Lucy woke up in a sweat, nightmares of the Tower of heaven exploding with her still in it, causing her to lose her mate and all her friends were going through her head.
"I can't sleep Plue, what do I do?" Lucy whined.
"Puuun, pun" the little dog spirit said.
Lucy and the little dog spirit stared at each other in silence before Lucy busted out laughing.
"Pfft, why didn't I think of that", her mood doing an entire 180 after hearing the little spirits idea.
A few minutes later and Lucy was walking beside Plue at the dawn of night to Fairy Hills in her signature cloak and Plue themed pajamas.
"I can't believe I didn't think to bunk with my mate. I mean we're practically mated, right Plue?" Lucy asked.
Plue nodded his head in agreement with his master, receiving a toothy grin in return.
"Nooo, what are you doing Plue! Why is he encouraging her stupidity!" Aquarius yelled.
Loke ignored the mermaid yelling at the spirit mirror to continue laughing on the ground thoroughly enjoying how the small spirit was being quite possibly the worst wingman ever to their master.
"This is gonna end up horrible" Loke laughed.
Walking the long path to their destination Lucy had Plue check off her courting ritual tasks as she counted them off.
"I mean when I compli-complan- say nice things to her she always turns red, so that's gotta mean something right Plue?"
"Puuun!"
"Yeah, totally. And plus, she always lets me hold her."
"Pun, pun" the spirit checked off from his notepad.
"And when I kissed her, she totally kissed back" Lucy said smiling goofily.
"Puuun, pun, pun!" the little dog spirit did a little dance in celebration, which Lucy appreciated.
"Well yeah, she did punch me, but she said that's her way of saying she loves me" Lucy countered.
"Pun" the spirit nodded.
"Yeah, so now I need to mark my territory at her place, then all we'll need to do is mark each other!" she fists pumped.
"Pun pun pun!" Plue copied.
As the two neared Fairy Hills Lucy easily caught her mate's scent, hmm strawberry's, making their search for Erza's room easier.
"She's in the top floor. Third room to the left" Lucy relayed to her spirit, "Oh and Levy is right next to her."
"Pun, Pun?"
Lucy shrugged at the spirit, not having gotten that far in her planning. "Well, I guess the best way to go about this is to just do as Luce said and break in."
"He said don't break in!" Aquarius yelled, slapping Loke for laughing at their master's stupidity.
Slowly opening Erza's window Lucy slipped into the room undetected.
"Ninja power" Lucy whispered.
Venturing further in her mate's apartment, Lucy saw that she was already asleep, so being the thoughtful mate Luce taught her to be she carefully tossed her shoes off, and carefully climbed into bed Erza without waking her up.
"Night Plue" Lucy whispered as the spirit disappeared into the spirit world where he would get scolded by Aquarius for encouraging Lucy's behavior.
Once comfortable Lucy scooted closer to Erza until she had the scarlet haired mage in her arms, as if I, the daughter of Lucifer would ever be the little spoon.
"Good night mate" Lucy whispered, nuzzling her face into her Erza's neck taking in her intoxicating scent which lulled her to sleep.
"G'night dumb demon" Erza mumbled, a small smile appearing on her face before she fell back to sleep.
Erza Scarlet, S-class mage of Fairy Tail had only one place which she could call her sanctuary. The guild as much as she loved to call it home was rowdy and always called for her attention whether it be stopping fights or causing them her attention was needed there. When on missions she was required to be at her best. It only made sense that her only moment of peace was at home which was few and far in between the constant missions she took.
She thinks about this as she wakes up with the oddest sensation that something is off. For one she doesn't remember turning on the heater, and two there seems to be a heavy weight on her stomach which she can't figure out why.
Figuring the only way she'll be able to get answers is to wake up, Erza cracks opens her eyes, her blood draining from her face. Currently splayed across her bed hugging her was the bane of her existence since their arrival at Fairy Tail . Lucy.
Now Erza is usually very rational about things but seeing as this wasn't something, nay anything, she was used to, it was only normal that her reaction to this was to scream aloud while punching the perpetrator in the face sending them crashing into the wall.
After a few moments of no movements she realizes she may have gone over board and killed Lucy, until she hears her speak. Next time I'll try harder.
"Ow mate, what was that foooor?" Lucy yawned, as she pries herself off the wall and brushes her cloak clean of any plaster.
Erza rolled her eyes at the mage before answering, "You wake up spooning someone you didn't invite in bed and see if you don't react how I did."
"I have." Lucy said nonchalantly as she stretched, joints popping.
Erza refrained from smacking the girl right then and there. "Fine, but that's not the point-wait a moment...who was this?"
"Oh, Well Natsu of course! We sleep at each other places all the time, it's like impromptu slumber parties. Sometimes he sneaks into my bed to sleep or I show up to his house and sleep in his hammock. But mostly my place, last time we shared his hammock it broke because of our weight" she said with an innocent smile.
Erza slapped her face, sweat dropping at her friends answer. I should've expected that. Two slayer peas in a pod.
"Fine, but that doesn't mean you can invade my privacy and sneak into my room!"
"M'sorry…I just had a bad dream about you still being in the tower of heaven when it exploded and needed to make sure you were still here."
Erza stared at the other girl and saw how vulnerable she looked in that moment. Seeing this side of Lucy was a shock for the S-class mage, having never seen her look so sad in all the time Lucy's been at Fairy Tail. It tore the s-class mage up now that she knew the reason for Lucy sleeping in her bed.
It still doesn't excuse her breaking in and spooning me.
"Lucy" Erza sighed.
"Mate?" Lucy answered mindlessly while she continued to stare around the apartment going back to laying on Erza's bed. Her show of vulnerability now gone, in replace the dopey oblivious blonde.
"I will allow you this one pass. But unless invited, you will not enter my room without permission, understand."
"But you break into my place all the time?" Lucy said curiously.
"Yes, but-well that's different." Erza stuttered.
"How?"
"It just is!"
"I think if you can break into my place, I should be able to break into your place" Lucy said eyebrows furrowed.
"We are not negotiating about breaking into each other houses!"
"But we're mates."
"Yes, but- I mean no we're not, I mean..." pinching the brim of her nose Erza sighs, letting her shoulders sag. "That's irrelevant to the topic-
"No, it's pretty elephant if you ask me" Lucy frowned.
Erza couldn't help the lip twitch at that moment, hearing this high-powered wizard constantly screw up words was too much for her.
"Fine, whatever you can break into my home, But only if you give me a heads up!"
"Got it, mate!"
"Now that we've got that over with, I'm going to go change. When I come out please be gone."
"Whatever you say mate!" Lucy repeated, before getting a mischievous look in her eye slightly worrying Erza. Without any warning Lucy pulled the scarlet haired mage in for a crushing hug, nuzzling her face in the older woman's neck, taking in the other woman's scent.
"Can I get a kiss for the road mate?" Lucy mumbled.
Erza looked at the blonde who was still hugging her and rolled her eyes.
"You're leaving my apartment not the guild. I'll see you in twenty minutes" Erza scoffed.
Lucy looked at Erza with a small pout hoping she would change her mind. While traveling with Luce as a child she was always told that her pout held power, time to see if that holds true.
Erza could only stare at Lucy for a few seconds before she broke. Baffled by the fact such a strong hardened mage could overpower her with such an adorable pout was confusing and frightening. She has an array of arsenal at her disposal, truly I am outmatched.
"I really hate you, I hope you know that" Erza grumbled before grabbing the sides of Lucy's face and connected their lips together.
"thas oshkay" Lucy mumbled, deepening the kiss she wrapped her arms around Erza pulling her closer.
They stayed like this for a while, to the surprise of Lucy who was honestly expecting to get punched instead of a kiss. When it came time for the two to breath, Lucy was noticeably happier and grinning goofily, while Erza's cheeks were tinged pink. Before Lucy could say how great of a kisser her mate was Erza spoke.
"Tell anyone I kissed you and you can forget about courting me." Erza grumbled halfheartedly as she let her forehead touch Lucy's who still held a goofy grin. Even as she said it though, she knew her words held no truth to them.
"Got it!" Lucy said with a dopey smile practically teleporting away, leaving a speechless Erza standing in the middle of her apartment.
"Stupid demon."
Twenty minutes later and a freshly showered Erza.
"Jeez mate, you take a long time to bathe."
"Ahh, I thought I told you to leave!" Erza yells, punching Lucy into the ground.
"mmmpmppmpm" Lucy mumbles, unable to speak clearly with her face planted in the carpet floor. Looking to where Lucy was shakily pointing to, Erza turns, eyes widening when she sees a full course breakfast waiting for her in the kitchen.
Rubbing her face Erza looks to the downed blonde who had chosen, instead of getting up like a normal person, to turn over and smile up at her mate waiting for her reaction to the breakfast she brought. Feeling a bit of guilt, Erza decides to make it up to the dopey girl with a question she already knows the answer to.
"Would you like to have breakfast with me."
"Would I!" In the blink of an eye Lucy is up from her spot sitting at Erza's small kitchen table waiting for her to come and join her. Waving exuberantly towards the other Lucy hurriedly calls for Erza so they can begin to eat.
"Come on mate, the food's gonna get cold."
Erza, still trying to get over how fast Lucy got to her table mere seconds after getting pounded to the floor, just shakes her head and walks over to seat herself. As she watched Lucy serve them, she looked over the breakfast foods, surprised to see an array of foods for her. Just the smell of it was causing her to salivate.
"Lucifer told me that the way to a mate's heart is food ya know" Lucy smirked, her inner demon roaring in approval at the sight of her mate looking happy at the food.
Thirty minutes later when both have finished eating, Erza lets out a sigh in content with her stomach full, barely remembering who she just had shared such a delicious breakfast with. Face palming, she looks to see the blonde slayer already asleep snoring.
"WH-what the, she just got up, how is she sleeping already?" Erza whispers to herself.
"I can answer that" a voice says from her side, scaring the S-class mage.
"Ahh!"
Aquarius glares at the girl to shut up so as not to wake up Lucy, then begins to explain.
"She gets it from her dumb demon". Looking fondly at the woman drooling while asleep, she continues, "It's an unfortunate habit she never broke, even while we were in Alvarez" she chuckled.
"What do you mean?"
"If she eats a lot right after she's just woken up then she automatically falls back asleep," chuckling softly at the sight, "Don't expect her to wake up anytime soon." Aquarius says.
"Wait what do I do with her until then?"
"Let her sleep."
Looking once more at the sound asleep blonde she made up her mind and went to lift Lucy to put her in bed to finish sleeping, only for her to fall.
"With the hell do you eat Lucy, you weigh a ton!"
Meanwhile at the guild, brawls were occurring, drinks were pouring, and conversations were going. It was an average day, according to everyone, but one bookworm who felt a presence missing from the guild. In fact, the person missing was someone who was usually so hard to miss that she couldn't believe she barely noticed until now that she wasn't here.
"Hey guys, we're missing someone" Levy pointed out.
"Oh, who would that be" Mira asked as she served drinks.
"Who else, Lucy" Levy said with a smile.
Suddenly all chatter in the guild stopped, guild brawls that were occurring were put on pause, everyone's attention going to the small mage.
"Oh, my. How did I not notice the guild doors not broken yet, or Lucy trying to claim Erza?"
"Huh, yeah, felt like something was off. Guess it was not hearing Lucy argue with Levy that semantles is a word" Gray said, sipping his beer with a frown.
"It's not, how many times do I have to tell her" she yelled, Cana rubbing her back to calm her down.
"Well, I checked Lucy's place for her, but she wasn't there, even though her bed showed signs of use" Natsu said.
One by one those in the guild began to come up with different theories of what could have happened to the dopey girl. By now she would've have banged the guild doors open and announced her love for Erza. Or at least chosen a quest to go on with Natsu.
"I know this is a long shot, but maybe Erza would know where she is?" Cana said, wincing when the guild erupted in laughter.
"Good one Cana, like Erza would actually pay attention to Lucy" Macao chuckled.
"Or know where she is!" Max laughed.
The guilds laughter dying down at the feeling of a deadly aura surrounding them. Turning around they see their topic of conversation glaring at them causing many to run away towards the farthest part of the guild.
"I'll have you know that I do pay attention to my teammates, so I do happen to know where Lucy is" she said.
Everyone going silent at her words. "Uh, right, sorry Erza. We meant no offense to you" Max and the others said.
"I'm sure." Erza said walking up to Mira and requesting her usual strawberry cake.
"So Erza, you said you know where Lucy is" Alzack said.
"I did."
"Well, where is she?"
"That is none of your concern", Erza quickly said, turning to her cake with cheeks tinged pink.
Everyone turned to each other then back to Erza eyeing the s-class mage weirdly. Any other day they would drop the subject but the way she was acting was a bit odd even for her standards.
"Well, technically she's our team mate so it kinda is" Gray said with his arms crossed.
"She is fine, she is merely- Natsu what are you doing?" Erza asked, as Natsu began to sniff her body.
"Your scent. It's off" he said rubbing his chin.
"Wh-what are you talking about?" Erza stuttered red faced.
"Well you have your scent on you, but then you have another scent on you. It's familiar but I can't identify it" Natsu said.
Erza's face dropped as Natsu revealed his findings to everyone, growing more nervous at the fact Natsu knew that she was around another person. However she was almost positive he knew it was Lucy's but was being polite by not addressing it.
"Holy crap, that's Lucy's scent on you!" Natsu yelled, causing the guild to go in an uproar.
Why did I ever think Natsu would be nice enough to hold back information that would embarrass me?
"Oh my, Erza did you let Lucy claim you?" Mira asked red faced.
Gasps were heard all around at Mira's accusation, everyone assuming the same thing now that Natsu had announced that Erza had the blondes' scent on her. Erza having not yet spoken about the fact only spurred many of the guild members to let their thoughts run wild. Erza couldn't help but want to slap Mira and Natsu for causing such drama.
"Why didn't I just stay in bed…oh right Lucy's there."
"Well Erza, my dear. Did you let Lucy claim you?" Makarov asked with a huge grin.
Erza understanding that no one was going to leave her alone until she answered shook her head. "No, I did not. Nor did we mate or do any other weird thing slayers do" she growled, holding back the urge to pull her hair.
Everyone looked to Natsu for confirmation.
"She's telling the truth." Natsu said frowning, still curious as to why his friend smelled like his best friend.
"Still playing hard to get, eh Erza" Cana slurred.
"That's alright, Lucy seems to be in for the long haul" Macao cackled. The guild joining in on the fun soon after.
"I never even asked to participate" Erza mumbled.
"I still don't get why Lucy's scent is all over you if she didn't claim you?"
"Probably because she slept in my bed last night and then hugged me before going to get us breakfast" she drawled, facepalming when she realized just how much she revealed.
"Ooooooh, Erza let Lucy sleep in her bed" someone sung.
"No. I didn't actually. The dumb demon broke into my room and hopped into my bed after having a bad dream. She then brought breakfast because and I quote "Lucifer said the way to a mate's heart is through food"" Erza recited in her best Lucy's voice.
"Aww, that's so sweet. Who knew someone who makes up words daily could be so romantic" Levy cooed.
"Man, I gotta get some tips from Lucy on how to get a girl."
"Same!"
"Me too"
"If she can win over Erza, then she's gotta be doing something right!"
Slowly all the men in Fairy Tail began to talk about Lucy's skills to romance the Erza Scarlet much to Erza's ire. But since she couldn't refute their words they continued to speak freely.
"Dumb demon" Erza mumbled as she ate a piece of cake.
"Hey Erza, got any idea when Lucy's gonna come to the guild today I got this cool mission I wanna do with her!" Natsu said excitedly.
Erza chuckled before answering. "Actually, from what her spirit told me she won't be coming until tomorrow."
"What the heck why?"
"She exerted all her energy getting up. Right after she ate such a big breakfast, she fell right back to sleep. Caught the habit from her demon apparently" Erza shrugged.
The entire guild went quiet at Erza's explanation then began to burst into laughter.
"Man, our strongest guild member sure is lazy!"
"No kidding, she barely gets up then has to go back to bed!"
"Luce is one of a kind" Natsu said with a smile.
"Wait, so does that mean you left her at your apartment" Cana smirking.
Erza sighed having known someone would ask this question. "Yes, I did, I had nowhere else to take her."
"Uh, what about her place?" Gray asked.
"Are you kidding me, have you even tried carrying Lucy, she weighs a ton" Erza said incredulous.
"Oh, come on. She looks like a toothpick, she can't weigh that much?" Macao said.
"You've obviously never tried picking up the celestial mage."
"Erza's right. Lucy's pretty heavy for someone who looks so light. Happy could barely carry her" Natsu said with a goofy grin.
"What the heck?" the entire guild thought.
"Man, that was a great sleep" Lucy said tiredly. After Erza had left Lucy had continued to sleep until finally gaining enough energy to get up and move to her own apartment. Once she had gathered her cloak and shoes, she jumped out of Erza's window and headed home, oblivious to the horrified faces of Levy and Laki after having seen a person fall from the top floor of their building. Immediately going straight to her apartment to sleep, Lucy washed up then brushed her teeth, before climbing into her bed. However as soon as she got into bed, she felt a body right beside her.
Lucy smiled at the sight of Natsu and Happy already asleep, " Sleepover!"
"Hey Lushie, we've been waiting for you, but you took too long to show up, so we went ahead and got into bed." Happy yawned rubbing his eyes.
"Sorry about that Happy, I was napping at Erza's. So, guess tonight's sleepover is at my place?" Lucy smiled.
"Yup!" Happy smiled.
"Awesome! Let me get my pajamas so I can get to bed. I'm still pretty tired".
"Aye sir," Happy agreed, before heading back to bed.
She then yawned as she padded back into the room changed, " Goodnight Happy."
"Night Lushie." Happy smiled plopping down on the pillow while the blonde lay down next to Natsu who then took hold of Lucy's wrist pulling her into him.
"Night Lucy."
"Night Natsu."
Morning
There were people bustling around excited for Magnolia Harvest, as were some of the other guild members. Decorations hung everywhere and the children around the area were eager for festivities to start.
Erza sighed as she walked with Lucy hanging off her who kept whining about wanting some food, "Food…" she groaned.
"Pun!" Plue said.
"Hungry…mate feed me." Lucy kept groaning.
"You're an adult you can feed yourself" Erza ordered.
"But you're my mate! And mates feed each other! I didn't even have a mate back in Alvarez and people fed me!"
"Well la-dee-da that was then, and this is now" Erza said while she held Lucy by her collar then pushing her away and walking off.
Lucy pouted before walking off in search of someone who would feed her.
Gray watched them part ways with a sigh, Natsu, Happy and Juvia joining him, "Why do I feel like Lucy's going to do something extremely stupid causing Erza to get extremely jealous?"
"Because Lucy's' gonna and Erza will" Natsu answered.
"That's reassuring." Gray told them.
"How long have I been gone for Erza to have someone making her jealous?" a man chuckled from behind them.
"Hey, Warren, it's been awhile!" Gray greeted.
"Didn't think I'd make it back in time for the festival but here I am." he smiled. "Now back to my main question, how long have I been gone that Erza has someone making her jealous?"
Gray laughed, "Long enough, I'll tell you that much."
Juvia bowed wanting to meet her love's friends, "Hello I'm new to Fairy Tail. My names Juvia."
"Ah! So, you're the one I've been hearing about." Warren smiled.
"Meet Warren Rocko," Gray introduced, "He's a master of telepathy magic."
"It's nice to meet ya." Warren greeted.
"Thank you, the pleasures, all mine." Juvia smiled then looked around, "This festival is quite a sight."
"Shyeah, festive isn't?" Lucy said reappearing, munching on food she suddenly had in hand.
"Well yeah, it's a pretty big deal; people come all around to see the Fantasia Parade." Warren told them.
"Cool! Can't wait until I watch it up close" Lucy said excitedly.
"Lucy, you're in the parade remember?" Gray reminded.
She looked at Gray for a few minutes, "I am?"
Gray and Warren looked at the Demon slayer/ Celestial Mage.
"Uh, yeah remember you and Master spoke about it, but you said you'd only be on one if Erza was on it too" Gray chuckled.
"Oh! Yeah now I remember. No, I don't" Lucy said.
"Look don't worry about it until later" Gray sighed. "What about the beauty pageant are you entering that?"
"A contest, against love rival! Then I must enter it and win!" Juvia said butting in.
Gray sweat-dropped, "Lucy didn't even say if she would be in it."
Lucy nodded, "He's right, I'm not gonna be in it. I'm gonna be in the front rows cheering my mate on so she can beat you!"
"Ha, can't say I didn't expect that!" Natsu said laughing.
"That's right, whenever there's a competition Erza get's this weird glint in her eyes and becomes super competitive. Of course, she ends up winning every year."
"No surprise. My mate would be the best at everything" Lucy said puffing her chest out.
"Yeah, okay. Anyway, where did you get that food?" Gray asked wanting some of the delicious smelling meat.
"That pretty woman over there", Lucy pointed to a stall where a pretty brunette was indeed standing and waving in their direction, "gave it to me after I said my mate wouldn't feed me. Then she said give her a call if things don't work out between me and mate." Lucy said still eating.
Gray stared at the blonde mage in disbelief, only she could convince someone to give her free food, pinching the brim of his nose he pushed the worrisome thoughts of Erza finding out someone hit on Lucy while she was away.
Meanwhile Natsu, Happy and Juvia stared at Lucy for what seemed like forever until Lucy began to sweat under their stares.
"What?"
"Nothing, nothing. Just, uh, keep that part about the pretty woman giving you free food to yourself yeah?" Gray said, continuing his walk to the guild.
"Ok, I guess" Lucy shrugged, unsure why anyone would care she got free food.
Fairy Tail Guild Miss Fairy Tail Contest
"The long wait is finally over ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to the one and only Miss Fairy Tail contest where your favorite fairies fight for the battle of beauty! I'm Max Alors Sand Wizard extraordinaire and I'll be your host for this exciting event!" Max yelled into the microphone hyping the crowed up.
Gray looked to his right, "Hey where's Lucy, she was literally right next to you a minute ago. How did she move without us seeing her move?" he asked directing his gaze towards Natsu.
Happy looked around confused, "Lucy's like a ninja. She can disappear and reappear whenever she wants without anyone noticing."
Natsu snickered adding, "Yeah, she'll probably show up later though."
"If that's true then Lucy's gonna miss out on Erza compete, and I have the weirdest feeling Erza's gonna feel insulted" Gray mused.
"Nah, Erza won't care. She doesn't even want Lucy as a mate remember" Elfman replied back.
Gray sweat-dropped, "Uh, yeah sure she doesn't."
Memories of Erza becoming jealous whenever Lucy looked at another woman or spoke of her past sexual encounters, causing Gray to snicker.
"Yeah, doesn't want Lucy my ass."
"Now let's meet entry number one! The exotic beauty who'll drink you under the table any other day of the week! Cana Alberona!" Max introduced.
Cana appeared on stage wearing her blue bra and brown pants. The crowd cheered for the card mage as she took the stage.
This is my year.
"Now bust out some magic and show us your stuff!" Max told her.
Cana lifted a few cards from her hand, spreading them out around her making the crowed excited. Golden lights surrounded her blinding the crowd drawing oohs, and ahhs from the crowd.
"What could she be doing behind all those cards?!" Max wondered.
When the light died down and the card mage was finally visible, they saw her changed into a swimsuit making the male crowed go wild.
"She changed into a swim suit, amazing!" Max announced.
Cana gave them a seductive look, "The prize money can cover my tab."
Erza appeared behind the curtain, "That's a clever idea, maybe I should do the same?"
"Oh? Wanna show off your body to your mate, Erza? Levy and Bisca giggled.
Erza blushed, "No, I do not and beside she's already seen me naked so even if I did, it wouldn't matter since she's seen me and said I have a great body."
Levy and Bisca gawked at the S-class mage speechless. They were joking about their friend wanting to show off her body to demon slayer of Fairy Tail but after hearing Erza now they couldn't help but want to tease her relentlessly about her possibly recuperating feelings.
Erza aware of what she had just revealed tried to back track once she saw how her two friends were looking at her. Their faces turning from shocked to mischievous.
"No, look, nothing came of it, and I have no-
"So, you let Lucy look at you naked, huh Erza" Levy teased.
"Guess things are getting pretty serious after all" Bisca added.
"I will kill you when you least expect it" Erza growled.
"Sure, sure" the two mages laughed while walking away.
"On to entry number 2! She's new to the guild, but her magic is S-Class! A radiant beauty in rain or shine! Juvia Lockser!"
Juvia smiled at the crowed as they cheered for her, 'Please…let these feelings reach you my beloved prince!' her arms became water wings transforming into a purple swim suit with white polka dots on them.
"And the lovely ladies all set for a fabulous day at the beach!" Max said.
"Look at me Gray!" Juvia's eyes sparkled, "Do you like what you see?"
"Is everyone going to do swimsuits?" Bisca said.
Erza nodded her head.
"Next up is entry number 3! Fairy Tail's famous centerfold! Her beauty has stolen hearts of men and women all over the land!" Max moved out of the way to show Mira,
"Mirajane!"
Mira smiled and waved to the crowed making them cheer loudly for her.
"Now show us your stuff!" Max said.
"My specialty is Transformation Magic, so I'll show you a new side of me." He moved her hands in front of her face and transformed, "This is my Happy face, aye!" the crowed couldn't help but fall over in their chairs even Max's jaw dropped. She transformed again, "Here's my Gajeel face. Cool huh?"
Gajeel spit out his drink.
Happy laughed his butt off at Gajeel's expense.
Gray looked at the cat, "Well at least someone's enjoying this."
"She's a man…?" Elfman said unsurely.
After that Levi stepped up and showed her Solid Script magic shooting golden glitter around the crowd, followed by Bisca who used her own requip magic known as "The Gunner" making everyone cheer. Laki was next showing off her wood magic while in a bikini.
Gray looked around impressed, "These girls sure are going all out this year."
Elfman nodded, "Yeah, they sure are man!"
"Lastly entry number 7! The Fairy Queen who needs no introduction!" Max said.
Erza got ready, "That's my cue!" she ran out then jumped in the air and landing perfectly in front of the crowd.
Erza looked around for a moment in search of blonde hair hoping her entrance would impress the dumb demon, realizing her thoughts she hurriedly shook them away feeling a shiver run down her spine. "huuuuh. Dumb demon" she mumbled.
A loud laughter erupted from the crowd surprising everyone once they see Natsu and Lucy laughing wiping tears from their face while looking straight at Erza shooting a thumbs up.
They know damn it.
"My mate is thinking of me" Lucy grinned, shaking Natsu wildly.
"Yeah she is!." Natsu laughed while trying to stop his best friend from giving him a concussion.
"Erza Scarlet!" Max finished the introduction. The crowd went wild when the Scarlet haired mage took the stage.
Mira smiled, "Popular as always."
Erza smiled, "Let me show you a requip you don't get to see every day." She started requipping and her wardrobe changed into a gothic Lolita dress.
Levy giggled, "Gothic Lolita, bet Lu-Chan's enjoying that one."
"You can say that again, look outside" Mira pointed out.
All the girls currently behind the current did as Mira said watching as the blonde mage jaw was dropped with wide eyes currently watching as her "mate" posed in front of everyone.
"Yup, Lu-Chan's definitely enjoying the show" Levy laughed, the others joining along.
Erza smirked, "Hmph, looks like I win."
"Never thought I'd see her dress like that." Macao commented.
"Oui…" Reedus nodded.
"Lucy, where the hell have you been!" Natsu whispered, once he regained his bearings from their laughing.
"We, well we didn't go searching for you, but we were wondering where you were?" Happy said.
Lucy rubbed the back of her head in apology, "Sorry. I went to go buy some flowers for my mate for when she wins, but then I realized I didn't have money on me to buy them, so I went out and started picking some. It just took longer than I expected".
Those surrounding Lucy were taking notes of what the blonde was doing, picking flowers for a girl was a definite way to score brownie points they thought.
In that moment though Lucy looked up to the stage to watch her mate continue to pose happy to see how much fun she was having until she smelt an unknown scent appear next to her. The next few minutes of the pageant were as confusing to everyone else as they were to Lucy.
In the middle of Erza's performance, modeling is more like it, a woman with light brown hair wearing glasses, and a green dress with fairy wings on them showed up announcing her appearance.
"Entry number eight! The very definition of fairy, not to mention the very definition of beauty, and the only woman here who embodies everything men desire, the winner of this pageant The Lovely Evergreen!" The Thunder Legion's only woman came out in a long green dress with a burgundy fan covering her chin. "Now let this ridiculous contest end!"
"Evergreen! What are you doing here?" Erza shouted.
"Wow, she's back?" Gray asked.
"Then Laxus must be here too," Elfman stated.
"Didn't think he'd show his face so soon after Lucy trounced him," Natsu commented.
Makarov didn't like this one bit. Something was wrong, very wrong.
"Hey, my mate wasn't done!" Lucy shouted, only to be stopped as Evergreen lifted her spectacle's up letting her eyes glow a pale yellow and in an instant, Erza who was still waiting for Evergreen to answer was turned to stone.
"Now she's done" Evergreen drawled.
Lucy fell back in shock at the current state of her mate. "Erza?" Lucy whispered brokenly.
"ERZA!" Natsu stared.
"What the hell are you doing Evergreen!" Gray shouted.
"I'm making things a bit more interesting" Evergreen laughed, as she pulled the curtains behind her and revealed all the girls who were all stone statues.
Max looked on worried, "This is bad…everyone get out of here! Now!" they didn't need to be told twice because everyone ran for it out of the guild
"Oh, but the fun is just star-ack", before she could finish her sentence a flaming fist met her stomach knocking her back into the guild wall.
"You have 3 seconds to turn my mate and the rest of the girls back or I hurt you beyond repair" Lucy threatened.
Evergreen was terrified of the woman before her. She hadn't heard of anyone with such a magic having joined their guild and although she was following Laxus's orders she didn't want to know what the woman meant by maim.
"One"
Evergreen trembled in fear, still slightly defiant but wavering as she saw the girl get to two and turn up the heat in the guild which began to slowly melt her clothes.
"Who are you?"
"Your worst nightmare. Two." She growled, not skipping a beat.
Elfman looked at the two mages on stage worried, "I think Lucy's gonna kill Evergreen!"
"Well if she does it's her own fault! Loke said to never harm Erza!" Gray responded just as worried, "Why is she even doing this?!"
"Well technically she said she would maim Evergreen" Happy said not really reassuring the two panicking mages.
Evergreen was still frozen in fear as Lucy had just gotten to three. Watching the blonde's movements Evergreen couldn't help but stare frightened as the fist that was alit with golden flames her arm cocked back now heading towards her, the flames burning at an unbearable temperature.
Evergreen waited for the pain to come, until she heard a thunder clap surrounding them practically shaking the entire guild.
Pausing her punch Lucy looked around before she backflipped off the stage missing the lightning which struck the spot she was just occupying.
"Lucy!" Natsu yelled, running to where the girl now stood glaring at the two occupants now on stage.
"You alright Lucy?!" Gray yelled, trying to get where she was through the smoke that appeared from the lightning bolt that struck the stage.
"Dammit! I can't see anything!" Elfman growled, being near the explosion he was practically blinded by all the smoke.
When the smoke cleared it showed Lucy who was bearing her canines at the lightning mage who dared strike at her.
"Nice to see even under the pressure, you're still loyal Ever." Laxus smirked.
"Hmmph, of course I am. I would never bow down to some neanderthal who wears a cloak as part of their attire."
"Hey, this cloak is cool!" Lucy yelled, going to walk up to the two mages only to be held back by Natsu and the others.
Makarov stomped forward extremely pissed off, "What do you think you're doing Laxus?! You'll ruin the festival for everyone!"
"Evergreen got everyone who was in the pageant!" Happy exclaimed next to him.
"Don't be a fool Laxus! Return them to normal this instant!" Makarov ordered.
Laxus grinned, "Nah, I don't think so. I have a better idea. It's just too bad all your fans went home, because the parties about to start."
"I should have known." Makarov muttered.
"Thump"
Gray looked around to see some familiar faces appear, "Freed? Bickslow? You're here too?"
Stepping up from behind the crowd was none other than the resident rune mage and seith mage.
Macao looked at them, "The Thunder Legion."
"What the heck are you guys trying to pull?!" Wakaba demanded.
"Come on, let's have some fun!" Laxus grinned.
Lucy stared at him, "I'm gonna kill you, I hope you know that. Even if it gets me kicked out of this guild, I will kill you and your thunder legion."
Silence rang through the guild as Lucy let her declaration settle through the four mages heads. A shiver went down three of the four mages, the exception being Laxus who continued to think he could overpower Lucy. The others had a slight sheen of sweat on their face as they saw the darkened eyes of the blonde mage.
Natsu tossed an arm around his best friend, "Ah, come on Luce, I like you being in the guild. Can't you at least hurt them instead so you can stay in the guild" he whined.
Lucy's eyes flickered over to Natsu who was pouting at her as well as Happy. "Fine, I won't kill them, I'll just hurt them really bad so I don't get kicked out." She said rolling her eyes.
"Yeah!"
"You are not hurting anyone Lucy, as for you four I've had about enough of your nonsense." Makarov told him, "Turn them back or else!"
"Not likely gramps. See you better play nice if you want these ladies to join the parade," Laxus told him, "In other words I'm taking all of them hostage. Break the rules and I'll shatter these chicks one by one, or I can just smash them all right now."
Lucy prepared herself to attack Laxus until she felt an arm holding her back. Looking at the hand she growls at Gray for stopping her from kicking Laxus's ass.
"Lucy, I get your mad, but look where Laxus is standing", pointing to where Laxus currently stood.
"If you go attack him you could bump into Erza's statue and break her or give Laxus the opportunity to do it if he wanted too, we gotta think this through logically."
"I hate logic" Lucy growled.
"I'm not amused Laxus, stop fooling around!" Makarov warned him.
"I'm serious old man." Laxus told him.
Freed jumped down from his position, "I've always wondered who was the strongest in the guild. Now it's time to find out."
"Are you guys idiots, we already know who's the strongest in the guild!" someone shouted.
"Yeah, Lucy's a fifth wizard saint and already beat Laxus! Obviously, she's the strongest!" Alzack yelled.
"Yeah, so let everyone go. We already have our answer" Gray said.
"Crack!"
"Shut up! That was a fluke alright" Laxus yelled.
Bickslow decided to jump down at that moment to calm his leader down, "Yeah, so let's get on with the game and have some fun."
"Fun! Fun!" His dolls in the background copied.
"There's only one rule, whoever's left standing is the winner." Laxus declared.
"It's a Fairy Tail battle Royal!" he announced.
"Boom" Flames erupted around Lucy as she seethed from having to hear the ridiculous news out of the four mages mouth. Looking to the sound, those still in the guild and the thunder god tribe look to see half the inside of the guild in ashes.
Rage took over Lucy " I DON'T CARE ABOUT ANY OF THIS, I JUST WANT MY MATE BACK!"
"Calm down Lucy." Natsu told grabbed her shoulder calming her down a little, hoping to stop her from burning down the entire guild.
"Uh, yes…Na-naturally if you want me to turn the girls back to normal" Evergreen paused to fan her face, the heat emitting off of Lucy beginning to get to her, "Uh, you- uh you have to defeat us first." Evergreen stuttered, unsure whether this was worth it if she'd have to face Lucy.
"But those odds aren't bad since there's four of us and like a hundred of you guys." Bickslow laughed, trying to ignore the raging blonde being held back by a couple mages in front of him.
"Three hours. After that these pretty statues of yours will be reduced to dust." Evergreen explained, having gain her wits with the help of Freed.
"I'LL KILL YOU IN TWO!" Lucy yelled, barely being constrained by Natsu, Gray, Elfman in beast mode and Master in giant mode.
The three Thunder God Tribe members looked wary for a moment before looking back to their leader who seemed unfazed by the crazed blonde.
"All of Magnolia will serve as the battlefield," Laxus said ignoring the blonde, "The fight will begin when you can find us," Laxus boomed.
"Laxus, how could you?" Makarov asked in outrage growing to a large size with his Titan Magic. "I won't stand for this!"
"Now, now Simmer down old man!" Laxus yelled. "It's all part of the festival, right? It'll be fun! Let the Battle of Fairy Tail begin!"
Before Lucy or anyone else could go after them the four teammates disappeared right before their eyes.
"They're gone." Someone said.
"So, its high stakes hide and go seek, huh?" Macao said.
"Let's go! We gotta man up and save our girls!" Elfman told them all of them running out of the guild.
Lucy walked up to the statue of Erza upset at herself for failing to protect her mate again. Caressing her stone face, Lucy pressed her forehead to the stone statue intent on getting that Evergreen chick and making her turn her Erza back to normal.
As she went to head out, she noticed Makarov's face which looked very weird, in her opinion. Heading over to him she noticed his entire body was shaking and his fists were clenched.
"Hey, uh old man, you alright?"
"Laxus, that insolent brat!" Ignoring Lucy, he ran out after them, "Just wait! I'll stop you with my own two hands!" until invisible force then blocked him.
Gray who had just started heading towards the guild entrance stopped and looked behind him to see what was wrong, "What's going on Gramps?!"
"An invisible wall!" Makarov said trying to push his way through.
Lucy slowly walked up to where the old man was lying on the floor rubbing his nose. Rubbing her chin, she stuck her hand forward, only to also be pushed back.
"What the hell?"
Gray ran back, "Stop joking around Lucy and come on, we gotta kick some ass, you too Gramps!" he picked the old man up and began pulling Lucy towards the entrance only to be halted halfway Lucy and Gramps falling from his arms. "Man what's the deal?!"
Lucy poked his foot from where she lay getting his attention, "Uh, was that always there?" She asked pointing to the floating words above them.
"Yes Lucy, we just never brought it up- No it has not always been there!" Gray yelled exasperated at his teammate. "What the hell is this? There's some type of writing, so runes right gramps?"
"Indeed."
"I could be wrong, but this could be some new defense mechanism that the old man installed but forgot about" Lucy told him, "You know like a rune barrier which won't let certain people in or out unless you follow certain rules."
"Why would I set up runes that would keep me from going out!" Makarov yelled.
"You tell me, you're the master!" Lucy yelled back.
"Why you!"
"Yeah Luce, take gramps down!" Natsu yelled as he rooted for Lucy who was in wrestling match with the master.
"Will you two knock it off and read the runes gramps!" Gray yelled.
Lucy and master immediately stopped their brawl remembering what was currently happening and went back to the originally task at hand, which was trying to figure out why the old man and Lucy couldn't leave the guild.
"Hmm, from what I can read it says, stone statues, anyone over the age of 80 years and... oh no." Makarov sighed.
Lucy and Gray looked to master in confusion, then in worry as they saw him fall to his knees.
"What's going on old man, what else is there?"
"And wizard Saints cannot leave this place my child." Makarov answered in despair. Knowing that the only person who could defeat Laxus, aside from possibly Erza, was also stuck in here was a blow to the gut for the master.
Lucy narrowed her eyes; "The lightning bolt was smart. Guess even though he didn't believe I was a wizard saint he still decided to take no chances. Tsk. Luce would call him a coward and eat him for such a cowardly tactic."
Gray, Natsu and Master looked at Lucy slightly horrified before breaking the silence.
"So, you're really stuck? You can't break through?" Gray asked.
"I'm afraid the rules of the enchantment are absolute, whoever wrote these, most likely Freed, were very effective in keeping Lucy, and I stuck here" Makarov stated with resignation.
"Well…I guess that settles it," Gray turned around, "It looks like I'm gonna have to go in this fight without you and Lucy gramps."
"I'm sorry…" Makarov said.
Lucy's fists lit up, "You know when I was with Lucifer, he taught me a lot of stuff. And one thing was that you shouldn't apologize for other people's insu-inser-their feelings of not being good enough, old man" Makarov stared at Lucy surprised at her words.
"She's right Gramps, Laxus's actions are his own" Gray added, before giving Lucy his attention again when she began to speak.
"Gray even though you're not as strong as me, I think you'll have a good chance against the tribe team" putting her hand on his should to reassure him.
"Happy told me that Becklow guy was a seith mage so you wanna watch out for him. Those mages are tricky to deal with" pausing to think for a moment "The Evergreen chick was weak though, so you'd have a good chance against her. Now the fancy pants guy, since he uses rune magic that'll be a hassle since he'll probably just trap you instead of actually fight you one on one which is a total drag, especially since you wouldn't be able to do anything and you'd be out of the game, so be extra careful around him." She finished with a huge smile.
Gray stared at Lucy for a moment unsure whether he should take her advice or ignore it and leave things to faith. Remembering who the wizard saint was and who wasn't, he nodded his head, leaving the guild and taking all of Lucy's advice to heart.
"Thanks Lucy. and Gramps for the record, I won't show mercy even if Laxus is your grandson, he's gonna pay for this," Gray yelled as he ran off, giving off his own murderous glare.
Lucy continue to stare at the spot Gray had occupied, away from Gramps. Her eyes furrowed together she thought of the events that were occurring, how weak she felt and how disappointed Lucifer would be that she failed to protect her mate. Emitting a growl Lucy clenched her fists and addressed the other occupant in the guild.
"Gramps, do you remember when I first claimed Erza?"
The old man thought back to the moment when one of his children got claimed, the guild going in an uproar over Erza standing speechless for once, and the newest guild member smiling as she placed a bracelet on her left, no right wrist?"
"Who doesn't my child? You made it quite the affair." He chuckled, stopping when he saw Lucy looking at him with a dangerous glint in her eye.
"Then you remember what Loke said would happen to anyone I deemed a threat to my mate, or dared hurt her?" she questioned, waiting for his answer.
The master looked at his child frozen. Aware of the speech Loke had given to everyone he knew the underlying warning she was giving him, Laxus and the Thunder god tribe were in trouble.
Not waiting for an answer Lucy spoke again ignoring the master as he tried to speak up, in defense of his grandson, or not she doesn't know, to be honest, she doesn't really care.
"I'm telling you this because Laxus broke these rules. Now I get the right to fight him along with those three wannabe followers who helped him" pausing for her words to sink in.
"Lucy! I understand that you didn't follow any type of human etiquette while with your demon but here in Fairy Tail things are different!" Makarov yelled, slightly fearful.
"We do not kill just because-
Lucy narrowed her eyes at the old man, "Because what, your friends got turned into stone? Your entire guild is being threatened, and everybody has to fight against one another?"
"You're an idiot of a man, and grandson or not, I will do my best to get revenge on what he's done to Erza and the others. Besides I never said I would kill. I promised my best friend I would only hurt them and that's a promise I intend to keep."
"Yes, my dear, but I'm sure your definition of hurt and my definition are vastly different!" Makarov said slightly sweating.
A devilish grin rose upon Lucy's face scaring the old man, "Are they? I guess we'll just have to wait and find out just how different they are, then."
"Lucy, no one is dismembering anyone today. I'll go out and help with the fighting. I'll even take Gemi-Lucy with me, so we have better odds in case we meet with Laxus" Loke said having just appeared.
"What!" Makarov yelled.
Sighing heavily, Lucy nodded while stomping to the bar for a drink. "Fine, just be careful."
"Am I never?" he joked.
"I mean- "
"Don't answer that"
"Piri, Piri, see ya later miss Lucy" Gemini said floating out of the guild before turning into Gemi-Lucy and running off with Loke.
"Well, I guess now we wait" Lucy sighed morosely looking at Erza's stone statue.
Makarov looked down, "Have Mercy on Laxus, please."
Over on the other side of the guild Master looked at Natsu.
"Natsu, what are you still doing here?"
The pink haired dragon slayer clenched his fists, "Gramps, I didn't think Laxus would really go this far."
Makarov sighed, "Me neither my boy." The third guild master looked at him seriously, "If he got serious, he might be able to pull it off."
"Gramps, I'm going after Loke and the others!" Natsu told him with Happy following right after him, but he was halted by the rune barrier taking them by surprise.
"What the heck?!" Natsu yelled.
"Why can't you get through?! Obviously, you're not a stone statue and you're not a wizard Saint. Don't tell me your over 80?!" Makarov exclaimed.
"I don't think so!" Natsu said.
"Bahahaha, Natsu's an old man, Lucy yelled laughing from her spot on the stage.
"Shut up Luce- wait what are you doing?" The two men looked to where Lucy was and saw her cloak around Erza's stone shoulders.
Lucy looked away, her cheeks pink tinged, as she explained that Erza was still in her weird bikini thing when she was turned to stone, so she figured she might be cold.
"I just thought maybe my cloak would keep her warm while she's frozen" Lucy mumbled.
"Wow for a demon Luce, you sure are a softie for Erza!" Natsu cackled.
"Shaddup!" she replied still pink faced.
After finally getting Natsu to quiet down and Lucy to calm down the three mages finally noticed other writing appear above them.
Makarov read the runes out loud, "Battle of Fairy Tail status report…what? It says Jet vs. Droy vs. Alzack…is this joke?!"
"But why…" Natsu said.
The runes changed again, "Jet and Droy…k. o'd." Makarov read.
"What?!" Natsu gasped, "Stop this stupid game right now…LAXUS!" Natsu shouted.
"Wow, Alzack took Jet and Droy out, nicely done" Lucy murmured.
"Seriously Luce!" Natsu said before smacking Lucy on the back of the head.
"Ow!"
"Ow! What was that for?"
"You smacked me!" Lucy yelled back to Natsu, who then punched her back.
"Well that was for punching me back!"
Watching from a safe distance Makarov sat on a table crying that two of his strongest guild members were currently locked in here and were using up their energy fighting each other.
"I have idiots for children!"
"Fire dragon-
"Celestial Fire Demon-
"Nooo!"
"Roooooar!"
"Wraaaaath!"
Author's note
I'm sorry for the long wait, but I really care about how well my chapters turn out. I hope I did this one justice even if it did just barely scrape the surface of what is the Battle of Fairy Tail. I just didn't want to leave you guys hanging for another month. As you can see I twisted a few things but hopefully this chapter is to your liking. Please comment, fav, do whatever and if you like my stuff support me on kofi under the same pen name.