A/N: Whoops! I got caught without internet so I missed the last couple days of posting but not of writing! Get ready for a bunch of prompts at once to get back on track...hopefully.
Prompt: How are you so good at roller skating wait oh God don't abandon me stop come back please hold my hand before I fall AU
Characters: Gray and Natsu
Mirajane had had enough of the destruction of Fairy Tail property. If they wanted to compete, she would give them an arena. An arena fit for the chaos of her guild. The white-haired barmaid looked around the guild, seeing what she had available to her. An idea began to form, and she got to work.
Come morning, the rest of the gang would be in for a surprise.
"No way!"
Mirajane had turned the hall style bar into a roller rink! There was still the bar of course, as well as a couple chairs and tables in a designated eating spot. The main chunk of the hall was taken up by the rink, the barriers protecting the rest of the building from whatever chaos might take place inside it on the smooth floor. A disco ball hung from the centre, funky lights lighting up the space, and music blasting completing the atmosphere.
A pink-haired young man took in the new rink with a mischievous fire in his eye. Natsu Dragneel was all fired up.
The young man practically leaped to the portion of the bar designated for skate rentals, he grabbed a pair from Mira and sat on a bench close to the rink to get them on. As Natsu, was tying his laces he happened to spot his best friend and rival, Gray Fullbuster stepping onto the rink with a shy and blushing Juvia. Not that Natsu cared about Juvia, his eyes were locked on Gray – he could never resist a competition with the icy black-haired young man.
"GRAY!" Natsu shouted, hurling himself off the bench and leaning on the barrier between the carpeted area and the rink.
Juvia jumped a little at the sudden shout but Gray just rolled his eyes and turned his head towards the pink-haired idiot.
"What?!"
"RACE ME!"
Gray snorted, "No." He took Juvia's hand and started to skate away slowly, the two of them shuffling along as they started a lap of the link.
Natsu chuckled, if that was the fastest Gray could go this was going to be too easy! He walked on the carpet, following the barrier until he got to the door to be let into the rink. Natsu opened the barrier and stepped on the special laminate floor, slipping immediately. The pink-haired man managed to catch himself. He was fine, he had bigger priorities.
"GRAY!" he screamed, spotting the back of the black-haired man's head not far from him. Wheels slipping on the floor, the pink-haired man charged forward towards his friends.
More like crashing towards them.
Gray managed to push Juvia out of the way, her skates rolling her safely away. Natsu slid to a stop at Gray's feet who was frowning down at him.
"What do you think you're doing? You could hurt someone!" Gray scolded.
"RACE ME!"
Gray groaned, this single-minded idiot was out to drive him crazy.
"Fine," he said, reaching down and hauling Natsu to his feet.
Juvia had managed to skate her way back over, Natsu quickly designating her both starting and finishing line. Juvia took her role seriously and when the two friends were in position – Natsu bent forward like an Olympic track star and Gray just casually stood next to him looking bored – Juvia raised her arm like a flag.
"3, 2, 1, GO!" she shouted, watching as Natsu launched himself into the boards, crashing down before getting back up, struggling to keep his sliding feet under him.
"This is hard, isn't it, Gray?" he said looking over his shoulder, but Gray was already past him.
The black-haired man moved with speed and precision, gliding smoothly around the rink as though he wasn't touching the ground at all. Before anyone knew it, he was pulling to a stop next to Juvia who cheered and threw her arms around him. Gray smirked at Natsu.
"I win."
Natsu's jaw was hanging open. He managed to shake off his shock before exploding at Gray.
"How are you so good at roller skating?! That's not fair! Rematch!"
"No." Gray said, grabbing both of Juvia's hands in his and proceeding to drag her around the rink as he skated backwards. Juvia was practically melting at the attention, doing everything just to stay upright, Gray and the wheels of her skates doing all the work to keep her moving in lazy circles around the rink.
Natsu attempted to chase after them but fell almost immediately. With a panic, he found he was very much struggling with the skates. To make it worse, the lurching motion of being on wheels combined with the spinning lights was starting to trigger his motion sickness.
"Oh god, GRAY! Don't abandon me! STOP! COME BACK!" Natsu called after his friend, who was already at the opposite end of the rink. The pink-haired man slid down the barrier to slump on the floor, "I think I need someone to hold my hand," Natsu pouted, watching as Gray proceeded to pull Juvia across the floor, even twirling her.
"You okay there Natsu?" a voice called from the other side of the barrier behind him.
Natsu looked up to see a pair of big brown eyes smiling down at him, her blonde hair pulled back in pigtails. Lucy seemed amused, she'd probably been watching him struggle for a while. Not that it mattered, Natsu was always happy to see her.
He reached his hands up and Lucy giggled, grabbing on and helping haul her friend to his feet. Natsu then proceeded to use a combination of Lucy and the wall to fight his way back to the door and finally collapsing on the carpet at Lucy's feet.
His dark eyes landed on Gray who was doing some kind of fancy footwork now.
"YOU WIN THIS TIME, GRAY!"
Gray ignored him, and Lucy giggled. She managed to lure Natsu away with the promise of food and he finally took off the roller skates, joining his best friend for burgers and fries at one of the tables.
Behind the bar, a white-haired barmaid smiled in triumph. This roller rink had been more successful than she'd hoped, in more ways than one.
