Hey everyone! It's been a long time …

But here it is the continuation.

Enjoy it! :3

A strange break

It's been a week since „The Blind Date Event" and everyone went on missions like always. Erza sat at the bar in the head quarter and sighed as she poked her strawberry cupcake. She remembered the evening, which she wished never happened. Actually she came to the head quarter to take on a new mission, but she just couldn't motivate herself. What happened? She never felt so hollow. She remembered the moonlight and Gray's eyes. His eyes. His beautiful shining eyes as he stared at her that time. His touch and his smell. She would never forget it, but she knew that when she wanted to return the situation to the one before that evening, she had to forget it.

*cough* „Erza?", spoke a feminine voice. Maybe she should take some free-time and do some shopping. She could really use some new armors and there was a really pretty lace blue bra, which she wanted to buy for a long time. „Erzaaa? Hey are you listening?", repeated the voice.
„Yes? Oh...Mira. What happened?!", answered Erza startled. She looked around, but she couldn't find something unusual. Mira grinned and leaned on the bar. „Calm down. Nothing happened. Except you". „Me? Mira. I don't think I understand you.", Erza sat back down and tried to act usually. „You can't trick me, Erza. I know you for a long time now. So, tell me what happened.
Since last week there is something different about Team Natsu. It's really not good for the guild.", she told her. Not good, she thought. She knew that and that was exactly why she was thinking about a solution. Her head already hurt from thinking in circles.

„What about taking a group mission? It's been some time and there are some quite interesting ones.", suggested Mira. Erza thought about it nodded, „Your right! Never knew that I could ever say that to you, but... It's time for some missions. Team Natsu can't relax forever. Unbelievable..."

Erza stood up and walked firmly to the quest wall.

Lucy was writing her story as suddenly she heard her doorbell ring. She finished her sentence and went to the doorbell, where Gray was standing with his hands in his pockets. „Can I come in?", he asked. „Gray? .. sure.", she answered and opened the door widely.

In her living-room, which she also used as a bedroom, Gray didn't hesitate to plop hisself on her bed. She sighed and yelled at Gray: „Seriously?! Gray there is a chair. Why do you guys always need to mess around?" Gray didn't answer her, but immediately questioned her about Natsu. „Did you see him? It's been a week since I saw him.. Not that I care though."

She stopped in her tracks and hesitated as she listened to him. „Natsu..", she whispered. Moments flew by and Gray tried to ask Lucy again. „Did...Did something happen at the event last week?"

„The event? Which event are you talking about?", she replied. She knew too well, what he was talking about, but she didn't think that Gray what speak to her about that. She realized that there happened something aswell between Erza and Gray. Erza had talked to her after the confusing evening. She told her that nothing special happened, but they all felt exhausting from all the missions and they just need some alone time, 'cause common they really spend 24/7 hours a day with each other. Lucy agreed and was glad she didn't need to talk to her about the unnecessary encounter with the dragon slayer. But there was a hint between those words and their actions. They seemed to avoid each other, but Lucy didn't want to judge, 'cause she felt a gape between Natsu and herself as well.

She realised, she spaced out some minutes, when Gray straightened himself on her bed. She smiled uncomfortably and dodged the question. „I haven't seen him for a while, I guess he is fishing with Happy or maybe just causing trouble somewhere." There was silence and Gray stood up. „Causing trouble. That's just like Natsu, but you're not with him, That's just not normal", he answered bluntly.

„I'm going to search for him some more, so let's do some missions again, 'cause I'm feeling pretty boring.", he suggested and went to her door. She smiled and this it was real, because she really wanted to spend time with each other again, normally. „That's a great idea! Let's do this! I'm going to the guild to speak with Erza about a new mission. She'll probably be at the bar.", said Lucy happy. Gray stopped in front of the door and his hand lied on the knob, before he went outside without further words. „Huh?" That was pretty cold, she thought and gazed after him.

„Hey! Natsu?",said Happy as he sat on the shoulder of the dragon slayer. He patted him, while Natsu was gazing at the lake. They were fishing, because Happy really needed something to eat and they hadn't anymore money. Natsu was ruffling his hair and smiled at Happy. „Maybe I should just set this lake on fire. This would definitely speed things up." „Wow... That's a great idea! Natsu! I do love your fried fish, maybe Carla wants some too." Sadly the plan didn't work and they fished for two more hours until they had enough for the day. „Haaa...That was great", said Natsu sleepy and rubbed his belly. „I just hope this „mission break" will end soon, 'cause I seriously want to fight some guys. I didn't even know why the old fart wanted to take a break for us. We are the best and we can fight everyone every time. So what's the rambling about this break? This sucks.", said Natsu grumpily heading home with a satisfied Happy following him.

It's more sad and less romantic than the last ones, but I still hope you like it. There will be more. I

just try to mix some genres. Hopefully adding some more characters. ^_^

Sorry for the late update. I just couldn't finish my seminar paper, which I was concentrating at

for weeks. Grrr... Well..now it's finished. So I can concentrate on this and I seriously need to raise

the excitement. Did it get boring or was the mood maybe too negative? XD

Next update planned within this week!

Stay tuned and have a nice day! ^o^/

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