A/N: With this being my first fanfiction I'm not sure how consistent I will be with updating this story. I get a little overly excited with ideas and tend to jump around a lot so be patient with me. Thank you for reading and giving me feedback to learn from. I do not own Fairytail or it's characters.
One hour later Lucy stood in front of her bathroom mirror in a towel. " Gate of the crab! I open thee." she called forth the spirit. With a flash of golden light and sound of a doorbell, Cancer appeared in a poof, " How can I be of service today, ebi?" I'm going out tonight with friends and need help with my hair?" Lucy asked with a smile. "I know just the thing, ebi!" Cancer got to work moving his arms around quickly with lots of snipping noises. " All done ebi."
Lucy turned to look back in the mirror to see her hair braided back on one side so the other falls in soft smooth waves down her other shoulder. Even her make up was done with a natural smokey eye and deep red lip. She felt like a movie star from the fifties. "Thank you so much! You did wonderful!" she squealed as she launched her self at the man to give him an awkward hug. With a light blush to his face he hugged her back briefly. "Call me any time ebi." And with that he went back to the spirit world with another golden poof.
She walked into her bedroom looking through her closet for something to wear tonight. After going through her copious amount of clothing she decided on a simple strapless black dress that had a sweetheart bodice and hugged her curves to about mid thigh. The back had about a three inch slit that made moving possible without the dress riding up. Slipping on the dress she found the strappy black heels to match and quickly put them on.
She took a quick peak at her figure in the floor length mirror and decided instead of carrying a purse with her things to just pull on her garter for these kind of occasions. Once in place she attached her keys deciding to forgo her whip since she was surrounded by her friends and wasn't planning on any trouble happening tonight. But with Fairytail you could never be too prepared.
Locking up, she started down the street to meet the girls at the cafe to walk over to the club together. Ignoring the cat calls she was receiving she heard Cana call out to her," Damn girl! You'll definitely have a guy taking you home tonight, If he doesn't take you right then and there." Lucy's whole face turned a deep red, shaking her hands in front of her face, "Wh..what? N..noo you have the wrong idea. I'm just going to spend time with you guys, have fun, support the boys." she defended herself. " Yea you'll be having fun alright." The card mage said while wagging her eyebrows suggestively. Lucy just laughed a little uneasily, ignoring the girls jab. If it was up to the drunkard and Mira she would of lost her virginity ten times over and had a small army of children running around.
"So is everyone here? Where's Levi? I thought she was excited about tonight?" She asked Mira who had turned away from Evergreen to greet her. "Team shadow gear got a last minute request so she had to head out right away. Though she is wanting to have a girls night when they get back Sunday to get all the details from tonight." she laughed merrily. "Oh that's too bad." the blonde stated.
Levi was her best girlfriend and was by far the easiest to be around especially on these kind of outings since they were so alike. Fun and outgoing but still conservative enough to know when to call it a night. She was actually getting a little nervous being left in the hand of the trio. She had a feeling she would definitely be doing something embarrassing by the end of the night.
Saying a quick hello to Evergreen the girls turned and started heading to the club to meet the guys. "Who all are we meeting besides Gray and Natsu?" Lucy asked the group of girls. Evergreen was the one who spoke behind her fan, " Well I know the rest of the Raijinshu are coming. Of course our leader was also given VIP tickets. So we should all have sections to our self between the two groups."
Mira seemed very excited at this news. Lucy knew the barmaid had had crush on the rune mage for quite awhile now. She wondered if tonight she would finally make her move on the proper mage. Cana not missing the dreamy look on Mira's face as well commented, "So you finally going to find out what Freed is packing under that cravats?" Mira turned a shade of red that could rival Erza's hair. "I have no idea what you are talking about." She lied terribly. The group all bust out laughing at that.
Lucy smiled at Mira, "I think ya'll would be extremely cute together. You should ask him to dance and tell him how you feel. You're a catch Mira and any guy would be ecstatic to have a chance with you." the blonde said sincerely. "Thank you Lucy. Maybe you're right. What's the worst that could happen right. If he doesn't feel the same then we'd still be nakama and be on good terms." Mira said a little more confidently.
Evergreen just had a knowing smile on her lips while Cana shouted out, "That's the spirit! I'll make it my mission to not only get Gray and Natsu taken home but our whole group! It's gonna be one hell of a time." Lucy begin shaking her head at her friend's craziness. Hopefully Cana would get drunk enough to leave her out of her schemes.
Reaching the establishment Lucy had to give it once over again. Looking at it at first glance you would never know that it was a club except for the small sign above the entry way with red neon lights around it, tucked into a dark alcove. It was a big factory looking building. All stone except for a layer of glass that wrapped around the top. Seeing as the sun was setting you could see the reflections of the different colored lights shining out from them, flickering in time to the gentle hum you could feel from the music coming from inside.
Getting closer to the entrance she could see Gray and Natsu leaning against the wall next to the door, not fighting for once. The boys looked good, she had to admit. Gray was wearing dark slacks with a dark gray button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbow. Everything fitted deliciously to his body showing of his physique without being revealing. He still wore his signature messy ebony locks in his face a little.
Letting her eyes glaze over to Natsu she widened her eyes in shock. She had seen Gray dress up on occasion. Hell she had seen Gray's glorious body naked many Natsu always refused dressing up for any occasion. Getting the kid to take a bath was torture half the time. The dragon slayer was wearing a nice pair of blue jeans that hugged his waist. Her eyes trailed up seeing he was wearing a tight white v neck and looked like he had actually brushed his hair. It was still sticking up every which direction, but had a styled look to it opposed to the usual just ran my hands through it after waking up look.
Natsu and Gray had a smirk on their face which snapped Lucy from ogling her best friends. "Hey guys! ya'll look great!" She said giving them hugs. "Yea I can tell, you have a little drool just right there." Gray said pointed to her face laughing. Lucy blushed heavily smacking his hand away from her face. "Hrmphf!" She huffed out. " You look beautiful Luce!" Natsu said after laughing at Gray who was shaking his hand from being assaulted.
Evergreen broke up their reunion. " I'll see you guys inside, I need to meet up with my team. We'll get to the good stuff once we all get settled." She said walking inside. Cana started handing everyone their tickets to get inside. " Alright guys I suggest getting a drink at the bar first while I talk to the owner for a minute and get our table ready. I'll come grab you soon." she walked inside leaving the four mages to fend for their selves.
Mira grabbed Lucy's hand and started pulling her forward. " Come on Lucy, your sticking with me. I actually have a night off and I'm ready to start enjoying it." Lucy giggled looking over her shoulder to see the fire and ice mage following the girls.
As soon as they opened the door they had to let their eyes adjust to the dark lighting and smoke that was in the air from fog machines she was guessing. Mira still holding her arm led her up to a giant of a man in all black taking tickets and handing out wrist bands. "Tickets." he said in a bored monotone voice. Mira handed him their tickets which he helped wrap small black bands on their right wrist. "Enjoy yourselves ladies." Lucy just smiled while Mira replied" Oh we certainly plan on it" with a diabolical smile.
The boys followed suit and they all waded through the huge crowd to get to the bar. The place was huge. It was even bigger than what it looked like from the outside. Everything had a very industrial feel to it. Exposed pipes, bricks, giant fans, lights and weird scaffolding above the dance floor. All the tables were along the perimeter of the building which were already taken up. Waitresses in all black heading back in forth. The opening was obviously a success. The bar took an entire wall with multiple bartenders behind it. Stools lined the entire length of it. A Dark red light emanated from the bottom of it, also going around the far wall around the huge shelves and coolers.
The mages took their seats next to each other just taking in the area. " What can I get for ya?" A man asked his eyes doing a once over Mira's form. " We'll take two shots each of tonight's special." she smiled. The man got to work and set two in front of everyone while winking at Mira. "Just flag me down if you need anything else gorgeous." He said with a smirk. Mira just nodded her thanks and turned to her friends. "To a night with family and friendly competitions!" She cheered.
Lucy clinked her shotglass against the others and shot it down quickly. She immediately got a soft flush to her cheeks. It went down smooth enough and left a cinnamon flavor in her mouth, but was pretty strong. She'd have to pace her self with these. Gray and Natsu smiled at the girls while glaring at each other over the reminder of why they were here. Shooting down the last shot, Cana came up to them already with a bottle of liquor in her hand half empty. " Alright guys, time to get to partying, follow me!" she yelled out over the loud music.
Lucy hopped up and hooked her arm through Mira's, following the card mage through the huge crowd to the back right of the room. Once they broke through the crowd they were in front of a giant set of stairs blocked by another set of ropes and a man even bigger than the one up front. Giving their group a once over and seeing their black bands he opened the rope to let them ascend. Once they were at the top you could see different sections of booths and tables set up with a smaller personal bar as well. It was also a little quieter so you wouldn't have to yell to hear each other.
Walking all the way to the end of the hall way to the lasts sections they saw that someone had obvious pulled down one of the screens and pushed two section together. The table was covered in assortment of drinks and bottles and one whole side had actual barrels. The owner must have been prepared for them and their resident drunk. Noticing people already around the table she saw Freed and Evergreen on one side. Freed was in his usual attire with a small smile on his face. He gave a greeting to the group but Lucy noticed his eyes wandering to Mira more often then the others. Mira standing taller with confidence went and sat next to rune mage .
On the other side was Laxus and Bickslow. Laxus was wearing his usual attire of Dark tight pants and a purple buttoned up shirt but had thrown his signature coat on the back of his chair. He had a rare grin on his face and was sitting relaxed which made his muscles look oh so yummy. If the empty shot glasses in front of him were any indication he was feeling pretty good about right now. His hair was styled up like he had been hit by his own magic but it suited the man. He was gorgeous. Any woman would have to be blind to not see it. But he was still extremely intimidating. Lucy had actually talked to the man a few times in passing at the guild. They were always friendly but not actual friends.
Cana went and sat next to the lightening mage, filling her cup up again with random concoctions from the tables stock. Not seeming the least bit intimidated by the giant of a man beside her, Gray and Natsu had sat down next to her which left the chair next to Evergreen and Bickslow for her. She had to do a double take of the seith mage. If it wasn't for helmet he always wore she wouldn't of recognized him. He wasn't wearing his usual baggy armor, that made the man a mystery to her and pretty much everyone else at the guild. No quite the opposite. He was wearing a tight black shirt that hugged his well built frame. The short sleeves wrapped around his tight tanned arm muscles perfectly. He was wearing tight black pants as well showing his toned thighs and legs. Lucy was picturing just how his ass would look in those jeans.
"Wait what, why the hell am I thinking of Bickslow's ass." the celestial mage wondered. Sure Bickslow's body was an unexpected mouthwatering surprise, he was still the biggest pervert she knew. Right on cue his tongue lolled out the side of his mouth in a wide grin." Get your sexy ass over here cosplayer! I promise I won't bite...too hard." He laughed out. Lucy rolled her eyes and sat down giving him a glare that would make Erza proud. " Behave yourself Bickslow or you'll end up with your ass on the floor." she huffed out at him.
The whole table laughed at this, eyeing the petite girl knowing she would make good on her threat. "Well now that we're all here lets drink before we get down to business." Cana said passing aroung shot glasses filled to the brim. "To a night to remember!" Everyone shouted their acquiescence and downed the burning drinks. A few more shots were passed around and once everyone, besides Cana, had a healthy glow to their cheeks, she turned to Mira and Evergreen. The girls stood up and walked over to the balcony railing scoping the crowd out for the lucky targets of tonights entertainment.
Natsu and Gray looked back and forth from the girls, then at each other with worried glances. If they got to choose, tonight would go smoothly for the mages. But knowing the diabolical woman of their guild, they were going to make this a hell of a lot harder on them. The girls busted out in a fit of laughter and nodded at each other in agreement. Everyone stood up and headed to the railing to see who they had picked.
"All right Gray since you started this mess we picked for you first." Cana stated. Gray had a cocky smile in place and looked down to where his potential nights company was at. " See the woman with backless silver dress at the bar." Cana was pointing with her mug. The groups eyes scoured the bar looking for the maiden. Sure enough a woman with chesnut hair pinned up of her neck was sitting with her back to us wearing a beautiful backless silver dress and peep toed stilettos. She was beautiful and from watching her, she knew it. Man after man approached her just for her to ignore or turn them away. Gray's eyes had a predatory gleam in them watching the woman's movements. After a few minutes he took another shot than headed down the stairs.
"I bet she turns him down right from the get go. No way a woman like that would want a punk like him." Laxus said. Freed just shook his head in agreement with his leader. Natsu laughed loudly as well. Bickslow on the other hand disagreed." I don't know man, I've seen Gray at work. He's pretty smooth when he wants to be." Lucy just looked up at the man in surprise." You and Gray have gone out together?" she asked. " Eh..sometimes. Usually it just happens to be the closest bar to the guild so most of the guys end up there on the weekends. But anyone he's ever had his eye on, he's always left with." The seith mage answered with a grin. The blonde blushed a little at the thought. She knew Gray was a lady's man. But hearing about it and seeing it in action was something else all together.
They watched as Gray sat next to the brunette and ordered a drink not even turning his head to look at her. "What the hell is he doing, I don't think ignoring her is going to get him anywhere." Mira commented. Lucy hummed in agreement. Natsu looked confused at his rival. While the older mages laughed loudly. "Actually it's the oldest trick in the book. Women who are beautiful and used to men throwing themselves at them can't help but be interested in the one who doesn't, that makes that man automatically more desirable than the rest. Women always want what's hard to get. It's all just a game." Laxus stated boredly. Bickslow actually agreed this time.
Cana and Evergreen laughed watching everything unfold. "Yea you're right, I'm just surprised Gray picked up that our dame is up for a game of wills tonight." Cana chuckled. Mira and Freed were talking quietly before Mira spoke aloud to the group," Alright it's time for recon mission. Freed and I are going to go close to them on the dance floor so we have a play by play of Gray's progress. "Freed had a light pink dusting to his cheeks but otherwise didn't act bothered by the declaration. Freed the gentlemen he was offered his arm to her and started down the stairs to wade through throng of people.
Lucy turned her attention back to her friend who was turning away a woman who had obviously had a few too many and trying to hang on him. Much to his luck the brunette stood up facing the woman while putting her hand on Gray's shoulder. Unable to hear the conversation they had to go by just body language of what was transpiring. The drunken woman got a angry look on her face by something the brunette said and stomped back off into the crowd. Gray turned to face the lady of the hour with a small grin on his face. The woman sat down while the ice mage waved his hand to the bartender who immediately put two glasses in front of the pair.
"Well hot damn! He moves quick, Gray has passed the first test of the evening." Cana said. Evergreen chipped in, " I think it's time to get our dragon slayer a friend. I don't want to be up here all night watching these idiots." Cana nodded her head and the two women put their heads together scouting out Natsu's companion. Natsu just stood by watching Gray from a far. While Laxus had started helping the girls narrow down their suspects.
"Hey cheerleader, want another drink?" Bickslow asked. "I have a name you know. And I only wore the outfit one time for god's sakes! " Lucy sputtered out. Bickslow just let out another tongue lolling laugh, "Hey getting your ass handed to you by a hot cheerleader the first time you meet them, that's not something you forget easily. So sorry, your stuck with it." the seith mage joked. Though Lucy hated all the nicknames everyone seemed to give her, at least he kind of had a point.
Fantasia was all in the distant past and she had well forgiven them everything long ago. But looking back instead of being terrified or hurt by the situation, she could see the humor." I still feel bad for all the poor toys lives lost that day. You must of had one hell of a bill after that fiasco." She joked back. Bickslow walked to the table grabbing two bottles handing her one while leaning back on the banister, " You have no idea. Between that and all the buildings that were destroyed from the battles that day and Laxus going dragon force mode, we definitely dug deep in our reserves. But that's one good thing about going on S class missions. The pay is awesome and easy to make up." Lucy accepted the bottle taking a small sip.
"Alright Natsu come here." Cana steered the man next to here pointing out to the crowd again. Everyone snapped in attention to listen and see who's Natsu's conquest was. On the opposite side of the bar was a less refined woman, she definitely had more spunk. She wore her dark blonde hair in long pigtails that bounced as she moved. She was wearing a tight pink baby doll tee that showed all her curves clearly and wore a white skirt that barely covered her ass with knee high white boots. Natsu eyed her for a little while and even started smiling a bit. Lucy was beginning to think that Cana was going easy on the boys because honestly the women she picked out were of like temperament to the specific boys.
"Go get her tiger!" Cana yelled out her support. Laxus actually gave the kid a pat on the back in encouragement. Bickslow nodded and tipped his drink at him, while Evergreen just smiled behind her fan at him. Lucy walked over to her best friend with a giant smile, "Just remember to be yourself, don't worry about Gray and everyone else. Just enjoy yourself." Natsu pulled her into a giant hug," Take care of yourself tonight, don't hesitate to get me if need be." he whispered in her ear. She nodded her head and let go while pushing him towards the stairs. Natsu threw his hand up in a wave while walking down.
"Now this should be interesting." Laxus said. "I'm surprise that dim wit even agreed to this in the first place." Watching him walk to the blonde Lucy asked Cana, "So Cana what's with the choices, I honestly thought you would of picked women impossible for the boys to pick up. It almost seems too easy." Cana looked over at her with a sly smile, "Well I did make a promise earlier that I would make sure everyone would be hooking up tonight didn't I." Lucy averted her eyes from the scheming card mage taking a deep drink from her bottle. Bickslow spoke up though," Didn't you set all this up to take bets. If there isn't a clear winner won't you lose out?" he asked genuinely confused. " Ha! As if I've ever made a bet I wasn't sure I would win. I just bet on both boys winning so they would be tied." she gloated.
"He's made it to her guys, look." Evergreen pointed with her fan. Lucy once again looked down to the floor, her eyes following the pink haired man as he walked straight up to the little cherry bomb. Whatever he said had the blonde laughing pretty hard and nodding her head enthusiastically. Once again they watched as their friend sat down facing a woman sharing a drink together. "Alright onto faze two!" Cana raised her glass in cheers to their friend's success. Everyone raised their drinks and chugged down whatever was left of what they were holding. Lucy was starting to feel the effects at this point feeling pretty bubbley and ready to move her hips to the sensual beat the dj was playing.
"Cana, Evergreen I want to dance for a bit. Gray's already got his girl on the floor and I'm sure Natsu will too soon. We can watch em closer that way anyways." She pleaded with girls with her big doe eyes. " Girl you don't have to ask me twice. Let me grab another bottle and we'll shake it like there's no tomorrow." Cana grinned. Evergreen on the other hand already pulled a chair out to look over the floor, " You girls go on ahead I'll stay up here with our table and keep the drinks flowing for when ya'll come back for a break." They ladies perked up at that and started sashaying down the stairs leaving the trio to their own devices.
Cana pulled Lucy along heading to where she had seen Mira last. Seeing the silverette they shimmied up close dancing while asking the take over mage for an update. "How's our ice mage doing?" Cana asked. Mira just pointed over to their left. Looking over a few couples down they could see Gray with his shirt already unbuttoned with the brunette wrapped around him, their mouths pressed over one anothers. Gray moved away long enough to whisper in her ear. She gave him a nod and sultry smile. He held her close while leading her to the exit. "Well that escalated quickly." Lucy laughed out loud. Cana just nodded with a smirk on her face. "Alright! Grays done with two and three we just have to wait for proof in the morning. But going off that action we just saw, I have every faith in him."
"We're going to go rest for a bit." Mira said to the female mages. " No problem, we'll head over to Natsu and inconspicuously keep an eye on the situation." Cana yelled over the music. Everyone nodded their goodbyes and Cana pulled Lucy a little further into the crowd until they saw the pinkette sitting at the bar with the blonde woman. "Alright darling we'll stay here for a bit then move if we need to when they come out" Cana said to Lucy. "To the best night out ever." Lucy cheered, while downing the rest of her drink. " I'll drink to that!" Cana chugged her bottles contents as well. Lucy definitely was swaying a little bit and feeling extremely happy and warm.
Cana grabbed the girl once the next song came on and started moving in sync with the celestial mage. Grabbing each others hips they swayed and dipped in time with music running their hands up each others arms, getting lost into the music. They were getting their fair share of nods and looks of appreciation from the males surrounding them. Shortly after the first song they saw Natsu being led by the bouncing blonde onto the dance floor where they immediately grabbed each other and started to move in time with the beat.
The pig tailed woman was obviously outgoing. The girls could see her circling around the mage leaning forward nibbling on his ear, which in turn caused the fire breather to pull her around and grind her against his body, plunging his tongue into her mouth, which she reciprocated in full. The girl moved her hands up and over Natsu's chest and hooking around his neck pulling him even closer into the kiss. After a few minutes of the couple devouring each other the blonde pulled away with at heady look and started pulling Natsu along with her towards the door without uttering a single word to each other.
Lucy had to pull her jaw off the floor after watching her best friends interaction with the little vixen. After seeing Natsu that afternoon she knew he was a lot more woman savvy than she'd previously thought. But still didn't think him capable of actually being intimate with woman in that manner. Hell the whole reason she had gotten over her little crush on him in the first place when she had first joined was because she knew Natsu had no interest in women. To say she was shocked was putting it mildly.
"Yes! So many jewels! Tomorrow I'll have enough to re up my liquor stash at home!" The card mage yipped at her good fortune. "Alright now that the main event is over time to cut loose."
