BlackLynx17: I really like the movie Tangled. That has to be my favorite Disney movie, even though when I first saw it in theaters I thought it was whatever. Funny how things change when you're older. Thanks for my reviews everyone, enjoy this chapter!

AAA Chapter 12


"Good bye Wendy, see you tomorrow!"

"G-good bye!" I blushed waving bye at my friends.

My friends... my friends... I giggled and squealed jumping up and down. No Wendy, you don't do that in the middle of the hallway where tons of people are standing to watch you. Wait until you are in the safety of your home to start giggling like a fangirl.

"Someone looks happy."

I turned around and saw Natsu and Lucy standing behind me, smiling. When did they get there?

"Hi guys!" I smiled back.

"Was that friends I just saw there Wendy?" Natsu asked.

I nodded, "yeah! I made friends Natsu, I made friends!" I jumped up and down.

Natsu laughed and started patting my head, "good job Wendy! Now you can slowly turn them into anime nerds and make them join us."

We all started laughing. It's been three months now since I first started recruiting people for my club, two months since we've actually became a club. Though Gray, Juvia and Lucy instantly joined and became friends, it took a while longer for Laxus and Freed to become comfortable with us. I think it was due to the senior barrier even though they were only a year older than Natsu and Gray. We haven't had anymore people join us, but I wasn't sad about that.

Freed actually turned out to be a nice guy, if we all stayed away from Laxus. For some reason the two seniors got along wonderfully with Juvia. She later told me Freed liked her because they shared the common interest of Harem together, that didn't explain Laxus though. Freed wasn't so bad, even though he couldn't remember everyone's names. After two weeks he learned them though and really loved playing imagination with us. The battles with Freed were so amazing and when he battled Lucy?!

"Wendy, why are you smiling so broadly?" Lucy asked.

"I'm just remembering when you and Freed fought." I sighed.

"Wow, that was really amazing wasn't it? We need to start recording these Wendy, I couldn't believe my eyes on that one." Natsu said as he started walking.

"I completely agree, Romeo and I have never had a fight that intense before." I told him walking with.

"Guys! You're embarrassing me!" Lucy said catching up.

"Aw Luce, we're praising you for a good job. You were amazing." Natsu said kissing her forehead.

I stared and blinked. It was only recently that the two of them told us they were dating. Everyone was happy for the couple especially me when Lucy thanked me in private. She said if it wasn't for me starting this club, she didn't think Natsu and her would be friends or even talking right now. My heart soared and I don't think I ever smiled that broadly before.

Though the two of them were a couple, they didn't do a lot of couple things. More like anime couple things like hand holding and the occasional kiss to the cheek or forehead and hugs, lots of hugs. Lucy said she didn't want to rush things while Natsu told me he wasn't experienced in dating so he was making things along as he goes. I saw him secretly asking Juvia for some romance animes to watch though.

Romeo, Natsu, Gray, Juvia, Lucy, Laxus, and Freed. They were all my friends, my anime friends. I love them all so much. I didn't want to think about the end of the school year, I was only going to focus on now. I had this big plan set up for everyone this weekend, today at the club I was going to suggest having an anime picnic in the park. We could cosplay if we'd like, but there of course would be anime related food. I think everyone would like the idea, I hope they would.

"Sorry I haven't been to club a lot lately Wendy, once coach learned I joined he started making me do more training than the others." Natsu said.

I blinked and woke up from my daydreams, "no worries Natsu. As long as you get to come here and enjoy anime with you friends. That's all I want from you."

Natsu scrunched his face together and hugged me, "how do you not have friends?"

Lucy and I started giggling. The three of us arrived at anime club a few minutes later and was surprised to everyone already there watching a movie. Dragon Ball Z Lord Of The Slug, one of my top favorite Dragon Ball Z movies.

"Hey everyone!" I greeted

"Hey Wendy," they responded back to me.

I hugged everyone, even Freed who got used to my hugs, and we all settled down and started watching the movie. Sometimes our club days would go like this, we would all watch a movie. The greatest part would be when the movie was over so we could all talk about it. Romeo and I sat together and I smiled at him.

"We made it Romeo." I whispered.

Romeo looked back and smiled, "we've been made it Wendy."

Even though not all of our members would show up everyday, even though some of them had other clubs to go to or real lives other than anime lives, they still came here. They still enjoyed anime, and they weren't alone. That's all I ever wanted from this club, to bring people together so no one would have to enjoy the joys of anime alone. Hopefully, this club would never die ever again. Not as long as I'm here.

'PING! Pardon this interruption, but would Wendy Marvell please report to the teacher's lounge? I repeat, Wendy Marvell. Please report to the teacher's lounge. Thank you.'

The lights turned on, the movie was put on pause, and suddenly that bright and bubbly feeling I had vanished. Man this always happens in animes! We can only enjoy happiness for one second before something gets in the way!


My friends were all waiting for me back inside the club, worried expressions on their faces. My expression didn't help them either, Romeo was the one who took the initiative and grabbed the paper from my hand.

"It's bad news." He said then started explaining what just happened to us.

Now that we're so into the school year the school's discovered there's too many clubs. They don't have enough money or room to support all of them so only a few are going to make it is what they told us, but in fancier words.

"They basically told us since we're not doing anything or giving to the school or winning any achievements at all, our club isn't important." Romeo said.

I sniffed, trying to hold back my tears. Why did this have to turn into such a real life anime?

"Now hold one you guys, the teachers may have said one thing but this paper says another." Lucy said reading it over.

I looked up at her. She was reading, mumbling to herself before a smile came across her lips.

"Alright, look here. It says that non participating clubs are the first to go, non participating clubs. Do you know what that means?" Lucy asked.

No one said anything.

"It means that since this club doesn't do jack, we go first." Laxus grumbled.

"Exactly! Now listen to this, the football club gets to stay because they win trophies for our school, the cooking club gets to stay because we sell our treats during festivals."

"Yeah, just brag how your club gets to stay while ours vanishes." Freed mumbled.

"Don't you get it?! All this club needs to do is start participating in school activities! And we're saved!" Lucy said.

"You mean, we have to start battling other school anime clubs?" Romeo asked.

"Yeah, and selling anime goods at festivals?" I repeated.

"No, well sort of. Listen, I know this stuff guys. All we need to do is start participating in school activities and our club will be saved alright? And the next school activity is the spring festival! If we open up a booth, sell anime related things and maybe some treats like the cooking club does for the school, maybe even try and rent out a room and have a cosplay café, we should be able to save our club!" Lucy said.

I ran up and hugged Lucy.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

"Wendy, I'm doing this for everyone. We all love this club, remember?" She asked.

I looked around and saw all my friends smiling at me.

"You're right, I'm sorry I gave up without a fight everyone. I'm marching right back over there getting this straightened out!"


"So?"

I grinned, "they accepted."

Natsu and Romeo high fived, Gray actually hugged Juvia who smiled fondly, Lucy hugged me, Laxus smirked lightly while Freed started crying and covered his eyes with his arm.

"They agreed on giving us a booth and if we attract enough people we could keep our club, but they didn't agree on giving us our own room so I told them that the anime club was going to enter the talent show. The teachers are all looking forward into what we do." I smiled.

The cheering stopped and I was getting stared at.

"What now?" Gray asked.

"I enter us into the talent show! When they said we couldn't have a classroom I remember Lucy saying we had to interact more with the students so the talent show seemed like a good idea! We're going to do a skit, maybe two, and the school's already trying to sort out our budget."

"Wendy." Lucy said.

I didn't like that tone of voice. I looked at everyone and frowned.

"What- what is it everyone?" I asked.

"A lot of people attend the talent shows." Natsu said.

"So? The more the better remember?"

Romeo walked over to my side and placed a hand on my shoulder, I knew he was with me. He always was. Everyone else though... I suddenly felt alone like I first did when I came to this school.

"Well Juvia's in." Juvia said taking a step forward.

I blinked.

"Wendy, I may have joined this club with the ulterior motives of getting closer to Gray, but you made me love this club. It was really true what you said, if you love anime then you'll love this club. You made me love anime even more Wendy and I don't care who knows it, so I'll help you. I'll be whoever you want me to be." Juvia smiled.

"Juvia." I started crying.

"Laxus... I think we should join in as well. We've never joined any club, never done any activities in high school and our year is almost up. I think this would be good for us, I want to experience this." Freed told his best friend.

"I was already going to do this, I don't know why everyone took my silences as a no." Laxus mumbled.

I started crying even harder, "Laxus! Freed!"

"Well there we have it! Wendy, Juvia, Laxus, Freed and I will all enter the talent show while everyone else runs the booth." Romeo said.

Yes, I could work with this. We had enough people, this was going to work.

"But hold on, I've been meaning to tell everyone something." Lucy said.

I held my breath and gulped.

"I've quit the cooking club." She said.

"What? Why Lucy?!" I asked.

"Because every time I'm there I'm wondering what everyone is doing in here and I always mess up my dishes. I've realized Wendy, just like Juvia, that I love anime and I love this club even more than I do cooking. I'll help you, of course I will help you." She smiled.

"I'm sure Gray and Natsu will be able to manage on their own for a while, our skit won't be that long." I said lightly.

"No, I mean..." Gray's eyes scrunched together and he sighed.

He looked over at Natsu and stared at him for a little bit.

"I- I don't want to hide anymore, not when someone needs me. I guess that means I'm in." Gray sighed.

I walked up to him and held his hand.

"Gray, you don't have to do this. Anime club isn't about forcing people to do things."

"I know Wendy, I want to do this for you though. I want to help you, help all of us. You're all my friends." He smiled at me.

"I would hug you right now Gray if you remembered to wear a shirt." I whimpered.

"What? Dammit." Gray growled looking down.

I giggled and looked behind Natsu, smiling at him.

"You don't have to Natsu." I said.

Lucy walked over to him and held onto his hand, smiling lightly at him.

"I'm in, I got to go right now though." He said heading for the door.

Lucy followed after him and I watched them leave.

"So I guess that means everyone's in?" Romeo asked.

"I guess, um I'm going to check on them. Why don't you guys start writing out ideas?" I suggested heading towards the door.

I started walking down the halls, trying to catch up to the two of them.

"Why didn't you tell me?"

I paused, walking up to the corner and peeking behind the lockers.

"I wanted to tell everyone, why are you mad?"

Natsu and Lucy were standing in the middle of the hallway talking. I would have walked out, but the emotion on Natsu's face stopped me. I should have left, but my feet wouldn't listen to me.

"I'm not, you could have at least told me you were quitting your cooking club."

"Again Natsu, why does it matter?"

"Because, because! Ugh! I don't know!"

Lucy wrapped her arms around Natsu and I looked away, leaning against the walls and looking up at the ceiling.

"He's still giving you a hard time, isn't he?" She whispered.

"Everyone is, I don't get it. So what if I like anime? So what if I'm in another club? I never miss practice and I'm there for the team when they need me."

"And if you do this anime skit, do you think they'd be even harder on you?"

"I don't know Lucy, I just don't know what to do."

Natsu... I had no idea. I- I...

"Natsu-"

"Don't say it Lucy, please."

"Just tell me though, which club do you love the most?"

...

...

"We both know the answer to that."

I stared down at my shoes. Alright Wendy, it's time. You are the president of a club, you have members who love this club and want to continue being in it. It's time to step up and protect it, protect everybody! I can do this, there's nothing I can't overcome. You can't be nervous or shy, you have to do this. The festival is in two weeks and by that time you're going to come up with a wonder skit and some wonderful anime foods.

You could do this, you could do anything. In anime, the main character always steps up to the plate when needed.


*All About Anime Club Status*
*By Wendy Marvell*

Club Authorization:
OFFICIAL!

Members Have:
President- Wendy Marvell
Vice President- Romeo Conbolt
2nd Vice President - Natsu Dragneel
Treasurer - Gray Fullbuster
Secretary - Juvia Lockster
Personal Chef - Lucy Heartfilia
First Official Senior - Laxus Dreyar
First Official Fanboy - Freed Justine

Side Notes:
I swear I will not let my club down!

Friendship Level:
Acquaintances

Real Names Rank:
1st) D _ ? _ ? _ ? _ ?
2nd) ? _ ? _ ?


Animes Used:

Dragon Ball Z - Movie