Lucy and Juvia followed Erza downstairs into a basement but it looked more like some sort of facility. They approached a door.
"Before we enter. Juvia would you mind wearing this on your wrist?" Erza showing Juvia the watch trigger that she had showed her from last night.
"Sure." Juvia said and Erza fashioned it on to her wrist. "But why do you want me to wear it?"
"Oh you'll find out."
Erza then gave the door a knock. It was opened by Gray, when he saw Juvia she felt like he was feeling intense hatred and anger toward her. Then he without a word he just looked away from her.
"What do you want Erza?" He asked.
"Gray I would like you to meet my oldest and dearest friends Lucy Heartfilia and Sister Juvia Lockser."
"Lucy, Juvia this is Gray Fullbuster my devil manservant."
"Hey that's not funny Erza! I am no one's manservant!"
"Oh hush you know you are! Just accept it!"
"Wait a minute this guy is a devil?" Lucy said skeptically.
"Yep."
"Um...Shouldn't he be surrounded by fire, all red, and have a beard and a pitchfork?"
"You mean how they portray devils in the comics?" Erza said.
"I hate those comic books." Gray said. "I don't look anything like those freaks in there."
"You will find Lucy that most devils who reside on earth look like ordinary human beings and hardly ever look monstrous at all and that's what makes them even more dangerous." Erza said. "However Gray here is an interesting case. His parents were human and he was raised in the Protestant church so you could say he's kind of like the Anti, Anti Christ."
"What's the point of this introduction Erza?" Gray said.
"Well I thought that it would be necessary for you to have a proper introduction to the woman you would be working with."
"What are you talking about?"
"Well Gray as you know I've been very busy lately with managing the organization and I can't keep an eye on you as much as I used to. So I've decided to assign you a partner to keep you under control and Sister Lockser here is just the person for the job."
"No way in hell am I going to be partners with her!" Gray objected.
"You have no choice in the matter." Erza said.
"Erza I know that I can't disobey an order from you but I am willing to try this time! You can't do this to me!"
"I can and I will."
"But why her?! I couldn't possibly work with this pathetic looking creature! She's just an accident waiting to happen! Throw her out!"
"Excuse me?!" Juvia said feeling insulted. "You're being awfully high and mighty and rude to me for no reason! I do believe that you owe me an apology."
"I'm not really one for apologies woman."
"My name is Juvia."
"Like I care. Now get out."
"Your manners are absolutely atrocious."
"Enough both of you." Erza said. "Gray like it or not you're working with her."
"You can't make me." Gray said like a petulant child.
"I see. Well I guess I can't I? Such a pity. I was so hoping this would work out." As she said this she walked around and then topped to stand behind Juvia. "But Gray I have two words for you."
"What?" He asked.
"Pucker up."
With that said she shoved Juvia as hard as she could causing her go right into Gray and smack! Their lips met in a surprise kiss. When they parted Juvia covered her mouth with her hands while her cheeks turned burning red. Gray's cheeks also turned red from both anger and embarrass ment.
"There now you have no choice but to work with her because as of now she's the only one who can undo the seal on your trigger." Erza said.
"That was dirty Erza!" Gray said.
"I know but you forced my hand."
"My lips!" Juvia cried. "They're unclean!"
"Calm down Juvia. They're not going to expel you from the convent over a small kiss." Erza said. "Especially if said kiss has given you the ability to control when a devil can use his powers. All you need to do is press that little stopper on top of the trigger and the seal will be undone. To re conceal his powers just hit it again. Only you can do it. Nobody else can. Not even him."
"I'm gonna get you for this Erza!" Gray said angrily.
"Really Gray it won't be that bad working with her. You might even end up liking her a little."
Gray growled and gave Erza a death glare, she gave him one back which was ten times as scary as his. He cowered back a little. Finally after giving a few huffs of frustration he gave in to her demands.
"Fine I'll work with her."
"Good boy." She grinned.
"Shut up! I'm still gonna get you for this!"
"Yeah right. Now I'm going to introduce them to Natsu."
He mumbled a few curse words before slamming the door to his room. After that Erza led Lucy and Juvia to the room that was at the end of the hallway. She knocked a few times but no one answered so she pulled a ring from her pocket that held some keys. Using the black key she unlocked the door and opened it. There was nothing inside except a coffin. Erza walked over to the coffin and started kicking it. It wasn't long before Natsu came out looking very cranky.
"What?! Can't you see I'm sleeping here?!" He snapped.
"I have some people that I want you to meet."
Natsu rolled his eyes, got out of the coffin, and went to meet the two women standing at the doorway. He recognized Juvia from earlier and he immediately recognized Lucy as the same young woman he had saved last night and she recognized him.
"You again?!" Natsu and Lucy said.
"So you two have already met. How nice. Lucy, Juvia I would like you to meet my other agent Natsu Dragneel the vampire. Natsu these are my dear friends from way back Lucy Heartfilia and Sister Juvia Lockser."
"Heartfilia?" Natsu asked, the last name triggering a memory from the past. "Any relation to that psycho vampire hunter Archibald Heartfilia?"
"Yes. She is his granddaughter."
"Hmmm..." He turned to Lucy. "I knew there was a reason that I didn't like you."
"What do you mean?" She said.
"Your grandpa happens to be the guy who locked me in a box for a hundred years."
"Don't exaggerate it was only fifty years." Erza said.
"That's not the point! That old man kept me in a prison that was like hell on earth! Give me one good reason why I shouldn't bite this woman and drink every last drop of blood in her body?!"
Lucy and Juvia both held on to each other in fear while trembling. Erza just rolled her eyes and calmly approached him.
"I'll give you three good reasons." Erza said. "Number one Archibald was the one who staked you not her, number two just because she descended from Archibald doesn't mean she's like him, and number three if you do such a thing I'll stake you and burn your body and your coffin to ensure that no one revives you again!"
Natsu shuddered at Erza's threat and gulped nervously. He didn't always act like it but Erza was the one thing in this world that Natsu feared the most. Even as a child when she had revived him all those years ago, she had found ways to discipline and terrify him. Natsu would never admit it but she was the only one who could bring him to his knees like a pitiful old man begging for his life.
"Now listen here bat boy due to the fact that I can't keep an eye on you and Gray as much as I used to I have assigned these women to keep you two in check."
"You can't be serious!"
"I've never been more serious about anything in my life."
"Erza I'm not doing this." Lucy said. "I don't even know this man. Why on earth would I work with him? And besides I have more important things to do."
"Lucy I need your help. Yours and Juvia's."
"But why? Why do you need us? What's this all about?"
"I will explain everything to all of you tonight at dinner."
"Dinner?"
"Yes. I expect you to be in the dinning hall at six o'clock this evening. Natsu you and Gray know how I feel about lateness so you will definitely be on time correct?"
"Yes ma'am." The vampire groaned.
"Excellent. Now you two go back upstairs, you will be escorted out by the help and I'll see you tonight at six."
Lucy and Juvia were very confused but they had each known Erza since their school days and she had never steered them wrong before. So they trusted that she knew what she was doing and made plans to return to her house for dinner that night.
"I can't believe you're making me work with the granddaughter of my arch enemy." Natsu said to his mistress. "What if she leads me into a trap and her grandpa stakes me?"
"Natsu, Archibald Heartfilia is dead. He's been dead for thirty-eight years."
"Oh...But how the hell is she going to help me? Have you even thought this through?"
"Natsu I'm surprised. You always know that I think my plans through before putting them into action. That's you who acts before thinking."
"Still I don't like this. What are you up to Erza?"
"Trust me. I know what I'm doing."