Title: Main Attraction

A/N: Everything I wrote in this story is based on personal experience from my own high school's festival.

"Good afternoon, fellow students and visitors, to the annual Fairy Academy school festival!"

Lucy initially thought that she was used to the weirdness that was inherent in Fairy Academy by now. In the span of almost two semesters, she doesn't question the fact that her teachers there are talking cats anymore, or that the principal is a talking snowman-dog thing that just dances around. Heck, not even the crazy antics of her new friends would faze her as it used to before.

"This is Max Alors, and we are all gathered here in front of this stage today…"

But there was nothing that she could have done to prepare herself for this.

"…to witness the union of Natsu Dragneel and Lucy Heartfilia in holy matrimony!"

A marriage booth. Someone actually pitched in the idea of a marriage booth, and it got the school's approval. It was unbelievable.

She clearly remembered the ambush she had that got her in this crazy predicament in the first place. One minute, she was in the main hallway, ready to buy some snacks from one of the freshmen's booths, and the next, she was handcuffed, blindfolded, and dragged along somewhere by Jet and Droy. When they finally took off her blindfold, she was greeted to the sight of a crowd mostly filled with her overly ecstatic classmates, and a freaked-out Natsu (with what looked like a big bruise on his forehead) handcuffed next to her.

"So, before we start," Max announced in a cheerful tone, "we'd like to hear a few words from the two lovebirds first. Lucy?" he asked Lucy as he brought his microphone near her mouth.

Lucy only said what was in her mind at that moment: "Max, just what the hell is going on here?"

"Woah there, it seems like the bride here is feeling a bit jittery right now," Max replied, slowly backing away from the girl. "Natsu! Seems you got a pretty nasty bruise over there, buddy. What happened?"

Natsu broke out of his silent stupor. "Erza punched me in the head."

"Okay, moving on!" Max brought the microphone back to himself. "So, tell us, how did you two lovebirds first meet?"

Lucy looked ready enough to maim Max with his microphone, when all of a sudden…

" Oh, this sweet prince of mine saved me from a gang of dastardly traffickers! He came to my rescue just like a knight in shining armor! "

A female voice, which was loud and clearly did not sound like her own, came up out of nowhere. The audience quickly ate it up and started shrieking. Lucy pointed her gaze at the dedication booth at the far corner of the building, narrowing her eyes at the true source of that voice.

"Mira…" she thought angrily, gritting her teeth.

"Oh my, that sounds just like something out of a fairy tale! And Natsu, what made you get out there and rescue her back then?"

"I-"

"How could I possibly just leave a poor, defenseless girl out there with those horrible monsters?! I wouldn't forgive myself if I had left her alone there," another voice, a male one this time, came up from the speakers with all its dramatic flair flowing from them.

Natsu stared off at the dedication booth for a few seconds as the audience continued with their hollering. "…what Loke said."

"Okay! Since we don't much time left here, we'll go straight to the vows now!" Max then faced the handcuffed teenagers, with his microphone positioned in between the handcuffed teenagers. "Lucy, do you take Natsu to be your husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do you part?"

Lucy looked absolutely red at that point. "If you really think that I'm going to answer that question, then-"

"Oh, yes, I do! A million times, I do~!" the female voice replied back for her.

"Very good! Natsu! Now, I'm not gonna repeat all those lines to you again so, do you take Lucy to be your wife, to have and to hold, to love and to cherish, blah blah blah, 'til death do you part?"

Natsu just shrugged his shoulders. "I guess."

"Natsu!" Lucy could've sworn she felt her face getting hotter and hotter by the second.

"Wonderful! And now, by the power vested in me by the student council of Fairy Academy," Max announced in a big dramatic voice, "I now pronounce you two husband and wife!"

Lucy couldn't believe what she just heard. "WHAT?!"

"You may now kiss the bride!" Max said with a really big grin on his face to the two teenagers.

Natsu then turned to face Lucy after that. "Well," he said with a surprisingly casual tone, "it won't kill us or anything, right?"

Lucy's eyes grew wide at the implications of his words. "Wait, wait…you're just kidding, aren't you, Natsu?" she stammered uneasily. "You're not really gonna-" she was interrupted as soon as Natsu gave her a quick peck on the lips.

The crowd went absolutely wild after that.

"That was such a beautiful wedding, wasn't it, ladies and gentlemen?" Max addressed to the crowd. In return, he got a lot of clapping and hollering from them. "Now, if you two would just go to the souvenir booth over at that corner for your gift and rings…"

"Uh…I-I…," Lucy spluttered, overwhelmed by what just happened to her. "…huh?!"