A/N: I AM SO SORRY PLEASE YELL AT ME IN COMMENTS I UNDERSTAND YOUR PAIN.
Chapter four: The moon and...betrayal?
Lucy had gotten the phone call from Erza not too long after they had left for the docking station. It wasn't the happiest call of her life at all.
"LUCY WHY DID YOU LIE TO GRAY?!"
"E-Erza I-"
"Erza look, I'm sorry," Natsu said taking the phone out of Lucy's hand and held it to his ear, "I wanted Lucy to experience her first mission! It was supposed to be a really fun mission! I know I know I shouldn't have taken the S-ranking mission but the other's were so childish. So easy," Natsu explained.
"BECAUSE YOU AND LUCY ARE NOT READY FOR THE S-CLASS ONES!"
"Erza I think we are. Lucy seems like a tough gal! Give her a chance. Hey look, I'll make a deal. If something goes wrong we'll give you a call and clean all the bathrooms in the school," Natsu said.
Lucy turned to pinkett in horror hearing the statement. She was the new girl and she had already pissed off the student council president (Yes Lucy did her research she's not stupid). She couldn't believe what was coming out of Natsu's mouth!
"And if you don't call?" Erza asked in which Lucy could clearly hear.
"And if we don't call, we forget that this ever happened okay?"
Silence. That was probably the worst thing you could get from Erza. Dead silence. She was thinking, and even Natsu knew. He bit his bottom lip anxious and breathed out when he finally got an answer.
"Fine. Deal. BUT under ONE condition."
"Which is?" Natsu asked.
"Gray must come along."
"WHAT?!"
"It's that or no deal," Erza threatened.
"...Fine deal. We'll meet him on the island. We're already at the docking station and I am not waiting for his ass to show up," Natsu muttered and hung up on Erza before she could speak.
Lucy started at the fire mage before slowly taking her phone. She felt her heart skip a beat when Natsu gave her that oh god damn lovely toothy grin that could make girls faint or scream with joy.
"So let's go!" Natsu said happily.
"Y-Yeah," Lucy stuttered out and followed Natsu and Happy quickly onto the boat.
Lucy walked into the village with Natsu and glanced over everyone until spotting the head leader. The leader had spotted the two (Thanks to Happy flying around them) and walked over asking if they were here for the mission.
"Yes, we are," Lucy responded before Natsu said something rather stupid.
"Thank god. We want the moon destroyed," The leader said.
"One destroyed moon coming right up!" Natsu said with his grin, causing some of the girls to squeal in how cute he was.
Lucy felt her heart tug slightly in jealousy. She didn't understand why. She had literally just met Natsu. Why was she so jealous over other girls? They barely knew each other. Maybe it was just because of his looks. That what it was. His looks. He was so damn cute and hot and it was throwing Lucy off. She didn't use to this. Any of this. Over time, she would adjust. Over time, she would be immune to Natsu and his looks and think nothing of this...right? Lucy didn't know anymore.
Lucy didn't care. All she knew was that Natsu was so damn cute and she hated the fact that other girls knew. Hated the pure fact that there were girls who were much smarter, or prettier, or nicer than her. Lucy let her insecurities chew away at her. She didn't even realize it until Natsu snapped his fingers in front of her face.
"Huh?" Lucy asked before looking at Natsu.
"Yo, Luce you okay? You zoned out for quite a bit. Looked weird," Natsu said and tilted his head.
"Me? Yeah, I'm fine just thinking that's all," Lucy replied with and smiled softly.
"Well alright. Now come on we gotta go meet up with Gray," Natsu said, muttering Gray's name.
Lucy couldn't contain the small giggle that escaped her lips and smiled before telling the village leader The trio left, making their way to the beach and waited for Gray's arrival. While waiting, Natsu and Happy joked around and played in the water. Lucy watched happily, a small smile plastered onto her face before glancing up hearing someone yell 'flame brain'.
"COME FIGHT ME ICE PRINCESS!" Natsu replied with.
"I WILL!' Gray yelled from the boat.
"Gray-sama please!" Juvia said and squeaked seeing Gray dive in, only in his boxers, "GRAY-SAMA!" She whined.
"YOUR CLOTHES ICE PRINCESS!" Natsu snapped.
"SHUT UP AND FIGHT ME," Gray said.
Lucy covered her eyes and looked away. She didn't wanna see Gray in his boxers while fighting Natsu. Why did he strip down in the first place?! Lucy couldn't wrap her mind around why Gray had stripped down to his boxers nor wanted to know. She turned back around to see the two boys fighting.
"Great," Lucy said.
Juvia had gotten out of the boat, holding Gray's clothes and walked over sighing softly and waited. Once the two were done fighting, Natsu fixed his scarf while Gray got dressed.
"Thanks, Juvia."
"O-Oh no problem," Juvia said and blushed slightly rubbing the back of her neck.
"Now what's this mission about?" Gray asked.
"Destroying the moon," Lucy and Natsu replied with.
"...You're kidding right?"
"Nope!" Natsu said and grinned softly.
Lucy sighed and slapped her forehead as Natsu and Gray started to yell at each other again. She was starting to question if she should give in and call Erza, but she knew if she did that would result in cleaning the bathrooms, but it would be better than 'destroying the moon'.
"Let's just go and get this over with," Gray muttered and made his way to the village, with Juvia right next to him.
Natsu followed the water and ice mage, and Happy happily flying with them. Lucy watched them all, staying in her spot for a bit thinking. Finally, she forced herself to walk forward and follow the four who had vanished into the forest. Lucy was making her way back to the village before realizing she didn't exactly know her way. It struck her that she had followed Natsu, who had followed his nose.
"Crap!" Lucy said and looked around, realizing she was lost. Lucy kept walking until she came upon a path that split into two, and kept walking going right...
"Luce?" Natsu asked as they followed Gray and Juvia.
"She's not here," Happy said, in which Natsu stopped.
"What do you mean 'she's not here'?"
"She never followed us," Happy said and looked at Natsu.
Natsu stood there for a moment, before turning around and jogging the other way.
"Luce. Luce!" He yelled, going to the beach and not seeing her either, "She probably went right," Natsu told Happy before going onto the path and making the right.
"Luce!" Happy called, flying next to Natsu.
"Hey buddy fly ahead and see if you can spot her," Natsu said.
"Aye, sir!" Happy said and darted past, going ahead and out of sight.
Lucy was aimlessly walking and groaned softly. "I can't believe I've lost them!" She said rubbing her face.
Lucy slowly came to a stop looking up at a giant rat in front of her and froze. The rat had noticed Lucy, staying still before chasing her.
"NOOOOOO!" Lucy yelled, turning and running throwing her hands up as she ran.
"Oh, Lu-AH!" Happy screamed seeing the rat as well.
Natsu had heard the screams before darting. "Luce! Happy!" He yelled as he stopped seeing the two pass. He tilted his head before seeing the giant rat and backed up before taking off.
"WHAT THE HELL LUCE?!"
"IT WASN'T ME I WAS GETTING CHASED!" Lucy screamed.
Gray and Juvia came in sight of team Natsu. Once team Natsu was behind Gray, Gray froze the floor and the rat fell and slid across.
"OKAY NATSU LET'S GO!" Gray yelled.
The two ran, (even though Natsu fell) to go beat the rat up. Happy slowly lowered Lucy onto the ice floor, spotting a temple.
"Luce! Juvia!" Happy said.
Juvia looked up with Lucy, both girls spotting the temple. The two guildmates looked at each other before nodding and making their way into the temple slowly, soft grunts from Natsu and Gray became quieter and quieter.
Once inside, Juvia looked around with Lucy the two in awe.
"Wow look at this damn shabby place!" Natsu yelled.
Lucy whipped around and blinked seeing the two before looking away snickering slightly at the sight of Gray, shirtless again.
"Well let's see how damn shabby it is then," Gray said, testing Natsu.
Natsu shrugged softly and stomped on the temple floor hard. The ground shook and the floor caved in.
"SHIT!" They yelled, and screamed.
Lucy landed on gravel and dirt, groaning slightly before slowly sitting up. Natsu was on some lonesome rock, while Juvia and Gray landed not too far from her. Lucy slowly sat up, getting up and brushing herself off. Happy was flying Natsu over before putting him next to Lucy. Gray and Juvia walked over, the two dusting each other off.
"Come on it looks like a secret cave! Let's goo!" Natsu said and ran ahead.
"Flame brain g-Ugh I give up!" Gray said and ran off after the duo.
"Gray-sama!" Juvia yelled and ran after Gray rather quickly, whining ever so softly.
Lucy just watched and blinked before smiling softly. She followed the four, walking and thinking to herself.
'Wow, it's really damp down here. There's gotta be SOMETHING in here right? You just wouldn't have a damp, scary, secretive looking cave without something big to hide right? Well, maybe you would, people are weird like that...and evil like that. I can't understand people like that. Why would you wanna harm anybody? I mean...I don't know anymore. I give up on trying to figure that out...'
"LUCE!" Natsu screamed.
Lucy jumped, getting scared shitless. She had almost walked off the edge of the cave, Natsu's arm catching her.
"Lucy you need to pay more attention to where you're walking. You could get seriously hurt," Gray said.
Juvia glanced, glaring at Lucy feeling a slight tinge of jealousy flow through her. She couldn't believe Gray-sama was giving that...that BIMBO attention. She was a mere newbie.
"Alright. Well, what is this thing?" Natsu asked.
"What is w-" Gray froze in pure fear.
"...Gray-sama?" Juvia asked.
"N-No. No why is this here?"
"What is it?" Lucy asked.
"It's...It's Deliora," Gray whispered.
"Deli what?" Natsu asked.
"Deliora," Gray snapped, "he's the demon of misfortune and disaster. He..." Gray started and trailed off, biting his lip going silent.
"...He what?" Natsu asked.
"...Nothing," Gray whispered.
Natsu blinked, surprised by his guildmate sudden change but stayed quiet. Natsu whipped around hearing footsteps and grabbed Lucy's arm shoving her behind a rock quickly. "Hide!" he whispered.
The five hid behind a rock, peeking out ever so softly to see a short man with blue hair and a dog kind of looking guy walk over to the frozen demon in ice.
"Well, do you think it's working? The moon drip?" the dog man asked.
"Of course, it is he's half unfrozen! Just look," the man with thick eyebrows and blue spiked hair replied with.
"Oh, it's horrible! Just horrible!" A girl yelled running over to them, tears running down her face.
"What is?" the man replied.
"Angelica! She was attacked! There're intruders here! THEY ATTACKED ANGELICA IT'S HORRIBLE JUST HORRIBLE HOW COULD PEOPLE DO THAT TO SUCH AN INNOCENT ANIMAL," the girl screamed and ran off.
"Let's go find them," the dog man said before taking off after the girl.
"...I told you to put that rat on a leash," the blue hair man muttered before walking off.
"What do they want with Deliora?" Lucy asked when the trio was gone.
"Don't know. Don't care. This demon killed my family ten years ago and took my teacher's life. I'll be fucking damned if I don't stop this guy from resurrecting him back," Gray spatted out.
"Now that's more like Gray! Yeah, let's kick some fucking asses!" Natsu said happily jumping
Gray sighed softly while talking to Natsu and Lucy, the trio trying to figure something out about the mystery guy. Natsu was pointing out all the burises on Lucy's body, too oblivious to realize he had the SAME DAMN BRUISES! Lucy was just commenting on them, also oblivious. Gray started at the two like they were complete morons (which they were). Meanwhile, Juvia slipped away silently from the group before taking her cellphone out and dialing a number.
"Hello?" A raspy voice called.
"Gajeel-kun? It's Juvia," Juvia stated.
"Oh, Juvia! Just the glad I was hoping to hear from."
"Mm. She's here," Juvia whispered.
"Who? The princess?"
"Yes. The princess," Juvia muttered, feeling her heart clench with guilt.
"Perfect," Gajeel said as Juvia got shivers hearing him. She could hear the wicked grin within his voice.
"Gajeel-kun what does Juvia do? We're on a mission and J-"
"Simple. Call me when the mission is over. Then, we can start from there."
"But Gajeel-kun Juvia w-"
"Juvia," Gajeel snapped, "you know your mission now fucking do it."
"...but Gajeel-kun.." Juvia started.
Gajeel sighed from his end, running a hand through his messy black hair, "I didn't mean to snap Juvia. What do you need?"
"...Juvia wants to know why headmaster wants the princess. That's all," Juvia said.
"Well easy. Even though her parents died, her mother last wish was for her to join Fairy Tail. Her father wanted her to stay home and that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna bring her home. She still has every right to her estate and money," Gajeel explained.
"Oh..." Juvia said, going silent before getting a twisted, wicked grin on her face, "Juvia will bring her to Phantom Lord when the time is right then," She hissed.
"That's the Juvia we know and love. Make us proud," Gajeel said smirking.
Juvia hung up slipping her phone away, glancing at the trio before snickering softly. Juvia felt her heart clench at the thought of betraying Gray but...what her headmaster said went. Juvia felt her heart break knowing she was about to break the trust of a couple of people, but she had to. Orders were orders. She knew that they were forgiving, and it wasn't hard to earn their trust or regain it. She had seen it many many times while watching their battles.
It was betraying her dearly beloved Gray. The fear of him hating her forever was just too much for her to bare she felt like someone was choking her. Words and air got caught in her throat, tears threatening to roll down her face. She couldn't let her teammates see her. They'll know something is wrong. Juvia quickly wiped the tears before realization hit. She was not Juvia of Fairy Tail.
She was Juvia of Phantom Lord. Juvia of Phantom Lord was not soft. She was hard as a rock. Merciless. She got what she wanted at any cost. She was Fairy Tail's enemy. She is a member the of the 4 elements. Juvia's face harden before turning around staring at the four. Happy had join Natsu after scooping the demon out, Juvia had made sure to take note of the cat's position. Her dark blue, cold stone eyes were locked onto Lucy.
Juvia watched, as she lived in the shadows of Fairy Tail. Not because she was shy because she was a fox waiting for her prey. Her prey had finally shown up and walked right into the trap.
Now it was just time to act.
