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I just love this chapter! You'll see why...
Erza sat up front driving, while the kids were sleeping in the back.
Gray was leaning on the window, one of his earphones in his ear, the other was stuffed in Lucy's ear. She was laying on Gray's shoulder. And Natsu, who had motion sickness, was soundly sleeping on Lucy's lap.
Hibiki and Loki were both sleeping in a very odd postion. Loki's legs dangled out of the chair, while his hands sprawled across the wall. Hibiki was in a similer position, only he was in another chair.
Eve was curled up in a ball, on the suitcases.
Suddenly, the van screeched to a stop, making all the kids bolt up.
"Erza? What happened? Something wrong?" Lucy yawned rubbing her eyes.
Erza looked at her daughter and grinned.
"We're here!"
Hibiki, Loki, and Eve gawked at the hot springs. IT WAS HUGE!
A man with light brown hair came out, and put on a huge smile. "Lucy! Erza! The 4 idiots!" He called happily.
"HEY!" The boys yelled, clearly irritated by the nick name 'the 4 idiots.'
Lucy smiled and waved at him. "Long time no see Max!"
"Who's he Lucy-chan?" Eve asked suddenly clinging onto Lucy.
The guy's got an angry icon throbbing on their heads, as they yanked him off.
"Max is our cousin, he also run's the hot springs." Lucy explained.
"Ah."
Max lead the them to a large room, and gestured for them to come in.
Once again, the boys mouths formed a large 'O'.
The Juara's on the other hand, just sat down on the chairs spread around everywhere.
Except Erza, who locked herself in one of the rooms, only to come out 2 minutes later wearing hiking cloths.
"I'm going to go hiking. I'll be back a few minutes after dinner. Ja`ne." Erza yelled running out the back door.
"Bye Erza!" Lucy called happily, waving at her adoptive mother, and seating herself in between her brothers.
"LUCY!" Eve called tackeling the girl in a hug.
"Ah..." Lucy blinked in surprise, by the sudden action.
Eve looked up to Lucy and smiled.
"Lucy! Lucy! Can you show us where the baths are?"
"Sure."
"Oh! Oh! Can we bathe together?"
"Sure."
(Me: AHAHAHAHAHA! You see why I put Eve as a 9 year old now?)
The boys cringed.
Natsu yanked Eve off Lucy and sat on him. An angry icon throbbing dangerously on his head.
"Why you little pervert."
"Wah! What did I do?" Eve cried.
"Natsu! Eve is only a kid... so I don't mind." Lucy said.
Eve nodded and hugged Lucy.
"I'm only a kid." He said as he smirked at the guys as if he was saying 'Haha... I win.'
The boys felt a giant boulder land on them (Like in animes where a giant rock falls on people when they are dissed or something.).
"THIS LITTLE BRAT IS THE DEVIL!" Gajeel roared as he gave Eve an extreme noogie.
"HIBIKI! CONTROL HIM DAMMIT!" Gray, Natsu, Lyon, and Loki yelled in unsion.
Hibiki twitched, and turned to Lucy.
"Lucy even if he's 9, he's still a guy."
"YEAH!" Gray and Natsu shouted.
Lucy starred at her brothers.
"You two seem to forget that we use to bathe together all the time in the orphanage."
Natsu and Gray twitched before shrinking down into a chair.
"DON'T GIVE IN SO EASILY!" Loki and Hibiki exclaimed.
Lucy rolled her eyes at the teens stupidity, grabbed a towel, and walked out hand-in-hand with Eve.
But Eve stopped and gave the boys a victorious grin, before following Lucy to the springs.
Once again, the boys flinched and started yelling out cuss words out of irritation.
Natsu sunk lower into the springs gurgling.
"I can't relax knowing that Hibiki's perverted brother is with my innocent little sister!" Gray shouted.
"WILL YA STOP REMINDING ME ICE BRAIN?"
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?"
Lyon face palmed as his cousins butted heads.
Loki starred at Gray for a moment.
"You know Gray, Lucy's not ALWAYS going to be your's and Natsu's 'innocent' baby sister forever. Hell, she's not a baby now!"
Gray groaned and rested his head on the outskirts of the pool.
"I know, I know." He muttered.
Natsu sighed and played with a nearby rock.
"We know we'll have to let go someday. But, someday isn't for a long time. For now, we'll be the only guys she'll actually love... and we intend to keep it that way."
Hibiki and Loki shuddred.
"You can be really intimidating."
Lyon and Gajeel nodded.
"Since Lucy is still ours, we want to keep it that way for the longest time possible." Lyon said.
"And we're willing to crush any guy who gets in the way of that." Gajeel smirked punding his fists together.
Once again, the two boys shuddred.
Did you like it? Did ya? Review if you did!
Oh and I'm getting alot of questions about the knife thing.
Yes I'll be writing more stuff about the stalker. But for now, SEE YA!