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Hello one and hello all! I welcome you all back to this extravagant piece of trash! I'm back here and ready to fail you all! Now I hope you don't hate me for this terrible chapter!
(Note: Wen I update this there really is 88 reviews and the latest ep of FT Lucy uses Urano Metria...Please forgive me!)
(Note 2: Writers block is a bitch.)
(also sorry for the long author's blabber here and at the bottom)
Disclaimer: Don't own Fairy Tail
Chapter 20: Date! (And more)
"So are you nervous?" Levy asked as she watched her friend getting ready.
"Not really. I've already prepared myself mentally for any embarrassing thing he does." Lucy said as she fixed her hair.
"So what do you guys have planned?" Mirajane asked as she sat at the table.
"I'm not sure. Natsu said that he wanted to keep it a secret." The blond said, looking at herself in the mirror.
"Well I am very happy for the two of you." Erza said from the bed. "Just remember, Lucy. If he ever breaks your heart then just call us and we'll set him straight." She said with a dark aura around her.
"Heh heh heh...Sure. I'll keep that in mind." That's when the doorbell rang and she went to the door with the others right behind her. When she opened the door she saw that Gray, Romeo, Gajeel and some of the other guys were there. "Gray? What are you guys doing here?"
"We just wanted to tell you that flame-brain is gonna be slightly late. We went to go check on his earlier and the idiot was planning on wearing his regular clothes, so we had to tell the idiot how to dress." Gray said as they walked inside.
"Heh. Thanks. I kinda figured he'd do something like that." Lucy said.
"Well this is his first date." Lisanna said. "Try to go easy on him."
"Sorry I was late." Natsu said as he and Lucy walked down the road. He had on black dress shoes, black dress pants, a red dress shirt (that was untucked) and his scarf around his neck like a tie.
"It's fine. Gray told me what happened." Lucy said. She had on a red, strapless dress that stopped half way down her legs and high-heels. Her hair was let down and was kind of waving. (A/N: Sorry if the description sucks)
"You look great, by the way." Natsu said after getting a good look at the blond. Said blond got a small amount of pink on her cheeks and smiled.
"You too. I didn't know you even had clothes like that." Lucy said.
"Actually I bought them yesterday. I wasn't sure how I should dress so I asked Happy and he said to at least get these clothes just in case." Natsu said, shocking her a little bit.
'He bought clothes just for this?' She got a soft smile on her face. "So where are we going?"
"Oh yeah! I got us reservations to this restaurant! Mira said they have great food!" Natsu said happily.
'Wow. He even got reservations to a restaurant. Looks like I didn't need to worry after all.' Lucy thought as they continued to walk. Neither of them noticed the eyes that were watching them.
"Matchmaker to Red Demon. Do you have everything ready?" Mirajane said from the bushes she was hiding in.
"Red Demon here. Yeah. Everything is set. We are just waiting for the targets."
"Good. Now let the fun begin."
"Reservation for two. It's under Dragneel." Natsu said as the two stood in front of a small podium.
"Ah, yes. Dragneel-san. We have been waiting for you. Please follow me." The guy said with an obviously fake French accent.
"You smell familiar. Do I know you from somewhere?" Natsu asked as the two followed the guy.
"I get that a lot." The guy said as he started to sweat a little.
'Is he serious. Does he really think he's fooling me with that lame outfit. He looks ready to strip at any moment.' Lucy thought with a blank face. She let out a silent sigh as they got to the table. 'Might as well make this fun.' She thought with a smirk as the man left.
"So...Um...Luce- I mean, Lucy!" The blond turned her attention to the panicking Dragon Slayer and gave a reassuring smile.
"It's fine, Natsu. Just be yourself, that what I like about you, after all." Realizing what she said, Lucy got a blush back on her face.
"Really? Gray and Loke told me what to do, so I just figured..." Natsu trailed off when Lucy let out a small giggle.
"Really? You listened to Gray? That's shocking. I get Loke, but you need to remember that he's a playboy. Just relax and we can both have fun tonight." Lucy said, making Natsu nod his head and relax a little. "Here, I'll even help you out." She reached over the table, grabbed his scarf and undid it. She wrapped it around his neck like it usually was and gave a satisfied smile. "There we go. Now that's the Natsu I like to see."
"Heh. Thanks, Lucy. You're great."
"No problem."
"Are you two ready to order?" They looked up to see another waiter who, oddly enough, looked like a certain Rune wizard.
'So they switched, huh? Might as well make the most of it.' Lucy thought as she closed her menu. "I think I'll have a steak and some water."
"I'll have the same." Natsu said as he handed the menu back with a suspicious look.
"Very well. Your orders will be out shortly."
"That's strange. I thought you would get way more stuff." Lucy said, looking at her date.
"Yeah, well I figured that the less I get the less of a pig I would be while eating." Natsu said, not looking the other directly.
'Aw he's actually trying.' The blond thought with a soft smile. "Thank you for that, Natsu, but like I told you before, just be yourself."
"Here are your orders. I hope you enjoy." The green haired waiter said with a small bow.
"Thank you." The man nodded his head and was about to leave when he overheard the two behind him.
"What did those guys say, Natsu?"
"They were saying something about how they could easily kick Laxus' ass or something."
"Don't they know about the Raijinshuu?"
"Yeah, but they just waved them off."
"What!? Saying something about us is one thing, but I won't let the get away with saying something about Laxus!" And with that, the green haired man ran out the door.
"Hahaha! I told you he would fall for it!" Lucy said as she and Natsu laughed, not seeming to care about the looks the two were getting.
"Man that was good. How did you figure out that it was Freed?" Natsu asked as he started to eat his food.
"It wasn't that hard. I mean I don't know anyone else with green hair like that. It was pretty obvious that it was him." The blond said as she cut cleanly through her food. "I just feel sorry for the people who have to deal with him now. I'm sure everyone in Magnolia knows how he is with Laxus. They'll probably try and steer clear of him for awhile."
"Wow, Luce. Never knew you had this side to you." The pink haired male said, trying to slow down with his eating.
"From time to time it's fun to have moments like these." She gave her companion a small grin. "Does it put you off?"
"Not at all. I think it's pretty hot actually." Hearing this, the blond couldn't help but blush.
After a few seconds of silence, Natsu looked up to see Lucy looking around the place and getting a distasteful look.
"Something wrong, Lucy?" Natsu asked as he started to get nervous. 'Is it something I did? Maybe I should have clam down more while eating.'
"Yeah...There is something wrong." Now Natsu was sweating more from thinking it was his fault. "This place is...too stuffy." She turned to Natsu and gave an apologetic smile. "It's nice of you to bring us here, but this place is too fancy."
The female quickly got up, grabbed the other's hand and made was for the door. She slapped some money on the table and quickly left with Natsu in tow.
"There we go. Now don't you feel better?" Lucy asked as she looked at Natsu. The two were currently standing outside of a clothing store with both wearing casual clothing.
"Yeah, but-"
"No buts. This way we don't have to be in these uptight clothing." Lucy looked down at the bag in her hand that held their formal clothing. She gave a small, sad look at the bag.
"Luce, you okay?"
"Hm?" Lucy looked up to see Natsu giving her a worried look. "Yeah. It's just that...I've always thought a date like in the movies would be great, but..." She looked up and gave Natsu a big smile. "I guess it depends on the guy."
"Ah! Hahaha!" Natsu looked away with some pink on his cheeks. He scratched the back of his head in embarrassment. "So why don't we continue this date? We've hardly done anything, and I was still planning on do some more stuff."
"Sure." She went a little forward and whispered something into his ear.
"All right!"
"Let's start with this then." She slightly moved her hand to give the pinkette a peck on the cheek.
"So that's Gray, Levy, Max, and Juvia down."
"We just need to get rid of Erza and Mira-san."
The two that were currently on a date giggled and chuckled (respectively) as they saw a certain ice mage running from a certain Rain Woman. Since they had changed their clothes, the two had been trying to get rid of their 'stalkers' and had succeeded in getting rid of almost all of them. The problem now was...
"The two worst ones. So how should we go about this?" Natsu asked, knowing that the blond was better at coming up with more elaborate plans.
He had thought of some good plans to get rid of some of them, but others need Lucy's correction, or help in making it work. Luckily, they both knew their fellow guild members well...Maybe too well.
"These two will be tricky. Mira-san will be probably be the hardest to get rid of. I have a plan for Erza. I even have it in place right now." Lucy held up one of her golden keys. More specifically, the one for Gemini.
"Come back here, caaaaaaaaaaaaaake!"
The two looked over (along with everyone in the vicinity) to see the great Titania running after...a flying piece of cake. They also heard a sound that was something akin to a certain barmaid/She Demon screaming from a nearby bush.
"Wow, I should have guessed."
"Yup. I have a plan to deal with Mira-san, but...it will take some time and it require some other people." Lucy got a thoughtful expression.
"I don't think this is what people do on dates. But it's still really fun to mess with the others with you!"
Lucy got a small blush when she saw Natsu giving her a big smile. She never thought that her first date would be like this either, but she had to agree with him on the fact that it was fun.
"Same. I guess I always thought that I would have to deal with those fancy pricks when I was younger, but I'm still glad I left."
"Yeah. I'm glad you left too. I'm also glad I brought you to Fairy Tail."
"Kyaaaaaaa!"
They turned again and saw Mirajane passed out behind the bush. They looked at each other before walking away while whistling innocently.
"Natsu, it's getting kinda late. I think we should go back now."
Natsu took no offence to this as he also knew that it was really late.
"Okay, but there's just one thing left I want to show you." Natsu grabbed Lucy by the wrist and started to lead her away from where they were.
"Hey, isn't that Lucy? And Natsu!" Two girls ran up to them with excitement the two didn't think someone could have late at night. "We heard you guys singing and wanted to know if you guys can sing for us! We were going to do some karaoke, and would love to heard you sing."
"Actually-"
"Please! Just one song!"
"Come on, Natsu. We can do one song, then you can show me whatever it was you wanted too."
Natsu let out a sigh and followed the three girls. He really wanted to show Lucy the certain something, but if she wanted to make these two girls happy, he would go along with it. That was another reason he liked the blond. She would always try her best to try and help others, or make them happy if she could.
"We're here!"
"That was quick."
The four made their way into a small bar. The two on a date looked around and saw that there was quite a bit of people around and a stage on the opposite side of the bar.
"So is there anyone else wanting to try their hand at singing a lovely song for us?"
"Over here! Over here!" The two girls raised both Natsu and Lucy's arms in the air. "These two want to sing!"
"Okay! We have two volunteers! Please come up here!"
'Might as well get this over with!'
"Oh? So we have two wizards from Fairy Tail! Well just pick a song and start the singing! Can't wait to hear your lovely voices!"
'Knowing Lucy, she'll probably want-'
"We'll sing that song." Lucy pointed to one of the songs. "You ready, Natsu? Just try not to burn this place down."
"O-okay..."
The music started as everyone looked to see how this would turn out. Lucy got a microphone in her hand and started to sing.
Born in captivity
Time's your worst enemy
Your face is getting older
You try to keep your age
Inside this golden cage
Lucy held up some golden keys.
Your heart is getting colder
Don't you feel
You're slowly dying
Day by day
They treat you like an animal
You've gotta fight
She put her fist out in front of herself.
You've gotta start a riot
So let's wake up
Your sleeping lion
Wake up the sleeping lion
This time she held out Loke's key
And use your mind
Catch fire, catch catch fire!
Natsu lit his hands on fire before forming it to go around Lucy.
Wake up the sleeping lion
Do you feel alive?
Don't let it get you down
Do you know the reason why
Why they never let you sleep at night
And you're running round in circles
Their frozen fingertips
Against your burning lips
A fight without heroes
You've gotta fight
You've gotta start a riot
So let's wake up
Your sleeping lion
Catch fire, catch catch fire!
Wake up the sleeping lion
And use your mind
Catch fire, catch catch fire!
Wake up the sleeping lion
Do you feel alive?
Don't let it get you down
Come baby
Come baby
She made a motion with her finger that ended up making men come closer to the stage.
Burn tonight
One step across the border won't hurt your mind
The fire will get you baby don't you know
The men almost got to close to the fire, before they backed away.
Easy come, easy go
She turned back with a flick of her wrist as if she was waving off the guys.
Now run baby
Run baby
Run tonight
One step across the border won't hurt your mind
The fire will get you baby don't you know
Easy come, easy go
Easy go
Catch fire, catch catch fire!
The fire went around her.
Wake up the sleeping lion
Loke's key was held up again.
And use your mind
Catch fire, catch catch fire!
Wake up the sleeping lion
Do you feel alive?
Don't let them get you down
Don't let them get you down
Don't let them get you down
When the song was finished, Lucy walked off stage and was quickly grabbed by Natsu before both rushed out of the bar. She didn't mind since she knew that they would be held up if they stayed.
"So are you going to show me that thing you wanted too?" After slowing down to a steady walk, she decided to ask that question.
"Yeah. It's not too far."
"Natsu...This is amazing..."
"I knew you'd like it. Not even Happy knows about this place, so there's no way the others would know we are here."
Lucy looked at the lake in the middle of a giant field of flowers. The water was clear and she could see the sparkling stones at the bottom of the lake.
"Those stones are special. When some touches them, some of them change color depending on the magic they use. Watch." Natsu went over and touched one from the shallow parts. The reaction was instant. Some of the stones went from a general glow to different forms of red.
"Ruby...Crimson...Maroon...and just play Red. That's amazing. Can I try?"
"Of course. That's why I brought you here."
Lucy went up next to Natsu and touched one of the stones. The color from the stones changed from a general glow to a giant rainbow trapped within the lake. The two stared at the beauty before them.
As Lucy continued to look at the stones, she heard a humming and turned around to see Natsu was the one humming.
You're alone,
You're on your own,
So what, have you gone blind,
Have you forgotten what you have and what is yours?
Glass half empty, glass half full,
Well either way you won't be going thirsty,
Count your blessings not your flaws.
You've got it all,
You lost your mind in the sound,
There's so much more, you can reclaim your crown,
You're in control,
Rid of the monsters inside your head,
Put all your faults to bed,
You can be Queen again.
Natsu started to sweat a little when he couldn't remember what was next.
Lucy took over for him.
You don't get what all this is about,
You're too wrapped up in your self-doubt,
You've got that young light, set it free.
You've got it all,
You lost your mind in the sound,
There's so much more, you can reclaim your crown,
You're in control,
Rid of the monsters inside your head,
Put all your faults to bed,
You can be King.
Now the both of them started to sing while the rainbow lake's glow got more radiant.
There's method in my madness,
There's no logic in your sadness,
You don't gain a single thing from misery,
Take it from me.
You've got it all,
You lost your mind in the sound,
There's so much more, you can reclaim your crown,
You're in control,
Rid of the monsters inside your head,
Put all your faults to bed,
You can be King.
You've got it all,
You lost your mind in the sound,
There's so much more, you can reclaim your crown,
You're in control,
Rid of the monsters inside your head,
Put all your faults to bed,
You can be Queen again.
Lucy quickly moved from the lake and ran up to give Natsu a hug.
Natsu returned it happily.
"You finally remembered the lyrics."
"Well, most of it anyways."
"This has been a great date, Natsu."
"It's still not over yet." Natsu got a questioning looking for this. "I still need to walk you home."
"Well let's go then."
Lucy backed away and extended her hand out.
Natsu took it with his own and the two started to walk away.
There ya guys go. Now, I know what you're going to say, so no need to say it. I know it sucked. It was shorter than what I had wanted, but it would be haunting me until I made it. You deserve better. (Btw I don't have low self esteem or anything like that. I'm just saying it like I see it.) I will see if I can add more to this later, but don't hold me to that.
On another note. We're gonna get back to the competition next chapter (whenever that will be) and I need ideas for more rounds. Any suggestions will be helpful.
On the last note... I'll say it now... SPOILERS FOR ANY ANIME ONLY PEOPLE
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We're on the last arc guys. We gotta just hope that at least some of our ships will end up together by the end. Also, for whoever has read the latest chapter, a certain quote from Gajeel made me happy.