Hey guys! I hope you liked that last chapter! Since I don't plan things, I'm not sure what's happening it the next chapter, so this chapter is going to be a collection of my 3 am selfs' ideas. The first one was my friend's idea though. (Yeah I know right, I have friends?) Anyways, if you guys like this I'll do more chapters like this in the future, but we'll see how this turns out. I hope you guys like this chapter!
Disclaimer ~ I do not own Fairy Tail.
Idea #1:
*Crystal is back at the guild and she is extremely upset about Malthus being gone*
I can't believe he's gone….
I'm not sure how but I find myself eating a bunch of candy, trying to drown out the fact that I was that reason my brother died.
I sit at the bar at the guild and start eating as much as I can
After a while, I guess it's obvious that something's wrong.
"Crystal, are you okay?" Mira asks, looking a little concerned.
"Yup, I'm fine," I lie, trying harder not to remember Malthus and eating more candy still.
I head home later, once Mira tells me that it's getting late and I need to head back. Once I'm home, I continue to fill myself with sugar. I forget about Malthus but end up high off sugar.
I don't feel like myself. It feels like someone else is in my body right now.
I start running, although I haven't the slightest clue where I'm going and I end up in front of a cottage that I know to be Natsu and Happys'.
I continuously knock on the door until Natsu opens it, rubbing his eyes sleepily.
I'm surprised he's actually in his own house.
"Crystal? What're you doing here?" Natsu asks groggily. "It's 3 in the morning."
Happy walks in behind Natsu, his eyes still closed. "What's happening? I was having a dream about fish…" He trails off, swaying a little.
Ignoring him completely, Natsu looks at me for an answer. "Well?" He asks.
Normally I'd have made up an excuse but the first words to come to me are: "Hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi!"
I run away from the cottage, no idea where my legs are taking me, and end up in front of an apartment I don't recognize.
I knock on the door loudly, until someone opens up. I'm surprised to see that it's Katashi standing in front of me.
Why and how do I know where he lives?!
Katashi has bags under his eyes and asks me the same the thing Natsu does: "What are you doing?"
My response stays the same. "Hi hi hi hi hi hi hi!"
I start running again, no idea where I'm going this time, but I hear Katashi say something along the lines of "that's probably what you are."
I slow down and walk the rest of the way to my destination. I somehow find my way to a tree with rainbow coloured leaves and standing underneath is Leo.
"I've been awaiting your arrival," he says, holding out a flower to me.
Instead of taking the flower, I wave at him and give the only response I've given anyone. "Hi hi hi hi hi hi hi!"
I hear footsteps behind me. Leo and whoever else all yell "What're you guys doing here."
They all give the same response. "I'm following Crystal!"
That's not creepy at all….
"Leo I think we told you to stay away from her," Natsu says, eyeing Leo.
"She came to me," he says defensively.
"Why are you here in the first place? Why aren't you back in your world?" Katashi asks.
"I have my reasons…." Leo says, trailing off.
"Did you make her like this?!" Natsu asks, trying to piece together what's happening.
Growing bored of their conversation, I start climbing the tree.
I hear them bickering between themselves, but I can't hear them anymore.
I hear one clear voice ring through the other two. "Guys, where did Crystal go!"
The others must realize I'm not there, because they start calling me.
I giggle. "We're playing hide and seek. You have to find me!" I call out.
"Dammit Crystal. What's gotten into you," someone says down below.
"Where are you Crystal?" Someone calls out.
"Do you give up?" I ask, giggling even more.
What am I? A school girl?
"Yup, we all give up," someone says.
I peek my head out from over the top of the tree. "Here I am!"
They don't look happy to see me, instead they look quite shocked.
"How the hell did you get up there?" Natsu yells up to me.
"I climbed!" I yell down, like it's the most obvious answer in the world.
"Stay there, I'll come get you," Katashi says, beginning to climb the tree.
"I can just come down to you!" I yell. "Make sure you catch me!"
"What does she mean-" Natsu begins but soon realizes that I'm going to jump.
"1...2...3!" I yell and they all scramble beneath me to try and catch me. I land on top of them unscathed, but I can't say the same about them.
"That was quite the soft cushion," I say, getting up and running around in circles around the tree.
"Hey Crystal wait!" Someone calls. I turn around to see who it is, but I hit something hard and black out.
Idea #2:
*Crystal doesn't know how to cook and is trying to ask for help*
I walk up to the counter and try to think of a way to ask Mira to help me cook.
What should I say? I need help cooking? I can't cook? I've only been eating instant noodles cause I don't have time to make a proper meal?
I take a deep breath. "Mira can you teach me how to cook?" I ask, but a little too soon because for some reason everyone seems to gather around me at that moment.
Oh no….
"Wow so there is something the great and powerful Crystal can't do," Mai says jokingly.
"I can help you. I used to cook a lot for…. Some people a long time ago," Erza says, rubbing her chin.
"I bet I can teach Crystal how to make fish!" Happy exclaims.
I'm not taking cooking lessons from a cat.
"If I'm not mistaken, I believe she asked me for help," Mira says smiling. "But it is rare for Crystal to ask for help. Is there a special occasion or something?"
"N-not really," I say, looking down at my hands. "It's just tiring to go out everyday to eat something."
"I see," Mira says kindly. "I can teach you now if you'd like."
"Really!" I exclaim a little too loudly.
"Yeah it's no problem," Mira says.
What kind of angel is this. I think to myself, tears streaming out of my eyes.
"Why are you crying?" Mira asks. "I didn't offend you, did I?"
I wipe my face. "No it's nothing, but would you be able to teach me now?"
"Yup, sure!" Mira exclaims, grabbing my hand and pulling me over to the other side of the counter.
She pulls me over to the kitchen, which I didn't know we even had, and takes out a bunch of knives, spoons and other utensils.
I thought this would be more simple….
"How about we start with a simple recipe," Mira says, rubbing her chin, trying to come up with an idea. "I got it! Let's try making strawberry cakes."
I feel like if I mess this up Erza's going to kill me.
Nevertheless, I smile and nod.
"Okay so first we need to get ingredients," Mira says, looking around for the recipe. "So we need strawberries, flour, sugar, salt, butter, eggs, and baking powder."
"I can help get the ingredients," I say quickly as Mira starts taking out the flour and sugar.
"Thanks! The strawberries are over in that shelf," Mira says, pointing behind her at a dusty looking shelf.
I walk over and see a jar filled with strawberries. Once I've gotten the jar out, Mira's standing at the table reading the instructions.
"You've gotten the strawberries!" Mira exclaims, taking the jar from me.
Not like I wouldn't've seen them.
Mira runs through the instructions and we start mixing.
When it comes to putting them in the oven, I start shaking. I hope everything goes alright.
I'm so scared about the cake that I accidentally end up leaving a cloth in the oven. I pull it out, but it's caught fire. I throw it on the floor and try to stomp it out.
It dies out before Mira comes back and soon the cake is ready. When the cake comes out it doesn't look that bad, aside from the burnt sides.
I decorate it and add strawberries.
Once I present it to Mira, she looks quite shocked. Either because she didn't know I could do it or because it looked terrible.
She brings it out and cuts it into slices. She gives one to Erza and Mai and takes one for herself.
They try it and look as though it's not terrible. "This is great!" Mira says.
"This tastes just like the cake from the bakery!" Erza exclaims
"It's not terrible," Mai says.
The Unknown looks at me from across the guild, suspicion clear on his face.
I laugh nervously and decide that they don't need to know that I switched mine with one of the ones at the bakery. I really feel bad for whoever's going to get it.
There are somethings I prefer not to do.
I guess I'll stick to instant noodles.
Idea #3:
*Crystal and people are trying to find a good job*
"What about this one?" Mai asks, holding up another job request.
We've gone through almost all of the jobs on the board and none of them seemed very interesting.
"There's an incantation on the front," Gray points out.
"Really?" Says Mai, turning the request around. "It says 'Tu tam stultus est. Cur legat carmina voce an unknown? Poenam, iam turn in anatis. XXIV horas et esto sicut enim aliquis quomodo figurat maledictio converterent.'"
Shortly afterward, Mai starts to shrink and becomes yellow.
She's turned into a duck.
"Mai! Are you okay?" Gray asks, getting on his knees to pick her up.
"Does it look like I'm okay?" Mai exclaims, slapping his hand.
I laugh, putting my hand over my mouth.
"You're not helping," Mai says, her 'eyebrows' furrowed.
"I know I'm not," I say, still laughing. I wipe a few tears from my eyes and stand up straight. "I guess we need to fix this now."
"No, I'll just stay a duck forever. No big deal," says duck Mai, attempting to roll her eyes at me. That's what I take it as, seeing as ducks can't make very many facial expressions.
"I can't even tell whether you're being sarcastic or not," I say, trying not to burst out laughing again. If this was a regular duck I wouldn't be laughing, but since it's Mai it's hilarious.
"I think the real question here is, why would you read an unknown incantation?!" Lucy yells, trying to figure out what the message meant.
"I'm not helping her," Natsu says, pointing at Mai.
"Why not?" Mai asks, looking offended or as offended as a duck can look.
"Everyone thought we were siblings," Natsu says, matter-of-factly.
"Like I can help that!" Mai exclaims, flapping her wings.
"After you guys are done arguing, we need to figure this out," Erza says, examining the paper. "And it's just our luck that Levy and Freed are out on jobs."
I take the paper from Erza and examine it. "Well, this looks like this is in Latin, and we don't have any bilingual mages here right now."
"We could just ask the Unknown," Natsu says boredly.
"He'll probably just explode her and say 'problem solved'" I mutter, shaking my head.
"We could wait for Levy and Freed to get back," Wendy suggests timidly.
I consider this but shake my head. "They could take days to get back and, for all we know, Mai might not even have the long."
"What should we do?" Asks Lucy, picking up Mai and putting her on a table so she could keep up with the conversation.
"I think we need someone to decipher this for us," Natsu concludes.
"Figured that out all on your own, did you?" I ask rhetorically.
"But we might not have very long to help her," Erza says, looking at Mai, concern written all over her face.
Are they just repeating what we established earlier in the conversation?
Everyone starts bursting out ideas and before long the sun starts to set.
"Okay!" I yell over everyone else. "I think Mai has at least until tomorrow, so can we leave this for tonight?"
"Who's she going to stay with?" Gray asks after a while of silence.
"Why doesn't she stay with you?" I ask, a smirk playing at the corners of my mouth.
Mai glared at me while Gray turned slightly pink.
"I'm joking, joking," I say as Juvia turns to stare at me from across the guild.
"I don't have much room in my apartment," Erza says, trying to make the conversation light again.
"I-I don't either," Wendy says, smiling apologetically.
"It would be indecent for a girl to room with a guy," Lucy says.
"Doesn't like half the guild stay in your room?" I retort.
"But Mai is in such a vulnerable form," Lucy argues.
"She should room with you," Erza says.
"I don't want to room with her!" Mai and I yell at the same time.
In about half an hours' time, Mai and I are headed towards my house.
Without a word to each other, we enter and I give Mai the bed while I lay a bed sheet on the floor and take a pillow. I change into my pajamas and brush my teeth. Mai somehow gets on the bed and (although it's weird) I tuck her in. I turn out the lights.
I fall asleep and when I wake up Mai's not there. I get changed and brush my teeth and head towards the guild. Mai is sitting at a table, with Gray, Natsu, Erza, Lucy, and Wendy.
I sit down next to Erza. "Did anyone figure out how to undo this," I say, gesturing to Mai.
Mai rolls her eyes at me and shakes her head.
"I see," I say, looking out the doors, hoping to see someone walk in through the doors.
After about an hour, once I've about given up, something starts to happen.
Mai starts to transform again. Thinking it's going to be another animal, I start edging off the seat, but she turns back into herself.
"Mai!" Erza exclaims. "Are you okay?"
Mai nods, examining her body.
"What happened?" She asks.
"Maybe one of our spells worked?" Lucy asks, doubtfully.
"Maybe, but on the bright side, I'm back!" Mai says, cheerfully.
I get up and head towards the request board. I take the request, crumple it up, and throw it out.
I guess I shouldn't play another prank like that for a while….
I've waited so long to write the last scenario. I don't know when this will be up, but I'm sorry if it's up late. I finished reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and literally just cried my eyes out, because of Sirius. I know that Sirius is going to die, but he's so nice to Harry and acts like the father Harry never had. I didn't really feel like writing anymore after that so I'm not sure when this will be up. Anyways, I'll see you guys next time! Bye!