A Fairy Tail Academy fic. Just something random I thought up. Enjoy!
"Here's the contest! I've put ten pounds of food in front of each of you! Your goal is to eat as much as you can before your time is up! Natsu has extra spicy mabo tofu with a side of tabasco sauce and hot peppers. Gray has ice cream with all the fixings!" Lucy announces.
"Wait! I want to participate in this contest!" Erza declares, standing up, waving her arms to get Lucy's attention.
Lucy blinks. "Uh, sure. We'll have to wait a while before we can get your food… what should I pick? Strawberry cheesecakes?"
Erza looks thrilled at the prospect of all of that cake. She nods vigorously. "Add five pounds to all of our portions! I know these boys can handle it!"
"Um, Erza?" Wendy starts gently. "Well, in Natsu's case, too much could really damage his digestive system. All that dairy could really hurt Gray, too. I hardly think ten pounds is appropriate, let alone fifteen! And too much cake… it can't be good for you!"
"Wendy, you want to join us?" Natsu asks her from behind his pot of mabo tofu. He's dumping extra tabasco sauce on it.
"Yeah, we can set you up with… I don't know, what do you like? I know you hate pickled plums, so that's out of the question," Gray ponders.
Wendy's face turns slightly green at the idea of ten pounds of pickled plums. "No thank you, Natsu and Gray. I'm just going to witness and run for the nurse when this gets bad."
Levy comes over with an armful of brown bags. "I went to the bakery nearby and got strawberry cheesecakes. Elfman's getting more mabo tofu and Mirajane is getting more ice cream. Are you three seriously going to do this?"
"Well Natsu did challenger Gray to a contest to see who's better," Lucy sighs, taking some of the bags from Levy. "This was actually the safest contest I could think of. Originally Natsu suggested a fight, but I figured something like that couldn't end well and I knew they both have an insane appetite… so here we are now."
"And Erza can't resist a contest," Levy chuckles.
"Just as long as nobody else jumps in we can start soon," Lucy announces, setting up Erza's end of the table.
"I want in!" Cana announces from behind her. Lucy turns to see Cana standing with Macao and Wakaba, all three of them armed with kegs. "And It'll be fifteen gallons for me."
"Absolutely not!" Wendy protests instantly.
"Yeah, I agree with Wendy. Natsu's being stupid enough dumping pure heat into his body. Alcohol is taking this too far," Lucy states.
"What's stupid is there's no more tabasco left… Can someone get me some more?" Natsu asks.
Mirajane and Elfman come out onto the roof with their arms full. Elfman dumps the additional five pounds of mabo tofu onto Natsu's pile and hands over a fresh tabasco sauce. Mirajane scoops more ice cream onto Gray's pile and hands him a whole new variety of toppings.
"I decided I'm participating too!" Elfman declares. "I asked Laki to bring up fifteen pounds of ribs! I'm not gonna let these chumps out-man me!"
"I thought it'd be fun to play too!" Mirajane tells Lucy. "Bisca said she'd get me fifteen pounds of fruit salad!"
"Why doesn't everyone just join in?" Lucy asks, feeling overwhelmed with how out of control this is getting.
Soon enough, Mirajane, Elfman, Erza, Natsu, Gray, Bisca, Laki, and Cana are all lined up. Wendy, Al, Macao, Wakaba, and Makarov are all watching intently as Lucy double checks to make sure everyone has their food in order. She steps back and holds up a gold flag.
"Alright! you're going to eat until I give a signal. You have five minutes! If anyone feels sick, stop. I mean it. Wendy is going to watch you guys and if she thinks someone can't handle the contest, she has the right to disqualify that person. if she points at you, stop eating, or in Cana's case, drinking - since she wouldn't take no for an answer."
"Just start it, will you?" Gray requests.
"Yeah, I'm starving!" Natsu complains.
Lucy rolls her eyes and waves the flag, signalling the start. She steps back next to Wendy and watches the group as they start shoving food into their faces.
Natsu starts off strong, piling handfuls of mabo tofu into his mouth faster than he's even chewing it. Gray's close behind him, doing the same thing. Lucy makes a face, it's disgusting to watch, two teenage boys shoving food into their mouths like there's no tomorrow.
Erza's taking things a little slower, actually using a fork. She and Mira are tied, both eating like civilized human beings, as opposed to the monsters beside them.
Elfman isn't doing too well; Sure, he's eating quickly, but he has to eat around the bones and make sure he has all the meat off of them before he can move on.
Bisca, who'd chosen ramen to eat, is slurping away at her noodles happily, seemingly unaware of her position in the ranks. Lucy thinks she has the right idea. Why not just enjoy the free food?
Laki's eating macaroni and cheese. Along with Bisca, she doesn't really seem to care about the contest at all.
Cana, however, is indulging heavily in her booze. She's in the lead, with one of the kegs already gone. She's looking kind of out of it though, like she might actually be getting too drunk, even for her. Wendy points at Cana to get her to stop. Lucy figured she'd do this, she knew Wendy hated the idea of Cana participating in the first place.
Lucy checks her watch and two minutes and forty five seconds have passed. She moves forward to check everyone's portions. Natsu has eaten most of his, but he's slowing down. Lucy locks eyes with him for a second and smirks, seeing that he's noticed it too.
Lucy looks over at Gray, who's about even with Natsu, though he's trying to keep up the quick pace. The look in his eyes match Natsu's. They'll both crash and burn soon enough.