Hello again! I'm so sorry it's been so long since I've updated! The summer has been SUPER busy! But I'm back, and happy to be here! Lately a lot of you have been requesting a Carla and Happy pairing, so here's your Chappy oneshot! Enjoy, and don't forget to write a quick review letting me know what you think! Make sure to read the note at the bottom for important info on my next upcoming story!
"I knew this was a bad idea." Happy blushed as Carla stood across from him, her arms crossed and her tail twitching unhappily.
"Aye. But I didn't suggest they go by train," the blue exceed pointed out. Carla's tail twitched again.
"No, but you're the one who suggested they go in the first place, without looking at the date the mission needed to be accomplished by!" she snapped back at him. Happy looked down at his paws. She was right, of course.
"We could've flown them...?" came his hesitant suggestion. Carla executed an expert eye-roll.
"Yes, because we definitely have the power to fly Natsu and Wendy practically the entire way across the continent in two days." Her words dripped with sarcasm. The group's troubles had started the day prior, when Happy had brought Natsu a mission request from a sleepy little town called Jiora. The village had recently been overrun with odd, fire-breathing lizards the size of large dogs, and had injured several of the townspeople. At the first mention of fire-breathing lizards, Natsu had jumped at the mission, asking Wendy to accompany him to help heal the people who had been injured by the strange creatures. The young girl had accepted, and they set out with their exceed partners towards Jiora. They'd been walking for a few hours before Wendy re-read the missive, and saw that the request asked the guild to please send help before the town's annual festival, which was in... three days. The trip to Jiora was a little over a week by foot, so the two had no choice- they went to the nearest train station and bought two tickets to Melchiore, a city about an hour's walk from Jiora. The two dragon-slayers were, of course, immediately fairly incapacitated the moment the train had begun to move, despite Wendy's magic to counteract the motion sickness. As a result, they had sent Happy and Carla out to get some air, and the two exceed perched on top of the train.
Happy slumped down against the railing there, feeling unfairly punished for merely suggesting the mission. He wished Carla would at least be a little nicer about it. The female exceed sighed and sat next to him, closing her eyes and concentrating on the comforting feeling of the wind blowing through her fur. After a few minutes of silence she sighed again and turned to Happy.
"I guess it's not your fault that Natsu and Wendy didn't read over the mission better before they decided to take it," Carla admitted, sounding a little reluctant. Happy's eyes widened in surprise at her words.
"Oh! Yeah, I guess, but... I should've read it, too," he replied, not quite believing that Carla was forgiving him so quickly. The other exceed sniffed.
"Yeah, well, they're the mages. They should know better. In any case, we're already on our way now, so there's not much we can do about it anymore." Feeling that the discussion was finalized, Carla shut her eyes again, leaning back against the rail. Happy sat uncomfortably for a moment, still wanting to talk. He wasn't used to all this silence. He almost wished Carla would go back to being angry with him so that she would keep talking.
"Hey, Carla...?" he began tentatively. The other exceed opened one eye to peer at him grumpily. In all actuality, she'd actually begun to drift off to sleep. Happy swallowed hard but continued anyway. "Would you care to go down to the dining cart and get some fish to eat?" He watched her with hopeful eyes. Carla frowned.
"I don't like fish," came her reply. Happy's shoulders slumped, and he looked down at his paws, feeling bad for forgetting that.
"Oh, yeah..."
Carla watched him slump down, looking completely put out. She sighed in resignation. "But, I suppose the dining cart will have other food beside fish. Come on, let's go," she said, standing up and running her paws briskly over her skirt, smoothing the imaginary wrinkles in the fabric. Happy practically shot up, looking overly-excited.
"Yay, let's go!" he exclaimed, his disappointment from earlier completely disappeared. Carla rolled her eyes, suppressing a smile as she followed the blue exceed down to the dining cart. He was kind of a pain in the neck, she decided, but Happy could be kind of cute sometimes. But only sometimes.
I hope you enjoyed the story! Make sure to write a view letting me know what you think; your feedback is super important to me! And now, for the information you've all been waiting for!
Here in the USA, things are starting to cool down a little, and school is back on it's way! But that doesn't mean there isn't time for summer to have one more big blowout! Soon I'll be writing my Super Summer Special! Like my Valentine's Day Special, the Super Summer Special is going to be another triple fic, so leave a review or send a PM to me about which three pairs you want to see in the special, and when I get ready to write, I'll put in the most popular three couples! Don't be afraid to suggest a couple I haven't written about yet! Stay tuned!
