Chapter 2: Guild Life

Piper's pov

I woke up few day's later and my stomach was talking to me. The boy with dark blue hair was fast asleep in the chair next to mine. I saw him when I first woke up here. Why would he be here for. He looks the same age as me, kinda cutie. Then he started to wake up and saw me staring at him. He blushed a little before he smiled at me. "Good your up. How are you feeling?" he asked me.

I moved my body and it has healed. "Good now. I'm Piper." I said to him. He smiled at me. "Thats good to hear. Its nice to meet you Piper I'm Gray." Gray said as he held out his hand towards me. I smiled back at him before I shook his hand. "If your feeling up to it. We can go get something to eat." Gray said and when he said that my stomach roared for me to feed it. Gray chuckled when he heard my stomach roared. "Let's get you some food." Gray said to me.

Gray took me threw the guild then out side. The sun hit me and I growled a little cause its to bright. I walked threw town with Gray as he talked about how great Fairy Tail. I listened as he took me to his favorite place to eat. Gray is paying for me so we got our food and started to eat. "Gray?" I said after a while of eating. "Yes Piper?" Gray said with a smile as he looked at me. "What kind of mage are you?" I asked him.

"I'm a Ice-Make Mage. What about you?" Gray said and I smile. "Nice. I'm a Dragon Slayer Mage." I said and his mouth opened. "Really? That is awesome." Gray said making me blush. "Yes really. My mother was a dragon." I said softly. Cause I really miss my mother. Gray put his hand over mine. "I'm sorry Piper." he said to me. I smiled a little at him. "Thank you Gray. I will find her one day." I said.

Gray smiled at me. "I will help you if you like." he said and I blushed at him. "Why would you do that for?" I asked him. "Cause I don't want to see you sad or in pain anymore." Gray said and there is something in his voice that made my heart fell warm. "Thanks Gray. When we get back to the guild would you like to take a job with me?" I asked him.

The smile Gray had on his face made me blush a little more. "Sure I would like that. We can take a easy job for your first one." Gray said with a smile. "Ok sounds good to me." I said and then we started to finish up then we headed back to the guild hall. Every one looked at us. . .no wait they are looking at me. I can smell fear from some of them. Gray took me to the job board. We looked at the jobs.

None of the job's looked good. "What about this one?" Gray said as he pointed to a easy one. "That's to easy. Let's find something a little harder." I said as I eyed the others. So far nothing was popping out. Then I came to one that jumped out. It was to take down a few monsters. "What about this one?" I said as I pointed to it. Gray moved his pretty eyes to the poster. "That sounds a little to much for us to handle." Gray said and I took it. "If you don't want to do it with me I can do it by my self." I said to him. "I can help but I dont think we can take on six of them at the same time." Gray said. "You take one and I can take on the other five." I said to Gray.

He looked at me with shock. "You can take on five at the same time?" he said to me. "Yep. Lets go and talk to Makarov." I said and Gray followed me. Makarov took the poster and looked at it. "Piper will you make sure Gray comes back in one piece?" he said to me. "I will make sure nothing happens to him." I said and Gray looked at us confused. "You can take the job. I will let them know you are on your way." Makarov said to us. Then me and Gray turned around. "If you need to pack then I will wait here." I said to him.

"It wont take me long to pack. You can come to my room if you like." he said and I nodded as I followed him to his room. It was a ok size and I sat on his bed while he packed. "Do you need to pack?" he asked me as he got done. "No I don't need to pack." I said and he looked at me. "Beside's being a Dragon Slayer I have requip magic." I said and he looked at me. "Like Erza." Gray said and I don't know who this Erza is. She must be a member of the guild. I really haven't meant a lot of the others.

"I guess." I said as we left his room. "She has requip magic as while." he said to me. "Kool. So do you want to take the train or walk?" I said to him. "I dont have money for the train so we be walking." Gray said to me. "Sounds good to me. I like walking cause you get to see stuff you don't get to see on a train." I said as we walked out of the guild. "That is so true." Gray said with a smile as we headed out of town. Gray and I talked and he showed me some of his Ice-Make magic.

Gray made a ice water lily and I smiled. "Water lily's are my favorite." I said and he blushed a deep red. "I didn't know they where your favorite." he said softly to me. "No one knew beside's my mother and. . .my family before." I said softly. "I really sorry if this is bring up painful memeries." Gray said softly to me. "Its ok Gray. Its going to take some time but the pain will fade. . .I hope." I said as we walked on. I looked at Gray and he had his clothes on.

"What the hell Gray! What happened to all your clothes?" I said but he just had his underwear on. Gray looked down and blushed really hard. "I'm sorry! !" Gray yelled as he started to put on his clothes. I couldn't help but to laugh a little cause the look on his face was to funny. "You ok over there?" Gray said after a while and it took me a while to stop laughing. "Sorry but that look on your face was to funny." I said to him as I wiped tears from my face. "I'm sorry about that Piper. Its something I do with out thinking." Gray said in a low sad voice.

I put my hand into his. "You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to." I said to Gray. The pain in his voice I know there is a painful story right behind his pain. He looked at him. "Thanks Pips. My teacher was the one that got me into it." he said and I opened my mouth to speap. "Before you ask it was part of my training. To help me get us to the cold. It just stuck to me. I really don't think about it and it just happens." Gray said to me.

"Its ok Gray. I understand how that happens. My training with my mother did something like that to me." I said and its true some times I would take off my clothes with out thinking, but lately its just been my top. So that is with I were my bikini top under my tops. "Really you take off your clothes?" Gray said with a smile on his face. I blushed hard. "Yes." I said softly. "That's is something. I'm glade I'm not going to be the only one stiping at the guild." Gray said with a red face.

"Yep we both can do it." I said as we kept on walking. I looked down and noticed that my hand was still in his. Gray didn't seem to mind me holding his hand. It felt nice just touching another being. After mother left I been on the hunt after that dark guild and looking for her. I didn't get to be around other and just do this. All I touched was blood and ash. "I can't wait to see the other's face's when you stip the first time." Gray chuckled and I shock my head at him.

As the day went on we got to know chest other better. We are becoming friends and Gray didn't let go of my hand. The only times we stopped was for food or water, but now the sun was going down. "We should set up camp." I said to him. "Yea its not fun traveling at night." Gray said. So we picked out a spot by a river. Gray went to get wood and I went fishing. I dove into the water and I can hold my breath for a very long time.

So by the time I came back up I had six ok size fish. Gray looked at me as I swam over to him. He helped me out of the water before he took the fish. "You gut the fish and I start the fire." I said to him. "Sounds good to me have fun." When Gray said that it sounded like he had the easy job. If I wasn't a Dragon Slayer it would have been. I got down on my hand's and knees and blew softly on the wood. My fire breath started to warm up the wood. Its been a while since I used it, but it didn't take me long to get a fire started.

"Good job Piper." Gray said and I could tell he was mad a little. "Thank since I got the fire started I can help you." I said as I walked over to him and sat down in front of him. I took a fish and took off the scales and gutted it. "For a girl you know how to gut and descale the fish." Gray said with a smile.

"Yep. Mother showed me how to live off the land and hunt. That's how I fed my self." I said and Gray looked at me. "That must have been fun and hard." he said to me. "Yep it was. At first it was very hard but after I knew how do to it. It became a lot of fun. If you like I can show you some of the things I learn?" I said to him. "I would like that a lot." Gray said.

When the first was ready we put them by the fire. I requiped into some try clothes and Gray watched me. "That is so cool." he said to me. "It comes in handy and I don't really have to carry a bag with me." I said and he nodded. We sat beside each other and the wind blew a little. Winter is coming and I need to get some warmer clothes. Gray pulled me closer to him. "Thanks." I said as I put my head on his arm. "Your welcome Pips." Gray said. That is the second time he called me pips. I didn't think he gave me a nickname already so I just pushed it out of my head.

I really like it when he calls me pips. "The fish smells good." Gray said to me. I smiled a little. "Yes it does." I said and my stomach was growling again. "It be done soon." Gray said with a chuckle in his voice. "I know." I said with a blush cause I know my face turned pink again. "You know Pips you look cute when you turn pink like that." he said and now I know my face is a bloodred. He laughed again and I just bite him. "Ow!" Gray laughed.

I went to check the fish and it was done. I handed him a fish and I moved the others away from the fish so they don't over cook. Then I took one and went back to Gray's side and we started to eat. We didn't talk while we ate all the fish. After we got done with the fish and burned the bones I snuggled into Gray's side and started to fall asleep. Guild Life isn't so bad. I think I'm going to like being in Fairy Tail.