Bixanna Week – Beautiful Soul
Day 5 – Soul
As you might have suspected, day 5 inspired the title of this collection. Prepare for ridiculousness, this one's pretty silly.
Fairy Tail was a whirl of activity as usual. The latest guild fight had broken out two minutes earlier after Natsu had loudly challenged Erza to a fight. It hadn't taken long for the others to get involved, and before long fists were flying, swords were clashing, and fire arced through the air.
Juvia hardly glanced up for any of it (except to drool at the sight of Gray stripping off his shirt). Instead she stared at the two people sitting side by side at the bar, holding hands and talking animatedly to each other. She rested her cheek in her palm, elbow supported by the table. Leaning forward in her seat, she strained to hear what they were saying but couldn't catch more than a few words and bits of laughter. She frowned a little, squinting as if that would help her ears to hear better.
Lucy noticed Juvia's strange behavior (stranger than usual, at least) and approached her hesitantly. "Juvia?" She asked.
She made no indication that she'd heard her name and continued what she was doing. Lucy pulled up a chair next to her and attempted to follow the path of Juvia's gaze. Her eyes wandered from floor to ceiling, but it was becoming increasingly difficult to focus on any one thing in particular (Happy shot across her field of vision at one point, much to her annoyance). Eventually she asked, "What are you looking at?"
Juvia pointed straight ahead. "Lisanna and Bixlow."
Lucy looked again and saw the couple in question. She nodded in understanding. "They're a strange pair, aren't they?"
Juvia seemed to snap out of her trance, shifting her attention the girl next to her. "Juvia just can't figure it out."
"Figure what out?" Lucy asked. "Because there's a lot of things about them that just defy explanation to me."
Juvia thought about it for a moment before posing an important question. "Can you imagine them being romantic?"
Lucy considered it. An image of Lisanna and Bixlow popped into her head. A soft glow illuminated the two as they stood close together while a sparkly pink aura of flowers and hearts filled the background. Mood music drifted in and out as they stared deeply into each other's eyes.
Bixlow held Lisanna's hands tenderly, his trademark tongue-wagging grin displayed for all to see. She smiled lovingly back, squeezing his hands just a little.
"Baby, I want you and your beautiful soul," he said.
Breaking out of her fantasy, Lucy looked straight at Juvia and said in a deadpan voice, "That was one of the weirdest mental images my brain has ever come up with. Not to mention one of the cheesiest."
Juvia finally turned to look at Lucy. She let out a long sigh. "They're so lucky."
"Jealous?" Lucy asked, already anticipating the answer.
"Mm," she said. "Juvia wishes she could have a romance like that."
Lucy placed a comforting hand on the water mage's shoulder. "You'll get your chance."
An ice lance suddenly imbedded itself in the ground a foot away from them. A cry of "NATSU!" cut through the noise for a brief moment before the fight escalated in intensity. It was somewhat impressive, if not idiotic, how everyone still had energy to spare, Lucy thought.
She made a sound somewhere between a laugh and a scoff. "That is, once Gray and Natsu settle their ongoing rivalry," she mumbled.