Yes, I know. "ooooh sweet little demon, you need to get to work on Exceedingly Adorable and don't have time for another story" but ya know what? I'm hit with inspiration once again! And this time, it's a prompt type thing, but with a story line. I'll explain more at the end of the chapter.
Prologue
It was later in the evening in the beautiful town of Magnolia, the night stars just beginning to make their grand appearance in the darkening sky. Inside of Fairy Tail, there were a few members remaining into the evening, while the rest had returned to their homes for the night. The main room was dimly lit by a few of the lanterns that hung on the walls and ceiling, allowing enough to be able to see. The beautiful, white haired Mirajane stood behind the counter of the bar, smiling to herself as she cleaned the insides of a beer mug. The only remaining members were the scarlet haired exquip mage, the bookworm blunette, the cold hearted ice mage, the pink haired pyro, his blue cat, the blonde gatekeeper, the barrel hugging psychic, the short white haired takeover mage, the young blue haired sky goddess and her loyal white exceed.
They were situated around room, sipping their drinks and chatting idly while Natsu and Lucy were standing towards the doors of the Guild.
"Natsu, can't you just go to your own house tonight? I was hoping for some privacy and time to right my novel." Lucy whined to her best friend, shifting her jacket sleeves down her arms a bit.
"It's not like I'm gonna stop ya. Besides, I don't have any food." He explained with a nonchalant expression, his mind dead set on following his blonde partner back to her warm and cozy apartment.
Lucy really didn't have the energy to spend fighting with her partner about something as insignificant as this—plus, she knew that if she sent him home now, he'd only show up later that night and wake her up with his always loud enterances.
"Fine, but you're staying on the couch. Don't even think about sneaking into my bed again!" she exclaimed, stabbing her finger into his chest with a light blush coating over her bubbly cheeks.
"Yeah, yeah." Natsu said with a roll of his obsidian orbs before promptly dragging her out of the Guild, calling his farewells to their friends before the door shut. Mostly everyone had stopped what they were doing to eavesdrop on the two, all except Mira who continued to scrub the beer mug thoroughly with the slowly growing smile.
"Are those two ever apart?" Lisanna asked with a small giggle that was muffled by her hand.
"I seemed like that before the games, but it's even worse now." Gray scoffed, tossing his cards onto the table in defeat, knowing there was no way to win against Cana and Erza.
"It's true. They were rarely apart before we entered the games, but as of late, it seems as if they are never separated." Erza nodded, also laying her cards down on the table in a silent defeat
"Aye. Natsu and I haven't stayed in our place in months." Happy added, choosing to stay behind in the Guild instead of following his partners thanks to Mira offering him a large pile of fish.
"So you two have practically moved in with Lu-chan?" Levy asked, moving from her quiet reading corner to join Lisanna at the bar.
"Aye! Natsu's actually thinking of either convincing Lucy to come move in with us or just selling the place." Happy cheered, happily suckling on his treat.
"That's so cute!" Mira chimed in with an overjoyed smile—the conversation finally going in the direction she had hopes it would that night. She had held back these few members for a specific reason of her own…
"I'm not sure that Lucy-san would agree to either of those." Wendy added her own piece with a small smile and blush.
"Yeah, the kid's always goin' on 'bout virtue and 'not being fit for marriage' or somethin' like that every time she complains 'bout Natsu sleepin' with 'er." Cana said from her new place on top of the bar, her ever faithful barrel of alcohol wrap possessively in her limbs.
"I personally think that there should be a line drawn between how close they are, I've heard that Natsu has used her bath." Carla crossed her small arms over her chest, huffing indignantly.
"Perhaps if they were just friends, but they are so obviously much more than that!" Mira defended quickly. "Can't you just feel the attraction between them?! It's so cute!" she squealed.
"More like frustrating. Can't they just fess up and get together already?" Gray grumbled, also joining all the others that have seemed to have gravitated around the bar. No one felt the need to point out that he was yet again shirtless, knowing he'd just return to his undressed state minutes after he put the article of clothing back on.
Everyone seemed to have missed the dangerous glint that had sparked through the cover model's beautiful blue eyes at his words. Yes, this is exactly how she had hoped the conversation would have gone.
"I agree. The two of them have been beating around the bush for too long." Erza complied, her brow furrowing slightly in thought.
"Exactly my thoughts. If we just leave them getting together to them, they'll never become a couple! So I say we … help guide them in the right direction." Mira said with an innocent smile, setting the now clean mug in its cabinet and picking up the next one.
"What do you suggest, nee-san?" Lisanna asked, leaning against the counter with a grin—her thought pattern scarily similar to her elder sister.
Mira tapped her chin thoughtfully, fooling absolutely no one with her innocent act. Everyone in the guild knew that Mira was a devious matchmaker, having successfully gotten together several couples. Alzack and Bisca had been the easiest, since the two of them had already been in love and had just need the smallest nudge in the right direction—meaning she 'accidentally' shoved the two of them in the supply closet and managed to 'lose' the only key. Even in her younger rebellious teen years she had helped aid Macao gain the affections of Romeo's mother. Of course, then she had been a little less subtle with her hints and had literally shoved the two of them together and told them to 'get it on' already.
"I would say we should make a plan!" she said brightly after a few seconds of thoughtful chin tapping.
"Knowing those two, they'd totally miss the point of it." Gray said, sipping at his beer bottle with a grumble.
"Well how about several? We could make a large list of plans that, if one doesn't work, we have backups." Mira offered, leaning against the counter after having finished wiping down the last of the mugs.
"We'd have to go through the entire alphabet—possibly with other languages too—to have enough back up plans." Levy joked with a giggle.
"If 26 plans aren't enough, I'm pretty sure we'll have to smash their faces together until they're permanently stuck that way." Cana said with an evil smile, sobering up almost too quickly after having chugged nearly half of the barrel.
"Let's do it then, we'll have a plan for each letter." Levy said with a sweet, yet mischievous, smile.
"I'm not sure if Lucy-san and Natsu-san will be very happy if they find out." Wendy muttered, knowing for a fact that Lucy would most likely pass out from the severe blood rush to her head, and Natsu would probably just end up being more confused than embarrassed and would end up saying Gray was trying to challenge his intelligence or something.
"The point is that they won't find out. We have some of the best and most creative strategists just at this bar, I'm sure we'll be able to make it so they can't track it back to us." Mira said with a smile in Gray and Erza's direction.
"Not that the two of them would actually be able to tell that they were being set up in the first place." Cana muttered before taking another big swig from her barrel.
"Then it's settled, let's start. So, for plan A …"
It's a prologue, it's supposed to be short.
So in other words, I want you guys to send me one word Prompts for a letter of the alphabet that I can write a plan and short story about. I already have a few thought out for a few of the letters, but there are some that I could really use help on. Obviously I'm not gonna get through the entire alphabet, I'll probably have to stop before I get to x or q, cause seriously, there are like no words that start with those letters.
So! Send me prompts for the letters, and depending on how many of the same word I get, or which one sparks inspiration the most with me, I will use!