AN: I updated a cover for this story. The genderbender art for Natsu, Lucy and Gray were done by Mashima himself. Juvia as a man was made by the awesome Oinochoe. I just put the four together.

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Equilibrium

By: BonneyQ

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Chapter One – Why?

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A certain Stellar Mage was asleep soundly when the girly scream echoed through the walls of the guild. Lucy Heartfilia didn't bother to move, even though she woke up with it: at some point, someone from Fairy Tail would yell during or after a party. It was so common.

"What's going on?" The blonde mage heard Levy whisper; both girls had fallen asleep side by side the night before after talking most of the night. Lucy, then, felt the blue haired petite girl gasp and sit.

"Who the hell…?" This time it was Gajeel's voice, coming from a few meters away from where Lucy was.

"Huh?" The blonde girl opened her eyes just to find Gajeel helping Levy to be on her feet, while automatically putting her behind him. The Dragon Slayer's red eyes were looking right to Lucy with confusion and ready to fight, that Lucy knew, since she, once, was attacked by him.

"Who the hell are you?" Gajeel asked, sniffing.

"What?" Lucy said and stopped. Why did her voice sound so weird? She touched her throat, only to find a protuberance that wasn't there the night before. The girl shrieked and got up. "What is this? What…? Why is my voice…? What is happening?"

"You smell like…" Gajeel frowned and sniffed once again to make sure his nose wasn't tricking him. "You smell like Lucy."

"I am Lucy!" The Stellar Mage said, almost crying with frustration and with the strange voice.

"Lu-chan?" Levy came out from behind Gajeel, curious. "Is that really you? I mean, you are wearing Lu-chan's clothes…"

"Yes, Levy-chan!" Lucy gave two long steps towards the girl, while grabbed the blunette's hands on hers. "Why are you looking at me like I am a stranger? Why is my voice like this?"

The Solid Script Mage bit her lower lip and stared at Lucy's face for a moment, before pulling her across the guild. The other members stared with mouth open as both girls walked between them and Lucy couldn't understand why she was drawing so much attention that day.

Once they reached one of the Guild's glass windows, Levy turned to Lucy with apprehension. "Don't… don't freak out too much, Lu-chan!" The blunette pushed Lucy with kindness until she was in front of the window.

Lucy couldn't understand why there was a guy in her reflection and wearing her blue skirt and white shirt. She squint her eyes and the man did the same. Head to the left, while the man imitated her. She touched her nose and the reflection repeated the action at the same time.

"What…?" The deeper voice that came out of her was so strange. She put the hand on her throat again as the person from the mirror did the same.

The Stellar Mage looked to Levy and was about to say something when she saw a topless dark haired girl by the corner of her eyes, who was covering her breasts while yelling.

"What the hell is this?"

"Who are you?" Visca asked, putting a hand over her husband's eyes; Alzack kind of looked too much.

"I am Gray, Visca!" The girls said with her tiny cute voice. "Oh, god… Why do I have breasts? This is the worst nightmare ever!"

"Are you… Are you Gray-sama?" A blue haired man (that Lucy had no idea who was) asked the naked girl, with confusion in his face. Wait… Gray-sama? And the girl just told Visca that her name was Gray?

Lucy turned to the reflection and yelled. That guy looked like her, because that guy was her.

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"Okay… so far, we have four people who… changed." Erza said, looking to the four guild mates who, somehow, during the night, changed their gender. "Are you sure that none of you did anything different these days?"

"No, Erza! Dammit!" Natsu said, angrily. Lucy had to admit that the Fire Dragon Slayer looked kind of cute. He had refused to put girls' clothes; instead he was wearing his own and some bandages around his chest to keep the… breasts hidden.

Gray, on the other side, was wearing his usual white coat and trying his best to cover his new body. Just like Natsu, he had changed to a girl. Instead of his usual muscled chest, he had breasts (almost as big as Lucy's once were), and Lucy noted before the Ice Mage cover himself with the coat, a thin waist. He had normal height, the blonde guessed. Weirdly, Gray's eyes were bigger than Natsu's now; when they were boys, Gay had slightly narrower eyes than the pink haired man. Gray was cute as a girl, with his not-so-long dark hair (that reached a little under his slim shoulders) and his cute pout as he tried to understand the situation.

"We didn't do anything, Erza. This time, whatever this is, we didn't do it!" Gray said and a few male members of the guild laughed, making the Ice Mage and the Dragon Slayer to blush. The laughter stopped as soon as Erza sent a murderous look towards them.

Oh, man. It was so weird! Lucy groaned. Natsu and Gray had boobs while she and Juvia had not.

Lucy touched her hair and was glad that it was still long, just not as long as before. Her breasts had disappeared and she could see that her shoulders were broader and her arms had defined muscles. Her eyes, once big, were nor narrower; and her chin had become manly.

If the shock of being a man wasn't clouding her mind, she would've thought that she was a babe as a guy. She was also taller, at least compared to the new version of Natsu and Gray, but Juvia was taller than she was.

The Water Mage had now even broader shoulders than Lucy and was almost as tall as Laxus, Lucy guessed, but she didn't have as much muscle as the Dragon Slayer. Actually, she was between Laxus' and Gajeel's body shape and height. When was a girl, Juvia already had cat-like eyes, but as man, they were even more mysterious and it suited her. The blue hair was short now, almost as short as Gray's once were, but the style reminded a lot Lyon Vastia's.

While Lucy looked hot, Juvia looked cold. Both were ridiculously handsome, though. Lucy: tall, blonde, caramel eyes and gorgeous. Juvia: tall, blue hair, smexy blue eyes and drop dead handsome.

"Holy fuck, you two look so handsome!" Cana was staring at Lucy and then to Juvia with eyes wide open. "I mean… shit, man! If I didn't know that you two were girls, I would totally go after you."

"Cana-san." Juvia said and Lucy couldn't help but notice that the Water Mage's new voice was a little deeper than the blonde's.

"Your voice just sent shivers over my body." Cana laughed, her brown hair falling towards as the drunken woman had a fit. "And you, Lucy… Really? Wearing that shirt with your arms on display…"

Lucy blushed. She and Juvia had to put something more fitting than a dress and a skirt. Juvia was offered by Master one of Laxus' old clothes from when the Dragon Slayer was younger, black pants with a dark blue shirt, plus an old coat with some fur on the neck side, a little like the ones he wore recently; while Lucy had to wear some of Gray's clothes (they were not rare, since he left them everywhere), a white shirt with no sleeves, so her toned arms were showing, plus the dark blue jean pants.

"Juvia doesn't understand what is happening." The Water Mage sighed. "We were normal until yesterday!"

In a blink of an eye, between Lucy and Juvia, a woman with red hair appeared without a warning.

Once they realized what was happening, both girls stepped away quickly and went into fighting mode, just like everyone else around the guild.

"Oh, please." The woman rolled her green eyes. "You won't attack me, children."

"Who are you?" Master Makarov stepped towards the weird woman. She had red curled hair, bright green eyes, high cheekbones and heart-shaped lips; it was a pretty sight. She wore a white dress that looked a lot like a toga, one type of those foreign styles. She also had a few bees flying around her, as weird as it sounded.

"My name is Bally, Goddess of Fairness, Balance and Equilibrium." She said with a strong voice. The deity was not tall, actually, she was a bit taller than Levy, if was. But, from the moment she appeared, Bally looked so powerful that the mages felt the need to protect themselves from her.

"Bally? Could it be…?" Makarov's eyes went wide as he recognized the name from his childhood; he was not a religious man, but his parents once were and taught him about the gods and one of them. Ballestra, was the goddess of Equilibrium and she did everything on her power to guarantee the balance of the world.

"Yes." Bally nodded as Makarov became paler by the second.

"What could possibly make a goddess come to our Guild?" The Master asked, nervous. That woman had gone to Fairy Tail with a goal, and if she was there, something on the balance of the world was amiss. And, by logic, the four she changed, had something to do with it.

The red haired goddess suppressed her power, so the guild members could breathe easier, but locked her mind with Makarov's showing exactly why she was there.

"Jiji?" Laxus, who had been quiet during the whole ordeal, but ready to fight if came to it, kneeled beside his grandfather. "Are you okay?"

The old man was breathing with difficulty, because of what the goddess had shown him inside his mind. So that's why.

"I am fine, kid." Makarov assured his grandson as he watched Bally, who walked around.

"Why did you do that to us?" Natsu asked, not that afraid of the goddess anymore. He grew frustrated by the second and was more concerned that he lost his junk and gained boobs than the fact that the woman who appeared from nowhere was a goddess, or something.

"Because, earthlings, the four of you irritate me." The red haired said with exasperation. "I've seen a few stubborn and idiotic couples, but you…"

"We are not…" Gray said with his new voice and put a delicate hand over his throat. "This sucks."

"You are not couples, sure." Bally rolled her eyes while she put a hand out and a few of her bees landed on it. "Anyhow, I am giving the four of you a dead line." Lucy and Juvia gasped, a feminine trait that looked weird on a couple of tall, strong guys. "A week to see with the other's eyes." Bally said looking to the bees on her hand. "If in a week you are not more understanding of each other's feelings, I will make sure you stay as you are forever."

"What?" Gray and Natsu yelled.

"Oh, god." Lucy exclaimed and Juvia had to catch the, now manly, body of the blonde. The blue haired girl/boy, seemed to be holding together better than the others.

"If I were you, I'd stay close to your mate." Bally chuckled as she caresses a bee.

"Goddess…" Erza started and the smaller woman looked at the mage. "Isn't it a little drastic?"

Bally stepped closer to Erza, who to her credit, didn't move. The deity stared a moment and then smiled. "You would make a fine man, you know? The scarlet hair plus these beautiful chocolate eyes would make the girls crazy. But you are aware of your feelings and so is your mate." Bally looked passed Erza, to Gajeel. "You, on the other hand would not be the cutest girl, but your fierceness would draw attention."

"What?" Gajeel exclaimed and a few people (Jet and Droy, actually) laughed. "Shut up you bastards!"

"Aw, man! Nothing cool like that happens to me!" Cana complained and the goddess frowned in confusion.

"Don't listen to her." Lisanna quickly covered the brunette's mouth and laughed weirdly. "She's drunk."

"Anyway…" Bally stared again to the four people that she changed the gender of. "You have a week. I'll return here and see if you understand each other. You should learn from the bees, you know?" As the four looked confused, the deity sighed and the sigh could really be interpreted as: humans-are-so-stupid. "Once upon a time, there was a scientist that said 'If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.' His name was Albert Something or another." The woman shrugged. "The bees keep the balance in the world, they are small, but without it, all life would cease to exist. You four are bees right now." Bally said. "Small little bees."

"What do you mean?" Lucy asked. What did she mean that they were bees?

"Oh, I said too much." The goddess giggled. "I will return in a week. Get ready to change your minds or change your gender forever."

Ina blink of an eye, she was gone leaving very confused people behind.

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AN: I am so happy that his story got so many readers, faves and reviews with just the prologue! I hope I can live up to the expectations! :)

Special thanks to:SapphireRose578, FairyTailxoLove, Alapest, SakuraIchigoDark, juvia fullbuster, Lavi-hime 4E -3, yagami rin, UchihaEvangeline, Jekac, Seyrin, otaku03, AngelBaby5643, Sindela, ThisDaintyMignon,Gray23Dragon, cybercorpsesnake, xxkissandkickxx, Amenah, animegirl115, Medaka-chan, Yumeko nee, Sarapyon, Sandyx5, Ratiqu, Esthellar, Yukistar, Maki-Zushi, Armaggeddon Angel and Summer Eclair who reviewed!

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05/26/2013 ~ BonneyQ