This is the last connected prompt for this chapter. I had so much fun here. I would appologise to Vander, but he does do this type of thing so... his role in this chapter is his own fault.
He didn't like waking up after his full moon blackouts. He never knew where he was going to be, or with who, or in what state. That was especially true when for whatever unavoidable reason Vander was put in charge of watching over him, as he had during this moon. He loved his little brother, they all did, but the trouble the guy could get into was unprecedented as far as they could tell.
Something was different this time around though. He could tell he wasn't where he should have been, but that didn't surprise him. The fact that he felt like he was supposed to be in this place he shouldn't have been in was extremely odd. It felt right, good. Whatever person He was with smelled good too, amazing in fact. Like cotton candy and raspberries and-
His eyes flew open in shock and he stared at the woman he was wrapped around. She was breathtaking. Pale skinned with a little button nose and rosebud lips. She had a tiny waist and the curves of a goddess. His breath caught when she opened her eyes. He could just fall right into those big magenta eyes. The soft smile she gave him was just precious.
"Morning, Crissy." He purred and ran his fingers through her long hair.
"Morning love." He pushed her hair behind her ear and froze. No fucking way. He might just kill his brother for this. Not that it was a bad thing, just that it shouldnt have happened like this, on a full moon. Who knows what he put her through, and he should have been able to cherish that moment forever.
His fingertips were trembling as they brushed the silver scales running across her colarbone and up her neck. He pushed the rest of her pink hair over her shoulder so he could see every bit of the dragon decorating her skin. His mating mark. Not only had he found his mate, which was beyond awesome, but he had claimed her durig the bloody full moon And he couldn't even remember her name.
"What's wrong?"
"Er, how much actual talking happened yesterday?" She blushed darker than her hair.
"P-precious little."
"What all did I manage to tell you before..." He ran his thumb over the mark and she shuddered.
"Not much. It was mostly a 'me Cristoff, you mate' kind of thing. You seemed pretty loopy and blamed it on the moon. If Bix hadn't told us you were going to be here this week I would have said you were crazy and run for the hills. That and umm..." She blushed darker. "The, uh, mating call, or pull, or whatever..."
"Bix? If you know my brother that means you are a Fairy Tail wizard, right?" She looked decidedly confused.
"Well, yeah. I..." She raised her own hand toward the side of her neck. "Did I misun-"
"No!" He pulled her closer and nuzzled her cheek. "There is no misunderstanding here. You are my mate." He started raining kisses on her face. "My life, my soul. Mine." There was a growl in that last word and he almost lost his train of thought when he placed a kiss on her neck and she arched into him. "I, um, the problem is... I'm a lunar dragon slayer. Last night was the full moon. That's why I was, well, loopy." Her forehead was wrinkled up in confusion before her eyes widened.
"The moon! You get your magic from the moon and it was full! Magic excess! That happens to Cobra if he has to much poison without using up his magic energy." She was all kinds of cute when she got excited.
"Moon drunk, my family calls it. I also put off crazy levels of draconic pheromones. Causes orgys back home." His mate made an adorable squeaking sound. "My brother was supposed to be keeping an eye on me to keep me out of trouble."
"Bickslow?"
"Vander." She snorted. "Guess you know him too since he's been hanging around Magnolia for a bit."
"We haven't actually met, I've been busy, but I've heard stories. He couldn't keep a rock out of trouble. In fact he would probably get it arrested for public indecency." He chuckled.
"True. He should be around though. He tends to take advantage of my full moon state, but doesn't usually abandon me."
"No clue about that. You just moon beamed onto my balcony and made sexy eyes so..." She shrugged.
"Speaking of your balcony..."
"...yeah?"
"I really have no clue where we are other than to guess at a general proximity to Fairy Tail and hence Magnolia."
"You don't know where you are?"
"Because I don't really remember my moon drunk days when the nights are clear and such." He couldn't quite look her in the eyes as he waitedfor her to realize what that ment.
"You don't remember? So you black out?"
"Sorta." He was mumbling at this point. She made thinking sounds and then gasped.
"Mavis! That means you don't remember any of what happened yesterday and you have no idea who I am!"
"You're my mate!" There was no doubt about that in his mind and he didn't want there to be any in hers.
"Are you sure though? I wouldn't want there to be any sort of mis-" He ran his tongue over her mate mark and she groaned. "Oh! Ok. I'm your mate. I-I'm Meredy by the way." He stopped licking her and began rubbing his cheek over every inch of skin he could find.
"Meredy Milkovich. Crime Sorciere's maguilty mage. You use sensory magic. Bix has talked about you. Xally too."
"I-" She gasped when he found a sensory spot and attacked it with his mouth. "I like Xally."
"How about we focus less on my sister and more on what I can't remember from yesterday."
"Or we can- Ah! We can just do it all over again." He growled and they started doing just that.
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It wasn't untill almost three days later that they left Meredy's house, and that was still to soon in Cristoff's opinion. Still, Meredy's sense of responsibility had driven them from bed after a near frantic call from Mira. Apparently his brother really had lost him, and while they knew he could take care of himself his lack of contact had worried his siblings.
It was Vanders fault really, according to Mira. He had released Cris from his rune fortified moon prison and the entire staff of the airship had been having a damn fine time when Cris had lept up, sniffed at the air and vanished on a moonbeam. Knowing where he had next been seen Cris could only assume he had caught Meredy's scent.
His new mate, the precious little minx, had lied, point blank, to the barmaid. Considering what he had been doing to her out of sight of the lacrima at the time, her ability to keep a straight face while she told Mira she hadn't heard any rumors as to his whereabouts was beyond impressive. She had also managed to extract a promise from him afterwards that he would let her deal with his brother. She wouldn't tell him what she had planned, but he was sure it would be amazing.
So here they were, dressed much to Cristoff's immense displeasure, about to moon jump to his brother's temporary dwelling in Magnolia. He had to admit though, he was looking forward to whatever his sweetheart of a mate had in mind for his brother. She had a sadistic streak deep inside her that his dragon found mouthwateringly sexy. Of course he found most things about her sexy.
"You sure I can't just beat him to a pulp?" She giggled.
"Trust me what I have planned will be so much better. Now. Show me how it feels to ride on moonlight."
"You were already doing that remember? Then you got this absurd idea that my family needed to know I wasn't dead." She blushed a little and swatted at his arm.
"You stop that."
"I already did, that's my point."
"Cris, the sooner we go the sooner we can be done." He scooped her up and she was giggling as he took them to the house his father owned in Magnolia. Vander walked in the house moments after they did.
"Cris! Where the hell have you been man! The half the guild has been out looking for you today." He grinned suggestively at Meredy and leaned himself against the wall, his body language and the way he looked at her just screaming sex. "Who's the babe?" When Cristoff tensed his precious little mate pinched his ass and giggled at his brother.
"You must be Vander. We haven't met yet, but I've heard so much about you." She stepped around Cris and offered her hand to Vander. "I'm Meredy." Vander took her hand and kissed the back of it instead of shaking it. Meredy grinned at him and Cristoff could feel the pull on her magic through their bond. "Cristoff's mate." Vander jerked his hand away and swiped at the glowing pink hearts now circling his wrist. He eyed Meredy warily.
"Mate?" He glanced at Criss who nodded. Vander grinned. "Well congrats bro!" Meredy giggled again, but this time both men could hear the overly sweet tone.
"It was so nice of you to set him loose on the full moon, Vander. I really appreciated being able to meet him a whole day earlier than I would have otherwise. Not that he remembers. He just woke up the next day mated for life to some random doxy whose name he didn't even know. No big deal though, right? It's not like there is any reason he would have wanted to remember meeting his mate, or our actual mating. Nobody needs to remember their wedding or their first night with their soul mate, right?" Vander was looking between Meredy and his wrist with horror in his eyes by the time she was done.
"What is this thing going to do to me?"
"You'll see!" She sounded delighted. Well if his mate was happy Cristoff was happy.
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Cris and Meredy walked to the guild so Vander beat them there. He was desperately begging Mira to tell him what the pink markings around his wrist were going to do to him. Cobra snickered when she patted him on the head and left him answerless. Vander turned to Bickslow and Lisanna next.
"Come on guys. I don't know this chick! What is this weird glowing bracelet doing to me?" Bickslow caught Cristoff's eye and grinned.
"Well whatever it's doing I'm sure you deserve it."
"Bickslow!" Van had pulled out his little brother whine.
"Van." Lisanna leaned forward and took his hands in hers. Her face was serious. "I'm sorry."
"For what?" Lisanna didn't answer. She just got up and went to help her sister behind the bar. Cobra's snicker turned to a cackle. Vander threw himself upon the great and immeasurable mercy of Lucy next, dropping his head into her lap and making sad faces.
"Please angel eyes?" Lucy ran her hands through his hair, more from habit after years of dragon slayer motion sickness than anything.
"Vander, your brother trusted you. He's let you get away with treating his moon drunk spells like a game for so long and now..." She sighed dramatically. "Well, Meredy isn't a dark wizard anymore so she probably won't kill you."
"Probably!"
"Probably." Vander stared at his arm as if he was considering chopping it off at Lucy's solomn pronouncement. Cristoff and Meredy finally let their presence be known to the general populace and sat themselves across from Cobra, Lucy, and Vander.
"Don't worry, Van. Even if my mate kills you Bix and I can bring you back to life no matter how many times you die."
"Fuck that, Cris! I'd rather not die at all!" Cris shrugged. "Meredy, if I apologize for having fun with your mate will you turn this thing off?"
"Nope. Wrong apology."
"What does that mean?" Meredy just smiled.
"Love your brain, Cavity Queen." Vander shuddered at Cobra's grin.
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It was hours later, after his sisters had both pried themselves from their mate's beds to congratulate them and dissapeared again, that Cristoff finally found out what his mate planned to do to his brother. The guild was well into the party Makarov declared to celebrate the new couple's happiness. Vander and Cana had been gone for several minutes when Meredy kept up and demanded Gray and Juvia produce a basin of ice water. When they did she promptly dumped it over her head. They all heard the screech from the guilds storage room. Vander and Meredy were both still gasping and shivering when Cana stomped back into the room, dragging him with her.
"Damn it, Mer! I was having fun!"
"S-sorry, Cana. You'll have to find your f-fun elsewhere."
"For how long."
"I haven't d-decided yet."
"You're fucking c-cockblocking me!" Vander's expression made it clear he would have rather she just killed him.
"Damn straight!" Cobra was cackling up a storm. "Put the brakes on your fun didn't she, Shady?"
"She fucking waited till the worst possible moment!" Lucy giggled at them.
"I think Meredy is completely in the right here. To miss out on your own mating is a really big deal. I think the punishment is a little light actually." Cana was the only Fairy not grinning in that moment, and even in her sulking state she couldn't keep the little smirk off her face.
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His mate was stubborn. That was all well and good most days, but this had gone to far. Two days without sex as a newly mated dragon slayer was two to fucking many. The fact that Vander was tied into their mating bond through the sensory link wasn't helping anyone. He kept trying to sneak one past Meredy, which was impossible and riled them all up. Cristoff had had enough.
"Babe, let me take over."
"But-"
"Look at me precious." He could smell how much she wanted him right now. He could see her pupils dilate and hear her breathing and heartbeat quicken. "My brother's suffering has become our suffering. I've got a spell. Let me." She nodded and he crossed the guild to where Vander was playing cards with some of the Fairies. How they could make Go Fish a betting and stripping and drinking game he had no clue. "Congratulations, Vander." He clapped a hand on Vander's shoulder. "Meredy has agreed to let her spell go." Vander perked up when his pink bracelet vanished. Cristoff grinned and slammed him with the moonlight spell he had prepared. Vander gaped at him. "On the condition that I replace it." He stood and waved over his shoulder. "Have fun with that."
"Cris! What the hell did you do to me? Cris!" As he swept his mate up and called the moonlight to take them back to her house he heard Cobra's near hysterical laughter.
"Even Viagra won't fix that shit, Shady!"
"Cris!"
And that's a wrap. See you tomorrow.
