SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 9 out, this is Chapter 10 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?
Disclaimers: I own nothing, except for the plot bunny and my OC.
Chapter 10: Tower of Paradise
"Here Ulyo." Erza dropped the exhausted Gray into the umbrella's shade. "I return him to you."
"Thanks a lot, Erza." Ulyo joked.
"Just don't do things I won't do!" Erza teased.
"That leaves a lot of things that we can!" Ulyo retorted.
"Darn, you're right." Erza waved and walked off.
"One of these days, Ulyo…" Gray shook his head.
"Just shut up and take this." Ulyo handed a drink can from the portable ice box. "I won't want you dying from dehydration."
"Some girlfriend you are." Gray muttered, taking the can.
"What was that?" Ulyo gave him a sweet smile.
"Nothing." Gray looked away.
"Good boy." Ulyo beamed.
"Erza!" Lucy opened Erza's door. "Do you want to do downstairs and relax a little? Natsu and the rest have already made their way down there, saying that they want to win some games."
"Now that you mention it, do they have a place like that?" Erza wondered. "In that case…" she ex-equipped a nightgown. "Is this good enough?"
"Maybe a little too abstentious…" Lucy muttered. "Never mind. Then, let's go, Erza."
"Geez, there's no helping them." Gray sighed as Natsu pounded on the bingo machine in frustration.
"Natsu playing bingo." Ulyo noted amusedly. "Now I've seen it all. Hope you've haven't been waiting too long, handsome." She purred into his ear.
"Took you long enough, beautiful." Gray led her to the seat beside him, supressing a shiver. "You really want to seduce me tonight, don't you?" he raised a brow, seeing her empire-cut white gown, the pendent he had gotten for her birthday two years ago was strategically placed to conceal her cleavage.
"Perhaps." Ulyo quipped teasingly, before spotting a familiar shade of blue. "Juvia, get your cute butt over here!" she called out to her fellow water mage.
"You are from Phantom…" Gray gaped. "I heard that Phantom was disbanded afterward." He remarked, the trio seated at the bar.
"Yes, Juvia is now a free mage." Juvia confirmed.
"So am I right to say that you wish to join Fairy Tail?" Gray inquired.
"Juvia sure does." The water mage replied.
"But still, after all that happened…" Gray mused. "I don't really mind, but I wonder what Master has to say about this, though."
"Juvia will do anything!" Juvia stated.
"I wouldn't say that so easily if I were you." Ulyo reminded.
"Gray Fullbuster?" Simon inquired from behind.
"Shit!" Ulyo cursed when the dark mage activated his 'Dark Burst' spell.
"That was close." Gray admitted, Ulyo's 'Water Release: Water Wall' having shielded off most of the explosion. "Jerk, who the hell are you?"
"Where is Erza?" both Simon and Wally demanded of Gray and Natsu respectively.
"What?" Gray echoed.
"Where's Erza?" Simon repeated.
"Think I will tell you?" Gray retorted.
"Erza is in danger." Ulyo realized as Juvia materialized before the two.
"It sure looks that way." Gray agreed.
"What?" Simon mused, when Shô contacted him. "You already found her? I see... I can wrap up things here? Roger."
"What the…" Gray was stunned when Simon activated his 'Dark Moment' spell. "This is…"
"It's Dark Lineage Magic." Simon explained. "'Dark Moment'."
"Called it." Ulyo muttered, turning around and already gathering water in her hands. "Water Release: Leviathan's Arrow!"
"Water Cane!" Juvia added in her own attack.
"Hey, watch it!" Gray snapped, feeling the powered-up water arrow whiz past his cheek.
"Gray, Ulyo!" Lucy arrived at the demolished bar after Shô and his group took Erza away. "You're one of the Element Four!" she recognized Juvia.
"Wait, Lucy." Gray stopped the blond. "She's no longer an enemy."
"That's correct." Juvia confirmed. "Juvia powered up Ulyo-sama's 'Leviathan's Arrow'."
"I should've used 'Celestial Arrow' instead." Ulyo muttered.
"After things suddenly turned jet black, Ulyo figured the enemy would attack from the back and retaliated." Gray explained.
"In order for Ulyo-sama's attack to be powerful enough to hit the enemy, Juvia used 'Water Cane'." Juvia added.
"That was unnecessary." Gray retorted, removing his shirt. "Now he's got away."
"No gratitude." Ulyo muttered. "Lucy, how about Natsu and the rest?" she asked
"I don't know about Natsu, but Happy and Erza were…" Lucy replied.
"Natsu!" the three Fairy Tail mages recognized the familiar roar.
"What a bastard." Natsu coughed.
"What happened?" Gray pressed, the others gathering.
"Is it normal to go around shooting people in their mouths?" Natsu fumed. "That hurt! People might be injured."
"Normal people would have totally kicked the bucket already." Lucy muttered.
"As expected of Salamander…" Juvia agreed.
"That damn blockhead!" Natsu raged. "Don't think you can escape!" he dashed out.
"Follow him." Ulyo instructed.
"But, how can we know where they went?" Lucy wondered.
"That guy has a nose that can put most animals to shame." Gray grinned.
"He knows he'll get motion sickness in the direction he's running off to, right?" Ulyo asked jokingly.
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