So we sat in my dorm room, with Lily this time, getting drunk. Of course I was the first to go, or so they thought. "Well, maybe I should go and whack them upside the head." I smiled and waved a book around, Gajeel caught my arm, "Oi, shrimp, you're going to decapitate someone like that."
"How did you find me anyway, you stalker." I dropped the book in defeat and he laughed.
"Smelled your scent a mile away."
"Pervert, what do I smell like?"
"Disgusting. Don't come near me."
"Gihihi, give me a huuuug!" I slurred, Lily laughed as Gajeel flushed with embarrassment. He looked away awkwardly as I literally purred in his arms. Then, ruined by puke.
"OI! AGAIN?" Gajeel lifted up my limp body.
I gave him a sly look, "Oops." His face flushed, no one can be mad at the cute Levy face. Lily still was rolling on my bed laughing. "Welp, I'm going to sleep." Lily flew out of the way just in time as I crashed into the bed. Gajeel cleaned himself of puke and heard me 'snoring.'
"Really. That girl really is something." Lily floated upwards, " I'll meet you back home." Then with that he flew out the window.
"Oh Levy." Gajeel crossed over to me, where I watched him through narrow eyes. He drew the blankets up to my shoulders, I caught his hand.
"Gajeel, stay here until I fall asleep." I murmured groggily.
"As if I had enough energy to do that." He scoffed, my hand dropped. "Don't remember this tomorrow, Levy."
"I looooove," he tensed when he heard that from me, "Wine!" I finished.
"Yeah, short stuff. Bye."
"Bye bye, pervert!" I sang.
Yet another hangover the next morning, at least I don't have to go to the guild. I laid in bed, looking at the ceiling. Right on time, Lucy burst in the door. "Morning Levy. Did you get it last night?" She smugly asked. It took me a minute to realize what she was talking about.
"NO."
"Alright, alright." Lucy put her hands up in surrender. She hid her laughter. "You got drunk again?"
Sheepishly I nodded, she laughed sharply. I glared at her. "Come on, let's go to the guild. I heard Mira has something interesting planned for today." That got me up and running. I skipped along side her until she opened the door. Gajeel fell quiet, but to avoid suspicion I skipped on by like nothing happened.
"Mira-chan, what can we do today?" I bounce up to her, she smiled her signature smile at me over the counter.
She pouted as she thought about it. "Oh! You can help me decorate, I have a box full of costumes we can use." Mira looked like she was bursting with excitement. She gestured to the back of the guild, she looked so excited like Natsu and a new fighting challenge. "Go on in and get ready." She ushered both of us to the direction of the "activities." Wendy joyfully bounced along side us.
All three of us pushed aside the wooden door to see box after dusty box, of decorations for the Festival. Cobwebs hung from the corners, Wendy and Lucy nearly screamed when a spider ran across their feet. Chills ran up my spine, but I tried my best to keep my cool. Boxes were labeled, but the dust suggested it's been a while since anyone used them. Breathing in deeply through my mouth, I nearly choked on dust, I braced myself and lifted up a heavy box. A bruise objected and I dropped the box and fell to the floor, holding my side. Wendy ran over while Lucy made her careful way around spider webs.
"Are you alright?" Wendy came crashing next to me, her face filled with worry.
Disguising my grimace as a smile, "I'm fine. Let's just get started." I answered weakly. A figure appeared at the doorway, "Gajeel." I said, blinking in surprise.
The iron dragon slayer crossed his arms, "You shrimps and Bunnygirl, need any help?" Wendy smiled widely and Lucy gave him an annoyed glance before slyly smirking to me."Especially, Shorty over there. You shouldn't be doing heavy lifting."
My face became dark with a scowl, "I can do perfectly fine." I growled back to him. Wendy tried to defuse the tension, blubbering wildly, Lucy just looked like she was on the verge of laughter. Finally I just pouted, giving in to his help. "Gihi." He smirked and lifted up the box I dropped. Wendy sighed, the relief evident in her voice as she started encouraging us to work hard.
Pouting (in the animes), I picked up a lighter box and moved that out to the main room in the guild. Gajeel came out with three boxes stacked on top of one another, almost bragging. I glared at him before going back in the dusty room and bringing out more boxes. Carla and PantherLily stayed behind to clean up the room, Happy joined, but everyone knew it was to "supervise" Lily and Carla.
By the afternoon, we all took a break at the bar. Except Gajeel, Lily and Carla were still active and eager to finish today, the others (the rest) passed out on the bar. Natsu had joined in around mid-morning nearly burning everything up. Happy nommed on a fish and everything was quiet and normal. If you call quiet and normal, loud fights and shouting, that is. For the fifth time I leaned to the left side to dodge a chair and sighed. Laxus walked into the guild, his bundle of belongings slung behind his shoulder.
His team ran up to him, Freed babied him and praised his power. The blonde man dropped off his belongings and advanced to the bar. Sitting up, I, along with others, peered at him with interest, Gajeel looked at him with no expression out of the corner of his eye, arms crossed.
Mira looked up at him out of the corner of her eye. "Welcome back, Laxus." She smiled up at him warmly. A slight blush registered on Laxus's face, Lucy and I exchanged sly looks. "How was the job?"
Laxus smirked cockily, "Easy as usual. Nothing out of the ordinary. Except I have interesting news." Everyone leaned forward on their seats, straining their ears. I had just realized everything had gone quiet.
I personally thought I was prepared for anything. But these next words caught me off guard.
"News has it, Future Rogue has returned."
DUN DUN DUUUUUN He's back and more powerful than ever! Hope you like this new chapter. I'm excited to bring you the next action packed chapter! Stay tuned, or some t.v stuff like that. :3