Day 5: Manga

Laxus sighed and sat sullenly at the bar with his team. His mate was currently on a mission with Natsu and Happy. "When's Cosplayer get back?" Bickslow asked him.

"Today." He replied.

"Never thought I'd see the day Laxus Dreyar became sad because of a girl." Evergreen teased him.

"Never thought I'd see the day you'd fall for Mr. Manly over there." Laxus shot back easily gesturing to Elfman who was sitting with Lisanna. Evergreen just huffed and turned away.

Just then the doors banged open and Laxus turned expecting to see Lucy walk in with a big smile on her face, but instead saw Natsu and Happy walk in. Natsu with a sleeping Lucy in his arms. "Is she ok?" he demanded of Natsu taking Lucy from him.

"She was complaining about being tired. I think she has a fever, but without a thermometer I couldn't check." Natsu told him knowing that right now was not a good time to do anything but be completely serious.

Laxus nodded as he looked for the blue haired dragon slayer. "Wendy!" he called over to the girl sitting with Romeo.

"Yes, Laxus-san?" she asked rushing over. "Is Lucy-san ok?" she asked worriedly seeing the girl in his arms.

"I'm not sure, could you check if she's sick?" he asked the dragon slayer who nodded and told him to take her to the back room.

15 minutes later he walked back out, Lucy in his arms as he headed back to their place. She was sick, of course, although Wendy said she should be fine in a few days with rest and plenty of fluid.

He got back home and laid her on the bed putting her keys on the nightstand next to her like normal, and heading to the kitchen to make her some soup.

As he got out some crackers for her to have with the soup he heard the sheets rustling and walked into the room to see Lucy standing.

"What do you think you're doing?" he asked walking over to her. "Get back in bed. Wendy says you have a fever."

She sighed but listened to him getting back in bed as he put pillows up behind her so she could sit up. After she ate they both laid in bed watching TV together until they were tired enough to sleep.

"So, is there anything you want me to get for you to do while you're sick?" Laxus asked her the next morning as he got ready. He unfortunately had to go to the guild to pick up some paperwork from Jiji to do while he took care of her.

"Manga." She replied eyes shining. "Mira said she had a few good Manga she had heard of that came out recently."

"Ok, I'll talk to Mira and get you some Manga." He agreed as he kissed her head hoping his mate would be ok for the short while he was gone.

"Oi! Mira! What good Manga series are there? Lucy asked me to get some for her while she's sick." He asked after getting the paperwork from Jiji.

"Oh. Right." Mira grabbed a paper and pen writing down at least 20 different titles for him and labeling them as to what genre they were. "These are a few good ones she might like."

'Few?' Laxus thought but smiled taking the paper anyway and walking to the Manga shop.

"What are you looking for today sir?" the shop owner asked as he walked in.

"Um. Manga. Do you have any of these?" he asked handing over the paper. He had never been interested in Manga himself and felt very out of place in the shop.

"Ah yes. Right over here." The man led him to the section labeled 'New Releases'. Then the man ran his finger over the spines as he picked out the titles Mira had given him. "Here you go." The man smiled handing him the pile.

Laxus smiled with relief and paid walking home quickly to see his mate. Lucy was thankfully in bed and he sat down next to her. "How are you feeling?" he asked.

"A little tired, mostly hungry." She told him her eyes lighting up when she saw the Manga. "Is that the Manga?" she asked excited.

He chuckled at her reaction. "Yes, these are the new ones Mira was talking about. She's crazy. Gave me twenty titles with genres and said it was 'a few'." He shook his head but smiled at his mate as she quickly chose one and started to read. "I'll go make you something to eat." He told her and she looked up and nodded before quickly going back to her Manga reading.

By the time she was better 3 days later Laxus had been to the Manga store twice more, buying 20 more Manga each time. "How is your house not filled with Manga?" he asked Lucy after he went the second time.

"Virgo." She answered calling out the spirit.

"Punishment Hime?" the maid spirit asked and Laxus shook his head. Her spirits were definitely original. That was for sure.

"No Virgo, not today. Can you put all these in the Manga storage?" she asked and Virgo nodded taking the stack of Manga.

"Yes Hime. Is that all?"

"Yes Virgo that's it. Thank you." Lucy thanked the spirit as Virgo bowed and disappeared back to the spirit world.

In the end Laxus learned his mate adored Manga, and he also learned to never say anything bad about Manga to a Manga lover. Laxus had said he didn't understand the big deal about Manga when it was just a comic book. Mira had almost killed him in her halphas form and Freed had to talk her down from stringing him up.

"Manga lovers. My new worst nightmare." He muttered to himself. "But at least now I know how to make Star happy. Just buy her more Manga."