Ch. 5: A Band Forms: Elemental Boys

{Jellal's POV}

"Natsu?" Gray gazed over at Natsu just like what we did.

"G-Gray? Gajeel? Jellal?" He stuttered.

The man who had the helicopter cleared his throat, making us glance at him. "Uh, Natsu. You know these three?"

Natsu nodded, "They're my friends. The ones I was telling you about?"

So that means this is Natsu's father, Mr. Dragneel? Wow. Natsu sure is rich. Maybe they've gotten over the problem about being corrupted.

"Ah, I see. So, where's the four girls you were also talking about? I found only the three of them sailing with a fisherman, but I never saw a girl with them."

Natsu gave each one of us a questioning look. When we never responded, he excused us from his father and dragged us to what I presume is his bedroom.

He let us in and closed the door afterwards and that's where everything got a little bit noisy. Maybe not a little bit, but very noisy. We bombarded him with so many questions and protests.

"Bro!"

"What happened?"

"How are you?"

"Why are you here?"

"You were so hard to find!"

"Tell us some things about your life here!"

"You left without a personal farewell! How could you do that to us?"

"You weren't communicating with us."

"The girls are depressed."

"Okay, okay! Stop it! I get it! I'm gonna explain it, one by one! I can't answer your questions all at once!" He frustratedly whined.

I raised my right hand as if I was in a recital, "First, me. How are you?" Gray gave me a slight punch in my shoulder and shook his head, telling me that that is not the exact question.

"Why did you leave us?" Gray asked with a straight face. Natsu sighed and nodded.

He explained everything to us. We know that the reason was already written on the letter he gave us, but we thought it was better if we hear it from him. He said that someone stole their money and took control of their business, so they got corrupted and went here to Canada with their remaining money for the reason they would recover their money here. His dad got another work, which was all about being an action star, which made them all rich and famous around this place and some parts of the world.

"Wow, Natsu. Big time." Gajeel commented, his eyes twinkling with amusement.

"Yeah. Rich kid." Gray said, lying onto Natsu's soft bed.

"So," I started, changing the subject. "It's my turn to tell you everything that had happened to us." He stared at me, motioning for me to go on. And so I told him everything he needed to know, from the time he left to the time we went on a two year adventure just to find him. He couldn't believe his ears when he found out that we traveled for that long just to find him.

"Now that I finished my story and everything's all clear to us, it's my time to ask how's your life as a rich kid." I smirked and leaned at the wall beside Natsu's bed.

"Well, don't tell this to Lucy and the other girls, but—"

"We don't know where they are right now. We left them. And I know if we somehow met with them and tried to explain everything to them, they might not listen and walk out on us," I explained, frowning.

Natsu seemed to be guilty all about it for awhile. But then he shrugged it off and continued, "As I was saying, don't tell anyone about this. Even dad and mom don't know this little secret..." he paused. Ugh. A cliffhanger.

Gray frustratedly scowled, "Don't beat around the bush and spill it!"

"I'm already a casanova." Various words came out from our mouths as those four words came out from his mouth. We were too shocked we don't even know what we're saying anymore.

"Dude, are you serious?!" Gray was too pale.

"What a joke." Gajeel tsked.

I covered my ears and told myself this was just a dream. "Lalala I can't hear anything lalala."

Natsu gave us a death glare which means he was serious. We all gasped and our mouths were shut, probably because our minds were struck with surprise and we were also making ourselves think he was making a funny joke... which unfortunately, the opposite.

"Tell me you're not serious." Gajeel looked the worst of all, his crimson eyes wide, his jaws dropped and his face pale. It was very funny, but I couldn’t convince myself to laugh because of Natsu’s secret.

"I'm serious. Look, I just got influenced by my friends in school."

"So your friends are a bad influence." Gray and I shook our heads.

"I guess you could say that again. And guess what. Even if I'm a casanova, I haven't kissed any girl. My lips are still virgin."

Gajeel chuckled and commented, "Are you saving that lips for Lucy?"

"Nah, Lucy and I have no love interests. I haven't got a crush on her or anything. I mean, she's my best friend. Well.. I had, but it was only for a short period of time." He shrugged nonchalantly. "Oh, and as I promised, I shall come back to Japan after two years. So, uh, would you stay here or go back to Japan?"

Gray frowned at him, "We struggled to find you for two years and you're just gonna send us back to Japan?"

Natsu laughed loudly and smiled creepily at Gray. "You missed me that much, ice boy, honey?" We cackled so damn hard because the pitch of his voice was really high.

"You're taking it the wrong way, dude. I ain't a gay." He rolled his eyes and laughed with us. Ah, I missed this. But it felt incomplete though. The girls.

"Stay with me at this house. We have three guest rooms. I think you must now rest."

"Nah, we prefer to party at your bedroom." We said in chorus and laughed loudly again.

Lying on the bed of Natsu, Gajeel grabbed the remote and switched the channel to my myx. There on the tv, the band named Boys Like Girls was playing the song Thunder, our (Erza and I) theme song for our friendship because we met each other on a stormy day.

♪Your voice is the soundtrack of my summer.
Do you know you're unlike any other?
You'll always be my thunder,
and I said your eyes are the
brightest of all the colors.
I don't wanna ever love another
you'll always be my thunder so
bring on the rain
and bring on the thunder.♪

I sang.

"Woo! Nice concert! Is that dedicated for Erza?" Natsu smirked teasingly at me and clapping along with Gray and Gajeel who were laughing their a**es out.

I rolled my eyes instead of answering. I know they already know about the fact that Thunder by Boys Like Girls was our theme song. They know we're just friends.

"Hm, Luce and I don't have theme songs and whatsoever." Natsu put his index finger and thumb over his chin.

"Me either." Gray and Gajeel said in chorus.

“What, you’re all jealous? Make one up too.” I told them irritably.

I switched the channel to the ones with the show named American Idol.

"That reminds me," We turned to look at Natsu. "Do you, guys, by any chance, want to audition in Asia's Got Talent after we return to Japan as a band?"

"Sure. But I'm not good at singing, so let me be the pianist." Gajeel said.

"I'll be the drummer." I told them with a smile.

"Guitarist here." Gray grinned.

"Then I'll be the vocalist." Natsu jumped in joy.

"Uh, but before anything, we should have a band name. Like The Beatles, Fifth Harmony or One Direction." Gajeel sat on the floor.

"What name, though?" I asked, watching a contestant from American Idol sing with an unpleasant voice.

"Four Dudes." Natsu suggested. We shook our heads. Too simple.

"Fourrific?" Gray tried to suggest, but we just laughed out loud with his suggestion. It was just horrific.

"Four Idiots?" We laughed louder at Natsu's suggestion. We are just making a fool of ourselves with that band name. He just changed the movie title Three Idiots into Four Idiots.

"How about... Elemental Boys?" I suggested. They thought about it for awhile and somehow, they agreed.

"Let's have nicknames too! You know, just like Lady Gaga." Gray exclaimed. Again, another laughing session begins because of Lady Gaga.

"Mine is ND."

"Natsu, isn't that your initials?"

"Just let me be, Gajeel. Oh wait. That's it! My name will be Fire!"

"Then mine will be Ice." -Gray

"Iron." -Gajeel

"Uhh... I don't know." I ran out of options. You know, I want something that'll suit my personality.

"Why don't you just go with air?" Gray suggested. I sighed then nodded.

"Then it's all settled." Natsu smiled.

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