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I'm aware that I've taken a while to update certain stories and now you've seen me release two new ones, but trust me, I'm still working on them all! Some may take longer to update (such as secrets within magic) as I have to re-read certain points in the manga for it to merge correctly with what I'm writing.
Other than that, I'm pretty proud of myself for getting a few updates done lately, as well as a lot of my uni work too, so go me!
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Chapter five
Sting's POV
I really hated this feeling. Juvia was making me really weak as to making me feel emotions like love. I never really saw myself as the romantic type and I never really even thought of myself as to be with Juvia. Maybe that was a good thing seeing as no one would ever know that there would be anything between us. It was better off this way.
I'm really going to protect her, I would do anything in my power to see that she would be okay and that she wouldn't have her magic drained away. I wasn't going to let that happen to her. I looked down at her sleeping body and it was funny how I was always the first one to wake up. I thought it was the girl that wakes up first. Her breathing was slowed as though she knew that she was taking her time and her face was so smooth. Her usually pale face was slowly getting darker as though it was hotter here than where she usually was.
"I swear Juvia, I'll make sure that they won't get your magic." I didn't even know why I cared so much. After all, I was from Sabertooth and she was from Fairy Tail, I didn't really have to care for her at all. I could just do my part of the job and move on with my happy and peaceful life, yet it was as though I wanted her to stay close with me. I was bonding with someone from Fairy Tail and I could have never actually been more glad that it was Juvia.
I could smell the breakfast that was being made and I knew it was time to wake Juvia up. I shook her shoulder lightly and she sighed before rubbing her eyes and she stared at me. "Time to wake up?" I nodded my head before jumping out of the bed, trying to avoid her gaze on my eyes.
I didn't even look at her as I quickly jumped over the balcony and made my way back over to my room.
I made my way out of my room as soon as I was dressed and I could see Daisuke smirking at me, waiting outside my door. I eyed him with an eyebrow raised as he followed me down the hallway. "So, you and Juvia huh? And I thought you didn't like her." I almost froze, but then again, I could just deny everything. I shrugged at him.
"Oh don't act like you don't know! I've seen you twice, coming out of her bedroom window. I bet you even came from her room right now even." Okay, now I just choked on my saliva as we made our way down the stairs. He gave me an innocent look and many people were staring at me weirdly. I glared long and hard at Daisuke.
"Okay, how the hell do you know that and you better not say anything." He raised his hands as he weaved his way in and out of the servants.
"My lips are sealed! After all, I'm guessing that not much goes on because Hikari would have been hearing you every night. It would have been way wiser if you took her to your room or something. But I get it, you don't want me to question you and because I'm not a girl, so I won't bug you for an answer." I almost sighed in relief but I knew that the glint in his eye meant that he wants answers, but he'll be man enough to find out for himself and not by asking me.
The head guard approached us and I was wondering if he too knew about me climbing into Juvia's room, but he started talking about something else, much to my delight. "The Luna Queen will be spending a whole day with the Ladies this time around, but she also wants to see the guards and maid in waiting. It's mandatory. I'm sure that Juvia has been informed." I nodded my head, groaning inwards thinking that I was actually going to have another free day.
I grabbed as much breakfast as I could and saw Hikari make her way into the dining room without Juvia. I raised an eyebrow, but I knew that if I asked her, she would suspect something was up. But I still had to know anyway. I grabbed my plate and slid into the seat next to her while the servants brought her breakfast themselves and she smiled at me and we said our good mornings.
"So where's Juvia then?" She smirked at me and I didn't even want to deal with this right now.
"She said she wasn't hungry and that she won't be coming down for breakfast although she'll be getting ready for the day ahead of us today." She sipped on her coffee as though she was all knowing and I muttered a thank you while taking my plate with me up to her room. Maybe there was something wrong with her.
I walked through Hikari's room and when I opened the door to Juvia's room, she turned around to look at me in surprise. I looked down and the blood rushed to my nose as I slammed her door shut. "Shit shit shit SHIT! Next time, I should really knock!" Within half a minute later, Juvia opened her door wide as she glared at me, her face covered with a really heavy blush. I was looking around the room, at anywhere but her.
"Has Sting not heard of KNOCKING?!" I then pushed the plate of breakfast in front of her, hoping that she wouldn't hurt me as much because from what I heard, it's a really scary sight to see Juvia get really angry with you. Her face softened and she took the food from me while I smirked. I was so off the hook.
"You think you can bribe me with FOOD?!" She slammed down the plate as she waved her hand in front of her. "Water slicer!" It smacked me right across the face and I wiped the blood that had appeared on my cheek and smirked at her. That seemed to make her even angrier. "Don't smirk at me!" She was about to do it again when I quickly rushed over her and pinned her arms behind her back. She tried to shake out of my hold but she just couldn't.
"I will admit it, you're strong, but not stronger than me." She growled at me and I let her go, but she accidentally grabbed onto me and we fell to the ground with me landing on top of her.
"Ugh, Sting get off of Juvia!" We then stared at each other straight in the eyes. We were so close and we'd never been this close before, even when we're in the same bed as one another. Her eyes were wide and so were mine as we kept on looking at one another. Suddenly, her lips started moving as though she wanted to say something but all I could see was her delicious lips.
"I wonder what they taste like."
I could feel her curves under my hands and she was so soft that it reminded me of her naked body and how everything about her was so perfect. I leaned my head down to her slowly. Just as our lips were about to make contact, she slapped me before pushing me off of her as I was now stunned. I held my cheek and stared up at her in surprise. That wasn't supposed to happen! I was supposed to kiss her and then she'll like it, like every other girl! But it's clear she's not like every other girl. Her face was so red and I just thought that it was so cute.
"What the hell? That slap hurt!" I rubbed at my face wondering why every girl who had slapped me could slap really hard. She turned her back on me.
"Well...well I didn't know what you were going to do, so I had to get you away from me! Now, like I said before, GET OFF OF ME!"
She pushed me off of her before standing up and stretching out. She grinned down at me before sticking her hand out for me to grab onto. I smirked back at her and held her hand to haul myself up and dusted myself down. I couldn't help but stare at her as she cleaned up the mess with the food that she made when she slammed the plate out of my hand.
"Should probably head back down so that I can get myself some breakfast before they clean everything up and then I go hungry. For like, the second day in a row." She rolled her eyes, probably thinking about yesterday when she had to watch over Hikari with no food in her system.
My insides were burning just watching her as her hips swayed in my sights. It was almost as though my inner dragon just roared out at her, wanting to keep her close to me and have her nowhere else but in my arms. I held my hand over my chest where my heart was and it was like I could feel the sweat pouring down on my face. No way in hell was Juvia my mate.
~x~
"Welcome everyone! It's so nice to see the Luna Princess candidates again and also the maid in waiting and guards!" I could see that every now and then, the Queen would look over at us and her eyes would linger more and more on Juvia as though she has something to say. "This would just be a simple lunch and I'll talk with everyone separately to get to know you all. Please, feel free to discuss with one another."
It was almost as though everyone else was too scared to start off a conversation with one another and I saw Hikari and Juvia roll their eyes before an idea popped into my head. The Queen watched us all with eyes of a hawk, wondering who was going to be the first to converse. "So, how about those grand magic games huh? Pretty interesting wasn't it, after Fairy Tail came back." Everyone sucked in their breath, wondering why I was talking so loudly. Juvia smiled and joined in.
"That might be the case, but I thought that Sabretooth was a really strong guild too!" Hikari grinned at the both of us and joined in as well, backing us up. We could see everyone staring at us and then staring at the Queen, wondering if we were too noisy.
"I may not have been able to witness it, but I heard it was really amazing this time around!" That was a topic for everyone to start talking about and the volume of the room rose. A smile graced the Queen's lips as she tried to hide it by taking a sip of her drink, but I could see that she was pleased with us. Hikari jabbed me in the side when she saw Maria looking at us. The way her nostrils flared and she stabbed her steak with her fork while glaring daggers was really not a pretty look for an already ugly woman.
"That was great! I just had no idea what to talk about so I couldn't start anything up." I shrugged, feeling happy with myself. I looked over at Juvia and she was just picking at her food. I frowned. Maybe there was something up with her. Just as I was about to question her, the Queen came over to us as she took an extra seat.
"Lady Hikari, it's always a pleasure to see you!" Hikari beamed and nodded. The Queen then smiled at both me and Juvia. She wasn't even that old and as hot as she was, she honestly wasn't Juvia.
"Stop it Sting, you've met the girl for like a minute!"
"I'm guessing you're the guard and maid in waiting! What are your names?"
"I'm Sting."
"Juvia is Juvia."
"That's so cute, you speak in third person?" I smirked at Juvia blushed while nodding. "It's always a delight to see such people. It's a breath of fresh air from the amount of kiss ups that you see around here, like that Maurice girl over there." We followed her quick gaze and Hikari frowned at where she was pointing. Juvia looked confused and I was trying not to laugh out loud.
"Erm, your highness, do you mean Maria?" The older woman paused a little bit before her eyes widened and she slapped a hand across her mouth in shock.
"Her name is Maria? Goodness me, I thought it was Maurice! Could you imagine if I went over to her and called her Maurice to her face?! That would have been so funny!" My jaw dropped open. Was this really a Queen? She was more of a riot than anything else! If this was the person that Hikari was to take over from, it was understandable. The two of them were so alike.
"Erm, your Luna Highness?" The woman giggled a little bit before looking at Juvia, as if to let her continue on with her question. "What exactly does the Luna Queen do? What kind of magic does she possess?" The Queen sat up straighter, almost as though she was proud to boast of her magic. I was so ready to hear this. For the past few days, all I've been hearing is how important the Shadow Prince is, or how the Luna Princess is special. Now it was time to find out why.
"I keep the balance, along with the Shadow King. I'm Yin and he's Yang, therefore I keep the balance of the things at night. I use the powers of the moon to change that into magic. It's basically if you think about it, a more in depth version of celestial magic because I'm also in charge of the stars and the star belts and things and obviously, the moon. Also, I'm more of a life support for water mages. Without the power of the Luna, there will be no water mages. You're a water mage, correct?"
Juvia nodded her head, staring at the woman in awe and she nodded her head. "The Shadow King deals more with the day, as light makes shadows. He keeps watch over the shadow lands as well as make sure that every mage to deal with light has their magic too."
She briefly looked at me, but that just made me confused too. I thought because I was a dragon slayer, I wouldn't really be needing help from anything other mage, but then again, I never did pay attention when Weissologia was telling me all about the important people from the times of old.
Seemed pretty cool though. With Juvia's questions, the Queen stood up, shaking each of our hands. "Anyway, I must leave you, I need to talk to the others. Bye!" She started walking around again, trying to look for another Lady to talk to. I couldn't help but notice how Juvia was avoiding looking at me the whole time. I tried to catch her eye, but not once did she look at me. I felt annoyed with that, but then again, I did barge in on her when she was naked.
~x~
After the whole lunch business at the Luna's place, we got home. I saw Juvia shoot off to one of the gardens and Hikari turned to me. Her eyes were sparkling and I rolled mine, obviously knowing what the hell she was going to bring the subject on. "Well go after her then lover boy!" I raised an eyebrow at her. Where in the hell did that come from?! What did she know?
"What?!"
"You heard me! Go after her and see that she's okay!" She pushed me and I sighed and shrugged her off me as she smiled triumphantly. Sheesh, girls. It wasn't even like Juvia looked like she wasn't okay. Why do girls always assume this crap, we already spoke.
I followed her scent and I found her sitting down in a little stream, keeping herself afloat. My jaw dropped as I walked closer to her. It still amazed me that she was about to play with water in such a way that she could just incorporate it into her everyday life.
"That's some way to relax." She opened her eyes as she blushed and quickly sat up. She turned her head away from me and I sighed. "Why are you ignoring me? You've been doing it all day and it's bothering me." I frowned at her and came closer to the river. Unlike her, I didn't control water so I couldn't really sit on it comfortably like her.
"I haven't really been ignoring you, I mean, I'm still extremely embarrassed that you've seen my naked body." Her face went up in flames and I'm pretty sure her whole body did when she mentioned that to me. Even I couldn't help but think of her ivory body that I had seen in the morning and I quickly wiped away the blood that I felt trying to make it's way out of my nose.
"I'm just thinking about what happened yesterday. What that man had said literally confirmed everything that we have been finding out about."
I frowned and took a step closer towards her. "Wait, what man? You didn't mention anything to me last night. Are you okay? He didn't hurt you? Wait, you didn't fight him otherwise I would have smelt him on you-"
"Sting! Kami, let me talk would you? Juvia met a man who worked for Maria. Turns out that she tags each and everyone of her workers so that if they disobey an order, they have 24 hours to live before their body just disintegrates. There's literally no trace of the body anywhere. So yesterday, this man came up to me, telling me that he needed to get everything off of his chest, saying that I need to find Juvia and protect her, not knowing that I am Juvia. He told me to get away from him and when I did, his presence was gone."
I was literally seeing red the whole time that she was talking. So they were specifically after Juvia as well as all the other Luna Princess candidates. Maria must have been stalking our every move, everything that we did and she wanted to get Juvia the minute that she saw an opening.
I looked down at the water mage, my whole being just oozing with nothing but possessive and violent thoughts, saying how much I was going to kill anyone who thought that it was okay for them to take Juvia away from me. Over my dead body, and I wasn't going to be dying anytime soon either.
"You need to stay with me at all time. You and Hikari. When we're out of these grounds, I can't have you guys out of my sight. We need to stick together the three of us. Got it?"
I saw her look at me in surprise before she wore a suspicious look. "What is it? You think I can't look after myself or Hikari? I know that everyone has only seen the Gray loving obsessive side of me only, but I am capable of acting serious and rising back up to the strength I once used to show everyone. Don't take me for a weakling, Sting."
My heart lept with pride and joy when I heard that. Juvia was strong and I knew that, but it was just my worrying self that needed to make sure that she was okay, and the only way that I could do that was if she was by my side at all times. The dragon in me was confused. I knew that my mate was strong, but at the same time, I needed her under my wing.
"I know, it's just..." I didn't even have an excuse and Juvia knew I didn't have one, so she rolled her eyes at me and started walking away. I didn't want to scare her with her being my mate and all that, so I kept it to myself, but I reached out and grabbed for her wrist. She turned back to look at me, her blue pupiless eyes staring into mine and I was pretty sure I had some stupid gobsmacked look on my face.
"Gah, look here, it's not like I care or anything, but just make sure you're safe at all times, okay? Don't want to have to bust my arse to come and save you, or have to explain to Fairy Tail why you got captured and then I'll still look like the bad guy that I am, okay?"
She stuck her tongue out at me with a grin. "Yes, okay FINE! Gosh, why are you so scared about this?"
The words, because you're my mate almost fell out of my mouth, but thank Kami that I was able to hold that one in. I released her wrist slowly and she giggled before grabbing my arm and making me walk with her.
"Well, mister bodyguard. Because you're so scared of me being by myself, would you be so kind as to escort me inside?"
I knew she was joking about, but it was moments like this that I would kill for to have with this girl. She was making me soft and mushy, something Jiemma would not have been happy to know was happening to me, but I realised something. I hate the policies of my guild. You could never catch a break around there and it always made us so uptight, hence why I'm so arrogant. With Juvia, I feel like I can be my real true goofy self and I loved it.
"Yo Sting?"
I groaned when I heard Daisuke's voice coming through the other side of my door. We had all decided it would be fun to play hide and seek with some flag rubbish. It was actually really fun, as well as tiring. I'd just had my shower and I wanted to do nothing more than jump out of my window, crawl round to Juvia's and just sleep.
"Yeah, it's open."
He came in with a sly grin, as if he knew that I was pissed off because I wanted to go and see Juvia. I gave him an angry glare and he put his hands up defensively, showing that he wasn't going to say anything about what he knew.
"Okay, so what do you want, I'm tired."
"Well, prepared to be even more tired dude, the Shadow Prince is here. Need to get suited and booted real quick."
"What the fuck, why is he here?!"
I got behind my changing board and quickly threw on my clean guard suit. I came out from behind it, buckling up my belt, an annoyed and irritated look on my face as we both walked out of my room. Shadow Prince or not, what kind of bastard comes to see his girlfriend at this time of the night?! Oh...just answered my own question really.
"It was a surprise visit, he just wanted to see Hikari which is kind of annoying. It's my night off and because he's here, we need extra guards on duty until he leaves, and obviously, Hikari needs her bodyguard and maid in waiting."
I grumbled in frustration. The only good part about what he just said was that Juvia was going to be there. At least her banter and conversation was going to be enough to entertain me. As well as how she looked and smelt. Those were important factors too, after all, this girl was literally killing me with her love here.
Daisuke led me through to the living room that was made for Hikari's extremely important guests. There were rows and rows of men that I had seen and never seen before. Most of them wore Hikari's crest on their uniform, showing that they were the people I worked with, and the others wore another crest, most probably the Shadow Prince's men.
I nodded to them and they nodded back at me when Daisuke told them who I was and I showed them my insignia on my arm. They had every right to be weary of me. All I needed to do was make sure Hikari and Juvia were okay, that's all I cared about.
I got in the room and all I could hear was laughter. I looked over at where it was coming from and I noticed Hikari sitting next to a guy that I could have easily mistaken for Rogue, had I not had the keen sense of smell and if I had quickly looked over at him. He was definitely a Shadow Prince alright.
I had never actually seen Hikari looks so happy before. In all the days that I've met her, I've known for her to be cheery and always smiling, but the look that she had on her face now, it made it look like she had always been frowning in comparison to the happiness that I could feel coming off of her.
I could actually feel myself smiling. It was clear that they both love each other and it made my own heart tighten. I looked over at Juvia who was standing close to them, but far enough for privacy. She caught my eye and she smiled lightly at me, making me not able to breathe. I didn't know that this feeling would be so suffocating, but I guess it was also because I was a dragon slayer, when we meet our mate, the feeling of love is intensified.
I watched as she made her way over to me and stood by me. "They look so cute. I knew Hikari was always a happy person, but to see her like this. It's like wow."
I nodded her my head, just watching the two of them for a little while longer before looking down at her. She seemed to have a sad expression on my face and I didn't like the look of that. It made me want to make her snap out of it with every power I had in my body.
"What's wrong with you?"
"Nothing much. Just wondering if I'll ever meet a guy who would want to actually be with me. Pretty sure I've chased away every guy from the country after they watched my performance in the naval battle. I still get laughed at about that till this day."
I just wanted to put my arms around her and tell her that everything was going to be okay and that I liked her, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. We're enemies, my guild will hate me for it if I was to tell them I fell in love with a Fairy, no matter who it is from the guild.
"There's someone out there for everyone. That's what my dad told me. Besides, what about Gray? Thought you loved him?"
"Yeah it's just like you said, loved. I've moved on from him, trying to find secure ground with myself. But I guess you're right, there is someone out there for all of us. I just need to find the right guy who can handle this amount of crazy."
She looked up at me and gave me the sexiest smirk that I had ever seen and I wasn't sure if that was because to me, she was just the hottest girl on earth now, or because she was sending me a hidden message in that smirk. Oh man, I wish I knew what that was!
"Starting from tomorrow, I want you guys to start kidnapping all the candidates for the Luna Queen. Hikari is the last person on our list, you got that? I want absolutely no failures in this mission, we need to start gaining as much power as we can for this Luna festival."
She waited for all of the men to nod. "Good. Also, that Juvia girl that is her little maid. I want her to be captured."
"When shall we capture her, Lady Maria?" She thought about it before grinned maliciously. Oh she definitely had the best time for Juvia to be captured.
"What about the very night we get this thing working? Make it nice and warm and ready for her arrival." Maria laughed out. Her plan was working perfectly! Now, all she had to do was wait for the day of the Luna ceremony and everything would be VERY perfect. The power was going to be hers, they were all going to bow down to her and most importantly, the Shadow King was going to be her husband as well. She deserved him, not Hikari.
Maria's eyes shone red as she turned and walked into the darkness of her room.
So how was that? Pretty bad I know, I had this chapter written a few years ago now lol, I tried to dust it off but it just wasn't happening.
If you're wondering why Juvia is changing her speech patterns, it's because she feels super comfortable around Hikari and Sting to speak in first person, but around others, not so much. That's why I'm making it inconsistent.
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