Hey guys! so here is my first Gray x Juvia story. i always wanted to write a story mainly about Juvia. I hope you really like it! let me know what you think please!
Sorry for any mistakes
"Juiva was never liked by us" countered Evergreen, the seventh fairest of the ocean. Juiva looked up into her eyes with an unmistakable mean mug. She couldn't stand Evergreen and Juvia knew the other mermaid couldn't stand her. Evergreen rolls her eyes and crosses her arms over her ample chest.
"That's just your opinion Evergreen" fired back Lucy, the second fairest of the sea. Her mid-back length blonde hair swayed softly in the sea as her eyes directed themselves to Evergreen. The other Mermaid didn't even flinch. "Putting her in eternal ice is ridiculous."
Erza, the fifth fairest, nodded her head in agreement. " Why would you even respond with that? Juvia isn't going anywhere." Evergreen clearly didn't like the sound of that. She leaned back against a pillar and glared at Erza. Erza's red hair trailed behind her as she swam off from the crowd of mermaids. "This conversation is over"
Now dismissed, Juvia turned and left. It was natural for nothing else to be said. The topic was brought up, half disagreed with the idea, discussion ended. Juvia knew this was coming the moment she fired back in a heated fight with evergreen "Sir Elfman couldn't have feelings for a witch like you." Juvia didn't mean what she said, but those words come crashing out faster than she realized it and so did Evergreen's complaint to King Makarov. This was getting ridiculous just like Lucy said. Evergreen never liked Juvia because of her being the Fairest of the sea, but a eternity in Ice? That was just too much.
"Once more" King Makarov said. Juvia froze. Erza turned back looking up to her lord with a confused face.
"Lord?"
King Makarov turned to Juvia. "This isn't the first complaint I've gotten about you, Juvia. One more and eternity it is."
"Your kidding me right!?" Lucy yelled her face pulled into a tight scowl. "How could you say that! Juvia is our future queen, these reports could be fakes how could you send her off to forever in ice!"
Prince Laxus's eyes turned to her and shook his head. "That's enough Lucy, the King has made up his mind." It was silent for a moment. Juvia's face turned down to her hands now balled up into fists.
"Very well." Juvia says slowly. "I'll be a good girl." Juvia smiled up to her lord before turning and swimming off. She had a deep feeling inside her that meant she wasn't going to last the week.
XoX
"Keep that shovel high Fullbuster!" The shovel pointed high before slamming down into the ground cracking the frozen snow chunks enough to pull them apart and shovel them aside. "There ya go!"
Gray looked up at his father's best friend before frowning. "Shut up Gildarts" he said. "I know what i'm doing. Why don't you get your lazy butt out here and shovel the snow. It's your driveway." His daughter, Cana wiped her face and glared up at her dad.
"That old fart" she mumbled. Gray chuckled and threw his shovel across the yard.
"I'm through" he said, throwing his hands up in surrender. Cana snapped her head towards him.
"What!? We just started."
"I shoveled half the driveway"
"There's another half!"
"And?" Cana pushed out a puff of breath and glared at her best friend. Gray laughs at her before walking up the front steps into the house. "Wait, come on Gray help me!" she ran after him, stopping at the door, to take off her wet shoes. Finding him in the kitchen, she gave him one good punch in the arm. "I can't believe you ditched me"
Gray gins before pulling her cheek. "Grow up" Cana swatted at his hand and walked away into the living room.
Gildarts came downstairs and gave them both sad looks. "Why'd you stop? I said i had to go to the store." Gray raised his eyebrow.
Cana laughed a fake. "You so did not say that." Gildarts shrugs.
"Some details are meant to be found out later." Gray raises his eyebrows higher.
"Oh really, like the one were a certain man was going to have to wait until the snow melts before he could rack up on junk food at the nearest convenience store." Gildarts paled.
"You read my mind..." Cana shook her head.
"That's what you do all the time." Gildarts waved her off.
"Some details aren't meant to bespoken aloud." Cana rolls her eyes before joining Gray back in the kitchen. Gray smiled at the two as they started another argument on dinner. He could remember the tie when head had to come and stay with them after his father died in a car crash two years ago when he was 17. Now he went to college and went home. Sometimes he came here just to kill time.
it was hard the year his father passed. Gildarts immediately took Gray in, being a close friend of his father and gray being best friends with Cana. At age 19 Gray didn't want to be a bother to them anymore and found an apartment close to the college he attended. He stayed to himself and didn't cause any trouble for himself or Gildarts and Cana, they took good care of him those two years and it would be wrong to not show his appreciation.
Cana turned to him and grinned. "Hey, you blanked out on me, what's wrong?" Gray smiled back at her.
"I was just thinking about climbing today." Cana stared at him for a moment before looking over to her father. Gildarts turned away and started for the stairs.
"I've got some work to do, tell me when dinner is ready" Gray watched him walk off. Cana leaned against the stove and frowned over at Gray.
"I thought you gave up climbing." Gray had given it up. but it's only been a month, sometimes he thought of the first time he went ice climbing. it was right after his father passing, and he needed something to keep his mind off everything. Climbing was just that. the cool air pushing his raven hair every which way, the sound of his axle hitting the ice each time he got closer to his destination, they way his harness tugged on his hips just a when he pulled himself higher up, or the way his helmet itched just little.
Cana would never understand that.
"Just for old time's sake. Besides it feels like the ice is calling me today." that wasn't a whole lie. He did feel like something was telling him to climb. it really felt like someone was puling him, telling him to get up and leave just to go climb. It was strange.
Cana slowly nodded and sighed. "Wait a sec, i'll come too" she said as she ran up the stairs, yelling something to Gildarts. Gray waited patiently, he was ready to climb again.
OxO
Juvia floated in the middle of the ocean, her hand extended, watching the current so far above her. She closed her eyes pulling her hand back to her chest. It's been two days since King Makarov declared for her to be sent into eternal ice if she'd do one last thing. she stayed locked up in her room within the castle and refused to come out.
She'd let this die down a little then she'd come out and continue with life. She just didn't know when that time was.
The next day she slowly pushed her door open and peered out before exiting and swimming to the front of the castle, she had to get out even just for a few hours. On her way, Evergreen was floating in the hallway as if knowing Juvia would pass.
"Where are you going?" Juvia froze.
"Nowhere"
"Are you sneaking out? You know not to be out at this hour."
Juvia clenched her fist. "Evergreen shut up." Evergreen looked taken back by Juvia's tone. Juvia swam off past the other mermaid.
Evergreen watched her leave. "Ice it is" she mumbled before leaving the scene.
XoX
"Be careful okay?" Gray nodded and smiled before pushing down his goggles. He gave Cana a thumbs up before making sure his harness was on right. he gripped his axle before plunging it into the ice. He could already feel his adrenaline pump through him, and he was off. Cana watched him, wishing she could move that fast. She knew she could climb with him but she'd just slow him down. She pulled her hood on and turned around to see a small hole in the snow. She walked over slowly peering in.
"Oh my- Gray!" She quickly turned to see him already halfway up. Even if she screamed at the top of her lungs, he'd never hear him. She looked back down to confirm what she saw, and there under the snow and a thin layer of ice, was the ocean clear as day. Cana knew this wasn't safe and they needed to go back to town, what if they stepped wrongly and cracked the ice they could fall into the ocean and never come back to the surface, trapped under the ice cold water. She slowly walked up to the thick ice frozen summit. She gripped a piece and started to climb without any tools or anything.
"Gray!"
OxO
Juvia swam away from the castle as fast as she could. She needed to get away from the kingdom. Making it to a small underwater cave she went in and stayed there for a while. This was the only place she could go to clear her mind. As she looked at the walls around her covered in rainbows of sea plants and small fishes passing her by she smiled despite herself.
She closed her eyes and begged. "Someone save me"
XoX
Gray froze mid way in climb. his heart started to race as an image flashed into his mind. A woman floating in the middle of the ocean, her hands clasped into each other, and her eyes closed. Beautiful long ombre Blue hair swaying around her and long eyelashes to hide her eyes. She was a beautiful... fish? Gray narrowed his eyes. Fish wasn't the word he wanted to describe it, but she had a tail and gills. A beautiful long tail the same color as her hair. He shook his head as the image reappeared.
"Gray! Gray! Stop!" he looked down to see Cana tightly holding onto the summit. Her mittens not the best thing to be climbing in. She was slowly slipping and had to keep re grabbing the small dent in the mountain to keep from falling.
"Cana get down! are you crazy!?" he yelled back. "Go back!"
"Not if you go with -" she cut herself of almost falling back.
"Cana! Jesus, go back!" Gray started to push himself back to get to her. "Hold on I'm coming"
"save me"
he froze again. that image was different now. the woman's eyes were open now and her light blue orbs stared back at him.
Cana looked down below her to see she was quite far off the ground, if she fell, she could seriously get hurt and defiantly crack the ice. "Gray! I'm slipping!" she yelled, her mittened hand giving up on her. Only then did Gray snap out of his thoughts and begin to climb down towards Cana.
"I'm coming!" he slammed his axle into the ice and slid himself down, that's when he heard it.
Crack!
OxO
Juvia opened her eyes and swam out of the cave. the ocean was clear beside a few small bodies heading her way. She squinted a little to see what it could be. Her eyes went wide as she saw, Evergreen and flock of mermen coming her way, King Makarov right beside her. Juvia paled and turned to swim off.
"Catch her!" King Makarov Yelled. The armed mermen swam after as Juvia swam as fast as she could to get away. Bumping into fishes and coral along the way, the mermen kept their track on her. Before she knew it, one was right behind her grabbing her tail and pulling her back. She screamed as he pulled her back towards King Makarov.
Evergreen was waiting with a smirk on her face. Juvia tried to escape, her hand reaching out to her freedom that she knew was now impossible to gasp. "Stop it!" she yelled as the men grabbed her and pushed her into Laxus. he held her tightly to his chest as King Makarov swam in front of them.
"I'm sorry, my dear Juvia. But i think it's best if you stayed a few years in Ice Isolation. You are stripped of your title of being the Fairest. Evergreen has taken your place." Juvia stared at him. This couldn't be happening. She had done nothing. Evergreen had set her up for her title! Juvia shook her head and felt the first tear fall down her rosy cheeks. "I'm sorry, Juvia."
That was the last thing she heard before King Makarov's hand extended and ice was all around her.
Never had she felt so weak.
XoX
Gray jumped down from the mountain grabbing Cana and they watched as the mountain burst apart. Cana screamed burying her face in Gray's chest as they slowly fell. Water pushed them back until the hit the ground hard, not enough to crack it, but it still hurt. The water around them slowly extended out around the rest of the summit as Gray opened his eyes.
He sat up his back hurting. "What the hell was that?" Cana was curled up beside him still with her eyes closed. he shook her a little "Cana! Cana! Get up!" She opened her eyes and peered up at him after a moment.
Gray looked around seeing they made it back to his car. Cana stood up looking around a well. everything felt so strange. When Gray stood up he noticed another body laying on the ground. He walked over and knelled beside it.
There was the woman he just had pictured. she was unconscious and slowly breathing. Gray pulled her up into his arms and stood turning back to Cana. Her eyes were wide as she took in the girl's features.
"Oh my god she has a tail!"
"Cana"
"are those fins!?"
"Cana"
"And gills!? Sweet baby Jesus, that's a mermaid!" Gray looked back down the the woman and he couldn't help but notice Cana was right, this was a mermaid he was holding. And she was slowly dehydrating.
"Water!" he yelled
"Water!" Cana yelled back.
"She needs water, we need water!" Gray started to frantically look around for something.
"Oh my god she's gonna die!"
"Cana, not helping!"
"Right, water! Get her in he car, I'll drive back to my place. Hurry!"
"Yeah!"