Summary: Based on all those fics where the boys get turned into cats and the girls adopt them…..I've never seen an ending to those sort of fics, and so here's what I think would be a likely outcome.
Pairings: Natsu/Lucy, Gray/Juvia, Gajeel/Levy, Jellal/Erza, Strauss Sibling feels, Elfman/Evergreen, some implied Romeo/Wendy, and Mira/Laxus if you squint hard. Lots and lots and lots of friendship feels.
YouTube Prompt: Lucy tribute to 'Second Chance' by Shinedown.
"WHAT THE FUCK?!"
It was a weird few days for Fairy Tail, first, most of the male members had disappeared, which had made the guild hall disturbingly silent and brawl free, then there weird coloured cats that were definitely not Exceeds like Happy (they checked) needed to be adopted, which led to a couple of strange moments but nothing to worry about, and then suddenly, in a puff of smoke, the cats changed back into the very naked male members of the guild.
"…."
"PUT SOME CLOTHES ON!" Lucy suddenly shrieked, her cheeks bright red as she struggled to not look at Natsu's tanned muscles. "What are you?" she snapped. "Gray's new cult?"
"I would be an awesome cult leader," Gray said.
"Pfft!"
"Yeah right!"
"I would never follow you."
"Juvia agrees Gray-sama!" Juvia squealed. "Juvia would follow Gray-sama to the ends of the world!"
Gray turned to the others and grinned smugly. "It's Juvia," Bickslow pointed out, "she doesn't count."
"Wait a minute!" Levy held a hand out to stop the fighting that was beginning to brew. "Did our cats just turn into you guys?!"
"Well…." Natsu blinked stupidly. "Yeah. Some hag turned us into cats, you didn't notice that we went missing just as the cats appeared?"
"Not really," Levy flushed sheepishly, "we were distracted by the cute kitties."
"We were enjoying the peace and quiet," Cana grinned, "strangely enough I can drink more booze when someone isn't breaking barrels with Gray's skull."
The boys all yelled indignantly apart from the three that was suddenly stuffing their faces with as much food as they can get.
"What are you doing?" Laki asked exasperated. "You'd think you were starved or something."
"We were!" Droy sprayed food all over Laki. The purple haired girl looked incredibly unimpressed and started to crack her knuckles. "You let Cana adopt us!"
"Yeah?" Evergreen raised an eyebrow. "So?"
"So!" Jet hissed. "She completely forgot we were there and didn't feed us!"
Freed's stomach merely rumbled fiercely as the green haired man hurriedly shoved as many sandwiches in his mouth as possible. Laxus and Bickslow were staring at him dumbfounded, they had never seen Freed so unrefined, with his hair in tangles, no clothes on, and crumbs all down his chin and chest….
"….Oops?" Cana offered.
The three boys just glared at her and carried on stuffing their faces.
"So just to clarify," Erza said calmly as possible, "some mad witch turned you into cats and we adopted you into our homes."
"Yep!" Natsu grinned.
"You tricked us into undressing in front of you, into allowing you sleep in our beds, and you bathed with us!"
The boys froze at the dangerous tone that even Natsu could hear in Erza's voice and suddenly they began to edge away from the girls as fast as they could without looking like they were fleeing.
"Oi, be fair!" Gajeel growled. "We didn't ask you to take your clothes off or drag us into the bathroom, or put us in your beds. Who the fuck takes a cat to a bathroom anyway?! They hate water."
"Happy and Charle likes bathing with us!" Wendy protested. She then caught Romeo's eye, blushed bright red, and squeaked before hiding behind Erza. "They're cats!" she finished, muffled by Erza's armour as she tried to smother her shame and embarrassment.
"They're Exceeds," Gajeel corrected, "not the same thing."
"Actually, to be honest," Laki said, "it does explain why your cat kept having such massive nosebleeds, Erza."
Everyone turned to Jellal, who for some unknown reason had been there to also be turned into a cat, as he slinked further into the shadows, using a tablecloth to hide his naked body, and covered his nose as a trail of blood, that was caused by the sheer memory of Erza's naked body, leaked out of his nose.
Erza stuttered and spluttered before she ended up covering her face with her hair and tried to hide behind Wendy out of sheer embarrassment.
"Juvia doesn't mind the deceit!" Juvia declared as she nuzzled Gray's naked shoulder, "Juvia got to spend time with Gray-sama without Love Rival interfering. They got to bathe together and sleep together and eat together. It was like being married!"
"I was a cat!"
"Juvia's love knows no limits!" Juvia cried out. "Juvia would have been happy with just cuddles and Gray-sama's purring if it meant she was to be with her one true love!"
"…."
"…."
"…."
"…Juvia might be fine with it," Lucy said slowly as she tried to find her voice. Everyone seemed horrified at what Juvia implied (though she probably didn't mean to sound like she'd commit bestiality if it meant she was with Gray…..Lucy hopes) and were too stunned to say anything right now. "But I'm not!" she snapped finally finding her anger. She pointed her finger at Natsu and jammed it hard against his chest, he winced as her nail bit into him. "You're a deceitful little-"
"I don't know why you're so cross, Lucy!" Natsu whined. "All you did was pet me, cuddle me, let me sleep in your lap, and on your boobs, and undress in front of me, that's not anything you haven't done bef-"
"NATSU, SHUT UP!"
"Oho!" Mira chortled. "Has Lucy been acting like a girlfriend to Natsu-san?"
Natsu looked confused while Lucy turned into the same red, splutter-ly, useless person that Erza was acting right now.
"Never mind that, Nee-san!" Elfman shouted suddenly. "I'm really hurt that you chose to adopt Laxus over your own brother! That was really unmanly of you!"
"Really," Mira said flatly, "are you telling me that you didn't enjoy Evergreen scratching the back of your ears for the last few days?"
"Yeah, Elfman," Evergreen growled, her arms crossed, "am I not good enough for you?"
"Erm…." Elfman sweat-dropped. "I will shut up now."
"Probably for the best, Nii-san," Lisanna patted her brother on the arm, "after all we're still cross with all of you right now."
"Fuck sake!" Gajeel snarled, "This ain't getting us anywhere. So we saw some things and heard some secrets, who the hell tells their secrets to a strange cat by the way?" some of the girls smiled sheepishly while Levy looked as if she could die on the spot. It was obvious what secrets she had told Gajeel. "We didn't ask to be put in that situation, we didn't want to hear or see what we heard or seen….well all right," he grinned at Levy, "I wanted to see and hear what I saw and heard but I doubt the others could say the same."
"Laki keeps torture devices in her bedroom!" Warren shuddered. "I'm never going to look at a tree in the same way again."
"The point is, let's just let bygones be bygones all we're never going to leave this building," Gajeel said ignoring Warren, "And I don't know about you but I want some clothes, now!"
At the reminder that the boys were still naked, half the girls jumped and turned their backs onto them, Levy shook herself and tried not to think how Gajeel and her might fit, Evergreen scowled at the floor as she had forgotten no one but her knows that she had already seen Elfman naked plenty of times, and Lucy suddenly ripped her hand off of Natsu's chest as if it burned her (highly likely actually) and whirled round to hide her embarrassment.
Juvia, however, had to be ripped away from Gray as he went to fetch the spare clothes box for the boys.
Once the boys were finally dressed, the girls finally turned round, and immediately burst into giggles.
"Stop it!" Laxus barked. "This is all what was left!"
"You look ridiculous!" Evergreen cackled. "Are those shorts for a twelve year old?"
"No," Gray scowled, "they're my trousers. He ripped them! They all did!"
"Not our fault you're a tiny, skinny, little prick," Gajeel shrugged. The remains of what had been Gray's white shirt flapped on his shoulders, covering absolutely nothing at all. "Besides. You can't talk! You're useless at taking care of your clothes."
"Gajeel is right!" Elfman bellowed. "Not taking care of clothes is UNMANLY!"
It was absolutely no surprise at all when Gray suddenly lunged forward and punched both Elfman and Gajeel thus causing a brawl.
The girls all sighed and said a silent goodbye to their peace and quiet as things rapidly returned to normal.
(Meanwhile, some of the other male members, like Macao and Wakaba, that did not get adopted by the girls, and were in fact given away to local families, were being chased by parents with pitchforks for being naked round their children….)