Hello, people! Nightlingbolt here! Welcome to my new project, Nothing to Lose!
So it's no secret I'm blocked on Natsu's Diary (which at this point, I figure I should just delete. I'm not that good at love triangles, mostly because I hate conflict, which we all saw the result of in ABCs's Cheat, but we won't go there). Plus I'm halfway through the new chapter of Castelia Resonance, and I'll get to work on Chapter 3 of DTKTS as soon as I get my regular computer up.
See, my computer charger's been acting up for a little while, and I've needed a new battery since God knows when, so I ordered 'em, and they should be here in a matter of days. Meanwhile, I'm filling the time with prompts from the 100 themes challenge, all centered around Natsu and Erza, of course, written on my father's computer. I don't know if I'll do all 100, but hey, it should at least give me an excuse to flex my writing muscles in between my big projects.
I should stop talking for now, and just get on with the story.
I do not own Fairy Tail or its characters, Hiro Mashima does.
Natsu watched Erza eat her strawberry cake from across the bar, not even paying attention to Lucy's story about the solo job she went on recently.
"…but it turned out the ring was a medium for very powerful Water magic, so powerful the wearer could even pull water from the atmosphere to attack. Even Aquarius couldn't handle it, so in the end, I had to…" Lucy frowned when she realized Natsu was distracted.
"Lucy Kick!" She kicked Natsu hard in the stomach, thankfully away from Erza and her cake.
"Owwww!" groaned Natsu. "What was that for, Lucy?" His face brightened up. "I get it! You want to fight! Well don't think I'm gonna lose to you, hear me?"
"Why weren't you paying attention to my story?!" yelled Lucy angrily.
"Huh? Oh, sorry," said Natsu. "I must've been distracted."
"You were looking at Erza," Happy pointed out. "You liiike her!"
"Seriously?" sighed Lucy. Happy had told her about Natsu's crush on Erza sometime when she was still new to the guild. Thinking back, it was around the time Erza was arrested. That did explain why he went so far just to get her off. "Look, Natsu. You're never gonna get this monkey off your back if you don't tell Erza how you feel."
"There's a monkey on my back?" said Natsu in a panic. "Ahh! Oh God, get it off!" He started thrasing around trying to get the imaginary monkey off of him.
Lucy kicked him again. "It's a figure of speech, you idiot!" she yelled.
"Who are you calling an idiot, weirdo?!" Natsu yelled back.
"Look, let's just both calm down, all right?" said Lucy. "Now. Having a monkey on your back is a phrase meaning that there's something you want or need to say or do. In this case, the monkey is your feelings for Erza."
Lucy figured that this was the case. Erza always got a little depressed when she and Jellal had to separate, and Natsu and Gray always worried over her. In fact, they never even fought in the 48-hour period after the last time Erza saw Jellal, which Gray attributed to Natsu.
Natsu sighed. "It's not that simple," he said. "I wanted to confess after we defeated Oracion Seis, but Jellal got arrested, and… nothing I could think to say felt right. I'm not gonna trample all over her feelings for him."
"All the same, you deserve to at least ask her on a date or something," said Lucy. "If she says yes, she's at least willing to give you a chance. If she says no, at least you expressed your interest in her. I mean, look at Shadow Gear. Levy-chan's still friends with Jet and Droy despite rejecting them, so why can't you and Erza stay friends?"
"I don't know, Luce," said Natsu.
"It's not as complicated as it seems," said Lucy. "I'll tell you what. If you ask Erza out, I'll grill you ten pounds of fish."
Natsu's eyes widened. "Ten… pounds of… fish?" he repeated, drooling at the thought.
"Yup!" said Lucy. "Now go get her, Salamander!"
"Aye, sir!" said Natsu. He went over to Erza, taking care in his approach, as she was still eating her cake.
"Hey Erza," he said, tapping her on the shoulder.
"Hello, Natsu," said Erza curtly. "If you're looking for a fight, I must insist you wait until I've finished my cake."
"Actually, I wanted to know if you wanted to go on a date with me," said Natsu.
"Eh? A date?" said Erza in surprise.
"Umm… yes?" said Natsu nervously. Throwing up his arms protectively, he yelled, "Don't kill me!"
After taking a minute to process this development," she said, "All right."
"I didn't want to do it!" said Natsu. "Lucy promised me fish, and… what?"
"I'll go on a date with you," said Erza. "It might do me some good, and more importantly, I know I can trust you to show me a good time."
Standing up to face Natsu, she said, "I'll meet you at that Ishvalan place at 7:30. I expect you to look presentable." Turning to Mirajane, she ordered the rest of her cake to go.
Natsu pinched himself, but it was no dream. He had a date with Erza Scarlet.
Awesome.
And there you go.
By Fanfiction's count, I have 711 words in the original document (Oh, thank Heaven. :D (I totally didn't add that last word just to bring the counter to that. Shaddap.)). Well, that's mostly because, as this is my father's computer for the time being, I don't want to work too hard on these, or any future entries to this in the future. But still, I'm probably gonna transfer my Nightlingbolt-1000 stories to this account, since they don't see a lot of exposure there. In other words, I'm slightly more lenient on the whole 1000 words thing. But that's neither here nor there.
For now, I'm just gonna say goodbye, and peace and love from Nightlingbolt.
