Chapter 36

A/N: Last Filler! Rainbow Cherry Blossom. Who will get sick??

Spent two weeks working on this, mostly because I've been stressed with school. Super stressed. But managed to finish this extra filler.

Warning: Erlu fluff ahead. 

Please enjoy?

"Rainbow Cherry Blossoms!?" Wendy exclaimed, with a happy glint in her eyes. It sounded so beautiful.

Lucy smiled at the enthusiastic girl in front of her. "Yep. It's like a picnic, with games and all. It's really fun."

"Sounds safe." Carla murmured.

"Plus, this will be the first year in which Lucy and I became girlfriends, as well as Wendy becoming our adoptive daughter." Erza added with a smile, wrapping her arms, always looking for openings to hug the short girl.

"You're right. I haven't thought of that." Lucy smiled at her girlfriend.

"Hmph." Carla glared daggers at Erza. Erza just shrugged it off and continued to hug Lucy.

"By the way, Master gave me a job to do." Erza said with a pang of disappointment.

"Hmm? What is it?" Lucy turned to Erza questioningly.

"We need to go and find these special herbs for the party tomorrow. Apparently, they will be the prize for the game during the party." Erza explained.

"We can go with you." Lucy offered.

Erza perked up. "Really? You'd go with me?" She had hoped that she would offer. What a wonderful girlfriend she is.

Lucy nodded with a smile. "Of course." She turned to face Wendy and Carla. "Want to come with us?"

Wendy nodded excitedly. Carla made an 'hmph' sound, indicating that she doesn't really care.

"Oh! And let's invite Natsu and Gray!" Lucy added.

Erza immediately pouted. "Why them?"

"The more, the merrier!" Lucy explained.

Erza sighed disappointedly. She wanted to go alone with Lucy. Maybe next time, Erza thought. "Fine, let me find them." Erza lets go of Lucy and went to find the boys.

Carla smirked when Erza pouted. She was glad that Lucy asked that the boys come. More chance that the brute would be too busy keep them in check.

...

"I said that I would do this job. But I never knew it was going to be on this freezing mountain!" Lucy cried, hugging herself tightly.

"S-So cold." Wendy shivered, trying to stay warm as she walked close to Lucy for body warmth.

Carla sighed as she flew, not bothered by the cold at all.

Erza walked on the other side of Lucy, looking around, trying to find the herb as fast as possible so they can leave as soon as possible, for Lucy's health of course.

"I'm starving! Is there any fire around here?!" Natsu whined as he continued to walk forward.

"Damn. It's so hard to walk in all this." Gray complained.

"I hope you are referring to the snow, not your boxers." Lucy commented, see that Gray was about to take off his boxers.

"Aye!" Happy cheered.

"Eh..." Gray muttered, before removing his hands from his boxers, almost ashamed.

"Yeah, better be ashamed." Carla glared daggers at the ice mage.

30 minutes of searching in the cold weather, Lucy and Wendy was shivering even more, and Natsu, Gray and Erza was growing impatient. Happy and Carla could care less about them.

"Hey, herbs! Say something if you're there!" Natsu yelled, fire sprouting out his mouth.

"Get real, idiot." Gray muttered disapprovingly.

"Say what!" Natsu glared back at the ice mage.

"I said that you're an idiot." Gray glared back.

Lucy only sighed, knowing that this was going to happened eventually. The fight didn't last long as Erza stepped in and bashed their heads together.

"Enough fighting and get back to work!" Erza demanded.

"Aye..." The boys muttered, getting back on their feet, and got back to work.

The mages continued their search and continued to be left with frustration as they were left empty handed.

"I can't wait to go home." Lucy murmured, looking through a bush to see if the herbs was there. No such luck.

"Yeah, I want to get ready for the flower viewing. Especially the rainbow cherry blossoms." Wendy said as she looked past some boulders and trees. "I'm really excited."

Lucy and Wendy continued to talk excitedly about the flower viewing as the mages continued their search, coming across some Vulcans and areas in which did not possess such herbs.

Not long after that, Natsu then sniffed something, and begun to grin. "This smell! It has to be the herbs!"

"So, wait, have you actually smelled these herbs before?" Carla asked, skeptical about his sense of smell.

"Nope, but I'm sure of it." Natsu confessed, but confident of his sense of smell. Soon, he left a trail of falling snow behind him as he ran straight to where the herbs were. "Let's go, Happy!"

"Aye, Sir!" Happy replied, flying after his friend.

The mages were quiet for a second, before Gray spoke up with an annoyed tone. "Man. Impatient jerk."

"I second that." Erza said, crossing her arms. "But in any case, we should follow him. He does have a remarkable sense of smell."

The mages that were left behind begun to walk to where Natsu had ran off. Erza walked over to Lucy and grabbed her hand and squeezed it. Lucy reciprocated it with a gentle squeeze and a smile. Wendy walked on the other side of Lucy with a smile. Carla flew in the air in between Lucy and Wendy, glaring at an oblivious redhead time to time. Gray kept their distance, not wanting to be punished from an angry redhead for being too close to them. He didn't want to risk it.

Soon, they heard a faint cheer from a flame mage, claiming that he had found them on top a hill.

Halfway there, an unexpected appearance of a White Wyvern appeared from beyond the tree line and landed in an open field where Natsu was. The Wyvern snapped at the boisterous dragon slayer, keeping him away from the herbs, as it was its favorite food.

Gray was the first to respond and ran forward next to Natsu and readied to fight. Natsu's fists were already alighted with fire, thrilled that he gets to fight.

Erza lets go of her girlfriend's hand and requipped into her battle armor. She haven't fought a monster this size in a long time. She grinned in anticipation.

"Great, Erza, you and the boys distract the monster while Wendy and I collect the herbs." Lucy shivered from the cold, eager to finish the job as soon as possible.

"Good idea." Erza smiled at the blonde and turned to Wendy, "You're free to join in and fight."

Carla flew in front of the redhead and glared at her. "Uh, no. Don't get any ideas, brute."

"It was just a suggestion!"

"A forbidden suggestion!"

"You're so annoying!"

"You're horrible!"

Lucy deadpanned at the two and sighed. What are the two even doing? She looked past them and saw that the boys were still fighting, but it seems the Wyvern were putting up a fight.

This wasn't the time to fight like this.

She stepped towards the arguing mages and grabbed Carla out of the air and held her as she stared at her girlfriend, who shrunk in slight fear. "Erza, go and help the boys."

"Yes ma'am!" In a flash, she was gone and already fighting the monster.

"You sure have a way with that woman." Carla huffed.

Lucy smiled at the form of her lovely girlfriend and set down Carla on the ground. "Let's collect some herbs."

She made sure that there was a safe opening for them to go in and swoop the herbs unharmed and safely. It should've been easy to do so while three powerful mages were distracting it. But atlas, nothing is simple.

But the girls and cats were determined as they were plucking up the herbs.

But during the battle of the dragon, Natsu blasted his flames at the beast, but his flames were deflected by its sheer wind pressure and flew straight towards two unsuspecting girls. Before Erza could even chastise the dragonslayer, Gray had launched an ice attack, which the dragon easily dodged it with its wing, causing it to fall to where the girls were, almost impaling the blonde. Enraged, Erza equipped into her Lightning Empress Armor, and aimed it toward the beast, knowing that it will dodge it. It brought a mischievous smile when it had hit Natsu and Gray.

"Fools." Erza smirked.

"W-Why?' Gray muttered as his hair smoked.

"You did that on purpose, didn't you?" Natsu concluded.

From afar, Carla sighed deeply as she helped pluck some herbs with the others. "I figured the brute would do something like this."

Lucy only chuckled nervously. "Erza had always been like that. If I was in the slightest trouble, Erza would immediately go after those two."

"I wish I could find someone like her." Wendy pouted, wanting her own knight in shining armor.

"As long as they're not perverted as the perverted beast that Lucy had reeled in, then it should be fine." Carla commented.

"She's not that bad. She's very polite. In more ways than one actually..."

"Please say no more..." Carla muttered.

"What you mean by in more ways than one?" Wendy asked innocently.

By now, Lucy had a handful of herbs. She turned to Wendy. "Awkwardly polite in a way. It's actually very endearing and cute."

"Cute? Her? No chance." Carla grumbled.

Suddenly, there was a deep rumble, and the ground violently shook. Lucy turned around to find the source, only to have dread sink in.

Carla discarded what she was doing and flew to grab Wendy and took her out of harm's way of the dangerous snow.

In an instant. It all happened in an instant. One second, Lucy was staring at the avalanche of snow in sheer fear. Then she was in the air, flying straight towards a tree. Actually, she was tossed.

10 seconds later, the snow stopped moving. Natsu and Happy, and Carla and Wendy hovered over the snow. They landed on the snow and looked around worriedly.

"Is everyone okay?" Wendy asked.

Gray popped his head out of the snow and grinned.

Natsu looked around. "Where's Erza and Lucy?"

"H-Here..."

The three mages looked up to see Lucy clinging to a tree like her life depending on it.

"Can someone help me down?"

Carla sighed before flying up and helped the blonde back down. Lucy thanked the cat with a warm smile, which caused the cat to blush.

"Where's Erza?" Lucy asked as she looked around, not seeing her girlfriend anywhere.

"Probably buried under the snow after she tossed you into that tree." Carla said so simply.

"What?!" Lucy exclaimed before running towards where she was, or where she thinks she was last and tried to shovel her hands into the snow.

Wendy followed her example and did the same, looking for Erza.

Natsu was about to join in to help before his nose stopped him. He turned his head and found his missing teammate. He grinned and waved his hand, "Erza!"

Lucy immediately stopped and turned around, relief filling every nook and cranny of her being as she stood up and ran straight towards Erza.

She wrapped her arms around the redhead but flinched at how cold the girl was. She only hugged her tighter. "Dummy."

...

The very next morning, Erza groaned apprehensively as she laid under the covers with the biggest pout ever. "This is ridiculous."

Lucy placed a cup of warm tea next to the bedside. "I don't like it either, but you need to stay in bed and get better."

"Me? The great Titania? With a cold?" Erza muttered as she sunk deeper into the comforter.

"Proves you're only human." Lucy muttered as she sat on the edge of the bed.

Erza only pouted even more. She had been looking forward to the flower viewing with Lucy for the first time as girlfriends, to make it better, spending it with their adoptive daughter, Wendy. But she can't enjoy the viewing when she's sick, right?

Erza can't remember the last time she gotten sick. Been so long she can't recall the moments of being put on bedrest. Stupid snow and colds. Stupid. Stupid.

"I'd feel better if you laid next to me." Erza said with a hidden smirk.

"Normally, I might consider." Lucy started with a conflicted look. "But we have Wendy now. And I know that she had been looking forward to the viewing."

"Shouldn't you put Wendy first before your own perverted needs, you brute?" Carla muttered with crossed arms.

Erza blushed, either from her fever or from embarrassment, it was difficult to know. "You know... just a kiss. That's what I meant! And you guys should go on without me!"

"Sounds perfect already." Carla grinned, which earned a glare from a sick redhead.

"There's always next year, right?" Wendy started. But Erza sat up and looked at her dead in the eyes.

"No, you should go. Lucy will make sure you have the time of your life."

"The brute being responsible? Amazing."

Lucy shook her head and pushed Erza back on the bed and pulled the comforter up to her chest "Rest up, love." She placed a soft warm kiss on her lover's forehead. "We can do something fun once you get better."

"I'll be lonely without you."

"You'll live." Lucy kissed her on the nose

"Can't wait to get better so I can hug you to death." Erza muttered.

...

It was silent and it was lonely. Erza was never one to submit to the common cold and fevers. But she didn't want the love of her life constantly worrying over her health. If this is the only way to calm the blonde, she'd gladly do it. But the boredom suck ass!

She stared at the ceiling above her in complete silent, silently counting the seconds that ticked by. She wondered if Lucy and Wendy are having fun. She wished she could just wrap her arms around that blonde goddess and just kiss her and let her hands roam.

Great, now she's horny.

...

"Let's win something for Erza-papa!" Wendy exclaimed as she sat down when the bingo tournament begun.

"That's a great idea!"

Carla huffed. "I think she's fine either if we win or not."

"She just might appreciate it."

Carla grabbed a bingo and half-heartedly played through the game. The thought of playing to get a gift for that brute had really taken away the fun of it. Halfway through the game, through her peripheral vision, she noticed a certain water mage staring at the blonde with hearts in her eyes.

Juvia was staring at Lucy with hearts for eyes throughout the game, and it didn't seem like the staring would end. And it was amazing that Lucy never noticed her staring. Wendy didn't seem to notice either. Carla felt uncomfortable and half wished that the brute was here to keep that water freak away from Lucy.

"Luigi!" Natsu sat next to Lucy with a huge grin. "Where's Erza? Though she would be here."

"She has a fever, so she's resting."

Natsu then grinned and leaned towards her. "Are you lonely? I could watch Wendy and teach her a few moves while you go to her and-"

"Natsu." Lucy interrupted with a small blush at what the dragonslayer was hinting at. "Actually, I was thinking on winning something for her."

The dragonslayer snickered at that. "That's lame!"

"Talk to me when you have a girlfriend of your own." Lucy glared at him. "Until then, I don't need advice on how to woo my girlfriend."

Natsu frowned at that. "I can tell how much you miss her. Just by smell and-"

"Can you not... like smell me? That's creepy."

"I've known you for years and you finally complain about my sense of smell?" Natsu laughed. He turned to the small dragonslayer. "Hey, tell me. Does Lucy want to be with Erza right now?"

"What this I hear? You're finally breaking up with that bulldozer of a loser?" Juvia appeared next to Lucy with hearts in her eyes.

"Someone is breaking up with who?" Gray asked as he stood behind Lucy.

"No one is breaking up with anyone!" Lucy yelled with a red face. She turned to Natsu, "You, go somewhere else."

"What's the big deal? Natsu complained.

"The prize this time is two tickets for a 7-day, 6-nights at the luxurious Akane Resort." Mira's voice resounded through field, which instantly caught Lucy's attention. She turned to see the barmaid holding up two tickets for the exotic place.

That would be a perfect gift, Lucy thought. Yes, they had a horrible first time at that place. But that doesn't mean that it won't happen again.

"Lucy-mama, that would be a great gift for you and Erza-papa." Wendy chimed in, as if she read Lucy's mind.

Juvia, on the other hand, was having little daydreams of her own, her and Lucy-sama enjoying the Akane Resort.

And Natsu still felt that it was lame to get Erza a gift from this bingo party.

...

Erza felt her head pound in systematic rhythm. Sweat littered her skin, her hair stuck to her skin with an uncomfortable feeling. While she wished she didn't have to stay in bed, away from Lucy, she was also glad that she could just lay in bed.

She shivered and the blanket wasn't enough to warm her. She sighed and sat up. "A flaming hot bath." That's what she needs. She moved the comforter away and stood up to her feet. A little dizzy spell hit her for a few seconds, then she proceeded to walk to the bathroom while she equipped out of her clothes. She closed the door behind her and turned on the faucet, letting the water turn as hot as it could be.

Once at the appropriate temperature, she stepped into the tub and submerged herself, letting the warm/hot water envelope around her naked shivering skin. She closed her eyes and enjoyed the water and was about to drift off into sleep when she heard a voice.

"Erza?"

Lucy's voice filled her ears, and a smile found its way on her face. "In here." She replied, not feeling moving. The water felt too good to leave.

Couple seconds later, the door opened, and the blonde stepped inside. "How are you feeling?" She asked as she closed the door behind her.

Erza looked over her shoulders to look at her girlfriend. "Better now you're here."

The celestial mage knelt next to the tub right next to the redhead. "Need anything?"

Erza didn't respond at first. She stared at the celestial goddess for a moment. "Where's Wendy?"

"Natsu's watching her. Wendy wanted to hang out with him and talk about their dragons."

"I have a bad feeling about that." Erza frowned at that.

Lucy laughed. "I thought so too, but Natsu wouldn't hurt Wendy, so I trust him. Plus, Carla is with her."

Erza smiled and reached out her arm and grabbed Lucy closer towards her and kissed her on the lips.

Lucy jumped at the sudden onslaught of kisses, but quickly returned the kiss for couple seconds before she pulled away. "You're sick, we shouldn't do-"

Erza interrupted the blonde as she pulled her girlfriend into the bathtub, completely soaking her in the process as she hugged her tightly, with Lucy's back facing her. "You're my remedy, you're all I need."

Lucy blushed, for numerous reasons. Erza's naked bosoms were pressing into her back and could feel the hardened nipples poking her. And seeing Erza's legs on either side made her conscious on what position she was in. "E-Erza." She whimpered, noticing her clothes were getting soaked too.

The redhead smiled and rested her chin on Lucy's shoulder and hugged her tighter. "I love you so much." Her arms snaked around the blonde's midsection.

Lucy blushed but didn't move. "L-Love you too..."

"Let's take your clothes off." Erza smirked as she snaked her hands lower to grab the hem of Lucy's shirt and begun to pull it up.

The blonde blushed as she felt her shirt being pulled up. "N-Now?"

"It's getting soaked, bet it feels uncomfortable."

And whose fault is that? Lucy thought silently to herself when her shirt was off in a swift motion.

Erza's hands slithered to Lucy's legs and pulled down Lucy's skirt. "You're so beautiful."

Lucy blushed harder as she was now in just underwear and a bra. "Erza..." she felt weak at the contact of naked nipples touching her bare back. And she could feel two long, slender legs on either side of her.

Then she heard a click and her bra dropped into the water and Erza grabbed it and tossed it out the rub. Then she grabbed Lucy's underwear and swiftly removed it.

Now, Lucy was just as naked as Erza was. And all Lucy could think was what her girlfriend wanted to do. But she rather does it when Erza's health is in great condition. But she couldn't find the strength to say no.

Erza's arms wrapped around Lucy's stomach and Erza rested her chin on her shoulder. "This feels amazing."

Lucy, who was still a blushing mess, muttered a nervous response, "Y-Yeah."

"While you were out with Wendy at the flower viewing party, I had a dream that made me nostalgic."

"What dream is it?"

"It was when you were completely oblivious to my feelings for you." Erza chuckled and moved one of her hands to lace her fingers with Lucy's. "You've become so brave and strong, and I just can't help but admire you for your strengths." She moved and kissed Lucy on the cheek. "Watching you stand up for yourself, watching you accept others, you inspired me."

Lucy blushed with a smile and leaned back against Erza. "I inspired you? If anything, you're the one that inspired me. Inspired me to become stronger and stand on my own."

"Guess we inspired each other." Erza smiled and kissed her neck.

Lucy smiled and turned her head to look at her girlfriend. "I guess we do." She leaned in and kissed the redhead.

...

Wendy smiled and waved goodbye to Natsu, who said he had something important to take care, and walked back to her place that she shares with her adoptive parents. "I wonder who Erza-Papa is doing." She wondered.

"I bet she's fine, and does she really need to be called that?" Carla frowned at her human friend.

"Called what?" Wendy tilted her head a little in confusion as she looked at the white cat.

"The..." Carla grimaced at the thought of saying that name for that brute. "Wouldn't a regular name be sufficient?"

"I have no idea what you're talking about."

"Tch, never mind. Let's go home." Carla said and started a little faster.

Soon, Wendy arrived at the door she lives and used her key to unlock it. When inside, it noticed it was quiet. She walked into the bedroom where the two older girls share.

A smile formed when she found both Lucy and Erza cuddling together as she slept. "They look peaceful..."

"That brute looks more well-mannered when sleeping." Carla commented.

"Come on, we should let them sleep." Wendy said and turned around.

Thump

The dragonslayer stopped when she heard a faint noise. She turned her head to the side, only to find Natsu at the window with a big grin on his face. She quickly and quietly made her way to the window and opened it and whispered to him. "What are you doing? Boys aren't allowed here. And Erza and Lucy are sleeping!"

Natsu frowned and looked into the room and spotted his two friends sleeping in each other arms. "I have a surprise for them. Can I wake them up?"

"What? No!"

"But I dug this big tree for them." Natsu whined.

"Huh?"

Natsu stepped to the side, allowing Wendy to see what he was talking about. Her eyes widened at the giant glowing Sakura tree floating on a river. "Pretty..."

"So, can I wake them up?" Natsu repeated with a grin.

Wendy frowned at him. "They look peaceful, and I'm sure they would appreciate what you did for them."

"In fact, why do it?" Carla asked

"Because it's more interesting than some lame gift." Natsu grinned.

Carla facepalmed. "You're an idiot. You're not in any position to decide what's lame or not when it comes to other couples."

Wendy could only chuckle before telling Natsu to leave to give Lucy and Erza some rest.

...

The very next day, Erza felt top-notch andbattle ready. Her fever was gone, and she was more than ready to tackle Lucywith an onslaught of kisses and cuddle her to death.

A/N: It's up to your imagination what Lucy and Erza did after that kiss. 

And didn't include it in the story because I felt it was insignificant, but Lucy did win that Akane Resort ticket prize

Alright. That's the end of this story. JK, the end of the filler series. Next chapter will be the beginning of Edolas arc. 

Excited? I know I am.

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