Gray saw that what everyone was gathering around to see was a group of gypsies performing. Some were juggling, some were playing music, and some were telling fortunes. Their leader Jellal was playing music with his comrades Wally and Sho while his other comrade Meredy was teaching their cat Carla how to do tricks such as spelling out words in blocks with letters carved on to them.

"Now Carla tell everyone what your name is." Meredy told the white cat after dumping the blocks on to the ground. The cat responded by moving the blocks together to spell the name CARLA.

The crowd clapped and cheered for them.

"Thank you, thank you. You are all much too kind." Jellal said. "And now as a special treat allow me to present to you all the most beautiful girl in Fiore, Juvia."

Music started and a girl started dancing. She was a petite thing, not tall but had a curvaceous figure. Nineteen years old, a pale beauty with sapphire blue eyes and wavy hair to match. She moved as delicately as a feather in the wind, giving her tambourine a few taps and shakes as she danced to the rhythm of the music.

The crowd watched her in amazement. Two men in particular were especially captivated by her. Gray and Invel.

Invel was there because he had been planning to chase the gypsies away and lecture the crowd for finding amusement in this display. But when his eyes saw the dancing gypsy girl he found himself once again overcome by a strange and foreign feeling. A feeling that he had only felt once and had hoped to have never felt again.

Whether this young girl was a human being, or a fairy, or an angel was more than Gray could decide for a moment. He had never seen a woman before, at least not this close up. Invel had told him all his life that women would only lead him into sin. Especially young, beautiful women and he believed it until now. He didn't know why but just looking at her, he felt like that there wasn't an evil bone in her whole body.

He then took notice of Invel. Crap! If he saw him here then he would be in a world of trouble. Thinking fast he decided to hide in a nearby tent until Invel left. He only hoped that nobody would come in until he was gone. But in his haste to hidden he accidentally ran smack into a post and was knocked unconscious.

When Juvia finished her dance the crowd cheered, clapped, and tossed coins into her tambourine as she held it out to them.

"Thank you all for being so giving." She told them. "And God bless you for your generosity."

"Alright folks the show is over." Wally said. "But don't worry we will be back for another performance tomorrow afternoon."

After the crowd left, the gypsies sat down to lunch. Juvia had just got back from buying food at the market when she heard Jellal and the others bragging about how successful their pick pocketing was today.

"I swear that fat man had no idea my hands were digging in his pockets and stealing those coins the whole time." Wally boasted.

"I managed to steal a lady's ring right off her finger." Sho said.

"Well done my fellow gypsies." Jellal said. "You do me proud."

"Is that right?" Juvia then whacked Jellal on the head with her tambourine.

"Ouch! Hey! Oh...Juvia...How long have you been standing there?"

"Long enough!"

"Uh-oh. Busted." Wally said.

"I think that's our signal to leave." Sho said.

"Right."

Once they were gone, Jellal was at the mercy of Juvia.

"Jellal you told me that you weren't going to steal this time! You lied to me!"

"We needed the money Juvia."

"But I had made us plenty of money with my dancing this time. Oh Jellal why must you and the others always steal?"

"We're gypsies Juvia. We steal to live. It's who we are."

"But it's wrong. Need I remind you that you went to jail for two years for stealing a loaf of bread and you would've stayed there for ten years if you hadn't of broken out. Do you wanna go back?"

"I'm not proud that I steal Juvia. I've tried honest work believe me I have but no one wants to hire a gypsy because they believe that we're liars and thieves so if that's the way society sees us so be it."

"Do you really think that confirming their beliefs will make things easier? If I can make money with my dancing then I'm sure you all can make money with your talents."

"Juvia you're a very sweet but very naive girl. We live in era where gypsies like us are hated and mistreated, and why? Because we're different."

"Everybody is different Jellal."

"I know that and you know that but a lot people don't apparently."

Juvia sighed. She really wished that her fellow gypsies wouldn't resort to theft to make a living. She never had to steal to get by. She always made plenty of money by dancing in the street. Why couldn't the others do the same? After finishing up her lunch she went to her tent to put the rest of her money away. She had just finished putting them in her coin pouch when she heard a voice groan.

"Oh my head! What happened?"

Juvia jumped back when she heard his voice. There was a man in her tent. When he stood up she let out a scream.

"Who are you?!" She demanded holding up a thick, hard cover book to attack him with. "And what are you doing in my tent?!"

It wasn't until he heard her finish that last sentence that Gray remembered everything that had happened. He quickly pulled his hood over his face and turned forward.

"I'm sorry." He told her. "It's not what you think! I swear! I ran into a post and I got knocked out! I just woke up! I'll go now!"

But keeping his face covered made it hard for him to see where he was going and he ended up tripping, falling on top of her, and knocking them both out of the tent.

"Oh God I'm so sorry! It was an accident! I didn't mean to!"

"It's okay. I saw you trip. Are you hurt?" She asked him.

"No. Are you?"

"No."

"That's good. Again I'm really sorry I just-"

"Oh my goodness!" She gasped.

"What?" He asked her.

"Your face. What happened to your face?"

It was then Gray realized that at this angle, Juvia could see his marred face perfectly. He expected her to scream or tell him how horrible he looked but she only looked at him in shock. Then she reached up her hand, as if she was going to touch his face. Her fingers were just centimeters from his blackened cheek when he flinched away from her hand.

"Juvia I heard you scream. What happened?" Jellal went to her aid and when he saw a hooded man on top of Juvia who was trembling, he jumped to the wrong conclusion and was furious.

"You bastard!" He shouted jerking Gray off of her. "What the hell do you think you're doing?!"

Gray responded by shoving Jellal off, surprising him with his great strength, then ran away. But he didn't get far because he found himself being restrained by soldiers. He fought some of them off but there were so many that in the end he was overpowered and found himself at the feet of Captain Loke Leonhart.

"Assaulting a woman is an especially heinous crime." He told him. "You shall be punished severely for this."

"But I didn't do anything!" Gray spoke. "It's all just a big misunderstanding."

"We'll let the judge decided that."

Loke then removed his cloak, exposing his scarred appearance to everyone in the area and they all gasped in shock and horror.

"My God!" One man gasped.

"What is it?" A woman asked.

"Is it a demon?" Another man asked.

"No it's that monstrosity that belongs to the archdecon!"

"I thought that he was just a myth!"

"Look at those markings on his body!"

"It's a sign of the devil!"

"Quiet!" Loke said. "We've captured this man so be on your way now!"

Gray was then placed in shackles and brought to the court. Once that was done Loke went to check on Juvia.

"Are you alright Miss?" He asked her.

"I'm fine."

"Worry not my dear my men have captured that savage and will see to it that he is punished for his crime."

"But he didn't commit a crime!" She told him.

"Juvia he assaulted you." Jellal said.

"It was an accident. He tripped and fell on me. Nothing happened! Captain you must pardon that man! He did nothing wrong!"

"Are you certain?" Loke asked.

"Absolutely."

"Very well then. I shall report to the courthouse and explain to the judge that this was all just a misunderstanding."

"Thank you sir."

Loke then left on his horse.

"Juvia are sure that it was an accident?" Jellal asked her. "You're not just saying that are you?"

"No. That man did not hurt me. But I think something or someone must have hurt him real bad."

"Why do you say that?"

"Well his face had all these black scars on it. It was like he had been burned by hot ash. Poor man."

"Maybe he was in a fire or something."

"Maybe." Juvia thought curiously.