Berry and Rum

Plot of the fanfiction by: theunexpected-you

Disclaimer: Hiro Mashima owned Fairy Tail.

Was betaed by: Miharu Tsubaki (Thanks! ;D)

Author's Notes

I know you guys are going to get me killed because I haven't updated this fanfiction, yet. I'm so sorry. I shouldn't promised you guys an early update. After I checked out, I had lots exam (Dude, think please, Final Exams.) these past weeks. And I haven't updated or wrote anything at all. I'll try my best. And you guys could hate me. Bye.

-...-

It was still a silly day on Fairy Tail guild. Where the people there were still nonethelessly loud, and so fun. All of them were talking around, drinking wines sheepishly, reading the quests on the announcement board and fighting without having huge problems inside. Well, that was Fairy Tail, wasn't it?

"Hey, you naked ice man! You wanna mess up with me?" Shouted a certain man in white jacket. He pointed his finger to a pink haired man in front of him.

"You ARE messing up with me, you idiot redhead! You will be pawned by me! And besides, I'm still—"

"What did you say?"

Those fightings between the ice mage and fiery mage had never settled peacefully. They used their techniques to attack each other. One with Ice makings and one with Flame breaths. But never mind, it was all normal!

"Ehem."

That voice, it was the voice that those mages knew so well. Whose voice you guys think? You guys knew the answer. It was no other than Erza Scarlet.

"What're you guys doing?" the woman titled as Fairy Queen glared at both of them ruthlessly. She was ready to pinpoint out her sword and slice both of them. However, that thought was long to be none after the fiery and ice mages settled down and huddled up.

"Notthinnggg E..erza eheheh." Both of them were afraid of this woman.

"Oh really?" Her eyebrows titled up a bit. "Anyway, I had a quest for all of us." She then smiled and gave them the pamflet that she had been holding for quite times.

"What quest is it?" Asked Gray as he took the brown folded paper.

Gray read the pamflet quickly, and he smirked. "Nice, Erza. So, we just need to go to the village and help with the festival there?"

"Marroon Village, a place from east of Magnolia. It was a small village, but famous among the tourists for their harvest festival. But a year ago, there were lots of goblins and the festival didn't go too well. So we have to get rid of the goblins at the forest near the village." Explained Erza. She tilted her head and caressed her forehead.

" .. And they said they would give us a free night and their famous blueberries with rum. It looked tasty though." Said Erza. What did Erza think about it? A tasty cake, filled with blueberries and mixed with rums. Don't you guys think it's a great cake?

"A free night huh ..." Murmured the ice mage. "Che, that'll be nice." He had plans. He did have.

"On my second thought, did you guys see Lucy anywhere?" She asked. And by the way, where was Lucy?

Neither Natsu or Gray knew the answer. They just shrugged and shook their head, leaving the frowning Erza and glanced through the big hall of the guild. "Nyaa Erza, there is Lucy." Said Happy while he was eating his fish. He pointed his paw to the bar.

So, Lucy was talking to Mirajane all the time. She, with her blond hair and a left pigtail, was wearing a navy cross v neck tanktop and a blue plaided skirt that day. She had blue themed clothing today? Oh well...

"Oi! Lucy!" Shouted Natsu cheerfully to the Stellar Mage. She seemed to have a serious conversation with Mirajane. And she looked so ... Like tomato. Blushing and stuttering to Mirajane, and left the once-S-class-mage in front of her laughed out so much. Could you guys have any thought about what was happening there?

"A..ah! Natsu! .. Eh, there are Erza and Gray as well!" She muttered as she turned around and saw them, walking to her side now. She hide her stuttering face. She was still flushed.

"What're you talking about with Mirajane?" Asked Erza curiously. Must be talking about him again. "Ahahaha! You knew Erza!" Said Mirajane, and she still laughed.

"No..nothing I guess! D..Don't mind Mira-chan!" She made up reason to cover up the truth. Well, Mirajane and Erza knew about it anyway. "By the way, you guys are searching me a while ago, aren't you? What's up?" after gained her usual composure, she stared at her nakama and asked the question.

Erza smiled and handed Lucy the quest she found interesting for the group, "Here."

Lucy read it quickly, and she seemed pleased with the quest that Erza had chose for them. Erza had never choosen bad quests right? Well rightttt.

"Oh! This sounds good." Lucy chuckled and stood up from the bar.

"And .. What's up with these bonuses of ... Blueberries and rum?" She asked as she shrugged herself. "Nah, don't know. But look at the nice free night they'll give us at the inn. And I heard the inn of Marroon village was great." Answered Gray furiously. "... You never know what will—"

"Oh... I see .. That'll be nice!" She said and smiled to the ice mage in front of her. Leaving him a bit blushed and looked away to another place. "By the way, when will we leave?" She asked.

"Today, in the evening, so we can get there tomorrow at the morning." answered Erza.

-...-

Lucy walked back to her home to take a brief and prepare her bag to go out to Marroon Village. Well, probably, doing nothing in the Guild bored her. That's why she seemed pleased to get another quest. Along with the need of paying the rent for her apartment, again.

"Hey .. Plue." She talked to that stuttering canis majoris stellar creature. Plue tilted its head and stared at Lucy who was calling him. "Do you think—ah, no."

Lucy shrugged pretty pathetically. She decided to keep what she wanted to say to Plue in her mind. Well, the thought of Gray who was a bit flustered when she smiled sweetly to him never gets out of her mind. Even she didn't know what she was thinking at that time.

"Watch out, Miss Lucy!" Shouted a boat man who was driving his boat along the river. "Thank you, old man!" Lucy replied. And then she exhaled sheepishly.

After she was finally in front of her apartment's door, she unlocked it and she saw surprises. Oh well, you guys probably knew what the surprises were. Yep, there were Natsu, Gray, Erza and Happy in the room, doing their own things in Lucy's apartment, again.

"What're you guys doing in my apartment?" She shouted in remorse. Well, she was used to it, wasn't she? She shrugged and then smiled to them.

"Well, we thought that we should go to your apartment and go together, right, flame idiot?" Said Gray. But and then again, Natsu kicked Gray's porcelain cheek with his fiery kick. That was a direct hit. Ouch.

Natsu seemed pretty annoyed by it. Then again, .. Who wouldn't get annoyed if you was called by that kind of name? "Watch your mouth, you exhibisionist!" Natsu shouted. "Oi Lucy! It's okay right if we could rest here for a whi—"

And Gray struck back with his icy counterattack, a direct punch to the stomach. Ouch. "You bastard! You better—"

The usual Erza shrugged and pointed her sword to both of them, "Which one of you shall get the taste of my sword first?" She glared at them ruthlessly, seemed their fighting would never end. Happy and Lucy could just laugh out loud and smiled.

What can you do? This was the Team Natsu of the Fairy Tail after all.

The battle had settled out a bit. And the others were back to their activity in the apartment, "Lucy! Can I borrow your bathroom please?" Asked Erza politely. "Sure!" Lucy answered in instance. She was preparing her clothes and some of the things she would be needed there.

Gray was sitting on the chair and playing around with his ice making technique. He seemed to fall in his deep thought alone. Plan A and Plan B, the thought.

Instead of Natsu .. He didn't do anything.

"Oi, Lucy." the Salamander mentioned Lucy, "Do you have any foo—"

His foot just stepped on her laying shirt on the floor and he slipped, "Akh!" But why was he on Lucy now? .. Err above Lucy. And Lucy was right below of him. "N..a..Natsu?" She shocked out. Well, who wouldn't be when someone, a man was right above of you, and looked like shock and ready to make you sick all day! ... Never mind.

What is this? Lucy's eyes were glancing on his black dazzling eyes. And for Natsu, he flushed sheepishly and stared at her auburn eyes and her beautiful blonde hair. "L..Luce—"

"You idiot flame head! What the hell are you doing?" Shouted Gray as he walked slowly to them. Natsu moved from his current position and walked away from them. Hiding his flushed face by his left hand. "Natsu is blushing! Natsu is—" Shouted Happy while his words was cut by Natsu himself, "Happy!"

And Lucy was still flushed by that time. Also leaving Gray stared at both of them in dismay. Moreover, they're leaving Gray a bit flustered and jealous to see both of them together like that. Well he likes Lucy! How not?

Well, he didn't mind it that much because he did have a plan for the quest. Let's see what would be coming.

"Oh yeah Luce." Suddenly Gray said to her. "Don't forget to bring your thick jacket. Marroon Village was a cold village." He smiled and then he went stripping and sat on the sofa, back to his deep thoughts.

... Cold huh. She kind of hate it. But thanks Gray for the mention. She kindly thought.

-...-

The Team Natsu was ready to go. It was still 05:00 o'clock in the evening. And they all had set up and was there at the station and were waiting for the train.

The Fairy Queen was packing up her lots baggages and sat on it. Though, she didn't seem to have any interest to do anything there. Instead, The Ice Mage was still poking on his white jacket, and tried to not strip, at least this time. He was in his thought again. What would made Gray to be spacing out so much?

But then again, that left Natsu, Lucy and Happy all along. Natsu was surely in his usual sickness again. His sickness of riding transportation. He started to get all nauseous. "Hey, Natsu?" Muttered Lucy, "Chillax, Happy and I and the others are going to help you through this." She tried to comfort him, and then she patted his head that was tilted down.

"Yeah Natsu! Come on!" Said Happy and he patted Natsu as well.

But the whistle of the train hath came. The time where Natsu came out with his pathetic phobia. "Why should we go by train? We could just walk—"

Lucy forced herself to push the stuttering Natsu to get in the train. "Come on, get along Natsu."

And Natsu was just exhaled deeply in his despairness. "It's not going for too long okay?"

-...-

The train journey seemed to be quite normal and went fine. Although, fluttering Natsu still the same as ever. That left Erza to knock him out and made him unconscious? .. That was better than ever!

"Hey, Lucy." Suddenly Erza made a sound. "What'll you do in the extra nights?" She asked.

The spaced out Lucy finally realized Erza's words, and tried to respond by answering, "I don't know. Probably seeing around Marroon Village and have fun."

Erza stared at Gray and smirked. She seemed to know Gray's plan from the beginning. That left the frowning Gray to put his palm on his jaw and lazily looked at the window's scene. He seemed flustered.

"Then how about you, Gray?" ... He expected Erza would have asked that, but it was totally different. Lucy was the one who asked him the question. And she was dangerously close to him! .. Wait, when did Lucy switch her place with that flame idiot head? "Hah?" He murmured. "I do have plans but—"

"Don't worry Luce, Gray's plans are great, and you'll see it later." The smirking Erza won the conversation. "Oh .. Okay then." Lucy just smiled.

Damn you Erza. All for your words, he cursed behind his breath.

Finally, they arrived at the Marroon Village after a short walk from the train station, and Natsu seemed to be healthier than he was in the train, well of course. And .. Why the temperature around seemed to be colder than ever?

"G..Geez, I..I'm freezing here..." Mumbled the Stellar Mage, and rounded herself with her thick jacket. Lucky for her to bring a fur jacket when she packed her things hours ago. Thanked Gray for the notice. She just needed to thank him for mentioning about how cold Marroon Village is.

She couldn't stand the cold anymore and decided to call Horologium. Her clock stellar creature. Pluff, and she was in there, still cold. The other four were just shrugged and shook their head in sympathy.

After some walk to the village's conference hall, they met the mayor. He was short and had mustache, but that was mayor's usually looked like right? "Excuse me sir, we're from Fairy Tail and we responded to your quest." Said Gray as he handed him the quest paper. "Oh! Fairy Tail! Come in come in, we had ourselves prepared the best inn's room!"

The freezing Lucy was still trying to walk since Horologium just went out few minutes ago. "Err .. Gu..guys, where was the inn?" Said Lucy as her vision began to blur out. And then, she fell!

But someone held her up. "Oi." Oh, it was Gray. She helped Lucy to walk slowly. But why Lucy was a bit weak today? "What happen Lucy?" Asked Natsu and Erza as they walked to Lucy's side. "I don't know .. I just... felt a bit weak today." She said.

"Here, let me help you." Gray grabbed Lucy's wrist and let her walked with him. But she still walked weakly, so he decided to put his left arm to her waist, and let her right hand to encircle his neck. That way, she could walk better with him.

Still, that left Natsu, Erza and Happy left their jaw to the ground. It was very unusual for Gray to be like this to girls, right? "Oh yeah Gray, you are stripping again." Said Lucy flustered weakly. "Oh shit!" and everyone laughed at Gray. No awkward moment! ... Well after this.

-...-

A/N: btw, Horologium—i forgot how to spell it. It's awkward, I know! First chapter out of two chapters. And don't worry about the updates. No too romantic part here, but next chapter. Naw, you guys can guess it.

*EDIT: I added some sentences above because the first review from my bestie Ciela Aberk just said it was kind of hurry .. So I tried it again! And I editted the summary too.*