A/n: You could say that this chapter is a filler lol. You better believe I brought back the ice cream chapter! It's one of my favorite quirks with Noelle.


Chapter Thirteen: Ice Cream Disaster

After they got back from their little Galuna Island incident, the Master was less than pleased. Noelle never knew someone so small could be so terrifying. She'll never be able to get the images she saw that day out of her head. Note to self: Do not get on that man's bad side, ever.

There will surely be hell to pay.

Noelle shook the negative thoughts from her head and finished dressing. She was wearing a black tube top that hugged her chest and had a heart shaped neckline. Over that, she was wearing a dark blue vest, with brown fur lining the collar. For bottoms she had on white shorts, and under those black leggings, and knee high brown boots that were topped with a ring of fur that matched her vest. Noelle hummed to herself as she slipped on her gloves; they reached her elbows and were dark blue, finger-less, and had the same matching fur. She decided to put her hair up in a ponytail today, that nearly touched the back of her knees

Marlow lazily crawled out of the bedroom with his hoodie on backwards and a half eaten fish in his mouth. "Do we have to do to the guild? I'm so tired." He mewed, rubbing at his eyes.

Noelle giggled, he was kinda cute when he wasn't being a psychopathic little jerk, that is.

"C'mere," Noelle said. She pulled the fish from Marlow's mouth and lifted the hoodie over his head. "There, much better." Noelle smiled as she put his hoodie on the right way and stuffed the fish back into his mouth. "As much as I'd love to stay here and sleep, we can't. Rent is coming up soon and we don't have any money."

"But we've gone on so many jobs already.." He grumbled.

Noelle frowned. "And we didn't make any money from them, remember? That's why you and I are going solo this time. As much as I love going on jobs with the others, we need money, and we're not going to make any this way."

Malow sighed and held his arms out. Noelle giggled and cradled him to her chest like a baby. "You know, you're pretty cute when you're not insulting me, or wishing death on me."

"Don't get used to it." He yawned and snuggled into her chest. "I'll be back to myself in a few hours."

"Gee, I can't wait."

Noelle cradled Marlow to her chest and shut the door behind her. Lucy had already left for the guild an hour ago, and had most likely left on a mission with Natsu already; those two were always leaving on missions.


Noelle and Marlow had grabbed a random job from the request board, discussed it with Mira, and had left the guild before anyone could interfere. The mission they had selected was fairy simple, as it was from a hunter who had injured himself and wasn't able to hunt food for himself. So he was requesting that ten boars be brought to him, and that he would pay 5,000 jewels for their effort. It wasn't much, but a little was still better than nothing. They had headed to the East Forest as it is filled with all kinds of magical creatures, including boars a plenty. Noelle had hunted down the boars in less than an hour, and had taken them back to the hunter who happily rewarded her. Seeing as how it hadn't taken them too long, they had grabbed another job that required eliminating a group of orcs that had been terrorizing a village. Again, they had gotten the job done fairy quickly, and given the orcs a warning to never come back to the village, and collected the the 10,000 jewel reward.

15,000 jewel sounded like a lot, but Noelle knew that it would go quickly as they still had to buy food, and put back money towards other necessities. When she arrived back at the guild she was greeted by Lucy, who looked tired, and annoyed; Noelle took it as her job with Natsu didn't go well, and she didn't make any money.

Who would have ever guessed?

"All that work and no reward," Lucy sighed. "All because Natsu had to go a destroy everything." Lucy shot a glare at Natsu who was fighting with Gray.

Noelle laughed and slid the money she had made towards Lucy. "I made 15,000 jewel on the jobs I took today. It's not much, but it's better than nothing, right?"

Lucy's eyes lit up at the sight of the precious jewel. She reached across the table and hugged Noelle tightly. "You're amazing Noelle! We'll have the money for rent in no time!"

"I suppose, but I don't feel on going on anymore jobs today," Noelle sighed. "I'm pretty hungry though. Want to go grab something to eat?"

"Yeah," Lucy smiled. "I'm pretty hungry too."

"You can hang out here with Happy." Noelle said to Marlow.

"Sounds good to me. I'd rather take a thousands beatings than hang out with you two anyway." The cat grumpily mewed and flew over to his much happier, and cuter, friend.

Noelle glared at Marlow while whispering swears under her breath while Lucy laughed and pulled her out of the guild.


The place that Noelle and Lucy had headed to was a little ice cream parlor with a friendly old man working the register. Admittedly, it had been Noelle who suggested they stopped there - ice cream was her favorite treat, and a guilty pleasure of hers. Noelle had been quick to order a large mint ice cream cone while Lucy had ordered a strawberry cone.

"Here you are ladies, have a nice day!"

The man waved goodbye to them after handing over their ice cream. Noelle called thanks to him and eagerly dug into her cone with a giant smile on her face.

"So yummy!" she cooed, practically cuddling the ice cream cone against her. "Whoever invented ice cream - genius, pure genius!"

Lucy laughed and licked her cone. "You're almost as bad as Natsu when it comes to food!"

Noelle pouted. "Comparing me to Natsu is the meanest thing you've ever done. I'm not that bad!" Noelle sulked. Sure, she did enjoy eating - but she was nowhere near as bad as Natsu was! He didn't even chew, just inhaled! At least she had the decency to chew her food.

"Whatever you say~" Lucy hummed and linked arms with her. "Hey, you want to come shopping with me? I need to get some new clothes. My wardrobe is totally outdated!" Lucy pouted and folded her arms under chest. "And a girl like me needs to stay cute!~" She winked making Noelle laugh. "I know you don't like shopping, but I could really use a second opinion!" Lucy said mustering up her best puppy-dog eyes.

Noelle snorted, but agreed.

"Really? Wow, I didn't think it would be that easy."

"You make me sound like a brute." Noelle rolled her eyes.

As they were turning a corner they hadn't noticed a group of men walking towards them - and Noelle had walked right into the tallest, and burliest of them, and her ice cream went tumbling down to the ground.

"My ice cream!" Noelle cried, sinking down to the ground and staring at her delicious treat with big, watery eyes.

The greasy haired man looked down at her with a smirk. "Y'should watch where ya' goin' girlie." The man grinned, flashing his yellow tinted teeth. "Ay boys, wha'dya think? Should we teach'em a lesson?"

The other two men, as greasy and creepy as their leader, stepped forward with crooked grins on their faces.

"I quite like the blonde. She's got a bangin' body on her!" One slurred, drooling as him eyes roamed over Lucy's body.

Lucy squealed and jumped back. "You better watch yourself!" She warned. "We happen to be Fairy Tail wizards! Trust me, you don't want to mess with us!"

The largest man laughed and stepped forward, squashing Noelle's ice cream with his large foot. "Y'think I'm scared of a couple of guild sluts?" The man laughed.

Lucy gulped and was preparing to ready one of her keys when Noelle slowly stood up. A dark aura surrounded her.

"You're going to pay for that..." She whispered. Her voice was sharp

Lucy was shocked to hear the venom dripping from her words. "Noelle?" she whispered.

"Stay out of this Lucy. I don't want you getting hurt."

Lucy nodded, but the men started laughing as if it was the funniest thing they've ever heard.

"So, little white is got some fight in her eh? I think I'll keep her for myself. Y'two can do what you want with the blonde - this one is mine."

The men howled like wild dogs and suddenly closed in on Lucy. Before they or Lucy could react, Noelle was suddenly in front of them with a murderous glare in her eyes. "YOU BASTARDS!" She yelled, and crashed her face into one's face, while sending her foot into the others. The men crashed through the air and landed at the feet of their boss with birds flapping around their heads.

"What the fuck?!" The leader yelled. "Who the hell is this crazy bitch?!"

Noelle stared down the leader with glowing red eyes and a shadowy aura surrounding her.

"I WON'T FORGIVE YOU FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE!" she roared as ice surrounded her fits. "Ice Dragon: Diamond Fist!"

"NO NO NOOOOOO!"

The man screamed as Noelle's fits crashed into his nose sending blood flying everywhere. Lucy stared at her with an awestruck expression.

"You want to tell me what all that was about!?" She yelled in shock.

The men all lay at Noelle's feet; crying, and begging for mercy. Lucy sweatdropped. She knew they were in the wrong, but did she really have to go that far? They weren't even wizards!

Noelle glared down and grabbed the leader by his ear. "Here's what you're going to do, pal. You're going to apologize to my friend, and then you're going to buy me a new ice cream cone, you jerk!"

"Okay, okay!" The man sobbed. "I'm sorry blod- err Miss!" he howled as Noelle gripped his ear tighter. "We won't do it again! We promise!"

"AND?!"

"And I'll buy you a new ice cream cone! All the ice cream you can eat! Just let go! Please, I'm beggin' ya!"

Noelle smirked and let go of his ear. "I want a jumbo mint chocolate ice cream cone with extra chocolate sauce and sprinkles!" Noelle sang as she dragged the man down the street with his buddies crawling behind him.

Lucy blinked. "That was...interesting." she looked down at her own ice cream cone that had melted and sighed. "Oh well. It was fun while it lasted." she shrugged and tossed her cone in the trash. "I wonder what Levy is up to?" Lucy hummed and she headed back towards the guild.

If you listened closely; you could still hear the sound of grown men crying, and one, very happy, Dragon Slayer.


"Stop dragging you feet, Noelle! You promised you would come with me."

Noelle groaned following after Lucy as she lead her into a brightly decorated store, with sexy mannequins posed in the window. Noelle had been in a drunken ice cream haze when she promised to go shopping with Lucy; she didn't expect her to hold her to it. Lucy pulled Noelle around the store, stuffing clothing into he arms at record speeds.

"Oh you would look so cute in this!"

"This outfit was made for you!

"What do you think of this one?"

"You have to try this one!"

Noelle groaned feeling the weight of the clothes getting heavier and heavier. Just when she thought her arms were going to break, Lucy dragged her into a changing room. Noelle sighed and plopped the clothes down on the bench beside her as she watched Lucy try on and model her new outfits she had bought. She frowned when she seen Noelle wasn't doing the same.

"Aren't you going to try them on?" She asked. "I worked really hard on picking those outfits out for you..." Lucy pouted cutely.

Noelle cursed under her breath and threw her hands up. "Fine! I'll try them on." She grumbled, grabbing a random outfit.

The first thing she had grabbed was a soft, bluish-white monki sweater hoodie, that reached past her knees. It was a little baggy, and didn't leave much to the imagination in her opinion. Lucy then handed her a pair of brown, suede boots, that went over her knee, and show off her legs. It wasn't bad looking, but it wasn't exactly her style. She preferred to wear things with fur, and that were warming. But, Lucy had put effort into it, and she didn't want to her hurt feelings.

"I surprisingly don't hate this," Noelle smirked and twirled in the mirror. It really did fit her well. Noelle smiled adn grabbed a light grey beanie off the pile of clothes. She let her hair down, and slipped the beanie on. It drooped a little in the back, and had a cute flower charm on the side.

"Here, put this on too!" Lucy said excitedly handing her a light, bluish-purple scarf. One she had wrapped it around her neck, Lucy let out an excited squeal and clapped her hands. "It's perfect - you look gorgeous!"

Noelle blushed and bashfully looked away. "You think so?"

"Of course I do!" Lucy smiled. "Come on, try the others on too!"

The next outfit she tried on was a simple, sleeveless turtleneck wool sweater that was a soft white. The sweat had a cut out over the breast, shape liked a heart; the outfit was paired with a a short, plaid skirt as well as black wool stockings, and pair of red Mary Jane's. Lucy added a red beret and scarf too the outfit, and clapped excitedly saying how cute it was. Noelle turned in the mirror. Again, it wasn't something she would normally wear, but she liked it. Maybe she should trust Lucy's sense in fashion more often.

Lucy and Noelle spent the next couple of hours trying on and picking out clothes. Noelle had lost count of how many shopping bags they had. They had to take a wagon home as there wasn't any way for them to carry all of it by themselves. Noelle leaned against Lucy and yawned tiredly. After everything that happened that happened with Lullaby, and then Galuna Island, she was glad to be able to take it easy, and spend time with Lucy alone.

"Hey Luce, how much did all of this cost?" Noelle asked as her eye began to drift shut.

Silence.

"Lucy?"

Lucy laughed nervously and scratched at her chin. "Well, uh, the store we went to was pretty expensive..."

Noelle cracked her eyes opened. "Lucy, how much?"

"About...15,000 jewel..."

Noelle's eyes widened. "YOU SPENT ALL THE MONEY I MADE ON CLOTHES?!"

"B-BUT THEY WERE SO CUTE!" Lucy squeaked.

"THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SPENT ON RENT! AH, LUCY I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU!"

Lucy laughed nervously as Noelle moped about having an irresponsible best friend.


End Note: In this chapter we learn why it's not a good idea to come between Noelle and her ice cream, and even got a little Noelle and Lucy bonding! :D

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