Thank you for your continued support guys!
Reviews of the...chapter? Eh, whatever.
Doraguniru:
"idk why but reading about juvia ready for the kill and bra are funny. it's like she wants to start a war with it lol."
Celtika82:
"Great story. Looking forward to reading more. Lesson one should have been "Don't call people at 3 in the morning unless blood is involved.""
Disclaimer: Only thing I own is the laptop that this story is written with. Even then, I got it for Christmas, so it's technically not mine...
Lucy sprinted towards Juvia's apartment. Well, she tried to sprint, but with the magnitude of the rain, she slipped every other step. Her slow progress eventually got her to her destination, right in time to crash into Erza and together they not-so-elegantly fell to the ground. Thankfully Erza wasn't wearing her usual armor; Lucy would've been seriously hurt otherwise. It wasn't all luck though. Erza's glare had enough malice to scare Hitler's mustache off his face.
"Oh, it's just you Lucy," Erza sighed, the evil aura around her relaxing. Lucy suppressed a whimper that threatened to escape her throat. Erza must have had the day off. When a person interrupts her Jellal-time, it gets ugly. The knight stared at her for a few minutes with a perplexed look on her face.
"What?" Lucy asked warily.
"You look different, somehow...," her friend murmured, giving Lucy a piercing stare.
"These are new clothes," Lucy gestured to herself; they were now soaked from the rain and were covered with muddy water. Well, they were new, at least.
"No, not that," Erza shook her head and continued staring at Lucy, making her feel even more self conscious than she normally felt. She got up and walked into the building's lobby. Erza's footsteps, usually loud and menacing, lightly tapped behind her. Inside the two friends were met with a distraught looking Mira and a pissed off Levy.
"Mira!" Lucy called.
"Lucy?" The white haired beauty answered, surprised.
"Lu-chan!" Levy snapped out of her anger, excited to see her.
Levy! Mira!" Erza walked up next to Lucy.
"Erza?" Levy's eyes widened in surprise. It was rare for the red head to have a day off, after all.
"Erza!" Mira called out happily.
"Sandy!" Called out the counter lady, making the four friends look over at her. She smiled sheepishly and apologized, raising a magazine to cover her blushing face.
"Where's Juvia?" Lucy asked Mira. The smile gracing her face immediately dropped and the worried look returned.
"We don't know, she's not in her apartment," she replied. Silence washed over them as they pondered where the emotional woman ran off to.
Juvia, what have you gotten yourself into?
All his life, Gray had been good with women. Well, on the outside anyway. On the inside he usually found them quite annoying and petty. However, it was now his job to understand and entertain, and for the past couple of years he has been pretty good at it.
Until today.
Why is today different, you may ask? Well, probably because he has a hysterically crying woman clutching him like no tomorrow, and nothing he says will make her let go.
The working day started off like usual. Some airheads were squealing about how 'dreamy' he was, and if he had ever seen Twilight because he was so sexy like Edward. Yes, he had (on a dare of course. Elfman kept on screaming that "VAMPIRES ARE SO MAN!", but by the time they exited the theater the poor man kept on cringing at every speck of glitter he saw) and though Gray took that as an insult he still responded with some weird, romantic line that made them swoon and shower him with dollars shoved discreetly in his pockets.
And then, the door slammed open. An ominous silence washed over the crowd as a single woman entered the club. Gray shrunk down in his seat, scared that it was Ultear coming to visit him again. Thankfully, it wasn't the demon woman. Instead it was a beautiful blunette, who was wearing a dark blue coat with a fur shawl. She set down a soft pink umbrella against the wall next to the door. After sizing her up, the girls allowed the club's activities to resume. As she made her way through the mob of people, Gray couldn't fight the intense deja vu that washed over him. He had definitely seen this girl before, but where?
Their eyes meet and a strange wave of emotion washed over him. It felt like Natsu flame-punched his chest, but without the pain.
"GRAY-SAMA!" The woman wailed. In the blink of an eye she was able to push through the crowd separating them and lock her arms around his stomach. She was blubbering like a beached whale, all of her words were inaudible. Feeling the heat of the stares directed at the poor woman, Gray stood up and awkwardly started to shuffle towards the back rooms. On the way he grabbed Natsu, knowing he was going to need his connections.
Gray remembered this crying rain woman. If he remembered correctly, she was the friend of that strange blonde Natsu was giving 'normal' lessons to.
"What the hell, Gray!?" Natsu yelled when they entered one of the back rooms. Gray tripped over the emotional mess that was attached to him, hitting the floor with a loud THUD. He gestured to the sobbing woman who was clutching his midsection for dear life. A look of recognition flashed across Natsu's face.
"She's Lucy's friend," he stated.
"Call her!" Gray begged. God, begging to Natsu. Never thought he'd see the day.
An evil smile stretched over Natsu's face as he realized his enemy's position. He started laughing evilly, to which Gray cringed in horror and his sobbing attachment stopped crying for a brief moment. He stopped abruptly and whispered his demands.
"I'd rather scoop my eyes out with a spork," Gray snapped.
"Then you can just chill with her for a while," Natsu shrugged and started to walk out of the room.
"Wait!" Natsu turned around. "Fine," Gray sighed, consenting to his defeat. The pink haired demon restarted his evil laughter as he grabbed his cell phone. Gray turned his attention to the main problem at hand.
"There, there," he awkwardly patted her head. "What's wrong?"
"LyoncheatedonmehowcouldhedothatIthoughthelovedme. .." she babbled on and on, but was talking so quick he couldn't really understand her words. All he could understand that someone cheated.
Please, someone. Help me!
"WHAT?" Lucy yelled into her phone, "JUVIA'S AT THE HOUSE?"
"God Luce, stop yelling," Natsu's voice sounded far away. He was probably holding the device away from his ear to protect it from her shrill screaming. Lucy's friends clustered around the girl with anxious looks.
"Is she okay?" Lucy asked worriedly.
"Um, define 'okay'..." He trailed off. In the background, Lucy heard loud sobbing.
"She's crying a lot, isn't she?"
"Yeah. We had to sacrifice Gray."
"Oh god. We'll be over there as soon as we can."
"Nah, take your time. I love seeing the bastard suffer."
"Ten minutes," Lucy hung up. She looked around at her friends' surprised faces. "What? I can have other friends," she said defensively. She led the group out and they all broke into a run towards the House. A sinking feeling filled her as she realized the look they all shot her as they ran.
They were going to grill her later about this. Ugh, ruthless women.
Finally, the woman had stopped crying. All it took was five minutes of bashing her ex-fiance with her, a couple of ice roses, some alcohol and one of the 'secret' chocolate bars Bob keeps behind a painting in his office. However, she still wouldn't let him out of her grasp.
"I love you, Gray-sama!" She declared for the fifth time. For the fifth time Gray wondered what was taking her friends so long to arrive. He was worried for this girl's safety and, you know, he could barely breathe. Natsu was watching him with an amused expression, laughing louder and louder as the minutes dragged on.
"Juvia!" A pretty blonde burst into the room with more girls behind her. Gray had never been more thankful to a group of girls in his life.
"Lushi!" Juvia slurred, letting go of Gray and latching onto the blonde. Gray sighed in relief, looking over at Natsu. He found the boy frozen, like a deer caught in headlights.
"Gray? Natsu?" Mira stepped forward. Gray and Natsu cringed under her stare.
"Hey, Mira," Natsu greeted warily. She opened her mouth to say something, but Juvia started crying again, launching herself into Mira's arms. Obviously the matter wasn't over, but for now the two boys were safe. Mira turned and started walking the disaster of a woman out of the room. It was for a brief second, but Gray saw Juvia turn her head and wink in his direction.
Huh, maybe that girl wasn't so bad.
"Thanks, Natsu," the blonde waved and ran out to follow her friends.
"Damn," Gray whistled, "She's hot."
"Shut up," Natsu pushed him, starting a massive fight that would probably end up breaking every object in the room.
"So let me get this straight," Erza sat back on Lucy's couch, "Lyon cheated on you with some pinkette and now you love Gray, who Mira seems to know. And, most freaky of all, Lucy has other friends we don't know about."
"Yeah, that about sums it up," Juvia nodded. "Wait, Lucy has other friends?"
"YES, I CAN HAVE ANOTHER FRIEND!" Lucy yelled. The girls looked at her seriously for a moment before breaking out into laughter, leaving the blonde to pout in a corner.
"Calm down Lucy, we're kidding," Levy giggled and hugged her friend. Lucy rolled her eyes at the horribly concealed lie, but decided to forgive her anyway. As the rest of her friends settled in for their unplanned stay, Lucy looked at her mail.
Bill, spam, spam, spam, oh, look! A letter. No return address either. Weird.
"Lu-chan!" Levy called. Lucy stuffed the letter in the pocket of her robe. She could read it later.
"I hate you, Natsu," Gray snarled. He put his clothes, all but his underwear, in his bag. Grabbing the neck of the guitar Natsu held in his hands, Gray wondered if it really would have been so bad to have that woman clutch him for eternity. It wasn't like she was ugly or anything; in fact, one she calmed down, she seemed like an interesting person. Plus, then he wouldn't have to do what he was about to do.
"Hey guys!" Natsu yelled, grabbing the attention of every soul in the club. He was standing on a small stage in the back of the club that hired singers and bands would play on once in a while. Once everyone was looking his way, Natsu waved Gray onto the stage. He waited for the loud squeals and whisles (probably in response to his almost naked appearance, no doubt) to quiet down before making his announcement. "Gray is going to sing a song!" He smiled evilly and hopped off the stage, going to where Gajeel, Jellal and Elfman had gathered to laugh at their friend's suffering.
"Gray can't sing," Gajeel laughed. Natsu nodded, laughing to hard to speak. On stage the ice mage turned on the mike and strummed the guitar. He gritted his teeth and opened his mouth.
"Overtaken my Natsu's awesomeness, I wrote this song," he deadpanned. He started playing on the guitar, choosing to ignore the slight laughter that started to pass over the crowd.
"Natsu, you are so awesome, so much better than me..." Gray's horrible singing voice assaulted the ears of everyone in the club. While most of the people covered their ears or started to cry from disappointment, there were four boys who stood there smiling and laughing, as if they were immune to the noise.
Ah sweet, sweet revenge.
If anyone wants to write the rest of the lyrics to that song (I was too lazy to, so...) I will put them in the next chapter! Sorry this one is a bit short. The next one probably will be too.
There is also a possibility that I will not update for two weeks. I'm with my dad, and for some annoying reason he decided to make me stay with him for two weeks straight. Usually I don't bring my laptop with me (and last night it almost died, so that's always fun) but this time I'm sucking it up for you guys. However, I won't have as much time to write and my laptop might break again.
But, my problems aside, please leave a review! They make me laugh and I can pretend I have friends.
I hope you liked this chapter. Until next time...BACON FOREVER.
~NevermakesSense