Chapter 9
Normal POV
For the next two uneventful months Lucy, Levy, Jellal, and Seigrain have, somehow, avoided the constantly asked questions of their friends. Lucy and Levy were busy with homework, tournaments, and soccer practice. They had little time to have real conversations with their friends. Seigrain's and Jellal's boxing practices were picking up due to their big match coming up against the Vanish Brothers, who are sponsored by the Southern Wolves Corporation. The people hoping to get answers were investigating everything that seemed suspicious. They were even interrogating a few people. For some reason though, they had never gone and asked the two, now popular, delinquents who always have them a knowing look (knowing smirk in Sting's case). Natsu and Gajeel seemed like they were barely trying to find out what was up though. They had been disappearing more and more in the last two months. Mira had told the rest of the group that she thought they were trying to sort out their VERY obvious feelings to the bluenette and blonde. (A/N: I think you guys can guess where they actually were.)
"This is hopeless." Erza sighed as she plopped back into her couch. The gang, minus Lucy, Levy, Seigrain, and Jellal, was at her huge apartment talking about what the four missing people might be doing.
"Don't say that Erza." Mira said sipping some water that she'd gotten. "We need to have hope or this won't work."
"I ztill say theyyyyy are having a scret reltionsip!" Cana drunkenly slurred. She was drinking some beer that she had brought herself.
"Tch. Lucy would never date that tattooed loser." Natsu hissed he was sitting crossed armed in a chair beside the couch.
"Hey! Don't you dare call Jellal that! He's not a loser! He's cute!" Erza suddenly yelled. The red head turned red when she realized that she had said that out loud. Mira gave an evil smirk to her and the rest of the girls squealed when she had basically confessed her feelings for Jellal.
"Psssh. I still don't get why Levy would even date that ugly banana." Gajeel stated. Erza turned toward him, snapping out of her embarrassed state.
"Don't say anything about Seigrain either! He looks exactly like Jellal! So don't be calling him ugly! But Jellal is still cuter..." She had muttered the last part, more to herself than to the group. Unfortunately for her, Mira and the rest had heard her and had started teasing her. (Poor Erza :P)
"Yo! Flame Pants! We have football. Let's go!" Gajeel yelled before walking out. Natsu looked upset at his nickname, but nonetheless he followed him out.
"ROUND IT UP GIRLS!" Aquarius shouted at the girls doing different drills. Unfortunately for Lucy and Levy, Aquarius had, somehow, ended up being the soccer coach for the girls' soccer team.
"Listen up brats; we're facing against Heel County next week. Their coach and I want this to be like an actual match. So on Saturday, wear your uniforms or you're not playing." She said when they had formed a semi-circle around her. The girls nodded making sure not to forget. If they did, they were sure to get an earful from Aquarius.
"Good, now scram!" She shouted. "Except, you two." The blue headed woman was pointing two fingers at Lucy and Levy. The girls sighed before bringing their stuff over to Aquarius. Lucy was the main defender for the team. Not many people could actually get a ball around her. She also had a pretty hard kick, which intimidated even the coaches sometimes. The team always called her Firefly due to her bubbliness and quick feet. Levy was the center striker. Since she was the smallest and fastest of the team, it was easy for her to slip past defenders and score quickly. Her team called her a somewhat matching name to Lucy's, Dragonfly. They had said that dragonflies were always elusive, fast, an small, just like Levy.
When the others had left, Aquarius finally spoke," How about you guys visit the base on Sunday?"
"We already told you, we're only going there if there's something we need to do/say or in an emergency." Lucy answered.
"Remember, we're not back in. We just helped because we felt guilty and wanted to see how you guys were doing." Levy continued. They saw Aquarius's eyes had a little hurt showing, but as soon as it appeared it vanished.
"Well I never wanted ya to come anyways! Ya dang brats! No wonder you guys can't get girlfriends." She replied turning away. "You can go now."
"We love you too Fish Face!" They yelled before running off. The girls heard shouting, but decided to just ignore it and keep running. Fishy was their nickname for the bluenette. Aquarius has always loved water, so they had joked around that she was part fish. It soon became their nickname for her.
"No! It's uppercut, right hook, stomach, and then left hook, Seigrain!" Mystogan yelled. Mystogan was two years older than Seigrain and Jellal. He was a super successful boxer and retired early. He just coaches Seigrain and Jellal on boxing. "Jellal! You do uppercut, left hook, stomach, and then right hook. If you guys do that at the same time when you're right beside each other, you'll knock the opponent out with their own teammate!"
Seigrain and Jellal nodded quickly before going back to practicing the combo move on the dummies that were beside each other. This time they hit harder and faster. The dummies' heads hit each other hard when the two finished the combo moves.
"Perfect! Why couldn't you two do that the other 24 times?! Again!" Mystogan yelled. The two younger twins sighed before continuing to practice the combo move.
Sting and Rogue were currently at the Magnolia beach practicing for their big varsity volleyball match. Nobody had ever beaten the two in a match. No matter how hard the other team tried, they just couldn't beat Sting and Rogue. On one side of the net, Sting was spiking the balls. On the other side, Rogue was practicing saving those spiked balls. They switched back and forth until the two felt that they had enough.
Volleyball was also what added to their popularity. Sting and Rogue wear skintight shirts that suck up sweat and make it easier to play. The guys would go shirtless but that would expose their gang marks. This gave all the girls a full view of their six packs. So whenever the fan-girls saw that the guys were going to play or practice, they would always come and watch.
"You need to hit harder Sting. This is too easy." Rogue said in a monotone voice, showing that he was barely tired. The black haired male was easily hitting the spiked balls back to Sting.
"Fine then I'll go all out." Sting grunted out. Rogue got ready because once Sting got serious the ball would be almost impossible to stop.
Sting threw the ball up and hit it fiercely. Rogue dived to the side and hit it back over. The blond spiked it back. Rogue, having jumped off the sand, blocked it normally this time, setting it up perfectly for Sting to do a solid spike. Rogue wasn't able to block this time and Sting started doing a happy dance saying he was better. The black haired male just threw the volleyball at the immature guy's head.
"OW! Rogue! Wait, what time is it?" Sting asked.
Rogue glanced at his watch before answering back," Ten past 5 o'clock."
"Wanna go pick up Lucy and Levy then? Their soccer practice should be done by now." Sting said. Rogue nodded and they changed into regular clothes before going.
Lucy and Levy changed in the public restroom and are now walking around the park. They were talking about random things and the subject somehow turned to dating and kisses and all that.
"So Lucy, where do you want your first kiss to be? Or more like with who?" Levy teased wiggling her eyebrows. Lucy thought about then finally decided.
"This might be kinda corny I know, but I want to be with the guy I like on a cliff at night watching the stars. We would be talking and stuff on a blanket or on the hood of his car, then we would come together all slow like and kiss." Lucy answered shyly. She was blushing slightly from revealing that. Levy seemed to like that cause she was all smily and stuff. "What about you Levy?"
"I want to have my first kiss at a dance or ball after having dinner with him. Like we would be dancing a slow song and then near the end of it, we would kiss." Levy said simply. Lucy nodded in approval. They continued talking about random things after laughing at a squirrel trying to eat a pizza.
Little did they know, Sting and Rogue had heard all of what they had said. They were already planning on ways to make it happen. Sting jerked his head toward the girls to show Rogue that they were gonna pick them up now.
They rode up beside Lucy and Levy on their black motorcycles. Sting lifted up his visor on his helmet before speaking to the girls who had stopped after seeing them.
"Need a ride?" The blonde said winking. Lucy sighed but still got on after putting on the silver helmet he gave her. Levy got behind Rogue wearing the gold helmet he gave her after she thanked him.
"What? I don't get a thanks?" Sting asked as he started up his bike.
"Nope. Bees don't get thanks." Lucy said teasingly.
"Fine be that way, but one thing. Bees like to go fast." Sting replied as he took off. In the back you could hear Lucy screaming to slow down. Rogue was following at the same pace as Sting because he liked the way Levy held on tighter to him when he did that. (Sneaky Rogue :P)
They had eventually slowed down once they saw a cop car coming. Sting and Rogue didn't want to get a ticket for speeding. The four stopped in front of a diner called 8-Island.
"Why are we here?" Lucy asked getting off the bike. She and Levy looked at the guys questioningly.
"To eat duh. Why else?" Sting replied. Lucy smacked the back of his head in annoyance.
"We're treating you to dinner. It's already 5:30 so why not?" Rogue explained. The girls nodded and headed in while Sting following them in while rubbing his head. They got into a red booth by the front window. Lucy was sitting with Sting on the inside. Rogue was by the window with Levy beside him. Sting had his arm on Lucy's shoulder while she was leaning into it (Remember in an earlier chapter that she always used to do that and Lucy feels relaxed when he does that). Rogue just had his arm behind Levy on top of the seat. Levy was leaning back so it looked like his arm was on her shoulders.
It was just small talk until the food finally came. Sting ended up spilling food on top of him somehow. This triggered everybody to start talking and joking about funny things that had happened in the past. Everyone was full on grinning, blushing, or laughing, even the "emotionless" Rogue!
"Uh, guys? You might want to check this out. It's… interesting." Cana said, now magically sober. The people left in Erza's apartment came to the window Cana was at. What they saw made their jaws visible in Hell. Across the street was Sting and Rogue... with Lucy and Levy... and their arms were around them. They were also... laughing... and having fun. It took a while for everyone to process that.
"Does this mean... Lucy and Levy are cheating on Jellal and Seigrain with Sting and Rogue?" Gray asked unsurely, breaking the silence. Everyone stared at him with the look that said 'How the heck are we supposed to know?!'
"How about we go down there and ask them?" Mira asked next. Everyone agreed so they went down and approached the diner. (Erza's apartment is on the third floor of the complex.)
The four teens in the diner were so busy having fun that they did not notice the big group of people coming to confront them. Sting, Rogue, Lucy, and Levy only noticed the group standing right at their table when Erza had cleared her throat loudly.
The wide, happy grins quickly fell off all of their faces. They now had either a smirk (Sting), a nervous smile (Lucy and Levy), or an almost unreadable face (Rogue; Levy is the only one who is able to completely read his face when it's like that. Sting and Lucy only get it half of the time).
"Hey there guys. What are you doing here?" Lucy greeted nervously. Sting pulled Lucy a little closer to him, trying to get her to relax a bit, which didn't go unnoticed.
"I think we should be the ones asking that." Laxus grunted out.
"Is it a crime to come to a diner?" Rogue asked emotionlessly. That question made several people irritated.
"We were just wondering what you girls are doing with emo and arrogant banana." Gray said. *Dang Natsu, you got some serious competition bro.*
"As you can all see, we were just having an early dinner with friends who are kind enough to pay." Levy carefully stated.
"Are we intruding a double date?" Mira asked, all too happily.
"NO!" Lucy and Levy shouted, while the guys stayed silent.
"Okay then. But aren't you two already dating Jellal and Seigrain." Bisca asked.
Lucy and Levy blushed slightly before Lucy answered for the both of them. "No way! Sure we ride with them a lot and go places with them and also they treat us to lunch/dinner sometimes and then..." she said getting off topic about the things that they do that makes it seem like they're dating.
"What Lucy means to say is that even though we do lots of things with them, we're not dating them." Levy said interrupting Lucy. Erza breathed a particularly loud sigh of relief. Everybody stared at her with either knowing or confused looks.
"Well now that that's cleared up, have a good dinner and we'll be off now." Cana stated before somehow dragging the entire group away.
~On Monday Beginning Of School~
Normal POV
"All right class, settle down and sit your apples in your chairs." Gildarts commanded. "We have a new student in our class."
Whispers immediately started about whether the student would be a boy or a girl and whether they would be hot/beautiful.
"QUIET! Okay then please come in." Gildarts said.
The door slid open and a girl with black hair and red highlights walked in. Her school shirt had its sleeves obviously torn off, showing off her slightly muscular but still feminine arms. She had the boys' pants tucked into her black combat boots and she had the tie kind of drooping down. She also wore a small black watch and red/black bracelet on her left arm. Her right arm had a blackish/reddish gauntlet type thing a little after her wrist. Her skin color was tannish, almost like Gajeel's and her breasts were of average size. She had black bangs with pieces of red hair in it curved in, on the right side of her face. Overall she looked like one of those badass kinds of girls. Everything just seems to fit into her special kind of image.
Guys were immediately drooling over her and trying to ask her questions. The only ones not drooling over her in the class (out of the guys) were Natsu, Gajeel, Sting, and Rogue. (A/N: I know some people hate OCs and stuff but I needed to put one in for the sake of the story. This [might] be my only OC in the story)
"Shut up! Now will you please introduce yourself." Gildarts said to her after shushing the class. She looked at the class boredly.
"Yo. Name's Carissa Cardwell. Don't like me then deal with it. Single as of now and not looking for anyone. No siblings or family. I play most sports. Hate posers, bullies, loud people, and obsessive/stalker type people. More of a dog person than cat person." Carissa said tiredly and yawning at the end, showing off her sparkling white teeth.
"What's your likes?" Someone shouted. The questioned person turned to look at the person who had asked her.
"Try and find out." She said with a mischievous twinkle in her eyes. Again, almost every guy drooled.
"Okay then Cardwell, take any empty seat in the back." Gildarts told her. Carissa walked to the back of the left corner and sat down right beside the window. She immediately laid her head down on her arms after she sat down. Everyone sweat-dropped after they heard her very lightly snoring in a couple of minutes.
"Cardwell!" Gildarts shouted. After she groggily put her head up and muttered something along the lines of 'what da heck do ya want old fart' he continued," Care to tell us the answer of the question on the board?"
On the board was the problem cube_root( x 2 + 2 x + 61 ) = 4
Carissa stared at the problem tiredly before turning back to Gildarts and saying," x = 1 or x = -3."
Gildarts smirked, looked at the paper for the answer, frowned, and stared at the black/red headed girl. "C-c-correct."
Everybody turned to stare at the girl who was in the middle of going back to sleep.
~Time Skip To Lunch~
Sting and Rogue went up to the place they had now claimed as their lunch spot, the (off-limits) roof of the gym. What they saw there made their jaws visible in hell.
In their own spot was a black/red headed girl only wearing a tank top and the boys' uniform pants. She seemed to be sleeping peacefully in a shaded area on top of the roof. A few feet away from her sleeping body was a discarded shirt, a pair of black combat boots, and her reddish messenger bag. Her arms were folded behind her head and her hands were being used as a pillow.
"Yo! Girl!" Sting shouted rudely. The teen lazily opened one eye and looked at them uninterested with a slight hint of annoyance.
"Da heck do you want?" She growled out.
"Since you're probably new here, let me tell you something." Sting said inching a little closer. "This, right here, is our spot." He had jerked his thumb back at Rogue to emphasize the point.
She looked at them quizzically before answering, "Oh I get it! Sorry, I didn't know this was your guys' couple spot." She stood up and started dusting herself off.
"Okay, for the record, Sting and I would never go out and I would never go out with someone barbaric like him." Rogue replied disgusted. Sting glared at him, which the male ignored. "Besides that, I'm Rogue Cheney and that ugly blond is Sting Eucliffe."
"Now who are you?" Sting yet again asked rudely. He had been sleeping the whole first period and hadn't been introduced to her yet.
"Cardwell. Carissa Cardwell. Ah, so you two are Eucliffe and Cheney. I thought you two would've looked... handsomer or cuter I guess." She said leaning against the wall that provided her shade. Sting looked insulted and Rogue just brushed it off.
"Hey! You know, you're no apple of people's eyes either." Sting said before something clicked in both his and Rouge's head.
"Wait, are you the one that's supposed to help us?" Rogue asked suspiciously.
"Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner!" She shouted exaggerating just a bit.
"Wait, before we talk anymore, we need to know you're the real deal. Show us your mark." Sting commanded.
Carissa sighed before turning around. She, ever so slowly, lifted up the back of her tank top. Sure enough, there was a dark red mark just above the small of her back. The mark was the head of a full grown lioness roaring.
"Well, seems like you're legit." Rogue stated after examining the mark. She lowered her tank top and turned around.
"Now you two, I want to know that the people I'm going to be working with are the same people that sent for help." Carissa said, her tone turning serious. The boys shrugged and pulled off their shirts. They gave the girl a full few of their abs before turning around. She seemed unfazed at the sight of their sculpted body though.
On Sting's right shoulder blade was a pure, white Hell Hound mark. Rogue had a black Hell Hound mark on his left shoulder blade. She started snickering when she the marks though. The guys put on their shirts, guessing she was done looking, ad looked at her questionably.
"You guys sure you're not going out? You're marks are basically matching." She said with a teasing smirk. Both of them slightly glared at her before she continued. "But, nonetheless, you guys seem to be the ones I'm looking for. So when do I get briefed and meet with the infamous and 'back from the dead' leaders of yours?"
Sting visibly got very nervous. Rogue was nervous too, but just became slightly paler. Sting was the first to speak, "Okay, so we kinda, maybe… Hey! Have you met everybody in the school yet? That's a pretty rock over there. Have you heard of pink pineapples?"
"Basically, we haven't told them that we are now in an actual alliance with Lion Huntresses and our leaders are trying to break away from the gang. For what's going on, we'll talk more about that later." Rogue deadpanned, cutting off the nervous Sting.
"Well, we're just gonna have to convince your leaders otherwise before we can begin this. I have just the plan." Carissa said smirking evilly. "Okay, so the plan will go like this…"
AUTHOR'S NOTE
Hey Wolf here. Kinda short for time, but for being late on updating this chapter is longer than the usual . I'm now playing soccer for my city and my school and my teachers are piling on the homework, so I'm left with little free time. Has anybody seen the latest Fairy Tail manga? Rogue's shadow freaked me out for bit :P. For the people who don't really like OCs and stuff, I'm sorry but I needed another person to initiate this part of the story. I feel sorry for poor Lucy and Levy because of what Carissa has planned for them. Find out next time.
Remember to review and tell me how you like or don't like my story. Wolf out.
P.S. I'm going to be putting out a short, song one-shot of Sting/Lucy in a day or two, so keep an eye out for that.
