Hope u enjoy this chapter. (I don't own fairytal)
"Where are those guys. They should've been back by now." Erza said, worriedly as she took a sip of her water at the bar.
"I'm sure they'll be back soon Erza." Wendy smiled, hopefully. They've been sitting at the bar all morning waiting for the rest of the team to come back. Erza just came back from an S-class quest to defeat a demon that was terrorising a demon. She was going to ask Gray to come along and help that morning only to find he went on another job with Natsu, Lucy and Happy. Wendy was on another job with Carla. They had help locate a treasure that was sacred to the town.
"If you're that worried, maybe you should go look for them?" Mira suggested.
"I don't know. Maybe I should just wait a little longer." Erza replied.
"Knowing them, Natsu and Gray have probably gone into another fight and Lucy and Happy are too scared to stop them or something." Carla chuckled, remembering what happened at the sun village.
"Well, then we should go and check on them." Erza said, finishing of her water and handing it to Mira. Erza said thanks and hopped of the chair.
"Hey Mira, can I please have a copy of the job request they took?" She asked. Mira nodded.
"Yep, I'll get it right now." She smiled and walked of. She came back a few seconds later with the job request.
"Here you go Erza." She smiled, and handed Erza the request.
"Mmhh, so they're in Marigold Town." She muttered. "Master we're off to go find them." She informed him. He nodded.
"Alright. Being them back. They better not be fighting again." The Master muttered. Erza nodded and headed off with Wendy, and Carla.
Back where the others were, they were currently following the path where 'Gray' had pointed.
"I still can't believe he disappeared again." Natsu grumbled. Lucy nodded.
"Yeah I know. I hope we can find him again." She said, while looking around.
"And hopefully he's not all weird this time." Happy agreed, munching on a fish.
"Where the heck did you get a fish!" Lucy shrieked. Happy shrugged.
"I don't know I just found it."
"And then you decided to just eat it." Happy nodded. "You can't just do that."
"But why not." As Happy and Lucy bickered, Natsu realised the place had changed again. This time it was bright blue sky, and the sun was shining. There was still snow around but it was brighter than it was, the houses were different too. The curtains were opened, and he could finally look to see inside them.
All the houses inside seemed to be the same; they had the same three blue couches in the middle, and a fire place on the left side of the house. The only difference Natsu could see, was the pictures. There tonnes of pictures with Gray and his family in some of them. There seemed to be pictures of Gray when he was young, with his friends; there were even some with Lyon, and what looked to be like his Master Ur. As they kept walking, the pictures changed.
They showed Gray when he first came to Fairytail, from when he was eight-years-old, from up until now. They showed him from over the years, with the other members of Fairytail. There was him talking to gramps when he first arrived, Gray meeting Cana, Maceo, and Wakabe for the first time, there was a few of them when he was on some jobs.
There was one with him, Cana and laxus. That's strange, I never knew that they were a team. Maybe it was a one-time thing. How he had never known that Gray went on a mission with Cana and laxus, he didn't know, well it was probably because he never bothered to ask. As Natsu kept looking at the pictures, he realised that he didn't know about most of the events that went down in the ice mages life.
Like, he knew some of it, but he didn't know much about what things went down before he joined the guild. Maybe sometime, after all this mess, he would ask. Not that he cared or anything, because that would be ridiculous, he was just curious was all. Suddenly, something wet and cold hit his face. He yelled out in surprise and stopped walking, which caught the others attention.
"What the hell-?" he asked, as the snowball fell of his face. He looked at Happy or Lucy, whom both shook their heads.
"It wasn't us." The three mages looked around to see who the culprit was, until a chuckle broke the silence.
"Who's there?" Natsu asked, turning around in a circle trying to find the source of the chuckle. Suddenly a figure appeared from being one of the houses.
"You should have seen your face haha." The figure started to crack up laughing. It took Natsu a few moments to realise that this was Gray.
"Gray? What the hell was that for?" Gray took a deep breath to calm down, trying his hardest not to crack up again.
"Because you were in a good position and I had to throw a snowball at you, and it was totally worth it." He cracked up laughing again. Alright. Natsu thought, angrily. If that's how it is then. Natsu bend down to the ground and picked up a handful of snow. He rolled the snow into a ball, and threw it at Gray. It headed his way, Gray was distracted still from laughing, so he didn't see the snowball, but he didn't have to. The snowball was a few feet away when it plummeted to the ground. As it hit the ground, it broke into little bits instantly.
Gray looked up at Natsu and then down at the crumbled snowball, once again he cracked up.
"That was totally pathetic, haha." Natsu picked up another handful of snow and threw it at Gray again, and once again; it missed. He kept getting close to Gray, while throwing snowballs, but it seemed the more he got close, the further away the snowball was from Gray. How was that possible?
"Seriously, flamebrain. You suck at this." Gray laughed, then bent down and picked up a handful of snow, and threw it at Natsu. Head Shot! Once again, it was perfect aim.
"What?" Natsu asked, outraged. "That's not fair! You must be cheating somehow." he accused Gray, pointing a finger at him. Gray shook his head, a smile still on his face.
"Nope. I'm just way better than you are. Always have been, always will be." he shot another one at Natsu.
"No you won't I will be the best." He picked up a big pile of snow and tried to roll it into a ball, but since it was so big, he couldn't hold it and it broke apart. This just cause Gray to crack up more.
"See what did I tell you. Anyway, you remember Christmas time, right? remember how I beat you at that snowball competition Mira made up?" (A/n Reference! to my other story. I've finally got to reference a story of mine. I've been waiting to do that:))
"technically, you didn't beat. Everyone in the guild got involved, so there was no actual declared winners there." Gray shrugged.
"I still won the fight before though."
"No you didn't. You cheated." Gray shrugged again, but this time he threw another snowball at Natsu.
"I'm still the best though." He laughed. Natsu picked up another handful of snow and threw it at Gray.
"No you're not ice princess. I am!" The ball was almost about to hit, but then it plummeted to it's death, again.
"Please. In your dreams, Firebreath." he scoffed, and then they were at it again, for awhile when Lucy intervened.
"Alright guys, we should stop. Gray where have you been, why did you go and disappear like that?" Lucy questioned, coming over to the boys.
"And why are you wearing a yellow cloak this time?" Happy asked, pointing at Gray's cloak in confusion. Gray stopped laughing and looked at the three.
"What do you mean? I'm always wearing this." He asked, looking down at the bright, yellow cloak.
"No, you're not, it's weird." Natsu said, just noticing the cloak now. Gray smirked.
"Oh yeah? You wanna go?" This got Natsu's attention, and forgot all about the business with the cloak, and fixed his gaze on Gray.
"Oh yeah, alright then let's go."
"Guys! Stop!" Lucy said, irritated. The boys stopped immediately out of fear.
"Uh oh, Lucy's acting scary again." Gray said, in a teasing voice.
"I am not. Look we need to figure out what is going on. You keep on acting different every time we see you." She said, frustrated. "Why is that?"
Natsu looked over at Gray, confused. Lucy's right. Now he came to think about it, Gray's different each time they see him. First: it was anger. Second: It was sadness. And third: it looks like it's happiness.
Lucy seemed to be thinking the same thing as Natsu. "Then there were all those pictures of him though out his whole life-I got it." She hit her right, closed hand onto her left hand. She smiled proudly, as she proceeded to explain. The thief we were battling, he said that he wanted to try transporting someone into somebody else's mind, that's what he did to us." She exclaimed. At first Natsu didn't quite understand what Lucy meant, but when he thought about it-
"Wait! We're in Gray's mind?" he asked Lucy, horrified. She nodded. "Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh! Out of everyone. Why did it have to be Gray's mind?" He started jumping up and down, and trying to brush of any Gray germs.
"Jeeze, it's not such a big deal." Lucy muttered.
"Well that's Natsu for ya." Happy laughed, eyes twinkling with amusement as he watched Natsu jumping up and down. Gray was watching with faint amusement in his eyes as well, before what Natsu had said, finally processed in his mind.
"Hey! What's wrong with my mind? Jealous?' Gray smirked, and folded his arms. Natsu stopped jumping up and down and brushing off any possible Gray germs and glared at Gray.
"Pssht, as if I'm jealous of your mind."
"Sure, sure." Gray laughed.
"I'm not." They were about to get into another fight, when Lucy stopped them.
"Natsu! If you really want to get out of Gray's mind, then we need to find a way out of here. Alright?" They both nodded, calming down.
"Now, do you guys have any ideas on how to get out of here?" She asked the three of them. They both shook their heads, and she sighed. "Well let's just keep walking until we find a way out of here. And Gray?" She looked at him in the eyes. "Don't go disappearing again, alright." She pointed a finger at him, and he nodded, fearfully. "Good. Let's go."
"Jeeze, when did she become Erza?" Gray whispered in Natsu's ear.
"I don't know, maybe that thief somehow made them switch bodies, or something." Natsu shrugged. Lucy's shoulders hunched, and glared at them from the corner of her eye.
"I can hear you, and no I am not Erza. I just want to get out of hear and go home." She sighed.
"You know, I think she's just hungry." Happy suggested. Gray rubbed his chin with his hand, thinking.
"You know Happy, I think you're right." He cracked up laughing, but stopped when Lucy wracked him on his head.
"The sooner we get out of here, the better." She muttered.
In the town of Marigold, Erza, Wendy, and Carla were searching the town for the other three.
"Natsu!" Wendy shouted.
"Happy!" Carla shouted, looking side to side for any sign of him.
"Gray! Lucy!" Erza shouted. "If you don't show your self's, there will be sever consequences." She yelled, angrily, but the others new she was worried.
"Uuumm, Erza? Don't you think that's a little harsh." Wendy asked, shyly. Erza didn't respond, but she continued shouting threats at them to come out. Suddenly, Wendy's nose caught a familiar sent.
"hey Erza." Erza looked down at her curiously.
"Yes Wendy?" Wendy pointed in the direction of the scent towards the forest.
"I think I can smell Gray. He's that way." Erza nodded.
"Good. Show me." She ran behind Wendy, following the Gray's scent. About fifteen minutes of running they finally found Gray and the others. There they were, unconscious on the ground. Gray was laying flat on his back, with his shirt discarded, and Happy was lying next to Lucy a few feet away from Gray and Natsu, was snoring on his stomach, near Gray. Erza quickly ran to Gray, checking to see if they were alright. Wendy ran to Natsu, and Carla flew over to Lucy and Happy.
"Natsu, Lucy, happy, and Gray. What happened to you guys?" She whispered, peering down at Gray, worriedly.
Been awhile since I last updated. i'm working on this other story that i'm really excited about posting and its also going to be long so thats going to be awhile before I post it, anyway hope you enjoyed this chapter and please review. thanks :)
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