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Chapter 23:

"So exactly what're we doing tonight on our girl's night out?" Lucy said leaning her elbows on the lunchroom table as she focused her attention to the scarlet-haired mage who was nibbling her strawberry cake.

Erza narrowed her brown eyes towards Lucy with a serious expression, "Well Mira over here has decided that we visit the local hot springs which I don't find any problem with. It'll be relaxing to calm a bit down from our studies."

Mira clapped her hands with a smile, "So as you already know, later tonight we have the hot springs!"

"We've only been here a few weeks Erza" Levy said sweat dropping to the fact that Erza had said it in a tone as if they've been studying their whole entire life.

Cana then banged the secret bottle of booze she hid on the table. A fainted tint of blush was spread across her cheeks which they could tell she had been drinking for a while now. She hiccupped as she then opened her mouth to proceed to whatever she was trying to tell them.

"Erza's right *hic* we need to loosen up a bit!" Cana said as she held her bottle in the air which earned a scold from Erza since she wasn't allowed to have any type of alcohol on school grounds. But of course, that was Cana alright bending the rules to keep herself conflicted in her desire.

"Exactly what Cana said" Erza said as she crossed her arms shutting her eyes, "I just don't want any damage to be done while we're there now is that understandable?"

"Ah Erza, I hope you do remember we're not the guys" Lucy said chuckling, "Besides, I'm sure we won't have to deal with any of that if Gray and Natsu won't be tagging along. Since those two always love to pick fights with each other on our outings, they're usually the ones causing all of it."

Erza nodded her head resting her arms on the table, "Yes, but you must admit our missions wouldn't be the same without those two. They tend to make everything much more interesting for us." She then looked over to Natsu and Gray who were bickering about something that had happened in class that caused the two of them to get into trouble.

"Just what exactly have you done?" Erza scolded, "It better not have been anything related to hurting a student's body."

Gray flinched for a second as he rubbed the back of his head chuckling, "Well I wouldn't say we exactly hurt anyone. More like killed the environment we were in around us."

Natsu crossed his arms and glared at the ice mage, "We wouldn't have caused any damage if you just so happened to listen to me. But no, you probably don't have a brain from being around the cold so much. All that cold ice probably froze your damn brain stripper."

A vein appeared on Gray's forehead as he slammed his hands on the table getting all up in Natsu's face, "How about you try saying that again flame brain. Let me have you know that your brain has already been fried up and burnt to a crisp. So you probably don't have one speck of it left idiot." He then smacked the back of Natsu's head earning a groan from the Fire Dragon Slayer.

"Are you asking for a fight?" Natsu said as he stood up glaring at Gray, "Cause if you're I'm all fired up!"

"Bring it dragon breath!" Gray said as he began to ice his hand with his ice-make magic.

"Don't fight right now" Lucy tried saying to ice and fire mage but of course was completely ignored by the twos intense glare to each other. There was never a day when Gray and Natsu wouldn't at least argue once.

"You two knock it off" Erza said as she smacked the two on the back of the head. She then sent them a heart stopping glare as she crossed her arms against her chest, "I don't care on who started it, all I want to know is what exactly have you done."

Natsu and Gray then looked at each other than back to Erza. You could tell they didn't like what Erza had said on explaining what exactly had happened. Sweat started dripping down from Gray's forehead as Natsu looked pale as a ghost like all the life was suck right out of him. Whatever the two had did, must've been pretty awful to get a reaction like this.

"I'm going to give you to the count of three" Erza said with a booming voice as she sneered over the two who were still standing like statues, "One."

Natsu turned his head towards Gray noticing that the ice mage was biting his bottom lip deciding whether they should actually confess to what they've done, or just receive punishment from Erza for not doing what she had demanded.

"Two."

Gray let out a deep breath as Natsu then nodded his head. I guess the two were ready to finally tell the mighty Titania on what they've done completely wrong.

"Alright we'll tell you" Gray said letting out a deep breath as Natsu then opened his mouth as a chuckle then slipped out immediately. He could already tell that the idiot was going to mess up whatever he was saying to Erza, to make her think the wrong idea."

Natsu clasped his hands behind his head, "Well basically, we were walking in the hallway and then we found Sting or at least someone we thought was him. So I guess anger bubbled in the two of us when we saw what had happened between him and Luce, so we decided to get revenge for Luce. But whoever the look-alike was, he ran like the damn wind and dodged almost every single hit we threw at him. So instead of the fire and ice aiming towards him, it really hit all around the halls. But Gray over here freaking froze a student for crying out loud."

Erza was completely silent as Gray gawked his mouth open to the fact that Natsu had ratted him out about the freezing the student incident. Technically, it wasn't Gray's fault that the kid so happened to be in his view of the look-alike and wouldn't move when Gray told him to. Drastic times called for drastic measures, and that was a completely drastic measure.

"Hey remember you burned someone's clothes off moron" Gray groaned and then began to snicker that he finally came up with something that Natsu did to rat him out in front of Erza. Even if he did so, that wasn't going to stop Erza from giving those two a smack in the head or two.

But surprisingly Erza began to laugh as she clutched her stomach soon beginning to crack up from laughter. Natsu and Gray sweat dropped at the scene of the S-Class mage since she was laughing instead of scolding them about on how they should behave when they are away from Magnolia.

Natsu and Gray then began to laugh along with Erza still confused about the whole fact that she didn't even have a quick reaction as usual to the damages they had told her they'd done.

"So you're not mad?" Natsu said with a toothy grin at Erza who was wiping a tear away from her eye from her uncontrollable laughter.

"Oh no…" Erza's then face full of laughter soon disappeared into that famous horrifying glare of hers, "Mad doesn't begin to describe my anger on what you've done."

Gray's face then turned pale, as Natsu widened his mouth since he had actually thought Erza was actually going to let this side. Well, he guessed completely wrong.

"It's time for your punishment" Erza said with a serious look upon her face as she began to come closer and closer to Natsu and Gray. The two mages could already tell from the look on Erza's face that they were both in a heap of trouble.

-Sting's POV-

Surprisingly, I decided not to sit at blondie's lively table as I went to come sit with Rogue today. I still didn't get why he still sat at the Sabertooth table since nothing ever happened over here. And let me tell you, the thing I first thing I saw when I sat down was definitely the most disgusting thing ever.

Minerva and Orga were making out right in front of me and Rogue.

I gagged at the sight of that as Rogue snickered shaking his head to my quick and disgusted expression engraved on my face. Honestly, that was horrifying. I mean I wouldn't mind if me and blondie did that out in public, but these two were just a big no.

I then turned to Rogue with a grin curled onto my lips, "Oh right! Me and you are going to a hot springs tonight! You understand?"

Rogue raised an eyebrow, "Are you turning gay Sting? Cause if you are, I'm not interested since I already have my eyes set on Levy."

My face then turned into a nonchalant one, "No Rogue, I'm not turning gay for you. Think of it as a little night on following a group of fairies around."

Rogue crossed his arms with a disturbed expression, "And exactly why would I want to do that? Following a group of fairies doesn't seem that fun to me. And why do we even have to follow them if we see them almost every day?"

I smacked my forehead at Rogue did he honestly not understand where I was trying to get to here? I then began to think of something to convince him on coming with me and the rest of the guys to follow the group of fairy girls around. But just what exactly would Rogue fall for?

Then it hit me.

I smirked it was absolutely the perfect thing to persuade Rogue on going.

I then got in his face with my lips curled into a grin. I knew that this was going to definitely get him to come along, "What would you say if you were able to, well you know, peek on a nude Levy at the hot springs?"

Rogue's face then burned in a crimson red, and here everyone thinks I'm the pervert. But no matter, Rogue over here was already caught in my little trap since I could already tell that he was thinking little dirty thoughts of the bluenette.

I then snapped my fingers in front of his face, "Alright Rogue, it's time to stop fantasizing about your horny fantasies. So are you going to join us or not?"

Rogue looked at me with his emotionless expression, "Only if I know who's going to be attending our little following mission."

"Well there's Laxus, Natsu-san, Gray, Elfman, Gajeel, Bickslow, Freed, and some other guys from the other guilds." I said with a lazy yawn as I noticed that Rogue now looked somewhat interested. Why did I have a feeling it was because I told him that Gajeel was going to be tagging along as well?

Rogue then started to give a small grin with a chuckle which caused me to raise an eyebrow. Well, that was unexpected that he was going to started grinning and chuckling out of nowhere. Either he's thinking about Levy again, or he has some sort of idea.

"If you're thinking about Levy again, go into the bathroom" I said waving my hand, "Like I said I don't want to hear your little fantasies."

Rogue gave me a sharp glare as he crossed his arms, "No I'm not thinking about Levy again you idiot. I think I've come to the conclusion to finally tell Levy how I feel tonight with Gajeel-san right in front of us when I do it."

I then scrunched up my face, "Isn't that kind of weird since she's going to be nude half the time at the hot springs?"

Next thing I knew it, I felt a sharp pain in the back of my head. I groaned and rubbed the sudden pain I begin to feel from Rogue's smack to the head. He needed to learn to loosen up and not take my jokes too seriously.

"I'm quite serious Sting." Rogue said with a serious expression mixed with some kind of glare as he looked over to Gajeel, "By the end of tonight, I promise you that me and Levy won't only just be friends anymore."