*On the first night of Chanukah the-real-narnia gave to me:
Ellaxus and singing and dancing!*
I hope I didn't hype this up too much.
The song is linked on Wattpad, and on the first line of it being sung on AO3 and Quotev. IF you're on Fanfiction, you need to look it up: it's called UNSTOPPABLE by THE SCORE. All of The Score's music is extremely incredible, by the way, and I suggest you check it out. And yes, I took out a verse.
Chapter Eighty Nine - We're Unstoppable
The Three Stooges were the ones to bring it up.
"You tell her," Corvus hissed.
"No, you tell her," Loke hissed back, shoving Corvus into a wall.
"That's it!" Corvus shouted, springing for Loke. As those two idiots rolled around on the floor, I turned to Phoenix, who was looking at them with an exasperated expression.
"Phoenix, what do they need to tell me?" I asked him.
The two on the floor stopped fighting, mid-position, staring at Phoenix and I.
Phoenix sighed. "Please remember that we can view things for the Spirit World. So we know why you really cut your hair."
"O...kay," I said, staring him down. Loke and Corvus were still in an extremely uncomfortable position, staring up at us.
"The thing is, Elle..." Phoenix started. "You want to send a message, but...I think the lack of your hair gets in the way."
I looked away. "I know. I'm going to ask Cancer to grow it out...at least for the parade."
"And after that?" Corvus asked, shoving Loke down and standing next to his brother. "You know that they'll probably still keep tabs on you."
I nodded. "I know. So...I'll probably keep it out. Maybe change my style a bit."
"You're going to wear bangs?" Loke asked incredulously.
I punched him. "Hell, no! Fuck bangs. I mean like a ponytail, or something. So it's out of the way."
"But you're growing your hair back?!" Phoenix asked happily.
"Yes," I said warily. "Why the hell are you so excited?"
"Since we're contracted to Lucy, we tend to be connected with her emotions, which is really helpful in case of emergency, or if she is scared. She really wants you to have long hair again, and I guess you could say it's rubbing off on us," Corvus explained, sighing.
"I don't see you jumping up and down," I mentioned.
"Yes, but I'm also not Phoenix."
"Ah," I acknowledged. "Point taken."
The next day, the day of Fantasia, we took a break and were going to take a nap. Because of the time that Fantasia was happening, most of us were going to nap beforehand, and then take another nap after the parade before waking up normally for tomorrow.
Before everyone had a chance to sit down though, Erik asked to speak to me privately, and I wheeled my chair into another room so we could talk. I was saving my energy for the dance later (I still wasn't really supposed to be putting support on my legs).
"What's up, Erik?" I asked.
After activating the runes that stop sound (Freed had put them up between each doorway to keep sound to a specific room if needed), he turned back to me and took a deep breath.
"I think you should get Cancer to change your hair back," he said.
I opened my mouth to protest and explain I was doing it anyway, but he held up a hand. "My hearing, remember? Look, I overheard you and the Celestial Spirits talking about your hair, but it's more than that, too. I might not be able to hear your thoughts, but I can hear Laxus's."
I closed my mouth, wondering where he was going with this.
"I don't think I need to tell you that everyone loves your hair – you've already figured that out by now," he continued. "I…I saw what Laxus had done to you…in his memories."
I bit my tongue to stop from interrupting.
"I punched him for it," Erik said. "And…I honestly hated him for it. But hearing his thoughts…no one can punish him more than he can. He…really…hates himself now. And that's part of the reason I think I forgave him." He locked eyes with me.
"From Laxus's memories," Erik continued. "You've played with his hair a lot. And he's kinda wanted to do the same to you, but he's never done it. Now that people have hurt you by grabbing your hair, he thinks that he'll never get a chance to do it. I just think…maybe you should grow it back and let Laxus play with it while we nap…"
I was surprised. That was decidedly more thought out than I thought it would be, and…even though the thought of letting anyone touch my hair when it's long – even just thinking of Cancer, I had felt some anxiety – it might be something that could help both of us move on.
I've been forcing myself to spend time with Laxus until I relaxed; I could do the same with my hair.
I nodded. "Alright, I'll think about it. Send Lucy out, please."
He smiled at me and went back inside, and Lucy came out.
"Yeah, Ellie-nee?" she asked.
I sighed. "Can…you summon Cancer, please?"
Her face lit up, and before she could say anything, Cancer had already appeared.
"I didn't summon you yet!" Lucy said, surprised.
"I just had to fix that 'do, ebi!" Cancer said, running behind me and snapping his fingers. "What are the rules?"
"No bangs," I said.
He sighed, but started snipping, and I felt the hair grow down my back.
Even though I felt more comfortable with it shorter, I felt more like myself with it longer, though I could pretty much feel my paranoia going up a notch.
Lucy smiled at me. "You look happier, Ellie-nee!"
"I do?" I asked.
She nodded. "Yeah, even though you're smiling, they've all been sad. But now it's a bit better!"
I laughed and carefully moved my legs so I could pull her into a hug on the uncomfortable wheelchair.
"Thanks, Lucy," I whispered, stroking her hair – no wonder I liked longer hair, if I always played with it absentmindedly.
She giggled and rushed into the training room, Cancer fading back to the Celestial Spirit world, and Laxus entered the room to push me into the next one. A look of delight crossed his face, before it fell back into a resigned compliance.
"Your hair..." he trailed off, coming behind me to push me. I tried not to tense up. He knew better than to touch it right now, and I wasn't ready.
Still though, I felt vulnerable with him behind me and my curtain of hair between us.
I nodded. "Yeah. It's part of the message. Now come on, we're going to need a lot of sleep for tonight."
I wasn't going to let him play with it just yet - I felt I should adjust first - but I would eventually.
Virgo adjusted the dress one last time, and checked her handiwork. "You look beautiful, Elle-sama," she said in her same, slightly monotonous voice.
"Thank you, Virgo," I said. "Are you going to watch the parade?"
"We will all be watching from the Spirit World," Virgo said. "We are hoping to get a glimpse of Ivan and the others, maybe even find a way to catch them."
"If you can't catch them, but you still see their reaction to our performance, can you put it on a memory card, please?"
"Of course, Elle-sama."
Virgo pushed me out in the wheelchair, and we went up to the front of the floats. Laxus gave me a small smile, the first I'd seen in awhile. "Elle."
I smiled up at him. "Hey, Laxus."
He pulled me out of the chair and carried me up to the platform, where I sat on a throne, of all things. Loke said it's supposed to be symbolic, especially since I am officially a Lady.
So I was to start out on the chair, and eventually end up dancing and fighting with Laxus, who was dressed as a Knight. No helmet, though, just chain-mail and a sword.
Apparently, it was supposed to look a lot cooler, but we couldn't do that because 'It's all your fault, Elle. You can't dance'. At least that's what Loke said to me right before I punched him.
At the front of the float were Erigor, Macbeth, Lyon and Cana, readying up their instruments.
"Are you ready?" Laxus asked.
I nodded determinedly. "Yeah."
The floats began moving, and Lyon and Macbeth started playing the song.
Erigor began to sing. "There's a mo-ment...in your bones, when...when the fire takes ohhhhh-ver..."
On the word 'fire', a large explosion of fire (but not too large) blew around the edges of all of the floats, finally coating us all in light (when before we had been hidden in shadows).
We were on the streets now, and the people on the sidelines were cheering for us. More than that, I also saw Jacob with a camera crew, and internally smirked as I realized that Toma had taken everything one step further and decided to air this on the LS.
Damn, I really have to fix that name.
"Blood is runnin'...heart is pumpin'," on the first one, an illusion of a river of red spread out from the floats, and the 'heart is pumping' was followed by an illusion of a beating heart and a heartbeat.
"As the battle gets clo-ser..."
At this, Laxus, in his knight costume, came closer to me, and a pseudo army of ghosts rushed at us.
"Oooooooo-ooooo-oooooooooo-oooooh." Cana sang.
"They can say what they want now..." Laxus cast Lightning Dragon's Heavenward Halberd at them, and they dispersed into the air.
"Oooooooo-ooooo-oooooooooo-oooooh." Cana repeated.
"Cause we'll be screamin' out:"
Now Lyon and Macbeth joined in, and their voices reverberated up and down Magnolia, as we had microphone lacrimas attached to each float. At this point, one by one, a member of Fairy Tail would shoot their magic up into the air, to create effects.
"We can be hero-es, everywhere we go! We can have all, that we ever want."
If you couldn't guess, this was the verse I thought would mess with the council. Cana was joining in now, accenting the chorus with, "Ooohs."
"Swingin' like Ali, knockin' out bodies, standin' on top like a cham-pion!"
"oooooooooo-oooooooooh."
On "keep your...sil-ver, give me that gold!" another shadowy monster from nowhere attacked Laxus and I, pinning us down.
"You'll re...member, when I say: We can be hero-es, anywhere we go, keepin' us down is impossible."
All this time we were 'struggling' to throw off the monster, but on 'keeping us down is impossible', I stood up. And when the next lyrics came, I pushed the monster to kingdom come, blasting it into oblivion.
"We're unstoppable!"
As those words repeated, I could see them sparkling in the sky, as they were written out in fire so everyone could read them.
As the musical interlude played, Laxus and I danced with monsters, in a mix between fighting with them and dancing; literally dancing, Laxus was tossing me around and everything as magical effects soared through the sky and we used our magic to destroy our attackers.
The crowd was cheering, and I suddenly realized what we'd be doing come April, for our other Fantasia.
The musical interlude began to finish, and Erigor picked up the lyrics. "They can say what they want now..."
"Ohhh~Ohhh~ohhhhhhhhh" Cana sang.
"We'll be screamin' out!" the music picked up, and then all at once, it stopped. At the same time, Simon used all of his magic to cause a complete blackout of the entire block.
He brought it back all at once as the next lyrics started.
"We can be hero-es, everywhere we go, we can have all that we ever want!"
As the chorus continued, we had a virtual party on our floats, shooting off magic in to the sky and candy and streamers into the crowd.
"Swingin' like Ali, knockin' out bodies, standin' on top like a champion!"
Swinging around with Laxus made me feel free, and for the first time since before Ivan, I felt light-hearted, for once.
"Keep your sil-ver, give me that gold, you'll re...mem-ber, when I say:"
Looking at Laxus, illuminated by the light of the fireworks, I knew that it had finally happened.
"We can be heroes, everywhere we go, keepin' us down is impossible."
I had forgiven him.
"'Cause we're unstoppable."
We began to ready our magic, as the song was almost over.
"Woaaaaaaaah!...We're unstoppable."
Laxus and I began to resonate together, our magic intertwining, and I remembered what Zeref had said about Stellar Magic.
"Woah...We're unstoppable. We're unstoppable."
The music hit a crescendo and then halted to a stop, and our lightning magic clashed and exploded in the sky, spelling out the words 'FAIRY TAIL' in the colors of our magic.
The parade was a success, and we finished it up with another song by the Score, the same band, a song called Never Going Back, which starred some of the older couples rather than Laxus and me. We faded into the background with the rest of the guild and cast magic.
That song is probably going to stress out the council, too.
"Shrug us off our shoulders
We don't do what they told us."
Yeah. Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeefinitely going to stress out the council.
Mari and Gildarts, Macao and Enno, and Ur and Silver were the ones dancing. As it ended, they spun around, rotating positions on the float (Mari and Gildarts were the main stars) and Macao and Enno ended up at the front of the float.
The music stopped, the parade was over, but we didn't leave.
Macao cleared his throat, and the microphone lacrima attached to his shirt activated.
"Enno Lasaro," Macao said. "I've know you for years, now. When I first laid eyes on you, I thought you were the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen. I still think that, and if possible, you've somehow gotten even more beautiful since then. A little over three years ago, you took me out on a date, and I was still stumped on how we went together. To be honest, I'm still a bit confused on how I managed to get an amazing woman like you. Enno, I love you with all of my heart."
He dropped to one knee, and pulled out a box.
Enno was crying, streams of tears running down her face, her hands covering her mouth.
"Enno," Macao continued. "Will you make me the happiest idiot in the world, and be my wife?"
She threw her arms around him, shouting "YES!" and the whole guild (plus the crowd watching) burst into cheers.
Laxus looked over at me, still holding my hand as he had the entire parade. "There's no way that Macao came up with that speech on his own."
I shrugged. "It was pretty decent when I first read it. But yeah, I might've done some editing."
"I liked the 'happiest idiot' part," Laxus said.
I snorted. "Oh, that was all Macao. I didn't touch that line."
The parade ended, and we all headed back towards the training room. Laxus and I walked off our float together.
We joined everyone else in the training room, where we would nap/sleep until morning. And Hisui ran for us immediately. "Ellie-nee! And Laxus-nii!"
I scooped her up as she reached us. "Hey, Hisui. Did you enjoy the parade?"
She nodded eagerly. "It was so pretty! And you and Laxus-nii were so cute together!"
She looked at us innocently, cocking her head. "When is Laxus-nii going to do the thing they did?"
"What thing?" I asked warily.
"You know, the thing at the end! With them!" Hisui pointed at Macao and Enno, who were kissing one another.
I stayed frozen, trying to comprehend what I thought she was saying. Laxus wasn't much better.
Ame sighed and took Hisui from me. "Elle, the parade was lovely, but I'm afraid we need to get going, alright? Come visit us when you're better."
She mouthed, 'I'm sorry.', and returned with Hisui to some guards, and Laxus and I were still frozen.
We were still holding hands, too.
"Onee-sama? Onii-sama?"
"Yes, Juvia?" I croaked, as I turned to look at her.
Her eyes were focused on our hands, and she looked up at us, her face twinkling with delight. "Are you two finally getting together?"
"Huh?" I asked, my eyes widening.
"Like Enno-san and Macao-san? Or Rex-san and Maggie-san?"
I blinked at her, almost feeling my heart stop. "What?"
Her eyes were sparkling. "Erik-san and Bicks-san said that you love each other!"
I stared at her. "What?"
"Are you finally going to start dating, Onee-sama!?" Juvia screeched, and got everyone's attention.
"They're getting together? ELLAXUS IS CANON?" Freed began to wheeze heavily. "It worked! IT WORKED! Thank you, Benzaiten! THANK YOU!"
"What the hell is going on?" I asked, looking around. "Who is Benzaiten?"
Laxus sighed. "Freed has been making shrines to Benzaiten, the goddess of love, throughout the year. We keep finding them popping up all over the place."
"Yeah, and you keep using my things to make tiny Elles and Laxuses!" Evergreen snapped.
"Your material is best!" Freed retorted, before cackling. "And I'M NOT SORRY!" Freed screeched. "ELLAXUS IS FINALLY CANON!"
"He makes shrines?" I asked.
"He writes stories, too," Erza said. "They're very good. My favorite is the one where Laxus is the god of thunder and Elle stumbles upon him when he's hurt..."
I blinked at them. Freed writes fanfiction? About us?
"Kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss!" Lucy started, and a few other kids joined in.
"ENOUGH!" I yelled.
I sighed and put my head in my hands. I had only just forgiven Laxus, after all, and I had never kissed anyone in my last life. This would be my first kiss.
But I did want it to be with Laxus.
"Aren't you going to kiss?" Freed whined.
I glared at him, especially as other people joined in on the complaints. "THE FIRST TIME I KISS LAXUS WON'T BE IN FRONT OF YOU!" I shouted, before flushing red.
The kids all froze, their jaws dropping, before they started cheering.
I turned to Laxus. "Come on, let's go home."
He wrapped his arms around me and I teleported us to my house automatically.
"Come on, let's get ready for bed," I said, kicking him out of my room and changing. I heard Laxus changing clothes on the other side of the door, and he entered the room as soon as I had finished and quietly said, "Done".
"Did you really mean what you said?" he asked, opening the door.
"I've said a lot of things, Laxus, you're going to have to be more specific," I replied, rearranging the bed so we could be comfortable. This would be the first time since the first week that we'd be staying here, rather than having a slumber party in the training room, but I couldn't deal with the kids tonight.
"'The first time'," he repeated, and I froze, hovering over the bed. I should probably sit down by now, too, for my legs. But I couldn't move. Laxus continued talking. "You said, 'the first time I kiss Laxus'. Does that mean you're planning on kissing me more than once?"
Shit.
I felt my heart start to speed up, and it only got worse as I realized that Laxus could probably hear it.
"That depends," I said quietly, staring down at the pillows, my back still to him. "Do you want to kiss me more than once?"
"I do…" he said slowly, and I whirled around and looked at him, my chest filling with hope. "But…"
"But what?" I asked, more than a little harshly. There was always a 'but', wasn't there?
He looked away. "But after what I did….I don't deserve you."
"Dammit, Laxus, I forgive you!" I shouted, finally saying it.
He froze and it looked like tears came to his eyes, but then he lowered his gaze. "It doesn't matter, because I still don't deserve you."
"Argh! Don't be stupid!" I yelled.
"I'm not!" he yelled back. "Because I don't deserve you!"
"So WHAT?" I shouted.
He froze, and his mouth dropped open. "What?"
"I think you deserve me, and you think you don't," I repeated. "So what? It doesn't matter! If either of us are right or wrong, because I love you, you damned tsundere, and I want you."
He stayed frozen then.
"Maybe you do deserve me, maybe you don't. Maybe I don't deserve you. But we still chose one another anyway, so it doesn't matter. It shouldn't matter!"
His eyes stayed focused on mine.
"I want to be with you, Laxus," I said. "Do you want to be with me?"
"Yes," he whispered.
"Then kiss me," I commanded.
So he did.