This is the first of two drabble challenges I'm doing this month, where I write five-sentence pieces based around a prompt every day of the month. Since I'm starting a little late, I'll be posting one every hour until I'm caught up for today.
I hope you enjoy these.
Prompt 1: Harvest Festival
It was a bittersweet time of the year for Evergreen, and the other members of her team. While everyone around them bustled about, preparing for the celebration to come, they had each taken to a different method of being unobtrusive as they could. Bickslow was helping to set up decorations, Freed was writing a string of protections on the floats for the parade, and Laxus mostly just stuck close to his grandfather, as if their efforts could erase the shame they still felt over the last Harvest Festival they'd spent with their guild.
Evergreen, for her part, didn't really know what to do with herself; previous Harvest Festivals had seen her concentrating on winning the Miss Fairy Tail pageant, but she had declined to enter this year and so found herself twiddling her thumbs instead.
That is, until she found Lucy on the verge of tears in the back room struggling mightily with the zipper for her intended costume, and pity overcame Evergreen's reticence – prompting her to approach the suffering blonde.