A/N: Hi again everyone! Sorry about you all having to wait all day for this chapter, but I ended up getting a bit bored with having to constantly write MidLu. So, in my boredom I wrote the first chapter for BixLu! Anyways, the theme for this chapter is "Silence" and yes, I did struggle a bit with this theme, but all's well that ends well. Also, for this chapter I couldn't decide if Cobra's mind reading capabilities would work over a Lacrima…so, I decided against it. Oh yeah, just going to warn you all here the last chapter is going to be full of smut…so much smut / The next chapter will also contain sexual content, but it won't be nearly as bad as the last chapter…you all have been warned.
Disclaimer: I (unfortunately) do not own Fairy Tail. That beautiful piece of amazingness belongs to Hiro Mashima.
Chapter Five: Something is up with the Fairies and the Tigers
"Macbeth…love, I really feel like we should be a little bit more worried about this," Lucy said while sitting at their usual table in the Sabertooth guild. Midnight was laying across the bench with his read resting in her lap. His eyes were closed and he was enjoying the feel of the small blonde as she ran her fingers through his hair. She would stop at times to play with his braid which for some reason she had a small obsession with.
"I'm sure you're just worrying too much," Midnight answered without opening his eyes.
"No, seriously, Macbeth, you don't understand. This is never a good sign. They're up to something," Lucy responded while looking over all the empty spots of the table. No one was here, yeah sure, the guild hall was full of its members, but the group that she hung out with wasn't here. "It's too quiet…," Lucy said slowly and at that her boyfriend gave a small chuckle.
"If you ask me it's too noisy," he said, obviously talking about all the Sabertooth members that were up and chatting with each other.
"No, not that Macbeth, I mean our table. Not even team Natsu showed up and they promised to come over today," Lucy said while leaning forward slightly to look directly down at her boyfriend.
"Even if they are planning something. It can't be that bad," Midnight said and slowly opened his eyes to look up at the little blonde. He raised a hand and gently played with the edges of her hair, but not even that took the worry off her face. If this kept up Midnight had a feeling he was going to be doing some work today instead of sleeping in Lucy's lap.
"The last time shit like this happened…well, I don't wanna talk about that," she said slowly as the memories came flooding back to her. Midnight only raised a curious brow when he felt his girlfriend shudder in what he could only guess was either fear or disgust. "I think I should go look for them…or hide. Hiding doesn't sound like such a bad idea either," Lucy muttered under her breath before gently lifting Midnight off of her lap. The reflector mage allowed her, sitting up and looking over the expanse of the guild hall. He honestly couldn't understand why the disappearance of her friends bothered her that much, but he supposed it had something to do with being part of such a lively guild. "I'm going to head back to the room and grab my purse. You coming or staying?" Lucy asked while standing up from her seat and then looking down at Midnight. The man didn't respond to her, but he did slowly stand up from his seat and follow behind her as she departed the guild hall. The two of them made it back up to their room and the moment they stepped in they heard someone yelling for Midnight. It took the both of them a solid few seconds to realize that it was Lucy's communication Lacrima.
"Cobra?" Lucy said looking down at the one-eyed man's face that appeared on her Lacrima. The man did the same looking her over for a moment before giving her a cocky grin.
"What's up pervert?" he responded grin growing wider when he saw Lucy's cheeks puff up in a bit of defiance toward the nickname.
"Stop calling me that! It's not my fault you and Natsu decided to do something like that out in public," Lucy shouted into the Lacrima while her cheeks stained a light red color.
"We were in the middle of a forest. There was no way you just randomly found us that easily," Cobra responded with every intention of going back and forth with the little blonde since she was so much fun to tease. It was just unfortunate for him that his partner just had to poke his ugly head into the Lacrima.
"Why did you call Eric?" Midnight asked while gently taking the Lacrima from Lucy's hands.
"But Macbeth, I didn't get the last word in yet!" Lucy complained as her boyfriend made himself comfortable on the far side of the couch.
"She's calling you Macbeth now?" Eric asked while looking over the pale skinned boy with a somewhat curious expression. It was a surprise to hear the girl calling Midnight by his real name, Midnight, just like everyone else that came from Oracion Seis preferred not to be called by their real names unless by someone really close to them. Unfortunately for him Midnight didn't answer, but he supposed that was a bit expected from the mostly silent mage. "Whatever, anyways, I'm calling to let you know we finally got something going with the shit council," Cobra spoke, watching as Midnight raised a brow and Lucy pushed herself on the screen with the same surprised expression.
"Does that mean…?" Lucy started to speak, but interrupted herself with a squeal of delight when she saw Cobra nod his head. "You're free!" Lucy exclaimed happily before throwing her arms around Midnight's neck and then promptly buried her face into his hair. Cobra stared at the two in quite a bit of shock, but Midnight's allowed his facial expression to remain exactly the same even as Lucy continued to squeal in sheer delight and cling onto him.
"What do you mean by worked something out with the council?" Midnight asked and at his words Lucy finally turned a serious gaze over toward Cobra.
"According to the smurf we'll be roaming around an awful lot looking for information on Zeref. So, it won't be much different from what we do now…only now we have to report to the council once in a while. Well…the smurf can handle that shit," Cobra said before raising his free hand and pointing toward Lucy whom was still cuddled up against Midnight.
"Now, wanna fill me in on what the hell is going on between you two fuckers?" he asked obviously very curious about the relationship the two of them had and honestly…who wouldn't be.
"He's my boyfriend," Lucy said simply as if that wasn't going to be the weirdest thing Cobra had ever heard in his life.
"What? No fucking way! Seriously, the narc over there finally had the balls to ask you out? I thought he was just going to stand around with his thumb up his ass and do nothing about it," Cobra said laughing hysterically from his end while Midnight turned a light red color and Lucy raised a curious brow.
"You mean…Macbeth has had his eyes on me for a while now?" Lucy asked with a curious gaze still directed at the one-eyed mage.
"His eyes? The boy's been wanting to fu-," Cobra started, but was abruptly cut off when Midnight decided to end the call with him. The multi colored haired mage glared down at the Lacrima as if Cobra was actually still able to see his deadly gaze.
"He was going to say you wanted to fuck me, right?" Lucy said from her spot where her chin still rested gently against the top of his head. Midnight had no response for the blonde woman and to be honest the only thing he could currently think of was how great it would be if he could just strangle his long time close friend. "Can you at least tell me since when? I mean we've rarely ever talked until this little adventure started," Lucy said before finally peeling herself from Midnight and taking a seat beside him.
"Don't take a word he says seriously. He's just being an ass. The one time you came to meet us with Erza and Natsu, I thought you looked beautiful and since then he's been just asking me to murder him," Midnight spoke, trying to explain that his friend was just nothing more than an ass.
"Really? Wow, make me feel bad for never showing up again," she muttered under her breath. She hadn't been aware that Midnight thought anything like that when she had visited them that one time. The two of them had barely said anything to each other that time though that may have been more her fault since she was still a bit afraid of him. He and Angel were the harder to forgive out of the others since they had both done something to personally hurt her. She still wasn't even 100 percent with Angel yet because of the way the woman had treated her celestial spirits. And on top of all that the one time she had gone over she had stumbled upon Natsu and Cobra…not only that but, she had overheard Jellal and Erza. Could anyone really blame her for not wanting to go there again? Lucy was soon pulled from her thoughts though when she felt the heft of someone's hand on the top of her head. She slowly turned her gaze toward Midnight before smiling somewhat at him. He seemed like such a nice guy now. "I still have one more problem," Lucy said and watched as Midnight cracked an eye open to look her over. "I'm guessing that the others already knew about all this, but they didn't tell us…which makes their silence all the more frightful for me," Lucy said once she had recalled that the two of them had yet to hear from the others today. Midnight visibly blanched at her words. Now, now the silence of their friends was beginning to frighten him. Midnight quickly tried to reconnect the Lacrima with Cobra to ask him if his end knew what was going on, but no one picked up which of course did nothing to calm his nerves.
"I'm free now, right?" Midnight said while gently placing the Lacrima on Lucy's lap since it did belong to her. The blonde woman nodded her head slowly while absent mindedly running her fingers over the smooth surfaces of the Lacrima. "I say we get the hell out of here then and get a hotel room or something," Midnight said his lips curving into something of a smile when he saw his girlfriend smile brightly up at him. It would be nice to get out of the guild for a bit since Lucy had to return the ring a few days ago to Yukino; apparently, Sherry had been asking for it back
"I second that idea. I'll go pack our things, so, go ahead and take a bit of a nap," Lucy said while standing up from the couch. The fact that they hadn't heard from some of the loudest people of both Fairy Tail and Sabertooth was more than enough reason to show this much concern. Lucy watched for a moment as Midnight laid out of the couch before she decided to hurry into the bedroom. Getting ready took little to no effort on Lucy's part, no, she didn't run into a problem until after she and Midnight had tried to leave the guild.
"Lucy, Midnight, where are you guys going?" Erza spoke, standing right outside the guild doors with her hands settled onto either side of her hips. She looked ready to stop them by force if she needed to.
"Erza? What are you doing standing out here? Where is everyone else?" Lucy asked unconsciously taking a step backward as if suspecting her friend of something…which she most certainly was. It was kind of creepy to see her standing outside the way she was after having heard nothing from her all day.
"I can't tell you where everyone else is, but I was asked to stand out here and not let you two leave," Erza said simply while eyeing Lucy's luggage whom had begun to nervously laugh.
"Not let us leave? Why? You guys aren't planning to lock me in closet again are you!?" Lucy yelled at the sudden memories of the last time something like this happened. Last time though Natsu had been asked to stand guard and his way of guarding was to take her celestial keys and lock her in a closest for god knew how many hours. In the end Natsu forgot what closet he had locked her in and she spent that birthday locked in a closet while the whole of Fairy Tail searched every closet within the large building.
"No, that's why it's me this time," Erza said laughing slightly as the memory had also flooded back to her for a split second.
"Erza, you can't just keep us here. What the heck is going on?" Lucy spoke before chancing a glance at her boyfriend, but he seemed to care less about the whole scenario. Or that's what Lucy thought until he suddenly grabbed her hand and began pulling her right passed Erza. Lucy blinked a few times in surprise as Midnight pulled her along and Erza surprisingly did nothing.
"What the fuck?" Lucy said glancing back at the motionless Erza and then turning her gaze back toward Midnight.
"Illusions," Midnight spoke answering her question with ease. Lucy had actually completely forgotten that he could do that. Erza had told her once about the fight they both had a while back, but she had also told her that she had managed to break through Midnight's illusions.
"Can't she break through you illusions?" Lucy finally asked while finally catching up to him, walking with him instead of being pulled along by him.
"I don't know. She did last time, but this time I used Jellal as the illusion since I had no intention of hurting her," he responded, glancing at her just in time to see a bright smile pull at her lips.
"Alright then! I suggest we cut through the woods then because when she wakes up she's going to come roaring down this path looking for us," Lucy said laughing slightly as she tugged him toward the wooded area that surrounded the path to the main city. It was going to be a bit of a walk since it was a ten minute trip by carriage, but she supposed this would be better than finding out what her friends had in store for them…though she imagined it was going to have something to deal with a lot of drinking. She nor her boyfriend wanted to go through another night of drinking even if they had a good reason to celebrate.
Time skip
Lucy plopped down onto the bed in their hotel room. The two of them had managed to escape, but both of them nearly shat themselves when they heard Erza screaming for them from the path. They were thankful that they had decided to cut through the woods because Midnight swore she was going to murder him for using Jellal in the illusion.
"Any last requests?" Lucy asked while turning her head toward the side to look over at Midnight whom had taken a seat at the edge of the bed to remove his shoes.
"What do you mean?" he asked, tossing one shoe to the floor and then doing the same to the next.
"When Erza finds us she's going to murder you. As a good girlfriend I should at the very least hear your last requests," Lucy spoke and the scariest part to Midnight was the fact that she didn't seem like she was kidding. She seemed like she honestly believed that Erza would kill him the moment she got her hands on him. He wanted to believe that Erza wouldn't do that, but then the experience of waking up by her hand yesterday came back to his mind. He shuddered at the thought of her getting her hands on him. "So, let's hear it, what's your request?" Lucy said smiling slightly up toward him. She knew Erza wouldn't really kill him, but she imagined him being hit once or twice….maybe ten times. Midnight slowly returned her gaze, of course, he had one thing he wanted from her, but he wasn't very well going to say something like that. There was no way in hell he was going to let her know that he wanted her.
"A nap then," he said simply and watched as her smile became a full on laugh at his response.
"Really? Why does that not even surprise me?" she said between breaths as she tried to get her laughter under control. She really should have expected him to say something like that, but for some reason hearing him say it was all the more hilarious. "But, alright then, a nap it is," she said before sitting up beside him and removing her shoes as well. She wasted no time throwing them to the floor and then tackling Midnight back into the bed, lazily draping herself over him, cuddling into his side. It took Midnight little time to fall asleep, leaving Lucy to gawk at just how fast the man could pass out…it was truly a spectacle, like he had not even been on the bed for a minute. Lucy quietly laughed once as she snuck a peak at his sleeping face. It didn't seem so bad now to call him cute or attractive while he slept.
Lucy stirred slightly in her sleep…something wasn't right. She knew something was very out of place, but for some reason she couldn't bring herself to open her eyes just yet. From what she could tell with her eyes closed, in her half asleep state, she was sitting up, she was moving, and the distinct sound of someone vomiting could be heard. She slowly straightened her neck out, removing her head from whatever it had been leaning against. Lucy slowly opened her eyes and the sight she found before her caused her to shriek, more so in disgust rather than fear. There was Natsu unloading his lunch onto the floor of a carriage…by her feet.
"Natsu! Damn it! Use the window!" she cried out while lifting her feet from the ground in an attempt to not touch the disgusting substance. She then promptly smacked the man square against the side of his head it was just unfortunate for her that she wasn't strong enough to knock the man out like Erza was. After the Natsu fiasco, she finally decided to look around her. On her right sleeping against the carriage door was Midnight. On her left Yukino sat laughing quietly at what had just happened. The sight of someone vomiting barely had any effect on her since she did after all travel around with two dragon slayers. Across from Yukino Sting sat, he tried to yell at Natsu, but he was interrupted by his own sudden urge to upchuck his lunch too. He opted for keeping his mouth shut in fear that if he opened it the vomit would come flying out. Beside him was Natsu, whom now had to not only deal with his terrible motion sickness, but a bump to his head. On the other side of him, across from Midnight, was Wendy looking worriedly over at the two dragon slayers. She had tried to help the two of them with her magic, but unfortunately Natsu had more or less become immune to her spell over the years and for some reason her magic only lasted a short time on Sting. She deduced that it must have been because of him having not only been a true dragon slayer, but an artificial one as well.
"Alright, what the hell is going on and where the fuck are we going?" Lucy asked, anger of course filling her voice…this is why she tried to warn Midnight that when her friends went silent it was never a good thing. They were obviously plotting something and if she knew her friends it was going to be something that involved alcohol, partying, and several
"friendly" fights.
"Sorry, Lucy-sama we can't tell you much. Our two guilds put up the funds as a surprise, but your friends said you wouldn't go along if you knew what it was," Yukino spoke as she leaned forward and gently began rubbing Sting's back. The man's face seemed to slightly relax at the gesture, but it was clear to tell he was still trying hard at not upchucking on his mates shoes. Lucy sighed before running a hand over her face. This was exactly why she hated when he friends became too quiet.
"Okay fine, but one more thing…who the hell let Natsu sit in the middle and not take the window seat!" Lucy shouted while looking at the three people in front of her. The person to answer was Wendy and she simply pointed toward Sting whom had finally had enough of his motion sickness and was now trying to (or appeared to be trying to) crawl out the window. Lucy could hear the disgusting sounds coming from his mouth and she could only imagine what kind of colorful chunks were escaping his stomach right now. "Alright, next time we should just shove all the dragon slayers in one carriage because I highly doubt any of us wanted to be smelling vomit for an entire trip," Lucy spoke and chanced a glance down at Natsu's earlier…gift. Sadly, just looking at it made Lucy feel queasier than she had been from just smelling it.
"I agree. We should probably just be thankful this carriage ride shouldn't be much longer. It's only meant to take us to the train station," Wendy said, moving her feet up when the vomit started sliding in her direction at a sudden turn. Lucy quickly did the same for Midnight, albeit, she struggled a bit trying to get his legs propped up in her lap without ruining his position against the carriage.
She slowly peaked over at Midnight whom was still sleeping soundly against the door of the carriage. She figured she could at least attempt to wake the man and explain to him the situation, but honestly, the key word in all that was attempt. She would make no promises on if she would actually succeed on this attempt.
"Hey, Macbeth, maybe you should wake up?" Lucy asked before raising a hand and gently shaking his shoulder. Of course, she didn't get any kind of response from the man because she just had to choose a boyfriend that quite literally slept like the dead. "Macbeth, if you don't wake up I'm going to have to have Erza do it later," Lucy spoke, but not even that earned a response from the sleeping mage which meant that he actually was asleep and not just faking it. "Alright, I'm doing this for your own good because I'm sure you don't want to wake up to Erza again," Lucy spoke with a small sigh before she raised her hand and gently pinched his nose. She then proceeded to lean in, at a terrible angle that was killing her back, and press her lips gently against his. Wendy blushed a light color before turning away while Lucy counted the second in her head. In no time at all Midnight woke up, pushing Lucy away, dropping his feet to the floor, gasping for air. Lucy took the second to wipe the black lipstick she no doubtedly received from Midnight off of her lips. Once he had sucked in his fair share of lost oxygen he quickly sent a heated glare toward Lucy only to see, that one, they were not alone, and two, they were not in their hotel room anymore.
"Alright, what the hell is going on and where the fuck are we going?" he spoke while looking from his girlfriend to the others in the carriage with him. He was vaguely aware that Lucy was giggling, but for what reason he wouldn't know.
"Wow, he said exactly what you said when you woke up Lucy-sama, word for word and everything," Yukino said before joining Lucy in her small giggle fit which only seemed to upset Midnight further.
"Um…sorry Midnight, but we're not allowed to tell you where our final destination is. I can tell you that we're on our way to the train station though," Wendy spoke up from where she sat in front of him. She gave a small 'eep' when the reflector mage turned his angered glare toward her; honestly, he hadn't meant to scare her, but at the moment he was more than just a bit upset.
"How did you guys even find us?" Midnight asked and this time it was Yukino who spoke up.
"Well, it was pretty easy when you have seven dragon slayers helping you out," Yukino responded which also earned her a sharp glare from the narcoleptic mage, but she wasn't as easily frightened as Wendy was.
"You mean Eric is in on this too," Midnight responded and to this Lucy promptly stopped laughing and looked between the two of them. She was rather curious herself now.
"If by Eric you mean the man who called himself Cobra, then yeah," Yukino said simply shrugging her shoulders before shooting and arm forward and grabbing the hem of her mate's shirt. She had been almost all of two seconds too late from not making that grab and watching her blond lover go flying out the window.
"And the money from the hotel room we rented?" Midnight asked, not wanting to think he and Lucy had spent all those Jewels for no good reason at all.
"We got it all returned and used it to buy your train tickets. The manager didn't want to refund it at first, but one look at Titania and the she-devil quickly change his mind," Yukino spoke, peeking over at Lucy when the young woman quietly laughed at the mental image of Mirajane and Erza scarring the living crap out of the manager.
"Last question, why does it smell like shit in here?" Midnight spoke and this time his little blonde answered his question by pointing down to a pile of vomit that Midnight unfortunately had one foot in. It wasn't long before Natsu quickly had one more thing to worry about on top of his motion sickness problems. Natsu was lucky that as soon as he was sure Midnight was about to start getting physically violet with him the carriage came to a stop and had their destination of "the train station" announced to them by the driver. Lucy gently grabbed her boyfriend's hand in order to spare Natsu anymore of his wrath and slowly led Midnight out of the carriage. Yukino and Wendy stepped out next followed by Sting and Natsu who both promptly fell over as soon as they exited.
"Do you want to go to the restroom and get that cleaned up?" Lucy asked while pointing down toward his black boots. Midnight merely sighed before shaking his head. It wasn't like he had stepped in dog shit or something.
"Come on Sting, Natsu, we gotta hurry the train leaves in ten minutes," Yukino said while gently grabbing Sting's forearm and trying to help him up to his feet. Wendy did the same for Natsu, but it was obvious that she was struggling far more with her smaller body.
It took a bit of time, but eventually the two dragon slayers finally got up to their feet and the small group of them were able to hurry to the train. So far, Lucy and Midnight had discovered they were on their way to the capital, Crocus. Upon arriving at the train for the grand city the group met up with a shit ton of people, like Lucy swore all of Fairy Tail was here with the Sabertooth guild. She could also pinpoint the few guild members of the Oracion Seis. Lucy unconsciously wrapped her arm through Midnight's, pulling herself closer to him as if she would lose him in this large crowd. Natsu was the first person to speak up, announcing their presence before he quickly joined up with Cobra, Jellal, and Erza. Lucy felt herself being slightly pulled over in that direction as well. It was obvious that Midnight wanted to speak with the guild mate he hadn't seen in quite some time.
"What was it that you wished to speak with me about, Erza?" Jellal spoke as Lucy and Midnight came onto the scene. The red headed woman's face flamed up in color and Lucy swore the woman's neck turned red. Midnight was lucky Erza was too distracted with Jellal to remember what had happened earlier in the day.
"I-It can wait….a bit," Erza said and by now Lucy had her suspicions proven. She had figured Erza wanted to talk about her relationship with the blue haired mage the moment she and Natsu had talked their master into setting up a meeting for them, but now she was 100 percent sure. A small smile tugged at the corners of Lucy's lips and she quietly wished the two of them luck in whatever was to come.
"Oi, what the hell is up with this? I've never seen you so close to a woman before, Macbeth," a man spoke up, joining the group and standing on the opposite side of Midnight as he looked Lucy over. The celestial mage quickly recognized the speedy mage as Sawyer, or rather she was supposed to call him Racer.
"He's banging her," Cobra spoke rather nonchalantly and much to his enjoyment the two mages in particular quickly flared up a bright red color before casting a glare in his direction.
"Couldn't you have at least said that we're dating!? Why the hell did you have to put it that way!?" Lucy shouted, her voice was angered, but her face was full of embarrassment. The one-eyed mage couldn't help, but chuckle at her expense.
"Really? How the fuck did he manage to snag her?" Racer spoke up while eyeing the awkward couple. Lucy looked like the pretty pin-up model that she was and everyone was well aware she could have any man she wanted. She literally just had to raise a finger and point and no doubt that man would become hers on the spot. While Midnight was the pure definition of grudge and Goth…complete with the makeup and everything. His fashion sense was more or less non-existent and his body wasn't something amazing, it was average if anything. And his personality wasn't exactly the best in the world. So, how the hell did he score a girl like that?
"He's got a huge dick," Cobra spoke when he heard Racer's thoughts. The group around him openly blanched, though Lucy and Midnight looked more like they were borderline mortified.
"Where the fuck did that even come from?! How do you even know that!?" Lucy shouted at the auburn haired mage as she slowly made her way onto the train with the others. Cobra was behind them snickering to himself and dragging Natsu along whom had absolutely no want to get onto the train.
"Sawyer was thinking about how Macbeth had no qualities that should have won you over," Cobra answered simply, grinning when he saw Midnight toss a glare toward Racer from over his shoulder.
"So, the first good thing you can think of for Macbeth is that he has a huge cock. Again, how do you even know that?!" Lucy asked completely confused about how she should be taking this whole situation; honestly, she hadn't even seen Midnight in the nude yet. Sure, she had given him a hand job, but it was dark that night and she hadn't looked down. From what she could tell, he was large, but she hadn't actually seen him to tell how big he actually was.
"First off, blondie, mental images of you jerking him off are not needed. Secondly, Macbeth and I have been together since we were kids, you don't think I've seen his junk and vice versa?" Cobra spoke, watching as the young couple took a seat in one of the compartments of the train and promptly died of embarrassment. Cobra was having way too much fun with teasing the two of them and Natsu was about to make it all the better.
"You bastard! What did you do to Lucy? She'd never have done that willingly!" Natsu spoke and much to his surprise before he could even pull Midnight to his feet he was met with a swift punch to his head by Lucy.
"He didn't do anything Natsu! Jesus, can we please get off the fucking topic, who I jerk off and who I don't is my business and no one else's!" Lucy shouted at Natsu while pushing him down into his seat between Racer and Cobra.
"Oh? I didn't know you both already had that kind of relationship. So, Lucy…when did you plan on telling me that you were going to be making me an auntie soon?" a woman's voice spoke from out in the hall. Lucy felt her skin crawl and a chill run down the length of her spine. She slowly turned to look at the door, just in time to see one Mirajane walking in and slowly taking a seat beside Midnight. She then promptly shut the door to their compartment. 'Crap,' was the only thing Lucy could think about. Not even Cobra's laughter could pull her out of the feeling of dread she was now feeling. The last person she ever wanted to find out about her relationship had just shown up. Literally, Mirajane, as well as a certain water mage, were the only reasons she and Gray hadn't revealed they were together all those years ago.
"I can see babies already! I hope you both have little blonde haired and red eyed babies. They'll be so precious. Are you both planning on getting married soon? Have you thought of a name yet? I hope you have a girl!" Mirajane started speaking and Lucy could see the excitement in her eyes. Lucy sighed rather loudly, while Midnight openly blanched, he had heard about the "the demon matchmaker Mirajane" and her love for babies and something called ships, but this was too much. He wasn't thinking about children. He had just started a relationship with the blonde beside him and this woman was already talking about marriage and babies…though the process of making babies was defiantly on his mind. Across from him, Midnight heard Cobra snicker…he had obviously been listening in on his thoughts.
'I wonder how much trouble I'll get in for murdering everyone on this train…except for Macbeth. I'm sure he'll help me and then we'll fuck right there, just to spite them all…,' Lucy thought to herself completely unaware of Cobra whom was now starring at her with surprise and slight disgust clearly written on his face.
"Your girlfriends a psycho," Cobra spoke looking directly at the man whom he considered one of his brothers. Midnight raised a brow at Cobra's words, but before the poison slayer could elaborate he was met with a swift kick to his leg by Lucy.
"You, shut the fuck up and stop reading my mind or I'll start my rampage with you. Mira, please, I love you, but shut up, shouldn't you be with Gray or something? Racer if you keep checking out my tits I'm going to throw you off this train. And Natsu, here," she spoke, eyes falling on Natsu and throwing a few barf bags into his lap. She had received them earlier when she spoke with the ticket attendant. She ignored the way everyone just stared at her, but the silence didn't last long.
"How long have you been staring at Lucy?" Midnight asked while glaring at Racer.
"Lucy, dear, I love you like a sister, but if you mention Gray and Juvia again I'll read your novel out loud to the guild," Mirajane spoke with a sickly sweet smile on her face and Lucy had to keep herself from mentioning that she had not brought up Juvia at all. She could only imagine what kind of trouble Juvia was causing their relationship even if she didn't know that they were together. Actually, no, she knew exactly what Mirajane was going though since she had already been there and done that with the ice mage. She could do nothing more than silently wish Mirajane luck.
"Blondie, I'd love to see you try," Cobra said with a smirk on his lips. Lucy sighed at the horrible situation she found herself in and then…the train started moving. Natsu immediately grabbed one of the bags Lucy handed to him and promptly vomited into it. Cobra also took on a look of unsteadiness. 'Great. Only seven more hours till Crocus,' Lucy thought to herself sighing lightly when her boyfriend stood to make well on his threat of 'gauging racers eyes out' if he looked at Lucy's breasts once more.
Time Skip
"Finally…finally…do you know how close I was to committing mass genocide?" Lucy said as she stepped from the train with Midnight. It had been a long seven hour trip and not something Lucy ever wanted to repeat in her life. Mirajane had questioned her like fifty times about babies and the miracle birth before she left. Cobra was laughing his ass off the whole time and he really needed to teach his 'not getting so motion sickness' trick to Natsu. Racer got kicked out of the compartment by Midnight less than half way into the trip and Natsu was…well Natsu. He went through more barf bags than she thought possible. Later, the two vacant spots were replaced by Bixslow and Cana, the later having snuck a crap ton of alcohol onto the train without anyone noticing. They then joined in on the "fun" which mainly consisted of asking Midnight, of all people, how amazing Lucy's breasts were.
"Probably about as close as I was," Midnight spoke watching as everyone else exited off the train and gathered around. He noticed that most of the dragon slayers were last, their mates or to be mates helping them stay on two legs.
"Oh! There you two are! I was wondering where you guys went after the carriage," Yukino spoke up, the rest of the Sabertooth mages that Lucy was accustomed to seeing now following behind her. Well, minus two dragon slayers whom she noticed were seated on the floor with the rest of the dragon slayers, mates having abandoned them now that they were completely off of the train. "How was your trip?" Yukino asked, but immediately regretted her question when she saw Lucy glare at her.
"It was terrible. Have you ever had to sit seven hours with a mind reader, two perverts, a demon, and a vomiting dragon slayer?" Lucy asked while raising a hand to gently pinch the bridge of her nose. It was a weak attempt at getting rid of her terrible headache.
"Well, the vomiting dragon slayer yes, but no to the others," Yukino spoke hesitantly, but smiled lightly when she saw Midnight raise his hands and gently massage Lucy's scalp. The blonde let out a content sigh and Yukino found herself happy that her sister found such a great man.
"Yukino, hurry, the others wanna check into the hotel soon," Aya spoke up, forcing Lucy to finally notice the small woman who was slung over Ogra's shoulder like a sack of potatoes and looking just as sick as the dragon slayers were.
"What's up with here?" Lucy asked raising a brow at the woman's disheveled state.
"She ran into an old friend in your guild. Laki, I think. The woman ended up spinning her until well…this happened," Ogra spoke up, bouncing the small girl on his shoulder when he made it to the last part of the sentence. Lucy laughed quietly at the antics of the mages in front of her before she slowly reached for Midnight's hands, stopping him from massaging her scalp further.
"Come on, it seems like the others are ready to go," she said taking one of Midnight's hands into her own. She held his hand until they made it to the hotel the three guilds would be staying out.
"Oh, you're with the guilds that are staying with us?" the woman asked looking over Midnight and Lucy. Lucy did the speaking while Midnight simply stood back a bit…sleeping.
"Yeah, we'll all probably be checking in through the night. We kind of got separated along the way," Lucy spoke and watched as the woman smiled before nodding. If Lucy had to be honest she also would have liked to stop somewhere along the way with the others, but she felt as if she smelled of vomit…being in a small moving compartment with Natsu tended to do that to a person. She'd join up with the others after a nice hot bath.
"It's not a problem. Your guilds actually have the whole of the fifth floor rented out…quite a lot of you here. Mind if I ask what's going on?" the woman asked while handing Lucy a set of keys marked 549.
"Sorry, you're asking the wrong person. I was pretty much kidnapped," Lucy said while sighing lightly, not noticing how the woman gave her a look between horror and confusion.
"Oh, well, um…please enjoy your stay and if you need any help feel free to call us down here," the woman said as Lucy simply nodded her head and turned on her heel. She then laced her fingers through Midnight's and gave him a small tug. The man easily obliged and walked beside her as she scanned the signs for where the elevators were located.
It wasn't long after that Lucy and Midnight found themselves in yet another hotel room. Lucy slowly took of her shoes while wondering if she had ever changed hotel's twice in a day before.
"Hey, our luggage is already here," she heard Midnight speak from further in the hotel room.
"Really? I guess the guilds had it all delivered…I wonder who chose the room assignments?" Lucy replied, the last question coming out as something of a whisper as she tried to think about who was paired with who. She then suddenly shuddered, an image of a certain white haired bar maid coming to mind, for some reason Lucy just knew it had to be her. 'The woman probably had a shipping field day when she got to do that,' Lucy thought to herself as she slowly entered the restroom upon finding it. "I'm going to take a bath, alright?" she called out to Midnight. He responded with something that sounded like a grunt and she imagined he had his face buried in the pillows of the bed. She smiled slightly at the thought as she turned the tub on. The smiled stayed glued to her face as she stripped herself and added some bubbles she had found on the bathroom counter. She was surprised that the hotel had supplied them with something for a bubble bath, but she wasn't going to complain. She slowly dipped herself into the tub of hot water and bubbles, sinking into the waters until it reached just below her chin. She then eyed the bathroom door. She hadn't fully closed it, but she doubted anyone could see her unless they really tried to, not to mention Midnight wouldn't let someone sneak a peek at her. Another smile tugged at her lips as a sudden idea struck her.
"Hey Macbeth, did you want to join me in here?" Lucy called out, staring at the door with a devious look plastered on her face. She could only imagine how many shades of pink he had turned at that question.
"Do you mean in the tub?" he responded after having shot up from the bed. He immediately felt like an idiot for asking that question. 'Of course she fucking meant in the tub,' he thought to himself, but was pulled from further berating himself when he heard a girlish giggle come from the bathroom.
"Of course I mean the tub. I'm not going to have you just come in here and sit on the toilet or something," she called back and Midnight found his cheeks quickly heating up. His mouth suddenly felt dry and his mind flooded with images of Lucy fully nude, soaking wet, and pressed against him. He slowly stood up from bed and swallowed hard; honestly, he found himself slightly surprised that his mouth even still had fluid in it. "You coming or not?" Lucy called out once more and Midnight found that he had been making her wait for a little too long. He attempted to find his voice.
"Y-Yeah," he responded and found himself mentally berating himself once more, not just because his voice sounded two points away from pathetic, but because he had stuttered as well. He slowly began walking toward the bathroom, creaking the door open slowly, and then walking in. Lucy had moved up further to the front of the tub. She wasn't looking at him, but he could see the blush on her cheeks and it was adorable. Her breasts were mostly hidden in the mass of bubbles she had put into the tub and her knees were drawn up as well squashing the two globes against them.
"D-Don't just stare. Hurry up and get in," she said and he noticed her shift a bit uncomfortably because of his intense gaze. He found it difficult to pull his gaze away from her, but when he did he found himself with a terribly uncomfortable tightness in his pants. He was glad that they weren't going to be on for too much longer. He quickly began stripping out of his clothes, placing them on the counter beside her own. He took a slow breath once more before turning around and slipping into the tub behind Lucy. She shifted uncomfortably for a moment when she felt him finally sit down in the tub behind her. It was awkward for a while, a large part due to her, but for some reason, despite having invited him in here she couldn't get rid of the bundle of nerves that had formed in her stomach. 'Come on Lucy, you're the one who invited him fucking do something,' she mentally yelled at herself, trying to give herself some kind of pep talk so she could finally vanquish the embarrassment she felt. She slowly began counting down in her head and with each number lower she got a few inches close to the man behind her. It wasn't long before she had finally leaned herself against his chest. She could feel his length against her backside, but she supposed she couldn't very well blame him for that, if anything it was probably her fault for putting him in this kind of situation to begin with.
"You know this might not be so bad. I don't know what the guilds have planned, but this is pretty nice…aside from that annoying trip here," she muttered under her breath, chuckling lightly when she remembered everything that happened on the train. She admitted that she hated everything about that ride, but now that it was nothing more than a memory and she had to admit…it was rather funny. Midnight slowly slid his arms around her waist, fingertips brushing against her cream colored flesh as he gently pulled her closer into him. He didn't respond to her ramblings mainly because he knew that if he spoke his voice would give away his desires more than the thing pressed against her backside probably could.
"Hey Macbeth," Lucy spoke while craning her neck to look back at him. The position was slightly uncomfortable, but it wasn't so bad where she couldn't put up with it for a while. "Would it be considered too soon to say I love you?" she asked, chocolate brown eyes looking over the shocked expression that overtook his face. He knew his mouth was slightly hung open, his eyes were wide, and the blush on his cheeks was back with a vengeance, but he couldn't find himself caring. The only thing he could find himself caring about was the little blonde woman pressed nicely against him, admitting in so many words that she loved him…of all people. His grip tightened around her waist and then in the next moment he crashed his lips against her own. He gently moved his lips against her, parting them slightly too slowly run his tongue over her lower lip. Lucy shifted slightly, tightening her thighs in hopes of trying to calm the fire that was starting there. Midnight hadn't taken the initiative for anything so far unless it came to napping on her shoulder. It was always her and she knew that they hadn't been together for long as a couple, but honestly if he wanted to nap in her lap or hold her hand he didn't need to wait for her to do it. It was exciting to have him initiate something especially something as intense as this. She softly moaned into the kiss when she felt him gently suck on her lower lip. She slowly raised a hand and angled it slightly behind her, running her fingers through his hair and trying to pull him closer to her if that were at all possible. His tongue slowly explored her mouth, he was vaguely aware that she tasted of vanilla and mint as his tongue wrestled hers for dominance. He loosened his grip on her, gently allowing his fingertips to dance around her waist line before travelling further up. He stopped when his hands met her breasts, running the pad of his thumb over her pink nipple. The sound he was rewarded with was something between a moan and a breathy sigh. They were both so engrossed in each other that neither of them had any idea someone had broken into their hotel room. Or rather…a group of people.
"Don't you think Lucy-sama is going to get mad for breaking into her room?" Yukino spoke, hiding behind her mate as a grinning Natsu stepped into Lucy's hotel room.
"Nah, we break into Lucy's place all the time," Natsu spoke while throwing his hands behind his head, a carefree smile gracing his lips as he walked passed the bathroom on the way to the main room. He paused though when he noticed the bathroom lights on from the crack beneath the door. He reached for the handle gripping it slightly and then swinging the door open. "Hey Lu-," Natsu paused midsentence at the sight before him. There was Lucy, with her mouth practically glued to Midnight's, and his hands roaming over her breasts. Lucy quickly pulled away from her lover shrieking rather loudly and then diving further into the tub. She then grabbed the closest thing she could reach, which was a bar of soap, and then chucked it at him.
"Natsu, you fucking pervert! Get lost!" Lucy cried out while Midnight quickly grabbed the ends of the shower curtain and pulled them closed. The two of them barely avoided six other sets of eyes curiously peeking in. Yukino was the first one to take a hint and quickly shut the door while yelling out a hurried apology. "I'll fucking murder him," Lucy spoke peeking from behind the curtain when she heard the door slam. The coast seemed to be clear, so, Lucy slowly drew the curtain open once more. She then slowly pulled the drain on the plug and turned to chance a glance at Midnight's face. She chocked on her spit upon seeing his face, the man actually looked like he was going to commit bloody murder, and honestly, Lucy doubted she could blame him. The young blonde watched as her boyfriend stood from the tub, blushing brightly and then turning quickly away when she caught a glimpse of what Cobra meant when he said "he's got a huge dick". She hadn't even seen the thing fully erect since it had become slightly placid by the sudden intrusion of a very dead pink haired boy. Lucy, despite everything that was going on was left with the question of 'would that even fit?' Once her boyfriend had securely wrapped a towel around his waist he quickly left the bathroom and located his target in the bedroom being held up from the collar of his shirt by a certain red haired woman whom also wore a murder gaze.
"You can't kill him, but you're more than welcome to beat his ass," she spoke, eyes glancing toward Midnight as he took a few steps forward.
From in the bathroom Lucy could hear quite the ruckus, but a piece of her was slightly afraid to leave the safety of these tiled walls. She could only imagine what Midnight had down to Natsu…let alone what Erza had done to him, but she knew she couldn't stay in here forever, besides Natsu deserved it. That stupid habit of his of breaking and entering onto her property that shit needed to end and fast; otherwise, he was going to come face to face with a pissed off Midnight more often. Lucy gave a small sigh before finally standing from a mostly drained out tub. She'd go see the damage of her long time best friend and brother after she got dressed.
A few minutes later and Lucy was standing in front of a very close to dead Natsu. She could see Erza in background munching on a piece of strawberry cake (god knows where she got it from), Aya and Yukino were sitting on the bed watching the television, and Rogue, Sting, and Gray were chatting amongst each other…her boyfriend seemed to be missing.
"Uh…where's Midnight?" Lucy asked and watched as Yukino raised a hand and pointed at the closet that was located right in front of her. Lucy raised a curious brow, but none the less she slowly opened the closet door up a smidgen and peeked inside. There was Midnight, struggling to get his shirt on in the darkness of the closet. She laughed slightly when his head finally popped through and his eyes nearly bugged out of its sockets when he saw her peeking. He slowly opened the door the rest of the way and stepped out, now fully dressed and looking down at her with an expression she couldn't quite read.
"You're still wearing my lipstick," he muttered softly before raising his hands and pressing them to sides of his race. He gently ran his fingers across her lips in an attempt to remove the darkened makeup that had smudged itself there. Once he had succeeded the two turned around only to find everyone staring at them like they had been the most interesting thing in the world. Lucy immediately started blushing, turning even redder when she heard Sting bark out a few congratulations. For some reason when the congrats came from him she felt like some prize to be won more than an actual person.
"What the hell are you guys even doing here?" Lucy asked, trying to steer the conversation away from herself and Midnight.
"Well, Yukino was asked to come and get you guys, so, naturally Sting came along who dragged Rogue along which meant that I would follow. Then along the way we ran into Gray and Natsu, the two of them decided to tag along since your room was on the way. And Erza…she was already here pacing outside your door," Aya said from her spot on the bed as she quickly began channel flipping once more. 1000 channels and she swore nothing good was ever on the television.
"Um…I needed to talk to you about something private. It can wait," Erza said, blushing slightly when she felt Lucy's eyes fall on her. Lucy had a feeling that she wanted to ask something about Jellal. The woman was always easily embarrassed when it came to talking about Jellal, but god forbid she not feel a lick of embarrassment when talking about someone else's love life.
"Right, and?" Lucy spoke while shifting her gaze toward Yukino.
"Ah, your master Makarov was wanting to speak with you," Yukino said simply, watching for a moment as Lucy nodded her head and then began back tracking to the front door where her shoes were.
"Macbeth, you should probably tag along I'm sure he'll wanna talk with you too. And the rest of you…I hope you aren't planning on staying in this room," Lucy spoke and lightly shook her head when she heard everyone's reluctant sigh; apparently, her room was the hangout spot no matter where she was. Midnight slowly moved to her side, grabbing his black boots and carefully putting them on. The two of them then walked out of the room, Lucy keeping the door open with her foot to make sure everyone else walked out of the room with her, well, one person had to be somewhat carried out of the room.
"Oh yeah, one more thing Lucy-sama, we have reservations for dinner at 8:30. It's the restaurant downstairs. I think you should have saw it when you came into the hotel," Yukino spoke up as she walked backward in the opposite direction of them. The other Sabers following alongside her. Lucy nodded her head toward the woman before raising a hand and saying her good-byes for now.
"I should probably get this idiot back to his room. I'll catch up with you guys later," Gray said while taking Natsu from Erza's shoulder. He too then walked off in the direction of the Sabers.
"You coming with us?" Lucy asked Erza while intertwining her fingers with Midnight's, smiling slightly at the way he cheeks changed color.
"It's alright like I said I'll just talk with you later," Erza said while nervously wringing her fingers. 'Yep, it's defiantly a Jellal thing…,' Lucy thought to herself before waving good-bye to her friend and then heading toward the elevator with Midnight.
"Oh, Macbeth, you never answered my question earlier," Lucy said as they waited for the elevator to arrive.
"Which question?" Midnight asked thinking back for a moment on what question she had asked him. When he glanced over at her and saw the small blush on her cheeks he was immediately reminded of what she was talking about. "No, I don't think it is," he spoke up before she was able to answer the idiotic question he had asked. Lucy smiled brightly up toward him before pressing herself lightly into his side.
"I love you, Macbeth," she said in something of a whisper, cheeks burning red, but the smile on her lips was beautiful.
"I love you too, Lucy," he responded while gently pulling his hand away from her own in exchange for wrapping his arm around her waist and pulling her a bit closer into him. The elevator doors soon came to an open and out them stepped none other than the poison dragon slayer himself a cocky smirk on his lips.
"I swear, I could hear your guy's thoughts from two floors down. I don't know if it's romantic or creepy that your thoughts rang that loud," Cobra spoke, laughing when the two of them turned red all the way down to their necks. 'Of all the fucking people that could have heard that, it just had to be him,' Lucy thought to herself before sighing lightly. She doubted she would ever catch a break while on this trip.