Previously…
"This is hell, I'm sure of it…" Sting muttered, but then smirked again. "At least I'll be fighting Natsu-san once he gets jealous enough…"
"Just try not to fall in love yourself, Sting…" Rogue warned. With a casual shrug, Sting acknowledged his warning. But that was useful, and interesting. Will Sting fall for Lucy as time passes? Or will he just follow the plan? I can't wait to find out!
Chapter 14:
Steel your Heart! ( Part 1 )
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DANI'S P.O.V.
Well, I came here due to Mira's request that Pen-san asked us to come by his house today. Mira said there was a surprise, and that's all I needed to go there. It had just been a few minutes since everyone's arrival, and I can plainly notice the excitement on everyone's faces. Lucy, Lisanna, and Levy were discussing on what the surprise might be. Erza and Jellal chatted with Ultear and Meredy while drinking tea, also about what surprise Pen-san has in store for us. Gray was lying on the sofa looking naked sexy as hell, while Juvia sat beside his feet wondering out loud what the surprise would be. Elfman and Mira just sat calmly, looking around and scanning the place from time to time. Wendy and the Exceeds were waiting by the door as they sat on the sofa just next to it.
"I bet the surprise is gonna be a ton of food!" Natsu exclaimed eagerly.
"Always thinking on your stomach, huh Salamander?" Gajeel smirked. He was leaning by the door as well, while Natsu was jumping from one place to another, giddy as a child in a toy store. This guy just doesn't run out on energy, huh?
"What did you say?" Natsu suddenly growled out with a raised fist. Just as he was about to strike, a pillow was thrown to his face. Looking back to the source, we saw Erza calmly drinking her tea, sighing in delight, before glaring daggers at Natsu.
"Natsu," she said with her voice dangerously low. "You know the rules about not starting fights. So quit while you're ahead… That, or until I find something sharper to throw at you…" Natsu shivered visibly at this and quickly withdrew his fist and sat next to Wendy and the others, now patiently waiting for the surprise.
"Thank goodness," I said. "He was getting annoying." At that, Erza chuckled at me. She offered me some tea, but I refused politely. I was just standing by the stairs, expecting Pen-san and his surprise to arrive any minute now. I mean, it's almost three, and usually he's home around two in the afternoon. Maybe this surprise took a bit of his time. But I'm pretty sure he's gonna be here.
And, just as I predicted, we could hear his singing through the glass door. And when he sings, he sings! I'm not saying his bad at it, he's actually pretty decent. But singing high-pitched songs isn't going to help him, or his windows. I swear he broke one when he was singing this high. The muffled voice was being drowned out by the conversations, and no one else seemed to be alerted by his presence. But something strange happened.
Natsu and Gajeel's mouths scowled and their eyebrows knitted together, glaring dangerously at the door. They looked at each other, onyx meeting red, before a malicious smirk found its way on their faces. Wendy was looking back and forth between them then, looked at the door. Her eyes widened, and she was visibly shaking a little from what she obviously saw.
"Wendy," I called out in worry. "What's wrong?" When she didn't answer, and continued staring out the door, I decided to walk over to her and try to comfort her. But when I got there and got a view of the door, my eyes widened as well.
Walking on either side of the high-pitched singing Pen, was the twin Dragon Slayers of Sabertooth, Sting Eucliffe and Rogue Cheney!
'What are they doing here…?' I asked myself. The two were covering their ears while muttering some things. I can guess from Sting's personality that it'd be curses, but I don't know about Rogue, though. But whatever they're saying, Pen wasn't listening and instead singing louder. The lyrics could be heard clearly, and highly, even from behind the glass. It was so high; the glass door was actually beginning to shake. Apparently, he saw that and immediately stopped, making the other two beside him sigh in relief. I wanted to say what I found out, but I'm guessing from the way that everyone else sighed in relief, they already know Pen's here.
"I guess our host's already here…" Mira chimed in, a little amusement riddling her face. She was about to stand up, possible going to open the door, when we heard Pen's voice again.
"Wait, wait, wait," he said through the glass. "Just one more note!" At that, everyone's eyes widened and everyone began to rush to the door.
"NO!" We all yelled at the same time, but he didn't hear us, unluckily enough. He took a deep breath and let out the highest possible falsetto he could muster, and the glass began to shake again. Everyone, especially the five Dragon Slayers, covered their faces and grimaced as they couldn't block it out. And as if things couldn't get worse, the glass door really broke! It shattered into tiny shards and pieces, but it didn't fly out in different directions. It was just like ice breaking from the heat. And that snapped us out when Pen spun through the falling glass as if it were really snow and ended his high-pitched assault on us.
"Sorry to keep you all waiting~!" he said as he bowed. I blinked a couple of times, not believing that he had just gone through a barrage of glass and came out scratch-free, but then chuckled at him afterwards.
"W-what a, 'grand' entrance there, Pen-san…" Mira said, tilting her head from side to side. Natsu, Gajeel and Wendy were knocked out cold. Natsu had a little bit of blood flowing from him ears, and Gajeel hadn't gotten his fingers out of his ears yet as he laid on the floor unconscious. Charles and Happy were helping Wendy slip back to consciousness by shaking her up a little.
"Anyway," Pen said, gently avoiding the fallen Dragon Slayers. "I have a surprise for you guys… And sadly, it's not snacks…"
"Well, what is it then?" Meredy asked, not hiding her disappointment that the surprise wasn't snacks. Although I'm pretty sure that she's noticed Sting and Rogue's presence earlier, but chosen not to ruin it for Pen-san.
"More like who!" Pen exclaimed. "Two who's to be exact… I know you may not like them particularly. Well, since they've been the worst bastards Fairy Tail ever had the displeasure of meeting, but I hope you can all get along since they'll be staying here for a little while…"
"Not everything is bad, though," he continued. "The other one is calm, silent, and always level-headed. While the other is as stupid, ignorant, arrogant, sarcastic, sadistic, least-mannered as an individual can get."
"I heard that," Sting said as he and Rogue carefully guided their feet from the broken glass. Pen turned to the blonde with a smirk on his face.
"What?" he asked. "My singing didn't make you deaf yet? You're stronger than I thought…"
"As if an off-pitched loser like you would..." Sting trailed off when his eyes landed on the group staring at the both of them. Maybe they expected something, like an outrage or something, but no one was even frowning at the sight of them. Instead, everyone was smiling.
"Oh, it's you guys…" Lucy muttered. "Glad to have you onboard, I guess…" She made a pathetic attempt of a smile that didn't even pass for being fake. She must still feel bad for all the insults she took from Sting. Rogue didn't have much interest on looking down on others much, at least, that's what I think.
"Have you been victimized by that old witch, too?" Gray asked, giving off a glare that could freeze you on the spot. Sting smirked up to him and nodded, which made Pen form a smirk on his own.
"Loser…" Pen said in-between fake coughs. He stifled a giggle when Sting rolled his eyes at him. Yep, he really likes messing with people's heads. Then again, if he wasn't like that, things would be boring around here.
"Well, since they're here already, why don't Erza and Meredy show them around?" Pen asked casually.
"Sure, I wouldn't mind…" Meredy said, adding a bit of bounce to her step as she walked closer to them. Erza nodded to herself before smiling and also walking closer to them. I guess they've gotten over the whole, 'Let's destroy the inferior and weak Fairy Tail!' bit Sabertooth threw long ago.
"Ultear," Pen continued. "Could you fix the glass doors, please? I don't think I want any unwanted guests in the house…" He chuckled a little when he received an eye-roll from the black-haired time user. Still, she did what she was asked and restored the door back to its original form. With a satisfied sigh, Pen laid his hands on his hips and looked around. When he saw Wendy being helped up by Lisanna and Charles, he formed a small smile.
"Wendy?" he called. The girl dizzily looked up to him with a bit of effort, before being able to stand on her own.
"Y-yes?" she stammered a little as she dusted her dress. She tilted her head and smiled after asking. Pen took one step closer to her, before stopping and smiling widely, almost freaking everyone out. Well, except for the knocked out Gajeel and Natsu.
"C-can you patch up my wounds, please?" Pen asked. Before she could ask what he meant, tiny bits of blood started to trickle down from the tip of his head down to his forehead. He wobbled a little before threatening to fall on the floor. Luckily, Mira caught him just in time. Hurriedly, all of us ran upstairs and made quick work of treating him.
'What an idiot…' I thought to myself. Stupid Pen… Couldn't even give me some alone time with Fairy Tail to myself. Oh well, there's always next time. Right now we need medical help, stat!
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MY P.O.V.
After blacking out, I found myself back in my room. Apparently, everyone was frightened that I'd die or something, I can't really tell through the screaming and yelling that woke me up the moment I heard them.
"What were you thinking going through broken glass?!"
"Are you fine? Do you hurt anywhere?"
"Idiot's trying to get himself killed…"
Those were some of the comments I heard through their rants, but all was in good faith. I just wanted a grand entrance. Still, I was stupid enough to actually try it. Maybe Fairy Tail's destructive personality's getting to me? Though I was glad for their concern, I wasn't entirely sure if I want them smothering me like this. So, I raised a hand up, which slightly stopped their concerned warnings and gave them time to breathe. I looked up to each one of them, not finding Sting, Rogue, Gajeel and Natsu. Meh, it wasn't a concern. I was just glad that nothing else was destroyed for the time that I was knocked out.
"How long was I out for…?" I asked. Dani came up from the group, looked at me, her wristwatch, the small round wall clock, and then back to me.
"About three minutes…" she said with an innocent smile. I blinked a few times at that. Three minutes, huh? That should've been enough time to realize I wasn't going to die.
"Are you feeling any better?" Mira asked from the side. I looked at those wide, concerned blue eyes of hers, then smiled and nodded.
"Of course," I said. "Thanks for taking care of me for those three minutes…" I smiled sheepishly. "It wasn't really supposed to wind up that way, but either way, I'm sorry for always causing Fairy Tail trouble."
"You're no trouble at all," Lucy said, shoving Gray out of the way and leaning on the bed. "You provided us a place to live, food to eat, fun and even entertainment!"
"The truth is Juvia thinks we are burdening you…" Juvia stated, shifting her weight a little. "Maybe if it weren't for us, you wouldn't have to go through a lot of trouble…"
"Don't say that," I said. "I love Fairy Tail, and I don't see you complaining about your times spent here, right?" I asked jokingly. "Besides, I want you guys to be happy, and if that means going through hell for you, I'd do it."
"But you wouldn't have to do it alone," Erza added. "You know our principles, if one of us is in trouble, we as friends would go through hell as well just to get you out of it."
"Got that right," Gray smirked. "But don't go killing yourself just to look flashy. You'll look like you have a case of star complex."
"Says the guy who strips next to nothing at unexpected times…" Meredy sang, bringing up Gray's pants for us to see. Everyone started to laugh when a panicked expression dropped on the ice-user's face.
"Damn it! When did that happen?!" he exclaimed, grabbing his pants from Meredy's grasp and rushing off to somewhere to find the rest of his clothes. I laughed a little as he slammed the bedroom door shut.
"We really need to glue his clothes to his skin someday…" I said.
"Juvia doesn't mind that…" the water-girl said casually. "It's sometimes disturbing, and Juvia wouldn't want him to strip on our wedding day." A pure fit of laughter and squeals of excitement echoed through the room a minute before settling to comfortable silence. A few moments later, I began to wonder where exactly the others went. I'm sure they would have gone back here already. Since it was the four Dragon Slayers, I doubt they'd do anything stupid as to fight. I wouldn't have that, or else Sting would have to do choice two. And I know for a proven fact that he wasn't onboard with that. But what are they doing that's keeping them this long? I had to know.
"Anyway," I said, breaking the silence. "Has anyone seen Natsu, Gajeel, Sting and Rogue?"
"Gajeel left a while ago," Lily answered, floating a little above all of us. "He said he wasn't interested in seeing someone get treated after a pathetic display of stupidity that caused harm to themselves…"
"Ow…" I muttered quietly.
"But," Lily added. "He did mention to tell him when you wake up. I think he's concerned, but is just keeping it to himself."
"Yeah, that's Gajeel for you…" Levy said with a fading giggle. I looked at her, and noticed the slight pink dusting her cheeks. I guess thinking of Gajeel makes her all flustered. It doesn't look like anyone has noticed, but when I saw the knowing faces of Dani and Mira as they looked at Levy and each other, something was up.
"I see…" I said, ignoring the teasing impulses that I so wanted to let out. "And the others…?"
"Rogue-kun wasn't particularly interested in this…" Lector said, jumping on the bed and raising a hand. "And Sting-kun just wanted to familiarize himself with his surroundings. He doesn't like it when he's on unfamiliar territory."
"Oh, just make sure he doesn't break anything then. Ultear would have one heck of a time trying to fix all that." I said. Well, at least he wasn't being a jerk to everyone. Even though the two of them aren't close to Fairy Tail for now, I'm sure we can all get along well. Of course there's still the plan of making Natsu jealous enough to fight Sting and admit his feelings. I'm not sure if he really does love Lisanna, but if he does, supporting him is my only option. Yeah, supporting him in a wheelchair after pushing him off a cliff and then castrating the poor, emotionally confused Dragon Slayer, that is. Whichever the case, I would probably have a hard time not trying to kill Natsu. I guess we'll just make sure that Natsu doesn't do anything stupid.
"Hey, I'm back!" Speak of the devil. Natsu opened the door, holding some leaves that look familiar. Along with him, Sting was back with a smirk on his face and his hands behind his head.
"Where'd you go to, Natsu?" Lucy asked. What I was expecting from him was an over-active tale of adventure with a face-eating grin, not the total ignorance and no acknowledgement from the Dragon Slayer. That got me so messed up. What happened when I was at school?
"Where have you been, Natsu?" Mira asked gently.
"Been gathering some herbs for the idiot who ran through a rain of glass…" I rolled my eyes from the comment, and he just grinned like an idiot. He threw the bundle of leaves he collected down on the mattress and I examined the herbs.
"Anyway," I said, trying my best not to glare at Natsu and ask why the hell he was ignoring Lucy. "These are guava leaves… How'd you know what to get for treating cuts and wounds?"
"Oh, that?" he asked. "Well…"
"Your grandma told us…" Sting finished with a teasing smirk in his face. But he laughed when my face paled from what he said. My grandma was home, and so that means…
"Pen-kun~!" The voice of my mother echoed downstairs. "Where are you? Are you okay? Oh, where's my baby?" My eyes widened as a deafening sound of laughter coursed through my ears. They were making fun of me! And as if my body was responding, I was blushing with embarrassment and had to hide under the covers to let them laugh it out. Seconds later, I heard a door open and a pair of heeled feet dragged themselves closer to me.
"How is he?" my mother asked, looking over my covered form. Without any sudden warning, she glomped the heck out of me and nearly squeezed out all the air from my lungs. This of course induced another room-filling laughter from everyone. Imagine the host of three very powerful guilds, being crushed to death by his own mother. Embarrassing!
"M-mom," I muttered, trying to gasp for air. "Y-you're crushing me!" At that, she immediately let go of me and I instantly got out of the covers, greedily inhaling air like a pig hogging all the food. The laughter only increased a short while before falling into awkward silence. My mom was staring at all of them now, and I wasn't any more relieved.
"Ah!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands and walking towards Lucy. "You must be my baby's friends!" Sting, Natsu and Gray were snickering again by this point, which made me glare at them. I was embarrassed enough as it is, they didn't have to make it even worse.
"Y-yes…?" Lucy answered my mother. The blonde's hand was suddenly grabbed by her and my mom was weirdly looking at it. She flipped Lucy's hand and saw the pink guild mark, making her eyes wide.
"Hey!" she exclaimed again. "I know this! This is, um… Wait…" She put a finger on her chin and started to hum. "F-Fiery Vase? No, that's not it… Um… Hairy Lace? No!" She thought outloud. Every person in the room was sweat dropping, and I was shrinking little by little, almost to the size of a midget. She didn't stop there, and continued her name guessing. No one was really stopping her, because everyone found it entertaining. But their entertainment was overshadowed by my embarrassment and I have to stop my mom before I disappear from the shame!
"It's Fairy Tail, mom!" I exclaimed. She stopped her guessing, by this point she held her head high and was looking at the ceiling, and then tilted her head to me. She blinked a little in surprise before finally smiling.
"Ah, yes… That's right! I remember now!" she chimed. "So, you're my son's friends, right?" Everyone nodded at that. "Well, I'm Aga, Pen's mother. It's nice to meet you." She waved her hand a little.
"Nice to meet you, too…" Everyone said casually. Her eyes kept a lock-on to each and every one of them for a few moments before looking away and turning to me. Her eyes were narrowed and her lip was quirked slightly upward.
"You have such attractive friends, dear!" she said, and I could feel my eyes widen at that statement again.
"Mom!" I exclaimed, trying to tell her to get out of the room before she kills me any more than she already did. Well, mostly with embarrassment, but still.
"Oh, but it's true!" she said. "These girls here have such lovely figures, and their endowments aren't something any one can bat an eyelash on~!" she said as she gestured to group of girls. "And your guy friends here could make an entire school of girls melt into puddles~!" she pointed to the guys, half-amused and half-flattered by the statement.
"Oh, and these little kitties in costumes are just so cute~!" she exclaimed again, which she was doing a lot since she got here, and grabbed Pantherlily by the tail. "This one is by far my favorite one!"
"Mom!" I said. "They're the real deal!! Don't embarrass me in front of them!" I said through gritted teeth.
"Oh?" she asked, looking at them again. "Well, now that I look at them, their eyes are bigger than any normal person."
"Yes, mom. Finally…" I sighed; hope filling me that she'd stop humiliating me. I've had enough humiliation for the day, so I was really relieved that she was going to stop. Unfortunately, happy moments fall short because mom was rambling again.
"Oh then this is even better!" she exclaimed, grabbing Natsu and Lucy's hands. The two awkwardly avoided each other even more, and raised a suspicious brow from me. But before I could start thinking about that again, my mom continued to talk, "You know you two are my son's favorite characters! Did you know that he writes stories about you?"
"Mom!" I exclaimed for the third time today.
"Oh, shush, honey!" She waved me off like I was nothing! "And I read this other one of his story where this little lady here is a-"
"Mom, that's enough!" I said, rushing towards them and pulling my mom away. I leaned close to her ear, since I was taller than her, and whispered, "Things aren't going the way they are right now, okay?"
She looked at me skeptically at first, but I could tell she got the message. Underneath her ultra-embarrass-my-son mode, she has a knack with this stuff. And judging by the way she was looking at the two right now, she most probably won't do what she did again for now.
"Well," she said, trying to sound casual. "I'm going to change, okay? And then your grandma and I are going to visit my cousin to check on my clothes that I asked her to sew. Pen, entertain your guests here while I'm away, okay? Then, we'll all go to the mall! How's that sound?"
"The mall?" Lucy asked curiously.
"It's like a really huge shopping center…" Dani answered with a shrug. At this, Lucy's eyes widened in glee.
"Shopping?" she repeated. "Alright! Levy-chan, we can finally start shopping!" She rushed over to Levy and gave her a quick hug before spinning her around. My mom chuckled at their silliness and turned back to me.
"We'll be back in about 4 hours." She said. "Until then, do anything to pass the time. Just don't break anything, understand?"
"Yes, mom…" I muttered while puffing my cheeks. She kissed said cheek before exiting and leaving the room. With my mom going out and nothing else to do, I gave a long, scanning glance in the room. Everything was in order, and I could see some of them were going to do something else to pass the time. But I needed them all here, and for some reason I wanted them to stay put. As I gazed down my drawer, I saw the case of my laptop just hanging there. An immediate idea popped into my head, and since we had nothing to do for the next four hours, it wouldn't hurt to read for a while.
"Hey guys," I called, turning all their attention to me. "Wanna read some fics?" Everyone gave a thinking look, and nodded eventually.
"If it's what the host wants…" Sting said with a mocking smirk. I just rolled my eyes at him and asked Happy to bring the laptop to me. Just wait until I throw a bombshell at him, but for now, I'm in the mood for some metal/bookworm fic.
A/N:
Embarrassing mom is embarrassing… XD
So, guys… The spoiler is, well, just a spoiler. It'll appear! Don't worry! XD Just not right now! XD
And I bet you're wondering why it's part 1 again, huh? Well, I've been having a stressful week lately. Not getting any sleep, being bombarded by difficult tasks, exam's next week and we had a fashion show ( I had to dress up like Miku Hatsune… And believe me, it was not worth it! ).
And technically guys, this'll be my last chapter for December. I'll be spending my days until January 3 at my other grandma's house, who had just gotten back from the states. There's no internet there, so I won't be able to update sooner. But I'll be writing, and I can assure you that by January, I'll post a new chapter of a story. Who knows, maybe I'll write more? XD
Any who, the results of the competition. This one's pretty hard, but I've made my decision. So here's the results:
First Place: JuneDelph
Second Place: Erza Scarlet Titania
Third Place: Mio Heartfilia999
Congratulations, JuneDelph and Erza Scarlet Titania, you get to have your own character in "Me and Fairy Tail"! But… I've seem to forgotten the details… XD Could you send them to me via PM, with these details?
Name of Character:
Age:
Fairy Tail Characters: (This is the people whom you want to stay with you or are with you in the beginning of your arc.)
Likes and Dislikes:
Personality:
Strengths and Weaknesses:
Pair you want to get Paired: (These are the pairings you want to see paired up. It's ranked by order, and I get to choose which one.)
Anyway, sorry for having to make you go through all this… :/ I'm still stressed out, and I can't really say for sure how long before I feel better again. I just need to rest, maybe… I don't know.
Anyway, for Mio Heartfilia999, don't worry! Since you came so close to tying with Erza Scarlet Titania, I'm gonna put you as a minor character! Of course, if that's okay with you. You still get to be in the story, it's just the arc's not about you. -3- You can send in the details like the form up there. XD
For my readers, since I'll be gone for a pretty long time, I want to do a survey. Hope all of you answer! XD
Questions:
1. What would you feel if I ever abandon this story? Why?
2. If you ever met your favorite Fairy Tail character in real life, what would you say to him/her? Write the name of the character.
3. Chances are this'll never happen, but I'll ask anyway. If you and the FT Character your fangirling/boying over are stuck in a Zombie Apocalypse, how do you survive? And will love ensue?
4. Do you think my writing style is good, bad, or definitely not in the scale of 1 to 10?
5. Do you find the recent chapters of "Me and Fairy Tail" more, less or just as entertaining as the previous ones? (Recent: Chapters 13-18 Previous: 1-12)
6. What would you do if you accidentally teased Erza Scarlet for being brokenhearted by Jellal Fernandez?
7. Would you give any considerations to the OCs I write? Yes or no? And explain your answer.
8. Which fan fiction story in "Me and Fairy Tail" do you find most engaging? Most romantic? Funniest?
9. For future chapters, what do you want to expect from "Me and Fairy Tail"?
10. Am I a good author? Yes or no? Be honest, and explain your answer. :D
I've been rereading "Me and Fairy Tail", and I kinda saw how at some recent chapters, I wasn't laughing as much as the other chappies. Well, that's my opinion. And I want to know yours.
See you Next Year! XDD
Ja Ne~