I am so sorry for the long wait! I admit: I did not do anything. Well I did, but it got deleted because of my brother shutting down the computer, so I had to do this all over again! AND the fact I stayed in Korea for weeks, and my grandmother doesn't use wifi so... Yeah... And I couldn't bring my laptop to my cousins house! SAD! Anyway, I'd like to thank MisakiDreyarTheSilentDemon and AngelXReaper for the suggestions! Gosh... Anyway, here are the scores:
Natsu Dragneel: 17
Sting Eucliffe: 13
Rogue Cheney: 8
Jason Odair: 5
Wow. Natsu is really catching up. Anyway, to the reviews~
Scales of Boredom: I am feeling guilty already... I made you wait too long for this chapter! Sorry! Anyway, your vote was counted. Thanks for voting!
MisakiDreyarTheSilentDemon: Well, I did one good thing during the wait! I learned about 7 Minutes in Heaven! I did not know about it, till few months ago... I have learned, and I thank fanfiction! XD Your idea is great, though! I want to put a twist to it... Can't exactly be 7 Minutes in Heaven—well, at one point yes, but Mirajane is cheating XD SPOILER! XD—so I guess I have made a great discovery! Thanks for the suggestion!
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1fairytaillover: Haha. Thanks! You're not the only one who's having problems in picking, though. Trust me; me too. If Natsu and Sting gets a tie in the end... I think I'd have to make another poll... XD
Lucyheartfilia: And now I'm gonna cry! Thank you so much! And don't worry, it isn't the end yet, until we get a final pairing!
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~~~~~ CHAPTER 4 ~~~~~
Rogue, the new Fairy Tail member, sat on the barstool, eyeing the piece of metal in his hands. He glanced at Gajeel, who was enjoying his snack of metal kitchen utencils. Talk about iron that makes you healthier... (XD I just HAD to add that!)
Rogue tried biting the piece of metal like Gajeel. Hopeless. He couldn't do it. Gajeel made it look too easy. And doesn't die!
At his back, he heard a laugh. A female laugh, to be exact. It was Lucy.
"What exactly are you doing, Rogue?" Lucy asked, resisting to laugh again. "You remind me of a puppy trying to tear a shoe apart." Then she raised a brow. "Dont tell me you want to start eating like Gajeel."
Rogue turned crimson and put the piece of metal down, which was immediately taken by Gajeel. "I-I was just wondering how he can eat such a thing... It's impossible!"
"So you tried to do it? You DO know Gajeel is an IRON Dragonslayer, right?" Lucy asked. "I think it would kill you, than satisfy your hunger, Rogue. So, how did it taste like? Did it taste good?"
Rogue rolled his eyes. "Talk about interested..." He mumbled, then said, "It taste like iron."—you just need to add a 'duh'—"What else?"
Lucy thought for a moment, the answered "Your blood."
Rogue raised a brow. "But have you ever tasted your blood?"
Lucy replied, "Once" and Rogue gave a 'WTF' expression. She laughed. "But I am nowhere near a vampire OR a cannibal."
Suddenly, Lucy was pulled by Lisanna to Levy and Cana, and got forced to sit down. Lucy sighed and asked, "What is it this time?"
Lisanna smirked. "So what were you and Rogue talking about? Details please."
"Yeah." Cana joined. "It seems like an interesting topic. Both of you were having a wonderful time!"
Lucy rolled her eyes. "Sure, we were. Until you dragged me away." Then added, "We were talking about..."—she smirked—"blood."
She laughed when the girls gave her a horrified look. It was priceless. Levy asked, "You've gone insane! Are you planning on murder or something?!"
Lucy finally stopped laughing and answered, "No. Rogue was just wondering what metal taste like. He sees Gajeel eat them every day! Heck, he even tried eating one! But of course, he failed!"
"Girls!" They heard Mirajane's voice call. "Lucy!" They faced the direction of the voice, and indeed it was Mirajane, making her way towards them with an excited grin and sparkling eyes.
"I do not like the look of this..." Lucy said, but the other girls thought other wise...
"I just thought of thee most amazing plan ever!" Mirajane squealed, her eyes still sparkling. Before anyone could respond, she spoke again. "Why don't we play 7 Minutes In Heaven?" She caught Lucy paling, and added, "Oh, don't worry, Lucy! I have a special box for you!" Which did not sooth Lucy one bit. That 'special box' will lead her to her doomed, and Mirajanes love plans.
"No." Lucy refused firmly. "There is no way I am going to play that game. Absolutely not."
Mirajane pouted. "But it's going to be fun!"
'For you, but not for me.' Lucy thought. She disagreed to Mirajane and said, "Lucy. We can do this is easy way, or we can do this the hard way."
Lucy didn't budge. She told Mirajane, "I'm not falling for one of your love plans, Mira. I'd rather do it the hard way." Although, she was losing her own confidence. This was Mirajane. Lucy left the guild without saying another word.
The 3 girls sighed, and Lisanna said, "That was a great idea!"
Mirajane smirked. "It isn't over yet, girls..."
~~~~~ With Lucy ~~~~~
Lucy sighed as she made her way home. She wondered to herself, 'How determined are they with interfering my love life?' Then added, 'As if I have one...'
She was about to reach home when she heard footsteps. She stopped her tracks and felt a presence behind her. She turned around to see a hooded figure, then she blacked out... (I wanted to make it a cliff hanger, but I made a 3thousand words rule in this story... -_- Sad... XD)
~~~~~ Back To The Guild ~~~~~
"Where did Mira go?" Lisanna wondered to Levy and Cana. "She didn't tell us anything!"
Levy relied to Lisanna, "I think your answer is right there." She said gesturing at the front door, where Mirajane appeared once again.
She made her way through the guild and to the 3 girls. Smirking, she said, "Girls, will you do me a favour?"
. . .
Lucy woke up in total darkness. She rubbed her head on where she got hit. She looked around her surrounding, seeing she was encased, but when she looked in front of her...
Lucy screamed in shock, to feel a human figure. "Who are you?!"
"Uh... Lucy, is that you?" A familiar voice asked. (I wanted to stop the chapter here as a cliffhanger... But... No. Things don't go my way...)
"N-Natsu?! What happened?!" Lucy asked.
"I just remembered Mira talking to me, then BOOM. I woke up here." Natsu replied.
Lucy sighed. "This is all Mira's fault..."
Natsu began to light up a fire, and they saw they were trapped... In a closet. He scratched the back of his head. "Why are we in here? Where are we—besides the closet, I mean?"
"How should I know?!" Lucy replied. She sighed and mumbled, "I am so going to get Mira for this..."
Suddenly, Natsus' light flickered out. "WHAT HAPPENED?!"
"This place must go against magic... But why did it work earlier?" Lucy thought.
"WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSE TO DO?!" Natsu yelled.
Lucy covered her ears. Natsu screamed pretty loud. "Why do you have so much questions?!"
"Because we're trapped!" He answered. "You don't expect me to take this smoothly, do you?"
Lucy rolled her eyes. "Obviously, no." She laughed. "Since when have you ever taken anything without a fight?"
Natsu thought for a minute. Which turned into 2 minutes. Which turned into 3. Finally, he answered with a grin, "Never!"
Lucy rolled her eyes and laugh. Then there was silence...
"Hey, Lucy..." Natsu said. Lucy looked at him—well, the shape of him—and hummed in reply that she heard. He asked, "Why are we here anyway?"
"That's like your question a while ago." Lucy said and rolled her eyes. But she answered him anyway, "This is probably one of Mira's plans. She just loves shipping people together." She sighed. "And I bet this time,"—she blushed—"she is trying to pair me with either you, Sting, Rogue or Jason."
Natsu, as dense as ever, claimed he didn't get her. "I mean, I seriously don't get it. What do you mean by 'ship' and 'pair'? And if it's called a 'pair', isn't suppose to be 2 only? You said that to me once! Then why are they 4? And why Sting, Rogue and Jason? And why me and you, too? I don't get it at ALL!"
"Natsu, you're going to make me confuse too. Just please stop it. One question at a time! You're going to give me a head ache..." Lucy said, rubbing her temples. These questions are actually making him sound like Albert Einstein. It's just that, he really IS dense. He doesn't even know the Laws of Physics!
"Can you just, like, explain everything? I don't get a thing you're saying! You really ARE a weirdo, you know that?" Natsu said and rolled his eyes.
"Natsu, everyone knows except you." Lucy said. "I bet even Wendy knows, and you're STILL trying to figure it out!"
Natsu huffed his cheeks. "Tell me, who is the one who usually figures out how to defeat the enemy, and manages to save your butt every time you need a Prince?"
Lucy laughed. "Prince? I thought you were the big scary dragon!"
Natsu started to laugh, too, and soon, both of them were gasping for air. "The dragon that kidnaps you? Yeah, and I will scare everyone who tries to get my princess!"
Lucy blushed at what Natsu just said. He said my princess. Then she thought, 'This is the best way I can explain to him already! I can explain it to him easily now!' "But," Lucy said. "There are 3 more dragons who want your princess." She waited till Natsu processed it all.
"Then I won't let those dragons get you, Princess." He said. "Because you're mine!"
Lucy giggled. Natsu may not get it, but he's doing exactly what Mira wants him to. 'So I guess he isn't really THAT dense.'
Natsu grinned. "And I think the Princess likes me too."
It's just that, Lucy thought. The princess isn't sure who she'll fall in love, just yet.
Then BAM, for a moment, everything went completely black. But it's because she really is blacked out. And so was Natsu...
~~~~~ Later ~~~~~
"Lucy? Is that you, Lucy?" a blury voice asked, worriedly.
Lucy rubbed her eyes. "W-What happened? Natsu...?"
"Lucy, my name's not Natsu." The voice said. "Do I even SOUND like him? No, I don't think so. Did you forget me already? Or cant you guess through the dark?"
She knew that voice from anyway. "Sting?! What are you doing here?! Natsu was—You're in—what is—Oh..." Lucy sighed. Mira was planning to do this with the '4 dragons'.
"Yes, this is Sting. I don't know WHAT I'm doing here, but I should ask YOU the same question too. And I don't get what you're saying afterwards." Sting answered. "And where were you the whole time? You and Pinky were gone for a good 20 minutes."
"20 minutes? Is that how long you'll be kept here?" She sighed. "And I'm—we're—here because of Mira."
"Mirajane? What is she doing?" Sting asked.
This will be both easier and harder to explain to Lucy. Easier because he is, at least, smarter than Natsu. And harder since it is so embarrassing! "Um... She is just, like, wanting me to... Um... Spend time with you guys!"
"Who else?" He asked.
"Natsu, Rogue and Jason..." Lucy muttered, but she knew Sting heard it. He was a dragon slayer after all. "Mira wants to find out who's the best man."
"So this is a competition?" Sting asked in amusement. "Since when was there a competition for girls? I don't remember you being a prize."
"Finally!" Lucy beamed. "Some who understands me! Even if I never thought it would be YOU!"
"Hey, what's that suppose to mean?!" He asked, and Lucy just laughed.
"You have too much questions, Sting." Lucy said, after laughing.
"So, this is, like, a competition for you?" Sting asked, sounding like he wanted to laugh himself. "Natsu, Rogue and Jason joined in, and somehow, I'm stuck in it too?"
"Er... Yeah... Wow, you're explaining. Not the other way around." Lucy said, delighted. "Well, it's just like a competition to 'win my heart', Mira likes to say."
Sting chuckled. "You don't really like it, don't you?"
Lucy nodded, then remembered it was dark, so she answered, "Yes."
"Then why are you even going with it? Desperate to find a boyfriend?" Sting asked, and laughed.
Lucy blushed and hit Sting. "No, I am not desperate! And Mira forced me to do this! I don't even know how I got here the first place!"
"Okay, okay." Sting said. "I was just saying, if you were THAT desperate to find boyfriend,"—he smirked—"all you needed to do was ask."
Now, Lucy was seriously red. "As if I'd go out with you." Lucy joked, rolling her eyes.
"Kidding, I was just kidding!" Sting said, and he was grateful it was dark. Lucy didn't see the hurt in his eyes. Wanting to change the subject, he asked, "How long has it been anyway?"
"It depends. How long have I been out?" Lucy asked.
"For... 3 minutes, I think." Sting said. "I don't really focus on the time."
"Then we've been here for..." Lucy thought for a while.
"You know," He said. "The more you think, the more time you consume."
"7 minutes, I think..." Lucy answered, ignoring Sting's comment. "13 more minutes, you'll be out of here, and most likely, either Rogue or Jason will be here."
"So, what do you wanna do to make time pass, because it's getting a lot boring in here." He said, then quickly added, "Not that you're boring or anything. I enjoy your company."
"Then I guess we can just chat." Lucy said.
"Eh... So..." Sting was thinking how you could start a conversation. He was not good at it. "Um... How's life?" He mentally face palmed himself.
Lucy laughed, taking notice of his epic fail. "Well, besides being trapped in a closet for almost 40 minutes with either Natsu and you, and the fact that my friends wont stop plotting until I already finally have a boyfriend, it's good."
Sting rolled his eyes, but partying for his success in starting a conversation. "That sounds bad enough."
"Mmm... Not that bad. I have great company." She replied.
Sting smirked. "Which one's the great company? Me or Natsu?"
"Who else? Natsu!" Lucy replied.
"Ouch." Sting said.
Lucy laughed. "Kidding! I like both of you!"
Silence came in for a few minutes, and Sting was NOT liking it. So he asked, "So, um... Lucy. If you were to choose one of us—Natsu, Rogue, Jason and me, I mean—who WOULD you choose?" Of course, he didn't want to know. Most likely Natsu or Jason would have a HUGE chance. Natsu is REALLY close to Lucy, and Jason is a childhood friend after all... Then there is Rogue who was the first to know Lucy out of the two of them... But Lucy and him had a great time since the day they met, right? Oh, right... I was from and enemy guild, AND I laughed at her when she got defeated... DO I even have a chance? (Of course, Sting! There are tons of StiCy lovers supporting you! XD LOL I just HAD to answer! XD)
After a few moments of silence, Lucy finally replied. "Actually, Sting... I don't really know... I like you all, of course, but I never thought of choosing... I always thought that it's love when you see it. Like they say: Love at first sight! But then Mira got me confuse... She said you can gain it..." She sighed. "I don't really know right now... And I don't really want to break three hearts after choosing one... I'd rather have my whole life alone, than living happily with one, knowing I broke a chance with the others... I guess I don't really know what to feel for you four... You are all really sweet, and I like you all... But when it comes to comparing friends, I don't really want to think about it..."
Even if this is the answer Sting wasn't really hoping for, he smiled. He DID have a chance! It doesn't matter who knew her longer, he had a CHANCE! And he'll go for it any time. "Don't worry about that now, Lucy. Like they say: Enjoy while you're single! The less you feel stressed!" He joked, wanting to cheer her up. Gladly, it worked.
Lucy laughed. "Who taught you that?" she asked.
Sting grinned. "Myself. Because I am, of course, the smartest and most powerful Dragon Slayer." Then he added, "And while you're at it, you know you wont have to regret THAT much. Like, they can find someone else. And if they don't get you, that just means you and he aren't made for each other. Like, there is someone else waiting for them!" And I'm afraid there is a chance it might be me... Sting thought.
To Sting's surprise, Lucy hugged him, which, of course, caused him to blush. "Thanks, Sting." Lucy told him. "I'm glad you're my friend."
Your friend... Is that all I'll ever be to you? Sting thought. But then... No! She said she feels nothing—well, not literally nothing—to anyone! That means I can still get her! Yeah, I'll just... I'll just... Uh... What can I do? Oh, I know! "Hey, Lucy?" Sting asked, but there was no response. "Lucy...?"
Then it hit him. Literally. Lucy was knocked out, and he too.
~~~~~ Authors' Note (Or Fairy x Hunter's Note XD) ~~~~~
Hope you liked this chapter! Rogue and Jasons' would be in the next chapter! This time I will update faster! So, whatcha think about this chapter? PLEASE REVIEW! Also, since I think it would be too short, I will add another thing in the next chapter.