Expanding on my One Piece, Catastrophic Toon fanfic, I would like to expand more on the concept of anime and Hanna Barba/Walt Disney-es cartoons running amok in the Anime world. In this fanfic, we follow the story of a mere hareraising cartoon character defying the reality of things, and puts on a show for the all the boys in the audience. She goes by the name Cotton the Captivating. I own no character within the Fairy Tail Franchise except Cotton and any toons within the Fairy Tail story. All other characters in Fairy Tail are owned by Hiro Mashima. Enjoy.

In a land, far, far, away, lies the Kingdom...of Fiore. A small, peaceful nation of 17 million and a place FILLED with Magic. Found in every home, bought and sold in every market place. For most, Magic is merely a tool; a mundane part of everyday life. For some however, magic is an art and they've devoted their lives...to its practice. These...are called the Wizards. Banded together in magical guilds, they plant their skills in search of fame...and fortune. Many of these guilds dot the landscapes of Fiore and within it...not only humans, but strange creatures that home themselves throughout not only Fiore, but the entire world.

These creatures...are known as Toons. Characters, be it regular humans...or mythical creatures...or animals...that walk, and talk the same as Humans...doing acts that even the strongest Wizards...couldn't possibly do, oh so naturally. These Toons house themselves throughout the continent...finding homes either by the kind villagers and townspeople, or by simply training in their homes within the guilds...where they strive for fame and fortune, all the same.

But there is one toon...who shall soon find herself in one guild. A certain guild in a certain town that soars high above the rest. One from which countless legends have been born...A guild that will no doubt continue to create legends...well into the future. Its name...is Fairy Tail.

Click-clack, click-clack, click-clack.

The sun, a scorching fugue shines down upon the landscape of green and land as nothing more than blue, above and below. The skies a calm and tranquil color...without a single cloud in sight. Is this the work of magic? No...it's just nothing more than a beautiful day throughout the Kingdom of Fiore. Our story begins in the lush trail of grass...and nothing more than a maze of trees, far off in a forest out-skirting one of the most tranquil fishing cities, the port of Hargeon.

Click-clack, click-clack, click-clack.

A cave. The road of trees, ground, and grass soon follows a path leading to a cave. A cave on the hills that towers the forest...with a beautiful view of Hargeon in the distance. Nothing more than a menacing glare. Two hollow eyes, and a horrid mouth forming the entrance...nothing more than the feeling of being eaten.

Click-clack, click-clack, click-clack.

However...it didn't stop one person.

Click-clack, click-clack, click-clack.

Walking along the path is a small figure. About 2-3 feet tall. Almost like a child. Her pristine 4 fingers covered in pristine white gloves clenched on the handle of a wagon. Her slim jet black arms straining on the weight of the pitch black magician's chest resting on the crimson red wagon.

Nothing more about the figure. Given half of her attire is shrouded...in a blue and gold star sequined short cape. Revealing an unhooded anthropomorphic rabbit with her entire head and face completely covered with pristine white fur, and a pitch black spot around one of her eyes. Her pupils in the shape of a dotted A circle with a piece gone, making a noticeably large shaped triangular piece, right of both irises. Like a slice of pie separated from the full disk. Her lips a glossy ruby shade, with a singular buck tooth standing out.

The spotted anthropomorphic dons a hairstyle. Resting on her messy and short blonde bob hair is a pitch black wool knitted beanie hat with a design of scattered cards and poker chips stitched on the bottom of the beanie.

Finally, a noticeable feature on the white-furred rabbit...are the ears. Large, long, and pitch black rabbit like ears flopped down. Rather than usual rabbit ears raised up. This could be clear that judging by the floppy ears and nose...this little character appears to be...a rabbit.

The only thing revealing the spotted rabbit's attire.

Click-clack, click-clack, click-clack.

Were legs, short and slender. Fishnet tights covering her legs as ebony as the cawing crows, and the Click-clack, click-clack, click-clack of the small female figure's glossy red pointed toe heels.

The forest ground, not once did the small creature showed no fear...as she strolled through the forest, the wind directing her...to the menacing cave on the hills. She wants something...and it's clear she wants to claim whatever's in the cave. She narrowed her eyes, looking at her destination ahead.

Click-clack, click-clack, click-clack.

The blonde-haired creature now walks from the lush forests of trees and green...into the darkness of rocky ground, with nothing more than dimly lit candles scattered throughout the cave corridors. Nothing more than the sound of her red heels clicking, and the creaking sound of her crimson wagon echos throughout the cave. Nothing more than the thick and condensed ozone air, the hollow howls of the cave echoes, and even the taste of cemented rock.

Suddenly, the creature's dotted nose picked up something. A new scent breezing through the thick ozone smell: pollen. As she traversed through the cave darkness, she felt the condense smell of pollen...getting strong and stronger, getting to the point of...

"A-CHEW!" Making her jump, and let out a high-pitch sneeze. She took from her hood pocket a napkin and wiped her dotted nose, and simply kept going. Going...going through the darkness.

The stench of flower pollen began to grow more and more until finally...the beanie donning figure began to notice something coming up...a room. A chamber within the caverns. Her journey through the darkness has finally come to an end...as she finally met with an open cave room...almost like an arena.

It almost seems as if she found herself in a flower patch...and yet despite the fragrance of flower pollen emanating the open clearing...she can still pick up the scent of the musty cave air. Flowers scattered throughout the cave, bobbing back and forth. Each one of them, dotted eyes. The same pie-shaped iris that the creature has behind her crimson glasses.

In the center of the cave glade...is him. Standing on a sunflower taller than all the others throughout the cave is a smaller sunflower...this one...with arms and legs. The anthropomorphic sunflower, appears to be at least at the same height as the shrouded creature. A sunflower for a head, her petals flowing like a lion's mane, and a her brown seeded face, eyes with pie-eyes the same as the shrouded figure.

Attire wise, the sunflower wears a poofy green short dress, her arms green in color, donning pristine white gloves with rolled up donut shaped cuffs, and green, round, and toeless feet as she crosses them while casually sitting on the sunflower.

The anthropomorphic sunflower appears to be flipping a small and shiny object in her gloved hands. It looks like a shining silver key. The sunflower soon looked at the shrouded figure approaching her...and simply rolled her eyes.

"Don't you stupid quest hunters ever just go away?" The Sunflower asks with such boredom in her high-pitched expression. The bunny-like creature simply chuckled.

"Queen Flora, you got something that I want. And if it ain't too much trouble, I don't think I'll leave without it." The figure claims.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, save the stupid formalities, will ya? Just like all the startup wizards and all those idiots, you're here for this, aren't you?" Flora asks as she simply sat up and clenched on the silver key in her hands. "Another Celestial Gate Key to add to the collection, huh? Geez, you wizards eat up just about any magical object, you lend your ears on, don't you?"

"Well, ya got one thing right, that's for sure. I am in need of that lil' Gate Key." The shrouded figure retorts. The female sunflower rolled her eyes at the other female.

"Yeeaaaah. How could I have POSSIBLY known that?" Flora asks sarcastically as she continues. "So? Where's the rest of your Guild? Were they frail like petals to show up?" The shrouded figure shrugged.

"Don't got one." The shrouded figure replies. The sunflower looks at the figure in confusion.

"Wait...so...you're telling me that you hauled that stupid wagon, and came from Hargeon, ALLLLLLL the way out her, ALONE?" Soon enough, the figure finally took off her dazzling cape. The sunflower looked at the figure in bewilderment. "The heck are YOU supposed to be?"

Attire-wise, we finally see the rabbit wearing a pitch black t-shirt with a design of cards, poker chips scattered throughout the pitch black t-shirt. Under the t-shirt combining with her fishnet tights is a glossy velvet red corset bodysuit...or rather bunny bodysuit, hiding under the pitch black t-shirt. Behind the velvet red corset is a fluffy tail - A pitch black and fluffy rabbit's tail.

"I'm a magician, and let's just say...I'm here to give you a solo performance." The bunny says mischievously as she took from her pitch black beanie a sparkling wand traditional magician's wand.

"Magician? All I see is a tramp toon, but I'll play along with ya, 'Magician.' TRY THIS FOR A SHOW!" The Sunflower yells out as he gloved hands began to glow in a fluorescent green color. "THORNY VINES!" The sunflower yells out.

SNAP, SNAP, SNAP! Immediately before the showgirl could even move, three large pillars of thorny vines arose from the earth, entrapping her. Soon enough, the showgirl only smiled...before...SNAP! A fourth vine sprouted on the ground...posing as the central vine, completely rising where the showgirl was...no doubt killing her. The sunflower only chuckled at her work.

"Thus, Thorny Vines delivers trap and a kill to my enemies...again." The sunflower simply drones as she sat on her back again, casually. "Is my Magic getting stronger? Ah, the hell does it matter, these wizards are usually stupidly weak." Flora sighs.

"Stupidly weak, huh? Why don't you think again!" A familiar voice retorts as Flora and her sunflower friends looked around.

POOF!

A cloud of smoke formed in front of the thorny trap. The cloud of smoke cleared showing the anthropomorphic black and white bunny, alive and well. She tips her beanie cap and blows a kiss to the bewildered sunflower.

"W-B-B-Hmmm." Flora stammered, but immediately regained her composure. "Looks like I finally found someone who has brains to dodge, huh?"

"Sometimes, it takes one to know one. Now then, about that key..." The showgirl pestered extending her gloved hands.

"Forget it. You just got brains, is all. Too bad, those brains ain't gonna get you far!" Flora retorts.

She rose up from her sunflower seat and summoned a shining green magic circle with shrub like symbols in front of her. The sunflower soon smiles. "SEED RAIN!" Flora screams out and placed her gloved palm forward. Glowing green seeds projected out from the circle. They blasts out at top speed, almost as if they're bullets.

The blonde-haired toon simply gave out a buck-toothed smirk.

POOF, POOF, POOF, POOF, POOF!

As the bullet seeds blasted through the cave floor, within each moment, the showgirl simply disappeared and reappeared at different spots, with a POOF! Within each cloud of smoke, comes another cloud of smoke. With a puff of smoke, the bunny soon appeared behind the pathway she came from.

"Are you a Magician or a coward? Really, is teleportation the only thing you got?!" Flora retorts.

"I wouldn't call it teleportation. Just a simple appearing and disappearing act, Buuuuuut~ you're right. Pretty base trick." The showgirl sings as she only chuckles. "I did promise a show, so...here's a trick for ya!" The bunny soon kicked her crimson wagon out of the room and just before a seed could hit her, cloth immediately projected out of her cuffs. A chain of cloth, colored different colors from the color spectrum.

Immediately, the chain of cloth latched on to the shining silver key, and immediately pulled it out of the sunflower's hands. "H-HEY!" Flora screams out as she dismissed her spell circle in time to latch on to the key as well.

"Yeah, I don't think so." The showgirl retorts. Her free hand took from her hair a shining ebony black wand. She then bobbed her head flinging her beanie hat up, showing the sunflower her messy blonde hair. Soon the spotted burlesque tapped caught her beanie hat and opened it wide. She tapped it 3 times.

"Coo-coo!" Sounds were heard from inside the showgirl's hat. Suddenly, fluttering from her pitch black hat came a flock of pristine white pigeons. The smirking magician pointed her head to the sunflower clenching on the silver key. "COO-COO!"

The birds immediately flocked to the sunflower, and immediately pecked it, making the annoyed sunflower let go of the key, as she tries to swipe them away from her.

"G-HEY! STUPID BIRDS, WILL YA GET OFF OF ME!" Soon enough, the chain of colorful cloth retracted into her pitch black cuffs, and now the keys are in the rabbit's pristine white gloved hands. A shimmering silver key with a strange symbol in the middle of the bow: a pitch black shaped symbol, with a half circle in the middle.

"I tip my hat to ya, Flora. You've been a good sport. Maybe later, I can come back for an encore performance." The showgirl says as she soon placed back her dark blue and gold sequin cape, as she casually walked out of the cave.

The flower wasn't done yet.

"NO! FLOWERS!" Flora screamed out. The miniature flowers narrowed their dotted pie-eyes as they began to breath out a fragrant smell of pollen up to the pigeons. Golden smoke raced to the pigeons as they continued to peck and peck their Queen...to which they immediately stopped.

Their beaks suddenly picked the fresh smell of pollen...as they soon fluttered to the flowers and picked the pollen of the smiling little flowers. Meanwhile, the anthropomorphic sunflower looked at the exit in rage, as she saw the short caped bunny getting away.

"Not so easily..." The sunflower says lowly as she summoned her shimmering green magic circle once more...and pressed the circle with her gloved palm. "FLY TRAP!"

Immediately, the ground began to rumble. The showgirl simply smirked as she kept walking. Immediately, before she could even react...a roar echoed the caverns.

ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR!

SNAP!

A gigantic fly trap the size of the sunflower, Flora's resting on. It immediately snapped its jaws under the showgirl, and swallowed her whole.

GULP!

"Hehehehehe. Consider THAT your final show. There's no way for you to disappear from the digestive systems of a flytrap!" The anthropomorphic sunflower cackles. She soon sat back down and crossed her legs, as she ordered her fly trap. "Now then, fly trap, how long will it take for the Gate Key to come o-" The sunflower asks...however...

"Like I said," A familiar voice called out. The fly trap and Flora looks in surprise. POOF! with a cloud of smoke, the two looked in surprise, seeing the bunny simply leaning on her Magician's chest, as she flips the silver key in her hand. "Looking forward to perform for you next time." Flora only looks in bewilderment.

"B-B-H-HOW?! IT AIN'T POSSIBLE TO ESCAPE FROM A FLY TRAP'S...OR ANYONE'S GULLET! I don't think any Wizard I've dealt with had all that flashy elemental or summoning magic...but I don't think I've EVER seen them use the same type of Magic that you do! HOW?! WHAT'S YOUR SECRET?!" Flora objected.

Nothing more than the echoing howling of the cave emanates the room...until finally, the showgirl simply chuckles.

"Sorry, but unlike the Wizards, a Magician never reveals her secret." The anthropomorphic bunny says as she simply grabs her wagon and casually walks out of the way, leaving the fly trap and Flora alone.

"W-G-GAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH! I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE, BUT I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME, G-WHOEVER YOU ARE!" The anthropomorphic sunflower screams out. Before, the showgirl went into the light of the forest, she looked back into the cave and tipped her hat, once more.

"The name's Cotton." She simply introduced as she walked into the light from the darkness. The steaming sunflower only growled in agitation.

"Alright, Cotton. MARK MY WORDS THEN, ENJOY THAT STUPID KEY OF YOURS, BUT I'LL BE BACK FOR IT, SOON ENOUGH! YOU HEAR ME?! YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE LAST OF MEEEEEEEEE!" That was all the showgirl could hear from inside the towering cave.

"Heheheheh," The showgirl chuckled as she placed back on her blonde head her pitch black beanie cap. Traveled through the maze of green and trees, the same as before...and back to the port town...far in the distance.

For the longest time, I've made my nest here, in Hargeon. Pretty tranquil place. A place far from Magnolia, where all the fisher folk do their fishing and shopping. Unlike Magnolia, the city nearby, the Hargeon folk don't use magic. I guess I'd fit right in, cause my magic ain't something fancy-shamcy like the other Wizards. Really, I like to give a good show...it's just...a natural thing, I guess. Don't know why, but why the hell complain when you're a Toon?

When you're a Toon, you're secluded with a specific personality, look, and style of clothing. I can get into details, but it's for the best to just save until the plot kicks in. That being said, I try to change my look up a bit, as you can see with the freaky pink and blue messy hair. Seems more comforting and creative than having some fixed hair with a large attention-seeking headdress like all showgirls would.

I try to make things a little more...interesting, by occasionally doing some magic tricks on the streets, but street performing doesn't hold a candle to the one thing I love best, adventuring. Like an Amazon, the lust for adventure just breaths through this lil' rabbit...and I wanted to put my parlor magic on bigger tricks than the streets. You can guess how I had my lil' run in with old Pollen-Breath in that cave.

Whenever word comes out, Celestial Gate Keys occasionally pop up, now and then. Course I exaggerating, when I say the word 'rare.' cause they are. After taking the stage solo for so long, it starts to get boring for a doll like me. So, I'd just go on occasional missions to find me some Celestial Gate Keys, few roadies, if you catch my drift. And after all this time of searchin', I finally found a partner to take the stage with.

Apus.

Heh, sounds like a fun assistant to play around with. Can't wait to put this summoning gig to the test, later.

Soon enough, her thoughts were immediately halted as she traversed through the town. As she strolled her wagon near the Hargeon bell-tower, her ears immediately picked up nothing more than the sounds of screaming ladies, far bigger than the bunny. She tilted her head in confusion, as she strolled to the bell-tower square to find out what was going on.

Nothing more than a crowd of females, circling someone...but Cotton was too small to find out just what or WHO it was, the women of all shapes and sizes were fangirling about. The bunny soon took notice of a brown-haired woman, basically drooling to the brink. In annoyance, the toon tugged on the brown-haired woman's arm.

"Uh...excuse me?" Cotton started as the brown-haired girl turned around, and then looked down at the little anthropomorphic rabbit. "You mind telling me what's with this crowd?" the brown-haired woman's immediate reply was a large gasp.

"OH MY GOD, YOU DON'T KNOW?!" She yelled out as she crouched down to Copper's level. Practically the height of child. "It's him! HE'S here, right before us! THE FAMOUS WIZARD SALAMANDER! AHHHHHHH!" The brown-haired girl screamed out as many other joined her...just by the sheer utterance of this 'Salamander's' name. Cotton only looked in confusion.

"Salamander?" The shrouded showgirl asks as she simply took the chance to push forward to through the crowd, while leaving her wagon at a close distance. "Geez, these chicks are more riled up than work hours in my previous...'gig'. Just what's so special about a crummy...lil'...li...zard...?" As she finally met with the center of the circle...she soon gazed up to him...with new emotions flustering within the toon.

A tall, tan, and slender male who looks at the ladies with such grace, such beauty on his face. A man with glistening blue hair, and an x-shaped tattoo marked on top of his left eyebrow. The man wearing a white striped shirt with rolled up sleeves, and red and black striped pants, and shining brown shoes. Resting on his back is a short cape, the same as her's, but a deep plum in color. With symbols throughout it. Finally, nothing more than assortments of bracelets and rings throughout his right arm.

For some reason...out of nowhere, Cotton felt her whole body tense up. Her heart...literally pounding from her chest. Her breathing increasing...and suddenly, her eyes, completely replaced with two shining pink hearts.

"Helloooooooooooooo nurse~" Was the only thing that left her mind.

"You ladies are all so sweet~" His voice, a chilling deep voice.

"I get that he's a famous wizard...b-but the hell's gotten into me?" Cotton simply asks in thought. Immediately, she tensed up, once more, as she noticed something crucial: he was looking at her...nay. Approaching her. The rabbit covered her mouth as she shook, and shiver as he crouched to her level.

"Well, hello there, little one. I must say, I don't think I've ever seen a toon in these parts of the woods." Salamander greets, as the hearts in Cotton's eyes began to bulge out, to the point of bulging right out from her spotted eyes and through her messy side-swept hair.

"HE KNOWS I'M A TOON!" She screamed from within.

"Well...I-I-Bla-d-bs-d-blaaaaaaaaaaah~" Cotton simply stammered...until finally her jaw dropped comically to the ground and her tongue rolling out like a tape dispenser, as she pants like a dog whilst her heart-eyes bulged from her sockets. She immediately snapped her jaw shut, and rolled her tongue back like window blinds.

"S-sorry. How unprofessional of me. My name is Cotton. A pleasure to make your acquaintance, sweet cheeks~" The rabbit introduces as she bows to the famous blue-haired Wizard. Salamander simply winked at her.

"Charmed, I'm sure." He simply says.

Her heart-shaped eyes, twitched...as she immediately felt her cranium bobbing up and down. Soon enough, her own cranium, where her blonde hair and ears resided, blasted right off of her head. Following that, sparks began to pop out from her unscrewed head, as they all blasted up to the sky with the POP-POP of fireworks.

Soon enough, her forehead began to blissfully swirl down to the showgirl, who only looked dumbfounded at Salamander as he continued to tend to the ladies oogling at him, the same as Cotton. Soon, the toon's cranium slammed down on her head with a CLANK, and the burlesque bunny only wobbled dizzily and groggily, as stars swirled around her.

"Hubba, hubba, I think I'm in love~" The anthropomorphic bunny says groggily...until finally she fell to the ground.

Suddenly, before the bunny could completely lose consciousness...a new voice arose. A male's voice was heard amidst the crowd of ladies.

"IT'S MEEEEEE!" He completely screamed out. A young man with pink hair wearing some sort of crimson red, short robe with a traveling bag and mat behind him. By his side, a crimson blue anthropomorphic cat. Though strangely enough, it doesn't seem like he's a toon, like Cotton. The pink-haired man's face went from excited...to disappointment, immediately.

"Who the heck are you?" The pink-haired man simply asks.

"WHO AM I?!" Salamander outbursts in outrage. His rings shined down on the midday sun. "I am Salamander. Surely, you've heard of me before." However, before he could get his attention, the pink-haired man was already on his way. "HEY, WAIT A MINUTE!"

"YOU'RE SO RUDE!"

"SALAMANDER'S A GREAT WIZARD! YOU BETTER APOLOGIZE TO HIM, OR WE'RE GONNA RIP YOU TO SHREDS! Immediately, an onslaught of fans kicked the pink-haired man and attacked and ravaged him, taking the kid off guard.

"What is it with these girls!" The pink-haired man yells out. Salamander, however only chuckled as every female only growled at the proximity of the pink-haired boy. While one was unconscious, and another...looked in disgust. A blonde-haired girl.

"Now, now. That's enough, my lovelies, let him go. I'm sure the boy didn't mean anything malicious by it." While every girl simply swooned at the so-called famous Wizard, the blonde-haired girl only glares at him in disgust. Immediately, the Salamander delivered to the pink-haired boy an autograph of his signature.

"Here's my autograph, kid. Now, you can brag to all your friends." Salamander says giving the annoyed boy the autograph.

"No thanks." The pink-haired boy simply retorts...earning another attack from the crowd. He was simply slammed to the pile of garbage bags, as his little blue-cat companion regroups with him.

"Guess it wasn't him." The blue cat says casually.

"Definitely, not him." The pink-haired boy stifles in pain.

"Well, I'm afraid I must be going, ladies. I have business to attend to." The blue-haired man says, as the crowd of ladies looked at the handsome man in distraught.

"YOU'RE LEAVING ALREADY?!" They all screamed out. The blue-haired man chuckled.

"Time for the red carpet. HA!" Salamander calls out. Suddenly, with a snap of a finger, a stream of purple magical energy flowed out from his crimson red magical circle. A snake like stream began to form as the stream carried of Salamander as he stands pridefully above the crowd. "I'm having a soiree on my yacht, tonight. And you're all invited!" Thus like a comet's tail, as the screaming of ladies began to dissipate...Salamander blasted off into the sky...with a single twinkle.

"Who the heck was that guy?" The pink-haired man couldn't help but ask.

"I dunno, but he was a REAL creep." The blonde-haired female's voice chimed in as the cat and pink-haired kid looked in confusion. "Thank you for your help!" The blonde simply says as the pink-haired boy only looked in confusion.

"Uhhhhh..." While the pink-haired boy stared at the blonde girl in complete confusion, the blue cat soon turned behind the blonde, seeing not only the crowd of fans finally flocking away from the bell-tower, but a familiar messy-haired cartoon character lying on the floor, unconscious.

The cat simply skittered to the unconscious body, as he simply and casually tugs on a pitch black ear. "Hey, are you dead?" The cat simply asks.

"I've never felt so alive...and yet I feel so sick to my stomach..." The black and white spotted rabbit moans. Soon enough, the blonde and the pink figures soon approached the blue cat to see the unconscious, daydreaming toon.

"Geez, talk about glitz and glimmer." The pink-haired boy says in boredom, as he simply looks at the unconscious showgirl's playboy outfit under her pitch black t-shirt. The blonde-haired girl soon got on her knee, to shake the small character.

"Hey, HEY, are you okay, little girl?" The blonde-haired girl asks the other blonde. Groggily, the little cartoon soon opened her dotted pie-eye, as one eye shows a vision of nothing more than darkness clouding half of her eyesight from her beanie, while the other eye's vision is clouded with the three strangers surrounding her. The Toon rubbed her eyes and soon placed back on her glasses, seeing a clearer view of the strangers. She soon replies.

"Probably. I'll probably be more than alive if Salamander's still around? We had a thing going~" The rabbit swooned, as the pink-haired boy only gagged in annoyance.

"Looks like you're STILL under the spell too, huh?" The blonde asks. The showgirl soon tilts her head in confusion.

"Spell?" Cotton asks.

"I'll explain on the way. Follow me and I can treat you all for dinner? My treat!" The blonde suggested, making the pink-haired boy's mouth drool in anticipation.

"FOOOOOD, ALRIGHT!" The boy cheered.

"AYE!" The cat cheered as well.

And Then...

If there's one thing about Hargeon, it's the gourmet food of fish, lobster, and all sorts of amazing foods to eat. Truth be told, I don't think I expected my journey to almost be in the arms of a hunk. I thought he'd be the one swooning at my parlor tricks, I shouldn't be the one to be swooning all over him. Then again, I'd be lying if I didn't say, for a famous wizard...he's kinda cute. Or...at least I THOUGHT he was a famous Wizard until the news broke out.

Thus, cue Lucy, Natsu, and Happy.

"My name's Lucy. It's nice to meet you!" Lucy introduced.

"AYE!" Happy pipes up. From the city streets, we now turn to Hargeon Town's finest cuisine restaurant, where Lucy decided to treat Natsu, Happy, and Cotton out for a meal as thanks. She at least tried to continue, hadn't been due to Natsu's snorting and slurping as he scarfs down his meal like crazy, with food flying all around to the point where Cotton had to take cover to the seats behind their table.

"Ummm...heheh, Natsu and Happy, was it?" Lucy asks nervously.

"You're so nice!" The pink-haired boy immediately muffles as he gave a nod of approval...before continuing scarfing down his food like a scavenger. Lucy only looked at the two nervously as food flew from all different directions.

"Hehehe, thanks! You can slow down...we're not in a hurry...and food's kinda flying all over the place...there goes the money I saved for that old geezer's shop." The blonde-haired girl simply sighs as she was pelted by a splatter of food.

"My, my, my, gluttony never cease to amuse me," Cotton says smugly as she peered out from behind the other blonde.

"GET LOST WILL YA, I'M TRYING TO EAT!" Someone yelled out, the cartoon rabbit was suddenly pushed, face-first back to the three's table. The cartoon character soon sunk down to the floor, and popped right back up, as she sits next Lucy.

"Guess the spoilsport behind me didn't want a partner. Such a shame" The burlesque bunny says in disappointment as she looks to the blonde next to her. "Anyway, elaborate will ya, Lucy? Why are you standing in the way of my dreamboat Salamander~?" The blonde haired bunny asks sweetly.

"Because, you're not REALLY in love with him." Lucy sighs. Happy soon pipes up.

"Yeah! What was the big deal about that Salamander guy?" The blue anthropomorphic cat asks. Lucy began her explanation.

"Alright, so evidently, that Salamander guy was using Magic. A Charm spell to hypnotize the ladies in town, into thinking that they were in love with him." Lucy explains. Happy and Cotton looks at the blonde in confusion.

"Charm Spell?" They both ask in unison.

"Charm Spells have the power to attract people to you, against their own will. But, they've been BANNED for years! Nobody even sells them, anymore! He must've gotten in allot of trouble to get his hands on it. What a creep." Lucy explains in disgust.

"So...my unquenchable love for that hunk of a man is...false?" Cotton asks in confusion. Lucy nodded in confirm.

"That's right. It may pain you to hear that, but you're DEFINITELY under his spell, too. Just like you, I totally fell victim into his spell, but I snapped out of it thanks to you two barging in when you did. I REALLY can't thank you guys enough!" Lucy says giving her thanks to Happy and the scarfing pink-haired boy.

"No problem!" Natsu muffled.

"It may not look like it, but I'm a Wizard, too!" Lucy confessed.

"Is that so?" Natsu asks.

"Yeah, but I haven't joined in any Guilds yet, or anything." Lucy confessed as she bashfully twirled her hair. "See, guilds are these organizations where Wizards come together and share information, and find work, and things like that. Unfortunately, you aren't considered a full-fledged Wizard, until you've become a member of a Guild. But, there are TONS of them all over the world, I've heard it's really tough to get into the more popular ones, and the guild I want to join is the most popular one!" Lucy prattled on and on...and on...to the point of making Cotton droop tiredly.

"Can we just skip to the good part of the show yet..." Cotton sighs as she soon slammed her face on the table, tiredly. Soon enough Lucy looked at the three in realization as she looked at them bashfully.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I guess all this Wizarding talk must sound like allot of gibberish to you, huh? But I'm telling you, I'm definitely going to join that guild, someday and then I'm gonna take all kinds of exciting jobs and make TONS of money!" Lucy pledged.

"Oh, yeah?" Natsu asks.

"You talk a lot." Happy says bluntly. Cotton soon snaps her head up from the table, only to agree with Happy.

"The ambition on this one's just as big as her ego. If only I could say the same about that motorboat she calls a mouth." The showgirl says bluntly. After giving a defeated look on her face at the two anthropomorphic animals, she soon turned to Happy and Natsu in realization.

"Oh man...I almost forgot, you guys came here trying to find someone, weren't you?" Lucy asks.

"We're looking for Igneel!" Happy chirped.

"We heard a rumor that a salamander was gonna be coming through this town, so we came here to see him. Turns out he's somebody else." Natsu sighs in defeat.

"Yeah, that guy didn't look like a salamander at all." Happy adds in.

"No kidding. I bet that poser can't even breath fire like a real dragon." Natsu scoffs. Lucy only looked in confusion.

"I...don't get it. Does your friend Igneel look like a dragon?" Lucy asks.

"But holy crud, is Salamander as hot as a dragon...if he's not the guy you're looking for, then your lost kid~" Cotton swooned. The pink-haired boy only nodded his head at the two girls as Cotton drank some orange juice.

"No, you both got it all wrong. He doesn't look like a dragon, he is one." Natsu corrected. Immediately, Cotton and Lucy looked at the two in surprise.

"Huh?" They both uttered in unison.

"Aye! Igneel's a real life Fire Dragon!" Happy replies.

"HUH?!" Lucy utters once more, as she soon looked at Cotton. The showgirl's finely pampered cheeks were puffed up, making the blonde look at the spotted cartoon character in annoyance. "Don't. Don't do it." Lucy says dangerously.

At that response, Cotton pulls out a sign with the words 'Sorry' painted on them. The blonde comically grimaced, knowing what comes next.

"AWWWWW, N-N-N-N-NO! THAT'S SO GROSS!" Lucy screams out as she was immediately met with orange juice, spitting right back into her face, as Cotton only looked at Natsu and Happy in bewilderment.

"Y'know, despite the fact that this place is so full of magic, and literal walking and talking animals, minerals, and vegetables...and even MORE than that, I ain't gonna sugarcoat it and say...that a dragon's a damn rare find in these neck of the woods. Extraordinary creatures that no toon nor human has ever seen. Crazy for a magical world, huh?"

"PUT A CORK IN IT, WILL YA?!" Lucy yells out as Cotton finally decided to stop her spittake, and politely wiped her pampered face. "AND WHY WOULD A FIRE DRAGON SHOW UP, IN THE MIDDLE OF TOWN?! IT'S TOTALLY RIDICULOUS!" The blonde soon yells to the pink-haired boy and blue cat. The two tried to say something...but stopped knowing that...Lucy's point makes sense.

"Not as ridiculous as us, really." Cotton says as she simply placed her legs on the table and sat back. Soon enough, Lucy places some money on the table. The rabbit soon turns to the human. "Leaving already?"

"Yeah, I gotta get going. All three of you enjoy your lunch, and MAYBE I'll see ya around!" Lucy says as she already got going to the door. Cotton soon took notice of Happy and Natsu getting up from their seats.

"Thank you, ma'am! Please come ag-ah!?" The waitress says before immediately looking to the front. Lucy did as well...and immediately looked in bewilderment as they saw Happy and Natsu on the ground, bowing to the blonde.

"Thank you for the food!" Natsu announced.

"THANK YOU!" Happy announced as well.

"CUT IT OUT, YOU'RE EMBARRASSING ME!" Lucy screams out, before regaining her composure. "Look, you guys helped me out earlier, so let's just call it even!" Lucy hastily says to the two, as the cat and boy simply looked at each other.

"I feel bad though, cause we weren't even TRYING to help her." Natsu says as Lucy only sighed in defeat.

"Yeah, but we owe her something..." Happy debated. Suddenly, an idea came to the pink-haired boy. He rose up from the ground...and...

"Oh, I know! Here, this is for you!" Natsu says, handing Lucy his autograph of Salamander's signature.

"NOW WAY!" Lucy immediately denies his offer.

"Oh, well if she's not having the autograph board..." Cotton says from afar as her pitch black arms stretched across the room and grabbed the autograph signature from Natsu's hands. Her stretched arm retracted back to her shoulder, as she squeezed the autograph board to her corset bodysuit, hugging it...thinking about Salamander at any given moment...snared in his charm just like the rest of the ladies in Hargeon.

Moments later after her little...exploration at the restaurant, Lucy sits alone in the tranquil mahogany bench of the tranquil park area of Hargeon. A magnificent view of the ocean just in front of her, as well as the wondrous and calming pitter-patter of fountain water, or the blissful sounds of the birds cawing high in the skies. Needless to say, it's a change of pace, in comparison to her run-in with Natsu, Happy, and Cotton.

Lucy sits idly...reading a magazine. Not just any magazine, but THE Wizarding magazine: Sorcerer Weekly.

"Oh my, looks like the Fairy Tail guild's causing trouble again. "Demon Bandit Clan wiped out, but 7 homes destroyed? Talk about going overboard!" Lucy giggles as she continues to read the magazine. She flips to the center of the magazine, seeing a beautiful woman with long white hair, donning in a beautiful swimsuit.

"Oh, the center fold's Mirajane! She's so pretty. I wish I knew how to be a member. Do you have to apply, or maybe interview with them? I dunno. But...I'm SO gonna join Fairy Tail! They're TOTALLY THE COOLEST GUILD EVER!" Lucy pledged, giddy with excitement...until...

"What was that? You want to join Fairy Tail?" A familiar deep voice chimes in, stopping Lucy's train of thought. Appearing behind the bushes...is a familiar creep.

"SALAMANDER!" Lucy cried out.

"I've been looking all over for you. I wanted to PERSONALLY invite you to the party I'm having on my yacht, tonight." The blue-haired charmer says with such suave. However, Lucy wasn't having it, this time around.

"Your Charm Spells won't work on me! That magic's weakness is awareness! It doesn't work on people, if they know they're using it!" Lucy challenged.

"Just as I thought," Salamander says casually. "I guess you were a wizard, the moment I laid my eyes on you. No matter. The invitation still stands." Salamander requested as Lucy simply turned her back from him.

"Well, you can forget it. I wouldn't be caught dead in a party thrown by a creep like you!" Lucy retorts...immediately wounding the blue-haired man.

"A creep, why would you call me that...?" He says bashfully.

"Your spell? Using it to make yourself popular?" Lucy asks with such hatred in her voice. The blue-haired man only shrugged it off.

"Don't be mad, my dear, it's all in good fun. I just wanted to feel like a celebrity at my own party. Can you blame me?" Salamander simply asks.

"It just proves that even famous wizards can be idiots." Lucy retorts.

"...You wish to join the Fairy Tail guild, right?" Salamander simply asks. IMMEDIATELY gaining Lucy's attention as the blonde-haired girl only tensed up. "Have you ever heard about Salamander? One of Fairy Tail's wizards?"

"W-WELL YEAH!" Lucy replies quickly, before pointing her finger skeptically. "You're telling me YOU'RE HIM?! YOU'RE THAT SALAMANDER?!" She challenged.

"That's correct." Salamander replies. "And if you want to join, I could probably put in a good word for you." A hard bargain driven by this man. It obviously was enough to convince the blonde-haired girl as she only tensed up. Soon...she gave in.

"I would love to go to your party, tonight!" Lucy swooned as the blue-haired man only chuckled...chuckled at how she was so easily swayed.

"Wow. That was easier that I thought it would be." He simply says.

"S-So, do you really think you can get me into Fairy Tail? No kidding?" Lucy asks, just to be sure.

"I don't see why not, but you CAN'T say anything about the Charm Spell." Salamander requests. An easy thing for Lucy to do.

"I won't say a word!" Lucy replies so eagerly.

"Good. Then, I'll see you at the party tonight!" Salamander says as he snapped his fingers, once more, summoning his signature magic circle. Soon with a gust of purple energy, he rides off...towering the whole town, as Lucy looks in happiness, as she salutes.

"YOU GOT IT, MR. SALAMANDER, SIR!" She says with such vigor...as the man disappears into the distance...immediately, she knew just what happened. She was duped. "He got me! I was pseudo-charmed." She says angrily. "But..."

All that anger was immediately replaced with happiness as she leaped up high.

"HOORAY! HE'S GONNA GET ME INTO FAIRY TAIL~ I just gotta keep my mouth shut and be nice to that sleazebag until then!" The blonde-haired girl says giddily as she could only chuckle.

Rumble, rumble, rumble.

Lucy immediately stopped her tracks as she heard the rustling of the bushes once more. She began to tense up. "Now who is it? SHOW YOURSELF!" Lucy demanded. This time, it's clear she knew it wasn't Salamander. Suddenly slowly coming out from the shrubs...is a wagon. On top of the wagon a pitch black chest. On top of the pitch black chest is a familiar blonde-haired anthropomorphic rabbit. Her bangs on her one eye, and simply laying on the chest, casually blowing smoke from her cigarette holder.

"Oh! Uh...you're name is...Cotton, right?" Lucy asks.

"The Captivating." The rabbit finished as she gave the lemon blonde a wink.

"Cotton the Captivating?" Lucy repeated.

"That's right on the money." Cotton replied as the bunny toon in black and red casually looked up at the skies, with her hands behind her back, and her fishnet legs crossed. She soon smoked from her cigarette holder and simply...blew out a puff of smoke.

"So, what do you want?" Lucy asks.

"Lucy, darling, when it comes to games, I know where it's at. If you bet your money on everything, you'd either come out as a winner or come out as a loser. You're really thinking about throwing your cards on the table, oh so quickly." Cotton explained. The blonde-haired girl looks at the little anthropomorphic blonde in confusion.

"W-what are you talking about?" The blonde can only ask.

"You're really betting on Sally to get you into that Fairy Tail guild, aren't you?" Cotton simply asks, taking the blonde off guard.

"Of course! I-I mean...not really...OKAY, OKAY, No. I'm not so sure, but c'mon Cotton, he's SALAMANDER! How could he NOT make it up?" Lucy defended.

"See, I've seen men like him, back in my days." Cotton chuckles.

"BACK IN YOUR DAYS JUST HOW OLD ARE YOU?!" Lucy yells out.

"And the one thing I've picked up from men like his, is that he would do ANYTHING to get a lady's trust. Sally's a wolf in sheep's clothing, Hun. So why trust him?" Cotton says as pieces of sheep wool comically leaped across the black and white rabbit's face.

"Look, Cotton, I'm not sure what his gain is, but the chance of FINALLY joining in the Fairy Tail guild just presented itself to me. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! If that sleazeball really is in Fairy Tail, then I HAVE to go to his party, or else I'll NEVER get my chance! I'm not sure you understand how cool and awesome that guild is...I just HAVE to join it! Even if it means playing that cheapshot's game...then so be it." Lucy pledged.

Cotton simply blew out another puff of smoke.

"Call it intuition folks, but uhhhhhh...I think she REALLY wants to join this Fairy Tail guild." Cotton says to the audience as she soon turns back to Lucy raising cards in her gloved hand.

"Just remember~ play your cards right, and you might just come out a winner." Cotton says as a deck of cards appeared in her gloved hands as she presumed to shuffle and shuffle them, showing to Lucy an Ace card. However...she's not done. "Buuuuuuut~ play your cards wrong, and...well, I don't really see you workin' a joker's outfit" The blonde rabbit says presenting to Lucy joker card.

"Say...Cotton? I know this is off topic, but there's something I've been meaning to ask you." Lucy says. Immediately the toon presented to Lucy in her gloved hand, the rabbit's pitch black and floppy ears.

"I'm all ears~" The showgirl quipped as she placed her ears back to the side of her head.

"Detachable ears...that's one thing to add to my list of things I didn't need to see..." Lucy says aloud...as she continues to speak with the rabbit. "Uh...anyway, the only question I have is...what's a Toon?" Lucy asks.

"Pardon?" The rabbit asks gaining Lucy's full attention as the toon places her ears back on her head, flopping to the side of her head.

"It's just that...I've heard of them, but I just never paid any attention to them, or shown any interest. That is...until I met you. You're...you're something else, Cotton. You look completely different, you seem more energetic than you let on, you can do things like detaching your ears or..."

"Taking off my head?" Cotton asks as she immediately tapped her head with her wand...and soon with a cloud of smoke...

"GAHHH!" Lucy screamed out noticing that Cotton's head was completely gone from her shoulders. Not even hidden from inside her t-shirt. No...it was completely gone...and yet, her body still moves as if it wasn't. The headless showgirl placed one gloved finger in front of Lucy, and soon the body grabbed the rabbit's beanie, and tapped it three times.

"TA-DAAAAAA~" Cotton cries out as her headless body took her head right out of her beanie hat. At ease, the body flipped the head...and soon slammed right back on in between her shoulders. The blonde messy-haired rabbit smiles in amusement, almost as if nothing happened. Whereas Lucy only looked at her friend in red and black...completely dumbfounded.

"Like that?" Cotton asks.

"VERY MUCH LIKE THAT! How do you do it? It CAN'T be the work of a magic spell right?" Lucy asks.

"Nah, definitely not a magic spell. That's just the perks of what toons can do. Toons are cartoon characters that differ from humans. Called it cartoon physics or somethin' We got no bones, we got no organs, we're really nothing more than hand-made drawings from some madcap with some ink on the side." Cotton explained.

"You're...drawings?" Lucy asks. Cotton soon looked, once again to the audience and gave a one-eyed wink.

"I'll keep this under the rug, for plot." Cotton simply whispered as she continued. "Anyway, there are two different kinds of animation styles that created us: Rubber Hose Animation, and Limited Animation. The Rubber-Hose Toons, like moi, are either black and white, again like moi, or color. We have more flexible movement in our bodies, cause are arms and legs are like rubber." Cotton says wiggling her pitch black arms as if they were literally squirming worms.

"And the other one?" Lucy asks.

"Limited Animation. More modern and more colorful, yet at the same time still...SOMEWHAT made years further than the Rubber-Hose Era. They're more of the...gag arsenal and all that kind of physical comedy, while we're just body and law defying." Cotton casually says as she continues to blow another puff of smoke.

"I see..." Lucy says.

"Every Toon's drawn differently. With a different design, different personality, and a different body. It's usually been decided the moment we're animated outta the drawing board. I've been drawn to be a showgirl to give my audience a good show. What to wear now, and what to wear next is usually decided on what the Toon's been drawn to be. My clothing's always something flashy and revealing to always dazzle and wow the men, in more ways than you think, if you know what I mean~" The rabbit says seductively. Lucy looks at the blonde-haired rabbit in jealousy.

"IF ONLY I HAD WHAT THAT YOU HAVE, THEN THAT OLD GEEZER COULD'VE BEEN EATING OUT OF MY OWN HANDS!" Lucy cries out in outrage.

"What can I say? It's both a gift...and a curse." The rabbit says casually as the blonde looked at her in confusion.

"Uh...what do you mean a curse?" She couldn't help but ask.

"Well, when you're drawn out, and your character's set, well...let's just say it's hard for an itty bitty bunny like me to break out of character. Once your personality's been drawn out, there's really no taking it back. The closest thing I could do, regarding breaking out of character, is change my hair, put some gift shop clothing on a bit." Cotton explains. Lucy soon decided to take a seat on the bench sitting beside Cotton's wagon.

"Is that why your hair looks like...that?" Lucy asks.

"Yeah, after looking through a few Fiore magazines, I stumbled across a totally new look. Something called...a Punk hairstyles. When I think of Punk, I think of that loud and obnoxious rock & roll crap that a few traveling bards perform, instead of the better things like poetry, for old time's sake, or maybe I was thinking swing or jazz. Though, I gotta admit...those Punk Bards really do have some creative hairstyles...so I wanted to make one of my own. Messy, choppy, Blondie, and I made this" Cotton explains flipping her messy bob hair.

"That's allot to take in, Cotton. A-And you say this like you're okay with it?" Lucy asks.

"It's not a matter of being okay with it. I gotta be okay with it. I dunno about you, Lucy, but my character's already been drawn out. I don't got the power to change fate as remotely as you do. So, best thing to do is stick to the script and hope to get by a tiny bit of minor fixes like hair." Cotton says nonchalantly. The blonde couldn't help but look at the makeup donning spotted rabbit in concern.

"Cotton...I'm so sorry..." Lucy says apologetically. The rabbit soon landed on the concrete with a click-clack from her glossy red heels. The toon's glossy ruby lips gave out a smirk to her new friend.

"Relax, will ya? Frankly, in light of a few...inconveniences I've dealt with long ago, I find this personality invigorating." Cotton says as she leaps into Lucy's arms, raising her fishnet covered leg seductively. "The wiles of melting the hearts of men, the abilities to do all these parlor tricks, rather than some basic ol' Wizard magic, the dazzling and flaring assortment of clothing I get to wear. Honestly, I like it. Life as a casino bunny's a fun one." As the toon asserts her jumpy personality, Lucy soon picked up something she had just said.

"HOLD ON, WHAT DO YOU MEAN BASIC OLD WIZARD MAGIC?! AND WHAT? YOUR MAGIC IS FAR SUPERIOR THAN THE REST?!" From caring, Lucy immediately lashed out at the little showgirl. Soon enough, the bunny took from the inside of her beanie cap, her ebony wand.

"Now, I wouldn't go all out and say all THAT...but, I dunno, Luce. Wizard Magic just doesn't suit me. I'm only interested in illusions, card tricks, the magic...of chance. However, it's something I doubt you'd be interested in, either." Cotton explains as she sat on the bench with Lucy. The blond looked at her in confusion.

"What do you mean? What type of Magic do you do?" Lucy asks.

"Welllllll...in a way, it's sorta like illusion magic, but in reality there ain't really magic involved." The showgirl magician replies. Lucy nods her head in understanding.

"I see...so you're an Illusionist?" Lucy asks.

"In a way...but like I said before, stage magic don't involve the use of Wizardry. Magicians use some simple tricks like card tricks, to more advance tricks like using your brains and escape some dastardly trap, without using any tricks or magic to cheat with. Nothing big compared to summoning fire or lightening or what Sally's doing and charming the ladies...and claiming my heart~" Cotton says as she, once again, swoons at the very mentioning of Salamander.

"Huh...I've known about just about any piece of Magic out there, but I don't think I ever came across yours." Lucy says skeptically.

"Like I said, the Wizards are too busy using their fancy-shancy and phenomenal Magic and potions, rather than even turning a passing glance to the hungry Magicians and Showgirls who just wanted to entertain." Cotton says as she soon decided to hop off the bench, and gave out a sigh, as she touched the bridge of her glasses.

"Alright then, I think I've gushed my entire life-stories, more than enough today. That'll be all for today, class." The showgirl simply says as she grabbed her wagon and began to take off, before Lucy stopped her.

"W-WAIT, COTTON! I just wanna say, thank you for telling me all of this. With this new information, I think I can finally get a better grasp at exactly what a Toon actually is. Maybe, if there are Toons suffering to 'stay in character' like you, maybe I can find a way to stop it. Y'know, after I get into Fairy Tail and all that." Lucy says remembering her top priority. The little spotted toon only chuckled.

"You really don't have to, Lucy. I'm not really sure if there's stopping what's already been written in ink. Besides, like I said, I don't mind. Young, immortal, and ageless, punk, cunning, chipper, scandalous, ABSOLUTELY adorable AND beautiful~I really don't mind this lil' fate I got going here." Cotton says.

"You sure?" Lucy asks.

"Of course! What better way to show my wiles at Sally's soiree at his yacht? A Magician always shows up a parties." Cotton replies.

"Yeah...I gotta get there, too. SO I CAN JOIN FAIRY TAIL~" Lucy says overjoyed, as the Showgirl soon leaves the blonde with her fantasies of Fairy Tail.

"Just remember what I said! You'd be a sucky escape artist if you can't escape in a situation you're not prepared for!" Cotton calls out leaving the blonde alone in the park, as the birds caw. Soon, the blonde-haired girl took a look at the Joker card the blonde rabbit gave her. Lucy soon looks up to the sky.

"No matter the cost, I WILL join Fairy Tail. I've gotta play my cards right." Lucy pledged.

Nighttime

Finally, the mystic darkness of night has finally crept through the port town of Hargeon. The glistening crystal moon shining down, serving as the light shining within the darkness. However, another light...or rather flashes of light, shine brightly throughout the darkness of night. The POP, POP, POP, of Fireworks, popping throughout the night sky for all of Hargeon to see.

The Fireworks appear to be firing from a shining blue ship, sailing out to the seas of the Port Town. No doubt it's the party boat of the so-called 'sleazebag' trickster, Salamander. Tonight's the night of his soiree and all the fairest maidens of Hargeon Town far and wide are invited to partake in the festivities.

On deck, the fair maidens are either talking, gossiping about their wildest dreams of being with Salamander, at last, or simply enjoying the feast, which includes a lovely orange beverage, while looking at the beautiful night sky, gazing upon the moon and stars.

Among these beautiful ladies...is a little toon. Unlike the fancied-up ladies, she simply decided to wear her normal wear, because the t-shirt and beanie suits her the best. The blonde-haired spotted anthropomorphic was beginning to droop and droop as she sits alone in boredom. It's clear that this 'soiree' isn't as festive as she imagined.

"Really? Where's the jazz, where's the stage? Where're the classic bunnies cuddling with the Don while he eats his spaghetti? Man, ol' Sally's really holding out on me." Cotton says in boredom as she takes a drink from her martini glass. It looks more like wine than the liquid the other girls are drinking. Cotton soon looked to the door at the far side of the ship...the Captain's Quarters.

"Man o man, is Lucy lucky, tonight. While I'm out here, waitin' on giving Salamander a good ol' Magic Show to impress him, here he goes takin' her into the Captain's Quarters in private. Hrmhp. Worst night ever." Cotton simply pouts...as she continued drinking her wine.

Soon enough, a big and bulky waiter approached her.

"Excuse me, madam," The waiter asks gaining the showgirl's attention. "May I suggest, one of the finest refreshments? A tantalizing drink of pure relaxation, courtesy of the great wizard, Salamander himself?" The waiter suggested. Cotton soon looked to her wine bottle...being completely out and her martini glass empty.

"Well...time flies when you're having fun, huh? Pour me a fresh one, garson. And uh...keep the change, from me, to you." Cotton says as she blows a kiss to the waiter, for her payment. Tiny hearts, the same color as Cotton's ruby lips fluttered to the waiter's face as they popped in contact, making the waiter look at the toon in annoyance. He soon pours the orange liquid to the rabbit's martini glass and took off.

"Well, cheers to THIS crummy night." Cotton says in boredom as she began to drink Salamander's beverage...

"It's Lucy, right? That's a lovely name."

"Yeah, thanks!" We soon take the party inside, as we turn to the Captain's Quarters, where Salamander is having a one-on-one dinner with Lucy. Already, his wine was poured out in two shining wine glasses, with his wine bottle placed on the table.

"I'd like to toast your beauty." Salamander says. With a snap of a finger, drips and drips of his fancy beverage floated right in front of the maroon-dress donning blonde. She only looks in confusion as Salamander continues. "Now, open up wide, Lucy. Savor the taste of each flavorful drop, as it enters your mouth."

"CREEEEPY! I-I'm strong, I can get through this." Lucy mentally exclaims as the drops got closer and closer. However, she opened her eyes...with a scornful glare. Immediately, she slapped the drips of the beverage away.

"What do you think you're doing?" She demanded, catching Salamander off guard. She already knew. "I know what you're up to. You're trying to use Sleep Magic." She immediately deduced. The blue-haired man only chuckled.

"Very impressive, my dear." He says mischievously.

"Look, I don't want to give you the wrong idea. Yes, I REALLY want to join the Fairy Tail guild, but I'm not gonna date you to let that happen." Lucy protested. However...Salamander turned back to the blond...with a mischievous...and all so malicious look in his eye.

"You're quite a handful, aren't you?" Salamander asks maliciously. Following that notion, Lucy heard the curtains behind her open up. To her surprise, behind those curtains were big, and burly men with the same malicious looks as Salamander's. In their hands, the unconscious bodies of almost every maiden on the ship. Especially...

"Cotton?!" Lucy cried out as she took notice of the rabbit's unconscious body. She soon turned to Salamander's direction, who only smirked. The malicious man finally reveals his true colors. "What's going on here?" Lucy demanded.

"Welcome aboard my ship." The mischievous man introduced as he continues. "And you'd be wise to behave yourself until we make it to Bosco. Don't make me angry." The calm and collective man says with such a horrid and poisonous grin. Lucy can only look in surprise, shock, and a twinge of fear.

"WE'RE GOING TO BOSCO?! YOU SAID YOU'D GET ME INTO FAIRY TAIL!" She exclaims.

"Forget it. I just said THAT to lure you here and make you one of our slaves." He replies.

"HOW COULD YOU!? YOU'RE GONNA KIDNAP ALL THESE GIRL?!" Lucy demanded as the crooks following him only chuckled.

"Y-heah that's our Salamander, alright." A crook says.

"Yeah, we got a big haul this time!" Another says.

"Why you...!" Lucy can only scowl angrily at the blue-haired traitor. Soon enough, she took something from her pockets that gave out a jingling noise. Before she could even do anything, Salamander summoned his battle circle, and whipped the jingling object from her hands with his snake like magic. Soon, falling into his hands...are a chain of gold and silver keys.

"Hmm...these are Gate Keys. So, you're a Celestial Wizard?" Salamander says in intrigue, but soon looks at the object dismissively. "Only the Wizard who is contracted can use this Magic. So, these are absolutely useless to me. Whoops!" Salamander simply says as he threw the gate keys out the window. Lucy can only look in terror...and anger...as she can hear a silent...

SPLASH

Knowing no doubt that the gate keys...are in the water. She's defenseless. Nothing more...than a tornado of anger and pain and disbelief whirlwind through the blonde as she only looked at her cold and heartless captor...no...a member from Fairy Tail guild, who is her cold and heartless captor.

"W-who is this jerk!? I-I can't believe...that someone from Fairy Tail...would do something like this..." She can only say in her thoughts, as she looked upon the girls, entranced in the devious man's sleep spells. One of them...someone who she would no doubt call...a friend. The blonde glared at the blue-haired man. "You use magic...to take advantage of others!" Tears beginning to flow down from the blonde...as she can only say this to Salamander:

"YOU'RE THE WORST WIZARD ALIVE!"

*yawn*

A high-pitched voice suddenly piped up with a groggy yawn, completely cutting the tension. Lucy, Salamander, and his crew only looked in confusion as to where the yawn was coming from.

"Ugh...geez, could ya keep it down, Luce?" Lucy soon turned to the pile of unconscious girls. She soon looked in disbelief, as she took notice of one of them, standing up, and patting her head in agitation and pain. "Geez, I didn't think there was such a thing as too much wine."

"C-Cotton?!" Lucy exclaims in confusion, taking her, and even Salamander and his crew by surprise.

"Apparently, Toons can still feel pain. And man oh man, do is my head beating like a jazz drum." Cotton says, as she uncapped her forehead, revealing a jazz drum in her head, completely banging and banging hysterically. She soon capped her forehead back in and felt the drum...mentally slamming in her brain.

"How are YOU awake? Any who drinks from my marvelous champagne are to fall under a deep sleep!" Salamander demanded. The showgirl casually shrugs as she got up and patted the dust off her gold corset.

"Easy, I didn't drink it. I had my own wine to bring." Cotton replied. "I passed out, before I could even have a drink of your charming geyser." This gave the blue-haired man an idea. As he grabbed his wine cup filled with the stuff.

"Well, well, darling. By all means, it's not too la-" Salamander started, before Lucy stopped him.

"NOT A CHANCE!" Lucy retorts as she soon turned to her friend, urgently. "Listen Cotton, just like I said, this whole time Salamander used a charm spell on all the ladies in town. Now, he used a sleep spell in the drinks to put them all to sleep! It was an elaborate and SCUMMY scheme to ship us to Bosco, so we can be sold as slaves!" Lucy explained urgently.

Silence emanates the room. Salamander's secret got out...but...

"Oh, I knew that." Cotton shrugged.

"YOU KNEW!?" Lucy, Salamander, and his crew screamed out.

"You said it yourself, Luce. Sally's Charm Spell weakness was awareness and boy was I aware of it, when I saw those flashy rings of yours. I didn't want to drink his lil' poison, cause I didn't want shuteye, yet. But, boy...was I sorely mistaken when I chortled that wine bottle, whole." Cotton replied.

"Y-you KNEW I was using a Charm Spell from the beginning!?" Salamander asks.

"Yep! I didn't know what the heck they were, but it was DEFINITELY a show prop. Like I said, I've dealt with men like you. And you ain't no Prince Charming." Cotton obliviously replies. Everyone only looked at the pink-and blue haired rabbit in confusion.

"Wait...so...if you knew his charm spell was staged, from the very beginning...why didn't you say anything? And most importantly, why pretend to be under the curse?" Lucy asks. Soon enough...hears formed in place of the rabbit's pie-eyes, behind her spotted eye.

"Now, I wouldn't call it pretend. More like...acting. Besides...IT WASN'T AN ACT. I'M MADLY IN LOVE WITH THAT HUNK OF BLUE ICE, OVER THERE~" Cotton swooned.

...

"Creepy." Salamander simply says.

"YOU'RE ONE TO TALK, MR. SLAVE TRADER!" Lucy retorts.

CRASH!

Immediately following Cotton's episodes...all of a sudden, the ceiling was immediately broken through, as wood and lumber blasted into the ground...with dust forming around. Someone blasted through the window, no doubt. Salamander and his men looked in concern, and Lucy and Cotton, in confusion. Soon enough...the dust cleared, showing a familiar, and pissed off pink-haired figure.

"Hey, I know you!" Lucy says in happiness.

"Ehhhhhhhh...Natsu?" Cotton asks.

Suddenly, the floor's of the ship began to creak...as the boat it self moved due to the impact of Natsu's surprise entrance. Immediately following the rocking of the ship...Natsu, immediately and comically turned around, trying to hold in his lunch.

"I knew this was a bad idea...!" Natsu grumbled.

"Y-yeah...I can feel an afterbirth from the wine...!" Cotton grumbled trying to hold HER lunch in.

"YOU TWO ARE SO LAME!" Lucy yells out.

"Hey, what are you doing here, Lucy?" A high-pitched figure called out from above. Regaining her composure, Lucy and Cotton looked up and noticed a familiar blue cat...hovering in the air with pristine white angel wings.

"Oh, Happy! This jerk tricked me and Cotton! He said he was gonna get me into Fairy Tail." Lucy announced.

"Now, can we just go back a few steps, Luce? Cause...last time I checked, unless it's some kind of new magic trick, I don't think I recall cats having wings. I mean...I've heard of the phrase 'When Pigs Fly' but cats?" Cotton prattled on as Salamander and his men only looked at this scene, dumbfounded.

"I'll explain that later, okay?" Happy says as he latched his tail onto Lucy's waist. "Hang on!" Happy cries out as he soared high in the sky, as he held Lucy in his tail. Following the screams of the dangling, blonde, they took off, leaving Cotton alone with Salamander and his men. However, they were too busy looking to them, rather than looking to the young rabbit.

"AFTER THEM! WE CAN'T LET THEM REPORT THIS TO THE MAGIC COUNCIL!" Salamander cries out. However, Cotton was immediately on the case.

"Sally, darling, Forgive me for doing this to your stage buddies..." Cotton says as she soon takes off her beanie and twists and twists and twists her ears like twisting a propeller. She soon smirks mischievously. "But this is a DUET Performance! ONLY ME AND YOU!" Cotton yells out as she stops propelling her feet. At that motion, the rabbit's ears began to spin and spin like a spinning top, as she even began to hover in the air.

Colorful ropes of cloth were projected from her, going in all sorts of different directions, trapping just about half of the blue-haired man's guards. Salamander looked around in agitation. He didn't have to to deal with the carrot-chewing showgirl, so he ran off, while she was distracted.

Soon enough, the propeller toon began to slow down, as she began to hover down, wobbling and walking around in utter dizziness. "Thank you...I'll be here all day." The black and white rabbit says dizzily as she fell to the ground.

She soon regained her composure taking notice that all of the body guards trapped in her colorful cloth. However...she took notice of something quite crucial.

"Sally? MY LOVE~ D'ooooooooooh!" The frustrated spotted rabbit cried out as she made her way out of the Captain's Quarters and on deck, where she can see Salamander standing there...staring at the soaring Happy and Lucy in the distance. The blue-haired man growled in frustration, as he summoned his magic circle in front of him.

"You're not going anywhere! PROMINENCE WHIP!" Salamander screams out as his magical whips blasted out from his circle. The whips are flying high at all directions as the aerial cat, flies and flies out of harms way, amidst Lucy's screaming. Soon enough, when all of them drawn close at once, Happy flew up, making them collide, forming fireworks. Salamander only sneered in annoyance.

"That cat's quicker than he looks." He sneers.

"But, you are quick enough to get away from me, handsome~" Salamander, immediately looked in surprise, seeing Cotton right next to him, sitting casually on the yacht's railing, while kicking her heeled feet. Immediately, taking out her wand, she presented to the annoyed blue-haired man a bouquet of flowers on the wand.

"You don't know when to quit, do you?" The blue-haired man says in annoyance. The rabbit only chuckled.

"Eheheheh, I'm no fisherman, but you're my catch of the day~" She says seductively. Salamander was fed up with the annoying rabbit, as his nose met with her dotted nose. A glare formed on the blue-haired man. She leaned in with her ruby lips puckered, but comically, the blue-haired man clenched her lips, making them limp like an elephant's trunk.

"Well I'm afraid you didn't catch me. At all." Salamander says bluntly.

"Forget it, kid, just give up this charade. Don't you see? This is all just a show, an act. I don't see any of you as my significant other, I see you as profit. There IS no you and me. Just me...and money." The blue-haired man says mischievously, as he caresses the rabbit's face, as Cotton only gives him an oblivious look on her face. "But hey, don't sweat it. I'm sure you'll find a fine master who you can call significant other, all you'd like. Once we get to Bosco, that is."

"Aww...I thought what we had was special." The crimson-glasses donning rabbit says as the 'charmer' only chuckled.

"Ohhh...I'm afraid you've thought wrong, my dear." Salamander retorts.

"Oh well." She says dismissively...wait what?

"Wait...what?" Salamander asks. It was almost as if the rabbit didn't even care that she got broken up. Before, Salamander's questions could even be answered, Cotton disappeared from the railing, with a cloud of smoke, and with a POOF she re-appeared in the middle of the deck. She places her golden top hat on...as she gives a smirk.

"You know what they say, Sally, 'There's plenty of fish in the sea and plenty of cards to play. That being said...since our love was in fact a show..." Cotton says as her grin widened. "Then SOMEONE'S gotta play the lead role!."

"And that's me." A new voice called out. Soon, Salamander and Cotton turned around to see the panting, and scornful Natsu.

"Oh?" Cotton asks.

"Sorry, Cotton...but I've got a score to settle with this poser." Natsu declared. Salamander, however simply rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"Do we really have time for this?" Salamander asks. With a SNAP of a finger, a few more members of his crew barged out of another door. Seems like Cotton missed a few...give or take a few...10 more. The ship rocks again, catching Natsu off guard, giving the crooks the opportunity to pin Natsu down, and kick him like crazy.

"Oh, Natsu! I can't help but notice, but you're VERY, VERY seasick!" Cotton calls out.

"AH NOOOO, WHAT GAVE YOU THAT IDEA?!" Natsu snapped back.

"Heheh, alright, alright, I'll get you outta this mess." Cotton says. Before she could cast a spell, however...

"Prominence COIL!" Salamander yells out, summoning his magic circle again. A magical whip immediate captured and coiled around Cotton, like a snake coiling its prey. The coil soon moved to Salamander's side as he only chuckled.

"Let me guess, a mere Stage Magician?" Salamander asks as he grabs the showgirl's wand. He can only laugh in amusement. "Really? REALLY NOW? Of all the powerful pieces of Magic in the world, you decided to train under THAT useless thing? Parlor Magic is nothing more than the usage of mere trinkets like cards, chains, and cloths. Don't you ever wonder WHY people rarely uses this sort of magic?" Salamander asks.

"Mmm-mm!" Cotton says nodding in disagreement.

"Because plain and simple: This study of Magic is defective, weak, feeble, and nothing more than a POOR excuse of magic, when Wizards excel in FAR more outstanding feats. If THAT'S what you plan to use for your whole life, then it just goes to show that you Toons are NOTHING...in comparison to us Wizards." Salamander explains.

Cotton only smiles obviously.

"I know! Isn't it great?!" She simply says.

"AND WHAT THE HELL DO YOU KNOW ABOUT MAGIC, YA BLUE HAIRED POSER?!" Natsu called out, as Salamander and Cotton soon turned to him, pushing a crook's leg off, with his arm. "And another question...You mean to tell me...that YOU?! YOU'RE a member of the Fairy Tail guild!?" Cotton tilts her head in confusion.

"Fairy Tail guild? This again?" Cotton asks.

"OPEN GATE OF THE WATER BEARER!" A voice yells out from far away...or at least it was something that Cotton picked up.

"Lucy?" Cotton muffled.

"AQUARIUS!" Lucy shouts out. A light-bulb flickered on top of Cotton's head. Aquarius...Aquarius...that's a star...which means...ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

"Hmm? GAHH, WHAT THE HELL!?" Salamander and his crew yells out after Cotton, oh so easily, escaped Salamander's Prominence Coil, as her body simply popped off her head and slid down the coil, running to the middle of the deck. Salamander, in surprise of this, threw Cotton's head high up in the sky.

"HEY, BODY, OVER HERE!" Cotton yelled out, as her body extends and grabbed the head by the ears, and slammed her head in between the body's shoulder...to which her head hovering above the collar at ease. "Y'know, Sally, your speech moved me...literally, I moved out of the way and back to the deck for this." Cotton quipped.

"Not funny!" Natsu muffled, trying to hold back his lunch.

"But, saying...that I ONLY know parlor tricks...is a bit of a stretch." Cotton continues as Salamander and the remaining of his crew droned at the blonde-haired showgirl in confusion. "Every Magician has at least a FEW tricks up their sleeves." Cotton says taking something out her hat.

"NOT SO FAST!" Salamander yells out as a Prominence Whip blasted out, but immediately, Cotton retaliated by placing her hat out in front. All the Magic that Salamander just slung was immediately being sucked into the Showgirl's beanie cap. Soon enough, she covered it until it began to bulge and bulge.

"OUTTA THE WAY, NATSU!" Cotton yells out.

"RIGHT!" The pink-haired boy dodged rolled his way out...and soon...the rabbit let go of her grip.

BOOM!

"WAAAAAAAGHHHH!" The crewmen screamed out, as they were all caught in a streaming blast of purple. They were all either slammed to the other side of the yacht, or they simply fell off board. Defeated, once more as they laid unconscious. Soon, the punk-hairstyle donning showgirl turned to the blue-haired scum.

"Heh, the show's just begun!" Cotton was about to grab something from her hat...but, before she could even do such a thing...she felt the ship rock. This time...it was a VERY abrupt rock.

BOOM!

Before the rabbit could even look around, she, Natsu, Salamander, and the remaining men began to felt the ship moving on its own. Not only that...but sea water rushing in like madness, basically in a flood of sea and speed. Almost as if they were in a maelstrom...yet such an impossible thing for a clear night.

"NATSU, I THINK I CAUGHT YOUR SEASICKNESS!" Cotton yells out as she was slammed back and forth throughout the ship.

"GAAAH! WHY IS THE SEA SO ANGRY?!" Salamander screams out.

"I DUNNO, BUT I BLAME YOU, SO TELL IT TO STOOOOPP!" Cotton retorts as she was simply being juggled by the water. The ship itself has been juggling and juggling and juggling by the Water's angry snare...until finally...

CRASH!

Awaking the many townspeople, the yacht was soon flung, side-first to the Hargeon port. That ship is nothing more than wreckage as it's now basically buried within the sand, now. The towns people crowded the wreckage as they looked in awe and concern. The swirling-eyed rabbit only lied down on the sand...smiling.

"You ever wonder how the Chefs in a kitchen would toss salad?" Cotton asks to herself. "This...this is how they do it." Soon enough, the bunny girl turned her head to the distance, seeing Salamander and a couple of his boys rising up from the ground.

"Dammit. What in the..." Salamander started, but was immediately thrown off guard when he saw something high up on the towering point of the ship. A figure stands on the highest point of the ship...towering everyone at port...as the light of the moon casts behind him, shadowing the determined pink-haired boy.

"NATSU!" A familiar voice Cotton heard. She soon rose from the ground and dusted the sand from her corset leotard, seeing in the distance Lucy and Happy running to the ship wreckage. The punk sporting showgirl was about to disappear with a smoke bomb and reappear in front of them, but she was soon stopped as Natsu spoke up.

"So, you claim to be a member of the Fairy Tail guild?" Natsu hisses directly at Salamander.

"Yeah? What's it to YOU?" Salamander retorts. "Go get him, men!" The blue-haired man yells out as a couple of his crew came charging out at him. Soon enough, Cotton tapped her top hat...and landing down on the pale sand from the hat is a small and mahogany beach chair. The showgirl sits down, as she simply crosses her legs and watched the show. This time, it's a show she HAS to sit out on.

"Let me take a closer look at ya." Natsu says as he threw off his coat showing a pitch black t-shirt, and baggy ebony pants.

"WATCH OUT!" Lucy calls out.

"Don't worry about him! I probably should've told you this earlier, but he's a Wizard, too!" Cotton heard Happy explained. The blonde-haired rabbit looked up at the pink-haired boy in intrigue.

"A Wizard, eh? So that means all that cockamamie about Dragons..." The fight was easily over, before it was even started. Two of Salamander's men were completely slapped away by Natsu so easily. The pink-haired man teen only looked at the blue-haired man with such a scornful look.

"My name is Natsu, and I'M a Fairy Tail Wizard, AND I'VE NEVER SEEN YOU BEFORE!" Natsu announced to the world, taking Lucy by shock, and Cotton in intrigue.

"You've gotta be kidding me! S-so, NATSU is a Fairy Tail Wizard?" Lucy called out. Cotton looked to how Salamander would react. Needless to say, he tensed up at that moment.

"Fairy Tail, Fairy Tail, Fairy Tail. Ever since Salamander and Lucy came in, that's the only thing I've been hearing about. If Natsu's a Wizard in one, and he's all the way out here, a girl's gotta wonder just how many more Wizards are over there. Is it really THAT popular of a guild? like Lucy said?" Cotton asks in intrigue. Soon, enough, Cotton took out binoculars from her beanie cap seeing something about Natsu. "Hold on a sec...what's that on his arm, a tattoo?"

"T-that mark on his arm!" One of Salamander's men says in fear. A crimson red symbol of...what appears to be a fairy like symbol with a devil's tail on the bottom. "T-THIS GUY'S THE REAL DEAL, BORA!" The crook says. A-haaaaa...so this 'Salamander' isn't a Salamander at all.

"D-DON'T CALL ME THAT, YOU FOOL!" 'Salamander' exclaims. Cotton, from her direction, can pick up what Happy was saying.

"I know him, that's Bora the Prominence. Rumor has it, that he got kicked out of the Titan Nose Wizard guild a couple of years ago because of bad behavior." Happy explains. Ahhh, so that Salamander...definitely wasn't a Salamander...but a Bora.

"I have no idea what you're trying to do here, buddy, and I don't care if you're a good guy, bad guy, or what. I'm not gonna let you dirty the Fairy Tail guild's name!" Natsu protests. Bora only sneered.

"And what are YOU gonna do about it? Stop me?!" The blue-haired Bora says as he summoned his magic circle, and called out a Spell. "PROMINENCE TYPHOON!" He calls out, projecting a typhoon like whip towards Natsu. Too big for him to dodge. He just...stood there.

BOOM!

"NATSU!" Lucy calls out, but before she could run to the ship to get to him, Happy immediately stopped her. Cotton took notice of that, thinking that perhaps...the show's just getting started with Natsu. Salamander...or Bora only chuckled as he turned his back on the burning debris.

"That's how it goes; the bigger the talk, the weaker the man." Bora chuckles.

"GAH, THIS IS SO GROSS!" Natsu called out from behind the flames. The blue-haired man's eyes widened. He was sure that his typhoon blasted Natsu down, dead-center. Cotton tried to look at what he was trying to do, within the flames. "Are you sure that you're really a Fire Wizard? Cause, these are the NASTIEST flames I've ever tasted!" Nastu protested in disgust.

"AHHHHH!"

"WHAAAAA?!"

"Tasted? I've heard of fire in your belly, but that's just taking it literally." While Lucy and Bora only looked with their eyes, completely widened in shock and fear, Cotton only looked with even more intrigue as everyone looked to see the pink-haired boy sucking the flames to his mouth and swallowing them as if they were last night's breakfast. He soon smiled at the panicking blue-haired man.

"Still, thanks for the grub, poser." Natsu simply says.

"W-WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?! WHO IS THIS KID?!" Bora says with such paranoia and fear in his eyes, as Cotton only rolled her pied pupils.

"I liked him better when he was ferocious like a tiger...now I'm looking at a kitty that got no bite." The blonde-haired spotted rabbit says in boredom.

"Fire Magic doesn't work on Natsu." Happy explains mischievously.

"I-I've never seen anything like that..." Lucy says in fear and concern. Soon enough, the pink-haired boy walked through the towering debris, with steam forming from under his shoes, within each footstep. It looks like he's about to make a move.

"Now, I've got a fire in my belly that's RAGIN' to get out!" Natsu says as he pounds his knuckles. The interested black and white rabbit can see a tiny magic circle at an instant, the moment he did that...the symbol wasn't like any other magic circle. It...almost looked as if it was a symbol of a dragon. Soon, the pink-haired boy snapped his eyes open...his eyes more ferocious, golden and his pupils slit...almost as if he was some sort of lizard...or...

"Dragon..." Cotton whispered.

"Here it goes!" Natsu yells out as fire began to swim around him. He calls out his spell. "FIRE DRAGON ROOOOAR!" Natsu screams out, as he presses his hands together, almost as if he's holding a flute...and just like a flute...he exhales and projected from his lungs, a magnificent and bright stream of fire towards Bora and his men. In front of Natsu, a boiling hot orange magic circle, where the fire projects...and grows to a larger size.

Before, any of Bora's men could react...

BOOM!

An explosion powerful enough for all of Hargeon Town for hear erupted. Debris and sand flew around as Happy and Lucy braced themselves. Sand, to Cotton's remain was blasting on her, and to the rabbit's dismay, on her gold dress. Soon enough, the folding chair reacted, and snapped closed and back open, making Cotton's limbs break apart and back regroup to the toon's body.

"Aww, c'mon, I didn't sign up for abuse for this t-shirt! First water and now sand?" Cotton could only complain as she, grumpily took off her t-shirt and twists it, revealing her velvet red corset bodysuit, as she placed her now dry t-shirt back on and watched the fight ensue. All of Bora's men were down for the count, but the blue-haired man however was simply floating up in his purple magical coil.

"H-Hey Bora, I swear I've seen this guy before!" A conscious crook says in fear. "The pink hair, and the scaly-lookin' scarf? There's no doubt about it! He's GOTTA be the real one!" Lucy's eyes widened in surprise.

"Salamander?!" Lucy cries out.

"Again with this? DO YOU SEE ANY LIZARDS!? CAUSE I DON'T!" Cotton retorts.

"I HOPE YOU GUYS ARE PAYING ATTENTION," Natsu announced as his fists began to flare up. A scorching orange flame surrounds his fists. "CAUSE THIS IS WHAT A FAIRY TAIL WIZARD CAN DO! HERE I COME!" The pink-haired teen screams out as he was charging straight at Bora. The frightened crook, retaliated, however.

"RED SHOWER!" Bora screams out as volleys of purple energy blasted out from his crimson magic circle. Every last one of them, Natsu dodged them all, and with a magic circle appearing under his feet, he leaped up and delivered a scorching punch to Bora's face, sending him flying to a mountain in the city. This gives Cotton the chance to regroup with Lucy and Happy as her beanie cap flew blissfully down to Lucy's hands.

"Soooooooo, what are we looking at, here?" Cotton asks, as she immediately popped out from her pitch black cap. Usually, this would no doubt take Lucy by surprise, but she's far too enamored at the scene unfolding under the night sky.

"So...so he EATS fire and then he attacks with it? But how does he do it? Is it some kinda spell?" Lucy asks as Cotton watched the scene, while still comfortably resting in her hat.

"He has dragon lungs to allow him to breath fire, dragon scales to help him to dissolve the fire, and dragon claws for attacking with fire." Happy explains as the fight between Bora and Natsu continued on the Hargeon rooftops. "Natsu's brand of Fire Magic is one that allows his body to take on ALL qualities of a dragon. It's an ancient spell that's rarely used anymore."

"So, what we're dealing with here, is a human with capabilities of an ACTUAL dragon. Boy, not even the toons could believe THIS story." Cotton summarizes.

"Are you serious?" Lucy asks in bewilderment.

"This particular magic was originally used to DEAL with dragons." Happy explains.

"Well I'll be..." Cotton says in awe.

"Whoa..." Lucy says in awe.

"HELL PROMINENCE!" Bora screams out, creating a MASSIVE crimson magic circle, as a gigantic ray of magic blasts through it, and cleanly sliced through half the houses and lands of Hargeon.

"It's called Dragon Slayer Magic. Igneel was the one who taught it to him." Happy finishes.

"Igneel, huh? That guy you came to this dead-end place to find?" Cotton asks.

"Aye!" Happy replies.

"HGGGGGGGGGHHHH DAMMIT!" Bora screams out as he conjures from his magic circle a gigantic sphere of purple energy. He soon chucks it at Natsu, but the Dragon Slayer Mage caught it, dead-on with his bare hands. He took the flaming purple sphere, and swallows it up.

"Now THAT was a hefty meal!" Natsu called out in satisfaction. "You're not doing to bad, but I'm about to cook you like a smoked fish!" Natsu threatened.

"YOU'RE GONNA DO WHAT TO ME?!" Bora screams out in outrage and fear. The time for talk was over. Natsu pounds his fist, forming a tiny magic circle between them. His eyes, the shape of a dragon once more. It looks like Natsu's about to finish this fight.

"GET READY! FIRE DRAGON...IRON FIST!" Natsu screams out as the fire swirls around him. His left fist...completely forming a scorching, and flaming aura. And almost as if the pink-haired boy was like a dragon, he gave out a skin-crawling roar as he was flying straight to Bora. Before the blue-haired crook could even have a chance to react...

"GAAAAHHHHH!" He cries out, under Natsu's roar, as a scorching punch was delivered to the blue-haired crook. Soon enough, the blue-haired man was sent flying, skidding throughout the town, and even defying gravity as he was taking up speed until finally...

GONG!

"Quasimodo, you've got a new playmate." Cotton quips.

He landed on the very bell-tower he first charmed the women in. It's clear that this battle was over. Cotton was clapping in satisfaction as she simply raised a sign with only the number 10 on it. Lucy, only looked in surprise as she couldn't believe ANYTHING she had just witnessed. And Happy...

"Don't be silly, Natsu. Everyone knows you smoke food with smoke! Not fire." The blue cat simply says casually.

"Wow...that was amazing...BUT HE OVERDID IT!" The blonde retorts as she looked upon the village debris.

"Aye!"

"DON'T GIVE ME THAT 'AYE' CAT!"

"I for one don't see a big deal, Luce. When it comes to showbiz, you always need to find a flashy way to end it. You can't just leave the audience hanging, y'know."

"YOU'RE NOT HELPING, COTTON!"

Unfortunately for the three, it looks like the three won't be able to get a moment's rest. The Clink-clank, clink-clank of Knight shoes clanked throughout the ruined cobblestone village. Lucy, Happy, and Cotton, to their surprised looked to see an army of silver-plated knights with shining red and gold shields and glistening silver halberds coming this way. And it looks like they're coming THEY'RE way. If they stay here, they might just be in big trouble.

"THE ARMY?!" Lucy cries out in horror.

"CRAP, WE GOTTA GET GOING!" Natsu screams out as he grabbed Lucy and skidded off, as the blonde held tightly in her other hand, the toony rabbit within her hat.

"W-WAIT WHAT?! WHERE ARE YOU TAKING ME?!" Lucy demanded.

"JUST C'MON! You said you wanted to join the Fairy Tail guild, didn't ya?!" Natsu asks. The blonde was immediately silenced. She didn't know what to say, this time around. When Bora presented her an invitation to Fairy Tail, she of course had a reason to be skeptical. If it wasn't for Natsu, her invitation to Fairy Tail would've been an invitation to Slavetown in Bosco. She was tricked...but now...Natsu, someone who has shown his prowess, as well as the mark on his arm...he's a legit person from the Fairy Tail Guild.

"Somehow I knew ol' Bora wasn't a member of Fairy Tail. Heh, if Natsu didn't show up...why you'd have a reason to keep that joker card." Cotton chuckled.

"YOU ALMOST GOT CAUGHT TOO, REMEMBER?!" Lucy retorts as Happy soon soared freely to the air along the trio. Cotton soon looks down to her golden hat.

"Good thing this hat's got everything inside, huh? Or else I'd be leaving the city empty handed and that just wouldn't do for a bunny showgirl like myself, now would it? My trunk's in here, my wardrobe, my props," Cotton went on and on.

"I didn't think you could fit all that stuff in that hat!" Happy replies.

"You'd be surprise just what can fit in this expandable beanie cap, Happy. That being said..." Cotton says as she smiles at Lucy and then to Natsu. "HEY, NATSU!" Cotton yells out.

"YEAH?" The boy asks.

"Don't suppose you have room for one more, in your little guild?" Cotton asks, taking Lucy aback. A smile of anticipation creaks on Lucy's face as she knows what this mean.

"Cotton...d-does that mean?" Lucy asks, as the black and white rabbit nods in agreement, as she gives the lemon blonde a wink on her spotted eye.

"I wanna come with ya, Luce. I wanna join the Fairy Tail guild. Beats walking in quiet, day in and day out." Cotton pledged. Both Happy and Lucy smiles happily at Cotton's decision. Natsu giving a determined smirk.

"Well then...LET'S GO!" Natsu says happily as he ran freely with Lucy in his hands, and the blonde clenching on to Cotton's hat, with the rabbit in it, freely and Happy soaring with such grace. A bond has been made...with these four friends. Soon, Lucy lets go of Natsu, and together with Cotton in her hands, the two ran freely as the guards pursued them out of Hargeon Town...one last look of this little town. Why? Because...

"WE FINALLY GET TO JOIN FAIRY TAIL!" Lucy announced happily.

Yep, it looks like that's how it's gonna be, huh? And so, this showgirl leaves the nest of Hargeon Town, after all that ruckus Bora and Natsu made, but hey, every bird's gotta leave the nest SOMEDAY. Besides this tranquility's killing this showgirl's style. Imagine, if it wasn't for ol' Bora. Looks like I'm in for something new. An adventure...and a guild. Made some damn good friends: Lucy, Happy, and Natsu. Bora, my sweet, parting is such sweet sorrow...but like I said to you, there's plenty of fish in the sea...fish that are greater in man than you.

I don't know what the future's gonna hold for me, Natsu, and Happy...but I'll probably peek at the script at some point, even though I'm only supposed to stick to it, and y'know...NOT read it. A showgirl's gotta break a few rules, so why judge~?

And now...it looks like this showgirl's gonna fly with the fairies. So begins the journey of Cotton the Captivating...the Hareraising Toon.

After progressing and developing further on my Catastrophic Toon fanfiction...I couldn't help myself. I wanted to make another one, using a list of my favorite animes. One of them being One Piece, the other one being Fairy Tail. Now, I wanted to make that show-girl flapper like character that I felt couldn't work in my Kingdom Hearts story. And so, what better way to add the little showgirl magician than using an anime that ACTUALLY utilizes the power of Magic. I...completely searched far and wide...through Pintrest to find a look to actually ENVISION Cotton. Something that I completely neglected in doing when I first developed and scrapped Hocus.

And thus the design I came up with is that traditional playboy bunny outfit, which is basically under her t-shirt...with a little difference in hairstyle that completely defies it, by searching on the web for an Emo hairstyle. (No, Cotton isn't Emo, she just wanted to have a creative hairstyle) and in the end, with the help of my friend, I picked a messy short bob hair, covered by a pitch black beanie. I'm thinking of giving Cotton a bit of a more...casino gambler like vibe.

Showgirls, Bunny Girls, and Flappers have...interesting clothing, like fur coats and stylish heels and all that. So I wish to utilize that as I try to think up more pieces of clothing for Cotton to...as Cotton wants...to wow and seduce...and all that I guess.

That being said, thanks to Pintrest, new ideas come to life. I hope you all get to enjoy this fanfic that perhaps one day, I'll think about making into a fanfiction series...and ACTUALLY go through with it. If you have any ideas on how to further Cotton's abilities or stories a bit more, then by all means you're welcome to do so. For one...just don't expect something ludicrous like...a kamahehameha...or all that. Because...I'm thinking of...say tactical abilities using Cotton's magician magic (with a few slapstick or physical slapstick).

Enjoy the fanfiction.