Chapter 7: Rum and Punishments

"Talking"

'Thinking'

Attack

*Sound*

In a Boat in the middle of the ocean.

"H-How m-much longer till we g-get there?" Asked a very sick looking Dragon Slayer.

"You're pathetic Flame-brain." Gray, who was sitting on a chair in the deck said to Natsu, who currently had most of his body slumped over the ships rails, in case he couldn't hold it anymore.

"He does have a point." Kizami said. "It seems like we've been here for a long time already."

"Come on guys, it has only been a few hours since we left the island." Lucy said looking at Natsu, who seemed to be seconds away from jumping off, and Happy who was next to him casually fishing.

"Indeed, it seems like that but rest assured we're almost there. In the meantime, just rest and relax." Erza said from her seat on a white table while drinking a cup of tea and eating a slice of her favorite cake, how the pirates were able to get one so fast, nobody knew. "Do you mind getting me another cup?" She asked one of the pirates.

"Of course Ane-san!" One of the pirates yelled before running to the kitchen making the others, besides Erza, sweat drop.

"By the way, have any of you seen Kurosaki?" Kizami asked.

"Last time I saw him he was in the back of the ship." Gray said.

"I'll go see what his doing before he does something that might sink the ship." Kizami said before walking towards the back of the ship.

Sometime later.

"What the heck are you doing?" Kizami asked when he saw Kurosaki. He was currently next to the rail with a barrel, of what Kizami concluded to be rum, and was dropping its contents in the ocean while whistling like he was doing nothing wrong.

"Nothing." Kurosaki said without stopping what he was doing.

"Oh really? Because to me it seems you're wasting the pirate's entire rum reserves." Kurosaki said.

"I'm not wasting it!" Kurosaki said. "I'm just sharing some with the fishes."

"How much did you drink already?"

"Well, let's see, this is the sixth barrel, I tried to drink all of them but at the first half of the second barrel I remembered I'm not Cana so I decided to give the rest to the fishes."

"Yup, you're drunk."

"No I'm not!" Kurosaki yelled. "I'd know if I was drunk!"

"Then prove it."

"I'm sober enough to tell everyone about you and Mira, in perfect detail." Kurosaki said.

"All right you're not drunk."

"Told ya!"

"If you were drunk you would be yelling that the "great god Kurosaki" has appeared and shit like that."

"I don't do that!" Kurosaki yelled.

"Yeah, you do." Kizami said. "Remember that time we took a day off and went to the closest village?"

"Is that why people ran away from us when we passed through?"

"Yes, and by the way, they were running away from you."

"Oh…"

"Now come on stop wasting the pirates' rum and let's go." Kizami said starting to walk away.

"Fine. But I swear, if I hear any of them call Erza Ane-san one more time I'll lose it." Kurosaki said. The moment they were close to the others one of the pirates ran towards Erza.

"Here's your tea Ane-san!"

"Just… go back to what you were doing." Kizami told Kurosaki, who's right eyebrow was visibly twitching from annoyance.

"With gusto." Kurosaki said walking to the back again. 'Maybe I should throw out their water along with the rum.' He thought.

In land.

"I'M ALIVE!" Natsu yelled the moment he reached land.

"Finally! I can't wait to get home and take a long relaxing bath." Lucy said.

"Yeah yeah, let's just go." Kurosaki said starting to walk away with the others.

"Shouldn't we give the pirates something to thank them?" Erza asked.

"Don't worry, I already took care of that." Kurosaki said.

"What did you do?" Kizami quietly asked.

"Nothing, I just gave them a little present." Kurosaki said while smirking.

"You didn't…" Kizami said.

*BOOOM!*

An explosion that came from the docks was heard.

"I did." Kizami said, still smirking. "Don't worry, it was only enough to create a hole in the ship so that it would sink."

"What was that?" Gray asked.

"Probably the pirates." Kurosaki said. "They have barrels full of gun powder, they must have done something that caused one to explode."

"Should we go help them?" Happy asked.

"Don't worry, I'm sure that the military are helping them right now." Kurosaki said.

"Then what are we waiting for?" Natsu asked. "To Fairy Tail!" He yelled before he and the others started to make their way to the train station, much to the Dragon Slayer's despair.

"You're evil." Kizami told Kurosaki, both of them were in the back of the group so the others didn't hear them.

"I know."

A few hours later, Guild Hall.

"Is Master here?" Erza asked when they reached the Guild. Instead of the Master they were greeted by Mira.

"Welcome back. How was the island?" Mira asked. "Did you have a swim?"

"It wasn't that kind of trip." Erza said.

"But it wasn't that bad." Kizami said.

"That's because you weren't the one who fell from the sky!" Kurosaki said.

"That's because you're the only one dumb enough to go to a flying Cristal!" Kizami said back.

"How would I know that you guys would try to destroy the moon!"

"Where's Master?" Erza asked ignoring the bickering duo.

"He's attending some Council meeting or something." Macao said. "He left for it yesterday." He said making Natsu, Gray, Lucy and Happy release a sigh of release.

"We're safe for now." Natsu said.

"Good! At least that won't happen till Gramps gets back!" Gray said.

"Thank goodness! At least we can stop staring at Gates of Hell for a while!" Happy said while crying tears of joy.

"Just tell me what that is already!" Lucy yelled. "I'm curious and scared as hell! And being clueless about what's going to happen is even scarier!"

"Be quiet!" Erza yelled shutting them all up.

"Besides, you're still not in the clear." Kizami said.

"W-Why?" Lucy fearfully asked.

"You stole his quest remember?" Kizami asked pointing a thumb to a smirking Kurosaki.

"WE'RE BACK TO THE GATES OF HELL!" Happy yelled.

"Don't worry, I already released most of my anger." Kurosaki said. 'Thank you pirates.' "So instead, I have something less severe planned to the four of you." He said.

"W-Wait, didn't you say that you were only going to punish Natsu and Gray?" Asked a scared Lucy.

"You're new, so I wanted to make fell like you wouldn't suffer for a little while. But relax yours is going to be different." Kurosaki said.

"He's the Devil." Most of the guild said.

"Now. Follow me to the back!" Kurosaki said walking towards the back door followed by the other four.

At Dawn.

"I'm back." Makarov said walking through the doors.

"Yo old man!" Kurosaki said from his spot from the bar.

"So you're already back." Master said. "That was quick."

"Natsu and the others have already done most of the job when we got there." Kizami said.

"Where are they by the way?" Master asked, noticing that the guild became quiet and that Kurosaki was smirking. "What did you do this time?" He asked remembering the last time that Natsu stole a job from Kurosaki. If the last time Kurosaki trapped Natsu inside the church bell for almost an hour while it kept ringing, he feared for what happened this time.

"Don't worry I didn't do much." Kurosaki said. "They're out back." He said before the guild master walked towards the guilds back door

Outside.

When Makarov exited the guild he didn't know if he should feal sorry for them or laugh… He chose to laugh. Currently Lucy was tied to tree while Natsu, Gray and Happy were buried, having only their heads out, but what made it funny was that all of them had drawings on their faces, curtsy of Kurosaki.

"How long have you been here?" Master asked after he stopped laughing.

"About four hours." Lucy said.

"Come on Gramps! Take us out of here!" Natsu yelled.

"Are you sure you want that?" Makarov asked while smirking.

"What the hell kind of question is that?!" Gray yelled.

"I WANT FISH!" Happy yelled.

"Shut up you damn cat! You've been yelling that the entire time we we're here!" Lucy yelled.

"As I was saying." Master said. "Are you sure you want that? Because this is the only thing that's preventing your punishment, and just because Kurosaki was in a good mood and didn't do anything worse like that time with Natsu or even to Laxus." He said making the ones buried tremble a little at the memory. "The same can't be said about me. So I'll ask once again, are you sure you want to leave?"

"I-I'm fine." Natsu said fearfully.

"S-Same here." Gray said.

"Ok then." Makarov said. "Don't worry I'll tell someone to take you guys off there… in a few hours." He said walking back to the guild.

"At least we don't have to go through that." Happy said making Natsu and Gray nod in agreement.

"Just what the hell is that supposed to be?!"

Back in the Guild.

"Hey master, did you like what I did back there?" Kurosaki asked.

"I still think you could have been a little less rigid." Mira said.

"Says the one that tied Kurosaki in chains and turned in to a Demon to fly around Magnolia while Kurosaki was being dragged on the ground." Kizami said. "I still don't know what he did for you to do that."

"I erased that memory." Kurosaki said. "But they were lucky. I was thinking of putting a straw in their mouths and bury them completely."

"That's not a way to treat a guild member." Erza said.

"Says the one who makes everyone piss themselves with a glare." Kurosaki said making Erza glare at him. "Chance!" He yelled before reaching to the plate of cake that she had in front of her and ran.

"Get back here!" Erza yelled before running after him.

"It's been awhile since I last saw this." Master said with a smile, watching a laughing Kurosaki run away from a very pissed Erza.

"Brings back memories." Mira said.

"I think he forgot about how this usually ends." Kizami said before seeing Kurosaki trip and fall on the ground making the cake he had on his hands fly out of his hands and fall on the ground.

The whole guild was silent when they saw the cake fall, some looking at Kurosaki with pity, and other looking at Erza with fear as her hair shadowed her eyes and a dark aura surrounded her.

"…Shit…" Was the only thing that Kurosaki said before slightly moving to the left, dodging Erza's Purgatory Armor's Mace. "Well..." Kurosaki said while standing up. "…I'm going home!" He yelled before sprinting to the doors followed by a very pissed Erza.

"Yup, brings back memories." Mira said after Kurosaki and Erza left.

That night throughout Magnolia could be heard Kurosaki's screaming.

"Did it stop?" Natsu asked.

"What do you think Kurosaki did this time?" Gray asked.

"He probably pissed off Erza again." Happy said.

"Oh look! The sun's rising." Natsu said.

"How can you all act like nothing happened?!" Lucy yelled. "They forgot about us!" Lucy yelled trying to free herself from the ropes.

"Lucy is as noisy as she is fat." Happy said.

"What was that you damn cat!"

"How much longer do you guys think we'll be here?" Gray asked.

"Probably until they open the guild." Natsu said. "But changing topics… I'm hungry!"

On the streets of Magnolia.

"Why do I have a feeling I forgot to do something last night?" Makarov asked himself as he made his way to the guild. "Probably shouldn't have drank that much."

End of Chapter 7