I'm back! *DRUMROLL* dadadadadadada... And now for the highly-requested (but already intended) reactions of many of our favorite Fairy Tail members! Thank you, thank you, I know I'm awesome~ *dodges a tomato* Okay, now seriously, story now, talk later. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: So that OVA hasn't come out yet. Must mean that I still don't own Fairy Tail. Pity.

Breaking the 4th Wall of Cliche

Chapter 2: The Reaction

The room was completely quiet after Lucy had finished the story. "Uhh... what the hell did we just read?" Gray asked, being the first one to break the uncomfortable silence. "And who are these people reviewing and why the hell do they like this garbage!?"

"I didn't even get one line in the whole story!" Happy wailed.

"Seriously, cat? That's the only thing that bothers you about this!?" It was meant to be a question, but it kind of came out like a shriek because of how mortified Lucy was feeling at the moment. It was so... so... asinine. The feeling was like... you know when you sit down to watch a television show and it takes an unexpected turn to something really ridiculous and awkward and just downright humiliating, making you wish you'd never tuned in to that show? Then at that exact moment, someone sits down beside you and starts watching, making you wish that you could sink into the floor and disappear from the room? Yeah? Well, multiply that by about a hundred, and that would explain what Lucy was feeling.

Natsu, who was silently seething, finally found his voice again. "What in the... where's the jerk who wrote this!?" He demanded, raising a flaming fist into the air. "I'll go right to his house and set him straight! Why the hell would he write me doing that!? I'd never treat Lucy that way! And 'awesomesauce!?' Really!? Who even says that!?"

"Natsu..." Lucy trailed off but then realized that she needed to calm him down before her house went up in smoke. She put a soothing hand on his shoulder and smiled reassuringly. "Don't worry, Natsu."

"But they said-!"

She shook her head at her partner. "This is what I'm saying. That writer has everything all wrong. It's like they know nothing about us." Lucy pulled back when she saw Natsu visibly relax.

Soft whimpering could now be heard coming from Lisanna. "L-Lucy... Lucy..." She cried, before tears started spilling down her cheeks. "Do I really treat you that way?"

"N-no, of course not! You're one of the nicest people I know!" The Celestial Mage answered, waving her hands frantically in front of her. She was trying to act as damage control, but found that the task was beginning to overwhelm her. Not to mention, Lucy herself found it difficult to console the others when she was feeling just as upset as they were about this whole mess. Apparently thousands of people far off in a distant dimension saw Lucy Heartfilia as a simple-minded, weak and pathetic female who seemed to prefer being the codependent in an abusive relationship and hopped from one guy to the next on a whim. Peachy.

"I don't understand. Why are people writing me so mean-like?" Lisanna shook her head before collapsing into more tears again. "I-I didn't do anything bad, right...? So why do they all hate me?"

Lucy reached forward and caught the crying Take-over Mage in her arms to comfort her. "Shhh... Lisanna, I know you're not like that. It's okay, just let it out... There, there..."

Erza cleared her throat in an attempt to regain her composure before speaking. Her voice still came out slightly strained. "I wouldn't take this story too seriously. It's dripping in sarcasm."

"What's that?" Natsu asked, anger momentarily forgotten. "Is it something to eat?"

"Umm..." Mira's voice was shaky as she tried to sound normal. She giggled nervously and clasped her hands together, totally bewildered by what had just been read to her and not knowing quite how to react yet. "I don't think you can eat sarcasm, Natsu..."

"Oh, too bad. I'm hungry, too."

Lucy sighed. "What else is new?"

Levy had remained oddly quiet throughout everything, simply chewing on her lower lip, looking slightly flustered. Gajeel noticed and clapped her on the back. "What's wrong?"

"Oh, I was just going over the structure of that person's writing style. It's such a shame." She paused, glancing around. When she realized that all eyes were on her, she continued. "There are a few errors in punctuation, the story is quite rushed, and the plot is poor and unoriginal... however, the errors are few and far between. Simply put, this person would have a lot of potential to write something amazing if they actually put forth some effort into it as a writer."

"I see what you're saying," Lucy responded. "I didn't catch anything spelled wrong. If they had tried to use their imagination, even just a bit, they could have come up with something better than this. It's a shame. It almost looks like they're following a trend or something, and going for popularity and reviews instead of trying to use their full potential as writers. It's... really kind of sad, if anything." She sighed. "Well, whatever it could have been, for us it was a waste of time."

"I'll say," Natsu agreed. "Hey, something else bugs me about this story, too."

Lifting a curious eyebrow at her teammate, Lucy questioned, "Really? Like what, Natsu?" If she knew Natsu, she knew that he didn't like to read much of anything at all, so if he had any questions or critiques toward anything to do with literature, Lucy was definitely going to indulge him.

"Well they make me call you 'Luce' all the time. Isn't that a little weird? I just call you 'Lucy' or 'weirdo' don't I?"

Nodding in understanding, the Stellar Mage murmured, "Well, yeah, now that you mention it..."

"I guess it's not a bad nickname for you though, Luce," he said, grinning.

"Please don't call me that," Lucy groaned, slapping her palm against her forehead. "It's a horrible reminder of this moment which I would love nothing more than to forget!"

With a concerned glance at her sister, Mirajane turned to the others. "Though this is a problem. I don't think it's very nice for people to write things like that about my sister. Especially since it isn't true. I would like to have a word with this person myself, if I could." Even though she stood there, seemingly composed and gently tending to her younger sister, there was no mistaking the menacing glint in her eye.

The blonde mage frowned, nodding in agreement. "You're right. I think I'm going to write a letter... er..." She glanced at the computer screen, squinting. "E-mail, I guess is what it's called, and ask them if they would kindly refrain from writing these things in the future."

"I don't get it." Natsu raised an eyebrow. "What would make people think Lisanna's like that?"

"I don't know, Natsu," Lucy answered, still frowning. "But I'll do what I can to ask them to stop."

"Hey! I got an idea!" Natsu's face brightened up. "What if we all write one of them letter-mail thingies? That way they'll have to stop!"

Lucy snorted. "You mean an e-mail?" She corrected with a smile.

"Yeah! That!"

"Hmm... that could work," Lucy said thoughtfully.

Finally, a tiny smile was starting to appear on Lisanna's face and she wiped away a tear. "Do... do you really think it will work?" She asked hopefully.

Natsu grinned. "Yeah! It'll work."

"I think so too, Lisanna," Lucy said, smiling encouragingly at the Take-over Mage as she hugged her again and gave her a reassuring pat on the back. "Don't worry, we'll show them all how sweet you really are!"

Levy came up to join the hug. "I'll do my best too."

"If it'll help any, I'll write one too," Gray offered.

"Gray-sama, your clothes," Juvia pointed out. She then turned to Lisanna and the others. "Please tell Juvia if there is something that she can do to help."

"Only a real man like me can write one of those!"

"We can each write one! We'll right this wrongdoing!"

After a few more cheers and shout-outs, Erza stood up. "Then it's decided. Those who want to help will write out a letter to this author and Lucy will send it. Just write how you feel about that person's writing, and how you felt they handled everyone in the story."

"Oh, almost like one of those reviews?" Levy asked, pointing at the list of reviews on the screen. "What if each of us reviewed that person's story?"

The blonde's eyes brightened and she flung her arms around the blunette's tiny frame. "Levy! You're a genius!" She turned back to study the computer screen. "Then we'll all sign up to this website and see if we can't fix this."

Lisanna sniffled, managing a smile through her tears. "Th-thank you Lucy, everyone," she murmured.

"Of course," Lucy exclaimed heatedly, standing and facing the Take-over Mage. "There's no way that any one of us is going to stand here and simply allow these injustices! As a writer, no, as a member of Fairy Tail, I simply cannot allow this!"

"I'm right with you, Lu-chan!" Levy reached forward and clasped one of the blonde's hands into both of her own. "We'll do this together!"

"Well let's get started! I'm all fired up!" Natsu lifted a flaming fist above his head.

"H-hey! Watch where you're swinging that! Oh, no! Not my desk!"

After rushing to put out the flames around Lucy's desk, they all proceeded to get started on their responses to the fanfiction. First, they had to think of names.

Lucy went first. She attempted 'Lucy Heartfilia' but it was taken of course. So she tried 'LucyHeartfilia', figuring that maybe she could take the spacing out and use her name that way but to no avail. Several other combinations of the name proved fruitless too. Apparently there were a ton of fangirls who were obsessed with her name. On one hand, Lucy was flattered, but on the other hand, she was getting annoyed and slightly creeped out. Finally she settled for the ridiculously long name of 'TheRealCelestialMageLucyHeartfilia'. Sighing in dismay, she shook her head and turned to the others. "Okay, who's next?"

"Me! Me!" Natsu shouted, eager as always. He practically shoved Gray out of the way as he plopped down beside Lucy.

"Uh, okay, Natsu. What name would you like?" Lucy asked, getting ready to sign him up.

"Natsu Dragneel!" He answered simply, the exasperated expression on his face implying that what he was saying should have been obvious.

Lucy shook her head. "That name has been taken. Same as mine."

"Hey, I have an idea. Excuse me for a second, Lucy," Gray said politely as he settled down beside Lucy. When she moved to allow him space, a sly grin appeared on his face. He started typing and then clicked the confirm button. "There you go, Natsu. Fits you like a glove."

"Hey, what the...? WHAT!? Change that now, you perverted popsicle!" Natsu lunged at Gray after seeing what he had typed into the screen.

"Umm... you can't change it now. It can't be that bad... 'NatsutheFlamebrainedIdiot'... Uh, well I guess... moving on now."

"Aww, come on Lucy! I didn't even get to pick my own name and you're just gonna leave it like that?"

"I'm sorry, Natsu, there's no helping it," Lucy said, scratching the back of her head nervously. "Okay, Gray, you're up now. What name would you like?"

"Well, let me think-"

"Outta the way, Lucy!" Natsu shoved the Celestial Spirit Mage out of the way cackling maniacally. A few taps of the keyboard and a click, and he was finished. "Ha! Well now, 'GraythePervyStripper,' looks like I'm not the only one with a stupid name!"

"You fire-snorting jackass! That does it! I'm gonna-!"

Erza clamped a hand down on both of their shoulders. "You're gonna what?"

"Th-that is... I'm gonna thank you for that wonderful name. Thank you, buddy," Gray laughed nervously, sweat building up on his brow under Erza's death stare.

"And you, Natsu? What do you have to say?" Erza demanded.

"Uhh... th-thanks, Gray! I couldn't think of a better name myself! Best of friends, that we are!" Natsu stammered, wrapping his arm around the ice elemental mage.

"Good," Erza said, turning away from the two terrified mages and turning her attention back to Lucy. "If you wouldn't mind, Lucy, I would like to sign up next."

"B-by all means," Lucy laughed nervously, having seen the death stare she'd given Natsu and Gray. "Here, have a seat." She vacated her spot and motioned for Erza to sit down. "It's pretty easy to sign up, so here you go."

After some deliberation, Erza was able to come up with a name for herself. ErzaTitanniaScarlett it would have to be.

Lisanna went next, as she was part of this whole mess and felt that she should have a say in how people were treating her. She settled for the name TheRealLisannaStrauss.

And then others went. HappyFishFinder, LevyMcReader, DemonicMiraJane, JuviaLovesGraysamaForever, IronFistDragon, LoverboyLoki and ElfmanlyMan to name a few. One-by-one, those that wanted to participate signed up and it was agreed that they would use Lucy's computer to share their feelings on what they had just read. However, time was ticking away and Lucy was all but drained of her magical power, having used the device for far too long. And so, they agreed to reflect upon what each of them wanted to say for a night and return the following day to begin posting each person's feedback.

Author's note: Something that I do want to address quickly before anything else. I know one person mentioned something about how I didn't add any bad grammar to that 'story' in last chapter. I have two reasons for this:

(1) I purposely messed with some of the punctuation in the story. If you squint, maybe you'll be able to see what I mean. And even doing this drove me nuts. I hate typos, mistakes, errors of any kind (By the way, if you see any, please by all means feel free to correct me! Seriously!) and

(2) My other reason (also the main one) for this is because there are quite a few 'well-written' cliche stories and those are the ones that anger me the most. In this chapter, Levy and Lucy sort of touch on this and it's a very sore point for me. I've read more than one of those dumb cliche fics. Some of them are written so badly that I understand why the person chose to write the cliche. It could have been beyond their ability to do anything else at this time. However, there are some cliche fanfics that, with how they are written, you can tell that the author is capable of so much more. The grammar and spelling are perfectly fine, even the style of writing just seems to flow. Putting such wonderful writing styles and trying to fit them into that cliche should be a crime. It's equivalent to shoving a work of art into a steaming pile of dung. If you have the talent, spread your wings! Don't waste your potential on some pathetically overdone, cliche, dried up husk of a badly stereotyped storyline just because you are simply too lazy to think up a real plot or are just looking for reviews. BE ORIGINAL! And that's all I'll say about that.

To be honest I was almost disappointed that there were no flames, because I was looking forward to making a few extremists angry, but there's always next chapter! That being said I'm actually very happy to know that in the midst of zombified NaLu fans there are still bright glimmers of hope. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. All of you!

Anywhoo, from here on out, the narration will end and now will focus on the reviews from the different characters until further notice. The updates will be slower, because I am currently stumped as how to write some of the reviews for these guys, but I'll eventually figure it out. Anyway, you know the drill. Let me know how you liked it. Also, I'm up for suggestions on who should review first. So review away! Reviews make me happy, and Natsu's hungry for some flames.

Laters, peace out~ hallie