A Railgun in Fairy Tail, Book 5: Perfection

Earthland and Edolas.

"Where's the food!?"

A pink haired youth ran down the streets of the high tech futuristic town known as Academy City, flying behind him, was a blue cat with a green pack on his back who had dove like wings spread out in magical flight.

"Aye!" said the cat. "Where's the food, where's the food!?"

The twosome known as Natsu and Happy made a sudden left into a large park area, bypassing some children who were drawing pictures in the dirt and playing with action figures as they made their way towards another gathering of youths where a nice smell could noticed in the air.

A sandy haired girl. One who looked extroardinarily like Mikaris Misaka, except she bore no eyepatch and wore a middle school uniform, looked up from the meat she was watching over on the grill. Mikoto Misaka brandished her tongs warningly. "Oh no Natsu!! Stop right there or-!!"

Too late.

Natsu and Happy did a full body tackle into Mikoto, and they rolled over like tumbleweeds in a violent hurricane.

Mikoto swatted her metal tongs onto Natsu and Happy's heads, causing them to yelp with pain.

"I thought I told you two before we planned this thing!" said Mikoto, a vein throbbing on her head. "You have to be patient and wait or you'll get sick to your stomach!!"

"Aw come on Mikoto!" cried Natsu. "We haven't eaten all day!"

"Then you should have bought something to hold you off!!"

"But me and Happy are broke see!?"

Natsu took out a frog shaped wallet and opened it up to reveal it was empty.

"Wait..." said Mikoto. "Gekota? THAT'S MY WALLET!!!"

"Oh..." said Happy. "So that's why it looked so different from our wallet."

"You spent all my money...!?" Mikoto growled dangerously as a spark jumped off her bangs.

"Uh..oh.." said Natsu as sweat began to pour down his face.

One of the youths, a spikey black haired guym, who was busy laying down picnic blankets for what was apparently a barbeque called out. "Hey! Biribiri, It's okay, I'm still keeping that extra money you earned from that last job here with me."

Thanking the lord almighty and everything in heaven for the boy Touma Kamijou, Mikoto sighed. "At least I'm not completely broke."

"So..." said Happy. "You're not angry?"

Mikoto's eyes flashed angrilly and the park was momentarily lit by a powerful electrical spark.

"She's still angry.." muttered Natsu weakly as he and Happy lay on the ground looking as charred as the meat on the grill Mikoto was tending to.

"Next time you need money from me." said Mikoto. "Ask."

Mikoto went back to watching over what appeared to be some delicious looking beef and pork sizzling on the grill. In truth, Mikoto was not very much of cook. Everytime she wanted to make cookies (and usually for a very special spikey haired sombody), she would have to ask her friend Saten to help her.

She had been a bit sad about the fact that she wasn't much of anything when it came to cooking food, but that was when her friend Lucy made a suggestion. They, and some assorted friends would hold a barbeque, and Lucy would teach her how to handle a grill. Which according to Lucy, was actually one of the easier of cooking arts, just provided you didn't leave the meat on the grill too long or too short of a time.

So Mikoto and Lucy had gathered Natsu, Erza, Gray, Touma, Index, and a few other members of Fairy Tail for a last second barbeque before the second semester started up again. It had been a good thing she had this to look forward to...Mikoto was on her final semester of middle school and was struggling with whether she should apply for Touma's high school ( just thinking about it made her blush.) On the other hand, after people had started getting used to the Rainbow Gate, Academy City had done some expanding into Magnolia Town, and there was a High School that was starting up there that would allow her to be closer to her work as a guild mage in Fairy Tail.