Welcome back my wonderful readers! This next chapter will be based on my absolute favorite episode; Welcome Back, Frosch. Hope you like it!
Also, I've wrote and posted a new story called "Her Blonde Best Friend". It's a side story to this one that I thought of. If you're interested, I'd really like for you guys to check it out! It's about Lucy not being on the island when it disappears and Sting being there to help her through the journey of the seven years.
Anyways, on to the story!
Lucy hopped off of the train happily, glancing around the beautiful area. It had been a week since the games, which meant it's been a week since she has seen Sting. When he called her on her lacrima the night before and asked her if she wanted to visit Sabertooth, she agreed right away, wanting to see her blonde boyfriend as soon as possible. They had both been so busy lately that they didn't even have time to call each other until then. With Sting being the new guild master and Lucy needing jobs to pay her rent, they just didn't have the time. To make things harder, they lived far away from each other. That didn't stop them from having a relationship though.
She made her way through the streets of Crocus wearing a pink tank top and blue jean shorts with a pair of white and red sandals. There were flowers everywhere she looked and all of them were beautiful. She loved how Crocus looked, the towns people built things quickly after the dragons attacked. Not everything was finished of course, but a lot was. Shops were open and crazy busy. She wanted to get something for Sting but she didn't know what. As she walked by a flower shop, something caught her eye and she stopped. She smiled fondly at the daisies in the window as a memory came to mind.
Lucy opened the door to her apartment and threw the bouquet of daisies on her coffee table. She ignored when Sting jumped slightly and gave her a questioning look from the couch, a book in his lap. She stormed into her room with a frustrated groan and slammed the door behind her. She stripped of the black dress she was wearing and threw it across the room. "Fuck you, Tyler!" She shouted and ripped open her drawer, throwing on the first tank top and pajama pants she grabbed.
She left her room and stopped when she saw Sting standing there with chocolate covered strawberries and a glass of wine. "Another failure?"
Lucy smiled at him and took the items from his hands. "You have no idea." She sighed. She had been trying to find a man for months now. Seven guys and all of them sucked. This time was Tyler, a total ass. Each time she came home, Sting would be there to comfort her with snacks and hugs. She made her way over to the couch and plopped down, Sting sitting next her her and instantly curling up to her. She was about to sip her wine when she noticed the flowers. "Um, Sting?"
"Hm?" Sting hummed and inhaled her scent. He missed her, even if she was only gone for a few hours.
"What happened to my flowers?" They looked like a swarm of bugs had a feast, but only on the peddles.
Sting shrugged and glared at the stems on the table. "He was a dick and I was hungry."
"Hungry? You ate my flowers?"
"I'm a White Dragon Slayer, I either eat light or white things."
"Thant's weird." She laughed and sipped her wine. After a moment, she glared down at him. "Wait, did you say dick?" When he nodded sheepishly, she rolled her eyes. "I told you not to swear."
"It's your fault, you're always swearing around me. A bad influence I'd say."
"Shut up, Dick."
Sting was so ridiculous as a kid. She looked at the price of the flowers and raised an eyebrow. Fifty jewel for one flower? Seemed kind of expensive. She supposed she'd buy a couple for Sting though. After she went inside and bought three, she continued her way to Sabertooth. She soon stopped walking as a thought came to mind.
Lucy had no idea where Sabertooth was.
She let out a groan and saw a couple sitting on a bench. She walked over to them with a smile. "Excuse me, but do you know where Sabertooth is?"
They looked up at her and the man's eyes lit up. "You're Lucy from Fairy Tail! I saw you battle in the games!"
The woman nodded and smiled. "Yeah I saw you as well! You were great, the battle between you and Flare was amazing. You're so strong Miss Lucy!"
Lucy blushed and waved her free hand in front of her. "Thank you so much, but I really need to get to Sabertooth."
The woman pointed to her left and gave Lucy directions. Lucy thanked the woman before taking her leave, her blush deepening in color when she heard the woman speak before she was out of earshot. "I bet she really is with Sting from Sabertooth. Remember the way they looked at each other after the battle between the fours Dragon Slayers? They're so cute!"
Lucy sped up her walking to get away from the chuckling couple. Sure they were dating now, but they weren't back then. It seems that Jason hasn't caught on to their relationship yet either which was good. It's not like their relationship was a secret, but she knew that as soon as Jason found out they were together he'd make a huge deal about it in Sorcerer's Weekly.
After jogging for what felt like forever, she stopped in front of a huge building. It was most definitely Sabertooth. From the large tigers perched atop the building to the flags of their emblem scattered around the area. Seemed a bit overboard in Lucy's opinion. She took a deep breath before walking up the the doors and pushing them open.
It was deathly quiet and everyone was gathered in one area. She silently closed the doors and swiftly made her way through the crowd. She stopped when she reached Rogue and rose an eyebrow when she saw Sting. He was sitting on a throne -which Lucy rolled her eyes at- two more of the large tigers facing towards him, long dark red curtain hung from the ceiling and were bunched up on either side of him, finally there were closed curtains of the same color behind him. She wondered what was behind them.
She looked up at Rogue and nudged him slightly with her shoulder. "What's going on?" She let out a small squeak when he glared at her to shut her up. Were they in trouble? Did they do something to upset Sting? Her eyes snapped to the blonde guild master when he started speaking.
Sting glanced at Lucy quickly before his eyes scanned his guild members. He was glad Lucy could make it. "Our guild aims to stun the heavens, rouse the land beneath us, silence the raging seas. That is the Sabertooth way." His voice rang out through the quiet guild. "Hear me? Take it off."
Lucy's eyes widened when she heard Yukino comply. What the hell was he doing? "Sti-" She tried to say but was cut off when Rogue grabbed her wrist. Her eye twitched when she saw everyone start to take off their clothes, even Rogue. 'Are you fucking kidding me?' Lucy thought when she saw everyone wearing swimming clothes under what they were wearing. She groaned when everyone happily made their way through a door and Lucy followed them.
"Everybody in the water 'cause we got ourselves a pool!" Sting shouted excitedly while some of the members jumped into the water with happy shouts.
"This was a wonderful idea, Sting!" Yukino smiled.
'Wonderful my ass. It's always been the same with him, he gets some sort of power and he goes over the top.' Lucy internally sighs.
"I don't think I've ever seen him this happy." Rogue chuckled while tying his hair in a ponytail.
Lucy walked up to Rogue and crossed her arms. She wouldn't admit it out loud -and definitely not in front of Sting- but Rogue had an amazing body and she wished he didn't hide it under so much clothing. "It's so like him to do something like this."
Rogue watched as Sting dove into the water and started swimming around. "Are you going to be joining us?"
Lucy sighs and nods. "Yeah, I guess I could." Rogue points her to the bathrooms and she thanks him. After she made it there and called out Virgo, she changed into her normal white bikini whit a pink flower print. Leaving the flowers in the bathroom on the pile of her clothes, she went back to the pool and stood by the edge as she watched Sting laugh and swim around. 'Still a child.'
Sting stopped and stared up at his blonde girlfriend with a large grin. "Jump in, the water feels amazing!"
She laughed lightly at the guild master and hopped in the water. As soon as she resurfaced Sting started splashing her.
"Seriously, no one's gonna believe that we actually have a pool in our guild hall!" He laughed.
"Stop it Sting!" Lucy laughed with him and splashed him back. God, she could't tell if he was more of a child now or seven years ago. When he stopped, she jumped on him and dunked his head under the water. She squealed when she felt him pinch her thigh and jumped back. While she was glaring at the smirking man, she couldn't help but overhear Rufus and Orga talking.
"We are the only guild that has a pool, right?" Orga crossed his arms in thought.
Rufus leaned back in his floating tube a little more and let out a contented sigh. "I don't remember anyone else talking about having one."
Lucy walked over to them with a smile, Sting following closely behind. When he wrapped his arms around her waist from behind and rested his chin against her head, she stopped."Actually, Fairy Tail has one in the yard."
Sting groaned. "Seriously? And I thought I was the only guild master smart enough the think of installing a pool."
"Well, I wouldn't call it a smart idea." She giggled and pinched Sting's arm.
"I bet Fairy Tail doesn't have a throne." Sting grinned.
"No, we don't. But we also don't have a nineteen-year-old guild master that has a huge ego." She grinned back.
He glared at her and pushed her under the water, laughing when she sprang back up and slapped his arm. "You love my huge ego." He then grinned and wrapped an arm around her. "But that's not the only thing about me that's huge." He winks.
Lucy blushed and pushed him away. "If you don't stop being a perv, I won't give you the gift I got you."
Sting heard Orga mutter to Rufus about how the hell their master ended up with a girl like Lucy but chose to ignore it. "You got me a gift? Why?"
"I saw them on the way here and thought you'd like them." She shrugs. "Am I not aloud to buy things for my boyfriend?"
A small tint of pink appears on Sting's cheeks. "N-No, you can.. I just didn't expect it."
"Wow, the mighty Sabertooth guild master is blushing!" Orga laughs loudly.
"I will surely remember this." Rufus chuckled.
"Shut up!" Sting's blush deepens in color.
Lucy giggles and wraps her arms around the blonde guild master from behind. "Aw! You're so cute Stingy-Bee!"
Sting growls and wraps his hands around Lucy's thighs before leaving the two laughing men with her. He felt her wrap her legs around his waist, which was definitely not helping his blush go away. Though, he couldn't help but smile when he heard her bright laughter as he jogged around in the water - or, tried to.
"On-wards my trusty stead! To Shadow Boy!" She placed her hands on his shoulders and gave them a pat.
"Shadow Boy?" Sting chuckles and glances around for the man. When he saw him relaxing at the more shallow area, he made his way over with a grin. He stopped behind him and placed Lucy down. When she took a step away, he started splashing at the man. "Loosen up a little Rogue!"
"Stop, you're behaving like a child!" Rogue turns his head to glare at Sting.
Lucy crosses her arms with a small quirk to her lips. 'How the hell are they friends? They're total opposites!'
"Hey, Sting! Listen Sting!" The three turned to stare at Lector as he rushed over to the edge of the pool. "O-Oh I mean, master."
Sting places a hand on his hip as Lucy walks over to stand next to him. "You know I don't care about that master crap, is there something wrong?"
'Bullshit, you love being the master.' Lucy shakes her head at that thought.
"Yeah, something's really wrong! Well, we were out shopping in the market and somehow Frosch just completely disappeared on me!" Lector explains.
"Say what?" Sting gasps.
"Are you joking or are you really so careless that you'd just let something like this happen?" Rogue growls as he moves closer to the panicked cat.
"I'm sorry! I just turned my back for a second and that's all it took!" Lector cries.
'Iv'e never seen Rogue act like this. I guess Sting really meant it when he said Rogue is a completely different person when it comes to Frosch.' Lucy internally giggles at the thought.
Sting walks over to his partner and places a hand on his shoulder. "Hey man, this was obviously an accident so back off, would ya?"
Rogue slaps his hand away and glares at Sting. "Don't you understand?" He takes a step closer. "Frosch doesn't know how to get back here!"
Sting buts his head against Rogue's. "Yeah I know, but that's not Lector's fault!"
"He knew that too!"
"He didn't do it on purpose!"
Lucy sighed as she watched the two Slayers start to fight, growling and pinching each other. 'Rogue can't call Sting a child if he acts like this over something that can easily be handled. Though, seeing two shirtless men argue is pretty sexy. Especially if one of those men happen to be my very mature boyfriend.' She takes a step forward and crosses her arms. "Alright you two, stop fighting. We need to go and look for Frosch."
Both of the men stopped and turned to stare at her before side-glancing each other. She was right.
Lucy sighs as she watched Rogue look around the market in a panic. 'This is a totally different side of him, it's pretty funny.'
"So you were here when you lost track of Frosch, huh?" Sting asks as he glances around the area.
"Yeah, there were so many people around and I guess Frosch just got lost in the crowd." Lector replies worriedly.
"Hey Frosch, where are you?"
"Come on back!" Sting calls.
Lucy bit her lip to hold in a laugh at the whine in Rogue's voice. She couldn't laugh though, it would be rude and she knew Rogue would probably freak out if she did. "Frosch?" She yells.
"When it happened I asked a bunch of folks, but it so packed with people today that it seemed no body really saw anything." Lector looks down sadly.
"Don't worry buddy, I'm sure we'll find Frosch in no time." Sting reassures him.
Lucy walks over and laces her fingers with Sting's. "You're sweet when you wanna be huh?" She giggles when he playfully glares at her. She then saw something in the corner of her eye and turned to look. "Oh hey, It's Gajeel. I wonder what he's doing here." She says and the others turn to look where she was.
All four of them make their way over to the Iron Slayer and his exceed. "Yo, Gajeel!" Sting yells, the said man turning to look at them.
Lucy's eyes widen and a small laugh passes her lips when Rogue grabs the collar of Gajeel's shirt.
"Hey, if you've seen Frosch around here you better start talking!" Rogue growls.
"And you'd better get your hands off me," Sting pulls Rogue away and holds him back while he struggles in his hold, "you got some kind of death wish?" Gajeel raises and eyebrow with a small scowl curling his lip.
"No, he's just a little upset right now." Sting sighs.
"We've been looking but we haven't seen Frosch anywhere, have you?" Lector asks.
"Who's Frosch, that weird little frog?" Gajeel crosses his arms.
"A cat!" Rogue yells and takes a step forward, Sting struggling to hold him back.
"Well technically speaking, we're called exceed." Lily interjects. "So tell me, this is the last place you saw your friend?" At Lector's confirmation, he continued, "I saw what I thought was a short person in a frog costume a few minutes ago at the park down the road." He points in the direction.
"Oh really?" Lector smiles.
"We owe you one!" Sting shouts as he and Rogue run off with Lector.
"Thanks Gaj, you've been a lot of help." Lucy smiles. "I'll make sure to give you plenty of iron when I get back to Fairy Tail, okay?" She then runs off to catch up to the Sabers. When she finally caught up with them, they were walking slower and still calling out for the small cat.
"Frosch!" Rogue cries.
"Where did you go?" Sting yells.
"What a mess." Lucy sighs. She glances around and her eyes land on a certain blue haired Slayer. "Guys, let's ask her if she's seen him." Lucy waves for them and they follow her. "Wendy, Carla!" Lucy smiles as they walk up to the pair.
"Thanks for all of your help during the Grand Magic Games." Wendy bows towards Sting.
"They were out biggest rival." Carla points out.
"Anyway, we need to ask you a question." Sting cuts them off.
Rogue then towers over the smaller Slayer. "Listen, tell us where Frosch is so things don't have to get ugly!" He growls at the cowering girl.
Sting pulls a fist back and slams it into Rogue, sending him flying into a pole. "She's just a little girl, so cool it on the threats!" He groans.
"So sorry," Rogue painfully moans from where he landed.
Wendy then turns to Lucy. "You're looking.. For Frosch?"
"Yeah, he's Rogue's exceed. He's the one that wears the pink frog suit." Lucy explains.
"Well we did see that one down the street not too long ago." Carla points down the road.
"That's awesome. C'mon pal!" Sting drags Rogue in the direction that she pointed, Lucy following. Sting had to hold in a laugh as he heard Lector compliment the white exceed. Looks like his friend found himself a crush.
After making it further into the market, Rogue let out another cry. "Frosch!"
"Answer us!" Sting calls. He then lets out a sigh. "Of course, no sign here either."
"Must of moved on to the next place already." Lector frowned.
"To picture my best friend walking around lost and alone just breaks my heart. I don't know how much longer I can go on like this." Rogue whimpers, staring into his hands as tears came to his eyes.
"Would you pull yourself together man?" Sting groans. His friend could be so dramatic.
"My brother's in arms, let me help you!"
Lucy jumped in surprise and turned at the sound of Ichya's voice. A shiver went up her spine. "O-Oh, it's Ichya." She turned her head when she heard growling and quick footsteps draw closer. Oh god, here they go again.
Rogue grabbed the short mans shoulders and roughly pulled him closer. "Where's Frosch, answer me!" He then paled when the man blew a kiss to him and couldn't help himself when he pulled his fist back and slammed it into Ichya.
"That was totally uncalled for!" Sting yelled.
Rogue stares at his fist in shock before turning his gaze to his guild master. "W-Whoops, my bad!"
"It's fine, that was just the jolt of energy I needed."
They all turned and saw that he was somehow completely unscathed and now in a too small mankini. Sting's eyes twitched. "What the hell's happening?"
"Is he wearing a thong?" Rogue stares in disgust.
'That's not a thong. I would know, since I'm wearing one.' Lucy laughed at the thought and waved off Sting when he gave her a weird look. "Um, Ichya. Rogue's friend Frosch has gone missing. have you seen him?"
"I know just where to look." He smiles.
"So, tell me!" Rogue takes a step forward in anticipation.
"Right here," Lucy's eyes widened when Ichya jumped up and spread his legs widely, pressing his groin to the poor Shadow Slayers face, "Oh yeah!"
Lucy stared at Rogue as shivers ran up and down his body after he let a massive breath attack hit the short man. She felt so bad for him.
"Uh, we're kinda in a hurry, so.. see ya later." Sting quickly says before leading them away from the twitching body.
When they made it a good distance away, Rogue seemed to have gotten over the incident. "Hey Frosch, where are you?"
"I'm sorry I lost ya!" Lector cries.
"There's too many people here for me to pick up the scent." Sting sighs.
Lucy glances around and when she turns, her eyes light up. "Guy look, over there!" She points the the smiling green cat.
"Alright, good eye!" Sting grins and starts running towards Frosch.
"Finally." Lucy sighs happily and runs after Sting.
"Hold on!" Rogue thrusts his hand to the side. He blinks when he feels something soft in his palm and gives it a firm squeeze. "Hold on..?" He turns his head and a deep flush stains his cheeks when he realizes that the 'something soft' was actually Lucy's chest. Oh, he was a dead man. He groans loudly in pain when a burst of magic hits his body and he goes crashing the the ground.
"Dude that is totally not cool!" Sting growls and pulls a blushing Lucy close to him. 'Great, even my own best friend is groping my girlfriend before me!' He glared at the trembling body on the ground.
"S-Sorry, Lucy. I didn't mean to."
"I-It's okay.." She whispers and covers her chest with her arms.
"But seriously, stop and look a second. Check it out." Rogue whispers and raises a shaky hand to point at Frosch.
"Reading a map, eh?" Lector hums.
"That's right," Rogue said while sitting up. "This whole time Frosch has been trying to get back to the guild hall, and to make it there without anyone's help." He shakily stood with a determined look on his face. "I have to harden my heart and keep my protective instincts inside, this could be a real milestone."
"I really wouldn't bet on that." Sting shook his head and let go of Lucy.
"Not gonna happen." Lector agreed.
"You just gotta have faith!" Rogue growled.
Lucy placed a hand on Sting's arm. "Maybe we should watch and see how things go. Frosch can't be that bad with directions." They all watched as Frosch turned and started making his way down the road. "See? He's already going the right direction." She nodded with a smile. It soon fell as the little exceed spotted a frog and started chasing after it.
"No.. No stay focused!" Rogue whined.
"That was quick." Sting chuckled.
"Will you leave the frog alone!" Rogue glared at his partner.
"This is going to take forever." Lucy mumbled and watched a cart being pulled by out of control horses ran towards the oblivious cat. "Why can't we catch a break?" She whined.
"There's nobody driving it!" Lector panics.
"This is bad!" Sting takes a step back in surprise.
"Frosch has to learn to be more independent but this situation has become very dangerous. I have to somehow figure out a way to help without being noticeable." Rogue mumbles before he merged with the shadows.
Lucy watched and let out a sigh when Rogue instantly turned green when he appeared on the carriage. "Oh right,"
"Yeah, it may be an emergency but there's no point in trying to tell that to a dragon Slayer's belly." Sting scratched the back of his head. He felt bad for Rogue, but there was no way he was getting on that thing to help him.
The carriage crashed and missed Frosch. Lucy let out another sigh. "I just want this day to be over."
After hours of following Frosch around, he eventually made it to a guild. It wasn't Sabertooth, but it was a guild. Lucy's guild in fact. After Rogue collected Frosch while sulking, Lucy offered to let them stay at her place since it was already so late. They agreed and Rogue slept on the couch with Frosch while Sting and Lucy stayed in her bed with Lector.
Lucy was a blushing mess when he crawled into her bed in nothing but his boxers. She wore a white tank top with pink shorts and sat on the edge of the bed next the man that was under her covers while she pet a sleeping Lector. "Today sure was crazy." She whispered.
Sting turned so he was lying on his side facing her, propping himself up on his elbow and leaning his head on his hand. "Yeah, it's both frustrating and funny seeing Rogue like that." He chuckled and reached his free hand over to grasp hers. "Lucy?"
"Hm?" She smiled when she heard Lector purr quietly in his sleep.
"I love you."
She blushed and looked into his eyes. His blue depths were swirling with emotions and she couldn't help but lean down to capture his lips with hers. She pulled back and giggled when he brushed his nose against hers. "I'll say it back one of these days."
"And I'll be waiting." He kissed her one last time before laying his head on the pillow.
"Shit!" Lucy placed a hand over her mouth. She glanced at Sting when he let out a small laugh. She removed her hand and let out a sigh. "I didn't mean to say that so loud." She laughed softly.
"Did you remember something?"
"Yeah," Lucy frowned. "I forgot your present at Sabertooth."
Sting chuckled and squeezed her hand. "That's fine. Just being with you is enough for me."
Lucy blushed and was about to say something when a bright light flashed in her room. She looked over and smiled at her spirit. "You're amazing Virgo."
Virgo bowed and handed the flowers to Lucy. "Punishment?"
"N-No, thanks Virgo." Lucy shook her head and her spirit disappeared.
"Punishment? I knew you used that whip for more than fighting." Sting grinned when she smacked his arm.
"Shut up and take these." She groaned, thrusting the flowers to him.
"Aw, such a sweetheart." He teased and took the flowers. "I thought the man was supposed to get the flowers for the woman?"
"Yeah but I remembered how I brought home some daisies after a date and you ate them. So I thought since you like to eat white things, I'd buy you the same flowers you ate all those years ago."
Sting smiled softly at her and sat up, pulling her into a hug. "This is why I love you."
