Day 2: Hero. Established Grayza. Team Natsu will never change.
"Doh. Rei. Me. Rei. Doh."
The rest of Team Natsu watched as Erza sang warm up vocals Somehow they had ended up yet again doing a job for the miser theatre owner who had ended up being abandoned by his actors for his terrible play. But when Erza had heard the prize was cake she had dragged the rest of Tram Natsu into doing the job, ignoring their complaints.
"Are we at least going to finish deciding who's playing what?" Gray asked irritably.
Lucy leaned forward. "We already did Gray. You're the prince. Erza is the Queen the prince is in love with. And Natsu is the demon trying to murder the prince meaning you."
"Wait what. When did that happen? And what are you playing Lucy?!"
"If you had paid attention you would know when. As for me, since I was responsiblefor helping write the play I don't have to play a major role. I will however cameo as the..."
"Maid!" Happy declared gleefully.
Lucy nodded reluctantly, then with a vengeful smile added "And Happy is going to the sacrificial pawn of the demon in his attempt to murder the prince."
"What?!" Happy shrieked flying away from Lucy. "No! I'm gonna be the sidekick of the demon. Remember?"
"I know. He sacrifices his sidekick."
As Happy stared at her in horror, Natsu began to protest that he would do no such thing.
"They're such children." Erza laughed.
Gray nodded. "But a thousand times more irritating."
"A little," Erza agreed. "Opening night is tomorrow, let's practice!" She yelled at the trio to get them to listen.
Gray paled a little hearing that opening night was tomorrow when he barely knew his role.
Seemingly realizing his silent question, Happy flew over to him. "Erza moved opening date up so she could get some more cake." Gray nodded in understanding. Erza glanced at them furiously and each immediately went to their position.
They practiced diligently all night. Or rather, Erza threatened to cut their heads off if they were to stop practicing. They finally stopped at the break of dawn . Excluding Erza, they were all sitting on the floor, exhausted.
They were tired and the words, Thank You Very Much, only served to irritate them further. As far as Gray was concerned the sooner they finished this gig the better. They all went to sleep for the next few hours until it was time for the play.
The next morning Gray stared at Erza who was practically shining, though he was unable tofigure out whether it was due to the performance or the cake she'd get afterwards. He walked up to her nonchalantly, his hands in his pockets.
"You excited Erza?" She nodded enthusiastically a warm smile on her lips.
"I think it'll be fun, don't you?" Erza asked. He agreed though inwardly he wasn't quite sure. Erza seemed to read his mind for she laughed and stepped forward, pressing a chaste kiss to his lips.
"Don't worry. It'll be fun." She told him before she walked away.
Gray sighed. "I hope so."
And at first it was. Everything was going great. There was a full auditorium, their fans from their last play, the theatre owner looked happy and they, the actors, were quite excited. But they were Fairy Tail mages after all. Everything was bound to go to chaos.
First Erza got stage fright. Again. But that was okay. Luckily the Queen was the silent type. Lucy had obviously prepared for this very situation. Then Natsu forgot his lines and just started to fight Gray. Still okay. That was the storyline after all.
In the end it was all Lucy and Happy's fault. After all the 'trauma' Lucy had given him yesterday, making him think that he'd have to die in the story, Happy couldn't give up the chance to get back at her.
So when Lucy was playing her role as the maid and was delivering drinks to the Queen Erika and prince Grayson, Happy caused Natsu to fall on top of her. The drinks went everywhere ruining Lucy's clothes which were then burned to a crisp. She shrieked and attempted to cover her modesty.
This brought Erza immense rage and she immediately leapt up to murder Natsu. Fire and swords went everywhere. Several celestial spirits popped up, such as Loke just to make comments about Lucy's body.
This served to further enrage Natsu and he started fighting harder. Fortunately the spirits vanished in time, otherwise Lucy would have murdered him.
In between all of this Gray joined the brawl. Attacks were flying around meaning the theatre would be destroyed. Again. Just then Gray noticed Erza was standing beneath a shaky support beam. He ran and knocked her out of the way just in time.
The pillar fell right after. Erza gasped in surprise. "Thanks." She gasped gripping his arm. Her eyes widened and she pulled him backwards. A large piece of ceramic crashed to the ground.
Gray looked to where he had just been standing. "Thanks."
Erza watched the destruction around her. "Some heroes we are."
Gray looped an arm round her. "We don't have to be fake heroes. We're Fairy Tail mages, we're real heroes. And besides, you'll always be my hero."
Erza laughed. "And you're mine." She teased.
