Chapter 6

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"We're home!" Lucy shouted, her eyes twinkling, the moment she stepped foot inside their camp, with Juvia just right behind her.

"Welcome back!" Some of their friends looked up and welcomed them while some just ignored them. Lucy scanned the whole camp and noticed that Erza is already back and that Cana is once again drinking sake but she paid them no attention as she looked for her short blunette best friend named Levy. "Hey guys, where's Levy-chan?"

Erza looked up from the book she was reading and answered Lucy. "Wasn't she with you this morning?"

Now that she has thought of it, wasn't the two of them were together before they left her with... with Gray-sama?

Juvia's face heated up from embarassment as she clearly remembered what happened before Lucy interrupted them. She was a little disappointed that Lucy showed up at the worst time possible. She wasn't angry at her, but she did plot Lucy's murder somewhere in her mind.

Juvia looked up at Lucy and watched as she covered her mouth with a horrified expression on her face, a clear sign that she is imagining that something bad happened to Levy or Levy is doing something bad. Probably both. She wished that Lucy wouldn't go into one of her rants about the scenarios that she has imagined, just like the time when Lucy, Levy, Erza and Juvia were walking down the streets and then Erza knelt down because she dropped something on the ground and then when Lucy turned around and she didn't saw Erza beside them, she panicked ad started shouting that Erza was swallowed by an Anima.

Juvia's wish was granted because Levy walked inside their camp, on her arms is a blue bundle of something. Lucy quickly ran to Levy's side as she started to tell her what she thought had happened to Levy, and that she was so glad that nothing bad happened to her because she can never live without her best friend. Levy simply stood there smiling and patting Lucy's head, once in a while, already used to Lucy's overreacting reactions. After Lucy had calmed down, Erza asked the two of them.

"So, what happened to the mission?"

Lucy's eyes twinkled as she stood up straight and saluted at Erza. "Erza ma'am! Levy-chan and I are pleased to tell you that the mission was a success."

"Good. Too bad I wasn't there to see it for myself."

"His name is Gray Fullbuster."

Lucy turned her head towards Juvia with a mischievous smile on her face and Juvia quickly realized that she's doomed.

"And... I also caught Juvia..."

"Lucy-san..."

"...and Gray..." Juvia quickly covered Lucy's mouth and Lucy tried to take Juvia's hands off her mouth.

"...kyaa! Icaughthtemdoingsomethingnau ghty!" Lucy quickly said the moment she got Juvia's hands away from her mouth and looked at Erza.

"What? He took away your purity?" Erza suddenly had an evil aura oozing from her as she looked at Juvia with a glare and approached her.

"No! He did not!" Juvia backed away from Erza and looked at the snickering Lucy. She suddenly had an urge to strangle someone with blonde hair and brown eyes.

"Then are you saying that Lucy's a liar?" Juvia was pondering about saying yes, but they were about to do something naughty.

Lucy already had her fair share of amusement that day so she decided to avert Erza's attention to save Juvia from her wrath.

"Levy-chan, what's that on your hands?" Lucy asked as she pointed at the bundle of something in Levy's arms.

"Oh, it's a dress. Someone gave it to me." Levy showed them the dress as she answered. The dress was light blue in color and was sleeveless, the top has floral patterned corset bodice. The waistline has realistic flowers sewn on it and the bottom has gold-colored elegant lace ruffle and two more layers of what she can recognized as satin. Lucy took the dress from Levy's arms and inspected it, feeling every inch.

The first thing she noticed was the silkiness of the inner layer of the bottom and despite Levy's mistreatment to the dress (the dress was rolled, not folded), it showed no signs of wrinkles and she moved on to inspect those gold-like thingies on the lace, she realized that those were real gold.

"Levy-chan, who gave this dress to you?" Lucy suddenly asked as she looked seriously at Levy.

"Why Lu-chan?" She asked, feeling a little bit nervous with the serious stare her best friend is giving her.

"Levy-chan, this dress is expensive. What do you think this fabric is?" Lucy pulled up the lace and made Levy touch it. Juvia, who was also standing near the two touched the silk and can't help but notice that it's really soft to the touch."I would say it's silk." Juvia answered and Levy nodded her head in agreement.

"Yes, it's silk, but the most expensive type of silk. And these are not just any gold-colored fabric, these are real gold. Whoever gave it to you must be really rich." Lucy handed the dress back to Levy, who had a look of concentration on her face.

Lucy suddenly started coughing and quickly pulled out a handkerchief from her purse and used it to cover her out. Juvia and Levy patted her back, asking if she's alright but waved them off, telling them she's okay, as she put her handkerchief back to her purse.

"I just choked on my own saliva. Thank you, though."

"If you guys are done, then let's go set-up the stage. No excuses." Erza said, the last part obviously directed at Cana who raised her hand to make an excuse.

Gray Fullbuster is fucking tired.

He and Natsu got lost on their way back to the ship, no thanks to Natsu who kept on saying that he knows where he's going. He doesn't know what came over him, but he still followed Natsu throughout the whole day, to every single dead end and alleys. Natsu even deduced that the ship was on the other side of the ocean and that they should prepare a small boat. That's when Gray decided to put an end to Natsu's stupidity and asked the villagers where the dock was. The kind man gave them the directions and after thanking him, it took them only a few minutes before they reached the ship. Gray wanted to bang his head on something for not thinking of asking the villagers in the first place, because that was obviously the most easiest way to get to the dock, but noooooo... his head suddenly wanted to stop functioning that day. An evidence to that is that he actually let Natsu lead the way, which was the reason why they got lost in the first place. Another is that when he almost kissed Juvia.

The urge to bang his head grew. He wanted to bang his head for trying to take advantage of a girl. Sure, she seemed to be willing. She even closed her eyes, for goodness sake! But now that he had time to think about it, kissing a girl he just met was way against his policies.

'Maybe I should apologize to her.' Gray thought to himself as he and Natsu stepped on the ship, ignoring those who greeted them.

"Apologize to who?" Gray's head shot up as he looked on his left to see his commanding officer. He didn't realized that he said those words out loud.

He saluted to Makarov but he just waved him off as he looked towards the younger man, expecting an answer from him. The younger man scratched his head as he answered his commanding officer.

"No one, master. Just talking to myself."

"Well, I hope you never did anything stupid." 'Ouch, that hit a sore spot' He thought as he fought the urge to bang his head there and then and watched his commanding officer turn around and walk away from him.

Makarov stopped and turned back to Gray and asked. "Oh, by the way, I heard you were out with a girl this morning. How was it?"

"W-Wha... How did you know that?" He knew those fools would tell him on their commanding officer. He just knew it! Gray started to curse whoever told their master about his day with Juvia.

"A lil' birdie told me. So, how was it?"

"Master... you sound like a woman who wants to gossip."

"You foo'! This is my only way of entertaining myse... I mean, I need to know everything what my underlings do. That's what a good officer is!" The older man crossed his arms over his chest. Gray could only sigh his gossiping commanding officer.

"We just ate something. Nothing more, nothing less." No need for him to know that he let his hormones go wild and almost kissed the girl.

The older man smirked a little and spared Gray of his questions as he turned away once again and walked away as he uttered what he can decipher as 'hoh' and went inside his office.

Gray looked at the darkening sky and noted that it was almost time for him to go to the park and for the 'Fairies' to dance.

I am so very sorry for the very short chapter and the lack of romance in it. I had a writer's block while writing this, the reason why it took me so long to update again. I am also sorry for the mistakes in here. I just got a new laptop and it didn't have MSword in it so I typed this on Wordpad which was a pain in the ass. I promise that I'll update sooner to make up for this crappy chapter. I am also planning on speeding things up a little bit.

Oh, and for hitoyou, who asked me how long this story is going to last, I honestly don't know. When I first started this story, I was only planning on making this last until Chapter 10-15 because I don't know if I can commit myself to write a multi-chapter story. But it seems that this might take a little longer. But like what I said, I'm speeding things up a bit, so I'm not really sure.

Once again, I'm sorry to those who expected a good chapter and to those who are disappointed with this crappy chapter. I will edit this sometime later. I'll update much faster to make up for this crap.

But please review. I beg of you.