A/N: I AM UPDATING YEY! I am so proud of myself. I even managed to update my other story, so I am EXTRA proud. Just a short chaoter so you don't have to wait, I promise the next one will be longer! I hope you enjoy this one though!

Chapter 7

Streamers

"You're disgusting!" Erza spat in Ichiya's face, but then he just pulled out more of his special perfume, and Erza couldn't feel her limbs anymore.

"Don't say those thin-"

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?", a certain fire dragon-slayer screamed as he kicked down the door to the room.

Ichiya jumped across the room."I-It's now what it looks like!"

"Natsu may be an idiot, but I'm not." Gray said, jamming his open palm and fist together.

Lying on the couch, Erza was dying of embarrassment. Being rescued by Gray and Natsu? What a disgrace, and from Ichiya of all people. Her face was battling her hair in color as she ducked out of the door to hide her shame. Was Ichiya really going to rape her? Should she tell the authorities? She lost her train of thought as she found herself in the middle of the dancefloor. People were tugging on her and pulling her through the crowd, and it took all the restraint in her body not to requip into her Heaven's Wheel armor and kill everyone. Dark ideas were creeping into her mind and she knew she had to find the blonde before she went insane.

As if on cue, Erza heard a sharp feedback from the mic that the DJ had used to call out song names. A certain blonde was standing on stage, clearing her throat, as if she was about to make an announcement.

"Hello everyone and thanks for coming down here tonight. I am looking for a couple of my friends, their names are Erza, Natsu, Gajeel, and Gray. Basically, a redhead, a pink-headed freak, and two dark haired guys. If you find any of these people, please inform them that they should be on duty at the bar. Thank you for your cooperation."

Erza was dumbfounded. What the hell was Lucy doing? Now they would get no pay because they weren't doing their job and Lucy had announced that to the whole guild. She was going to give everyone a serious lecture when they all got back to Fairy Tail. Never leave your posts, she would say, be responsible, watch each other's backs, etc. I might even have to buy Wendy an ice cream cone for her good work…

Ichiya was curled up into a corner, beaten to a pulp.

"That'll teach you the next time you try to mess with us.", Gray said, wiping the blood from his fists.

Natsu hit Gray on the back of the head, "Stop showing off, Icicle."

Instead of waiting for a response, he grabbed Gray's hand and pulled him out the door. They quickly made their way over to the bar and hopped over the bar, in Gray's case dragged over the bar. The two were still holding hands when Erza made her way over to them, along with Gajeel and Lucy. Erza was glaring at Lucy and Gajeel had a goofy smile plastered on his face.

"Oh look if it isn't the two star-crossed lovers!", Gajeel said, sniggering at the two holding hands. Gray tugged at the fire mage's hand, but Natsu just held on tighter.

Natsu scoffed and rolled his eyes. "Shut the hell up Gajeel."

"What do you mean by lovers?", Lucy asked.

Gray was getting slightly annoyed and decided to change the subject. "It doesn't matter, let's just get to work."

Everyone begrudgingly got back to work. They only had a few more hours left before the sun came up. As soon as everyone had gone, the club totally lost its luster. The place was a mess. Akiko and Kimiko handed everyone brooms and dust pans to start cleaning up the club. Erza equipped into her Super Scrubber 3000 armor and started to clean at a rate unknown to mankind. Lucy was shining glasses with Wendy, Gajeel was mopping, Kimiko was sweeping, and Akiko was filing papers.

On the other side of the nightclub, Gray and Natsu had been assigned to taking down the streamers from the ceiling. They were both brainstorming on how they were going to do this without a ladder. There were at least a hundred streamers and they had to get them all.

"We could burn them.", Natsu suggested.

"Are you really that fucking stupid?"

Natsu was getting annoyed. All his ideas were either too destructive are virtually impossible to perform. He decided to take matters into his own hands and grabbed Gray's waist, hoisting him up on his shoulders.

Gray's eyes went wide with fear. "What do you think you're doing!?"

"Just grab the streamers, or are you too flustered?", Natsu teased.

Surprisingly, Grays thighs were actually kind of warm. When they had first met, Natsu thought that Gray could freeze him with just one touch. Over the years, Gray opened up more and Natsu found out that gray was more of frosty empress than an evil ice king.

After a few hours, they had gotten a system going. Gray would pull the streamers down, and Natsu would move once Gray had pulled down all the ones in the area they were standing in. Everything was fine and dandy until the ground was covered with streamers, and Natsu was finding it hard to walk. Seconds later, Natsu tripped taking Gray with him. Gray fell on top of Natsu onto all the streamers. Even though it had only been minutes, it felt like they had laid there for hours. Gazing into each other's eyes, the moment just felt so right, and Natsu took the opportunity to push back Gray's bangs and lean in.

A/N: AND THE CLIFFHANGER STRIKES AGAIN! Well, I gotta give you some reason to want to read the next chapter right? Thanks for reading!