towerofanimus | Some things just sneak up on you before you know it.

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[ou] natsu dragneel

Some things just sneak up on you before you know it.

Who: [OU] Natsu Dragneel and you
What: A dragonslayer with a major dilemma
Where: Floor 1 cafeteria
When: Morning of the 1st
Warnings: None whatsoever

It was today. Oh god it was today. To think he almost treated today like just another normal dangerous day in the tower. Except he saw the calendar. And what he saw there made him freeze up on the spot. July 1st... July 1st... Lucy's Birthday!

The moment that realization hit he couldn't think of anything else except how unprepared he was for this. He had nothing. Nothing prepared. No gift. The perfect opportunity to truly try and make up for what he did to her and he was completely unprepared. Which was why people walking into the cafeteria would find a miserable looking Dragon Slayer with his head on the table, idly stirring his spicy meal with a plastic spoon.

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He certainly didn't go unnoticed when a certain friendly blonde caught sight of him and the atmosphere he was emitting.

"Oi! Something got you down?" They weren't friends, but that didn't matter to him, everyone needed to be looked out for.

Natsu was so out of it he didn't even bother to identify who asked him the question. Instead he let out a deep sigh before answering.

"It's her birthday today and I have no idea how to celebrate it in this place. No gift. Hell I don't even know if they have the ingredients here to make a cake."

Birthday huh? That made it pretty serious business then. The blonde pondered on the idea for a moment. "Maybe you can make her a gift instead? Or a dinner?"

"Make her a gift...Hmmm maybe. Though what could I make on such short notice. I mean it's today." Well it was at least something to think on so that was a start.

"I guess dinner would work. Still it wouldn't be a birthday without cake. It'd just be...that thing she talks about from time to time. Date I think."

Man this was kind of hard, and girls were kind of difficult. "Eh, well it's hard to make a cake in this place." Not that he did any baking, but he did know it was possible to hunt an animal and harvest herbs for maybe a nice dinner? "But if food doesn't work then make something."

The blonde thought on it a little harder.

Dificult and weird. Yep those two words summed up girls PERFECTLY.

"Yeah I figured as much. Still there's gotta be some way."

Like some kind of floor with cake monsters that turn into real cakes after you defeat them. Hell he'd seen crazier things in this place.

"I'd like to but I don't know what to make that won't take too long to make it."

"I think a floor with cake monsters would be doing us a favor." They sadly didn't have anything like that otherwise Jonouchi would give it a go, but otherwise experience told him to stay far, far away from floors with monsters.

"A lot of monsters on this plain floor are good for meat."

"A lot of the floors are out to kill you though. The sixtieth is a kitchen, I haven't heard how safe that one is." Being that he took the stairs every day he had a good portion of the tower memorized.

"You could probably make her a dress?" Could this guy sew? Jonouchi didn't know, he was just throwing out ideas.

"Haven't found one but maybe if I look around some more I'll manage to sniff one out or something." Dragons Slayer nose was the ultimate guide after all.

Though the proposition of making a dress threw him for a loop.

"I'm usually better at burning than making them though..."

So in other words no he couldn't sew to save his life.

"There's gotta be something you can do for her."

Jonouchi was determined to help this guy now.

"What other sweets do you think she'll like that you'll have an easier time making?"

"If only it was back home, that wouldn't be a problem."

Then again that could be said for everything about this place.

"Other sweets? Hmmm I've seen her like candies and cookies before. There was one time with ice-cream at the resort too." He'll leave the rest up to Joey's imagination about that little trip.

"Cookies can't be hard to make, right? And candy can be just about anything as long as it's sweet. Like dried fruit."

At the very least he knew his food.

"Yeah. Exactly." Except this was Natsu. The master at burning his cookery and the kitchen while at it. Still Joey's ideas were helping him bit by bit.

"I think there was a floor with some fruit a while back. Could go there and check out if there's anything I can use."

"It's worth a shot! Who knows. It might be what you were looking for too!"

Especially after last month, Enoch is doing what he can to help people he sees in need. Even if it will make their now certainly-inevitable end (if not of themselves, of their time together) all the more painful, he can't just leave them be in good conscience, even less so that originally. So he approaches the forlorn person.

"Are you all right?"

Natsu recognized the scent before the man even spoke up which was why he still ended up flinching to attention. This man. He tried to kill this man!

"It's you!" To think one of the people on his apology list would just walk up to him in his time of distress.

"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!" He quickly gets up from the chair and bows repeatedly to the man on hands and knees.

At first, Enoch has no idea what to make of the recognition from someone he's fairly sure he's never met. And then the apologies say it all. He was one of the monsters he'd met, wasn't he?

Though, actually having him on hands and knees like this is so awkward he can't even do anything for a moment except crouch down to gently take his arm and guide him to stand up instead.

"You weren't yourself..."

Okay why was everyone so understanding on him? Was a punch to the jaw that much to ask for to settle the score at least a little? Seems so given the two people he tried to hurt the most had just forgiven him right away.

"Still. I was trying to kill you. That was the only thing stuck in my mind." He looks up with a frown of remorse but stands in front of him anyway.

*Because it was all Ruana's game. Enoch's been there.*

I know. Ruana's turned me into a murderer in a game before this. You weren't yourself. You weren't in control of your actions. I forgive you, but I never blamed you.

At the mentions of a name, Natsu seems to change gears in his thought process a bit.

"Ruana? Who is that?" Would have finally have his target? The one responsible for everything? The one whose ass he needed to kick to end this nightmare. The prospect is enough to dim out the flame of his guilt as a whole. After all he now knew the enemy.

"She's the ruler of this tower, once an experiment and driven mad."

Tragic backstory but she eats people. She ate Dax. "She plays games with the tower's populace, games only she finds any fun in. The others are all under her thumb just as much as we are, and the only one who stood against her was murdered and devoured."

He grits his teeth with a mixture of emotions. So now he knows the enemy but they are powerful. More powerful than anyone he's faced yet. If this was back home he would charge in regardless. But while in the tower and especially after that incident where he hurt Lucy, her safety became top priority.

"So a real bitch who can't be touched yet." Still should the opening present itself where they revolt and actually reach her to take her down, he's going to be right up there in the front eager to plant his fist so far in her skull it will be like an amateur's plastic surgery.

"Yes. She sees the others as her dogs. I think she's as dangerous to them as she is to us in some ways."

"Some ways" like being able to eat them and steal their powers...

...Well that's certainly an unusual sight, even given what happened earlier last month. It's definitely enough to make Jellal frown; sullen doesn't exactly suit Natsu. At all.

"...Is everything alright, Natsu?"

Well at least this time his source of distress is not as dire as the previous. Still it takes him a while to notice Jellal's existence.

"Oh. Hey Jellal." a distracted drawl before turning back to his brooding.

"Well it's Lucy's birthday and I've got squat to show for it. No gift no cake no party, nothing."

That is definitely an improvement at least. Now to get Natsu back to 'all fired up', rather than brooding.

"It doesn't seem quite too late for any of that yet."

Even if resources are admittedly quite low in the tower.

"Do you have any idea what she would like?"

"It's today though..." So little time tick tock.

He looked up at Jellal and shrugged his shoulders.

"Well she likes books. And Anything related to stars and constellations. Also like romance novels I hear. Not the particularly dirty ones. Those are Erza's." Too much information there for poor ol Jellal but his mouth is just running off without him.

"It's a tough deadline, but I wouldn't say it's impossible."

Especially not for someone as bullheaded as Natsu. Jellal crosses his arms over his chest, one hand settling against his chin as he thinks. (Also, he is totally going to ignore that comment about Erza's dirty novels, because adskjdlja nope.)

"The books of the library can't be taken indefinitely unfortunately, but I know where to find the sections she's be interested in. And I know she asked about work a few days ago... we could look into getting her set up as librarian, if you want."

She had seemed interested in that after all.

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Some things just sneak up on you before you know it.

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Whoops, style slip there... <_<

XDDD it happens.

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