-With A Stained Lily Upon Your Eyes-
Chapter 2 – The Girl Who Is Strangely Interesting
A/N I'm sad about the new manga update! Gray! *sobs* At least Gray will exist in my stories *sob sob* But enough with that sad sappy stuff! Onto the story!
Disclaimer – I do not own Fairy Tail.
Gray's POV
"It's a secret, but if you really want to know, I-"
Right when she was going to answer, Natsu interrupted her.
"ICE PRINCESS! Since when did you get all friendly with her without us?!" He accused me, pointing an angry finger at her. Dammit Natsu, I was just going to hear Lucy's secret!
"Oh, I don't know, since we got along in our classes," I sarcastically replied.
"Gray is very interesting. He won't admit he doesn't like Juvia," Lucy stated. I blushed out of embarrassment at that.
"PFFFT! AHAHAHA! Ice princess is such a scardey-cat to admit he doesn't like Juvia!" He laughed so hard that tears came out of his eyes. A tick mark grew on my head.
"So what?! I just don't want to hurt a girl's feelings! You know I'm soft on girls!" I growled back, my fist raised.
"I-I-Is that true, Gray-sama?!" I heard behind me. I turned around and saw Juvia on verge of crying and being seriously pissed.
"Y-Yeah..." I gulped, scared of what would happen next. She hid her face in her bangs for a moment, before yelling suddenly at Lucy.
"YOU! LOVE RIVAL! YOU'RE TAKING AWAY GRAY-SAMA, AND I WON'T ALLOW THAT!" She yelled, tears rolling down her cheeks, and her index finger pointed angrily at Lucy. Surprisingly, Lucy still had an emotionless face.
"He simply avoided you."
"You're still trying to take him away!"
"Even before I came?"
"W-What...? You met him before?!"
"Did I say that? Now, he avoided you before I came."
Juvia was stunned – I could tell. She slowly turned to me, tears coming down freely now. "G-G-Gray-sama, i-is that true?" She asked, sniffing. I could only weakly nod. "HOW COULD YOU, GRAY-SAMA!" She yelled and ran away to the girls, who were now comforting her and giving me glares. I looked at Lucy, who was now sipping her hot chocolate.
"Was that really necessary?" I asked her.
"She simply accused me. Why should I not correct it?" She replied after she took a huge sip. There was a long silence after that, even with Natsu here.
"Hm. Bye." She suddenly stood up and walked outside.
"W-What?! Wait up!" I called after her, throwing away the rest of my lunch and running after her. She's a pretty fast walker, I thought as I tried to find her. Finally, I found her in the garden where the Garden club usually works. "What are you doing here?" I asked her when I caught up to her. She was kneeling on the ground, looking at something.
"This egg will hatch." She said. I didn't get what she meant, so I leaned over and saw that there was a pure white egg laying there.
"Well, duh."
"In a minute."
"Wait, what?! How do you know that?" She didn't reply, but sure enough, about roughly a minute later, a crack appeared in the egg. Soon, more cracks appeared, and eventually a baby duck poked its head out. I heard another crack, and I looked over and saw even more eggs.
"Duckling. Your mother is there." She pointed to a sleeping duck in a sort of far pond. Somehow, the recently hatched ducks understood her and started to wobble/walk slowly there. (A/N. I don't know if they can really walk on their own when they're born, so I'm just assuming they could be a little awkward at walking.)
"How do they understand you? I don't believe that ducks can understand humans, much less a newborn duck." I said as I watched the baby ducklings awkwardly wobble a little to their now awake mother.
"Not they, he. It's somewhat a miracle he understood me. The others most likely followed him." She answered, a faint smile on her face as she saw the mother waddle towards her ducklings. "But he'll be the first one to die, I can tell."
"How do you know all of this?!" I exclaimed.
"Secret." She bluntly replied. I sighed. She was really strange. She then grabbed a piece of chocolate and threw it in the air. As it was falling, a bird caught it in its mouth.
"Won't it die or something?" If dogs can't digest chocolate, I'm willing to bet that birds can't! I don't think animals can digest chocolate, anyway.
"It's okay. That bird is special. I raised it." She grabbed another chocolate and this time, put it in her mouth.
"You must really like animals." I smiled to myself. I liked animals, too, but I don't think as much as her.
"You can say that." She shrugged, and looked at the ground again. There weren't any eggs there, so I was confused. I laid on my stomach, and looked at the spot she was staring at closely. It was a caterpillar laying eggs.
"More eggs? How many animals lay their eggs here?" I asked more to myself, but she answered anyway.
"All the animals that live here." After she said that, the bell rang. "Oh. Next class, Gray." She got up, took my hand and pulled me up, even though she struggled quite a bit. I didn't really know what to talk about, so there was silence the whole way to class.
-Time skip to class-
"We have a new student! Lucy H-" Our history teacher was cut off.
"Lucy. Just Lucy."
"Okay then, Lucy. You can sit next to Gray Fullb-" He was once again interrupted.
"I know who he is." She interrupted him and started walking down the aisle to the empty seat conveniently next to mine.
"Psst! How come you're in every class of mine, and that you're always in the seat next to mine?" I whispered to her.
"Ask Principal Dreyar." She turned to look at me with bored eyes before grabbing out her notebook and...drawing?
"Drawing instead of taking notes, huh?" I muttered, and looked over to her notebook. She was surprisingly drawing a bloody and tortured boy hanging on chains. "...Why are you drawing that?!" I whisper-shouted to her.
"Because I want to. Not all girls draw pretty things," She replied while still drawing.
"Bu-"
"GRAY FULLBUSTER! Detention after school for talking in the middle of my very important lesson!" The teacher was in front of us, glaring down at me. I groaned. A piece of paper popped up onto my desk. I looked up at the teacher to make sure his back was turned, and snatched it. I put it under the desk and looked at it.
I'll get you out of detention.
I blinked at it. How could she possibly get me out of detention? Bribery? Delay him? I looked strangely at her, but her attention was to now shading her drawing.
"LU-...Oh, n-nevermind." The teacher started, before walking back to the board and giving out his lesson. I was surprised. Why didn't he call her out for drawing? Did the teacher actually stutter? I looked at her again, who was now drawing something else. It looked like somebody was lying on something while being operated on. Probably in a hospital for a surgery scene. I brushed it off though, since Lucy was definitely unusual, so I guessed this would be another thing she'd want to draw.
"Lucy H- *ahem*, and Gray Fullbuster, please come to the office. I repeat, Lucy and Gray Fullbuster, please come to the office." The loud speaker said. The teacher looked at us and then to the door to say "You can go". We both stood up and slowly walked to the office.
"Why do you think they called us?" I asked her as we walked down the hallways.
"Something." She answered with her monotone voice. I rolled my eyes. I felt like she knew something about why, but I didn't bother to press on details, since I knew she'd almost try to avoid it. Once we reached there, she told me, "Stay here." Then, she opened the door and walked in. I was about to follow her but she already slammed it shut. I sighed and decided to sit down on the floor. I got out my phone and found out I got a text from Natsu. (A/N. Bold, italics and underlined is Natsu. Bold and italics is Gray.)
Ice princess, what'd u do 2 her? Did u do somethin bad 2 her or something?! Y did u get called 2 the office?!
I chuckled a little at the thought.
How should I kno? I didnt even get inside the office.
Bastard! I bet u sexually harassed her. U do dat sometimes without knowing.
Y would I get sent 2 the office 4 that? Besides, she wouldnt get bothered by THAT.
Well, u must've done something! Just tell me l8r.
I wondered why Natsu was a little possessive of her. Maybe he likes her. Nah, he's just a little possessive of everybody, since he cares for everybody. Plus, I'm like his rival, so he'd be worried. He'd never fall in love, pfft! I laughed at the thought of Natsu falling in love. Just then, the door opened, revealing Lucy.
"Nothing wrong." She said, and walked back the direction to our class.
"Wait! What about me?!" I exclaimed as I ran up to her.
"No need."
"But, didn't they call me, too?"
"There's no need. You're safe."
"What do you mean by that?"
"To be free from danger."
"Not the definition!"
"But you are safe."
"Arghh!" I let out a cry of frustration. I didn't get her a lot, but I guess that's what makes her interesting. "Okay then, what did you talk about?"
"Things."
.
.
.
"I know that much."
"Then you're not required to know more." I sighed. It was obvious that she won't tell.
"Will I know it later?" I asked, at least hoping for a better answer.
"Give it two months."
I sighed in relief. At least she'll tell me those things I've been wanting answers for in two months. I then realized I had stopped walking and that she was way ahead of me. She seriously walks fast! I chuckled a little.
"Wait up!" I shouted, running over to her. "You walk too fast."
"Hm." She acknowledged. As we were passing an intersection in the hallways, I heard some girls gossiping. Unfortunately, they were sort of far, so I couldn't hear them well, but I heard parts.
"Hey, did you hear about the new girl? I heard...eyes...are they?"
"Teal. I think...scientists experimented...see strange things...poor girl."
After that, we walked by them enough so I couldn't hear them anymore. More rumors, huh? And more about her eyes. But I can't really blame them, her eyes are unusual. They're almost completely bright teal! But this rumor is new. Something about scientists experimenting on something? Maybe they were-
My thoughts were interrupted by Lucy poking my arm. "Let's go in." She pointed to the classroom door.
"O-Oh! Oh yeah..." I scratched the back of my head as we entered our classroom again. As soon as we came in, our classmates bombarded us with questions.
"Were you caught doing something together?"
"Did you get in trouble for something?"
"Why'd you go the office?"
"What happened?"
"Did he ask you to do something?"
"ENOUGH!"The teacher yelled, and they all shut up immediately, but even the teacher was looking at us expectantly to tell them what happened. I looked over to Lucy for help, which she did.
"He wanted Gray my guide. I refused." She explained quite shortly. I was surprised she'd tell me, but then I'd figured she was lying for the sake of the classmates, Everybody sweat dropped at her boring and blunt answer, even the teacher.
"Is that so? Well then, take your seats." He nodded over to our seats. When I reached my desk, I saw a piece of paper neatly folded on it. I looked around, sat down, and took the piece of paper and unfolded it. This time it was her drawing that was now completed. It was a boy lying down on one of those operation tables getting operated on something around his head. I couldn't tell what it was because she drew the people operating on him leaning over, so their bodies and arms covered it mainly. Another paper popped on my desk. I opened it up, and it was another note.
What do you think? A picture is a thousand words, so tell me what yours is.
It was a little strange, but I shrugged. Luckily, the teacher's back was still facing me, so I quickly wrote her a reply.
Why and what's he getting operated on? Where'd you get the idea, anyway?
Like a super cool ninja, I passed it over to her stealthily, who read it and faintly smiled, but then she put away the note without replying. I tilted my head in confusion, but she didn't say anything. She also then reached over, grabbed her drawing back, and folded it again. I sighed. Maybe I'll just ask her after detention.
-Time Skip to after school-
Argh, detention. I groaned mentally as the bell had rung about three minutes ago, and the teacher still hasn't arrived. I put my head on the desk, deciding to rest it for a while until the teacher arrived. When I heard the door open, I raised my head expecting to see the teacher, but instead Lucy was there.
"Excused." She said.
"Why?" Didn't I get in trouble? Why am I excused from detention?
"Hm. Secret. Come along." She motioned her hand for me to come, so I lazily got up, grabbed my bag, and walked over to her. I followed her outside the school until we were just walking back to our homes.
"So, in the drawing, what part was he getting operated on?" I asked, trying to break the silence and remembering the question.
"The eyes." Holy shizz that must've been painful. I wonder what caused him to get operated on. Wait, this is just a drawing, not a memory or story. I thought.
"Well, why'd you draw it?"
"Something memorable." She shrugged, pulled out a box , opened it, and grabbed a piece of chocolate and popped it into the mouth. Memorable? Maybe it just reminded her of something..I don't think anybody would like to be operated on the eyes! Just thinking about it gives me shivers. I mentally shivered at the image of having surgery on the eyes.
"I-I see."
"Anymore questions?" She tilted her head to the side as her cheek puffed out a bit from chewing the chocolate.
"Err...why do you like to keep secrets?" I really wanted to get that off my chest.
"Because it's your turn to keep secrets."
Sorry for the bad ending T_T I just didn't know how to end it e-e And I didn't want it to be too much of a cliffy :p But here's chapter 2! I should've just said that at the beginning.. Oh well. I'm not sure if I'll be updating frequently... *nervously bites bottom lip* I'll just try! If I made any grammar mistakes or spelling mistakes, please tell me!
~Kitsune-Dark-Knight