So this is my first multi chapter fanfiction. I have re-edited it and I hope you guys enjoy it.
Twas the night of a horrible storm that flipped her life upside down…
She was much too young to have like this happen. She was a cute, innocent thirteen year old who went with her family on a friend's boat for a birthday party. She had excused herself to the bathroom to change out of her dress into shorts and a tank top. She smiled into the mirror and pulled her long blue hair back into a ponytail, her curls always seemed to get in the way. She liked how she looked, her porcelain skin contrast to her blue hair and big blue eyes. Her body, specifically her chest, was starting to not look so much like a males and more into a woman. She couldn't wait to go back to the dinner hall to see her crush. He was dark haired and dark eyed, he was perfection. She pulled off her dress and pulled on her baby blue top.
Without warning she was thrown into the mirror and it broke into multiple pieces. She tried to steady herself but was thrown to the ground by some outward force, barely missing the broken glass. She crawled to the bathroom door. She managed to crack open the door to see chaos. Tables and chairs were broken and scattered, a table had fallen against the door. She was trapped and started yelling. People were trying to gather everyone to the escape boats. With all the panic no one noticed, or heard, the scared pre-teen stuck in bathroom. Suddenly the boat tipped and everything slid to the opposite side of the boat of where she was. She went flying with the mess. She heard a loud crack when she hit the wall.
She was falling. The icy cold water hit her back with a familiar stingy sensation. All her years of swimming in the ocean had prepared her for this. Or so she thought.
Well, up to now in her life she has never been in waves like this. When had the storm come? Well they weren't on deck so it seemed perfectly logical that she might not have known, right? Maybe she was focused too much on her knight in shining armor. The ship was long gone and she was close to unconsciousness, from being thrown against the wall and being pushed underwater again and again by the powerful waves. She gasped as she finally broke the surface of the water again. Maybe she would survive this if she could just stay above the water. Alas her plan was quickly foiled when another wave crashed down upon her.
She was so close to becoming unconscious when she felt a pair of arms wrap around her waist. She screamed when suddenly there was an unbearable pain in her legs and waist. Water filled her mouth and lungs. She fought to stay conscience, she needed air or she would die. The arms around her tightened and the pain in her legs increased. It was too much for her fragile body and everything went dark…
This was the moment that she lost all her memories; her friends, her parents, and him.
The girl woke up in a vertical position? She was surrounded by something soft, and warm? Slowly her eyes opened and saw a boy about fourteen or fifteen staring at her. He had piercing red eyes and jet black hair that just flowed around his shoulders. He was shirtless and had muscles slightly showing at his abdomen. She instantly blushed and looked away before going any lower. Dirty thoughts started to invade her mind. Ok, so maybe she wasn't as innocent as her parents thought. Then her eyes flew back to his wide and afraid.
"Y-you're floating!" She attempted to jump back, expecting to fall to the ground, but she just kind of floated… backwards? Her blue eyes flew to the ground. She screamed, loudly, and a very unimpressed boy rolled his red eyes.
In place of her beautifully long, creamy legs was a long shimmering tail. At her waist the deep purple scales slowly merged to become skin. The purple scales slowly turned lighter, and slightly more blue the further they got to the fanned part of her tail. The bottom of her tail was the prettiest blue she had ever seen. Well, her whole tail held the most beautiful colors she had ever seen but still. The tank top had stayed on, she was happy it sort of matched her tail. Her hair was down and occasionally flowed into her vision to which she would push back with a wave of her hand.
Maybe the strange floating boy had a tail too. She quickly passed over his torso. Just like at her waist, his dark scales slowly morphed into his tanned skin. His scales were jet black that eventually turned into scarlet at his fanned tail. Her eyes ventured back up his body, she noticed he had gills on the sides of his neck and she reached up and felt gills on her own neck. He eyes continued their course to his boyish face. Their eyes met and he smirked. Blushing she quickly averted her eyes.
"Yeah, floating…" He scoffed. She met his gaze and glared. Her hand immediately went to her hips and she bite her bottom lip. They boy raised a black eyebrow. "What's yer name?"
She opened her mouth to answer. But her mind went blank. Well this was embarrassing. Who forgets their name? "I don't know. I mean I don't remember," she responded slowly and quietly. He stared at her with amusement. "Well, what's your name?" She snapped at his reaction.
At this he smirked again, "You don't remember me? I am Gajeel, and I saved your sorry-"
The girl cut him off, "Wait!" He stopped whatever he was going to say. "You?! You saved me? But-but you are...li-like a jerk wad!"
Gajeel looked reasonably offended at the comment. She knew him for ten minutes and she calls him a jerk wad? She doesn't even know her own name and yet knows what a jerk is. He glared at her and she glared right back.
"Fine. You think I am a jerk wad? Well, I'll be a jerk wad." He abruptly turned around and started swimming away.
"No! I mean I am sorry Gajeel. Please, don't leave me." Gajeel still faced away so she couldn't see his smirk.
"I think I will take you to my place and have you meet my parents." Gajeel took the girl's hand and pulled her toward his place.
Soon enough they were at his house and his mother was fussing over her. Pulling her to sit down and eat. Since she didn't remember what she liked and didn't she ate the bright green plant. It was certainly better than it looked. Gajeel's mom had asked her what her name was, but Gajeel cut in explaining that she fell from a ship in the big storm that had just happened and he had saved her.
"Well, since you were found in the rain we will call you Juvia." His mother winked. Gajeel's mother's tail was a blue, the same color as Juvia's tank top, at her waist that turned white at her fan. Her bra was white with blue sparkles, the closer to the center the more sparkles there were. She had soft blue eyes and white hair with light blue and pink streaks. She also had gills, maybe it was a normal thing here. Well now that she thought about it, it would be weird to not have gills. Are their such creatures without gills ? She shrugged the weird feeling away.
Juvia smiled and hugged the nice mermaid while Gajeel rolled his eyes in the background. Juvia let go of his mother and gave him a giant hug, which he didn't reciprocate. Not that Juvia expected him to.
"Thank you Gajeel." She was so touched that she was sure that if she wasn't underwater tears would be falling down her face. How did she know what tears were she probably would never know.
"Whatever ya crazy rain woman." Gajeel pushed her away, but before he turned, Juvia saw a small smile on his face.
"So Gajeel's got himself a girlfriend! And I didn't think He knew what the difference between mermaids and mermen!" A low voice interrupted the moment between the two pre-teens. She noticed this man, merman, had a tail as well. His was almost completely black except for a few glimmering silver scales. He was very muscular and Juvia wondered if Gajeel would look like that when he is older. She hoped so. He had ebony eyes that were filled with amusement at the moment, but Juvia could tell he could be strict if he wanted to. He demanded respect with his very presence. He had long silver hair, reaching about mid back.
"Metalicana! Don't go jumping to conclusions! You just ruined their moment!" Metalicana just laughed. Gajeel snarled and tackled (A/N Can you do that underwater? Probably…) Metalicana and pulled his hair.
"Juvia come here I'll show you where you can sleep till we find a more permanent home for you." Juvia followed Gajeel's mom out of the room where Gajeel was wrestling.
"YO 'VIA GET UP! YOU'RE GOING TO BE LATE!" Gajeel's voice woke her with a start. She groaned and rolled over. Maybe if she didn't respond he'd think she wasn't here. She should have known her plan would have failed, as they did often especially early in the morning, when she felt her blanket tugged off and she twisted a couple of times before stopping. She opened her eyes and glared at the intruder.
"For heaven's sake Sol! You guys could have left Juvia to sleep a little longer!" She growled at the boy.
She had been living with Gajeel's family for about four years now. She found out that Gajeel had a little sister named Wendy. She was adorable and shy. Her long blue hair was darker than her own and quite a bit longer. She had big brown eyes and the cutest smile. Her tail was pink and blue speckled while her fan tail was striped with the two colors. She had definitely the best personality Juvia had ever seen.
While staying with the Redfox's Juvia had made a habit of taking in the third person. She could never remember what her name was so Gajeel suggested for her to say Juvia a lot to remember. Stupid Gajeel.
"But Gajeel said we couldn't leave without you," Sol grumbled bringing her from her thoughts.
Sol was one of the three friends Gajeel had introduced her right after arriving. He had dark green hair and he had started to attempt a mustache, Juvia decided to let the other boys tease him about it till he shaved. He was the lanky teenager that could eat 99% of the food at the table and still be skinny, which he constantly bragged about. Juvia secretly wished he would grow fat later on, the boys openly wished the same fate. His tail was dark brown and dark green with a black fan.
"Stupid Gajeel," Juvia muttered. "She started digging through her bin that held her personal stuff. Suddenly she stopped and glowered at Sol. "Get out before Juvia tells Gajeel you were a trying to catch Juvia changing." Juvia smirked when Sol fled from her presence. Gajeel knew that Juvia could protect herself, she had beaten him up multiple times, but he still acted as her protector. She didn't know why Gajeel protected her but she didn't really mind. At least until Gajeel wouldn't allow her to date, or let anyone outside of their clique talk to her. After she had dated Bora and he left her because he found out that she might not be pure mermaid, Gajeel decided that no one else would break her heart like that again. Sol, Aria, and Totomaru all have tried to get with her but obviously Gajeel said that she was off limits.
She pulled off her sleeping tank and started tying on her favorite bright blue bra. Gajeel had bought it for her, for her last birthday. Gajeel had decided the day he found her would be her birthday. She ran her purple comb through her hair before taking one last look in the mirror before going out to meet the boys.
Gajeel's hair had grown down to his back. He had it layered because he 'looks more bad*ss that way'. Juvia had rolled her eyes at him.
Aria was the oldest of their group of friends and he had a goatee. His eyes were always covered by a bandana, Juvia didn't understand how he could see or how it looked like it was cool, but apparently the guys accepted him so Juvia did too. Who was she to judge? Aria's tail was yellow at his waist and green by his fan. He was definitely more bulky than Gajeel and Juvia thought it was too much but to each his own. He had black hair that was only about two inches long. Juvia thought that was his best feature, because it was unnaturally soft. He was even more emotional than Juvia. It was annoying.
Totomaru was special to Juvia. Juvia like him the most, besides Gajeel of course. Toto was funny, kind, and almost as possessive as Gajeel when it came to her. He had black and white hair that reached his shoulders. His tail was dark red the entire length except for a strip of white that went down the entire length of the back of his tail.
"Damn Via, what took you so long." Gajeel sneered from the middle of the group.
Juvia was not in the mood to deal with Gajeel and his freaking anger issues. "Shut up Gajeel. Juvia told Gajeel to go on without Juvia but Gajeel didn't listen. Juvia is done with Gajeel. Juvia is going to do what Juvia wants today." Gajeel looked slightly hurt and the boys looked highly amused. Snickering that Juvia finally told him off. His glare silenced them pretty quickly.
"But Juvia we found something cool that you would love to see." Gajeel practically whined.
Juvia smirked, "Not today Gajeel. Juvia has had enough of Gajeel bossing Juvia around." With that she turned around and swam toward the human town. She suddenly stopped and turned around, "And if you boys want to come with Juvia, Juvia will let you, except Gajeel." Gajeel was livid as the boys followed the blue haired mermaid without hesitation. Growling he turned and swam away from them. She wants to reject him? Well then he'll reject her.
It was Juvia's tenth year anniversary of living in the sea and Gajeel was ignoring her. Juvia was upset to say the least. He was her best friend and he was ignoring her on the birthday he had given her. Well he had been ignoring her more and more ever since she rejected him to hang out with the boys. They both were too stubborn to admit they were being unnecessarily dramatic.
At the moment she was just swimming toward the meeting place hoping to run into Gajeel there.
She still hadn't dated anyone after Bora but not necessarily because Gajeel wouldn't let her. She had realized that she didn't need any romantic relations with anyone because she had her gang.
Her group of friends had often gone up on land after Juvia finally accepted Gajeel's invite to go see whatever he thought was important. Which Juvia readily agreed was amazing.
'Come on Via! I've been wanting to show you this for months!" Gajeel pleaded with the moody seventeen year old mermaid. This time the entire group was begging Juvia to come see whatever the heck Gajeel had found.
"Gah, fine Juvia will go with Gajeel this time." Juvia muttered. The boys disregarded her tone and went crazy. They grabbed her arms and swam as fast as they could toward the human cities.
They soon reached the unknown destination. Juvia's mouth dropped as they entered a cave. The ground was covered in precious rocks. There was a ledge that was out of the water which one could sit on. Right above the middle of the cave there was a hole in which the sun shone down and the rocks glittered shining different colors bouncing around, making the walls beautiful. The boys pulled her up and they broke the surface tension of the water.
Juvia rarely went out of the water because contrary to belief just because they had the face of a human doesn't mean they can breath the air of the human world like one. Well Juvia could occasionally, but she had to really concentrate to and it hurt. Juvia held her breath as she got a good look around. There was a path that lead away from the pool in the cave. The ledge looked rough and she reached out her hand to touch it. Before she could the boys pulled her back under to ask her how she liked it.
"Was it worth it Via?" Toto asked her.
"This is wonderful! Juvia thanks you!" Juvia hugged Toto. Then she made her way around the circle until the only one left was Gajeel. She bowed her head slightly, a shy smile making its way on her face. "Thank you Gajeel, I really like it." He smiled brightly and she hugged him tighter than the rest, and for once he reciprocated it.
They went to the cave almost every day after that. Aria taught them all how to turn into human. Juvia was the first to master it, after Aria of course, then Toto, Gajeel, and Sol.
The first time was very painful. It felt like her bones were breaking, which they were to reform to legs. She had almost drowned the first time because she had transformed in the water Aria had saved her by pulling her upon the ledge where she choked up water for several minutes. They had learned from Juvia's mistake to do the transformations at least half way on the ledge.
Juvia entered the cave with a twirl, because she could. She swam over to the ledge to transform and pulled on her clothes. The group had figured out soon enough that humans wore clothes and that it was 'disgraceful' to go around town without them on. They had quickly obtained clothes and made a habit of getting new ones every week because the humans got suspicious at the five for wearing the same clothes for a month. Aria had traded his bandana thing for sunglasses. She had made some human friends and ever since they told her it was bad for a man to see you naked unless you had romantic intentions Juvia made sure the guys had left the cave, she wouldn't watch them strip because that was also bad, before stripping down and transforming. They had learned not to transform with clothes on because the clothes tear and are ruined because fish hips are quite a bit wider than human hips, and the fact that humans have two legs while mermaids have one tail.
Juvia also learned that there was a week every month that she refused to transform. As long as she was a mermaid she didn't get the cramps or the blood that came with periods and so she almost never left the ocean for that week. Sometimes she would forget and it was embarrassing.
After she had transformed so looked through her clothes to find something nice to wear. She decided on her latest outfit. A black crop top with the words 'Summer' across her chest, and a pair of jean shorts. She sat down of the dry part of the ledge. Sitting on something wet made clothes uncomfortable to wear, Juvia learned the hard way. She heard the boys approach from the pathway leading out of the cave. She quickly stood up and turned around. Her childhood best friends filed in one by one each holding something different. Sol walked up to her and gave her a beautiful turquoise sparkly dress. Before she could thank him Aria was in front of her and gave her white stilettos. Juvia had started crying at their thoughtfulness. Toto came and gave her a bracelet that read "Element 4", their name. She was crying hard by now but a smile was on her face. Juvia looked up expectantly up at Gajeel.
He shrugged and growled, "Happy birthday Juvia." Immediately after he stripped and jumped into the water. Juvia frowned at his actions then she quickly thanked them all. She also stripped down, not caring if the other boys were there and dove in after Gajeel. Their transformations were quicker now but still just as painful. Juvia paused to breath out. The pain left as soon as it came and she chased after Gajeel.
"Gajeel! Gajeel come to Juvia now!" Juvia yelled at Gajeel's back. Since Juvia wasn't fully mermaid she didn't have the stamina the others had. But she could beat him in speed. She just had to get to him. She didn't pay attention to her surroundings. Suddenly something hit her back and she blacked out. They last thing she heard was Gajeel screaming her name.
She woke up in a bed kind of like what she saw humans sleep in. There was something on the back of her hand, well more like stuck into her hand, it kind of hurt... She knew she was in her human form because her legs were crossed. She heard something on her right. She quickly turned and saw the most beautiful boy she had ever seen. He was lying in the reclining chair, he was shirtless, but Juvia didn't mind because he was well built with impressive abs. He had jet black hair, that almost looked blue, that pointed in every direction Her mouth went dry and her heart fluttered. He must have felt her stare because he opened his eyes, they meet hers. A smile came to his face and Juvia practically melted. When the boy spoke Juvia's heart stopped.
"Hi, my name is Gray."