Chapter 9 – Parties and Piñatas
Me: I'm back and I'm alive!
Gajeel: Unfortunately.
Me: Say something, punk?
Gajeel: *unconscious
Me: Thank you, Erza.
Erza: No problem.
Me: Want to do the disclaimer.
Erza: Sure. fairy-chan doesn't own Fairy Tail (like we've said a million times before).
Me: Yes, go fourthz muh minions! Return wif cheezburger!
Erza: She's babbling again, please read. I don't come into this chapter much. *sniff
Me: Hehe, Gomen'ne Erza-chan!
Eighteen years, she'd known Igneel and the other dragons for almost eighteen years. It was kind of scary. But not as scary as Natsu becoming a legal drinker. How's that going to end up? You see, today was Natsu's eighteenth birthday and he and Lucy were headed to the guild.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"
Natsu stood in shock, staring at the excited faces scattered around the guild hall. He grinned.
"And here I was thinking only Lucy remembered!"
Gray laughed and punched him on the shoulder, in a bro-friendly kind of way.
"Dude, your eighteen and you know this guild won't pass up the opportunity to P-A-R-T-Y!" Cana replied from her personal drinking corner.
"Hell, yeah!" Everyone in the guild responded, shouting. The fire dragon slayer laughed.
"Party on then, people!"
And, of course, they didn't need telling twice. Mira cracked out the booze, Laxus cranked up the music, Evergreen set up the lighting, Laki created a make-shift dance floor and Natsu attacked the food table. Everyone drank and danced and fought and laughed and, generally, had fun! Except Lucy.
"Lulu, you could at least try to look happy."
Lucy turned and offered a half-hearted smile to her sister.
"You know as well as I do that I can't fake smiles, Cel-nee," She replied. Celly nodded in response and sat down.
"You're just like Mom. Honest, sincere and much more powerful then you let on," Celly sent Lucy a teasing and accusing glance which caused the young blonde to blush and push her elder sister off the bar stool, accidentally.
"That's exactly what I mean," The elder Heartfilia said, standing up and brushing imaginable dust off her dress. "Fine then, what's wrong?"
The two turned around to face the bar and Lucy lay her head on her arms.
"I know I can't keep this a secret forever. Disappearing without a trace will leave some unanswered questions. I want to tell them but every time I try the words just won't come out, like they're stuck in my throat. And..." Lucy's eyes flitted to where Natsu and some others were laughing at the food table.
"Lucy, they'll love you no matter what. Natsu, Gajeel and Wendy are, pretty much, extended family already. Especially Gajeel."
Lucy groaned and lay her head on the bar top again.
"Did I say something wrong?" Celly asked, genuinely confused. Lucy's mind began to revolve around one question that she daren't say aloud. Are all dragons this dense? She asked herself. No, that includes dragon slayers as well. She sighed and rose from her seat.
"I might as well make the most of the time I have left with them," She announced. Celly smiled.
"That's my girl. Oh, and one more thing," the dragon reached into her bag and pulled out a golden pendant. "Here."
Lucy took it and looked at the beautiful piece of jewellery. It had emeralds and rubies surround a large opal in the centre. She attempted to figure out what it was, but Celly answered for her.
"It's the key to the dragon's gate. You can both summon dragon spirits with it or use it to pass through to the dragon world." She replied, tears were now forming in her crisp, blue eyes. "It was Mom's."
Lucy started tearing up as well and she pulled her sister towards her, holding the dragon close.
"Arigatou, Cel-nee. Hontoni, arigatou."
A slow song began and a few couples got up to dance. Gray had finally grown a pair and asked Juvia. Elfman and Evergreen were dancing, but looking in opposite directions. 'Mystogan' and Erza had started going out not too long ago so they were dancing too. Romeo and Wendy were dancing while Happy and Carla flew around over head. Also, all the dragons had immediately started dancing (not taht they hadn't been for a while but now all of them were dancing). Lucy waited to be asked to dance, not that she expected to or anything. At least, not by h-
"Hey Luce, wanna dance?" Her thoughts were interrupted by Natsu and his heart-melting grin. Her heart swelled and she nodded, before she remembered the Magic Ball.
"As long as you don't throw up on my shoes again."
Celly and Natsu began to laugh but stopped when they saw her serious face.
"Duh, Troia!" Natsu stated like it was the most obvious thing in the world. Lucy giggled and took the hand Natsu held out to her.
Hey Lucy, I remember your name
I left a dozen roses on your grave today
I'm in the grass on my knees, wipe the leaves away
I just came to talk for a while
I got some things I need to sayNow that it's over
I just wanna hold her
I'd give up all the world to see
That little piece of heaven looking back at me
Now that it's over
I just wanna hold her
I've gotta live with the choices i made
And I can't live with myself todayHey Lucy, I remembered your birthday
They said it'd bring some closure to say your name
I know I'd do it all different if I had the chance
But all I got are these roses to give
And they can't help me make amendsNow that it's over
I just wanna hold her
I'd give up all the world to see
That little piece of heaven looking back at me
Now that it's over
I just wanna hold her
I've gotta live with the choices i made
And I can't live with myself todayHere we are, now you're in my arms
I never wanted anything so bad
Here we are, for a brand new start
Living the life that we could've hadMe and Lucy walking hand in hand
Me and Lucy never wanna end
Just another moment in your eyes
I'll see you in another life
In heaven where we never say goodbyeHere we are, now you're in my arms
Here we are for a brand new start
Got to live with the choices I've made
And I can't live with myself todayMe and Lucy walking hand in hand
Me and Lucy never wanna end
Got to live with the choices I've made
And I can't live with myself todayHey Lucy, I remember your name
Celly watched her imouto-chan dance and laugh with the fire dragon slayer. She smiled. She knew Lucy loved Natsu but she was betrothed to her childhood friend, Sethlogia. Once she isn't engaged or married by her eighteenth birthday, she must marry someone she doesn't love and disappear from this world. The song will soon speak true.
The young blonde sighed. This was why she became the apprentice of the last Celestial Dragon, Hoshiki. She chose to give up her duties as the queen but, instead, she sealed her sister's fate.
"Lisanna! Can you hold the fort for a bit, please?" Celly's sensitive hearing picked up the conversation of the Strauss sisters in the kitchen.
"Sorry, Mira-nee. Natsu's demolishing the food like nothing on Earthland!"
"Holy Mavis, and Cana's already on her fifth bottle of Tequila. I need to buy more, where's Kinana?"
"The hospital, she broke her arm."
"This cannot be happening!"A very stressed Mira returned to the bar to find Celly staring at her. "Ca I help you?" She asked, nervously.
"I work part time at the Dragon Inn, I can work the bar for ya!" She grinned. Mira's face lit up in a smile.
"Thank you! I owe you one, Celly!" She shouted as she sprinted for the guild door with some jewels and a bag. Celly leaped over the bar with one hand on the counter and waited for some customers.
"Oi, Mira! One beer pl…oh. Who are you?" A tall man with purple hair and a mustache stood in front of the blonde, daring her to contradict him.
"I'm Celly. Mira had to go buy more booze so I holding up for her," She smiled sweetly at the forth guild master, who stood there slack-jawed.
"Yo, Celly! Can I get two gin and tonics down here?"
"Right-o, Ig!" Celly pulled two glasses out from under the bar while kicking a bottle of Gordon's Dry Gin and Schweppes Tonic Water off the shelf behind her. She caught the bottles after setting the glasses on the counter top, twirled them around on her hand and poured them into the glasses. She stuck a lime wedge on the edge of each glass and slid them down the bar top to Ig. It definitely gave all the men in Fairy Tail a shock, and a clear view of her cleavage.
An iron pole shot out of the shadows at the end of the bar, battering all the men that were waiting for more 'entertainment'. From Celly, of course.
"What the fuck?!"
"Gajeel?!" shouts erupted from the crowd that had been shoved against the wall. Each as inaudible as the next because someone else was shouting just as loud, or louder.
"What? Who called me?" Gajeel appeared on the second floor balcony and looked at the ruckus being made below him. The group stopped shouting and stared from the shadows to the Iron Dragon Slayer and back to the shadows.
"Now, now. Don't look so surprised. Celly Heartfilia is taken, bitches." Met stepped out of the shadows, grinning manically, and walked over to his blonde mate. He spun her around to face him.
"I've told you before. Not when I'm working."
"And what if I refuse?"
"Are you refusing?"
"Yes."
Celly smiled sweetly before grabbing the wrist her boyfriend had o her shoulder and using it to fling him over the bar like a ragdoll.
Lucy laughed and helped her soon-to-be-brother-in-law to his feet.
"You should know better than that, Metal Face." She teased and he answered with a familiar 'gi hi' and Gajeel threw a fit, resulting in the whole of Fairy Tail destroying the guild...again.
Natsu and Ig where having a 'polite' conversation with their fists and Gajeel fought Met saying something about 'suing that bastard for stealing his trade-mark laugh.' Erza and Lou decided to team up and bring down the rest of the guild, it was working quite well too. Juvia was following Gray around, blocking any punches he failed to register ad all the boys were trying to impress Gee and Ata by beating the crap out of each other.
The two Heartfilia sisters stood by the bar and sighed simultaneously. Lucy picked up a microphone and aimed the speakers at the fight while Celly picked up a blank chalkboard that usually holds the specials. Lucy ran her nails across it, the microphone magnifying the screeching sound tenfold.
The fight stopped immediately and people began screaming abuse at the sisters until Lucy's icy glare sent chills down their spines. It also made Natsu squeal and hide behind Gray who coughed to disguise his insult.
"Ahu, ahu. Whipped."
"Whadya say, bastard?"
"Deaf dragon."
"Icy pervert."
"Squinty eyes."
"Naked asshole."
"What do you mean nak...oh," Gray began to search franticly for his missing articles of clothing, much to the guild enjoyment. Even Lucy and Erza let giggles slip out. But no one noticed the two blondes standing on the bar, until the crack of Lucy's whip (which, accidently of course, hit Natsu) bought the attention of everyone, especially the guys.
They had never been more thankful for Lucy's fashion sense because she had managed to rub off on her onee-chan.
Both girls wore their long, golden hair loose with a flower clip on one side. Lucy's clip was white and clipped back the hair on the left side of her face and Celly's was in black and did the same on her right. They wore matching dresses, just opposite colours. They were simple, strapless dresses and were the same colour as their hair clips. Lucy's reached halfway down her thighs and had a black sash around her waist and Celly's flowed just beyond her knees with a white sash. They looked like twins, standing their in their strappy, four-inch heels. Only their eyes let you know who was who, the crystalline blue and hazel nut brown. Lucy held her whip in her right hand and it hung down to the bar top, drapping over Natsu's shoulder. Celly's teasing grin and the mischievous glint in her eyes was way too familiar to the dragons and a few of them flinched, including Met.
"Now that I have your attention, I would prefer if you don't destroy the guild tonight. But, seeing as you have energy to spare, how about we have an arm wrestling competition? Winner will get free drinks for an hour," Lucy smiled sweetly and deviously at the same time and everyone watching gulped, knowing the hidden message behind her words.
Stop fighting or I will cut your balls off and shove them up your ass.
Or, in the girls case.
Stop fighting or I'll, personally, rip your heads off.
Scary, right?
They were about to start the first round (Ko/Celly) when Mira appeared in the doorway to the guild.
She didn't look the same as when she left, she was beaten and bruised so badly that she could hardly walk. It looked like someone had played 'piñata' with the she-demon. The white-haired beauty began to sway on the spot and Lucy rushed to catch her.
"Who did this to you?" She demanded.
"The slayer...black hair...red...girl..." Was all Mira managed before she passed out, but Lucy understood.
Lilith
"Ig, code black. Protect the guild. Natsu, Gajeel, Wendy. I'm counting on you three." The twelve dragons pushed the guild members deeper into the guild and prepared to fight, but hoped it wouldn't come to that.
"Be careful Lulu," Grandine smiled her motherly smile and began making arrangements to keep the guild safe. The blonde turned ad began walking towards the exit. That is she was until she felt a hand on her arm and a grip like metal. She turned to face her best friend and partner, Natsu.
"I'm going with you."
"No, your not. The guild needs you here."
"Then take someone else," His voice was desperate. He knew she could take care of herself, she was a Fairy Tail mage. He just couldn't help it, he worried when he wasn't beside her, protecting her.
"I am, Star." She smiled and began walking away before she stopped and spoke without turning around. "Be ready for anything." Thunder flashed and she ran into the storm.
Natsu didn't move from his spot, staring after her as she disappeared into darkness. The last he saw of her, she was soaring upwards. Red wings had sprouted on her back and her right fist was clenched ad surrounded with flames while her left hand held a ball of darkness that looked a bit like a black hole, a large, swirling mass of darkness.
"Come back soon. Lucy."
Me: Weeeeeeeee! Finished.
Levy: The whole point of that was...
Me: It was a filler chapter.
Random old guy: WORLD DOMINATION!
Me/Levy: T_T'
Lucy: That was...weird.
Natsu: You can't say much.
Lucy: What's that supposed to mean?
Natsu: It means your weird.
Lucy: *lunges at Natsu
Natsu: *strangled noises
Happy: DOWIKTERRRRRRRU!
Me: Wrong moment.
Wendy: Review onegai!
