Her Hiden Powers

Chapter 1: Lonely and Broken

~~~~~~~~ This Chapter will quickly (well as quickly as I can) go over what other guild mates have been doing and will time jump to 1 year after the guild disbanded. I am going to try to add some dialogue, but I am nervous because I have never done this. So, wish me luck and hope you enjoy!

P.S. I am too nervous about these stories being bad that it's very like I don't proof read before publishing. So, I am sorry if there are any grammatical or spelling errors.~~~~~~~~

Sweat runs down Gray's forehead, diving off his eyebrow, as he pants rapidly. His body is exhausted, to say the least, and his head is starting to become a little painful. Deciding he should not push through another head ache, he lowers his arms signalling that he is done for the day. It has been 8 months since he left Magnolia and he both regretted it and was also content. He was content because he needed the space and time to train and get his head on straight. He regretted it a lot, mostly because of a certain golden haired mage. He wondered how she was doing and if the old flame-brain is taking good care of her. How he wished that he would have asked her to come along to train instead of . . . . . HER! Right as that thought ended her annoyingly over the top attempt at sounding voice rang threw his head. Setting it even more into a mental blaze of a head ache.

" Gray-sama! If you are done training for today then so is Juvia!" Saying this with huge hearts in her eyes. Not taking notice at her beloveds annoyance at the remark, she clings to his arm when she feels the training has ended.

"Yea. . ." he barely mumbles out trying to head for the little cottage they rented. It is on the outskirts of a small town. They got a good deal to rent it out for a year while the old couple that lived there went on a year long vacation. It had a lot of open land that was perfect to practice on. Bonus was that any tree they took down went to fuel the fire place in there cottage and the wooden burning oven the owners had. he planned on chopping all the wood they could for the couple before they left, as a thank you and it didn't hurt his physique either.

When they were inside Gray made his way to the fridge to heat some leftovers, not saying a word to Juvia. At first, he wasn't sure were his feelings lied. He never gave his feelings for Lucy too much thought, because everyone assumed she was going to end up with Natsu. He had come to terms with the facts he was probably going to end up with Juvia, seeing as how she stalked him and scared away any girl that tried to talk to tried to make it work because he was settling, in all honestly. He knew she was a nice and pretty girl, that any guy would be lucky to have, but after a few months to his thought (with her annoying voice in the background) he had time to evaluate how he felt. No matter what way he sliced it, he only had feelings for one person. Only one person's smile made his heart warm. Only one person's laugh brightened up his day. Only one person's cry made him want to murder who or what hurt her. Only one person's eyes filled with love made him want to protect her forever, even if those eyes weren't looking at him. His gorgeous, kind, intelligent, strong, charismatic, bright,caring, and loving celestial beauty and partner . . . . . Lucy.

Juvia watched Gray in silence, eating his plate of left overs and sitting in a reclining armchair. HE was leaning forwards eating with something distracting his mind. It was probably her again. She knew deep down that Gray didn't love her. That he loved her stupid love-rival and semi-friend. Had Gray not been obviously head-over-heels for the cosmic mage she could see them as friends. Even she couldn't deny how kinda Lucy was and how she was always there to lend a hand. But, alas, she was also the person in Gray's heart. This drove Juvia crazy, to the point she tried just about everything.

Gray could hear her opening and closing her mouth trying to find something to talk about. It has been like this for awhile. They would get up in morning after sharing a bed (to his dismay), shower, eat breakfast, train until lunch, eat lunch, train until dinner, eat dinner, sometimes train a few hours more and other's going inside to rest. Then they would shower again, get ready for bed, and then drift to an exhausted slumber. It became boring and began to mentally tear Gray down. Juvia loved it because she got to spend time with her beloved, but not him. He stopped talking to her more and more over time as well. Some days were in complete silence.

A long sigh escaped his lips. "Juvia . . . . " he paused knowing what he was going to say next was going to be hard and annoying. He didn't like hurting anyone. Juvia was still a friend after all.

"Yes my Gray-sama!?" Startled, she replied over dramatically. He hadn't spoken to her yet that day. His face and eyes told her to expect the worst though.

"I think we should train separately for now on. You can stay here since we paid for a year. I am going to head out." He turned to face the water mage, looking at the pain in her eyes. Upset because he was about to make the pain look even worse. " I will always consider you a friend, Juvia, but . . . . . . "

Cutting him off before he could finish she starting rambling, "Juvia can change. Juvia can try harder. Please except my love, Gray-sama!" Tear began to roll down her cheek the now raining sky matching the rhythm.

Continuing what he was saying and cutting her off, Gray trudged on, "I will always consider you a friend, but I am in love with someone else. You and I both know who it is, though I tried my best to hide it. I know they don't feel the same, so I really tried to return your love, Juvia. I just can't see you that way. Instead of leading you on I need to be apart from you. For both of us. I want you to move on and find someone else to make you happy. You are beautiful, kinda, funny, smart, and a great mage. Just not the one I can keep in my heart." Finally done speaking, and realizing he just pour his thoughts out without stopping, he looked at Juvia. He face was in her hands and she began wailing. Outside turned into a thunderstorm with water lashing out at the poor old little cottage.

Juvia knew this day would come but it didn't make it hurt any less. It didn't make her feelings change or want her to move on. What hurt the most is that he had said everything with such honest certainty, she knew she had lost the knew it was time to move on, but that also scared her and is also the reason she has clung to Gray to much. Truth is, she does truly love him, but also has a small glint of wonderment about how the outside world is. Outside Fairy Tail she means. She has taken notice to other men before secretly too, but she always gets in her head. Assumes they will hate her for some reason, so she always ran back to Gray. She knew it wasn't fair to him but she was trying to look out for herself.

There was a loud knock at the door startling both the mages sitting inside. No one was supposed to know they were there. Do to being startled, the rain outside had stopped temporarily. Juvia went to the door and Gray readied his hands to so some of his Ice Make magic on the intruder. Juvia opened the door and a dark silhouette stepped in. Once Gray heard the clanking of metal on the wood floor her knew instantly who it was. He let his guard down, in turn so did Juvia.

" Trying to scare us to death Erza!" He said with a slight laughing smirk. "How did you find us any ways?

"I have my ways." Erza started to say in an upbeat tone that was quickly replaced by a stern look and voice. "Gray we need your help for a mission. We need you to go undercover in a dark guild. It should only take a few days. 2 weeks tops."

Thinking to him self, Thank the Heavens for this opportunity, knowing what he just said to Juvia, he headed to the room to pack. Throwing back a quick "I'll get packing" to Erza.

Looking at Juvia's eyes, Erza could tell she just walked in on something major. Erza wasn't close to Juvia but still considered her a friend. Wanting to comfort her she asked "Juvia, is something wrong? Can I help in any way?"

Juvia looked at Erza trying to put on some attempt at a smile so she didn't look as pathetic as she felt. After a few seconds, before Erza could get suspicious she answered calmly, "Oh, it's nothing. Juvia has just come to realize her feelings are not going to be returned and that Juvia needs to move on. It's a little scary and daunting, but Juvia know she can do it." She forced a smile she though was big enough to not worry Erza.

Erza knew Juvia was trying not to look as upset as she was, but she couldn't blame the girl. Heart breaks are never easy, especially for unrequited love. She was kinda glad though, because she could tell Juvia was taking a toll on Gray. She was one of the few that cheered Gray on with Lucy and Natsu with Lisanna. She could see the pressure the guild gave the 4 on who they thought they would be with. Now, she hoped Lucy would return Gray's love. Then she though, Speaking of Lucy, I wonder how she has been?...

A few moments later, Gray was out of the bedroom with all his things packed. He took a look back at Juvia and managed to calmly and carefully get out "Juvia, take care. Please! You are still one of my closest friends, so I still care about your well being. I pray and hope you can move forward soon and find someone that can love you in the ways that I can't." With that Gray squeezed his way out the door.

"Take care Juvia! Hopefully I can see you soon and we can catch up after this big mission." Erza said giving the girl a hug and then waving good bye. Not long after the sound of horses trotting of into the distance faded into silence. Juvia slowly went into the bed room, laid on the sheets that still smelt of him, and she cried herself to sleep.

********* I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I was going to make these scenes shorter when I had the original idea and also going to add more to it. I decided to make the first 3 chapters dedicated to Lucy, Gray and next Natsu, THEN get back to Lucy instead of trying to place them all into the time line jumping around. I hope that makes sense and that you are enjoying what I have done so far. Please leave comments down below letting me know how you like it so far. *********