Thunder & Lightning
Chapter 43: Neko Fairy Tail
"This is all your fault, Natsu," a very ticked off Lucy growled.
The Fire Dragon Slayer gulped and tried to make himself seem as small as possible which was rather difficult seeing as how everyone in the guild was glaring at him.
"I said I was sorry," he protested yet again. "I don't know what else you want from me."
"How about a solution?" Erza glowered.
"Yeah, it was bad enough that you read the job request that caused us to switch bodies but now this?!" a furious Gray pointed to the grey tail now protruding from his posterior while his matching ears twitched.
"He read that request?" Bickslow's blue ears stood at full attention. "Pay up, losers."
Freed sighed as he reluctantly handed over a handful of jewels. "I bet on Gray," he said morosely.
"I thought for sure Erza would have been the one," Evergreen pouted, her brown ears wilting.
"Why do you hate me so much?" the requip wizard demanded.
"How much time do you have?" the fairy wizard smirked.
"How do you know about that?" Lucy demanded, her pink tail swishing furiously.
"Because we wrote it," Bickslow grinned.
"Actually Evergreen and I wrote most of it but Bickslow did help a little," the green ears on top of Freed's head stood up as he began speaking in a lecturing tone.
"April Fools!" Bickslow shouted then began cackling manically.
"But it was nowhere near April Fool's when that request showed up!" Natsu yelled.
"That's the beauty of it," Bickslow giggled.
"Beauty."
"Not expecting it."
"That was a very good idea," Mira conceded as her white ears and tail twitched. She and her two siblings had been given matching ears and tails.
"Very sneaky," Lisanna agreed. She had changed into her cat form so as to better match her new appendages and was currently sitting on the counter.
For once Elfman didn't make a snarky comment about being a man as he was still occupied by the fact that he now resembled a cat.
"That was hilarious," Happy laughed as he ate his fish. He and the other two Exceeds were the only ones that hadn't been affected, mostly because they were already cats.
"I fail to see the humor in this situation. What we need to do now is focus on figuring out how to undo this," Pantherlily was calm as always, completely ignoring the fact that Gajeel was now sprouting scaly ears and a tail.
"Agreed," Carla groaned. "Wendy, stop flicking your tail like that! You're going to hurt someone!"
"Sorry," the Sky Dragon Slayer apologized, looking rather morose. "I haven't figured out how to control it yet," her blue scaled tail twitched in agreement.
"It's not your fault, child," Carla sighed as she sent a glare in Natsu's direction.
"It's not my fault either," Natsu wailed.
"How's it coming, Levy?" Lucy asked.
"Very difficult," Levy frowned and her blue tail swished.
"Would you like some assistance?" Freed offered.
"Of course," Levy smiled. "Especially if you wrote the first one."
"I am rather proud of that one," Freed smirked. "Particularly where it's set to switch everyone should someone try to undo it and then switch them back after an hour."
"We were very relieved when we got switched back," Lucy moaned.
"Watch it, Gray, your tail's icing everything up!" Cana shouted ignoring the fact that her brown tail was throwing her spell cards everywhere.
"It's not my fault! Besides, Natsu's just set a table on fire!" the ice mage shouted back.
"At least I'm not summoning swords like Erza!" Natsu quickly defended himself.
"What?" startled, Erza looked behind her to see that her red tail was indeed throwing swords at the wall. "No, bad tail!" she scolded.
There was a brilliant flash of light then Loke appeared. "You summoned me, my dear?"
"No I didn't," Lucy looked confused for a moment then glared at her tail which was holding her keys. "Give those back right now."
"I'll gladly assist you, my love," Loke bowed before springing into action.
"You were right," Bickslow whispered in Evergreen's ear. "This is way better than our last prank."
"Totally," she smirked and gave him a high five.
"What's going on here?" Laxus entered the building with Makarov, looking very confused.
"Uh-oh," Bickslow slunk down in his seat, wincing when tails and ears appeared on both of the newcomers.
"Why do I have a tail?" Laxus growled even as lightning began sparking all around him.
"Oh dear," Makarov sighed.
"Suddenly having it automatically add tails and ears to whoever enters doesn't seem like a good idea," Evergreen gulped.
"Bad idea," the babies flew closer to Bickslow, certain that he would be able to conduct the lightning better than they could.
"Laxus!" Freed had turned a rather peculiar shade of white. "Y-you weren't supposed to be back until tomorrow."
"We got done early," Laxus shrugged. "Are you feeling all right, Freed? You're awfully pale."
Freed seemed incapable of responding; his mouth hung open but nothing was coming out.
"Well he's down," Bickslow sounded a bit disgruntled. "I thought for sure he'd last longer."
"Well it's every Thunder Legion member for themselves," Evergreen got out of her chair and began to head towards the back only to stop when lightning hit the spot directly in front of her. "Never mind," she sighed.
"The three of you are acting awfully suspicious," Laxus crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow, no doubt waiting to hear an explanation.
"We're suspicious characters or haven't you heard?" Bickslow grinned.
"Did the three of you have anything to do with this?" Makarov pointed at the orange and blue ears atop his head.
"Maybe," Evergreen said slowly.
"What do ya mean, maybe? It was your idea in the first place," Bickslow pointed out.
"I'm going to kill you," she hissed.
"Not if Laxus kills me first," Bickslow countered.
"Kills us first," the babies sounded sad. They were hoping that Laxus didn't choose now to abandon his nicer side and return to being a jerk like he had been.
"I won't kill you," Laxus sighed. "Just fix this."
"That might be a bit difficult to do," Freed winced, having finally recovered the power of speech.
"How so?" Laxus glared.
"It's not going to wear off until everyone gets a good night's sleep," Freed explained.
"Is that all?" Laxus blinked. "That's easy to fix. We'll just knock everyone out."
"What?!" the guild shouted.
"Hold still; this is going to hurt a little," Laxus grinned as the lightning got brighter.
"But I don't wanna get struck by lightning," Lucy wailed.
"Then you better start running cuz the boss is serious," Bickslow told her as he began making his way into the rafters.
Laxus laughed as everyone began running in an attempt to get away from him. "You can run but you can't hide," he called.
"Don't destroy my guild!" Makarov shouted.
A/N: Hope you guys liked! Sorry it's so late but Atlantia took longer to write then I thought and I'm in the middle of moving so things are a bit hectic. This chapter was actually inspired by a picture I saw on Facebook of the Thunder Legion with cat ears. Thanks for all the reviews! Please read and review!
