Author's notes: Happy Valentine's day :D I know it's random talk again but the latest manga chapters are making my heart fluff for Elfman/Evergreen so much in spite of the doom that awaits them^.^ anyway, still don't own Fairy Tail and I probably never will. Rated T. Enjoy!

Levy wasn't sure how to react to the rain woman statement. She had always been in good terms with Juvia, she didn't believe that she would really be threatening her life...

" Juvia," the little woman laughed nervously, " you... you're joking, right?"

Juvia's face was emotionless but her voice, accusing:

" Levy-san promised Juvia she would never break his heart."

Levy tilted her head on the side:

" Who's heart? What are you talking about?"

" Juvia knows what you have done with Jet-san, yesterday."

The little woman frowned at the statement, she hadn't done anything, the day before, that would have made her break someone's heart... No matter how much she thought about it, she was unable to recall anything. Gazille's voice echoed from behind her:

" Juvia? What the hell are you doing?"

The water mage ignored him, made a slight head gesture and the sky broke into heavy rain. It was icy cold and it took no time for the script mage to feel drenched and frozen to the bone.

She couldn't help but hold her arms around her torso to block the cold while she looked at Gazille, who was at some distance behind her and seemingly safe from the liquid wrath.

The solid script mage's mind was in overdrive, she was desperately trying to find what she might have done, the day before, that would have made Juvia angry... She had been with Gazille all day long: they were at the guild hall, then they ate, after that, they went to the library and at the park... And after that, he had walked her home...

Levy gasped, someone must have seen them kiss in the hall! And someone had told Juvia that she was cheating on Gazille!

She quickly turned around, she had to rectify the wrongs:

" Please," she begged the blue-haired woman, " Juvia, it's not what you think!"

The rain woman put a hand over her heart:

" Juvia is very sad to have to do this, Juvia really liked Levy-san a lot... but there is no turning back, now."

Levy felt a shiver run through her at the death glare she received from Juvia. She knew that she was in trouble and she knew exactly why. She just wasn't able to find the good words to explain the situation without exposing her lover's secret.

The water mage raised an arm over her head and, in a gracious movement, made a swiping gesture. Water from the canal rose in two huge columns, like snakes, and dived straight at Levy who barely had time to throw herself on the side to avoid them. Another gesture made them rise again, they hovered over the petite woman's body in a threatening stance.

The orange-haired man ran toward his lover, calling her name over the loud noise of the rain that drenched him without pity. He turned toward the rain woman:

" Juvia! For fuck sake, stop it!"

The woman gave him a side glance, obviously not finding him worthy of her attention, and flicked a finger in his direction. One of the water snakes hit him like a baseball bat right in the stomach and sent him flying a couple of feet away.

" Do not intervene, Jet-san, Juvia has no matter with you."

He landed painfully on the cobblestones, his breath already short from the hit. He rolled on his stomach and tried to stand on his arms, he could feel blood in his mouth. His usual body would have taken the hit much better, yet another bad point of not being himself, but he was far from ready to give up.

Raising his head toward Levy, Gazille choked on his breath when he saw a familiar sphere of water hovering over the ground and inside it, the young woman struggling to get out. Her effort were useless, once inside the water lock, no one could swim out of it, the pressure just kept them inside.

He raised himself on his legs, cursing Juvia for hurting his Levy and cursing Jet because of his weak body, then he broke into a sprint. He didn't really know if he could do anything to save her but he knew he wasn't staying still while she was being killed in front of his very eyes.

As he pushed his legs to their limits, he felt it: the magical rush that sent him flying forward in an amazing speed. Even he had never been able to run that fast and he had to admit that the experience was amazing. He aimed for the ball of water and hoped that his plan would work.

Using the speed, Gazille dashed inside the liquid prison like an arrow, grabbing Levy by the waist and threw them both outside. They landed on the ground, rolling over to absorb the shock, Gazille's arms around Levy's head and torso to keep her from harm. His body laid over hers when they stopped moving, he could feel scrapes on his shoulder blades from where he had landed.

Levy was coughing water while he faced Juvia again, his face spitting venom at his, dare he admit it, old friend:

" Why are you doing this? What has she done to you?"

The blue-haired woman gave him a gloomy look:

" It's not Juvia who's got hurt by Levy-san, it's Gazille-kun. Levy-san promised to Juvia that she would never break Gazille-kun's heart. Juvia told her that if she ever did, Juvia would kill her."

The young man stood there for a moment, too shocked by the words to speak. Juvia was protecting him? Sure, he got along well with her but never he would have expected that level of... loyalty from her. He sure didn't deserve it. As he didn't deserve such devotion from Levy neither, what was the big idea to go promise something like that?

Juvia's voice brought him back to reality:

" Now, step aside or Juvia might hurt Jet-san too."

The rain woman made another movement that brought back one of the water snake alive, this one bigger, and made it surround the couple. As Levy raised herself on her feet to stand beside him, Gazille shook his head at the water mage:

" Juvia... " His voice was softer, now. "You don't need to do this. Levy has never been unfaithful... Because I'm Gazille."

" Gazille..."

Levy looked at him, worried. He smiled at her and took her hand in his. His ego wasn't worth losing her.

Juvia, however, didn't look convinced, the water snake tightened around them:

" Juvia doesn't appreciate lies."

The young man grinned:

" How about this: the first day we met, in Phantom Lord, I ate your favorite umbrella."

Juvia's eyes grew wide in shock. Her mouth was slightly open and her hand manipulating the snake was frozen in place.

" And after that, you got all depressed and you made it rain inside the guild. Master Jose yelled at you for hours. And I was laughing my ass off."

The script mage looked at her boyfriend, not sure if she should scold him to have been this mean to Juvia while the rain woman was starring at Gazille like if he was a new type of human. Her dark blue eyes were fixed to his black ones, searching for a trick of any kind.

" How do you..."

For a moment, neither of them moved. The rain gradually stopped and the sky got blue again. Juvia let her hand fall back beside her and the water snake just dissolved in a huge splash around Gazille and Levy. Slowly, the blue-haired woman made her way to them, looking like her whole magic power had been drained away.

" Gazille-kun?"

He crossed his arms over his chest, grinning like only he could:

" Meh, about time you got it, moody woman."

Juvia looked at Levy who gave her a shy comforting smile. The woman was still for a second before she threw her arms around the two mages in front of her and crushed them to her chest, unknowingly muffling their cries of pain. She was shaking and when they heard her talk like her throat was full, they knew that she was crying. They didn't really understand everything she said because there was sniffles, stutters and rivers that escaped her eyes and drenched them even more than they already were, but they didn't care. Levy hugged the curly-haired woman warmly, soothing her with gentle words of forgiveness while Gazille was barely patting her back, obviously embarrassed by the situation.

Juvia eventually calmed down and looked at Gazille from head to toes:

" What happened to Gazille-kun? Why does he look like Jet-san?"

Levy scratched the back of her head:

" It's quite a long story but we are going to change him back."

The woman bowed her head:

" Juvia apologizes again."

" Yeah, yeah, we get it, don't start crying again."

The rain woman raised the head and met Levy's knowing smile, they both knew that it was the iron dragonslayer's way to comfort her. She nodded, even tho Gazille was busy scowling at something unseeable on his left, and wished them luck.

They started walking toward Levy's place as they finally felt the rush of adrenaline go down and the wind that sent shivers down their whole bodies. It might have been a sunny day but it was far from being hot enough to walk around wet like stray dogs. And Gazille had already noticed another side effect of the cold.

He stripped out of his dark shirt, the only decent piece of clothing Speedy seemed to possess, and handed it to the little blue head. Levy watched him in curiosity:

" What are you doing? You're going to freeze."

The young man didn't answer, he simply pointed at her chest, his cheeks a slight pink. When she looked down, Levy let out a little scream. It had been a very bad day to wear a white top.

It had been so easy, it was almost insulting. They had laid out the ambush before noon and it hadn't taken thirty minutes before the man they were looking for came in the bar laughing and joking like if he owned the place. They were near the counter, throwing darts and chatting like normal patrons, when he had come closer to watch them play. Jovial, the man had introduced himself to the tall dark-haired man and the black exceed, commenting on their skills and offering to join the game, for fun, of course.

Lily had to give it to Jet, the young man sure was a good actor when he wanted to be. He had played the part of Gazille so well he would never have been caught by Levy if he had been this serious when he had gone see her, the day of the incident.

Maybe it was their more mature appearances or the fact Bob never guessed they were from Fairy Tail ( they had hidden their mark), but after a couple of games and beers, they didn't even have to bring up the subject before he started babbling about how he had played a trick on two kids that didn't know their places. Laughing along, they easily convinced him to give more details about it...

Useless to say, it would have been harder to steal a candy from a baby.

When the door to the warehouse finally opened to let Levy and Gazille in, Bob had already been nailed to a giant wooden crate in front of which were standing the three kidnappers. Lily was in his combat form, to be more intimidating, while Jet and Droy were talking quietly some distance away from their victim, their faces plunged in the shadows. A single lamp was hanging over Bob's head who was trying to convince Lily to let him go.

Jet and Droy were the first one to see the couple come in:

" What took you so long? We've been waiting for an hour."

Levy apologized with one of her trademark smile:

" Sorry, we've been... delayed by an unexpected situation."

Jet pointed at his body:

" And why am I wet? What have you done?"

" Don't start bitchin', you've got the best part."

Lily turned to face the group in the shadows:

" You didn't miss that much, it wasn't even a challenge."

Setting the pile of books he was bringing for Levy on a nearby table, Gazille didn't need help to come closer to the man pined on the crate, the little spring in his step betraying his joy.

" Oh, you didn't start without me, now that's cool."

While Bob might have been moaning, threatening or just begging his captors for the last hour, when he saw the orange-haired man's face appear in the light of the lamp, with a huge sadistic grin, he couldn't help but melt in a pathetic puddle:

" O-O-Oh shit, oh man, kid, listen, it's-it's not w-w-what you think, you know, I-I-I..."

Gazille was highly satisfied with the impression he was making on the fat man but he didn't give a damn about his excuses. He turned to his body's resident and pointed at the iron cuffs that were keeping the man's arms pined to the wooden crate:

" You did that?"

The other nodded:

" Yep, actually, it came by itself when I started acting more like you, only thing I didn't get yet is the whole iron-skin thing."

" Yeah, it's a tough one, anyway it takes a lot of energy, better save it when it's needed."

They were interrupted by the shaky voice of their victim:

" W-What are ya gonna do with me? You guys are not really mad for that spell, right?"

Jet and Gazille looked at each other and shared a typical Gazillish grin when they looked at the fat man again:

" That, Fatty, that'll depend how you cooperate but to be honest, we've been through shit for the past three days and that will really not help your case..."

Droy and Lily had already searched the man from head to toes and on the table were spread his possessions. Judging from the smell most of the items had, she was glad to not have been the one having to do the body search. She quickly scanned the items and found the piece of paper that looked like it might have been used for a tissue. Her disgust was quickly replaced by a shout of relief when she saw what was written on it:

" Oh my, it's such a basic spell! That's a spell often used by kids for April fool's day, it will be a piece of cake to reverse it."

" How do you reverse it?" asked the black cat who had taken his small form.

" We just have to draw the same rune circle on the ground," she pointed at the drawing on the paper, " then we activate it while Jet and Gazille stands in it."

The blue-haired woman looked at the two men who were discussing how to beat up a guy without killing him and motioned at the other two males to come closer to her:

" The funniest thing about it is that we wouldn't even need to do anything: you see here (she pointed at a specific rune) it's a timer rune, it is set to last five days."

Droy raised an eyebrow:

" So it means that they would have been switched back eventually?"

She nodded. Lily was more sceptical:

" Isn't it illegal?"

" Normally, it's the kind of thing sold in magical shops for tricking people. Usually, only mages have access to those but, as Gazille said, it could have been sold at the black market for fun."

Cheering echoed from behind them, when they turned to see what was going on, they saw Gazille giving Jet tricks in fighting:

" Aim for that point there, right in the sternum, he's gonna go down in no time."

" Like that?"

" Yeah but, come on, put more heart into it."

Levy, Lily and Droy watched the slightly disturbing scene in silence. The orange-haired man was obviously proud of the progress made by the black-haired one.

" I think it would be wiser to switch them as soon as possible," deadpanned the exceed, " or we will end up with a Gazille number two."

end notes: yay! the nightmare is almost over! next chapter will most likely be the last and it might bump the rating to M but i dunno yet, depends how it comes out :) hope you liked :3 ( i really should get started on that V-day pic i wanted to do-.-;)