
                          
"Thank you Fairytail, for getting the prince here safely." His butler bowed, I started looking around. 
                          
I saw a gun pointed in the prince's direction, so I acted quickly and pushed him out the way. A gunshot rang out and I suddenly felt a pain in my side and before I knew it, I hit the ground with a hard thud. "Natsume!" I heard the others call out my name and I blacked out.