Chapter 1
A/N: I was really eager to get this chapter out because i love this scene in the story. feel free to ask questions or tell me about any holes you find. I'm always eager to improve and i'd like to make this story the best i can be. 3 Disclaimer: i don't own Fairy tail or it's characters that right belongs to Hiro Mashima
The guild was silent, all members present having a look of shock and weariness on their faces all but the three all eyes are on. At a table closer to the entrance of the guild sat the celestial mage, blue exceed and a fire dragonslayer spoke just as freely as if Tartaros never happened. Natsu is stuffing his face as Happy talks about fish and Carla meanwhile Lucy just laughs at their antics. A certain barmaid sees genuine happiness on the faces of Happy and Lucy, a look that was dearly missed by all of the guild and well deserved by the two. While anger continues to grow from the opposite side of the guild.
"And then this really fat guy almost as big as Droy comes up and says 'whoever eats less has to pay.' and that was the best meal I'd had in months and it didn't cost me a jewel" Natsu says with his toothy grin while his companions fall over from laughing feeling slight pity for their friends opponent as Fairy Tali's resident Demonslayer approaches the group with a less than friendly look.
"Oh hai, Gray" the still recovering blonde gets out as she catches her breath. Lucy nor Happy noticed the extremely quite guild or the tension that was so thick it was almost tangible as the ice mage approached them, but the pink haired Dragonslayer did and his smile immediately fell. Noticing her companions unease she immediately sobered up and noticed Grays scowl. "Yo! Earthland to Gray? What's wrong?" The blonde says but is ignored as Grays' hair shadows his eyes body facing Natsu from Lucy's side of the table.
"Did you know?" Gray states barely above a whisper. Natsu opens his mouth to respond but is cut off by Gray. "Who am I kidding you wouldn't even say if you did. You lied to all of us for years so why should I expect the truth now!" he rants rather than questions. "You had us all fooled believing you were apart of our family when in reality you were waiting to stab us in the back! What were we to you? Your playthings a form of entertainment? Just some pawns in your game?" he questions as he looks up slightly facing Natsu his hair no longer covering his eyes, eyes that showed blind rage. "You were family! We trusted you! We would have put our lives on the line to save yours! We believed your lies accepted you only for you to throw that trust in our faces! Was it funny knowing we all bought your act? Did you get a kick out of toying with us you monster?!" Grabbing Natsu's collar of his coat and bringing him to where his eyes are level with Grey's, Natsu looked down eye's shadowed by his hair as a faint voice was heard before Gray continued. "Fairy Tail isn't some toy for your amusement and you should have stayed away if you knew what was good for you, this isn't some place for mo-" Grays rant was cut off by a loud slam right next to him.
"Shut up Gray!" Lucy yells as she slams the table causing some of Natsu's empty plates to fall to the floor and shatter Not that anyone one paid that any mind, the entire guild had a face of shock and fear in their faces even the scarlet-haired demon. Well excluding a certain Iron Dragonslayer.
"Gihi big mistake stripper." gruffly chuckles the heavily pierced mage, while a small bluenette looks at him confused. Gajeel pats her head and replies. "Just watch Shrimp this is going to get good" the gruff male replies with a hint of eagerness in his voice.
"Back off!" the stellar mage states pushing the ice mage away from his fire counterpart. The ice mage in his stunned state loosens his grip enough to be shoved back stumbling catching himself while turning a look of confusion and disbelief at the Lucy, while the fire mage glanced at the scene in awe.
"What the he-" Gray begins only to be interrupted again.
"Don't 'what the hell Lucy?' me Gray. What's wrong with you!? This is Natsu we're talking about here. He has done nothing wrong and you walk over here accusing him of things like he's some kind of criminal! Natsu is just as disoriented by this as any of us, He watched his father die! And then this stuff is proclaimed! No duh, he needed time to himself. He's family Gray we should be supporting him not judging him! you should be ashamed of yourself!" The blonde borderline screams at her guildmate.
"E.N.D. is a demon lucy!" Grey shouts back towards the blonde his [atience clearly waning.
"So why are you yelling at Natsu? You trust the words of a demon and Zeref over your own best friend? Have you even let him get a word in to defend himself? No, you haven't! You've been too busy venting to even hear him out!" Lucy declares with malice holding her ground against the now scowling Demonslayer.
"Get out of my way Lucy," Gray says done arguing pointlessly with the blonde as he advances forward to stand over Lucy.
"Go. To. Hell." Lucy states emphasizing every word with increasing malice. Gray raises his arms to move the girl out of his way but something nobody expected happened. A flash of light and a crash. As the light faded everyone expected to see one of Lucy's spirits instead it revealed Lucy in different clothing. Lucy's hair was in two buns a cow pattern bikini top with matching sleeves and one-legged black pants. Everyone was shocked, to say the least none more than the ice mage among the broken table wreckage and a fire Dragonslayer who was just behind the blonde. With another flash of light Lucy's clothes return to normal. "I won't let you hurt Natsu when he's done nothing wrong Gray," Lucy states with less malice than before but with more conviction than ever before seen in the eyes of the blonde.
"I won't let you stand in my way lucy" gray states losing any sense of patience he once held as he climbs out of the rubble. A pinkish icy fog begins to materialize around Gray as he walks across the guild to the blonde and pinkette. Holding her ground Lucy reaches for her keys as the ice mage draws near she grabs Loke's key and was ready to recite the incantation only for a ball of fire to blaze past her in a blur and hit the ice mage head on. Lucy sat there dumbfounded and turned to see the pinkette who shot the attack towards his guildmate, with a look that could kill in his eyes.
"You can yell, beat up, even try to kill me," Natsu mutters loud enough the entire guild could hear if they concentrated. "but if you even think about laying a single finger on Luce again, There won't even be enough ashes left for them to bury." The Dragon Slayers words shocked the entire guild, excluding a certain Iron Dragonslayer once again had a smirk on his face
"And here I thought he'd tear stripper to pieces without a warning, guess Bunny Girl being here is making Salamander soft." Gajeel chuckled out as Levy looked at him wide-eyed.
"Let's get out of here Natsu" Lucy states Taking his hand and leading him out of the guild leaving the whole room shell-shocked by the events of the last hour. And a certain ice mage gritting his teeth and storming out in rage.
"Gajeel how did you know that Natsu and Lucy would react that way?" levy questioned her companion.
"Bunny girl didn't take any shit from me back in Phantom, it'd be a cold day in hell before she took it from the stripper especially after just getting pinky back," Gajeel said with a touch of pride in his voice at the blonde's actions. "As for Salamander well. Threatening his mate was grounds to kill the stripper then and there, I'm guessing the only reason he didn't was that he knew it'd upset blondie" Gajeel states matter'o factly.
"Mate?" the bluenette questions with a tilt of her head
"*sigh* Dragon instincts, their slayers have em too, pick one partner for life, And judgin' by the way Salamanders scent is always all over her he's picked her." The iron Dragon Slayers says with a shrug
"Wait s-so N-Natsu a-and L-Lu have" the bluenette stutters out getting redder by the second.
"What!? No shrimp geez this ain't one of ya pervy books" Gajeel says exasperatedly. "Salamander's so dense he probably doesn't even know he's done it," the dragon slayer says while shaking his head. "but I doubt bunny girl will complain when she finds out."
"So have you picked a mate yet?" Levy inquires curiously, as the Iron Dragon slayer looks away scratching his neck furiously.