a/n:well.... I think I'm making steady progress on this...

Ice

It definitely wasn't a good sign, Lucy decided, that the guild had been turned into a block of ice.

She had hoped, foolishly perhaps, that the softly falling snow she'd woken to was a sign that the day would be peaceful. But, if the ice palace she was walking towards was any indication, it would seem she had been wrong to hope for peace.

Gray was pissed, as far as she could tell.

And if he was this mad, chances were Natsu had something to do with it.

"What the hell happened to the guild?" a voice behind her asked.

She turned to see Natsu and happy coming toward her.

"You're not in there?"she asked him.

"No, why would I be?"

"I just assumed.... I mean, clearly Gray is pissed," she told him.

"So naturally I have something to do with it?" he asked indignantly.

"Well,..."she trailed off. "Did you?"

"No!" he answered. "I mean, I don't think so... well, maybe?"

"Maybe?"

"Well, I mean I said something but I didn't think he'd take it like this..."

With that he walked to the guild and stuck his head in the doorway.

"YOU!" Gray yelled from inside the guild. An ice spear landed where Natsu's head had been mere seconds before.

Natsu turned back to Lucy.

"I think I am the cause after all," he told her before walking into the guild, already flaming, to face the problem head on.

"Who said you could turn the guild into a block of ice, moron!" Natsu shouted at Gray as he entered.

"Who said you could melt my block of ice, asshole!" Gray shouted back.

'Oh boy,' Lucy thought from outside and wisely chose to go back home for an hour or two.

"Look, I'm sorry I said what I said about you stripping," Natsu yelled. "But you don't have to be such a baby about it!"

"It's not what you said about me stripping that bothered me to begin with!" Gray yelled back.

Natsu flames were immediately extinguished as he looked at Gray curiously. "It isn't?"

"No! It's what you said about me liking to watch Lyon strip!" Gray shouted, making a dozen ice arrows spring up around Natsu.

"You missed," Natsu said casually, flaming up once more just enough to melt the arrows circling him. "Well, if that's all, I'm going to go do something more useful," he added as he turned towards the exit still ablaze.

Gray growled. "Ice make wall!" he shouted, a massive wall of ice appearing to block Natsu.

"It's going to take more than that to stop me," Natsu told him, his fire already starting to melt the wall.

"Take it back, you flaming piece of turd," Gray growled out.

"And if I don't?" Natsu sneered back, now rounding on Gray and getting into a fighting stance.

"Ice make canon!"

Natsu jumped out of the way, glared at Gray and started running towards him, Gray having already switched the canon for a bow and arrow.

"Guys...," Mirajane said from the side. Mages fighting in the guild wasn't exactly a rare occurrence but this was getting a little out of hand. "Master won't be very happy...."

"Who cares!" Gray yelled. "Ice make fist!"

Natsu easily avoided it. He, for once in his life, was choosing to fight defensively at the moment. While he never tended to care whether or not he was being reckless, he somehow had enough sense to know that a little issue with Gray wasn't worth going into the full battle mode that would undoubtedly destroy the guild.

"Stop dodging, wimp!" Gray shouted.

"Stop breaking the guild, idiot!" Natsu retaliated. "It's not my fault you got so defensive because I noticed you like to watch-"

"I don't like watching him!" Gray cut him off angrily. "You like watching him!"

"I wouldn't watch a weakling like him!" Natsu shouted back.

A small 'hey' was heard from Lyon who happened to be present.

"I'd rather watch you!" he finished.

Gray immediately froze, staring at Natsu dumbfounded. He didn't just hear what he thought he heard... right?

Natsu, seeing that Gray was done using magic, stopped using his as well but tackled an unmoving Gray to the ground anyway.

"Are we done now?" he asked.

Gray nodded dumbly, still shell shocked.

"Good," Natsu answered, making his way to the door. When he was right next to it, he turned around and stuck his tongue out at the staring ice mage. "And I'm not taking it back," he said, before ducking out.

Gray's face slowly contorted back into a scowl.

"Why you little!!" he shouted, chasing after Natsu.

"Well, at least they're not in the guild..." Mirajane said to herself.

a/n: I love reviews! :D (And has anyone else noticed that Gray has been featured in all the stories so far....)