Hello you things…
So another Gray-shot huh? Who would've thought…
By the way, after this chapter I have a follow up one-shot for the Grayza one-shot so I hope you look forward to that.
But this is Gray/Cana so enjoy this because I have no idea what I am going to do for this. XD
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"Oh come on Grayie-poo!"
"No..."
"Please!"
"No..."
"Please!"
"No..."
"Pleeeaaaassseeee!"
"No!"
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"Please?"
"How much longer are you going to do this?!"
"Until you agree to a drinking match."
Gray slumped his head on the counter from Cana's constant nattering. He had been sitting at the bar, ordering his usual glass of water with ice when his best friend slid up beside him, practically leaning her body against his with a devious smirk on her face.
It was at that point that Gray knew that his sanity was doomed…
She ordered her barrel of ale and asked for a second glass for him, he sighed as he knew where this was going and that he wasn't going anywhere until he just got it over with.
Thus he ended up in THIS situation…
He looked at Cana with tired eyes. "Fine… But you cannot force me into this crap for two weeks afterwards."
Her eyes widened at his proposal, two weeks?! He normally proposed four days or a week, not two whole long weeks! Who would she annoy for that period? Not many people could mentally take her verbal diarrhoea as well as Gray could.
He had more than enough time to get used to it, being the second of the guilds current generation after her meant that he already knew her way before she became the most awesome drinker in the entire guild.
He had never been the best guy to hold his liquor, he was better than most in the guild but someone like Bacchus would thrash him here in the world of alcoholics.
She just liked having him around…
But she wasn't going to let this go without punishment, she needed a plan. It took her a few seconds and she grinned drunkly at him.
"If you win… then I won't bother you for two weeks." She proposed. "But if I win then you must help me get back to Fairy hills so I don't get lost..."
Gray looked confused…
"Okay? Suuurrree..."
"YAY!"
"Calm down you nutty drunk!"
"You love me really… *hic*"
She laughed at his groan. She then grabbed his glass and filled it with ale before she slid it over to his hesitant form.
"Hey Mirajane! Come and ref would ya!"
The barmaids attention was taken by Wakaba and Macao so she had to find someone else. The card mages face lit up In glee when her eyes landed on a certain bookworm.
"Hey Levy! Could you ref our drinking match please…?"
It wasn't known by many but when Cana started drinking and having little races against Gray, Levy was always enthusiastic to referee their games. When Natsu joined the games started becoming more and more rare as the fights became the new norm.
Then Cana asked him to drink against her a few months ago for old times sake, which was a big mistake on his part as just a few days later she challenged him again, then again and again and again.
The only thing different was Mirajane, before Natsu showed up she would just watch and shake her head in disgust, she was now the one refereeing the matches instead of Levy.
So when Levy heard Cana call her over for her old role she was both surprised and excited…
Letting a confident grin settle on her face, the solid script mage jumped up from her seat and dashed over towards her two old friends.
"I thought you would never ask!"
Gray couldn't help but grin wistfully at her enthusiasm. He sometimes regretted fighting Natsu more than being the friend he should be to the two girls, the only reason he didn't just stop the stupid brawls was because Natsu would just call him a chicken or something stupid before getting the guild on his ass about it.
He had his man pride to consider after all…
He saw Cana hold her glass, ready to chug it down at Levy shout of 'Go', so he did the same thing and gripped his glass of ale.
Levy grinned before shouting. "Three, two, one… GOOOO!"
The newer members jumped at the high pitched screech the bookworm made and looked over to see Gray taking on Cana in a drinking match. Gray was always a faster drinker but Cana could easily hold way more liquor than he could so 'Why is he doing this' was a common thought among the newer members.
"Hey, bunny girl! What is ice prick doing?"
"Why is Cana going against Gray-san? That isn't very fair."
"Has Juvia got a new love rival!?"
"I DON'T KNOW!"
Of course as soon as the words 'Cana', 'Drinking' and 'Gray' were spoken everyone looked towards the bar to see the two going at it, pouring as much alcohol down their gullets as fast as they could, neither backing down.
Oblivious to the crowd gathering around them, Gray and Cana continued to pour as much ale as they could down their throats, some of the alcohol spilling on their clothes from them missing their mouths.
Ten minutes later Gray started getting slower. He knew that now was the time for him to get ready to lose, he looked at Cana beside him and she was still going strong, not even faltering in her speed.
He couldn't keep doing this… And he knew that he was correct in his assumption when he toppled from his chair and landed painfully on his back. "Ow *hic*."
"Ha! I *hic* win!"
Gray looked up slowly. "no *hic* surprise there *hic*..."
"Now you have to do what I say!" She chirped drunkenly.
"You said 'Oh help me get to my dorm. *Hic* I can't even walk right anymore!' Haha… you were so funny..." Yep, Gray was well and truly drunk…
Cana giggled at his stumbling form. "Silly, I said if I win you will help me get home, although I'm not sure you can even walk right yourself at this point."
Funny thing was that as soon as she tried to get up she too fell onto the floor in her drunken stupor…
The card mage only saw the crowd around the two for a few seconds before passing out.
Mirajane motioned for Lucy to come over. Groaning the celestial mage got up and walked over towards her.
Giving out a sweet smile, Mira asked Lucy a question. "Could you take Cana back to her dormitory please?"
"WHA!? But I don't even know where she keeps her keys!"
Mira giggled at her reaction. "They're always in her back pocket."
Lucy sighed in defeat. "Fine..."
Walking up to the unconscious card mage and wrapping her arm around her neck, Lucy half walked, half dragged Cana out of the guild slowly.
That left Gray…
Lisanna looked at the ice mage before shaking her head. "Why does she always do this to her boyfriend?"
Mira giggled at her little sisters deadpan tone. "Who knows, maybe it's her way of showing her never ending affection for him..."
That made the guild members laugh, finally everyone started getting back into the usual routine. They left Gray on the floor too stew in his alcohol induced stupor as Natsu started to pick a fight with Gajeel, who was thrown into Elfman who punched Natsu into Erza.
Even though the guild was back to normal, with Erza beating the ever living snot out of the three mages and Mirajane scheming to bring people together, There was one mage who was discreetly letting out the darkest of auras.
"Gray-sama already has a relationship with Cana?…" Muttered the rain women. "I will beat this new love rival. I will show Gray-sama that I am better than that drunk!"
Little did she know that she had already lost to her 'love-rival'.
Also just how she was the last person Gray would ever date…
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I didn't like this…
Not because it was Gray/Cana, I like the pairing. I just didn't know what to do and a drinking match just seemed to be the only thing I could do.
If you liked it then I am glad I was able to appease those who did… :)
Also, the little bit of Anti-Gruvia there was my response to chapter 453… I really, REALLY hopr he makes Gray say no… :(
PHRASES OF AWESOME!
1: 'You are immortal until you die'.
2: 'It appears that I have gotten the misfortune to eat the 'rancid shit' flavoured Bertie Bott every flavour bean'- my favourite
2: 'Stupid fucking British bus service..."
Oh! swearing!
By the way, before I go the next pairing you vote for will be the chapter after the next. I have another GRAYZA piece I want, it is a 'sequel' to the last one-shot of Grayza.
Oh boy, I wonder how Erza will cope… XD