"Hey Lucy, what's wrong with Natsu and Gray?"
"Yeah, they look so… down." The questioners paused for a moment. Natsu and Gray? Down? That's something you don't see often coming from the energetic fire mage and the lively ice user.
They inched closer and Wakaba whispered. "Did "that" happen again?"
Lucy sweatdropped. Ever since the guild members started entering the guild in the morning for a new day of work they had been asking what the hell was wrong with her two teammates, just like Macao and Wakaba. Well, it was only natural since "Gray" was on one of the farthest corners of the guild mumbling incoherent words and that no one dared to approach, while "Natsu" was on the other side practically drowning everyone with his mood. They had been like that ever since they had come to and realized that they would have to stay like that for an indeterminate period of time, according to Master's wishes. She was left alone with the two of them, the Master long gone.
"Ah, don't worry, they are like that because Master told them they had to repair the damages caused to the guild because it was provoked mainly by them." She wasn't completely lying. They would have to repair the guild. She was only omitting the switching bodies part because after the two had woken up they had threatened her and Mirajane not to tell anyone what had happened for the time being. She was pretty sure that when Jet, Droy and Levy crossed that door they would do the exact same thing. Why, was beyond her. It wasn't like they would be able to hide for long. What if they had a mission with someone else or someone decided to suddenly attack the guild? Heck, they didn't even spend an entire day without fighting. They would have to use their powers eventually.
Why, oh why had Erza to go on a mission right now! This was the worst time possible! And where in the hell had Happy ran off to? Was fate deliberately making things harder for her and making her life a torture? Did she deserve punishment for some reason? Someone probably had some kind of grudge against her.
'How long are they going to keep sulking like this? We need to go on missions! I need the money!' Lucy mentally screamed as she drank the drink Mirajane had poured her and Wakaba and Macao walked way to find something more interesting to do.
"Lucy, you need to talk to them. Everyone in the guild is being affected by this!"
"How so?"
"Everyone is either worried, scared of Gray, I mean Natsu or being depressed by Gray's powerful mood! If you don't do something the whole guild will go down to pieces!"
The stellar mage looked at her two friends, and truth to be told, Gray's body was scaring the living hell of everyone that came in a 5 meters radius next to him and his corner, while Natsu's body had his head slumped against the table mumbling something that was either making people worry or dragging them down to a depressed state like his, in his corner of the guild.
"I have tried! They won't listen to me!"
"Can you try again? Please?" Lucy didn't want to turn around and look at the bar keeper. She knew what was waiting for her. 'No! Not the puppy face!' she thought as she finally faced the other mage. Lucy sighed defeated, for there was no human being in this entire world that could say no to Mira-san, especially after seeing her puppy face. 'So not fair.'
"Ok, ok, I'll give it another shot." She got up and headed for Gray first since she had better chances of not ending up suffering a painful death prematurely. As she got closer to her target, she noted that the mood around was getting more depressive, and that the guild members had either worried expressions or were on the verge of tears. 'Gray's mood is this powerful, huh?' She sat at the table and poked a tattooed shoulder, murmuring in a low voice so that only the two of them could hear her. "Gray? Gray!"
"Huh!" A head covered with pink hair lifted from the table and looked her in the eyes, making her heart skip a beat. They looked like the eyes of a dead man!
Momentarily loosing her voice, she quickly found it and tried it again. "Cheer up Gray! You can't stay like this forever!"
"I can't? Watch me!" and the head was back on the table. Lucy was defeated. 'Target one: mission failed.' As she gave one last look at him she noticed that he was fully clothed. 'Don't tell me he's so upset about this that he doesn't even has the energy to strip!'
She sighed and shook her head going to Natsu's corner of the guild that was remarkably empty for no one dared approach. She spoke in a hushed tone, even though there wasn't much risk of anyone listening to them. "Natsu! C'mon you are scaring everyone! Where's cheerful Natsu that we all know and love?"
"I don't care. And he's dead! Murder Natsu is on control right now." He answered resuming whatever was that he was doing.
Lucy quickly and quietly left him, before commander Murder Natsu decided that the next mission target would be her. 'Target number two: failed.' She thought as she sat once again in front of Mirajane, resuming in drinking her drink.
"I take it wasn't a success." The silver haired beauty said as she whipped some glasses and looked at her friend.
"Yeah. A total failure to be precise." She drank what was in her hand, starting to complain once again as the glass left her lips. "They are intolerable! Would cost them so much to at least sob being so murdering and depressing about it? I can't deal with the two of them, even less with them behaving like spoiled children!" Mirajane wondered for a second about that. 'Why would a spoiled child behave like that? They probably would start crying and pouting… not murdering and going into a depression fit… Maybe this is Natsu's and Gray's way of being spoiled children?' She spaced a bit out of the blonde's ranting, and only got the last question. "-ere's Erza when you need her?"
"I think she left for a mission this mission before you came."
"Don't answer the question!"
"Don't worry, she should be back soon. It wasn't a tough or long mission. And it was near here. Just two to three days tops."
"Yeah, but until then what am I to do with them?"
"You are one of the only persons that can deal with Natsu and Gray. I'm sure you'll find a way."
"I'm not so sure about that."
"Just take them outside for a walk to discuss freely what you're going to do, until Master reverses it. Or you could lock them up in a basement with no water and no food until they snap back out of it."
"Mira-san that's scary…"
She titled her head to the side, looking as innocent as ever. "It is?"
"Yes. And how would I drag them there or anywhere else for that matter?"
"Drag who? Aye!"
Lucy turned around to the source of that high pitched voice, and sure enough, on her right there was a flying blue talking fish loving cat right next to her. "Happy!" She quickly grabbed and hugged him, never being as happy to see the blue cat as she was now. "Happy! You have no idea how glad I am that you are here now?"
"Really?"
"Yes!" She stopped hugging so she could look at the eyes of the blue cat. "By the way, where have you been all morning? You usually come with Natsu…"
"You see, today is Tuesday, and on Tuesdays they sell fish at half the price down at the river from seven in the morning to ten. Sometimes they even give it to me for free! Aye!"
"That explains it all." She whispered when she suddenly got an idea and grabbed the poor animal. "Happy, quickly! You grab Nat-, I mean Gray and I'll grab Natsu, and we'll meet outside. Ok?" The cat nodded. "Okay, on the count of three. One… two… three!"
She dashed forward grabbing Gray and dragging him outside with such an amazing speed that the ice mage didn't even had time to formulate a reaction or even blink, while Happy flew next to "Gray" and carried him struggling outside the guild.
"Ok this is enough from both of you!" She screamed as soon as she made sure that no one from the guild could hear them. "I'm tired of this and the two of you need to start acting normally or I'll go mad! Or act like each other if you don't want people to find out, of course. I don't care! Just stop this damned nonsense!"
"Act like each other?"
"Oh, right, Happy you don't know about it." She looked at the two boys that were still trying to comprehend how they just got there. "But since it's you, I don't think there's any harm in telling you about what happened. Natsu and Gray switched bodies. More accurately Master made them switch. So now, the ice mage is Natsu and the fire mage is Gray."
Happy inclined his head to the said in confusion. "So, Natsu started using ice magic and Gray fire demon slayer magic?"
"No! You got it all wrong!" She sighed and started using one of Reedus' Light Pens, that she somehow got, and telling the blue cat everything slowly. "Natsu has moved to Gray's body, and Gray's moved to Natsu's body. Just like when you switched bodies with Erza. Got it?"
"Aye! Wait, does this mean that I'm in somebody else's body again right now?" he said looking down at his body to look for any changes.
"No! You are only making things harder! Natsu and Gray are the only ones who switched bodies!"
"Aye!" He pointed at the raven haired male "So he's Natsu" and then pointed at the dragon slayer "and he's Gray. Right?"
"Yes!" When she realized that the cat had understood the situation, she turned to the two mages who were about to return to the guild. "Where do you think you are going?"
"Back to the guild."
"No you are not. Not if you are keeping your behavior like that! What do you guy's win from acting like this."
"When Master realizes that he was unfair he'll change us back to normal, so we don't need to learn how to act like each other or do missions." Gray said crossing his arms.
"Or when he realizes that with our mood we are bringing everyone down in the guild and it's all because of the stupid spell he asked Levy to cast on us, he'll back up from this stupid thing and undo the whole thing."
"So, basically you are saying that you'll stay at the guild, sulking and waiting until Master decides to put everything back to normal?" Lucy asked, a bit surprised that the two boys had some kind of plan and alternatives that made both of them happy instead of angry.
"Yep!" the two nodded.
"Are you insane! Wait, never mind that, you are. I already know that. But since when are you suicidal!" she yelled "You know if you don't do what Master wants, he'll punish you! He may even do "that" to you!"
"Dealing with "that" doesn't take up much time, and he's more bearable than being inside flaming shit head!"
"Yeah, yeah! Wait what the hell did you just call me!"
"You heard me!"
"You piece of .."
They stopped fighting once Lucy made herself heard once again. "Natsu! Gray! Stop this right now and start training to obtain each others powers!"
"No. Too much work." They said as he turned around into the guild, leaving a gaping blonde and a confused cat behind.
When Lucy entered the guild again, she saw the two of them sitting next to each other on the counter asking Mirajane for drinks. 'Well, at least they are not sulking anymore… for the moment' she thought as she went to the request board decided to make the two of them go on a mission. Even if they like it or not, she had to get them both back to the normal, and what better way to do that than to do a mission? Specially one where they can destroy everything without worrying about the collateral damage, fight with plenty of enemies and bicker with each other. Now to find a mission with all of those qualities.
Hi! Thanks for reading this and reviewing and adding to favorites and alerts! It's good to know that people like what I'm writing!
I don't like this chapter much, but it isn't that bad either. I hope you liked it. I hope that everyone understands when is Natsu and when is Gray ^^'' Oh, and I have a question for you: Should I include Gajeel and Juvia in the story? I'm not sure if I should add them, but I think that they would be a good addition… What do you think?
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