Hello, minna! twinSlayer in the house! XD
I just came back from a camp which I can say one of the harshest I've attended throughout my entire life. I had just been tortured to do the duck-sitting(or whatever you call it... -_-) 50 times, non-stop. I'm not kidding. Really. Also, the facilitators who assisted us kept on insulting my group! Ugh, I just restrain the urge to jump and punch on them! -_-+
And now, I'm suffering with muscle cramps here and there. It's even harder for me to type these thing but because I love fanfiction and my reviewers, my fingers just continued dancing on the keyboards.
So, enough with my life! Sorry I made you read them ...hehehe. I just don't know where to express those except here. Let's proceed with the story...^_^
Disclaimer: Hiro Mashima-sensei is the author/ mangaka of Fairy Tail. I just expand the story with the addition of Reika Dragneel and the plotlines...Also I forgot to mention that this Tale happens after the Grand Magic Games Arc.
"So you're saying one of your look-alike lives in Magnolia?", Lucy says while taking a sip of her lemonade.
Reika nods. She gulps down the whole cup of banana split in front of her. Natsu, who is sitting beside her, stares non-stop since the moment they bumped their shoulders a while ago. Happy also can't help himself from looking at Reika with amazement.
Lucy observes Reika with her brown orbs to compare her and Natsu. Every single last detail is being scanned. "Do you have fangs?"
Reika opens her mouth widely. A hint of two pairs of fangs is there, but not as obvious as Natsu's. He, on the other hand, suddenly jumps with excitement. "Are you a Dragon Slayer?"
She tilts her right brow. "What's that?"
"Okay, she's not", Lucy sighs with relief. Fairy Tail is wrecked enough with three Dragon Slayers, demons, stalker, perverts and etcetera. "You said that you're from the outskirts of town. How did you get here?"
She stops drinking her milk tea. "I actually have gone through various obstacles upon coming here. Thank God, I found this flirty petite blonde. He said he's from Blue Pegasus-"
"-EEEEEHHHHH?!"
"What?", Reika flinches as they suddenly lean forward with their long-EEHH-. Happy that is sucking his favourite uncooked fish just now coughs vigorously. "Blue Pegasus?", they said in unison.
"Yes. Any problem with that?", she is worried if she had said a taboo word for the guild members. "Did I say something wrong?"
"No...", Lucy denies."Yes!", Natsu says instead. "Those flirts...Did they do something to you?" His forehead twitches with anger. His protectiveness suddenly shows up.
"No, they didn't do anything...Except there is some flirting..."
"SOME FLIRTING?! HOW DARE-"
"Natsu, Calm down!", Lucy shoves his shoulders down to prevent him from getting up of his chair. "Since when did you become so emotional like this?"
Hearing that, Natsu pouts(cutely). "I don't know...I just wanna protect my guildmates, and somehow I felt different towards Reika... "
Lucy is stunned. -Felt different...Did he...- She doesn't know why but she feels extremely jealous towards Reika now. Happy, at the side, grins at Natsu and says, " you llllllllllliiiiiike her..."
"No!", he retorts," Don't misinterpret the meaning of that 'different'! I'm just saying that I felt some kind of blood relations with this black head."
"Hey! Don't call me black head. I'm not some kind of pimple or whatsoever!", she snaps.
"Oh yeah? How do you know that you don't have one?"
"Because you looked like me and if I have one, then you must have it too!"
Lucy and Happy sweatdrop, decide to just watch they go neck-to-neck with each other.
Yeah, everyone can see it. They are twins after all...
Blue Pegasus
"Hey. Can I tag along?", asks Jenny to Ren. He turns his head to face her. "Why all of a sudden?"
She shrugs. "Just wanna know how it's like to work with you guys", after that, a small dust of blush colors her cute cheeks.
Ren smirks. "Don't lie. I know you want to be close to Hibiki." Jenny widens her eyes while her face has turned beet red.
"NO IAMNOTIJUSTWANTTOKNOWHOWITFE ELSLIKETOWORKWITHTHETRIMENS!", she spat out her words like a bullet. Ren chuckles, "seriously, you're just too damn cute for that guy."
"I said I'm not after him!", still her face has been dominated by red color right now.
He snickers." You're too easy to read, sweety." And he walks away leaving Jenny behind.
Ren greets Hibiki and Eve that is waiting at the Blue Pegasus' entrance.
"Hey", he starts," Jenny wants to work with us this time." They are puzzled. "Why?", asks Eve.
Ren shooks his head lightly. Hibiki, after being silent for a moment, voices out, "You should go and tell her that we will start the job tomorrow. I have to do some grocery shopping today."
"So you agree?"
"Agree on what?"
"Her tagging along on our next mission?"
"Is there any reason for her to be left behind? It's not like we are gonna lift cargos from the port to the warehouses, just a simple escort thingy."
They went silent, thinking whether it's best for her to follow them or not. On the other side, Ren is thinking, -If only you would open your heart to another woman after Karen's death, I'd prefer that Salamander girl over Jenny...- He decides in his mind. Nonetheless, he smiles without the others knowing. He have his own reasons for that stand.
"What are you guys doing here?", Lucy sweatdrops. Natsu is lying down comfortably on the sofa and Reika is sitting like a boss on the bed. Happy is flying here and there, making the place looked like it was the aftermath of a tornado.
"I'm lying down."
"I'm sitting."
"I'm flying."
They answer with a straight face. Innocently. Lucy, that is still standing at her room's door, is fuming.
30 seconds later...
Natsu, Reika and Happy is sitting with their knees folded in front of the Demon Lucy. Each of them has a red swollen mark on their forehead. Natsu and Happy are in (fake) tears. Reika is still trembling by the wrath of this suddenly-emerged-demon just now.
"Now." Lucy is still in her bad mood, "who is the one that pulls my door knob off?". She asks with a grim voice.
Reika flinches a bit, but Natsu and Happy hastily point their index fingers towards her. Blaming Reika. Then, she lifts her head to see these two's fingers are now pointing at her. -I'm doomed-,sweats starts to form at her forehead.
"Don't you point out at me. It was your idea to come here!"
"Yeah, it was. But I don't remember telling you to pull off someone else's door knob!"
"I was just entering the house the normal way! Through the door!"
"You should enter it through the window. Then, you shouldn't worry about breaking anything!"
"Only a freak would do that!"
"What do you say, you slanted-eye?!"
"You're eyes are the same, you moron!"
"SHUT UP!"
The twin hug each other. "A-Aye~...", they say while shivering. -Sheesh... Lucy can be scarier than Erza if she wanted to...-they thought.
"Another word from both of you and you'll go straight to Hell."
They gulp down a lump of saliva at their throat. Fairy Tail's girls are not the people you want to mess with when they are not in the mood, especially when they are having PMS. It's like giving a death wish.
"Now", she walks towards Reika," what should I do about you?" She forms a devilish smile. Reika feels a bad hunch over her shoulder.
"Happy! Take Natsu to the kitchen. You two take care at the back there. I want it to be stainless in 30 minutes!", she orders. Happy quickly performs his Aera magic and brings Natsu to the kitchen.
"And you", she held out a piece of paper, "since I'm in the mood of apologizing today, you will get this brand-new door knob for me and pay it using your own money."
Reika looks at the advertisement given. "This is ridiculous! Your previous one shouldn't even reach 4000 Jewels! This one is 20 000 Jewels!", she protests.
Lucy's forehead twitches. "So you're saying that you are more willing to be tortured by me for the next 4 hours instead of just buying a new door knob for me? Okay, if you say so...", then she held out her whip. Witnessing that, Reika hurriedly run to the street to find the store.
"Where is this store?", she held out the piece of advertisement for the 50th time. She is walking lazily on the street. It is already 3 in the evening, which means she has looking for the same one and only store for THREE freaking hours! She sighs.
"Lucy...You're really mean...", she pauses her steps, faking tears when she saw a signboard, carved with the name of the store she was looking for, standing all high and mighty in front of her face. She stones.
"GOD, THANKS FOR YOUR KINDNESS!"
She runs into the store.
He scans through the models of taps at the kitchen section. After trying this and that, he picks up his choice and walks to the counter to pay the bill. While walking, he heard a familiar voice arguing with the cashier. He stops in his track.
-What is she doing here?-
Reika is still unsatisfied with the price of the door knob. Why? Because she was really sure she saw 20 000 Jewels in the hand-out given to the town folks, but just now she heard the cashier said it had rose it to 30 000 Jewels! The heck?!
"I won't pay that much! You don't state that price here. Everyone would be confused if you don't correct it."
"Well, you're just unlucky, missy", he smirks.
She grits her teeth. -If I'm not taking in consideration the people here, that smirk will be long gone from your face!- Her grip on the door knob becomes tighter and tighter. As she is about to reach her blue purse at the hind pocket of her jeans, a voice interrupts.
"I believe I saw the price stated is 20 000 Jewels too", Hibiki walks to Reika's side. His hand catches hers that is about to take out her purse.
"Oh, a hero comes. You're lucky, young lady", the slut says. "So you're saying that I'm cheating here?"
This time, Hibiki is smirking.(Author: Wow, that's rare...o.O) He leans forward and half-whispers...
"You wouldn't want to know what you'll be if I tell your boss that you're the one who transfers 1/8 of the profits gained daily to your accounts and also I won't forget to mention your dirty tricks while you're working as a cashier here and also your doings on blackmailing his girlfriends to get extra money. Besides I wouldn't leave the point where you always go to the cigar stalls to buy some there and re-sell them at a higher price here and-"
"-WAIT!It can't be...How do you know?", he trembles.
Hibiki snickers. "You know you can't blame my Archive for that."
"Archive...You're the Hundred Night Hibiki?"
He nods. The cashier then surrenders."Okay! Okay! I get it! You win!"
Hibiki smiles. "Now", he continues, "what's the price of the door knob again?"
"20 000 Jewels", he groans.
"Good boy."
Reika just stands still at her position, in state if shock. She learned something today, never mess with Hibiki.
"You're pretty good."
"Hn? Come again?". Hibiki was spacing out when she asked just now.
"I said, You're pretty good", she repeats.
Hibiki is confused. "In what?"
"Blackmailing."
He burst out laughing, which was very unlike his usual self. He feels that he does not need to restrain himself in front of Reika. That macho and elegant guy has gone for a second, not that Reika will be affected by his flirting anyway. His laughter is loud enough for it to be echoing at the park they are sitting. His grip on the plastic-containing-tap tightens as his eyes becomes teary.
"What's so funny?", she asks.
He continues to laugh and a few seconds later, the laugh turns to giggle. Then, he sighs.
"It's been so long since I've laughed that hard."
She raises her right eyebrow. "When is the last time you laugh?"
Hibiki's face suddenly turns gloomy, but plastered with a sad smile. "When I'm with my late girlfriend."
"Late?" Reika is a bit slow in catching things like this, but after a few moments of thinking, she realized."Oh...Sorry."
They went silent for a few seconds when Reika suddenly stands up, with her hands at her hips, and yells, "Now, let's go home!"
Hibiki smiles. It's very uncommon these days to meet a girl like Reika. The girl that didn't give a damn about her appearance, her style of talking, her attitudes. Just being herself. And that's what he likes about her.
-Wait?- He stops smiling,-Did I just say 'like'?-
Reika that has started walking at the front turns back. "Hibiki, if you don't start walking, I'll leave you here."
He gets up from his sitting position and follows her trail.
-Maybe I should start thinking about moving on to someone else.-
Like an imaginary picture, he sees Karen smiling in front of him, telling him that she agrees as much as he does.
"Can I ask something?"
"What is it?"
"Why did you buy a tap?"
He pauses. "Oh", he continues, "I use a hammer to chase a bug out of my house last night. This is just the after effect."
Like it? Love it? Please leave a review so I can make improvements!
Also, about the wedding picture, I found out about it. It's not that Jenny was marrying him for real, it's just for the sake of the tournament! *sigh of relief* Thank goodness... I was going to have a heart attack back then.
Thanks to all reviewers who had supporting me all the way of this story. I will continue to write a better scene and a bit fluffy events next time. Heheh... I'm sorry I'm not really into that romantic thingy...
So that's it. Till next chapter! See ya!