Which One?
Hey all you awesome possums out there! I've been thinking, I'd like to try a hand at doing an OC..
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Please enjoy chapter 4 of Which One?. Fairytail is owned by Hiro Mashima. Muah!
"OKAY YOU PUNY LITTLE GIRLS WEARING UNDERRATED TACKY BIKINIS! GET INTO THE POOL AND GIVE ME FIVE!"
screamed Aquarius, the tough swimming instructor. One hot, tough cookie.
The sports coach was called Scorpio, who was more easy-going. Fittingly enough, there both had a strong
relationship going. So strong they would often cancel P.E to make out.
Lucy sweat-dropped. "I didn't sign up for P.E," She flexed her legs and shivered in her pink-and-white swimsuit.
She was in Lane 4, queuing with Erza and two other girls with white hair.
"P.E is compulsory for everyone." replied the girl with long white hair.
The younger one put in, "You'll get in trouble for wearing a swimsuit. Aquarius only allows bikinis."
"I'm Mirajane. She's Lisanna," said the elder, gesturing towards her sister.
"We're both top swimmers," chimed in Lisanna.
A short blast of the whistle and Mirajane plunged into the icy water at top speed, along with girls from Lane 1,
Lane 2, and Lane 3.
Erza snapped on her goggles and bunched up her hair.
"If you fall underneath the two minutes per length requirement, Aquarius will torture you,"
she supplied. Lucy nearly fainted. Two minutes per length? She could hardly manage with five.
Another signal, and the red-head dived in professionally. Lisanna cheerfully slapped Lucy on her shoulder.
"Ha-ah. It's okay. You'll fit in.. after you see what Aquarius has in store for you," she snickered.
"OI! YOU THERE! WHY AREN'T YOU WEARING A BIKINI?!"
Lucy hid behind Lisanna in a flash. "Eep," she uttered.
"AND WHY AREN'T YOU IN THE WATER?! WAIT- WE CAN FIX THAT!" The woman with long, swirly blue hair
grabbed the hem of Lucy's swimsuit and threw her in the water.'
"Ehh, Coach, I was supposed to go," complained Lisanna.
As Lucy started swimming frantically, the other swimmers took it as a signal to dive in as well.
In a few seconds everybody had overtaken her, but she managed to finish at
exactly two minutes. "Ah-ha, ha-ah, stitch-es." gasped Lucy as she scrambled out of the pool.
A low snicker was heard behind her. Too low for a girl's voice.
She spun around quickly and spotted three greedy pairs of eyes.
"LYON-SAMA!" squealed Juvia. She was one of the last to swim but essentially, being in
her element, was super-fast and finished her laps as soon as Lucy managed to dry herself with a towel.
"Eh-eh.. Juvia-san.. I wasn't.." A rosy red blush breezed past his face.
"It's alright, Juvia is so happy to see you," exclaimed the girl with glee, walking forward.
"Eh, Lyon-sama? Juvia-san sees your nose is bleeding," said Juvia confused.
Lyon turned away quickly and ran off. "UM, SICKBAY!"
"Hi Natsuuuuuuuu~" screamed Lisanna.
"LISANNA, NO DON'T, YOUR WET... WAI-" stuttered the embarrased pink-haired boy as his girlfriend
tackled him down playfully, dripping water down all over him.
"Uh, Li-san, what's that?" Natsu pointed at a rustling tree.
"Probably Jellal-kunnnn making out with Erza-sama," clucked Lisanna.
"Let's go to my dorm," purred the white-haired beauty. Jellal's face poked out of the bush.
A panic-stricken Natsu mouthed, 'HELP MEEEEE.'
The blue-haired boy snickered, then was pulled back into the bush.
"Oh god." exclaimed Lucy, throwing her hands up into the air. Then her fist connected to something.
"WHAT THE HELL, LUCY?" Gray was rubbing his jaw and holding a little folded note.
"Oops, sorry, sorry, gomen," apologized the girl.
"Ah, neverm.." His eyes traveled up to her chest and zeroed in on her bust.
"Eh, Gray?" Lucy waved her arm in front of his face, making her swimsuit jiggle.
( A/N : I think you know what I mean by swimsuit... )
Little beads of red liquid spurted out of his nose.
"What.. OH MY GOD PERVERT!" screamed Lucy again, and punched him in the face.
"AQUARIUS, CATCH!" yelled Gray as he toppled over into the pool.
He tossed the tiny sliver of paper to the angry woman before he got soaked.
He resurfaced sheepishly, mixing his blood with the chlorinated pool water.
Delighted, Aquarius read and reread the note several times and squealed, love-sick.
"This, class, is, cancelled~" proclaimed Aquarius with a silly lovey-dovey face and punctuating each word
with twirls. She danced out of the indoor swimming pool area.
"This was soo, weird." commented Lucy, and then she checked her water-proof watch.
"And it's not even twenty minutes into class! GOD, this school is weird," The blonde did a double-take
as she noticed a tiny drawing underneath the tiny hands. It was a pink-haired
boy and a blonde girl sitting under a tree together.
"Oh, GEEZUS! AND NOW THIS? WHO THE CRAP DID THIS? HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO FIX IT?!"
"You don't like it?" asked Natsu innocently. He had given Lisanna the slip. Slinky little minx.. growled Lucy in her head. She leaned forward and looked him dead in the eye, prepared to lecture his ass off about altering other
people's property. Then her stomach rumbled loudly.
"Thunderstorm's on the way~ Instant noodles?" sang Natsu mischievously, and danced around an embarrassed
Lucy. The girl sighed and succumbed to her hunger.
"You'd better not let Lisanna see you," barked Lucy, as she stared outside the misty window
of the supermarket. "And where did this supermarket pop up from? It's only, like, a seven minute ride
on a bike from the dorms," Natsu shrugged casually as he strolled through the Instant Noodles isle.
The blonde followed him, remarking ever so often, "They certainly have one huge isle just for noodles..."
Natsu stopped in front of a small screen positioned directly above a row showcasing flashy colours on a plastic
bowl wrapped in clingfilm. "The fuss they make over dried noodles and hot water!" groaned Natsu.
Lucy abruptly stopped examining a nine-pack offer and stared at him with her mouth hanging open.
"Oh god, oh god, you just said something SENSIBLE!
The boy shrugged again. "I'm not really stupid you know. How could I even get into F.H if I was that idiotic?"
"It's the end of the world," moaned Lucy dramatically, ignoring him.
Then she stopped. "Just kidding," she grinned with a thumbs up.
"You're a really good actor.. I guess.." complimented Natsu awkwardly.
"Actress," corrected the girl immediately.
Natsu picked up a double-pack chicken and vegetable ramen and handed it to her.
He began to shift around the notes in his jam-packed wallet.
"How much is it?" asked Lucy worriedly.
"About twenty," replied Natsu without looking up.
"Twenty whats?"
"Twenty whats?!" repeated Lucy louder.
She dashed to the price checker and scanned it.
"YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!"
Natsu ran up to her, snatched the pack and sprinted to the check-out counter.
"NO! DON'T BUY IT NATSU! WE'LL GO HALVES!" People turned to stare.
Lucy didn't care, what kind of noodles, no matter how instant, could sell for 20,000 yen?!
Natsu gave her another cheeky smile. "Spendthrift, spendthrift," he chanted.
"Hey!" exclaimed Lucy reproachfully.
"Who cares," shrugged the boy once the checking out was done. "We'll go halves next time,"
Lucy carefully noted the 'next time'.
As she slurped the instant delicacies twenty minutes later.. she actually might consider that.
Levy banged her head against the locker. "Gosh.. if that book was real, I would get that stone basin thing
where you can freaking store memories..." She suddenly stopped in mid-bang, because she noticed
Gajeel hanging around the opposite row of lockers shiftily. The bluenette skipped towards him.
"Don't you have classes?" she reprimanded him. After all, she was student council. She couldn't let her rep deteriorate. Gajeel grinned lopsidedly. "Don't you have classes?" he teased back.
The girl pouted and Gajeel rested his arm comfortably on her head.
"It's homeroom, and I'm pretty sure you have econs," blushed Levy lopsidedly.
Gajeel mock-sighed and said, "With that photographic memory of yours, my bad-ass days are over,"
Levy frowned. "I like you just the way you are," she stated. Gajeel mock-danced around her a bit as he
teased her a bit more. "Ooh, Ms. Student Council likes a baaaad boy,"
Irritated, the girl stuck her foot out and the 'bad boy' tripped over and banged his face to the locker.
"Not so bad boy now with a bleeding nose, are you?" quipped Levy.
"People'll think I just got into a naughty fight." snorted Gajeel.
"A naughty fight with a girl who made your nose bleed, and shut up, I know you lllllike it when I say your a
bad boy because it makes you think of dirty things."
Gajeel's jaw dropped and a clog popped out of his head.
"So, why are you here?"
"I came for two reasons. One, is Natsu, that scumbag, said we're even for that prank war if I delivered this letter to you, and two.." Gajeel pushed the letter sneakily into her headband as he reached forward and kissed her on
the lips. "..Is that I wanted to give my girlfriend a kiss. Bye, shorty."
He turned on his heel to leave as he bumped into , the disciplinary teacher.
"GAJEEL! VANDALISM, FIGHTING, VIOLATION OF DRESS CODE, STEALING, SNEAKING OUT AT NIGHT.." ranted
the teacher at full steam once he saw him. He grabbed Gajeel's hair and dragged him away.
"Oh dear," remarked Levy as she flipped open the letter dreamily. "Natsu.. Natsu?"
Oi, Levy - do me a favor and pass this envelope to Lucy. PLEASE? PRETTY PLEASE WITH CHICKEN AND GRILLED MUSHROOMS AND BLACK PEPPER SAUCE? I'll come to my disciplinary hearing with the teachers for knocking that kid unconscious without a fight. PLEASE?
Underneath were scrawls of roasted chicken drumsticks, mushrooms with criss-cross marks across them,
and a gooey black substance sketched to look like it was oozing over everything. And an untidy drawing
of himself with googly, puppy-dog eyes.
Levy laughed and gave a sanctimonious nod to no-one in particular. "Sure sure, Natsu."
She stood alone for awhile, day-dreaming.
After a full thirty minutes or so, she stopped abruptly and walked off the hallway to find Lucy.
"Hey, hey, LUCY!"
"LUCY-SAN!"
"LUCEEEEEEE!"
The blonde whirled around to see Levy running towards her.
Strange. She heard a guy's voice, definitely.
She whirled around and bumped into a towering Gray with his wet hair covering his eyes.
"Lucy, I've been calling you," He swept his bangs away and stared her down. "Why didn't you pick up?"
The girl rolled her eyes. "I don't belong to you, you don't have to know what I do every second of the day,"
she muttered, stressing long bits in her sentence.
"You," Levy appeared behind Gray and rapped him on the shoulder. "You have detention. Go. Away. Now."
"And you," the bluenette grinned a big, big grin. "Whatever you've done, thank you, because Natsu's coming
to the disciplinary hearing." Lucy raised her eyebrows. "What hearing?!" Gray grazed Lucy's hand as he
slinked away to detention.
"On Sunday," Levy grinned again. "Thank-you, Heartfilia!" She slapped Lucy on the back and left her
staring at her, bewildered. Then she looked at her hands, still thoroughly bewildered.
There was a pink, frilly envelope in her hands, and a pastel blue envelope with a cloud stamp.
"What the hell is this SHIT?" Exasperated, Lucy took a hefty bite of air and released it.
"Might as well cook some instant noodles.. I hear the new ZuruZuru noodles are out.. and while I'm
at it I could probably just read the letters.."
Lucy hugged Mavis, who was just passing by, and rushed off to her dorm room.
30 minutes later, after reading the letters, eating noodles, and writing things on her PalmWizard.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE NATSU ASKED YOU OUT ON A DATE!"
"GRAY! GRAY! GRAY! GRAY! GRAY! GRAY!"
"YOU SHOULD GO WITH GRAY, OMIGOSH, I CAN LEND YOU MY CLOTHES AND DO A MAKEOVER.."
"NATSU IS WAY HOTTER!"
"HE'S A FLAME-BRAIN IDIOT!"
"SHUT UP!"
"NO YOU SHUT UP!"
A gaggle of girls stalked Lucy and screamed incessant things in her ear.
"You know what I think?" shouted the girl and whirled around.
MiraJane, Cana, Levy, Juvia, Erza, and some other random girls who had caught on stopped
screaming abruptly to listen.
"I think.."
Cana and Juvia edged a bit closer.
"..THAT YOU SHOULD ALL JUST SHUT UP AND GO AWAY!"
"Just say you'll go out with Natsu.."
"No, say you'll go out with Gray..."
"Chill guys, concentrate on your own love life,"
"All the guys want to do is snog us.."
"Lyon-sama isn't like that! Juvia is firm about that!"
"Juvia, your firm on more than one thing,"
"What's that supposed to mean?!"
"YEESH! CHILL OUT AND SHUT UP!" barked Erza. Astoundingly she had been able to acquire a slice of cake.
"Thank you, Erza-san," said Lucy graciously.
"Everybody close your eyes, and then I'll tell you who I'm going to pick.."
And of course, everybody snapped their eyes shut immediately.
"One.."
Lucy sneaked a couple of steps to the garden.
"Two.." She was on the grass.
"Three!" She dived through the secret-ish garden that Gray and herself shared.
She heard squeals of disappointment and frustration.. but she ignored them and turned to the two
letters in her hands. The first, an elegant, swirly, loopy invitation to some sort of ball.
The second, a hey-look-i'm-trying-to-write-my-best-here invitation to the same ball.
And.. it didn't take an idiot to figure out who sent which.
The problem was, who was she to go with?
Lucy snapped her fingers. A plan was creeping into her mind.
Okay, so let's see : I really want to dress up as another person right now. Let's try to implant that into
my plan. First of all, tomorrow is Friday, and after that, Saturday, and after that, Sunday.
So she could go like all, dress-up-as-another-girl-and-flirt-with-Gray-and-Natsu-to-find-out-whether-they
were-totally-dedicated-to-her. Awesome! And she knew both of their schedules.
"OPERATION DOREI, BEGIN!" She jumped up and pumped a fist into the air.
"Wait, why is it operation Dorei..? That's kind of mean.."