#Laxus x Lisanna

[happilychee]

how fairy tail takes care of you when you're sick

cw: descriptions of being sick

I have covid and I wanted to cheer myself up :(

♡ it's a normal day at the fairy tail guild. the job board is crowded with papers, drinks and food are flowing, someone's starting a fight (natsu), and the air is filled with lively chatter. there's only one thing off: you're not there.

♡ gray is the first one to notice. he's at a table with lucy, cana, and erza. he and erza just got back from a stealth mission that paid them well, and he's looking forward to relaxing. except... "where's [name]?" he asks. lucy furrows her brow. "they weren't in yesterday... should we check on them?" gray nods, and the four of them leave the guild hall.

♡ you feel like someone threw you through a wall. your nose is clogged, feeling stuffy and congested. your throat itches and every time you cough it feels like you're hacking away at your lungs. there's a building pressure in your head, a pulsing pain that signals the onset of a migraine. you think that you'd be able to handle the usual symptoms of a cold, except for the burning aches in your lower back. your coughs shake your entire body as your muscles scream in protest, and you curse whatever virus decided to infect you.

♡ you manage to get yourself out of bed and into your kitchen, hoping to make yourself some rice or hot tea with honey. instead, you start seeing black spots swim across your vision, and the world starts tilting like you're swaying on the prow of a ship. you lower yourself onto the cool tile floor, relishing in the soothing temperature against your burning skin. you're so out of it that you don't register the knocks at your door turning into insistent bangs.

♡ finding you half passed out on your kitchen floor was not on gray's to-do list for the day. his worried hands hover over your shivering form, unsure what to check first. erza settles the matter by scooping you into her arms, Requiping out of her armor as she carries you to the couch.

♡ gray takes charge of the kitchen, your favorite recipes coming to kind. he settles on a warm and hearty soup, sure to soothe your hunger and your aches. he starts chopping vegetables, turns on the stove, and soon enough, the kitchen is filled with a delicious and appetizing aroma.

♡ erza is the one who takes your temperature, gets you back to enough coherency to explain your symptoms, and then finds the right medicine for you. she props your back up with pillows, tucks a blanket around you, and feeds you the disgusting cold medicine that porlyusica and wendy swear by.

♡ cana would love to help you and take care of you, except lucy looks pale as a sheet and a little green. she helps the blonde sit at the kitchen table, patting her arm soothingly. lucy mumbles that her mom passed from an illness, and seeing you so sick makes bad memories come back. cana soothes her, reassuring her that you'll be fine. lucy only relents when your eyes crack open, and you direct a gooey smile at her.

♡ you fade in and out of consciousness, snippets of sound and touch registering in your brain. someone is petting your hair while singing, their soft hands braiding and unbraiding your locks. a hand trails over your back, warm and calloused fingers digging into the knots in your shoulders. you purr under the sensation, leaning into the comforting touch. a soft arm, usually covered in armor, wraps around you to sit you up as a chilly hand brings a spoonful of something warm and delicious to your chapped lips. cold bangles brush against your skin as someone lifts you up, carrying you to the land of dreams.

♡ when you regain consciousness, your friends don't let you lift a single finger. gray cooks every meal for you with cana as his sous chef, erza is on top of your medication, natsu distracts you by telling silly stories, and wendy casts pain-relieving spells to help you recover faster. lucy refuses to leave your side until you're fully healed, so she's always fluffing your pillows, bringing you hot tea with honey, and feeding you snacks. the only time she calms down is when you ask her to read for you. her calming voice lulls you in and out of sleep as you listen to her read about a fairy tale princess's adventure.

♡ levy drops off books at your place so you can occupy your mind. most are either your favorites or her recommendations, but gajeel manages to sneak in a spicy book or two, which has you laughing so hard you start coughing.

♡ mira cooks up a storm in the guild hall, partially out of a desire to help you and partially out of worry. there's enough soup to feed fairy tail ten times over, and she insists that half of it be sent to you. lisanna ans juvia also stop by with some homemade baked goods. juvia gives you a steaming hot loaf of banana bread, some cookies and muffins, and a bunch of pastry buns. "it's just a cold, you didn't have to do all this." you try to reason, but no one listens to you when you look nauseous and your shoulders are shaking.

♡ there's someone at your place every day while you're recovering. it could be natsu and happy raiding your pantry and making a mess, it could be lucy and gray cleaning up their mess while erza yells at them, it could be wendy with balms and salves and a story to tell you, it could be the strauss siblings with more food and cheer than you'd ever seen before, it could be juvia with gajeel, lily, and a basket of your favorite buns. point being, fairy tail doesn't take their eyes off you for a moment while you're under the weather.

♡ when you feel well enough to come to the guild hall, everyone starts cheering. laxus fires up the grill, mira pours drinks in a flurry, and cana drags you into some drinking game. the entire guild hall roars to life, partying the night away, because what better reason is there to celebrate than the return of a dear friend?

[roxysfandomrambles]

[secretkittywolf]

Fairy Tail ships I ship

(I don't own any of the fanart used. Credit to the original creators)

Nalu

They're so cute!!!

I adore these two so much. I hope that they become cannon in the 100yr Quest (if they haven't already since I haven't read it)

Nali

Besties for life!

They have such a cute brother-sister relationship and Natsu was so happy when the Edolas Lisanna was his best friend. Such a cute platonic pairing.

Gruvia

I love them!!!

I love their relationship so much. At first, Gray couldn't stand Juvia but he soon realised how much she cared and how much he cared for her. The whole Juvia vs Gray fight in the finale made me cry, especially when they killed themselves because they didn't want to kill the other QwQ

Gajevy

They're ship is so cute and gradual and I love it.

Yes, Gajeel did hurt her and chain her to a tree when they first met, but he's shown and proven to her how much he's changed. Their love is beautiful and I love them.

LoLu

I have to admit, I did ship them at first, but it's more platonic than romantic now. Still a cute ship tho.

Romeo & Wendy

Another platonic pairing. It's cute but I don't ship them romantically.

Sky Sisters

They have such a cute friendship!

I adore the Sky Sisters friendship and I want to see more of them! I also heard that these two could be cannon, which I'd would love to know if it's true or not. So yeah, ship them platonically and romantically.

Elfgreen

I want more of these two!!!

I want to see more of Elfman and Evergreen so badly. The tsundere and the big strong guy is so cute and the scenes in GMG were so cute.

Miraxus

I'd love to see more of them since I ship them platonically at the moment.

Freeuxus

I love these two idiots.

Freed adores Laxus and the dragon slayer obviously has a soft spot for Freed.

Stingue

Light and dark. Sun and moon. Introvert and extrovert etc. I ship them so much!!!!!!

StingYu

He's the reason why she's still a part of Sabertooth!

Sting really cares for Yukino and they're so cute together!

Graylu

Another platonic pairing I love.

They're a couple of sillies and I need more of them being idiots.

Zervis

Their whole relationship is both cute and sad.

Mavis cursed herself accidentally and now they're immortal together. I love them

Cancer x Gray (Gracer??? Ig??)

Why is this the only image of these two together?!

I need more Gracer! (Sounds better than Cray doesn't it?) The whole danceoff was gay af and since I'm a multishipper, I ship them.

Bicksanna

The fandom made me ship them. The fandom made me realise just how cute these two are.

Mirerza

Rivals to best friends, I love them so much. I also ship them romantically on occasion as well.

Grayza

Both platonically and romantically, these two are cute.

Benefits of being a multishipper!

Bisca x Alzack

They're cute and they're cannon!!!

Seeing them in Edolas together was adorable and I'm glad in the cannon universe they also get together.

Ulter & Meredy

Sisters.

They have a sister relationship and I love it. I don't see them as anything else but sisters

Meredy & Juvia

Adorable. They became such good friends and I want more of their friendship. Please gimme more!!!!

CanLu

I think these two are quite cute together.

I'd love to see more of their friendship!

ErLu

Read a fanfic once of these two and I love them together!

The princess and her knight in shining armour!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAA!!!! I ship them so much!!!!!!

Gratsu

They always make me laugh. I ship them both platonically and romantically.

Natsu & Erza

I adore the brother-sister relationship they have.

Erza is the big sister having to keep chaotic younger brother Natsu under control (even tho Natsu is older)

[cyrusthedragon]

THE WAY STRAUSS SIBLINGS JUST ADOPTED CANA AND THERE'S ALWAYS A PARALLEL WITH THUNDER LEGION---

I mean C'MON

I fuckin' LOVE miraxus BUT LOOK AT ELFMAN X EVER AND LISANNA X BICKSLOW AND CANA X FRIED

I just love how every single Strauss Sibling (CANA IS PART OF THE STRAUSS FAMILY) gets their own Thunder Legion member 🤭🤭🤭

[beargyufairy]

Just My Thoughts Pt. 38

Fairy Tail Manga Reread Ver.

The buildup for Lisanna’s character only let me down once she returned to Earthland. I really expected her to have a larger role in the plot, especially considering how much her supposed death impacted the entire guild. Mirajane was scarred by the loss and lost touch with her magic. She changed her entire personality to keep her sister’s memory alive. Elfman blamed himself for her death and lost control of his powers, limited to his arm only. Although he moved on, he was constantly reminded of it and did his best to keep Mirajane safe as a result. Natsu lost one of his best friends from his childhood. The guild lost a valuable member, even Laxus was fond of her (and at this point of the story, he is a big douche bag). Taking all this into consideration, her role in the story fell short. She barely did much to impact the story after she came back. I watched the show before I even read the manga and from my experience, the opening for the Edolas Arc was very focused on Lisanna (and her relationship with Natsu). I really thought she would’ve gotten better portrayal. Although I do understand why Mashima didn’t want to get too involved in a love triangle (due to the hate he received), but he could’ve added some development to Lisanna. Even a filler arc or chapter of who she is and how her return changed/impacted the guild rather than being placed on the back burner.

It’s rather disappointing.

Until my next thought!

(I had this in my notes for a while but never posted it 🤷‍♀️)

[orange-celestial]

Okay soooo…. Someone just liked my old fairy tail art?? I literally haven’t posted on here in years but I did redo those drawings so for anyone that wanted that here ya go

[miraxusincorrectquote]

Teen Mira, madder than hell: All I ever wanted was that jERK TO SHUT THE FUCK UP AND STOP ACTING LIKE HE'S THE COOLEST FUCKIN' MAN IN THIS WHOLE AREA, THAT LITERALLY PISSES ME OFF, I CAN'T THINK STRAIGHT WHEN I'M WITH HIM, WHY LAXUS *slaps the door* CAN'T *throws a pillow on the floor* BE FUCKIN' *kicks the wall* NORMAL?! WHY HE NEED TO ACT LIKE THAT?

Kid Elfman, whispering: ...why can't we just call an exorcist?

Kid Lisanna: Shh, she is experiencing feelings, don't distract her.

Teen Mira: MOTHERFUCKER- *angry sounds of a teen in love*

[happyvoidharmony]

Missteps.3 (Second Day)

Found : FF.net AO3

When the second day finished, it felt like a burden had been taken off his back. He didn’t compete, but the relief of the stress and humiliation would be enough to fool him. They owed it all to her, and to her brother, that stole the probably most epic and desperate win of the year. At least if nobody topped it in in the following days. He still couldn’t believe how that manboy had managed to steal the victory from an S-class mage he himself would have been anxious fighting. Even if he was disgusting.

How he had managed to accept so stupid a bet was even more incomprehensible.

He didn’t want to think about than, not when it was no longer required. Not that the demon wouldn’t have been able to remedy the situation for herself and her sister. But still, it made his stomach crawl to wonder about the matter.

She hadn’t managed to make an even stupider bet when her turn came, but it came close. She didn’t seem to be relieved when she joined them on their balcony. She looked awkward and her cheeks were flushed, but it probably had more to do with the tiny outfits she had been wearing in front of the whole crowd for the past half hour. Not that she was shy. There was a time he had seen her wearing much more daring in the middle of a less friendly audience.

He couldn’t understand why she had accepted that idiotic contest to begin with. Not even now, lying on his bed in their tiny little team room, watching her from the corner of his eye as she chatted along with the water mage. He didn’t understand what they were saying because the music he blasted in his ears was too loud, but from the sparkling eyes hanging on her every word, it could only be praise and admiration.

He didn’t comprehend it. She could have just ended the fight from the first minute without needing to go through the whole thing. And wasn’t that a little wicked of her to have waited the very last moment, once her opponent had gotten herself in her humiliating setting, before revealing they had never been playing on the same level ?

He didn’t understand how her brother could have made such a disgusting bet, but he could certainly imagine she never even thought she could lose hers.

Maybe she felt insulted to have been paired with someone that much weaker than her. He would have been, but he never would have stretch it on like she did, and he wasn’t known to be that respectful of other people’s feelings. Not that she would have likely lost the contest , but maybe that was his own vote on the matter rather than the judges’. Considering the events of the day before weren’t ingrained in their minds as they were in his.

She had been ignoring him since then, and he didn’t mind. Well, he did. He minded a lot. He really hated it when she pretended like nothing had ever happened between them and they were just two forced teammates happy to be working together for the greater good, but he never expected anything else. He knew she liked her own life private, even when things were less complicated. To be truthful, he didn’t feel comfortable making it public either. Especially when it felt so weird and hesitant.

He couldn’t help watching her though, couldn’t help noticing the beauty mark on her shoulder that he had forgotten was there and that only appeared when she took all her hair to one side. He did really like the way her skin moved around her shoulder blades, but in his current state he seemed to like the movement of every inch of skin he managed to catch.

He knew she knew very well that he was watching, didn’t show it. How could she, when there were two other team members talking and going though their stuff at the same time, preparing to join the ruckus and chants of victory that had already started downstairs ? He knew she couldn’t look at him with a knowing glare, or even blush at his insisting glances, but he very well hoped she felt it in her stomach and lower, and prayed she wouldn’t make it too hard to catch a few moments with her later.

Although with her being one of the stars of the day, and probably the only one standing, since her brother had many recovery days in front of him, he very hardly doubted he would manage a single second alone. Even if she wished it. Even if it was just to know where they stood at the moment. But she would not even look at him.

That’s why he got startled when she said something towards him, but he didn’t quite hear it and had to take a headphone off with the most uninterested face he could manage to make out.

“Are you going down with us ?” She repeated with that nice voice of hers. The one he couldn’t quite decide if he liked or not, definitely disliked when it was intended for him. But with the water mage still patiently waiting behind her, he couldn’t quite comment for the moment. He didn’t want to hurt her either. Nor could he say the dirty thought that came through his mind as she repeated those words.

“Is there going to be one of those every night ?” He asked in that uninterested tone of his.

He heard Gajeel sneer at his last remark as the dragon slayer went through the door to go down the stairs, but he ignored it because he didn’t really mean it to be funny.

“I’m afraid so.” She laughed as she got her shoes on and got up. “If they can find a way to party after a defeat, nobody could stop them after so many victories.”

She smiled then, as her eyes were still fixed on his, and it truly felt like a little bit of pride shined out of them. It did do something to his stomach. He sighed in defeat before jumping to his feet to follow the two women. He wished he could stay here in the silence, but when she made such an argument to invite him to her victory lap, there was no way to deny her the pleasure of his presence. At least he hoped it was a pleasure.

After they went downstairs, he suddenly lost track of her. He looked away at the sound of his team calling for him, but when he looked back, it seemed like she had disappeared in the same breath. After all, the tavern was filled with drunk members, happy cheers and some spectators that wanted to get a peek of some of the winners of the day. It was hard to keep track of anybody. Even her smell seemed to disappear in the crowd, and he knew it pretty well.

He gave up. She would probably turn up again, and he certainly wouldn’t find any time alone with her in the next hour. Instead, he found the Thunder Legion, which was a lot less complicated to spot, since they were making big signs with their arms to invite him at their table. Ever was missing though, he noticed as he took place in the corner. He wasn’t a big fan of people bumping in his chair every five minutes. But Cana was with them, still a bit hungover from the day before, but still drinking, along with the youngest Strauss, that seemed to have taken her own interest in his team this week.

“Have you heard then, Laxus ?” Bickslow jumped to ask him with a big smile, as the dragon slayer was barely getting his beer from the freshly poured ones on the table.

“Heard what ?” He looked at Freed, because he was usually a lot more concise with information. He appreciated that.

The rune mage pointed at the brunette before answering.

“Cana’s been chosen as your team’s reserve member for tomorrow.”

He looked at her, and she answered with a great smile and a gesture to clink their glasses. Which he did. Because why not ?

“What happened to stellar blue guy ?” He didn’t mean to be sarcastic but there was something that ticked him off about the former mage saint he couldn’t quite retain it.

Especially when his teammates never missed an occasion to laugh at his jokes. Only the white-haired girl rolled her eyes, and he could almost recognize the way her sister would have rolled them.

“He asked the master to get replaced. He said it was the best way to achieve what he came for.” The card mage answered with a beaming smirk. “Also, I think he’s still a bit hungover from last night.”

He sneered silently. It made sense. He didn’t know exactly what the man had come here to do, nor what he had agreed to with his grandfather, but it was surely difficult to accomplish stuck in their balcony all day. Since his cover was established now, he could take advantage of going freely about the arena and the whole town.

“Well you better not fool around if you’re called on to fight, I’m warning you.” He grumbled as he took a sip.

She laughed, as well as Bickslow and the take over mage, but Freed did frown at that last remark. Not that he would apologize for it, even if it wasn’t the nicest thing he could have said to welcome her into his ranks. But it was hard to be nice when you wanted to win.

“Well I won’t reach Mira’s level of efficiency, but I’ll do my best !” She went on smiling as she finished her glass.

He smirked then as the others laughed in excitement. He would have noted that Mirajane had spent a good twenty minutes fooling around before getting efficient, but it was best he kept that one to himself. If he didn’t want people misinterpreting and telling on him. He didn’t want to spoil the happy chatters that had started either.

“Did you know ?” Freed asked then as the others chatted away. “That she was planning to make it a fight in the end ?”

He didn’t. He was a bit hurt she didn’t tell him. If only to answer the puzzled look he had given her when the organizers came to ask her if she would agree to a modelling contest, only wondered about the rule book he had been reading in the past few days. If she even planned it from the beginning.

“Well, she did ask if there were any rules that got cancelled for her, but not much else.” He replied as the rune mage smiled. And he almost did himself after finishing his own glass.

If only he didn’t spot her at this very moment.

He saw her going up the stairs. Alone. Even if it hadn’t been an hour since they had joined the party. She wasn’t drunk. He could tell because the look she had in her eyes was far from the dopy one she had the day before. But she did look at him, a bit longer than just to spot him. Just one second longer before disappearing in the corridor. With the same smile plastered on her face as any other day.

So he knew he had to follow her. Or maybe that was his own desire talking. But whatever it was, he only waited two more minutes before getting up to go for the stairs. Despite the two men immediately noticing and trying to make him stay. So he only told them he was going for a smoke. And they seemed to settle after he assured them he would come back shortly.

They could be clingy sometimes.

He found her on the balcony on the third floor, sitting on the ground with her feet dangling in the air as he saw her bring the last drops of her glass to her lips. He didn’t say anything at first, only approached in expectation, attentive to the moment she was going to turn around to smile at him with the ever so same grin. He was more than prepared to tell her how much he hated when she treated him like any other random.

Sadly for his inebriated need for frustration, she didn’t turn around but stayed the same way, staring at the stary sky while he took place against the wall and got a cigarette out, just to give him something to do with his hands, or calm the tension that had came with their imagined fallout. The only thing that changed was the knowing smirk she had now. Maybe he was a bit too nervous when it came to her.

It was tensed, too tensed in comparison with yesterday’s events. The alcohol had helped a lot in that, but now that the effects had worn out and that any other presence was gone from around them, only the tension stayed. It wasn’t good tension, not the kind that announced extraordinary chemistry and better things to come, but the kind that froze your veins and made centimeters apart feel like meters. The kind that rendered any contact impossible. Like it was inappropriate.

There were some days he didn’t recognize her. Some days he wanted to shake that body off until the soul that had taken it hostage flew away to hell. But he knew it was the real thing and not some conspiracy theory. He had thought for a while that it was his grandfather that had filled her head with nonsense to absorb her into his disgusting idea of a guild. Long ago.

He knew a lot better now.

He knew she wasn’t that different from before. Even if she took one extreme to another, it was just a different kind of crazy. He liked the crazy in her, but the one she had before used to make sense to him. Even if others usually saw some weird gothic girl that could go psycho at any given moment, he usually understood everything she did. Even when she was being stupid. Even if everyone thought her nuts, it all made sense to him.

Now she just didn’t make sense to him.

People had gotten used to it. He hadn’t. People didn’t mind if she did a modelling contest for half an hour and then demoned out her enemy in the last seconds. They thought it was cool and nothing else. He thought it was cool but inexplicable.

“Why did you do it ?”

He thought he’d just ask. Because he was tired of the silence and her ignoring him. Because he was tired of staring at her like some stared at a master’s painting without any clue to understand the meaning. Her eyes did look mesmerizing. In the feeble orange light given out by the tired lamps, they only seemed bluer than before. And he never thought that possible. There was something hypnotizing about it.

“Do what ?”

They looked at him. And he tried no to get too tense when they stared and seemed like they were piercing his body to dig for his soul.

“The contest.” He tried to explain himself. “Why didn’t you just end it in the first minute instead of stringing it along for ages ?”

She looked a bit oblivious, like she didn’t quite understand the question, but only for a second before giggling. The sight of her dimples somehow made the weight of her eyes easier to bear as she only glared at him with that mysterious tone she liked to give herself sometimes.

“And where would be the fun in that ?” She almost whispered.

That mischievous air did something to his stomach. He thought about ending the conversation right here for much more interesting odds, but he wasn’t going to give up just like that. He needed to explain it, although it was hard to get his eyes away from her lips at that very moment.

“So you did it for fun ?”

He tried glancing away, but his stare was only met with black sky and weak stars that seemed pale in comparison to the other things he could look at. But he still needed to understand what fun had anything to do with the subject.

“I think a beauty contest is more fun than two people pounding themselves until one’s out, don’t you ?”

He laughed them, with a snarky tone that sounded meaner than he had meant. He really didn’t get her at all. He was a man, he could understand the fun in looking at women in magazines, but if he had them in an arena, he wouldn’t want them to pose. Maybe not everyone shared the same kinks as him.

“Not for one second, no.” He smirked.

She smiled too, like that answer didn’t really surprise her. It probably didn’t. He hadn’t changed that much compared to her. She knew him a lot more than he did her. Maybe that was his problem. Maybe he didn’t like feeling naked when she felt hidden by so many coats.

“Even if the fight wouldn’t last long ?” She whispered again, like she feared someone would hear her.

He smiled at that one. Because her fight wouldn’t have lasted long. Certainly not long enough to be fun for anybody. Maybe that was why she did it, maybe the element of surprise was the only way she had found to make it into something worthwhile. That he could maybe understand. Someday.

“At least it would have been over quicker.”

Because he didn’t like pretending, and he certainly wouldn’t have liked someone pretending to be on his level before revealing to be much stronger. He didn’t know about honour codes when it came to championship battles, but he knew about this rule.

“But it would have been a lot less fun.” She turned her eyes back to the sky, probably pretending not to be too bothered by the smoke that came in her direction with the wind.

He knew she hated that smell.

“So you had fun ?” He tried to insist, because it was probably the only way to explain what felt like an incredible and embarrassing waste of time to him.

“Not really, no. It was a bit embarrassing, to be honest.” She answered without hesitation, but not glancing at him to meet the taken aback face he suddenly gave her.

Now she didn’t even make sense anymore.

“Then why do it ?” He asked.

He sounded a bit angry when he said that. He knew because she looked right back at him with an amused grin. Because she knew she was screwing with his mind and it was funny to her. The way his eyebrows twitched in desperation for some explanation. She was aggravating sometimes.

“Maybe I didn’t want to fight.” She almost whispered again.

Well, that was a completely different question. Not that she should even be on this team if she wasn’t resolved to fight other people to win.

“But you ended up fighting anyway.” He replied too quickly, like he wanted to make her see that she wasn’t making any sense.

Maybe she did, and he just couldn’t quite grasp what she was trying to explain, but it felt so contradictory in his mind. He tried to calm himself down and took some time to blow some smoke away while she glanced at him for a while and shivered a little when some cold air blew by.

“It didn’t feel like I had any other choice in the end.”

She smiled at that one, weakly, glaring back at the dark to avoid looking at his face. She seemed a bit defeated and lost. And it bothered him so much he had nothing better to say.

“Not ready to go nude, huh ?” He snarked.

He said that to make her laugh, and it worked. He didn’t glance in case she looked at him in rage, and he didn’t feel like standing behind his own poor joke. If it was one. He heard her giggle and saw the smile in the corner of his eyes. It did feel good. Like the cold that once froze up his muscles warmed up for a bit.

“Shut up.” She ordered.

He smiled, because he liked when she swore. A few moments passed and the silence didn’t bother him some much anymore. He almost appreciated the cold air that blew on the back of his neck, if he wasn’t so focused on his next question.

“Why didn’t you just say no to that bet ?”

He said it as it came to him, but he knew the answer before she said a word. Because he wouldn’t have either.

“Says the man that once paid me a year’s mortgage.” He almost got startled by how close she suddenly got, so close he could feel the heat emanating from her.

She took his cigarette from his hand as she replied, because she was the only one that had the nerve to do that. Maybe because she was the only one he wouldn’t fry for it. He pretended he didn’t notice when her fingers slid on his. It was almost smoked out and he thought she was going to throw it from the balcony to punish him for blowing his smoke in her face, but she brought it to her lips and took a deep breath as he almost felt frozen in time.

He laughed then. Because she had some nerve, and because he had indeed paid her that for a bet. And it was stupid too. Not stupider than the thing she would have had to do if he had won, but pretty stupid too. Not that she would ever tell the others how she had managed to pay out her mortgage so fast. Even with spending that whole year on S-class jobs and rarely taking time off between them. Even if she managed to take some time to stalk him in-between.

Back when she worried about where he was, and what he was doing.

 Maybe he should have appreciated it more.

“But why go along with the contest to begin with if you weren’t sure you would win in the end ?”

That was the thing that bothered him most. Along with the mischievous grin she gave him as she finished the cigarette and took it out on the ground. They were a team, and they had a job to do, which was winning for the guild, which was weird enough coming from him. So why would she ever take the chance to lose when she could win so easily ?

“Because if there had been a chance I could get through it without fighting. I wanted to take it.”

He didn’t know what to say then. Maybe it was the biggest thing that he couldn’t quite understand about her yet. Why she hated fighting so much. Because out of the whole thing, it was the biggest thing that set her apart from the girl he thought he knew. And it bothered terribly. It bothered him even more because he didn’t know if he liked it or not. And because there was nothing he could say back to that.

“So you didn’t think there was any chance for you to win that last category, huh ?”

He said it with irony, but he knew she knew he was half serious about that question.

“Not everyone has your kinks.” She snarked with her ever so sweet voice that was more like a bully machine.

He laughed again. Maybe it was a bit true. He did have a thing for the claws.

“Besides, you don’t really think she would have suggested that bet if she weren’t sure that it would give her the victory ?”

She did have him there. He hadn’t thought about it like that. But wasn’t it a bit narcissistic to say that the only way she could have lost a beauty contest was if it meant having her in the magazine ? Maybe she hadn’t changed that much. She still had the ego. And more brain than him.

“So it was a last resort for you ?”

At least, it could make sense in that way.

“More like a twist.”

She said that one with that playful voice of hers. The one he couldn’t help but find cute. So he didn’t look at her because he didn’t want to meet those eyes that definitely felt playful too. He still had some things that needed clearing up before he could get distracted by her.

“So avoiding one minute of fighting was better than going through the whole thing when it wasn’t even fun for you ?”

She almost looked disappointed in the corner of his eye. Probably because he insisted on staring away when the sky couldn’t be so interesting to him. Because he insisted with the serious talk, and he could tell that she was growing annoyed with it. Not that he cared.

“The public had fun.”

She was serious back again. Giving up on getting anything playful out of him. Maybe that was the best way to get something truly honest out of her. Because he hadn’t thought of that either.

“And that was worth it ?”

He couldn’t relate to it though. Not even when he glanced at her to find some hidden answer in her face that looked a lot more focused all of a sudden. He could never do something like it for the amusement of other people, but it felt a bit insulting to say.

“It’s a spectacle.” She replied before looking away, like she couldn’t quite sustain his gaze. “If the public’s fun wasn’t worth it, we could just have it out in the Council’s gardens and publish the results in the Sorcerer’s magazine.”

She meant it to be funny, but it didn’t sound so absurd to him.

“Maybe it would be better.” He only replied.

She only frowned at that one, disappointed at the lack of reaction from her joke.

“Not if the point is to get jobs back on our board.”

She had a point there. Fighting in public was definitely better for publicity, even if they won the title.

“Well I’m not taking my clothes off for that.”

She giggled at that one. And he did a bit too. But ever so slightly, and it didn’t feel so cold anymore. Even if he could start hearing some familiar voices coming up the stairs, which were clearly going to make the air a lot more tensed than it was now.

“You should.” She giggled. And he didn’t know if he was supposed to feel flattered. “But it’s a good thing for the guild that I’m willing.”

He smiled too, but the voices were getting closer, and he suddenly wondered if he hadn’t wasted a whole evening talking about that fight rather than talking about what truly interested him.

“I promise you when I fight, I’ll make sure it’s impressive enough of a spectacle.”

She laughed again, but it was interrupted by the sound of her sister and Cana opening the door and calling for her to get back down with them. They did look a bit surprised when they saw them both on the balcony, but they didn’t say much more than repeating the same question to him. They didn’t to care that much when he nodded his head in refusal as they watched the takeover mage get up with the glass she had brought over.

“I have no doubt about that.” She whispered.

She looked at him then, before walking away to join her sister and friend, with that calm gentle smile of hers, and the eyes that pierced right through his skull. And it did something to his stomach, in the good way. The way that told him that maybe he could get used to that smile. Maybe he liked it. Even when it was meant for him. Especially if it was meant for him.

He only wished he hadn’t wasted his entire allowed time with those stupid questions.

Last Chapter

[everelffan]

Pinterest my love - ROUND 2

[fairytailaustories]

Change of Ships

Okay. Okay. I have an idea and changed the ships for this account. I like most ships in Fairy Tail so, it doesn't bother me. I've also only recently started to properly watch Fairy Tail after so long. So lets get started.

Ships:

Laxus Dreyar X Mystogan/Jellal De Edolas: Mystaxus

Jellal Fernandes X Erza Scarlet: Jerza

Siegrain Fernandes X Ultear Milkovich: Jeltear

Natsu Dragneel X Lucy Heartfilia: NaLu

Gajeel Redfox X Levy McGarden: Gajevy

Bickslow X Lisanna Strauss: Bixanna

Gray Fullbuster X Juvia Lockser: Gruvia

Freed Justine X Mirajane Strauss: MiraFreed

Elfman Strauss X Evergreen: Elfgreen

Rogue Cheney X Yukino Agira: RoYu

Sting Eucliffe X Minerva Orland: Stinerva

Midnight/Macbeth X Cobra/Erik: Conight

Acnologia X Irene Beleserion: AcnoRene

Sorry for changing up the ships but I have been thinking of stuff recently.

[lisannastraussisanangel]

Lisanna Headcanons:

-On Valentine's day, she buys all the girls flowers and writes them cute little poems

-Her compliments go hard. She told Juvia once that her smile was like sunshine and Juvia hasn't stopped talking about it since

-Fairy men fear that one day she will steal all their girlfriends

-Lisanna is one of the biggest pranksters in the guild, but she gets away with it cause she's so cute

-If she does ever instigate someone too far, she runs and hides behind Laxus. No one has been brave enough to retaliate with him guarding her

-Speaking of Laxus, she is basically his little sister. She's a little shit, but she's his little shit

-If Happy isn't with Natsu or Lucy, he can be found hanging around Lisanna. They are still very close

-She can make friends with almost anyone. The grumpier the better

[miraxusincorrectquotes]

Lisanna : So, how was dinner with the master ?

Mirajane :

Mirajane : Uh...

[Earlier that night]

Makarov : So, do you wanna have kids one day ?

Mirajane : Yeah, most likely.

Makarov :

Mirajane :

Laxus :

Makarov :

Mirajane [stuttering] : wha-what about you ?

[mirajens]

title: i took the stars from our eyes characters: miraxus + lisanna and elfman found: ao3

summary: “Whose wedding ring is this?” (or: mirajane and laxus eloped)

[cyrusthedragon]

I guess the very moment when Laxus finally admitted that Lisanna, Mira's little sister, became his little sister too, was when he heard that Bickslow asked her out on a date, and suddenly he began to threaten him, like if yOU EVER DARE TO TOUCH HER WRONGLY, OR PUT YOUR TONGUE ANYWHERE NEAR HER-

Bickslow is a family and his best friend, but Lisanna is his little sister, you don't get it, like c'mon--

[fantasyandromancelover]

The Haunted Mansion (My Version)

My own version of the Haunted Mansion that takes combined elements from all the rides, movie and special adaptations, and even deleted concepts, while crossing over with Fairy Tail and Eden's Zero. Also Zeref has no biological relation to Natsu.

It all began with Mavis, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy nobleman from the West who was blessed with great spirit and heart. She lived a life of luxury but also one of neglect, her parents hardly paid her any attention. The closest she had to a father figure was the generous landowner from New Orleans Makarov and her only friend was Zeref the young groundskeeper of her household. Of course Zeref and Mavis fell in love but her family refused to let them marry, they had already promised her hand to the rich sea captain Hades. Zeref was dismissed and Mavis was forbidden to see him again however the affair had caused her to become pregnant and later give birth to a baby girl. Wanting to cover up their daughter's loss of virginity outside of wedlock to preserve the arranged marriage, her parents immediately snatched the child from her mother's arms and gave her away to be raised solely by her father. Mavis was heartbroken.

Broken-hearted as well but desperate to support his daughter, Zeref left the West, traveling down South to New Orleans in hopes of finding a better life for them. Along the way he met a orphaned boy who had escaped the workhouse, starving and frail. Zeref nursed him back to health and took him in so his daughter could have someone to tend to her and make her smile in place of her mother. Upon arriving in New Orleans, he ran into Makarov and told him his story, but with held the truth of who the mother of his child was. Makarov was sympathetic, he hired Zeref and allowed him to live and raise the two children in his household, a glorious mansion that was unlike any that had ever been built before. The boy was called Natsu and Zeref's daughter was named Juvia.

Natsu and Juvia were raised to one day work as servants but they were also given the privilege of being schooled alongside a neighborhood boy called Jellal, the servants’s children Evergreen, Bickslow, Freed, Mest, and the musical prodigy Gajeel, and Makarov's three orphaned grandchildren who he had had been made guardian of. Laxus the abandoned child of Marakov's son, Erza who is clairvoyant, and Gray who is rebellious. The eleven children grow up together in the mansion, becoming the best of friends.

Meanwhile back in the West, Mavis is forced to marry Hades and she later has a daughter called Lucy. Mavis is unhappy in her marriage but loves Lucy and plans a decent future for her, giving her the best education and working with Makarov to secure a suitable marriage for her. An example being that earlier,  before her wedding to Hades, the two agreed that if Mavis's first child was born a girl then she should marry Makarov's grandson Gray once they reached proper age.

However despite her devotion to Lucy, Mavis never forgets about Juvia and will occasionally receive letters from Zeref with updates on her other child. Tragically though, one day Hades intercepts a letter and assumes Mavis is cheating on him. So he killed her and staged it as a suicide, and when poor Zeref learned of her death, he dropped dead of a broken heart. Lucy, Juvia, and Natsu were left devastated.  After her mother's passing, Lucy was neglected by her father and the only thing she was allowed to do was study and learn how to one day be a proper bride. But she had friends, three cousins on her mother's side Mirajane, Elfman, and Lisanna, her school mate bookish Levy, and Cana the daughter of her house's majordomo, who also has the gift of clairvoyance.

Years pass, both Mavis's daughters grow into exceptionally beautiful young women, with Lucy inheriting their mother's great spirit, being vivacious, strong-willed, and independent while Juvia inherits their mother's great heart, being kind, gentle, and demure. When Lucy turns eighteen, she, her father, her servants, her cousins, and her friends travel to New Orleans for her to marry Gray. Gray is handsome, gentlemanly, and has a rebel streak but he and Lucy don't really have a romantic connection. This being because he is secretly, deeply, and madly in love with Juvia and later during Lucy's stay she finds herself falling for the equally handsome, mocking, but charming new groundskeeper Natsu. 

Now it just so happens that Hades is a secret pirate who married Mavis only for her money but that fortune is now running low, and Makarov's family had enough money to sustain him for years. Desperate to ensure that everything would go according to plan, he forces the clairvoyant Cana and Erza to tell him of his daughter's future and they reveal Lucy's romance with Natsu and that Gray and Juvia are planning to run away together. They also reluctantly reveal that Juvia is actually Mavis's daughter by Zeref and she was her first born child meaning technically Juvia should be the one marrying Gray. But because Hades is not her father, he won't get a dime of Gray's fortune should they marry. 

 To stop the lovers, he uses witchcraft to make Lucy hate Natsu and to poison Juvia, leaving behind a false note that she never loved Gray and took her own life.But this back fires on him drastically for Gray is driven so mad with grief that he hangs himself and the hate spell on Lucy proves to be so strong that she chopped off Natsu's head, causing her to be arrested and executed. This tragedy shatters both families, friends, and staff members, leaving a lasting effect that doesn't fade even when others knew happier times such as the marriage and families of Jellal and Erza, Gajeel and Levy, and Laxus and Mirajane. But it was Mavis's spirit who was most effected,  furious with this terrible injustice inflicted upon her children, she cursed everyone within the mansion to wander the earth after death until the truth was known, until the one responsible was punished, and until the lovers were rightfully reunited. A prophecy is written, that the descendants of the tragedy will set them free.

The mansion is abandoned with many people being too scared of the legends and the curse to even consider being near it. But decades later, Rebecca and her younger sister Copa who are direct descendants of Jellal and Erza, move to New Orleans and inherit the old mansion after the death of their parents. Rebecca intends to turn it into a Bed and Breakfast but shortly after moving in she discovers that it's haunted by ghosts. Particularly by Natsu the deranged and vengeful Hat Box Ghost, Gray the traumatized and embittered Master of the house, and Lucy the psychotic and still hexed Attic Bride.

She hires paranormal investigator Shiki who is a direct descendant of Gajeel and Levy, and his exorcist partner Weisz who is a direct descendant of Laxus and Mirajane. Together they work with the legendary medium spirit Madame Erza, the Ghost Host Jellal, and the amnesic Beating-Heart Bride Juvia to break the curse and help the spirits move on. One problem though, every ghost in the mansion is either completely insane or has no memory of anything that happened before they died, due to Hades casting his own curse on the mansion.

[bumblebeehug]

I wish we got more like. "Random" teamups

Like in wendys first job, she went with happy and freed. Or in the clock arc, when they were "randomly" assigned teams like Wendy and bickslow and Erza, evergreen and max. Gray and freed etc

I just think it's cool when they mix it up a bit lol

Yeah I definitely wanna see more dynamics. Lucy and Max team up — they work well together magic wise! Lucy pulls up with Scorpio and her stardress, Max just goes loco with his sand stuff. Get Juvia into the mix and we can get an awesome Aquarius-Scorpio attack amplified!! And the three of them would be so fun, Max is just crazy and talkative enough to click with Juvia, and he’s sane enough to reason with Lucy, AND we could see some Juvia and Lucy teamwork again (which we always love)

Jet and Wendy. Sibling dynamic as per usual, but I feel like they could match up attacks really well? Just a vibe though

Natsu and Freed. At first I feel like those two could clash, not work well at all, but once Freed gets the hang of it (Laxus-ish-strength with Bixlow-ish-personality — not an impossible task) he could get some really good tactics and enchantments going. Natsu x brainy partner is always a good move! I was close to put Levy and Natsu together bc they are technically childhood friends, and Levy also has that brainy thing going on + she can use script magic to get Natsu some power ups, but I feel like Natsu would bring Levy’s potential down a notch. So Freed it is!

Gajeel and Laki. They’re freaky weirdos and they become BESTIES. Gajeel loves weird people, and weird people are attracted to Gajeel like a moth to the flame. Gajeel collects weirdos like Pokémon cards (if he can manage Juvia ha can manage just about anyone)

Gray and Lisanna. I just think it would work! They mentioned Lisanna and Lucy were a lot alike, and Gray and Lucy are a great team!! And they’re both creative when it comes to their magic, I feel like even if it isn’t the ideal match (nothing tops water x ice) they could practice and become really in tune with each other. And they’d mock Natsu to death, which is always fun in my book😼