Hey guys! I'm finally back! And it's finally the chapter you've been waiting for! X3 Oh, I'm so excited! Wait, I'm the author! 0.0
Anyway, the dance is gonna be a lengthy arc and it's probably gonna be at least three chapters long or more, so be ready!
IMPORTANT NOTE!: There is a mention of a song in here. The song is Best Days Of My Life by Robert D. Palmer. I suggest this version, it's so much better than the Jesse McCartney version :)
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Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail or A Cinderella Story.
Notes: Thoughts
Chapter Nine
.:Directly Under The Disco Ball:.
The loud music emitting from the Tenroujima Hotel were vibrating to the extent of a single person almost feeling the vibrations through the ground. Teenagers from all around were running and laughing with glee that it was sickening to the public, but they didn't care. It was the night of their lives; they were seniors, it was the climax of their teenage lives.
Inside the hotel, a splurge of students were in their cliques on the dancefloor. Strobe lights were flashing and the dance floor was lighting up with neon colors. The music was blasting and the petite DJ was scratching the records with immense ferocity, obviously dedicated to her part-time job. The blunette was bobbing her head to the beat and was about to start a new song when one of the teachers nodded his head to her, signaling to introduce the dance to the seniors.
The girl sighed and gave her best smile to the plethora of students. Grabbing her headphones off her ears, she smirked, "Welcome, Fairy Tail High, to the Halloween homecoming dance. My name is Levy, your DJ for the night. Tonight, our panel of esteemed teachers will use their higher education to choose our homecoming prince and princess." A loud yell of whoops and shrieks responded the students, smiles on their faces and the slight sprinkle of alcohol running through their veins.
Levy smiled, "In true Magnolia fashion, it's not about who you are. It's about what you wear! Are you ready to crank it up?!" The blunette grinned when everyone shouted in response. Turning up the music, Levy placed her headphones back on her ears and once again bobbed her head, her curley blue hair in a messy but cool disarray.
Climbing down the staircase, twin sisters Karen and Angel walked down the stairs, trudging and groaning in displease. Angel scowled, "I cannot believe I put you in charge of costumes. I told you siamese cats, not siamese twins!" Just as Angel said, the twins decided to be siamese cats, trying to pull off a sexy and desirable look. But in an unfortunate event, Karen had bought a siamese cat costume, fit for two people.
Yes, readers, you read that right.
The costume was joined together where the costume would be split if it was separated into two, and cream and dark brown fur was spread in an array. Covering both their entire bodies except the face, each twin had a set of fake whiskers and a little drawing of a pink kitten nose on their noses. Fake foam claws were attached on their hands, er, paws I should say and on each of their heads were a set of cat ears attached to the costume.
Karen sighed inwardly and snickered, "Are we having a cat fight?" Angel shoved Karen's shoulder, not realizing that it would create a short domino effect. Upon realizing that she would be fall too, Angel tried to regain her standing position. Unfortunately, that didn't happen.
Karen and Angel fell down the stairs, rolling down in a rickety motion. Knocking over Fairy High's sweethearts dressed in a matching salt and pepper shaker costumes, Alzack and Bisca fumbled and tripped down the stairs, stopping Karen and Angel. Reaching the last step, the couple sat still before Bisca started to sneeze a storm. Looking down to see that Alzack and Bisca were also in the midst of their little brawl, Karen and Angel groaned, annoyed at the fact that they hurt the school's most shy and cutest couple. I can't wait for the complaints tomorrow . . . Angel groaned.
On the dancefloor, Gajeel and Gray stood off to the side, waiting for a certain pinkette to finally show up. The trio decided to be dressed up as the Three Musketeers, all in ridiculous dark black wigs, beards and clothing.
Glancing around the room, Gray noticed Natsu walking to them, but dressed in something entirely different. Natsu looked like he was dressed up as a Prince from a sappy fairy tale. Just looking at his face, he looked distracted, constantly looking around and rubbing his hands together. It almost looked like he was waiting and expecting someone.
Reaching Gray and Gajeel, Natsu grinned at the two for a short moment before glancing around the room once again. "Welcome, guys."
"What up?" Gray said coldly.
"Sorry about your costume getting lost." Gajeel glared, clearly pissed at one of his friends. They had all agreed to be the Three Musketeers! What was so hard about that?! "It's all good." Natsu said, and for the third time that night, rubbed his hands of perspiration, spilling nervousness through his pores.
Gajeel scowled, grunting in disapproval, "No it's not. We don't get to be the Three Musketeers! You get to be Prince Charming and we're the two wimps in wigs. No scratch that, Gray's the wimp in the wig."
"Hey!" Gray shouted, giving a menacing glare to Gajeel, who was snickering at the raven-haired teen. Gajeel looked around the dance floor, noticing the very intriguing DJ-ist scratching the records. Levy, pumping up the volume slowly, noticed that the captain of the cheerleading squad and her posse were climbing down the stairway. Pointing the spotlight to the stairs, Natsu, Gray and Gajeel's eyes followed the white light.
Kimberlie, Minerva and Evergreen stood proud and smug at the top of the stairs. Some catcalls were shouted and whistles from testosterone-induced boys as the trio had fixed their costumes.
All three of the popular girls were dressed as white angels, with silver halos hanging above their heads. Silver glitter was dusted on their eyelids, while pink lipstick was spread across their desirable lips. Their dresses had reached mid-thigh and were just enough to be considered acceptable wear and clear sequins were sewn on each of their whiter-than-bleach costumes. Flipping back their voluminous hair, they fixed their makeup while cocking their hips off to the side and slightly glanced around for their supposed "dates".
Gray and Gajeel kept on staring at the group, while Natsu scoffed and turned his head to the dancefloor, his mind wandering off to Princetongirl818.
"Take the cape off already! You look amazing!" Jellal hissed to Lucy, who was shaking in her silver heels and a black cape covering her costume. "I'm sorry, I'm just freaking out here!" exclaimed Lucy, giving a small glare to the blunette-dressed-as-Zorro.
Jellal gave Lucy a soft smile and placed his hands on her shaking form, "Listen, it's gonna be okay." He gave her his best smile and waited before she had responded with the corner's of her mouth spreading across her face. "Hurry up, it's almost 11." he said, rubbing her shaking form and started to tug on her wrist.
"Jellal wait." Said man stopped and listened as Lucy said the following words, "Remember, I have to be back in the diner by 12, okay?"
Jellal gave her a dumbfounded look before processing Lucy's sentence. Snapping his fingers, Jellal held out his calloused hand and said, "Okay give me your cellphone. Come on, cellphone."
Lucy bent her knees and lifted up her dress, revealing her silver heels and her cellphone and celestial keychain attached to the shoe. Unhooking the night-sky blue cellphone, Lucy stood back up and reluctantly handed Jellal her cellphone. Jellal immediately grabbed the device and started to press many buttons at inhuman speed.
"Okay. Alright, I'm going to set the alarm at quarter to 12, okay." Jellal said, his eyes never leaving the tiny screen. Lucy muttered an "Okay." and took back her cellphone, placing it back on her shoe.
"Alright, there. Now give me the cape." the blue-haired boy spoke, "Come on, it's time."
Levy was jamming to her beats, bobbing her head and small body until the upbeat and jumpy song was over. By staff request, she was supposed to do a slow song every five jumpy and popular beats were played, to her recollection. She didn't mind that she had to change the songs to a different pace, it was just the fact that if the last song was a good song, she'd be ticked. Sighing, Levy looked through her CD collection, flipping through CD after CD until she saw the song she was looking for. She smiled softly and slowly turned down the last song and installed the CD, making it sound like it was a fading-in transition.
The audience noticed the current song was no longer playing and a slow song started to play. Dancing slowly and less enthusiastically, the couples of Fairy Tail High were dragged out onto the dancefloor. Well, it was more like the girl's forced their male partners to dance, as the males looked prominently paler than usual.
Woke up around a half past ten, can't believe I'm late again
I put down 'bout a quart of caffeine to start my pulse and then
As the song started to begin, some interested eyes looked to the staircase, said people including Kimberlie, Minerva and Evergreen. Kimberlie visibly frowned and stared with angry eyes at the person slowly walking to the edge of the top of the staircase.
I grabbed my jeans off the floor then I hit the door
Just the same old same
Jellal walked down the staircase, reaching the bottom of the stairs while fixing his cape with fumbling fingers. Looking up to the giant crowd, he noticed many eyes were watching a figure approached the dance while dancing with their alleged partners. He sweat-dropped at the scene, eyes glancing over the room.
It just goes to show, you never know when everything's 'bout to change
"Lucy, what are they all staring at?" Jellal said, looking up to the stairs and watching Lucy slowly walk to the first step.
As said blonde was able to be seen by the crowd, most of the dance floor were watching her. Lucy's eyes shifted nervously under her lacy white and cream mask. She wasn't used to all of this attention, which made her heart accelerate into hyper drive.
Just another day
Started out like any other
Lucy looked down to her dress, her mind thinking that something was wrong with what she was wearing.
Her dress, well more like Cana's, was beautiful and extravagant in every way. The wedding dress was strapless, clinging to her curvaceous body and had passed Lucy's ankles to drag on the ground slightly. White lace was sewn into the bust part of the dress. Under the bust, there was an assortment of white beads sewn and looked like they were in rows from afar, but were actually little beads sewn to form little flowers. The beads continued their pattern until Lucy's waist, where the skirt of the dress started to flow like a ballroom gown. Instead of the skirt being poofy, the tulle of the dress was more settled and prominent. The dress was exactly Cana; bit of sass and slyness on the design of the dress and also a pinch of flair and simplicity on the structure and materials of the dress.
Simply beautiful in every way, Lucy thought. Looking back up, her eyes met with the many shell shocked faces of Fairy Tail High. Grabbing the ends of her dress, she started to climb down the stairway, which was covered in glittering lights and lit pumpkins sat on the side of each stair.
Just another girl
Who took my breath away
Gray sighed at the trio of cheerleaders. Looking away from Kimberlie, Minerva and Evergreen, he looked down to the dancefloor, noticing with keen eyes that some people stopped dancing and were looking at something at the top of the stairs. Following everyone's object of attention, Gray gaped his mouth. Staring at the girl, he nudged Gajeel. Gajeel grunted and followed Gray's eyes to hit on a girl wearing a dress. He blinked and then turned to Natsu, who was looking at him with a face of confusion. Gajeel smirked and pointed up to the top of the stairs.
What Natsu saw hit him real hard in the face. There was a blonde haired woman standing at the top of the stairway, wearing an extravagant dress which sparkled in the glistening spotlight. She looked as if she was looking for someone, her eyes grazing the crowd for someone. Princetongirl818? Natsu wondered. His mind slowly started to process that the girl at the top of the stairs could possibly be her. His eyes widened and he quickly bounced on his feet and started to walk to her, his eyes drowning in her complexion and company.
Then she turned around
She took me down
Slowly climbing down the stairs, Lucy fixed her mask before grabbing the ends of her dress and took each step.
Just another day that I
Had the best day of my life
Reaching the bottom of the stairway, Lucy stood next to Jellal and awkwardly started to fuss with her dress, nervousness running through her like a tremor. Jellal smiled warmly at her.
Off on the sidelines, Kimberlie grimaced and glared at the girl, "Love her dress. I hate her."
After everyone was done with the stares and glares at Lucy, Jellal grabbed her hand and dragged her to the middle of the dance floor, where a silver, shining disco ball was glistening and spinning in a steady pace.
"Lucy, don't worry okay? Any guy would be completely insane not to like you, all right?" Jellal smiled at the blonde. He chuckled when she started to look around in nervousness. "I'm just gonna be standing right over here, okay?"
Lucy nodded and watched as the blunette walked away towards the punch table to "eat some grub", as he would say. As Jellal left, Lucy felt all alone in the mass of laughing, dancing forms. This was not her kind of atmosphere.
"Do you know you're standing precisely in the middle of the dance floor?" a voice said from behind. Lucy turned around and her eyes widened. The voice continued its little spiel, "Fate has brought us together right here at this anointed hour under the shimmering disco ball."
Well! I got you guys on a cliffy! X3 Oh trolling is gonna be so good! For those of you who already seen the movie, please don't mention the last person speaking in the reviews! I want the people who have never seen the movie to guess (and possible torturing! Did I say that? No? Okay then!)
Also, this announcement isn't really gonna matter since I don't update weekly (more like monthly) but I'm gonna say it anyway! Guys, my laptop is down, sadly! My mom just had to f*ck with my laptop and well, you can probably guess on what she did to it (no, she didn't spill coffee or put any liquids on it if you were wondering -_-)
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