Fairy Tail: Secrets within the deep ocean (Laxus X OC)

Chapter 31: Wedding dress

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"Now then, the theme is wedding dresses! Let's have all the girls change into wedding dresses that were prepared in the storage room for this part of the competition. Remember to find a partner to this competition!"

The girls except for Jenny, Mira and Erza, who had transformation magic, rushed into the storage room to grab a wedding dress. In the midst of the chaos, a certain black-haired woman was forced to change into a white wedding dress with beautiful laced short sleeves. The sides of her hair were curled, tied up to a half-ponytail, with dark blue hair shaping her pale face and highlighting her aqua blue eyes. A sapphire necklace matching her eyes and a hairpin on the sides behind the bangs tied with a veil slide down to her waist. Sighing with remiss, she sat at the corner of the stage as the others searched for their partners. Levy was beside Gajeel, wanting to ask him to become her partner. Juvia was robbed by Lyon, later by Gray, as they competed against each other. Lisanna was evidently like Natsu, wanted to ask him to become her partner, yet was interrupted by Lucy by forcing shutting Leo's Gate.

Aww~everyone got a partner.

At the side, Quin stood behind the scene, smiling in amusement.

I also want a partner. I wonder- no Quin, you should keep your distance from how you did until now!

"You are beautiful the way you are."

A blush reached her cheeks as her ears slowly reddened, embarrassed yet a sudden rise of happiness made her flattered from the compliant making her grin unconsciously. With both hands on her cheeks, she smiled at the memory, as if she had become Juvia, getting very emotional from being saved by Gray.

I still can't believe that he said that to me! It sounds like a dream!

Yet those instant emotions are just temporary, provisional. With a turn of her sight, the following view immediately made her freeze and the happiness was immediately washed away, leaving a taste of bitterness behind with her.

Well, it's perhaps just encouraging words to smoothen my mood. Why would he say such words to a girl that he just knew? Despite that later he knew that I was Jamie-

She couldn't help but plaster a wryly smile as she witnessed the scene, silently turning away from the sight. An agonizing stab of pain tightened her chest, tempted to let those tears run down and ruin her makeup.

He already had somebody beforehand.

A familiar blonde hair man with a scar on his left eye stood beside the famous, iconic graphics magazine model, Mirajane. They were close to each other with them wearing delightful smiles. Even from her perspective, they look like a match made in heaven, so compatible with each other. The glowing white dress made her imaginations more convincing. The clutch in her heart tightens even more when she visualized her crush walking down the aisles of his wedding ceremony, hands holding with the love of his life will never be her. She closed her eyes tightly and clutched both hands together.

Jamie, it's only a session where women need to find a partner for the competition. Of course, appearance wise, Mira would definitely find Laxus, since he attracts most of the female population at this stage.

Eyes reopened, the glint of sorrow, desolation was seen on the surface of those layers of blue. An exhausted sigh was resounded between her rosy lips. The disappointment was evident on her face until she heard footsteps coming towards her.

"What's up with this beautiful bride doing here alone?" A man with his blue hair sectioned and the symbol of a human figure on his forehead approached her with his usual smirk. Quin quickly furrowed and pouted as she saw the person called out to her.

"It's your fault that I was here alone Bickslow. I couldn't talk to anyone, you know." Bickslow, who's in a black suit stood beside Quin with a widening grin.

"Well~ It's not like you can't since I'm not restricting you from talking."

"I'm not Jamie right now. I couldn't do such thing."

"You are and you will always be. Just relax. It's not like I was trying to force you back to Fairy Tail or anything. Socialize!"

"If I tried to socialized or relax, my original nature will come out. Besides it's not like someone care anyways when that person is the one pointed me that I have magic."

"Hey! That really hurt my feelings!" Quin just turned her head towards the other side, ignoring the theatrical Bickslow as her eyes traced towards the glamorous couple. The aching returned as she furrowed her eyebrows with sadness. Bickslow, who saw her expression, immediately followed her direction of sight. With his closing eyes, he benevolently smiled.

"You know that Laxus was worried about you." When the name was mentioned, Quin instantly glanced with surprise at his former teammate. Bickslow smiled.

"Not only him, we are all waiting for your return." Bickslow opened his eyes and turned towards Quin.

"We are waiting to see you again. we wanted to see how you have grown, how you have been, apologizing that we had left you behind, how we were stuck on that island for seven years. We were desperate to see you again." A hand was lifted and placed on the cheeks of the water mage. A genuine smile was plastered on his face, as he softly whispered the words.

"Especially when you have already become a beautiful lady." Frozen in place, astonishment and amazement were plastered on her face. Despite knowing that the Thunder God Tribe were searching her for months, desperate to find clues. She never knew that they were beyond desperate, forlorn to find their missing teammate. Sensing a glare from the side, Bickslow traced his eyes towards the direction and a smirk was replaced.

"Well~ I guess time is up." Quin tilted her head, questioning his phrase until she felt a sudden force pulling her waist.

This deju vu feeling...

Quin looked back and saw the furious-looking Laxus.