Fox in the Fairy Coop

"He who has to do with foxes must look after his hen roost" – German Proverb

Piper woke up at her regular time of 0600. She got out of her bed brushed her teeth braided her hair and then she realized she had not running gear. It was all destroyed. She needed to go shopping. She threw on the one t-shirt she had from home, an oversized black tee with two unicorns humping that said "Fucking Magical" and her only pair of jeans she now own with her flip-flops. No way she could run in this. She went down stairs of her father's modest two-story brownstone. She did catch the hint of coffee wafting through the air. She saw her father and Lucas in the kitchen. Lucas at the island in the kitchen and her Papa at the kitchen table reading the morning paper like he always did.

She walked over to her father and bent down and kissed her father on the top of his head, "Morning Papa" She said with a smile, then turn and walked over to Lucas. She placed a chaste kiss to Lucas's cheek, "Morning Lucas." Smiled at the man as he handed her a coffee mug with steaming coffee like she like it, black.

"Good morning Piper. What are your plans for the day? And do you have your little friend with your yet?" Lucas asked Piper with a big smile.

"Uh…no he's being a sleeping head today. I think I'm going leave him here today anyway I need to go buy some clothes since I don't' have anything besides what I wore here and these. I'll have to go later today because I need to log into the web and do my classes via Grype. What's is your Wifi password?" Piper asked while looking at her L-Tablet

"Piper, darling, we don't have WiFi…" Lucas said with an embarrassed blush on his cheek.

"Baby girl we don't use the electronics like yourself or your brother. We like living the simpler life before the technology." Oscar explained without putting his paper down.

Piper sighed, "I understand Papa, but I need to work…Where can I get WiFi and teach my classes?"

"Since you are technically a guilded mage you could go down to the mage guild here in Fairy Tail and see if you could use theirs…" Lucas offered. "Oh and before you go there, Papa and I made your these so that you could have some protection while you're there." He said as he pulled out a couple velvet ring boxes. "They are magical rings that have protection magic infused in them. This one, the sapphire, has Papa's reflector magic imbued in it. It will keep you safe as if he were there deflecting magic from you. This one, the diamond, is a protection from elements ring. Elemental magic will not harm you either." Lucas told her as he opened each box. He was a gem mage and loved crafting jewelry like this. Now that he had a daughter, he wanted to spoil her and adorned her with jewelry. He had no children other than Oscar's. He was elated when he found out that Piper was so accepting of him. He knew she wasn't a mage but that made his jewelry all the more special. He could imbue protection magic in his jewelry for her. He had a huge smile on her at her reaction to the rings.

"Oh Lucas! They are beautiful! You shouldn't have done this." Piper held a hand over her mouth. The rings were beautifully made. The gems weren't too big or gaudy. They were perfectly proportioned with the platinum ring settings.

"I told you Lucas. She would love them. She loves the simpler designs." Oscar chuckled. He had gotten up from his paper and coffee and hugged his husband as his daughter gushed over the beauty of the rings. Most women did. Lucas had made a name for himself in Fiore in the jewelry business: Pasquale Jewelers.

Piper hugged both men in the biggest bear hug she could muster. She didn't feel so unprotected now. She felt as if she had some kind of protection from magic now. She couldn't wield magic, didn't have a shred of magic in her, but now, now she was protected from it. Well, some of it anyway.

She gave more hugs and kisses to her two Papas, gathered up her things and headed out the door toward the guildhall. According to Papa, Fairy Tail was a nice walk from the market district. It was early still so there wasn't anyone on the streets as she walked until she was passed by a tall man jogging with a shaggy blue mohawk. She watched as he ran by, nice tanned skin tattoo on his right side of howling wolves on his shoulder, nice ass in those tight jogging shorts. She shook her head and smiled to herself. She so needed to get her jogging gear purchased if that was just a sample of what Magnolia had jogging around here.

Piper reached the guild hall of Fairy Tail. It was not like the Red Foxes. It was made of stone and multi-tiered. It was beautiful. It matched Magnolia, quaint small town feel yet growing. West Nitespring was enormous with skyscrapers, subways, rail cars, buses, taxis, you name it for transportation, but here in magnolia the people still could walk literally through the streets. Not many cars, or other more modern transportation. She liked the feel of it. She could see why Papa didn't want to have WiFi. She was hoping that the guild had WiFi or she was screwed and would have to return to Sin.

She opened the doors to the guild hall, it was quiet and peaceful. There were open table out in the middle of the main hall, booths lining the walls opposite the bar. Few people passed out at a couple of table. The bar was long and curled around and terminated into a wall at one end. It was an ornate beautiful bar. Piper noticed a platinum buxom blonde tending the bar. They had a stage with a small dance area in front of it. She noticed there was a second level to the main hall but that's all she could see from where she was standing. She entered further into the guild, the blonde at the bar waved at her with a smile that was warm and welcoming. Piper waved back and walked toward the woman.

"Hi there. You are definitely new here. My name is Mirajane. Welcome to Fairy Tail, what can I get you?" Mira smiled and made Piper feel warm and welcomed as she went about doing an inventory of the bar.

"Uh…yeah…I definitely am. I was wanting to know if I could speak with the Guild master?" Piper asked doing exactly as Oscar had instructed her to do since she was an actual guilded mage according to the laws of Fiore whether she had magic or not.

"Oh he's not in yet. We're you wanting to post a job? I can help you with that. Your accent is lovely by the way. Where are you from?" Her soothing voice and smile infectious.

Piper returned her smile "No…uh I don't need a job posted…I need…um…I…well shit…here look at my arm…does this help? Plus I need to know if you have WiFi I can access because I have a class I need to teach at my university in Sin." Piper started to stumbled but just like ripping off a band aid shoved her forearm out with the black fox guild emblem on it. She hated not being able to articulate what she needed but navigating mage guilds was way out of her wheelhouse.

MiraJane just smiled and nodded her head, "Yes, I know exactly what you want. Laxus will be in in a few hours but I can give you the WiFi password since you are a fellow mage and are in need since it relates to your job. What are you doing in Magnolia? If you don't mind me asking?"

"Uh…hiding from a drug ring boss…" Piper said with a slight embarrassment in her voice. She knew she would be figured out as a non-mage with that admission. No mage would run from a drug ring.

"Oh, so your guild sent you here for protection then?" Mira just smile as she kept wiping down the bar.

"Yeah til things cool down. They said."

"Makes since. Would you like something to drink? Coffee, tea?" Mira offered.

"Can I get a cup of coffee? And where can I set up where I'm not interfering with your daily guild activities?" Piper asked. She was feeling the tendrils of anxiety pull away the more she talked to the blonde woman. Her mannerisms were so calming. She was not judgmental of her being half a world away from Sin.

"Sure, follow me I'll take you up to the second floor its quieter up there and only of S-ranked mages are up there but they don't start to filter in til after 10 but they don't normally stay long unless they are on a break. I think the Thunder Legion is on break at the moment but I don't think they will bother you." Mira talked as she led Piper up the stairs.

The upper level was a smaller version of the lower level. Piper took up shop at the corner booth. It was out of the way and had an outlet to plug into. She started powering up her lap top, tablet and pulled out her books and papers and prepared for the day. The university had already sent out emails to all of her students that her classes would be via Grype due to family crisis in Fiore until further notice. She had scheduled herself a break at 12 for lunch. She was hoping to meet with the guild master at that time as well. Mira said she would leave a note on his desk about it. She popped in her earbuds and went to work.

Freed was the first of the Thunder Legion to arrive at the Guild as ususal. He was always punctual. He ran his life like clockwork almost like an obsessive compulsion, but that was because of his upbringing. His father was Fioiran nobility and his life was run as such. He walked into the guild, greeted Mira, and ordered everyone's usual breakfast. Pancakes and fruit with strong coffee for Bixlow; yogurt and berries with orange juice; poached eggs and yogurt with tea for himself and double helpings of eggs bacon sausage and pancakes for Laxus with the same strong coffee as Bix.

"How are you doing today Mira?" Freed asked after placing his large order.

"Oh just fine Freed. How are you doing? How was your date last night with Rufus?" Mira smiled.

"Oh it was fine. I think we are going to go out again." Freed mused with a small smile.

"Freed, Freed, Freed" Chanted Bixlow's babies as they floated in announcing the seith mage's arrival. "Hey my man. How's it going you get lucky last night…oomph" Bix groaned as Freed elbowed the man in the gut. His babies cackling around "lucky lucky lucky"

"Bix shut them up. My love life does not need to be broadcasted over the guild hall." Freed warned.

"Okay man. Come on babies let go find our tables before we get into more trouble because someone didn't get laid." Bix said as he cackled up the stairs.

"Oh Freed I almost forgot…I put a mage upstairs to work. She needs to see Laxus first but she's a visiting from Sin. She was sent here by her guild for protection from a drug ring. But she needed to teach classes via the web so she's up there working. I just wanted to let you know before you got up there." Mira told him

"Oh ok…well I better go run inference because Bix will likely bother her." Freed sighed as he went up to the second level. He knew if it was a halfway decent looking woman Bix was gonna be hitting on her. Hell if it was a halfway decent looking man he'd would have been over him. Bix being a Boscan, he didn't care either way. As he told Freed when Freed finally told him he himself preferred men, 'Pleasure's pleasure, man'.

When Freed reached the landing of the second floor, he was confused by what he saw. He didn't see what he had envisioned, Bix hitting on the woman in the corner booth. No what he saw was Bix sitting in a chair backwards at their usually table playing with his babies. Freed did notice that Bix kept looking the purple haired woman's way with a confused look on his face. "What's wrong Casanova? Is that the one that gets away?" Freed chuckled at his perplexed looking friend.

"I don't know man. That woman is all kinds of gorgeous. I tried talking to her but she just ignored me and kept talking to her laptop about chemicals and poisons. I mean I've read shit about poison mages and Cobra could probably get school by the shit she's saying…even my babies couldn't get her attention." Bix said with a little defeat in his voice.

"Mira said there was a woman up here that was teaching university classes up here. That's probably what's she's doing, teaching. And you were being rude and interrupting her. She may be using an app that the university using from online learning. I believe it called Grype. I'm surprised you don't know about it since your brother, Kaleb, assisted in creating it so that those who couldn't move to Bosco or Minstrel or apparently Sin could attend University from home." Freed chuckled at Bix. Freed wasn't sure if he ever seen anyone turn the man away.

Piper was finishing her morning classes when she heard what sounded like thunder boom outside the guild. Her electronic flickered a little but nothing else. She hoped that it wasn't going to rain. She shut down her applications. She looked at the papers she had strewn across the table. It was almost noon; she was hungry and had a bone to pick with a knight and his odd floating tikis. Piper slide out of the booth and stretched. She felt stiff sitting there all morning. A few spots in her spine made a delicious popping sound when she did that. She looked around. She saw the big knight. He had some friends with him that hadn't bothered her. A lovely green haired man with a slim build, he was alluring. The brunette that was sitting with the in the low cut top skirt and fan, smacked the knight for something he said as he laughed and his tongue lolled out. That's when Piper seen his guild mark, of all places, on his fricking tongue. These Fiorians are strange.

As Piper got closer those little tikis started to gather around her chanting, "Pretty Pretty Pretty". She swatted at them like they were flies. She had never experienced anything like them before. She had no idea what kind of magic it was. She reached the table with her escorts, "Excuse me but may I have a word with you Sir Knight about what you were trying to talk to me about earlier."

"Oh yeah, sweetheart." Bix Stood up and offered a seat to her.

"I wanted to let you know I was not trying to ignore you but I was in the middle of a lecture regarding the application of the theory of biochemistry into the real world without the help of a poison mage. So was there a question that you need to ask me?" Piper said making sure to sound as dry and boring as possible and the way the confusion crept in on the portion of the knight's face that she could see it appeared to be working. She stayed standing.

"Oh so you're an alchemist then. Makes sense now. I've been sitting here wondering how the hell a non-mage got into a mage guild. I saw your guild emblem on your forearm but the only mage that I can sense is the two rings that you have on you. Therefore, you teach alchemy in a nutshell that's pretty awesome. I got a buddy that's gonna love you." Bix said with a hint of laughter in his voice. He wasn't an idiot, he just liked to play one on lacrima TV sometimes. He was buddies with Freed and his dad was an ambassador. He loved messing with women who used their intelligence as a blanket to keep men away.

Piper blushed but quickly changed tactics, "¿Así que estabas jugando a un idiota?"

Bix replied instantly even though his Sinese was rusty, "Sí, juego un gran bufón." His tongue lolled out again. His little tikis floated around chanting "bufón, bufón, bufón".

Piper started laughing. This man was the first man she met who could spare with her on an intellectual level and speak her own language and then have it parrot him with his little dolls. She held out her hand and Bix took it shaking it as they both laughed. Piper had told them the tale of what had happened to her in Sin. Mira had brought them lunch. While they ate Piper noticed an enormous blond sauntering over to the table. He looked angry depressed and hungry if you could get all those at the same time.

"What's up Boss man!" Bix greeted the burly man as he grunted back at him. That didn't deter the knight to stop talking, "Boss this is our new friend, Piper. She's an alchemist and amateur snake charmer…" He laughed at the snake charmer comment as Piper tried to take a swipe at him. He easily caught her wrist, "Easy there Belladonna, Bossman is still eatin and I don't want zapped and I don't' think you do either."

Laxus had finished eating and lowered his stormy gray and blue eyes on Piper. This made her stop. She knew he was sizing her up. She had seen Sam do it a few times at the Foxes. "Mira said you need to use our WiFi to teach at your university because your guild sent you here for protective custody. Your guild hasn't contacted me to protect you yet here you are in my guild hall. You smell like a mage but the only magic you emit are those two rings. You have a guild emblem on your forearm. Bix says you're an alchemist. Would you like to fill in the blanks for me and just so you know my nose will know if you lie." Laxus warned with a sneer.

Piper told Laxus everything. How she wasn't a mage, but her parent were, her apartment being destroyed, her babies killed, a drug ring after her. She told him she wasn't sent here for Fairy Tail to protect but her father Oscar and Lucas to protect. She was just following the laws of Fiore by presenting herself to the guild as a visiting guilded mage even though she wasn't really mage. She explained that in Sin mages and non-mages could co-exist in guilds. She gave Laxus the contact information of the Red Foxes if he wanted to verify her and the information that she gave him. He said not so nicely that he would, and she was welcome to use the WiFi for her job purposes since she was stranded here for Gods only knew how long.

After Piper had her luncheon meeting with the charming Mr. Dreyer she went back to work with her students. She was actually enjoying the online teaching. The afternoon went by quickly. She finished her office hours at four. She started cleaning up her space when Bixlow approached her again. "So Belladonna, how about we get a drink…"

"Uh…as much as I'm flattered Bix…I need to go shopping for clothes. I'm embarrassed to admit it but I came to Magnolia with the clothes on my back and this shirt. So I'm in desperate need of clothes, especially my jogging gear. I haven't jogged in almost 3 weeks. So can I take a rain check?" She implored with an embarrassed look on her face.

"Hey I hear ya. Been there myself. Of course that was years ago when I was 15. I bet Ever would love to go with you and I bet you could get some of the other girls to go with you. Show you around Magnolia." He offered as they walked down the steps.

Piper saw Lucy and Erza at the bar with a couple of other she didn't know. Lucy was still not taking the break up well. Bix frowned and walked up "Cosplayer why the frown? Why aren't you your usual chipper self?"

Piper pulled her new friend's arm, "Uh…on the way to Magnolia…I was on the train with Lucy and her boyfriend, Erik, broke up with her on the phone…she was upset…"

"What Snakeman broke up with Cosplayer, What the Fuck?!" Bix shouted.

Lucy turned around and seen Piper and Bix. She smiled but the smile didn't make it to the brown eyes. "Hey Piper. Glad you could make it to the guild." She said with a puffy red face.

"Lucy I know we just met but come on chica. I've had my heart broke a few times and I need to go shopping. So retail therapy is ordered by the doctor and since I'm the doctor, let's go all of you. I'll learn everyone's name that I know on the way. Now Lucy show me where I can find some sexy lingerie. I have none and going commando is chaffing." Piper laughed and some of the other women snorted.

"Model it for me later Belladonna" Bix called out as the women left. Piper flipping him off as they filed out the door. Bix snorted when he laughed at being flipped off. He met a few Sinese women in the past but he was younger and they were a lot older. Sin was an odd country. They were deeply devoted to their religion, which forbid sex before marriage and valued the virginity of a woman over a man's unlike Bosco that shed that philosophy with laws and its people have flourished. That was years ago though, he had heard now that people still worshipped their God but people were able to have sex with whoever they wished and not repercussion about loss of virginity. They were more open about sex than here in Fiore. Bix had even heard that some Boscan had immigrated there and helped open up the communication for sex legislation in The Great Tribune. It was not Bosco but it was not Fiore. He looked at Piper again as they left the hall, maybe he needed to go to Sin and see the rest of what the country had to offer of one woman looked that good. Good Gods he thought with a shiver. He turned and went back upstairs to see what mischief he could get into before Laxus shocked his ass.

Gray sat at his team's usual table with Natsu. He wasn't paying any attention to flame brain complain about his lackluster love life. They made out once because Natsu wanted to see if his dragon would say anything about Gray. Nothing happened. They both agreed it was like kissing a brother, just eww. So Natsu just sat and whined about it. Gray's interest got piqued when he saw Piper come down the stairs with Bixlow. His thoughts turned dark when he saw how she was smiling at the seith mage, but he also thought that if he had the opportunity that Bix did he would have been all over Piper too. He heard the seith mage say something about model the lingerie later for him and he gritted his teeth. Natsu interrupted his thoughts, "Uh Gray, something going on in that ice cube of a brain because your devil showing man and your clothes are missing."

"Huh…" Gray said with a confused voice. He looked down at himself. His shirt was gone and his right arm and chest was black. His devil slayer tattoo glowed through the blackness on his right arm. "…shit. Sorry man. I don't know what's going on. Where is my shirt?" He looked around.

"Dude, I stopped keeping track of your clothes when we were 10. What's up with your little devil, man. Never seen it come out like that since we put out differences aside. Is there like a demon in the guild that isn't a friend cause Mira and Freed don't need that shit and you know we are cool. Annnnd why are you staring at Bix like you wanna fight him? He didn't do anything he was just trying to help Lucy feel better. Is this about that Erik bullshit? Luce is strong she'll get over beside they went shopping for lingerie. That will make her feel better." Natsu laughed.

Piper had had a great afternoon with her new friend. Lucy and Erza had introduced her to Levy and Cana. She was able to get her clothing somewhat replenished especially her panties and bras. Lucy was feeling better but she seen from time to time that far off stare. They were now at a little café not far from the guild that they all loved to eat at. Erza loved their strawberry cake. Lucy was drinking her strawberry smoothie and Levy was drinking water. Cana though was having wine. Piper joined the brunette with her wine. Piper loved a good red wine.

"Piper you and me are kindred spirits you know. My cards never lie. I bet you are fun at the clubs too. Bixy seems to be taken with you but then again you are the new girl." Cana laughed with a little slurred. She had been sipping from a silver flask all afternoon. "Levy when are you gonna get you some iron dick from our iron dragon slayer? *hiccup*" Cana asked still laughing.

Levy squealed and blushed her entire face neck and down her chest. Piper dropped her wine glass and it shattered on the ground. "Oh my God! I'm sorry about that! What did you say? A dragon slayer? Those are myths that mother tell their children at bedtime. Isn't it? I hope." Piper said with a pale face and trembling hands.

Lucy Erza Levy and Cana, all turned their heads to Piper, and said in unison, "Myths?" They all looked at each other and then back at Piper. Cana being the bolder of the four and well the drunk one, "What rock did you crawl out from under? Fairy Tail has four of em. Doesn't Sin have any of those tasty looking men down that way? Cause I'd love into a dragon slayers pants. Too bad Laxus won't put out to guildies and well, Bixy's brother is just too far away." Cana pouted.

"No we don't have any dragon magic at all in Sin. No dragons no slayers. I grew up thinking that were myths. No one has ever seen either." Piper admitted.

Lucy responded softly, "Its ok Piper all of the dragon slayers were up here in Fiore and Bosco during the Alverez War…" Lucy and the other explained what actually happened in Fiore with the Alverez War while she told them what had happened in Sin with Pergrande trying to invade and do a land grab and take more slaves and fight with the dark mages that were from Alverez.

The evening wore on, the Lucy and the others started heading the opposite way Piper needed to go since their condos were on the other side of town. They said their good byes and thanked Piper for taking them shopping and letting off steam with them. Piper headed over toward the Market district where the brownstones were settled. She shouldered her bags. She tucked what she could inside the larger bags to reduce the amount of bag handles to carry. Still six large bags to handle was a lot. She was glad she made tenure at the university so she could afford all these clothes. She didn't splurge too offend but extenuating circumstances. The lingerie shop was to die for here in Magnolia. Piper was definitely going to come back especially if she ever started dating again. He last boyfriend turned out to be a total dick. He hated her snakes and wanted her to choose between them or him. Hell, they had been engaged. The choice had been easy. Without hesitation she slide the two-karat diamond off her ring finger with a smile, showed him the door and never looked back as he pounded on the door. When he was there an hour later still knocking, Riko had shown him the way out of the building and Piper never seen that asshole again. Of course she bought Riko a new rifle for that but totally worth it.

She was deep in her memories when a voice startled her, "Hey Piper." Came a familiar calm voice. She turned around to see Gray walking towards her. He was in a baggy plain black tee and green cargo pants. His silver cross gleamed in the street lights. She calmed down see him. "Oh hi Gray. Buena noches. What are you doing out this evening. I didn't see you at the guild hall, of course I was working upstairs and your guild's knight was monopolizing most of my time being a jester." She chuckled.

"Oh I didn't know you were upstairs…here let me get some of those bags…care if I walk you home? Bixlow can be jovial especially when there is a pretty lady present. He likes to show off. How many times did you see his tongue?" Gray laughed

"Yeah, your guild master, Laxus, is allowing me to use the Wifi there at the guild hall so that I can broadcast my classes to the university while I'm here in Magnolia. Once I was finished Bix Freed and Evergreen talked to me for a little bit then I went shopping with Lucy Erza Cana and Levy. Oh did you know dragon slayers are real? Of course you did. Oh my god I drank too much wine and now have diarrhea of the mouth…I'm sorry…" Piper giggled and blushed. She felt comfortable around Gray or it was just the wine, maybe, but she felt comfortable around him on the airship and the train. He was just easy to be around. She could tell he guarded his emotions, but most people did around strangers. She heard how he reacted to Erza telling him about Lucy's break-up. Erza and Lucy told her while shopping he was like the magic he wield: cool, calm and collected. Piper found him easy to talk to be around and on her eyes. God, she had too much wine.

"So how long are you going to be in Magnolia? Sounds like you don't really know…" Gray asked. He knew he liked talk to Piper. Her voice intrigued him, especially with her Sinese accent and she spoke a little bit of it. It sent chills down his spine in a good way. She was smart but didn't throw it in his face. He didn't have the opportunity to go to university, but Piper didn't seem to care. Her yellow citrine eyes were captivating. They sparkled like little suns when the lights hit them just right. Her purple hair looked silky. His fingers itched to touch it.

"…not sure. Oh this is me. Thanks for walking me home and helping carry my bags. Do you want to come in for some coffee? I'm sure Papa and Lucas are up. It's not too late." Piper smiled as she stepped up the steps to the brownstone.

Gray looked around. He realized Piper was Bixlow's neighbor. He cursed to himself. "Uh…sure if you don't mind…and you dad doesn't care." He stepped into the brownstone after Piper. He looked around the first floor. It was similar to Bix's place if he remembered right. He was there once for a New Year's Eve party with Cana. He was more than a little drunk. He followed those purple locks into an open kitchen with an island that opened into a living room. He saw two men sitting on the couch.

"Papa, Lucas, this is mi amigo Gray Fullbuster. He's from Fairy Tail. He walked me home from the café. I offered him some coffee before he went home." Piper explained to the two men. She kissed both of them.

"Uh…hi…sirs" Gray said uncomfortably as he scratched the back of his head. He heard them laugh and break into Sinese, "Nuestra niña trajo a casa un joven atractivo. Creo que lo estamos poniendo nervioso" the purple haired man said to the brunette.

"Papá, deja de ser grosero. Él es sólo un amigo. Sí, un amigo guapo pero un amigo." Piper hissed at both men on the couch. "Forgive Papa and Lucas they are happy that you helped me home and say thank you for your help."

"Ok…I'll trust you on that. It sounded like you were yelling at them for something. Anyway, how's your little baby snake?" Gray asked changing subjects.

"Oh Flick? He's doing great. I left him at home today because I didn't know how he would be at the guild. Plus I think he's getting ready to shed." Piper told Gray. She talked a little more about Flick. They finished their coffee. Gray said good-bye to Oscar and Lucas. Piper walked him to the door. "So I guess unless you are out on a job…I'll see you at the guild?"

"Yeah, not sure what the team is gonna wanna do where we just got back from Mintrel…" Gray said. Both of them quiet and not sure what to do. They stared at each other slowly getting closer to each other.

"Piper! Can you get Papa another water?" Oscar called out breaking the spell between them.

"Yes Papa! So I'll see you around." Piper smiled.

Gray waved as he stepped off the stoop and headed toward the clubs. He needed to cool off which sounded funny in his head. Gray Fullbuster, ice make mage, ice devil slayer mage, needed to "cool" off. He laughed aloud at that. He had never had a woman get him so worked up and hot under the collar.

Oy mate that's because both your soul and mine want 'er. Said a voice inside Gray's head. Gray felt confused. He looked around and the streets were too crowded but there wasn't anyone "talking" to him.

That's because I'm in ya. Ya sot. I'm the demon soul yer daddy gave to ya so ye kin keel all those demons, remember. The voice said again. "What are you talking about? Dad didn't put a demon soul in me. He gave me the magic to slay demons and devils." Gray thought back to the voice.

A gravelly laugh sounded through his head. And how did ya think yer daddy learned how to do all that? Gray stopped walking when the voice said that. Tartaros wasn't a guild full of pixies and unicorns. Ya know that first hand. I've been helping ya kill demons and devils. I helped ya with yer hot blonde friend and that demon writing. I was there when you went toe to toe with E.N.D. I've been enjoyin' meself the whole time. I've enjoyed all the women ye've enjoyed. I'm right there with ya on the crazy rain woman. Nope and I'm the soul of a demon. Won't touch that level of creepiness, but purple locks I like that one as much as ye do. So let's go back and bite that ass.

"So this is similar to dragon slayer magic? You gotta feel a pull toward someone for me to want them? Like Natsu?" Gray thought still thinking he was about to have a psychotic break.

Look kid, I'm really inside you. I've been here. I just haven't had anything to say until that hot piece of Sinese flesh graced our presence. So yeah I guess it's like dragon slayers. I don't really know. I just know that that woman make me sit up and beg. And please don't ever make out with Pinkie again. That was disturbing. This is comin' from me a fucking devil.

Gray decided that he was gonna skip the clubs tonight and head home. The extra voice that showed up for the first time since his dad gave him the power to slay demons kinda killed his mojo. He needed to go clear his head, she he headed home.

Juvia had followed Gray all evening like she normally did. She was raging on the inside like an ocean in a hurricane over her new "love rival". Gray was her love and no one else's. She would be damn if another rival showed up to take her Gray away. Lucy was single again now as well. She had two rivals to keep an eye on. She must keep them away from her Gray.

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A/N I hope those of you who are reading are enjoying this story as much as I am developing it. I wanted to delve a little deeper into the Demon/devil slayer magic that Gray has. To me it's the same yet different than dragon slayer magic. They differ because well yeah it's a demon not a glorious dragon. And well besides a huge Bixlow fan, I'm a secret Gray fan. I really honestly think Juvia has a borderline personality. Fatal attraction anyone whose old enough to remember.

Also I hope I made I clear that in Sin there are no dragons or dragon slayers that's why Piper was so surprised. It's all myth there.

Translations:

Nuestra niña trajo a casa un joven atractivo. Creo que lo estamos poniendo nervioso.: Our girl brought home an attractive young man. I think we're making him nervous.

Papa, deja de ser grosero. Él es sólo un amigo. Sí, un amigo guapo pero un amigo : Dad, stop being rude. He is just a friend. Yes, a handsome friend but a friend.