A/N: Okay, so here's an important author's note from me! First off, thank you SO much for reading and leaving reviews! I'm so happy you all like it! Continue doing that please! Second, I have some people wanting/demanding that I should have longer chapters… I want to make it clear that I am 22, I am a senior in college (full-time) AND I have a job. I do this for free in between my busy schedule, so please please bear with me when it comes to chapter length! I write anywhere from 2k-4k+ for each chapter (that's anywhere from 9-15 plus pages in word), I'd say that's pretty long… So, I will continue to update as much as I can. Thank you for reading!

Lucy's POV

"I'm so bored…" Lucy groaned into her arms that were folded under her face on top of one of the tables in the guild. She had finished her midterms the previous week and Lucy was pleased with herself, she did better than she expected. She had also finished her work before the weekend came around so, there she sat, in the middle of the guild, doing nothing but complaining to her group of friends. Gray sat close by, Juvia not so inconspicuously hiding behind a pillar to watch him. Cana was hungover from the night before and was actually nursing a black coffee rather than her usual drink. Mira brought them over eggs, bacon, and French toast, with the help of Freed, and then sat down to eat with them. Levy was still unable to leave the infirmary, of course; she had fractured her leg in multiple areas and part of her hip. Lucy tried to visit often, but Porlyusica wanted her to rest more than anything. Gajeel had actually been stopping by almost as frequently as Lucy had, and was even offering to help Levy get any work that she missed, so Lucy was more than happy to have the help for her friend.

"Where's the idiot?" Gray questioned in a bored tone, referring to Natsu, and Cana winced as if Gray's voice was coming from a megaphone, and slipped her sunglasses over her eyes.

"Why, miss him?" Lucy teased and Gray scowled, pulling a disgusted face.

"No, I just figured that you would know since you're always spending so much time with him." Gray smirked and Lucy's face flared.

"I-I don't know where he is!" Lucy protested, glaring at Gray momentarily.

"Ooh! Are you and Natsu getting along well?" Mira piped up, eyeing her in intrigue.

"Yes, but we're friends. Don't you all get along well with everyone too?" Lucy pouted trying to ignore the blush on her cheeks and the pounding in her chest.

"Interesting…" Mira pondered and Lucy felt like she was on fire.

"Anyway, I have an idea." Erza suddenly announced and Lucy was thankful that all eyes were on the red-head instead. Juvia had made her way to the seat next to Gray, cramming herself in between his body and Erza's. "Since midterms and Levy's accident all happened around the same time, we all got a little backed up with things here at the guild." She explained and Lucy waited for her to continue. "Halloween was last week, it was on a school day of course, but we didn't get to celebrate it. It's only a little past it, but why don't we have a Halloween party this weekend?" Erza's eyes sparkled and Lucy's excitement spiked at the prospect of dressing up. She only ever dressed up in fancy dresses to meet her father's clients and their children, mainly their sons… She had never celebrated Halloween before.

"That sounds awesome!" Lucy exclaimed, clasping her hands together. "I've never done anything for Halloween before!"

"What? You haven't?" Gray almost gasp and Erza looked alarmed. "Well, now we definitely have to have one."

"Ugh, you guys are so loud… It's too early…" Cana whined.

"It is twelve in the afternoon." Erza deadpanned and Lucy bit her lip to fight off a smile. "But I agree with Gray, if Lucy has never celebrated Halloween, then we must show her how it's done!" Erza stated with determination.

"That sounds like a lovely idea!" Mira agreed and Erza smiled brightly.

"Then it's settled, we'll have one on Saturday! We can get it all planned and everything in one day, right Mira?"

"I think so! We can have everyone pitch in. It'll be a good old fashioned Fairy Tail party!" Mira cheered and Lucy felt a new wave of determination.

"You're in for a treat then, Lucy." Gray snickered and Lucy looked at him curiously. "Fairy Tail isn't known for throwing bad parties."

"I'm excited! I can't wait!" Lucy smiled and the group let out small cheers of excitement.

"Yay…" Cana basically groaned into her coffee cup and Lucy slung an arm around her.

"Come on, you have to teach me all about Fairy Tail, remember, big?" Lucy teased and Cana seemed to sober up a little more.

"I suppose someone is going to have to teach you how to party."

"That's the spirit!"


Friday and early Saturday flew by; Lucy helped the others decorate the guild hall with Halloween decorations and letting all the guild members know about the party. They got fog lacrimas that were placed on the floor to make it look extra spooky, flickering lights were strung around the large room, Halloween themed food and drinks were prepared, and of course, costumes were figured out. Erza had leant Lucy one of her many costumes that she had; she had chosen to be a fairy princess as a sort of tribute to Fairy Tail taking her in. Lucy had gone to visit Levy in the infirmary and was pleased to find out that Porlyusica was going to allow her out for a few hours to enjoy the party, which Gajeel had said that he would help her get around to and from the guild.

After a rushed twenty-four hours of turning the guild into the perfect 'haunted mansion', as Erza had put it, it was time to get ready for the festivities. Lucy was excited to spend more time with her guild mates as well, she had obviously been focused on catching up with the work that she missed coming in late to the semester, that she hadn't really had a lot of quality time with everyone. Sure, she saw them in the evenings at the guild, but that was only for an hour or so before she headed back to her room with Levy. Levy was really the only one that she spent the most time with, and that was for obvious reasons.

"Lucy! How do I look?" Happy's voice suddenly broke through Lucy's thoughts, and she turned around to see the little blue cat flying towards her, only he was so much of a little blue cat any more, he was more of a little blue… "Fish! I'm a fish for the party!" He cheered and was practically drooling over himself over the thought of fish.

"You look adorable, Happy." Lucy giggled as he flew around showing off his costume. "Hey, actually now that I think about it, where is Natsu?" Lucy questioned. She hadn't seen him much since he broke into her room and she was starting to get a little concerned since he's usually causing some sort of mischief at the guild.

"Oh… He's coming! He's been so busy, but he'll be here tonight!" Happy replied and then began to fly off, "Bye Lucy, I gotta go! I'll see you later!" Lucy shook her head beginning to be suspicious of Natsu's absence.

"Lucy, come one!" Mira gestured for her to follow her and Erza to Fairy Girls. "Come get ready with us!" Lucy smiled widely and ran after them up the stairs. In Fairy Girls, it was bustling. Girls were all over getting in their costumes or helping each other with makeup. It was interesting to Lucy to see what everyone dressed up as: Mira was a demon, what her souls truly were, Erza was a rather sexy cat, Levy, who was in a wheelchair pushed by a Frankenstein looking Gajeel, was a mummy, Cana was a policewoman, Evergreen was a pixie, Bisca was a cowgirl, and even Juvia appeared in the foyer of Fairy Girls dressed as a mermaid. Mira and Erza helped Lucy get her fairy costume and makeup perfect; they used glitter body paint on her face and collarbones, and gave her sparkling pink wings. She wore a short, form-fitting purple dress with a sweetheart neckline, lace-up flats, and her hair was tied up in a perfect messy bun that Mira seemed to be a master at fixing up.

"Perfect!" Mira smiled, admiring their work that was Lucy. Lucy eyed herself in a full-length mirror in Erza's room and gasped.

"I look amazing!" Lucy exclaimed, "Thank you both so much!"

"You are very welcome." Erza smiled appreciatively as the trio headed back into the main lounge.

"Lucy! You look great!" Levy called from her chair, her leg propped up in front of her.

"Thank you," Lucy smiled and curtsied. "You look so cute, Lev!" She complimented. Levy looked adorable wrapped up as a little mummy, tattered bandages wrapping around her chest and forming a skirt and legging combo on her lower half. Her forearms were wrapped, as well, down to her finger tips.

"Why thank you! I figured if I'm already bandaged up, why not make it a costume?" Levy giggled and Gajeel scoffed behind her. "I picked out his costume. Don't you think it fits?"

"Very." Lucy giggled and Gajeel scowled at her halfheartedly.

"Tch, as if I'm ever doin' this again… What a stupid party." He grumped and Lucy rolled her eyes.

"Gajeel, don't be a party pooper." Juvia scolded and Gajeel clamped his mouth shut. Lucy thought that Juvia and Gajeel's relationship was unique; she could tell that they both meant quite a deal to each other, and Lucy admired that.

"Yeah, don't be a party pooper!" Levy echoed and Gajeel grunted in response.

"Ready to get wasted?" Cana slung an arm over Lucy's shoulders, "Don't worry, Mama Cana will take good care of you!" She swung a pair of handcuffs around her finger dangerously.

"Take care of, kill- kinda sounds the same either way coming from you." Lucy giggled and Cana just shrugged.

"Okay everyone! We're going to go down now!" Erza informed the busy lounge and the girls squealed making Gajeel roll his eyes. "Everyone better appreciate what we all did or suffer the consequences…" Erza cracked her knuckles dangerously as she muttered the last part under her breath. Lucy followed the group of girls down the stairs, Levy was taken by Gajeel to an apparent elevator that Mira only just mentioned. Lucy felt excitement well inside of her. Even though it was in the first week of November, Lucy had never been more excited to celebrate Halloween. When they all filed into the guild hall, it was truly something to see, and Lucy felt a bit of pride for their handy work. Fog seeped along the floor, around their feet and tables. Strobe-type flickering lights played in toon with the loud and pulsing music that sounded throughout the large hall, and food lined each table, while drinks were lined up at the bar. Mira and Freed had outdone themselves in that department.

The boys made their way, eventually, down the opposing stairs; it was hard to see in the dimly lit room what everyone was dressed as, but Lucy managed to make out that Laxus was dressed as Pikachu. Lucy let out a snort of a laugh as he approached the group and greeted Mira with a chaste peck on the lips.

"Holy shit," Cana broke out into a fit of laughter, tears glistening in her violet eyes. "This is so going on snapchat." She snapped a quick picture of Laxus scowling down at her and Mira smiling up at him.

"Isn't he just so cute?" Mira cooed and Laxus groaned.

"That's our… Tough and fearless leader...!" Evergreen cheered though she put a hand up to her mouth to cover a snicker.

"I think he looks just fine!" Freed popped up from behind the bar dressed as a pirate.

"'Course you do, heh." Bickslow teased, his tongue lolling out, and dressed as Venom from Spiderman. Lucy and the others left the Thunder Legion to discuss Laxus' looks as Pikachu, and Cana guided her to the bar which had several drinks that looked convincingly like blood.

"C'mon, time to loosen up!" Cana shoved a tamer looking drink in her hands and Lucy quirked a brow at the brunette. "It's just a margarita. Just a little bit of tequila to get the party started!"

"If you say so… But I don't want to be puking tomorrow! If I am, you're cleaning it up," Lucy warned and Cana snorted. She took an experimental sip of the clear drink, a little bat decoration sitting on the rim smiled up at her. It was surprisingly good, a little sweet, a little limey; for never having drank before, Lucy was finding herself enjoying it.

Lucy met up with Levy eventually as Gajeel guided her through the large group of Fairy Tail members; she made sure to thank Gajeel yet again for being such a help. Through the crowd, Lucy found herself scanning the bodies of her fellow guild mates searching. She saw Happy come in, but where was Natsu?

"Yo, Lucy!" A deep voice called and Lucy turned quicker than was conspicuous, her head spinning a little bit after having finished half her drink.

"Oh, hey Gray!" Lucy greeted him, trying to hide her disappointment. Not that she wasn't happy to see Gray, but he didn't make her heart flutter. "Er, what are you dressed as?"

"I'm Zorro! You know, Don Diego de la Vega, en garde!" Gray spoke animatedly, jabbing a fake rapier into the air in front of him.

"I've never heard of it… But you're also only wearing an eye mask, cape, and holding that sword… So, it was kinda hard to guess." Lucy giggled as Gray gasped, a blush staining his cheeks.

"Wha-, no way! I just had the rest of it on like two seconds ago!"

"Don't worry, you still look fine." Lucy snorted and then her eyes shot open wide at the realization that she actually said that out loud.

"O-oh, thanks." Gray stammered out and smiled a bit, the blush on his face more pronounced.

"What are Gray-sama and Love Rival talking about?" Juvia suddenly burst between them and then gasped. "Your clothes, my love!"

"E-er, yeah, we've established that…" He looked embarrassedly down at his form. "I'm gonna go look for my costume…"

"Juvia will help too!"

"Okay, okay…" Gray sighed and trudged off and Lucy giggled. Juvia was an interesting girl and Lucy hoped that she would realize, sooner rather than later, that she was not her love rival.

"I'm really glad she didn't hear what I said to Gray…" Lucy mumbled to herself. "No more alcohol for me…"

"Glad who didn't hear what?" Came a raspy voice making Lucy nearly jump out of her skin. "Yo, Luce!" Lucy spun around quickly to see Natsu standing before her. Her heartbeat hammered in her chest, she had not been expecting an answer to her question, and she certainly didn't want to explain to Natsu what she meant.
"Natsu!" She gasped slightly, her right hand over her fluttering heart. "I-I like your costume!" Lucy squeaked out.

"Thanks! I'm a ninja!" He exclaimed and then pulled his scarf over his mouth and nose, clasped his hands together, forefingers pointed towards the ceiling, "Nin, nin!" Lucy let out a laugh and Natsu pulled his scarf back down to reveal his grin.

"What's your costume? A fairy or somethin'?"

"Fairy princess, thank you very much!" Lucy pointed to the gold tiara clipped into her hair.

"Huh," Natsu eyed her costume, "That's cute!" He grinned and poked at one of her wings.

"U-um, th-thanks…" Lucy stammered out, her cheeks felt like they were on fire, and her heart fluttered, yet again, against her ribs. "O-oh, hey! Where have you been the past day or so?"

"Oh… Heh, that…" Natsu rubbed the back of his neck, only seeming embarrassed by her question and not the fact that he had just indirectly said that she was cute. "Well, you see, you know midterms?"

"…Yes."

"Well… I didn't do so hot on some of them, so I had to do some extra work to kinda make up for them…" Natsu let out a nervous giggle and Lucy frowned.

"But we stayed up so late studying for them! I helped you that whole week!" Lucy protested and Natsu avoided her gaze.

"I did fine on my magic and combat exams… It's just the English and some other crap that I don't understand too much. Man, I hate that for our first year we need to take all these crappy classes!" He complained referring to the core academic classes.

"They want you to be well rounded," Lucy pointed out. "But it's okay, if you need help with English, I'm your girl!" Lucy chuckled, pointing a finger at herself.

"Thanks Luce!" He grinned down at her and then placed a hand over his stomach and almost keeled over. "I'm starving! I haven't eaten since this morning, ugh…"

"Well, come on! We prepared some really tasty treats for tonight!" Lucy laughed and guided him over to one of the tables. "Look at how cute these are! These are meatballs-" Before Lucy could finish, Natsu was shoving them into his mouth without even looking at them. "… That are wrapped in crescent dough with mustard eye dots… They're supposed to be mummies and you're supposed to appreciate how cute they are!"

"They're just food," Natsu replied around a mouthful of meatball and Lucy crossed her arms over her chest and pouted, one hand still clinging to her margarita. "Er, but yeah, they're totally cute." He snorted and Lucy smiled a bit.

"Good. We also have these pizza bagels where the cheese looks like ghosts…" Lucy pointed out, but it was a lost cause since Natsu was stuffing his face. Lucy just shook her head and watched him, occasionally sipping her drink which she was eager to finish so she didn't have to hold her cup anymore. She wasn't drunk, but she felt a little dizzy. She didn't really want to drink anymore, she certainly didn't want to make a complete fool out of herself at the first party she participated in in Fairy Tail. So, she had a plan to just avoid Cana because they older girl was certainly going to try and push more drinks on her.

Lucy had stopped paying attention to Natsu only for a few moments, but he seemed to have disappeared. A few moments later, he returned from the bar carrying a shot glass that was billowing flames from its contents.

"Whoa, what the-?" Lucy eyed it and Natsu laughed maniacally.

"Fiyah!" He cried and downed the shot, and the fire, in one gulp.

"Did you just eat the fire too?!" Lucy basically screamed and Natsu eyed her weirdly.

"Duh," He snorted matter-of-factly, "I love eating fire!"

"How? How can you do that?"

"I'm a fire dragon slayer! It's like eating a yummy snack!" He rubbed his belly happily and Lucy shook her head, a small smile on her lips.

"You are so stra- oof!" Lucy was shoved from behind, her cup, thankfully empty, clattering to the floor. She flung forward, straight into Natsu, and he instinctively caught her, his arm wrapping around her as she fell flush against him. "H-huh?"

"Hey, watch where you're goin, ya bastard!" Natsu barked over her head. Lucy couldn't turn to see who he was talking to because his arm was still wrapped tightly around her pressing her to his chest.

"It ain't my fault!" Came Gajeel's angry sounding voice, "That dipshit shoved into me- oi! I'm pushing a crip' here!"

"I'm not crippled you ass!" Came Levy's voice, shrill over the sound of the music.

"I didn't mean it, I tripped!" Gray retorted from somewhere behind Gajeel.

"You guys tryna start somethin'?!" Natsu growled and Lucy rolled her eyes, she was getting slightly tired of Natsu shouting basically in her ear. She squirmed a bit in his arms and eyed Natsu's face; he was glaring over her head at the two boys that she couldn't see.

"H-hey," She began and his gaze snapped down to her, seeming surprised that she was still there. His face softened and he flashed a small smile down at her.

"Hey." He replied and Lucy's heart fluttered. She was caught up in their proximity that she forgot what she was going to say for a moment.

"E-er…" Lucy stammered and Natsu quirked a brow at her. "C-can I be released, Mr. Ninja?" She giggled and Natsu's eyebrows shot up as if he, too, only just realized how close they were.

"Oh shit, sorry Luce!" He released her and she immediately missed the warmth of his body. "Hey, you guys wanna go?!"

"Oh, for goodness' sake…" Lucy sighed and watched the three boys start to scuffle around the guild hall.

"He's barely been in the guild for three days and he's already just as stupid as the others." Levy scoffed from her wheelchair that Gajeel had safely parked next to Lucy. She giggled and sat down next to Levy at the table that she and Natsu had been at.

"So," Lucy began and shot a sly smile over at Levy. "How are you?"

"You sound suspicious…" Levy replied skeptically. "I'm good."

"Oh, good, good." Lucy nodded and smiled. "So, about you and Gajeel-"

"Oh no, don't start sounding like Mira!" Levy cried and Lucy giggle; she could have sworn that Levy was blushing, but it was hard to see in the dimly lit hall. "He is helping me just fine. I think he feels a bit guilty he couldn't pull me out of the way completely."

"I'm just glad he was there," Lucy said solemnly. "I still can't believe someone hit you with their car! Gajeel seems like a good guy though. Around his gruff exterior." Lucy giggled again and Levy snorted out a laugh.

"Yeah, he is." She smiled over to where Gajeel was throwing punches with Gray and Natsu, her eyes glistening happily. "So, you and Natsu, eh?"

"Natsu and I what?" Lucy questioned, avoiding Levy's gaze and the heat on her face.

"Did you see yourself with him just a minute ago?!" Levy scoffed and Lucy rolled her eyes. "You two were like, canoodling." Lucy snorted as she laughed at the ridiculousness of what Levy was saying.

"Shut up, he stopped me from falling forward because your boyfriend knocked into me!"

"Hey, you shut up!" Levy flailed a hand at Lucy and she easily dodged it. "You know that's not true! And he wouldn't have bumped into you if your boyfriend number two didn't trip into him."

"Wah! Who's sounding like Mira now? Don't pair me with a bunch of people!" Lucy protested and Levy let out a loud laugh and Lucy sighed. "I miss you."

"I miss you too, Lu. I hope I can get out of the infirmary soon." Levy pouted a bit. "But until then, why don't ya wheel me to the dancefloor so we can go join the other girls?" Levy beamed up at Lucy and she jumped up excitedly.

"Let's go!"

Bonus A/N: Oh! Totally forgot to mention that the party is not over, this is just part one of their Halloween escapades ;)