Alright, Chapter 2 guys! I worked pretty hard on this and I'm going to be out of the country for 10 days so don't expect another chapter out of me anytime soon. I hope y'all enjoyed the first chapter, I thought it was pretty good (Thanks A. Z. Erin, for giving me something to work with). As she mentioned, we are both posting the entire story up on our own accounts so you can read either, it's all the exact same. Also, she's going to be reading this for the first time once I post it so, basically, she's in the same position as you. She has no idea what I'm going to write. It's going to be slightly difficult to get her chapters on my account though because stupid fanfiction decided to BAN copy and pasting stories, how annoying. But anyways, you lovely readers, I hope you enjoy chapter 2 and stuff will slowly start to make sense to you.
Cuz it's stuff...
And it's supposed to make sense...
You get my drift?
Kay, enjoy.
Disclaimer (because she forgot to do one, I'll make this for the entire story): A. Z. Erin and I do not own Fairy Tail or any of the characters from Fairy Tail and if a song somehow comes up in this story, we don't own that either.
-Snow
Chapter 2
By Snowelle
"Fuck, Natsu get off the chandelier!" Lucy shouted, entering the hall after her short break. The blonde girl rushed to the center of the room and tried not to die of panic when the giant chandelier started to swing due to the weight of a certain pink haired boy.
"But Lucy-"
"No. Fucking. Buts. Natsu get down before I shoot you." Lucy said in an eerily calm voice that sent chills up Natsu's spine. He dropped down from the chandelier and apologized.
"Sorry Luce, it was a dare."
Lucy sighed. "How did you get up there anyways."
"Happy took me!" He proclaimed proudly. Lucy's eyebrow twitched and her brown eyes narrowed.
"Why is Professor Happy in the hall?"
"Because he's my friend! I invited him."
"And where is he now?"
"Um," Natsu bit his lip, trying to remember, "I think he said he was going to eat lunch."
A sinking feeling settled in Lucy's stomach as she realized the implications of the blue flying cat eating lunch. Happy was an exceed, the result of a genetic experiment run by the science department of their school, and exceeds normally had giant appetites. Happy eating lunch equals Happy eating fish. Happy eating fish equals Happy in the kitchen. Happy in the kitchen equals...
She didn't even want to think about it.
"Everyone," She started in a tired voice, "Just go eat lunch. And make sure Happy doesn't eat more than three fish." Natsu leaped with glee and dashed out of the hall. He was soon followed by the rest of the students who had been working nonstop since 8 am that morning. Lucy was starting to worry if they would be finished with the decorations by that evening when guests would start to arrive for the charity ball.
Lucy laughed a little as she realized she didn't even have a dress. The blonde made a mental note to never do something like this again, she was sure her life span had been shortened by at least ten years due to all the stress. A crack of thunder sounded outside the building. What was with all the rain lately? Lucy tucked a loose strand of blonde hair behind her ear and straightened her rumpled pink and white top. Soon she was drowning in her thoughts, staring at nothing and thinking about a million things. It was a habit she'd gotten from her mother. Or so she was told. Lucy only remembered a few things about her mother. She remembered fancy dresses, pretty blonde hair, and the warmest brown eyes. She remembered stories and poems and songs. But most of all, Lucy remembered her laugh. Funny, how one person's laugh could affect the entire house. She remembered how it seemed to ring through the entire mansion and Lucy would also laugh along with her father. And then it all changed.
She shook her head. Now was not the time to think about the past. All that mattered was that now she was here, in this school, with these people. It had already been three years since she arrived and her previously soft brown eyes had been hardened with the things she had seen.
"Lucy." A voice interrupted her thoughts and she immediately went rigid, turning around in her fighting stance only to see Gray Fullbuster standing in the entrance. His inky black hair was soaking wet and one particular lock was way shorter than the others. And he wasn't wearing clothes.
"I-idiot!" Lucy blushed and covered her eyes yelling at him, "Go put some clothes on before you get pneumonia!"
"What! I was wearing a shirt a few seconds ago-"
"What are we going to do if you catch a cold! You still have to be a bachelor tonight or we won't have enough!"
"Hey, that isn't fair, I never volunteered!"
"Too bad, you still have to do it! What did you come here for anyways?"
All of a sudden Gray was silent. Lucy stared at him expectantly, seemingly ignoring his-erm bare state. A few sneezes and a glare later, Gray cleared his throat.
"So, what are you wearing to the ball tonight?"
"Nice try Gray, why are you really here?"
A few more moments in silence passed and Lucy was starting to get anxious. Was he going to ask her for money or something?
"Can I borrow some underwear?"
Erza Scarlet didn't normally peek at people but as she munched on her slice of chocolate cake, she couldn't help but stare at the man a few feet away from her.
'Jellal Fernandez' The redhead repeated the name over and over in her head. The blue haired, nineteen year-old boy was sitting on a table talking to Zeref (who was napping and obviously not listening) and Freed. Why did she think about him so much? She didn't even know. Her cheeks started to pink slightly as she thought about the previous night when she had unceremoniously left Lucy to join the Astronomy Club.
"Erza! What are you doing here?" Jellal asked, smiling a little at the girl with scarlet red hair.
"I wanted to see astronomy."
"Oh, you mean the stars? They're really pretty tonight. Come on, you can still join us."
"..."
Erza mentally slapped herself. Why did she have to be so stupid. She didn't even like astronomy. All it was was a bunch of burning rocks floating around in space, what was so interesting about that? Yet she planned on joining them again for the next meeting. And the next. Hell she was even almost thinking about quitting her own armor club.
Almost. There's nothing that Erza enjoyed more than her vast collection of armor (except maybe cake) but to think that Jellal of all people could make her think about quitting her own club!
Her eyes drifted to Gray as he walked in the room. He was soaking wet, half naked (as usual), and had a nice sized bruise on his cheek. Juvia immediately ran over to him with a worried look in her eyes.
"Gray-sama! What happened?" She quickly rushed over to the freezer to grab an bag of ice, wrapped it in a towel, and handed it to Gray. Said boy mumbled something along the lines of "that damn woman" and "underwear" before popping open the bag and munching on the ice.
"Ah, no, Gray-sama that ice was for your cheek!" Juvia proclaimed before noticing his state of undress and nearly fainting. Levy quickly dragged her back to her seat before the poor girl could pass out. Sighing, Levy turned teasingly to Erza.
"Erza-san do you like Jellal?"
All of a sudden Erza couldn't breathe. Her face turned a brilliant shade of red and her eyes narrowed. Her mouth opened and closed and it was suddenly starting to feel stuffy inside the metal armor she wore over her blue and white sailor uniform.
"Oh my god, Erza are you alright? I didn't mean anything by it! I mean, I just thought since you were staring and even went to the Astronomy club yesterday...but I guess I was wrong. I'm so sorry!" Levy apologized repeatedly, running to get water for the scarlet haired girl who looked like she was about to choke. Juvia, who was still lost in her own thoughts, didn't seem to notice.
"Hey Erza, can I have your fish?" Happy, who had been happily munching on seafood on the stove, flew over to Erza and pointed to the plate beside her. Her face cooled down a little and she looked over at the small blue cat who was smiling at her expectantly.
"...Fine. Just don't touch my cake."
Happy happily shoved the fish in his mouth and contentedly lay down for a nap.
After Erza drank some water and calmed down Lucy walked into the large kitchen with a large smile on her face.
"All right everyone, according to my observations, we should be done preparing before the ball starts! Let's get working people!"
After a lot of grumbling, everyone filed out of the kitchen. That's when Lucy noticed a silver gleam from the corner of her eye outside the window. Her brown eyes narrowed briefly.
A shatter from the ballroom brought her back to Earth and she stared at the window for a few more moments before running out of the kitchen, deciding to investigate later.
Makarov Dreyar had never before been so terrified of anything in his life than what he was looking at in the picture in front of him. His eyes widened considerably and he sat down, scratching his chin.
"So you see, Headmaster Makarov, we need to get this out immediately so some students can depart-"
"No." Makarov replied to the aging, pink-haired woman in front of him. "No, Porlyusica, it's too dangerous."
A few moments passed and no one at the table uttered a word. Finally, Porlyusica sighed.
"I understand your feelings Makarov." She said sternly. "But we cannot allow this to spread. I know the dangers and as my years as a medic I have seen many things and suffered the consequences of rash behavior. At least send a few of our best to investigate the matter and if it's too dangerous, we can retract them at you order."
Another wave of silence passed over the room and a blonde man with spiky hair and a lightning shaped scar running down his face opened his mouth to speak.
"Quiet, Laxus. I already know what you're going to say. You are not going out there."
"Gramps! I'm prefectly capable of going out there!" Laxus spoke loudly making the older participants of the meeting wince loudly.
"I know you're capable but right now we need you here as a teacher. Please understand." Makarov spoke firmly and Laxus shut up, although unwillingly.
"Everyone, this meeting is dismissed. I will decide what to do tonight and let you know after the Charity Ball."
The moment was finally here. The decorations were in place, the lights twinkled, and the grand chandelier was in tact. All the round tables had been covered in white cloth(although Levy claimed it was eggshell, not white) and the chairs had royal blue bows tied in the back. Each person had a plate, a wine glass, and a program with all of the bachelors and bachelorettes listed with pictures and bios. The makeshift stage at the front of the room, right next to the food tables, was fitted with a microphone and eight giant gift boxes.
Everything was perfect and Lucy was happy.
"Alright everyone, good work today! Keep in mind that I need the bachelors and bachelorettes to report in the basement half way through the party so you can be lifted in to the gift boxes on the stage."
"Thank God." Evergreen grumbled.
"Yeah, what a waste of a Saturday." Cana agreed, taking a drink from her silver flask.
Lucy glared and swiped away the flask.
"Cana, I need you to be sober tonight. No one wants a drunk bachelorette."
"As if I would get drunk that easily, who do you think I am?" Cana replied saucily, swiping back her flask and downing it.
Lucy rolled her eyes. "Okay, where did Erza, Levy, and Juvia go?"
"They said they were going to get dressed." A meek voice replied from Lucy's right. She jumped and saw a young, blue haired girl smiling at her.
"Oh, Wendy, there you are!" Lucy said happily, giving the younger girl a hug. "Thanks for showing up, I know you're busy with medic classes."
"Of course she's busy with medic classes, you should be glad she even bothered to come!" A voice from behind Wendy spoke out. A white exceed, this time a girl, appeared from behind Wendy with her nose high in the air. "Her schedule is very tight!"
"Carla! Stop, I'm glad to attend!"
"Hmpf!"
Wendy shook her head. The young blunette was a prodigal twelve year old with exceptional capabilities in medicine. She was originally in the middle school department of Fairy Tail Academy, but she took all of her medicine related classes in the High school, making her familiar with most of the students.
"Oh, by the way Wendy, you can go change into a dress if you want." Lucy pointed out the dressing room and Wendy hurried off to change.
Just as Wendy left the room, the three absent girls walked in. Erza walked proudly in front, Levy in the middle, and Juvia walked shyly in the back.
"Um...Erza?" Lucy said, a little apprehensive.
"What is it?"
"Why are you in a wedding dress?"
Alright guys, if you liked it please tell us, if you didn't like it, also tell us. Sorry if the chapter is a little rushed, I wanted to have it up before going on vacation so A. Z. would have something to work with. As you can see that never happened... ehem... well yes I'm glad I even managed to get this up.
So, enjoy, and...
CIAO!
-Snow