Natsu and Happy had finally escaped from the guards chasing them. By then it had become much darker so he began to search for Gray. He searched for a very long time until at last he found him with a young woman he had never seen before.
"Natsu there you are." Gray said coming to meet him. "Sorry it took so long for me to meet up with you."
"Um who's she?" Natsu asked looking over at Juvia.
"Of course. Juvia this is my partner and long time friend Natsu."
"It's a pleasure to meet you." Juvia said politely with a curtsy.
"Natsu this is Juvia, a very extraordinary woman I met today."
"Extraordinary?" He looked at Juvia skeptically. "What's extraordinary about her? I mean she is very pretty."
"Thank you." Juvia said with a shy smile.
"But what makes her so special?"
"Juvia show my associate what you can do." Gray said.
"No." She said.
"No? Why?"
"I don't like using my powers when I can't control them. I could get someone hurt."
"You used them on me earlier."
"That was different. I thought I was in danger. I'll only use my powers of it's an emergency."
"Powers? What powers?" Natsu asked.
"She has magical powers." Gray explained.
"Yeah right." Natsu said in disbelief.
"It's true."
"Uh-huh sure. Gray by any chance did you run into a tree while trying to escape those guards?"
"Juvia please show him a little of your abilities so he doesn't think I'm crazy."
"Alright." She complied. "But just a little."
She noticed some moon light peaking in from the darkness of the night sky. She approached the small beam and grabbed a part of it as if weren't solid.
"What in the world." Natsu said in shock. He moved his hand to touch the pale, silvery light in Juvia's hand but his own just went right through it. "How are you doing that?"
"I don't know." She said truthfully. "Moonlight can take a solid form in my hands. But only in my hands."
"Is that all you can do?"
"No I can do a lot more. But I'd rather not do anything else for now. I'll show them more once this wizard friend of yours teaches me how to control them."
"Wizard friend?" Natsu said in confusion. "What is she talking about? You don't know any wizards-"
Gray quickly clamped his hand over Natsu's mouth.
"Would you excuse us for a minute?" Gray told her before pulling his partner to the side for a private conversation in which he explained his entire plan to Natsu.
"I don't like this." Natsu said.
"Oh don't tell me you've decided to grow a conscience now?" Gray said.
"No but I don't like this magic and sorcery and voodoo. It creeps me out. Where did you find this girl anyway?"
"Believe it or not I found her behind an invisible wall."
"Huh?"
"I know it's crazy but it's true."
"Is she a witch? If she is I don't want anything to do with her. I've heard a lot of stories about witches and they do some pretty freaky stuff man. She might turn us both into snails and then step on us. Or maybe she'll eat us! Boil our skin into a stew and grind our bones to make bread."
"Okay first of all that last part, you're thinking of giants not witches. And second no she's not a witch. I haven't known this woman for long but she wouldn't hurt a fly. She's perfectly harmless and fortunately for us perfectly naive. I'm telling you this is a golden opportunity. We get her to put on a few tricks to earn money from various people in town, maybe even pull a few levitating pick pockets, and we're set for life."
"Not a bad idea but what happens when she finds out you're lying? She might use those powers of hers to do something to us."
"By the time she catches on you and I will be long gone with all the money we made off of her."
"Still I don't feel good about taking advantage of someone."
"Since when?! Last week you tricked a man into thinking the devil was coming for him and his only chance of escaping that fate was to bury his money in a graveyard. Which we later dug up and took."
"Hey he was an angry drunk who smacked around one of the serving wenches at the tavern. He had it coming but this woman hasn't done anything wrong. At least I hope not and she seems very sweet."
"Alright I admit this is a new low for me but it's not like she's some dirt poor homeless girl. She lives in a mansion with a mother who's still alive and cares for her, gets three meals a day, wears nice clothes, and she doesn't spend everyday picking through garbage for food or every night sleeping outside in the cold."
"You got a point there."
"Look I wouldn't do this if we could get jobs and make money but nobody will hire us. They all think we're bad news because of that stupid orphanage we came from. So if we want to eat we have to lie, steal, and be deceitful. Am I proud of it? No. Is it a living? Yes."
"Alright you've convinced me."
"So you're going along with it?"
"I guess."
"Good and if it makes you feel any better I'll make sure she gets back home safely before we ditch her."
"Really?"
"Yes I'm not that big of a jerk that I would leave her stranded somewhere."
"Okay that makes me feel less guilty and you're sure she's not a witch."
"Positive but her mother might be one."
"Her mother?'
"Yeah I got a glimpse of her as she was leaving. She sure is ugly enough to be a witch."
"That bad looking?"
"Yep."
"Huh...You'd never think that an ugly woman could have such a beautiful daughter."
"She must take after her father. Come on let's get some sleep. We have a big day tomorrow."