44th: Bets

Summary: She won most of the bets if Cana wasn't faster – but there was one bet, Wendy won. And she really couldn't believe that it had come to this.

The white cat glared at the brown-haired woman who grabbed the bag of jewels with a wide smirk. "How could you see this one coming when I didn't?" Charle sneered.

Cana chuckled as she nudged Gray. "I might have acted when I realised that you were about to win this bet," she said amused before she grabbed Laxus' upper arm. "C'mon, Laxus, we have dinner with daddy tonight and no, you cannot go on the S-class mission with a hundred percent probability that you will die, dear."

"Happy, you might want to reconsider if Charle is really the one for you," the blond man called over his shoulder. "To have a girlfriend with a habit to know what you are planning is a real … um … challenge. Make at least sure that it will be worth it – and if you get to the conclusion that it's not worth it – go for that green-furred girl exceed."

Charle's jaw tightened and she wanted to kill him. She remembered the first time she had seen him – in a vision. For a few weeks, she had wondered who the blond man next to Cana was in her first dream vision of the brunette card mage because she hadn't known him yet. (Now, she wished that she had never met him.) The thing about Laxus was that he had kinda called her out on her minor crush on the annoying blue-furred nuisance before and she had vehemently denied it – but to have someone knowing the truth worried her. Maybe she should find a way to eliminate the Lightening Mage.

On the other hand, the idea that Frosch were to take away Happy was bitter as well and Charle wouldn't allow this to happen because she would never lose to this freak.

"Thanks for the advise, Laxus, but I think I will stick to Charle," Happy grinned widely before he went to offer another fish to the white cat.

"Again, Tomcat?" she huffed but less annoyed this time.

"Are you jealous that Happy is on a mission with Natsu, Rogue and Frosch at the moment, Charle?" Lily asked with a wide smirk as he looked down at the only female exceed of Fairy Tail. "Well, I don't think so. You said that you aren't interested after all…"

"You are so mean to me, Lily," Charle muttered as she threw him a glare. "And why is he even hanging around that freak? The last time Natsu and Rogue-san met, it got ugly…"

"Something about tracking down the former Stellar Spirit Mage of Sabertooth … and with Sting being all angsty because of Lector's death and Minerva's betrayal, Rogue asked Natsu for help since Gajeel declined – with Levy being pregnant and all, he didn't want to leave Magnolia and so, Rogue was stuck with Natsu as partner for this mission."

"Ah well," Charle said as she clenched her jaw all over again. This was getting a little bit to normal lately for her liking. "I am going out, alright?"

"Alright, alright," Lily chuckled as he watched her fly away.

"That was an easy one," Gajeel smirked as he crossed his arms. "Poor little girl is a little bit too gullible for her own good, huh?"

"I am simply a very good liar, Gajeel," his cat said with a shrug. "And you should get back to Levy – she's already in the fifth month after all, isn't she?"

Wendy who had been sitting on a bench snorted. "You do know that babies aren't born till he ninth month?" the sixteen-year-old Sky Dragon Slayer asked amused.

"It's my kid – it would be prodigious and so it might be born earlier!" Gajeel declared.

"Please, someone shot him," Gray sighed.

A shot rang out.

"I didn't mean it literally, Bisca!"

Charle walked up to Happy who was sitting on a bench while he ate fish – surprisingly. She grabbed his shoulder and shook him roughly. "You will pick me up at seven o'clock," she announced. "You will bring me flowers and maybe even a box of Earl Grey … and then, you will take me to this new Fish Restaurant down by the river. Understood?"

Wendy gave a strange chocking sound as Cana fell from her chair. Gray and Natsu stopped their argument and Erza accidentally dropped her strawberry cake. Lucy and Levy looked up from the book they had been reading. Gajeel and Laxus turned around from where they had been fighting and stared at the exceed with wide eyes as Lily revived Wendy.

"Arrgh!" Cana exclaimed as she slammed her fist onto the table. "Wendy really won that bet? How can this even be?"

Laxus patted her shoulder with an awkward expression on his face. "There, there."

"W-Wendy won a bet?" Gajeel asked in disbelief.

"Looks like it," Gray shrugged before he punched Natsu and sent the Fire Dragon Slayer flying into Elfman who threw the 'pink-haired nuisance' as quite a few members of the guild would say into the next pillar.

"Yes, I won the bet!" Wendy grinned as she calmed down from her initial shock. "So, c'mon, guys – pay up."

"Juv-juvenile deliquent!" Lucy exclaimed.

"I really need to supervise Wendy better. Romeo ruined her completely," Charle muttered.