Hey, Dark Gothic Lolita here!

So I was supposed to bring this out last night, but my laptop is a mess and hopefully, by the end of the month, I SHOULD be getting a new one!

But yes, I have finally updated this story and I know many of you want me to update the OTHER Stivia, that one is taking a bit of time. As you know, I like the chapters to that story to be long and I need to perfect it and make sure that the storyline is still making sense. It's a tough job when you decide you're going to wing your stories and not plan them out! This is what I get!

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Chapter four

Juvia's POV

As soon as we got back, it was pretty late. I was tired as hell and I had never talked to someone so much in my life! Hikari always knew how to bounce from one subject to another. It was interesting though. "So what did you and your guildmate talk about then? You were talking for quite a bit." I just shrugged and remembered my conversation with Laki.

"Nothing really, we just talked about the guild, what's been going on and she pointed out that she hardly ever sees me anymore. I didn't tell her why obviously, but then I just told her that I was going to be with you for the rest of the month meaning that she won't see me again till it's over. You know, that sort of stuff. She also told me about how there might be another S-class trials and I told her I don't feel like participating and I told her why."

Hikari just nodded and we got out of the carriage. "So then, what about you and Sting? It looks like you were both talking again." I couldn't stop the blush that rose up on my face and I tried to look away from her but she still saw it and she danced around me. "I've got it, I've got it!" I panicked before looking around me.

"What have you got?" She stopped and looked at me dead in the face with a sly smirk that read that she knew something that I didn't. I was getting pretty scared by now.

"It's Sting, isn't it?" I thought back to our conversation from this morning and I looked away from her eyes not wanting to give anything away. She squealed before jumping up and down. "OH MY GOSH YOU LIKE ST-!" My eyes widened to the size of saucers and I held my hand over her mouth while looking around to make sure that he wasn't here.

"What are you doing?! He might hear you!"

She rolled her eyes at me and I removed my hand from her mouth allowing her to talk again. "Oh please, he's walking back to this place, what makes you think he's already here?" I gave her a dirty look as we walked up the staircase.

"Because he's a dragon slayer, they can travel on foot really fast."

"I think you're exaggerating." We came into the building after I had managed to get her to calm down and as we were passing Sting's room, the door opened and it made Hikari jump as she practically clinged to me. I somehow knew it was going to happen because when you come "HOW DID YOU GET BACK SO FAST?!" I laughed silently and she finally let go of me. That's when I realised that he must have just come out of the shower because his hair was still dripping wet, he no top on, he had his towel around his waist and oh, did I mention HE HAD NO TOP ON?!

"He is purposely trying his best to make me blush around him, isn't he? He's so evil." I tried to look at anywhere but him and all I could hear was distant bits of information with Sting saying he's really fast at getting around. Soon enough, I heard Hikari yawning and I took the opportunity to grab her arm. I still didn't look at Sting.

"Yeah well Hikari's tired now, nighty night Sting!" I tried to pull Hikari away, but Sting grabbed onto me and it accidentally made me look up at him. His cobalt eyes gazed into my equally blue sapphire eyes and I felt like I had been paralysed on the spot.

"I hope you don't mind Hikari, but I need to talk to Juvia about something really important. Our job is based on it." I knew it was a outright lie, but Hikari seemed to take it seriously. Well at least I thought it was a lie anyway, couldn't really tell.

"Oh sure thing. I'm really tired though so I won't wait up Juvia!" I rolled my eyes at her and she walked away as Sting pulled me into his room.

He walked in and went to sit down while I stayed standing up because I knew I wasn't going to be here long. I knew I should have been used to seeing different guys chests all the time. I mean, Gray always strips of his clothes therefore he goes topless, there was that Ogre guy or whatever his name was in Sting's team, there's Natsu and I've seen Gajeel topless on many different accounts. Why did it matter that I saw Sting's chest all of a sudden?

"So what did you want to say?" I wasn't going to look at him. I wasn't going to let him have that sort of affect on me and he wasn't going to see that he had that sort of affect on me. I was going to happily look away and he was just going to talk about our job and what not. He seemed very serious about it.

"I've heard rumours about Maria. I heard that she's from a dark guild. Most of her guards are from the same dark guild other than your two friends who have no clue about it. They're planning on draining all the women from their magic. Juvia, they've also caught wind on how you have a lot of magic power, they'll most definitely try to drain you too." I gasped and I suddenly turned to face him but still managed to blush in such a serious situation.

"But how did you find out? And what should we do, I still have to protect Hikari, we can't waste time and energy to also make sure that I'm okay too!" I looked down at the ground trying to remove my eyes from his form and it didn't really help that he only had on a towel too.

"Eh, I found a shortcut and some men were talking about Lady Maria and how their plan can't be foiled and shit like that. As for protecting Hikari, you can still do that. They plan on draining the magic on the next full moon which is in another 28 days soon because the last one was yesterday. I'll go as a solo to their guild and destroy whatever they have there then quickly get outta there." He had this all figured out and it made wonder how I would have coped if I didn't have him doing the job with me.

"28 days, the next full moon...My water magic is always strong on a full moon and Luna means moon meaning...The more they drain their magic sources, the more power Maria gets meaning that she wants to prove that she is truly the Luna Princess." Sting looked at me in surprise.

"How did you make that up?" I shrugged.

"It seems logical. Anyway, I better get going and I'll see you later...You know, when you have more clothes on." I quickly turned my back on his and I knew, I just knew that he was wearing a smirk on his face so I quickly made my way out of his room and back down to Hikari's. She was laying on her bed reading a magazine.

"Someone's looking red! Maybe it was just an excuse to tell you he loves you." I turned and gasped at her with a crimson face.

"NO! We were actually talking about our job!" She rolled her eyes at me with a smile that said 'you can't fool me'.

"No seriously Hikari, Sting has come up with some information that just might make Maria win, if he hadn't walked." That made her stop and I could feel her anger levels rising up dangerously.

"Go on," she said slowly. Now was not the time to be joking around when this woman wanted to drain others of all their magic capacity.

"We still need more evidence and proof, but it has something to do with draining every candidates magic source and transferring it to her. She'll be doing it in another 28 days because that's when the next full moon is. She's also need me to finish it off, but we need more evidence." I could see her jaw clench, her fists grabbed at her sheets and her red eyes narrowed dangerously.

"She'll never win, I'll make sure of it. I'm glad that it was you and Sting who got this job, you can save the country without even knowing it." I was stunned and when she didn't say anymore, I knew I had to take it upon myself to find out what this Luna Princess and Shadow Prince thing actually was.

We said our goodnights and I walked into my room and locked the door, still thinking about what Hikari had just told me. Why was this all so important? Why would this save the country? What exactly is going on here?! I made some tea and just as it was finished, Sting came jumping in over the balcony and grabbing up his own tea.

"Wow, you even made tea for me, aren't you the sweetest?" He was mocking me and I flicked my wrist at him and the water within the tea smacked in the face. He glared at me as he wiped up his mouth. "Funny." I smiled at him, showing him that it was funny to me before going off into the bathroom.

"I'm going to have my shower and brush my teeth, feel free to fall asleep." He gave me a look and I remembered that he couldn't fall asleep when he had no one to cuddle up with in his bed. I closed the door behind me and stripped of my clothes before walking into the shower. I washed my hair, my body and then rinsed before getting out. As soon as I grabbed my towel and brushed my teeth, that's when I realised that I didn't bring in my change of clothes. My face was dusted with light pink. "Oh hell..."

Now I had to go out to the room where Sting was and I was only going to be in my towel. I sighed before opening the door and I walked out. As soon as Sting heard the door creak, he looked up at me from the bed and his jaw slacked as he was stunned. I wasn't blushing heavily, but I was blushing all the same and I knew that I had a tint of light pink that dusted my cheeks. I had already flicked all the water in my hair making it dry already.

I felt Sting's eyes on me as I walked across the bedroom and over to my wardrobe where I had hung all my clothes out. I grabbed up the most decent looking nightgown. I turned back to face him and his eyes were still wide, staring at me and I felt steam coming from every part of my body.

"S-stop looking at me!"

He then went red as he turned his head away from me finally and I rushed back into the bathroom. I mean, it's not like he saw much and he's probably already seen more of me when I was in the naval battle and I wore a bikini, but it was the fact that my towel could fall off so easily and there would be nothing saving me.

I more or less ran to the bathroom once more. I slipped into the nightgown and it turns out I grabbed the one that had a small dress that only went as far as my thighs with a see through dress on top. I groaned at myself. Why was this happening to me? I wasn't Lucy! Oh yeah...Lucy gave it to me as a birthday present and Cana had said something like 'now you can seduce Gray-sama.' It was a surprise that I even bothered to keep the dress. I should have gotten Natsu to burn it or something.

I walked out of the bathroom yet again and I didn't even bother looking at Sting as I held my arms over my chest and just clambered into the bed. I turned out the lights but I couldn't sleep, not after what had just happened. Sometimes, I felt like I was dealing with a more flirtatious Gajeel and that thought in itself was sickening. He hadn't yet cuddled up to me, but I know he wasn't yet asleep. He had his back to me on one side of the bed and I couldn't help but actually feel unwanted.

I didn't know why I was feeling this way. Was it because I was easily angry? Maybe because of what happened earlier on today, he might be a little mad at me or something. I sighed and just lay there, facing my side of the wall, even though I couldn't see it.

I suddenly felt the weight of the bed shift over after a while and I knew that he must have been very close to sleep. Maybe he tried to act like he didn't need anyone to help him get to sleep, but his fear then took over him last minute and he ended up cuddling close or something.

His arms enveloped around me and I felt the extra warmth that bed wouldn't have been giving me and I probably would have never noticed was missing if he hadn't been hugging me. He pulled me a little closer to him and a sigh left his lips, as though he was finally able to get to sleep. I called out to him.

"Goodnight Sting."

I heard him grunt and when I was finally about to drift off to sleep, his arms were tangled around me and his face was in the crook of my neck. I smiled tiredly just as I fell asleep.


I swear, the morning always comes so quickly sometimes and all I ever want to do is lay here in the bed with Sting. I was awake before I opened my eyes and I felt Sting's hand run through my hair. It was such a nice feeling and I swear, I would never even mind waking up like this all the time. Obviously, some time during the night our positions had changed. Sting was on his back and my head was on his chest with my arm draped over him. Just as I was about to move out of his hold and show him I was awake, I heard him sigh.

I didn't know why I was getting used to this when this was the third time we had woken up like this. It was slowly going to become routine for the next month and I was scared as to what would happen when the mission actually ended. There was no way we would keep in contact, that was just absurd. Besides, Sabertooth hate Fairy Tail, that much is obvious.

"Sting?" His hand froze and I knew that he was scared that I had just caught him doing that. "No, no, keep on doing that, it feels nice." Hesitantly, he continued to stroke my hair and I sighed making sure that I was enjoying every bit of it. This is how it's going to be for the rest of the job, Sting and I sharing the same bed so I might as well get used to it.

Sting suddenly shifted his body away from me and my head fell against the pillow. I saw him move away from me and then he got off of the bed. "I gotta go now, Hikari will be waking up soon and I have to go with the other guards." He didn't even spare me a second glance as he made his way over to the window. I watched his naked back as he crouched on the window sill. I looked back down at the space he had just occupied with a sad look. He was so dismissive of me, as if he was rushing to get away from me.

"Oh, and good morning Juvia."

With that, he was gone. I smiled a little bit before it turned into a grin. I know that my imagination was always wild, but this one seemed moderate. I felt as though I was finally the Princess and not Lucy and I had a secret lover whom I couldn't be with because we're both so different. I got up from the bed and quickly made it with a broad smile on my face. I'll try my best to make sure that Sting isn't another Lucy fan.

I then heard Hikari knock at my door and I unlocked it and she came in looking bleary eyed. "Good morning Juvia. I've just heard that my parents are asking for me to come back for the day for a visit. But they don't like it when I have any guards with me only because it ruins family time. What should I do?" Then she noticed what I was wearing and she smirked.

"My my, isn't someone already trying to woo Sting into their bed." She laughed and I felt like smacking her to shut her up but I didn't. I waited till her laughter died down.

"ANYWAY, I'll just talk with Sting, he'll know what to do with all this new information coming in and stuff." She nodded her head before giving me one last knowing smile and walking away. I closed my door behind her and looked in the mirror to see what I was wearing. I didn't really look bad in it really.

I smiled before getting ready for my day.

~x~

One of the other maids had delivered Hikari's food to her so she didn't come down to eat with us. Sting looked like he was in a hurry by the way he was grabbing up his food and sitting down in any random spot, so I didn't even want to bother him. Instead, I sat by myself and just watched everyone whirl around. The guards had to be on high alert today with Hikari leaving and everything for the day to her parents.

I sat down while slowly eating my breakfast knowing fully well that today would probably be my only free day. It was only the third day and I had already gotten used to the company that I had here, the company that my guild, Fairy Tail couldn't give to me. Finally, Sting walked up to me while scratching the back of his head. "Hey," is all he said. I smiled.

"Hey yourself." We were just there in silence not knowing what to say until I brought up an important topic. "Oh yeah, Hikari is going to visit her parents today but they don't like having any guards around or anything because it ruins the family moment. Any ideas on what to do?" Sting thought about it for a minute before he nodded.

"Go after them in your own carriage seeing as she has more than enough here. Be close to the house but far enough to make sure that they don't see you. I doubt anyone would have caught wind on this, but you know just in case." He looked fidgety and jumpy and I looked at him.

"Then what are you going to be doing?" He sighed as though he knew that I was going to ask him that question. "Oh, you don't have to tell me if you don't want to." He shook his head with a smirk on his face.

"Nah, I'm just going to be snooping around and shit. By the way, if you see your friends, Sue and Boze or whatever, make sure you're careful." I raised an eyebrow at him.

"But you said that they have no idea of what's going on!" He nodded his head and gave me a look as though I was stupid. Okay, clearly I missed something here then.

"Has your love for Gray made you lose a few brain cells or something? Maria sounds cunning and she could use those two against you without them even having knowledge of anything going on around them. Remember what I said, you're a target as well and because of your magic source, she may try anything to get you and that's even by telling Sue to invite you over for a chat or you girls going on a shopping spree."

Now that he said it, it did make sense. I blushed only a little bit when I realised how dense I was sometimes. He ruffled my hair which made me look at him. He still had that smirk on his face. "Don't worry, being smart only happens to the best of us." He laughed and I punched his shoulder in which he started holding. "Erm OW?!" I smiled at him and just as I was about to go off and organise a carriage for myself, he stopped me.

"But seriously, if Sue does ask you to go anywhere with them, you're only to go with me and when you're following Hikari, make sure you're careful, okay?" I felt so touched that he was so worried about me even though we were from different guilds. I turned around and tried to taunt him like he always does with me.

"Aww, doesn't someone care?"

"Yeah because we're comrades right now."

"Oh really? We're not even in the same guild and you think of us as comrades?"

"We're on the same job now, isn't that good enough?" I regarded him and he did the same with me. He always knew how to get in the last word! I was never going to win against him and this little game. Somehow, it was as though he had a hidden meaning behind his words and I just couldn't make out what he meant by that.

"You always know what to say."

"And surprisingly so do you. I never go at it for that long with anyone else. Now get lost, you stupid Fairy." I gave him a light smile before waving at him and leaving the room. I had to go and prepare a carriage for myself behind Hikari.

~x~

I never did understand why Hikari didn't live with her parents, after all she was only 19. Okay, so maybe she wanted some independence? But why did they have to live so freaking far away?! If Sting had come along with me, he would no longer have guts to spill out that his internal organs would be pouring out by now. I had managed to fall asleep and when I actually woke up again, the carriage driver said that I still had about three hours to go. I slept even longer again and he had to wake me up this time.

He left the carriage somewhere nearby and we made arrangements for when he would come back to get me again. I left my spare maid outfit in the carriage in case I would have to fight or something. I had a really bad feeling that something was going to happen and I watched as Hikari's parents came out to greet her. They went inside and I made my way up to the house, trying to find the perfect place to hide and keep an eye out.

Just as I found a fountain in the middle of the huge compound, there was movement behind me a little way off into the woods. "It's always the woods with these rich people. Can't they live near decent civilisation?" I made sure that I wasn't seen and made myself into a puddle before rising up in front of the person. They were quite surprised as they jumped back a little bit. I used my expressionless face that I used to sport back in Phantom. This was my serious job look.

"Who are you and what do you want with Hikari?" He wasn't to be trusted and I was on high alert for many other people, if he had back up. There was no doubt about it, he would be working for Lady Maria. He gave me a troubled look that I started beginning whether he was actually in on the business or not.

"Look, I just need to get this off of my chest okay? I don't know you, but I work for some woman called Lady Maria. I've angered her and now she's going to kill me, so I want you to know this. She plans on taking the magic of the Luna Queen which is a very powerful form of magic, on the level of Zeref magic. You know the story of Zeref right? Good. Well at her level, she's not strong enough and Lady Hikari is more than strong enough. She plans of draining all the Lady's magic source within them and someone called Juvia. It will aid her on the night of next full Luna moon. She has a huge drainer back at her mansion which is charging up right now as we speak, every night it captures power from the moon."

My eyes were wide the whole time that he kept on talking. I was so confused. Do I believe him? Do I listen to him? Do I help him or what? It was best to act clueless. "Ju...er I'm sorry but I don't know how to help you..." It was best not to give him my name otherwise this would have all been a trick and he just wanted to confirm my name and capture me or something. His face fell and I almost felt sorry for him.

"Please, call someone then! The mages that are Hikari's maid in waiting and guard! You can tell them, I'm sure they'll do something!" It was as though his eyes lit up in gladness as he worked it out. I almost slipped him the truth to him before he started groaning and holding his chest. "Please, just go and tell them. The Luna Princess title can't fall in the hands of someone like Maria. If it does, we'll fall." He leaned back away from me and leaned on the tree, panting really hard. I took a step forward to him and he shook his head.

"I've done my part now. Please just do what I've said. You don't know how much you'll save us all. I'll be fine here. I've been tagged by Maria herself where of we betray her, we have 24 hours before we combust. My 24 hours are over."

Oh my kami, someone was going to die right in front of me and I couldn't even do anything about it. So much for me being a mage of Fairy Tail when I couldn't even help someone. The most I could do was to go and tell Sting and we could stop it.

His breathing became more shallow. I didn't want to leave him out here. He seemed to notice. "It's okay, there won't even be a body to be buried. You should go now, before I take you down with me!" His sharp voice made my soul lurch into motion as I started running through and back to the street of posh and rich houses and falling into the fountain silently to keep an eye on Hikari. Soon enough, there was a shrill scream from the forest where I had just come through. I no longer felt the man's presence.

He was dead.


I ate to my heart's content that Hikari was staring at me like I was a mad woman. "Wow, haven't you seen food all day or something?" I really hadn't. I had spent all my time watching Hikari spend time with her parents that I almost came walking up to the window when they were having their own dinner. I completely forgot to pack food when I was heading out this morning.

"Sorry, I went into town today and I didn't manage to buy any food." I blushed deeply, feeling ashamed of myself for eating like such a pig, so I slowed it down in case I choked on my food or something. She laughed before shrugging as though she didn't mind. She gave her teacup to one of the servants passing by before she stood up, yawning.

"I'm going to bed. The journey to and from my parents place is like 6 hours! I'm so tired! You're so lucky you didn't get to do that trip!" I gave her a tight grin with my teeth gritted, annoyed at how she didn't even know how much of a personal hell it was for me, trying to protect her. It was a good thing I went anyways. I couldn't get that man's scream out of my head though and I knew that it would most likely haunt me, especially if those men knew where I was and even WHO I was. Maria probably showed them a picture of me anyway.

Hikari walked up to her room and I leaned back and sighed, with my eyes closed. Suddenly, I felt someone behind me and when I looked up, I could see Sting's face looming over mine. I blushed as I quickly tried to move away, but I banged my forehead against his in the process. With his head being significantly harder than mine, it really hurt.

"OW! Ugh gosh that hurt! What the hell is your problem, being so close to my head?!" I held my head as I hissed out in pain and Sting was just laughing his head off at me. I rubbed the spot where my head hurt and sighed deeply, just getting up and a servant taking my plate for me. I could tell that Sting was going to ask me what was wrong and I really had no energy in telling him. "I'm tired."

He followed me up the stairs as we parted to our rooms before he would meet me in mine. Before I managed to grab the door handle to Hikari's room, Sting grabbed the back of my head, and leaned forward to me. I watched, waiting for what he would do to me before I felt something light on my forehead before it quickly left and Sting's door had now shut. I blinked multiple times before I realised that he had kissed my head on the part that we bumped heads on. My face went ablaze as I walked through Hikari's room.

I saw Hikari on her bed but she was already asleep and that was something I couldn't wait to do. I walked on through my room, took a shower and got dressed before Sting came in. I was already half asleep when I heard him creep in and slide into my bed right behind me. I smiled when he held me like he always did. His arm was around me protectively and it was like all of my fears on everything had just floated away. Every bad thought on Fairy Tail, the memories of the man's scream and everything else just seemed to seep away as I thought of being in Sting's arms. Only, I wanted more than this. I wanted something out of him doing this for me. This was only him spending his nights with me because I was the alternative.

Oh well, I will be that happy alternative for now. After all, it's a whole month together.


How was that chapter for ya? Let me tell you, I've done SOOOO much editing for this story in particular, mainly because of how fast it was moving. That's my excuse eith this story having late updates lol. The chapters are there, but I have to slow a lot of events down. Even now I feel like it's still moving too quickly!

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