A gloomy Inspiration
The rain. It always follows me, and as a result Juvia is lonely. So why is it... Why is it that you stay with Juvia, when the rain drives everyone else away? And why is it, Juvia finds her heart fluttering for you? Do you like the rain?
Chapter 1: First Inspiration
The homeroom teacher droned on, calling out the names on his roll, his monotone voice putting everyone in the classroom to sleep. Gray Fullbuster sighed bored, and played with the pencil on his desk. He brushed his fingers through his black spiky hair, and glanced at the clock hanging up besides the door. The hands were still past the eight and nearly on the thirty. He sighed bored and almost swore to himself that the clock was moving backwards. The black haired teenager groaned suffocated from the tediousness, and rested his head on the cold mahogany desk, begging that time went faster.
If boredom could kill...
This was South Magnolia high school, students attenting approximately 750. A fairly prestigious High School, uniform for males consists of a short sleeved, collared shirt, striped blue and white tie and grey pants made of cotton- and in winter sleeves are long, with a fairly thin blazer. Uniform for girls includes grey pleated skirt, white shirt and a red blazer. Basically the only real difference was the skirt.
Loke flamboyantly flicked his long orange hair and smirked at the other teenager dying of boredom. He pulled up his sunglasses and rested them on top of his head.
"Its only homeroom Gray, you're not going to die"
Gray shrugged and adverted his attention to the window. The sky was grey and rain drizzled down heavily.
"Juvia Loxar?" The teacher called out in a brusquely sort of voice. "She's not here again?"
Who's that? How come he's never heard of her before? Gray looked around the room. This was his first time hearing her name. The teenager frowned to himself. This was the first time in weeks he was in homeroom anyways. That was probably the reason why he'd never heard of her before- but he was sure he knew everyone in the class.
The sound of the classroom doors slamming open caught his attention and a girl with soaking short blue hair came into view. Her hair was flicked upwards, and her bangs covered half her face, giving her an air of mystery. Her lips set in a straight line, not a word uttered and she walked quickly to her seatt. Immediately the murmuring of students filled the classroom. They stole subtle glances at the dripping young woman and began their feeble gossip.
"Juvia Loxar?"
She gave a small curt nod, and the teacher went back to calling out names.
Gray also took the liberty of examining the person who he'd never seen before and watched her interested at her lack of appearance. Talk about a flashy entrance.
One of his classmates looked at her and began whispering loudly. "It always rains when she's around. How annoying,"
Loud enough that he heard it. And apparently loud enough that the blue haired girl heard it as well. She gave them a deadpanned look, and coincidentally it began raining harder. Gray watched the rain pelt the classroom windows with wide eyes. It was just a coincidence... The bell rang and startled him out of his thoughts. The blue haired girl stood up quickly and shot out of the classroom without a sound. Gray stared at her retreating figure, and smirked. What an interesting girl. Juvia was her name?
Loke was that guy he hang out with, he may as well refer to him as his best friend. His playboy and easy going nature made him popular with the female species. Gray spied some men looking their way. And dare he say it, popular with the male species as well. Girls were always fawning over him too, but his nonchalant nature usually kept them admiring from a distance. The two boys were walking to their next class, when Gray spied Juvia racing past them. Still dripping wet, from head to toe, she hurried and made a sharp turn at the next corner.
"Hey Loke, who do you think she is?"
Loke stopped his flirting and turned around to only catch a glimpse of Juvia's blue hair disappearing around the corner.
"Ah sorry, turned around too late."
Gray paused for a brief moment. "She's that girl who walked in late this morning…"
"Yeah, Juvia Loxar. I don't know much about her, but I heard rumours that it rains whenever she's at school, and that's she's part of the 'phantom lord' newspaper club…"
"Seriously? Ah, our rivaling club. Too bad she's looks like really interesting person" Gray looked genuinely disappointed, but shrugged it off.
"Yeah, club meeting today by the by," Loke and Gray stopped at their designated classroom.
"Cool, that old man Marakov better show up on time!"
Both males went in to enjoy two long periods of mathematics.
Juvia Loxar.
She was a simple girl, who wasn't hard to please.
She just wanted to be a normal high school girl this year, normal crushes, best friends, the typical detesting of piling assignments and tests. She could feel the various staring of people as she quickly walked to her next class, art. It definitely was not going to be a normal school term for her.
She walked into class, just on time, as the teacher walked in. The blue haired girl knew that her shabby appearance was attracting much attention. She honestly tried her hardest to make the rain stop, but calling on the rain wasn't exactly intentional.
There was another thing about her. It didn't make sense, but the rumours about raining where ever she went, was true. Even the girl herself didn't understand. The rain was like a looming shadow, reminding her off her pitiful existence. In some way it represented her. She was as lonely and gloomy as the rain. This fact alone made sure that this high school year was definitely not going to be a normal one.
Gajeel gave her a gruff wave, motioning her to come and join him. She walked in thankfully and sat down, to the person closest to her. As rough and high-mighty this guy was, he had a certain soft spot not many people knew about. Like her, he had a certain aura that told people to stay away from him. She glanced up at her friend. He had many piercings on his face, and unruly, long black hair. Gajeel looked like someone from a motor bike gang, than a high school student. But to her, he was the nicest person she's ever met, and that alone is telling your how horrid high school students can be.
"That old guy is calling a club meeting.."
"Really? There hasn't been one in weeks"
"Yeah, well all phantom guild members hafta attend," He explained, ignoring the teacher's protest to be quiet.
Juvia nudged him, and he turned around. The teacher began screeching at him, and Gajeel sent her a dark glare. Juvia watched the teacher, scared by this simple gesture, and snickered at him inwardly- albeit a bit sinisterly. After the teacher's brief explanation, the two went to grab some art supplies and started on their assignments.
Gajeel dabbed his paintbrush into the paint and began roughly scratching the canvas with it. Juvia watched amused as he abused the canvas with rough stokes and stabs. Looking at her own canvas, already started, she decided to continue with her painting.
It was raining. As always. She never bothered painting anything else. It was her representation of life, and of herself.
She began to recall weeks ago, the incident that made her skip weeks of school. After her numerous paintings of the rain, her old art teacher called it 'disturbing'. Juvia wasn't one to cry from an insult, but it pained her all the same. After paintings and paintings of the rain, the teacher was even cruel enough to insult it in front of the class. Calling it ugly, and uncreative... an example of a bad artwork. So what if she gave that unwelcoming vibe, a teacher shouldn't discriminate against that.
Gajeel, being one with quite the temper, began swearing at the teacher and was brash and brave enough to throw a canvas at her head. She was thankful for him, for standing up for her, but that was rather uncalled for- he had probably been in that mood the entire morning. The teacher quit, Gajeel was suspended, and Juvia never came to school after that. The two met during this suspension and decided that they would go to school and act like nothing happened.
Juvia's painting pallet consisted of blues, many blues, white and black. She stared at her canvas and continued to paint her scene.
Gajeel turned his head and looked at the painting and smirked. "The rain again?"
Juvia nodded and looked at his painting and gave him a mocking smile. "Abstract again?"
Gajeel gave her a snort of a laugh, and they both returned to their work. Silence overwhelming, but not unwelcomed...
Gray groaned and stretched his arms. That was one of the most torturous maths lesson, he had the displeasure to experience. He almost gave a cry of relief when the bell went, and shot out of the classroom like a bullet. Gray looked around for Loke, and sighed when he spotted him trying to get cozy with Levy McGarden, and Lucy Heartfilia.
He walked up to them and pulled Loke by the ear. "See you girls at the meeting."
"Ow ow ow ow- GRAY! It HURTSS!"
"Yeah, thanks Gray, see you there soon" Replied the blonde with sparkling brown eyes, and dare he think it, really large breasts. She pulled her friend with her. Levy was the girl with blue hair done up in a headband, with large innocent brown eyes.
Gray wondered where they were going and went to their club room.
He noted that nearly everyone was here. Natsu Dragneel, extremely annoying and hotheaded. Gray noted to himself, that he had a strange hate for the salmon coloured haired boy. He was laughing and held up his cat. The guy was in charge of the 'What's hot, what's not article in the school newspaper.'
Natsu named his cat happy, and accidentally dyed the cat blue. Gray sighed to himself, what an idiot. What next? Is he going to stick wings on the cat? Natsu's other well know feature was his white scarf, which he wore everywhere. It was given to him by his foster father, Igneel, who left him many years ago. There were the other members, Erza Scarlet who was someone no one wanted to mess with. Her bright red hair and her uncanny strength made her feared all over school. She was known to have some sort of a childhood relationship with one of the student council members, Jellal. There was Laxus Dreyar, who was one of their best writers. Following Laxus was the Raijinshū, which are made up of Fried Justine, Bixlow and Evergreen, they had their own stories as a team.
There was Mirajane and Elfman, who decided to give up writing because their sister Lissanna decided to try and commit suicide due to a writing incident, but stayed in the club due to close friends. Then there was Cana Alberona, levy who was in a team with Let and Droy, and Lucy. Lucy was a newer member. Cana was in charge of tarot card readings, and replying to requests, Levy did book review articles, and Lucy wrote Horoscopes for their latest column. Natsu accidentally knocked off Erza's neatly piled up drafts of her latest story, and hell broke loose. Gray watched amused at the brawl in front of him. They never got old, and when someone accidentally bumped into him, the black haired teenager pulled up his sleeves and decided to join in the fight. He walked up towards Natsu when the club room door slammed open.
"Will you goofballs cut it out!"
The club suddenly stopped their fight to see their teacher adviser walk in the room. He was grinning despite how loudly he shouted before and Makarov held up a sheet.
"The school's holding their annual writing competition and one of us are gonna win it!"
Juvia and Gajeel walked into their clubroom. It was damp, and old. Sad to say, that their club was not the best of clubs. Jose Porla was their teacher adviser. He watched his main club members enter the room and eyed them warily. Gajeel entered with Juvia, straight after Totomaru and Aria. Sol was already in the room to begin with, surrounded by the other minor members.
"Everyone, i've only called you here to inform you of the upcoming competition, prize is a hefty one thousand dollars" Jose glared at his five top members, "and I expect that one of you will win."
Phantom lord began to murmur quietly and Jose gave a loud cough to get everyone's attention.
"I know that other newspaper club fairy tail is probably planning on use that new rich girl's money to do something, no wonder they have better reviews and more viewers than us not to mention their better facilities, but we must not lose hope"
Juvia looked up at Gajeel and he looked rather stiff. "Are you cold Gajeel-kun?"
He gave her a small assuring pat, and then began glaring at their teacher adviser. Juvia knew at once that he was up to no good.
"Everyone is dismissed" The sound of sliding of chairs and the members exited the room all at once. "Except for you, Gajeel"
Gajeel froze and Juvia looked up worriedly at him. She gripped his shirt to give him comfort.
"Didn't you hear me, rain woman, Gajeel only." he hissed.
Juvia gave him a glare, but Gajeel grabbed her by the shoulders gently and pushed her out of the room. Juvia's eyes widened and the door slammed in her face. She sighed, defeated, placed her ear on the door and listened in on their conversation.
Gray walked out by himself and looked at the gloomy weather. The end of school bell had already gone and the school was already empty. It was sprinkling and he's thoughts wondered back to the mysterious rain girl and hoisted his bag on his shoulders. As if on cue, a blue headed girl staggered past him and his eyes widened. She walked out of the door, out in the rain. She stood there with her first bunched up, and it began to rain harder. The rain began to drench her form.
Juvia watched the rain fall harder as she thought about the conversation between Gajeel and Jose. She wouldn't stand her friend getting exploited like that. She recalled sadly when he came out, he was emotionless. He went off, about to carry out the plan. She couldn't stop him, because it was Jose's orders. He was the club leader. He had authority to order them around, threatening them with the disbandment of the club.
Juvia looked defeated. She didn't know what to do. She knew how much the club meant to both of them. The joys of writing to get away from this twisted reality.
"In the end... Juvia couldn't do anything drip, drop drip..."
Suddenly a black umbrella was held over her head and she stumbled startled. She looked up to eyes meeting with a very handsome, spiky haired teenager. He's cool eyes examining her, and he smiled. She wasn't the one to fall for people, but there was something attracting her to him. Juvia tried to keep up her calm appearance.
"Are you alright?"
For the first time in many years, she felt heat rushing towards her face and she blushed. What was going on?
HAI, HAI, i just felt like starting a new story don't worry i'm still continuing those ones, but erm i kinda have writter's block for them xD hahahhaha. This one is set in high school, though sticking close to fairy tail's plot. I kinda like this idea, but i don't know whether or not i should continue. Hahaha.
Juvia and gray, and Levy and Gajeel. Please read and tell me what your think. All suggestions welcomed~
Well til next chapter,
Marina :D