Quests and Drunks

Chapter 1

"I made a bad decision."

Lisanna blinked. Then she gave Bickslow a slight smile. "You finally regretting that face tattoo?"

"Lissy-"

"What?" she moaned as he slowly crawled into bed with her. His babies weren't around though, which immediately made her suspicious. "What did you do?"

"Now don't panic, because that's what I did at first and it only got me this black eye, here-"

"Bickslow!" She sat up, moving to shove his helmet off his head. "What happened? Who-"

"Laxus."

'Laxus? Laxus? What did he do to the-"

"I made a bet. I was drunk. I lost. The babies. And when I tried to argue, he punched me. So now that you're all caught up, can you go get your sister and make her force him to give them back or-"

"No," she said without thinking. A lot of things were occurring to her at once. Like how angry she was at Laxus. How scared she was for the babies. And, honestly, how sexy Bickslow looked when he was close to tears.

"No?"

"No."

"But Mirajane is the only one that can make him do things," Bickslow complained. "Especially when he's drunk. So-"

"We're getting our babies back." She reached out to pat him on the cheek before shoving his helmet back onto his head. Then, looking around their room, she quickly found some clothes to pull on. "And he's going to regret ever taking them."

On the way there, Bickslow caught her up on a few things. Like how he had blatantly lied to her about having to train and was instead just getting drunk with Laxus. Oh and there was the fact that he'd waged he'd be able to play the best game of darts (she didn't even know Laxus had a dart board in the apartment). And Laxus let him with the first few games…then the wagers turned into a lot more. And he started losing. And his babies were really happy about being used in a bet, he explained.

"They're just babies, Bickslow," she complained. "You shouldn't-"

"I made a horrible mistake! And now Laxus is holding them for ransom! He says that if I don't bring him something better than my dolls, he'll never give 'em back."

Lisanna frowned. Then she stopped, right there on the sidewalk, and glanced at him. "Hey, Bickslow?"

"Lissy, we gotta hurry. We-"

"Why didn't you just take their souls out of the bodies and change them to something else?" she asked. "Or-"

"I guess I didn't think of it."

"Really? You didn't think of the easiest thing-"

"I'm drunk!"

"That's what your magic is all about!"

"Do you want to get them back or not?"

She groaned before heading right along, towards her sister's boyfriend's apartment. Papa might have failed, but she sure wasn't going to!

When they arrived at his place, Lisanna banged on the door as Bickslow stood behind her, like a scared child or something. He really, really didn't want to go against Laxus alone. Honestly, if he didn't think Lisanna would have been able to explain it better to Mirajane, he'd have gone to her first. But sometimes, she had a hard time understanding to him when he was excited because his tongue would fall out and…and…well…Lisanna just got him best, he figured.

"Huh," Laxus grunted when he answered the door. "I was expecting something else, Bickslow, in exchange. This won't do. For some reason, fucking Mira's sister just doesn't sound like a good game plan. Even if it is a trade, fair and square."

"Shut up, idiot." Lisanna wasn't playing around. She only shoved him back slightly, which wasn't hard considering he was drunk, before stomping into the apartment. Bickslow only bowed his head and followed. He was usually the bravest most brass person Lisanna knew. She didn't hold anything against him though at the moment. Laxus was his idol.

She did blame him a little for losing their babies though. What was he thinking?

"The hell you think you are, Lisanna?" Laxus grumbled immediately. "You-"

"Where are our babies?" She crossed her arms over her chest. "Give them to us. Now."

"No way. I won. I-"

"You can't trade lives, Laxus. I'm sorry, are you Satan?"

Snort. "No, but I fuck her, thank you very much, which means I can do whatever the fuck I want."

She only narrowed her eyes at him, the same ones she shared with her siblings. "Give me my babies back, Laxus Dreyar."

"No."

"When I find them, he's only going to take their souls and then you can't-"

"You ain't going to find them."

"Pappa!" She yelled then. "Poppo! Puppu! Where are you? Pippi? Peppe? Where-"

"They ain't here, zombie," he told her with a snort. She frowned, about to yell to him that she'd never died so she totally wasn't a zombie, but found better of it in that moment.

"What do you mean?"

"I hid them away, because I knew you idiots would be back. So search away!" Laxus tossed is head back and laughed then. "You- Hey!"

Lisanna transformed almost without a second thought, into her cat form, clawing him just as quickly. Laxus only growled at this, before shoving her to the ground.

"Mira bought me this shirt, you idiot!" he yelled as Bickslow frowned, helping her up.

"Hey! Don't touch my woman, m-" Bickslow faltered. "I mean, uh, boss, maybe you can be a little nicer with-"

"Shut up, Bickslow." She shoved him away. "Where'd you hide them, Laxus?"

He was still staring down at his ripped shirt. Then he shrugged before just taking it off.

"You wanna fight for them? Huh? Huh? Either of you? Come in here, make bets and then threaten me? Like what the hell? If he didn't want to pay up, fine, but don't-"

"I'm going to tell Mirajane," Lisanna said then as she changed back into her own self. "And she's going to be real mad at you."

Snort. Drunken Laxus was a lot less afraid of his little demon than sober Laxus.

"You do whatever the hell you want, but if you ever want your little dolls back, Bickslow, you better bring me something else. And I don't want a woman! I already got one those. And she ain't that great."

With that, they were shoved out of the apartment. Bickslow only looked down at his girlfriend who was red in the face and still ready for a fight.

"Now do we get Mirajane? Or-"

"No," Lisanna insisted. She was so tired of everyone constantly thinking that she needed her sister to do her bidding. She didn't. She was grown. She had a boyfriend. And babies! Well…sort of. But still. She could get her own (kind of) children back all on her own. She didn't need Mirajane for anything. "We're going to get them ourselves."

"But Lisanna-"

"It only took you a short time to get back to our apartment, Bickslow, and then for us to get back here," she reasoned as they stood in the hall of that apartment building. "So that means that he couldn't have hidden them very far. Right?"

"W-Well-"

"They weren't in the apartment or else they would have called out for us," she told him. "So-"

"But…there were kinda other people here."

"What? When?"

He looked off. "For the party."

"Party?"

He let out a long sigh. "So maybe it just wasn't me and Laxus drinking."

"Well, who else-"

"There was Freed and Ever and even Gajeel was here."

"Gajeel?"

"And some other people."

She blinked. Then she glared. "You went to a party without me?"

"You couldn't come. Because Mirajane wasn't supposed to know about it. She's put a strict rule on Laxus about how much he drinks. So after he drank all he was allotted at the bar tonight, he came home and invited some of us over." Bickslow's tongue was back in his mouth then. "And we started drinking and…and… I'm real sorry, Lissy. Now-"

"Wait until Mirajane finds out about-" Then she stopped herself.

No. She couldn't tell Mira. Because then she'd just be a big tattletale and everyone would continue to tell her nothing ever. Shaking her head, she moved to grab Bickslow hand.

"Come on," she said, tugging him along.

"Where are we going?"

"To get the babies back," she said. "We're going to hunt them down."

"But-"

"And we're starting with Freed."

"Lisanna-"

She threw his hand from hers then, turning to glare at him. "Do you want to do this or not, Bickslow? Because right now, you're not only one of the problems, you're the source of all of them! So either we got and get our babies back together and you become a solution, or you go home and wait for me to get back with them so I can yell at you some more. Which is it? Huh? Huh?"

"I…I…" He glanced up then, at her, his tongue tumbling from his mouth. That yelling, that tone… Why, she was almost like Laxus! And way more attractive at that. "I'll go with you! To get our babies. Together."

Lisanna grinned at him. "Togeth-"

"I don't get a shit what you two idiots do," they heard then as one of the apartment doors opened and an angry looking man stuck his head out. "But do it quietly!"

They both took off then, her giggling and him grinning. They were going to get his bab-

No. They were going to get their babies back.

Together.

I needed something to replace Hospitality, which should be finished by tomorrow or the next day for anyone wondering, and this was it. I can definitely say too that this will only be five chapters. And short ones at that.