Third chapter! I do not own One Piece or Fairy Tail. Enjoy!
"Wow! You guys look so pretty!" Lisanna clapped as Lucy and Nami show off the kimonos Mirajane had made them. Plue clapped his little white paws together as he sat on the floor.
Lucy had on a sakura colored kimono with sakura flowers for the design. A snow white slash wrap itself around her waist and on her feet with woven socks. She had brown sandals and was holding a blue fan with stars. Her hair was tied up in a bun with strands hugging her face. A sakura was place in her blonde hair.
Nami wore a lilac colored kimono that held the design of stringed flowers and green leaves. She had a black and orange sash with a red binding through the middle. Her hair was in a bun with a strand coming down and held up by a pair of chopsticks. She wore sandals and in her hand was a pink and white umbrella.
Mirajane looked at her work proudly as the girls spun themselves around. She was in a dark purple kimono with a pink sash. Butterflies flutter on her kimono as her hair was tied up and held back by a butterfly.
Lisanna wore a light purple kimono with the design of little animals jumping about. Her hair was down for it was short and was held back by a bird clip.
Erza was also there. She had on a fiery red kimono with swords. A silver sash was around her waist and her hair was pulled back by crossed swords.
Mirajane had made a mini kimono for Plue. It was blue and white; with little snowflakes.
"This is amazing!" Lucy squealed as she twirl around.
Nami grinned. "I can't believe you made this in less than three days!"
"Pu Punn!"
"Yep! Big-sis is awesome at these things!" Lisanna gave a thumbs-up.
Elfman Strauss came in. He was large and muscular but was a big idiot. His spiky white hair stood up and his tan skin showed his serious face.
"Are you ready, Nee-chan?" Elfman asked his older sister.
Mirajane smiled. "Yep. We're ready to go now."
They all piled in the car and drove off to the festival. More than a block before they reach the place, they could already see shops forming and lanterns being lit. Strings of lights were flowing the flow of mini shops that were set up for the festival. There were games and food places to visit and have fun. Many people walked around the streets, laughing and talking. The place was really crowded.
The two thieves soon were introduced to the others of their group.
There was Levy McGarden, who was a bookworm like Lucy. Gajeel Redfox stood quietly next to Levy. Gray Fullbuster walks around with only his underwear. Happy was a small boy with blue hair. Cana Alberona was drinking. Juvia Lockser was playing with her dewdrop necklace (A/N: I'm making Juvia into the diva I made her in my story, 'Water Flows On'. Read it if you want to find out why she isn't glueing to Gray).
And each took a guess on what Plue was. Nobody got it right.
"HE'S A DOG! D-O-G!"
"Puunn!"
"Where are the others?" Mirajane asked.
"Somewhere in the festival. We can't seem to find them." Gray spoke up. "Man, that pink hair idiot owes me ten bucks!"
"Pink hair?" Lucy echos. Gray nodded.
"It's not dye if you're wondering. The idiot was born that way." Gajeel grunted. "He's my cousin."
"Oh." Lucy nodded.
"Weren't both of them going to come?" Levy piped up.
"Yeah." Gajeel answered her.
"Who are these two you keep talking about?" Nami asked, curiously.
Levy looked at her in surprise. "Erza didn't tell you? Those two boys transferred to our school like you guys about a week ago."
Lucy and Nami exchanged a look. Four transfer students going to the same school coming in a week apart? Something doesn't seem right. Plus, there were two of them that came before the girls.
"Oh well. I'm sure we'll find them by a food shop sooner or later." Juvia said. The others nodded in agreement.
"Food?" Nami repeated. Juvia nodded.
"Biggest eaters I've ever seen." Cana muttered. "They keep wiping out all of the food in the school. The cooks keep collapsing after they were done."
"Aye!" Happy grinned. "They ate everything!"
"Punnn."
Just then, a huge wave of people were push towards the group. Lucy and Nami struggled to stay with each other. They were just in arm's reach when another wave came forward.
"Lucy!"
"Nami!"
Lucy was finally able to come out of the mass of people. She stopped to catch her breath and looked around for the others. She couldn't see anybody she knew and was beginning to get worried. Plus, Plue wasn't in her arms anymore. She hope nobody was going to kidnap him. Hey, the chances were pretty high. He was one of a kind.
She began to walk around, looking through the many people in the festival for her friends.
"Hey! You there in the pink kimono!" Lucy groaned under her breath when two guys with bad breath came up to her.
"What?" Lucy asked coldly, crossing her arms over her chest.
The two of them smirked. "You're pretty hot. Alone too. Why don't you hang out with us?"
"No thanks. I prefer to be alone." Lucy replied. She was just about to walk away when one of them grab her wrist.
"Not so fast girlie. Why don't you think about it first?" The taller one said, licking his lips while he stared at her body.
She closed her eyes and let out a sigh. Bam! Knock! The two guys laid on the ground with a couple of some nasty bruises on their faces. Lucy placed her whip inside her sleeve and opened up her fan.
Smiling, she placed the fan in front of her face. "Like I said, no thanks. You can't handle me."
A couple of guys soon burst out of the crowd. When they saw the two beaten up guys at her feet, they rush to their aid.
"Brother! What happened to you?!" One of them yelled.
The shorter one that had been hitting on Lucy coughed up a lot of blood. He pointed a shaky finger at Lucy. She watched, not flinching as the others rose up angrily.
Snapping her fan shut, she groaned. "Why can't I ever relax?" Looking pissed, she turned to the pals of the two guys. "What's wrong with you people? I'm just minding my own business when they started to hit on me."
"Maybe so, but you don't need to beat them up this hard!" One of them shouted, pointing to the one who keeps coughing up blood.
"Not my problem they're weak." Lucy mumbled.
"Why you-!" He lunged for her. Lucy was about to reach for her whip, getting ready for battle. The others started to close it as well.
When something unusual came flying their way. Whoever or whatever came flying towards them. The thing knocked out every one of the group. Lucy stepped to the side as the thing ran into a barrel nearby. Because of all the people, nobody seem to notice the ruckus.
Lucy stared wide-eyed as a boy sat up in all the rumble. He wore a red and orange with a black sash kimono. Like her, he too wore sandals and woven socks. A white scaly scarf was around his neck. What was really shocking was that he was unharmed by the hit and had spiky pink hair!
"Oh man. I shouldn't have gotten lost. Who knows where I am!" The boy shouted. He suddenly stopped and sniffed the air. "Huh? I smell something good." He turned over to her direction. He had big brown eyes, she noticed.
"Uh, hi. Thanks for your help." Lucy smiled. A question mark appeared above his head as he looked at her in confusion.
She giggled at the look on his face and walked over. Lending a hand to him, she pointed to the group of boys that were knock-out cold as he brush himself off. "See them? They were going to attack me until you came along and helped."
"I did?"
"Yep!"
He blinked. "Why were they going to attack you? I thought people here were nice."
Lucy shrugged. "Not all people can be nice, I guess."
He grinned. "Whatever. Anyways, are you lost too?"
She nodded sheepishly. "Yeah. I got separated from my friends."
He grabbed her hand and ran off. She started to protest but the way he was grinning stopped her. He laughed as he kept on dragging her off to who-knows-where. She soon found herself laughing as well.
Before long, the boy had them playing a bunch of games. Whenever she wanted something, he would win it for her with eased. They ate the foods sold at the festival and chatted as they walk along. The boy had offered to carry the prizes for her in a large bunny backpack they had won. She still insist on carrying the pink stuffed bunny in her arms though.
However, she was amazed at the amount of food the boy could stuff into his face. He was truly a big eater…..
What was strange about this friendly meeting was that both hadn't told each other their names. And they had both forgotten why they were with each other in the first place. Idiots.
"Shut up, already! And quit chasing me!" Nami shouted as she ran from a couple of guys in what appears to be clown costumes.
"Give back the map, lady!" The one with the large shoes shouted.
"Don't you know it's creepy to be chased around by clowns?!"
"We're not creepy nor are we clowns!"
"Then act like it and get lost!"
"No way!"
"Ahh! I want to go back home!"
Nami dodged through the crowd, slipping past people with eased. She cursed to herself as the group kept on chasing her. First they want her to date them, then when she took a map of theirs; they decided to chase her to tomorrow? What is up with people these days?
When she thought she finally lost them, she stopped to rest.
"Nami?" The orange hair girl looked up to the sound of her name. There was Robin, in a yellow and green kimono with a Fall design. She was holding an orange and yellow umbrella.
"Robin! You're here too?!" Nami's face lit up with a grin.
The raven hair girl smiled. "Yes."
"Robin? Who's this?" A green haired boy came walking up to the two girls. He was followed by two more guys. One with blonde hair that covered half of his face and the other was small but with light brown hair and big brown eyes. A third soon came running in; he had the longest nose Nami's ever seen. All wore their own kind of kimono.
"This is the girl I was telling you about." Robin explained.
"Ah! So you're Nami-san!" The blonde guy rushed to her side. "Your beauty knows no bounds."
"Uh, thanks?"
"Shut up, love cook." The green haired guy muttered.
"What did you say, marimo head?!"
"Didn't you hear me, nose-bleed?"
"All I heard was you muttering idiotic comments to yourself."
The two glared at each other as lightning began to flash between the two.
Nami pointed at them. "Are they always like this?"
Robin nodded. "There's no use in stopping them. They always fight like this. Unless, however, if you want to lose a body part then I guess you can try to stop them."
"No way!"
Robin began to introduce her friends to Nami. There was Roronoa Zoro, the green haired guy who was fighting with Kuroashi Sanji, the lovesick cook. TonyTony Chopper was the small boy. Sogeking Usopp was the one with the long nose.
"We're still missing a couple of people from our group though." Robin said. Nami nodded.
"Yeah. Like where's the dense meat-loving idiot?" Zoro asked.
"Dense meat-loving idiot?" Nami echos.
"Leave him. He'll find us or we'll find him sooner or later." Sanji lit up a smoke. "More importantly," he rushed over, "Nami-swan! Robin-chwan! Those kimonos really fit you two nicely!" He had hearts in his eyes.
"I hope he doesn't get in trouble." Chopper says, worried.
Usopp laughed. "Relax Chopper! This is him we're talking about!"
Chopper grinned. "You're right! He won't be taken down so easily."
"Who-?" Nami wondered. Robin giggled.
"Don't worry. You'll meet him sooner or later."
The group that was chasing Nami earlier soon came out. "We got you this time!"
Nami groaned. "Why can't I have a break for once?" She made a run for it before the others could say anything.
"Bye everybody! See you in school!" Nami waved as she ran along the many people. Wow. This festival is a pretty big thing to have so many people come along.
"Ah! Nami-san!" Sanji yelled after her.
Robin giggled. "She's quite the girl, huh?"
"Yeah. If she's being chased around by clowns." Usopp muttered.
"Their noses are creepy!" Chopper added.
"I don't really care." Zoro grunted.
Nami was surrounded. She cursed under her breath for not noticing when two of them ran ahead of the others to block her path. There weren't much places to go since there were so many people.
"Ha ha ha! We finally caught up with you!"
"Can't run away now, can you?"
"Give back that map!"
She stuck her tongue out. "Why would I?"
"Because it's not yours!" They all shouted.
"Aaaaaahhhhh!" Nami looked up to the sound of someone screaming. Her sights led her to the night sky where something was falling down.
They all jumped back when the object landed, forming a huge crater. There were a lot of smoke and the impact cause quite a ruckus. Most people around stopped to look at the commotion.
Nami swallowed, ready to face whatever it was. Surely no living thing can survive from such a fall? Whispers from outsiders were saying the same thing.
The smoke finally started to clear and a shadow was seen through the mist. The shadow looked like a person but who could have survived such a fall?
"Oh man. That hurts, dammit!" Nami's mouth dropped open and her eyes widen as the shadow stood up and brush himself off. The crowd were having the same reaction.
The smoke revealed a teenage boy with short black hair and brown eyes. The boy placed a hand on the straw hat on top of his head. He was in a black with blue and white waves design kimono. A green and yellow sash was wrap around his waist and on his feet were black sandals.
He looked around. "Eh? Why is everybody looking so shocked?"
Nami hit him in the head. "Because you suddenly flew in from the sky and you're unhurt!"
"Ow! Why did you hit me?!" The boy yelled.
"You're being an idiot." Nami says simply. He stuck his tongue out at her and earn himself another hit.
Once they had seen that the boy was alright, the crowd began to disappear from the circle. All that was left were the group after Nami. They brought their attention towards her once again.
Nami grabbed the boy's shoulders and placed him in front of her. He looked around in confusion. The group drew back, after all, this was the same boy who had survived a fall from such great height.
"Wha? What's going on? I don't get it." The boy said dumbly.
"They're going to attack me." Nami explained.
He looked back at her. "Why would they do that? Aren't people around here nice?"
She simply shrugged. "You can't expect everybody to be kind."
"So, are they the bad guys?" The boy asked, pointing at the group. Their mouths fell open.
"We're not the bad guys! She stole something from us!" They defend themselves with a lot of shouting and pointing.
"Then you're the bad guy!" The boy shouted, pointing at Nami. She smirked.
"Yes! Point at her!" They shouted. The boy turned back to them.
"You guys shout too much. Shut up!" If he was trying to do a serious face, Nami would have to smile at the sight.
"Are you a thief?" The boy asked, looking back at Nami once more.
She smiled sweetly. "I only steal from bad people, is all. Why don't you team up with me to defeat those guys?"
He shook his head stubbornly. "Don't want to."
"Wait!" Nami protest as he started to walk away. The group jumped at the two. The boy pounded them in an instant. Nami's mouth was yet again hanging open.
She got over her shock when one of them leaped up. He was about to slam down the boy's head. The boy's eyes narrowed angrily and he punched the guy in the stomach. He fell to the ground with a thud. The group laid, beaten up badly and blood everywhere. It wasn't serious though.
"Don't touch my hat!" The boy growled.
Nami ran up to the boy who was now walking away. "Hi."
"Why are you following me?" The boy asked, annoyed. She grinned.
"You helped me so I can't let you leave like that."
He looked at her for a moment. She gulped. "I don't like thieves."
"Hey! I only said I steal from bad guys only!" She protest. "Besides, what's important about your hat anyways?"
"A friend of mine gave it to me. It's my treasure." The boy explained, bringing the hat down to cover his eyes. A fond smile was on his face.
Nami smiled softly. "Treasure huh? So, does it have jewels or a treasure map in it?"
"Stop annoying me." The boy muttered. He randomly goes towards a food place. Nami followed him, finding the boy to be quite amusing.
The two ended up spending a lot of time together. They played lots of games and won many prizes. He had won her a small stuff cat and seem fine to holding all of the prizes in a giant kitty backpack. Nami had to drag the boy away from a food cart that had meat 'cause boy, can he eat! They laughed and talked. Surprisingly, the two got along great. Except for the times where Nami knocked the boy on the head countless times for his idiotic behavior. The two could sometimes bicker on which tent or game they should try. Usually, it was Nami who won.
Strangely, both never revealed their name to one another. Simply calling each other 'you' or pointing to things.
All in all, the thieves Midnight had quite the night. One filled with laughter and fun. One they will remember their whole lives. One where they could finally relax. One that decided their destiny.
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