*peeps* Heya? x.x Okay, first of all, I'm terribly sorry about the late update! I was really busy with school and final exams and stuff since I'm graduating this summer! X.x And for now all of that is over since I finished my written exams but the oral ones are coming up and I'm extremely nervous about those! Xox So.. I'm REALLY sorry! *bows* I'll try to update more often now, I should be able to but forgive me if there are longer periods without updates :(

On another note... during this time I also thought about this story (of course ;D) and came up with quite a lot of ideas :D Of course you can still tell me about any idea you have! :D

Anyway, this chapter is rather short but I promise the next chapters will be longer! :D

Oh, and by the way... To all of you: Happy Easter! ^-^

Chapter 5: Another Plan

"You're stupid, aren't you?" I said, looking at future-Lucy

"How can you call yourself stupid?" she said irritatedly.

"Well, I can't find another word which describes it", I answered with a sigh. "Just why did you give Juvia such advice?"

"Mira told me to do it", Lucy said nonchalantly. "I wonder how I'm supposed to fix this." She looked at me with eyes that were screaming for help.

"Don't give me that look!" I yelled trying to kick her but she dodged, locked my leg between her arms and grinned widely.

"Luuuuuucyyyyyy~", she said, her eyes sparkling. I had a bad feeling.

"Wait!" I said, panicking. "Let me go! I won't help you!"

"Yes, you will", Lucy said and giggled. "Because you already did, remember?"

I hated her. Well, maybe I didn't really hate her but right at this moment I wanted to punch her. But then I'd be punching myself, would that leave a wound on my face? It shouldn't, right? It's my future self I'd be punching, there'd be no reason for me to look beaten. Right when I had decided to throw a fist, Lucy pulled my leg and made me fall. I landed on my butt and hit my head on a table.

"Hey! What was that for?!", I yelled at her until I realized that it hadn't been intentional. Lucy was looking at Gray and Lyon who had been left behind by Juvia. Both of them were glaring at each other and it seemed that the air in the guild was frozen.

"Was that necessary?" Lyon said, crossing his arms.

"None of your business." Gray's stare got even colder. After a few more seconds he turned around and left the guild.

The silence which had hung over the members started to dissipate as some people started to talk about Gray's strange behavior.

"Psssst, Lyon", my future self whispered, calling him over with exaggerated hand gestures. I wondered if that was how I always acted or if I had changed that much over the past years. Or if Lucy had changed. Aaah, screw this!

Lyon came walking over with his hands in his pockets. Hold on, did that mean that Lyon was in on the plan?

"Why didn't it work?" Lucy asked, giving him a reproachful look.

"Beats me", Lyon answered, scratching his head. "He must like her more than I thought." An evil smirk appeared on his face and for some reason I could see the picture of him teasing Gray about his feelings for Juvia. He suddenly seemed to notice something. Staring at me he asked: "Why did you call Gemini?"

"Oh, I totally forgot", Lucy said with a laugh. "This is me from the past. She came traveling all those years to the future."

For a minute there, Lyon didn't say anything. "I see", he then said expressionlessly and continued his conversation with future-me.

Wow, he wasn't surprised at all. I didn't know whether that was cool or scary. I decided on it being the result of lots of experience and stopped thinking about it.

"Lucy", Natsu suddenly appeared. "What was that?" he asked with an irritated look on his face.

"Gray seemed to be pretty jealous, huh?" Lucy answered and crossed her arms, looking up at her... husband. Wow, it was a really weird sensation to call him that.

"Yeah, whatever", Natsu answered. "Let's go on a mission, already."

"Again? But you just came back from one."

"Yeah, I was gone for so long, I missed going on missions with you guys." Natsu's toothy grin appeared once more and this time my heart tightened a bit, reminding me of how much I missed him. It was kind of ironical. Natsu was right in front of me, yet I missed him. And then it hit me.

"Say..." I looked at them. "Would it be okay for me to go on that mission?"

They looked surprised. "Sure, but why?", Lucy asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I have a plan", I said, smiling deceitfully.

So that's it for now, as I said, it's pretty short... I hope you liked it nevertheless, please tell me what you think of it :) And, as I said, if you have any ideas or want something particular to happen, please tell me about it, I'll try to include it! :D And if you should spot any mistakes and grammatical errors I'd be very thankful if you told me about it so I can fix them! :)

Bye! :3