Fate Decides

"Why Strawberries? I mean, they're great, but there are options you know?" Several sets of eyes sobered and narrowed at the sage words. Normally, questions like these just wouldn't be considered, and who knew why? It seemed like an important thing to Lucy. She held the rounded glass up in front of her swirling the straw in the icy pink depths of the contents and, on a whim, ran her tongue up the cool beads of water that had formed on the outside of the glass to catch some of the pink mana of heaven that had dripped down the side.

"Ya know...you're right, MIRA, I want a fucking raspberry daquiri, seriously, we should see what the fuck happened that made strawberry so popular." Erza was rapping her metal gloved hand on the bar top. "I love Strawberry cake too, maybe it's just because Strawberries are so fucking popular...I can't believe I was blinded by a social pressure..." The requip mage looked ashamed.

Kinanna was clearing away some of the dozens upon dozens of shot glasses the women had drained from the bar top, eyeing the other women with a hint of worry in her eyes but she just shook her head.

"Yeah...maybe you should really be enjoying blackberries, or who knows, freaking blueberries!" Levy fell off her barstool "I ammm ok!" her voice squeeked from the floor.

Lucy had lowered her head to follow the script mages fall and frowned slightly when lifting it again seemed beyond her. She set her drink down on the bar and tried to push up using the bar surface but that only elevated her as a whole, it didn't seem to make her face lift up...confused she frowned again.

Mira set a new daquiri on the bar top and Erza snatched it and took a long drink, reaching out to help Lucy raise her head having noticed her friend was stuck.

"Mmm, Gods, I have been led down a path of deceit by the pressures of society." Erza groaned, the drink was passed around and Cana ordered another round of shots that Mira reluctantly lined up for the group.

It was a Friday night, the guild was a sea of wild activity and the women had staked out the majority of the bar. Fairy Tails men knew to give particularly Erza a wide berth when she was drinking so when Cana turned on her stool and faced out into the Guild she blinked a few times as if remembering something and her actions were exaggerated enough that Lucy noticed.

"What...what's up Ca...na?" she snickered when her mouth seemed to stumble over the words, she blamed strawberries, fucking social dictators.

"I need a new man...been too fucking long." Cana declared. That perked the interest of the assembled women, even Levy tried to climb from her comfortable spot on the floor with interest.

"Indeed..." Erza eyed Cana seriously waving out a gauntlet and nearly knocking Lucy off her barstool "which one would you take?" the requip mage asked. The women all looked out over the guild then.

Any man looking in their direction immediately looked away, Alex was closest to them and he swiftly rose, left the table he was at and made himself scarce. It was at that moment a loud burst of masculine laughter drew their attention to a table near the back.

Several of the men were playing cards, including Fairy Tails resident Dragon Slayers, even Natsus pink head was at the table frowning at the others.

Cana narrowed her eyes at the group, if there was currently a center of primal masculinity on the guild, it was at that table, three Dragon Slayers, Bickslow, Elfman, Jet, Max and, visiting Elfman, Bacchus.

"I'll take that table in the back..." Cana grinned, nodding toward it. All of the eyes narrowed on the table.

"Dragon Slayers...isn't their mating season coming up? Like soon?" She asked then, looking over at the other women. Levy cleared her throat, she had been trying to climb back on her stool but abandoned her efforts to address Cana.