Love Test
Chapter 1: "The Deed"
Heads turned as the double doors to the guild house burst open with a frustrated, raven-haired ice mage storming in. "Yo! Droopy-eyed bastard!" An excited fire mage yelled eager to start a fight.
But the ice mage only ignored him as he took a seat at the bar and ordered a drink. This is not happening, this is sooo not happening, he thought clenching his fists. Well it is his fault that he's in such a predicament, but really? He shouldn't have, he shouldn't have done that. Now...now...
The drink was placed in front of him, and he lifted it up ready to take a swig. The cup had barely touched his lips before he slammed it back down making its contents splosh out and onto the counter top. Groaning he ran a hand through his hair. This cruel liquid was one of the factors that had led to this predicament.
The cry "Gray-samaaaaaa!" could be heard throughout the entire guild as a water mage dashed in after the ice mage.
"Tch," Gray ground on his teeth leaving his seat and heading straight for the exit, avoiding the bluette that was looking for him.
Upon exiting the guild house he took a sharp turn to the left and leaned against the side of the side of the enormous building. How could he look her in the eye after what he'd done to her? How could she still want to see him after that?
"Mou Gray-sama!" The bluette whined when she saw the gloomy male.
Gray didn't dare say a word and began to walk away from rain woman. "Gray-sama!" She sighed running after him.
"Just leave me alone Juvia!" He burst.
"Gray…sama?" Juvia asked her voice unsteady, conveying her confusion.
"How?" The ice mage grit out, refusing to look at the woman behind him. "How can you still look at me? Why don't you hate me? After what I did to you… how is it that you can stand being around me?"
"What are you saying Gray-sama? Juvia," the water mage paused a second, "Juvia doesn't understand."
"What I'm saying is," The ice mage said finally turning and facing the beautiful water mage, "after what I did to you… how… how can you still tolerate my existence?"
The water mage stood there, paralyzed. What was he saying? How could she tolerate his existence? Wha-?
"I think it's better we stay away from each other, I can't bear to look at you and remembering what a horrible thing I've done to you," Gray veiled his eyes with his bangs.
Juvia bit her lip her vision getting blurry with the salty liquid her eyes were producing. She didn't know what came over her, but the soft flesh of her hand swiftly collided with Gray's cheek, causing a loud slap sound to ring through the winter air and a tense silence to weigh down on their shoulders.
Gray gave a sad smile, "Ah, I deserved that."
"That won't do Gray-sama! Juvia can't… Juvia can't, Juvia," Juvia choked on a sob.
"Juvia-" the male mage started.
"Juvia can't…Juvia can't stand the thought of being away from Gray-sama," Juvia cried, clinging to the icy man's shirt, "Juvia can't stand the thought of Gray-sama not looking at her, Juvia can't live without looking at Gray-sama's face."
Gray merely gaped at the woman in front of him was saying. "Juvia thought," She inhaled sharply, "Juvia thought, if it's Gray-sama, it doesn't matter, as long as it's Gray-sama Juvia doesn't mind. Juvia knew what was happening, but Juvia didn't care!" The water mage wailed.
Gray blinked in shock, "W-What are you saying Juvia?!"
"Juvia has always wanted to be with Gray-sama, to let Gray-sama know," Juvia fought of a sob, leaving Gray to anticipate what she was about to say, "Juvia loves Gray-sama!"
"Juvia loves Gray-sama so much the thought of life without Gray-sama is too hard!" She kept going. "When Juvia woke up this morning she was super happy! Juvia was in Gray-sama's arms at last. Juvia really thought that Gray-sama loved her back! But!" Juvia collapsed on her knees unable to stop the sobs that were ripped from her throat.
"So you're not afraid of being pregnant?" Gray asked quietly, his bangs covering his eyes.
Juvia shook her head, trying to stop herself from crying, but to no avail, she couldn't.
The ice mage stared down at the woman who was crying before him; she really was something. He felt horrible for everything he was making her go through. He really was undeserving of all the love she gave him. What he considered to be a drunken fling, she thought of as a show of love. It not like he wasn't attracted to her; he'd just thought that she was too clingy. But none of that mattered now.
Gray kneeled down to Juvia's level, "Sorry Juvia," he whispered before pulling her into his embrace.
"G-Gray-sama?" Juvia gasped.
He would try, try to love her the way she loved him. Because if he didn't, he would never be able to live with himself, er, scratch that. He would never be able to live, period. Erza would make sure of that. "Never mind what I said, let's" Gray paused, "let's go get lunch!" He smiled nervously.
The corners of Juvia's mouth lifted in a huge smile, "okay," she said quietly.
Gray got up and offered Juvia a hand which she gladly took. "So do you-uh-know where you wanna go to get lunch?" Gray rubbed the back of his neck embarrassed.
"Yes!" Juvia cheered. "U-um, that one!"
Just like that the two of them took off to some restaurant.
Meanwhile back at the guild house…
"YOU WON'T BELIEVE IT!" A male voice shouted excitedly.
"WHAT? WHAT?" Some random person from within the guild house replied.
"Gray and Juvia have 'done the deed'!" The male voice replied.
The noisy guild house became silent…and then… total chaos ensued. A strawberry fell of a fork, numerous men spit out the alcoholic beverages in their mouths, and someone dropped their barrel.
"WHAT?!"
"I just heard it, Gray and Juvia, it was obvious!"
"'Done the deed?'" A salmon haired mage scowled. "What's that mean?" He asked causing pretty much everyone within the building to fall backwards.
"You're hopeless Natsu, I'm a cat and even I know what it means," a blue cat shook its head as it flew by.
"Ne, ne, Lucy what does it mean?" He asked the blonde sitting next to him. "Have we ever 'done the deed'?"
"NO!" The blonde shrieked in reply, her face flushed bright red. "AND WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME?!" She continued before she stormed away from Natsu, causing the entire population within the guild house to burst out in laughter.
"Oi, oi, I just asked you a question no need to get so worked up about it," Natsu scowled at the blonde.
"It's not 'just a question' Natsu," Lucy turned to face him, "it's the question."
"The question?" Natsu looked at her confusion etched on his handsome face.
"What Lucy means Natsu is that she can't answer, you'll have to ask somebody else," the snow-white-haired barmaid smiled as she approached the two.
"Thank you Mira-san!" Lucy groaned in gratitude.
"However I am curious," Mira turned to Lucy her smile never faltering, "have you and Natsu done the deed Lucy?"
The guild went silent, eager to hear the answer. Lucy's face went through all the values of red only pausing at maroon. "Like I already said," Lucy breathed in and out in exasperation, trying to calm herself down, "we. Have. Not."
"Oh is that so? What a shame," Mira's smile shifted into an apologetic one, "you would have made beautiful children."
The all personnel within the guild house burst out in laughter at Mira's comment. That take-over mage sure was blunt. Natsu perked up upon hearing that, a revelation coming upon him. "So 'doing the deed' means having a kid?" Natsu asked Mira eagerly, "I can't believe I let Gray beat me to having a kid! Lucy!"
Lucy blinked at him, face tomato red and blank. "Let's go have a kid! I can't let Gray beat me to it!" The fire dragon slayer yelled face full of determination as he grabbed Lucy by the hand attempting to drag her out of the guild with him, cheers following them.
"Wh-Wha…" Lucy blinked still in a daze. "WHAT THE HELL YOU PERVERT?!" Lucy's hand connected with the back of the idiotic pyromaniac's head.
"Do you even know how to have a child Natsu?" A deep scraggly voice came from the bar top.
Natsu paused, tapping his finger to his chin in a thinking manner, "I just have to hug Lucy until she lays an egg right?"
By this point steam was coming out from Lucy's ears and nose, Mira's smile was forced, and the guild had all sweat dropped. This was just too much. "Master, I think it's about time we taught Natsu a little bit more about life," Mira broke the silence.
"Aah," the little man agreed.
"You sure he's not just playing innocent?" The guild's heaviest drinker asked, chugging some booze from the barrel she had dropped.
"No Cana, Natsu really is clueless, he's too focussed on fighting and eating," Mira said her smile becoming nervous, walking behind the bar counter "that and he was raised by a dragon, so he shouldn't know much about it."
"Whatever you say," Cana grunted before going back to chugging down her alcohol.
"So master how do you wanna do it?" Mira asked wiping a glass.
Upon being asked the question, Fairy Tail's master stared at the child of Igneel intently. He rubbed his chin as he thought of the best possible method. He carefully watched as Natsu ran to the request board, took a quick look, grabbed the request that appealed to him the most, and ran back to Lucy. He saw how brightly he smiled at her and how she would scowl before finally giving into that heartwarming smile and say she would think about it.
He then observed Wendy, who had returned from a request with Erza prior to the commotion, animatedly discussing what happened and how useless she felt she was. Erza had given her a hard slap on the back, saying she had done extremely well. This earned her a high five from Natsu and a couple of tips on how to better her attack force. Natsu ruffled her hair chuckling merrily at how focussed she was.
"At least one of our dragon slayers actually pays attention to what others are saying," Lucy smiled.
"HEY!" Natsu and Gajeel, whose sensitive ears had easily picked up Lucy's loud declaration, yelled in unison.
"What it's true," Lucy shrugged walking away, "you guys rarely ever listen to what other people are saying."
"No it's not!" Natsu whined trailing after Lucy.
"Like hell it is!" Gajeel growled ominously, scaring Lucy slightly.
"I listen! Tin-head doesn't because he's got iron in his ears!" Natsu slung an arm around Lucy's neck waving his free hand exasperatedly.
"OI! That was uncalled for Salamander!" Gajeel yelled, being held back by Levy.
Lucy walked over to the bar, shrugging Natsu off and taking a seat. Natsu never seemed to stop pestering Lucy and stuck to her like glue. Makarov's eye twitched as he had the sudden urge to grab Natsu and Lucy's heads and ram their faces together, forcing them to show some sort of sign of their undeniable attraction to one another.
Just then Lisanna showed up and began pulling on Natsu's bicep asking him to come help her with something. He complained that he was busy, but was physically forced into reluctantly leaving Lucy alone. Evidently, women's strength doubled (more like tripled) when they wanted a man to do something for them. Makarov shivered. The female race was a scary one.
The elderly Dreyer soon spotted Natsu rushing back to his beloved Lucy, excited to continue pestering her. He seemed extremely relieved to have finally completed the task Lisanna had forced him to help her with. Natsu was a dense idiot and he was thankful for it. Otherwise, there probably would have already been mini Natsus and Lucies running around destroying the guild with their dragon slayer abilities. Or not, Lucy was extremely stubborn. Natsu had rubbed off on her…big time.
Soon, the dragon slayer challenged Erza to a duel. It ended in one hit. Erza then began to lecture Natsu as always. The red-head was very much his older-sister-character. He smiled as he watched Natsu and Erza interact. One could never get bored of watching Natsu. It was obvious that Wendy was like his little sister, Erza was like his older-sister, Lisanna was his best friend, and Lucy, was his possible love interest. That's it!
Mira's smile disappeared when she heard her guild master's perverted chuckle, "master."
"No, need to worry Mira, I have the perfect way to explain this to Natsu."
"Is that so?" Mira raised a brow. "Please do share."
0o0-_-_-_-0o0
Lucy was absolutely exhausted. She sighed in irritation as she thought of the events that had occurred that day. Natsu was just…WHAT AN IDIOT! Asking her to… to have… She couldn't even think about it! It was absurd, her… and… and Natsu… having a chi-! Bad Lucy! Bad! Remember the last time you fantasized being with Natsu! Lucy mentally reprimanded herself, physically swinging both her fists to hit her head lightly on each side. She stopped only for a moment, when the image of a salmon-haired little girl with big chocolaty eyes flashed through her mind, before going on with her head bashing.
"Lucy-chan that's dangerous!" The usual fishermen yelled nervously.
"I'll be fine! Thank you!" Lucy yelled back.
"So Luce, are you sure you don't want to go on that mission? I promise I'll give you most of the reward!" Natsu popped out of nowhere, startling Lucy, who lost her balance and began to fall.
Lucy flailed her arms around violently trying to regain her balance. It was only when she was sure she was going to fall in that she felt a pair of warm hands grab her exposed midsection and lift her up. Lucy's face flushed beat-rootred. She'd completely forgotten that the gluttonous fire mage had offered her the majority of the reward. When Lucy had finally come back to her senses she resumed violently flailing her arms, "What the hell Natsu! Put me down!" She yelled while kicking.
Lucy stopped flailing her arms and started trying to yank his hands off her. A very evil smirk made its way across the dragon slayer's lips as he snickered. Lucy did not like the sound of that. Not one bit. "Sure, but only after you accept to go on the job with me," Natsu mused, "if you refuse I will hold on to you until you say yes."
"Well then feel free to hold on to me all night, 'cause I haven't decided yet!" Lucy huffed.
"Well I do like sleeping on your bed more than in my hammock," the fire mage thought aloud.
HE MEANS TO SLEEP ON MY BED WITH ME!? NOOOOOOO! The celestial spirit mage's struggling stopped and a look of sheer horror replaced her formerly flushed face. Wait… Sleeping… on the same bed… together… BAD LUCY! BAD! The blonde began to lightly bash her head as blood rushed to her cheeks yet again. "Oi Lucy, what the heck is wrong it's not a hard question," Natsu shot the key user's back a worried glance.
"I-I'll go with you," Lucy mumbled, her bangs covering her face as her hands stilled over Natsu's larger, warmer ones.
"What was that?" The pyromaniac asked spin-tossing Lucy and catching her so she was facing him now.
"I said I'll go on the job with you! Sheesh!" Lucy flailed around.
Natsu shot her his signature grin, "great I'll see you tomorrow!"
He set her down and removed his hands from her torso, allowing the cold night air to reach her skin, and Lucy refused to admit that she missed the warmth Natsu's hands radiated. He then set off in the direction he came from. Lucy smiled, sighing and running a hand through her hair she continued down the cobbled path to her happy little home.
0o0-_-_-_-0o0
"I see, that's ingenious master, but don't you think it's a bit dangerous?" The former pin-up model spoke, her tone coated with worry.
"I plan to give him a pretense and thoroughly explain what and what-not to do," the dwarf man grumbled arms folded across his chest.
"Well then, I need to finish packing up so I can go home already!"
"Mirajane."
"Yes master?"
The Wizard Saint opened one eye to look at the beautiful mage, "are you okay with Lisanna's participation in this event?"
"I'm just afraid what will happen if he reacts to her, she likes him, you know," Mira sighed.
"Worry not; you and I have both noticed how she is changing, or trying to change," the old man reassured her, "if she has not already changed."
"I guess time apart can change the heart huh?"
"Aah."
They sat in silence up until the point of closing, which was when they bid one another farewell and went their own separate ways.
0o0-_-_-_-0o0
"I am never riding a train again," a blonde mage said as he crawled across the pavement of the platform.
"Y-you say that every time," a mage shrouded in shadows replied, forcing himself to stand.
"Hang in there Sting-kun!" A brick-red cat cheered. "Transportation is nothing for someone as strong as you!"
"Fro thinks so too!" A pistachio colored cat in a pink frog suit agreed.
"Get up. You look pathetic."
"Shut it Rogue!"
"Don't forget our goal, Sting," Rogue spoke lowly.
"Aah, I'd never forget," the white dragon slayer spoke an excited smirk plastered to his face, "What do you think Natsu-san is doing right now?"
"Not interested."
"Well then I wonder how we are going to get to that guild then," The blonde leisurely put his hands behind the back of his head, finally recovering from his motion sickness.
"I think we should ask one of the workers here," The brick red cat suggested.
"Fro thinks so too."
"That's a great idea Lector!" Sting smiled at his best friend. "Let's see… they should be wearing a uniform right?"
"Aah."
"OOOH! Look Sting-kun that guy in the red hat looks like he might work here!" Lector suddenly yelled pointing.
"Ooooh! You're right Lector, I see a bunch of guys wearing the same thing, so he must work here!" Sting grinned.
"Yo! You! You in the red hat!"
"M-me?" One of the employees at the train station gulped.
"Yeah you!" Sting yelled. "How do I get to Fairy Tail?"
The poor train station worker gulped, took out a map and red marker quickly drawing a red line with an "X" on one end. "J-just, follow that-that trail there s-sir," he stuttered handing Sting the map.
"Ooh cool! Thanks!" Sting took the map marching out of the station the rest of his party following him.
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PREVIEW:
"I'm just here to fight with Natsu-san again," Sting smirked at Lucy, "afraid of me beating your boyfriend?" He leaned down, his face dangerously close to Lucy's.
"Na-Natsu's not my boyfriend!" Lucy exclaimed cheeks aflame. "And Natsu's already proven the difference between your strengths."
"Hehe, single eh?" Sting smirked completely ignoring the second part of her statement to maintain his pride. "Wanna go out on a date tonight?"