Hey guys!

I'm so sorry this came out so late! My holidays have just started, and most of last week was work, anime and church. I'll try to get an early one in next week!

Side note: The longest Japanese verb is "arewaresasewaremashta", which means "the river spontaneously appeared". In fact, no matter how hard I searched I could not find it on the web. The only reason I know about it is that my friends mum used to teach English in Japan, and one day she discovered an old, old book with that word in it.

I'll stop rambling now and tell you about my workspace. I chew gum for some reason, I think somehow it helps me with my ideas and brainstorming.

Okay, I do not own Fairy Tail!

Chapter 3

Leia lay under the stars on a quilted blanket, deep in thought. She, of course, had been right about the ambush, and those Fairy Tail members had to stay in someone's house of the night. Rufus had left her to own thoughts, so she was alone again. Just like when her beloved's hands had grew cold, his breathing stopped. Suddenly, it was unpleasant to be outside under the stars. As she looked at them she thought of that celestial mage that was a Fairy Tail member. As far as she knew, there were only 2 celestial mages left in the world, and that girl was one of them. They also had 3 first generation dragon slayers, an overly strong requip mage, a woman whose body consisted entirely of water, an ice-make mage (who was the disciple of Ul) with a stripping habit, and 3 exceeds. What a unique guild.

Lucy twirled her keys around her finger, bored out of her mind. After the disaster of an ambush, it had become too dark to catch the train back to Magnolia, so they were staying in Oshibana for the night. They were staying at Kim's house, where, because of the unfortunate lack of space, they had to sleep on the floor. Everyone was already in their pajamas, except Natsu, who had just gone out to do so. She set her keys down on the table, and thought for a moment. If I'm bored, Natsu...

Her train of thought was cut off by a certain pink-haired mage storming into the room with five pillows underneath his arms, and he proceeded to throw them at the other members of the team (except Happy, who was cleverly hidden behind him), and screamed, "WHO'S READY FOR A PILLOW FIGHT?!"
Erza, who had been hit smack-bang in the face, threw a rage induced pillow right back at him, and he was hit in the chest, making him fall onto his back, squashing Happy's tail in the process. Lucy had been hit in the stomach, and she fell over from her chair, hitting the floor in a very painful manner. Gray immediately began a pillow duel with Natsu, and Wendy and Carla rushed around the room collecting ammo. Even in her state, Lucy smiled. She should've known.

She jumped up, forgetting her pain, and swooped quickly through the battle field, collecting two reasonably stiff pillows and throwing them at Gray face. He dodged the first, but, distracted by an oncoming pillow from Natsu, the second one hit him in the face. Natsu raised an eyebrow at the offensive Lucy, much to his demise, because she proceeded to lob several pillows at him, leaving him on the floor. But, Lucy's moment of victory lasted only a second, for Erza smashed a pillow into the upside of Lucy's head, making her fall to the ground. Gray, now active again, attempted to throw a pillow at Natsu (who was still lying on the floor), but was stopped by Wendy, who clearly decided she wanted in on the action. Once again, Gray was defeated.

Lucy, using a pillow as a shield, crept around on the battlefield collecting weaponry from the floor, and hid a hoard of ten pillows in a cupboard for a dire situation. Happy had peeled himself off the floor and was getting pillows for Natsu (and occasionally Carla), and Erza, realizing Natsu's advantage, knocked the exceed out of the sky, making a mental note to target him in the future. Happy, clearly not ready for this, stayed on the floor. Lucy grinned as she watched on, but Natsu had noticed her out of the action, and bombarded her with pillow-based attacks. With nothing to shield her, Lucy jumped under the table, only to find a pile of stiff-looking ammo. Confused, she looked around, to see Kim, who winked at her.

Understanding, Lucy attacked the legs of her teammates, knocking them over, and collected excess pillows from the battlefield. She made a fort of them, and hid inside, hitting anyone who came close. But, the fort collapsed, leaving her completely vulnerable on top of a mountain of comfortable (and not so comfortable) pillows. Taking revenge, everyone barraged her with all the pillows in sight, leaving her buried. She jumped out of the ruins of the fort, and proceeded to throw legions of pillows from the hoard behind her. Then, when she was finished, she realized she had no more pillows, and everyone had jumped up again, eager to hit the blonde with an unfortunate amount of comfy weapons. In order to avoid being hit, she rushed over to her emergency hoard, then realized it had been raided. Where else would they get pillows when she had taken all of them from the battlefield to build her fort?

The angry guild-mates went open fire, and after that session, she had too many bruises to count. Everyone lay on the floor, exhausted, their only regrets being broken pottery. She smiled. Everyday was an adventure with her guild. She remembered herself back before she had joined, and thought what would it be like if she never joined the guild? It was unthinkable. Maybe she would be back at her mansion, rotting away as she listened to her teachers. She crinkled her brow. If she never joined Fairy Tail, she would be seven years older! The recent Grand Magic Games had shown her how lucky she was to be in her guild, instead of in a guild like the older version of Sabertooth, who only believed in being strong and famous and successful. She looked over at Natsu. Actually, she might be a slave of that Fairy Tail impostor Bora. If she faced that guy and his lackeys now, she would surely win with all her new abilities. How lucky she was to meet that pink-haired dragon slayer...

The next day, when the team woke up, they were lying on the floor, surrounded by pillows and blankets, the after math of last night's fight. Saying a friendly goodbye to Kim (they didn't get any reward), the team caught the train to Magnolia. At the guild, Levy wandered up to Lucy, and they started talking.

"How did the job go?" Levy asked eagerly.

Lucy scoffed, "Messed it up again."

"How?"

"This time, a collapsing warehouse was our demise."

"Hm."

"We also had to pillow fight of the century last night. I have too many bruises to count."

Levy seemed sympathetic.

"But, on a lighter note, I dominated the battle field. For five minutes, anyway," Lucy grinned.

Levy smiled, "Go on."

Lucy was happy entertaining Levy with exaggerated stories of pillows, Natsu and Gray continued to be rivals, Wendy and Carla looked at the possible jobs in interest, and Erza enjoyed a slice of delicious strawberry cheesecake. As it it seemed, everything was as it should be.

"You really think so?" Leia replied with skepticism, clearly not impressed.

"I think you would fit in there perfectly," Rufus answered.

Leia considered this for a moment. It really seemed a bit far-fetched.

Then, she smiled evilly, "I'm sure I could beat that Erza in a duel."

Rufus's eyes widened, "Have you seen the stories about her? She defeated 100 monsters of varying difficulty in a row, the last being uncertain to one of the 10 wizard saints!"

"I'm sure I could give her a piece of my mind."

And with that, she wandered off.

What do you think? I had a lot of fun writing that pillow fight scene. Extra challenge: count how many times I wrote "pillow" in that sequence. I'm sorry that this chapter was pretty much all fluff (with a little bit of overshadowing and establishing storyline).

Anyway, thanks for reading!