Prompt: I know nothing about camping, will you help me? I think I heard a bear.
A/N: I'm having horrible writer's block so I found a list of 'oddly specific AUs' on tumblr so here's one!
"Lu, you can't be serious." The blunette huffed behind her seated friend as she noticed the window open on her screen.
"I told you that I'd come, but on my conditions." Lucy defended her choice to rent a cabin.
"But the fun of camping is to be out doors, making s'mores, and sleeping under the stars." Levy pitched her points on why she desired to go camping so badly.
"We'll do all of that except the last part." She continued typing on her keys tapping away before stumbling on the perfect cabin for the weekend. "Oh look at this one!" She pointed her manicured nails at the monitor focusing on a nice spacious location.
The cabin was built like an upscale apartment in the middle of a bustling city. Decent sized living room leading into a restaurant furnished kitchen was just the beginning. The master bedroom contained a honeymoon suite sized bed enough for four.
Lucy's eyes sparkled at the amenities, especially at the king sized hot tub available for use. Levy started falling for the details included in the bundle the longer she read on with her friend looking over her shoulder.
"No no!" The blunette sprang back up as she shook her head trying not to fall for the luxuries. "All that looks nice but we have to enjoy Mother Nature!" Levy lectured standing her ground before turning to Lucy who had a smile on her face.
"Sorry Lev." She had no remorse on her face as she revealed the conformation note to the fancy cabin that would be reserved for them on the upcoming weekend.
"So why are you bringing your sleeping bag?" Lucy questioned most of what Levy was bringing out of her room into neat pile by the door ready to be placed into her car.
"Because I'm going rouge and sleeping outdoors. Juvia said she'd sleep in the tent with me also." The blunette smiled from the thought of her friend trekking the wilderness out with her. She brought out one last box full of snacks placing it by her supplies.
"Are you sure? You know as much about camping as I do, which is nothing."
"And that's why that box is filled with every book about camping the library had to offer." Levy pointed to the heaviest box that was going to be a pain to load.
The blunette was ready for their weekend to start as she hummed along with Lucy to the radio.
"Are we stopping for Juvia?" Lucy lowed the volume once the upbeat song ended.
Levy shook her head, "No, she's already at the park since her boyfriend is a ranger."
"We'll probably have a hard time getting her away from him."
The pair chuckled together as they turned to admire the large pine trees leading into the state park. After getting permission to enter from the man in the entrance booth, Levy drove up to their designated cabin. Their spot wasn't too far into the park deciding to be close to the ranger station.
"Whoa…" They stepped out to face the wooden structure that was more impressive than the pictures advertising it could do it justice.
The two brought in the limited supplies, Levy wasn't going to leave her items outside if it could be helped.
After settling Lucy into her home for the next few days, Levy stepped down the three steps back into the wilderness. The blunette clutched the rolled up tent before looking up to the voice cheerfully calling her name.
"Levy!"
Juvia came jogging up to her ahead of the two larger bodies behind her.
"I'm glad you found us!" Levy embraced the bustier blunette who was going to be her camping partner.
Levy waved to the familiar male coming up becoming less of a shadow. His short raven hair tufted up into spikes complimenting his dark eyes.
Gray gave his petite friend a hug before letting go feeling Juvia's jealous beating eyes bore a target into his back.
He whistled while noting the cabin they had chosen. "I thought you wanted to camp." He teased her knowing full well the amenities it was packed to the brim with.
"I did!" Levy pouted while placing the tent onto the ground unable to hold its weight any longer. "Lucy is inside, she insisted."
Gray shook his head understanding how they ended up with the home.
"Calm down." Gray's partner grabbed Juvia by the shoulders holding her back from snatching her boyfriend back. Of course she knew they were just friends but that detail wasn't going to stop her.
"Don't be mean Gajeel." Juvia huffed at his side pouting from being held back.
Gajeel watched the newly formed pair convertase like the old friends they were. Gray noted his friends were coming for the weekend but he didn't quite go into details on their appearance. Not that he would have cared to listen in the first place.
He looked the petite blunette up and down smirking at her small stature barely reaching Gray's shoulders. The combat boots she wore definitely gave her an extra inch or two. The longer he stared, the more of her beauty became evident.
Whimsical azure hair tied back by a green band complimented the light peach tone of her skin. His eyes couldn't help but wander to her pristinely cut curves that turned at just the perfect moment cascading down her backside coming to the hem of her khaki shorts.
"Gajeel!" Juvia waved her hand in front of her friend's face when he fell into a staring daze. "Get off of Juvia!" She huffed pushing his arm off of the top of her head.
Gray turned back to the bickering pair going to introduce his partner but was stopped by two females that were camping nearby for help. He scratched the back of his head before excusing himself. I'll be back in a bit."
"I'll go too!" Juvia nervously rushed towards her lower untrusting of any female around him alone.
Levy waved to the pair giggling at Juvia defensively holding his arm as he spoke to the women in need. Once out of sight, she bend down ready to pick the tent back up but it was gone from in front of her feet.
"Hmm?" She looked around puzzled before turning to the man who seemingly worked alongside Gray from their matching uniforms.
He was already crouched down dumping the contents from the back on the ground allowing the beams to clink against each other as they fell.
"Umm…I can do it." Levy sheepishly called out nervous from what he was doing.
He simply 'tsked' before continuing. "I wouldn't feel right letting you set this thing up by yourself."
Levy blushed softly at his gentleman like nature despite his rough appearance.
"After all, I don't think a shrimp like you could set it up. Gi hi." He began to laugh uncontrollably despite the sudden scowl on her face.
I spoke too soon.
"I-I can do it myself!" Levy huffed while marching towards the pile he had created of her temporary home.
"Sure shrimp." He mockingly popped the 'p' much to her frustration. "Pretty sure yer goin' for the instructions."
The blunette stared at the unraveling list of directions before crinkling the paper behind her back causing him to laugh once more.
"And one thing, my name isn't shrimp!" She huffed in a loud voice. There was only one way to fight and that was to toss back the same sarcastic rudeness. "It's…"
"Levy." Gajeel looked up at her deadpanned while she wore a shocked expression.
He pulled out a folded copy of the renting conformation from his front pocket with her name boldly printed on it.
Levy took and pouted from realizing Lucy had set the documents in her name. She huffed with her arms crossed around her small chest adding volume to her cleavage that made his cheek run rosy from obviously staring.
He looked away before she could possibly catch on. "Are you coming to help, Levy?" He emphasized her name just to make her happy.
"That's better." Levy smiled as she joined in following his lead as he continued to mock her instruction usage. She figured if something was messed up then she had leverage to poke fun at him.
To some disappointment, the tent was successfully set up. Although there were some short jokes stuffed in between about how large it was for such a small girl.
The blunette snickered trying not to let the jokes get to her. His unique laugh coupled with perfect smile that had extended canines, he was slowly becoming more attractive.
"Don't be mad just because you can't fit inside." She spoke with a teasing giggle.
"Oh yeah?" He responded standing up from his crouched position tossing the mallet aside. He took it as a challenge and took her hand lifting the flap that was the front door up for her. She slipped inside with him following behind.
Lucy stepped outside fresh from the shower with her hair pulled up in two pig tails. She hand her bright pink pajamas on with soft white bunny slippers.
"Levy! Where are you?" The blonde stepped cautiously down to Levy's car unable to find her. Only when the tent rustled softly did Levy pop her head from the slit.
"Do you need something?" Levy questioned as Gajeel popped his head from beside her.
Lucy was initially puzzled by the unfamiliar man and decided to tease her. "I'm sorry, I didn't know you had company." She raised a brow.
Levy jumped out of the tent with a tinge of pink on her cheeks. "I-It's not what you think!" She dusted herself off as Gajeel stepped out.
A male voice coming from his radio strapped to his belt interrupting.
"Sorry shrimp, it looks like I'll have to play house with you some other day, gi hi." He rustled her hair before turning to Lucy. "Nice to meet you bunny girl." He laughed while walking away leaving the blunette to giggle at her slippers.
Levy softly waved watching him walk away down the designated path before slamming her hand down at Lucy's suspicious smirk.
Levy yawned softly as she rose from the tent to stretch in the early morning. Juvia came behind her slowly after rubbing her eyes to Lucy opening the door to her cabin.
"How did you sleep?" Lucy sarcastically questioned wishing the pair would just come and stay inside with her.
"Pretty good," She answered even with a slight lower back ache from deviating from a plush bed for the first time.
Juvia was about to rebuttal complaining of her pains but Levy interrupted. "Shouldn't you go to Gray?"
The busty blunette jolted awake from her lover's name before rushing out and shouting 'Gray-sama.' Lucy giggled before turning to Levy holding one of her many books.
"Get your boots on, we're going hiking!"
With little knowledge of the path and hiking in general, the pair set out. But what's to know? Just keep walking and don't step on loose stones.
After their trek extended a few hours more from majorly getting lost, the pair arrived back to their campsite. Lucy couldn't have been more relived and retreated into the cabin leaving the blunette alone outdoors. She was determined not to let that minor fail get in the way of enjoying the camping experience.
"H-How?" She struggled to start a fire by herself as she read a how to book laying out clear instructions. "Why can't I do it?" She started nibbling frustrated on her lower lip as she tried to get her primitive hand drill to work.
"Oi shrimp." Gajeel's rough voice made her jumpy letting go of the 'progress' she had made. "There's a new invention." He lit a match striking it on the booklet before tossing it for it to ignite the bundle of sticks and torn newspaper Levy had meticulously collected.
"H-Hey! I almost had it!" As she rose from her feet, she huffed at him.
"Sure yah did." He teased her eyeing the survival book located on the ground.
"I did!" She followed his line of sight to the book feeling slightly embarrassed. She tried leaning down to reach it before having a large arm wrapping around her waist.
"Oi, don't fall into the fire." Gajeel took a tighter grip on her body leaning her away from the cracking flame and closer to his broad chest.
A soft gasp passed her lips as the sudden movement made her grip on the front of his shirt close as to not fall backwards.
"Oh…thank –" As she parted her lips to speak, she paused focusing on the rosy tone of his lips.
They weren't sure if it was the close proximity or the warmth of the roaring fire that caused it, the rosy color dusting over their cheeks.
"Gray-sama~" Juvia's fawning voice bustled through the trees and up the path.
The sound of the busty blunette's voice frantically separated the two into a safe distance.
As the sun set, the small group set themselves around the fire on the thick logs supporting their weight. Juvia cuddled with Gray speaking on how romantic it was to be with just him forgetting about the other bodies present. Levy sat on a separate beam along with Lucy securing a marshmallow to the end of their stick before placing it onto the fire.
Gajeel rummaged through the materials crunching on the bars of chocolate and gram crackers separately unwilling to spend time putting together the snack.
"Hmm? Are you sure you don't want to eat it like this?" The blunette constructed her s'more with an extra block of chocolate, the way she liked it.
Gajeel looked over to her and finished chewing on the chocolate in his mouth as she moved to a spot beside him.
"It's better like this! Take a bite." She reached the treat up to his lips to which he hesitantly took a bite of.
The blunette giggled softly as he pulled away pulling a string of burnt marshmallow til it stuck to his chin. She wiped it away forcing a blush to appear on his cheeks.
They neglected the watchful eyes until Lucy couldn't hold in her giggles and Juvia offering to feed Gray.
It's out last night Lev!" Lucy stretched excited to get home as she came up behind the blunette seated by the heap of ashes that she kicked around.
Levy sighed neglecting to make eye contact with her friend, "Mhm."
"Are you going to miss Gajeel?" The blonde accentuated his name as she grabbed her shoulders making the blunette's heart skip a beat from his name.
"N-No of course not!" Levy nervously tried to convince her.
"Sure sure, you know you could just ask for his number."
"There's no reason for that." The blunette stared down at her shoes making indents in the soft dirt.
"So stubborn," Lucy sighed. "Anyways, are you sure you want to stay out here? Plenty of room inside."
The blunette shook her head, "Juvia should be here soon!"
Levy laid beside the busty blunette tucked tightly in her sleeping bag. The darkness creeped in quickly sending Juvia into a good night's sleep as she clutched her Gray doll as it were the real thing.
She tried to focus on the orange coloration of the fluffy sheets that she knew were there but now were pitch black in her line of sight. Her heavy eye lids brought her into the same sate as Juvia after a few more minutes.
"What was that?" The petite blunette yawned softly in a half asleep state after hearing a disturbance outside.
The snapping of branches and dead fallen leaves crumpling beneath a heavy foot fully awoke her in a panic.
She opened one hazel eye fearful of what could possibly be a menacing figure either on the outside, or worse, before her. Nothing popped into her sight much to her relief as she released a once fearful sigh out.
The relief was short lived as the sound of an advance towards the campsite continued.
Levy brought her sleeping back up in a defensive manor as if feather stuffing would protect her.
"Does Levy hear that?" Juvia spoke softly as she awoke to the same noise holding her Gray plush.
"Umm Juvia, has Gray said anything about there being bears here?" The petite blunette nervously questioning although fearful to face the nodding she knew Juvia was doing.
Rustling continued from the nearby trees bringing the two girls to sit up cautiously close together.
"We'll be o-okay." Levy's voice cracked losing the last shred of confidence she had left.
"Gray-sama! Juvia needs Gray-sama!" The busty blunette wasted no more time in bolting out of the tent and down towards the path to the ranger's station.
"Juvia, don't!" Levy cried out getting no response losing her to the darkness. She quickly zipped the tent back up and sunk back in contemplating her next move. She held her legs to her chest fearful from the sound that increased causing her to be parlayed from the fear.
She closed her eyes tightly as the sound boomed before a flash of light from the outside offered some light inside.
"Hmm?" She hesitantly opened her eyes to the front zipped seemingly being pulled on by itself. "Lu?"
"Shrimp?" Gajeel peered in catching a fearful blunette jumping to his presence.
"Gajeel!" Without hesitation, she jumped from her crouched position embracing the familiar figure.
"O-Oi, are you okay?" He raised his arms up to her embrace before hesitantly putting his arms around her in a comforting manor.
"There's a bear outside!" She held onto the front of his shirt unwilling to let go just yet.
"Bears?"
"Yeah! I heard heavy steps and ruffling near the trees." She spoke in a muffled voice as she was to his chest shaking in his arms.
Gajeel's eye twitched at being mistaken for an animal as she called him the overly large presence.
"What was that?!" Levy hid behind his larger build as the light shined on a bunny that was skipping by in their path.
"Just a tiny animal, just like you. Gi hi." He teased her fearful nature but ceased laughing when catching the genuine fear written on her face. "Listen, I brought you out here to see there's nothing to be scared of."
The blunette refused to budge gripping his shirt remaining close.
"Do you feel better now?"
"A bit…" The blunette was still shaky in her voice refusing to separate from his side.
"Then go in and be with your friend." He tried to nudge the blunette up towards the direction of the cabin.
"B-But I don't want to wake her up." She fidgeted with her fingers not wanting to intrude her sleep.
"Then what are you going to do?"
"Levy," Lucy yawned. "Are you up already? We need to get packing…" She called out while rubbing her eyes revealing a dead campsite. She assumed she had just over slept and peaked in expecting to see Juvia as the second body.
A soft gasp was the sound she made when she caught a muscular tan arm tossed around Levy's petite body in a defensive manor. She had curved into his body in the most comfortable sleeping position with a soft smile.
"Goodnight." Lucy zipped the tent back up allowing the two to finish their nap.
note: Juvia is safe xD
I can't decide which one to do next so please let me know which one is better! (I already have 2 others written so this one will come after those~)
1. 'so YOU'RE the douchebag who keeps mowing their lawn while i'm trying to sleep' AU
2.'I hired you off craigslist to be my date for a wedding' AU