FAIRY TAIL CHRISTMAS WEEK ~ DAY EIGHT
Ah, ringing in the new year. What could be better than celebrating with friends? For it to be worth it, it would definitely have to be memorable.
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Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne!
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne.
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
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NEW YEAR'S EVE/NEW YEAR'S DAY
Title: The Day After
She wasn't sure how it happened, but it happened again.
She woke up to find bodies – naked bodies – sprawled out on the floor of her apartment. She was in Natsu's embrace with her back to his stomach. Surprisingly she was able to remove herself from his grip and got up.
She then looked at everyone who was there with quick glances so that she wouldn't see something she did not need to…again. Everyone was accounted for. Well, all except one blue, twin tailed girl who must have left the apartment before the insanity happened again at Erza's drunken stupor. However, this time, there were more bodies than last time, by six.
Lucy Heartfilia carefully stepped over the unconscious guests of hers and picked up her clothes and got dressed before heading to her bathroom. There, she found the missing pre-teen, sleeping in an empty bathtub with her white winged feline friend on a hoard of pillows and blankets, along with a snoozing blue exceed and a black one.
She looked back out the door to see some bodies stirring and went wide-eyed. If the innocent Sky Dragon Slayer woke up and saw what Lucy had to maneuver her way through, she'd be scarred for life. Lucy did not want that to happen – at all. Lucy then looked back and saw Charle start to open her eyes.
"Morning Lucy!" The white exceed greeted.
"Uh, hi Charle. I am going to need you to keep Wendy in here. Trust me when I say she does NOT want to go out there to leave my place."
"Okay." Charle agreed partially confused.
Lucy then left the bathroom and closed the door before dealing with her in the buff guests. She walked around the room and gathered the boys' clothing and put them next to each one of them before doing the same for the girls in the room. She then walked over to her best friend and nudged the bluenette's shoulder to wake her up.
"Mm?"
"Levy, you need to..uh..get dressed. It happened again." Lucy stated in her friend's ear causing her to go wide-eyed as she shot straight up.
"Oh, hell no!" Levy said in disbelief.
"Relax, I put your clothes next to you. I have to wake everyone else up, but ladies first."
Lucy then woke up Juvia, Cana, Lisanna and Mirajane to tell them the same thing. She received groans from them as well before they woke up and got dressed. She then found Erza on the other side of her bed's headboard. Lucy and the girls were glad that the boys were sleeping as they were.
"Remind me to kill Erza later for last night." Mirajane joked as she tied her dress's bow.
"I have a splitting headache." Lisanna whined as she rubbed her eyes and then opened them to see the massive bare skin site before her. "AAH!" She screamed but Mirajane covered her little sister's mouth. "Sorry."
The girls let out a small giggle before they attempted to wake up the boys.
"Do we have to wake them up?" Juvia asked. "Gray-sama looks so peaceful."
Lucy snapped her head at the water mage and gritted her teeth before speaking.
"Yes, Juvia. I am sorry but they all need to get out of my house." She answered as she looked around at the mess that had been made again.
Streamers were everywhere, as were champagne bottles and other bottles of liquor.
"Does anyone know how we ended up at Lucy's in the first place?" Mirajane asked. "The last thing I remember is giving Natsu a drink."
Lisanna looked at her older sister and then laughed.
"That's funny. The last thing I remember is him spilling it on me after Gray tripped him." Lisanna chimed in.
"Which caused you to bump into me making me spill my beer." Cana added.
It all started to unravel. All of the events leading up to how they had arrived at Lucy's house were starting to be explained.
"And then you got so mad you threw the bottle at one of them, but it hit the wall over Erza and her…cake." Levy finished as Erza started to finally stand up.
"And they still need to be punished for that. That ruined a perfectly good strawberry shortcake." Titania added and then looked around the room. "I am…sorry Lucy for bringing everyone here again."
Lucy smiled.
"It's okay Erza, really. I know I came back early with Wendy and Charle because I could tell something was going to happen that I wanted no part of." Lucy said and then paused. "I think I fell asleep because the next thing I can remember is waking up because I heard you all yelling as you came up along the canal front.
"Speaking of our Sky Dragon Slayer, where is she?" Juvia asked as she looked around.
"She's fine. She must have grabbed some blankets and went to hide in my bathtub. She's still in there. We need to get the boys awake and at least dressed before Charle allows her to leave."
Erza took a deep breath in before speaking.
"Well then, let's wake these losers up." She said before throwing Jellal's coat on top of him before kicking him half gently in his side.
"Ow." He said calmly as he looked up at the woman who just kicked him and then went wide-eyed.
"Get dressed. You're naked." Erza said forcefully before making her way to the next naked Fairy Tail mage in the room.
Lucy followed suit with a laugh hurrying along and waking up Natsu, while Juvia tried to wake up Gray but was failing miserably. Levy was left with waking up Gajeel and Lisanna woke up Bixlow and Mirajane woke up Laxus before the girls all headed into the bathroom to give them some decent private time to hurry up and get ready.
"Why are we in here? Can we all fit?" Cana complained.
"We'll have to for the next five minutes." Lucy stated. "And just be happy you didn't have to wake any of them up."
Cana then made her way to the door to sneak a peek of the boys.
"So, uh, who did we all kiss at midnight?" Cana asked.
"I kissed Laxus." Replied Mirajane.
"I kissed Bixlow." Lisanna answered.
"Gajeel."
"Gray-sama, but only on his cheek because he turned away at the last minute."
"Jellal." Erza whispered.
"So that leaves you Cana."
"Bacchus was at the hall." Cana answered with a large grin. "But Lucy also didn't answer."
"I didn't kiss anyone. I was here watching the fireworks while Wendy joined me." Lucy somewhat proudly admitted.
"So then who did Natsu kiss? Didn't he say he was going to kiss someone?" Mirajane asked.
"Yeah, I wonder who." Levy added curiously. "We'll have to ask him." She added devilishly.
Once the five minutes were up, all of the girls came out of the bathroom to find the boys already starting on the cleanup of Lucy's tiny apartment. Lucy smiled at the site as she and the girls started to help them. Within ten minutes the apartment was put back the way it was when they first arrived.
"So, Natsu, who did you kiss at midnight? We know who we all kissed, but you're the only one not accounted for." Levy teased.
"Quit it shrimp!" Gajeel scolded causing Levy to scowl and then stick her tongue at him. "All right! That's it!" He yelled as he scooped her up causing her to start flailing her arms screaming. "Come on Lily!"
"Coming!" The black exceed answered as he came flying out of the bathroom.
"Gajeel! Put me down!"
And that was the last they heard of Levy for four days.
The group left it alone and decided to thank Lucy for her involuntary hosting of the after party before heading out themselves. Wendy eventually emerged with Charle and Happy and left as well not knowing what had transpired. However, Natsu stayed behind.
"You're not going home?"
"Nah. You still have some cleaning to do."
"It's just vacuuming and cleaning the coffee table." She said with a shrug.
"I know."
Lucy went to grab a spray bottle of cleaner and a rag and handed it to him before she pulled her vacuum out of the closet.
"You never did answer Levy. Who did you kiss at midnight?"
Natsu went to scratch his head before he answered.
"I, uh, didn't officially kiss anyone."
"Officially?"
"Yeah, the person I wanted to wasn't there because she went to her home with a few friends."
Lucy's eyes became wider than Natsu had ever seen them. He walked over to her and smiled as he closed the gap in between them.
"But that's fine. There's always next year."
"You're right. There is." She eventually responded as she went on the tips of her toes and planted a kiss on his cheek. "Now get to work!"
A/N: Thanks for reading! This is the last entry for the Fairy Tail Christmas Week. It's supposed to take place on New Year's Day, after another round of that lovely "master" game from this year's Christmas Special. This isn't my best work, but it's all I could come up with. I knew I should have written it while writing the other entries...