Wow today's is really late! Sorry guys, Pokemon Bank was finally released in the states and I TOTALLY LOST TRACK OF TIME. It's still wednesday here though, so I made it! Uh, more ElfEver today, but there'll be more Gruvia soon! See you!

Series: Fairy Tail

Pairing: Elfman Strauss/Evergeen

Title: Dodging Punches

Prompt: In Battle, side by side

Rating: E for Everyone

Word Count: 1060

AN: Today's prompt goes out to rachelmb13! I don't write much action, so I hope it's worth the read!

"Ever! Watch out!" Elfman's voice roared out from ten feet away. Evergreen took little time to leap backward into the air, just as an inhumanly enormous fist came down to smash where she had been standing.

"Like I need you to tell me!" The fairy queen growled, "And don't call me Ever!"

"We really don't have time for that, Ever!" The take over mage cried out, and ran towards their opponent, summoning his Iron Bull arm.

The opponent in question was thirty feet of muscle—a giant with thick red hair and a scruffy beard. He wore a raggedy pair of pants tied around his waist with a rope.

Elfman took a great leap and smashed his fist into the stomach of his enemy, but the giant tensed his abdominals and Elfman just bounced off and skidded back onto his feet on the ground.

"Dammit! What is man made of?" The white haired man hollered.

"Let me take care of him!" Evergreen shouted, and flew past Elfman; a pair of magic wings sprouted from her back.

"Ever, No! We can't do this alone!" Elfman protested, but it was too late.

Evergreen crossed her arms, and then spread them, letting out an array of arrows made of fairy dust. They rained down towards the giant they faced, who stared upon the assault with wide eyes.

However, the giant was not to be so easily beaten. He raised his arm and let out a great howl, swatting away the arrows like they were nothing, and then aimed another swipe at the stunned Evergreen hovering in front of him.

The back of the giant's hand slammed into the fairy mage and sent her flying towards the ground. She let out a gasp, before hearing Elfman calling her name, and then felt herself land hard in the arms of the muscular man. They slid through the dirt below them before coming to a stop, and Elfman fell back onto his rump.

"Are you okay, Ever?" The young man questioned, worry tainting his voice.

"Of course I am!" Evergreen fussed, and pushed the men back from her. "Like you said, we haven't time for this!" With that said, the young lady shoved Elfman a few feet away, before leaping into the air herself, as another gigantic fist came down and smashed a crater into the ground.
"What is your problem?!" The fairy queen shouted at their attacker.

"Yeah! As a man, I want to know what we did to deserve this!" Elfman concurred.

The giant gave out a husky chuckle, and finally spoke to his foes. "Nothing personal, but I have to crush a Fairy Tail mage to prove myself worthy of the guild I want to join. So I will show you no mercy!" The giant smashed both fists into the ground, aiming at both fairy tail members at once, but his speed was nothing they couldn't deal with, and both leaped towards each other to dodge.

"Absolutely disgusting!" Evergreen screeched, "I'll turn this man to dust!"

"A guild like that is unmanly!" Elfman growled, as he landed on the ground next to Evergreen.

The white haired man turned his head and his eyes locked with his battle partner. For a split second, they were completely silent.

"I wouldn't usually hope to be thinking the same thing as you, but right now I rather do." Evergreen said, a bit of spite in the tone of her voice.
Elfman only smirked, and then raced forward with a great battle roar. Evergreen took off into the air, and watched as the giant threw fists at the take over mage below, but missed time and time again. She observed how he tensed his muscles again as he expect another punch from Elfman, but instead the white haired man dodged another punch, and ran between the giant's feet.

"What? Running away, little human?" The behemoth laughed.

"I believe he would say 'a man would never run away.'" Evergreen's voice sang.

In the commotion over Elfman, the giant had completely forgotten about Evergeen. He swung his head up towards where her voice had come, to finding a blinding light screen constructed of fairy dust. The enormous man gave out a hiss, and raised his arm to block the light from his eyes, and just then a giant, hairy, red fist slammed into the back of the giant, and he fell flat on the ground.

Elfman stood in his Beast Soul form behind him, chuckling, and then gave the man a knock on the head for good measure, to man sure he was out cold.

With that done, Elfman shrunk back down to his regular size, and Evergreen came flying down towards him, landing on the ground before her magic wings disappeared.

"Well, I guess you understood my thoughts after all." The brunette said smugly, then gasped as a pair of hands wrapped around her waist and lifter her back into the air.

"That was amazing Ever! I've never connected like that with anyone but my sisters!" He cheered, and threw the young lady in the air before catching her again.

"Wh-What! Put me down! I'm not one of your sisters!" She objected.

"I know that, Ever." Elfman laughed, and threw her higher into the air, before catching her princess style and pecking her on the cheek with his lips.

Evergreen's face grew a brilliant shade of crimson, and she watched, wide eyed, as Elfman's did too.

"I-I just got carried away with the moment!" Elfman stammered, "I'm s—"

"You missed, idiot." Evergreen cut him off, and grabbed him behind the neck, forcing his lips down onto hers.

Elfman gasped into the kiss, before closing his eyes like Ever had hers, and enjoying the moment.

Evergreen pulled away and slipped out of the grasp of the flabbergasted man. She lifted a finger to her lips and puffed out a little snicker, enjoying his astonished face.

"I suppose we should report this giant and have him dragged off to jail." She spoke as if nothing had happened.

"What… What was that, Ever?" Elfman stuttered through his dumbstruck expression.

"Hm?" Evergreen gazed back at with nonchalantly. "I suppose it was punishment. Since you won't stop calling me 'Ever.'"

Elfman watched her saunter away with a confused expression. If that's how it is, he wouldn't stop calling her by her nickname any time soon.