answers to reviewers questions or statements:
Bladewolf101: Eventually.
Zayden StormVoid: We'll be seeing who Peter will be up against soon.
Blood Spider: We'll be seeing a Sinister Six eventually but they wont be replacing the Oracion Seis for when they pop up.
Alex-Fylppy: Lucy wont see him as a love interest per say, more of they'll be closer friends because of the events that'll unfold in this arc with a bit of obvious lust thrown in. Phantom Lord is when any actual romantic feelings will begin to grow. Ultear's interest in Peter will grow a little more when she sees how he handles himself against Lyon's people. I wouldn't say the Marvel women will be villains, more of opponents since they aren't actively seeking to hunt him down and kill him.
CRUDEN: Galuna Island isn't gonna kick their asses... it's gonna straight up carve it's name into them and rename them it's bitch.
superpirece: He'll come to rival some of the Spriggan 12.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel or Fairy Tail characters seen, mentioned or used.
"You know, aside from this odd sense of horrid doom looming over us, this island isn't half bad" Peter said several hours into their trek to the island's long village.
The sun had set just a few minutes ago, throwing the jungle into a eerie darkness. The only source of light being the small flame that Natsu had lit in his hands for Lucy and Gray's sake. Natsu had enhanced vision thanks to his dragon slaying magic while Peter had his helm's magical lenses. Happy, while a magical cat was still a cat and thus possessed their night vision to help him navigate the dark terrain.
"I could do without all the bugs" Lucy said with a frown as she slapped another mosquito that landed on her arm, smearing over her already bite ridden limb. She made a face of disgust at this before she wiped it off "What the hell was whatever god that made mosquitos on when he made these damn things?!"
"No idea" Peter said with a shrug as he wandered through the humid foliage without a single mosquito bite on him, it seemed his spider like nature, thanks in large to his stingers, kept them at bay while Gray's body seemed cold to the little blood sucking insects eyes and Natsu's was too hot for their taste "Maybe you can ask him or her if you ever get the chance"
"I don't think it'll matter by than anyhow" Lucy said with a sigh as a few more flew and hovered in front of her face.
Happy giggled at the sight of this "They seem to really like you the most Lucy"
"I noticed" she bit out in annoyance.
"I'm just surprised she hasn't decided to go hide in that clock spirit of hers" Natsu said with a snicker "I would've thought you'd already riding along inside him by now"
Lucy was about to offer up a response before she froze mid-step with shock on her face... why in the fuck wasn't she already doing that?
"AHHHHH" Lucy yelled in frustration as she reached for her key holster before Gray spoke up.
"Don't bother Luce, we're already at the village" the ice mage nodded ahead towards a massive wooden wall with a equally large gate.
They were both beautifully designed, even in the dim lighting. On the gate was a simple 'Keep out' sign that caused Peter to snicker as he looked up at the towering barrier.
"Don't know why they bothered with that when it'd be next to impossible to scale this thing on our side" Peter said as he made out a few figures roaming around at the top.
"No way in either..." Gray said with narrowed eyes "Unless you plan to just bust the gate down"
"Let's not" Lucy said with a nervous laugh before she looked up towards the top of the wall and gate before she took a deep breath and shouted "HELLO? IS ANYBODY THERE? WE'RE HERE TO HELP YOU!"
Several seconds passed without a response and Peter saw a few of the figures at the top of the wall paused and glanced down with one of them responding to Lucy's call.
"WHO GOES THERE?"
"WE'RE WIZARDS FROM FAIRY TAIL RESPONDING TO YOUR REQUEST!" Lucy yelled back with a grin.
"Illegally I might add" Peter whispered with a snicker.
"Oh hush you!" Lucy whispered back harshly.
"HOW COME WE WEREN'T NOTIFIED WHEN YOU ACCEPTED THE JOB?" they called back.
"UHHH..." Lucy said as she tried to think of a good excuse.
"Oh what, they didn't see our smoke signals from earlier?" Peter snorted, causing Natsu to chuckle.
"SORRY, THERE MUST'VE BEEN SOME MIX-UP WITH THE PAPER WORK!" Gray shouted.
The guards seemed to quite down at this before another one of them spoke "THAN LET ME SEE YOUR GUILD MARKS! RIGHT NOW"
"Can they even see them from that high?" Peter asked as he turned slightly and pointed towards his Guild mark on his shoulder while Natsu did the same.
"Just humor them" Gray said as he lifted his shirt up to show his while Happy removed his green backpack to show is resting right in the middle of his back.
"Natsu, make your fire a little brighter so they can see" Lucy said as she held her hand up to show her Guild mark on the back of her hand.
Natsu grunted as he did so and they all waited for the guards response. After a few seconds, they all heard shouts of excitement about them being here before the gat grumbled and began to rise. Peter was a bit surprised that their marks could actually be seen from that height, especially when he considered their Guild's emblem sizes. Apparently, the people of Galuna Island had vision almost as good as Peter did.
'Must be good genetics... or magic' Peter considered as the five of them stepped through the open gate and into the village.
"It's like we're stepping into a giant monsters mouth!" Happy said with excitement.
"Are you trying to freak me out?" Lucy asked with annoyance.
"No, but maybe the large group of villagers all covered from head to toe might" Peter nodded towards the large crowd before them.
A short robed man with a staff that possessed a crescent shaped stone on the end of it stepped forward and gave them a small bow "I'm Moka, the village chief and on behalf of everyone here, I welcome you. Pleasantries aside there's something you need to see"
"Straight to business already, I like it" Peter said with a nod as Moka turned back towards his fellow villagers.
"Now my people!"
And with that, the villages all removed their cloaks and robes to show various parts of their bodies were as physically altered as Bobo's was. Peter's eyes narrowed as he took in the wide range of altered limbs, torsos and faces. There didn't seem to be a particular pattern to what part of the body was altered and to what degree, even the deformities themselves varied in appearance.
'Interesting...' Peter thought as he summoned his notebook and pen again and quickly wrote down his observations as the others took in the villagers appearances.
"Wow, look at your sideburns!" Natsu said with shock towards Moka's long white sideburns.
"Not that" he said as he shook his deformed arm "I was trying to show you what happened to my arm. Everyone on the island as suffered a horrible disfigurement because of this curse. Not even the animals have been spared"
"Uh excuse me?" Peter said as he raised a hand and stepped forward, causing the villagers to focus on him "Uh, hi, I'm Peter, Fairy Tail's sorta unofficial resident expert on curses. I'm sorry to ask this, but are you positive that what you and your people are experiencing is in fact a Curse and not some sort of disease?"
"What kind of disease would cause this?" Lucy asked with a frown.
"You'd be surprise how common physically altering diseases there are in the world" Peter responded as he waited for the chief's answer.
He doubted it was a disease that these people were facing but he needed to gather as much information as he could. He needs to consider every possibility possible or he may end up making things even worse for these people.
Moka sighed at this "We've consulted with dozens of doctors young man, but they've all concluded that whatever this is that affects us is no mere disease. You see, our symptoms began around the same time the moon fell under an evil spell"
"Evil spell, affecting the moon?" Gray said with confusion while Natsu, Happy and Lucy looked equally lost.
"Is that even possible Natsu?" Happy asked as he looked up towards his foster father.
"I've never heard of anything like that" Natsu shook his head.
"Yeah, me neither" Lucy said in agreement.
"Since ancient times this island has absorbed the light of the moon, causing it to glow as beautifully as the moon itself" Moka said with a distant look on his face as he likely remembered better times for him and his people before a shadow grew on it "But several years ago, the moons color began to change and eerie purple was casted upon the island"
Peter hummed at this as he wrote it down in his notebook before he glanced up at the moon just as the clouds overhead began to pass by, giving them a clear view of it. It was, to Peter's and the other's surprise, purple and it did cast an eerie purple glow on the island.
"Oh man..." Lucy said with a shiver as she stared at the altered moon.
"What in the hell?" Peter said as he tired to think of a reason for the moon's altered coloration, no curse he's ever encountered or heard of was capable of such a feat.
He was starting to see why this quest was ranked as S-class...
"Now that's creepy looking" Gray said with wide eyes towards the purple colored moon.
"Stand back" Moka suddenly said as his body began to shake as did the other villagers "The change it's about to begin"
Before any of the fairy tail wizards could say anything, the people all let out various screams of pain and fear as their bodies began to radically alter themselves to completely match with the minor alterations they sported previously. Peter watched the horrid scene closely, taking note how the people were seemingly affected by the purple light of the moon above. It seemed that the moon completed or at least, fully transformed a person into... well the closest thing he could think of was a demon.
"Oh my god" Lucy said with horror on her face as she watched these men, women and even children violently change into some sort of monsters.
Natsu and Gray were both sporting uneasy looks while Happy had buried his face in Natsu's chest and covered his ears in an effort to muffle the agonized screams the villagers were making. Than just as suddenly as it started, it stopped and the screams died down and before the Fairy Tail mages was a large group of demonic beings.
"I'm sorry if our appearances frightened you" Moka said in a sad, tired tone.
"It's okay, I'm just extremely confused" Gray said with wide eyes.
"You poor people" Lucy said as she blinked back tears.
"Oh man, you guys..." Natsu said as he stared at them all with wide eyes before a massive grin appeared on his face "LOOK SO COOL!"
Everyone turned towards Natsu at this with various shocked and confused looks on their faces.
"It's awesome" Natsu said with obvious enthusiasm "You've got horns and stuff. Man I'm so jealous!"
"Natsu, your speaking privileges are hereby revoked until further notice" Peter said with a glare of annoyance towards the pink haired man "Say another damn thing like that again and lets see if I don't ram your head into every damn tree on this island, as a start!"
Gray and Lucy both flinched at the snarl that Peter spoke in while Natsu glared back at the man.
"I wasn't trying to be rude! I think they look awesome!"
"They don't want to look like-" Peter began before he stopped and turned back to the group of demonically altered villagers "Quick question, if I do find a way to fix you, does anyone here wish to stay as they are now? Trust me, it's a lot more common than you think"
His question was met with a series of 'no's and negative head shakes, causing him to nod.
"Just making sure" Peter said with a thumbs up before he rounded on Natsu again "None of them want to stay like this you insensitive asshole!"
Natsu grumbled at this before he sighed and looked back at the villagers with a apologetic expression "Sorry, I didn't mean to offend anyone..."
"It's okay" one of the villagers that looked like a bird of some sort said "Your the first that's ever complemented us like that"
"Yeah, no one's thought we looked cool before" another said.
"Anyway" Moka said, getting the conversation back on track "As you all witnessed, whenever the moon shows it's purple face in the sky, the people of the village take on a horrible demonic form! If it isn't a curse, than what else could it possibly be!"
Peter looked around and noticed the looks o despair and hopelessness on many of the villagers faces, even with how deformed they were now. It was pretty heartbreaking, but he closed his eyes and took a deep breath and steeled himself to it, he couldn't allow emotions to get in the way with something like this. Curses reacted to negative emotions and you needed a clear, calm head to try and combat them, the slightest mistake could make it even worse than it already is.
'And that's the last thing any of these people need' Peter thought grimly.
"Will you guys change back in the morning?" Lucy asked.
"We will" Moka said with a nod and a somewhat relieved look on his face before it grew grim "However... there are some poor souls that could no longer switch back to their human forms, for they've lost their minds"
Peter quickly jotted this down as well, along with everything else the chief had said. So far he's gathered that the moon seems to be somehow connected to this curse which in turn physically alters people into demonic like beings. And it seems that after a while, people lose their minds, either to their grief and despair or because the constant back and forth changing had affected their minds in some way.
'Perhaps some sort of identity crisis? Or maybe the curse begins to alter a person state of mind in such a way they believe they are a demon' Peter thought as he wrote down this possible theory to why the villagers would go mad after a time.
"The fate of these unfortunate souls, in the grip of madness..." Moka said with tears beginning to form in his eyes "We've no choice but to put them to death"
This took the mages back, Lucy looked horrified while Gray and Peter paled. Peter froze mid word and stared up at the chief with wide eyes while Happy looked like he was about to empty his stomach all over the ground.
"B-But they might change back to normal someday!" Natsu said as he tired to wrap his mind around the fact that these villagers before him were killing off one another when it seemed that they've gone mad from this curse. So far, this S-class quest wasn't even coming close to what he thought it'd be like.
"If we waited for that to happen, the monsters would surely kill us all" Moka snapped angrily as tears began to leak rom his eyes as he pulled a photo out that Peter saw had a familiar face on it "We tried capturing them in the past. Hoping that they would one day change back, but they always broke free. The curse, it's grip on them was too great... I should know, I was forced to kill my very own son!"
Lucy's eyes widened as she recognized the man in the photo "That's, that's the guy from the boat! We just saw him-"
"Shhh" Gray said as he gave her a look that told her to stop before he glanced back at the photo with a unreadable expression "That explains why he disappeared like that. He's dead... but his soul can't rest in peace"
Lucy looked shocked at this "W-What..."
"You ever deal with ghosts on these kinds of requests Peter?" Happy asked in a quiet voice as he flew out of Natsu's arms and landed on said teen's shoulders.
"No..." Peter shook his head sadly "this mission is proving to be way outside my league"
It was than Moka bowed to them, his body trembling "Please lift this evil curse off our island. If it goes on ay longer we may all fall victim to it. We'll die!"
"That's not going to happen" Peter said as he snapped his notebook closed and sent it back to the pocket dimension he pulled it from earlier "You have my word..."
Lucy nodded "Yeah, we'll find a way to break this thing's hold on you all"
"There's only one way to lift this wretched curse from us" Moka said as he suddenly glared up at the moon with purge anger etched over his face "The moon, the moon must be wiped from the sky!"
Lucy, Natsu, Gray and happy all stared in shock at the chief's words while Peter frowned and glanced back up at the moon.
'Whatever's going on here, the moon's involved' Peter thought with his brow furrowing 'I just need to find out how'
Things seemed to be growing more and more complicated as they went.
...
'We may have bitten way more off than we can chew with this request' Peter thought as he went through his notes in regards to the curse that's affecting this island.
The villagers were kind enough to offer them all a hut to sleep in while they were here. Lucy was busy changing into a pair of black spandex shorts that, in his opinion, looked a little too small and a dark blue cropped tube top. Safe to say, Peter was having a little trouble concentrating on his notebook with a girl as attractive as Lucy dressed so provocatively. She could rival Mirajane when the white haired beauty felt like teasing Peter a little whenever she invited him over to spend the night. How the hell Gray and Natsu hadn't notice Lucy's appearance was beyond him.
'Or they have and are better at hiding it than I give them credit for' Peter thought as happy gazed out the window at the purple colored moon.
"Wow, I never thought the moon could look so creepy" he said as he stared up at the apparent cause for Galuna Island's curse.
"Hurry up and close the window!" Lucy said as she finished setting up her bed roll for the night "You heard what the chief said, we gotta stay out of the moon light or we risk turning into some kind of monsters"
"I think it'll be a while until we reach that level of exposure" Peter said as he dotted down a few ideas of how to possibly handle this curse that didn't involve destroying the moon.
"Well I don't feel like pushing it" Lucy huffed as Gray emerged from the hut's small bathroom.
"So, how we gonna do this?" Gray said as he glanced at Peter with an expectant look on his face.
"I don't know, why you looking at me like I do?" Peter asked with a frown.
"Haven't you done a fuck ton of these kinds of missions before?" Gray asked with annoyance.
"Yes, but not every curse is exactly the same" Peter said with a sigh "And none of the curses I've dealt with in the past caused actual physical deformities like what we've seen tonight"
"Greeeeeeeat" Gray said with a eye roll as he made his way over to a chair and slumped in into it.
"Hey, when I've found something that can help, I'll make sure your the first to know" Peter said with a scowl towards the ice mage before he blinked and cupped his chin in thought "Well, second to know since I'll be the first to know obviously"
Gray grunted at this as he began to remove his shirt while Natsu settled on his bed roll with a tired sigh.
"We're worry about this stuff tomorrow" he said with a yawn as he laid down with his hands behind his head "For now, let's get some sleep"
"Aye sir" Happy said as he flew down and landed next to Natsu before curling up beside him.
"Fine by me" Gray said with an equally tired yawn as he laid down on his own with only a pair of boxers on.
Lucy made to slip into her own bed roll between the two before she noticed that Peter still hadn't gotten dressed for bed and was busy scribbling away in his notebook. She gave her bed roll a brief glance before walking over towards Peter and sat down in front of him and rested her chin on her knees.
"Not heading to bed yet?" she asked with a grin.
"Nah, mind's too busy" Peter said as he tapped the side of his head with his pen before he resumed his writing "You can head off to bed with the others. I'm probably gonna be up a while trying to figure out a way to undo this curse with what's been given to us"
"Hopefully nothing that involves blowing up the moon" Lucy snorted.
"We'll call that plan 'C'" Peter chuckled before he glanced out at the purple colored celestial body with a thoughtful look on his face "The moon's coloration didn't change until after we got to the island, so the curse's effect is localized strictly to the island and doesn't seem to be spreading, which is good"
"Curses can spread?" Lucy said with surprise.
"Yeah" Peter said with a nod as he returned his attention to the blonde "They can spread in a manner similar to diseases, depending on how you make them. Direct contact, air, water, hell just cough on someone if your inflicted with a particular curse or give them something that's infused with a curse and you risk causing a cursed epidemic"
"Wow... I had no idea curses worked that way" Lucy said with shock.
"Most curses may not be as flashy as magic is, but it's almost as versatile" Peter revealed.
"Guess you've seen just about every kind under the sun, huh?" Lucy said.
"Not every kind, but more than most in the Guild, barring the Master of course" Peter said with a snort.
"Surprised I don't hear much about curses, if they can be as bad as you say they are, and seem to be based on what we just all saw" Lucy said with a frown.
"Well most curses aren't all that terrifyingly horrible. A lot of them aren't even fatal" Peter said as he closed his notebook and set it on the ground before leaning back in his chair and folding his arms across his chest "Most cause mental problems, make you feel really sick, see things that aren't there or make whatever you eat taste like literal crap"
"Bleh" Lucy said with a face "I think I'll take being slowly turned into a demon over tasting shit for the rest of my life"
"Heh, same" Peter laughed before his voice grew more somber "Though slowly going crazy and reduced to some rabid animal really isn't something I want to live out the rest of my life as..."
Lucy nodded as the two sat there in a somber silence. They could hear the insects outside along with a few of the villagers walking about and conversing with each other. Natsu, Gray and Happy had long since slipped into a deep sleep if the snores coming from them were anything to go by. Lucy frowned at the volume of their snores while Peter wondered if he could muffle the three wby webbing their mouths shut.
"So, I'm told your trying to write a book?" Peter asked after a few minutes of silence between them.
Lucy blinked at this before she nodded with a smiling growing on her face "Yeah, been working on it for a while now. I'm hoping to make a series out of it"
"What's it about?" Peter asked as he leaned forward with a curious look on his face, not that she could tell what he had on under that helm of his.
"It's about a girl that joins a magical Guild and goes on a bunch of crazy adventures with it's various members" Lucy said with a laugh before she shrugged "I'm kinda basing it off my time in Fairy Tail"
"Am I in it?" Peter asked with a quirked head.
"Maaaaybe" Lucy said with a sly grin.
"Well if I am, or at least there's a character based off me in the book, make sure he's accurate to the source" Peter said with a nod.
"Oh really? How so?" Lucy asked with a giggle.
"He's gotta be funny" Peter said.
"Of course" Lucy said with a nod.
"And smart, like really smart" Peter added.
"Smartest man in the guild" Lucy said with an amused eye roll.
"And obviously, he's going to need to be devilishly handsome" Peter said as he made a show of scratching his nose "You know, cause if he's gonna be smart and funny, he's gotta be good looking"
"Well that one might be a bit of a challenge" Lucy said with a smirk "Considering I don't know what you look like under that thing. You could have six eyes or no nose for all I know"
Peter scoffed at this "You really think Mira would go for a guy with six eyes?"
"What girl wouldn't love having such focused attention on her?" Lucy asked with a giggle.
"A girl that doesn't want nightmares, obviously" Peer said with a chuckle.
"Al right, all right, I'll add very, very handsome to his list of traits..." Lucy said as she made a obvious show of looking him over before giving him a sly wink "Along with a few 'large' traits as well"
Peter groaned as he buried his face in his hands "I'm never gonna live that down, am I?"
"Sorry, but probably not" Lucy said with a chuckle "Though if your worried I'm gonna go blabbing that I managed to get a good feel of ya, than don't. Something tells me Mira will be out for my head if I did"
"Eh don't worry, my head will be stuck on a pike next to yours if that happens" Peter said with rim amusement.
"Heads on a pike together, how fitting" Lucy said with a laugh that quickly spread to Peter.
After a few moments, their laughter died down and Lucy glanced at the notebook by Peter's feet before she nodded towards it.
"Could I give it a look? If that's okay I mean"
"Sure" Peter said with a shrug "Nothing incriminating in it far as I know"
"That's what they all say" Lucy said with a smirk as she stretched her leg out until her toes caught the edge of the book and pulled it over to her to pick up.
"I really hope you washed your feet" Peter said in a dry tone "Rather my notebook smell like feet if I can help it"
"Oh hush you, of course I washed them already" Lucy stuck her tongue out before her eyes narrowed playfully and she held her foot up towards Peter and wiggled her toes at him "Wanna give them a good rubbing? I bet you have magic hands"
"Hmmm, how about no" Peter said as he grabbed Lucy's wiggling big toe and pushed her foot down "Not all that good at foot massages any how. Just ask Mira"
"Maybe I will" Lucy said with a grin as she flipped open Peter's notebook to a random page and saw it was filled almost to the edges with various notes and small sketches of items she assumed were cursed that he had to un-curse in the past "Wow... this is a lot stuff"
"I tend to write as much as I can, so I don't risk missing anything vital" Peter said with a shrug as he began to reach up to remove his helm.
Lucy was to engrossed in Peter's notebook to notice as she brought her legs back together until she was in a lotus position and flipped through the pages. The sheer amount of information he had written down was mind bobbling, she's seen official tomes published by certified experts with only half of what Peter had written down.
"You could probably publish a volume or two with this much stuff" Lucy said as she looked back up at Peter with a grin before her eyes widened as she took in his now exposed face.
He was... a lot less handsome than she thought. He wasn't ugly, not by a long shot, in fact he seemed pretty cute in a nerdy sort of way, but she figured someone as breath takingly beautiful as Mirajane would be with a man that was equally as attractive.
'I guess Mira's not all that shallow' Lucy thought, feeling a little guilty to label such a friendly person like Mira as such.
Peter ran a hand through his hair before he noticed Lucy's gaze on him and quirked a brow at her "What?"
"Oh, uh sorry" Lucy blushed as she adverted her gaze from the man "Just noticed you had a nose... and not six eyes"
"No I have six eyes, I've just closed them so it looks like I have two" Peter snickered, causing Lucy to snort as she extended a leg and lightly kicked his skin.
"Shut up"
...
Two hours later and Lucy was at her wits end.
Ever since she laid down to try and sleep, Natsu and Gray's inhuman snoring had kept her wide awake. She tired to cover her head with her pillow but the sheer proximity of Natsu and gray had rendered the pillow all but useless.
'Why couldn't I get my own room' Lucy thought with a groan as she sat up and rubbed her eyes.
She noticed faint movement in the corner and turned to see Peter's web hammock gently swaying back and forth thanks to a single web line attached to the wall that Peter would use to pull his makeshift bed to before loosening his grip and allowing it to swing away.
"Can't sleep either huh?" Peter asked with amusement in his voice.
"Yeah" Lucy said with a nod before she glared down at Natsu and Gray "I swear their doing this on purpose!"
"Even when their asleep they've gotta one up each other" Peter said with a resigned sigh.
"I'm surprised Natsu isn't being kept awake with how sensitive his hearing is" Lucy said as she climbed out of her bed roll and stood up to stretch.
"That's Natsu for ya, a big old contradiction" Peter said as he glanced at Lucy only to immediately advert his eyes when he saw her bend down to touch her toes, giving him a once in a lifetime view of her rear.
It didn't help that he could see that she wasn't wearing anything underneath those shorts of her's.
Once Lucy was finished with her stretching, she let out a sigh and turned towards Peter with a hand on her hip "Hey, uh Peter?"
"Yo?" Peter said as he focused his gaze on the ceiling.
"Could I... bunk with you, for the night?" Lucy said as she rubbed the back of her neck "I mean, you've gotta be quieter than these two"
Peter's eyes widened at this "Uhhh…"
"I mean, we're both adults here, right?" Lucy asked with a nervous laugh "And I swear I'm not trying to cop a feel or anything"
"Please don't" Peter pleaded as he tried to ignore the image of Lucy, dressed as she was, pressed against him.
Erza Scarlet pressed against him without her armor on was one thing, but Lucy as she was now, that was another matter entirely.
Lucy waited for Peter to deny her request for several seconds before she slowly approached him and with some hesitation on her part, she carefully climbed into the hammock and discovered why Peter was so nervous about her joining him.
He was dressed in only a pair of boxers!
'Holy shit' Lucy thought with wide eyes as she took in Peter's physique.
Even in the dim light she could see that he was pretty well built with mouth watering abs, a chest she could run her hands over all night long and arms that looked like they could crush steel. For the first time since meeting Peter, Lucy wished that the man was single and that Natsu, Happy and Gray weren't in the room with them. She'd love to explore this man's body all night long with her hands and mouth and a few other things as well-
'Get a hold of yourself! The man's got himself a girl and the last thing you need is a repeat of prom night at the academy!' Lucy thought with a headshake as she carefully slid over Peter's body, ignoring the way her breasts glided across his chest in a inviting manner.
After a few twists and turns on her part, Lucy finally settled on a position before she realized that she was now lying on top of Peter almost like a blanket. Seeing that position was a tad bit too intimate, she made to move again when she felt a familiar bulge press against her thigh, causing her to freeze.
'Uh-oh' Lucy thought with a blush as she felt Peter himself tense as well.
With just only a pair of boxers between Lucy's thigh and Peter's groin, she had a much better feel of what he was equipped with and her envy for Mirajane rose. And the fact he was likely hard because of her did a bit for her vanity.
"S-Sorry" Peter coughed as he tried to move so that his erection wasn't pressing up against Lucy before she placed a hand on his chest.
"I-It's fine" she stammered with a blush on her face "I mean, stuff like this happens. It's only n-natural that your body responds this way to what I was doing..."
Sadly, nothing felt natural about what she was feeling pressed against her. And the heat his body gave off caused her to push herself closer and rest her head on it, allowing her to breath in his musk.
'Fuck...' Lucy thought as she bit her lip at the feelings this man was making her body feel.
She had no doubt he could feel her nipples pushing through her thin top and into his chest nor the ever so slight dampening of the space between her legs where his knee was pushed up against.
There was no doubt in either's mind that this was goin to be a very long night...
...
And done.
Next chapter, The quest to uncover the curse of Gaulna Island begins!