Meanwhile, at the aquarium, Gajeel and Levy were there with the cats.
Happy pressed himself against the aquarium glass, drooling, his eyes almost bewitched as he kept muttering about fish.
Carla stood beside him, helplessly scolding him, while Panther Lily suddenly found himself struck by a strange realization.
'So this is what they mean by appetite defeating lust… After entering Ryuzetsu Land, Happy hasn't even looked at Carla once…'
Levy watched the beautiful fish swimming back and forth with great interest.
Gajeel looked bored out of his mind, but he still stayed by her side, responding whenever Levy said things like.
"That fish is so pretty."
At that moment, a passing staff member happened to mention with a worried expression that the underwater feeding show was about to begin, but the performer had suddenly taken leave, so they were trying to find someone to replace them.
And so, Happy, whose greed for fish had reached an extraordinary level, volunteered himself.
The aquarium squad had no choice but to take the job.
However…
Happy, who had clearly gone mad from wanting to eat fish, was already beyond saving.
Once they dived into the water, he began scattering fish bait like crazy, attracting many enormous fish.
The kind that could swallow Happy instead.
Helpless, Gajeel and the others began a desperate escape inside the tank, drawing loud laughter from the audience outside as they watched the performance.
In the end, the ruler of the aquarium—a white whale—put an end to the farce by swallowing Gajeel and the others whole in one gulp!
Hopefully, they would come out safely!
…
Outside the aquarium, the members of Fairy Tail unexpectedly ran into many members from other guilds who had also come to play.
The men of Quatro Puppy had gathered together, and Bacchus was dragging the hiding Elfman along, telling him stories about his manliness.
Behind Elfman, Evergreen was so frightened she did not dare move at all.
In sharp contrast to that side, Lamia Scale's Sherria had found Wendy.
The two guild mascots were having the time of their lives playing in the water, and the scene looked incredibly healing.
Then there was Lyon, who had followed Gray and Juvia onto that "couple embrace" water slide, acting as though he intended to steal Juvia away.
Gray was quite happy to keep arguing with him, while Juvia immediately let her thoughts wander in a strange direction.
She twisted shyly and covered her face.
And naturally, at a place like this, Blue Pegasus could not be absent.
Ichiya, along with his three host-like disciples, was diligently hovering around the two Lucys, who were lying on beach chairs, feeding them cheesy lines.
Future Lucy wore oversized sunglasses that covered her face and said helplessly, "They really haven't changed at all…"
Lucy could not help retorting, "Can't they change their act for once?"
Very soon, the four host-like gentlemen were sent flying eight hundred meters away by Erza, who had rushed over to guard Lucy.
On the other side, Laxus was standing by the pool, leading Asuka and the First Master through stretches before getting into the water.
Lisanna asked curiously, "Why is the First Master here?"
"The old man asked me to look after her," Laxus said with a dark expression. "Seriously, why am I always the one who has to look after kids…"
Mavis immediately reacted as if struck and shouted back, "I am not a child!"
And so, after Lisanna joined in as well, the warm-up exercises led by Laxus officially began.
Only, the group doing exercises consisted of either little sisters or lolis, while the person leading them happened to be the muscular Laxus.
For a while, the scene was ridiculously amusing.
"Aaah—"
But at that moment, an especially flamboyant scream suddenly rang out from the sky.
Everyone looked up and saw that it was Ichiya, who had just been kicked away.
That terrifying 'handsome' face was flying straight toward them!
The girls scattered in terror.
Laxus's face turned black, and he snapped a whip-like kick at the incoming Ichiya, sending him flying away in midair.
'That face really is terrifying…'
Laxus silently complained in his heart.
And poor Ichiya, after another perfect parabolic flight, struck Natsu with incredible accuracy while Natsu was busy stuffing his face.
After being hit hard in the back of the head, Natsu screamed and flew away.
Ichiya's head, meanwhile, crashed into an artificial rock, leaving only his enormous rear sticking out and frightening a passing couple into running for their lives.
Over on Lucy's side, after driving away the harassing host quartet, Erza ran back to Ankh, wanting to show off her proud, legendary-class swimsuit.
But just then, a familiar miserable cry suddenly came from behind her.
Mirajane reacted in time and quickly pulled aside Erza, who had been too busy showing off.
She punched the black shadow flying down from the sky!
After that, the person seemed to be knocked unconscious and changed direction again, flying backward toward the center of the park…
Future Lucy stared blankly at the person flying away and said, "That… looked like Natsu?"
"Eh?"
Lucy narrowed her eyes and looked carefully.
Sure enough, it was a familiar clump of pink hair whistling toward the water slide in the center of Ryuzetsu Land.
"Hurry, let's go check!"
Lucy quickly grabbed her future self and rushed over to help.
Mirajane had originally wanted to go and see what was going on as well, but when she turned back, an even more explosive scene appeared before her eyes.
Erza, who had been pulled aside by Mirajane, was now blushing intensely as she braced herself against the ground, firmly pinning down Ankh, who had only been peacefully watching the show.
Ankh, whose face had been buried in an accidental "soft landing," could only mumble incoherently.
Erza, on the other hand, was squirming slowly and clearly had no intention of getting up right away.
But very soon, behind her, Mirajane began releasing an astonishing murderous aura that shot into the sky.
'I'm doomed!'
…
As for poor Natsu, where had he ended up now?
Over on Lyon and Gray's side, the two of them had been arguing over who Juvia should ride the slide with when Natsu suddenly came flying in.
This time, no one knocked him away.
Poor Natsu, now functioning as a missile, accurately struck the unlucky senior and junior disciples!
And so, there was no longer any need to argue about who would ride the slide with whom.
Lyon and Gray screamed as they slid down together in each other's arms.
Juvia seemed to imagine some strange scene.
Covering her mouth, she blushed and exclaimed, "Could this be… BL?"
Before Juvia could let her imagination run even wilder, the heart-shaped sign above the water slide began loosening because Natsu was hanging from it.
Then it slid down along the water slide.
Juvia, who was still dazed, and unlucky Lucy, who had just arrived, were struck by the heart sign and knocked down together.
The two of them hugged each other tightly and drifted away at high speed, carrying a faint fragrance of lilies with them!
Natsu, still hanging from the heart-shaped sign, then conveniently rammed into Gajeel and Levy, who had just escaped from the white whale's mouth, knocking them onto the slide as well.
Panther Lily and Carla, who had been close to them, were also dragged into the mess.
Gajeel held Levy in his arms, unusually red-faced, while still cursing the Fire Dragon nonstop.
Levy nestled in Gajeel's embrace, pretending to be scared as she let out half-hearted screams.
For a moment, that small water slide ended up carrying three whole couples…
Oh, no, Panther Lily and Carla, who had been dragged in because of Gajeel, had to be counted too!
Assuming Happy did not mind, anyway.
Happy, left behind: (っ╥╯﹏╰╥c)
And on top of that…
Elfman and Evergreen, who had gotten onto the water slide to hide from everyone, were added to the chaos as well.
Those two were ultimately spotted by Lucy's sharp eyes from the slide…
The farce finally ended when Gray, in a fit of rage, froze the entire Ryuzetsu Land in order to stop the water slide.
And once Natsu woke up and realized he had been frozen, there was naturally no way he would not fight back.
Like a small sun, his blazing flames erupted in a surge of scorching red light and utterly reduced the beautiful Ryuzetsu Land to ruins.
...
That night, every citizen in the city saw the brilliant fireworks set off by Ryuzetsu Land.
In the end, after giving Natsu and Gray a vicious beating, Makarov and Mavis could only write apology letters through their tears while bleeding money.
Poor Ryuzetsu Land.
In the end, it still could not withstand the devastation caused by Fairy Tail's collection of bizarre couples…
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