I know that this isnt getting all cute yet, but I told you that it takes a while.
Gosh, I want to tell you all some more disclaimers, but they would ruin the surprise...
Well, I don't own Fairy Tail.
Enjoy
PART NINE: NOT OVER YET
The next morning all of the girls woke up early to the sound of pounding on the door. Gray yelled at them to all come down to the lobby within the hour because Master Makarov needed to tell everyone something important.
Yarrow and all of the girls silently muttered curses or confessions of love to Gray. The only one that confessed her love was Lluvia who was still asleep. Yarrow rolled out of her bed and went right to the refrigerator. The three pints of milk she went and bought after her abrupt departure with Natsu last night were all there. She grabbed one and started drinking it right from the bottle.
"Didn't your mom ever tell you to not drink milk out of the carton?" Cana asked. She had a lot to drink last night, so she must have been hung over and obviously not in a good mood. Yarrow was in just as sour of a mood as the card mage due to her lack of sleep and the unavoidable question that she knew Natsu was going to ask her today. She didn't want to tell anyone anything else about her magic.
"You're one to talk; didn't dear papa ever tell you not to drink alcohol in your underwear?" Yarrow sneered as she continued to drink out of the carton. She earned herself a death glare from Cana. Yarrow knew full well that Gildartz was her dad, but didn't know till recently. Lucy was in the shower so she didn't have to watch her tongue around the card mage.
Erza walked over to the two of them, "Quit it, we are all tired." The threat was the sleepiest threats ever delieverd by the knight mage.
After a moment to compose herself, Yarrow responded to her nakama, "Sorry, I bought three cartons, if you want some, you're more than welcome to the other two cartons. Hurry up about it though, I drink a lot of milk," Yarrow muttered a pseudo-apology to Cana who also muttered an apology.
The girls all decided that they would go down to the lobby together. Some of the girls were more awake than others, Wendy, Lucy and Levi being the only ones who were actually awake. The rest of the girls barely slipped on clothes that weren't inside out or put on crooked and drowsily walked down to the lobby. Yarrow had a loose black shirt on with her normal dark jeans and sandals.
Due to the dare from her eyecandy the previous night, she left the black and silver collar around her neck. Nobody had noticed it yet.
She matched all of the other sleepy women with messy hair and baggy eyes walking into the lobby. Yarrow had the second of the three cartons of milk in her hand as she walked into the lobby. All of the men were there too, most all of them were just as sleepy as the women. She spotted an open spot of the couch between Shark and Natsu in the lobby and made a bee-line to it. She almost fell back asleep the moment she sat down.
"Damn, Yarrow, I knew you were an insomniac anywhere other than home, but this is ridiculous!" Shark exclaimed as she almost sat on him, he scooted closer to the arm of the couch and pushed his sister off of him, forcing her to be almost completely on Natsu's lap. Yarrow wiggled to be wedged between the two, no longer sitting on the fire-mages lap. She was too tired to care if she or the other two were comfortable.
"Shut up or I will make you my pillow." Yarrow demanded as she let her head hang over the back of the couch. Natsu's arm was up against hers on the cramped couch, so Yarrow felt when Natsu laughed.
"Yarrow! You are going to spill that everywhere!" Shark yelled as the milk carton almost slipped out of her tired hands. The sudden yell woke her up for a moment and she squeezed both of her hands around the carton. She tried to brush it over as she took another drink.
"Shut up Shark, you are too loud," Cana said pressing her hands to her temples. She and everyone else settled into the lobby. Not everyone had a spot on the comfy couches or chairs. Cana had to sit on the coffee table in the middle of the sunken lobby.
Natsu stirred next to Yarrow. She suddenly felt more awake than before, now feeling the additional heat coming from the fire-mage. She looked in his direction.
Natsu's attempt to catch Yarrows attention was a success. He held her eyes in a gaze for a moment. His body heat cooled down, then he sighed and muttered softly, "A dare is a dare."
He stood up, "Gray, ice for brains!" Natsu yelled. Yarrow found herself fully awake and attentive to the scene that would play out in front of her. If he was going to do what she thought he was going to do, this would be worth waking up for. Natsu jumped on the table next to Cana.
Gray responding to his rivals insult got in his face, "What Flame-Breath?"
Natsu grabbed Gray's necklace, since he wasn't wearing a shirt already and pulled him closer to his face. It was quick and shocking as Natsu placed a kiss on his enemy's lips.
The entire lobby went silent and the two continued to fight. Some of the mages shook their head, thinking that they were imagining things in their sleepy state. Gray continued to insult Natsu, almost like he didn't register the action of the Fire Dragon Slayer. Lluvia almost murdered Natsu with her glare alone.
Yarrow turned to the side to stop her small nosebleed. She hid it by pretending that she was cuddling up into the couch to sleep more, but her giggling and shaking was hard to disguise as sleepiness.
Cana stood up very quickly and threw Natsu across the room, "You all are too damn loud!"
"Now that everyone is gathered, I have some important information pertaining to the battle yesterday," Master Makarov walks into the lobby from the hallway that leads to the rooms. He had his own room so he could correlate the town with the guild members. It was also because he was older than all of the other guys and didn't want to ruin their fun.
Everyone piped down. Yarrow cleaned the blood off of her face from the nosebleed. All attention was on the Guild Master. Natsu made his way back to his spot next to her.
"Aberts, the monsters that we fought yesterday were defeated. However, the town leaders forgot to mention that there was more to the monster. The same thing that happened while we were fighting it happened before it engaged us. The monster split into different parts," Makarov looked down. "The mission is not complete. The town leaders were happy to see two of the heads, but requested that we eradicate the monster for good. They said that when the complete monster is destroyed, it will take its original form."
The sleepy guild members were all silent. "They understand that we are all very tired, so they are willing to wait a day for us to come up with a plan and restore our magic. I will think of a plan, in the meantime, you all get rest and enjoy yourselves. Cana, stay away from alcohol. Everybody else, if you all show up wearing weird clothing again, you will be made to change. We were okay last time since we had all of our forces, but tomorrow we will be splitting up into two parties to search and eradicate."
There were a few silent questions. Whenever Makarov said a speech like that, there was little to no objection or questions. He makes sure to get all of the points across as quick as possible.
"Gajeel, Natsu, Wendy, Gray, Lucy, Erza, Yarrow, Shark can I have a word?" Makarov stated more than asked as the sleepy group was stirring to go back to their beds.
Something big is happening next chapter, that is why it is so short.
