His guild stamp
Time period: After the Oracion Seis arc
A/N: This is not canon. I made this up!
Lyon and Gray were sitting on the roof of Gray's house. It was one of Lyon's favourite places in Magnolia. Lyon enjoyed hanging out in high places. Or as Lyon once jokingly told Gray, "I like to look down on people."
Prior to heading out to the roof, both of them had removed their shirts. While Lyon stared off at a distance, Gray discreetly peered at Lyon's exposed chest out of the corner of his eyes. There was a question Gray had been meaning to ask his senior pupil for a while now, but the right timing had always eluded him.
Everyone Gray knew got their guild stamp on different parts of their body. Some got it on their arm, leg, back⦠there were literally dozens of places you could get your stamp. Bixlow, for example, had it on his tongue.
Of all the possible areas on his body, Lyon had gotten his Lamia Scale stamp on the same place that Gray had his Fairy Tail stamp.
"Why did you copy me?" Gray suddenly asked, a bit of humour in his voice.
Lyon was confused. "Copy you?"
Lyon turned to look at Gray. There was a big goofy grin on Gray's face as he pointed to his Fairy Tail tattoo. Lyon rolled his eyes.
"I didn't copy you," Lyon scoffed. "It was just a coincidence."
It was only after Lyon received his guild stamp that he realized it was on the same place as Gray's. Sherry had noticed immediately and commented on it, much to Lyon's chagrin.
"I wanted it on my chest but couldn't figure out which side," Lyon said. "I ended up choosing the right."
"Why?" Gray asked him.
Lyon looked out at the horizon, remembering the day he made his decision.
Lyon had been debating whether to get his guild stamp placed on the left or right side of his chest.
By joining Lamia Scale, Lyon was now swearing allegiance to a group, not a single person. In order to fully become a Lamia Scale member, Lyon decided that he needed to forget the past. For too long he had been consumed by feelings of anger and hatred while chasing a long dead ghost. As Ur once told him, he needed to find a new goal in life.
Lyon wanted a fresh start to match his new outlook. So Lyon had thought it might be a good idea to place the guild stamp over his heart. Perhaps painting over his past would finally allow Lyon to walk into the future as Gray had.
But Lyon's identity was still closely tied to Ur and her teachings.
As the stamp moved closer and closer towards his chest, Lyon realized that he didn't need to erase his past in order to move forward. He could remember the past and still step into the future.
So he chose the right side for his stamp.
"This belongs to my past," Lyon said, pointing at his heart. "It's where my soul is."
"So I wanted to keep the left side open," Lyon told Gray. "Because my heart will always belong to Ur."
Gray just stared dumb-struck at Lyon's confession. Sometimes, Lyon could be so direct with his feelings that it made Gray feel embarrassed.
Seeing Gray's red ears, Lyon made a weird face.
"Why are YOU blushing?" Lyon asked, cocking one eyebrow. "I didn't say it belonged to you."
"I know that!" Gray retorted, annoyed. "I just couldn't believe you'd say something so embarrassing with a straight face."
"What's so embarrassing about it?" Lyon questioned. "It's true."
"Never mind," Gray muttered.
Given that Lyon had been so honest, Gray supposed he needed to return the favour.
"The left-right thing didn't matter so much to me," Gray said, looking down at his feet. "I got mine when I was a kid."
In her last moments, Ur had lost her leg and made another one out of ice. Gray never forgot that.
"I just wanted my guild stamp to be on a place I would never lose," Gray explained. "I could survive without an arm or leg but there is no way to I could survive without my chest."
Gray paused for a moment, staring at his hand as he slowly made a tight fist.
"I can't survive without Fairy Tail," Gray continued.
"Fairy Tail is my life, my family, my greatest love. For me, the day I lose my Fairy Tail stamp will be the day I die."
Gray thought he heard Lyon make a choked up sound.
Curious, Gray peeked at Lyon from the under his bangs.
"What the hell was that?" Lyon laughed. "That was the corniest thing I've ever heard. And you have the nerve to call me embarrassing?"
"Shut up!" Gray yelled at him, his face turning beet red. "I shouldn't have told you!"
Gray jutted his chin out and fumed, crossing his arms across his chest. He couldn't believe that he just bared his soul to Lyon, only to have Lyon make fun of him.
Still chuckling, Lyon draped his elbow over Gray's shoulder and leaned in to whisper in Gray's ear.
"Ur would have been proud of you," Lyon told Gray, softly. "Of both of us."
A/N: I don't know why they have their stamp in the same place (not sure if it came out in the manga). I just thought it would be amusing if Lyon and Gray had completely different but Ur-related reasons for getting it in the same place.
PS: FF crashed on me over 20 times these past 4 days when trying to upload this. I was about to give up. lol. Hopefully, the next uploads will go more smoothly.
