The first in a series about the cats of Passive Aggressive Post-Its. Because cats are awesome.

Fairy Cats: Happy's Day Out

In which Lucy meets an annoying white cat.

Lucy was sitting under a tree, trying to be inspired, with nothing to distract her, but a pen and her notebook of story attempts when she met him. She had been minding her own business, when he had strutted up, cocky as hell, with his fluffy white tail, and his smushed in face, and ruined her perfectly lovely Saturday afternoon.

It had started out innocently enough, cute even, with the fluffy demon spawn in kitty-cat-clothing batting at the end of her pen. She had pushed him away and finished the sentence she had been crafting (nothing that was going to win any prizes with anyway) before he was back again, this time with claws, missing the end of the pen most times and catching her fingers with his sharp little daggers for fingers. So she bopped him on the nose. And yelled at him.

That shit hurt.

But he was back in an instant, this time going in with his teeth, gnawing on the end of the pen and attempting to wrestle it from her clutches. Lucy pushed the obnoxious beast away again, this time using her foot to get him even further away, glaring for a full minute, until she believe that he understood that she would not be relinquishing this pen any time soon. When the blonde believed the annoying cat had learned the error of his ways, she turned back to her notebook and tried to remember what she had been thinking of writing for the second half of that last sentence. She ended up crossing it out and starting the sentence again. Once her flow got interrupted, nothing but crap came out anyway.

But Happy, as the cat's name happened to be, was not deterred. Unbeknownst to Lucy, as she settled down and jotted down a few more sentences, crossing half of them out a minute later, he was very much still in the game. If the cat had any interest in the idiotic actions of non-cats, he probably would have been staring at her useless actions, bemused. However, he was on a mission. And, like most cats, only really enjoyed cat things. Like small dead animals. And hair ties.

This time, he stalked the target's movements, pupils blown wide and tail whipping back and forth in the grass as he hunkered down and determine the pattern in which his wily enemy moved. It was subtle. The little wand the non-cat waved around barely moved, but also never stopped moving. It would be a worthy adversary. He would conquer this test of his manhood, and bring the prize back for his lady cat friend. And then, she would finally come out of her clear cage and mate with him. Or cuddle with him. He wasn't picky.

After about thirty seconds (or in cat time, 6 hours) of watching the end of the pen bob around, he prepared himself. Happy hunkered down in the grass, becoming one with his surroundings. When he was sure no one could see him, he loosened up his hip and leg muscles, keeping them in motion constantly as he wiggled back and forth hypnotically. He focused on the prize, imagining the mushy, yet hard plastic that his teeth would soon be sinking into, and without realizing it, his tail flicked sharply back and forth, anticipating his triumph. He crept closer, keeping low to the ground until he knew he could make his entrance in one fell swoop and waited. Then, right there, he saw his moment! The non-cat imprisoning the target swung it out of pattern and he leapt into the air, grabbing the pen in his teeth and jerking it from her stunned fingers as he sailed through the air in a perfect arc to land behind the tree, instantly readjusting his prize as the non-cat clambered to her feet and came after him, prompting him to grab his prize and book it off the big green grassy area covered in sprawled out or more playful non-cats.

He didn't stop running until he got home with his pen, batting the broken latch on Natsu's window in a practiced way, pushing on the well greased panel with his head until he could slip through. His favorite non-cat was at Happy's favorite sunning platform, typing away furiously on Happy's butt-warmer with one hand while the other held a cup of the hot stuff that smelled like burnt nuts. It wasn't that good, so the his favorite non-cat could keep it, that was fine with Happy. He leapt from the walking ledge at the window, onto his non-cat's head and then to his favorite sunning platform, wiping his feet on the stack of uncrumpled ball toys as he made his way to his pile of treasures. But he didn't quite make it.

"What have you got there buddy?" Natsu grabbed his cat around the belly and lifted him off the desk, prying the pink pen from his mouth. The little white cat surprised him by swiping his paw at Natsu to get it back, claws fully extended. The swipe caught him across the fingers making him hiss and drop the cat. Happy promptly circled the desk and hopped back up, trying for the pen again.

Natsu shook his fingers, noticing the similarity between the markings that had mysteriously appeared through his bond with Lucy in the last half an hour and the fresh scratches from his normally loving cat. Eyes widening, he eyed Happy, sitting smack dab in the middle of his laptop keyboard, swishing his fluffy tail back and forth and then brought the pink pen closer to examine it. It just seemed like a regular pen. He couldn't figure out why the cat wanted it so badly. He twirled it in his fingers, stopping when he saw two tiny interlocked hearts and a line of text that read Heartfilia Hotels.

No fucking way.

He stared wide-eyed at his cat for a minute, one hand scrubbing through his slightly grimy pink locks out of reflex. He opened up one of his desk drawers and carefully placed the chewed up pink pen in on the bed of movie ticket stubs, event badges, and knick-knacky nonsense he couldn't seem to throw away, closing the drawer carefully, to Happy's frustration. Natsu scratched behind the cat's ears again, narrowly escaping another vicious attempt to maul him for confiscating the cat's prize.

Then a thought occurred to Natsu and his face screwed up in annoyance.

"Damnit Happy! Even you got to meet her before I did!"