Summary: Natsu doesn't do pinup, cosplaying, battles especially when her clothes are being changed against her will, a gender-bent rewrite of Mirajane Vs Jenny.
Pairings: Natsu/Luca, sisterly Erza/Natsu, Natsu/Gray friendship, implied one-sided Luca/Mira, implied Gajeel/Levy, implied one-sided Jet/Levy/Droy, implied Cana/Luca, implied one-sided Luca/others, Loke/Others, Loke/Luca friendship, and basically lots of Natsu/Luca.
YouTube Prompt: A Natsu/Lucy video to 'Listen to the Man' by George Ezra.
When the judges of the Grand Magical Games had announced Mirajane was up next to battle some Blue Pegasus member, Natsu had expected a quick, bloody, battle that resulted with Mirajane victorious.
She did not expect to see the two girls posing in bikinis.
"Eh?" Natsu moaned. "Is that all? What about real fighting. I wanna see a real fight!"
"Hush, Natsu-Chan," Erza chided, "we should not question the judge's decision, I'm sure they have their reasons."
"Yeah," Gray mumbled, "they're a bunch of perverts."
As Mira went down on her knees and pulled a provocative pose, Natsu eyed Luca suspiciously from the corner of her eye. The blonde boy had a very large collection of Mirajane pictures that he tried to keep hidden in his sock drawer. Apart from his bright pink cheeks, Luca looked more exasperated and bored than interested, not like the perverts that were shouting and leering throughout the stadium.
Natsu didn't know whether to be worried or pleased that Luca didn't seem so interested like a normal bloke but she really didn't get time to contemplate it when Mavis suddenly appeared right in her face and threw a bikini at her.
"Come on girls!" Mavis cheered. "Show your Fairy Tail spirit and support your sisters."
"Well," Erza flushed, "if you think that's best Master Mavis."
"Of course! We should have lots and lots of fun!"
"You heard the First Master, Natsu," Erza said as she pulled Natsu up onto the wall, "We must show our guild spirits while having fun and supporting the others."
"But I don't wanna – EEK!" Natsu screamed as Erza jumped down into the stadium, and before Natsu could protest any further or complain, she found herself in a pink, frilly, bikini that she would have never chosen for herself ("But I brought it specially for you!" Erza pouted, and freaked Natsu out, "I don't know why you keep it in the back of your wardrobe. It really suits you. Now put it on and like it," she finished in her normal, scary, Erza tone) and was left to pose in front of a bunch of perverts like her fellow guild members. Even poor Wendy was awkwardly, uncomfortably, posing. "I DON'T WANT TO! YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!" Natsu screamed as she tried to climb up the wall, her nails scraped against the dusty brick as she slid back down onto the sandy floor. "LUCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" She wailed. "SAVE ME!"
"Hold on!" Luca called down as he leaned over the wall, he held out his hands, and Natsu jumped up a little bit, "Just a little further," he muttered.
Natsu jumped again, and suddenly her pink, frilly, bikini had turned into a plain, navy-blue school swimsuit. "WHAT THE FUCK?!" she bellowed. "HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?! WHAT PERVERT IS DOING THIS TO ME?!"
Her swimsuit reverted back to the bikini, only this time she had long, black, stockings on as well.
"Oh God!" Gray cried out. "Pfft!" he snorted. "Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!" he cackled hysterically. "You look fucking ridiculous. Like a kid trying to be a sexy adult."
"Yeah, well," Natsu huffed, "so does your face!" she cried out triumphantly.
"What?!" Gray sniggered in disbelief. "What the hell is that supposed to mean, you moron?"
Natsu leaped up again as she tried to snatch Luca's hand. The desire was now to use Luca as a ladder so she could climb up and fucking strangle the living daylights out of Gray Fullbuster.
Instead, she missed Luca's hand by mere centimetres and fell back again when something flopped against her forehead. Natsu frowned and pulled off an Alice band that had bright blue, Happy-like, ears on them. That was when she realised she also had a tail on her.
"THAT'S IT!" she screamed. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS SHIT!" she bent her legs and shot up in the air with all her strength, she let out a yell of triumph when she caught Luca's hands, and scrambled rapidly to try and climb up the wall.
Unfortunately that was when Luca's weird, evilly, unfair luck kicked in, and she somehow accidentally pulled him over the wall instead and they both went crashing back into the stadium.
Luca pulled Natsu against him and rolled back in time so his back crashed into the sandy floor and Natsu landed on his stomach.
The blonde groaned.
"Fuck," Natsu muttered, "Now you're stuck here. There's no way in hell that icy prick is gonna help me escape."
"Nope!" Gray called down from the team balcony. "Nice outfit, Natsu," he taunted from safety.
"What…. The hell?!" Natsu screamed in frustration. Luca turned bright red and tried desperately to look anywhere but Natsu, sadly, he had limited choice unless he wanted to look at all the other girls dressed similarly. Natsu's bikini had been turned into a dark, dusty, pink leather corset with matching knickers, to top the outfit off she was wearing fishnets tights and gloves, and matching pink leather boots, and there was a whip tied round her wrist. She looked like some sort of dominatrix. "Oi!" she growled as Luca turned his head, she grabbed his chin and forced him to look back at her, "Don't perve on other girls while we're stuck like this!"
"I wasn't!" Luca protested.
And he was true to his word, his eyes were firmly shut.
"Oho!" the Commentator chortled loudly down his microphone. "It looks like Natsu-Chan has brought in a cosplaying partner. You know what this means, Ladies? The blushing bride section! Find yourself a groom quickly!"
While it was a relief that she was no longer in that freaky, weird, pink leather get-up, the fact she had her clothes transformed again into a frilly, white, dress, and some weird lace thing stuck on her head, really didn't make Natsu feel much better.
"When did my clothes change?!" Luca cried out as his purple team uniform changed into a black tux. "This is mildly worrying."
"You think?!"
"Oi, Luca!" Cana called out as she made her way towards him. "Wanna be my groom?!"
Natsu growled but before she could say anything, a Mermaid Heel girl appeared out of nowhere, pink-cheeked, and shy as she stammered out the question, and then Levy, who had been disappointed by Gajeel's refusal to join in and didn't want to have to pick between Jet and Droy, suddenly turned pleadingly to Luca, then the little pink-haired girl from Lamia Scale (who looked very annoyed for some reason and kept shooting glares in Juvia's direction) marched up to Luca and demanded he posed with her, and then even Lisanna began to make her way towards them!
"Erm…." Luca sweat-dropped. "I am very sorry but-"
"Ladies, ladies!" Loke appeared out of nowhere in a white suit. "Never fear! There is plenty of me to go around. I can be a groom to all of you." He took the Mermaid Heel's girl hand and pressed a kiss on it. "My lady," he purred. He then whirled round and winked at Luca. "Your wing-man has your back," he grinned.
Luca face-palmed out of exasperation but personally, Natsu was rather pleased that Loke somehow managed to divert the crowd from them and that meant Luca had no choice but to pose with her.
"I think," a crackly, old voice hollered from above them, "that it is time for me to put an appearance."
"Ooh!" the Commentator cried out. "It's-"
"Lamia Scale's Oba Babasama," the old lady interrupted from the top of one of the stadium's statues, "is going to show you," she jumped off and twirled weirdly, like a complete freak, "what a woman charm is!"
Her pink dress blew off to reveal a pink swimsuit that did not, unfortunately, tragically, leave much to the imagination as her belly and legs wobbled, and each bit of wrinkly, saggy, skin could be seen.
The entire stadium seemed to have lost their soul in the shock and horror of it all.
Luca's mouth had dropped open, his eyes had lost all life in them, and quickly, Natsu leaped onto his back, ripped her dress in the process as she wrapped her legs round his waist, and covered them for him.
She only just got confirmation that he wasn't gay, she wasn't going to have him change his mind because of one, wrinkly, unsexy, lady posing in a terrifyingly, traumatising, way.