Right, so this is just a fun little thing I whipped up. It's not super heavy, and yes, it is 100% Juvia-centric. She's my favorite Fairy Tail character, and I don't like how alone she has to be in her childhood, so I went ahead and fixed that. Her childhood isn't sparkles and rainbows, but I like it more :P
This is kind of an AU within the actual Fairy Tail universe. I guess we can just say it all happens way after the Grand Magic games and shit. (I don't read mangas so it would follow the anime more). There are no bad things afoot at this point in time.
Lots of OC's to come. Juvia and probably everyone else are pretty out of character, but besides Juvia and maybe like Lucy or Cana or Gajeel it shouldn't be a lot! (Juvia has toned her stalkerness down, she's pretty close with Lyon, and she doesn't say Gray-sama; just Gray.)
There are no honorifics in this story. I'm faarrrr too lazy to use them and if I did they would probably be very very wrong.
Lyon is in this story a lot. I promise his presence has a purpose!Also side note; in my mind Juvia just seems older than Gray and Natsu and all of them so she's like 20, not 18. Idk why but that's just the age I liked for her, plus it makes more sense as the story goes.
That's really all I can think to mention right now.. If you have a question or if something just makes no sense PLeASE ASK AND I'LL CLARIFY OR FIX IT!
I don't own Fairy Tail, otherwise all of our favorite couples would be together3
An average day at Fairy Tail was turned on its head when one Lyon Vastia came walking through the guild doors. He was greeted with friendly waves and hellos from the majority of the mages in the guild, as they were always happy to see a familiar face come to visit, but Gray internally groaned. He'd managed to go the entire morning without Natsu dragging him into a fight, no one asked him to go on any jobs, and Juvia had yet to appear and latch on to him. He knew that the latter would inevitably happen, but until it did he just wanted to enjoy his rare moment of being alone. But Lyon's appearance promised to ruin that plan.
Lyon only scanned Fairy Tail's guild for a second before he frowned. He glanced around once more before he walked over to Gray.
"Yo, Gray, where's Juvia at?" Gray just continued to glare out the window. He had no idea where the water mage was but even if he did, what kind of nakama would he be if he told someone without even knowing if said someone was allowed to know?
"She isn't here."
Lyon took a seat across from his childhood friend. "Yes, I can see that. So where is she? I wanted to ask her to dinner while I'm here!" His mouth spread into a wide grin as he spoke the last bit.
Gray rolled his eyes and grumbled. The action just caused Lyon to raise his eyebrow and laugh. "You know if me asking her on dates ticks you off that much why don't you just ask her out and make it official?"
"Make what official, exactly?"
"You and Juvia, you idiot! If you were actually dating her then I wouldn't ask her out!"
"Why the hell would I date her just to stop you from taking her out?" The white haired man couldn't help but shake his head at his friend's comment.
"Jeeesh since when are you this dense?! I'm not telling you to date Juvia just so that I can't go out with her! I'm telling you to date Juvia because you obviously like her, she really obviously likes you, and because you get all pissy if any other guy even seems to be thinking about asking her to go on a date. If you don't want anyone else to have her, then make her yours."
"I DON'T LIKE HER LIKE THAT YOU PRICK!" Gray realized that he yelled that, but he didn't really care. He hated when Lyon tried to tell him how to handle his relationships; especially his relationship with Juvia. Before Lyon could make any more remarks, the two were interrupted.
"Who doesn't like who like that?" Both ice mages turned and were met with the curious face of Lucy.
Gray was about to make up something to tell Lucy to get her to go away, but Lyon beat him to it. "Oh Gray's just claiming that he doesn't like Juvia as anything more than a friend and guild mate."
If there was ever a time when Gray wanted to strangle Lyon, now was it. As the Lamia Scale mage was uttering that to Lucy, Levy and Natsu had wandered over to her and overheard. So now not only did Gray have to listen to Lucy yell at him about his stubbornness, but he also had to listen to Levy help her and Natsu poke fun at it.
Somehow over the course of the last twenty-some minutes the topic of conversation went from Gray's love life, to how Lucy felt she'd never find the right guy and Lyon innocently suggesting that Natsu grew a pair and asked her out, to Gajeel insulting Natsu, to Elfman challenging all of the guys to a battle of the manliest.
It wasn't an outright fight; none of them were using magic. They were just punching and kicking each other and rolling around. It was what Elfman dubbed 'Real Man Fighting.'
In all of the commotion no one noticed Erza walk into the guild. She didn't feel the need to break up the fight since there was no harm coming to the guildhall, and so she passed without a thought.
Lucy and Levy waved when they spotted the scarlet haired woman.
"Hey, Levy, you aren't planning on going back to Fairy Hills anytime soon are you?"
Levy looked at her curiously. "Ummm, no, not till later. Why?"
"The new matron is pretty agitated. I stopped by there after getting back from my job to drop my things off and change clothes before I came here and I could hear her yelling from her office…"
"Really? Tara seems like the last person who would yell about anything.. Whom was she yelling at?"
"Juvia. And it sounded like she was on Tara's last nerve too." At the mention of the blue haired woman, Lyon and Gray paused in their current wrestling match to listen in. "I couldn't hear the whole conversation but I kept hearing Tara shout 'No boys means no boys! No exceptions!' and I know I heard Juvia asking if that could be overlooked for a few nights.."
"WHAAAT?!" At that point all of the mini brawls ceased and the whole guild was wide eyed with surprise. A few heads looked at Gray with questioning looks, and Lyon started to nudge him with a very accusing glace.
"Whaa- Hey! Don't look at me! I have no idea why Juvia's asking to have a guy stay in her room!" His face was beat red and he was pretty tense.
"Are you sure? I mean who else would she be trying to get to be allowed to spend a few nights?!"
"I have no idea but it isn't me! Juvia and I haven't even been around each other lately! I've been doing jobs like crazy because of Flame Brain and she's been out with the girls and on jobs with Gajeel!" The iron dragon slayer nodded, confirming what Gray had said.
"Wait, so Juvia wants a boy to stay the night? And said boy ISN'T Gray?" Cana, who was sitting at the bar, seemed to really be contemplating the situation at hand. "That means… Oh my god, Juvia has a secret boyfriend!"
"What if she's so lonely she's going to random men for the affection Gray isn't giving her?!" Gray glared at Lyon.
"Aye, what if she met someone on a job and fell in love with him and after having only secret meetings it's finally moved to the next stage?" Cana was nodding along with Happy's theory.
"That's very plausible too… BUT, what if—" At that point the whole guild, erupted into conspiracy theories on what the story could be behind Juvia wanting a boy to stay with her.
If Lucy was being honest, none of it sounded like Juvia. The girl wore her heart on her sleeve and didn't keep a lot hidden. She could tell from the annoyed expression on Gajeel's face that he didn't think any of the ideas were right either.
In the midst of all of the commotion, no one would have noticed if someone entered the guild. Well, unless said someone burst through the doors and caught everyone's attention. And that's exactly what Juvia did. She didn't even seem aware of all the eyes that were on her as she hurriedly headed to the bar.
"This is not good… Ohh Juvia completely forgot about how many preparations there were to be made… And of course no one could give Juvia a date sooner.." She was fiddling with her hands and mumbling to herself. Juvia made her way to Mira, still oblivious to all of the looks she was getting. "Oh Mira, is Master Makarov here? Juvia needs to see him right away."
Mira smiled and pointed to Makarov's office. "He should still be in there answering letters and whatnot. I'm sure Master has a time to speak with you."
Important question; does Marakov an office? Well he does now!
I hope this wasn't too awful.. reviews appreciated!