A/N: Hey! So this is going to be the first story I publish on here. I'd prefer for this story to be on here because I really want feedback and good criticism on it. Juvia is such a doll and she's my favorite so I conjured up a crack pairing story! Lucy x Juvia has such good potential, so why not make a story about it? This is set in a Modern World!AU, and the characters considered OOC for the sake of the story. Despite that, I really hope you enjoy it!
Rating: Fiction M for suggestive themes, strong language, and adult situations.
Disclaimer: And of course Fairy Tail belongs to Hiro Mashima, I only own the plot of the story.
1. Thunder
Honestly, it all started that night they took the overtime shift.
The rain pelted against the fancy black roof as Juvia grimaced at it's racket. She groaned externally, recalling that she had to take the bus after her shift. Normally, she'd hitch a ride with her friend Gajeel whenever they had the same shift, but this time he took his motorbike and rode with Levy earlier today. Walking wasn't the problem for Juvia, it was the fact that the bus station was almost four blocks away from the diner. That meant that she had to walk in the rain. There's nothing fun about walking in the rain for four blocks, attempting to catch a bus at this hour.
"Juvia, you've been cleaning the same spot on that table for about five minutes straight. I don't know about you, but I think it's clean." Levy toyed with her blue towel in her right hand, smirking slightly at the bluenette.
Juvia looked down at the red and white polka dotted printed table and sighed, she had been so caught up in her thoughts that she was practically wiping the spot into the oblivion. "Sorry, Juvia was distracted."
"It's okay, Juvia" Levy giggled, placing her small hand on top of Juvia's pale ones. "All the tables are cleaned and wiped out, our shift will be over in ten minutes. Don't forget to call me tonight either, I have something important to tell you." With that, the smaller bluenette turned her heels and called for Natsu, who was working and preparing the food for later in the day.
Juvia glanced at the clock above her, wondering if the public buses even rode out this late.
1:51 AM
Great.
Juvia glanced around the diner for a few seconds, analyzing and taking in everything that was around her. She grinned at the black and white checkered floor tiles, ending at a long black stage. It was placed at the very back of the diner hall, making it easier for everyone to see who would be preforming. As of right now, she could see her long term friend Gajeel working with the microphones on stage, making sure that everything would go right for the next time someone preforms. Next to him, was a handsome (shirtless) friend of Juvia's who just made everything complicated.
Gray.
The man she was "in love" with.
Honestly, she really really wanted to be in love with him.
She wanted to care for him and be obsessed with him, showing him every ounce of love she had in her body. She wished that it was him who stole her heart, the one who swept her away at first glance. The one her heart yearns for, she really did.
But unfortunately, that's not the case.
He was just- "Oi! Juvia! Quit eye fucking stripper over here, it's creeping me out!"
Juvia glared over at her long term friend, in which he replied with a sadistic smile. "Quit glaring at me sprinkler, we need you up here to test out the mic range to see if we have to adjust it or not."
Juvia closed her eyes in glee, running her hands down to smooth the black apron with the words "Fairy Tail" planted where her stomach was. The fairy tail symbol proudly stood out in blue right under the promising words. That was one of the many qualities that she loved about Fairy Tail, it being a place where everyone goes to grab a quick bite and to watch some very talented entertainment. Everyone working here was proud of their nakama for working so hard to keep this place in shape and very entertaining. One of the things that makes this diner so special, is that the live talent comes from the people working behind the bars everyday and serving the food. Everyone who worked here at Fairy Tail has got up on stage at least ten times these past few months. Juvia? She was most definitely a crowd-favorite. Her rich voice with vintage and soul marks her at the top of the list on most likely to actually get a career off of singing.
"Why do you need Juvia to do this?" Juvia made her way up unto the small stage. "Not that she's complaining, it's just that Gajeel-kun or Gray-sama can sing just as well as Juvia can"
"One, stripper here can't sing for shit." A small 'Hey!' could be heard "..And two, stripper and I are the only ones here who are capable of fixing the mics to adjust them and shit. Would you rather be doing this crap instead of singing?" Gajeel finished, crossing his arms to make a point.
Juvia sighed and shook her head.
"That's what I thought. Now sing something, anything."
Juvia then leaned up towards the microphone, adjusting the stand to bring it down to her height. Tapping the mic a few times to make sure that it was on, she mindlessly flicked her waist length blue hair over her shoulder as she sighed contently, closing her eyes.
"Wise men say, only fools rush in." She swayed her hips to the beat inside of her mind. "But I can't help falling in love with you." She could hear the tones and different changes in dynamics from the microphone. "Oh shall I stay? Would it be a sin? Oh if I can't help falling in love with you." A certain figure popped up inside of her head, her long blonde hair cascading down her curvaceous back. "Like a river flows surely to the sea, darling so it goes. Somethings are meant to be.." She could imagine her close friend Gajeel playing the piano behind her, just like old times. "Take my hand, take my whole life too. Oh, for I can't help falling in love
Juvia chuckled and opened her eyes, she had heard the shifts in volume and dynamics within her singing, and checked to see if they had fixed whatever the problem was. Gajeel gave her his signature grin and thumbs up, making her hop off of the two foot high stage. She jumped slightly to see that she had formed an audience behind the bar table, them clapping and whistling simultaneously.
"Juvia, I'm literally obsessed with your voice." Levy started, grabbing her shoulders, shaking them slightly.
"But Levy-Chan and the others has already heard Juvia sing a million times before." Juvia giggled at their over-dramatic behavior.
Natsu jumped over the bar, knocking over a few items in the process, and beamed at the singer. "It doesn't matter how many times we hear your voice! I challenge you to a singing battle! Me vs You, crowd decides who wins!"
"Natsu, the last time you battled someone you lost miserably" The angelic voice spoke up, putting an emphasis on the last word.
"Lucy, the only reason why you won that battle is because I let you win!" Natsu tried to defend himself, but everyone in the diner knew that it was a lie.
"Whatever makes you sleep at night..." Lucy giggled, leaning up to give her boyfriend a kiss on the cheek "Oh and Juves, you have to show me how you do that vibrato in such a high octave without losing your breath? I mean, I can hardly hold it for four seconds!"
She has no idea why, but Juvia's persona automatically shifted in that split second. Juvia unintentionally let out an angered sigh, but kept out a huge smile for the friends in front of her. "Well Natsu, if you want to battle me, then let's do it at theme night. This weekend, tag team, no judges, the audience decides who wins. Deal?"
Her colleagues just stared at her with either an amused expression, or a shocked expression. Usually, she'd never accept any battles or challenges from anybody who works at the Fairy Diner. The one time she battled was against Erza, and that ended...let's just say neither of them turned out to be the true winners of that round.
"Ju-Chan, the last time you were in a theme night battle.." Levy shifted a little, lost for words.
"You and that she-devil almost set me on fire!" Gajeel exclaimed
"Well if Gajeel-kun wasn't standing so close to the Flame-O-Phone, then maybe he wouldn't have gotten burned!"
"WOMAN YOU FRIED ELFMAN AND SET THE WHOLE DRUM SET ON FIRE! WHO IDEA WAS IT TO GET A FIRE-BREATHING SAXOPHONE IN THE FIRST PLACE?!" Gajeel hollered at the poor girl, pointing his finger at her.
Out of the corner of her eye she could see Natsu subtly raising his hand, when automatically Lucy gently put it down and sighed. "Evergreen almost had a heart attack that night"
"Well it's Erza's fault for challenging Juvia, she knows that she can get too competitive sometimes."
"Wait wait wait.." Gray finally spoke up once the chaos had calmed down and the tension was no longer in the air. "This weekend's theme is Arabian Nights. So we have no room for a battle. We have the belly dancing routine, the group performance, the theatrical production, and on top of that we have five singers already booked."
Natsu flamed at such accusation. "No problem!" He jumped on top of the table with lightening speed. "YOU AND ME JUVIA! WE'LL SETTLE FOR A STREET BATTLE"
Lucy scoffed "The last time we had a street battle, some jackass called the cops on us."
Juvia rolled her eyes "You're on. Right after theme night. We'll meet at the Karaoke place on Brook's Avenue"
"The one that's owned by Sting?" Levy pondered out to herself.
"Yeah, that's the one"
"I don't know what's gotten into you sprinkler, but I like it." Gajeel smiled wickedly and patted the blunette's hair.
"Winner will be decided by an outsider. Someone who's not close to neither of us" Juvia smirked
"I know someone. He stops by the diner almost everyday and orders the same thing. He'd be perfect." Lucy leaned on Natsu's shoulder.
"We need it to be someone who knows what they're talking about, not some random stranger who's probably never judged in his life." Juvia let the words flow out of her mouth without stopping herself, widening her eyes just slightly at the harshness of her voice.
Lucy narrowed her eyes in confusion at the vintage singer. "As a matter of fact, Jellal is an excellent singer who will know what he's doing. Look Juvia if you have-"
"And here I thought I would get some peace and quiet before the crack ass break of dawn, but I guess I got my hopes up!" Juvia heard a loud booming voice entering from the red double doors, immediately turning around to see that Laxus and the others that was working for the next shift were here.
Juvia ignored Lucy's intense stare and went up to Laxus. "Sorry for the noise, we were trying to organize a street battle."
"A street battle?! HA! Count me in!" Laxus boomed
"Really? Does Laxus want to be a judge? Juvia supposes that we already have one judge, but if Laxus agrees then he'd have to chose between me and Natsu." Juvia shifted a little bit from his intimidating gaze.
"That's fair. Haven't judged a street battle in a long time." Laxus responded
"Count me in too." The she-devil herself made her way into the conversation. "But don't tell gramps about this, he'd shut it down in an instant because of what happened last time."
"Alrighty then! It's official! Lucy! Be my partner for the tag team battle round!" Natsu chuckled over-excitedly, lifting the poor girl in the air.
Juvia closed her eyes in frustration, making her way towards the storage and locker room near the back. It was where all of the employees kept their stuff and where they keep all of the needed instruments. She really surprised herself tonight, and it was completely out of character. Which reminded her, she definitely had to swoon over Gray when she went back out there to avoid any suspicion. Lucy seems like she's catching on, but Juvia isn't entirely sure yet. After all, back when they were fourteen, they had been closer than two peas in a pod. Always having sleepovers with Cana and Levy, for Erza was too mature and didn't seem to like their parties.
Lucy helped Juvia along with her depression, and made it easier for Juvia to get along with life.
Then, Juvia got a waitress position at Phantom's Diner when she was sixteen.
It was the worst decision of her life.
With tired hands, Juvia secured and buttoned up her black coat. It wasn't a strange site to see rainfall in New York City. After all, they were in the middle of spring. She clutched the pink umbrella for reassurance and walked out of the stuffy room with her belongings.
When met with the faces in the room, she noticed that nobody had left their positions. Besides Gray standing a little closer to Natsu for the sole purpose of arguing with him. Freed and Laxus were behind the bar counter, the blonde having his feet copped up on the counter while closing his eyes peacefully. Mira, Lisanna, and Elfman were doing their usual in the back, stocking, checking and preparing. Bickslow and Evergreen were basically seated up on one of the tables, having a go at it on their phones.
She had spent so much time observing, that she didn't notice the little bookworm waltzing up to her. "Juvia, do you have a ride?"
"Um yes, Juvia has a bus to catch" Lies. She knows that the last bus had probably left an hour ago.
"The bus Juvia? At this hour? Not to mention that it's four blocks away, AND it's raining." Levy crossed her arms at the obvious lying singer.
"Well it looks like Juvia has no choice, does she? Juvia will just walk" Juvia replied back
"Hell no sprinkler, I'm not just going to let you walk in the middle of the night, when it's raining, and when your apartment is about two hours away by foot. Not happening" Gajeel butted in on the conversation.
"Juvia can take care of her-"
"Cut the crap woman. Since I brought my motorbike o'er here, I can't take you home. Levy has to-"
"No it's fine! I can catch a ride with Lu-chan, right?" Levy brought up
"Levy, you live approximately forty minutes away from me, and I'm catching a ride with Natsu." Lucy answered
Act casual. "Juvia would prefer it if Gray-sama takes her home!" She replied with a swooning face.
"No way, and don't you live in Lucy's apartment building as well? It would be much easier for all of us if you'd just catch a ride with them." Gray rolled his eyes a bit.
Jerk.
"Yeah Juvia, just ride with me and Luce." Natsu exclaimed.
Seeing as if she had no other choice, even though it's the most frustrating choice she's ever made, she reluctantly agreed. "That's nice of you Natsu-san"
"Alright great! Let's go!" He pulled Lucy's hand and practically ran out of the diner with the poor girl.
"Levy, take Juvia's coat. You're wearing a tank top, and you're going to need it when you're riding with that doof." Juvia shrugged off the black coat and handed it over to the smaller girl.
"Thanks Ju-Chan, I forgot my coat earlier today, and I also forgot we had to work an extra shift the day." Levy replied sheepishly, putting her arms into the fabric.
"No problem Levy-Chan! You can just return it to Juvia tomorrow." Juvia beamed at the younger girl, clenching her umbrella in the process.
Don't you just hate constantly being the third wheel? How you're forced to be the loner in the backseat while the people in the front have the greatest time in their lives. When sometimes one of the wheels has a beautiful smile with a gorgeous personality and a voluptuous body to top it all off. How said wheel unmistakably fell in love with the wrong person, who you wish it was you? Or how you're constantly left out in the dark because there it practically no one there who knows what exactly you're going through. With no support, no back up. Just yourself falling constantly in a dark spiral heading only God knows where.
Juvia hates being the third wheel.
One exciting thing she discovered when riding with Natsu and Lucy is that they both have a passion for country.
Fucking country music.
They absolutely had to sing EVERY country song that played. As if listening to it wasn't torture enough.
"Oi! Leave it Natsu! I like this song." Lucy stopped the pink headed weirdo from changing the station because it wasn't country.
"..and now I'm itching for the tall grass and longing for the breeze. I need to step aside, just to see if I can breathe."
Oh you've got to be fucking kidding. Out of all of the songs that Lucy had to stop on, it had to be this one. Juvia would honestly prefer the country songs if it meant not having to listen to this one.
"Juves! It's the first song we sung together!" Lucy cheered, clapping happily at the memory.
"You're voice was the soundtrack of my summer. Do you know you're unlike any other?"
"Yeah, it is." Juvia replied blandly. She couldn't wait to go to the apartment and let out all of her frustrations.
"I don't want to ever love another, you'll always be my thunder, so bring on the rain."
A lightening bolt cackled through the sky and into a broken heart.
"Strike me down with lightening, let me feel you in my veins. I wanna let you know how much I feel your pain."
She felt her dip a little bit, as she clutched her wrist in retaliation.
The rest of the song came as a blur, with Juvia shutting her eyes in attempt to block out all of the negative thoughts entering her mind. Breathe. Think about the others who care about Juvia, those who would throw everything away just to make Juvia happy again. Those who are always by Juvia's side, no matter how many times Juvia tries to push them away.
Oh god, Juvia is horrible to her friends.
She doesn't deserve any of them, because despite them being so kind to them she insists on pushing them away.
She all of a sudden felt an itching on her upper thighs and stomach. She began to grow uncomfortable with sitting, and breathing.
"Oi! Juvia!"
She shot her head back up at the sound of her name being called.
"Why are you crying?"
What? Since when did Juvia start crying?
"Juvia apologizes, the song just reminded her of something sad." Lame excuse, she knows. She stopped the single tear flow with a swipe of her pale hand.
Lucy gave her a pained look, probably because she knew what Juvia went through in her earlier days living in Magnolia. "Okay, you know that I'm here whenever you need to let it out"
She sighed. "Juvia knows." And Lucy knows that was a lie, because Juvia had asked Lucy in her early stages of depression for some help, but she always was too busy hanging out with Natsu or doing school work to be there for her.
But Juvia didn't have the time or energy to argue.
"We're here." Natsu spoke up quietly, after the tension was already very thick.
In a hurry, Juvia exited out of the red ford mustang. As she smoothed down her buttoned up long sleeved white blouse, she entered the apartment building. She walked up the stairs instead of catching the elevator because her apartment was only on the second floor. Her black high heels clicked against the stairs, sighing of relief once she reached the door that held "2". Once Juvia pushed the door open, she suddenly realized something.
"Dammit." She sighed, realizing that she left the keys to her apartment in her black jacket. "Levy" She groaned, pushing the back of her head against the wall. "Fantastic."
What is she going to do now?
Wait.
No.
No.
Absolutely not.
She hasn't stayed with Lucy ever since that one sleepover she had with every girl from the Fairy Tail. She was still working in Phantom Lord back then for crying out loud! Besides, after that awkward encounter in Natsu's car, she knew that she'd have to confront and talk about why she cried.
Juvia sighed for what felt like the millionth time in the span of two hours.
In all honestly, Juvia did miss Lucy. She missed being close to her, not having all of the awkwardness surrounding them every time they tried to hold a conversation.
Oh, what the heck. It'll just be for the night anyway, and it's already late enough.
The ache in Juvia's back led her to make her final decision, her feet leading the way back towards the stairs.
Would it be awkward?
Of course.
Will there be a bit tension?
Definitely.
Will it be worth it?
Absolutely.
With three knocks on her door, the blunette widened her eyes in surprise when Lucy already opened the door.
It can't be that bad to stay one night, right?
"Love rival, Juvia needs to stay at your apartment because she forgot her keys."
The blonde looked at Juvia with a surprised expression, before chuckling in response. "Oh..sure Juvia!" She smiled, pulling the poor girl inside her quite large apartment.
Juvia has a bad feeling about this.
Hi! So that was the first chapter of my newest and first fan fiction, please nicely leave in the reviews how I can make the characters or story better, without actually changing the plot of the story of course! XD I love feedback
If you are confused, the characters are all basically in the modern world, living in New York City. They all work at Fairy Tail Diner, as they preform daily at said diner from 6-8 pm. At every Saturday, they have some type of theme night that reels in a lot of customers.
More will be explained next chapter, I promise!
Until next time,
- Angel of Demonics
Songs mentioned in this chapter:
Can't Help Falling in Love -Elvis Presley
Thunder - Boys like Girls