Gray had been led over to the cliffs where that old bridge had been. Part of him flinched at the memory of Erza's anger the last time he went there. He was just about to go back when he heard two more strange noises but this one sounded familiar to him.

"Gajeel you trigger happy lunatic! Give me that gun! You're scaring everything away!"

"Let go Juvia! Before you hurt yourself!"

"Oh I knew I shouldn't have let you come with me on this. With you shooting your gun off every five seconds I'll never finish my report."

"Hey we made a deal. I let you go into the jungle to do your nature report only if I come to protect you."

"But I haven't seen one animal since we've been here and it's all your fault. I swear if I fail Dr. Dreyar's class I'm blaming you."

"Well excuse me for trying to keep my little sister safe. But I'd rather have you fail a class than eaten by some savage beast and another thing I-"

Gray was confused and annoyed by these loud noises that didn't seem to make any sense. He sensed something coming his way. He quickly went to hide in a nearby tree. The figure came closer and closer and closer until at last he could see it. Was this man? If it was then he had seen it before although it was a long time ago he would still recognize it if he saw it.

It was a young woman. About seventeen years of age, she had wavy mid-length blue hair, fair skin that was the color of lillies, pink cheeks, and deep blue eyes that were like bluebells. She wore a white blouse, a pale blue taffeta skirt with a matching ribbon in her hair and laced boots on her feet. She was the most beautiful creature he had ever seen.

"I knew I could give Gajeel the slip. He's not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer." She said. Just then a brightly colored bird flew over and perched itself on a branch. She pulled out a sketch book and started to sketch it. "What a beautiful bird, I wonder what species it is."

Once she finished sketching it's picture she started to write down a description of it. When that was done she spotted some monkeys, insects, and other interesting animals. Gray watched her sketch the animals and write down descriptions of them in her book but he didn't understand at all what she was doing. Why was she making a bunch scribbles in that rectangle shaped thing while elevating? Wait a minute, elevating? It was then Gray realized that the young was being pulled up and up until she got stuck in a large spider web but she was too busy scribbling in that thing to notice.

"This is amazing. My report is sure to please Dr. Dreyar with information like this. No doubt I wouldn't have be able to see all these wonderful animals with my gun slinging brother around. Ah...Achoo!" It wasn't until she sneezed that she finally became aware of where she was. "Oh my! How on Earth on did I get up here? Okay Juvia don't panic you have just suddenly found yourself trapped in a rather big web suspended about ten feet from the ground. Well it's a good thing I'm not afraid of heights."

She flipped the pages in her sketch book and started to scribble more stuff down.

"I wonder what kind of spider could have spun this web. Let's see possible size of such a creature, calculate the radius, multiply by pi, extract the square root, carry the one, the arachnid would be roughly-"

A shadow fell over her. She looked up and saw a giant spider hovering over her. It's yellow eyes and sharp fangs dripping with hunger for her.

"Monsterous!" She dropped her sketch book in shock. "Oh dear! Oh dear! Oh dear! Well I suppose there's only one thing to do at a time like this...Help! Help!"

She screamed, the spider moved closer to her. Ready to bite down on her head and eat her alive or paralyze her until it was ready to eat her later. But before it could touch her Gray stabbed the spider with his spear causing it to retreat in pain. He then pulled her from the web, scooped her into his arms, and carried her down to safety.

"Well this has been a very interesting afternoon. Assaulted by a giant spider and then rescued by a naked man. Quite unusual for most people but I- Naked man? Oh my goodness!"

She blushed red and started to run away from him but he blocked her. He wanted to take a good look at her.

"What are you? Well it's obvious you're a man...A very well built one but your apparel is unsettling." She said. He started to touch and sniff her hair. He did the same thing to her arms and her legs. "Sir all this touching is most inappropriate."

Her words sounded like nothing but gibberish to him so he just continued to study her. He took notice of her clothes and started to pull on her skirt.

"Okay now that's taking it a little too far. Get off, get off." He lifted up her skirt and saw a blue mark on her thigh. "Get off!"

She kicked him away sending him backwards but he didn't stop there. Now he was more curious than ever. Her mark was exactly like the one on his chest, it was even the same color. Blue. Blue like her eyes. Blue eyes. He had seen those blue eyes before and they had previously belonged to a creature that looked similar to her only it was smaller. Was this creature the same one he had met eight years ago?

He leaned closer to her.

"Mind your boundaries sir or I shall have to use force." She said. Fair skin, blue eyes, and a ribbon in her hair. It was the same creature only now he realized that she was female. "Alright you asked for this."

She moved her hand to slap him but he caught her wrist. He then pressed his own hand against hers just as he had done when they had met as children. The young woman prepared to slap him with her other hand but stopped when she had the strangest feeling that she had seen this man before.

"Um...Have we met?" She asked. "I'm sure that I would remember meeting a man who only wears shorts and has such very lovely Gray eyes."

"Gra...Gra...Gray." He said recognizing his name being said.

"Yes that is the color of your eyes. A very nice color if you ask me and- Oh you do speak. That's good."

"Gray. Gray."

"Yes that's your eye color."

"Gray." He said pointing to his chest. "Gray."

"Is that your name? Gray? Oh I like that name."

"Na...Name?" He said in confusion.

"Yes name."

"Name. Name. Name." He pointed toward her.

"No my name's not name. It's Juvia. Juvia."

"Ju...Ju... Juvia."

"Yes I'm Juvia. Juvia."

"Juvia."

She nodded just then Gray heard that strange noise from earlier and it startled him into running off to hide.

"Wait!" She called.

"Juvia there you are." A man dressed in an army uniform, wearing glasses appeared. "You're brother has us looking everywhere for you."

"I guess I wandered off a little." Juvia said.

"You're not supposed to go off into the jungle alone. You're a very naughty girl."

"I understand that which is why I'm going home now."

"Allow me to escort you back."

"That's not needed Sargent Yura."

"Juvia we've been through this before call me Invel and I most insist that you let me escort you back."

"No thank you."

Gray was watching them from the bushes. He didn't know what they were saying he could tell that this man was making Juvia uncomfortable and when he saw that man grab her by the arm he came out from the bushes and pushed him away from her.

"Why you little savage! How dare you attack an officer of Fiore!" The be speckled man said angrily. "And what have we here? An animal? An animal that needs to be taught some manners."

"Be careful Invel." Juvia warned him.

"Don't worry Juvia I'll protect you."

"Actually I think that's what he's trying to do."

The man swung a fist at Gray but he dodged his attack. He swung another fist but once again Gray dodged it. This went on until Gray caught his fist and kicked him into the river. Juvia's hand went to her mouth and she struggled not to laugh. Several more men in the same uniforms then appeared and tried to fight Gray but he just threw them all into the river.

Gray then heard the roar of Panther Lily calling him. He left in the direction of the roar but stayed behind long enough to see Juvia be greeted by a gruff, black haired man in a uniform who hugged her and he could tell that she trusted him so he didn't worry and started to return home.