4th chapter - The park
The wind was nice and gentle, and the waves could be heard from gently crashing onto the base of the ship. Sure, it wasn't the biggest or the best ship, but it was enough or them as no one else were on it. A private ship, in other words. Everyone was chatting away being cheerful, all except Natsu. Lucy was looking out into the ocean when she suddenly decided to take a glance at Natsu - who was on the table green in the face. She couldn't help but grin however, it was just so funny.
Lucy walked over to Levy, who was with Gajeel.
"Hey there," Lucy said with a grin.
Levy turned around to the familiar voice, "Lu-chan!"
She gently patted on the bench to the right of hers as if offering Lucy to sit.
"Thank you!"
"So, say, how long is it until we get there?" Lucy couldn't help but ask. After all, she really didn't like Natsu all sick.
"Oh we have about," Levy looked up to think, " 14 hours to go,"
"What?!" Lucy replied in shock. She did not think it would take that long.
"What's the matter?" Levy asked with a look of concern clearly written on her face.
"Natsu?" Gajeel responded for her.
Lucy sighed, "Yeah."
"I have to admit, you do have a soft spot for flame brain!" Gajeel teased.
"I-I do not!" Lucy argued.
Gajeel and Levy both started laughing.
"Oh my god," Lucy turned her heels and left to return to Natsu.
To her surprise, he was alone. However Happy's voice could be heard from the other side of the deck while he is with Carla and Lily. She didn't hesitate to take the seat next to Natsu's. Lucy held out her right hand and gently rubbed in a circular motion on Natsu's back, to ease the sickness. He turned ever so slightly towards Lucy and gave her a quick smile before plopping his head back on the table. Don't worry Natsu, try your best for 14 more hours, Lucy thought.
After a few hours night fell and they were meant to have a good nights sleep before arriving at their destination in the morning.
...
The group arrived at shore and hope was regained again. From the looks of it, Natsu hasn't fully recovered yet and is carried by Happy.
"Wow!" Lucy said, looking around in amazement.
They have arrived at the coast of the park which was only a quarter of it. The other quarters includes a jungle themed adventure area, a fantasy themed area and an animal themed area. They have arrived at the water park and they will soon check in their hotels and have fun!
"It's really nice!" Levy added.
"Ooooooh!" Natsu jumped about.
"Oh Natsu you're awake!" Lucy exclaimed.
"Hey, I wasn't asleep!" said Natsu.
"Oh you know what I mean!"
"Don't worry Lucy, if he's being a jerk around you, let me know and I'll kick his ass," Gray joked.
"I don't think there's a need for that," giggled Lucy.
"Love Rival!" whispered Juvia.
Lucy could feel a creepy presence watching her and begins to get frightened.
"Whatchu doin' over there water woman?" Gajeel snapped.
"Uh nothing!"
The beach was warm and many people are suntanning on the sand. As they looked behind the beach, there was a small wall with an entrance in the center. Many tubes could be seen behind the wall, in every colour going in all different directions (water slides). There is a small hut with a straw roof at the entrance. Inside sat a man who seemed to be collecting tickets.
"Let's go, Luce!" with that, Natsu grabbed Lucy's wrist and pulled her away towards the man.
"W-wait for us!" Gray shouted.
Natsu already got to the man and handed his tickets to the him along with Lucy's of course. He examined it before accepting it and placed it into a little red box.
"Done," he said, "and..here...is...your...key," he finally gave it to Natsu after looking for it for so long.
"Thanks!" Lucy added, before she was dragged away into the park.
"Huh, what is this?" Natsu looked puzzled at the ticket before him.
Lucy took the tickets away from him. Area: C, Building: A, Floor: 4, Room: 28. Oh. That's very odd, so many different numbers and letters. By then the rest of the group had caught up with them. They just crossed the little bars when Levy shouted.
"Oh, shoot!" she yelled.
"Huh? What?" asked Natsu.
Levy was focused on her ticket.
"Lu-chan, let me see yours," she asked, but more like demanded.
Lucy did as she was told and walked over to Levy with her and Natsu's ticket. Levy looked at it. Shock was written on her face.
"Levy? Are you alright?" Lucy asked.
"Is there something wrong?" Gray and Erza both asked.
"Yes," Levy said without lifting her head, "I believe we are separated."
"How?" Gajeel asked.
"Look, give me your tickets," a young woman walked towards them.
She took Natsu and Lucy's.
"Hm, it says area C which is the fantasy area. Your hotel room is located at the end of the fantasy area. There are many hotel buildings and your one is A, 4th floor, room 28. Clear?" she stated.
"Uh yes thank you," Lucy said as she took the ticket back.
The young woman was wearing a small red apron just covering her chest and a bit of her thighs and a black top and shorts. Her hair was bright blue and she looked very bored to be here.
"Hm, You there," she pointed at Gray, "Let me have a look at your tickets,"
Gray handed it over to her with a confused look.
"Hm, it says area D which is the animal area, just below the fantasy area. On the map of course. Your hotel building is A, 6th floor, room 42. Questions?" she threw the tickets back at Gray not really caring about the questions even if he did have one.
"Thanks?" Gray said thinking he is capable of reading a ticket.
"Yay!" Juvia screamed.
All eyes on Juvia.
"Juvia is in the same room with Gray-sama!"
"What now?!" Gray cried.
"Erza, would you mind if I swap your ticket with mine?" Gray asked Erza.
"I wouldn't mind," Erza said.
With that, they swapped their tickets. Now Erza and Juvia shared a room and thankfully Gray had a room on his own. He is in area B now, the adventure area.
"Where is everybody going?" Erza asked, "It would be handy to know the location of everybody's hotel before we separate."
"C," said Natsu and Lucy in unison.
"B," shouted Wendy and Carla.
"A," said both Levy and Gajeel.
They looked at one another, what? Quickly they looked at their tickets discovering that they would be sharing a room.
"Hey!" Levy screamed.
"What it wasn't my fault I'm with you!" he argued.
"B," Gray said nodding his head.
"Huh? Gray, which building are you in?" Wendy asked.
"C, why?" Gray responded.
"Nothing, I'm in area B too! But my building is E," said Wendy.
"Oh that's good!" laughed Gray, "We can go around together then! Since we are close to each other."
"Yeah! That'd be fun!" Wendy grinned.
Juvia by now is staring at Gray and Wendy with haunting eyes like she is going to kill someone any second. But everyone ignored it.
"Very well, I would be in D, if anyone needs me," Erza said.
And with that, everyone walked in separate directions to their hotels.
A/N This is the 4th chapter, getting very close to fun! However this is still the start (hehe) It is a very slow story.
I will be focusing mainly on Nalu because this is a Nalu fanfic.
Thank you!
