This parody is a celebration of Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail. It contains commentary on the manga. I do not own the manga or the characters.

UPDATE: In this chapter Lucy and Levy will be giving their impressions on Chapter 341 of the manga. It might help to have the manga chapter open. It gets a bit complicated not knowing who's who but hopefully you'll get it. I didn't want to explain it because explaining parody defeats the purpose of a parody. Look out for word plays, ironies, allusions, innuendos, clichés...I tried to make Levy and Lucy use the 'language' of book worms where I could so the tone of it might be annoying until you get used to it (I was channeling Hermionie Granger and Dawson's Creek). Hopefully it's not a pain to read.

Lucy and Levy's Book Club

Chapter 341

"Lu-chaaan!" Levi McGarden cried running up to her best friend and fellow literary geek as she walked into the Fairy Tail guild with her team. "Three more! Nero Yashima released three more chapters of Faerie Tale this week!"

Lucy ran excitedly up to her friend, happy to see her after spending four exhausting days away with her destructive team in Clover Town. Boy they were a handful! She needed rest and relaxation after what she had just been through, and what better way to relax than to talk manga with her best friend?

"I know Levy-chan!" Lucy said grasping both her friend's hands in her own, practically jumping over the blunette's head. "I grabbed the first copy I saw at the train station. They were already practically sold out. I haven't read it yet though."

"Me neither. I was waiting for you to come back so we could read it together".

"You didn't! Okay, let's grab a table and a drink and read it together!"

Both girls ran off towards a table in the middle of the guild hall, oblivious to the blank stares they were receiving from everyone around them.

15 minutes later.

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Lucy looks up from her reading and glances tentatively over at Levy to see if she can gauge the solid script mage's reaction.

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Levy looks up from her manga to her best friend, slowly meeting her eyes and holding her firm, questioning gaze.

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Pffffffhahahahaha

Both girls burst out in a torrent of laughter, spittle flying across the table and at each other.

"Oh... my gosh!" Lucy started, holding her stomach "that...was ...that was-"

Ha ha ha "I know!"

Ha ha ha ha ...ha...ha

The girls met each others' eyes slowly once again as their laughter died down. Each girl looked at the other's face, and that was all that she needed...

Silence.

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Pffffffhahahahaha

The girls' frenzied, uncontrollable laughter started up all over again. This time, unaware of the confused, curious and amused looks their guild mates were shooting at them, they made no effort to stop until they had gotten it all out of their system.

"Oh my" Levi gasped as she wiped a stray tear from her eye, "was all of that even necessary?"

"I know!" Lucy responded between heaving breaths, "I think I see Lucia's naked body as much as I see my own!"

"That groping between Cannes and Lucia was hilarious! Cannes is literally attacking her. If only Cannes could make that determined face in battle! Poor Lucia, being manhandled by everyone." Ha ha ha.

Ha ha ha "Yeah...but I feel like it's just too much now. It's not... um... interesting... if we see this kinda thing all the time. Same for Sara-Mae, I'd like to see her fight too."

"Come on, Lucy. We got six chapters in two weeks, and the last Lucia naked scene was 10 chapters ago, by rights it should have been 2 and a half months since we last saw Lucia's nice body. That would have legitimately qualified as a Lucia drought. It's poor Levane I'm thinking about. Levane DeChanel is not built for fan service. She has a far loftier purpose."

"And Lucia, Cannes and Sara-Mae don't?" Lucy laughed out. "You think Levane isn't 'lofty' as fan service? She's just as lofty as the rest if you ask me. In fact, I think her loftiness is far underutilised. Next ten chapters I say it's Levane who gets groped!" Lucy laughed and attempted to clear her throat, "Well, there was some informative content in there-"

Ha ha! "Is that what you're calling it now? Content?"

Heh heh "Levy. There was! Come on! In spite of the...um... backdrop, we got some good information"

"Backdrop? Lu-Chan the backdrop took centre stage! I don't even remember the words that went with them" Ha ha ha

Ha ha ha "But you're laughing"

"Well, it was entertaining"

"Exactly. It was entertaining for us and it's meant for boys. Can you imagine their reaction? No wonder this sells so much!"

Suddenly both girls looked at each other, the same mischievous idea crossing their minds. They grinned at each other wickedly before Lucy turned around to face the group in the table just behind them.

"Ne, Natsu" Lucy called sweetly to the salmon-haired fire mage sitting with the rest of her team.

Her partner looked up at her quizzically, "Yeah Lucy"

Lucy helped Levy flip the magazine over to the coloured front page, stifling her laughter. Both girls then turned to Natsu, their innocent eyes masking impish smiles.

Handing the magazine over to Natsu Lucy pointed to an obscure object on the top panel, "according to you, what is the image on this blue flag?"

Natsu turned the manga over, his eyes immediately registering some of the 'content'. He froze, taking in the scenes and swallowing very slowly.

Lucy looked over at Levy, her eyes twinkling. Instead of looking at the top panel, the boy seemed bewitched by something at the very bottom of the page. His eyes widened and his mouth dropped, his face slowly turning a darker shade than his hair.

Eventually, the dragon slayer was able to form coherent, though gasped, sounds "H...HU...HUGE!"

Gray leaned over from his position next to his rival to look at what was in the salamander's hands. The ice mage immediately turned beet red and coughed up the liquid that he was in the middle of swallowing. He held his stomach and doubled over as he coughed, his eyes still straining towards the paper in Natsu's hands.

The commotion snapped Erza out of her strawberry reverie and, as she looked over in anger at the source of the disturbance, her eyes caught the magazine. Slowly, she turned from the paper to the two amused girls standing on the opposite side of the table, watching the proceedings with a bit too much interest. She turned back to the paper, and then back to the girls.

"Loocy-" she began slowly, as the magazine was stripped from the hands of the still recovering Natsu by a curious Macao, followed by Wakaba. Both men shouted and laughed loudly upon eyeing the page, earning the attention of half the guild. "So this is what you girls are reading, is it?" Macao hollered.

"This is nothing. If this is the kind of stuff you're interested in, have Macao and me got some reading material for you!" Wakaba shot back at the girls happily.

At that moment, an unaware iron dragon slayer walked into the guild with his Exceed close in tow. Levy's eyes widened immediately, a thought running through her head. Lucy glanced at the solid script mage and smiled, knowing exactly what she was thinking. Levy jumped across the table and grabbed the magazine from the now immobilized Macao and Wakaba who now appeared to be salivating.

Ewwwww!, the blunette thought as she ran towards the guild doors. "Gaaajeeel" she sang as she approached the unsuspecting man. "Lucy and I were wondering what the image on this blue flag might be. Can you help us?"

Gajeel looked down at the paper and squinted, staring at the contents of the page for much longer than Levy liked. She was just about to roll the magazine up and clap the jerk over the head with it when he raised his head proudly.

"Looks like a cross. Or an ankh symbol" he said casually before starting to walk away.

Lucy covered her mouth with both hands and laughed at the look on her shocked friend's face. It was priceless. This was clearly not what Levy expected. And it hit her hard. As Lucy figured, Gajeel was definitely a good catch.

Levy, however, was not to be defeated. She suddenly flipped through some pages until she found the page she was looking for. Running after the dragon slayer, she found her moment and let herself 'accidentally' drop the magazine open to the floor. Gajeel kneeled down to pick the fallen object up for her and his eyes caught sight of a few images on the page. For a second he forgot where he was and froze midway, staring soundlessly at the page. Was he even breathing? Levy wondered as she took in the scene.

Satisfied that she'd bested him, Levy grinned and took the magazine from his hands, "thanks Gajeel" she said sweetly as she skipped off and left the stunned man standing there, dry mouthed...and a little bit happy.

Lucy laughed lightly and began to turn back to her table, stealing a quick look at Gajeel as she did so. Was...that...blood...peeking out of Gajeel's nose?

Lucy didn't have time to think about it as Levy plopped down beside her.

"OKAY! It's decided." Ha ha "This stuff works magic for its intended audience. Well done Yashima for knowing your target market! Moving on, what else did you think about the chappy?"

Chappy? Clearly, Levy was in a really good mood.

"Well, the very best part of that...um...chappy...for me was Merry and Carla! I'm so happy for him. He's finally getting through to her. I can't wait to watch this develop more."

"Yes, I enjoyed that too, but my favourite part had to be Elsa and Gwinnie's play. Oh my gosh! Elsa is just so bad at acting, and her face...God her face! She's just so pleased with herself and so happy, it's hilarious. I loved it! And Gwinnie looked so cute!"

"I know. What do you think Clare was doing there?"

"Rival for Cannes? Lucia's got her very own Julia now!" Levy laughed at Lucy's sceptical face. "What? Look at how Clare lashes out at Cannes. Clearly, she's getting payback for Lucia's boob grab."

Lucy huffed loudly. "Julia. Julia...Julia...Julia..."

Levy burst out laughing, "that chick's bat shit crazy. Is that a Ray doll she carrying around...no wait..." Levy looked down at the page in front of her and laughed out loud again, "more like clutching? That's not cute at all. She was less creepy when she was rainy Julia."

Lucy laughed loudly along with her friend. "I know she's creepy but is that all she is? Creepy? I'd like there to be more to her. I think there might be... but clearly that's not what's important is it? It's what she chooses to be, the parts of herself that she chooses to develop, and she seems to choose to be some obsessive Ray devotee than someone with her own perspectives and strengths. Even the strengths she shows are all about Ray than about herself."

"I know. I want to like her too." Levi responded falling into a more serious mood. "She doesn't have to change completely. She's the kind of woman who devotes herself to her man. Fine. But at least treasure and respect yourself more Julia. Obsession is not love, and you can't really love another person until you love and respect yourself. Show us that you do!"

Lucy and Levy nodded together, not sure what more there was to say. Obviously Julia had dampened their spirits.

Both girls then looked up from the table spotting a blue-haired water mage walking by slowly, holding her hand-made plushie in her arms.

"Oh, Juvia" Lucy called out. The water mage looked over at her love-rival...and friend. "Levy and I are going to the market down by the docks later. I know you like to go there, would you like to come with us? We're gonna cook dinner for all the girls after at my house, maybe you could join us?"

Juvia's eyes sparked, though she kept her shy appearance. Looking down and twirling her index fingers she responded, "Juvia would like that very much" before walking away silently.

Levy and Lucy looked at each other and smiled. "Juvia is so cute" Lucy whispered happily.

"I know." Levy agreed. "Watching her has made me happy all over again. Next two chapters tomorrow?" She asked getting up with her friend and heading towards the bar where Mira-Jane and the other girls were chatting.

"Definitely!" Lucy responded.

Author Notes: Thanks so much for reading to the end of the first chapter of my first story. I hope it was entertaining and some parts were funny. It was very funny in my head but when I started writing it didn't feel funny. I don't think I can write humor but I gave it a go. Please let me know what you think.

My plan is to have Levy and Lucy review the latest chapters of the manga - or at least selected chapters. Please review and let me know what you think - that'll let me know if I should continue this. Even if you hated it. I'm happy to get suggestions for making it better if you like the idea. I'm still undecided about the tone.

Thanks again for reading to the end XX