Yay! I'm finally updating stuff! Thank you Thanksgiving break for this opportunity! :)
"Hey Lucy! It's been a while do you want something to drink?" Lisanna asked.
Lucy smiled and nodded to the Stratus sibling. "Yeah, I could go for something."
Lisanna handed her a glass of ice cold lemonade and Lucy gladly accepted.
"Well I'll be back later. I'll go clean some other buses, 'k?" Lucy said finishing her drink and going back over to the buses.
Lisanna Went to her booklet to see who checked out a bus recently. Then her phone rang.
'Hey Lisanna! Its Natsu.'
'Hey Natsu, you coming to rent a bus with the guys?'
'Yeah, sadly, why couldn't we just walk there?'
Lisanna giggled, 'Well that'd be a long walk.'
'Hey! Is that Lisanna?'
She recognized the voice, 'Hey Gray. When will you get here?'
'Oh, we're almost there, we actually walked because of flame brain here.'
'Shut it Gray!'
'Alight, i'll get your bus ready, bye!'
'Laters!'
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She smiled when she spotted the pink hair of Natsu followed by Gray.
"Hey Lisanna!" Natsu said coming over to her.
"Hey Natsu, Gray." Lisanna said noticing a car following them. The other boys came out.
"Did you really have to walk? We could of just drove with the others." Gray said still upset or pulling the short stick to have to walk with Natsu so he wouldn't do anything stupid like run into the street or eat something from a restaurant.
Natsu was already looking sick, "Trust me, walking is better, waaaay better."
"Ok then, I'll take you guys to your bus." Lisanna said and had the group follow her. She knew Lucy was working around here somewhere but she'd meet up with her later.
Once paid for and everyone ready, they left her there. Lisanna went around trying to find Lucy.
"Lucy? Hey where are you?" Lisanna looked around the area, she couldn't find the blonde anywhere.
Lisanna looked at the papers, "Oh no, was she?" No, Lucy would of just walked off the bus, right?
Back to present time...
"Natsu, I don't like this..." Lucy protested as she slumped down onto her bed while the other's were out playing basketball during free time the next day.
Natsu nodded, "Yeah I know but we can only hope Gray won't tell. There isn't anything else we can do."
Then Loke came running into the cabin. "Hey guys, we're going to have a swimming tournament soon. Come on and cheer on Gajeel and Jellel."
"Um, I don't know..." Lucy said not wanting to be anywhere near Loke or Gray right now.
"Come on, you gotta cheer them on! They're going against Elfman and Lyon." Loke persisted.
"O-ok then. we'll be there. What time?" Natsu asked giving Lucy a look of 'we have no other choice just go along with it'.
Loke told them, "It's start at 3 today. See you there." he left the two alone and went back out to the others.
Lucy glanced at the clock, "We have 20 minutes."
"Just play it cool and stick by me, ok?" Natsu said.
Lucy forced own her blush, "Y-yeah, ok."
...
Soon they were heading up to the pool. It wasn't hated so the water was freezing to the touch. The boys had to practically beg Mr. Markov, camp master, to let them have it for the afternoon. He agreed but told them he wasn't responsible for any frostbite afterwards.
"Alright! I'm ready to beat all of you!" Gajeel shouted stretching his arms.
"You sure you don't want to go against me Gray? You can still swap out Jellel and put yourself in his place." Lyon said in a cocky tone.
The way they set it up was there will be a few rounds and then a rematch round. First was to be Elfman vs Gajeel then Jellel vs Lyon. The next round would be Gray vs Max and then Loke vs Rogue.
"Fine then Lyon, hey Jellel, you are switching with me!" Gray shouted. Jellel was very passive so he just nodded in agreement.
"Natsu-san, you can still participate you know." Sting said happily.
Natsu shrugged, "Nah, I'm good for now." The thing was Sting wasn't going to join either since then there would be uneven teams due to Natsu's absence. Natsu just didn't feel like competing which was a first.
Sting sighed, "Alright then Natsu-san. I'll just stay back too." Sting hid his blush and walked away to go cheer on Rogue.
Lucy watched him sulk in the corner...he was growing mushrooms...
"So Luce we can just sit by the edge and watch them go ok?" Natsu said dropping in his nickname now that no one was in ear shot.
Lucy nodded and they went over to the few lawn chairs where other cabins were cheering on who they wanted to win.
The first round started with Gajeel winning by a landslide.
"I win! I win all of you losers!" Gajeel shouted running around the pool.
"Sometimes losing is manly..." Elfman pouted and went to rest.
"Careful Gajeel, you should run near a - oh and there he goes." Max sighed as Gajeel slipped and fell back into the pool.
Lucy giggled as Gajeel came back out and smashed Max in the head.
Gray came out victor in the next round but Lyon swore victory in the rematch round. Max stretched and got ready as Jellel followed up. obviously Jellel won out of the two and Max knew that though. Next was Loke and Rogue.
"Go Rogue! Show everyone the power of the twin dragons!" Sting shouted getting Natsu's attention which made Sting blush a little, "I mean, with all respect to Natsu-san's friend..."
Natsu ignored Sting and paid more attention to the match since it was Loke after all. It was a close finish with Rogue pulling out at the last second marking his victory.
"Great job Loke." Gray said high fiving Loke.
"It was a good race." Loke said glancing at Lucy and Natsu keeping their distance.
The rematches were next with Gajeel winning again and also slipping again, Lyon came winner next having Gray get into a bit brawl with him, then Jellel won again, and lastly with Loke pulling victory as well.
"Great job Rogue!" Sting shouted over to his friend drying off.
"Cold water it a man!" Elfman shouted shivering a bit.
Gray and Lyon scoffed, "It was nothing."
The boys were getting ready to leave with a few already gone including Elfman, Lyon, Max, and a few other people who were cheering earlier.
Gray and Loke exchanged glances before Gray too left. Loke walked over to Natsu and Lucy.
"Hey there Natsu, Lucas. That was fun." Loke said in a fake happy voice.
"Natsu-san! That was great! It would've been even better if you came and swam too." Sting said running past Loke and over to Natsu.
"Uh...ok. Sure, I'll think about it next time." Natsu said still looking back to Loke.
"I mean you would rock at a competition and you would blaze over everyone else and you'd be so awesome and, and,..." Lucy felt a bit bad for him. He showed the symptoms of a lovesick teen.
"Yeah Sting, I think Natsu gets it, come on, let's head back so I can get dried off." Rogue said pulling Sting away.
"What's with him?" Natsu asked.
"Just don't pay any attention to him." Lucy said and turned her attention back to Loke.
"Anyway, why don't we head back now, Lucas." Natsu said and started to walk off.
"Why go, Lucy?" Loke asked crossing his arms.
They froze and exchanged glances.
"But...um..." Lucy fumbled with her words.
Natsu stepped in front of Lucy, "Loke, I think that cold water went to your head or something, Lucy is back at Magnolia."
"Oh really? I don't think so." Loke said smirking.
Lucy stayed behind Natsu, "What do you me-"
Loke ran past Natsu and shoved Lucy into the pool.
"Lucy!" Natsu shouted forgetting about Loke being there.
He jumped in after her and pulled her out. Then there was a flash. They turned to see Loke was holding a camera.
"I think the camp master would love to see a girl is here." Loke said and started to run off to the camp master house in front.
"Loke! Get back here!" Natsu shouted and tackled Loke sending them both into the pool.
"Bunny Girl? Why are you here?" Gajeel asked coming over to see what had happened.
Lucy froze, oh no...other people were here besides Loke. "G-Gajeel? Please don't tell anyone!"
"Lucy? Why are you here?" Jellel asked walking over to her.
Lucy's hat had been long gone letting her wet hair fall down and stick to her cheeks and shoulders. Her tape had somewhat come off and her girly features now popped out to them. Well yay, her secret was out.
"Natsu! You destroyed the camera!" Loke shouted seeing it all wet on the side of the pool.
Natsu smirked, "That's even better then." He tackled Loke and they fell underwater.
Underwater, Loke and Natsu had the same idea. Holding your breath competition; whoever broke first would have to go along with the secret. The two also were willing to play dirty, punching the other so they would loose more air and other things like that.
Lucy looked to the water pulling the towel over her shoulders. Jellel was nice enough to help her out and hand her something to cover up with so no other boys saw her. Gajeel just stayed by the front gates watching to see if anyone would come in and to stop them.
"They have been down a long time. Are they ok?" Lucy asked.
Jellel smiled, "I'm sure they're fine, its Natsu and Loke they're probably doing something stupid."
Just then someone came up to the surface and was gasping for air.
"Ha! See that? I win."
Who do you think stayed down longer? Review with a guess! :)
Also sorry for taking literately ages to update but I just get carried away with other stories and stuff...yeah sorry about that...
But hey, I updated, and I think this can be classified as a longish chapter so yay! I hope you liked it! :)