'A~re? Strange… Juvia can't move her body at all…' the blunette was shocked to find that she couldn't even move.
"JUVIA!"
'Gray-sama?' the said girl tried to answer.
"JUVIAAA!"
'Yes, Gray-sama, Juvia hears you. Can't you hear her?'
"NO! JUVIAA!"
Another explosion was heard and with that, the water mage's body crushed to the ground.
'It's very painful! Juvia's water body can't handle it!' The water mage tried to scream, but to no avail. 'Why can't Juvia scream? Why can't Juvia do anything?' the former S-class mage tried to support her falling body but not a single muscle fiber moved at all. The sight of rain blinded her eyes and she couldn't help but let her eyes closed. Soon, her limp body soaked in her own element, and she could hear many footsteps rushed to her side.
"JUVIA! SPEAK TO ME!" the ice mage grabbed the limp body and shook it like crazy.
'Gray-sama, it hurts if you shake Juvia like that,' again, she tried to move her body.
"JUVIA! Ne, JUVIAA!"
'And you don't have to yell, Gray-sama, Juvia hears you. She's fine…' the water mage started to feel afraid, 'What happened to Juvia?'
"GRAY! Stop it! Don't do that!" the celestial mage grabbed the limp body from Gray. She examined the splattered blood on the water mage's blue outfit. A big open wound was on the water mage's upper-right abdomen. Lucy winced.
'Lucy? Lucy, isn't it? Can you tell Gray-sama that Juvia's fine? He can't seem to hear Juvia's voice somehow…' the unconscious girl tried to speak.
"Juvia, can you hear me? Can you say something?" Lucy put the limp body slowly to the ground, and bent down to hear the weak heartbeat.
'A~re? Lucy? Can't you hear Juvia too?' on the background, the water mage can still hear certain ice mage was struggling to get to her.
"That's a very bad injury she got…" the white exceed fled near Lucy, who tried to find the pulse in Juvia's wrist, "If only Erza was here with us…"
"But… … Wendy will be able to heal it, … … right?" the blue nekomander looked at the limp body with teary eyes.
"I-I… I never heal someone this seriosuly injured before, b-but…" Wendy sounded uncertain.
"Get OFF me, flamebrain! Get OFF!" Gray tried his best to get off of Natsu's grasp.
"You can't! Just let Wendy deal with it!" Natsu slowly let go of his rival when the blue-haired dragonslayer approached Juvia's limp body. The young girl glanced at Gray's worried face and felt nervous. She shakily placed her hand on the water mage's upper abdomen and closed her eyes.
"I-I will do my best for Juvia-san!" the healer casted her healing magic and soon a warm sensation flew inside the limp body.
'Wendy-chan, thank you…' the water mage slowly tried to move a muscle, but it didn't bulge. She wished she could sigh at the moment like this. 'Why can't Juvia move at all? What happened to her? She want to tell everybody that she's fine! Come on, Juvia! Move!'
But nothing happened. Four human and two exceeds watched the limp body being drenched in rain, not responding to Wendy's healing magic. Almost not at all.
"I-I'm sorry! Gray-san! Please forgive me!" the young blunette healer cried as she tried to apologize to the ice mage. The said man looked at Wendy with concern. It's true that he felt like crying at the moment but he wouldn't. "It's okay, Wendy. Porlyusica told us, Juvia is not in grave danger anymore…"
"B-but, Juvia-san was… *hic* She was protecting me back then," the healer cried some more, "I should've done more for her,"
Gray couldn't resist but to pat at the young dragonslayer. He put himself to her level and ruffled her hair, "You have stopped the bleeding. You saved her,"
"But we still don't know when she'll wake up *sob* I'm s-sorry…" Wendy's heart clenched. It's all started when she tagged along with Team Natsu, with Juvia replaced Erza, who was finishing another S-class quest for a while. The quest was difficult from the very start. They were signed to banish a secret weapon factory said to be built for rebellion against Fiore. They almost finished the quest when the factory's self-destruction system was activated. Team Natsu managed to get out of the factory, but Wendy accidentally stepped on explosion switch.
There were two explosions.
Wendy was protected from both.
They finished the quest for a very high price.
Gray's eyes darkened as he remember the moment when he saw Juvia ran to Wendy and use her water body as a shield to protect their youngest member. He gritted his teeth. He could cast Shield to protect them both but he was too late. Stunned at the first explosion, he missed the chance to protect Juvia from the second explosion.
It's two-fold failure. He failed to protect her. Twice. Simultaneously.
'Why can't Juvia see anything? Ah, that's right, she has to open her eyes,' the water mage began to open her eyes, but soon she knew she couldn't.
'Why can't Juvia open her eyes? Does Juvia die? … ….No, she can still hear her own heartbeat. Juvia is still alive, but… why?'
"It seems like she wouldn't wake up from her coma anytime soon," the old female healer said. Juvia recognized it as Porlyusica's voice.
'Coma? Juvia is in comatose state?' she mentally cover her gaping mouth with her hands.
"Can't you do something about it?" the old man stared at his former fellow guild member as the said woman walk away to find another potion.
"It's all up to her body to recover. We should thank Wendy for her effort to stop the heavy bleeding Juvia's got back then,"
'That's right, Juvia too has to thank Wendy-chan for that,' Juvia mentally made a note for herself.
"Anyway, Makarov,"
"Yes?"
"Get OUT of MY house!"
"Can't I worry about my child?!"
"I hate humans. And I have thrown out four humans with two kitten today. It won't hurt to throw another one,"
And with that, the water mage could hear Fairy Tail's master yelped after the surprisingly harmonic sound of 'smack' and 'thwack'. She wished she could giggle. 'Sou~ka… coma… That explains why Juvia can't move nor speak at all,'
Porlyusica sighed as she closed her hut's door, "Now, I hope you will recover soon and my house will free from worrying people,"
Juvia mentally sweatdropped when she heard that.
"I will do my best to help you recover. But I want you to do the most of the recovering, you hear me?"
'Yes, Porlyusica-san, Juvia hears. And she will try her best to recover,' Juvia tried to answer. In her mind, of course.
"Huh, how strange I am, talking to myself,"
Juvia mentally giggled, 'Thank you, Porlyusica-san…'
to be continued...
a.n. Hi, it's been a while since the last time I wrote a story. Personally, Juvia is one of the most interesting character in Fairy Tail and I love seeing her progress with certain ice mage(s?). This story is mainly about Juvia but I promise I will make other characters appear too. I also thought of some couple hints, so please look forward to see them ^^ I'll try to update soon, so feel free to leave some reviews to me, kay?
Note: I vote for Gray, if you were intrigued about 'certain ice mage(s?)' ^^