Mating Season (Mostly Chendy, Erlu, Canajane)

Chapter Twenty

A/N: I know it might seem like Wendy's a bit OOC (but I don't really think so, honestly) but that's because I head-canon her as a complete badass. She's only twelve and she still competed in the Grand Magic Games. She's seriously the best and I don't think people give her enough credit most of the time and in my story I intend to fix that. I know this is a super long A/N, but sorry! Anyways, I was thinking about starting a Fairy Tail one-shot book after this. It'll take me a week or so after I finish this book to start my next chapter book, but I still wanted to post some Fairy Tail stuff. If you care enough about my stuff, feel free to comment and tell me what you think about the idea!

Wendy looked up as she saw Laxus walking into the room. His arm was wrapped around Freed's shoulders in a familiarly protective way. Chelia suddenly seemed to come out of whatever was affecting her and shook her head with confusion. "WenWen, what just happened?" She whispered. Wendy glanced at her, raising an eyebrow. "Well... there was the whole me going insane over a sound thing... and then you said you could smell me... then you burrowed up against me." She said. Chelia nodded. "I know... it's just... I don't know what was up with me. I felt all weird..." Chelia said. Wendy gave her a sympathetic look. "I'm sorry about all this. I think Mating Season is coming to an end... at least I hope so." She said. Chelia shook her head vigorously. "Don't apologize! It would probably have taken me twice as long to finally get a kiss out of you without this Season." She responded, making Wendy roll her eyes. "Oooh! You should be sassy more. It's awesome," Chelia said with a grin. Wendy gave her another eye roll and Chelia giggled. "Since everyone else is far too busy, I'd like to say welcome." The Exceed said irritably and more than a bit passive aggressively. "Thank you," Freed said graciously. Lexus only nodded, making Carla roll her eyes and walk off. "I see where you get that sassiness from," Chelia whispered to her girlfriend. Wendy got a look of horror for a moment and Chelia giggled again at her reaction. Carla gave the couple a long, measuring look before she moved to look outside. "I'm hungry," Chelia whispered her complaint. "We can eat as soon as the others get here," Wendy responded, though she looked as if she regretted saying it. Chelia nodded and glanced at Carla, seeing the way she watched them. She shifted a bit uncomfortably and debated moving away from Wendy. She decided against it, reasoning that Carla has no part in their relationship... and even if she was a bit scary Chelia wouldn't give up her precious time with Wendy.

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Lucy glanced at Erza and found the girl was frowning in thought. "Erzy, are you alright?" She couldn't help but smirk as she used the pet name she had picked out for Erza today... well, if she was being completely honest, she had picked it out a few months ago during a daydream she was having about the redhead. "Yes, I'm fine. I was merely pondering my earlier reaction." Lucy could practically see the red flag that Erza held up. She always used a large, profuse vocabulary... but she got more proper when she was thinking and/or worrying. Lucy was pretty sure she was one of the few people that knew this. Of course the only reason she really knew was because she had paid far too much attention to Erza before they had started dating. "You can talk to me, Erza." She whispered, making the requipper look at her. "It's just worrying. I didn't even consider that it was Wendy's imagination. I'm usually so logical about these sort of things... but I just suddenly thought that there had to be something out there that would try to hurt you." Lucy couldn't help but smile at that. "It's just the symptoms." She comforted. Erza nodded, sighing just slightly. Lucy could only tell because she was curled up beside the girl.

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Laxus glanced down at Freed and found the green-haired Mage resting his head on Laxus's shoulder. The blonde smiled slightly as he looked down at Freed. Who would have guessed that he'd fall for him? Who would have guessed that Freed would return his feelings? Well, it seemed that everyone had. Even Mirajane and Cana had had a 'fight' over who had won the bet about him and Freed getting together. They had both guessed it and Cana was telling Mirajane she had to pay up. The white-haired Mage had offered for them to both do it together, bringing grumbles from Cana as she tried to think of a reason that she could get out of it. Of course she couldn't find one and the pair was doing... whatever they bet on together. Laxus looked around the room quickly and found himself smiling again. It was weird. He had always thought he'd found his place in the guild with the Thunder Legion, and he had, but there was something about being around the other people going through Mating Season. It was like they were somehow... closer than they should have been. It was nice. Laxus had even found himself defending Wendy to a stranger when they had been talking about "Fairy Tail letting in untrained children." Laxus had gotten surprisingly upset about that and put the man in his place with ease. "Laxus, are you alright?" Freed asked. Laxus looked down at him. "Yeah... why?" The Lightning Dragon Slayer responded. "You're smiling." Freed smirked as he said the words and Laxus rolled his eyes at his boyfriend/Mate. "Am I not allowed to smile, Freed?" Laxus asked. "You don't do it too often, so I thought I'd check on you," Freed said, still smirking. Laxus sighed and rolled his eyes. "That's more like it." The green-haired Mage said. Laxus didn't know how he was supposed to not smile right now. He was happy with the man of his dreams and his friends. What could make him not smile?