A/Hello everyone! I know sometimes people don't read this, but I am warming everyone that just like the title says, this chapter is kind of an OVA. It really has nothing to do with the plot, except for the end, but while I was talking with one of my friends (TigerDemonX52)months back, brain storming for all of our story ideas, we both came up with this idea, and I just knew that I had to do it. I only hope that I can write it with as much humor as it has in my mind.
And thank you, thank you, thank you, to all of you who have reviews, liked and faved my fan fic.
And just a side note, I edited most of the previous chapters. I did not add anything, so you don't have to go back and reread them if you don't want to.
Disclaimer: If I owned Fairy Tail the boys in that guild would actually be aware of the feelings going on both in them and around them! And if I owned Souleater, it would have ended with Maka and Soul kissing. *Sigh*
Normal POV:
With Erza's voice still ringing in their heads, the group made it off the train, with Lucy in the back giving Natsu a piggy back ride due to his motion sickness, much to her disdain, and started to follow the scarlet haired knight to where she wanted to go. They all knew better than to even try and argue with her. Even the newly acquired members had decided to just go with it and accept their fate.
Without even stopping at the guild to report their job before heading out, Erza just walked right past it and into the center of town. After many twists and turns, the knight finally found the place that she was so diligently searching for.
She literally dragged them into the shop area, especially dragging Natsu who had since woken up and was walking on his own. Or was at least trying to walk on his own; Erza had begun to drag him because she knew the moment he found out who exactly they were going to be seeing, that he would run the other way.
Hearing the bell ring, the owner of the shop had come into the front and started to say "Hey, sorry but – Erza! Welcome!" A blond woman said as she saw who it was that had entered.
Natsu visibly gulped in fear as he looked at the blond. "L-Lauren!" he stuttered.
"I take it you want a class?" She asked Erza, ignoring the dragon slayer. She was well aware of his attitude and dislike of her classes.
"Yes," Erza started, "as you can see we have gotten a few new members. I thought this would be an excellent way for them to strengthen and focus their magic in order to complete their missions."
The girl named Lauren just smiled and said "Sure, how about you get everyone ready in the back room and I will get everything in order out here?"
With a curt nod, Erza had gotten everyone into the back room where the miester and weapon teams looked at her in confusion, clearly wondering what was about to happen. They also were slightly unnerved by Natsu's reaction towards the woman they had just met. She seemed nice enough.
"What are we doing here?" Maka asked hesitantly.
Erza looked at the smaller girl with a gleam in her eye as she said "Working on focus and strength exercises!"
That was when Lucy stepped in and said "What Erza means is that we are going to be doing some heavy duty yoga with Lauren. It really is a good way to center our magic and even learn to better focus it. She has had us come here a few times in the past when there was time."
"Where did Gray go?" Happy suddenly asked from where he was flying above everyone.
"Damn that stripper! He must have found out where we were going and ran for it! I'm gunna kick his ass next time I see him!" Natsu yelled with fire coming out of his mouth and eyes.
"You better not be setting my studio on fire!" A feminine voice yelled from the front. Almost immediately Natsu put out his flames.
Erza sighed as she passed out the yoga mats, she couldn't believe how petty the two boys of Team Natsu could be. She also knew that Gray would have been here too, if he hadn't been snagged by Juvia the moment he stepped foot of the train. Erza didn't pursue him because she felt as if that was also adequate training for the ice mage.
Maka, Liz, and Tsubaki seemed to be happy with knowing that it was going to be yoga. It was better than what they had been imagining. Soul had slumped up against the wall with his eyes closed and was pretending to be oblivious to what was going on. He wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga. In his opinion it was 'un-cool' and should be left to the girls. Kid didn't know what he should be doing, so he had sat down cross-legged on the mat.
Black Star, however, was not happy with the situation and was not smart enough to take the warning from Natsu's reactions. He stood with his arms crossed and said "A big star like me shouldn't have to do yoga! It's so lame. I, the mighty Black Star, would rather face a room full of monsters. At least then there would be work involved!"
The moment he was done with what he was saying, a blue foam brick came hurtling at his head and hit him with enough force to knock him to the ground and leave him unconscious. It was quite the feat for the foam block.
Lauren followed the brick a moment later and took a stand in the center of her own mat. "Alright everyone, let's start in corpse pose. If you do not know what that is, just take a look at Black Star, he has it down." She then proceeded to lie down on the mat and take them through breathing exercises.
As worked them through the first few poses, not really bothering with Soul as he continued to space out in the back, and pretending that she didn't notice it when the boy named Kid started to hold his head screaming "It's not symmetrical!" and then promptly fainted with blood coming out of his mouth.
Happy was happily munching on a fish in what he had designated as his corner the last time they had come to Lauren's studio. She let him do that, as long as he was not distracting Natsu or Lucy, Lauren didn't care what the blue exceed did.
She of course started off by going into downward facing dog, ignoring he high pitched voice that started to call out "Doggy, doggy, doggy," Over and over again when she did say it. Lauren couldn't really be bothered by the silly name for the poses.
As she had them in full crescent she stood and began to walk through their ranks.
Smiling at the four girls who were working as they should have been (and if you can't guess who that was, then they were Lucy, Liz, Maka, and Tsubaki), and scowling a little at Natsu.
With a devious grin she ordered "Natsu, go into warrior three!"
'What's that?" The pink haired boy asked as he straightened up.
With a sigh Lauren said "Put all of your weight onto your left foot," She watched as he did just then, and then she took his right leg and yanked it up off the ground so that his upper body and legs were parallel with the ground. Then she said "Put your arms out straight in front of you and then hold hat pose for ten minutes."
He complied with a very large amount of whining. When he saw that Lauren had a smirk that seemed to be challenging him he relented and started to focus on the pose. He would prove to her that he could do this pose for ten minutes.
Black Star was still completely out of it and was consequently still in corpse pose. Then the yoga instructor took a look at Erza and almost at once felt the sweat coming down the back of her neck and down the side of her forehead.
There stood the Titania in full crescent downing her Heavens Wheel armor and sending swords around her in a very fast orbit. With a clearly fake smile and a thumbs up Lauren told her "Keep it up!"
Being very careful not to get stabbed by any of the flying swords, she continued on to the next person who happened to be Patty. She was slightly impressed by what she saw there. Patty had folded up the yoga mat she was supposed to be on into the shape of a dog and was now laughing and clapping at it.
She then proceeded to go back to her mat and stared to have them go through a couple of other poses. Again, she really didn't bother with the three who weren't even doing what she had said. She also had shifted slightly away from Erza so as not to accidentally get in the way of one of her swords.
After a while of doing his, she again checked on the people. She was shocked into jumping when she suddenly heard Patty's high pitched voice yell "Now I'm gunna break your neck!"
Looking over, ready for a fight, she almost laughed at herself as she saw Patty 'break' the neck of the dog she had formed with the yoga mat. Now it was just standing on four peg like legs with its head lolling to one side.
Her laughter was short lived as Natsu let out a roar and yelled "Ha Ten minutes! Take that!"
With the same mischievous smile coming to her lips once more, Lauren said "Good job Natsu, now you can do that again on your other leg for ten more minutes!"
"What!" He yelled, a small bit of fire fuming from his mouth.
"If you set this place on fire, I will sic Erza on you!" The blond hissed at him so that he was the only one who could hear the threat.
With wide eyes he quickly went into the pose, clearly straining a bit as he did. Warrior three was not a pose that was meant to e held for so long, but it would strengthen his legs and core.
Walking away with a victorious smirk, she saw that Erza still had her swords out, but she had also put on a heavier armor. At least she also looked as if she was beginning to sweat with exertion. She was doing her job the right way, apparently.
Smiling at the four girls who were still following the routine, she could tell that it was getting hard for them to, but because they were not crazy, they were good to keep going. And keep going they did.
The Fairy Tail mages and the temporary Fairy Tail members left the studio just about two hours after they had arrived. Erza and Natsu were clearly exhausted. Patty and Liz were dragging Kid's unconscious form through the streets (he had woken up a couple of times, but each time he did, he would pass out again). Black Star was walking beside Tsubaki with his head clutched in his hands. Soul was walking looking care free with his hands behind his head; he didn't do anything after all. Maka was next to him, taking the lead of her group. That left Lucy who was walking with Plue.
The four girls who had followed the routine felt relaxed and rejuvenated in a way. It was as if it had refilled their energy stores or something. Whatever the reason, the three were happy that Erza had made the stop.
"What is that thing?" Liz let out a sudden shriek when she saw Plue walking next to Lucy. She hadn't seen the stellar spirit before.
"Oh, that's a dog!" Natsu announced proudly.
"That is not a dog." Maka announced with an air if certainty surrounding her. She knew what a dog looked like, and they usually walked on four legs and had a snout instead of a carrot for a nose.
"He is actually." Lucy said with a smile. "This is Plue, he is one of my celestial spirits. His gate is the gate of Canis Minor, or the little dog."
"Oh," Maka said with her face scrunched up a bit. Then she just shrugged. So far all of Lucy's spirits seemed to look a little wired.
Liz let out a breath knowing that it was friendly, but she still didn't want to get too close. She might have been okay with going inside of the giant clock, but she was not so sure about the dog that Lucy called Plue. She figured it would be safer for everyone around, and their eardrums, is the two of them kept their distance from each other.
"Tomorrow we will meet at the guild and see if we can find any jobs that seemed to connect with the reason why you are all here. There might be one that leads us to the culprit." Erza announced from the front of the group.
"Alright, sounds like a plan." Maka said.
With all of that said, they went to Lucy's house, and almost all of them spread out and fell asleep. Lucy had tried to get at least Erza and Natsu to go back to their own homes, but they didn't listen. If anything, they were the first to fall asleep. That left Lucy with nowhere to sleep as all of her uninvited house guests had taken over the furniture.
With a sigh she pulled out her extra blankets and pillows before making herself at home on the ground. Silently she wished that she would get possession of her house back soon.
"Thank you," a quiet voice suddenly said from her right.
Turning, Lucy saw that Tsubaki was still up.
"For…?" She asked.
Tsubaki smiled "Everything I guess. It was nice of you to let us stay here and you and your team have helped us a lot already. I don't know what we would have done if we had landed somewhere else."
"It's no problem, really! Besides, the moment you became a part of Fairy Tail, even if it is temporary, you became a part of our family. We support and help out our nakama in any way we can." Lucy smiled back at her.
The two girls didn't know that Maka and Erza were also listening in. Maka with a look of slight confusion while Erza was beaming in pride at the words that Lucy was saying. It was true. They would do anything for each other. No matter what.
"Goodnight Lucy," Tsubaki answered, her soft smile showing how much Lucy's words had meant to her.
"Goodnight," the blond celestial spirit mage answered. The moment her eyes closed she was claimed by sleep.
A/N Okay, I didn't mean to add that last conversation with Lucy and Tsubaki, but it just kind of happened, and I am glad that it did. I hope that you enjoyed this and laughed. Please review to tell me how it was and as always I am open to suggestions. And sadly I don't think I could get this as funny as it was in my head, *sigh* but I gave it a chance.
