Author's Note~

Yo minna! I am back! Here I continue. AGAIN. You must've been thinking that, "What!? another chapter? I thought this fic was over! whyyyyy this idioott!" xD But sorry for the late update. here it is.

Then, haters gonna hate. But please don't throw flames on me. Or else I will send you to NATSUU~ HAHAHA!

Note: This is my mind made original fanfiction. Any resemblance is purely a coincidence.

Disclaimer: I am not Hiro Mashima. If I was, I wouldn't have been writing fanfiction here and would've NOT tortured Erza and Mira so much... I ALSO DON'T OWN AMAN RESORTS! (its in the end of the chappy..)

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So, onto the story! Oh, one thing though. This chapter contains a little swearing. BLAME MINERVA!

previously on, Best Friends for Life-

"KYAAAAAAAAA!" A shout came from behind. All the 8 suddenly got shocked and got up and decided to look at what's happening. Again…

They saw something which made them want to chop their heads off. (AGAIN for Natsu and Erza)

*Something in bold flies in the black screen*
CONTINUED!
Bold: Me
Continued-

Wait. Before continuing, let us go back in the past again. I will show the conversation with the other people while Jellal and Jelarl were talking.

MEANWHILE… (While Jellal and Jelarl were having a conversation in the restaurant…)

"What plans, Erza?" Gray interjected, after hearing Erza shout at her band-mates for ruining her "plans".

"Uh, huh? Wha-.. no no! nothing! Absolutely nothing! Ahaha!" Erza lied. She'd realized by now that everyone (except Jelarl and her band-mates) will know what her plans were, so decided to use her 'weapon'.

"Natsu. Lucy. Sérieusement, je déteste vous deux. Simplement à cause de vous, mes plans de surprenant lui souhaiter son anniversaire ont été écrasés ! Et, en outre, vous savez comment mauvaise je voulais faire ... parce que vous savez j'ont un ... écraser ... sur lui. Urgh! Je serieusement déteste vous!" Erza unleashed her weapon of speaking French to avoid her friends and their team knowing anything. She shouted at her 'siblings' and then blushed at the end. (Natsu. Lucy. Seriously, I hate you two. Simply because of you, my plans to surprise him on his birthday have been crushed! And, in addition, you know how bad i wanted to do it ... because you know I have a ... crush ... on him. Urgh! I seriously hate you.)

Natsu and Lucy understood that Erza didn't want anyone to know what they were talking about; they spoke back in French.

"N-nous sommes très d-désolé…Erza…" Natsu and Lucy bowed their heads and apologized in unison. (W-we are very s-sorry.… Erza…)

"….Will someone explain to us what is going on…?" Gray sweatdropped.

"Gray. Have some patience and a shirt, too." Erza pointed to Gray's torso.

"WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN!?" and with that, he went hunting for his shirt.

"Well, alright. I'll excuse you two this time. This is should not happen again." Erza told the waiting duo.

"Um…Erza…I have a suggestion. To make up for what we did…" Lucy whispered some plan into Erza's ear and by the end, when Lucy was finished she was almost squealing in joy.

"Great Lucy!" Erza thumped Lucy on the back.

"ehehe…thanks Erza." Lucy thanked Erza while sweatdropping as Erza hit a bit…hard.

"Alright. Gray, what were you saying?" Erza turned to Gray and asked.

"Well, I was asking that in what kind language were you talking in and why…" Gray told. While this, Lucy had joined listening to Erza and Gray while Mira and Juvia had indulged Natsu in a conversation about how he and Lucy met etc etc.

"Well, it was in French we were speaking. I learnt it when I came here. And well, as for the 'why'….forget it. Its nothing. Just a habit. We start this whenever." Erza lied.

"Alright…" Gray didn't look convinced, but agreed otherwise since he was not forcing answers from Erza..right now because of the lone reason that he was hungry and wanted to eat. TROLL. Meanwhile Erza suddenly heard Jelarl telling something to Jellal and then you know what happened next.

BACK TO THE FUTURE! xD

Present
A small little restaurant, Canberra, Australia.
Time Check: 11 a.m.

All of them heard a scream and suddenly jumped in their seats. Then they looked to the source of the voice. And they saw…Minerva.

"KYYAAAAA! JELLAL-SAMA! GRAY!" Minerva shouted. And with this, the Red Dragons (plus Jelarl) chopped their heads off.

"URGH! Will you stop shouting!? Can't you see we are having a peaceful breakfast here!?" Natsu growled.

"Wha? YOU! What ARE you doing here? Who allowed such a freakin' disgusting little pig here?" Minerva growled as well. Making Erza incredibly angry.

"HEY! WATCH IT, BITCH! HE'S MY BROTHER. You are so dead now!" Erza yelled in anger. Every person who was present there had their attention now diverted to them in the tense atmosphere.

"uh..calm down now, Erza…" Jellal tried to calm the furious Erza. He held his hands in front of Erza in a gesture to calm her down.

"How can I calm down, Jellal!? She is insulting my brother!" Erza fought back. And this made Jellal realize that this may get out of hand. So he exchanged places with Jelarl. (and Minerva got furious.)

"ERZA IS RIGHT! HOW THE HELL DID YOU DARE CALL HIM THAT!?" Lucy fought to Minerva too.

"YEAH! HOW DID YOU CALL MEH THAT!?" Natsu became furious too. After all, TTT were their sworn enemies, right?

"Just..just calm down please. We can sort it out, alright?" The Blue Phoenixes told the three.

"Alright, what do you want, Minerva?" Gray questioned. They knew Minerva and her team because they had met before in a rock-band party.

"Well, I was just coming to have breakfast here when I saw you all and just got shocked. But tell me, Gray, what are you all doing with these assholes? Especially that foolish red-headed cow." Minerva spat.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY!?" Gray and Jellal suddenly shot up. They could handle anything, but never anyone insulting their dear friend, Erza.

"DON'T YOU DARE SAY ANOTHER WORD ABOUT ERZA. OR I'LL MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO STAND ON TWO FEET ANYMORE!" Gray yelled furiously.

"BUT I'LL MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY AGAIN. YOU'RE GOING OFF LIMITS! ONE MORE WORD AND I WILL NOT HESITATE TO HURT A WOMAN." Jellal threatened Minerva, his tea-green eyes glowing like a monster's and his left hand holding Erza's shoulder and the other curled into a fist.

"YES! THEY ARE RIGHT!" Natsu and Lucy also shot up. Erza did so much for them after all. Erza almost cried at the sight. So many people fighting for her…she was truly god-gifted with such friends.

"Alright, calm down! Minerva, its best you just leave before I am not able to control any of my dear friends. I am really god-gifted to get such friends. This is your first and the last warning. Leave before they hurt you." Erza got up and commanded calmly.

"B-but Erza!" Jellal and Natsu argued.

"Its okay, Jel, Natsu. It's fine. Let her go this time. And next time even I'll make sure she loses her voice for her whole life." Erza reassured Jellal and Natsu. Erza really wanted to call her dear friend 'Jelly' but knowing he would probably run away – it takes a lot to find him after that – she decided against it.

"…as you say." Jellal smiled a bit.

"…fine." Natsu pouted a bit, but then left it.

Minerva was really furious. First, her 'dear' Jellal-sama took that red-headed bitch's side and when she called him 'Jel' and reassured him, he listened to her obediently! Why was that, she was oblivious to that. She wanted to know what relationship they had, but couldn't bring herself after so much threats. So she just left, in shame, swearing in her mind to definitely take revenge.

"…What was that?" Mirajane suddenly spoke up. Somehow, she had ended up at Jelarl's side, covering his ears while all of them were swearing and now removing her hands from his ears.

"…Dunno…" Juvia commented. And that's how all of them ended up in fits of roaring laughter.

"Alright. Now let's finish up our breakfast and then we can rent this hotel and rest peacefully." Erza said and sat back down.

"uh…wait. Urm, minna…" Lucy muttered. And they understood what she meant. All of those people's eyes around them were still on them.

"Well? Don'cha have your own breakfast to eat?" Natsu asked impatiently and all of them went back to minding their own business.

"Urm..Jelarl. You really didn't hear anything, right?" Erza asked Jelarl.

"No…I didn't." He replied innocently while caressing a sleeping Happy's blue fur.

"Good then…we were not actually saying anything good." Erza sweatdropped.

"But, why were you all fighting?" Jelarl looked at Erza from his curious green eyes.

"Well…she..Minerva said some…bad things about all of Red Dragons..so..yeah." Erza replied, the events replaying in her mind. She sighed.

"Anyways, let's eat now, okay?" She stated, smiling.

"Yeah!"

"Hey, Jellal." Erza called out.

"Yes?"

"What happened to Snoopy? Will he eat?" Erza asked with sparkles in her eyes.

"Oh, he's sleeping here…well, yeah, might as well feed him something. My poor snoopy hasn't eaten anything today." Jellal replied and poked snoopy to wake him up.

"You want food? What will you eat?" Jellal asked and then snoopy stood up on his lap, his front limbs on the table.

"Arf! Arf!" Snoopy barked, pointing to a certain dish.

"Alright…Here it is." Jellal picked up the dish and put it in the small plate which was kept for him, but put the dish for snoopy in it.

"Here." Jellal put the plate on the floor for him to devour it.

"He's so cute." Erza commented.

"I know right. Poor him was left injured on the streets 2 years ago. I saw him and yeah, took him in." Jellal grinned.

And just like this, they continued their breakfast.

After a while, all of them finished, paid the bill and got out.

"Alright! Where to now?" Gray asked.

"And now to this hotel. It's a large 5-star hotel chain. Aman Resorts. Let's go there." Erza told. (Note: Aman Resorts are REAL. I DO NOT own them. NEVER. xD but I've gone there and THEY ARE SUPERB! BEST HOTELS/RESORTS! I've ever seen. one of the ten best of the world, ya know? oh sorry, I'm not advertising Aman right now. xD)

"Sure. We heard about it being AWESOME. What's the rent by the way?"

"I actually don't know accurately, but its 100,000 or something for one night, meals exclusive." Erza replied, and Blue Phoenixes had their eyes wide. They'd heard about it being 'expensive' but this expensive…

"But yeah, only you 4 are gonna go there. We will fly back to Sydney for some urgent…work."

"What work?" Jellal asked.

"Just some career work." Lucy replied.

"Yeah." Erza agreed, while putting a hand on Natsu's mouth to prevent him to speak something to fail their plan, YET AGAIN.

"…well, then we would like to come with you." All of them said in unison.

"b-but, you came from such a long journey! Y-you need…rest, right? Haha!" Erza spoke with uncertainty.

"Yeah, but its okay. We don't want to stay in a completely unfamiliar state alone." Gray told.

"Bu-but you're all together! You're not alone!" Lucy tried to convince them to stay there too.

"We know. But you know what we mean." Jellal replied.

"….fine. You can come." Erza stated and Lucy looked at her in disbelief.

"Erza! B-but…nos plans!" Lucy argued. (...our plans!)

"Pas de soucis, Lucy. Nous serons en mesure de gérer. Si nous argumentons davantage maintenant, ils vont obtenir suspectes. Surtout Jellal. Et nous ne voulons pas que maintenant. Donc, allons prenons-les. J'ai une autre idée." Erza reassured Lucy. While they had started speaking in French yet again, Gray explained to Jellal too. Then Jellal started a random conversation with Jelarl, about how were Red Dragons' concerts. (No worries, Lucy. We will be able to manage. If we argue more now, they will get suspicious. Especially Jellal. And we do not want that now. So, let's take them. I have another idea.)

"So, let's go now." Erza had left Natsu's mouth by now and he was doing nothing but pouting and poking the sleeping Happy in Jelarl's arms.

"Yup." All of them said in unison. Then, all of the 8 went to the airport once more and then the Red Dragons led the Blue Phoenixes to their chopper.

And another problem arises. That chopper….

"Uh…whoops. I'd forgot it was…." Erza, Lucy and Natsu, all three trailed off.

-To Be Continued.

DONEEEE! Hmm, what happened to that chopper!? It wassss? Dunno! Find out in the next chapter.

Well, now, I would like to apologize again for updating late. I was/am TOOOO busy these days. But thankfully I updated now. But yeah, don't expect updates very soon please. Bussssyyy! -_-

And,
Please feel free to throw stones on me, for updating late or anything you want. I mean, just use this method instead giving me flames.

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