Hello all... How are you... Actually my mom said me this story and I thought of giving it a shot. Hope it will be okay...
On with the story.
Disclaimer : I do not own Bleach and Fairy tail...
Night time...
In a forest near the Bladok city on Earthland...
The sky opened a little and two figures jumped out of it.
"Are you sure?" A booming voice asked hesitantly.
"Yessssss... There are no sssssssshhhhhinigami herrrrreeeee." Another voice said triumphantly. "We can enjoy ourselves with delicious treat..."
The two nodded at each other and started to walk towards the city ahead of them.
The next day...
It was a normal day in Fairy tail that was situated in Magnolia town.
Fairy Tail. The guild that boasts of having the most amazing and powerful mages in that area. It has achieved back its previous glory through the Grand magic games, which they won fair and square. Even in the E.N.D. their help were very much necessary to get the land safe and sound from the dragons wrath.
The day was quite normal to all the residents in the Fairy tail right now.
The chairs were flying here and there, Elfman was talking something about being a "Man!", the elders were drinking along Cana and Master Makarov, Wakaba ans Macao talking something perverted about young girls, Mira was cleaning a glass in the bar offering a soft smile at anyone who came near her, Happy was munching on a fish while attempting to talk to Carle who was informing Wendy about how she must work hard on her nervousness, Wendy bowing her head blushing and saying "Sorry!", Lily having a spar with Erza, Juvia watching her beloved Gray-sama behind a pillar, Lucy talking to Levy about some new book and of course Natsu and a shirtless Gray fighting over a piece of wood Natsu got from some forest where he went to do a mission with Happy.
Yes perfectly normal as ever be.
"I'm telling you that's just a piece of wood. Nothing important." Gray shouted forming fists glaring at the pink haired mage in front of him scowling.
"And I'm telling you this wood is a magical item. It can be used to grant any wishes." Natsu equally challenged growling.
"Here we gooooo….." Lucy sighed raising her hands in an upbeat manner.
"Come on Natsu." Someone shouted.
"You can do it Gray." Another supporter…
"Go get him Natsu!"
"Juvia's supporting for you Gray-sama~" Of course that was our resident water mage.
"Are you dumb?" Gray growled. "What could this useless stick do? Take this whole guild and place it on the moon or give you some brains, you glowing match stick? On second thoughts, if it does provide the latter then I'd believe that this wood definitely does have someth…."
Gray couldn't complete the sentence as he became a projectile due to the fiery fist he met with his cheek and was sent to a nearby pillar that with fate or bad luck had been the same pillar from where Juvia was watching her beloved.
"TAKE THAT ICE-MADE IDIOT!" Natsu yelled at the top of his lungs, his fists in fire.
All Juvia could see was that her beloved Gray-sama was coming, no scratch that, flying towards her wearing a bow on his neck, shirtless smirking at her shouting her name
"JUVIA….. Here I come to tell you my undying love for you and only you oh gorgeous one….."
"GRAY-SAMA! AHHHHHHHHHH!" Sadly Juvia did not see a shocked Gray who shouted at her to move so that she wouldn't get hurt due to him.
"JUVIA! MOVEEEEE!" Gray yelled at the top of his lungs but as the water mage did not even move an inch, he crashed onto a mesmerized Juvia who stood blushing with her hands on each of her cheeks, eyes closed.
"OWWW!" Juvia cried as Gray's rock body met with her fragile one.
"I'm sorry Juvia. That stupid fire man caused me get my hands on him." Gray glared at Natsu and took Juvia's arm simultaneously, trying to get her up to her feet.
"I'm so very sorry my beautiful Juvia…. But I couldn't help but feel the fire that sparked between us…. I don't think I could ever take my hands away from you for the rest of my life. Let my hands be glued to you…."
"Ohhh…. Gray-sama…" Juvia affectionately looked at her beloved who had a rose between his teeth and was now holding her hands, probably to dance with him…
As Juvia got ready to dance with him, her Gray-sama was nowhere to be seen!
"Gray-sama?!" Juvia looked for her love here and there and then saw that he was having his usual fight with Natsu with almost half of the guild cheering either Natsu or Gray-sama.
"FIRE DRAGON'S ROAR!"
"ICE-MAKE WALL!"
"FIRE DRAGON FIST!"
"ICE-MAKE LANCE!"
Juvia smiled brightly and cheered for her Gray-sama but inside she was deeply affected due to this. She really wanted to spend some with her Gray-sama but somehow or the other it would never happen. Either his friends will take him away or Gray himself would distance her from him. She did not know whether she would get Gray ultimately or would he be some others, as in maybe Love-rival's?
Juvia glanced at Lucy and saw that she was shouting about them to Levy, She sighed and looked at her right arm. Lucy was beautiful than her for sure. She had an amazing glowing body and had a bright smile that made her attain new friends wherever she went while Juvia had a pale body and she was too shy to form new friends. Heck she did not even speak to Natsu that much! Lucy was friends with everyone. Did… by any chance….. Gray liked Lucy more than her…
"Why looking so dull?"
Juvia jumped and looked to her right to see the red haired requip mage smiling at her softly.
"Gray?" She asked knowingly.
Juvia was shocked that Erza got the point right on. "How'd Erza know?"
Erza chuckled "Now tell me what the matter…is."
Juvia sighed and looked at Gray giving a punch to Natsu who gave him a fist. "Juvia doesn't know does Gray-sama like me or not…. Sometimes Juvia feels like Juvia's wasting herself on nothing. But sometimes Juvia can see that Gray does care about Juvia a great deal. So…"
'She's having turmoil. That idiot!' Erza placed a hand on Juvia's shoulder "Juvia…. As you know Gray had lost a lot of people important to him." Erza's eyes had concern written in them. "His parents, his teacher… And now he has become like an iceberg that just shows us the top part that is his fighting spirit. But he doesn't show what really lies beneath his tough frontier. His mind is melting slowly but it'll take time to reach the huge bottom of despair that no one has ever seen…" Erza pressed a little hard on Juvia's shoulder "He likes you. I'm sure of that. Trust me. The thing is he himself believes he's not ready to understand his own feelings for now. Wait a little more and give him the assurance that you are there for him always… One day, you'll be surprised."
Juvia smiled appreciating Erza's try on uplifting her mood "Yes Erza. Juvia will try her best." She bought her fists up in the air.
Erza chuckled "That's the spirit." Then she immediately asked "Hey do you want go on a mission with me?"
Juvia blinked her eyes. "Huh?" Was only she said. It was, after all, very rare for Erza to ask the water mage to ask her to accompany her for any missions. Usually it would be Erza in team Natsu or Erza with Wendy or Gray-sama or alone in that matter.
"You see it's an interesting job. Just destroy some monsters that came to the city named 'Bladok' and get a fair amount of jewels." Erza explained as she took out a poster containing the information that she took from the request board. "See it even says that the person who saves the city will get free food and have a nice time in the best hot spring they have for three days. Isn't that great Juvia? We could bond even more while at the hot springs. And we could have lots and lots of Strawberry cake too." Erza's eyes started to shine, pumping a fist in the air as she imagined herself laughing aloud wearing a red gown, surrounded by a huge pile of strawberry cakes that were chattering together "EAT ME EAT ME"….
Juvia blinked her eyes "Uhmmm… It does feel nice Erza… Juvia guess…" She said doubted.
"Of course it'll be great. So let's go right away."
"May Juvia take a look at the poster please Erza?" Juvia asked
"Why sure. Here you go…"
Juvia took the poster and read it frowning. The brief information was that the people in the Bladok city were missing day by day due to some monsters that recently came there. They needed some powerful mages to destroy the monsters and if the mission was completed they would give their saviors free food and allow taking bath in hot spring. If they are offering such a deal, then the monsters might be a little bit tough. Juvia thought.
"I know what you are thinking."
Juvia looked at Erza to see her smiling evilly. Juvia sweat dropped. "And... what would that be?." She asked.
"You want Gray to come along, don't you?" Erza nodded her head left and right grinning.
Juvia blinked her eyes. Actually she did not even think about that but now she wanted her Gray-sama to go along with her. But would he…
"You wouldn't know unless you ask him." Erza said.
Juvia gulped. It's now or never. She saw that Gray had calmed down a bit and was now talking with Wendy and Carle, wearing his clothes this time probably scared of the feline. Taking a deep breath and Juvia walked towards her destination.
'I'm cheering for you Juvia.' Erza smiled.
"… And so this roasted idiot just shouted and stormed off." Gray sighed.
"Really you two are such babies." Carle huffed crossing her arms in front of her.
"Oye! It's his fault not mine." Gray whined wailing his arms around.
Wendy laughed closing her eyes.
"Uhmm… Ano… Gray-sama…." Juvia called meekly when she reached the trio.
"Huh? Juvia?" Gray looked at Juvia and saw that she was fidgeting more than usual and frowned 'What is it now?'
Wendy and Carle gave each other a look.
"Umm… Is Gray-sama busy right now? As in does Gray-sama has any mission to go on to?" Juvia asked gulping.
"Oh? Uh… Well now I'm not busy. No I don't have any mission to go for." Gray said, passing a hand through his hair.
"Uhmm…. So Juvia was thinking" Juvia gulped again 'WHY?' poking her two pointer fingers together "Would Gray-sama like to go with Juvia on a job?" She looked at him hopefully. 'Maybe… just maybe…'
Gray looked at her with adopting a frown and Juvia got a feeling that he would not accept it. But in reality Gray was thinking a lot in his mind. He was not sure of an answer that he has to give. He did not have any problem going with Juvia but she would be behind him always! And literally always… Not that he was complaining but he thought it was a bit pointless for that matter.
"Uh… Mission… Ummm with you…" Gray started but seeing Juvia's disheartened face sighed "… I guess I can come for the missi…."
"GRAY!"
All the heads turned to the other side to see Lucy coming towards carrying a poster, pouting.
"Hey Wendy, Carle, Juvia. Gray! Just look at this." Lucy shook her head "I took a mission and was about to ask Natsu to join in this but he just walked away without so much even uttering a word to me. How low is that?"
"His brain is fried up. What do you expect. And most of all who cares?" Gray shrugged.
"Babies are more mature than them." Carle banged her head on a nearby table.
"Maybe he was not in a mood to talk to anyone…" Wendy chimed in
Lucy then took out the poster "So Gray would you go with me on this mission?" She asked waving the poster towards him.
Gray did not even bother to take a look at the mission that Lucy was holding out for him to read if he wanted. "Oh? Alright fine."
At this Juvia, Wendy and even Carle's eyes widened.
'What about Juvia's mission?'
"When should we get going?" He asked glancing at the poster that mentioned about the mission, briefing it to be catching some bandits for some jewels.
"We can go right now." Lucy beamed "I want to pay my rent as soon as possible. Let me go and get an approval from Mira." She then hopped towards the bar for a certain demon bartender.
Wendy frowned a little. Did Gray forget Juvia? She looked at the blue haired water mage and saw that she was looking at the floor smiling warily. Yes she is definitely sad, she was not shouting at Lucy 'Love rival taking away her Gray-sama.'
Juvia looked at the floor with tears in her eyes but could not show anyone so she tried to blink away her tears. Gray decided to go with Lucy and forgot all about her…
"Hey Juvia!" Gray called "I'm sorry that I can't come with you but I've to go with Lucy 'cause she has to pay the rent and that comes first priority." He nodded his head, surely feeling that Juvia would understand him no matter what.
"Of course if Gray-sama says so…" Juvia nodded her head as well and went to meet Erza.
Erza was gritting her teeth from where she was standing. She saw the whole exchange and how Gray did not even get a minute clue that Juvia was feeling really sad due to his actions and poor choice of words. That useless Gray. Juvia was the one who first asked him and he should definitely take that into consideration. If Lucy had asked first and Juvia came later what would have been his answer? Thank God Gajeel was out on a mission or else Gray would have asked for...
Lucy came towards Gray with smile "Shall we go Gray?"
"Sure. Come on." As Gray and Lucy started to go out of the guild a menacing voice stopped them.
"WAIT GRAY!" Erza called out or more like yelled out and went towards them.
Juvia was about to reach Erza when she called Gray. What was she up to?
"A word?" Erza said and now was dragging a wide eyed Gray with a firm grip on his shoulder.
Everyone shudders 'Oh that can't be good.'
When Erza and Gray reached an isolated area behind the guild, Erza turned to look at him scowling. "Why did you reply to Juvia negatively?"
Gray blinked "Oh that. Well I had to go with Lucy so I…." He couldn't continue anymore as Erza raised her right hand in front of her mentioning Gray to stop.
"Wasn't Juvia the first to ask you to go on a mission with her?" Erza asked shockingly calm.
This change in her demeanor scared Gray a bit. "Uhmm… Well Lucy wanted to pay rent fast so I thought…"
"Are feelings more important or paying rent?" Erza asked again.
Gray gulped. He was definitely sacred. Erza was usually seething in anger or giving him fist after fist for any of his mistakes. But this Erza, the unusually calm Erza was giving him the creeps and a chill down his spine.
Erza sighed "Let me tell you Gray. I've had enough… I've talked to you at the Grand magic games too but you are not doing anything instead of being a coward …"
Gray visibly cringed. "Erza... I..."
"…I won't blame Juvia if she accepts Lyon or anyone else. But remember if she does, then there is no point in crying that you lost her…. And I won't be there to help you…" Saying so Erza left leaving a hurt and literally frozen Gray behind.
When Erza reached Juvia, the red haired mage so that she was feeling depressed with the way her head was hanging down "Juvia! Come on. Let's go." She did not press to make Juvia to talk about the matter. Right now Erza's top priority was to have Juvia forget her 'offer denial' and have some nice time as soon as they were finished with the mission.
During the journey, the requip mage always made effort to have light conversations with the water mage. Juvia, even though felt a little weird with the way Erza was acting, was quite happy that her red haired companion was comfortable with her.
Eventually the current requip mage and water mage reached the city Bladok and talked with the mayor and the residents that day itself. They stayed for three days and collected the needed information. They learned that the people who went inside the forest near that city to get the necessary things did not come back at all. They included men, women, young children and so on. The people thought that there were monsters in that forest who were killing the people whoever went inside the forest. The mayor practically begged Erza and Juvia to get rid off those monsters and save their city. The Fairy tail mages gladly accepted the offer and assured the mayor that they will definitely destroy the problem causing demons and rescue the residents of the city.
The two Fairy Tail mages were now in the middle of a forest area where the residents of the city said that they heard some unusual roars from inside the forest among the trees that scared them to death.
Juvia and Erza took their stances and looked at each side with the motion of their eyes.
Immediately a roar was heard and the mages could make out two figures at the left side. The figures then came out fastly and now stood in front of the mages and the latter were shocked to see what stood in front of them.
One of the figures was like a snake; its head was white in color like it was wearing a mask. It was hissing at the mages glaring at them with its red eyes.
The other figure was the one that shocked the mages the most. It did not have any hands instead it had needle like things over it head that was also like a mask.
The important point was that both had holes in their bodies around the chest areas.
'Weird!' Erza thought taking her fighting stance.
'Just what are these?' Juvia sweat dropped forming fists.
"Oh look at thesssssssse two beautiessssssss…." The snake like creature cooed in a peculiar voice. "I get a feeling that thesssssse are not like the ordinary people we were having till now. They are much more valuable."
"Yeah I agree." The other creature bent a little "I can feel they have some aura just like those shinigamis'. Let's devour them." He laughed that caused a chill to flow through Juvia's spine.
Erza stepped forward "I can see that you are the monsters that were the cause to the missing people. Who are you? And what do you mean by this aura and shini... shinimaggi?"
"Ha aha ha! Don't worry. You'll know about thessssssse when you become a part of usssssss." Saying so the snake like creature and the other jumped towards the Fairy tail mages. The snake-like creature opened its mouth and some light green colored glue like foam was spit on the ground. The ground that made a contact with the foam got fire and burned, forming a black color.
Erza and Juvia jumped away from them and Erza shouted "JUVIA! I've a feeling that these two are not going to be that easy. So use the best shot you got."
"OK!"Juvia shouted back as she was standing in a tree branch while Erza was above a huge rock.
"Oh feisty are we now! I like those…" The other creature bent mid way and screamed as thousands of needles were sent towards Erza as well Juvia.
"WATER SLICER!" Juvia yelled destroying the needles while Erza requiped into Heaven's Wheel Armor and summoned a large number of swords towards the creatures.
The other creature got hit and vanished immediately while the snake-like creature curled itself and his behind a pile of rocks.
Erza blinked her eyes 'If one of them was just killed now then there may be a chance for us.'
"Juvia lure out that creature and fight with it. I'll try to figure out a plan to destroy it somehow." Erza shouted getting a thumps up from Juvia.
The snake-like creature came from where it was hiding and stood in front of Juvia growling.
"WATER LOCK!" Juvia shouted as the creature's body was captured in a large circular mass of water trying to suffocate the beast. But shocking Juvia, the creature came out of it with ease without so much of a look of pain.
"What the….? But how?" Juvia shook her head and jumped yelling "WATER NEBULA!" creating two columns of water that was rotating around each other forming a helix pushing the creature with such a strong force.
The creature was pushed away a little but the water immediately burned and the creature laughed like a mad being.
Juvia gulped.
"Where are they?" Natsu asked sitting on a table in the guild along with his guild mates.
"Mira said that their mission offered free food and all so they must be enjoying themselves with amazingly cooked fish." Happy sighed, thinking about fish already made his mouth to water. "I'll go and see whether Carle want to go out with me to buy some fish right now." Smiling, Happy went in search of a certain white cat.
"I don't know. The mission was simple as in just fight some demons that Erza would do so in a jiffy. So they could at least give us some message about what they are doing, especially Juvia who usually gives us the updates through any means." Wendy said frowning.
Lucy looked at Wendy. "Guys! We are just over thinking over nothing. We are talking about Erza and Juvia here. They both are S-class mages and we are underestimating them. They'll be back before you can say 'Strawberry cake and Rain'. Right Gray?" Lucy smiled nodding her head.
Gray was quiet all this time scowling.
Lucy noticed the unusual silent treatment of Gray and blinked her eyes. During the mission too Gray was really silent. She was the one who talked to the important person and got the details of the job. Gray, during the mission, literally covered the bandits in ice in just a minute! Was there something bothering Gray?
Gray was really upset with the conversation he had with Erza. He did not know why but he felt something strange in his mind. As if he got some feeling that something horrible was about to happen!
"Uh… Gray?" Lucy called once more.
"Oye? Icey boy?!" Natsu tried as well.
"I won't blame Juvia if she accepts Lyon or anyone else! But remember if she does, then there is no point in crying that you lost her…. And I won't be there to help you…"
Gray abruptly stood up. "I'm going to check on them." Gray stared at his comrades with determined eyes. 'COWARD!' He was no coward. He would go and prove to Erza that he had courage to do anything he wants and he would definitely speak with Juvia. But he somehow felt some bad thing may happen. Thus he wanted to reduce this unnecessary feeling first and then when he sees Juvia after the mission, he will surely talk to her. If she felt bad for what he had done, which she absolutely felt terrible, he will, well at least try to, apologize to her, no matter what,
"EHHH?" Lucy's eyes bulged as she was shocked to hear that Gray wanted to go to check on them. Not that she was complaining. Actually Gray was the one who made them to reach their guild soon as he said he wanted to rest immediately after mission. But now he himself wants to check on Erza and Juvia? The two proud S-class mages of Fairy Tail? But why?
"They went to the Bladok city right? I'm going to see what the two are doing there. Don't stop me." He was nearly out of the guild when Natsu called him
"HEY WAIT!" The dragon slayer of fire immediately shouted halting Gray's movements.
"What?" Gray just turned his head to look at his frenemy through stern eyes.
"Yosh! Now I'm all fired up. We're coming too…" Natsu grinned along with Happy's "Aye sir!" that echoed from the back ground.
"Me too..." Lucy smiled.
Gray smiled at the corner if his lips as he somehow knew something like this would happen.
"You coming Happy buddy?" Natsu called.
"Oh. I'm sorry Natsu but I just said that to Carle when she accepted my offer to go out to get some fish. Guess it was a little bit loud." Happy scratched the back of his head.
"Couldn't you speak slowly instead if shouting?" Carle huffed crossing her arms.
Natsu shrugged "Whatever buddy. See ya later then"
"AYE SIR!"
And the trio left the guild.
Juvia was taking long breaths as her power was reducing. Erza was now fighting the beast with her Black Wing Armor and trying to fight the snake-like creature.
Erza trying to at least give a hit to the creature but it just curled itself and went further away. Erza was also really tired and did not know what to do.
"I sssssee that you two are tired already. Well why not just sssssstop all thesssssse and come to me ssso that I can eat you both?" The creature roared.
"SHUT UP!" Erza screamed and flew towards the creature in pure rage.
The creature dodged it and then opened its mouth again and a purple colored liquid wrapped around Juvia.
"WHAT IS THI…? AHHHHHHHHHHHH" Juvia screamed as she felt terrible as she felt he power drain away from her slowly.
"JUVIA!" Erza shouted loud as Juvia fell unconscious.
Immediately the creature took hold of Juvia and roared. The liquid drains the power of a person for some time.
"LEAVE HER!" Erza yelled as she tried to slash the creature.
"ERZA!" "JUVIA!" Natsu's and Gray's shouts were heard from afar as the creature opened the sky a little and splashed some of the liquid at Erza too.
Natsu and the gang went to the city and due to Natsu's fists covered in fire the mayor immediately told them where the requip and water mages were. The trio ran as fast as they could, even using Gray's Ice made : floor, and thus reached on time where the current situation is taking place.
When the trio reaches near the fight, Gray was shocked to see Juvia in the hands of a monster unconscious and stood mouth agape. And he was even more scared to see the creature that was like a being he had never seen before.
'What's that? And how'd that make an opening in the sky?!' Lucy was shocked and stared at the opening wide eyed. But quickly recovered when she heard Erza's bone chilling scream. She saw that the creature had Juvia in his right and Erza in his left arms.
"LEAVE THEM GO YOU MONSTER!" Natsu roared glaring in pure anger watching his comrades suffer such pain "FIRE DRAGON' FIST!" Natsu shouted as he jumped, forming fire in his right fist aiming at the creature.
'Oh no! I can't resssissst fire.' The creature quickly threw the two requip and water mages into the opening and tried to jump into it but was met with Natsu's powerful fire and was burned instantly.
"ERZA! JUVIA!" Natsu shouted and was about to reach the opening with his right hand, when it suddenly closed.
Natsu stood there staring at nothing but the blue sky shocked, his hand still in the previous position.
"NOOOOOO! JUVIAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Gray yelled at the top of his lungs. He just saw an unconscious Juvia and was terribly paralyzed as he remembered the exact situations he had faced before. His parents, his teacher, and now... He just stood there, face as white as ghost, watching the clouds moving, not even blinking his eyes.
Lucy's eyes widened as she could not apprehend what just happened in front of her own eyes. That creature itself was something new to her and the sky...? 'The sky closed? But how?'
Natsu stared at the sky, his right hand slowing falling to his side, eyes widening 'Where did they go?!'
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