Author's Notes: I'm so sorry that took me so long to write this chapter but I sorta lost sight of it for a bit. Here it is your long awaited chapter I hope that you guys enjoy. I still don't own Fairy tail. Also Misery Business belongs to Paramore and One way Love belongs to Allison Weiss.

Chapter Seventeen

Surprise

Natsu's POV:

As soon as we rushed out of the bar through the back so that we could avoid the mass pile up at the front door I yelled over my shoulder to Gajeel,

"Call Levy and have her meet us at the stage since all of our equipment is still in the van." I turned to look at him since he didn't say anything only to see him staring at me with wide eyes, "What?" He just shook his head as he pulled his phone out of his pocket and said,

"Nothing, just didn't expect such a good idea from you." I glared at him as he punched in the blue haired girl's number as I said,

"Go to hell metal breath." Gajeel just waved me off as he talked to Levy, which really just made me want to hit him, but before I could move closer I felt a hand on my arm that pulled me away as we ran. That's when I heard Lucy say,

"Run now, punch later." I smiled at her and thought for the millionth time that I was the luckiest guy in the world to be able to call her my girlfriend.

All of the sudden I looked over and saw that Gajeel was now running ahead of us as he called back,

"Shrimp is on her way there, I'm going on ahead to help her." I just gaped at the back of his head as he ran away. I was completely dumbstruck, Gajeel didn't help, not willingly anyway.

Lucy's POV:

It seemed that whatever could go wrong did go wrong as we were setting everything up. As soon as we started unloading the equipment Gray noticed that one of the strings on his guitar was broken and quickly began to fix it, which left us a little short handed when we started to set up. Then as we were trying to do a hasty sound check we discovered that one of the amps wasn't getting juice. Which Natsu somehow patched, but at the cost of being mildly electrocuted, and he was currently waiting for the feeling to return to his left hand.

I was so nervous I began to pace around the now set up stage as I looked over to Gray who was trying to tune his guitar as fast as he could. I then sighed as I looked to the giant red numbers that were counting down to show time. We only had five minutes left and I chanced a look over at the other stages. They all seemed to be faring a lot better than we were, hell the only thing the lead singer of Sabertooth seemed to be doing was bark orders at her fellow band mates as she stood in the middle of the stage. Just when I was about to make another lap around our stage I felt a hand on my shoulder. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding as warm hands and strong arms pulled my back against his chest. Natsu then whispered into my hair,

"Luce, we are going to do fine and you are going to be amazing just like you always are. Relax, please your pacing is starting to make me motion sick." I closed my eyes and turned to face him as I wrapped my arms around his neck and asked,

"How is your hand?" He smiled that fake smile of his right before he said,

"It's fine." I glared at him as I said,

"You are lying." He sighed as he pulled me closer and said,

"I'll be fine. I'll figure something out." I just nodded and leaned my head against his chest as a voice began to speak over the intercom,

"Hello I'm so glad to see that you all are all set up with time to spare. It is that time that I am giving you to pick you most popular song that is based on love. You have three minutes, decide carefully." With that the voice cut out and we were left in silence. I looked up at Natsu when he tugged at a strand of my hair to see that he had a smile that matched my own as he said,

"Oh we've got this."

Natsu's POV:

It was decided that the bands would perform in order of when we arrived in the city which meant that Sabertooth would play first, then Lamia Scale, Mermaid Heel, Blue Pegasus, Quatro Puppy and then us. It also turned out that this little impromptu show had nothing to do with the actual competition and was simple a surprise to get to know the other bands before everything really started. We all had to stand in the middle of our designated stages while the other bands performed, because it would be unfair if we had more time to prepare then another band did.

So there we all were as we stood and watched as the spot light came on over Sabertooth's stage and their guitarist began to play. They were completely in sync with each other from the moment that the first note sounded, and just as I was getting caught up in the music Minerva began to sing as she walked around the stage,

"I'm in the business of misery; let's take it from the top. She's got a body like an hourglass; it's ticking like a clock. It's a matter of time before we all run out; when I thought he was mine she caught him by the mouth. I waited eight long months, she finally set him free. I told him I couldn't lie he was the only one for me. Two weeks we caught on fire, she's got it out for me, but I wear the biggest smile." The guitarists then picked up their pace and the effect of the two of them together was striking then as the bass of the drum kicked in and Minerva continued as she began to dance around, "Whoa, I never meant to brag. But I got him where I want him now. Whoa, it was never my intention to brag. To steal it all away from you now. But God does it feel so good, 'Cause I got him where I want him now. And if you could then you know you would. 'Cause God it just feels so... It just feels so good." She then began to pace around the dueling guitarist as she sang in a low voice, "Second chances they don't ever matter, people never change. Once a whore you're nothing more, I'm sorry, that'll never change. And about forgiveness, we're both supposed to have exchanged. I'm sorry honey, but I passed it up, now look this way. Well there's a million other girls who do it just like you. Looking as innocent as possible to get to who, they want and what they like, it's easy if you do it right." Her voice then rose as she yelled, "Well I refuse, I refuse, I refuse!"

I ran my fingers through my hair as I watched her dance around on their stage and I thought for the first time since we started all this that we really might not win, I know I mentioned it to Lucy when we started all this, but I don't think I ever really believed it until I watched the girl with the cruel smile on her lips strut her stuff on that stage.

Lucy's POV:

We watched all of the other bands perform their version of a love song and although some of them might have been stretching the term love in one way or another they were all amazing. Now we were up and I felt my heart in my chest as I hoped that we could really pull this off. I stepped closer to the mike and let out a deep breath as I heard Gajeel begin to pound out the beat and then Natsu and Gray joining him then as I heard Erza chime in I began to sing,

"I want a one way love. Not all this round trip stuff. I wanna laugh till we cry. I wanna hold on till we die. I want a one way love. I want a one way love. The kind that won't give up. I want to hope, one trust one need, one lust. Yeah, I want a one way love." I then pulled the mike out of the stand and as I continued, "Yeaaaaaahhhhh. I want a one way love. Yeaaaaahhhh. One way love." I then began to dance around the stage making sure to stand in front of Gray who had at some point lost his shirt as I sang to him, "I want a one way love, the kind that gets back up, I wanna stand by your side I wanna fight to survive. Oh I want a one way love." I then moved closer to Natsu and pulled his scarf off and wrapped it around my neck as I sang to him, "I want a one way love. That sticks it out when times are tough. Yeah me and you'd make it through, through; through I want a one way love." I was then dancing again as I winked at Natsu who rolled his eyes at me with a smirk, "Yeaaaaaahhhhh, I want a one way love. Yeaaaaahhhh, one way love. Yeaaaaahhhh, one way love." I was then placing the mike back in its stand as I continued, "Everybody leaves, and everybody needs. Space and time and room to breathe. All I ever wanted was a reason to believe, is that so much to ask? The right goes wrong, and life goes on. And I still sing the same old song. Someone tell me something's gonna last. I want a one way love. The kind that won't give up. I want to hope, one trust one need, one lust. Yeah, I want a one way love." I cupped the mike with my hands, "Yeaaaaaahhhhh, I want a one way love. Yeaaaaahhhh, one way love. Yeaaaaaahhhh, one way love. Yeaaaaaahhh, one way love."

As I sang the last note I was practically gasping for air as I looked over at the other bands to gage their reactions to us and I saw a lot of them looked surprised by how good we were, even when Gray's guitar was slightly out of tune and Natsu had a numb hand those boy's sure knew how to play with what they had. I then looked over to Sabertooth's stage to see Minerva glaring at me. I gulped loudly, I guess she really didn't expect us to be any sort of competition and she had been wrong. I just smiled sweetly at her which caused her to stomp her foot and storm off stage.

To be continued… wow that took way longer than I thought to write. Let me know what you think.