Watching Natsu and Gajeel struggling in the Chariot event was either really sad or hilarious, depending on who was thinking it. To Gray, he just wished that he had tied the damn fire-breathing idiot down and insisted that he or someone else had entered the damn event in the first place. Because transportations and Natsu? Not a good thing. And it seemed like the craziness was contagious. It had spread to Gajeel as well.
Was it a Dragon Slayer thing to have motion sickness?
"I can't watch this anymore." Lucy muttered beside him, wincing as Natsu's face purpled comically. She looked away, shaking her head. Inadvertently, her eyes flickered towards Lamia Scale.
She scanned over the group of mages, from gorgeous Sherry in her black scanty dress, cute Chelia giggling and cheering for Yuka, to the silver-haired mage slouched against the corner.
"Hey, Lyon's here today!" She elbowed Gray in the side, gesturing to the Lamia Scale section.
Gray had been disappointed when his rival had not turned up yesterday. Instead of his fellow Ice Mage, Sherry was his replacement. Lucy learned from Gray afterwards that Sherry had pulled him aside during the one-on-one battles to tell him that Lyon had been found unconscious the night before, just before the preliminary event started.
He had suffered a huge loss of magical power, a situation similar to Wendy. Lucy couldn't help but wondered if Lyon was attacked by Raven Tail too.
"We won't know until we asked him." Gray answered. Lucy blinked in surprise; had she just spoken her thought out loud?
"Gray?" She squawked as the dark-haired mage climbed out of his seat and stalked towards the Lamia Scale section. "Hey, wait a minute!"
Erza was watching them with a mixture of amusement and thoughtfulness. She seemed to deliberate between stopping Gray or going after him, but in the end she chose the latter and stood up to follow him.
"Guys?" Lucy moaned as she trailed after the two troublemakers.
Lyon's head snapped up, as if he could hear her. He went chalk white when he saw Gray and Erza, as if he wasn't pale enough.
"Lyon," Gray snapped as a greeting. "I need to talk to you."
Sherry and Chelia greeted them merrily, before turning their attention back to the event. Lyon seemed to contemplate on ignoring the younger Ice Mage, before huffing in annoyance and gave up. To get out of the aisle, he had to get past the Blendy cousins. The two women seemed to take great delight in making things as difficult as possible for Lyon. But the silver-haired mage seemed to be used to their antics, not in the least fazed as he scaled over their laps to escape.
Gray watched the two women incredulously, face flushing slightly as they giggled. Lyon rolled his eyes at them before heading over to the Fairy Tail group.
"How do you stand them?" Gray muttered. For him, one Juvia was enough.
Lyon gave him a mysterious knowing look, as if he knew exactly who the younger man was thinking of.
"When you start to realize they're doing this just to embarrass me." He answered. "What do you want?"
"It's about yesterday." Erza said. "Sherry said that you were attacked?"
"I wasn't attacked!" Lyon blurted out. Something flickered in Lyon's expression – something like annoyance and panic at himself. "I mean – I – I can't remember anything..."
"Nothing at all?" Gray urged. "Because Wendy was also attacked yesterday night, around the same timing as you."
"Wendy was attacked?" Lyon asked sharply, dark eyes snapping over to him.
"Y – Yeah. By Raven Tail." He nodded furiously. Wendy couldn't remember anything either, but what he couldn't fathom was the reason for Raven Tail to attack Lyon, if the former dark guild was really the culprit. "Raven Tail is–"
"The guild of Master Makarov's son." Lyon said quietly. "Yeah, I know. It wasn't them."
"If you can't remember anything, how would you know?" Gray asked suspiciously, narrowing his eyes at him.
Lyon bit his bottom lip, as if startled by the question. He averted his gaze, looking rather nervous.
"You shouldn't be so concerned about me, Gray." He suddenly smirked, his entire demeanour changing. "Instead of others, you should start worrying about yourself."
Predictably, Gray coloured and his eye twitched in irritation. "And what are you trying to insinuate, you asshole?!"
Lucy groaned, slapping her palm against her forehead. Did Gray seriously just fall for it? Couldn't he see that Lyon was just baiting him and avoiding the subject?
She glanced over at Erza, hoping the redhead would say something. The older woman was frowning and studying Lyon dubiously. As if feeling Lucy's eyes on her, she turned to the blonde and shook her head. She has a feeling that pushing for answers would simply alienated Lyon. She doesn't know the silver-haired mage well enough to start interrogating him, and she's afraid that doing so would destroy the cordial relationship between them.
If she really required answers, Gray would be a more suitable candidate to interrogate Lyon, considering their history and relationship. But alas... the dark-haired mage's attention seemed to be a little preoccupied currently.
Lyon was doing a pretty good job of riling his fellow student up... too good a job, actually.
The only person she knew that was capable of getting Gray this worked up was Natsu. Despite being trapped in Fairy Sphere for seven years, Gray and Lyon seemed to fall back into the easy, yet torrential banters they used to share.
For now, she would just watch Ivan Dreyar and his guild for any suspicious actions. And Lyon too, just in case it was truly Raven Tail that had attacked him. After all, he's a friend of Fairy Tail, and the last thing she wanted was for an innocent to be dragged into the war between Fairy Tail and Raven Tail.