Lucy pushed herself upwards, her head felt groggy and her muscles sore. Her limbs seemed to not be obeying her and she fell, bumping the back of her head against the ground.
"Ouch." Her face scrunched up in pain. She reached back to rub her head, hoping to ease the pain. Lucy slowly opened her tightly shut eyes to see her own face staring back at her. She groaned. "Why are you here Gemini?"
"Juvia is not Gemini."
"Oh okay," Lucy murmured, her eyes closing once again. Then the words registered in Lucy's brain. "What?!" She screamed in shock, her eyes snapping open as she sat up straight.
"Juvia does not understand either. What has Love Rival done?" Her eyes narrowed. "Could Love Rival have done this so she could get closer to Gray-sama?" Lucy could practically see Juvia going into dreamland.
"Okay no. That is not it. At all." Lucy insisted, her voice monotone.
"Then how did this happen?" Juvia demanded.
Lucy thought back to how they got to this point. Juvia had joined her, Natsu, Happy and Gray on a mission. Erza had been given an S-class mission by the master so she wasn't with them. Their mission had been to take down a group of rogue mages making a ruckus in the area. Whilst fighting Juvia and she had both been caught in the blast of a spell...Lucy figured that was when they had switched bodies.
They had switched bodies. Before that realization could drive Lucy into a panic, the boys had found them.
Juvia brightened. "Gray-sama!" She called.
Lucy looked up searching for Natsu, Happy and Gray. They were all staring at Juvia, no at her weirdly, Lucy realized. Because they thought Juvia was Lucy. Juvia had jumped up and was hanging onto Gray's arm. Her face wary, Lucy got up slowly, watching the boys look confused and surprised.
Happy eyes widened and he flew closer to Lucy.
"Juvia. What are you going to do? Lucy is going after your man!" Happy hissed, a hint of fear in his voice. Lucy stared at him, irritation building in her. She had never known that Happy encouraged Juvia's fantasies about Lucy being her love rival.
"What?" Juvia hissed, overhearing Happy's words, anger over taking her features. Lucy idly wondered if she always looked that scary. It was inspiring. Maybe one day, she'd be able to reach Erza's level of inducing fear. "Love Rival!"
"I'm not your love rival." Lucy sighed tiredly. "I don't even like Gray like that. We're just friends. Honestly."
Juvia just hummed in disbelief. Beside her Happy sounded as if he were being strangled. Lucy's eyes narrowed.
"You okay up there, you stupid cat?" She asked, a little worried, seeing him gasp for breath. Natsu walked up to her, pointing at Juvia, his face strangely stoic.
"You two are acting different."
Gray was staring at her strangely. "You don't like me?"
Lucy then remembered that she and Juvia had failed to inform the trio about the situation.
Lucy sighed. "Nope. That's because I'm Lucy. And she's Juvia."
"What." The three boys asked bemused.
Lucy explained her hypothesis about how there was a spell which had caused them to switch bodies and everything that had happened until this point.
Juvia nodded. "Juvia doesn't want to be in Lucy's body forever." Her voice dropped to a whisper. "Unless Gray-sama prefers Juvia like this?"
Lucy opened her mouth to object but forced it closed, seeing the dejected look on Juvia's face.
Gray deadpanned. "Most definitely not." Juvia brightened considerably.
Lucy was interrupted from watching the two when Natsu poked her on the cheek. "Lucy you're so weird."
She glared at him. "Can I help you Natsu?" Then Lucy paled dramatically. "Oh no! What if we can't fix this? What will we do?!" Her face paled further making her look nearly translucent. "Juvia. Our magic!" Lucy shrieked. Natsu leaned away from her, sticking a finger in his ear.
Juvia paled as well. "Juvia has always been a rain woman. She can't become a celestial mage."
"My. Body. Is. Made. Of. Water." Lucy stated slowly. "My body is made of water!" She shrieked as Juvia's body began to lose its form. "What do I do?"
"Juvia does not know. That has always been natural for her. Rather not doing that." Juvia said, seeing Lucy turn into liquid. But seeing Lucy look so scared made Juvia sigh.
Juvia untangled herself from around Gray and took a deep breath. "Let's see, perhaps Lucy could try imagining her body solidifying? And by her body, Juvia means Juvia's body." A hint of tension seeped out of Juvia's voice.
Lucy figured Juvia was worried that Lucy might horribly damage Juvia's body and cause the water to evaporate or something. Actually Lucy didn't even know if that was possible. She really didn't want to find out either. Lucy took in a deep breath and tried doing what Juvia had asked her to do.
Slowly, Lucy felt herself piecing back together. It was working. She was back to normal. "Thank Mavis."
"Oh good. You're back to normal. I found the mage by the way." Natsu announced. He was dragging four men who had supposedly cast the spell on Lucy and Juvia behind him. They were all dressed in black, the second one being the shortest. Lucy hadn't even noticed Natsu had left to get the mages.
"Which one of them is it?" Gray asked staring at the four tied up dark mages. Natsu gestured at all of them.
"Put them back in their bodies." Natsu glowered at the cowering mages, his eyes dark. Lucy privately thought that they were too scared to do anything, let alone undo this mess.
"I-I don't know what you mean," the first mage stuttered.
Magic surged around Natsu, enveloping the dark mages in flames. "Do it, or I'll burn ya to a crisp."
"I really don't know!" He wailed.
Lucy ran forward, hugging Natsu from behind. "Stop! You're gonna kill them!" She screamed at him. He twisted his head and stared at her incredulously, before Lucy saw a glimmer of recognition in his eyes.
"I was only trying to help Lucy."
"Help with what flame brain? Committing murder?" Gray asked sarcastically.
Lucy shot Gray a glare, but he didn't seem as intimidated as usual. Then again Lucy figured, since Gray was so used to Juvia's intense stares, he wouldn't think of this out of the ordinary.
"Natsu. I just made a guess. I don't know if it really was their fault."
"It was their fault. I asked." Natsu interrupted her, moving out of her grasp. Lucy felt a pang of hurt. Natsu had never done that before.
"It was." The first mage nodded looking absolutely terrified. "But I don't know how to reverse it."
"We all used the spell at the same time," the short mage added. "Normally it goes back within an hour, but now…" At Natsu's growl he hurriedly added "it'll probably take four hours now, since there were four of us. It definitely isn't permanent! I'm sorry!" He put his hands up and cowered before them. "Please stop hurting me!" The other three mages followed suit.
Natsu stepped forward but Lucy grabbed his hand. "We'll be back to normal after a couple of hours?" The short mage nodded enthusiastically, then hesitated. "It could take more than a couple, but you'll definitely go back to normal!"
Lucy glared at him then sighed. "Then it's fine. Being in Juvia's body for a little longer won't kill me. Or vice versa."
Juvia nodded. "Juvia suggests everyone stays together so when Juvia and Lucy go back to normal, everyone will know."
Lucy agreed with Juvia's idea immediately. Natsu and Gray looked much less enthusiastic.
Happy flew closer to Lucy. "Lushee?"
"Yes Happy?" Lucy quirked an eyebrow. "You aren't as comfy now." He pouted making Lucy glare.
Natsu swung an arm around her. "So where to?"
Juvia squealed, jumping on Gray once again making him blush due to Lucy's breasts pressing onto his body.
Lucy turned bright red, flailing her arms about. "Stop doing that with my body!"
"Love Rival is just jealous that she isn't the one doing this to Gray-sama!"
"I am not!"
They heard a loud crashing sound. Lucy, Juvia, Gray and Happy all turned around to see Natsu standing next to a fallen tree.
"Whoops!" He laughed. "I leaned on it and it fell down. My bad." Lucy sighed while Gray shook his head.
"How dare you disappoint Gray-sama like this?" Juvia hissed.
Natsu stiffened imperceptibly to everyone except Lucy and Happy. They exchanged worried looks, though Happy obviously knew something that Lucy didn't.
Lucy narrowed her eyes suspiciously, she'd force Happy to tell her everything later. Natsu silently walked to stand beside her as Happy flew up to sit on his head.
"Okay uh Lu-Juvia. C-could you let me go please?" Gray asked straining under her. "Lucy's not exactly light."
Lucy crossed her arms. "Excuse me?!" She yelled at Gray. He looked a little sheepish but didn't take his statement back.
"Just you wait Gray. I'll make you pay for this." Lucy muttered darkly. Inexplicably that made Natsu laugh and lose the tension in his shoulders. Lucy was glad to see it, though she hadn't quite lost her anger at Gray.
Lucy sighed, deciding to move on to other matters for the moment. "Did we get all the mages tied up? I need the money from this job for my rent y'know."
"Yup! We took care of it while you were napping. You should be thanking us for picking up your slack Lucy." Happy smiled.
"Why you stupid cat!" Lucy lunged for him and tripped over Juvia's coat. She braced herself for the fall and found Natsu was helping her up.
"Th-thanks," She stuttered her face turning red. Brighter than usual due to Juvia's pale complexion.
"No problem," Natsu shrugged, as nonchalant as ever. He didn't even look her in the eye, like he normally would.
"So? What now?" Gray questioned moving as far away from Juvia as he could.
"We wait. What else Ice Princess?" Natsu sat down.
"I want fish!" Happy cried.
"Juvia thinks we should go into town and get some food then."
"Let's get these mages to the authorities first." Lucy stood up after closing her eyes for a few moments. "Um one question. Do your internal organs turn to water too?"
Juvia reached to fiddle with her coat but she only found the edge of Lucy's skirt. "Juvia doesn't know. She's never had this problem. She hopes Lucy will be able to manage Juvia"s body until they can be switched back."
"Me too Juvia. Me too," Lucy deadpanned. "I can't wait to get my body back."
"Me either." Lucy snapped her head over to Natsu. "Did you say something?" She questioned him. He denied it but Lucy was certain she had heard him agree with her. Lucy would never have thought a situation like this would affect Natsu as much as it did her.
Hey everyone! So this story was basically me really wanting to see Lucy acting like Juvia. Somehow it ended up being this. More to come soon!