Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or Halestorm or any of the songs referenced in this story. The Pixies are a real band but they are not the ones I am referencing. (I named the group what I did because I thought it was a somewhat amusing play on the Fairies of Fairy Tail protecting The Pixies)
Gajeel was walking by the request board when stopped mid-stride and walked backwards to the board again. He turned and stared straight at a mission poster for The Pixies. "Holy shit!" he exclaimed. Gray and Natsu, both of which were fighting nearby, stopped fighting long enough to ask what had happened. Gajeel ripped the poster off the board and thrust it towards their faces. "Do you know who this is!?" he asked. "Uhhh. No?" Natsu said as he untangled himself from Gray's choke hold. Gray grabbed for the poster but missed because Gajeel moved it out of the way. "Are you going to let me see it, dumbass?" Gray asked as he glared at Gajeel. "No way dude. When I take this mission, I want Ivy to sign this." Gajeel said as he hugged it protectively to his chest. "Wait. Ivy? As in Ivy from The Pixies? THAT Ivy!?" Gray exclaimed as he ripped the poster from under Gajeel's arm. "If you take this mission, I am SO in. Her voice is like sex for your ears." Natsu peered over Gray's shoulder and got a better look at the poster. It featured a picture of a woman with long, wavy red hair and piercing green eyes singing her heart out into a microphone with 3 band members behind her on a stage. The text next the picture said, 'Wanted: Skilled body guards. We, The Pixies, have received some threatening fan mail lately and it has started to turn violent. The reward is 600,000 Jewel to protect the band until the culprits are caught. Bonus: a private concert if you catch the culprit.' "Wait, isn't this that chick that you are constantly talking about Gajeel?" Natsu asked. "Shut up, Flamebrain. I do not go on and on about her…. I just think she has an insane voice and rockin' body." By this point, Gajeel and Natsu were pummeling each other and rolling around on the ground. "I mean you aren't wrong, Metalhead." Gray chimed in, just before he got sucked into the swirling ball of limbs and cursing. "Would you guys stop fighting long enough to take the job already?" Mira asked from behind the bar as she polished a glass. Natsu, Gray, and Gajeel stopped rolling around and looked up at Mira, then at each other, and then back to Mira before jumping up and saying, "Hell yeah I'm taking the job!" They all glared at each other for a moment before exploding in an argument about who would get to take the job. Mira cut them off by saying, "You guys do realize that the poster says 'body guards', right? As in plural? Plus, if all of you are working the job, then you guys have a better chance of getting the bonus concert for the guild."
"Dude, calm down, everyone is going to think you're weird if you keep fidgeting like that." Gray said as he elbowed Gajeel in the side. "I can't help it! I've been a fan for so long. Ivy and The Pixies are my inspiration when I write my music. Besides, you should be more worried about Natsu, he looks like he's about to explode." They both looked at Natsu who was tapping both of his feet and rubbing his palms on his pants as he sat in his plastic chair. "What's his deal?" Gajeel whispered to Gray. "Turns out he's been a closet fan for a while. He blames Lucy." Gray whispered back. "WOULD YOU TWO SHUT UP!?" Natsu shouted as he jumped to his fee, fire shooting from his mouth. "You're the people who answered the ad right? Come this way." Jeff, the band's manager, said as he entered the hall they were sitting in. All 3 of them jumped to their feet and immediately went over to him. A flurry of questions bombarded Jeff so he simply placed a finger to his lips, the universal symbol for "shush", and opened the door he had just come from.
As the door opened, Natsu, Gajeel, and Gray were stunned into silence. The Pixies were on a stage, playing one of their hit songs, Gonna Get Mine. A large lacrima crew was moving around them to catch them at different angles. "Holy shit… that's them! And their filming a new music video!" Gray whispers. Gajeel simply nodded, his eyes the size of dinner plates. By the time Gajeel and Gray had dragged their eyes away from Ivy, who was playing her purple ombre guitar while smirking into the lacrima camera, Natsu had managed to sneak all the way to the front of the stage. The green and purple lighting behind the band complimented her teal wrap top and guitar, the soft yellow spotlights making her hair look like fire. The band ended the song with pyrotechnics, which Natsu decided to eat. "How did that guy get in? And what is he doing?" Cole, the bassist, asked Jeff, who was talking quietly to director. "He's one the guys who has volunteered his services for your security." Jeff said dismissively as he moved onto the next thing on his list. "He's pretty hard core. I mean he's eating flames. Is he part of the circus?" Axl, Ivy's brother and the drummer in the band, said to no one in particular. Ivy handed her guitar to one of the stage hands and hopped off the stage, her high heeled, knee high, black boots clicking on the floor. "So, who are you guys?" Ivy asked as she leaned against the edge of the stage tuning a different guitar. Just as they were about to answer, Happy came crashing through the door. "You left me behind you jerk!" He screeched as he flew into Natsu, knocking him over.
At that moment, a woman from the catering company entered through the smashed door, wheeling a cart heavy with food. "Lunch is here." She said. Moments later, she tripped over a thick cord connected to one of the lighting poles. The cart went shooting forward, right in the direction of where Ivy was tuning her guitar, oblivious to the impeding danger.