"I heard Master had an announcement to make today." Erza said as she approached the dragon slayer and celestial spirit mage at the table they were occupying. The two looked up at requip mage, curiousity etched on their faces.
"I wonder what it is." Lucy pondered.
"Probably excited to share his new mustache brush with us." Natsu suggested, earning an amused snort from Gray as he took a seat at the table.
"Geez, you always come up with the dumbest ideas."
"Well what do you think it is, Icee?"
"Probably something better than what you thought."
Just as Natsu was about to launch a fist into Gray's jaw, Erza pulled them apart and Makarov hopped onto the bar.
"Brats!" he bellowed. Everyone turned to face him, dropping any conversation that was being held. "I have an announcement to make!"
The guild members all mumered a reply along the lines of 'go ahead' and 'what is it?'.
"I have recently bought a marvelous comb to groom this perfect mustache of mine," Natsu stuck his tongue out at Gray when this was told, "but that's not all."
"Drum roll please!" said Mira with a giddy smile on her face. Some guild members put in the effort to make a drum roll noise effect before Master silenced them.
"We are going to hold our very own festival in five days time! I have invitations right here for the other guilds to attend. You must dress in what is called a 'yukata'. They're not that hard to find." He grinned as the guild cheered. If you know Fairy Tail, which I'm sure you all do, they live for parties. It doesn't even matter what the reason is for partying; they would still enjoy it.
"Alright. Gray and Wendy will deliever the invitation to Lamia Scale. Erza and Juvia will go to Mermaid Heel. Levy and Gajeel go to Blue Pegasus. Cana and Romeo, you two can deliever one to Quatro Cerberus. And finally, Natsu and Lucy will take one to Sabertooth. I'll give you the invitations and I expect them to be delievered by tonight! The rest of you brats will begin to help Mirajane decorate both the guild and the city." with one final look at his kids and giving said invitations to each pair, Master resorted back to his office.
"I guess we should get going." Lucy told Natsu as she held the invitation sealed in an envelope in her hands. Natsu nodded, calling Happy over to join them. They, along with all the other groups, set out towards their destination.
Lucy summoned Plue to accompany them on their short journey to the Sabertooth guild. On the train ride over, Lucy was unsure how to comfort the motion sick dragon slayer. Happy reassured that this happened all the time along with Plue who agreed with a 'pun-pun'!
Lucy looked at her Celestial Spirit, confused as to how he knew of ut and she didn't. She shrugged the thought off as the train arrived at their stop.
They got off the train, waited for Natsu to recover, and walked through the town before finally arriving in front of the guild doors of Sabertooth.
Natsu kicked the doors down as if he was back at Fairy Tail, causing the others to sweatdrop and all conversation cease inside the guild.
"Oh, it's just Natsu." says the voice of one of the twin dragon slayers, Sting.
"Yo!" grins Natsu. He walks over to him, grabbing Lucy's wrist.
"We were asked to deliever this to you." she says, handing over the invitation. He takes it and opens it, a smiling spreading across his face.
"We'll be there."
"Be where?" Rogue asks. He came over to the small group with Frosch and Lector. Happy immediately went over to the other exceeds, along with Plue.
"The festival Fairy Tail is holding in five days."
Rogue just nodded.
"Natsu, since you're here, I challenge you to an arm wrestle!"
"You're on!" the two went off to a nearby table. Happy and Lector bickered over who would win, leaving Frosch and Plue with Rogue and Lucy.
The two stood in awkward silence for a moment. Rogue was still a bit, I guess you could say uncomfortable, after the whole eclipse incident and his Future self killing Future Lucy.
"You know, I was never angry with you." she starts to say.
"Hm?" he asked looking at her.
"About the whole Future you killing Future me. Because that wasn't you, Rogue." she smiled at the shocked shadow dragon slayer. "Besides, we're friends now."
He returned the smile and patted her head.
"Fro thinks so too!"
"Pun-Pun!"
"So, you and Natsu? Anything going on there?" asked Yukino with a smirk as she came over with Minerva in tow.
"Hi you guys! And nope. To be honest, he said something this morning about a curse being put on me and I just met the guy!" she shared with them.
They all just looked at her surprised.
"What do you mean you just meant? What kind of curse is this?" interrogated Minerva.
Lucy let out a nervous chuckle while blushing softly. "Um, I guess I wake up everyday not having a clue who he is and the only way to break it is for me to say 'I love you' and actually mean it. We only have until the day of the festival before it could be permenant if I don't, well, fall in love with him."
"Who would do such a thing?" gasped Yukino.
"Some bastard named Bankotsu." Natsu sneered, coming back with Happy and a defeated looking Sting.
"What happens if it's not broken by the end of the day of the festival?"
"Then Lucy never regains her memories with me and she won't ever remember me."
"Have you even done anything to try and break it?" smirked Sting.
"Yes! He takes Lushee out on dates and tells her he loves her and they even kissed!" squeals Happy. Yukino and Minerva clap their hands together in glee before wrapping their arms around Lucy.
"You've got to telk us every detail!"
"But, uh, I don't remember any of this!" Lucy protested. The blush on her face could rival the color of an apple.
"I can share!" Happy offered. Lucy internally groaned while the two girls dragged both her and Happy to a nearby table.
"Didn't think an idiot like you could possibly fall in love." Rogue muttered.
"Me either." agreed Sting.
"I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is." Natsu said while glaring at the two. They just chuckled with slight smirks on their faces.
"Just take good care of the girl. She deserves it."
"Tell me something I don't know." Natsu playfully rolled his eyes. "And who are you to be lecturing me?! Aren't I older?!"
This statement caused Sting to double over in laughter. Rogue just gave an amused snort. Lucy sprinted over, grabbing a hold of Natsu's wrist.
"Bye! See you guys at the festival!" she called over her shoulder as she ran out. Happy and Plue followed after them, well Plue decided to retreat back to the spirit world.
"What the heck Lushee?" whined Happy.
"You guys were beginning to set up wedding appointments for me! It's way too early for that!"
"Were they really?" Natsu laughed.
"Shut it pinky!"
"It's salmon!"
"Aw, young love." sighed Happy as the two continued to bicker all the way back to the guild.
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sorry for the wait! i have three ideas for a new book but i was wondering if you guys would want to read the prompts and vote which one i should write and publish next. should i do that??