Just a very short chapter because I am so bored from studying, I sub-consciously began writing my first fan-fiction for fairytail. Inspired by all the little drabbles that I've read over the pass few days. I wouldn't say it's as good as the ones I've read so far… But it should be entertaining enough. *wink*
"Drip-drip-drop… this is it, the place that sells the voodoo doll. Juvia has gone through all the trouble finding it out from Kain of Grimore Heart... drip-drip-drop" She said out loud in amidst of the rain. These days, Juvia had been feeling rather down. Her favourite Gray-sama has not been hanging out in the guild lately and even if he was back from a mission, he would merely be preoccupied with the other guild members or brawling with Natsu then before she knew it, he would be off for another mission without even looking once at Juvia.
"Drip-drip-drop…yes, this time Gray-sama will look at Juvia…" A lightning cracked across the sky behind her as she made her way into the shop with the thunder roaring after her.
The store was pretty tiny and packed with many things. There were shelves that contained books, strange antiques and other items that Juvia cannot identify. The place reeks of rotten wood and had empty beer bottles laying all over the floor, the rain woman took careful steps ensuring not to trip over anything. She noticed that cobwebs decorated corners of the ceilings and felt slightly freaked out by the vibes that the store was giving out.
"H-hello?" She called out softly, slowly exploring the store with her eyes. "Is there anyone in? Juvia wishes to buy something."
Suddenly, she heard a creaking sound coming from the counter. She walked over and tip-toed to peer over the counter to see a pile of dirty clothes and newspapers. The rubbish rustled a bit then an arm unexpectedly shot out from the mess causing Juvia to jump back a few steps.
"What do you want with me?" An old husky voice said to her. The person stood up in his dark cloak and faced her.
'Juvia does not feel that she is creepy anymore after seeing this place…' The rain woman thought in her heart.
"Juvia hears that this place sells voodoo dolls of many kinds. Juvia wishes to buy the one that will help me with Gray-sama…" She answered with a slight blush on her cheeks tilting her face downwards.
The leaned closer to Juvia and studied her before putting his fingers beneath his chin and rubbing them. "Gray-sama?" Juvia pulled back further, disturbed by the smell of the man's breath.
"…y-yes… He is the love of Juvia… She wants Gray-sama to look at her." The pink blush on her face went a tone redder.
"Orh… We have just the doll you need…" The mysterious cloaked man said in a sinister voice and bent down to retrieve something from the counter and reappear in almost a second. "THIS! The 'Love me only' doll!"
"Love me only doll…" Juvia repeated.
"YES! With this doll, you can make anyone fall madly in love with you!" A large grin smeared across the man's face.
"Juvia can make Gray-sama fall madly in love with her?" She squint her eyes as she felt her heat travelling up all the way to her ears. She placed her palms on her face to try and contain herself at the thought of making Gray fall in love with her. "Juvia wants to buy doll!"
The seller rubbed both hands sinisterly and said "That would be 100,000 jewels."
"…100,000 jewels?" She snapped from her fantasy hearing the sky rocket price of the doll.
"Yes… after all you can use this doll a multiple times." He reasoned.
"But Juvia only wants to use in on Gray… and Juvia does not have that much…"
"Well, too bad then… I can sell this only at 100,000 jewels. No more, no less."
Juvia dropped her head in disappointment. She really wanted that doll so much. It was after all a doll that Kain of Grimore Heart used and it was proven to be very effective. The cloaked man started to sink back into his pile of mess when she suddenly looked up in determination again. "Juvia will buy the doll for 100,000 jewels! Gajeel-kun… Juvia is sorry, but she will use the money first! Juvia promises that Juvia will pay Gajeel-kun back soon!" With that she fished out a purple pouch and pour out all the money that she and Gajeel had received on a mission together, exactly 100,000 jewels. Half of it had belonged to Gajeel.
She turned and stared at the doll now seated on her dressing table and turned back to face herself in the mirror.
"Fu fu fu… Do you know how to use it?"
She shook her head in response.
"Easy, smear a little blood of your own on the doll so that the spell will be link to you… then when you obtain the hair of your desired one, stick it to the doll. The person will fall madly in love with you…fu fu fu…"
She held a small knife in her hand, plucking the courage to slice her finger for blood. She closed her eyes hoping to do so without looking. 'Juvia will do this for Gray-sama…Juvia will do this for Gray-sama.' The woman repeated in her mind.
"JUVIA!"
"Eh?" Juvia opened her eyes to see a horrified Lucy scrambling into her room trying to stop her from slicing herself.
"What are you trying to do Juvia? Don't do this to yourself!" Lucy screamed as she tried to snatch the knife out of Juvia's hand.
"No! What is Lucy doing? Let Juvia do it!"
The two girls fought over for the knife clearly because of a misunderstanding. Lucy had thought that Juvia was about to take her life and insisted on stopping the lady from doing so.
"What's going on?" Cried Happy who just flew into the room and witnessing the commotion.
"Juvia is trying to take her own life!" Lucy said in effort, still trying to pull the knife out of Juvia's hands.
"Juvia is not!" The water mage retorted
"Urghhh… is… to…"
Happy, being taken aback by Juvia and Lucy, cried for Natsu who was waiting outside to come in. The dragonslayer appeared almost immediately at the exceed's call and dashed towards the girls instinctively. Then as if in slow mo, the dragonslayer pounced onto the both of them causing the knife to slip. Juvia's eyes tore wider as it all happened… splatter...
The knife had slid someone and blood had splattered on the doll and it was not hers!
"Natsu you idiot!" The fight had been broken and Lucy was left sitting on the ground holding on to her bleeding finger. "Look what you have done!" The woman in her usual blue mini skirt and white blouse screamed out.
Natsu wore his trademark grin on his face as usual, "Shi-shi-shi! Sorry, I thought you guys were having fun so I joined when happy called me to join." Lucy dropped her jaw in disbelief at the dragonslayer's obnoxious comment.
"You idiot!" The girl tempted to dump something at Natsu conveniently picked up Juvia's doll and smashed it hard in Natsu's face much to Juvia's horror.
"Oww! Whachu do that for?"
"Natsu, Lucy's finger is bleeding because of you…" The flying cat explained.
Natsu pouted his lips in realisation for what he has done and scratched his pink head in guilt. "Gee… Sorry Luce." The dragonslayer apologized not noticing that a single strain of his pink hair had fallen out when he scratched his head and onto Juvia's doll.
"Eeeeeiiiii!" Juvia screamed as she crawled over to Natsu in attempt to retrieve the voodoo doll. "Juvia…" Lucy looked at her distraught guild mate wondering what has gotten over her when suddenly Natsu surprised everyone in one single motion. He swiped Juvia out of the way sending her flying to the wall taking the doll with him and running away.
"NATSU!" The cat and Lucy shouted after him while Juvia was still recovering from her shock.
"Natsu-san has stolen Juvia's doll! Even Natsu-san is after Gray-sama!" Juvia said out loud in frustration earning a sweat drop from the mini Gray doll lying on her bed. The rain woman decided to get back what was hers and ran after Natsu as well.
Gajeel raised an eyebrow, spotting the fire dragon squatting at a corner of the guild; what's more, he was pressing a strange looking doll against his chest.
"Oi! What's up with you?" He started, feeling a little disturbed that a fellow dragonslayer is behaving like a girl hugging a doll. "Throw away that doll! It looks stupid!" Gajeel demanded, not knowing that half of the doll was bought using his hard earned money.
The said person looked up at Gajeel resembling a puppy pleading for help. Seeing his flushing face, Gajeel can't help but screamed at Natsu in irritation. "What!"
Natsu's mouth started to quiver as he confessed to the iron dragon, "It looks like Lucy." referring to the doll.
"HUH?" Gajeel gasped in horror, still deciding if his keen senses were failing on him or if something was seriously wrong with Natsu.
"What's wrong?" came a much gentler voice. It was Mirajane the take-over mage. "Good that you are here. I don't know what is wrong with the fire head. You find out." Gajeel told her in his dark tone, deciding to wash his hands off Natsu. The take-over mage scoot down and stroke the pink-headed dragonslayer at his back like a little child before she began to talk.
"Natsu…w-wha…" the white headed beauty got cut off as soon as the guild door smashed open.
"GIVE JUVIA BACK HER DOLL!" The rain woman thundered as she threatened to once again flood the guild with her fountain streaming tears.
All the guild members froze in horror and started climbing onto the tables trying to avoid getting drowned by her water. "Damn! I just bought these shoes!" Someone complaint.
"Oh for crying out loud! Give it back to her!" Gajeel screamed at Natsu trying to move his iron meal to a higher spot.
"Water slicer!" She summoned her water magic aiming the attack at Natsu who effortlessly jumped and dodged her attack. Juvia merely shot more slicers at the dragonslayer, missing each attempt and destroying several parts of the guild in the process.
"The Pillar! We just fixed that!"
Gajeel trying to ignore them brought a piece of his iron to his mouth when one of the water slicers slapped it away from his face. Boiling with anger, the iron dragonslayer stood up and bellowed "I'll thrash that doll!"
"Wait Gajeel-kun! Juvia used your money on that doll!" Juvia screamed out to her friend.
"WHAT! FOR THAT STUPID THING?" He shrieked drawing back his iron magic "How much of it did you use?"
"Juvia used all of our reward in the last mission! Nothing is left! Juvia is sorry!" She admitted.
"Juvia! Natsu!" Lucy entered along with Happy and Gray.
"Oi! What are you doing moron!" the black- haired ice mage said to Natsu seeing that he was standing at the ledge on the second level of the guild. The dragonslayer turned red upon realising Lucy's presence but quickly went crazy when he saw the ice mage.
"Put on some clothes when you are near Lucy!" He snarled as his shot himself at Gray.
"GRAY-SAMA!" Juvia squeaked in excitement but started pulling her blue locks as she was once again gone unnoticed by her beloved. 'The doll, the doll! Juvia has to get back her doll!'
"Stop!" The voice that ended the craziness came from Erza Scarlet. Gray and Natsu immediately pulled away from each other and the entire guild silenced. "What is going on down here?"
"He came at me first!" Gray started.
"He's not wearing anything in front of Lucy!" Natsu argued to Lucy's surprise. Since when did the dragonslayer ever cared about that!
"Fire boy stole Juvia's doll!" Gajeel intervened.
"But it looks like Lucy!" the pink-headed dragonslayer retorted as though that was a good enough reason.
"HEY!" Lucy shrieked in disbelief. "Which part of it looks like me!" she defended.
"Give Juvia back her doll…" The water mage said with tears welling up again.
"Yea… give it back!" Gajeel continued, only because the doll cost all of his money.
"SHUT UP!" The raven shouted at the top of her voice and snatched the doll away from Natsu's arms. "LUCY!" The salmon-hair boy whined.
"Stop calling that doll with my name!" Lucy cried in horror constantly telling herself she did not look a thing like the pale looking bald doll.
Erza passed the doll over to Gajeel to which the irritated iron dragonslayer handed over to Juvia – the rightful owner.
Natsu collapsed into depression in an instance calling for Lucy's name under his breath as if she had passed away. The girl went over to Natsu and tried to support him up to his feet when he suddenly embraced her in his arms and buried his face into the arch at the collar of her neck.
Lucy jumped a little, "Natsu!" stunned by his strange behaviour.
"Lucy… You… smell…sweet…"
"Ehhh?" The Stellar mage got stunned at his words. She felt her blood rushing to her head rendering her dizzy. The other members heard this as well and gleamed in utmost interest.
"Our Natsu's grown up! Our Natsu's in love!"
Juvia was also astonished at the result of her voodoo doll. 'NO! NO! Juvia did not buy the love me only doll for Lucy! She bought it for Gray-sama!'
"N-Na-Natsu…" Lucy stumbled in her words, embarrassed at Natsu's reaction to her. The dragonslayer pulled closer to her face.
"Stay with me… for-e-ver…"
"Natsu! Wake up!" the flying cat squealed before getting smacked away by Lucy for the unnecessary interruption.
'Uh… the bishonen look!' A voice screamed shamelessly in Lucy's head. Natsu licked his lips wet preparing to take her lips in to his. She subconsciously did the same and closed her eyes getting ready for the kiss that was suppose to come, never mind the fact that they were going to do it in front of the guild. Just like in the books, this was so romantic!
"Lucy." Her eyes fluttered open, only to see Natsu's usual child-like face "What's with that strange face?" He asked.
"Eh?" Wasn't Natsu going to kiss her?
"Weirdo…" Natsu flinched noticing the close proximity their faces were in and flicked a finger at her forehead letting her drop from his arms.
"Heck! Who are you calling weird!" The stellar mage screamed in rage as she rubbed her bottom in pain. She regained footing and started chasing Happy who was teasing her after her fall.
'The spell is now lifted.' Juvia thought. '…Juvia has removed Natsu-san's hair from the 'love me only' doll… The doll unlike the love potion is a lot faster and effective! Now all Juvia has to do is obtain Gray-sama's hair!' The water mage pressed the doll close to her face smiling in delight just thinking about it. Not noticing that a certain ice mage had been observing her actions. He smiled to himself. 'All for a silly doll…weird but cute.'
End!
It is good or bad? Should I continue?
Well, if I do continue… maybe I'll use the doll on a few other pairings. Any requests from anyone… feel free to drop a message. =)
