Hiya All, thanks for all the support! I love that no one has sent me to an asylum! I gladly appreciate it. Sorry I've taken so long. I had fun writing this :) Hiro Mashima owns Fairy Tail.
A tidal wave of emotions ran through the future master of Fairy Tail's turbulent eyes; his much needed and deserved time away from Natsu had come to an end. His plans to keep the idiot away from him were supposed to be perfect, but the only thought that ran through the lightning dragon slayer's mind was 'why?' In the short moment Laxus felt Natsu land upon Galuna Island, his mind went and process every step he made to ensure that none from the guild would have any reason to step foot upon his haven for at least two months.
"I went directly to the Magic Counsel, gathered all their requests, I went to every guild in the area and took their Galuna missions and the board at Fairy Tail... I left it blank! I am certain! Then why?" Laxus shot up from his seat at the counter. Desperately he needed solace, to leave, but most importantly time to think. Encasing himself in lightning and immediately disappearing from the lighthearted bar, he left everyone at the bar puzzled at his sudden departure.
In a bright flash of lightning, Laxus appeared instantly within the haven of his penthouse suite. Breathing in the calming scent of his lavender filled room, the agitated man forced himself to relax. He did not have the time or patience to be dealing with Natsu's sudden appearance. Everything in his being told him that he should take Gajeel and Lucy and escape to the other side of Earthland, but abandoning all those missions would destroy Fairy Tail's already fragile reputation.
Defeated in his thinking and ability to calm down, Laxus dragged his feet to his gray lounge chair facing the Galuna Isand Grand waterfall. Unable to find rest in the majestic scenery, the large man decided to make a quick call to ease his trouble mind.
"Ahhh this is soo goood!" Lucy squealed as she took another bite of her flying fish Udon.
Gajeel just grunted as he asked for his eleventh bowl of Udon as he gnawed on his antelope shank.
'If those two could actually take each other seriously, they might actually learn to be good friends and not guild mates who are forced to get along.' Lily thought as he sat there quietly drinking another kiwi smoothie, internally laughing at how similar the pair actually were.
Everything was going well, the bunny and dragon were happily indulging in the life of luxury, that is until dessert arrived.
The air suddenly grew tense, and the sense of doom overwhelmingly present as the luxurious strawberry cream cheese cake made its untimely appearance. Chocolate eyes diverted from the smorgasbord of food and focus directly on the succulent bright red fruit, the fluffy white cream and yellow airy sponge cake. Drool started trickling down the side of her closed mouth, her stomach grumbled cheerfully forgetting that she had ever had a sliver of food in her life, while once again forgetting that she was in the presence of others. All eyes focused on the blonde who summoned her favorite dessert fork from the cavern of her cleavage as she praised the Galuna Island gods for this miraculous gift of sugar.
It was no surprised to anyone that Lucy had a sweet tooth, and hanging around Erza Scarlet gave you immunity to diabetes, but to completely disregard everyone around you irritated the ever changing iron dragon slayer. 'What gave the blonde the right or privilege to confiscate the cake for herself without once asking if anyone else wanted?' Mind you he did not like cake, but it would have been nice to be given the option to at least refuse.
Growling lightly, the raven haired slayer got a sinister idea. Quietly waiting for his opportunity at revenge, Gajeel eyed Lucy. Meticulously with her beloved fork she cut through the layers of cake and as she slowly pulled up the perfect morsel close to her mouth, the calculating man swiftly dove in. Wide eyes teared up as her beloved fork and morsel of delicious cake were stolen from her by the man who apologized for tormenting her for so long.
"Gajeel!" Lucy loudly mourned for her stolen slice.
Sliding his lips from the fork, Gajeel gave his bunny girl a smirk as he swiped a bit of frosting from the side of mouth and presented it to her as an apology. Her chocolate eyes danced with delight at the thought of his apology, but the second her mouth neared his extended finger, he pulled back and sucked it dry.
"Sorry Bunny Girl, but that's what you get for not sharing." Gajeel turned around trying to look tough, but actually hiding a blush that he was certain surfaced upon his tanned face.
Opening her mouth to protest, the blonde realized that he was right. Once again she had disregarded him and without thinking about the situation, she realized that she felt entitled to certain things because of habit. Lowering her head a bit, she was about to apologize when a sudden ringing was heard in the auditorium's lounge area.
"Hello." Lucy heard Luna pick up the phone. Tilting her head she was curious to ask who could be calling.
A blush came Luna's blue face as she whispered secretly into the phone. Placing the phone back on the receiver, she explained that she had to go and that the pair not forget to practice their routine.
"What was that about Gajeel? I know you heard." Lucy asked as she got up from her seat and crossed her hands.
Lily knew exactly where this conversation was going and he had no desire to see its course. The black exceed quickly made his way to the auditorium's stage.
"Oi Lucy, I don't think you wanna really know." Gajeel said honestly as he walked toward the door that Lilly escaped too.
Dim murderous eyes, warned the cautious man to speak or she would make his next 36 hours a living nightmare.
"Tch, fine, but you're not gonna like it." Gajeel warned as he felt vulnerable to her fiery glare.
Pinning him to the wall, she ensured that escape would be futile.
Smirking at her tenacity and complete delusion of her strength, he chuckled amused.
"Our beloved Power-plant bastard seemed to be extremely stressed. So he called our beloved Luna to finish the work you rudely interrupted earlier today. So in order words... Laxus called almost painfully for his beloved masseuse to give him a good intimate rub down until he releases." Gajeel informed her, trying to rile her up.
Dropping her head on his shoulder, Lucy felt embarrassed, she got his dirty version of the happenings loud and clear. The blonde should not care what Laxus did and with whom, but after analyzing the pairings in the guild, she thought that he was probably her last opportunity. Sighing into Gajeel's shoulder, Lucy picked herself up emotionally, held his hand unexpectedly for him and concluded that they should go rehearse.
"I'm glad to see no blood reach the river." Lilly said in his battle mode, crossed legged and sitting in a director's chair.
Tilting their head in confusion, the two asked what he meant, only eliciting a small chuckle as he explained that it was an old Edolas saying.
"Well that's enough gossip and distractions for the day. We gotta get this production up and running. Gajeel, guitar. Lucy, suit up and get Gemini." Panther Lilly demanded as he forced them on stage.
After pausing constantly, Gajeel and Panther Lily both came to the same conclusion: Lucy had no rhythm or ability to dance.
"Dang it Bunny Girl! How many blasted times do I have ta tell you? First you shimmy to the right, then back to start, then you shimmy down and then left! I bet my arse that even brain-dead Salamander could do this with both his eyes closed!" Gajeel showed the anger growing blonde exactly how he wanted her to move.
"Don't you roll your little brown eyes at me, or else..." Gajeel gritted his teeth in frustration declaring that their temporary truce was dead.
Waving her hand in annoyance, Lucy assured the 'rock legend' that she understood the choreography.
Smirking at her insolence and audaciousness, Gajeel approached her innocently enough and handed her a strip of fabric. With wide shocked eyes, Lucy looked at the tiny piece of fabric cradled in his hand and back at Gajeel three times before her thoughts transformed into audible words.
"Am I supposed to wear that?" Lucy half shrieked at the idea of wearing so little.
Rolling his eyes at the bizarre thoughts that ran through the blonde's little head, Gajeel was about to correct her and defend his integrity, but then a devious smirk took over his face as he thought of new ways to mortify his new ally.
"That's right. Now get to the dressing room and put that on. We got a show to do." Gajeel waved his hand as he shooed the dumbfounded blonde to the nearest dressing room, trying to sound as serious and threatening as he could muster.
Panther Lily was quiet and observant, but mostly kept his thoughts to himself. After seeing Lucy exit with a familiar looking cloth in her hand, her head cast down and her defeated gait towards the dressing room; the exceed went to have a word with his arrogantly smirking buddy.
"So Gajeel... what's up with Lucy and why does she look like she's about to shatter?" Inquired curiously.
The raven hair man scanned the area assuring himself that the blonde was no where in sight or hearing range.
Whispering in chuckles, Gajeel managed to confirm that the orange fabric was indeed his infamous bandana. The exceed glared at his friend incredulously, unable to grasp the concept as to why he would play such a horrid prank on Lucy. Before he could scold his friend properly, Lucy approached them blushing furiously asking if her attire was acceptable.
Panther Lily, who was usually calm and collected dropped his beloved smoothie in shock.
Gajeel gulped hard and as ridiculous of an idea it was to tease the blonde, his brain was now in the middle of a struggle to not take the woman before him right there and now.
She had white fluffy rabbit ears, her golden hair was left long and wavy as she sported bangs, the infamous cloth was shaped in a V that barely ended up covering her alluring body. With every step she took closer to Gajeel and the stage, the Iron dragon slayer was caught off guard, hoping and praying that her wardrobe would malfunction. His mouth became painfully dry, as she slightly turned around to display proudly how she fastened her bunny tail on the barely there fabric.
"So know that we established your attire, let's try the routine again." Gajeel directed Lucy as cool and collected as he could humanly fabricate.
Lily glared in astonishment at his friend and tapped him on the shoulder, in a gesture that meant he was begging the slayer to come clean. Nodding his head, and seeing how determined Lucy was to make this show a success, he sighed and understood that she should fess up on his little prank. The idea of being called a pervert over something so stupid, really irked him. While the inner turmoil of his morality was being question, a familiar figure approached the makeshift rehearsal.
Lowering his dark glasses, an eyebrow arched as he saw his beloved guild mate in such scandalous attire. Unable to contain his rage, his gritting teething sparked. Laxus quickly approached the entranced Gajeel and squeezed his stiff shoulder.
"What the hell is that for?" Gajeel roared in pain as burning electricity shot through his lightning-rod of a body. Low growling sent shivers down his spine. Never in all his life, had Laxus ever been so angry, and this was including Natsu forcing his way into his affairs.
Picking Gajeel up by his wild mane, the large man watched as he squirmed violently in an attempt to escape. Wanting to inflict pain, and place him in his place, his eyes wandered up to the stage where his stormy eyes caught the feast of Lucy dancing. Her hips swayed to the left and right, she dipped her body down and he could feel the drool trickled from his mouth. She was gorgeous and this idiot had the pleasure of having her all to himself.
"Why don't you go back to Luna? She's gonna make your endings so happy, that Lucy shouldn't even be a concern of yours." Gajeel hissed at the lust in Laxus grayish blue eyes.
Growling, he put the metal mouth down and watched as Lucy shimmied to the right, back to the center and then left. She twirled cautiously, mumbling her steps to herself, tilting her head, smiling, turning her body to reveal her fluffy tail, hopping slowly and waving her hand to where Gajeel would be standing. She wasn't trying to be alluring or sexy, but that was her confounding trait; when she didn't try she could even seduce the death back to life.
Waiting for praise, she stood there in her finishing pose, embarrassed, tired, sweating and smiling. Both men seemed to be grappling with death as they sported a clueless gaze. Panther Lily sighed at the idiot humans, and brought a towel to a pheromone drenched Lucy.
"Tch. Oi Bunny, that was great, but that ain't your costume. It was a bandana to get your hair out of the way." Gajeel gasped as he tried to calm his inner dragon from devouring her on stage.
Wide brown eyes, stared in horror. Gemini confirmed that this was her costume... She was dancing and prancing in something so skimpy that both her parents should be shaking in their graves.
"Ehhh?" Lucy screamed while clinging to the towel for her dear life.
Panther Lily whispered quietly into Lucy's red ears, "Gajeel was playing a prank, Laxus walked in and through out your spectacular performance, but both men are charged and guilty with undressing you with their eyes. Although there was barely anything left to undress." The exceed confessed as he stared deviously at Gajeel.
Red with both embarrassment and raging anger like none she ever felt before, she dropped her towel jumped into the air to reveal a new level of assault.
"Lucy Mega Drill Kick!" She yelled as her foot collided with Gajeel's head, which smacked into Laxus causing both dragons to fall unconscious to the floor.
The sound of clapping was heard from the balcony.
"Bravo Lucy! That was the performance of a life-time!" Erza cheered enthusiastically along side Gray, Juvia and Natsu.