~Past-time Consequences~
Chapter 1
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The school bell made its final ring of the year at 11:45 on a Thursday. Kids were cheering and running around, throwing papers up into the sky and others crumbling them up into a ball to start a war with. Cars drove past the tall metal fences one after another into the crowded street, music blaring and people singing along with joy in their hearts.
"I have to admit, I'm pretty disappointed," A deep voice sighed, crossing his arms over his chest, "Only car paint? That's the most pathetic senior prank I've ever seen."
The woman next to him, Erza Scarlet, leaned back against the metal fence, watching all the teenagers enjoy their last day of school and glanced to the man next to her.
"Who cares? They get to leave and we don't, who's the real winners here?" She said, blandly.
The man next to her, Grey Fullbuster, shot her a look and pushed himself off the fence. He gazed around the crowds of people, searching with his blue eyes and dug his foot in the dirt.
"Where are the others?" He asked.
"They all left already I think, back at Cana's." Erza answered, pushing a scarlet lock behind her ear.
Grey nodded his head towards the student's parking lot, "Get a ride?"
Erza led Grey back to her car, an old Jeep of a thing that used to be her dads before he gave it to her after he bought a new car. She drove over to Fiore Estates after maneuvering her way through the miles of traffic from the school zone, and parked along the edge of the sidewalk in front of a large house.
It was made nearly completely of wood, painted a light blue and had gray masonry that lead to the separate garage and split off to trail towards the front door. The house showed it's cemented underpart along the right side, where the hill dipped down into a small valley.
Grey and Erza took the staircase off to the right of the front entrance that led down to the basement door. Cana and her dad, Gildart's, always kept it open. They never had to worry about a break in or anything of the sort since Gildart's used to be a big shot MMA fighter, but retired as soon as he felt like he was tired of the career. He earned two lifetimes worth of money, and since he had actually just found out that his daughter, who was taken away from him by his wife, was now orphaned, he took her in.
It was funny actually, Cana would say sometimes, he passed right by her everyday working at a general store, yet it had been so long since he had seen her, he didn't even recognize her until she got up the nerve to tell him, then he practically exploded from happiness right then and there.
Since then he's been doing nothing but spoil her endlessly, and she was glad to let that happen.
"I swear to God if you two don't shut up I'm going to snap my own neck."
Grey and Erza walked in at the last few words, smiling a bit as they did so. They heard a sigh come from Cana as she spotted them and stepped over the back of the couch, slumping in between the cushions. She brought the glass bottle to her lips, taking a quick swig and putting it back in between her legs as a placeholder.
"Oh thank God, I was about to kill myself if I had to hear these two argue any longer." A shrill voice said from the top of the couch.
Erza sat next to Cana and glanced up to the owner of the voice, a bright blue Exceed with a fish in between his lips. Happy, as they called them, mumbled a few more words before falling silent to gnaw on his fish bone.
"Oh calm down Happy, you just got here like five minutes ago."
"Hey, don't tell my cat what to do!"
These two were Natsu and Lucy. To say they disliked each other was an understatement, they were more around the 'I hate your guts' area than anything. They constantly bickered and argued, pointing out each other's flaws and insulting them at any given chance. No one in their group really knew why they hated each other so much, but the fact that they were complete personality opposites gave them a pretty good idea. Sometimes the others could actually picture the two getting along in one way or another, but the two were off to a rocky start to begin with, so that question flew out of the window before it could even be opened.
They were both in pissy moods when they met and sort of got off on the wrong foot. They said some rude things to each other and they both stuck with their little rivalry. They never put any effort into trying to fix their relationship for the better, even when they both knew they had the same group of friends and would be spending more time together. Now with them, it was either 'if you don't have anything rude to say, don't say anything at all'.
"Well guys," Grey had sighed, sinking into his chair, "We are now officially on summer vacation."
Cana gave half a smile at his statement and tossed him a beer, bringing her own to her lips again.
"Too bad it's going to suck," She said a moment later.
Lucy rose an eyebrow, "And why's that?"
"Because," Cana raised her bottle to her lips again, dipping her head back till the glass was upside down. She adjusted herself in between Erza and Lucy and kicked up her feet, an irritated tone seeping into her voice, "Now since schools over I have no more excuses to why I can't spend more time with Gildart's anymore. He's making me come on some camping trip somewhere outside of town for some family bonding and says he wants to 'catch up' with me."
Natsu and Grey laughed as she rolled her eyes brown eyes, grimacing into her empty bottle. Most of everyone already knew Gildart's, even before he found out about Cana. He's known them since they were children growing up in the town and, like Cana, passed by them every day from their usual hangout spots or jobs.
"So, I'm afraid you all will be without my humble services for most of the summer. Meanwhile I'll probably be having the sex talk with that big doofus while getting twigs stuck up my shorts." She scoffed.
"Well one thing's for sure," Grey raised his bottle, giving a smirk, "You'd be learning from the master."
Cana flung her own at his head and scoffed at everyone's laughter, "Gross."
"Yeah Grey, that's totally ridiculous," Natsu sighed, crossing his arms, "Like Gildart's can teach her anything she doesn't know already."
"Okay shut up, both of you, this isn't funny!" Cana exclaimed, jumping up from her seat to shove Natsu's head.
She paced around the chair he sat in and let out an irritated cry, clenching her wavy locks, "Do you know how much of a waste this summer is going to be?-"
"Well without you-"
"Grey."
Erza sent him a look and he rolled his eyes, glancing back and forth between the two.
"Well it won't be a total waste," Lucy said lightheartedly, "For us anyways. I mean we still got a whole summer to do whatever with everyone else."
She looked to Erza for an agreement with a shrug of her arm, but she only shifted in her spot.
"Erza..." She whined, eyes falling.
"I just found out today," Erza sighed.
"What are you doing?" Happy asked, perched in between the two girls on the couch.
"Family trip. I'm going to some island off the coast that I used to go to when I was a kid. I haven't been back in years so I guess my parents thought it'd be nice to spend the summer there." She explained, hearing groans throughout the room, "Sorry guys."
"But I thought we were all gonna be together this summer..." Lucy droned out, giving big, sad eyes to her friend and leaning on her shoulder.
"Apparently not." Natsu said bitterly, rolling his eyes at the girl.
Lucy leaned up from Erza's shoulder and sent him a glare with tight lips, "Was I talking to you?"
"You are now."
Lucy scowled silently at his sweet smile and turned away, a pout forming at her lips again as Cana and Erza filled her view, "Please don't leave me here with these idiots."
"Sorry kiddo, I'll be back a few weeks before school. I dunno 'bout Erza though." Cana sighed, sitting next to her on the armrest.
Lucy groaned loudly and sunk into the couch, letting her head fall into Cana's lap to muffle her cries. A shrill gasp from Happy caused everyone to either flinch or grimace, him sounding as if he remembered the most important thing in the world.
"Cana! When you go camping, can you catch me some fish?"
"Shut up Happy."
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This is a story I thought of after watching a particular scene from a show and I thought it would be cool if I dragged it out and added some stuff to the plot to make it a story. (It'll remained unnamed so there arent any spoilers)
This story will probably have 14 chapters not including an epilogue. The first few will be a little short, but as the story progresses they'll get longer.
** This is the second story I'm working on currently so my other one is my...priority...I guess. That just means I'll pay more attention to that one than this and make sure I finish it before I start really delving into this one. **
Leave a review and tell me what you think about it! Do you like how it's going so far? Send me some feedback and I'll see if I should continue.
Thanks for reading and Have a crazy day!
And in case you cant tell, this is mainly NALU with a side of Jerza, Gruvia, and Cana/Bacchus.