AN: Another crazy AU. Sorry. HAHA

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Our Pack

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When Gray met her, they were at different packs, fighting for territory in Magnolia. They arrived, thinking they could beat the locals and were surprised when their asses were handed back to them.

She was as beautiful as a wolf as she was as a human; azure soft fur where his were black, deep blue eyes while his were dark and the moment he saw her, somewhere inside his mind something brightened. He pushed it away, though, and fought her in the middle of a park, during a storm and rolling in mud.

And she was marvelous; a formidable opponent who made the wolf inside him happy and when she turned back to her human form, he saw her in her naked glory – he was really beautiful as human as well. Their clothes didn't magically appear on them when they transformed back, nudity was never a problem to Werewolves) and somehow instead of feeling angry at her he was pleased with her strength.

The next time he sees her, Juvia is her name, she helps when his friend Erza is kidnapped and before he knows, she joined his pack, brought a friend and does not leave him alone.

At first, Gray is annoyed when she follows him around like a lost puppy; but she is so caring and sweet that he doesn't have it in him to just push her away; so he let her and more times than not Juvia made him laugh. She became his friend.

The day she became more than that, was the day his adopted brother came to town. Lyon almost went into heat when he saw Juvia, talking about how beautiful she was and asking Gray if she had a mate yet. Through gritted teeth, Gray told him the truth: that she was not mated and it just ignited Lyon's want for Juvia.

Gray wanted to strangle his brother one night they were out with the pack at a bar, Lyon put his arm around Juvia's shoulders and whispered something to her, making her giggle.

"You are stupid." His friend Natsu said, joining Gray at the bar booth he was in, glowering at the couple. "Go over there and claim her."

"I can't." Gray's words came out as an angry whisper.

Natsu raised an eyebrow. "And why is that?"

"I can't have a mate." His eyes didn't leave the white haired man and blue haired woman at the opposite side of the bar. "She's better off without having me as a mate."

"Did she tell you that?" Natsu wondered.

"We never…" Gray hesitated to answer. "We don't talk about it, but I know if we ever slept together I couldn't let her go and I can't have that."

"Well, I'm sorry. I thought I was talking to a man with a wolf inside him, not a pussycat!" Natsu snorted and Gray finally looked to his friend, eyes wild. "Look, if you don't get her, your brother over there, will. If I hadn't mated with Lucy last month, I'd be going crazy with how close The Run is." By the way Gray's eyes widened, Natsu brought up a touchy subject. "Oh, you forgot."

Yes, Gray had forgotten about that. In a week, every Werewolf in Fiore would meet at the capitol where unmated Weres would practice the old ceremony of running through the woods, trying to find their mates. It happened every five years in order to increase Weres' birth rates, as it was the perfect time for females to wait for pups not too long after. He had been summoned for it by letter a month before.

And it was going to happen in a week. Five years before, they had been too young to participate at the age of seventeen, but having now twenty-two years old, both were eligible and bound to go. Which meant that if Juvia didn't run fast enough to the other side of those woods, some horny male could get to her.

It appeared that the 'horny male' would be his brother and Gray's blood boiled in jealousy thinking about Lyon running after Juvia while the full moon made them wild with hormones and eagerness to procreate. They always got desperate to mate during the full moon, but when they were performing The Run, it increased tenfold.

"Oh, fuck." Gray whispered and his gaze returned to where his brother and Juvia were – she was listening to some story Lyon was telling with a smile on her face. If Juvia was caught by Lyon and he impregnated her, she would be gone forever.

"Finally added up the facts, huh?" Natsu smiled; happy that it was one of the few times in his life he outsmarted his friend. "Lucy and I will be going in a very different Run than you will, so, I can't help you there, man." The coupled who were already mated, would also Run but any woods would be fine and he and his mate chose to stay in Magnolia.

"I need more alcohol than this to have this conversation." Gray called for a barmaid and Natsu didn't stop him, knowing he still hadn't made up his peace to wanting the blue haired woman.

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For the week after the bar, Gray avoided Juvia; he didn't know what to do regarding The Run. Should he pursue her or not? Should he let her be? Should he follow her and kick any male's ass who came too close to her?

He glanced at her, sitting next to him at the car – they took a ride with Warren, Max and Laki – and he saw that she was looking out of the window, and seemed to be thinking about something. Gray had made up his mind to just fight anyone who got too close to her until she reached the other side of the woods and was safe. He would go to the other side as well hopefully without pursuing any female.

Two hours later, they arrived at the park and left the car in silent; none of them wanted to be there but tradition was tradition. After leaving their bags with clean clothes inside for after The Run with a couple of elders, they mingled between the crowd while they waited for nightfall. It should be around fifty or sixty Weres at the park – any human who would walk by mistake would just see a normal gathering (the witches put a barrier to fool them).

It was obvious there were more males than females, as couples of their kind always had more boys than girls – it was always a great honor when a girl was born to a couple. The numbers made Gray and his friends feel unsettled.

"Listen up, Max and Warren," the two men looked at him "Laki told me she doesn't want to be mated in here, but if she didn't come she would be punished by the counsel. Can I trust you two to take care of her?" Gray knew Max didn't exactly liked women and Warren was infatuated with a human girl from Magnolia, so they weren't as inclined to let their instincts take over.

"Yes." Warren nodded. "To have this to focus on will be good, instead of… the other… stuff." Max nodded and smiled to Laki, who was shaking lightly.

"Thank you." She whispered and guys put their arms around her.

"I will make sure Juvia gets through the woods." Gray said, and by the corner of his eye, she saw Juvia look up at him. "I think I'll be enough." The others nodded and Gray noticed the moon was starting to rise above the trees. "It will begin soon. Laki, run close to Juvia the longer you can, if you two are together it's better, get it?" The lilac haired woman nodded. "If you get separated, just run." He stared at Juvia's eyes. "Females have a three minutes head start and that's the time you have to go as far away as you can. Don't stop for anything, run. Get to the other side the fastest you can. In the morning we will meet there and we can go home; hopefully in five years we are all mated and don't have to do this crap again." The five of them smiled at his words.

"Females." A loud raspy voice said from their left side. "All the females, gather here and we will be starting in a few minutes."

They gave their good-byes and when the women were almost out of Gray's sight, he watched as Juvia stopped and hesitated a moment before turning around and running back to where he was. She put her hands on his cheeks and pulled his face near hers and before he could protest (would he, really?), she crashed her lips on his and suddenly his whole body was on fire and his world narrowed to her.

When she pulled her lips away from his, he immediately felt the loss of her warm lips on his. "I hope you find me." She muttered, lips hovering his and he wanted to kiss her again, their breaths mingling and then, nothing. Juvia released him and returned the way she came from.

Gray had to blink two times before he took a breath and all he could smell was Juvia. Damn her, now he was confused if he should protect her or find her for himself. If he found her for himself, he would be protecting her, Gray reasoned.

He smelled, then: Lyon. He was there, not too far from where Gray was – he focused his senses on Lyon and by the way Gray heard his brother's breath be taken away, he was sure Lyon had smelled Juvia.

"Okay, Gray." He heard Warren's voice far away. "You have to calm down, buddy. You got growly all of a sudden and it's freaking us out." Only then Gray noticed that he was growling while baring his teeth, his nails had changed into claws just thinking about Lyon get too close to Juvia – his Juvia – and that would not be happening. "Look, she just gave you the green light to Run with her tonight. Take it. You two are meant to be mates. Everyone knows this; you are the only one still fighting it."

"We are not-" Gray tried, but was interrupted.

"The Moon is almost at the position!" the same voice that called for the women said. "The females have ran. Only the worthy will mate tonight. Only the strong will be able to get one of them. Tonight we run to honor our ancestors, to make our race last!" Gray could feel his heart start to pump faster inside his chest. "Look up to the moon." Every male looked up and when they saw the moon so full and mesmerizing. Gray could hear his wolf howling inside his head. "Let your instinct wash over you, let the wolf find its mate if they are here tonight. Find the One and make our race a new generation! Imagine what a beautiful sight, your mate expecting your pup. Everyone will know whom she belongs to."

'Yes, yes, yes, yes! Find her!' His wolf told Gray, getting worked up with what was being told and sent images of Juvia writhing underneath him as he took her, and then another image of her: stomach stretched with his pups growing inside her and Gray was delighted by it. 'Run after her. She is mine. Ours. We need her. We need pups. No one else can have our pups.'

Gray's human mind was slipping away, the wolf was making so much sense he was forgetting what his plan was. The moon, the words, his wolf, her smell. It was too much. He never knew how strong The Run was over the Weres.

"Run!"

Gray changed and let the wolf take it from there; it seemed to know what to do by instinct alone. His clothes were torn and he took less than a second to get a sniff of Juvia's scent before he ran in its direction. He had to find her. No one else should. He was the one she was supposed to mate with.

He entered the woods, alongside with many other wolves. But he was the one who would get to her.

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Juvia could hear howling behind her and she tried to run even faster, but it was as if she was hypnotized. Apparently, while the moon made the males run faster, it made the females slower. At least Juvia was running much slower than normal.

She had lost Laki a couple of minutes before, the lavender haired woman was running much faster than Juvia and just for a moment she hesitated when she saw Juvia was falling behind before Juvia in her wolf form growled and sent her a telepathic message telling her to run, she could take care of herself.

Thank the gods that Laki ran away, because Juvia could hear some males getting way too close and she still felt a little sluggish and it was pissing her off – she was an excellent wolf, thank you very much and she could make any big alpha a run for its money, but she felt too weird at the moment.

Suddenly feeling weak, Juvia – in her wolf form – was able to find a hollow tree big enough she could crawl inside and she did just that. Her wolf tried to communicate with her, tell her it was supposed to be that way, but Juvia ignored her and was fighting to keep herself wake when she heard something close and she didn't recognized the smell.

The next thing Juvia knew, there were sharp teeth on her paw, hurting her and pulling her away from inside the tree. It was a large chestnut colored wolf with green eyes, she didn't recognize the smell, and she panicked a little bit. Not him. She tried to run away, but the hold he had on her paw was too much and she whined and the moment he let go of her, she bared her teeth at him.

She didn't want him. She would not have him. One of her paws were damaged, but nothing she couldn't handle.

The brown wolf launched himself at her and Juvia met him with the same amount of strength, trying to bite and scratch everything she could. He was an amateur, Juvia's wolf told her and she agreed. Her paw hurt, but she could easily take him.

That was, until she became weaker once more and he threw Juvia on a tree, making the air come out of her and she suddenly felt dizzy.

Juvia saw the wolf bare his teeth as he approached her, ready to start the mating process and she was trying to get up, but she never felt that helpless before. Panic settled in her mind, knowing that he would overpower her, mate with her and most likely impregnate her. She was ready to put together all her strength to a last attack (she would not let him take her while she could move) when a blur of black tackled the brown wolf to the ground.

She blinked, smelled the air and her whole body relaxed in relief when she recognized her Gray-sama. Her mate. The only mate she wanted to have, even if he didn't want her.

Gray promised to protect her and he was making good on his promise, clawing, biting and throwing the brown wolf as if it were a raggedy doll.

Slowly she could feel her strength returning to her in the oddest way, as if Gray's mere presence made her stronger somehow and she was able to stand on her own four legs just fine.

'Our mate is strong.' Her wolf almost purred inside her mind. 'Look at how he protect us.'

'He does.' Juvia replied, feeling proud and giddy while the two males fought – Gray clearly winning.

'We need to show him we can take care of our pups.' The wolf told her, pleased with the way Gray threw the brown one down and snarled on its face. 'We need to be strong. We need to run. Fight him. Show him.'

'Yes.' Juvia agreed and felt the damage on her body; the paw the unknown wolf had bitten her hurt and was bleeding, but she could run with the pain. One of her ribs hurt and she would hurt even more if she ran, but it didn't matter. If Gray wanted her, she would run for him. But he wouldn't. He was only protecting her, like he promised. 'He might not want us.'

'He has to!' The wolf snarled. 'We are good female.' Juvia sighed, because it had nothing to do with her being a good female of not, instead of him wanting her.

With a howl, Juvia snapped from her thoughts and saw that the brown wolf was leaving them, his tail between his legs as he humped away from them.

Gray's fur had risen during the fight and it didn't went down until the other male was no longer in sight. Once they were alone, Gray turned around and looked at Juvia, his black eyes meeting her blue ones and she waited for him to ask her to run to the other side of the forest so they could go home. Of course he would.

'Did you mean it?' Gray asked her telepathically and when Juvia tilted her head to the side in confusion, he clarified. 'That you wanted me to find you?'

Juvia's breath hitched in her throat, her heart beat faster and her body started to produce pheromones to entice him even more. 'Oh, yes.' She answered him.

Gray took position, ready to run, eyes never leaving hers. 'I did find you.' He told her. 'Now you need to run again so I can catch you and make this right. If you want this, run.'

It was happening, Juvia realized. He wanted to run after her. A private run, where he would try to catch her and she would fight him off to prove she was strong to bare his pups.

Juvia forgot about her paw, about her rib, about everything when she barked at him and then ran from him, leaving a clear path of pheromones for him to follow.

She could feel her strength, her real strength as she wan with all her mighty – whatever had happened to her during the first time she ran that night, no longer was over her. Juvia could hear and smell Gray not too far behind and she could imagine his beautiful black fur moving with the wind and the determination in his dark eyes.

Once she found a place in the woods that seemed dry enough and not filled with mud, Juvia stopped and turned around; a few seconds later Gray stopped as well and after a few moments staring at each other, Juvia bared her teeth and Gray did the same.

They ran, now they had to fight.

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It had been five minutes and she hated fighting him, she thought – as she bit his leg when he pinned her down – but it was part of the process: she had to prove to him that she was strong and he had to do the same to her. Gray have to overpower her to show that he was strong enough to take care of her when she couldn't – the fact that he had saved her from the other wolf mattered not.

If they had done it outside The Run, none of it would've mattered: he would just bite her neck while they had sex and that was that. But during the Run, things were very different and violent.

The whole thing was brutal, but she had never been as turned on as she was at the moment. And by the way his pheromones were flaring, neither had him.

Juvia tried to come out from under him, but Gray just bit the back of her neck strong just so she could feel it hurt and not move, but not enough to cause damage. She whined loudly and she finally conceded she had lost by slowly changing from her wolf form to her human's.

Noticing her change, Gray waited a moment and changed back as well – he was fully human just two seconds after she was – and even if they were both deadly tired, they had another step of the ritual to perform.

Her body was on its stomach as Juvia laid on the dirt floor, panting. Gray topped her body with his and kissed the place behind her ear. "Juvia." He mumbled and she finally looked over her shoulder. "Tell me the words." He whispered, their lips inches apart while his hand traveled down her back until he grabbed her ass, earning a moan from her. "Tell me."

"I'm yours." She whispered, her eyes hazy with lust, wanting him to make her his mate. "You are mine."

"You are mine. And I'm yours." He rushed the formal words and then he was kissing her. The angle was odd, but it didn't matter because Juvia felt as if her whole body was on fire, her veins carried lava inside and she somehow managed not to die in flames.

Gathering strength and without breaking the kiss, Juvia managed to go to her knees – Gray helped by momentarily raising his hips and when she was done, she could feel Gray's length between her legs and she almost died.

They broke the kiss and Gray kissed the side of her neck and put a hand between then, testing her readiness and Juvia moaned loudly when he nibbled her ear. "Fuck, Juvia. I can't be gentle right now." He panted, touching her while she tried to hold back her moans. "We can get it slow later, but right now I just have to fuck you."

"Yes." Juvia groaned, pushing her hips back. "Yes, please."

The next thing she knew, he was slamming into her and she let out a startled gasp that soon changed into a small moan with each thrust. She tried to hold back, but what he was doing to her was beyond anything she's ever imagined it was possible.

"Louder." Gray panted between gritted teeth on her ear, one hand tangling itself in her hair and pulling it slightly, making her sigh. Juvia looked back at him in surprise with the request, just to see him looking past her, to the trees. She followed his line of sight and saw a group of three males. In no way sex was taboo between their kind, but Juvia felt the urge to cover herself.

The thought went away when Gray slipped a hand under her body and he held her hair tighter, earning a loud moan from her. "They need to know you are mine." When he touched the bundle of nerves over where they were joined, Juvia wouldn't have kept low even if she could. "You were always mine, Juvia." He snarled at her, his pace growing faster and Juvia was losing all coherent thought with the way he felt inside her and how he touched her. His words were just making it better. "I've been a coward, but not anymore." He told her, his face hidden on her blue hair. "You are mine. Only mine. Made for me. My mate."

"Yours." She managed to say. Juvia made her hand morph into a halfway between a paw and her normal hand and reached for him, her nails digging into his skin. "Oh, gods. I'm… I'm gonna…"

"Not yet." Gray snarled and Juvia whined. She really needed to reach her orgasm or she would get crazy. She tried to play dirty by tightening her inner muscles. "Fuck. Fuck, Juvia." He panted in her ear. "Can I bite you? Juvia, I have to bite you. If I don't…" He was breathless.

"Oh, yes! Please, bite me. Please." She pleaded a few more times, knowing full well that if Gray bit her neck they would bond forever. Her voice was high-pitched when she felt him pinch her clit and hold it. "Gray-sama…"

A few thrusts later, the next thing she felt was Gray's fangs on the side of her neck at the same time he thrusted in her and released her clit.

For a moment, Juvia thought she had died: everything went white, every cell of her body exploded in pleasure and ecstasy. She was pretty sure she yelled his name so loud the whole forest heard her – not that she cared.

In the back of her mind she could feel him still thrusting in her a couple of times more, his fangs still in her neck before he stilled, spilling himself inside her and falling on top of her.

It felt like a dream when he retreated his fangs and licked the wound so it could close. It also felt like a dream when he lied beside her and pulled her to snuggle against his body.

A few minutes later when Juvia was able to put together some thoughts, she whispered to him: "We gave those guys quite a show."

Gray chuckled. "Sorry. I was feeling territorial." Juvia chuckled, tiredly, but it seemed that her body wanted him again by the way she felt her lower stomach stir; but in a moment, as soon as she could move.

"Juvia is glad you found her." She whispered. "Any other day Juvia would've fought that Were easily, but…"

"It made me so angry when I saw it." Gray gritted his teeth. "My mind was set to find you and I don't want to think what would've happened if I was a little late."

"You weren't." Juvia kissed his jaw and then the side of his neck that was not covered in blood – they would need to see the medics soon, Gray had a gash on his forehead and a few scratches on his arms that could infect and there were her own injuries as well. "Now, Juvia is very certain that we mated."

"Very certain, is it?" Gray raised an eyebrow. "I guess that having you during The Run, on the ground, on all fours and biting your neck is not enough for you."

Juvia shrugged. "We can certainly do it again just to make sure." She laughed when he rolled so he was on top of her, kissing her deeply once again. They took their time when Gray had her once again, but it meant no less than the first.

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The sun was coming up when Gray and Juvia – in their wolf forms – reached the other side of the woods where their friends waited. They had made love two more times before deciding to make their way out (whichever couple mated in the woods needed to stay there until the sun was up) and he walked slowly by her side; her paw hurt and it worried him.

Once they were out of the forest, Gray ran to get a blanket not too far away and returned in his human form, asking his mate to turn as well. When she did, Gray put it around her and carried her bridal style, not at all caring about his state of nudity.

"Gray-sama…" She complained. "Juvia can walk to the medical barricade."

"Your foot is hurt." He explained. "You shouldn't have ran in the first place! We could've stayed right there and…"

"And miss all the fun? Nope." Juvia kissed his cheek. "Thank you." Gray hid a smile. "You have to check your bruises as well."

"I will." Gray shrugged.

Half an hour later, Juvia's foot had two small sutures and was bandaged, her rib was just bruised and would be fine again in no time thanks to Were's sped up metabolism and Gray also had his cuts cleaned and looked at. He had been kind enough to grab their bags so they could put some clothes on.

A nurse came in alongside with an Elder and the young couple knew they could only leave after he released them. Juvia and Gray sat on the cot, waiting, and Juvia insisted they kept kissing to make it up for all the kisses they should've shared before they slept together.

Gray didn't mind. He was happy he let the wolf take the decisions that night, otherwise when they got home Natsu would tease him again of being a pussycat and that was the worst insult to a Wolf. Plus, he was looking forward for the next month and a half: both he and Juvia would get their hormones wild until she entered in heat with him for the first time.

If their times in the woods had been any indication, he was going to be a very happy man.

"And you…" A raspy voice said and Gray and Juvia broke their kiss to see the elder in front of them, looking at a chart. "Gray Fullbuster and Juvia Lockser, am I right?"

"Yes." Gray answered, his arm on Juvia's waist tightening by instinct – it would take a while for him to let another male close to his mate.

"You are fully bonded, by the way of the bite on her neck." The man seemed pleased. "Good." He took a step in Juvia's direction and Gray growled. "Calm down, boy. I don't want to take her away from you." He rolled his eyes and even so Gray didn't let go of Juvia as the Elder sniffed her. "Oh, even better." He grinned, genuinely happy. "It appears you two are the whole package; in seven months you'll have a pup on your pack. Marvelous! Two couples this Run! This is a blessing!"

"What?" Juvia asked in disbelief. "It's been six hours! How do you…?"

He touched his nose. "My nose told me and I'm never wrong. You should prepare yourself. In seven months someone from the counsel will contact you to register the pup." The Elder was very pleased with the situation. "Feed well and don't hurt yourself, let your mate fight if necessary. Precious cargo in there, my girl. May the gods bless you with a strong pup. And if I might add, we sure hope is a girl." He bowed and then left.

"He can't possibly know that." Juvia frowned. "Can he?"

"Don't know and don't care." Gray shrugged. "We have a whole month of nothing to worry about beside ourselves locked somewhere." Juvia was glad they were at vacation of their college and could enjoy each other. But what if she was really…? "Can we worry about it later? He might be right, he might be wrong. No use of freaking out now. Besides, we bonded for life." He touched the bandage on her neck tenderly. "It is natural for our pack to grow. That's why they make this stupid run anyway."

Juvia nodded. "Now come on, let's find our friends. Juvia hopes Laki is fine."

"She is." Gray informed her, helping her with her injured foot and her sneakers. "I saw her when I went to grab our bags. She took less than half an hour to arrive to safety."

"Good." Juvia decided.

"She also told me that she heard that females who scented their mates at the forest, tend to slow down so they could be caught. That's why…"

"That's why Juvia suddenly felt weak." The blunette was surprised. "It's so weird to be a Were."

"Yeah." Gray shrugged as they came out the medic barricade. "I'm just thinking about how everyone's going to react."

Juvia snorted. "They will yell 'finally'." Gray looked at her with a shocked expression. "Please, Gray-sama… only you didn't know this" she pointed to her bandaged neck "is how it would end."

"Denial is not only a river in Ishgal, I guess." Gray sighed.

"No, it's not." Juvia chuckled. She spotted their three friends and waved at them. "Come on, let's go back home to our pack. We have two hours to decide where we should spend the next month."

"Obviously my apartment…" Gray said as they walked towards their friends, his arms secure around his mate. He was wrong after all, he could get a mate and he was glad he did.

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AN: Ta-da! I hope this wasn't disappointing. I would say more, but it's 1 am and I am tired haha Thanks for reading!

07/24/15 ~ BonneyQ