Today is the day after my big birthday party last night. I swear everybody is on a hangover besides Erza, Mirajane, and me. They are all lugging around the guild as if their bodies weigh too much for them. I laugh at everybody while I sit at the bar. They can be a hoot.
Mira approaches me. "Are you going to go out on a mission?"
I shake my head. If Gray is on an hangover, then I can't go. We are teammates.
Mira nods, a devious smile on her face. I look at her questioningly.
"Mira, what are you thinking?" I ask her.
"Oh nothing, just the time when you and Gray decided to be partners." I laughed. I remembered that day perfectly.
I was sitting in the guild looking out the window when Gray approached me. I'd know him from Ur and had somewhat forgiven him about what happened. I couldn't look him in the eye, afraid I was going to burst with anger. Well, with him at the guild all the time now, he had proven himself as a hot head and a jackass to me but now he looked outright nervous. Something is going on but I couldn't tell what. I built up enough courage to look at him. It was very hard and when he started speaking, I didn't think he was going to end.
Um...Acadia...would you...like to...um..." he started, "To...be...partners with me?" he blurted out the last part. Something flashed across my eyes. Sadness? Anger? But then I felt surprise and happiness register on my face. He had wanted to become my partner after what happened. Mine. A smile starts curling my lips until it reaches my eyes.
"Yes." I said while balling my fist and energetically punching it in front of me. From that day on we would be partners for as long as we were both in the guild.
"That day was the day that Gray pulled me out of my trance. I kept blaming myself and certain people for the bad things in my life." I say. Mira giggles and nods. She was just like me in that way so that's how she understands me.
"I also really like the story when you too tried to come up with a team name." Mira raised her eyebrows at me and wagged them back and forth. I laughed, as I really love that day too.
Gray and I had just became partners, not that long ago when he decided to bring up what we were thinking about a team name. Gray approached me with a very excited look on his face.
"Hey, we should come up with a team name." he said. His eyes lit up when he said that.
"Okay, how about..." I started. "Team Acadia/Gray." we said in unison. We looked at each other, shock and anger on our faces. "Acadia/Gray." we repeated.
We were butting heads and the whole guild looked nervous. When Natsu and Gray bump heads, nothing big happens. But when Gray and I bump heads, the whole guild is in danger of being destroyed.
"How about you use something with ice?" Cana suggested, sheepishly. I thought for a minute. Ice, ice something. Then the perfect name popped into my head.
"Ice Chaos!" we both shouted together. We laughed. We finally had an official team name, Ice Chaos, and immediately were the strongest team ever in Fairy Tail.
I was smiling from ear to ear just thinking about it. "Why did you remind me about those memories?" I asked Mira.
"So you could never forget." I was absolutely touched that she and the whole guild truly cared for me. But then again, we were all family.
Gray staggered over to us, holding his head. I laughed at him. We are the strongest team in all of Fairy Tail but here was one of the members, completely vulnerable. Anybody could take him out. Even Happy.
"Oi Acadia, Mira." he said. He looked absolutely terrible. Like he was a flag in the wind. I laughed at him while his eyes focused on me and glared. Mira started giggling.
"What's soooo...funny?" he asked. I burst out laughing, seeing that he could almost fall asleep just say that. He looked directly at Mira who blushed and shook her head.
"Nothing." she said, a hint of her mischievous smile still on her face. I started to get up but was stopped by a hand on my arm. Surprised, I whirled around to see Gray, not looking me in the eye. He had a worried yet pained expression on his face. Pain from the hangover but what could the worried look on his face be?
"What is it, Gray?" I asked, obviously worried a lot about what was happening. Mira took note and went to the other side of the bar. I tried to look him in the eye but he kept moving away. I put both my hands on his shoulders and got him to look me in the eye. He still had his jacket and shirt on so something had to be wrong.
"Acadia, I'm holding you back." Shock registered on my face as I back away. He cringed a little but continued, "You could go on a job but I got drunk and am on a hangover. I'm nothing so just don't be apart of our team anymore." Relief showed on my face. He is always like this when his head is hurting like hell and he can't think right. I have a system for this.
I splashed water on his face. Next, I slapped him and to finish him off, I put my hand to his face, freeze it, and then wait a second before thawing it. He woke up right away after all of that.
"Thanks," he said, "I wasn't thinking right." His eyes are challenging and they always make me burst with laughter. Of course, I got a lot of glares for being too loud. I just glare right back and they look away. In my eyes, you can see the look that said, 'You dare glare at me, you will be severely hurt.' This time, Gray laughs at loud at me but is stopped short and grunts from the headache.
"C'mon, why do you guys always have to drink?" we hear Erza mumble. It was loud enough for all of the people sitting at the bar to hear. Everybody grunted but Mira, Erza, and I almost bursted out laughing.
"We have to do something today. I don't want to just sit in the guild all day." I said. Erza nodded and Mira giggled at the look on my face.
"Let's go." Gray said as he got up. He almost fell over when his feet hit the ground and I got ready to catch him with my Ice Make magic.
"Where are we going exactly?" I asked him.
"We are going on a job." he said matter-of-factly. I shook my head at him.
"No, you are on a hangover." I said. He shook his head and stumbled over to the request board. I sighed heavily and rolled my eyes Then I quickly walked over to the request board to stand beside Gray. I was shaking my head the entire time.
"You don't have to do this. I was just talking about going to the town and looking around." I said.
"I have to do this. Remember we're a team," He gave one of his old smiles like when he and I were kids. He thought he was smiling but he was really just showing his teeth with a little pickup of his lips on one side. It was cute. "We do everything together."
I ripped a request down from the board and held it out to him. "Yeah, let's go!" With that, we gave Mira the request and sprinted out the door, laughing and not caring who saw us. We are Ice Chaos, the strongest team in Fairy Tail.
