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CHAPTER 7- HOW TIGERS PARTY PT. 2
Sting POV
"Get off me Rogue! I need to go see Yukino!" Sting snapped, trying and failing to shove his best friend off of him.
Rogue rolled his eyes, "After what you said? I really don't think she wants to see you."
"Fro thinks so too!" Frosch exclaimed from his place beside Lector.
"Now, now Rogue, clearly it was an accident. Sting-kun would never embarrass Yukino on purpose." Lector said, nervously as he watched his best friend struggle.
Sting let out a growl of frustration, pounding his fist on the floor. After he had embarrassed Yukino and she had run out of the guild, he had tried to follow, only for Rogue to tackle him to the ground and instead, Lucy had gone after their white haired mage.
The party ended soon after with Minerva promising to castrate any one who gave Yukino a hard time when they saw her again. Though her glare alone could have scared them all into silence.
"I need to apologize properly." He insisted, finally able to push Rogue off him. He was about to bolt for the guild doors when it opened to reveal a still slightly red faced Yukino and out of breath Lucy.
"I caught up to her before she got too far away." Lucy explained breathing out in huffs.
"Yukino, I am so sorry." Sting immediately said, moving towards her, only to stop when she took a step back. He wouldn't admit it, but that one step hurt pretty bad. "I shouldn't have said that so loudly in front of everyone."
"You shouldn't have said it at all, Sting." Rogue said, exasperation coloring his tone.
"Or at all." Sting quickly added, looking at her with eager blue eyes. "Forgive me?" He asked, voice full of hope.
Yukino huffed before closing the distance between them so that she could look him in the eyes. "Of course I forgive you Sting-sama. Just... watch what you say next time." She may have forgiven him, but it was clear to him that she was still angry at him.
Sting nodded his head enthusiastically. "I will, I promise Yukino." He'd do anything for her. He had felt so bad when she ran out of the guild because of him.
"I guess the party's over, huh?" Lucy asked, looking around at the deserted guild hall.
"Yeah. But it was bound to happen." Orga said laughing, "If it wasn't our pervert of a master, than something else was bound to happen. Don't you agree Dobengal?" He turned to the usually quiet ninja besides him.
Dobengal immediately shook his head, hands going up in a surrender position. "Please don't involve me Orga."
"That's true, our young Master loves it when the ladies swarm around him." Rufus said with a smile.
"Stop attacking me!" Sting finally snapped, glaring at the two males angrily. Serious, they were talking as if he had no control over himself.
Lector immediately went to his friends defense, "Yeah! Sting-kun is amazing! He's no pervert! If anything, Rogue's the pervert!"
"Fro thinks so too!" Frosch immediately said, though it was clear that he had no idea what was being said. He was just agreeing with Lector as usual.
"Hah!" Sting said, smirking at Rogue, who looked shocked and betrayed by Frosch's statement. The idiot. He more than anyone should remember that Frosch always agreed to any statement.
"Boys," Minerva finally spoke up from her place besides Yukino and Lucy, "If you're done teasing each other, we can continue the party with just us. After all, Lucy barely interacted with anyone, so she should at least get to know us more. Plus, now that there are only ten of us left, we can play a game."
Oh boy, he did not like the sound of that. Sting could just feel the apprehension in the air at the idea of playing one of Minerva's games. Her games never ended well; one time everyone ended up so drunk that none of them had gone on a job for a whole week and another time Sting remembered having to drag Orga out of the town square because he was screeching into his microphone at three in the morning, drunk out of his mind after playing one of Minerva's games. In a rather revealing dress mind you.
"What game?" Lucy asked curiously, somehow missing all the head shakes that were being thrown her way.
Oh dear God... if he didn't like the idea of playing Minerva's game, he definitely did not like the smile that formed on her face.
"Do you want to play Lucy?" Minerva asked.
No. No. No. NO. NO. Sting shook his head emphatically at Lucy, hoping that she sudden developed telepathic magic so that she could hear all the no's in his head, but it didn't seem to work.
"I guess." Lucy said uncertainly.
The smile on Minerva's face only grew and Sting just knew they were all doomed. She pulled out a cup with a number of Popsicle sticks in it and Sting gulped, this wasn't going to be good. "We're gonna play Who's the Master. Orga, go grab the alcohol."
Sting sighed, there was no stopping her now. All they could do was accept their fate. Damn it Blondie.
Lucy POV
All Lucy could do was blink in confusion. She had seen all the others shake their head 'no' at the idea of playing Minerva's game but Lucy thought that they should. She truly did want her friendship with Minerva to blossom, so there was no problem indulging her right?
Once Orga was back with the drinks, Minerva told them the rules, " Each Popsicle stick has a number on it and one stick has the Master's crest, whoever gets that is the master and can order everyone else around. For example, the master can say 'Number 9 has to slap Number 4's butt' and the people who have the number 9 and 4 sticks would have to do it. Also the master's order is absolute so no backing out." Minerva said, the smile on her face absolutely evil. "But I want to spice up the game a bit. If your number is called, you have to chug down a whole cup of alcohol as well as do the order."
Now Lucy felt a certain sense of doom. She may have been a Fairy Tail wizard but she couldn't drink for shit; that was proven time and time again when Cana forced alcohol down her throat at parties or randomly in hopes of strengthening her alcohol tolerance, needless to say, it didn't work... no wonder no one else wanted to play Minerva's game.
"There is no way in hell I am playing that game." Sting snapped.
"Yes you are!" Minerva said, giving Sting an icy glare, "Do it for our new recruit. Your four are playing too!" Lucy let out a small eep when Minerva's head suddenly whipped around to glare at Rogue, Dobengal, Frosch and Lector who had all been trying to sneak out of the guild.
Lucy watched the four come back in defeat and they all settled into a small circle. Lucy herself was squished between Sting and Dobengal. It was a shame really, she kinda wanted to sit next to Rogue but he was across the circle from her, between Yukino and Rufus, Frosch in his lap and Lector in Yukino's.
"Nice going Blondie, you shouldn't have encouraged her. Don't be surprised if you wake up with a killer headache tomorrow." Sting muttered as they reached for the sticks in the cup to start the game.
"Who's the Master" They all asked, looking at one another, Lucy gulping when she realized who it was.
No One's POV
Minerva smiled as she raised up the Popsicle stick she held in her hand... it had the master's crest on it. "Let see... Number 8 has to strip naked."
"WHAT?!" The others all screamed. They looked around until Lector sighed, pulling off the vest he wore.
Everyone sighed in relief while Minerva simmered in disappointment; yes, the first order was already messed up but at least Lector was an exceed and the only thing he wore was the vest anyways.
"Drink the liquor cat!" Minerva snapped, if she couldn't get one of her friends naked then she'd damn sure make the cat drunk.
Lector looked at her in fright before chugging the liquid down, a sick look on his face.
"Draw straws!" Minerva demanded and they did, "Who's the master?" They asked.
"L-looks like I'm the Master." Yukino said nervously, trying to ignore Minerva's glare. "Number 5 must-" She was cut off when Minerva suddenly took the stick, a mischievous smile on her face.
"Sorry Yukino, but I don't think you have the right mindset for this, so I'm invoking my right as the previous Master to give the order." Minerva said. "Number 5 must make out with Number 10 for a whole minute."
Orga let out a choking noise before warily looking for Number 10, letting out a choked coughing fit when Frosch suddenly jumped up and down.
"That's Fro! Frosch is number ten!" Frosch said happily.
"WHAT THE FUCK?!" Rogue screamed, clutching Frosch to his chest for dear life.
"Rules are rules Rogue." Minerva shook her finger at him before using her magic to teleport the small jumpsuit clad exceed into Orga's arms. "But I'm not heartless, I won't make Frosch drink, instead Orga will have to drink two cups."
"Yay! Frosch cheered, not truly understanding what was going on.
Orga quickly downed both cups of alcohol, it was probably the last thing he'd ever drink because after this, Rogue was definitely going to kill him. And Minerva may kill him if he didn't do the order. Either way he was screwed. He closed his eyes and kissed Frosch, all the while completely aware of Rogue trying to tear into him, his screams of anger echoing across the guild. From what he could hear, since he was keeping his eyes closed, Sting was having an extremely hard time keeping Rogue from killing him.
"Next round!" Minerva said happily once Orga pulled away from Frosch, completely ignoring the fact that Orga was now an inch from unconsciousness and how Rogue was crying about his 'poor Frosch and how she was scarred for life' but amazingly, the little exceed didn't seemed phased at all.
"Are you serious?!" Sting demanded, he had a rather nasty bruise on his jaw now, courtesy of one furious shadow dragon slayer.
"Of course. Draw straws!" Minerva ordered and against their better judgement, everyone obeyed.
"I'm Master." Dobengal said, showing them the crest, "Number 1 and Number 6 have to drink two jugs of alcohol along with the mandatory cup."
Both Yukino and Lucy felt their stomachs drop, it looked like their luck had run out since both didn't have a high tolerance to the clear liquid. But both downed the bitter drinks without complaint. They may end up with a killer headache tomorrow but at least the request wasn't as horrible as Minerva's.
Though the second both finished, Yukino fell to the floor mumbling nonsense and Lucy started to hiccup uncontrollably, she looked sick.
Forty-five minutes later and the group had finally decided to do their last round. Which was a good thing since in that amount of time, both Orga and Rufus had been forced to strip, Yukino had lost her underwear and Lucy had somehow ended up in a rather revealing bikini. It also didn't help that both girls had reached downed six more cups of alcohol, at this point, both were pretty dead drunk.
"Who's the master?" They all said tiredly, actually Minerva looked pretty fine. She didn't look tired or drunk at all. Made sense, seeing as Minerva had ended up the Master almost half the time.
"I'm Master!" Minerva said happily, and Sting visibly slumped. The last round, with Minerva as Master, something horrible was bound to happen.
"Number 3 has to... kiss Number 1 on the lips for one minute." Minerva finally said. Huh. That wasn't bad for the last order.
Sting let out a choking sound when he saw that he was Number 1... then who was number 3? He visibly paled when he saw Rogue get up, equally as pale. God... he hated Minerva right now.
Rogue came up to him and the two looked each other dead in the eyes, similar looks of dread on their faces. There was a horrible awkward silence that seemed to stretch on forever before Rogue finally pressed his lips against Sting's both their shoulders visibly shaking as they resisted the urge to puke.
Finally. FINALLY the minute was over and both jerked away, wiping at their mouths like crazy while trying to ignore the roaring laughter that Orga was letting out. Minerva looked entirely too pleased with herself and both Rufus and Dobengal had looks of amusement on their faces. Yukino and Lucy were dead to the world at this point, both too drunk to even stay conscious.
"That's it." Sting growled, glaring at Minerva. "As the actual Master of this guild, I'm ordering all of us to go home and get some sleep and never mention any of this again."
Rogue POV
It took them less than ten minutes to clean up their game, and Minerva must have felt a bit bad for putting them all through such a game because she volunteered to stay back and clean up. Telling everyone else to go home and rest up.
"What are we going to do about them?" Dobengal asked, nodding to Lucy and Yukino who were still passed out on the floor.
"Well, I'm hoping at least two of you have the common courtesy to take them home." Minerva said.
"We'll do it." Sting said, leaning down to take Yukino into his arms. She woke up at the sudden movement and once she saw it was Sting carrying her, she started to struggle.
"No. I don't want you." She complained weakly, swatting at his chest.
Rogue felt bad for his twin because he saw genuine hurt flash across his face before he said, "I'm taking you home, Yukino."
Yukino must have been mad at him for his comment before but she looked too tired to continue to protest.
Rogue picked Lucy and held her firmly against his chest; she was so light and the scent of sunlight reached his nose. God, she was beautiful.
"Lets go." Sting said and Rogue followed silently.
"Rogue?" Lucy stirred against his chest, snuggling deeper against his warmth.
Rogue swallowed thickly. Damn, why did she have to sound so cute? "Yes Lucy?" He asked, looking down at her and meet her drowsy brown eyes.
"Why do people always end up leaving me?" The question came out broken, she sounded so vulnerable.
Rogue bit his tongue as he felt anger towards her guild mates build up in him, she didn't need him insulting her closest friends in her state. "Not everyone has left you. You still have Yukino and your spirits. You have Minerva, Orga, Rufus and Dobengal, you may not realize it, but you left a mark on them and you have Sting." Rogue paused, unsure if he wanted to continue. "And you have me. I'd never leave you, Lucy." It was the truth, he wouldn't be able to leave her even if he tried.
"Promise?" Lucy asked.
"I promise. And I know for a fact that the rest of Sabertooth won't leave you either." Rogue said. "We'll be your family now."
"Hmmm." Lucy said, a small smile forming on her face, "You really are my knight in shining armor."
Rogue was thankful that no one was there to witness the blush on his face, "I think that's more Sting's territory." He confessed.
"Then you're my Dragon Knight." Lucy murmured before falling back asleep, leaving Rogue speechless before a smile formed on his face.
It was quiet between them as they finally reached Yukino's apartment, Sting pulling out her key and unlocking the apartment door.
"Sting, do you think they'll be okay tomorrow?" Rogue asked quietly as he moved towards the guest room.
"I don't know about Lucy, but Yukino won't be." Sting said before slipping into Yukino's room while Rogue slipped into Lucy's room.
Rogue gently put Lucy on her bed, but she didn't stir again, she just mumbled sleepily, a few strands of her hair falling across her face.
The smile came back as she turned over, she really was precious and he really would do anything for her. With that realization though, came the thought of how screwed he was.
Sting POV
Sting gently set Yukino down on her bed and was about to leave when he felt a gentle hand grip his wrist.
"Sting?" Yukino mumbled, opening here eyes to look at him.
"Hey, Yukino." Sting said softly, settling on the edge of her bed. "Do you need anything?"
Yukino nodded and reached up, catching him off guard when she pulled him down on top of her to place a sloppy kiss against his lips. Sting froze before kissing her back; he wanted her so much. She was so warm and soft and she smelled like fresh snow with hints of lavender and honey. He was selfish and he wanted her all to himself; it wasn't until she moaned his name that he snapped back to his senses and pulled away.
"We can't do this." Sting said, even if he really wanted to. He wanted to let himself be selfish and hold her again, but he had already messed up their relationship once, he couldn't again.
"Why not. Don't you want me anymore?" Yukino asked, tears starting to form in her eyes. "Don't you want to go back to what we had before the grand magic games? I miss you Sting-sama."
Sting made a choked noise in the back of his throat. What they had before the grand magic games... what did they have? They acted indifferent and disinterested in each other in front of the rest of Sabertooth but when they had been alone, things got intimate. The sexual tension between them had been ready to burst... the best label he could give them under Jiemma's rule was friends with benefits but worse since they hadn't even been friends. There were no words to describe their messed up relationship in the old Sabertooth. Now, under his rule, he couldn't seem to stop being an idiot around her and both of them acted like what they had before even happened. Actually, neither of them had mentioned it until now.
He knew he didn't want to try a relationship with her because after she got kicked out of Sabertooth and rejoined, he realized how horrible and undeserving of her he really was. He always knew that Yukino had been too good for him, especially in the old Sabertooth; he should have ended what they had when he realized that her feelings for him were genuine. But the old Sting had been selfish. He wanted her warmth and someone to care for him. She filled a hole that he hadn't realized he had in him. And he just stood there when she was kicked out of Sabertooth, forced to strip and erase her own guild mark. He even called her weak!
Sniffling broke his train of thought and Sting realized that Yukino was crying. "Yukino, what's wrong?!" He asked anxiously.
"Y-you don't want me anymore." Yukino cried, tears staining her cheeks. "Is it because I'm weak? Or that I'm not as pretty as those girls you let join the guild?"
"No!" He said a bit too loudly. "No, Yukino. Listen to me." Sting said sternly, wiping away the tears from her face. "You are one of the strongest people I know. You are also kind and patient, I don't know what I would do without you helping me with my work and listening to my rambles. You're sincere and as pure as snow, I'd be completely lost without you. And you're the most beautiful woman in the whole guild. There's nothing wrong with you Yukino, I'm the problem." He said.
"I'm selfish and unworthy of you. I didn't protect you when Jiemma humiliated you in front of the whole guild, we weren't even friends when Jiemma was around! I was selfish and wanted to keep you to myself." Sting said. "Even if I want to, I don't deserve to be with you. You need someone better, someone you can be proud of being with."
"Then become that person Sting. I know you can, even if you don't think you can. The only person I want to be with is you." Yukino said before sleep took her again.
Sting stared at her stunned for what felt like hours before getting up and leaving her room to find Rogue leaning against the wall.
"Well, at least you know she still wants to be with you." Rogue said after a pregnant pause.
Sting scowled when he realized that Rogue heard them, thanks to his dragon slayer hearing. "Shut up Dragon Knight." Yeah, he had heard Rogue's conversation with Lucy too. "I don't want to leave them alone, not when their this drunk." He added worriedly.
Rogue nodded, "I'll run back to out apartment and grab some things, I'll also see if Frosch and Lector got their safely."
Sting just nodded, watching his friend leave before settling on Yukino's couch. The only person I want to be with is you. Sting groaned, why was everything in life so complicated.
SO I decided to make Sting and Yukino hook up before the grand magic games and of course it was messed up since Sabertooth was all about strength and having no personal connections.
Hoped you like the bit of Rolu and Stingyu
Also the Who's The Master game does exist, it appears in Fairy Tail OVA 9, "Fairies Christmas", 2016 and in the manga ch. 462.005 omake chapter
P.S Please review I'd love some feedback for this story!
