A/N: So I stayed up until 3:30 am writing this because inspiration struck and I got comments asking for a part three, so I figured hey why not crank this thing out tonight so when I'm studying for my exam today I'll have your comments on this new chapter to look forward too! So please read and comment what you think to brighten my day while I study for my super hard test tomorrow! I'm also planning on writing a part four but I'll only do it if you guys comment on this part! Enjoy chapter 3!
"Oh Gray-sama." Juvia moans as Gray's hands roam all over her body as he left love-bites on her neck.
His touch was as cold as ice, and it sent shivers down Juvia's spine, and ironically it also sent heat down to her core as well as his hands moved along her torso. She didn't know when or how he stripped down to his boxer-briefs, but she didn't quite care about the mechanics of his stripping habit at the moment. Not when her core throbbed at the sight of the prominent tent in his boxers and his strong, calloused hands hooked into the sides of her panties and began to pull them off while her legs rested over his shoulder.
"You know, now I appreciate the fact that you never wear pants." Gray says.
Juvia looks confused until Gray smirks.
"It makes it a lot quicker for me to get these out of the way so I can fuck you." He explains before pulling her panties off her feet and tossing them across the room.
"Oh Gray-sama you're so vulgar!" Juvia exclaims.
Gray smiles at her and settles himself between her legs.
But little did they know that Gajeel had reached their door and had opened it just in time for Juvia's panties to hit him in the face. He pulled his head back into the hallway, and pulled the fabric off of his face which turned bright red once he saw that they were Juvia's panties and then he went to try to open the door again but the chain stopped him from getting in all the way.
"Hey ice dick! Get off of Juvia right now and come out here and explain yourself!" Gajeel shouted at him.
Gray and Juvia immediately halted their activities and blushed.
"Gajeel!" They both exclaim.
They heard him banging against the door so they quickly scrambled to fix their clothes and make themselves look decent. However, Juvia was unable to find her panties.
Gajeel broke the door down and walked right up to Gray who had just finished pulling up his pants and was now frowning at the dragon slayer in front of him.
"You listen here ice prick." Gajeel says and presses his finger on Gray's chest.
"I know what you're doing here and it ain't good for her! You break her heart, I'll break your face."
"Gajeel-kun, Juvia will beat you to a pulp if you damage Gray-sama's face!" Juvia shouts at Gajeel.
Gray smirked as the dragon slayer's stern face softened and his cheeks reddened. Then he doubled over in pain as Gajeel turned his fist into iron and punched him in the gut.
"Gray-sama!" Juvia exclaims and rushes to his side.
She knelt down and held his arm, looking over him with concern.
"I'm fine Juvia." Gray says weakly with his hand over his stomach.
"What was that for Gajeel!" Levy shouts, now cross with Gajeel.
"That was for him taking advantage of Juvia!" Gajeel answers.
"Gray-sama would never take advantage of Juvia!" Juvia retorts and stands up to face Gajeel.
"He asked Juvia to marry him!"
Gajeel looked at the ring on Juvia's finger and gulped.
"Juvia's going to be his wife! We're going to spend the rest of our lives together and have children and live happily ever after!" Juvia explains.
"Oh..." He says softly.
He rushed to conclusions and made a big mistake. He held out his hand to Gray and helped him stand up.
"I'm sorry about that Gray. I just didn't want to think of you taking advantage of Juvia. I was just a little surprised to see you up here bein' all lovey dovey when you barely gave her a lick of attention until today. Made me assume some stuff about the two of ya. And I still don't think you guys are really that great together but as long as she's happy I guess I can live with it." Gajeel explains.
"I understand." Gray says and gives him a fake smile.
"Thanks for the blessing, even though I don't think I needed it."
"Juvia, I'm having the girls over at Gajeel and I's tomorrow. Would you like to come join us?" Levy quickly interjects before Gajeel can start a fight with Gray.
"Yes that sounds great!" Juvia exclaims.
"It'll be the perfect chance for Juvia to show off her ring and tell everyone the good news!"
Once Gajeel and Levy left, Gray shut the door and stayed there, facing away from Juvia.
"Gray-sama..." Juvia says worriedly when she notices Gray lost in thought.
Gray stood up with a frown on his face.
"Maybe Gajeel's right. Maybe us being together isn't a good idea." He says.
Juvia felt like a dagger went right through her heart.
"What are you talking about? You just said you loved me!" Juvia exclaims.
Gray looks away from her so he doesn't have to see the tears in her eyes.
"And I do, but..." He starts then trails off.
"Then tell Juvia why right now!" Juvia exclaims and runs in front of him.
Gray looks at her and his jaw sets as he sits back down on the bed.
"It's because Gajeel hit me..." Gray says.
"So it's his fault you want to break up with Juvia! Oh Juvia's going to kill him now-" Juvia growls.
"No Juvia it's not him it's me. I want to break up because I couldn't stop Gajeel from hitting me." Gray explains.
"Juvia doesn't understand." Juvia says.
Gray looks down in-between his legs before explaining.
"I swore that before I got together with you that I would become a man who can protect you. If I couldn't stop Gajeel from hitting me out of nowhere like that, then how could I stop someone who would try to hit you without warning. Or worse. Juvia, when I was a kid I saw my father die and it was one of the worst things I ever saw in my entire life. It still haunts me to this day. I don't want our kids to go through that too because their father wasn't strong enough to protect them or himself." Gray says.
Juvia came and knelt in-between his legs before holding Gray's hands.
"Gray-sama, you don't have to protect us on your own, we're partners now, we'll protect our children together as a mother and father should." Juvia says.
"But what if we get attacked while you're pregnant?" Gray asks.
"It'll be too dangerous for the baby for you to fight too, I'll have to protect you both and if I can't and something happened to the two of you I'd never move on from it!" Gray exclaims before Juvia cuts him off with a kiss.
"You're stronger than you think you are Gray-sama. Juvia believes you can protect her and the baby you'll put inside her." Juvia says and places his hand over her womb.
"I love you Juvia." Gray says.
"So much more than I've ever told you."
"Juvia loves you too, much more than she can express with words Gray-sama." Juvia says and they kiss again.
The fire crackled as Lucy laid on her side in Natsu's hammock, completely naked and trying to catch her breath as was he, as he laid next to her, equally naked, and looking at her like she was the most precious thing in the world to him, which she was.
Lucy's cheeks were still flushed and she shyly held the blanket up over her chest, feeling shy about him seeing her breasts, despite the fact that he had just seen all of her a few minutes ago, bare and shamelessly spread out for him on the carpet in front of the fireplace as they lost their virginities together.
"Are you okay Lucy?" Natsu asks her softly after a few moments.
"I wasn't too rough with you was I?" He asks.
"No you were fine Natsu." Lucy says.
She smiles and cups his cheek in her hand.
"You didn't hurt me, if that's what you were worried about." Lucy says.
"I was a bit worried about that." Natsu says then smirks.
"But now I'm happy because now I know that all of that screamin' was because you liked it."
Lucy yelped in surprise and hid her face under her blanket even more to hide the furious blush on her cheeks. Natsu laughed and wrapped his arms around her and pulled her closer to him.
"Why do you seem so shy Lucy?" He asks her.
"Did I upset you somehow?"
"No, Natsu you haven't done anything wrong tonight, you were perfect as surprising as that may be." Lucy says and smiles at him.
Natsu snickers before looking at her lustfully.
"You've forgotten that I grew up in a bar Luce. You know how pervy the older guys are. Even before I hit puberty they told me all sorts of things about what they do to women and where they like to be touched." Natsu explains.
Lucy gasps as Natsu grabs one of her breasts under the blanket and begins to squeeze it. She moans as he fondles it in just the way she liked before letting out an airy sigh of pleasure as he attached his mouth to her neck and began to suck a hickey onto it.
"I wasn't expecting you to know so much more about this than I was." Lucy explains in an airy voice as Natsu's touches made her head feel lighter.
"It makes me worried that I might not be enough for you though." She continues and Natsu halts his actions and looks up at her worried expression.
"If you know more about sex than me, then I must have bored you tonight. Perhaps you'd be more compatible with a girl whose got more experience than I do." Lucy says sadly.
"Lucy." He says softly and brings his head up to face hers.
"I never get bored when I'm with you, and I certainly wasn't bored tonight. I mean look at you, who would get bored while they're making love to the sexiest woman in Fiore." Natsu compliments and Lucy blushes as he kisses her cheek.
"And honestly, I was worried that you'd get bored with me, seeing as how I don't know anything about a romantic relationship and I always seem to upset you somehow if I say or do anything nice for ya'." Natsu admits and looks away from her.
"Then I guess we can both learn from each other then." Lucy says and snuggles closer to Natsu.
"We'll fill the gaps for each other to make our relationship whole."
"You're the perfect girl for me Lucy. I mean it. I'll never love anyone else like I love you." Natsu says.
"And you're the dragon that turned out to be my Prince Charming. I love you Natsu, now and always." Lucy says.
Their faces were close enough that their noses crossed, and as they looked into each other's eyes there was nothing but love and longing in their gaze. Then they both brought their lips together and began to kiss again.
Lucy hummed a little tune with herself and Plue as they walked along a cobblestone path in the woods that led to Levy and Gajeel's house. When they entered the clearing it was in, the first thing Lucy saw was Gajeel and Lily doing some sort of construction work.
"Hey bunny girl!" Gajeel calls to her.
"What are ya doin' here? Salamander didn't come with ya did he?"
"No it's just me and Plue." Lucy says with a smile.
"Puun-puun!" Plue says and waves.
"We came by to drop off some berries that grow by Natsu and Happy's house. I thought you and Levy would like some fresh fruit." Lucy explains and hands him the basket.
"These berries aren't poisonous are they?" Gajeel asks.
"What! No! Of course not, why would I want to poison my best friend and her boyfriend?" Lucy asks.
"So that you and Salamander can have kids before us and have them start training because they'll be older so they'll be the strongest in the guild!" Gajeel explains.
"If you think I really care about that dumb baby race you boys started out of your own delusions then you've lost your mind. Besides, I'm not even pregnant anyway!" Lucy reminds him.
She gasps when Gajeel leans in close to her and sniffs her.
"Nope. Yer not pregnant." He says and leans back.
"But even if ya were, I wouldn't be able to smell it on you until about two weeks or so anyway." Gajeel says and turns back to what he was working on.
Lucy placed her hand over her womb thoughtfully as she pondered the possibility that Natsu might have gotten her pregnant last night.
"Alright, now the crib's all done!" Gajeel says proudly.
He turned around to show Lucy and she yelped and Plue jumped into her arms in fear when they saw that haphazardly slapped together pieces of shrapnel that looked more like a bed of nails than a baby's bed.
"What do ya think? Ain't it great! The kids'll sleep safe and sound in this thing. It's made entirely out of iron so there's no way they'll be able to fall out or move the bars!" Gajeel says.
And I'm sure the iron from their blood when they poke themselves on all of those jagged edges will only reinforce it. Lucy thought to herself.
"Lu-chan you're here!" Levy exclaims.
Lucy turned to see Levy walk towards her and give her a hug.
"Hey Levy, I'm sorry I'm late." Lucy apologizes.
"Don't worry about it. The girls and I just finished making lunch. Juvia isn't even here yet. I bet she and Gray are still occupied." Levy says.
She giggles when she notices Gajeel tense at the mention of Gray and Juvia's recent development in their relationship.
"What's this?" Levy asks, looking at the crib.
"It's what our babies are gonna sleep in!" Gajeel tells her.
Levy's eyes went wide and she placed both of her hands over her swollen belly as if to protect her children from the death trap that their father had created for them. She looked at Lily and he mouthed:"play along".
"Oh." She says softly and forces a grin.
"Well it's certainly something darling. Let's talk about it later."
She then quickly rushed Lucy inside to avoid having a difficult conversation with Gajeel about saving money by building the household furniture himself.
Lucy loved spending time with the girls in Fairy Tail. Whether it was in the bath house or at Fairy Hills, it was nice to take a break from the rowdy boys and just enjoy each other's company. And gossip of course. And since Lucy had her first date with Natsu last night, she was the topic of brunch.
"What did he do?" Mira asks eagerly.
"He didn't drag you to watch him beat somebody up did he?" Bisca asks.
"No, that's what he wanted to do at first but I told him not to do that." Lucy explains.
"So then what did he do?" Wendy asks.
"Did he do something romantic?"
"Actually, yeah he did. He set up this delicious picnic under the stars in his yard. We ate and he listened to me tell him about the different constellations and then we went back inside and-"
"He proposed!" Juvia exclaims as she bursts through Levy's front door.
"Congratulations Juvia!" All the girls cheer.
Then Carla flew over to a banner on the wall and unfurled it to reveal a sign that said the same thing with wedding themed decorations on it.
Juvia was stunned.
"Levy, did you organize this party for me?" Juvia asks.
"Yep! I wanted to do something to celebrate you and Gray's engagement so I got all the girls together to throw you a party! Congratulations!" Levy says.
"You're all too kind!" Juvia exclaims then starts to cry tears of joy that almost flooded the whole first floor of the house.
Juvia enjoyed her party a lot. It was a whole hour where she got to gush about her relationship with Gray, and for the first time, it wasn't all just a fantasy in her head. It really happened! Gray proposed to her! She had a ring made out of ice to prove it too.
"It's a beautiful ring." Erza says.
"Thank you Erza. I'm sure Jellal will get you one that's just as beautiful." Juvia says.
At the mention of Jellal possibly proposing to her, Erza's face turned as red as her hair and she delved into a little fantasy of her own.
"You'd better be careful with that ring. If Natsu's flames get too close it could melt off." Lucy warns her.
"And why would Natsu's magic be used to melt the ring that Gray-sama gave to Juvia? Does Juvia's love-rival have some sort of plan to break us up so that she can have Gray-sama andNatsu!" Juvia growls.
"No no no! Juvia for the last time I am not in love with Gray at all I love Natsu! But you know how those two fight, all I'm saying is that maybe don't stand so close to Gray when that's happening or else that beautiful ring will melt." Lucy explains.
"Well all Juvia is saying is that a blonde bimbo like you should at least be able to hold down her man!" Juvia retorts.
"Ha ha! I'm sure she did that when she slept at Natsu's place last night!" Cana says and Wendy covers her ears and ducks her head under the table.
Lucy frowned. She should have known that Cana would say something like that, especially when she's drunk.
"Wait you mean you didn't go home after your date with Natsu last night?" Erza asks, suddenly intrigued.
"Who says I didn't?" Lucy chuckles.
"I did! I stopped by your place last night and slept there until morning and you never came back." Cana explains.
Dammit. Lucy thought.
"Wait so does that mean you and Natsu..." Levy starts.
All of the girls gasped and Lucy blushed. She already knew where this conversation was heading and she didn't like it. If she told them the truth and said yes then she'd be assaulted with inappropriate questions about how she and Natsu lost their virginities together. She wasn't even entirely sure of what to make of what they did last night. It was good, no doubt but, now she was worried that the girls might make fun of her and she'd discover that it actually sucked!
"No! We didn't. I told him I wanted to take things slow and he was fine with that. But I was tired so he offered to let me stay the night at his place." Lucy half-lies.
"Awwww." All the girls say and Lucy exhaled in relief that they bought it.
"Natsu really is such a sweet guy. And he loves you so much. I wouldn't be surprised if the next time you see him he's down on one knee." Lisanna says.
"Oh yeah right." Lucy says sarcastically.
She hears a knock on the door and decides to go answer it to end the ridiculous conversation.
"You girls expect way too much of Natsu, you have no idea what he's really like. I bet you all think that as soon as I open this door I'm gonna find him there on one knee ready to pop the question, well let me tell you, it's gonna take that man years to get his head on straight enough to do that!"
Lucy opens the door, and then screams and jumps back when that's exactly what she sees.
All of the other girls gasp in surprise, a new air of excitement hanging over them when they see Natsu in the doorway, on one knee, smiling at Lucy.
"Hey Lucy, I've got something to ask you." Natsu says.
Lucy's face went pale and her heart pounded. Holy shit is this really happening!? She screams in her head.
The girls behind her all let out little yelps of excitement from the huge milestone they'd all been waiting for.
"Y-you d-do?" Lucy stammers, unsure if she should be overjoyed or terrified of the question Natsu was about to ask her.
I mean, on one hand she should be happy. If he wanted to have and raise kids with her then she would expect that he'd want to put a ring on it but she never thought it would actually happen, nor was she entirely sure that she wanted it to.
Natsu holds something up in his fingers and Lucy stopped breathing when she saw it was shining in the sun and on top of a ring.
Holy crap this is really happening! He's gonna propose to me! He wants me to marry him and become Mrs. Lucy Dragneel! She shouts in her head.
"After I knocked on the door I saw this shiny earring on the ground and I knelt down to pick it up and it looks just like yours, did you lose one?" Natsu asks.
All of the girls fell over in disappointment and Lucy let out a sigh that was both out of disappointment and relief.
Lucy felt both of her ear lobes and smiled.
"Yeah Natsu I did lose an earring, thank you for finding it." Lucy says and takes it from him.
"No problem." Natsu says as she puts it back on.
"So wanna head back to my place or yours to screw around again?"
Lucy stiffened in fear when he asked that question, and all of the girls sat up in surprise.
"WHAT?!" They collectively shouted.
"Did I just hear that right? Did Natsu invite Lucy to have intercourse with him, again?" Juvia asks.
"You know what that means ladies!" Cana shouts and Wendy runs away with Carla to get out of earshot.
"Oh my gosh she did fuck Natsu last night!" Bisca exclaims.
Lucy's face turned bright red as all of the girls freaked out and gave her congratulations on losing her virginity.
"Oh come on we all saw how Lucy reacted when we asked her if she slept with Natsu last night!" Cana slurs while holding her wine bottle.
"I doubt she did anything other than lie there with her legs open while Natsu did all the work!"
All of the girls laughed and Lucy looked away in shame and embarrassment as a few of them agreed with Cana.
Natsu looked to see Lucy's reaction to what Cana said and his heart seized in his chest when he saw how sad Lucy looked, and whenever he saw her look like that, his fire would burn through his veins and a few flames started to flicker on his fist, ready to take down whatever was making the girl he loved so upset. But he wouldn't strike this time, because he grew up with these girls and they were his and Lucy's friends, he'd never use his magic on them or wish to harm them, even though they were about to make Lucy cry, an act that would be unforgivable if it was anyone else other than his guild mates.
"Hey shut up!" Natsu shouts at them.
Their taunting immediately stopped and Lucy looked up at Natsu in surprise, her eyes sparkling with tears that had threatened to fall. Was Natsu defending her?
"That's not funny! Can't you see you're making Lucy upset!" He continues.
The girls look and see how Lucy was looking sad.
"Oh my gosh, Lu-chan did we really make you upset?" Levy asks.
Lucy doesn't say anything but she does nod a bit.
All of the girls gasped and went and hugged her and apologized too.
Natsu smiled once he saw Lucy smiling, he could relax now that he knew that Lucy was happy.
As they walked home from Levy's house Lucy held his hand and pressed herself close to him which confused Natsu.
"Any particular reason you're leanin' on me like this? Are your legs botherin' you or somethin'? Do you want me to carry you?" Natsu offers.
"No I'm fine. I just want to be close to you, that's all." Lucy says and places her hand on his bicep.
Natsu smiled at her and they continued to walk in silence for a bit.
"Thank you." Lucy says, breaking the silence.
"Thank you?" Natsu asks. "For what?"
"For standing up for me back at Levy and Gajeel's." Lucy clarifies.
"Oh that? That was nothing really. I just don't like seeing you sad so I wanted to make them stop. They're our friends, so I knew they'd understand if I pointed out how you felt to 'em." Natsu says.
Suddenly Lucy stepped in front of him and Natsu's eyes widened in surprise as Lucy pulled on his scarf and brought his lips down to hers. He closed his eyes and kissed her back, placing his hands on her hips to pull her closer before they parted.
"What was that for?" He asks.
"For being a good boyfriend. I know I might act like I'm mad at you a lot for the dumb stuff you do but, it's little things like what you did back there that remind me how much you care about me and why I fell in love with you. So thank you, for being such a sweet guy." Lucy explains.
"And thank you, for giving your heart to me. I swear I'll protect it no matter what." Natsu says and they kiss again.
"Wanna go have sex again?" Natsu asks her once they part.
"Again? Where?" Lucy asks.
"How about right here?" Natsu asks and chuckles.
"Right here in the woods! Out in the open? No way! You're outta your mind!" Lucy shouts at him.
"We're not exactly out in the open and there's no one around." Natsu reminds her.
"Well, you do have a point there." Lucy says.
Natsu grins before kissing her and undoing the sash on her skirt.
"Wait! What if one of those creepy Forest Vulcans finds us! They're girl-crazy enough on their own, imagine what one would do if it saw me naked!" Lucy exclaims.
"We'd never find out because I'd burn it's fur off before it could lay eyes on you." Natsu reassures her.
"I've always protected you Lucy, as long as you're with me I won't let anything hurt you I swear." Natsu promises.
"Oh okay then. Let's do this quick." Lucy says and she and Natsu begin to undress each other.
A/N: I hope you enjoyed! Remember to comment if you want a part 4!