Sorry that chapter 4 is late and not very good. I'm trying to get more descriptive. Hope you enjoy it... if anyone is still reading this...

IIIII

The sunrays were beaming down on Natsu's face as he unwillingly began to open his eyes. Yawning, he stretched his arms up and turned his head to look at the clock. 8:45.

'Wait, 8:45?', Natsu though 'Doesn't the train leave at 9:00'. He widened his eyes in surprise, just realizing how late they were.

Stumbling to get out of bed, Natsu threw his blankets up and quickly put on clothes.

"EVERYBODY, THE TRAIN LEAVES IN FIFTEEN MINUTES!" Natsu yelled loud enough to wake up the entire academy.

"ARGG!" Groaned Gajeel, flopping out of his bed in the next room, holding his ears painfully. "Salamander! Did you really have to yell that loud!" Gajeel shouted over to Natsu, who was frantically gathering his stuff.

"Yes! The train leaves in fifth- No, thirteen minutes!" Natsu said looking at the clock.

Gajeel then leaped up, grabbing his clothes and getting dressed in his room.

"Where's Jellal and Romeo! And our instruments too!" Natsu yelled, concern laced in his voice.

"Quiet down, squinty eyes!" Gray said, walking out of his room "They left a note," Gray continued before Natsu could counter back.

"It say's," Gray started before Natsu could yell at him to hurry up, "We couldn't wake you all up. Yous slept like a rock. We took all your instruments and bags at the train station. You better make it to Crocus before the competition starts, or else. - Jellal."

"Okay let's go then!" Natsu yelled, grabbing both Gray and Gajeel's arms tightly, running towards the nearest window.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING, YOU IDIOT!" Gray shouted frantically.

"Relax, I always go through the window," Natsu said, knowing that in ten minutes the train would be leaving.

"BUT WE'RE JUMPING OFF THE SECOND FLOOR!" Gray retorted back.

"We don't really have time, Gray!" Gajeel stated.

They hit the ground, both Natsu and Gajeel landed smoothly on the grass, while gray landed with a thud, then tripping over his feet. Natsu and Gajeel started running as soon as they had landed, leaving Gray behind.

"Wait!" Shouted Gray, get up and started running as well, though Natsu and Gajeel didn't stop.

Gray managed to catch up, but still slightly behind them as they reached the train station. Running through the crowd, the three of them managed to reach the platform just as the train started to catch some speed, steam slowly coming out at the front.

'WAIT!" The three of them yelled simultaneously.

Their yells and pleas though went unheard by the train, though.

"Damit," Natsu tsked to himself.

Natsu then decided to make a bold move, jumping onto the train with Gajeel following along. As soon as they landed on the train, motion sickness hit both of them as the collapsed, groaning.

"Idiots," Gray muttered to himself. 'Well, may as well jump,' Gray thought to himself, not willing to face the wrath of Jellal and Laxus.

Gray then jumped forward, only just being able to grab hold of a bar and swing himself up onto the train, landing with a thud.

Gray looked down at Gajeel and Natsu, both groaning. Gray then dragged them both to the booth that Jellal and Romeo were seated at. He then dumped them both down on the seat opposite to them.

Gray then collapsed next to Romeo, panting and exhausted.

"I feel sorry for them," Gray said with no sympathy in his words, breathing heavily.

"Glad you made it in time!" Romeo said excitedly, glad not to witness Jellal a Laxus' wrath on the other three.

"You could have at least woken us up," Gray told them both, slightly annoyed and angry. Who wouldn't be? He woke up to Natsu screaming, then unwillingly jumped out of a two-story building, run all the way to the train station and risk his life to jump onto the train, and then drag Natsu and Gajeel while heavily exhausted.

"We tried," explained Romeo, slightly guilty.

"Multiple times," added Jellal, flipping over the page on the book he was reading, no guilt hidden in his words.

"You did bring our clothes and instruments, right?" Gray asked, wanting to confirm the not.

"Yep!" Romeo said popping the 'p', "We even packed twice the amount of clothes that you packed before, Gray,"

"Why would I need twice the amount of clothes?" Gray asked, "It's not like I randomly take off and lose my clothes without knowing,"

A snort came out of both Natsu and Gajeel, Natsu muttering he'll probably need three times the amount, before another wave of nausea hit them both, sending them unconscious.

"Then where are your clothes now?" Asked Jellal, not looking up.

Gray looked down, "Where did my clothes go?!" Gray yelled, surprised. He then walked away, muttering as how he could have unknowingly taken his clothes off while being exhausted and dragging Natsu and Gajeel.

"How does he manage to do that?" Romeo questioned, sweatdropping.

"Don't know," replied Jellal, "We still have a few days until we get to Crocus though,"

"Laxus said he got a couple of new assistants, right?" Romeo asked Jellal, curiously.

"They're named Happy and Pantherlily, Happy being around your age and Pantherliy being a couple of years older," Gray answered Romeo, walking back in with his clothes that he had found lying in the corridor.

"Can't wait to meet them!" Romeo said excitedly.

"And the other bands," Gray added, sitting down next to Romeo, once again.

"We will just have to wait for a few days then," Jellal told them both, as he continued reading to pass the time.

The two of them sighed and chattered among themselves, wishing that the train ride would go faster, and the two unconscious people wishing the exact same.

Romeo and Gray then drifted off into sleep sometimes latter

'Still, I had no idea that Ezra had joined a band,' Jellal though to himself, putting his book down, 'I wonder what they sound like, Ezra was pretty good at the drums...'

Jellal then drifted off into sleep, leaving his thoughts behind, for the rest of the trip.

IIIII

A/N: Sorry it's late. I was busy and reading a bunch of older fanfics that I found while scrolling through older Nalu fics. A couple of humor/romance Nalunone-shots made me burst out laughing and another fanfic I read made me laugh at Levy's personality.

Also, the latest chapter of Fairy Tail: 100 Year Quest, Fairy Nail, Was completely unexpected. And the drawings in every chapter are so good, edspecially the drawings of the dragons.

Anyways, in the next chapter, the competition FINALLY begins.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter.

18/5/2019