Konbanwa!
This chapter has actually been written for like, ever, I just didn't want to post it because I haven't finished the next one, due to the fact I'd gotten it perfect, and then was a douchebag and pressed "quit without saving" and broke and killed it. *grumble*
Anyway! On with the show, and all that jazz~ Thank you to who's reviewed, who's reviewing and who WILL review. I am very, very fond of you all C:
Storybook Romance
It all happened in a flash; nails in her skin, the wrenching of her whole body from the stool to the ground. Levy screamed but it was drowned out by a force more enthusiastic, more powerful, and, eventually, when she stopped writhing in a breathless attempt to get away from the fingers in her ribs, she managed to choke out the words, "Y-You're back!"
Lucy smiled down at Levy cheerfully, now straddling the smaller girl with glee. "Miss me?"
"Y-Yeah!" Levy tried, sides aching from being tickled.
"Are we done here?" Natsu pouted from just off to the side. Happy was floating around his head like an oversized fly. Lucy dismissed him carelessly, and the dragon slayer trudged off to find Gray, his temper the worse for wear.
"What's wrong with Natsu?" Levy asked. "He's looking thoroughly doused."
Lucy winked at Levy and fiddled around in her miniskirt pocket for something. She pulled out a bag of coins, jangling joyfully in the way that only money can. "See this? This means we didn't break anything this time~"
Levy's eyes went wide with recognition, and she shot the broad back of the retreating dragon slayer a painfully pitying gaze. "Poor Natsu..."
Lucy huffed. "More like poor Gray. He's the one that's going to suffer for it, now." Lucy chewed her lip thoughtfully, and no one gave her compromising position a second thought. "Natsu's been moody since Gray officially began to team up with Juvia. And... Well, don't tell him I told you, but he hates that he doesn't get to see Erza around so much anymore."
She ducked like a pro as Gray went hurtling over their heads, clipping the bartop and smashing back-first into the fifty odd bottles of grog lined up at the back. Mirajane sighed and went about cleaning as Gray excused himself, wearing nothing but a glove and one sock, and went shooting off in the opposite direction.
"Is it just me, or are these fights getting more and more intense?" Levy frowned, not even bothering to keep her eyes off Gray's exposed paraphernalia.
"They both miss Erza," Lucy said, shrugging and doing the same. "The more they destroy, the more time she'll spend destroying them." She paused. "They want the old days back. I kind of do, too, but it's like she's living in a whole 'nother world, you know?"
Levy grinned awkwardly. "S-Sure... Yeah... Erza... Whole... Anyway! Lu-chan! Did you get to writing while away? You said you were going to combine research and work, so how'd it go?"
"Great, actually!" Lucy wriggled off her friend, allowing her to stand. Levy reached for the apple juice standing, luckily, untouched on the bartop, as Natsu and Gray raged around in the background like wild beasts. "I was totally inspired. There are so many legends out there! The classic fairy tales are still my favourite, though: Snow White, Cinderella, The Twelve Dancing Princesses... One day I'll write a story as timeless as one of those," she smiled. Levy smiled along with her.
"Make sure you tell me when you're done! Remember, I get to read ALL of your stuff before anyone else, kay?"
"Yeah," she grinned, then winced as Natsu was shoved over the rail of the top floor, and landed underneath Gray in a pile of dust. "They're really... going at it this time," she frowned. "Where's Erza when you need her? She said we'd have a girls' night when I came back!" Lucy crossed her arms. "She's probably with that boyfriend of hers. He really eats her time."
"I thought you and Jellal got along?"
"We do," Lucy assured her. "It's just that things were really dark there for a while, and I'm still a little worried. Well. Not that she needs anyone taking care of her."
"Mmm..." Levy had seen Jellal's feelings on paper when she had gone to design his living quarters, in between explaining things to Erza and waiting for her to finish eating all the cake she was given. He was as genuine as you could get, even if his relationships had seen extremely rough patches. Levy was about to tell this to Lucy but caught herself just in time, wondering whether she should tell her friend about the little experiment she was conducting. Perhaps, if she went about it in a roundabout way...
"Levy-chan? You look like you want to ask me something," noticed Lucy, one step ahead. Levy took the opportunity and ran with it.
"Who..." she whittled, stalling. "Who in the guild do you think would make the best Evil Queen?"
"Eh?"
"Like, who would marry for wealth and money, then strut around like she owned the place, and punish people because of her own greed and vanity?"
"So... who is the nastiest bitch here?" Lucy gave Levy an appraising look, as if wondering whether she was really a Fairy Tail mage at all. "Wouldn't that just have to be Evergreen?"
Storybook Romance
Raijinshuu in the next chapter! Love the Raijinshuu!
Finished Community, Game of Thrones, Toriko, Hanasaku Iroha AND Sket Dance? Wow!
How about TIGER&BUNNY next? :D
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