Jellal and Erza began dating three days ago on a bus to Disney World for Fairy Tail's annual "business meeting". And now they were on a bus again, heading to their first date.
The seats of the bus were covered in carpet from the eighties, or it seemed like it. The bus was rather crowded at the moment, some standing and some sitting, because it was the dinner rush. People decided to travel out of their resort area to go a restaurant in one of the parks, and Jellal and Erza were heading to Epcot.
For the first time in two days, Jellal actually had the chance to relax. The past two days, he had been to the Magic Kingdom and the Animal Kingdom parks, but found that everyone wanted to go on all the rides with him. So each day he had found himself being traded and tossed between groups of people, and had gone on every ride and had seen every attraction at least three times.
Jellal had returned to their hotel-Port Orleans Riverside-with Erza and her team on the first day, in which he was dragged all across the Magic Kingdom. He collapsed in the lobby while Team Natsu went into the gift shop, and found that he was joined by Gajeel, Juvia, and Wendy. They all had the same experience as him-being dragged to Timbuktu and back by everyone because this was their first time at a Disney Park. The four of them shared what had happened to them that day, and they all met up again in the same place yesterday as well.
Now, Jellal had some peace and quiet. Laxus gave him a reservation for two at a restaurant in Epcot that he was going to give to Jellal anyway even if he wasn't dating Erza. Laxus and Mira figured that they could have tried some Lady and the Tramp shit to get Jellal and Erza together, but the Little Mermaid worked just fine. Laxus and Mira had reservations of their own somewhere else, and they had to scheme to try and get the next two Fairy Tail members together.
The bus stopped and from outside, Jellal could already see the silver sphere that was the icon of the Disney Park. It was slow getting off the bus, and into the park, but Jellal had the chance to marvel everything before he returned the next day to be tossed and traded, not having the time to enjoy and observe everything was going on.
"So what's the sphere called?" Jellal asked Erza, who happened to be an expert at everything at the park, thanks to being at the parks so many times, along with her strange competitive nature.
"Spaceship Earth," Erza said as they stood at the foot of the attraction. "It's all about the future."
"Cool," Jellal replied as he started to pull out the map the lady at the front gave to him, trying to find where the restaurant was. Even though the map was folded like a pamphlet, Jellal still had trouble opening, just like every other map he ever held in his hands.
"It's in Italy," Erza informed Jellal.
"That's far," Jellal mumbled without thinking, sadden by the thought that he couldn't try to conquer the map.
"No," Erza laughed. "There are different sections around the lake based on different countries."
"Oh," Jellal began to feel stupid, remembering that Plank from Ed, Edd n' Eddy had better social skills than him.
"Come on," Erza grabbed Jellal's hand and began to drag him towards the lake. "There's no need for maps. I have all of Epcot memorized."
"Just like all of the other parks?" Jellal asked Erza.
"Yes, if you want to win and get in line first, you can't have silly maps holding you back," Erza replied.
"Getting in line isn't a race," Jellal sighed, but there was no arguing on the subject.
Jellal was surprised at the detail put into the different sections. When he passed through, it felt as though he was actually in Mexico (but with less drug smuggling and illegal immigrants trying to get across the border), Norway (if he actually knew what Norway was like), China (Jellal saw a documentary about China on History Channel when he was in a motel with cable once), Germany (you know, if he actually left the continent), and finally Italy.
The restaurant Laxus had chosen was the Tutto Italia Ristorante. Jellal had no idea what that meant. And he had no idea where it was. Luckily, Erza had been here before and guided Jellal over to a restaurant right next to a revealing fountain of the Roman god Neptune.
"Table for two, under Fernandes," Erza instructed the man at the front. The man nodded and showed Erza and Jellal to their table. They sat down and Erza ordered for Jellal, probably because Jellal only knew one thing on the menu, which was spaghetti, and even then, Jellal didn't understand why there were so many types of spaghetti. After that, they were able to sit in peace and talk.
Erza was wearing a purple, strapless gown, with slits down the sides of her legs. She had put her hair up and looked stunning. Jellal, on the other hands, could not change his out at his will and had no idea he was going out on a date, so he looked your average preppy 9th graders. He wore jeans and a button-up white shirt underneath his regular coat, because though it was Florida, Jellal was eternally cold and it was November.
"Have you been enjoying Disney World so far Jellal?" Erza asked her boyfriend.
"Yeah, but I've been on all the rides in the Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom," Jellal answered. "But I didn't really get anytime to just take it all in. I also don't understand why everyone wants to go on every ride with me."
"It's not everyday someone hasn't been to Disney World," Erza answered.
"Are you sure?" Jellal asked in reply.
"Or, instead, it's not everyday you get to go on vacation with someone who hasn't been to Disney World," Erza explained. "You get to show that person all the rides you love, and you get to see the reactions that you had seen for the first time so many years ago."
"Oh," Jellal began to think about it. "So are there any good rides in Epcot?"
"A couple," Erza replied. She was about to continue, but she was cut off by Natsu.
"Hey Erza!" Natsu waddled over, trialing a waiter, and was followed by Happy, Gray and Lucy.
"Miss, they say they're with you," the waiter informed Erza.
"What are you guys doing here!?" Erza stood up and demanded from her friends.
"We wanted to know where you were going," Gray answered. "And Gramps said that you were coming to Epcot to eat."
"And we're hungry, so we thought we'd join you!" Natsu concluded.
"Aye!" Happy agreed.
"But you're obviously in the middle of something so we should probably leave," Lucy said from the background, but she was drowned out by Natsu's stomach.
"So what are you guys having?" Natsu asked as he sat down at the next table over.
"I guess you can sit there," the waiter sighed. "That seat's free. I'll be over with the menus in a second."
The waiter walked away, leaving Jellal and Erza with Natsu, Happy, Gray and Lucy.
"I'm sorry we intruded on your date," Lucy apologized to Erza. "If we'd known, we wouldn't have come."
"Are you sure?" Natsu asked Lucy. "We didn't make any dinner reservations anywhere and we don't know where else we would eat."
"Natsu! You've been to Disney World over seven times! You've got to have memorized where some of the restaurants are by now!" Gray argued.
"Well how do you think we got here? I knew where the restaurant was," Natsu argued.
"You sniffed Erza out with your nose," Gray sighed.
"And what shall you four have?" the waiter asked when he returned.
"You have any fish?" Happy asked, sitting in a kiddie booster seat.
"No," the waiter replied.
"NOOOOOOOOO!" Happy yelled, dramatically staring up at the ceiling and getting down on his knees. "I'll just have chicken instead."
Once the waiter was done taking orders, he turned to Jellal and Erza, "Your food will be out in a second."
The waiter left, and Jellal turned to Erza.
"Are you okay?" Jellal asked, wondering if Erza was bummed out by having her friends' barge in on their date.
"I'm fine," Erza lied.
"Hey, after this, maybe we can go to, uhm, uh," Jellal pulled the map out of his back pocket and struggled to open it. Once he did, he looked at the sides of the map labeling where everything was, "Oh! We could go to Soarin'! Or maybe the Test Track. Mission: SPACE sounds cool, and we can go inside the sphere. And it says here that there are fireworks over the lake. Sounds cool, right?"
Erza smiled at Jellal's attempts to pick up the date, "Soarin' was an interesting ride, and watching the IllumiNations is a must."
"Alright," Jellal agreed as he phone rang. "Oh, Laxus is texting me."
"What does he want?" Erza asked.
"Probably wants to know how the date is going," Jellal answered and then looked at the message.
LAXUS: hey tramp
LAXUS: hows the date goin
JELLAL: natsu lucy happy and gray all showed up
LAXUS: what
JELLAL: yeah
LAXUS: ill be right there
JELLAL: uh what
LAXUS: mira and i just finished dinner in france well be right there to save the date
JELLAL: don't you dare
LAXUS: 2 late already told mira
"What?" Erza asked when Jellal sighed in exasperation.
"Prepare for this date to get ruined even further," Jellal sighed.
Five minutes later, Laxus and Mira barged into the restaurant to try and drag the unwanted intruders out. They didn't go peacefully. Natsu sent someone's dinner on fire. Mira summoned Satan Soul. Loke somehow showed up. Gray froze a waitress. Erza kicked Laxus in the balls. Happy landed in someone's spaghetti. Jellal stood there in shock. They got kicked out of the restaurant for the remainder of the trip. Luckily, Fairy Tail has some agreement with Disney, so no charges would be held.
The nine off them sat right outside of Italy, staring over the edge of the lake to the barge where the fireworks for IllumiNations would be lighted. Erza was meditating to try to hold in her angry, Natsu was grumbling about how hungry he was, and Happy somehow got out a fishing pole and was trying to fish in the lake.
"Helluva first date, eh stud?" Laxus asked Jellal.
"I blame you," Jellal grumbled.
"I blame Gray," Laxus replied.
"I blame Natsu," Gray argued.
"I blame Happy," Natsu declared.
"I blame the impossible social standards society sets for flying blue cats," Happy answered. "And the lack of fish in the restaurant."
"I blame Mira," Erza stated.
"I blame Erza," Mira said.
"I blame Fairy Tail's destructive nature," Lucy decided.
"I blame that too," Jellal agreed. "Even though it's a good destructive sometime."
"I blame my love for you, Lucy," Loke said, remind everyone that he was there.
"Go away Loke," Lucy sighed, and Loke disappeared.
"Okay, so who wants to go get kicked out of another restaurant?" Natsu asked the group.
"Why not?" Gray asked, suddenly shirtless.
"I guess it'll narrow down our restaurant choices later in the week," Lucy tried to look on the bright side as she stood up.
"Laxus and I were going too met up with my siblings go to Downtown Disney," Mira stated as she and Laxus stood up.
"See ya later shit lords," Laxus bid goodbye as he left with Mira.
"Let's try Japan!" Natsu suggested as that group walked away.
"No! Norway!" Gray argued.
Jellal sighed as everyone walked away, luckily leaving him and Erza alone again.
"Some first date," Jellal sighed.
"We can try again," Erza replied. "Maybe somewhere in Downtown Disney."
"Or outside of Disney," Jellal suggested. "They must have some good restaurants in Universal Studios. And the Blue Man Group has a show there too, don't they?"
"Sounds like a plan," Erza agreed. Jellal leaned over and kissed her as a random firework went over the lake. The sun hadn't set and it was nowhere near the time for the show, but somehow, Disney magic had worked for them.