Hey! Heres just a little short chapter on Grey's adventures.

Enjoy

"Cana move!" Grey shot forward barrelling into the Deev that had been about to plunge a rusty looking sword into his childhood friends back. He and the Deev tumbled through the air for a while before Grey finally managed to dispatch him with a swift uppercut. Not that there wasn't three more of the vile little critters to take his place. All around him was the sound of fighting, clashing swords and grunts of pain. They had not been prepared for this. His patrol squad was five fairies big and although they were powerful and skilled members of the royal army they could do little against a force of thirty. They were holding their own pretty well, though Grey knew two of his charges were already dead, a third injured and struggling to continue to fight. Grey took out two more approaching Deevs before turning to check on the rest of his team. Only Cana was left, but one of her wings had been torn and she was flitting about at odd angles, she wasn't nearly as fast as she usually was. Grey was about to move to her side to help her when another Deev blocked his way. He growled and threw himself at the new enemy.

"Follow me you horrible lot!" Grey's eyes snapped to Cana as he ran the Deev in his with his sword, just in time to see Cana shoot into the trees with the final few Deevs on her tail.

"Cana no!" Grey shot forward to follow her.

A pain ripped through his back and suddenly he was falling. He'd let his guard down. There had been one behind him. He watched in horror as that last Deev also headed into the trees where Cana had led the others. The last thing he remembered was hitting the ground hard before everything went black.

When he woke up it couldn't have been more than half a day since the fight. He was disorientated and confused. He was laying on his front in some kind of bed, from what he could see the shelter he was in was made of reeds and grass fronds, nothing like the homes carved into tree trunks he was used to. As his dulled senses started to come back to him he heard a soft singing voice, female and light, it reminded Grey of twinkling bells in the pure snow of winter. He tried to move but pain shot through his body and he collapsed back down onto the bed.

A soft gasp cut off the singing and Grey heard light footsteps approaching her. "Y-You're awake?"

"Yeah." He grunted "Where am I…"

"You are in Juvia's home… Juvia found you after the Deevs left." Grey managed to turn his head to the side to see a blue skinned fairy sit down on a stool beside the bed.

"You're a Nix…" He commented, he had heard about this rare species of fairy, blue skinned and purely beautiful.

"Juvia is a Nix yes." She nodded. "You are a Tenrou Tailed Fairy."

"Yeah… Names Grey."

"Nice to meet you Grey-sama." The Nix smiled and Grey had to glance away to stop the blood from rushing to his cheeks, she really was a beautiful as the legends say.

"Did you find anyone else?" Grey asked after a few moments of silence.

"None… alive." Juvia sighed "I am sorry Grey-sama."

"No…Don't worry, have you got writing tools… I need to send a message to the Queen."

"Of course Grey-sama." Juvia stood and Grey could only listen to her moving about until he came back. "Juvia can write it for you if you like."

"Thanks…" Grey nodded "Lady Mavis. I regret to inform you that Deevs have invaded your kingdom. My squad fought admirably but have each fallen. I myself have been rescued by a Nix…"

Juvia looked up when Grey trailed off "Would you like Juvia to take you back to the Tenrou Tree when you are well? Juvia knows a way."

Grey nodded "Thanks…. I will return as soon as I am able with the Nix as my guide, do not send a search party." Grey finished. "Juiva… have you seen anything while I've been out… any more Deevs?"

"Yes… a few swams passed by and went into the forest." Juvia nodded "Sorry, Juvia should have said sooner,"

"No its fine. The Nix has also told me that other squads of Deevs have entered our territory… We are at war. Captain Grey."

Juvia wrote the last line and Grey's name before adding a note that it was written by 'The Nix' before folding it and putting it in an envelope. "Juvia will have this sent at once!"

"Take my ring…" Grey lifted one hand with a slight wince. "It will allow your messenger to get into the Tenrou Tree."

Juvia nodded and took the ring from Grey's finger. "Juvia will return soon… please get some rest Grey-sama."

Grey didn't wake again for another few days. Juvia was diligent in regularly cleaning and changing the bandages on Grey's wound but she worried for him. When he did finally wake up Juvia was sat on the stool next to his bed knitting. "Juvia…" He grumbled her name peeking open his eyes.

"Grey-sama!" Her eyes flashed to his face "Thank goodness you're awake."

"I was out for a while…?"

"Four days." She nodded.

"Shit…."

"Ah! Juvia will get you some water." Juiva put her kitting on the stool and hurried away. While she was away from the bed Grey pushed himself up on his arms and with some wincing managed to get himself sat up, facing forwards. He spotted Juvia through a window collecting water as he looked around the one room reed hut. It was indeed all made of woven reeds and all the furniture was made of driftwood and woven reeds. It was cosy and warm sunlight filtered through the gaps in the weaving of the roof. "Grey-sama are you sure you should be sitting up?"

Grey looked towards Juvia as she approached with a cup of water. He took the cup and sipped, the cool water was like heaven for his dried throat. "I'm fine… Whatever you did is working miracles… it barely hurts."

"Juvia just used her mother's old Nix herb slave. It's made from the herbs from the river."

"I see… Thank you." He drank some more water. "You have me in your debt Juvia… But I will ask that you hold off on cashing in that debt until after the war."

"Juvia does not need Grey-sama's gratitude…"

"But you have it anyway. I appreciate your hospitality, but I need to leave soon."

"You're not strong enough yet!" Juvia squeaked

"Maybe not but I have to return to defend my city." Grey sighed "I'll need to start my journey within the next few days."

"Then Juvia will come with you." Juvia crossed her arms over her chest stubbornly.

"You do not need to do that, you've done enough for me already."

"Juvia wants to. Besides Juvia knows the shortcut back to your city."

Grey sighed "Fine… Then… I request we leave tomorrow."

Juvia nodded "Juvia will be ready. Grey should rest some more."

He gave the blue skinned girl a small smile "Ok I will… Thank you Juvia."

"You're welcome Grey-sama."

Hope you liked this little extra chapter. I'll be delving back into the main storyline now but leave comments on feedback and suggestions for future scenarios if you like (Or just to tell me you like the story because thats always a good way to motivate a writer)

(Non-betaed as always so sorry for bad spelling and grammar)