((A/N: Dear god, you guys love fluffy things, don't you? Well isn't that SAAAAAD! No fluff for anyone for the rest of the moooonth! MWAHAHAHAHA EVIL RUBY STABS EVERYONE's BACK! Oh, BTW, my name's Ruby. Did I ever introduce myself...?

Hm... Did I...?))

Twenty-forth Night

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" screamed Lucy when she opened the door of her apartment, because guess what?

Erza and Gray were there, sitting around her little table, Gray, obviously, was half naked, and Erza was calmly reading a book. Was that one of Lucy's?

"For the love of the HOLY ALPACA what the ICY HELL are you people doing here?!"

"Holy alpaca..?" repeated Gray, right before he started laughing his ass off.

"Hello, Lucy" said Erza, greeting her like Lucy was the one visiting.

"Alpaca..." Gray muttered after he calmed down, shaking his head and chuckling, like just the word itself was hilarious.

One would've thought that she was already used to the intruders in her house, but, actually, she wasn't.

Not that anyone would be, so easily.

After Lucy cooled off she simply asked the same question without the weird expressions, "What are you doing here?"

"Well, I wanted to hear you reading, of course, Lucy" replied Erza.

"Same. Plus I'm hiding from Juvia tonight, she was acting weird, well, weirder, and" he shrugged, "I don't know"

"You should just give Juvia a chance, you know she's really nice"

Gray sighed, "I know, but-"

"Go with Juvia!" shouted Lucy, pointing at the door behind her.

He shook his head, crossing his arms"No!"

"Go!" she pointed again.

Shaking his head again, he shouted,"I'm not going!"

"Why not?!"

"She makes me nervous!" Gray admitted. Erza chuckled, but the blonde paid her no attention.

Lucy rolled her eyes, "What does that even mean?"

"That Juvia makes me nervous..?" he replied, but his answer sounded more like a question.

"What do you mean by nervous" Lucy insisted.

"What do you want me to say, that I like her?! Well I freaking do! Congrats you stubborn little piec..." he said gumbling non-sense.

"Dear god of all the alpacas-"

"Alpaca" chuckled Gray, it was almost like he even didn't do it conciously, like stripping, that was when Erza wondered how many unconcious acts did Gray have... She should ask Juvia.

"You like Juvia?" asked Lucy, shocked. She did not expect that confession.

There was a burst of laughter behind the three of them, "You like the stalkish type?" asked Natsu, who was standing outside the window.

With a slight blush on his cheeks, Gray shouted, "N-NO! I mean, I like her when she's not- You know, it's just tha-" He face palmed. "Fuck it"

"Erza, did you know?" asked Lucy, looking at her red-headed friend, seeing how calmed she was.

"I deduced it, and then when I told him I knew Gray told me" she replied.

"Seriously, Ice queen you took too long to freaking accept it, man, finally" said Natsu as he rolled his eyes.

"You serious? I mean, I can't believe this is coming of you, Flame Brain. You are like, the worst. You and Lucy here are so damnly annoying. Just get together already!"

Natsu looked at Lucy, who was rising her eyebrows. He then started laughing, "I win, you frozen asshole! We are already together!"

Gray blinked twice, and Erza turned her head to look at Natsu, then at Lucy, and then back at Natsu. "What? ...WHAT?" shouted Gray.

"I won!" shouted Lucy, throwing a fist to the air, and then started jumping up and down, "Haha, loser! Forgot our bet?" she pointed at the pink-haired.

Natsu widened his own eyes and grabbed his hair, "Oh, shit!"

"Lucy gets a point and starts the race!" she shouted, making a little victory dance.

"I've got two so I'm still winning" said the dragon slayer, showing her his tongue, his eyes closed tightly.

Luce frowned and grabbed a pillow, "Shut up!" the pillow, as you might have guessed, ended against his face.

"You two are together..?" said Gray, his chin touching the ground.

"Finally" smiled Erza.

"You've got to be kidding me! The stupid match head has a girlfriend and I don't?! Man, I feel depressed right now.."

"Stop whining already, Popsicle eyes. I'm better than you, just accept it"

"Okay, okay, guys! Shut up! I'm going to read, and I don't care if you listen or not!"

"Do you think I'm so Aquarius damn stupi-"

"This is the story we read when we were all together?" asked Erza.

Lucy nodded, "Yes, this is what happened when we read without you," she told them how the prince had entered the cave, and managed to make the beast, who was the beauty of the town as well, calm down. And how he was now holding a sword as she cried. Not long before she explained Gray the whole story again.

"Do you think I'm so Leo damn stupid that I don't know you'll kill me anyway. I see the determination in your eyes, and the sword you hold in your hand as well" she hissed, her hair remained white, she had blue eyes like a lake, that right now seemed to be burning in hate as she glared at the one next to her, Laxus.

When Laxus eyes widened, she laughed. But then he said something she did not expect.

"Mirajane, I don't care anymore"

"You don't care about wha-" now it was her turn to widen her eyes.

"Mirajane, I don't care"

"You don't...?" she repeated. "You finally realized?" she said, her grin growing.

"What?" muttered Natsu, confused.

"I don't know" replied Lucy.

It was a bright warm night of summer.

Prince Laxus was only twelve and he had ran from the castle, these last three years he had been tired of it. He had entered the forest near by, a place he knew very well thanks to someone he had met long ago, a weird pink haired girl who wore a maid outift, but he had never seen inside the castle. She claimed to be looking for her princess, but instead she taught him how to move through the forest.

He didn't even remembered when that had happened.

But now he was laying on the ground, the soft grass below him, and through the tree tops he was able to see the sky. There were many, many stars.

"I never freaking knew how to find constellations, do you?" asked a voice behind him.

"Yeah, the old man taught me.. HA?!" he yelled, turning around, seeing a white haired, who was bitting her lip and leaning against one of the trees before she laughed out loud.

"Man..." she sighed. "So, you'll teach me some?" said the mysterious girl. "My little sister asked about it last night and I want to know for her"

"How are you not lost?"

"Easy, I lived here for a while, and this black haired chick showed me around, she was all about balance and stuff"

After a night talking, they agreed to meet the next night so that he would teach her the constellations. And then, after the second night, they agreed for the next, and so on, until one night, Laxus told Mirajane he would not come. Ever.

It was three years later, they both were fifteen.

"It's okay, Prince" she said, she was throwing him daggers through her eyes. "I get it, you care about your damn reputation. So do I of a monster. We are supposed to slay each other after all"

"What are you even talking about, Mira?" he said, passing a hand through his hair and shaking his head, he looked annoyed.

"Nothing. Just nothing"

That was all they heard from each other.

"Dear, I was so moody back then" laughed Mirajane, sitting on a pillow, months after Laxus had first arrived. They sat in front of each other, behind the entrance of blinking diamonds, Mirajane had a hidden place, where she slept, ate, and now shared with Laxus.

"You changed a lot" nodded Laxus.

"You liked me better that way?" she asked, changing to her younger self, leaning on her arms, her elbows were touching the cold stone that was the table between them.

Laxus snickered, "Please, no... I like both"

"Perfect answer!" she replied, changing back, "You're improving at this, Laxus. You were a bit rude back then, too." she smiled.

"Well, if I was all nice back then you wouldn't have stayed one night more"

"True... I'll be right back!" she said, standing up. "The flowers need watering, do you want to keep talking? Or will you sleep at last?" she asked, her voice lovely sweet.

Lately, Laxus hadn't been able to rest properly.

Neither knew why.

It wasn't that the bed wasn't comfortable, because Mirajane had a very good one, how did she get it? Laxus had no idea. The fact that she could change shape probably had a lot to do with that. It was not that he felt lonely, of course, the white-haired gave him good company. It was not that he didn't feel tired, he was exhausted.

"I'll go back to sleep"

"Okay, have a nice nap" she walked out of the door, and she turned once more, feeling his gaze upon her, giving him a bright smile, she disappeared into the light of day.

"That's it for today, all of you, out"

"Natsu... First..." muttered Gray as he walked out of the door. Apparently he still had not processed that information.

"Wait! Natsu!" Lucy called before he went out through the window.

"Hm..?" he hummed, turning with a smile on his face.

"Tomorrow we are going shopping!"

Well, that smile just washed off.

((A/N: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAS. On time, guuuuuurl. *does a weird victory dance* Six days, guys, six chapters left...))