a/n: I got a second one done! Yeppie!

Genre: romance or friendship (again, however you choose to see it) and humour/general
Pairing: ErzaxGray (For Mystical01 :D)

Warnings: VERY fluffy....

Skating

"Do you guys like to skate?" Lucy asked out of the blue one day during lunch.

Erza, Natsu and Gray turned to look at her, each with either a spoon or a fork half way to their mouth.

After a moment, Natsu answered, "I can't skate," before turning back to his plate.

"You've never tried?" Lucy asked, a little surprised. She'd always pegged Natsu as the type who would try anything at least once.

Natsu looked back at her with his mouth full but before he could say anything Gray answered for him.

"Actually, he's not ALLOWED to skate anymore," he told her with a mocking laugh aimed at Natsu. "He's always melting the ice."

"And you can't just make more?" she asked him skeptically.

"I have better things to do then following him around and fixing his mistakes," Gray told her blatantly. "I do enough of that already."

Lucy looked sympathetically at the redhead energetically shoveling food down.

"Poor Natsu, skating is so much fun!"

"It's okay, I don't mind," Natsu told her with his mouth full. "Ice sucks anyway," he added as an afterthought.

Gray growled and would have thrown back an insult if Erza hadn't looked at him warningly.

"What about you Erza?" Lucy asked.

"Oh no, I don't skate," Erza told her.

"Why not?"

"I just…" Erza trailed off, looking away with her cheeks slightly tinted.

"She's afraid to embarrass herself," Gray whispered to Lucy.

"I am not! It's everyone else who's afraid to teach me!" Erza defended herself. And, while her argument was most probably true, it was also clear enough that Gray was right.

Gray looked thoughtful for a minute before getting up and heading to the door.

"Are you going to finish that?" Natsu shouted after him looking at the half full plate he was leaving behind.

Gray didn't bother answering as he exited. Natsu grumbled a bit, looked at his empty plate and then continued to eye Gray's longingly.

Gray came back moments later.

"Just take it!" he said rolling his eyes at the drooling Natsu. He held his hand out to Erza. "You, come with me."

She looked at him with eyes narrowed in confusion. When she didn't move, Gray rolled his eyes again, sighed, reached over and proceeded to pull her away by the hand.

Surprisingly she didn't complain (or beat him to death). "What's this about?" she asked instead.

"You'll see," is all she received as an answer.

When they reached the courtyard, they were greeted by a towering wall of ice. Gray lead her to the opening and, when they were inside the circular ice enclosure, closed the gap, effectively closing them off from the outside world.

"What's this?"

"Your own private skating rink," he told her with a smile. "No one to see you fall," he added in an unnecessary whispered voice.

"You're here," she said.

"You need someone to teach you," he told her.

"I don't have skates."

He pointed to a spot on the wall where a pair of skates lay waiting.

"It won't hurt to try," he told her as he pulled her over to them.

She looked around at the majestic skating rink. Snow was gently falling, making the sight more beautiful than it already was. She looked at the skates hesitantly and sighed.

"Alright. But don't laugh if I fall," she warned him.

"Wouldn't dare," he told her seriously.

She put the skates on.

"Now what?" she asked, standing a little unsteadily but looking as confident as she always did.

Gray smiled. "You move your feet."

She took the first few steps slowly and holding Gray's hand. Being Erza, she got the hang of it pretty quickly and was soon skating on her own.

"See, it's not that bad!" Gray said, skating next to her.

"No it isn't," she replied before an uncertain look came over her face. "There seems to be a slight problem," she told him after a moment of thought.

"What?"

"I don't know how to stop!" she said putting her hands up in front of her as she hit the wall.

Gray acting quickly, caught her before she hit the ground.

Once she was on her feet again, she dusted herself off before turning around to face Gray, and found him chuckling slightly.

"I said no laughing," she said with narrowed eyes.

"I'm not laughing at you," he said defensively.

He stepped forward to brush some snow out of her hair.

"I was just thinking that I'll always be here to catch you when you fall," he told her.

She looked back at him, mouth slightly open, not knowing what to say.

He stepped back. "This is how you stop," he said, then proceeded to show her.

After shaking her head to clear her thoughts, she copied him flawlessly. She put her hands on her hips triumphantly and looked around.

"Alright, take this wall down and let's go get Lucy," she said.

Gray obliged and they both started skating back towards the guild. Just as they were about to go in, she stopped and turned to Gray.

"Thanks for this," she told him. "And for … what you said."

He smiled. "No problem."

She nodded and smiled at him before going in and calling to Lucy.

a/n: Reminder to all those who want to take the challenge (-cough- those who think they can do better than me :P)(like it's hard...), there's a link to fairytailmania on my profile.

Second reminder, feel free to request pairings and I luv reviews :D!!!!