Summary: Erza brings home the Mirror of Erised which causes all sorts of problems to the guild.
Pairings: Juvia/Gray, Natsu/Lucy, Gajeel/Levy, Mira/Laxus, implied one-sided Natsu/Gray, one-sided Jet/Levy, one-sided Droy/Levy, one-sided Freed/Laxus, Elfman/Evergreen, Kinana/Cobra, implied Erza/Jellal, Alzack/Bisca, and Happy/Charle.
YouTube Prompt: A video on Juvia's obsession with Gray and the idea of him being romantically involved with Lucy and other females to the song 'You Belong with Me' by Taylor Swift.
It started when Erza came home carrying a giant, old, mirror on her shoulder. It was beautiful, ornate, intricately decorated, and inscribed with a strange language on the very top. Levy was immediately studying the top in order to decipher it while Natsu just wrinkled his nose in disgust. "Erza, what the hell is that?" he demanded to know.
"Some sort of mirror," Erza shrugged. "It was part of my reward and I have nowhere to put it, so I thought one of you could take it."
"Is it a magical mirror?" Wendy asked curiously.
"I don't know," Erza admitted, "I hadn't had a chance to look at it. Not long after I was rewarded a mob of dissatisfied villagers chased after me because I accidentally threw a monster on top of their houses."
Wendy sweat-dropped. For all of Erza's scolding at Natsu and the others for being destructive, she was just was bad as the rest of them. She glanced back at the mirror to find a group of people now examining it. Somehow, a naked Gray managed to stand right before it.
"Whoa!" he cried out. "It's a magical mirror!" Gray said as he peered at it. "I think it can foretell the future because my reflection is shutting Natsu up for good by beating the crap out of him in the S-Class exams and becoming an S-Class mage!"
"Like hell!" Natsu barked. "Beat this!" he then punched Gray in the mouth with a flaming fist.
As always a brawl then broke out.
Everyone who wasn't caught up in the brawl (i.e. all the females that weren't Erza or Cana) ended up queuing to look into the mirror and see their futures. "Ara! Ara!" Mira squealed delightedly. "Everyone is going to be so happy! All my pairings are going to get married and have lots and lots of children, and I will be the godmother to all of them!"
"My turn, my turn!" Juvia said impatiently and overexcited as she pushed Mira out of the way. Please let me be married to Gray-sama, she thought pleadingly to herself, her eyes shut so she won't have to see the future just yet, please, please, please let me be married to Gray-sama. She opened her eyes and saw… "YES! I MARRY GRAY-SAMA!"
"What?!" Gray choked in the headlock Elfman was giving him. "How?!"
"Well I assumed you asked her – LIKE A MAN!" Elfman said as he threw Gray into a wall. "How else does one get married?"
"Well," Alzack said sheepishly, "she could be the one that proposes."
There was a loud scream and the men turned to see Mira, Lisanna, Bisca, and Laki trying to pull Juvia away from the mirror. She had apparently thrown her arms round it and smashed her face against what was apparently 'Gray-sama's chest!'.
"Juvia you have to let someone else have a turn!" Lisanna shouted.
"No Juvia Doesn't!" Juvia cried out piteously. "Juvia can stay with her Gray-sama forever and ever and ever."
"Ah Jeeze," Gajeel muttered, "Who let the crazy rain woman near that thing to begin with?" he marched right up behind her and tugged as hard as possible at her waist. "Damnit, woman, let go!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Gajeel managed to eventually pull Juvia away from the mirror, and carry her over to the other side of the room, but not without her nails leaving scratch marks on the frame. Several people sweat-dropped at the sight of them. That frame was made out of metal. How fucking strong was Juvia?
"Let's see my future then," Laki tossed her hair back, and pushed her way through the girls to have a look. "Aha! I will win the Miss Fairy Tail contest and everyone will bow before my beauty and superior intellect."
"Are we sure this isn't a lying mirror?" Bisca murmured to Kinana who barely smothered a giggle.
Laki glowered at the pair of them but was ignored as Lisanna had a look. "Oh!" she flushed. "I'm going to be a mum!"
"Ooh!" Mira clapped delightedly. "Who will be the father?"
"I don't know," Lisanna shrugged, "I just saw lots of children."
"My turn," Bisca said eagerly, she took one look, blushed, and beamed, "Another two children and a nicer house," she said dreamily. "I'll be so happy when that happens."
Kinana nervously peered in before she gasped. "It's him!" which was all they got as she turned a bright red and refused to talk to anyone afterwards.
Then it got messy. Evergreen and Elfman refused to say what they had seen but everyone knew it had something to do with one another as they immediately started arguing, Cana said she saw herself surrounded by the best booze in the world but she looked very wistful and ended up spending the rest of the day looking out of the guild window as if she was waiting for someone to come home, Macao claimed he saw lots of naked girls in his future (gross!) and Wakaba saw naked girls lighting his cigars for him (even more gross), and then Jet and Droy both claimed they saw themselves marrying Levy which caused a huge fight between them which inevitably turned into another brawl.
"I'm going to have more babies!" Bickslow cried out when he saw his reflection. "More babies, more babies!" his dolls chanted just as Natsu grabbed hold of him and used him as a weapon to knock Gray out.
Laxus of course then punched Natsu hard enough to send him flying out of the window. It was then he caught sight of his reflection and blushed brightly. "It can't happen," he mumbled to himself.
"What can't happen, Laxus-sama?" Freed asked. "I'm sure whatever future you saw was bright and beautiful."
Laxus grunted. "It can't happen," he mumbled again, "because I ruined it."
"What did you see?!"
"I was…Master, of the guild," Laxus said so quietly that Freed had to lean in, "and Mira was…" the rest he whispered hastily into Freed's ear, which on any other day Freed would enjoy the close contact with the man he hero-worshipped, but today, he couldn't help but be horrified.
He desperately looked into the mirror himself because what on earth was he going to do if Laxus-sama was with someone else? And that was when he saw something contradictory, and he looked at the engraving of words again, and a thought occurred to him. "Levy-san," he said to the small blue-haired girl who had been studying the mirror all afternoon from the side (and sometimes afar when the brawl got a bit too close to her), "do you think it is possible that this is actually English?"
Levy-s eyes sparkled at the thought. "But written backwards because it's a mirror?" she asked excitedly. "Perhaps! Let me see!" she examined the mirror more closely and murmured, "I show you not your face but your heart's desire," she then stepped to the point everyone else had stood before her and looked into the mirror. "Aha!" she said proudly. "You're right, Freed! It's not a future telling mirror but a mirror that shows you your heart's desire!"
This caused multiple people to blush and Juvia to punch Gray. "What the hell Juvia?!" Gray blurted out shocked.
"Gray-sama's heart wants Natsu-kun beneath him instead of Juvia as a wife!" she wailed. "How cruel of you Gray-sama!"
"Don't say it like that!" Gray yelled. "You make me sound like I'm in love with Natsu!"
"Ewwwwwwwwwwww," Natsu and Happy chorused childishly. "I could so do better than you, stripper," Natsu added.
"Aye," Happy agreed, "though whoever Natsu picks will never be as wonderful as the person I pick," he then turned his gaze dreamily on Charle who turned her nose up at him.
"How do you know that it tells you, your heart desire and not the future?" Gray asked Levy.
"Well for one thing it had shown a couple people some contradictory things," Levy waved a hand at Jet and Droy who were both sporting black eyes, broken bones, and concussions, as an example. "Exhibit A. and then if you look at the writing on the top carefully you will see that it's English written backwards – Exhibit B, and then finally when I looked in the mirror I saw myself surrounded by books while being waited on hand and foot by Gaj – err, I mean, and I saw what my heart desired."
"Oh," Gajeel appeared behind her, "you saw me doing what exactly?"
"Who said I saw you?!" Levy shrieked, her face bright pink.
"You did," Gajeel smirked, "Gihihi, no need to be embarrassed Shrimp. You can tell me anything you want."
"I'm not saying anything!" Levy said huffily. "It's private stuff."
"I don't see the point," Gajeel shrugged, "no one had any problems blurting out what they saw when they thought it was their future."
"Look then! And then you tell me what you saw!"
"If I do will you tell me what you saw?"
"Yes," Levy said primly.
"All right then," Gajeel shrugged again. He looked in the mirror and immediately, much to Freed and Gray's shock, his cheeks turned pink. "I….find my Dragon," he said reluctantly, "and I show him how strong I am by beating Salamander," he finished much louder with a fist in the air.
"And?" Levy pressed.
"And….and….oh screw it!" he snapped. "I'm not saying in front of these pansies. If you want to know what I saw you doing, you come with me to my place!"
"Dude!" Gray cried out horrified.
"How uncouth," Freed murmured, "a Lady ought to be wooed."
"All right," Levy shrugged, "let's go," and she then grabbed Gajeel and ran out of the guild leaving Freed's jaw on the floor and Gray's soul flying elsewhere with Jet and Droy's.
"Levy-Chan," Jet and Droy murmured sadly.
With it known that the mirror was showing people's heart's desires rather than their future caused several people to lose their enthusiasm for the mirror. Romeo refused to say what he saw but both he and Macao looked rather sad, Erza went bright red (and all they could hear was her saying 'Wedding dress' over and over again) and punched a few people, Reedus, Warren, Max, and Nab didn't even want to look at the damned thing, and Charle seemed to have disliked what she saw as she left the guild rather huffily especially when Wendy said she wanted a look.
"What do you see, Wendy-Chan?" Lisanna asked the youngest dragon slayer.
"Erm….well I see myself reunited with Grandine," Wendy said shyly, "but I'm older. A lot older. And I have very big breasts….Like Lucy-san."
Lisanna sweat-dropped at that. Perhaps the girls should have a talk with Wendy about how she should love her body the way it is before she developed an even bigger complex about it.
"I see myself surrounded by fish!" Happy cheered ("No surprise there," some people muttered sarcastically), "And I'm giving them to Charle, and she's accepting them, and we have lots and lots of babies!"
"Aw come on Happy," Natsu groaned, "we all knew that would be your desire. Try and be a little original."
Lucy elbowed him as Happy wailed. "You're so mean, Natsu!" before he took off.
"Natsu," Lucy chided him, "that wasn't very nice. It must take a lot for a person to look into that mirror and to be able to tell someone what they saw. It's their heart desire, they might not know what that is."
"I don't need a mirror to tell me," Natsu grumbled, "and neither does Happy."
"That doesn't mean you can be rude about Happy's heart desire," Lucy rolled her eyes. It was obvious that Natsu was completely oblivious to the slight he had delivered to Happy. "And you might not need a mirror but someone obviously did or that mirror wouldn't have been made."
"What's this?" Gray sneered teasingly. "Is Natsu too scared to look into the magic mirror?"
"Like hell I am!" Natsu snapped. "It's just a bit of glass. Nothing to be scared of."
"Then you'll have no problem looking at it."
"Fine!"
"Fine!"
"Fine!"
Natsu marched up to the mirror and squinted at it for a moment. It was then he suddenly softened and looked rather stunned. "Oh," he murmured.
"Oh?" Lucy and Gray questioned him. "It wasn't what you thought you wanted?" Lucy added curiously.
"No, no….I find Igneel," Natsu shook his head, "but Lucy's there too, and she's really fat."
"LUCY KICK!"
Gray grimaced as he watched Lucy's leg swiftly send Natsu flying into the bar. This, of course, started another brawl, as Cana punched Natsu for knocking her drink off the bar. Lucy almost fell on her face as she lost her balance for a moment, and ended up looking at the mirror.
"Oh," she murmured dazedly. Gray's jaw dropped to the floor as she suddenly ran to Natsu and pulled him out of the brawl. "That's not fat," she said, "That's a pregnancy bump," and then pressed her lips against his before running out of the guild.
"There's something wrong with that mirror," Gray muttered as Juvia tried to hug it again. Thankfully Master knocked her out before she could reach it or they would never be able to get her away. Master then ended up looking at the mirror thoughtfully and sighed.
"It's probably best we store this somewhere safe otherwise there'll be fighting and people obsessing over it until they go insane."
"Why?" Gray blinked bewildered. "What do you see, Gramps?" he asked.
"I see all of you brats," Master admitted, "but you're a lot younger, cute kids again, and behaving like little angels…WHY DO YOU HAVE TO CAUSE SO MANY PROBLEMS, YOU DAMN EVIL BRATS?!"
