The sun was shining directly on my face, which is why I woke up and had a terrible headache.
"Bloody game ..." I muttered to myself. I stretched a little and realized that something was wrong.
My bed felt different ... not like a bed but like a hammock. Slowly, as if it would take an infinite amount of strength, she opened her eyes. The first thing she saw were black eyes that were very close.
Startled, she jerked back and promptly fell out of the hammock. So she not only imagined that she was lying in a hammock up until now, but not just any one in Natsu's, he had even watched her sleep!
"What ...? Why ...? How ...?" I got stutters out. Natsu looked as if he had to resist laughing because I had just landed him on the bottom of my pants and was looking at him pretty dumbfounded, but he couldn't or didn't want to suppress the grin. "No idea how you got here made me wonder that you could still stand at all. If you remember, you have to tell me how you found yourself here as drunk as you were.
I can't answer the why I really don't know why you leave your party after you threatened me yesterday that I should never sleep in bed with you again, otherwise something would happen ...
I mean you probably meant something other than a badly drawn alarm clock. "He gave me a mischievous look and I just snorted angrily.
"What's missing is what happened" I reminded him, he climbed out of his hammock and kneeled next to me. "Do you really want to know?" "S-So bad?" I opened my eyes in shock. He just grinned and came closer with my face, my breath hitched as his lips approached mine.
But before he kissed me he started laughing at me "You should really see your look" he laughed. It literally rolled on the floor. He was just kidding me, I got up with a jerk and turned towards the door.
How could I be so stupid and think he would want to kiss me?!?
Before I could even take a step, however, two strong arms held me back. "Sorry that was stupid of me. Please forgive me, but it had to be.
You were so affectionate yesterday you didn't want to let go of me. While eating you sat on my lap and hugged me all the time.
You even nibbled my neck once and said I would taste sooooooo delicious. I almost choked on my food. When I asked you to go home before the others thought I had kidnapped you.
Did you just keep saying I didn't want to sleep next to you anymore, I wouldn't like you anymore and I would find you annoying. You hung your head and had tears in your eyes, I just couldn't watch that any longer and allowed you to sleep here if you explain to the other tomorrow - so today - that I did not kidnap you. Just before you woke up, you hugged me so hard that I woke up. That was all please don't be angry with me about the prank. "
"So we haven't done anything worse? Kissed each other, for example?"
He winced slightly at the question and I was prepared for the worst. "We didn't ... but I also had the greatest effort to keep you from it ..."
I groaned. I wanted to sink into the ground, but his embrace held me back.I could neither flee from charm nor sink into the ground because of it.
"I'm so sorry, Natsu. We played a game yesterday. We kept being given the task to have a drink ... that's the only thing I remember ..."
That was probably not true, but he didn't necessarily have to find out about the confessions of love. "It's okay, but don't drink so much next time. Come on, let's go to the guild, you can ask Virgo if she'll bring you clothes.
I think if everyone drank like you, it wouldn't be an advantage if you woke them up. While you're changing, I'll wake up Happy and make us something to eat on the way to the guild. "
He turned and headed for the kitchen. I wondered where Happy slept, the two usually slept in the same bed. I couldn't solve the riddle anyway in my current state, which is why I went to the bathroom. I called Virgo who gave me a nice top with a matching skirt.
The motif made me blush but it was a red dragon moving over both parts, his tail circling my legs, his body going over my hips to the waist. Its wings were on my shoulder blades as if I had got wings myself. His neck came back over my waist. His head ended right above my heart, the one claw even looked as if it wanted to tear my heart away from me.
But that wasn't the reason why I blushed, he looked exactly like my pawn yesterday. A fire dragon, as I sometimes imagined Natsu when he behaved like a wild dragon again. "Are you coming now? Happy isn't coming either. You weren't the only one who snuck out of the party. You-"
His eyes widened in surprise when I came out of the bathroom. "I ... um you ... we should go slowly, the others will certainly worry if we don't come soon" He turned around with a jerk, was I just imagining that or was he reddened slightly when he saw me has seen? I followed him with a happy smile.

I later learned that we had all gone to our loved one and performed exactly the same. As Erza Gérard had found, we were all a riddle.