Author's Note: I apologize for the loooooooong wait! Math this year is particularly tough because the teacher goes through lessons sonic fast. Miss a lesson in that class, there's no turning back. She ain't gonna stop for you. This chapter was a bit tough to write as I had a lot more ideas that I wanted to cram in. Enjoy!


Chapter 3: Surprises

The birds were chirping, bells rang from Kardia Cathedral as everyone in Magnolia chattered amongst themselves, but a certain blonde was conversing with a guy at the shopping district.

"Hey blondie, that outfit looks pretty nice on you. Mind if you join me at the South Gate Park? We'll walk together to pick up some ice cream on the way." The guy held out his hand while he grinned at the attractive beauty.

The female blushed at the unknown male's attempts at flirting, she smiled in embarrassment. "Thank you for the compliment, My name's Lucy. What's yours?"

The unknown male gazed into Lucy's chocolate colored eyes, his face contorted into doubt, but his demeanor changed once he began to speak with those luscious lips. He was the definition of hot. Other women also stared at the hunk, infatuated. "My name is-"

"Princess..."

Everything stopped dead as if time was frozen by Gray. Lucy turned her head in confusion, she tried waving at the motionless hottie, but he was frozen as if he was turned to stone. This didn't turn out to be so well.

"Princess..."

Lucy ran all over the street attempting to get anyone's attention, but it failed. "What's going on?!"

"Princess."

"Kyaaa!" Lucy woke up from her bed, she frantically turned her head around. Everything in the apartment was spotless, and everything was organized neatly. Virgo was there standing next to the wizard. "V-virgo? How come you're here right now?..."

The submissive maid bowed before speaking a response. "I've been trying to wake you up for the past 5 minutes Princess. I am a maid. I will carry on my duties for your necessities, even if it means to wake you up for breakfast. It's 8 AM, you should better start your day." Virgo pointed to a bento at the coffee table on plain sight with a note.

"Virgo... I didn't know you would-". Lucy looked down at herself, she was wearing pink bunny pajamas. "What happened last night?" The blonde had a dumbstruck look on her face, she wanted answers right now.

Virgo stared at Lucy with a deadpan expression one cannot comprehend. "You threw yourself a pity party by watching romance while eating pizza after we went back to the celestial realm. You passed out at midnight, and I took care of everything by doing my nightly clean up, including you. Someone made you breakfast over there this morning, but the person told me to never mention his name."

"You... Tucked me into bed?..." Lucy's mind was past confused, she was dealing with a mind blowing revelation. "This explains why my room looks so clean in the morning..." The hungover celestial spirit mage got off her bed, and she made a beeline to the bathroom door. "Virgo I'm going to take a quick shower before I eat. You can go back now!"

"Goodbye Princess." Virgo faded away to the spirit world.

Lucy stripped of her pajamas, she filled the bath, and she sunk down in the water tub. The nude blonde began talking to herself about that mysterious hottie, "I wonder… If he did actually exist, would he be my boyfriend?..." The celestial wizard dabbled in the bath in curiosity, but Lucy heard a noise from her hidden window. "Who's there?..." The thought of a stalker pried her mentality, Lucy dabbled it off anyway when she pulled down the blinds. Time passed as Lucy dried herself once she stepped out of the bathtub, and she put on a plain white tee and a black mini skirt. Lucy strolled out of the door, refreshed and ready to eat the mysterious bento, but there was a note. "Who made this?..." She picked up the note and read it; it was written in surprisingly good handwriting.

"I prepared this for you after what happened when Natsu was being a douchebag to you for Lisanna. -Your Silver Haired Friend. :3"

Lucy was disturbed by how well made everything involved with the bento was, but by seeing the bento in all of it's glory: it was like seeing a gourmet meal from heaven. Even if it was just plain rice with meat and the other junk, it smelled like it was from a renowned restaurant: not to mention it was pretty with handcrafted animals on the rice. Just staring at it made the hungry blonde want to eat it right now. Lucy reached for the chopsticks that was present with the bento, and she took the first bite. IT. WAS. AMAZING. The sauce of the meat made her mouth tingle, Lucy wolfed it down as fast as she could because it was so DELICIOUS. Before she could munch on the last piece of the bento, the doorbell rang.

"Lu-chan? Are you there? Open up!"

Lucy quickly ate the last piece while she threw the boxed lunch away, but Lucy put on her brown combat boots and equipped her key belt soon after. The celestial wizard tried to tie her hair into her trademark side ponytail fashion as she power walked towards the door. "Hang on, I was doing some-" She turned unlocked the door. Gajeel and Levy were at the door; Levy grinned while Gajeel looked cold as usual. "So... What do you need guys?"

The raven haired bad boy spoke his reasons, "We're going to- Gah!" A small fist crash into him straight in the face. "What was that for shrimp!"

Levy punched him out of desperation, she realized what she just did made the situation even more awkward. Lucy looked dumbfounded by the fact Levying managed to injure Gajeel. "S-Sorry! What we meant to say was... We're going out!" The bookworm raised her arms high in a dramatic fashion: it managed to hit Gajeel in the process.

"Shrimp..."

Lucy became worried, she originally wanted to leave Magnolia silently, but Levy protested nonetheless. Levy gave Lucy a blindfold: it was made in a cute pattern of stars. "What is this for?... A bandana?"

Gajeel glanced at Levy panicking, he nudged her. Levy elbowed back. It went back and forth until the pierced man spilled the beans. "Ugh... Put the cloth on, we got a special surprise right at-" A loud slap broke the tension; Gajeel had enough. "Why do you always keeping doing that!"

"This is a surprise! It's not my fault I had to get into this mess with you because of Mira!" The blue shrimp became irritated the fact that Gajeel almost ruined everything. "We're doing this for Lucy!"

"Are you guys dating-"

"WE'RE NOT DATING!" The supposed arguing couple shouted at the same time in denial.

Levy facepalmed herself in shame. "Gajeel, just tie the blindfold on her eyes and guide her the way there so we could get this over with." The bookworm already had enough of Gajeel for today.

"W-wait! What are we going to do exactly?" Lucy questioned as Gajeel tied the cloth in front of her eyes. Gajeel held Lucy's arm tightly to guide her way there even if it hurts, and it was a silent trip with tension between Gajeel and Levy. Sadly, Lucy had to bear with the two whether or not they're secretly a couple.


For what felt like forever being dragged through probably all of Magnolia, Lucy finally heard the soft sound of rustling grass. The scent of delicious foods wafted through the air, and it pierced Lucy's nose, making her stomach growl. The celestial spirit mage heard many voices, but she couldn't decipher who they were. Until a loud sound broke the ice.

"SURPRISE!"

Lucy was in the afterglow of her ears being hit in the worst possible way. The blonde tried to remove the blindfold, what didn't help was Levy screaming as she tried to take the cloth off her face. The scream rose to several decibels in annoyance.

"YOU IDIOT! LUCY STILL HAS THE BLINDFOLD ON! GAJEEL!'"

"IT'S NOT MY FAULT THAT THE OTHERS SAID IT SO EARLY!"

Juvia pushed the squabbling couple away from each other, "What Juvia and the others want is to enjoy the party with Love-Rival, not you two squabbling. If only Gray-sama was here..." The water mage's face fell at the mere thought of never seeing Gray's abs in the party.

"Cry me a river Juvia. We did this for Lucy, not for Gray." Freed leaned into the center tree that had groups of balloons nearby. "It took forever to set up the balloons since Elfman keeps popping them, and-."

Bixlow muffled Freed's mouth before he could complain anymore. "Not to mention this was from our personal wallets, setting up the party wasn't cheap."

The wooden babies floated around with glee. "Expensive! Expensive!"

"Quit whining about your Jewels you two. Levy and Gajeel, go make out already. Someone take the blindfold off of her and start the party!" Cana sat at a food filled party table slamming a bottle of alcohol down in excitement.

The two calmed themselves down, but glares were made for each other: they were also blushing. Mira secretly squealed at the sight near the huge tree. They continued on until Levy decided to untie the blindfold. "I'm sorry Lu-chan. I heard that you were leaving Fairy Tail from Mira, and I had to round up the gang for the farewell party. We even got you a bunch of presents when you go on your adventure, but are you going to finish the novel while you're gone?"

"Uhh... I don't think I can continue writing it Levy. It was about my adventure with Fairy Tail, Natsu and the others." Lucy replied with a sad face.

Levy was shocked by the news. "What... It was just getting good when they started dat-"

"Hmm? Who started dating? Lucy has a boyfriend?" Evergreen suddenly wanted to know more about Lucy's love life; she stopped filing her green fingernails in curiosity.

"Getting laid is being a MAN Lucy!" Elfman thumbed up at Lucy proudly. Lucy sweat dropped from Elfman's compliment, and she received winks from others especially Cana and Mira.

As the bombshell of Lucy "dating" happened, Wendy was mildly confused by the term "laid". "Elfman, what does laid mean?" Gajeel stopped munching on metal. Carla was shocked by this, she tried to keep Wendy from knowing too much of the older stuff for so long. The cat didn't want Wendy to become impure at a young age.

The Thunder Legion, minus Laxus, was dead silent. Freed stopped whatever he was doing. Bixlow became a statue as he posed himself into a punk rock pose. Evergreen gaped at Wendy when she said those words out of her innocent mouth.

"Wendy, you'll learn about it when you are-"

"Elfman I wanna know what that means too!" Romeo asked with enthusiasm in his eyes, but no one wanted to spill Romeo about the birds and the bees. "You guys always say words I don't know like bastard, shit, and bitch. I want to know what they mean!"

Everyone stared at Romeo with their faces paler than a ghost: it was their fault after all. They made him impure.

"I'm telling Macao to stop bringing Romeo here before he knows too much..." Mirajane nervously spoke which broke the tense iceberg. Nearly everyone except Elfman nodded in agreement, and Romeo became downcast of getting grounded by his dad.

"Whatever, let's get our asses into gear and PARTY!" Cana was in full drunk mode when she drank all of her bottle containing most alcohol.

"YEAH!"


At a house in Magnolia, the Origin Castors were getting accustomed to life with Fairy Tail. Gary sat on an old couch reading a book, Mei was wood carving something, Keiko slept, Edward sat in the corner of the living room mumbling mantras, and Marie was pacing around the room. There were also stalkers outside the house staring at Marie intently.

"We need to take on jobs to raise our identity as famous mages from Fairy Tail for the S Class Exams." Marie suggested. She was on her thinking pose as she walked back and forth. "I need to exploit my perfect strengths compared to my lesser twin who's next to a pebble." She struck a beautiful pose, but Marie glared at her dumb twin Gary in hatred.

Mei continued to carve her masterpiece, but she replied nonchalantly. "Didn't we already do enough jobs? Edward looks like he's about to die if we go on another stinking mission." The orange craftswoman gestured to Edward nearly unconscious. "Besides, I need to finish my masterpiece of Gary posing!" She held out her small work of Gary posing: it looked terrible.

The beauty god stopped reading his book. Gary looked at the his ugly small equivalent with his face in uncertainty. "Can't you just get an artisan once we go back home?"

"But my father always said that love comes from the heart, not with money." Mei smiled at Gary, but inside she was squealing that her senpai noticed her.

"How come you're reading a book Gary? You never usually read books." Marie grabbed the book from other twin's hands, and the hottie read the title of the book. "How to Get a Girlfriend..." Marie rubbed her temples in frustration. "Why do you want to date that weakling Gary?! Are you admitting that you're weak to fall for weak mages!?" The elemental devil slayer lit a flame with her index finger, and she burnt the useless book. She stomped on the rubble furiously while the other twin watched in horror. Finally, she spat on the remains of the book. "Tch, I can't believe I'm younger than this fool... I'm gonna go to my room to plan for tomorrow's events. You guys can go do whatever you want while I'm gone. Mei, you can assault my idiot twin while you're at your shitty carving skills."

Gary didn't say anything as the bitch walked into the darkness of the hallway, but Mei muttering the whole time was annoying. He looked at the ashes of the book that Marie burnt 2,000 Jewels from his personal pocket in sadness. Gary wanted to go out: he wanted to leave.

Keiko still slept like a cat, and she stirred around cutely. Stalkers outside took photos of the dormant demented loli girl although Mei and Gary brushed it off like water on a duck's back.

Mei was busy being flustered at the thought of her and Gary alone together: it almost made her steam in embarrassment. "Mei Mei Mei Mei... You can handle this... I'll confess my love to Gary. I'll confess my love to Gary. I'll confess my love to Gary." The love struck teen claimed herself down. She craned her head at Gary who was right at the door grabbing a leather brown bomber jacket. His muscles flexed as he put it on. Mei's heart immediately melted at the sight of her future husband as she anticipated the words of her dreams. "Oh my god oh my god oh my god... Kyaaaa... He finally gonna ask me out."

Gary stared at the ditsy introvert with a deadpan expression. He closed the door as soon as he left the house before Mei snaps out of her wet fantasies. Just when he left the house, he noticed the stalkers at the window.

The intruders scanned him, and Gary stared back. "Give us the keys!" One of the creeps shouted in the group. The group wore casual clothes everyone can distinguish as bypasser, but their body language suggested stalker regardless.

"Even if you don't cough up the keys, how about modeling for us instead?" A female blushes deeply at the sight of Gary, her face was on fire.

Gary glanced at the insane squad as he prepared a magic spell with his hand. The stalkers kept coming here on a periodic basis and it annoyed the hell out of the Origin Castors. "How about no?" He thrusted his arms out, "Wind God's Gale!" A sudden gust of wind blasted the group out of Gary's sight.

The group cried out in disappointment. "We're blasting off again!" They flew far past the Magnolia border as they took flight through the clear blue sky.

The silver highlighted hottie began to walk away from the house as a train of thought ran through his head. It was still daytime, but the sun will eventually set sooner or later. Gary roamed around Magnolia with his head in the clouds, and he made his destination to South Gate Park to take time off. "Do I ever get to have a life outside of my home? Dad always favored Marie to be his flesh and blood, not even me. Marie's probably bitching back at home base about me being a horndog for some weak ass girl I barely met."

"Hey Lucy, was what Levy talking about when you told her about something?"

His train crashed. Gary turned his head around and he saw a party going on full blast, but he can't deny the blonde standing next to Evergreen. The silver hunk wanted to crash the party, but Marie would kill him if he decided to do that. He decided to hide from anyone's sight by obscuring himself with the plants.

"Huh? It was some novel talk about my romance story… Levy was sad that the couple just started dating after so many chapters." Lucy explained.

Evergreen furrowed her brow in consideration. "Who would be the boyfriend for you Lucy? There are plenty of hot guys out there since you're leaving Fairy Tail, especially Gary. My my, does he have the hearts for you! Not to mention about those abs either..." The pseudo-fairy queen nudged Lucy with a grin plastered on her face.

Juvia walked over to the pair chattering, she wanted to join in on the gossip, but gossip about Gray, she would die to know. "Gray-Sama is still better than Gary love rival, Juvia thinks his hair looks dumb compared to Gray-sama's luscious hair." Juvia held up a jar of Gray's beautiful hair as she cuddled with it.

"Eh… He always asks me if Lucy is here whenever I'm near him…" Wendy spoke to the group meekly.

Carla scoffed at the mention of Gary as her face contorted in irritation, and she wanted to say everything about him. "There are better men than him Lucy, he's just plain annoying. I've seen Gary talking to himself trying to ask you out on a date days ago. Men should know courtesy if they want to win her over."

Even though Gary became disheartened by the harsh comments, many emotions were swirling inside his body, and one in particular was concerning that Lucy was leaving Fairy Tail. Quietly he spoke in shock, "Is it really true? I can't believe it…" Gary put his legs together and curled up into a ball. "What do I do now?... Should I crash the party-. Hold on. If Lucy is leaving, that also means my chance to ditch home AND get dat ass! That's two birds in one stone!" The silver haired man got out of his hiding spot, he looked back at the party decorated with nearly everything. Gary ran away in order to elaborate his plan into reality.


Author's Note: Finally this one is DONE. I didn't finish my OC bios which sucks. I'll try to update faster before Thanksgiving Break, and probably write a 5th chapter during that free week. Hopefully this goes into plan for me and for Gary. Don't forget to leave review for me to make this even better!