What Fairy Girls Want
by Ulquiorra9000
Chapter 22: what my heart craves (nay, lusts for!)
"Bwahahahaha! Get a load of this guy! Haw haw haw!"
Gajeel was actually crying with laughter, pointing at Natsu as the friends gathered in the MCC auditorium one evening for the premiere of Midnight Ball Passion.
Levy scowled and swatted her hulking boyfriend's shoulder. "Excuse him for dressing up for opening night! You should have thought of it, too."
"C'mon, man. I dressed up for my lady," Natsu declared, running a hand down his rented tux's satin jacket. "It's about time I don't look like I crawled out of the laundry hamper. Which I've actually done before."
Lucy beamed, going pink in the face. "Natsu, I think you look wonderful tonight. I knew you had it in you!"
"Hey, maybe he'll have it in her," Gajeel muttered with a grin, and Gray stifled his laughter.
"He just might, since he actually dressed up," Lucy shot back. "Don't you know that girls love the Mr. Romantic look?"
"Please. That's just in shojo anime and stuff like that. I mean, Levy wouldn't care if..." Gajeel's voice trailed off as he saw the look in his petite girlfriend's eyes.
"I missed a golden opportunity, didn't I?" Gajeel concluded sadly, hanging his head. Levy nodded like a know-it-all. So smug!
"I agree that Natsu looks like a total dork," Brandish said bluntly, folding her arms over her big boobs. She had a weird twinkle in her eyes. "But if guys do that ironically and have a big package, it can unlock the bedroom door. With or without condoms."
Lucy rolled her eyes. "Always a pleasure getting your opinion, Brandish."
"I think it's sweet of him," Lisanna weighed in as more of their friends showed up to take their seats.
Natsu felt himself flush as he prepared his next treat. "Then you'll love this, Lucy. Behold! For you!" He reached into his jacket's inner pocket and presented a trio of limp daffodils for his date.
Lucy gasped, her eyes sparkling with delight. "Ohmygosh! Thank you, Natsu! So thoughtful!" She accepted the cheap flowers and gave them a sniff. "I'll find a vase for them at home. Ooooooh, this is so nice."
Brandish nodded with approval, her expression still cool and aloof. "Yup, yup. With the right context, that would get me naked in bed lickety-split."
"Blunt as ever, Brandish." Lisanna grimaced. "And I didn't think you'd love romantic gestures like that."
Brandish shrugged and explained, "A guy with that kind of desperate energy will operate at 200% in the bedroom. It's the cool, popular guys who phone it in 'cause they have nothing left to prove."
Levy considered it for a second. "Very wise observation, my friend."
"I think the show's starting. Let's take our seats," Lucy piped up. She cozily sat next to Natsu, hand in his, and watched as the stage lights came on. The curtains drew back, revealing Erza Scarlet in her simple, patched-up maid outfit.
"H-how I wish I could dance in the opulence of the royal ball, amid the twirly... t-twirling aristocrats," Erza's character lamented, a hand on her heart. "But my station forbids it. I scrub the floors while my stepsisters build bridges with the rival noble family! My work goes unnoticed as they get the hot and heavy action."
"That's some killer exposition," Natsu whispered to his girlfriend, who giggled.
"I cut all pretenses and made it blunt," Lucy whispered back. "Let's be honest, subtlety will put this audience to sleep."
"Good call."
"You! Keep scrubbing. I don't care how wet you get tonight," the jerkwad stepmom said, jabbing a demanding finger at Erza's character. "Now, my daughters and I have noblemen to impress. The future of our house rests on our shoulders! Ridding our home of dirt rests on yours."
"Alas, is this my inescapable fate?" Erza's character cried to the audience. "I get soaked in soapy water amid the grime, while my stepsisters get sweaty between the sheets! Oh, how I long to get dirty like they do!"
"Hey, she missed a sentence," Lucy muttered. "Come on, Erza, get it together...!"
Once the stepmom and sisters left, a magical fairy showed up. Played by a dude.
"I can grant you one wish, homegirl," he said. "It's on the house."
"What the fuck?" Gajeel blurted out. Levy elbowed him kinda hard.
"I made him a foil to the stilted aristocrat dialogue," Lucy explained quietly to her friends. "It makes the scene more relatable."
Either that, or Lucy the playwright had run out of fancy adjectives in her script. Not that Natsu minded. This fairy was Natsu's kind of guy!
"I could wish for the feuding families to fight again, spilling blood to punish those who torment me," Erza's character commented. "Or wish for riches beyond compare! Or even to dine with the gods! But I shall settle for..." She made a determined face, lifting a fist to eye level. "Fairy! Make me beautiful at that ball so I can steal my stepsisters' suitors! That'll show those bitches I mean business!"
The audience burst out laughing as Lucy smugly folded her arms.
Bam! Erza was fancy as hell when she swaggered into the ball in her tomato carriage... and tripped. Well, shit.
"Hey!" one of the extras yelped as Erza half-tackled him.
"Sorry. These shoes are hard to move in," Erza said as she fought to get upright. "I don't really do heels. But if it's for the scene...!"
Then she turned and saw the entire audience watching her break character. She went as red as her hair.
"A-a-anyway...!" Erza cleared her throat and pushed aside one of her bitchy stepsisters. "Behold, for I have glowed up to reveal my inner light! Boys, this is what you've been missing. Take it all in." She looked way too full of herself as she spread her arms wide, with all the guys in the ball gawking at her.
Lucy made an indignant noise. "That wasn't the line!"
"Shall we?" Erza asked, offering one guy her gloved hand.
"No, it's that guy," the actor said, jerking his head at another suitor.
"Crud." Erza turned to the right suitor and took a step forward. Her heeled foot got tangled on her gown, and down she went! Natsu heard the fabric rip.
"Oh, my!" Mirajane clutched her face in alarm while Laxus stared in disbelief.
"Um... well..." Erza fought to get to her feet, and dusted herself off. "My stepsisters can give you nothing, dear prince. Taste the sugar of my lips and find your destiny." She turned to the prince dude and put her hands on his face, leaning in for a magical kiss -
"Aw, hell NO!" Jellal exploded. He scrambled up onto the stage, ready to tear the lovers apart.
"Boooooo! Get off the stage, loser!" someone cried. A few people threw their snacks at him.
"Back off, punks! Or you'll get some of this!" Erza snarled at the audience, rolling up her sleeve and flexing her muscles.
"This play sucks!" someone else cried through his cupped hands. As he spoke, a few audience members were already filing out of the auditorium.
Lucy bolted to her feet. "Who said that?! I'll smack you into next week! Don't think I won't, buster!"
"That's totally my girlfriend," Natsu said warmly to the nearest audience members. "She's a fighter."
"Everyone, near and far!" Erza proclaimed, thrusting out her arm in a dramatic angle. "Do we not all err? For our blunders mark our humanity, our deepest flaws, the fears that hold us back from destiny. I was once a wet servant with pent-up desires, but look upon me now! Dressed in finery, courting the land's most eligible bachelors. Presenting myself here and now is a victory in itself! My noble heart flies free like a dove from its cage!"
Everyone stared at her.
Erza was clearly sweating buckets as she continued, "Are blunders not proof of humanity's courage to reach for its desires? Without the pain of mistakes, do we even know we're alive? For it is greater misery to feel nothing than to show bruises on our souls as we strive for what we must. I say again, look upon me, ye mighty and meek alike, and see a woman who has chosen to live!"
She spread both arms wide once again and almost hit someone in the face. Then Erza held that pose, her eyes shining with mingled excitment and terror, her ample bosom heaving with nervous breaths. Time slowed to a crawl. Until...
"Bravo! Whooooooo!" Mirajane cried, leaping to her feet, clapping as hard as she could. It only took Laxus a second to join her, and then Elfman and Evergreen did the same, all smiles. In twos and threes, everyone in the audience broke out into applause, and Natsu was smiling his darn fool head off as he joined in.
That's the stuff! Yeah!
The rest of Midnight Ball Passion was basically improvised, as far as Natsu could see, but big deal! He saw that pleased smile plastered on Lucy's face and knew everything would be A-OK. Erza and the others threw together a plot about the feuding families coming together in peace as the humble servant girl enlightened them with her humble yet wise perspective, and the charming prince took her right to the bedroom where they did the royal nasty. At least Jellal didn't lose his shit that time.
Natsu and the rest clapped and cheered as the performers took their bow about 45 minutes later, and the friends couldn't stop babbling about what they just saw.
"Not bad," Brandish said as everyone chattered away. "But Erza would have sold the idea a little better if she actually got naked. I mean, the humble servant girl seduced a prince! Show a little skin, girl."
"Trust me, she's gonna show a little skin in my royal bedchambers," Jellal said with an eager gleam in his eyes. Natsu, who already had his arm fondly wrapped around Lucy's waist, had no doubt about that.
o*o*o*o*
Jellal couldn't stop grinning as his scarily strong girlfriend dragged him into her apartment a little later that evening. "LISANNA!" Erza roared. "Are you here?"
"Yeah, I just got back," Lisanna's voice said from her room. "Welcome home -"
"Put on your noise-canceling headphones!" Erza thundered as she and Jellal marched right to the waiting bedroom. "You're gonna need 'em!"
"I should have known, Ms. theater star," Lisanna said snidely. "Fine, fine..."
5.67 seconds later, Jellal and Erza were getting hot and heavy on Erza's neatly made bed, with Jellal's button-up shirt torn right off to reveal his perfectly sculpted abs and pecs, with Erza running her hands all along those hardened muscles as she kept kissing him. "Tonight, you're my little prince charming," she breathed.
"What do you mean little?" Jellal asked. He found out when Erza pushed him down like the little punk he was, straddling him as she tore off her top to reveal her lacy black bra and ample cleavage.
"You want some, my royal fuck-monkey?" Erza challenged him. She licked her lips as she fondled her own breasts.
"Damn right I do," Jellal declared, his boner somehow getting even stiffer. Oh, the things he was about to do to this wet scrubber maiden...!
Erza fixed her boyfriend with a look of bottomless hunger. Then her tummy actually grumbled.
"Oh. I..." Erza said with sudden calm. "My adrenaline high from the play wore off. I'll be right back." She climbed off her fuck-monkey and wandered into the kitchen, returning a moment later with a slice of cake on a plate, including a fork.
"Who wants a sweet treat?" Erza teased him.
"Yum! Thanks, babe," Jellal said brightly, reaching for the cake.
Erza swatted his hand away. "Not for you! This is mine."
Jellal blinked. "But you said I could have a sweet treat. What gives?"
Then Jellal got his answer. Before he knew it, he was fully nude, kneeling behind an equally naked Erza Scarlet, who was laying face-down on the bed, stucking her rump into the air. Erza had the cake in front of her, casually eating one bite at a time. "I need to sugar up," Erza said. "Mmmmmm, good flavor. This is your sweet treat. Is your fork ready?"
Erza wiggled her naked ass, emphasizing her wet, exposed pussy. Jellal marveled at Erza's tender pink flesh, opening wide for the other half of this dessert. Taking hold of Erza's hips, Jellal bared his teeth and pressed the tip to Erza's lady parts, rubbing gently.
"I don't need any foreplay tonight," Erza said impatiently. "Quit screwing around and get it in! If I finish this cake before you finish, there'll be hell to pay!"
Oh snap, Erza was already halfway done with that slice, and she wasn't the type to savor the last few bites, either. On command, Jellal tightened his grip on his girlfriend's body and thrust that man-meat inside, savoring how his weiner slid easily into her slick flesh. Deeper, deeper... aaahhhhh!
"Mmmmmm! Good. Keep going, just like that," Erza said simply as Jellal continued thrusting for all it was worth. The bed rocked and rattled with the lustful force, but Erza stayed calm as she kept eating that cake, acting like she wasn't having her brains fucked right out of her skull.
Then Erza cleared her throat and raised her voice. "Lisanna! Get me some tea to wash this cake down. I'm a princess!"
There was no sound except the shlick-shick of Jellal destroying Erza's pussy like a piston.
"Oh, yeah. Headphones," Erza noted. "Hurry, Jellal! I'm down to my last three bites. Sprint to the finish!"
"I'm... trying...!" Jellal grunted. He took a deep breath and focused, willing himself to deliver the goods before Erza ended up humiliating him in the bedroom yet again. Come on, come on... almost there...! Jellal added 10% more speed and pressure just to be sure, his ballsack slapping Erza's body as he went, feeling the incomparably horny Erza getting slick with sweat under his fingertips. The pressure mounted as Erza brought down her fork for that last bite...!
It all happened so fast. As Erza popped the last bite of cake into her mouth, Jellal withdrew his throbbing cock from Erza's vagina and turned her around, holding his weiner as he blasted his load all over her face. Why not add a little more thick white cream to that cake? Didn't Erza love extra flavors?
"Mmmmmmmmm..." Erza moaned happily as she chewed her last bite, Jellal's jizz getting all over her face. "Mmm-mmmm-mmmmm!"
She swallowed and smiled widely. "Just in the nick of time, my darling prince. I love you so much."
"Anything for my princess," Jellal said loftily, toying with a lock of Erza's scarlet hair. He was panting for breath. "You were amazing tonight, on stage and on this bed."
"I'm a performer. It's what I do," Erza said smugly. "Lucy put poetry in my soul, and it made me feel so alive. So inspired. Just when life was starting to feel humdrum around here."
Jellal patted a hand on Erza's head. "I'll make sure you never feel humdrum ever again."
o*o*o*o*
"There you are, darling Gray! I haven't seen you all day," Juvia squealed as she burst through a crowd of students in MCC's science and engineering building. She threw out her arms and glomped her man, ignoring the bewildered students (and a janitor) who stared.
"Oof! Not so hard, jeez," Gray wheezed.
"Have you been avoiding me, Gray?" Juvia teased him with a naughty smile. "What a bad boy you are."
"N-no, it's nothing like... like that..."
Juvia's face fell. "Is something the matter? It's all over your face."
Gray's heart clenched as he denied it, but Juvia was having none of that.
"If something's got you down, you can tell me," Juvia assured him. "I'm your lover! We share everything. You're right here in my heart." She backed up a step, patting a hand to her heart. Her left breast jiggled with the movement.
Gray sighed and ran a hand over his face. "I've been grappling with a big decision, Juvia. I was planning on visiting your place after class to tell you."
"Oooooooh. Well, if it's big news, you can tell me right now," Juvia offered.
Gray swallowed. "Okay. Let's find a private spot."
He took Juvia's hand and led her down the hall, finding an empty and fully lit lecture hall right around the corner. Once inside, Gray shut the door behind him and took a deep breath. "Juvia, I'm calling off our booty call. We had a lot of fun. Now, we should move on."
Juvia gasped, eyes wavering as she clapped her hands over her mouth. "Wh-what! Gray, my darling, I need you! Aren't we destined to be together forever?"
"I'm not ending our friendship," Gray added quickly, motioning with his hands. "In fact, I think we're better off as friends."
"But we're more than that! We're lovers!" Juvia protested, blushing. "Aren't we?"
Gray shook his head. "You're precious to me, Juvia, and I'll do anything to protect your happiness. But being your booty call or lover doesn't help. It's not what either of us need."
"I do need it! More than anything," Juvia yelped. "Don't leave me all alone, Gray...!"
"I said we're not ending our friendship! I mean it," Gray assured her. "And think about it: how is the booty call benefitting either of us besides getting our rocks off? You've gotta get your life together, and I can't help you by porking your brains out."
"Gray, don't do this," Juvia blubbered. "When I'm in bed with you, all seems right in the world."
"Look, it's like this..." Gray scrunched up his face in concentration, scratching his black hair to help himself focus. "As your friend, I want you to be happy and successful. You deserve a good life, more than just some booty call we started at Cana's party. Your life can be so much bigger than that. I'm setting you free so you can do more."
"More? What, like that stupid PetCorps job?" Juvia shot back.
"It's not a bad job," Gray said. "But that's beside the point. Come on: deep down, some part of you must've realized we were just screwing around. We weren't ever gonna marry or even live together."
Juvia sniffed. "Was our relationship just a joke, then? Were we kidding ourselves?"
"I don't know what we were doing. It all just happened," Gray confessed with a shrug. "Juvia, I won't deny that being together with you like that felt good. I don't regret it. But I've come to realize that we need to move on. Right?"
Juvia looked like she was about to burst out crying, and Gray was ready in case it happened. Instead, after a tense moment...
"I knew it, too," Juvia moaned, clapping her hands over her face. "I'm just a big baby, running from my problems! I'm such a coward after all. You must be so ashamed of me. Is that why you're ending things?"
Gray cracked a confident grin. "The opposite, Juvia. I'm ending the booty call because you're stronger than you know. You deserve a chance to go out there and prove it. You don't need me protecting you."
"H... huh?" Juvia gawked at him.
"I have faith in you. You're my cherished friend," Gray proclaimed, spreading his arms wide. "Try doing what Lisanna did when Natsu ended things with her in Crocus. She bounced right back and is on track to achieve her dreams, Juvia! It's incredible."
Juvia sniffed again. "Oh, yeah. Lisanna was so bummed, but then she got all serious about animals. She wants to be a vet when she graduates."
"Find your own path, Juvia, and I'll cheer you on," Gray encouraged her. "Be brave for me."
"I..." Juvia took a half-step back.
"It might be scary and hard. But it's worth it. College is about figuring yourself out, and it's never too late to try."
Juvia clasped her hands under her chin, making an innocent, hopeful face. "Will you help me, Gray?"
"I'm here for you."
Juvia hesitated again, squirming in place as she thought it over. "I..." she started. "I have to grow up sometime, don't I?"
Gray's smile widened. "We all do."
"Some tiny part of me always knew it," Juvia admitted, glancing down. "I tried to shut that voice up because listening to it would mean exposing myself to the risk of failure."
"You're strong, Juvia. No matter what happens, you'll land on your feet and keep fighting."
Juvia made a nervous laugh. "You give me too much credit."
"Bull. I give you exactly enough. I believe in all my friends."
"Oh, my. This is it, then? I can't talk my way back into your bed, darling Gray?"
"Nuh-uh."
"Not even with some of this?" Juvia smiled like a vixen and lowered her tube top, exposing her cleavage and a bit of her white bra.
Gray threw up his hands to shield his eyes. "That ain't gonna work anymore, Juvia! Humping three times a week didn't get us nowhere. It was fun, but it's over."
"Oh, fine. I was just teasing you, anyway." Juvia put her hands on her hips, her cleavage still showing. "I'll admit it, Gray. I felt like we were starting to drift apart these last few weeks, and it made me so crazy. Now the breakup is official."
"Will you be okay? I can have Mirajane talk to you, too," Gray offered.
"Mmmmmmm. She's like a big sister to me, but I'll manage this on my own. I think I have to," Juvia said. She tossed her soft, silky blue hair. "This is not how I thought my afternoon would go, Gray! Oh, my gosh. Starting now, I have to live up to your high expectations of me."
Gray's warm smile returned. "Take your time to process this, Juvia. It must be a big shock -"
"No." Juvia fixed her hardened blue eyes on Gray's. "I've embarrassed myself enough, darling Gray! I'm already ashamed of my clingy ways. You've broken the spell, and now it's time for action. Starting with my job."
Gray gasped. "You're going back to -?"
"Yup! I'm heading over to PetCorps to ask Ur for my job back," Juvia said brightly, throwing up two peace signs. "Lisanna will make me look bad if she's doing all this stuff and I just mope around."
"That's the spirit." Gray clapped. "You're an amazing girl, Juvia. You can do this."
"Gray, I'll never stop loving you and what you've done for me," Juvia said fondly. "And while I have no idea what the future holds for me, I'll always remind myself that I have you, my perfect prince, there for me when I need you."
"Reporting for duty," Gray joked with a salute.
Juvia giggled. "So... can I say goodbye to what we had with a little of this?"
"What what?"
Juvia skipped forward and closed her eyes, planting a wet kiss on Gray's forehead. "That's my thank-you," she said, her eyes half-open, her voice heavy with emotion. "I gotta go. Enjoy your next class!"
She turned and shoved open the lecture hall's door, once again skipping along, and Gray took his time before leaving the lecture hall, too. He had his next class in ten minutes, though he was in no rush.
Juvia wasn't the only one feeling a little trepidation about the looming future.