Dark. Cold. Damp.

Gray blinked his eyes but there's no light where he is. It's so dark. Even how much he tried there's nothing he could see and what's really odd was he could not feel anything around but the coldness coming from within him but he was certain he was standing on something damp. He tried to speak but his voice just echoed around him like he was inside a tunnel. He moved his feet and squelching sound of water hit his ears.

He looked down and strange enough, he could see water ripples around him.

What the hell was he doing in a middle of water ripples and where exactly was he?

"Hello is there anyone here?" he tried to asked but just like before there was only the echo of his voice and the sound of water falling down one by one. Wait, where was that pitter patter sound coming from? He strained his ears to listen carefully and he heard it again louder this time.

Drip drip drop.

His eyes widened with realization. There's only one person that always came in his mind when there was water and that sound. "Juvia!" he called out and his voice resonated in that damned dark place."Juvia, are you there?" he paused to listen for any answer but nothing came. "Can you hear me?"

A sob caught his ears and he almost snapped his neck when whirled to see where it was coming from. Defensively he covered his eyes from the blinding light that suddenly burst in front of him. in the middle of that offending light he saw a familiar shade of blue and indeed, Juvia was there sitting and crying, her tears falling down and hitting the still water that surround her.

Why was she crying? "Juvia," he called her, his hand stretched out trying reach her but a sudden wave of water rise up between them creating a clear wall. "Juvia!" he tried to get through that water wall but it only pushed him away like it was protecting the crying woman.

The hell was that mean? Why can't he reach her?

He tried few more times but failed. The water's force was great that it's beating him up and then she looked up. She was staring back at him and the look in her eyes made a large hole in his chest. Why was she looking at him with so much sorrow and pain?

One.

Two.

Three.

Three subsequent tears fell from her beautiful blue eyes like water falling down from a magnificent sky, kissing the watery ground that creates multiple ripples that reached him like the pain gripping him tight by seeing her cry.

He could think of thousands of reason why she would cry but only few could actually obtain such sorrowful tears. Was it something he did? Did he say something that hurt her? Did he once again forget another important date? Or did he unintentionally make her feel unwanted and insignificant one more time?

He tried to call out her name again. "Juvia, talk to me." she was just looking at him. "Tell me what is wrong." He's getting anxious by every second that passed. He's not good at handling a silent Juvia. Overly crazed Juvia, that's a piece of cake after years of being around her, but a Juvia that was not saying anything at all was never good. It was always like the calm before a heavy storm.

Gray held his breath when Juvia's hand lifted up like she wanted to reach out for him but it quickly retracted and she cradled it to her chest like it was pained. More tears flowed down her face before she slowly shook her head as if telling him something that he seriously had no idea or any clue about. She gave him one more tearful look and then a sad smile before the water wall crumbled down splashing him away.

Panic strikes him hard when he saw her slowly fade away like water evaporating in the air as he tried to lift himself up from the water impact. He called her again but she just kept on slowly vanishing. He runs toward her but even how hard and fast he runs he seemed to be so far away from her. It's like he was not moving from his spot at all.

"Juvia!"

"Juvia!"

"Juvia..."

Breathing heavily, arms stretched in the air and sweat drenched, Gray Fullbuster shot up from his bed. Dream, it was just a dream. Just another dream, no. Another nightmare, his fourth one for that week. "Dammit!" those reoccurring bad dreams has been haunting him lately and he's starting to loathe it. Why was he always dreaming of Juvia fading away? What does it mean?

For fuck's sake he's twenty-three, an accomplished mage, one of the strongest in his generation, and had fought against the strongest foes that the world had ever known and he's having bad dreams about losing his girlfriend for no reason at all.

Jeez, on the first place who would have thought that Gray Fullbuster would actually consider having a relationship with Fairy Tail's resident water mage, Juvia Lockser and now he's going crazy about the idea of her vanishing in his life. The Gods above must be playing prank on him. So many years ago he won't even think about sharing a meal with Juvia because she would get all the wrong ideas and eventually start planning abut weddings and babies and now he can't even tolerate the idea of losing her in any way or form. That woman really got him tightly wrapped around her pretty little fingers.

Those shitty dreams were the reason why he didn't want to leave Juvia's side lately because magically when she's around him he won't have any bad dreams. He was always at peace with the idea that she's just within a hand's reach. That and the fact that whenever she's with him he no longer has the strength to conjure any dreams once he closed his eyes because whenever they were together alone they would do all the possible things a couple could do away from their nosy nakamas. From time to time, even after almost two years of dating, they still get teased by their guild mates about how Juvia manage to break the wall of ice around his heart or something like that and sometimes how he, Gray Fullbuster, the most frigid person in fairy tail failed to resist Juvia Lockser's charm and allure.

But right now he's too far away from her because unfortunately, one Erza Scarlet forced him to tag along in a mission he really don't feel like doing at all. He was supposed to be with Juvia enjoying a week long off but there he was, stuck in a hotel room with his teammates with Natsu loudly from the bed that was just beside his that was supposed to be Lucy's. They were in week long mission and thankfully they could go back in Magnolia tomorrow. He's sick and tired of having those stupid dreams and he's seriously getting irked with Natsu and Lucy's mushiness.

"Bad dream again?"

Gray almost jumped when he heard Erza's voice. She beside the window leaning casually like that was a normal thing to do in the middle of the night. "Why are you still awake?" he asked instead of answering her question.

She gave him a pointed look but Gray's not going to talk about his dream to her. "I asked you first," she said. "You'd been having dreams for the past few days and I'm starting to worry. It's not like you to still have nightmares. I'm sure it's not about your parents or Ur or Deliora."

"It's nothing."

Erza sighed; her friend's still the same. If you want to get the truth from Gray Fullbuster about what's bothering him, you must beat it out from him. But she's not in the mood to beat him up. "Must be Juvia." She mumbled and just like what she expected Gray's head snapped to look up on her. "You were calling her name."

"Please Erza. I don't want to talk about it."

"Gray, sometimes it's good to talk about it especially when something is obviously wrong."

"What are you talking about?"

Erza moved from her spot by the window back to her own bed on the other side of the room. "The real reason why I wanted you to come with us is so I could talk to you," she paused for a moment to see his reaction. "It's obvious that something wrong is going on between you and Juvia and you are overwhelming her with your presence."

What? Since when did Juvia ever get overwhelmed by his presence? Didn't she always want to be with him? "What are you talking about, Erza?"

"That's what I want to know, Gray. Why does seemed like Juvia is no longer comfortable around you?"

Gray's hands balled into tight fists and his jaw clenched rigidly that he could almost feel it breaking. Was it that obvious already? "I don't know what you are talking about," he said evading her all knowing look. He lay back on his bed, turning away from her. He doesn't want to talk about it because talking about it would only make it feel much real.

Somehow it's true. Juvia has been acting weird lately. Not that she was never weird but the way she's always quiet and seemed to be spacing out more often than usual bother him to no end and he couldn't put his fingers on what was wrong. Juvia was never the quiet one between the two of them. He was trying his best to make her talk or cheer him up but nothing seemed to work so far that's why he wanted to be with her more than ever, because she seemed to be slowly slipping back to her gloomy self.

It's actually raining often in Magnolia the past few weeks and it usually happens when Juvia seemed to be quietly lost in her own world. He knew something was up but she's not telling him. He's still in denial but he knew it has something to do with them, to him.

So much for being who he is. He was really never good at dealing with his own feelings whatever is it.

"Gra—"

"Please, Erza, I don't want to talk about it. "

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Congratulation to me!

I finally get this out of my head!

Supposedly, I should be working on The Never Ending Tale chapter three but this one keeps on bugging me. Dreaming about a crying Juvia was not my cross to bear so I'm passing it to Gray, LOL! Maybe now that this was finally out of my system I could finally focus with the one that I must finish before the end of the month.

So, what do you think of this one? This actually has no title, it just keep on popping in my head whenever I was working on my other fanfic.

Please do tell me your opinion by dropping a review below.

Love You Always,

YoseiNoAme

P.S.

I know the first scene was very similar to my other fanfic Change the World (His Version of the Story) chapter two, I just want you all to know that I have a thing about dream scenes... \/(^_^)?