Chapter 7: Truth
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After the pandemonium had died down a lot of confused eyes were directed at Gray and Juvia. Juvia smiled and began to retell the story from the very beginning.

"It all started a couple of weeks ago, when Lori-san and her teammates joined the guild. Master did not trust them and asked Gray-sama and Juvia to do this mission for him. We were supposed to find out, if Lori-san was honest about wanting to join the guild. Gildarts-san had eaves dropped on a conversation between two Rose Skull members, who conversed about wanting to take over Fairy Tail. The only other two who knew about the mission, except for Gray-sama, Juvia, the master and Gildarts-san were Erza-san and Mira-san.

"Gray-sama was supposed to earn her trust, and it seems like he did a very good job doing so. The day Lucy-chan had fallen into the river, it had not been Juvia's doing. Well the rain had been her doing, but Lori-san had made Lucy-chan slip on the water and fall into the river. Juvia is sorry Gajeel-kun, Levy-chan for lying to you that evening, but Juvia had to obtain her cover. The next three days Juvia stayed away, so Lori-san would think, Juvia was really sad. Juvia even made it rain all the time. She apologizes for that.

"Juvia had not expected Lori-san to go so far to burn Fairy Hills down, or try to damage the guild. But Juvia knew she had to take the blame for it, for Gray-sama's and Juvia's mission. And she knew that she had to have her guild mark taken off for a short time.

"When Bora-san attacked Juvia and planted Rose Skull's stamp on her, he also sealed her magic. So Juvia could not have done what happened after, Gajeel-kun, Levy-chan, Lucy-chan and Natsu-san knew that. But Gray-sama played his part perfectly. Gray-sama then told Natsu-san about the mission, when Natsu-san got Gray-sama to talk to Juvia, when she was in Lucy-chan's apartment before she and Gray-sama were kidnapped.

"It was Lori-san, and Bora-san. Bora-san's magic was supposed to knock us out, but it had not been strong enough. Gray-sama and Juvia pretended to be asleep so they could be brought to Rose Skull. We had to catch Lori-san red-handed. Gray-sama was put into another room, than Juvia.

"When Gray-sama had freed himself and found Juvia, they first went after Bora-san together. Once Gray-sama had defeated him, Juvia got her magic back and decided to hide. The Rose Skull stamp had disappeared already. While Gray-sama avoided the town controlled by Rose Skull, Juvia went to infiltrate it and flooded it, bringing the rule back to the original mayor. She met Gray-sama again later on, shortly after he fought Lori-san.

"Gray-sama told Juvia about his fight with Lori-san, and the two of us thought of a method to reveal her lies. We knew Lori-san would tell you something about the fight she just had with Gray-sama. We knew she would tell you the mage from the Black Guild was Juvia. Gray-sama would tell his side of the story. Juvia had to hide somewhere, no one would suspect her.

"Because Lucy-chan, Natsu-san, Gajeel-kun and Levy-chan knew about Juvia's magic being sealed, they would most likely not suspect her using the water to hide herself. Since Gray-sama had just had a fight with a Water mage, it was the ideal hiding place. Juvia transformed into water and 'drenched' Gray-sama with herself. Our plan worked and Lori-san was found guilty.", Juvia finished the story of what had happened.

"So you're saying, the stripper never really was an asshole towards you?", Gajeel asked and Juvia shook her head "Juvia is sorry for not telling Gajeel-kun and for lying at him. But she couldn't because of the mission. Gray-sama was never anything else than nice to Juvia...", Juvia smiled, then blushed and looked at Gray unsure.

The black haired ice mage only smirked and put his arm around Juvia's waist possessively. "No way.. You're telling me he- All this time- Was he pretending?", Lucy asked and Juvia smiled "Yes Gray-sama pretended to have a crush on Lucy-chan, so no one would notice that our relationship has changed. Gray-sama has been Juvia's boyfriend for three months." "You've been keeping your relationship secret this long? When did you want to tell us?", Levy asked and Gray shrugged "We had wanted to tell you even before Team Blonde joined Fairy Tail. But since that confession would stand in the way of our mission, we kept it a secret. By the way I only told that Fire-breathing freak, because he walked in on Juvia and I kissing. Whe-"

"You're calling that kissing, ice freak? What the hell. I may be as slow as a turtle some times, but even I know that I was disrupting a full blown make out session.", Natsu butted in and Juvia blushed a bright scarlet red. Gray glared at him, a small trace red prominent on his pale face, and went on with what he had wanted to say before. "When he confronted me about this I had to tell him the whole story. Juvia was not really happy with me when I told her Natsu knew. It had been her idea to keep it a secret after getting the mission."

"I would hate to but into your conversation so rapidly, but there are some things that have to be cleared. One, Juvia do you want your guild stamp on the same place as before?", Mira asked and when Juvia nodded, the white haired placed the mark on Juvia again, where it had been before and in the same color. To do this she had to get down on her knees in front of Juvia, while the bluenette had to lift her skirt up a bit.

The male population whistle and cat-called at the situation, and Gray would have stopped them (after all these perverts were looking at his girlfriend), if he himself was not as perplexed. "Juvia had almost forgotten how much this tickles.", Juvia giggled ignorant of the attention she and the Take Over Demon had gained from the males of the guild.

"Thank you very much, Mira-san.", Juvia smiled and was hugged by the other female. "Any time. Now on to the next question. After Fairy Hills had burnt down, we all had to move as you may know. Do you want to go on staying with Lucy? Or should I reserve you a room for when Fairy Hills is up again?", Mirajane asked and Juvia turned to Lucy. "Juvia would like to stay with Lucy-chan, if that is okay.", as an answer the blonde only grinned and nodded at her friend.

NightTwizzler945- I'm sorry for worrying you with the chapters, but as you can see it all had a purpose.

Ruby890- Thanks :)

Neko-chan2604- I'm not quite sure yet if this chapter is the end of the story or of an arc.

Medaka-chan- The Happy End has been accomplished... though I'm still not sure whether it's the end or not.

Juu (Guest 01)- As you can see Gray has not really hurt her, he just pretended to do so, so Lori would think he was on her side