"Lucy, please end the video now."

A small blue-haired college student's head hit the dining table and she whined as a bowl of accursed liquid beside her assaulted her senses. She was beginning to break a sweat (and curse out her best friend) after downing an entire bowl of the spiciest ramen they could find.

"Oh c'mon Levy!" Lucy giggled from beside her, her expression a stark contrast to Levy's since she refused to have a single bite of the death noodles.

"Do it for the views." She smirked, nudging the bowl even closer to the defeated blunette's head. Her subscribers seemed to be a bunch of sadists when it came to stuff like this, which is probably why they had asked her to do it in the first place. Luckily for her, they never explicitly specified that they wanted Lucy herself to eat it.

What were best friends for, if not subbing in for your suffering being recorded for thousands to see? She'd done it, and been laughed at by Levy she might add, many times before.

This karma was past due.

"Views aren't worth this shit," Levy moaned. She shifted her head up a little to look at her blonde companion with pure resentment. "Remind me why you aren't doing this too?"

"I hate spicy food," Lucy stated simply with a shrug.

"I hate you," Levy muttered back, earning a laugh from her blonde companion. Lucy's half-dead roommate then turned her head to look directly into the camera lens resting on a tripod behind the table in front of them. "I hate all of you too."

"I don't! Bye!" Lucy waved cheerfully at the camera lens before getting up from her seat and turning the camera off. Turning briefly back to her best friend with a sympathetic smile, she walked into the kitchen just a few feet away and swung open the fridge.

"This is for you," Lucy placed a bottle of water on the table beside the bowl of hot ramen and Levy all but snatched it out of her hand before downing all of its contents like a parched fish. Slamming the empty bottle back down on the table, she looked up to glare at her friend once more.

"I hate you," she repeated.

"Thanks for doing that for me," Lucy grinned, ignoring her friend's scornful words. "I probably would have died if I had to eat that."

"I did die," Levy whined. She sighed before getting up from the table and walking over to the living room to plop down dramatically on the couch. "We're never doing that again."

"Agreed, this is a mess," Lucy frowned at the splatters of red ramen on the table from when Levy "accidentally" knocked over some of the contents of the bowl, which she noted still sat there full of evil noodles waiting to be thrown out.

Hm…

She looked over into the living room to make sure Levy wasn't paying attention before picking a single noodle from the bowl and putting it in her mouth.

She immediately spit it back into the bowl, erupting into a coughing fit as the flavor burned through her throat. Levy instantly looked up from her phone at the sound of suffering in the form of her blonde roommate, raising an eyebrow before bursting into laughter at the realization of what Lucy just did.

Sweet karma.

"W-what the hell!?" Lucy cried through her hacks, sprinting to the fridge to get another bottle of water. "How did you eat that?"

"Maybe making me do the challenge instead was a better idea after all," Levy giggled.

As agonzing as it was, Levy was actually happy Lucy asked her to help with the video. She had contemplated having a channel of her own once upon a time, but was too scared to actually do it. She had long since settled for her guest appearances on Lucy's channel, where she had the satisfaction of being on camera without the stress of being the main focus.

Lucy had recently hit the 1 million subscriber milestone, and Levy could not be more happy for her. She worked hard on everything she did with the channel, and had been since the beginning of high school when she had a mere 15 subscriber count. Now in her second year of college, Lucy was already well off enough with her YouTube job to drop school entirely and be just fine financially, but she remained in school for her education. Her channel, named Celestial after a character from one of their favorite animes, was now a well-known name amongst a very large number of anime fans, and Levy had been by her side the whole way. She was more than happy to help with anything she needed assistance with, as a friend as well as a fan.

"Ugh, whatever," Lucy uttered, walking over to plop down on the couch beside her roommate, grabbing the remote that rested on the coffee table on the way and flipping on the TV mounted on the opposite wall. Pressing some buttons on the remote, she opened Netflix and began absentmindedly scrolling through the recommended shows. "We have to watch that new anime they put on Netflix last week. Everyone's asking me to review it," Lucy stated, her gaze fixed on the screen as she focused on finding what she was looking for. In the back of her mind, it still amazed her that she was technically "working" right now.

"Are we watching the new Death Note live action movie too? I think they were asking about that," Levy scrolled through the comments on Lucy's last video, and sure enough, much of the suggestions were related to the supposedly terrible new movie that Netflix had recently released.

"Ugh. I can already tell that's gonna be rough to get through. Did you see the trailer?" Lucy grimaced remembering the cringe fest she had witnessed the day it was released, finally ceasing her scrolling when she found what she was looking for.

"Yeah but we still have to watch it," Levy sighed.

"Yeah," Lucy huffed. The one good thing that came out of live anime adaptations was the exposure she received from ripping them to pieces.

They spent the rest of the night watching the highly recommended anime, deciding to call it a day when the clock hit 3am, neither of them being able to keep their eyes open for much longer despite the show actually being quite good. Lucy sighed in contentment as she turned off the TV for the night. She had watched enough to begin her video, and had already filmed something earlier that day. Some rest was deserved.

Lucy opted for a quick shower before heading to bed, though of course she didn't immediately close her eyes when she was comfortably settled in. She reached over and felt for her phone on the nightstand beside her in the darkness. When she finally found it she picked it up and brought it to her chest, unlocking it and opening the YouTube app. Her eyes immediately lit up at the sight of a new video posted by her favorite channel, Fairy Tail. It was an anime and gaming channel named after the same show she'd named her channel after, and was run by five amazing people. They all brought their own unique content to the channel, but her favorite member had to be their rosy-haired member, known as Natsu. He often did videos with another member known as Gray, either playing games together or reviewing manga.

Over the years she had developed a huge internet crush on the pink-haired hothead, to an almost embarrassing degree. She had never actually met or talked to him, despite them both being well-known content creators (Fairy Tail had over 3 million subscribers!) that produced very similar things. She had had plenty of opportunities to meet them at various conventions and events, but was often too nervous to work up the courage to even attempt to talk to them. This was fine with her, though. She didn't feel the need to meet them when she could simply just watch their videos from the comfort of her apartment in Magnolia.

The new video seemed to be a Natsu and Gray one, and Lucy grinned subconsciously. She grew even more interested when she read the title:

ANSWERING YOUR PERSONAL QUESTIONS #NOTCLICKBAIT #SUBCRIBE

She chuckled at the nonsensical title. The thumbnail of the video, which was already at over 100,000 views, showed a very amused Natsu brandishing a million dollar smile that Lucy spent a bit too long staring dreamily at. He was looking at Gray from his spot on their usual couch setting, while Gray held his face in his hands, elbows resting at his knees. She tapped excitedly on the video, and blackness filled the screen as it buffered for a few seconds before Natsu and Gray's bodies appeared sitting on the yellow couch from the thumbnail.

"So we took to Twitter and asked y'all to give us some questions," right off the bat Natsu's voice bursted through the phone's speakers. He was on his phone, a cringe-grin hybrid growing on his face as he continued to scroll through what were probably weird Twitter questions. "I'm actually really scared to answer these," he chuckled, Lucy grinning amusedly at the sound of his apprehension. She briefly wondered what she would ask if she had participated.

You single?

She laughed quietly to herself as she thought of it. Surely that question was in his Twitter timeline already.

Lucy saw the tweet they had posted a few days ago and had pondered asking a question before deciding against it, knowing both their fanbases would go wild at any sign of the two channels interacting. She wasn't quite sure if she was ready for that yet.

"Why? It's not like your life is interesting," Gray jabbed from his spot on the couch with a smirk, scrolling through his own phone. Natsu responded by throwing the pillow beside him at the black-haired YouTubers head.

"Fuck off, Elsa," Natsu shot back.

"I'm not offended by that. Elsa is a strong ice queen, or something," Gray stated proudly.

"Oh, ok then," Natsu smirked before looking into the camera lens to talk directly to his viewers. "Next video's gonna have Gray dressed up as Elsa the whole time," Natsu grinned, and Lucy briefly caught sight of Gray's jaw dropping when the video instantly cut and returned to Gray and Natsu after a split second. Lucy laughed, wondering what Juvia's reaction would be to that future video. Gray, who was now shirtless showing off his iconic tattoo that everyone in Fairy Tail had, spoke first this time. "Alright, first question. We're gonna start with the easy ones," he cleared his throat, glancing at his phone for a second before looking at Natsu. "How old are you?"

"20," Natsu stated simply with a yawn.

Lucy already knew how old they all were, being fans of them from the very beginning. Natsu was a year older than her, Gray was the same age, Gajeel had recently turned 21, Erza was 23 and Wendy was the youngest, being only 17. The fact that they were all in her age range made them even easier to relate to, another reason why she loved their channel.

"I am also 20," Gray chimed, looking back down at his phone for the next question. "Next question," he smirked before reading it out loud. "Do you have a crush?"

"No," Natsu said simply, though he began scratching the back of his head uncomfortably.

"You're a shitty liar," Gray chuckled.

"I don't!"

"Yeah? What about-" a black bar appeared over his mouth as the sound of a bleep played briefly, censoring out whatever Gray may have said. Whatever he said seemed to bother Natsu though, who launched himself at the man right then. The video cut before viewers could see anything that happened next before cutting back to them both sitting on the couch like normal, though Natsu seemed more red-faced than usual.

Lucy's jaw dropped slightly before giggling at his cute reaction to being asked about his romantic life. She wasn't sure she'd ever seen him flustered in their videos before.

"Your turn," Natsu smirked devilishly, recovering quickly as he scrolled through his phone. Once he found a question that caught his interest, his eyes shot up to his apprehensive friend. "If you could fuck any YouTuber who would it be?"

Gray's eyes instantly widened into saucers. "W-what?! Don't ask me that!"

"Gotta answer it, we promised we'd answer our fans' personal questions," Natsu stated simply with, evil grin never leaving his face.

"But what if they watch our videos!" Gray exclaimed, hiding his face in his hands and thus answering the question of how the video thumbnail came to be.

"They'll probably just find it funny or something," Natsu shrugged.

After a long sigh and some contemplative moments spent staring at the ceiling, Gray finally spoke. "... Probably Lockser."

Now it was Lucy's turn for her jaw to drop.

Juvia was going to lose her shit when she saw this.

The two proceeded to ask each other humiliating questions they found on Twitter. Lucy had already known the answers to most of the ones that were asked, but she enjoyed the rest of the video simply for the personalities and chemistry of the duo.

Finishing the video, she looked through some comments before locking her phone and placing it on the nightstand for the night with a sigh.

No better way to end the day than with a lovely dose of Fairy Tail.

"Well there goes my chances of ever collabing with Lockser," Gray huffed, side eyeing his insufferable partner in crime as he stared somberly at the new video they had just posted. Natsu shrugged, indifferent.

"Don't blame me, blame the fans," He said nonchalantly, leaning back on the couch and continuing to scroll through Twitter. Gray responded by chucking a pillow at Natsu's face, knocking the phone out of his hands and sending it tumbling to the floor.

"Dick!" Natsu flung the pillow back with twice as much force, obviously not doing much. Why that pillow was their main method of retaliation, neither was sure. "Lockser probably wouldn't even collab with you anyway," he mumbled spitefully.

"Whatever," Gray crossed his arms and leaned back on the couch. "So which YouTuber would you fuck?" He questioned curiously with a smirk, secretly hoping for some ammunition against Natsu in the future.

"Great question!" Before Natsu could answer, their beautiful blue-eyed friend suddenly showed up in the archway entrance of their common area, where Gray looked up instantly muttering a "Shit!" under his breath at the sudden presence and Natsu stiffened.

"Hey Lisanna!" Gray greeted her cheerfully. She smiled wide at him briefly before walking over to sit between them on the couch, noting how a certain pair of eyes watched her the whole way.

"So do tell," her gaze met Natsu's as she nudged his shoulder with her own. "Which YouTuber would you fuck? Don't hold back on me now," she challenged.

"... Definitely Demon Soul," Natsu replied after a moment with an evil smirk. Lisanna gaped at him slightly before hitting him on the arm with a pseudo scoff before laughing at the fact that he just named her sister's channel.

"Not funny," She deadpanned despite her giggling.

"Who said I was joking," Natsu remarked blankly, his amused expression betraying his tone.

She hit him again and Gray chuckled at the two before getting up from his spot on the couch. "I'm gonna go bother Erza," he said casually, leaving the two in the room but not before directing a look Natsu's way, at which Natsu rolled his eyes.

Lisanna bent a knee on the couch, turning to face the remaining male fully. He met her gaze instantly. "So I have a question."

"I already told you I'd fuck Demon Soul," he joked.

She rolled her eyes. "Not that, dummy. Mira told me there was gonna be an anime convention in Crocus in a couple months. Are you guys going?"

"Yeah, we go every year." AniCon in Crocus was one of the biggest anime conventions in the world. It was one of Natsu's favorite events of the year, and because they had such a big fanbase they always did panels and signings where they could interact with fans and have an all around great time. They all loved going. "Why do you ask?"

"I want to come," she chimed excitedly, blue eyes sparkling as she smiled brightly.

Natsu grinned back a little, noting how pretty her smile was before eyeing her quizzically. "Do you realize it's an anime convention, right?" he questioned, knowing full well Lisanna had no interest in anime or anything even relating to it.

Lisanna looked down at her hands sheepishly. "Well, Mira and Elfman are going, and so is everyone else, so I'll just be here by myself for a week and that sounds very boring," she explained before grinning widely again. "So I wanna go too! Think you can fit another person into your plans?"

He smiled warmly at her. "Of course you can come," he said like it was the most obvious thing in the world. She smiled even bigger and tackled him with a hug that he returned with a laugh and a slight blush. "You're gonna be bored though."

"I'd be even more bored by myself!"

"Good point."

There was a soft gasp that sounded like it came from the archway, and both heads turned to look at the new presence in the room. Whoever had been there ran away before they could see, but they did catch a glimpse of blue, indicating that a certain 17 year-old had just seen them in their position that could be possibly misinterpreted out of context.

They looked at each other, Lisanna giggling and Natsu's face heating up as he suddenly became very aware of their proximity. She had jumped into Natsu's lap in her excitement when she hugged him, probably giving Wendy the wrong idea.

"Let's go tell them," Natsu tried to say as calmly as possible, needing to get out of this situation as soon as possible.

He'd had the biggest crush on his white-haired childhood friend since middle school, and no matter how many times he denied it everyone seemed to know.

Well, everyone besides her.

To make things even harder, Lisanna happened to be a very "touchy" individual who, much like himself, lacked any sense of personal space. Out of everyone else in their group, she seemed to be closest to Natsu, which was both a blessing and a curse for her pink-haired friend.

On one hand, Natsu enjoyed her constant touches and invasion of space as it allowed him to be closer to her. But on the other hand it was straight up torture sometimes, since they were just friends and she never showed any signs of wanting more.

As such, he struggled to keep his cool as she straddled him on the couch with her arms wrapped tightly around him.

Thankfully, Lisanna nodded at his request, and they left the living room to find the rest of Natsu's housemates (minus one, Gajeel almost never left his room) doing their own individual things in the kitchen. At the counter island Gray was shoveling giant scoops of ice cream into a large bowl. Erza sat at the dining table, scrolling through Twitter with a large helping of strawberry cake, and Wendy was filling up two small bowls for her and Natsu's cats, Carla and Happy. The two cats came scurrying into the kitchen at the sound of the food being shaken out of the box, brushing past the two newcomer's legs to reach the food bowls that had just hit the floor.

Upon noticing the new people in the room, Gray, Erza and Wendy all looked up from what they were doing to see who had entered. Wendy's cheeks tinted red slightly, remembering what she had seen mere minutes ago.

"So Lisanna's coming to Crocus with us this year," Natsu stated right off the bat, earning grins from everyone else in the room.

"That's good to hear," Erza smiled.

"Are you sure you'll be able to handle a huge con like that?" Gray laughed.

"I'll manage," Lisanna giggled. "I just don't wanna be here alone. Everyone's going this year."

"Awesome," Wendy piped up, momentarily forgetting what she had seen. "Do you watch anime?"

Lisanna sheepishly tucked a lock of white hair behind her ear. "No, but," she shrugged. "I like Pikachu!" she grinned almost proudly.

The room collectively chuckled at her mention of the widely-known Pokemon. She picked a random small plush doll off the floor, probably left there by one of the cats after they had finished playing with it. "And this," she held up the figure of a brown dog-cat looking animal. "Is uh, Charizard?"

Everyone laughed even harder, Gray bracing himself on the counter to keep himself from falling over in mirth. Erza and Wendy whipped a hand over their mouths in an attempt to stifle her increasingly loud giggling. Natsu amusedly dragged a hand down his face as he laughed along with them, taking the plush Eevee doll from her hands. Lisanna giggled along with them, not embarrassed but rather amused at herself for possibly making a grave error.

"A for effort," Natsu chuckled, placing the doll back on the floor for the cats to play with again later.

Once everyone sobered Erza smiled up at their guest from her seat. "Are you staying for dinner, Lisanna?"

Lisanna looked up in thought, realizing she had absolutely nothing to do today for once, and brightened at the prospect. She nodded and joined Erza at the table. "Yeah, why not?"

"Cool," Gray grinned, pulling his phone from his pocket to call their local pizza place. "Am I getting two pies or three?"

"Three," Everyone declared simultaneously in mutual agreement.

"I say we get four."

"That is way too much, Natsu," Erza snapped. "You'll get sick."

"But-"

She glared daggers at him, violent promises swimming in her brown eyes.

"Y-yes ma'am!"

Gray snickered and muttered something that sounded suspiciously like "pussy" under his breath.

"What was that, ice dick?!" Natsu rushed towards the counter island where his droopy eyed housemate smirked smugly.

Gray dropped his ice cream scoop on the counter, prepared and eager to fight. "I said you're a-"

Before Gray could finish his sentence Natsu had practically vaulted over the counter island to tackle him to the ground. Before he could actually cause any actual harm, however, in a flash the older redhead appeared behind him and grabbed the back of his shirt roughly. He stilled immediately, the anger he held being instantly replaced with fear of the things he knew Erza was capable of.

"What do you think you're doing?" Erza said with an eerie calmness, frightening Natsu even more".

"But he just—"

She moved to stand between the two before smacking them both hard over the head. They whined at the sudden pain, grasping at where she had hit them. "Stop acting like children," she scolded with a scowl before returning to her strawberry cake. Lisanna stared in amazement at the interaction. It somehow happened every time she visited.

Everyone paused as they suddenly heard a very loud, angry yell coming from upstairs.

"Is that..?"

"Gajeel. He's probably doing a video."

"Ah."

Lisanna loved coming over.

Lucy scrolled through the comments of her last video, relieved that people didn't seem to mind that she made Levy do that ramen challenge instead of doing it herself.

"They love you," Lucy giggled at her blue-haired roommate who sat across from her at the table, eating a fluffy (and thankfully not spicy) croissant. The smaller woman cringed as she remembered the evil noodles she had to ingest last night.

"They better," she muttered. "That was horrible."

Both their phones suddenly vibrated from their spots on the table, both girls looking down at their screens and exchanging giggles as Juvia spammed their Snapchat group chat.

OMF

OMG

GUYS

GUYSS

DID

OMG

GRAY

LAST NIGHT

THE VIDEO

DID YOU WTAHC IT

IM SCREAMINF

ICANT

"Do you think she saw the video?" Levy questioned with mock curiosity.

"Hm, possibly," Lucy hummed, picking up her mug and taking a small sip of her tea.

The bluenette continued to ceaselessly spam short bursts of fangirlisms. They laughed as the short individual messages quickly filled the whole screen before a new line with a purple box beside a "tap to view" appeared, indicating she had just sent a video. They both opened it at the same time, the sound of the video in sync as it played on both their devices.

The camera was directed towards her laptop, which showed an internet browser opened to the YouTube video Fairy Tail had posted last night. They caught a short glimpse of Juvia's finger as she pressed the spacebar on her laptop, resuming the video.

"If you could fuck any YouTuber who would it be?"

"W-what?! Don't ask me that!"

"Gotta answer it, we promised we'd answer our fans' personal questions."

"But what if they watch our videos!"

"They'll probably just find it funny or something."

"... Probably Lockser."

She pressed the spacebar again and flipped the camera view over to her face, and Lucy instantly giggled uncontrollably at her absolutely gobsmacked expression.

"I-I just-" She stammered before shutting her eyes tightly and letting out a loud squeal that was cut off after a split second as the short video ended.

Their fingers moved on their screens as they responded to their friend.

Levy:

I think I see a collab in your future ;)

Lucy:

You should comment on the video lol

Let him know you're very interested c;

Juvia:

ABSOLUTELYNOT

They continued to talk to their animated YouTuber friend before she left the chat, likely to freak out to other unassuming souls.

"You should do a video like that," Levy suggested. "People would love it,"

Lucy pondered the idea for a bit before shaking her head. "My life isn't interesting enough."

"They won't be asking about your life, they'll be asking about you." Levy's brow wiggled suggestively as she took another bite of bread. "Let the world know some fun secrets. I guarantee it'll be one of your most popular videos yet."

"They probably already know everything," Lucy laughed, doing something on her phone before moving to the living room to get the camera. "But sure, I'll do it. Sounds like fun."

"Wait, right now?" Levy blanched, noticing Lucy fumbling with the tripod.

"Yep. I was looking for something to do today anyway." Lucy always did her homework ahead of time, often leaving her with more free time than she knew what to do with. The blonde moved the tripod with the camera on it in front of the couch before disappearing into the hallway. "Be right back," she called out before the sound of a door opening and closing.

30 minutes later found Lucy walking back into the living room wearing a simple leggings and plain oversized grey sweater ensemble, ready to possibly embarrass herself on camera with overly personal questions. Levy sat on the couch behind the sofa, looking up at the blonde with a grin when she entered.

"There's so many already," Levy grinned, looking back down at her phone. "Can I choose them?"

"Sure," Lucy said simply without thinking, turning on the camera and plopping down on the sleek grey couch in front of it, missing the evil smirk that graced her roommate's friend for the briefest of moments.

"Perfect," she responded with a hint of mischief that Lucy didn't catch.

Once she was settled, Lucy took a deep breath, smiling widely after breathing out.

"Alright," she clapped her hands together, staring into the camera lens. "So I asked you guys on Twitter to send me some questions," she gushed excitedly. Levy smiled gleefully at her best friend. Lucy was always so much brighter and happier when she was behind a camera.

She lived for this.

"Levy's gonna read them out to me and I'm gonna answer them to the best of my ability, so without further ado," Lucy closed her eyes as she gave a large grin to the camera before opening them and pointing to Levy, who couldn't be seen in the shot as she was sitting behind the camera. "Let's get started."

"Alright…" Levy began scrolling through the questions, patiently awaiting her opportunity for revenge after the Spicy Ramen Incident of 2018. "First question, are you single?"

Levy smiled suggestively at her friend, who chuckled at the question. "Yes," she stated simply. "To not be single you have to actually go out and socialize. Not my thing," she half-joked. One of the reasons Lucy loved making videos so much was the fact that she could express herself to others without actually interacting with them directly and trigger her social awkwardness.

Levy continued to ask her various weird questions from "What's your cup size? (which Lucy adamantly refused to answer) to "If you could be any tree, what kind of tree would you be?" before she finally decided it was time for her payback plan to commence.

"Next question," the casual smile she had been sporting throughout the recording suddenly shifted onto the evil side, and by the time Lucy noticed it was too late. "If you could bang any YouTuber, who would it be?"

Lucy gaped at her backstabbing best friend, unable to believe this betrayal. "I'm not answering that!" she cried.

"Oh come on, I ate spicy ramen for you," Levy replied innocently with a pouted lip, shamelessly pulling the guilt card.

"Nope." Lucy was not budging this time.

"What's the worst that can happen? Natsu asked the same thing to Gray, it's a common question," Levy giggled.

Lucy closed her eyes and let out an exasperated sigh. There was a small part of her fangirl side that wanted to see how her YouTube crush would react if he were to see this, while a more logical side screamed that it was a terrible idea because he would absolutely end up seeing it if she did this, which could lead to some major embarrassment.

But if Fairy Tail did it, how bad could it possibly be? It's not like she had to actually talk to him. It was just a funny question for a video.

Fuck it, she resolved. The whole purpose of this video was for questions like these, right?

"Hm… If I could bang any YouTuber..." She pretended to look up in thought before her grin returned.

"... It'd be Natsu from Fairy Tail."