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So I've neglected this story for quite some time now, and I thought that maybe it's time to push out another chapter already! Like, I've kept you people waiting for too long now and I'm sorry about that! Here is the third chapter!

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Chapter three

Sting's POV

I was the first one to wake up out of the two of us. I needed to quickly get out of her room before Hikari came in and saw the two of us in the same bed. I untangled my arms from around Juvia as gently as I could before pulling away from her.

Although I would never admit it, Juvia was really cute. When I saw what she was wearing yesterday, all the blood that I owned in my body was about to rush to two places. My nose and my dick.

But I would never admit that, because after all, she is kind of a weirdo and she has that huge infatuation with Gray. Makes me wonder why she's willing to spend a month away from him. Besides, I'm a mage of Sabertooth and she's a mage of Fairy Tail, it just won't work. Our guilds hate each other. Well Sabertooth hate Fairy Tail.

I stared down at her face to look at her features. Her soft blue velvet like hair was scattered around her head framing her to look like an angel while her face looked so peaceful. My hand instinctively reached out to stroke her soft cheek when I paused.

"What the hell am I DOING?!" My hand snapped back away from her as though she was infectious. I needed to get a hold of myself and get out of here right away. I couldn't be all rude to her then suddenly BANG, I'm being nice to her. I knew that she would know that there's something going on if I was to suddenly be nice to her.

Just as I swung my legs over the side of the bed, Juvia turned over and her light blue eyes blinked open. Her sight must have been blurry as she was constantly blinking. I stared at her before grabbing up my shirt from the floor.

"Thanks for letting me sleep here for the night." I could have been my rude and sarcastic self but I didn't think it was time for that right now. She sat up and stretched slightly before nodding shyly. It was such a huge contrast from last night and it made wondered what had changed.

"That's okay Sting. So you're going to back to your room now huh?"

I nodded my head, wasn't it obvious that I was? Just as I was turning my head I only caught a glimpse of sadness right before it was gone again. I frowned at her and she seemingly froze at the fact that I had just seen her face. "Are you okay?" She nodded her head rapidly before spinning around, not wanting to look at me anymore. I could tell that she was blushing.

"Yes, I'm fine. You should probably go now before Hikari wakes up." I nodded at her back before walking over to her huge windows and jumping off of her balcony and climbing on the wall and getting into my room which was just a few windows away from hers. I almost didn't make it out because she was still wearing the same nightwear from the night before.

I don't know why I had the sudden urge to be with her. She smelt like bubblegum and I loved how smooth and soft her neck felt. Even though I would forever knock her down on her looks and her creepy personality, she was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen. She was so innocent, trying to never wear revealing clothes and although I was aware of how strong she was, Rogue had told me that she was an S-mage back in Phantom Lord, making her even stronger than I originally thought.

The fact that she would so innocently let me sleep with her in the same bed without so much as a shriek or a glare, it was almost as though she understood me, that she knew me. She was like a shadow in Fairy Tail and I never quite understood why. I mean sure she has that fucking annoying and HUGE obsession over Gray, but they can't shun her just because they think she's a little weird. I saw the way they laughed at her at the naval battle, I mean so did I. But the way her team was so disappointed when Minerva teleported her out when they thought she was the one who swam out herself. It wasn't fair.

She was pretty much normal. I managed to have normal conversations with her and I found that she was really interesting. She knew a lot of stuff, she knew how harsh the world was, she fits in with everyone. I'm pretty sure that Hikari would be a bitch to any other person, but Juvia has that likeable and understanding presence about her.

"Sting? We're going to need you to go with Lady Hikari and her maid in waiting for the buffet today." I shoved in my tight fitting top over my head before getting into my black jeans and stuck my boots on. I looked up at the other guard as I tied my shoelaces.

"What's this buffet about?"

I saw the guard straighten up. "Just all the Luna Princess candidates at one gathering having a meeting with the current Luna Queen." I raised my eyebrow you at this.

"Luna Queen?" I opened the door and he nodded at me before we started off for the dining room. It looks like I'm finally going to get some background on this job that I'm about to do for the next month.

"At first the girls are start off as the Princess before they turn 25. A week after their 25th birthday, they then become the Luna Queen. It's a once in a lifetime shot to become the Queen. Most get killed so early on. They hold a lot of power and it's mostly unknown to the mage world. It's an extremely old tradition."

Well it was going to be my job to stop that. There was a whole bunch of food spread out in the table ranging from toast to croissants and everything else. I looked at it all hungrily before grabbing up a plate and realizing that someone else has grabbed it too. "Oh Juvia is sorry...Sting?"

She instantly released it as she fought down a blush and I smirked at her. "Miss me babe?" She scoffed at me before pulling out another plate and grabbed a yoghurt and some toast on placed it on there. I couldn't fight the grin off my face when I saw her reaction. This girl was honestly a riot.

"You were so much more easier to deal with last night," she muttered under her breath.

I turned to see that Hikari was sitting at the table talking to a chef and that no one else was at the food table. I snaked my arm around her waist and pulled her into me, quite enjoying that quiet and surprised yelp that she let out. "I know that I could get you to do more than enjoy me at night, Juvia."

I let my breath tickle her ear as she pulled away from me and I removed my arm from her. Right now, I could swear that she was boiling in her water form and her face had gone so red. She moved away from keep quickly before letting her magic hide her flustered face and she sat down next to Hikari. I chuckled to myself and found some guards to go and talk to as well.

"So are you and Juvia like an item? Is that even allowed? Having mages from different guilds-RIVALS no less going out with each other?" I shrugged at the man who asked it.

"Well seeing as someone from Lamia Scale and Blue Pegasus are dating, I would say that it's allowed. As for the item shit, nah. She's too in love with cold shoulder boy that she wouldn't ever look at me like that."

One of the guards smirked at me and I found out his name was Daisuke. "So let's get this straight first. You like her don't you?" That was when I realised that I hadn't actually denied that I like Juvia that way. I did somehow come to terms this morning that maybe, just maybe Juvia would come to accept who I am. I smirked at them all before shaking my head a little. Nah, I don't like her in that way at all.

I looked at Juvia out of the corner of my eyes, and there she was. Sitting in a lilac and white maid outfit was Juvia talking to Hikari who was equally talking animatedly. Maybe it wouldn't hurt to eavesdrop on their conversation...

"Someone else?! I bet it's Gajeel! He's the only rude and blunt person in the mage world that I've heard of that is a friend of yours. Unless there's another guy?" I gritted my teeth thinking about Juvia being in another guy's arms and that thought wasn't going down well at all. I quickly deduced that it was because while I was on this job with her, I was the only guy who would get to have my arms around her, not even Gray. That then got me thinking, she liked another guy! So much for the obsession on Gray then.

I saw her catch my eye and she quickly looked away from me before I could hear her telling Hikari to keep it down that I was eavesdropping. She was so used to Dragon slayers seeing as there were four in her guild. She knew when we could listen and when we couldn't. She was smart, but I was going to find out who this guy was just to make this job more interesting for me.


The three of us made it out of the carriage and we were walking around the castle with a bunch of other Ladies and their bodyguards and maids. I just walked behind the two girls with my hands in my pockets before someone called out to Hikari.

"Oh what do you know, it's Hikari. Still believing in love and that you above all people would be powerful enough to be the Luna Princess?" We turned around and saw a petite woman with short black hair and piercing eyes. Hikari's mood suddenly changed to a bitter one. She gave me eye contact that meant I might have to butt into this one. I gave a tiny nod to show her that I understood what she wanted of me.

"Oh, Maria, how are you?" I froze, she was Maria huh? I would definitely need to be careful and Juvia stood a little bit forward too. The bodyguard she had wasn't the same one that had attacked Hikari yesterday though. The woman gave Hikari an ugly smirk that I wish I could just wipe off because it was an eyesore. I bet she thought she was so pretty.

"Oh me? I'm fine. I heard you got two mages to be your personal bodyguard and maid. I decided to do the same thing. Meet Boze and Sue." I heard Juvia gasp and when I looked over to her, I saw recognition in her eyes. Hikari and I both looked at her weirdly before she apologized to us.

"Juvia, you haven't aged a bit." I looked back to see a dark skinned woman with a black bandana on her head as she wore a maid outfit like Juvia's, only in black and white. I'm guessing she was Sue then. Juvia seemed to lighten up as though they knew each other, which by the looks of things, they did.

"Sue-san, Boze-san, how have you both been?"Just as they were about to reply, Maria glared at the two of them before walking away from us. Juvia flashed them a hurt look and Sue looked over her shoulders giving her a helpless look. She sighed before turning back to us. "I'm sorry, they're just old friends of mine when I was back in Phantom." She turned her head to look back at them and it was though she was more friends with them than anyone else at Fairy Tail.

Hikari just threw her arm around Juvia before we started walking again. "Aww, don't worry, you guys can talk after because no bodyguard or maid is allowed inside when we have to meet the Luna Queen. Maria is just being an idiot, thinking she can steal my Shadow Prince away from me just because she was jealous of our love. Ugh she sickens me."

We finally made it to the door where we would have to hang back as we watched Hikari walk in. She winked at us both before walking in. A guard of the Luna Queen came to us all. "If you would all like to kindly go and wait over there, that would be wonderful." I didn't like the way he spoke, like he had nasal problems so I mimicked him and Juvia giggled.

We waited in the designated area and Juvia went off the Sue and Boze. "Sue-san Boze-san!" They both smiled at her.

"Hey Juvia, we heard you joined Fairy Tail along with Gajeel after we attacked them. How have ya been?"

Juvia shrugged as her smile slipped a little. "Well first we were frozen for 7 years, resulting in me looking like this, then my guild have been neglecting me, which made me take this job! What about you guys?" They all started talking on how they were both now married and what not. Suddenly, Juvia tugged on my arm.

"This is Sting, he's from Sabertooth and we're working together." I grinned at them both and Sue smirked at Juvia.

"Well isn't he cute." It was my turn to smirk and Juvia blushed so deeply before she looked away. Sue laughed before saying goodbye and she pulled Boze as they both walked away.

"What can I say, no woman can deny a good looking guy when they see one." Juvia just crossed her arms as she looked away from me.

"I can, because you're not." I faked a pout at her while holding my heart so dramatically.

"You wound me Juvia." She rolled her eyes at me but it was like she had something to say but just didn't want to say it. I decided to ask her something else. "What do you mean by 'my guild have been neglecting me'? What's Fairy Tail doing? I thought they were a loving guild?" I really did think they were and her sigh confirmed my thoughts too.

"I thought so too you know? It's kind of like ever since I embarrassed myself at the naval battle, they didn't want anything to do with me. You know what makes it worse? They reluctantly asked me to fill in for Natsu. Didn't you see how I was messing up my fight with Chelia? Eventually, I just lost all hope in things, no one was talking to me anymore so I thought why should I talk to them?"

She was just looking ahead now, not looking at me. "I go on solo jobs and it's not even like they notice when I'm gone or when I come back. The only reason Mira knows is because we have to tell her when and where we're going. Whenever I'm injured, I sort myself out. It's weird because despite all this, I love them to pieces and I would never let anything bad happen to them at all."

She looked at me as though she was waiting for me to interject but I didn't and she sighed before looking away again. "I don't even know why I'm going to say this to you above all people, because let's face it, you don't care about me. I've always felt jealous of Lucy. Ever since I was in Phantom I felt jealous of her and I still do! She gets all the love, all the attention and all the guys."

We both sat there in silence and it was as though I was the only person she had ever told that. Well I obviously was seeing as her own guild didn't care for her. I don't know why I was going to say this next bit, but I did. "What if you came to join our guild?" Her eyes widened and her mouth was in a perfect 'o' shape as she stared at me. She finally shut her mouth as she was trying to look for any hidden agenda.

"What's...why? You don't care, I have no idea why I even told you in the first place." It was things like this that made most girls so annoying. Yeah so maybe I'm a little rude to her and stuff, but when she tells me something that she didn't have to tell me and I decide on being nice to her about it, does she have to be an utter bitch? I scowled at her.

"Fine then creeper, stay in a guild that doesn't fucking love you. Because it's so hard to see why they don't." I knew I was being way too harsh on her, but if that's how she wants to play it, then we can play it that fucking way then. I watched her as she stood up.

"I'm going to get a drink."

I sighed at her back. "Juvia wait." She didn't wait, not like I was expecting her too anyway. She just kept on walking and I could see her hands balled into fists at the side of her body. I sighed and just sat back wondering why my life just had to be so fucking hard all the time. Now I understood why most guys liked one night stands, no strings attached. Some girls were just a fucking piece of work and I can't be bothered for that kind of hassle.


After waiting about 5 hours for Hikari to come out, we finally got to walk around the town. Juvia still wasn't talking to me and Hikari caught on that there was something wrong. Luckily, Juvia saw someone from her guild and they immediately launched into a conversation. Hikari looked at me. "What did you do to Juvia?"

I snorted. "Yep, they always think it's the guy." I shrugged my shoulders as I looked over to Juvia still talking to someone with purple hair. "I asked her a simple question and she got all like 'oh why am I even telling you this, you don't care' and so I was rude to her and now she won't speak to me, end of." Hikari threw me a dirty look which I ignored. When I looked back over to Juvia, I could see that even though she was speaking to someone from her guild, there was no life in her eyes. It was as though what she had said was true.

"Whatever you said to her must have been serious though. You should apologize to her." I laughed out as I threw my head back. Hikari just waited politely for me to be done.

"Pffft no way! If she thinks she can get an apology out me, she is highly mistaken. I asked her something that would benefit her and if she thinks that I was going to be rude to her about it, I might have as well made her wish come true by being rude to her, which I did."

I just rubbed my temples before continuing. "You want to know why some guys like one night stands? Because you girls give us a fucking headache with your attitude. When a guy says something that sounds caring, don't reply with a bitch answer, you answer the damn question, and in her case, she didn't do that. Maybe if Juvia learns from that, maybe we can talk."

Hikari just started at me a little stunned that I had even bothered saying that. Well at least she seemed like she could understand where I was coming from and she nodded. I then remembered that I had to make up with her by the end of the day because I still had to sleep in the same bed as her and I cursed under my breath. "I'll talk to her for you then. Here she comes."

I looked at Juvia as she made her way back to us again and the other girl walked the other way to us. She was looking at the ground as though it were more interesting than the both of us. Hikari then pointed at a little jewellery store that was a little bit up ahead. "Oh, we need to go there!" She then pulled us both and started running at top speed before we stopped outside the shop. "You guys can wait here!" I glared at her knowing full well what she was trying to do before she winked at me and skipped into the shop.

We both stood there in full silence as I was just watching the people that were going by, trying to see what girl is hot, who's cute and who's ugly. I don't know why, but now one was ever seen as beautiful in my eyes and it was only Juvia that my eyes kept on coming back too. Eventually she spoke up.

"I'm an idiot."

When she said that, I didn't miss a beat. "I know."

"I was pretty rude to you back there."

"You were, but so was I."

"But I deserved it."

"I'm guessing you have the answer to my question now then.

She fell silent for a bit and we just stood there in a comfortable silence again. "I love them and stuff, I mean they're really nice. I'm kinda scared of your guild and I think it would be awkward if I went there." We both looked at each other at the same time and we just stared. I never noticed how bright her eyes were. She quickly looked away from me after a long time.

"I get you anyway. I mean it would be pretty hard for me to leave Sabertooth too. Don't worry about it." As soon as we had finished talking, Hikari's carriage pulled up just as she came out of the shop. I paled at the sight of the mode of transport we'll be using yet again. I shook my head at them both. "I'll be fine walking you guys."

Hikari laughed as she remembered what had happened to me and Juvia smirked at me. "You don't feel so tough now do you?" I gave her a sarcastic smile as they both got into the carriage, Juvia poked her head out to me. "Are you going to be okay?" I smirked at her and I came closer to her. Her face was so red. I loved how I was able to make her feel so self conscious and embarrassed.

"Are you worrying about me?"

"N-NO, not at all."

"I beg to differ."

"So you're begging now?"

"Then why are you blushing?"

She shut her mouth after that and I saw her blush deepen and she moved away from me. She quickly sat back into the carriage and I still had a smirk on my face even when I saw them leaving. Juvia was getting more interesting and sassy. I would be lying if I said I didn't like that.


So about them apples huh? How was that, like it?

I've had a few problems with this story that I'm trying to iron out the wrinkles. I wrote this story ages ago, but I've scrapped a good majority of it because the flow was just too fast for me to deal with or like. That's why this has taken so long for me to release this 3rd chapter. Trying to make sure everything is okay and consistent!

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