Third Person's POV
The people cheered as the Fairytail won their races one by one. Jellal was the first one to race followed by Gajeel, Freed then Gray. Natsu's supposed to be the final one to race so he went last. The people didn't know that once the two rival cars were in the road, dirty tactics were made by the opposing team. Jellal already saw this as he was the first one to compete and experienced their way of racing so he devised a plan along with his group and each one of them was able to counter attack the opposing team's dirty play.
Everything was going along well with the plan and after a several hours, the people erupted in cheers once Natsu was able to pass the finish line indicating Fairytail's victory.
Gajeel's POV
The people cheered as Salamander emerged from his car wearing the victory smirk since he's the last one to compete. I rolled my eyes but smiled secretly in satisfaction since I saw his opponent along with its group seething in anger while glaring at Natsu and us. I smirked at them in return which Jellal caught on and followed my eyes to where I'm looking and he in turned smiled arrogantly at them.
"Come on, Gajeel. Let's go." Jellal called me before turning away to walk.
After the racing, the people continued to cheered our group and the other participants greeted us. Throughout the whole event, I remained cold and impassive but nodded sometimes when some of them went near to greet me. Laxus then came up to give our reward.
"Well done, Fairytail. You sure are getting stronger. I just wished you'd compete for us. You'll have more money then." Laxus said.
"Nah. We're good. It's better this way so the people will anticipate more from us when we'll compete again." Jellal said and smiled arrogantly.
Laxus shook his head and laughed. "Damn. I forgot how very shrewd you are, Jellal. Well, I understand since we're both business man after all. Anyway, congrats to your victory and let's see each other again next month." He said.
I nodded at him along with my friends. Jellal shook his hand before Laxus walked away.
Gray's POV
Natsu stretched his arms and smirked. "Well, that was a good fight. Right guys?"
I rolled my eyes. "You wouldn't grinned like an idiot, flame brain if you didn't enjoy the racing a while ago." I said and smirked at him. As I expected, he glared at me and opened his mouth to retort back but Jellal's glare froze him on the spot.
I laughed seeing his reaction until I felt a hand slapped the back of my head.
"Aw, dammit!" I yelled while rubbing my head.
I heard Gajeel and Freed laughed at me while Natsu snorted.
"You're starting it again." Jellal said in reprimand.
I scowled and continued rubbing my head. We started walking back to our cars and luckily the people were thinning out so only a few noticed us. As we got to the lot where our cars were parked, Freed spoke up.
"Hey Jellal, why don't we go to your bar and celebrate there? I heard you've a lot of new drinks and beautiful staffs working in there." Freed suggested while smiling deviously.
Jellal rolled his eyes. "You're such a playboy, Freed. And no, I won't let any of you inside my bar. The last time you four were in there, you almost destroyed it!" Jellal exclaimed.
"Oh come on, Jellal! That was just an accident!" Freed said.
I raised my hand. "Yeah, that was an accident. Besides, it's flame brain who started the fight if I remembered correctly." I said and sneered.
"I did not! Metal face started it!" Natsu shot back heatedly and point his finger at Gajeel.
Gajeel glared at him. "Shut up, salamander. Gray's right. You started it by punching that man who bumped you." Gajeel said.
Jellal, sensing the tension building, stepped in.
"Enough is enough, guys. You're really making me old by your fights." Jellal sighed then he spoke up again, "Fine. We'll do the celebration in my bar. But no fights, no breaking of furniture and utensils and no flirting with my staffs, understood?" he said and narrowing his eyes at us in warning.
We nodded at him silently. It's a smart thing to agree with him since it's his precious bar we're talking about and he gets to be totally protective of it even if it means sending down our asses to hell if we break his rules.
(Crime Sorciere Bar)
I sighed for a hundred times as I sat there with Gajeel, who's busy right now, and looked with bored face at the people partying inside the bar. I saw Freed dancing with five girls on the floor a while ago and frowned in disgust while Jellal left the table and went to check his manager and his staffs. I turned to the girl beside me who's pressing herself with my body and was batting her eyelashes trying to be cute.
I rolled my eyes. Like I'd fall for that trick. I thought and grimaced. I just realized, I REALLY do hate clingy girls! Especially this one.
"Look miss whoever-you-are, Stop flirting with me and stay away from me. I. DON'T. LIKE. CLINGY SLUTS. LIKE. YOU! Understood?" I said to her harshly using my cold voice.
She gasped and glared at me before standing up. "What?! How dare you to call me that?!" she yelled and raised her hands to slapped me but I caught it easily.
I glared at her. "Don't messed up with me, woman. Now, LEAVE!" my voice boomed amidst the loud music playing in the background.
She huffed in anger. "Bastard!" she said and pulled her hands from me before stomping away.
I sighed in relief and picked up my glass to drink.
I heard a chuckle and turned to see Gajeel drinking also while a girl was sitting on his lap and was kissing his neck.
"What?" I asked him annoyed.
"You really should loosen up for once Gray and enjoy this night. After all, it's Jellal's gift for us since we won the car racing a while ago." He said and smirked.
I rolled my eyes at his comment but then smirked, remembering the car racing that happened a while ago.
"I really enjoyed seeing those bastards fumed in anger when they certainly didn't expect to be beat up that badly by us." I chuckled at the memory.
Gajeel laughed. "They thought they could just marched up in there and challenged us. Those idiots." He shook his head in amusement.
It certainly had its perks when you competed with a new group in G-point. The people automatically ate it up and the stakes increased as the bets went up for the both teams as to whether who would win. Added to that was the fact that our group rarely accepted a challenge and competed only a few times when we think it's worth it and the opponents were skillful enough to compete with us and gave us a worthy fight.
I turned to Gajeel and saw him already making out with the bitch who's sitting on top of him. I rolled my eyes and rest my arms on top of the couch I'm sitting on.
"By the way, where's that idiotic flame brain?" I asked him.
Gajeel turned to me and smirked. "What? Missing him already?"
"Shut up. I'm not in the mood for some jokes and it creeps me out. Geez, man" I said and cringed.
Gajeel chuckled and chased the girl away who's sitting on his lap before he took a swig of his drink. "I heard he's going to go looked for a blonde girl he could knocked up tonight."
I shook my head in distaste after he said that. "Don't you think he's just trying too hard to forget? I just wished he didn't meet that bitch. I didn't know what that girl Lisanna did to him for him to be this shitty person he's trying to live up right now." I said coldly.
"You're just saying that Gray since you haven't met the person who'll you love and haven't feel the pain of being left behind." Jellal said as he took his seat beside me and poured himself a drink before gulping it on one down.
I raised my eyebrow at him. "And you did?"
Jellal simply smiled sadly before shrugging and drinking again.
I looked at Gajeel in question but he just shrugged too. "Don't ask me. I don't know anything about that shitty thing called "love" and frankly I don't care." He said coolly but I noticed something flickered in his eyes although it disappeared immediately.
Freed then arrived with two girls in each side, grinning widely and plopped onto his seat acrossed from us but immediately frowned when he noticed the atmosphere in our table.
"What's up, guys? Something wrong?" he asked in concern.
I shook my head at him while Gajeel simply snorted and joined with Jellal in drinking contest.
"O-kay." Freed turned to the girls and started making out with them. I rolled my eyes. Playboy. If I know, this guy had his heart broken too by some girl. Tsk.
After a few minutes, Natsu went back to our table with a blonde girl and was currently laughing with her about something. He sat next to me and made the girl sat on his lap.
"Hey, guys. Wait-what's with this weird atmosphere?" he asked and chuckled while the girl gave him a drink. He smiled at her although I could clearly it didn't reached his eyes.
I looked around with the four of them and shook my head. I finished my drink then I stood up.
"I'm out of here. By the way guys, I just want to say that you four should really stop shitting around because of a girl. It's not worth it, you know. Get your priorities straight." I said to them emotionlessly.
The four of them snapped their heads towards me and they looked confused by what I just said. I took it as an opportunity to walk away and then I felt their glare burning holes behind me and if looks could kill, I probably should be dead right now. Luckily, I was already walking out of the door by the time they realized what I just said. I breathed in relief once I was outside.
As I walked towards the lot where I parked my car, I thought about how it's good that I don't have a girl to worry about. I'm free and fine being with myself. Girls are a problem and will just cause a headache. And I don't need that kind of problem!
'Luckily, I just don't need a girl, after all.' I thought and smiled before climbing inside my car.
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At the same time, the fate has already set its plan in motion at the other side of the planet. A plan which will make the Fairytail boys' worlds turn upside down…which will turn his life upside down…
