AN: Crossover with 'Rave Master', I guess. If you never read it, huge spoilers ahead!
Actually, if you never read it, go and do it! It's pretty awesome and funny. ;D
Seven Days of Love ~ Gruvia Week
By: BonneyQ
Day 05 – Touch
The Carnival was a big deal from the moment it arrived in Magnolia. The people were so excited about it that of course, everyone in Fairy Tail went to check it out as well. Juvia and Gray walked together between the many tents. They were kind of in a relationship. After holding hands during the games and exchanging a kiss just before the dragons arrived (she said that it was just in case they never saw each other again), it was kind of an understanding between them to go out together.
In Juvia's mind, this trip to the Carnival was a date, but she said nothing to him, afraid of scaring him off.
After walking around for a while, Gray bought her a cotton candy, much to her happiness and they were about to resume their pace when a woman with dark skin and equally dark curled hair and light green eyes appeared in front of them. She looked like a gypsy, a very pretty one.
"You two…" She said narrowing her eyes while Gray and Juvia frowned. "Come inside." She pointed to the tent beside them, where a plaque said: 'Know your future with Miss Bourney.'
Gray snickered. "Yeah, I don't think so." They had too much of the future already. He started to walk away, but when he realized that Juvia was not following him, he stopped and turned around, just to see her looking to the gypsy with curiosity. "Juvia?"
"Can you see Juvia's future?" The Water Mage asked the woman.
"I can show what you need to see. Past. Present. Future. I don't control what I can see or show to you." She answered and then changed her gaze towards Gray. "You should really come inside my tent. I feel that you need to know what I need to show."
"Juvia wants to go inside." The blunette said, shy. Miss Bourney returned her eyes to the girl.
"I don't think you should…" Gray said, but the girl was already stepping inside the tent followed by the gypsy woman and he let an unsatisfied growl, but didn't get in. Instead, he waited.
The woman inside was probably going to tell Juvia that she was going to marry Gray and have thirteen children; exactly what the blunette wanted to hear. All those Carnival people were con artists.
But after five minutes, he was growing impatient. How long does it take to throw a couple of lies? He sighed and went inside the tent.
It was exactly as he expected, there was a lachrymal ball in the middle of a table, but neither of the women were there. Instead, they were standing in front of a mirror. Juvia had her eyes closed and was touching it, gasping.
"Hey!" He said and the gypsy turned to look at him.
"Shhh." She said, putting a finger over her lips. "She's seeing. Don't interrupt."
"Yeah, right." Gray stepped closer to them and Miss Bourney stood between him and Juvia. "Move."
"She chose to see and the Mirror chose to let her." She said. "You are too skeptical. You could easily break the connection forever. The girl needs to see what the Mirror is showing. It's important for both of you."
Suddenly, Juvia took two steps back away from the Mirror and the gypsy stepped out of the way, so Gray could catch her.
"Are you alright?" Gray asked once he saw her dazed eyes. The gypsy was beside Juvia.
"What did he show you? Your future?"
Juvia shook her head. "Past."
Miss Bourney frowned. "It doesn't usually show the past, unless it's…" She stopped for a moment. "I see." She looked over her shoulder to the Mirror. "I see, my friend."
"What's going on?" Gray didn't understand what was happening but felt much better when Juvia was back to her feet, looking much better. "Are you okay?"
"Yes." She nodded. "Just overwhelmed." The blunette then, turned to the gypsy. "There was a voice by the end…"
"Yes!" The gypsy said excitedly. "The voice. It's important to remember what it said. Exactly what it said."
Juvia nodded. "It said… 'Bring the boy with you next time.'"
The green eyes of Miss Bourney were on Gray not a second later. "Two at time? That's highly unusual. And the boy is skeptical…" She shrugged, regardless. "Well, who am I to contradict the Mirror? Ready for another go, girl? And you, boy?"
Panic spread though Juvia's face and Gray was about to take her away from the crazy lady, when the blunette beat him into it.
"He doesn't need to see." Juvia said. "Juvia didn't get it all, but he really shouldn't see it."
Gray frowned and looked down to her. "What I don't need to see?"
"Nothing." Juvia answered fast. Too fast. She was lying to him. "Silly nonsense. You don't believe it anyway."
"Wait… now I'm curious." Gray said. "You said you saw the past? Maybe I can see Ur?"
"The Mirror only shows what you need to see." Miss Bourney said. "And the girl didn't just see the past. She saw her past life. That's when she met you." Gray looked down to Juvia, frowning in confusion.
"What?" He asked. "Juvia?"
"You don't need to see it, Gray-sama." Juvia said softly. "Even Juvia didn't see the whole thing."
"Because the Mirror said that you two needed to go together next time." Miss Bourney said. "It wants to show you what happened between the two of you the last time."
"We… they were not from this country." Juvia said. "They were enemies, just like we were." She whispered the last part.
"Do you believe it was… us?" Gray asked. He knew one could travel though time with magic. Why couldn't they see their past lives as well?
"It felt so real." Juvia mumbled, but then raised her voice. "They wanted the same thing. A weapon. That was as far as Juvia got."
"A weapon?" Gray frowned.
"Her father made a weapon and he wanted it too." She said. "I couldn't understand exactly why."
"Am I correct to assume that you two were also enemies when you met?" Miss Bourney asked as they nodded. "You two should really let the Mirror show the rest to you."
Gray didn't exactly know what to do. Should he see his past life? Or whatever it was that Juvia saw. His gut was telling that he had to know. He had to know what made Juvia so shaky.
"I want to see." He said and looked down to Juvia. "If you want to."
Juvia stared at him and thought for a moment. She wanted to know what happened to her older self, she knew they had a very similar life when they were young and they made the same bad choice when they joined the 'dark side.' But when she met him, she changed. Like Juvia did. She wanted to learn more.
"I do." She said and they turned to the gypsy woman. "We will see what it has to show."
"Very well." Miss Bourney nodded. "They said that you needed to go together…" Juvia frowned, but Gray understood. He grabbed Juvia's hand firmly and waited for more instructions. "Now, touch the mirror and let your mind go."
Squeezing her hand a little to make sure he knew she was with him, both reached the mirror.
It took one touch.
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When Gray came to his senses again, he was lying on the floor, Juvia by his side and Miss Bourney was sitting on a chair, staring at them.
"Did you see it?" She asked and Gray nodded, sitting. "Why did you see?" Gray opened his mouth to speak, but decided against it. Miss Bourney chuckled. "It doesn't matter. I already know."
Gray looked to the girl lying next to him and he understood what she meant when she had told him that it felt real. He had felt everything the man he saw felt. It was weird as he recalled exactly what he saw.
The enemy was strong and wanted them dead. Both him and Reina, but Musica couldn't let it happen. He remembered an old attack: Silver Bond. If they could pull it off, maybe they could survive it. Reina, the stubborn woman she was, didn't believe in him, not like he started to believe in her.
"Don't say 'believe in a person' so easily!" She had said to him.
He had to convince her, otherwise both of them would die. Not only that, his friends would also die and Musica could take anything but that. They were too precious to him. Besides, Silver Ray shouldn't be used as a weapon. He knew it and Reina knew it as well.
His hands burned with the golden attack the damn man threw at him, but at least it didn't reach her. She was too distracted that day, not a bit like the ferocious woman he learned to respect. It was probably because she finally knew where her father's creation was and what it was capable of.
"If we mess it up, we'll both die!" She said.
Musica just turned around and offered her his hand with a small smile. "We'll make it through. Just trust me."
He prayed that she didn't realize that his hand was shaking because it hurt so damn much. But the look on her eyes, the scared and somehow hopeful eyes of hers, made him want to just sweep her and hug her (not like when they first met and they were more than enemies and they flirted senseless even in the position they were); no, Musica wanted to comfort her and tell her that everything was going to be alright, because he knew it would.
Hesitantly, she reached for his hand and after telling her something his friend had told him once and helping her up, she looked straight to him and said the words that later would haunt him.
"My life is in your hands."
When their enemy tried to attack them, both Musica and Reina had already begun to perform the Silver Bond. Musica could feel that in that moment, she trusted him. That crucial moment, they shared the same objective that it was to not let Silver Ray become a weapon. It wasn't a physical attack, as he explained to her. It was a non-magic shockwave.
Together, they released their Silver Bond and it was big; so big that even Musica was shocked when he saw the damage. They had destroyed their enemy.
"Launch cancelation impossible." Musica typed again and again trying to stop the weapon to go off. He didn't notice Reina standing still and thinking. She knew what they had to do to stop it.
When she informed him that Silver Ray was out of control and that they should just give up, Musica had an outburst; he told her that the weapon would kill innocents, take many lives if they didn't stop it. And that he knew that it wasn't what she wanted, even though she was part of an evil organization.
"How can you…?" She asked.
"I know." He smirked. "When we joined hands, I felt it."
Reina hesitated a bit before turning around with a smile of her own and saying: "Ok then. You win. I never thought you were this hot." As they flirted a little, Reina laughed a little.
They decided to try to stop it, but before, Reina made him promise to listen to all of his commands. When he hesitated, she asked: "Do you trust me?"
How could he not? He had asked her to trust him and now it was his time to trust her.
"I trust you." Musica said and for the first time he saw the real Reina. Her eyes were soft, her smile was small but true and he didn't understand why she turned so abruptly and started typing until the Silver Ray's core was in front of them. When he asked what she was going to do, she simply said: "I'm going to destroy the Silver Ray." He tried to protest, but she interrupted him. "I told you not to argue. If I destroy this core, the silver Ray's structure will be destroyed." To say that Musica was surprised was an understatement. "Don't worry; I'm already decided on this." If the structure is destroyed, then the ship will stop."
"What do you want me to do?" Musica asked her.
"The Silver Bond." She proceeded explaining to him that they needed to use a powerful attaché so the core would break, but that in the process, the ship would explode.
He caught the meaning behind her words. They wouldn't have time to run afterwards. "So basically, we're gonna die." He said.
"Musica, you agreed before that you'd do what I say, right? I'm not afraid to die in anything that my father created." Reina said deadly serious.
The man scoffed. "Me neither; I'm proud to die if it saves my friends." He grabbed her hand one more time, but this time, his hand was not shaking. He was confident that his death would save his friends and he had no regrets. "And I'm not alone." He squeezed her hands a bit. "Let's do it."
His thoughts were interrupted by Juvia going into a sitting position by his side. He felt his mouth dry when he looked to her. She seemed a little confused.
"Okay?" Gray asked her and she nodded. He got up and helped the blue haired girl to do the same. "Did you see something?"
"Yes." Juvia frowned. "You?"
"No. Not a damn thing." Gray shrugged nonchalantly while the girl got confused. She had seen many things; things that confused her and things that made many things clearer.
"Oh…"
Gray was confused with what he saw. He saw the woman, Reina and the man, Musica, do their own version of Unison Raid like he and Juvia did. The powerful attacks reminded of each other too much. But it was what happened before that confused him the most.
Musica had asked Reina to trust him. Gray had pretty much asked Juvia the same thing. They held hands like the couple from his vision; but to perform an Unison Raid, physical contact was not really necessary as the Twin Dragon Slayers showed when they were fighting, yet Gray and Juvia held hands, like he saw the people from the vision.
Everything was so weird. He had to clear his mind.
"Maybe it was because I am a skeptical, as the gypsy woman said." He said. "Now, let's go."
"We'll stay in this town for another two days, boy." Miss Bourney smirked. Juvia thanked the woman and before they left, she added to Gray. "When you have questions… We'll be here."
Gray said nothing else and stepped out of the tent where Juvia was waiting for him with a pensive look on her face. "That was an odd experience." She muttered.
"Yes." He stared at her like he had never seen her before. He was about to open his mouth to tell her that he did see something he couldn't understand, Wendy arrived running, stopping just enough to let them know why she was running.
Magnolia was in danger.
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AN: I don't know what happened: I mixed Jason Bourne and Bonney. And Miss Bourney ended up looking like Esmeralda from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." Figures.
And yes, I am aware that there was a crossover of Fairy Tail and Rave Master made by Mashima himself so Musica and Reina being their past lives is NEVER gonna happen but I just thought that Gray and Juvia look a lot like Musica and Reina (I even made a few montages that I posted on my tumblr just to reinforce the idea). Maybe it's just me being crazy, but I'll try to make as much sense as I can next chapter, which will be a continuation of this one. For those who read Rave Master, I hope my explanations next chapter will make sense. ;)
I loved writing this and I can't wait for the next chapter, because it's gonna to be so dramatic… Well, sorry if you were expecting something different!
Thanks to: Yukistar, PrincessChii, Sarapyon, YamixTeaLover, TheWhiteOwl, otaku03, Yukari Hiwada, SakuraIchigoDark, Chibi Waru-chan, clara. sims.92, superduperizee, cybercorpsesnake, Yarachi-chanx3, AngelBaby5643, Xo56oX, underwaterlights, Ushiio, Cat Goliath, animegirl115, Armaggedon Angel and Bored Konoha Kunoichi for taking their time to review. I love you all.
~ End of Day 05 :)