Chapter 1: The Prologue

I have been waiting for Gray and Juvia to have some development on their relationship in the Manga for some time now and somehow I'm getting a little bit impatient, just a little bit. So I write a Gruvia fanfic to ease my… frustrations, if you may call it that.

This story starts five years from X791 in the Manga and will roughly fit the canon storyline. Lemons are to be expected in the story so read at your own risk.

Mainly Gray x Juvia but other pairings will show up later.

GRAY WINTER

Chapter 1:The Prologue

A light moan of discomfort wakes me up from my slumber. I felt her move beside me, inching more closer and hiding her face in the crook of my neck. With a smile on my lips, I lift my hand, running my fingers through her wavy silky smooth hair. I heard a light chuckle and open my eyes and found myself staring at her dark blue eyes then down to her luscious pinkish lips.

"Gray-sama…"

"GRAY!" shouted Charle that makes Gray jumps in his chair inside the train.

Gray grumbled something about waking someone properly as he yawns, 'That dream again!'

"We're here already, Gray-san." Wendy said, beside Natsu who is still suffering from motion sickness and happy helping him to get up. "Are you alright? You kept mumbling in your sleep." She added.

"Uh, Yes, I'm fine, thanks." 'I hope I didn't mumble shit while I'm asleep' He said inwardly and looks down only to see himself stripped again, wearing only his boxers. "What the hell?" He started to search for his clothes and putting them on.

"Gray, your jacket," Happy reaches his paws with Gray's jacket.

Busy putting his shirt he reaches it without looking, "Thanks, Juvia…" then he stops, realizing what he said and look at his companions who are also looking at him. Happy just kept silent, same as Charle, while Wendy had a sympathetic look on her face. "Let's go, the guild is waiting for us." He said and hastily exits the train.

In five years, after the grand magic games the town of Magnolia became more prosperous in magic. The business establishments increases and so is the population with the protection of the strongest guild in whole Fiore, Fairy Tail.

Headed by Natsu who recovered from his motion sickness and is grinning from ear to ear, they enter their boisterous guild with a loud bang from the guild door being pushed rather violently. The loud noise died down, all eyes on them.

"Guys, we're back!" Natsu announces and the guild is full with loud cheers again, welcoming them warmly.

Then whole guild starts partying, Mira with Kinana serving drinks, Macao and Wakaba having a drinking contest with Cana, Romeo happily chatting with Wendy, Elfman bragging something being a man again only to be scolded with a very pregnant Ever beside him, the rest of the Raijinshuu on one corner of the room and also drinking, Laxus and the guild master Makarov just watching the whole guild go wild, Levy welcomes his boyfriend Gajeel and the black exceed with him, Pantherlily who also came back from their mission.

"This guild will never change," Gray commented with a smile, shirtless, and sitting on one of the bar stools with a drink on his hand.

"Yeah, I agree on that Ice Princess." Said the dragon slayer beside him and drinking his fire whiskey.

"You wanna go, flametard?" Gray glared at Natsu,

"Oh, Yeah, male prostitute!" Natsu retorted, but when his onyx eyes caught a certain blonde mage he gets up from the bar stool, "Just changed my mind, maybe some other time," then he ran off to Lucy.

"Arara, since those two realized their feelings for each other they became much more inseparable," Mira commented with her hand on her cheek. "How 'bout you Gray? When will you fall in love?"

He emptied his glass, not planning to answer the nosy former S-class Mage. Reverting his eyes from the barmaid only to stare at the pair of red eyes glaring at him.

"Drinks for me and Gajeel, Please," Levy ordered, "oh, and a kiwi juice for Lily" she added. Looking at his direction, she waved, "Hi, Gray!" and he answered with a simple "Hey", "Heard you and the others done a great job without destroying anything."

"Well, apparently Natsu is seriously working as he was planning to buy something," still eyeing the glaring iron dragon slayer. "How about yours Gajeel?" he asked though he doubt if Gajeel will answer him.

The iron dragon slayer just let out a "Tch!" as Levy is looking at him, urging him to answer, "We did fine… even though Juvia's not here anymore," that response made him stop, he doesn't know what else to say. He just remained like that till Gajeel walks away from them and Levy giving him apologetic look and following the latter after getting their drinks.

Mira who is there the whole time and busy wiping the empty glasses, puts down another glass in front of Gray. He muttered his thanks and sip on the strong liquor. "Maybe never again." He said as if to answer Mira's earlier question.

And that's it for the first chap. This is my first Fairytail fanfic so I don't know yet if I am catching the right emotions for each characters, as for the grammar errors I do apologize for it and try to correct them. Don't forget to review!