Lucy's POV:

"Okay, Lucy. Here it goes. Don't screw this up," I murmur to myself.

"Would you hurry up and just do it already?" I heard someone grumble. "Come on!"

I sighed stepping forward, "Three...two...one-"

"Hooray!!!" I hear the guild burst into whoops and hollers around me, as I open my eyes to see the entire guild hall gleaming with the hues of golden yellows, greens, and burgundies dancing across the shimmering snow like glass.

I sigh in relief. It worked. Fairy Tail, the guild full of the most talented wizards and mages, had gotten all their tediously elaborate Christmas decorations up.
However Gajeel still has Levy on his shoulders from helping her place the star on the tree.
Mavis giggles as she watches a blushing Juvia trying to get a Santa outfit on a reluctant- AH MY EYES! >.< - a very reluctant very nude Gray. Elfman is probably saying something about Gray being a man while Evergreen looks like she turned herself into stone. On the other- less scandalous- side of the room Max is dancing with his broom, Cana is trying to get the Christmas tree to dance with her, and Macao was so drunk that he almost made the fatal mistake of falling into Erza's strawberry cake. I giggled from outside at my friends making merry and complete bakas out of themselves.

From the corner of my eyes, I see Mirajane stealthily weaving around the crowd in the shadows holding something.
She's been this way lately. Always making weird remarks about these "ships" of hers called "Jerza, GaLe, RoWen, LoRies, Elfgreen," and most specifically "NaLu." Although from the way she speaks about them, I assume they're some pervy romance novels that she's reading.
Then I pale as I catch a glimpse of what she is holding as she pins one above the doorway- Mistletoe. Why would we ever need mistletoe?! We're all just colleagues for Mavis's sake!

I set down the lacrima that had made shimmering fireflies dance on the snow-covered ground from the liggt of the guild's decoratiom. I suddenly stiffen as I feel someone wraps their arms around me, and pulls me into a warm embrace. "See, Luce?"

I loosen up a bit recognizing the voice and shift myself to find the pink-haired dragon slayer giving me that toothy, heart-throbbing smile of his. "I told you we'd finish by tonight."

I give him a closed smile, "Merry Christmas, Natsu." Watching our nakama inside from the window, I allow myself to lean into his muscular arms- uh...f-for the Holiday's sake! I mean- it's just that he is really warm and the temperature is cold enough to even make Gray where a scarf this winter. That's all...no other reason for why I'd like to snuggle with the pervy pink pyro.

Unfortunately, that doesn't last too long. He quickly leaps towards to the door and exclaims, "Oi! Lucy, let's get inside, before Frosty gets his crusty fingers on all my food!" I feel a bead of sweat fall from my forehead as his onx, hazel eyes gleam like a wolf's about to devour his pray while licking his chops. Whatever was I expecting?

Just as Natsu practically drags me through the door, the silver bells placed on the door handle chime and everyone stops what they are doing to gawk at something above us.

"W-what?" he asks and then pales. "Please tell me I didn't just ruin Erza's cake."

I stop breathing as I remember where I had seen Mira hang up her decorations a couple minutes ago. This isn't happening- not again!

Mira crosses her arms with a devil's all-knowing smirk. Please don't say it. Please don't say. She doesn't say anything, but simply points her hand up to the mistletoe above Natsu and I.

I am too concentrated on controlling the fire in my cheeks (A/N: ...I realized it as soon as I wrote it...too many nalu lemkns Dx) to notice Natsu slightly blushing as he finds the cursed plant of my doom. I am probably pinker than his spiky hair right now.

Natsu looks straight at me, incredibly close so I can feel the warmth of his breath against my face. I don't know if it's the Christmas tree that was recently harassed by Cana or my imagination, but I swear he smells like wintergreen and burning tree sap- surprisingly not like tuna and expired meat like I thought it would...not that I've thought about or anything.  What to do? What to do?!

I look for Happy again, but I already know he is snickering at us within the sanctuary of fhe wicked Mirajane's arms. "I- I..." I trail off widening my eyes as I see him smirk so I can see his unusually sharp canines. I find that I am subconsciously enthralling myself into the green, brown, and gold world of his eyes, until he pulled them away to look at the others.

Natsu points up at the mistletoe and asks everyone in an all-too innocent manner considering the previous moment, "What are those?"

I freeze waiting for someone to answer, utterly embarrassed. Wasn't it humiliating enough to be caught in this situation without someone having to explain the properties to him?
But no one answers, the guild just suddenly bursts out into racous laughter.

"Poor, Lucy-chan!"

"Looks like Igneel never showed him the hotdog and donut combo, gihee!"

"They looooooooooove each other!"

"At this rate, Flame Brain'll never get a girl!"

"Speak for yourself, Stripper!" Natsu shouts tackling the nudist.

"MY STRAWBERRY CAKE!!!"

Mira's left eye is twitching while squeezing Happy in her arms so tight he looks like he is about to pop like a hot-air balloon, "S-so close. NaLu. So close."

I decide to push away the tense moment that we just had and join in laughing myself with the rest. Oh, Natsu, you dense baka!
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Once the party had settled down a bit, most of the guild members had gone home, leaving just Erza, Juvia, Evergreen, Levy, Wendy, a delusional Cana, Mavis, and I. From what I can tell most of us have had at least a drink or two. The guys probably took the beginning signs and took cover by now. Wendy and I on the other hand decided to stay sober. Tonight I want to avoid what I hear happens when I get drunk- especially with the recent Mistletoe incident.

(You should play the song now if you haven't already)

Erza bangs her wine bottle on the table, "You know you all are very lucky your partners are in the guild for Christmas!"

"Hey! You aren't the only one, Erza!" Cana slurs with a following hicup.

Poor Mavis has a shadow across her face while pushing her index fingers together, "e-ehh, yeah."

"P-partners? But aren't we your partners, Erza-san?" Wendy asks.
Cana pounces behind me and I squeal as she rudely goes for a grab, "Na-ah, kiddo." She winks. "Not that kinda partner, ya see?"
This causes Wendy to turn red, "A-aye."

"Do you have any idea how hard it is to figure out what to get for Jellal, when I barely see him?" Erza growls. "The dam man can't even get a tele-lacrima!"

"Oooh, Erza-san!" Levy exclaims. "Don't worry! You two have known each other since childhood! I'm sure he'll love anything you get him!" Her unusually big drunk smile crinkled, "G-gajeel on the otherhand..."

"Speaking of which, Erza-san. I didn't know you and Jellal-kun were- a-ah- together that way," Wendy added. I swear I can hear squealing from somewhere in the distance.

Erza's face camouflages in with her hair, "A-a-ah, not exactly. I was just-"

Cana snuggles up to Erza, "Oi, don't hold back, Erza. You can tell us. We won't tell anyone."

Erza looks down so we can't see her face, "I...it's just that he doesn't like me back that way, and whenever I feel like he does, he just turns away and it- it makes me feel so...feel so.."

"Go on," Cana demands leaning forward.

"...so FRUSTRATED!"

"Gah!" all the girls dive away from the table. Erza quickly chops the table in half like lightning with a sword.

I roll over to see Juvia's standing by Erza with her eyes swirling as water flows from them. "E-erza is telling Juvia?" T~T

"Oh no," I murmur, preparing for the guild hall to be flooded.

"GRAY-SAMA DOESN'T EVEN LOOK AT JUVIAA!" she whales.

"J-juvi-" Wendy tries to comfort her, but is cut off.
Erza stomps forwards her eyes overflowing with delusional anger fueled by none other than alcohol. "How dare you let him treat this way." She draws her blade trusting it threateningly at Juvia. I'm literally shaking, maybe being drunk was a better option than going through this sober.
"You!" The devil, himself, is upon Fairy Tail now with her mischeivious grin. "Attack the table."
Everyone relaxed there stance, "...eh?
"How many heart felt gifts filled with tedious care and your limitless love has he simply cast aside like trash?"
"Juvia would make a thousand gifts for Gray-sama just for him to b-be happy!" There go the water works.
"How many times has he pushed you away again and again because you simply just aren't cool enough for him?" Erza pried.
"E-Erza..." I trail off. She's going too far.
It's working, however. The more Erza talks- the more I can see Juvia starting to boil with anger. "Who else could be more worthy for Gray-sama? Is Juvia not worthy of Gray-sama?!"
How many times have you willingly- indefinitely!- offered your priceless, pure, broken heart to him on a silver platter only to have him stomp on it with his cold, unfeeling one again and AGAIN?!! ATTACK THE TABLE!!"
Wendy's face is the definition of confusion. She somehow manages to squeak, "I- I don't how attacking a table is going to-"
"WATER SLICER!" We watch Juvia grit her teeth in fury as she hits the table. "WATER SLICER! WATER SLICER!"

I lay here amazed as Juvia continues the tear the table to shreds. I can't help but pity her though; she deserves at least an answer from the guy. She finally pulls away wiping her tears away. Usually she just submits to being gloomy and sobbing, but this was new- I'm not sure which side of her I like more. "J-juvia is sorry," she whimpers. Cue the Niagara Falls. "THE POOR TABLE! It's so SAd!" Dx

Erza nods at Juvia's work satisfactorily,"Good. Who's next?!" I gulp. This isn't going to end up well. They're going to wreck all our hard work on the Christmas decorations.

Evergreen bit her lip and stood up with her hands balled into fists, "Elfman!"

The denser ones of us gasped, but to most it wasn't very shocking. "I am tired of sneeking around trying to get that clumsy clutz to stop making our relationship so obvious!" She shot a table with her fairy bombs. She paces the room. "AND HIS TALK ABOUT MANHOOD! AGH!" She froze three tables to stone. Once she seemed satisfied she sat down with a dignifying "Hmph."

"Cana! Who is this man outside the guild that you speak of?" Erza commanded.

"U-uh...His name is... Ba...Bac-uh-uh...hiccup!" she giggled. "You know what- hiccup? I...I can't...rememberrrrr-" With that Cana callapsed on the floor- out cold- snoring.

"And Levy!" Erza points her sword at Levy ignoring Cana. "What did you say about Gajeel?!"

"EH?" she squeaks.

Cana, miraculously wide awake now, bumps into Levy with a glass of whiskey in her hand, "Oh, come on, Levy. Don't you feel some kind of frustration towards Gajeel?"

Levy looks at each of us to see if it is okay. She stands up. "W-well..." She looks around for something and picks up a splinter of a broken table. "I...um..." She waves the peice of wood around like a wand. Her drunk smile fades into a look of confusion. "W-whenever he calls me Shrimp."

"MmHmm?" Cana pries.

"I- I can't help but...but..." She furrows her eyebrows at the splinter. "Like it!" she shouts as she breaks the splinter in half.

For a moment, I think I see Mira nodding in the background muttering "I knew it" as she eats some popcorn.

"Wow. Impressive," I mutter. Is that seriously all the anger Levy has built up?

Mavis is in a corner casting a dark aurora, while rocking back and forth whispering/chanting, "If only they knew- if only they knew- if only." If it was possible there is something out in the world that scares me more than Erza, I'm pretty sure right now Mavis is it.

Erza sighs, "I'll take it! And you!" Erza spins around to point her sword at me and again I start sweating. "What about you?"

I can hear something like evil laughter and "NaLu, NaLu, NaLu!" coming from an unknown voice somewhere around the room.

"Um...I'm sorry, Erza, but I-"

Erza just groans, "I won't even bother." That sort of hurts. Aren't I at least worth trying to information from? I mean not that there is any...

Erza spins to Mavis, and quickly (and wisely) repositions herself to point her sword at Wendy. "Wendy! I know you have feelings for Romeo!"
"Eeeeeeeeeh?!!!" she shoots her hands up to cover her rosy cheeks. "Uh-uh!"

"Uh-huh!" goes Cana.

"Juvia thinks Wendy makes a perfect Juliet!" adds Juvia like her opinion matters. (A/N: wow...Lucy, what a nice thing to say about Juvia.)

"YOU DARE DENY ME?!" growls Erza.

Wendy is sweating nervously, "I- I don't know. Maybe."

"Go on."

"But the problem is he never talks to me about it!" Wendy cries confused. "Whenever I bring up something romantic he just gets so nervous and runs off! It is so annoying!"

"HE IS SUCH A DENSE UNPROPER IDIOT WHO LIKES FISH!" hisses Carla scratching the death out of a table leg. Although I doubt she is talking about Romeo...and hopefully not Natsu. I shiver at that thought. Why did I even gone there?

"Agh!" Wendy shouts slice the table with wind once.
"Aagghh!" goes Carla.

"GRAY-SAMA!"

"I am NOT a MAN!"

"BEeEeEeeErrRrrr!"

"Nya!" went Levy going around breaking peices of debri in half.

"GRAAAWR!!! FIANCÉ MY A...! GRAAAWR!"

By this point I notice Mavis's eyes have started glowing and she has added a sort of creepy laugh to her chant while getting louder and louder with every slash the girls made from anger.
"IF ONLY! heheh IF ONLY THEY KNEW!"

"EVERYONE STOP!" I scream at the top of my lungs so hard tears fill my eyes. To my surprise, every stands there shocked looking at me, but that doesn't matter. I stopped them not only because they were wrecking the place, but Mavis was starting to remind me of Zeref more and more minute by the minute.

"L-Lucy-sa-"

"No!" I stop Levy trying to hold back my tears. "No! Don't even try! Look at what you guys have done?!" I say gesturing at all the damaged decorations. "Do you have any  idea how hard Natsu and I worked on those?!" I spin around at Cana. "And don't you dare bring him up right now! You all fuss and whine and complain about how hard your relationships are so much that you don't even consider your friends around you! We are supposed be a guild! A guild that works together! Not hooking up and getting frustrated with your closest colleagues!"

They have know idea how many times that I have had to refrain myself from getting too close with Natsu. We are colleagues. Not a couple. That can get in the way of our work or in the battlefield, and I can't let that happen, even if everyone else around me doesn't understand that. They won't understand. They have no idea how hard it is to hide their feelings that they have for their best friend from their best friend. But I can't tell them that; they will just tease me even more.

"Whatever happened to Fairy Tail's Christmas?! You know, no quests for the Holidays? Just hanging around with your friends? It's December 13th. 12 more days! Why are you all telling me this? What do you want me to do? Scare the guys into becoming your slaves?" I ask. "Yeah, right," I scoff. I calm myself down and wipe a crystal tear away. "I just wanted my first Fairy Tail Christmas to be merry."
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After my little outburst, the girls guiltily promised to stay up fixing the damage they made, and assured me that I should go home and get some sleep not without worrying about them. I gladly took their advice, knowing all too well that Natsu wouldn't let me sleep in tomorrow morning- quest or no quests. Clingy bastard.
"You know? Some day, lady, you are going to fall off that ledge and I am going to laugh!" the guy on the boat fusses. I wave him away continuing balancing on the ledge as I make my way to my apartment.

As I walk, I hear murmurs and familiar voices talking up ahead, until I am about to pass by the block's tornardo shelter and realize that the noises are coming from there.

Curiousity getting the better of me, I open it to a bunch of men- no- boys yelping like little girls at me from discovering them. It's all the guys from the guild and...Jellal? They are huddled in a corner trembling, until they recognize it is only me, and most of them sigh in relief except for Natsu.

"Thank Ur. It's just Lucy," Gray sighs. "Quick! Throw him to her before she calls the others!"

"Eh?" I ask.

With a lot of effort on their part, they manage to pry Natsu's grip for life off the shelter and begin throwing- wait a minute.

"Kya!" I groan as I topple to the ground with Natsu on top of me.
I can feel him shaking as he hugs onto me tightly. "Pl-please don't make me make you purr," he pleads.

"What does that even mean?!" I ask immediately regretting asking it. "Don't answer that. I don't want to know."

"I'll do anything," Natsu begs. "Just please, don't be drunk."

...is this really how my drunk self makes him? I chuckle at the thought. "Natsu it's just me. Wendy and I decided to stay sober tonight."

Natsu immediately relaxes, and awkwardly pushing himself off of me while scratching the back of his neck. "Really? heh-heh. That's great."

"Yeah, well. Goodnight, Natsu!" I say giving my best smile.
"See you tomorrow, Luce."

I continue walking and finally get to my apartment and plop on my bed grabbing my tele-lacrima, watching the Dolan Twins, Nigahiga, and iiSuperwomanii on youtube.

I watch Ethan putting his hands on a table full of mice traps, when suddenly I hear a loud crack and footsteps outside my bedroom door. It just turned 12 o'clock- midnight, which for some reason makes me all the more suspicious.

I quickly grab the closest key nearby and summon Aries. We sneak into my living room and I nearly scream as something jumps out at me from behind my Christmas tree.

"Eeek! I'm sorry!" Aries squeals covering whatever it is with wool.

Long sharp claws cut through the pink mesh, and Aries and I run to the side of the room waiting for it to attack. A demon brusts out of the wool with ease, causing Aries and I to scream. However, then the demon started to shrink...into a...girl?

"Gee, Lucy. I knew breaking into your house was risky, but I never knew you would attack so hastily," she says in a sweet angelic voice.

I turn the lights on. "Mira, what are you doing?" I groan.

"I'm the g-g-ghost of Fairy Tail Christma-a-a-as!" she tries to say in a spooky voice.

"Um, okay?" I say all the more convinced that Mira has finally lost her mind. "Why are you here?"

"I heard you don't beleive Christmas is about lo-o-ove!" she says continuing the spooky voice.

"You heard that? I thought you had gone home? Oh wait..." I remember the unknown squeals and chanting around the room and my lecture to the girls about relationships and Christmas. "You were spying on us, weren't you?"

She just smirks and continues, "You, my dear, need to learn the true Fairy Tail Spirit!"

"Which is?"

"Ships!"

"Uh...I don't do drugs..."

"I'm sorry-y-y!" exclaims Aries. I probably need to talk to her about that...

"Not drugs! Couples!" cheers Mira. "Jerza, GaLe, Gruvia, RoWen, Elfgreen, and LoRies!" She eyes Aries on the last one through her snowy hair. "Jellal with Erza, Gajeel with Levy, Gray with Juvia, Romeo with Wendy, and Loke with Aries!" She sings.

"L-leo?!" Aries gushed.

Hmmm, each ship is like a combination of the couple's names...wait. Does that mean NaLu is? Nope, nope. Not thinking about that.

"So to teach you how Christmas is about lo-o-ove. Until Christmas is over each midnight you will get a different male visitor at your tree."

"Um..." I turn scarlett. "I'm also not really comfortable with loosing my vir-"

"I'm sory-y-y!" I really need to teach her when to apologize and when not to.

"OH NO! No. No!" Mira giggles. "Do any of that sort before Christmas and I'll have to...have my fun with you." Her usually blue eyes turn as red as a demon's. I gulp. I do not know what her "fun" is, but I do not intend to find out.

"Okay, so what am I supposed to do?"

"You are to convince them to get together with their ship by Christmas."

"What?! How am I supposed to do that?! And get any sleep? And what makes you so sure I'll do it anyway?!"

"Because if you don't, I will tell Natsu what Mistletoe is for. And I can guarantee you two will get into that same situation again." She winks- of all the times to wink!

"You wouldn't! Mira-san, I thought we were friends!" I cry. I have never seen this side of Mira before. Is this what they were talking about when they spoke about her as a teenager?

"Oh! We are. We are!- but I would and I am. And if you tell anyone or backout, these will be posted on the job request board." She takes out a folder of pictures and flips through them.

I gasp. All of them are pictures of Natsu and I in awkward positions and moments that one might take the wrong way. There are even two of him holding me outside after I lighted the lights, and another one of him holding onto me after the guys threw him on top of me. Another the time- oh, gods! Drunk me, why?! I shiver just thinking about how she somehow captured all of them, watching and following our every move.

"How fast do you think the rumors will fly, once these are up, hmm?" she asks.

"Natsu is your secret boyfriend?" Aries asks.

I glared at the very unhelpful Ram sprit.

"I'm sorry!"

"Here are some sleeping potions. You can get twice the ammount of sleep in half the amount of time with these! Tonight is the night to prepare. That means 11days left! ^-^" she beamed, but then warned in her low threatening demonic voice, "Don't screw it up."

With that she jumped out the window just like Natsu, except she grew wings and flew off to who knows where. Dam her tranformation magic!

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(A/N:) YAY! Sorry for the slightly late update! I kind of got wrapped up with other things, and computers dying with unsaved work. T^T

4135 words. Wow. WOW. Longest chapter I've ever written. Hopefully since this was the beginning, other chapters won't be so long, and don't worry there will be shipping moments other than NaLu coming soon.

Please comment what you enjoyed, and what you didn't, amd also whether you prefer 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person POVs!
Forgive the typos, I haven't had time to edit, since I will be updating everyday. Sorry for the lack of humour, I was really tired writing this. I'll hopefully edit this and put in some jokes in later. I keep on writing apologies, but I'd start to sound like Aries!

So, since I stayed up all night again, and am too tired to write anymore:
Dum proxima tempus, mai muichi! :D