Ok guys, this is my latest story and I really hope you'll like it. This is officially my first story for Fairy Tail, yet I do not own Fairy Tail or the characters mentioned in this story. Hiro Mashima owns it everything, except my ideas and story line… Copyright is mine, so no plagiarism!
Also, I would like to thank Joy-chan and ZeroCeref for cheering me on in this crazy idea! I have to say this is going to be a scary comedy-drama with serious undertones here and there... So, if you were looking for something a little more light-hearted, I apologize.
The reason for the heavy themes is that I don't think supernatural creatures should be turned into parodies of dysfunctional teenagers' love stories like has been the norm on our generation. It makes me sad since it was the origins of these terrifying monsters that first gave them that sparkle for which we now know of them.
Tenbrae: Master, I think that was more than enough for an opening…
Emil C.: You think so, Tenebrae?
Happy: Emil! Why can't I talk?
Emil C.: Realism? You're a cat! Ergo, can't talk! And can't fly!
Happy: Waaaaah! –starts crying-
Tenebrae: Good grief….
Emil C.: Well, I hope you enjoy it! Bye!
Moonlight Butler and Midnight Secretary
Chapter 1
"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another." Buddha
"But, brother…" The blonde girl in front of a long wooden desk pleaded in an attempt to sway the man seating on the other side.
"I said no, Lucy!" The man scolded the girl, turning his back to her with the chair. "Now, please leave me." The man ushered with his hand.
"Fine!" The girl shouted. "This is the last time I try to help you and tell you about it beforehand..." She pouted as she turned her back and left the dark room.
"The next time I'll just do it without your consent!" The girl muttered under her breath as a devious smile formed on her lips.
"I heard that," A distant voice echoed through the walls of the long hallway.
"Damn stupid, unnatural hearing abilities…" Lucy groaned a she stomped her feet on the marble floor, making a loud noise.
"That girl will seriously get hurt one of this days." The man sighed, taking out a number out of his back pocket. "Meredy…" The man called out through the phone.
"Yes, Master?" A soft voice answered from the other side of the line. "Do you need something, Mr. Fernandez?"
The heavy panting of a man carrying a girl on his arms could be heard as the two lonely figures cross around the steep forest with the moon as their sole companion. The ominous noise of a feral beast echoed from every creeping shadow as the man's legs started to fail and his whole frame wobbled.
"I can't take it any more…" The man cried out loud as the pain of his injured neck took a toll on him. He placed the child he was carrying beside him.
"Lily, I'm scared!" The girl silently whimpered under the man's broad shoulder, hiding her trembling head under her bunny hat.
"And yet, for this girl I must go on!" The man's determination was restored as he picked up his pace, deciding not to be done in such a forgotten place.
"Yes, who is this?" An unknown female voice answered the phone.
"Mira? It's me, Lucy!" The blonde girl giggled, turning her head from side to side. With a quick glance to her room she sighed, making sure the door and windows in her dorm were tightly closed.
"Lucy, how have you been these days?" The woman courteously answered. "Anything new you want to tell me?"
"I'm Fine, Mira…" The girl crooked her eyebrows, trying to make out what her friend's intentions was with her.
"What possessed me again to call such a gossiper?" Lucy mentally slapped herself on the head.
"Meredy, do me the favor of putting up an ad at Lucy's college please…" The man ordered the girl on the phone as he took a sip of his drink.
"What would you want it to say, Master?" The girl politely asked taking detailed notes of her Master's request.
"Enough about me, Mira!" Lucy exasperatedly yelled to her friend who had being prying on her love life for over an hour.
"But Lucy, a girl as cute as you should have a boyfriend by now…" The girl laughed, obviously taking pleasure in her friend's misery.
"Anyhow, the reason I called you is because my brother is looking for a personal secretary," Lucy bit her lip as she lied, "and he really needs someone to help him…"
"Oh, but Lucy, I already have a job…" The girl quickly answered. "Besides knowing your brother's reputation, no woman is safe around him," The girl said nonchalantly.
"I know that," Lucy faked despair in her tone, "it's just that I thought you might know somebody who might want the job…"
"I am truly sorry, but I cannot help you in your endeavor," Mira sighed dismissively ready to hang up the phone.
"Wait! I'll do it!" A voice interrupted the line.
"Erza!" Mirajane gasped, "Have you being listening to our conversation all this time?"
"Please excuse my indiscretion," the woman begged, "it's just that when you picked up the phone to answer it I thought it was meant for me…"
"But Erza, you don't know that guy as well as I do!" Lucy silently growled as somehow she had been forgotten on the line.
"I don't care in the least! My priority right now is to support my family," The woman flatly stated before Mira hung the phone.
"Hello, Erza Scarlet speaking, and who do I have the pleasure to speak with?" The woman asked with upmost politeness.
"Hello, my name is Lucy Fernandez, pleased to meet you…" The blonde teen silently restrained her laughter as she thanked her lucky stars for finding someone so fast.
"Coco," the man whispered to the girl as they both remained hidden under the protection of some bushes, "I think this is it for me, little girl…" The man hoarsely coughed as the bleeding of his fresh wound opened up again. And the bloody wound rendered him completely immobilized in his current stiff position.
"No!" The girl sniffed. "You promised me that we would make it," the girl swallowed all her fear.
"You promised we would find a world full of laughter…" The distant howl of the beast approached ever so fast. The girl's hands tensed as she whipped her head back to the road in front, scared of living a life by herself.
"You will find that place, I promise and I will always be with you here…" The man mumbled as he touched the girl's heart with his hand.
"Don't you ever let them take this from you, Coco," The man finally told the girl as his hand fell flatly on the mossy grass and his shiny onyx eyes dulled and all life left his body.
The small child's body tensed as she stood up, her small frame moving swiftly across the forest. Her mission was clear, just as clear as Lily's own determined eyes before life left his body: To live on for her brother, for her mother, and for everyone who gave up their lives to keep her alive along their trip.
"Lily!" The girl yelled as she ran thru the bushes and trees in the hope of finding someone's assistance. "I will always remember you…" The girl blurted out leaving behind the lifeless body of his friend, mentor…father.
"How much?" The woman asked with eagerness.
"Hmmmmm…" Lucy thought, making up some numbers in her head. "One hundred fifty thousand jewels per week….?" The blonde girl frightfully stated, hoping she hadn't given her possible new employee a ridiculously small amount of money.
"Is…Is this for real?" The woman almost jumped from her seat, laughing hysterically on the phone leaving Lucy almost deft in the spot.
"Please, forgive me!" The blonde girl jolted. "If you want more I can double that! But I beg of you, we really need of your services!" The youngest heir to the Fernandez implored the woman over the phone.
"I guess this is your first time hiring someone, ne Lucy?" Erza sympathetically answered with much candor.
"How did you know?" The girl's white cheeks suddenly bristled red in embarrassment as she undoubtly got caught.
"Well for starters," the woman began in an overconfident tone of voice, "you don't sound very sure of yourself."
A single laugh escaped the woman's lips, "And secondly, you threw at me a ridiculously…"
"I said I can double it!" The lady hastily declared, interrupting Erza's speech.
"Ridiculously large amount of money…!" The woman uttered emphasizing the word large for the latter to hear.
"Oh…"The blonde girl shamefully muttered not knowing what to say after making such an absurd display out of herself on the phone.
"Almost there," Coco's bare feet cracked on the ground, leaving behind a track of blood after hours of running nonstop, "I will make it Lily!" The girl declared, noticing a railroad track just a couple of meters away from her current position.
"There's no escape…" A grotesque inhuman voice growled. In an instant a huge shadow leaped over her back, effectively trapping her.
"No!" She said fighting back the monster whose sharp fangs pierced right through her upper arm. "You won't take me!" The child yelled kicking the beast right in the nose leaving it momentarily paralyzed by the hit. Coco used the moment the monster howled and took a step back and ran to the trails yelling at the conductor with the hope of being saved.
The distant sound of a train called as the tracks came closer than ever, the light from the train was so overwhelming that the girl finally was able to let her tears role freely as she noticed the conductor stop and with a kind smiled and a worry look on his face took hold of the child and brought her into the train.
"Arigatō, Lily…" The girl grimly smiled, her consciousness drifting away as she laid in a placid state of joy and left that forsaken place alone. "Good—bye Louen…"
"So, when can I meet the person who would be my new boss?" The woman gently queried her possible new employer.
"Who am I kidding; she already has me in her pocket, there really is no use in acting tough." The woman acknowledged to herself as she felt a huge weight lifted off her shoulders, now that she would have a stable job.
"Today would be great!" The girl almost jumped out of her seat filled with gratitude to a complete stranger.
"Kyaaah! Jellal-sama!" A very unpleasant groan was heard throughout the whole mansion.
"What was that?" Erza abruptly asked filled with alarm to the unknown voices heard from the other end of the line.
"That is…" Lucy shamefully muttered under her teeth. "That is your new boss taking his 'afternoon lunch' with another woman…" Lucy finally admitted, already expecting Erza to back from the job offer.
"How about tomorrow afternoon, then?" The woman suggested nonchalantly, to Lucy's great relief. "It seems Fernandez-sama is a 'little busy' at the moment…" The woman finally chuckled, efficiently lightening the awkward mood after that distressing occurrence.
"Ok, but please, don't fail me Erza-san." Lucy begged, her tone showing her great need and despair for somebody's support in the matter.
"I promise, Lucy…" The woman assured the worrying girl that she would do her best and wouldn't fail at it, before hanging up the phone.
"Ahhhhh!"Lucy giddily jumped on her bed in delight as she made way for a well-earned night of sleep. "A job well done…" The girl softly muttered as she closed her eyes.
"Oh! Jellal-sama! I… I can't…!" Or maybe not…
"Oi! You two! Knock it off!" Lucy scolded the two noisy inhabitants as she wildly throbbed her head to the wall.
"Sorry, I can't hear you sis!" His brother's deep growls in ecstasy reached Lucy's room.
"Damn half-witted gigolo brother!" The girl sighed pulling her hair back in defeat.
"Hey! At least I have a girlfriend! Or two at that…" The man haughtily retorted.
"Oh, now you can hear me, huh?" She indignantly screamed.
"And this concludes today's Quantum Physics III Advanced lesson in electronegativity and proton subdivision class," Professor Gildarts Clive said.
"Now if you excuse me, I have a date in two hours with this chick and we're meeting here, so piss off!" The professor demanded, gaining weird looks from all his students."I mean, now!" He yelled as he opened up the room's door and promptly kicked one of the boys siting on the front row out of the classroom.
"The next one won't be as lucky, as you shall be thrown from the window..." The man stated nonchalantly as he opened his window. "And let me remind you," the man glared at everyone and each of them with a devious smile, "it is a good three-story building…"
"Got the idea?" Everyone vehemently nodded with their heads making a run for the door.
"Not you, Mr. Fullbuster…" The young lad, currently hiding behind one of the stools, gulped. "Come here and be quick about it." The man stomped his feet impatiently.
"Aye!" The boy nodded as he fixed his glasses and walked towards his teacher's desk, tripping on one of the steps. "Oh, damn it!" He quietly growled, noticing he ripped one of his sleeves when he fell. Sadly enough, he could do nothing else but to sigh and blush embarrassed of the amused smiles the other students were giving him as they watched him crawl down the stairs. He just hope they would leave the room soon and he'd be able to straighten up, again.
"Another wonderful day in the Fullbusters' life, I presume?" Gildarts sarcastically asked the lad, turning to the other teens lifting an eyebrow. "Here, watch this!" The professor mischievously winked at him as he helped him stand back up.
"Congratulations all of you," the man released a vengeful smirk at the frightened students, "tomorrow we'll have a test, better study now! And tell all the others that have already left to get ready for tomorrow…"
"Except you, Fullbuster!" The teacher padded Gray's back. "You're the only one in all my classes with an 'A' average, so there's no need for you to take this test…"
"Great, now I'm really going to get it after school…" Gray felt like stabbing his teacher with his pen.
"So tell me Gray, how're things back home?" Gildarts inquired, reclining his head on his chair and drinking out of his cup of coffee… Or was it alcohol?
"Clive-sensei, I don't think it's allowed to ingest any type of drug or alcohol in school grounds, Sir…" The boy stuttered, fearing another arbitrary display from his...
... favorite teacher?
"Oh, please!" He shook his hand in disregard to the latter's comment. "Look, my daughter is doing it right now!" He smirked, pointing at Cana Verona from his window. Cana Verona, a junior in Earthland's most prestigious university, and Clive-sensei's only daughter.
"Cana-chan, win the bet!" Gildarts cheered the drunken lady, having a one-on-one battle with the only proprietor and University Director… Makarov Dreyar.
"I…see…" He muttered not very surprised to see his friend taking on a drinking contest, but doing so with an old man who happens to be your Principal. And worst, that he accepted…
"But enough about the Principal's drinking problems…" The professor muttered under his breath-taking back his seat on his desk.
"The Principal's? Not your daughter's?" Gray could only let a single drop of sweat roll freely over his forehead.
"You know I know your mother, Ur…" The latter continued bringing the black-haired sophomore back from his thoughts.
"Yes, sir." Gray smiled at his teacher. "She always told us you were good friends when you were younger…"
"Friends?" The man jolted from his seat, spiting his drink in the process. "No my child, we were lovers…" The boy wanted to gasp at the sudden and major revelation, but remained stoic in front of his teacher.
"Sir…" Gray harshly coughed, trying to regain his professor's attention.
"We were like horny bunnies in Spring…!" His eyes gleamed with an eerie light. Gray could only guess what his beloved teacher was recalling at the moment…
"Sir!" Gray raised his voice a little more.
"And boy did we enjoyed those 'piña coladas' in Hargeon City!" The man mused himself. "If you know what I mean…" The older man nudged Gray on his ribs.
"Sir!" Gray finally shouted out. "Could you please get to the point?" He said, regaining once again his regal posture.
"My point?" The man repeated, rubbing his chin with his free hand. "Oh, yeah! I need you to help me with one of my most troublesome students in the remedial class…"
"It's called 'skill classes', Gildarts-sensei!" A boy who was now seating in one of the front row stools blurted out with a scoff.
"Yo, Natsu care to join us?" Gildarts raised an eyebrow at the apathy displayed from the newly arrived teen.
"Make me!" The guy defiantly smirked at the professor, obviously taunting him into a fight.
"My pleasure, you brat!" The Physics professor ungraciously answered as he immediately threw his cup brimming full of some sort of liquidto Natsu's face with such force that broke the cup in half.
"Gah!" The boy yelled as the drink burned his face. "It burns! It's freaking hot!" The salmon-haired teen rolled on the floor in excruciating pain.
"Told you it was coffee!" Gildarts laughed his heart out, enjoying every moment he could watch the other boy screaming for help.
"Shouldn't we call for help, Clive-sensei?" Gray's worried eyes seemed to make the trick as Gildarts moved to the bathroom and filled up a bucket with water.
"Gildarts," the man said as he threw the cold water over Natsu's head, "just Gildarts, OK?" He smiled at both kids in front.
"Gray, meet Natsu Dragneel…" Gildarts motioned with his hand. "A fine lad, but a terrible student and an even worst sense of respect towards others…"
"Natsu, this is Gray Fullbuster, my best pupil a top-notch student and your new tutor…" Both guys just blinked and stared at each other's faces in complete astonishment.
"Well, aside from that pink hair he seems to look quite nice, right?" Gray nervously tried to reassure himself as he noticed the very disturbing smile the latter was giving at him.
"Hi! I'm Natsu!" The teen greeted taking Gray's hand and violently shook it. "So your mother slept with the old man there, huh?"
"What did he just say?" Gray just glared at the kid in front with anger and annoyance.
"She must have been really drunk or a complete slut to sleep with him!" He said as he pointed at Gray with his index finger, laughing until he ran out of breath.
"Oh, hell no!" Gray's eyes burst in flames as he lashed out for Natsu's groin.
"You freaking, pussy!" Natsu squirmed as he dropped into a ball, holding his tears back. "Kicking someone's balls is a cheap trick!" Natsu kept swearing as he tried to bring himself up and pay Gray back for his underhanded attack.
"Whatever…" Gray retorted, swiftly taking one of Natsu's arms over his shoulder and seating him in one of the pews.
"What?" The salmon haired teen eyed suspiciously at the raven haired lad. "You're not going to answer my insults?" The boy reluctantly allowed Gray to help carry him to the closest seat.
"No." Gray coldly answered not even dignifying Natsu with a second look.
"But why?" He childishly pouted almost expecting a good fight with the 'class nerd'.
"What's the point of fighting?" Gray venomously hissed, raising an arrogant eyebrow at Natsu as he fixed his tie and turned to write something in a piece of paper.
"For fun?" Natsu answered. He latched onto Gray, trying relentlessly to pry into his endeavors, before the valedictorian turned and simply placed the paper in his hands.
"No thank you, Mr. Dragneel." Gray's polite words painfully thrust into Natsu's ears. "If you were kind enough, meet me after school over in the school's library on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays."
"Good day, Mr. Dragneel." He finally bowed, turned his body, and walked towards the door.
"Wait! What's with the numbers and this paper?" Natsu demanded, putting the paper on his pocket.
"Phone number…" He absently answered, shutting the door behind him.
"What's his problem?" Natsu rolled his eyes acting up as if he hadn't been affected at all by the brunet teen's frigid attitude. But Gray's lack of fighting spirit was something Natsu had never before been acquainted with, and it truly hurt him more than an actual brawl. Of course, he would never admit it out loud…
"His mother has cancer and will soon die…" Gildarts responded, humming a song as he changed his tie and suit for a fresh deep blue t-shirt and a leather jacket.
"Huh?" Natsu's head snapped back as he turned to hear what he just told him.
"You just called my bud's dying mother a slut, you imbecile!" A guy with spiky blond hair and tinted blue glasses threw a devastating blow to Natsu's solar plexus before the other could even react.
"Definitely not my day…" Natsu thought as he passed out.
"Are you sure you're Ok, bro?" The blond guy beside Gray inquired concerned of his friend's mental state.
"I would be more worried about him than me, you know?" Gray stiffened a laugh turning his head to find his friend adjusting his glasses. "After all, those psychotic fans of yours saw you hitting him and now he's been 'marked' by the quarterback of the football team as a 'national threat'!" Gray mockingly laughed.
"That's how you pay your best buddy for sticking up for you?" The school jock pulled Gray from his neck messing up his neck with his knuckles. "Besides you forgot to say how cool and attractive I, Loke Celeste am…"
"Besides your obvious humility?" Gray smirked as Loke tightened his grip. "Hey! Stop it!" Gray growled escaping from his friend's grasp.
"We're already late for the book club we don't want be late to our first meeting!" Gray ran towards the east building of the university crossing the main school grounds towards the university Library.
"Oh yeah!" Loke perked up almost instantly. "I can't wait to meet the club's president!" The gallant quarterback leaned closer to his friend's ear. "They say she's a keeper, too bad his brother never leaves her alone…"
"And you think you can get her?" The class geek questioned his friend as he opened the door to the faculty's library.
"Dude, if I can't have my way with her, nobody can!" The overconfident teen avowed taking a serious stance. "So I'll do it and I will succeed for all the guys out there!" Loke smirked already planning his first move in his mind while fixing his green polo shirt one last time.
"Oh, our hero!" Gray sarcastically cooed, swinging his hands overdramatically.
"Shut it!" The latter chuckled making his way to a seat in a table meant for the club's meetings.
"What about Lisanna?" Gray sighed, taking a seat beside his best friend with a stoic expression on his face.
"Who?" Loke innocently asked, placing a finger on his mouth. "I don't know who you're talking about." He swore, faking ignorance in front of his skeptic friend.
"Your girlfriend?" Gray stated with much annoyance. "White hair, 5 foot 6 inches tall, blue eyes? Ring a bell smart guy?" Gray nudged Loke's ribs.
"So what?" Loke raised his arms in exasperation. "Whatever Lisanna doesn't know won't hurt her, right?"
"Whatever you say," the brunet teen retorted dismissively taking out his notebook, "what do you think of taking a job with me after school?" Gray eagerly mentioned to his friend trying to change the subject of discussion.
"Sorry man, football practices after classes every day!" He heavily groaned, rubbing his arm with his hand. "My poor body won't take it anymore, I'm beat after all those work-out sessions to get a job…"
"Yet," his friend started, "you found time to join this club and flirt with the freshman girls, didn't you?" Gray sourly spouted, clearly disappointed at his friends answer and his friend's clear lack of morals.
"Don't be like that Gray!" Loke stared at the adamant frame of an indignant Gray. "I can cheer you on, though…" Loke mumbled, getting tired of finding clever new ways to avoid his friend's annoyed glare.
"It's ok; just try not to get caught…" Gray finally stated.
"Hello!" A cheerful blue haired girl smiled at the pair of guys approaching to them. "My name is Levy, Levy McGarden." She placed her books on the chair beside them. "I'm one of the eldest members of this club, but I've never seen any of you two guys before."
"My sweet beloved, McGarden…" The jock purred closely towards the blue haired girl. "If I had known a ravishing lady as yourself was part of this fabulous club I wouldn't think it twice about becoming a member…" Loke took no time to overwhelm the girl with his alluring voice.
"I…I" The girl stuttered, losing control of her legs as all the blood of his body flowed to her face.
"Good afternoon, McGarden-san." Gray bowed towards Levy. "My name is Fullbuster, Gray Fullbuster." He greeted the girl, helping her come back to her senses.
"And me," the confident teen smoothly took the girl's hand and helped her to the seat, "I am your humble slave, Loke…"
"Is she awake?" A girl wearing a dim pink shirt and beach shorts asked a distressed doctor.
"Sorry miss, but she hasn't regain conscience yet," the man sighed trying to turn the girl away from him, "and even if she was awake, I wouldn't let her talk to you until she was fully recovered…"
"Oh, c'mon!" The girl seductively moaned. "This is for my school news, besides I don't think it would harm if I just took an intsy-tiny moment of her time to take a couple of questions?" The girl's eyes dilated and tried using her charm in the doctor.
"Lisanna, how many times have I told you this," the doctor scratched the back of his head, "I can't let you through…"
"Please…?" The girl sniffed as a single tear rolled from her face.
"No." The man glared at her ushering her out of the room.
"Fine!" She yelled annoyed. "At least tell me the girl's name…"
"Good Lord, you're obnoxious…" The man took a paper out of his files. "Ok, here." The man gave the paper to the white-haired news reporter. "Her name's Coco and she was found to be full of cuts and bites in her legs and arms…" The girl just blinked as she took a look at the pictures the man was showing her.
"Not only that," the man's voice deeper and grimmer than before, "but the level of dehydration and starvation left her to her very bones." The man pointed at her foot. "And here, you can see the coagulated blood on her heels that shows days of running none stop…"
"Was she running from something?" The girl examined the file contents with full attention.
"Who knows…" The man obviously disturbed turned to look at the girl. "But whatever she encountered in that place should never be experienced by anyone else."
"Yeah…" The girl muttered.
"So you're the famous No. 2!" The girl chimed excitedly swinging his hand.
"No. 2?" The brunet blinked confusedly towards his friend.
"You don't know?" Levy quizzically smiled, gaining odd looks from the other two. "Well, it doesn't matter; just remember that I was No. 2 before you!"
"Do you mean about class rank?" Gray raised an eyebrow. "I really am not that much of a competitive kind of person…"
"Well, I hope I'll always be your number one, my angel." Loke kissed the girl's hand.
"Is this guy for real?" Gray gaped as Levy melted in his buff arms.
"Well don't worry Mr. Quarterback; you're already number one on my list!" A man wearing a thick leather jacket and messy blonde hair shook the latter off Levy.
"Mr. Vice-president!" Levy gasped in disbelief. "What are you doing here?"
"What?" He rudely spouted out. "Is it illegal for the vice to come over to its own club?"
"No, sir." Levy regained her posture. "What's a surprise is for you to come at all…"
"Anyways, Mr. Loke…" The man overpowered the jock with his strength and pulled him by his collar neck. "Please refrain of treating our treasurer as your personal jewelry and get your hands off her!"
"Y-yes, sir!" Loke coughed trying to regain his breath.
"And who are you?" The blonde guy glared coldly at Gray's feeble frame.
"Fullbuster, sir…" The cowardly teen said, fixing his hair.
"Lyon's little brother!" The man jerked him off his feet and plastered his hand on his head, ruffling up his hair.
"Terrific…" Gray groaned displeased.
"Yeah…!" The dark-haired lad mutedly answered.
"What?" The man looked at him again. "You don't remember me?" The latter just shook his head in response.
"Don't you remember this, little snowflake?" Laxus showed his scar on his face again.
"This is priceless…" Loke gritted his teeth trying to control his laughter.
"Oh, god I hated being called that…" Gray spouted out. "Wait, Laxus?" He smiled in excitement.
"Yes, kid!" The blonde guy punched his old friend on the arm.
"Gosh, you haven't changed a bit!" The class wiz clenched hands with his sore arm to the latter.
"And you're still stuck on your books aren't you?" They both laughed while Levy and Loke exchanged confused glances at each other.
"Oh, right," the blonde junior rummaged inside his pocket, "I came to give you this, Levy…" Laxus handed over a brittle piece of paper to the perplexed treasurer.
"Awwwww…" The girl pouted. "Lu-chan's not coming today…"
"Oi! Lisanna!" Natsu's toothy smile greeted his best friend. "Whatcha doin' here?" The salmon-haired teen asked, taking one of the bags from her friend's hand with ease.
"Oh, hey Natsu!" She smiled back at him. "I should be asking the same thing," the news reporter wannabe started scrutinizing his bandaged chest, "what's with the 'new look'?"
"Oh, just me being an ass to a good guy…" He shamefully admitted. "I deserve it, though!" Natsu's rationalized with a smile on his face.
"What did you do?" His friend eagerly inquired, glaring back at him.
"I rather not talk about it, but maybe I could make up for it?" Natsu hopefully commented.
"Now we're talking…!" His best friend gleamed, taking her camera out of her back pocket. "Smile!"
"Stop it, Lisanna!" The latter growled. "I'm serious, besides you haven't told me the reason you were here…"
"Oh, that?" The white-haired girl averted her eyes from her friend's. "Well, have you heard of Louen's massacre?"
"Hmmmmmm…" The young teen put a hand on his chin. "Is that a new horror movie?" He asked nonchalantly.
"Natsu," the girl's vein popped out her forehead, "if you talked to that person as you did just now, no wonder he flipped out on you like that…"
"What?" Natsu lightly tapped her forehead in response to his friend's remark. "It ain't my fault that I say the first thing that comes to my mind…"
"Ahem…" The school's punk coughed as his friend's hardened features softened for a second.
"So Lisanna," Natsu mindlessly picked on the bandages over his sternum, "how are things with Mira?"
"As well as it has been since morning, Natsu." Lisanna sighed, tipping her head sideways.
"I mean," Natsu looked up at his friend, "she has a hard time at work like everyone else, ne?" Lisanna gave Natsu a reassuring smile, knowing quite well what her best friend was thinking of.
"Yet she always finds time to get our house, clean, and make a delicious dinner for Happy, onee-sama and me!" Natsu grinned at her thinking about today's meal.
"That's my sis, alright!" Lisanna looked up to the sky. "Say, I heard onee-chan got a job for Erza, so you don't have to worry anymore…"
"I know…" He absently sighed.
"Say, when's the interview?" The white-haired girl inquired.
"This afternoon actually," Natsu took a look at his watch, "In about one hour, I guess…"
"I know she'll ace the interview," Lisanna took Natsu's arm around hers, "I just know it!"
"Yeah!" Natsu jumped excitedly. "Wanna race back home?" The hyperactive teen turned to the junior news reporter beside him.
"Hmmm…" Lisanna pondered. "Ok!" Lisanna jolted pushing Natsu to the ground.
"Cheater!" Natsu retorted rubbing his hand on his back as he stood back on his feet.
"Loser!" Lisanna turned back to the busy streets and kept running with her friend running behind in hot pursuit, both enjoying their precious moments together.
"D-Dreyar?" Loke gasped in utter terror. "Like in…"
"Yup!" Levy chimed. "Laxus Dreyar! Grandson of the University sole proprietor Makarov Dreyar!" To this point all of Loke's blood had left his face as he stared in horror the worst mistake he had ever done, to get into the wrong side of the Director's grandson…
"Please forgive us, Mr. Dreyar!" Gray bowed down. "My stupid friend here was just trying to be polite to Ms. McGarden here, right Loke?" Gray glared at his friend as he clenched his fingernails on his friend's elbow.
"Right," the blonde jock freed himself from the raven haired teen's grasp, "it is only common courtesy to compliment a woman when met for the first time…"
"So said my father, you know?" Laxus laughed full-heartedly.
"See?"Loke smirked cockily at his friend. "Your father must have been quite a gentleman!"
"… And then he left my mother all alone and pregnant with me…!" Laxus voice suddenly changed into a deep growl.
A throbbing feeling of hatred surrounded the man as he pushed his arm tighter around Loke's neck, "But enough about me, taking on account that Mrs. President won't be here, I guess I shall stay here to keep the meeting going…"
"You're staying?" Levy gasped surprised of the blonde's reaction.
"Of course," the blonde stated placing a chair between Loke and Gray and sitting there, "after all I'm the vice-president of this freaking club and No. 4, aren't I?" The man raised an eyebrow noticing Loke trembling beside him.
"Again, with the ranking…" Gray shook his head vehemently.
"I'll have fun with 'lover-boy' here…" Laxus evily snickered at Loke. "Besides, I'll finally get to know Lyon's brother better…"
"Ok, that's it!"Loke sighed. "Tomorrow I'll change clubs."
"That's new Laxus, you usually just come for a couple of minutes," the girl recalled, "and then leave to hang with the rest of your gang…"
"We are not a gang…" He bluntly lied to their faces. "We're just a group of guys and girls having a good time!"
"Uhu…" Levy rolled her eyes. "Anyhow, thanks for joining us Mr. Vice-president." She finally said.
"Whatever…" He snorted out putting his earphones back to his head.
"Lyon, just what type of people did you know?"
"So many 'unique people' in just a couple of minutes don't you think?" Loke murmured softly so that only Gray could hear.
"Well it can't get worst, right?" Gray calmly answered back to his annoyed friend.
"Good afternoon, this is Locksheart…" A girl wearing extravagant blue attire greeted the lot. "Locksheart is new in this school and is looking to join the book club…"
"Well you found it, Miss…" Gray started, standing from his seat. The boy inadvertently found himself meeting straight into the girl's eyes.
"Uh…" The girl stared at him, her heart pounding inside her chest with fervent passion.
"Are you alright, Ms. Locksheart?" Gray worriedly touched her forehead.
"Is…?" The girl shivered at the contact of the young man's gentle touch on her skin.
"Huh?" The rest of the group turned their heads to see the newcomer change three different shades of red.
"Is this love?" The girl yelled blushing crimson red.
"Love?" Gray gawked blown away by the girl's sudden declaration.
"And there comes another one…"Loke mentally noted with a devious smile with his canines.
"Ms. Locksheart, get ahold of yourself!" Gray blurted out as he caught the falling maiden before she fainted.
However, overwhelmed by the girl's weight both of them felt on top of each other. "Juvia…" The girl finally answered, "Juvia's name is Juvia Locksheart," and with that said she faited again into her own little world again…
"Gah! Sorry!" Gray quickly noticed his awkward position and stood up and away from the fainted lady.
"And that's what I call love at first fall!" Levy giggled, leaving her books aside and helping out the blue-haired girl back to reality.
"And here I thought I would only need to keep watch of Mr. Celeste here!" Laxus deviously smirked. "But now I see you're quite the player Mr. Fulbuster!"
"It is not like that!" Gray madly blushed.
"Gray…sama…" Juvia repeated over and over on her head.
"Good evening, Madam-meh!" A tall bulky man…with horns on his head?
"I've seen weirder things in Natsu's laundry…" Erza reassured herself.
"Mrs. Fernandes is waiting for meh!" The man bowed before the stoic woman.
"Thank you, sir…" The lady bent back fixing her black thick glasses and straightening up her elongated pale skirt.
"Caprico, mehdam!" The butler answered. "Last day in this place…" He nostalgically sighed.
"That bad?" Erza joked sympathetic to the man's situation.
"Not at all, mehdam." The man shook his head. "…But a mehn has to retire someday, meh?"
"I guess…" She kindly nodded with her head very much amused of the man's weird accent.
"Mrs. Scarlet?" A kind old lady wearing a tidy white apron appeared under the hall's arch.
"Yes, that's me." Erza approached the woman with a smile on her face.
"Follow me please, dearie!" The woman kindly pattered Erza's back as they made their way through the long halls of the mansion.
The old lady knocked the door twice before a cheery voice answered. "Who is it?" The tender voice of the master of the house's sister answered.
"It is, I, Mrs. Supetto, dearie…" The lady winked at Erza.
"Oh, great! Please come on in!" She jolted in excitement.
"Good luck, dearie…!" The jolly woman took Erza's hand before opening the great wooden door.
"Thank you, madam…" Erza gently bent her head. "Ok, this is it! Better not screw this, Scarlet!" She calmed herself and walked into the large study room…
I really hope you enjoyed reading my story; I wanted to keep it real with a bit of mystery! And yes, there will be tons of anxiety.
The next chapter promises to have tons of horror and unexpected turn of events!
Gray: Yeah, but you didn't have to….!
Emil C.: Spoiler alert! Shut up!
Natsu: I'm sorry snowflake…. I didn't mean to insult you….
Gray: Yet you called me snowflake, flame-breath!
Emil C.: Guys… No fighting!
Lisanna: I'm glad I'll be a main character!
Lucy: Why don't I have more lines?
Jellal: Beats me… I appeared even less than you did!
Lyon: That's because you were with that lady…. Besides you don't see me complaining of not appearing a single time in this chapter.
Levy: Juvia are you alright?
Juvia: Gray-sama touched me… I was under Gray-sama's skin….
Gray & Emil C.: Creeper….
Natsu: Mira! What are you serving me for dinner today?
Mira: Ara, ara! You'll see!