Arslan P.O.V.
"Arslan, Daryun, have you guys ever been to an arcade?" Lucy suddenly asks one day.
"What is an 'arcade'?" Arslan asks.
"Arcades are places where you go and you can play games and win prizes and it's really fun!" Natsu explains, jumping into the conversation. Arslan looks at him confused.
"Besides, you guys never go anywhere except for when we drag you out to go on jobs." Gray says.
"Drag us? No one has ever dragged us." Daryun says, confused.
"It's a figure of speech." Lucy explains. Daryun and Arslan nod.
"You guys deserve a break." Erza says.
"Aye, sir!" Happy agrees.
"Alright. This world truly is really different from ours." Arslan says.
"Let's go!" Natsu exclaims. He grabs Lucy's hand, making a chain reaction of her grabbing Gray's, who grabs Erza's, who grabs Arslan's, who grabs Daryun's. The line of people left the guild with Happy flying next to them.
"This 'arcade' is bigger than I first thought." Arslan says, looking up at the tall building.
"Well, what are you waiting for? Let's go inside!" Lucy exclaims. Arslan nods.
"Alright." He says. He follows the group inside with Daryun trailing behind him. Flashing, colored lights and noises coming from seeming everywhere surprise both Daryun and Arslan.
"Woah…" Arslan says, eyes full of wonder. Even Daryun looks impressed.
"How are all the lights different colors? And where is the music coming from?" Daryun asks, looking around.
"Well, the lights are a kind of light magic that doesn't require much magic, but is still really cool. They cast the magic and the lights go on, multiple colors and shine on the place." Lucy explains. "And the music is coming from the games people are playing."
"Oh.. Alright." Daryun says, nodding even though he still doesn't quite get everything.
"Well? What are you waiting for? Play!" At that everyone split up, except Arslan and Daryun. They stuck together and looked around the place, surprised by all the people playing. They look at each other in surprise and then Arslan shrugs.
"Well, we should look around." He says. Daryun nods.
"I believe that would be the best course of action." He says. Arslan looks around once more before taking a step closer to one of the unoccupied boxes. He walks up to it and stares at the blank, black box in front of him, wondering what to do.
"Highness, look at all these buttons. I wonder, what would they do?" Daryun asks. Arslan looks down at all the buttons and shrugs.
"I do not know." He says. Daryun hesitantly puts his hand above one of the buttons.
"Shall I… press it?" He asks, unsure if he should. Arslan nods. Daryun's hand wavers before he presses down and takes his hand off quickly. The once black screen comes to life and color flicks across the box. Music tumbles out of the box making both Daryun and Arslan jumps in surprise. A blocky looking character stands in the box, bouncing at his knees up and down over and over again.
"What?" Arslan asks to no one, bewildered at the sudden change.
"This is strange." Daryun says. Arslan looks back down at the buttons and presses another one, jumping when the box makes another glances back up at the top box and sees the character had moved. Now, more blocky looking things comes flying at the character. As they hit it, a red bar in the corner goes down more and more. When the bar emptied completely the character fell onto its back and flashed off of the screen. Giant, red letters came onto the center of the screen.
"Game over." A voice said from the box. Arslan poked the box.
"What happened?" He asks Daryun.
"I do not know." He says. Daryun looks back at the buttons and presses the same one he pressed before and smiled triumphantly when the box reset itself.
"What are you two doing?" Lucy asks, coming from behind them. Arslan moves out of the way so that she can see.
"We found an unoccupied box and came over to it, but we did not know how to use it. So Daryun pressed a button that brought this up onto the box and i pressed another button that made block things fly towards the little person, but then a red bar in the corner went down all the way and the person fell onto his back." Arslan explains. Lucy laughs.
"Well, this is not a box, it is a gaming system. The screen with the little person is where you look to see what they are doing, and the buttons are what you press to make your character do things." Lucy explains. "Here, watch." She walks up to the gaming system and presses a button, starting the game. Arslan and Daryun watch in awe as she expertly makes the tiny person jump and hit the things flying at them.
"The goal of the game is to not die." She says. She moves from the controls and back to beside Daryun and Arslan.
"Now you try." Lucy speaks and walks away. Daryun cautiously takes a step forward and presses the buttons, making the character jump up. He looks at Arslan who shrugs, and then goes back to pressing buttons, taking turns with Arslan.
At the end of the day, Arslan and Daryun are starstruck about the games.
"I wish we had those in our world." Arslan says. "It is a fun way to pass the time."
"It is." Daryun agrees. They walk back from the arcade with Team Natsu, laughing as Natsu talks about someone he met while playing a fire mage game.