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Hearing Erza's voice of shock, Juvia hurried and grabbed her towel and walked to the spring area. Juvia didn't noticed the walls of rock first, now was it the beautiful full-moon view in the sky, it was several of the Mermaid Heel members already soaking in the hot spring.

"I thought that you said you had something to do." Erza said while washing her body. Juvia was lathering shampoo on her hair.

"Sorry Er-chan, we lied, we just wanted to give you a surprise."

"A welcome one! Sadly, I can't say the same about Blue Pegasus." Juvia dipped her toes in the water. After confirming that the temperature was perfect, Juvia sunk into the warm water without hesitation. Warmth entered Juvia's body, if Juvia has to describe it, this warmth was the closest to Natsu's, only with water added to it. Juvia could feel the hidden stress—that Juvia didn't even know existed—disappear as the water eroded it bit by bit. This truly is paradise…

Juvia then felt a soft tap on her shoulders. Turning around, Sherria-san was giving Juvia an apologetic look.

"Sorry Juvia, I may have caused trouble for you."

"What did you do that warrants an apology?"

"Well you see, after you and Natsu went to get a room, I was still comforting Lyon, he still couldn't get over the fact that you and Natsu are dating."

"What's wrong with that?"

"Sorry!" Sherria-san clapped her hands in front of her face. "I think Lyon took what I said the wrong way. I started by saying 'It'll be okay Lyon, cheer up.'

" 'I worked so hard to win her heart.'

" 'Well, there's always next time.'

" 'Next time?'

" 'Yeah! If you find someone that you love, you should go after her with all your might, I'll be rooting for you in your next attempt!'

" 'I see, I can just try again!'

" ' Yup! So don't worry about Juvia and maybe spend a bit more time with—'

" 'You're absolutely right Sherria! I should fight for what I want! Thank You Sherria, I'm in your debt.' After that, Lyon had this really determined look in him, I think that he might pick a fight with Natsu!"

"Juvia understands, but Juvia thinks that you shouldn't worry, Lyon-san doesn't seem like the type of person to do something so reckless."

"I hope so, the last thing we want is Natsu and Lyon destroying the place, and it'll be my fault!"

"Juvia thinks that you shouldn't worry about it, even Natsu shouldn't be as stupid as to fight with Lyon when Jura-san is there."

"I guess you're right, maybe I'm just worrying too muc—"

"Natsu!" Lyon's voice penetrated past the stone barrier. "Fight with me! If I win, break up Juvia!"

"What are you talking about? Why should I do that!?"

"Juvia…sorry…" Sherria-san repeated.

"Ice Make: Eagle!" The sounds of birds flying entered Juvia's ears, please don't fight back Natsu, just let Jura-san handle it. The steam coming from the boy's side of the bath tripled, the heat of Natsu's magic be felt from beyond the wall. How did this happen? Is this Juvia's fault?

"What's next snow flake? You got anything else?"

"I'll shut your cocky mouth up!" The back of a dragon could be seen as Lyon-san's magic spiked. The visage of the dragon was vaporized once it came into contact with a powerful stream of flames, heating up the bath even more. Erza already summoned a throwing spear and was prepared to end the fight.

"I guess I'll end this right now! Fire Dragon's Ro—"

"Natsu!" Erza let the spear fly, heading right where his voice came from. "If you don't stop this right now! There'll be more coming your way!"

"A—aye!" Sherria-san exhaled for the first time in a while at the same time. From what Juvia could gather, no more fighting happened behind the walls, so the relaxing vibe returned. The girls went back to doing what they were doing before, chatting, the less fortunate ones were comparing bust size, people like Cana and Jenny-san were engaging in 'skinship', assaulting girls and coping a feel. Juvia was lucky that she was able to avoid the wiggling hands. Though, the reckless actions sent voices of displeasure over to the boy's side, inviting the peepers to act. While Juvia wouldn't mind if it was just Natsu trying to look at Juvia, she does mind anyone else peeping, so, we prepared some counter measures.


The rest of the bath went without any problems, allowing us to wind down and talk amongst ourselves. Juvia even made a few new friends from different guilds, Juvia also found out that she gets along well with Yukino-san, turns out, we had quite a few common interests in food and drinks. What came after the enjoyable bath was the chaotic pillow fight.

Lyon and Natsu used this opportunity to settle the score despite Juvia's numerous complaints. Erza was as competitive as ever, summoning pillows one after another, bombarding anyone that dare to challenge her. There were some people that tried to have fun playing board games or card games but, a quick pillow to the face made them join the fray. Elfman decided that it was manly to have a duel using pillows with Orga-san. Levy made a metal dome so that she could read in peace. Although, several words of encouragement for Gajeel came out of her mouth every now and then.

The people that weren't doing too well were 'The Trimen', Ichiya was Erza's first victim. Now, he's lying cold on the floor with his butt sticking out. Hibiki-san wasn't suited for this kind of things, so he took Jenny-san outside to look at the stars—he's the only one in the team that wasn't caught up in the war. Along the way, a stray pillow was going to send Juvia to the floor, her knight with pink hair blocked it and returned the pillow to the owner with a fury of a dragon. While Juvia wish that Natsu would have more faith in Juvia to fend for herself, seeing the heroic look of Natsu was just too good to pass up. It makes Juvia's heart flutter without fail.

Eventually, Natsu managed to beat Lyon in a pillow fight, breaking Lyon's spirit and making Sherria cheer him up. That was the start of the end of the pillow fight. Since Juvia was too bust dodging random pillows, Juvia didn't notice how many victims fell to Erza, it was down to the ace members of each guild. Natsu and Gray was in their own world, smashing fluff to each other's faces, going beyond what the definition of a pillow fight means.

The fight ended when the staff told us we were getting out of hand and continuing might destroy a couple of pillows. This was perfect because Juvia can bring Natsu to our room and have some alone time.

"Natsu, you could've just ignored him, why did you out of your way to fight Lyon-san." We entered our room, Juvia was a bit disappointed that there are two beds and not one. The room was lit with a warm light, orange and slightly romantic.

"I don't wanna." Natsu pushed the two beds together and place the two pillows next to each other. Thankfully, we've slept on the bed before so Juvia wasn't too flustered at Natsu's boldness.

"Why not?"

"I want him to lay off."

"And what if you lost?"

"I won't."

"If." Natsu showed Juvia a cheeky smile.

"I'll just have to propose to you again, he didn't say that I can't do that if I lost."

"That's true."

"Were you worried that I would lose?"

"No, Juvia was wondering why you would cause so much trouble."

"I don't know, I felt angry seeing him so close to you." Those words drew the teasing side of Juvia out.

"Who would've thought that you could be jealous?" Juvia poked his cheeks, joy swum around Juvia's head seeing the bothered Natsu.

"S—shut up."

"Juvia understands why Mira bullied you so much when you were a kid."

"I was just to trying to get him off you!"

"Don't worry you didn't have to do that," Juvia pulled Natsu into a hug. "Juvia became yours for a long time now. And," Juvia rested her head on Natsu's chest. "you became Juvia's at the same time." Juvia's heart is racing right now, being this close to Natsu…is euphoric.

"I did something unnecessary didn't I?"

"Yes, you idiot."

"I guess I really am an idiot."

"So you finally admit it."

"Just go to sleep."

"You can hear Juvia's heart, right? There's no way Juvia can sleep when Juvia is this excited."

"This is the first time we've slept together."

"But this is the first time we been on a bed, the rest of the time was on your hammock."

"How's that any different?"

"The vibe, it's feels like we're on a…honeymoon doesn't it?"

"I guess…" We enjoyed the silence for a while, Juvia took in Natsu's unique scent. Juvia has thought about taking it a step further but, facing Erza's punishment is too scary so, Juvia do anything above rubbing his chest and intertwining our legs together.

"Juvia?"

"Yes?"

"Goodnight."

"Goodnight."


Juvia woke up feeling refreshed, the combination of Natsu's body heat and the winding down form the hot spring gave Juvia the perfect morning. Natsu arm was still latched to Juvia's waist, his head was rubbing against Juvia's. The only thing that was slightly uncomfortable is the fact that Juvia's breasts were being pressed to Natsu's torso. It was a bit constricting but, nothing Juvia can't endure, being with Natsu takes higher priority…

Juvia used the time while Natsu was still asleep in thinking of ways to wake him up. Yesterday Juvia told Erza is coming for him, that woke him up with frightening effect, better yet, Juvia wasn't lying, Erza was mad that she couldn't wake Natsu up without going violent. Juvia doesn't have anything to put down his throat, Juvia is being held down by Natsu after all.

Juvia ended up waking Natsu by tempting him with food, a classic and surefire way to wake Natsu up.

"Natsu, wake up, we haven't had breakfast yet."

"Wha…what was that?"

"We need to eat, come on!"

"What's there to eat?"

"How should Juvia know? You're not letting Juvia go."

"My bad, you're really great to hug." He tightened his grip to demonstrate. "Can we just stay here and have someone deliver food to us?"

"Juvia is not making a poor employee do multiple rounds up two flights of stairs to send food to us until you're full, Juvia would sooner send them on a marathon run."

"I can't help it if I'm hungry." Natsu whined.

"Then get up, food is waiting for you." Natsu's brows furrowed, grumbles escaped his mouth before finally saying.

"Fine." Natsu release Juvia out of his hug. The receding warmth almost made Juvia tackle Natsu down and continue sleeping. However, that's just giving Natsu what he wants, doing that is not an option, so Juvia resisted the urge. Not giving him the chance to tease Juvia is a bonus.

"Juvia will be in the bathroom to change, don't peek."

"Got it." Juvia took out the change of clothes she brought and left Natsu to shake his drowsiness. Since Juvia wanted something that's easy to move in—Juvia has no idea what we will do today—Juvia put on a pair of trousers and a sweater before coming out to see Natsu's progress. The first thing Juvia noticed is that Natsu didn't go back to sleep. Thanks to that, Juvia doesn't have to wake him up again. However, Natsu still looked sleepy.

"Are you done?" Juvia asked, looking into his eyes for any signs of activeness

"Yeah…" His response wasn't lively at all. So, Juvia had to drag him down to give him a whiff of cooked food. Lots of people were sitting by the table when we arrived, small snacks served as starters. Juvia took a few pieces of sausages and fed them to Natsu, waking his stomach up.

"Are you awake now?"

"I'm hungry…" Natsu slumped in his seat that Juvia placed him in. Seating beside him, Juvia handed him some more food to chew on. We still have two more days in this trip, so as we waited for food, Juvia was looking at a guidebook to see what is there to do. We mostly exploded the nature of this place, we purposely left the town largely untouched so that we can have some fun today.

"Juvia, I still haven't given up on you." Lyon-san walked to our seats.

"You better or I'll make you."

"You can't stop me!"

"Wanna bet?" Natsu's hands lit on fire.

"Natsu! Hold still, you got some sauce on you." Juvia wiped away the sauce from Natsu's mouth, mainly because Juvia wants Lyon-san to go away. However, that seemed to have backfired.

"How dare you make her do that! Natsu you're going down!"

"Bring it on! I got my share of beating down strippers, I'll just add another one!"

"Boys!" Juvia shouted. "This place isn't ours, please restrain yourself or, Juvia will restrain you." Juvia added coldness to her voice, scaring the both of them. Erza looked at Juvia with approval in the background. Up on stage, Loretta was setting up her violin, she looked really happy back in the hot spring, she was working non-stop with her magic for a while now, so we persuaded her into coming with us.

"I'll be playing some music in the background, if you have any requests, feel free to ask!" Loretta started to play, showing off the results of her training. Instantly, a teddy bear materialized in front of Asuka-chan, dancing and inviting her to play, to which the child took with a gleeful smile. Other magical things followed the plush, balls of light decorated the ceiling, more plushes appeared, forming dance groups and danced under the muti-colour lights given off from the orbs above. The merry music seemed to soothe Lyon-san's anger, he realized his foolishness and joined his friends for the meal that arrived just now.

"Natsu, what should we do for today? Juvia wants to spend the afternoon alone before we have fun with everyone." Natsu swallowed before speaking—something that took a while to beat into his head.

"Then let's check out the town a bit more."

"Sure!"

"Juvia?"

"Yes?"

"You really changed, for the better, I don't think anyone can call you gloomy now." Natsu smiled, cheerful and lovable, just the way Juvia likes it. This change is all thanks to you Natsu, you let Juvia cast away the tittle of gloomy. And Juvia can't thank you enough.


Thanks for reading! I really feel like the chapters are starting to blend together, so I'm looking to close out this story soon. Before I do that, please let me know which parts of the story did you guys find strange and want me fixing, I mentioned this before but, I'm planning to update correct my mistakes before uploading the final chapter.

If you guys think that I didn't include a lot of the characters in the little trip, I'll admit, managing this many character was way beyond my ability without extending the chapter to stupid lengths so, it's my mistake, I'll try to avoid doing that in the future. Although, I did learn quite a lot.

If you guys got any ideas on a marriage proposal, I'm all ears, do let me know!

Until then, hope you enjoyed, I look for your feedback!