Lucy was nervous.
Only just moments ago, Mira had pulled her mouth down toward the ear of the flying blue ball of fur. As the most petite drop of liquid started to roll down Happy's whiskers, making it bob furiously under its weight, Happy stood deathly still. As the white substance made its way to the end of the feline's whisker, his tongue darted out to catch it, making Lucy wonder if perhaps Exceeds were embedded with frog DNA.
Stiffly, his head turned to Lucy, as if it were an old doll, containing the look he normally reserved for talking about the beauty of Erza's magic on his face.
Suddenly, he flew around the room, gathering speed till he hit his max speed. The impact, Lucy thought, was similar to what one would feel if one was the target at a magic shooting range with Alzack and Bisca.
The force had completely knocked both Lucy and her barstool across the room. It even sounded like a shooting range, the barstool clattering noisily. Allowing herself to wince, she felt the blue cat's claws sinking through what was left of her shirt, reaching now through something that could barely be called a bra. However, she ignored this pestering, there were bigger matters at hand. She stood, frozen in place sporting a look of horror as the cat rubbed his furry cheeks affectionately against her chest. Not horror of the awkward situation. No, Happy flying into her chest was just about a daily occurrence; after all they were quite soft. Eyes sparkling, she clasped her hands together, sighing quietly, "It's just such a curse to be cute."
Snapping out of her reverie quickly, she flinched as the quiet set in. No, Happy had nothing to do with her petrified form.
There were only three morning people in Fairy Tail: Mirajane and Lisanna Strauss, and Wendy Marvel. She cringed internally as the silence was broken as the stool collapsed, each piece falling to the wooden planks with a loud clash or clang. As it returned to silence, Lucy felt the urge to sigh, creating the smallest of sounds. Turning back to the bar, she shot Mira a weary look, not even bothering with the cat. That was close. Another sigh came with glittery eyes as she prided herself on saving the destruction of the guild.
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"Armadura Fairy."
Erza, with a shadowy aura surrounding her, seemed to grow by ten feet as she towered over the still sleeping members. The pale pink of her 'fairy' armor seemed to darken considerably as she drew her twin swords, each bearing the mark of fairy tail. The wings she wore on her headband and breastplate made her look more like a fallen angel than a protective fairy guardian. Lucy shivered considerably, making herself small in the corner of the room. Maybe if she was still enough Erza would think she was dead, or better yet, maybe she wouldn't notice her.
"Luuucy! Milk is even yummier than fish!"
Demon Erza twitched, turning her head stiffly. It was much scarier then when Happy had done so. For a moment, the bangs that had been left out of her double braid covered her eyes, twitching violently as she let out a feral snarl. Lucy had the worst feeling that this was not one of Mirajane's pranks.
Lucy gulped as Erza's shaking stature raised to a combat stance as she regained view of her face.
"You woke me from my cake," she said savagely, body starting to catch flame from all the sparks that surrounded the warrior. Lucy's life had begun to flash before her eyes as Erza lunged at her, closing in the distance. She made it halfway before stopping abruptly, a look of surprise making its way across her face before it contorted back into pure rage. Not a second later, a spear of ice plummeted through the air, landing right where Erza had been.
"Shut the hell up," the sleepy ice mage screamed, eyes still closed as he rubbed them crossly. It was obvious who he'd thought he'd been assaulting when he'd added an irritated, 'bakayaro' onto the end of it. Falling back onto his pillow (Reedus) with a yawn, his body went limp again. Even more so when Erza's hands locked onto his neck in a chokehold, her swords already exquipped.
Lucy was slightly annoyed that Erza exquipped for him, yet for her she wielded swords. Still, as Gray distracted Erza, taking the brunt of her anger, Lucy didn't quite have anything to say.
Tossing away Gray only after she'd drug his ghost back twice to pummel it viciously, she looked upon the rest of the guild members, hesitating for a moment before announcing sternly, "Get up before I punish you all for being lazy."
Almost instantaneously, every member in Fairy Tail, save Lucy, Gray, and Mira were lined up in tight army rows. Either Erza could scare people awake, or those cowards were too scared to help out Lucy and Gray. Erza, walking slowly down each row to inspect, had already requipped into a military uniform. She really got into that kind of thing, didn't she?
Lucy's eyes almost exploded as Erza stopped, a sleeping figure on the floor blocking her path. A sleeping figure with flamboyant pink hair and a flaming snot bubble the size of Nirvana emerging from his sleepy face. Smiling gently for a moment, she patted his head. Then she screamed like a psycho for him to get in line. Lucy believed earnestly that he may have set a world record for speed as he joined the rest of the guild.
Erza, now finished inspecting, disbanded the group after sitting through her lecture, "I am not amused. I have been severely disappointed this morning. You may go."
Sighing, Lucy begun to turn toward the door when Erza's booming voice commanded, "Except Lucy, Gray… and Natsu."
Lucy felt a shiver crawl up her spine as a metal clad hand was placed on her frozen shoulder, "Unless you have something better to do, Lucy."
That time, all three mages shuddered in fear.
First, Erza set them to work. Or what she called work. Lucy, however, preferred to call it slave labor. That slave driver was going to make Lucy call out all of her spirits, each one had to give her a lecture for at least an hour and a half. Violence optional. For Plue, she had to take a two hour lecture in. She wasn't sure if her magic power was going to last that long. She shivered at the thought of losing consciousness during Aquarius's lecture, or worse during Taurus's or Loke's.
Natsu's punishment was to drive a magic four wheeler around the guild until he ran out of magic power. Gray's own punishment was to put on as many layers as Erza could physically force onto him, including some of Erza and Lucy's own erotic undergarments to see that he didn't strip. In his case, he also had to have his hands bound together.
Naturally, Erza would be watching everyone, she had it planned out so all three mages had to participate in each punishment. She wasn't looking forward to being in a magic four wheeler driven by Natsu. Nor was she looking forward to being tied to a multilayered Gray, who'd probably insist that she help him strip.
Lucy just hoped that if she asked mentally, some of her spirits would force their own gates open. She knew Loke and Virgo could, as well as Gemini and Horologium and Aquarius probably would come with Scorpio. So that left Aires, Crux, Taurus, Cancer, Sagittarius, Lyra, and Plue. Luckily, Lyra probably wouldn't be available due to their contract. Plue, at least didn't use so much energy. Crux would probably put everyone to sleep (himself included), so she could recover at least a little.
Sighing, she shook her head as Erza managed to grab all three of them by the collar and pull them outside toward the four wheeler, which both Gray and Lucy could safely assume she'd stolen the rickety thing from some poor citizen of Magnolia. Natsu, however, was busy trying to claw away from Erza, who'd saved her normal sword for his throat. Gulping, he sat with the SE plug now attached to his wrist, strapped in by multiple layers of magic preformed by various guild members.
The other three mages, even the demonic smirking Erza, took a large gulp as Natsu's pallor begun to change colors. The vehicle hadn't even started moving up. At the first hint of a whimper from Natsu, Erza snarled viciously,
"Drive, Natsu!"
A/N: So this chapter is slightly shorter than the last, and prolly not as good.
bakayaro-it means something along the lines of a**whole
Anyways, Natsu is up first next chapter!
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