Chapter 2:

Ayano laughed at the man's eagerness and nodded her head saying she could use the practice to get used to using her magic again, having not used it much since her parents died. Natsu jogged to the back of the guild to the training grounds with Aya and everyone else behind him. Like the guild Laxus followed as well using the excuse that he needed to see how she fought to know how to rank her since he was the next guild master and Lucy being an s-class wizard now, though in reality he just wanted to see her fight and maybe ask her to join his team the thunder legion, that thought astounded him since he had literally just met the young women. He wanted to ask Lucy but since she was now, much to his distaste at the time, dating Gray that was out of the question. Lucy and Gray hadn't come as a surprise since they had been on the same team so long and had always showed signs of liking each other, and they were not the only new couple, all of his team except himself had a special someone, Evergreen was dating Elfman, Bixlow and Cana finally admitted to dating for a while, and Freed was now seeing Mirajane. This left him lonely at times, though he would never admit to it.

As he got to the training ground he heard Natsu's famous catch phrase of "I'm all fired up now." The fire dragon slayer with his hands aflame and a big toothy smile on his face turned to face his opponent, Laxus then turned his grey eyes to the women he seemed to be quite taken with and heard her say "let's go hun." with an accent he hadn't noticed before. Laxus looked to the girl he no longer had a crush on and asked. "hey Blondie where did that accent come from?" "Oh that, it's because she has lived in the south most of her life. My aunt and uncle owned half of the Heartfilia railway and some hotels by the beaches down there." Said the less then amused at her nickname, smiled proudly. Laxus stared in shock at the black haired girl. He had known Lucy's family had been wealthy but he didn't know they had been that wealthy. The women in front of him was dressed similarly like her almost twin cousin Aya's birthday falling two months before Lucy, they were dressed well but didn't look like the debutants they once were. Suddenly while he had been lost in thought the match had started with Natsu lunging forward and Aya side stepping. She quickly spun around her waterfall of hair shined in the sun as it fanned as she turned on the ball of her right foot key in hand, she twisted it in the air just like Lucy and like her cousin didn't have to say the incantation meaning she was certainly stronger then she looked.

A large black dog appeared following his masters silent command as she herself crackled with lightning sending it in Natsu direction zapping the fire dragon slayer. Who looked chard as he made his way back to her as she blocked his attacks with well mastered martial arts move and sent him flying again with a well place punch to the gut this time into the water that lay beside the training ground. Coming up sputtering. Natsu for the first time ever raised his hands, yielding to everyone's shock. Natsu looked to his guild "What, all I wanted to know was how strong she is and I got my answer, I'll fight her again later when I don't have a date with Lisanna, she'd be pretty upset if I was all beat up." Natsu rubbed his neck sheepishly, everyone sweat-dropped.

Aya walked up to the wet man and gave him her signature hug not caring that he just went swimming by her own hand and that he was getting her wet as well making her shirt stick to her like a glove, Natsu being Natsu didn't notice but when she turn around all the men had nosebleeds. Ignoring them she walked up Lucy and once again put her arm through the other young women's. They walked back to the bar and sat down when Laxus came up to them with a slightly embarrassed look on his face. "hey would you three like to go get some lunch." He said gesturing to Aya, Lucy, and Gray, Lucy giggled "sort of like a double date?" Giggling harder when Laxus actually turn a very light shade of pink. "Laxus if you like my cousin all you have to do is say so, it's not like you at all to get embarrassed" the blonde girl whispered in his ear low enough that only he would hear it, Laxus nodded slightly and Lucy giggled some more. Looking to the now red Aya, Lucy smiled and dragged her cousin away, heading to the door. "well go get changed and let Aya move in first then how about we meet you for dinner instead?" everyone agreed and went their separate ways with the girls heading toward Lucy's house. Both called out one of their spirits Lucy calling out Plu and Aya calling out Kyo who was in his cat form purring happy to be in his mistresses arms.

When they got there Aya had Kyo, being that he was already there, get some of her clothes she had stored in the celestial world. "will that be all princess?" Lucy giggled as Aya dismissed him. "my spirits call me the same thing, must be a family thing." Aya giggled too and nodded. "mind if I jump in the shower first hun." "sure no problem I'll make a light lunch then get in after you." Lucy said smiling walking toward the kitchen to make sandwiches. When she was done with that she laid out a pink sun dress and laid it on the bed with a white bra and matching pair of panties. As Lucy filled up some glasses with tea Aya walked out of the shower wearing a clean pair of tight black jeans and opted instead of her button up blouse, for a dark blue tank top and a thin black half sweater and her black flip-flops showing off her blue toenails.

Sitting down at the table she took a bit of her sandwich and then when she finished that bit looked at Lucy. "listen hun, I need to talk to you about somethin' important." Her accent thick. Lucy nodded knowing her southern accent only thickened when she was upset or mad. "look I know uncle Jude told you he was able to get some money back, it was left in the letter he left with his will, but what he didn't know is that my parents actually set aside money for you after you had ran away from home hoping you would come by and see them when you got in a tight spot and after the Heartfilia railway went down they decided not to tell him about the money they had set aside afraid he would take it all and not learn his lesson for the way he treated you. That's why my parents refused to help him as I'm sure you're aware." Lucy nodded "I was going to give you the money but you disappeared before I had the chance, my parents were so upset when they heard you had disappeared but like your father they held onto the hope you were still alive out there. So what I'm saying Luce is we're both still wealthy and before you say you can't accept the money I'll have you know hun that it is your money that was owed to you from our grandfather's company, mom and dad just set it aside for you." Lucy was in tears when Aya had finished and walked over hugging her cousin tightly. "thank you Aya. At least we won't have to worry about rent and maybe I can buy back my home and turn it into a school for wizards, but I miss them so much I'm so sorry I was not there when uncle Jason and Aunt Miranda died." She said as tears slide down her face. Aya nodded and hugged her back. "It's okay Luce they would understand and I know they loved you very much and so did your father even though he never got the chance to tell you and he would be proud of your idea to turn the mansion's into schools." Both girls sat there and cried into each other's arms for a while missing the family that was gone. After that they finished their lunch and Lucy went to take a shower while Aya put on some makeup excited about her double date with Laxus, Lucy and Gray.

Aya put on some light brown eye shadow, just enough to bring out the purple in her eyes, then some eyeliner and mascara, followed by light pink lip gloss. She then put her hair up in to a high pony tail tied with a dark blue ribbon that matched her shirt. Aya just finished her make up when Lucy came out of the bathroom already dressed and ready to go. Hearing a knock on the door startled them as they were walking down the stairs heading toward the guild where they were originally supposed to meet the guys but when they opened the door they were met with two pairs of eyes, the dark blue of Gray's looked like the sea at midnight, and the grey eyes of Laxus looked like a thunderstorm in full swing, dark and dangerous. The lightning mage turn his to Aya, making a shiver run down her spine to her lady parts, smirking at the girl because of his heightened sense of smell almost growling as his own arousal spiked, the girl was stunning as was Lucy but the feelings he had once held for the light of the guild were nothing more than that of a sibling now. Gray and Lucy smiled at one another as the ice mage leaned forward to kiss his girl lightly on the lips and lacing his fingers in hers. He and Laxus had planned what they were going to do all day after Gray made him swear he wouldn't try anything with Lucy's cousin unless he was absolutely sure he wanted more than a one night stand. Laxus's reply shocked him. "I don't think you have to worry about that Gray I don't think I could do that to her, there's something about her, I can't explain it. Is this how you felt with Lucy?" Gray was silent for a moment thinking about his answer, he knew he liked Lucy from the start especially when she had put Natsu in his place, which had seemed at the time only Erza could do. "I had liked Lucy from the start and not just because she has a awesome figure though that does help." Gray said ginning "But besides that deep down I knew there was something more I liked about Lucy and I as I got to know her, I found myself falling for her. It's just sad that it took so long for me to gather the courage to tell her that I love her. I can't imagine my life without her now. So to answer your question I think I did." Came Gray's sheepish reply as he turned bright red, he didn't mind sharing his thoughts with Laxus, after he was allowed back into Fairy Tail Laxus had changed for the better so Gray started talking to him more and they became pretty good friends even with the crush Gray had known Laxus had on Lucy, but now with Aya here Gray also knew that crush had went straight out the window by the way Laxus looked at the raven haired girl.

Shaking himself loose of his thoughts He told both girls they were going to dinner and then a movie, nodding they made their way to the restaurant and had a very delightful dinner, laughing and talking while they all got to know Aya occasionally picking on her about her southern accent. As they walked to the theater Gray whispered something in Laxus's ear, the lightning mage nodded with a blush on his face. When they went to get their seats Gray grabbed Lucy's hand with a wink and led her to one of the back corners saying he'd like to sit with her alone. Laxus boldly took Aya's hand not wanting her to think he was a coward and took her to the other back corner. Aya gave him a shy smile thinking to herself how interesting things could get at the back of a dark movie theater, knowing the same thoughts were going through her cousin's mind making them glad they had went separate ways. As they sat down Laxus draped his arm around the back of the black haired celestial mage's chair casually. The credits started showing a preview of a horror movie of a scary clown popping out of a red balloon with a high pitched scream making Aya quietly shriek and jump into Laxus's lap with her head buried in his very toned chest.

A/N:

Ok I'm not sure how many people actually read these but I would like to take a moment to say that this is a romance, I don't really want to add in a major enemy but I might add a love rival. If you think it's going a bit fast between Aya and Laxus let me know. And also let me know if you want me to elaborate on gray and Lucy's relationship. And for those who like Juvia I promise I'm not leaving her out. Anyway TTFN=Tata for now. :D wow I'm really showing my age. :P