A/N: Yesh! I am quite a slacker! I am not even gonna make an excuse, I am HIGHLY disappointed with myself! Anywho, here lies chapter four of my little story! Hope you find this lovely enough for your eyes!
Chapter 4
Nightfall
"B-but come on! Why do we always have to share a room!
"You have to share a room because I said so, if you have a problem with that, you can take it up with-"
"NO! That won't be necessary, we'll all be fine, great actually!", Natsu said interrupting Erza, who smiled at him and heartily hugged him to her armor clad chest. Natsu took the key from Erza and pushed Gray inside, with Gajeel following inside. The mages looked around and face palmed. There was only one bed in the room.
"I guess this is the clerks idea of a joke."
Lucy stared astonished at the sight of their room. It was breath-taking! The girls had never seen anything like this! A large window covered the wall standing before them, and two queen-sized beds were placed adjacent to the massive glass structure. There were two black, bean bag chairs across the room accompanied by a coffee table and a striped rug that resembled tiger fur.
"Woah, this is amazing!", Lucy said, pressing her face against the window. She gazed down at all the microscopic people walking in and out of shops below.
"How luxurious!" Erza exclaimed, flipping through the channels on the colossal flat screen television mounted on the wall as Wendy flopped on the bed.
"It's a waterbed!" Wendy squealed, giggling at the flowing feel of the aqua bed. The girls all flopped on the bed, giggling and anticipating the gourmet lunch they just called for, via room service.
"Fuck this.", Gajeel said, glaring at the smirking pinkette to the left of him.
"Ya know, it's not that bad, really, we could all sleep together...", Natsu said in his innocent child voice, almost laughing at Gray's expression.
"Like hell we will!"
In addition to there only being one bed in the room, it was shaped like a heart. The comforters on said bed, we're covered in hearts and kisses. There were wine bottles and champagne on the night sand, next to a porcelain angel lamp, that was probably supposed to be Cupid. It looked like someone dumped the room in a bucket of romance. The suite was a lover's paradise, not to mention the bouquets of roses everywhere. In other words, it's seemed as though they were lodged in the 'Lover's Honeymoon Suite'.
"I'm so outta here.", Gajeel muttered under his breath glaring daggers at the dunces that stood in his presence.
Gray and Natsu watched Gajeel grab his bags and stalk out of the room. Obviously Natsu didn't care so much about the situation, judging by the way he nonchalantly waved Gajeel goodbye and flopped on the bed. On the other hand, Gray was completely dumfounded. How could Gajeel just get to leave? If he tried to pull something like that, Erza would surely slice him into miniscule pieces.
"Okay, you can stand there and look stupid, i'm gonna go take a shower and change.", Natsu said eying the tranced Gray.
Gray nodded and started to unpack. He was almost done, when he found the tank-top Akiko had given him. The shirt was all black, and had a white, tilted crescent moon emblem on it. He put it on, and chose some black skinny jeans to wear with it. As Gray finished buttoning his pants, the bathroom door creaked open, exposing a half-naked Natsu starring in the mirror. Gray couldn't help but look at Natsu's toned body, watching the water droplets glide down his chest.
"What?", Natsu said smirking knowingly at Gray who looked away faster than the speed of light.
"N-Nothing, just hurry up." Gray said, turning his attention to the window, that presented a beautiful sunset.
When Natsu (finally) stepped out of the bathroom, Gray found himself staring again. Natsu was basically wearing the same thing as Gray, but in his opinion, the outfit looked way hotter on Natsu, who decided to wear red converse, instead of black ones.
"You look good.", Natsu said coyly, as he grabbed the room key and pulled Gray along with him.
"You too." Gray whispered, only loud enough for Natsu's advanced hearing to pick up.
Natsu took the honors of knocking on the girls' door. He could hear shuffling coming from behind the door. Erza came to the door, wearing the same shirt as them. Her hair was tied in a high ponytail and she was wearing a black denim skirt. It was weird for them to see Erza looking anything other than scary, but they could both admit that she looked pretty tonight.
"Oh, you guys are here, Gajeel just came a few minutes ago.", Erza said, inviting her two old friends in the room.
"Wow, this is nice." Gray said, flopping in one of the been bag chairs, next to Gajeel.
"Yeah, much better than what you two ended up with, luckily, I took the liberty of getting another room!" Gajeel said laughing aloud as he remembered the hideous room.
"Oh shut up meta-"
"Okay i'm ready!" Lucy interrupted from the bathroom running out to join Erza, Wendy and the boys.
With that, the crew headed out towards the nightclub, there was already a line forming. They were all ushered in, where Kimiko was instructing the DJ on what songs to play. Akiko was standing behind the bar, mixing liquids and shining glasses. They were both clad in the club uniform.
"Oh you guys made it! Okay, just come over here!", Akiko pointed to where she was standing, allowing the mages to all get behind the bar.
"Okay, here is the sheet that shows all the drinks, and how to mix them, she said placing it so that they could all see it.
"Seems easy enough!", Erza said.
"Okay, Wendy, we're gonna have you outside with the bouncers, if you see anything suspicious, call for me or Kimiko." Akiko said, showing Wendy towards the bouncers.
They watched the two walk out the door, as Kimiko walked towards them, Eyeing them all individually, almost as if she was testing them.
"There is one thing you all need to know and understand before you can do this," Kimiko said, looking them all up and down, "No matter who the person is, no matter how pervy, high, or drunk they are, serve them without a complaint." Kimiko said matter-of-factly.
"Yes ma'am." Natsu said, bowing.
Akiko came back and gave the mages a thumbs up.
"It's showtime!", she announced.
People started filing in as soon as the words left her lips. There were so many people, and most of them were jumping onto the dancefloor. There were strobe lights, and cool effect lights flashing, a smoke machine creating smoke, and blaring music. Gray looked at Natsu, his eyes flashing, and noticed he wasn't wearing his muffler.
" Hey! Where is your scarf?" Gray shouted to Natsu over the music.
"I left it at the hotel, I didn't want it to get messed up or something, I mean look at this place!", Natsu replied, also shouting.
Natsu was right, there were so many people, and he could tell some were getting tipsy already. People started coming up to the bar, asking for drinks, and trying to flirt with the girls. A few guys even tried to give Gajeel (of all people) a seductive smile, he just rolled his eyes and kept swishing drinks. Word was starting to get around that there were some attractive bartenders on duty tonight. More people came to the bar for drinks, conversation, and eye-candy.
"Can I get get a Cherry Casanova." One girl asked Natsu, making sure to show off her 'assets' to the pink-haired guy she found attractive.
"Sure, here you go." Natsu said, winking at the girl in the tight yellow miniskirt, Who gave him a coy smile.
"Do you wanna dance?" She asked him.
"Well, I can't say no can I?, Natsu said, hopping over the bar and pulling the girl onto the floor.
A/N:I think someone's gonna be jealousssss (but he does not know that yet so shh!). Another tiny cliff hanger! What can I say, i'm good at it. MERRY BELATED CHRISTMAS OR HANUKKAH OR KWANZAA OR HOLIDAYS, WHATEVER YOU CELEBRATED REALLY! (I know, it sounds stupid) I hope you liked this chapter it's your present, from me to you!
