a good glass of wine
Characters: Sting Eucliffe, Kagura Mikazuchi
Summary: Drink enough and your enemy is your best friend.
To feel more comfortable in the ridiculous, ridiculous dress she had been forced to wear, Kagura had emptied quite a few glasses of wine when her fellow guildmates had not been watching.
This had been three hours and the brawl ago so that by now, she was slightly intoxicated. She had danced a little earlier, surprised at the skill Lyon Vastia of Lamia Scale would move across the dancefloor and how even the most closed-off mages suddenly had showed that they could indeed dance quite well.
So now, her feet hurt and far from the eyes of Risley, she slipped out of her shoes and enjoyed the cool marble beneath her sore feet. She smiled to herself as she took another sip of wine.
"Oi, is that seat taken, Kagura-chan?"
She looked up to see Sabertooth's drunken Dragon Slayer Sting Eucliffe who held a bottle of wine while he beamed. "I brought more booze, too!"
She sighed before she held out her empty glass. "Have a seat," she said. "Say, is that the first time since Games started that you wear a shirt that covers your stomach?"
He shrugged. "Probably."
Erza who had been looking for Kagura took a step back as she saw the both mages sharing a bottle of wine, then she walked over to them and smiled. "Princess Hisui got a nice karaoke equipment ... and Natsu has been singing with Juvia earlier ... why don't give you it a try too, Kagura?"
Sting cleared his throat. "As a gentledragonslayer, I offer you my support, Kagura-chan," he declared. "We shall battle out which guilds gets Yukino this way."
"Alright," she said, grabbing her glass and his upper arm. "We shall have a battle like no battle before."
Erza stared after them, confused like never before. "Kagura - your shoes!"
"Who needs shoes if there is alcohol?"
Lyon had been happily eating and drinking the night away when the karaoke had started. After suffering through a duet between Gajeel and Levy, he had clapped for Sherry and Chelia before he was now staring at the stage in disbelief.
Kagura Mikazuchi and Sting Eucliffe.
Both mages were visibly drunk but that did not stop them from singing
So no one told you life was gonna be this way
Your jobs a joke, you're broke, your love life's D.O.A.
It's like you're always stuck in second gear
And it hasn't been your day, your week, your month,
or even your year
but...
Actually, among the dragon slayers, Sting was by far the best singer in Lyon's book but Kagura was not bad either - even thought it was obvious that they had both drunken too much to be accountable for their actions.
Sting had to help the mermaid to walk as she nearly tripped over her own feet but for former enemies, they went along quite well.
Then again, Lyon did not have to listen to their conversation.
"Ya know, your love life ain't as D.O.A. as ya think, Eucliffe," Kagura said as she mentioned into the direction of her cat-loving friend. "She likes Lec-kun, your cat, so she likes you too."