Hey, once again it's Mari here with a new chapter :D
Disclaimer: Unfortunately for me, Fairy Tail is owned by Hiro Mashima who is my all time favorite mangaka and I aspire to be him. *bows*
"FASTER DAMMIT!"
"I swear I will CUT you. Don't rush me!"
Juvia groaned as she yanked the blonde girl by her wrist. "Gajeel-kun will be very upset with Juvia if she's late. AND Juvia will be EXTREMELY upset with you if you make Juvia late!"
"Yeah well I don't give a fuck. Why do I have to come anyway?"
"BECAUSE."
"That's not an answer Juvia."
"Juvia is scared okay?" The blue haired girl sighed as she released her grip on the other woman, "...Juvia knows that she needs to be in a guild. Lucy-san too. Juvia doesn't want to screw up and get both of us arrested..."
Lucy sighed as she placed a hand on Juvia's shoulder, "Fine..." Lucy dragged her feet as the bluenette pulled towards the guild doors and hesitantly knocked on it. The two stepped back as an extremely pretty silver haired mage opened the door.
"AH! You must be Gajeel's friend!"
Juvia hastily nodded, "Uh..yes. I'm Gajeel-kun's friend..." She shrieked in surprise as the woman pointed a finger in her face.
"You should really get yourself into a guild y'know!" She winked at them and giggled.
"W-Who told you about that?!"
Mira turned to the blonde standing behind the other girl and slapped her palm to her cheek, "Not you too!"
Lucy waved her arms frantically in protest, "No. No. No! I'm not a wizard! What? Psh. As if! Me? No...no."
Juvia put her hand on her friend's arm, "Lucy-san you're rambling..."
Mirajane just giggled once more, "Whatever you say. Now c'mon in, I'll bring you to Gajeel."
The two women followed as they entered the Fairy Tail guild hall. Lucy let her eyes wander through the room as she took everything in. She couldn't lie, it was breathtaking. All of these people were exactly like her, only they used magic at their own will, complying with the duties brought upon them by the council. She frowned in confusion at the table by the request board, she could've sworn someone was there just a moment ago...she shrugged it off.
Priorities Lucy, priorities.
She was here for Juvia, and Juvia alone. She was NOT joining Fairy Tail.
"Shit. Shit. Shit."
The raven-haired man took several deep breaths as he remained crouched behind the table. The coffee girls? What the fuck were they doing here?! His eyes widened as he saw his pink-haired roommate enter the guild. He bit his lip nervously before whispering, "Ice make grip" and pulled the boy towards his current position by the table.
Lucy and Juvia looked back at the sound of the commotion but saw nothing there. "What the hell was that?"
Mira shrugged, "No big deal, stuff like that happens here all the time..." She gestured at the male sitting in front of her.
"GAJEEL-KUN!"
"Oi! Waterworks, what did I say about the overly clingy stuff?"
Lucy couldn't help but smile a bit as Juvia tightly hugged the man before them. She turned back to the request board, maybe she was hallucinating...
"What the actual fuck ice princess?!"
Natsu was currently crouched behind the table with Gray, sneering at the ice mage. Gray frowned and punched his friend. "Shut up. Look over there but don't make it look like you're looking..."
"What?"
Gray groaned as the pink-haired male stuck his head up over the table, his head whisking around the room. Gray grabbed the boy back down by his scaly scarf and pressed their foreheads together, "You fucking moron. I said don't make it look like you're looking!"
Natsu scoffed and pushed back from Gray who tightened his grip on the scarf. Natsu raised a finger at the boy and sneered, "One, get the fuck off of me..." Gray released his grip on the scarf and scooted back a couple inches, "Two, where the fuck are your clothes, you creepy perv?!"
Gray looked down at smacked his forehead, "Great...ju-" his eyes widened in anger as he felt Natsu's hand smack against his mouth.
"Shh..."
"Hmpf...mmpf...mh...mhhstoo...hmmpf..!"
Natsu peered over the table questioningly, "...Is that Juvia all up on iron prick over there? And is that Lu-WHAT THE FUCK STRIPPER?! DID YOU JUST LICK MY HAND?!"
Gray tackled Natsu as he looked at his hand in disgust. "Shut the fuck up flame for brains!"
"Ew. Your tongue feels like a cow's..."
Gray rolled his eyes, "Why would you know what that feels like?"
"Ugh..."
Gray shook it off and peered over the table. Apparently, Juvia had been the friend that Gajeel was talking about. He couldn't help but wonder how they knew each other...Gajeel was so brash and Juvia...well, she wasn't.
But wait.
Gajeel had said that his friend was a renegade mage. Someone who should have been in a guild but for some reason wasn't. Juvia was a renegade mage? He narrowed his eyes as he tried to process this as he shook Natsu back into focus.
"Ugh...I'm probably gonna get some kind of disease. Like ice-stripper's syndrome or something..gross."
Natsu looked up as his roommate shook him, he sat up and peered over the table too. He followed Gray's lead as they crawled over hiding behind a table closer to where Gajeel and the girls currently were.
"Gajeel-kun! He's amazing! My beloved prince is the only thing for which I live for!"
Gray squirmed as he listened to Juvia's lovestruck comments. Natsu snickered, "Looks like Juvia's talking about you man!"
"Shut up."
Gajeel rolled his eyes as he rested his cheek in the palm of his hand. None of what she had been saying was truly important anyway. He cleared his throat, "Did you tell him that you are an illegal wizard?"
Juvia looked over at him in embarrassment, "Oh...um...no..."
"So you want to build a future with this prick, but you won't even tell him who you really are?'
Natsu snickered once again as he elbowed Gray in the torso, "Hah...he called you a prick!"
"Hush."
Juvia squirmed a bit as she rubbed her forearm. "What if I scared him off...?"
"Like the rest of them?"
Juvia sadly nodded.
Gajeel sighed, "Then, that's his loss."
Juvia smiled bashfully prompting Gajeel to groan, "I hate when you do thaaaattt..."
The bluenette chuckled. "Oh Gajeel-kun! Juvia is glad that you're still her friend!"
"Huh? Why'd you say that? Would I stop bein' your friend?"
"I-It's just...Juvia is an independent mage now...an illegal mage. Juvia doesn't want to bring trouble to Gajeel-kun..."
"Well whatever. I'm not just gonna abandon you because you're breaking the law y'know. Fuck the magic council anyway. Good for you."
Juvia bit her lip as she patted the hem of her dress. She looked over at Lucy's keys from the corner of her eye. Lucy was sitting patiently, waiting for Juvia's little meeting to end. Juvia smiled before turning back to face Gajeel. "Gajeel-kun, thank you for everything."
Gajeel stared questioningly as the blue-haired girl got up from her seat and began to head towards the exit, he swiftly grabbed her wrist holding her back. "Juvia. Let's be serious now, I wanted to convince you to join a guild and that's what I'm gonna do!"
Juvia shook her head and gave the man a small smile, "Gajeel-kun. Juvia has told you before that the answer is no. Juvia is sorry but Juvia must decline."
"JUVIA!"
The woman didn't respond, she continued on her path to the exit. It had been nice to see Gajeel-kun. He had been doing well, she was glad. She didn't mean to have upset him, but she had to turn him down.
Juvia in a guild?
Not again. She couldn't bring herself into that again, she had given up that life years ago. Now she was Juvia, the coffee barista. It was a good life, she had been practicing hiding her magic better and she loved living everyday as a regular human. Besides, what would Gray-sama think if he found out that she was an illegal wizard, or hell, a wizard nonetheless?
She hadn't even noticed the footsteps of the blonde female right behind her.
"Juvia. You completely tensed up when he mentioned joining a guild...what happened?"
"Juvia just doesn't want to join a guild. That is all. Lucy-san doesn't want to join one neither. Juvia can tell."
Lucy couldn't believe what she was hearing. Shortly after the girls had met, they had both admitted that they were independent wizards and they had made it their responsibility to prevent the other from exposing their magical abilities. But this was Juvia's friend Gajeel. Probably the only person that she was really open with, yet she was, walking away.
"Besides, we have to get back to work. Gray-sama might want scones."
Oh yeah him.
Lucy so wasn't in the mood to see those guys today. Sure, seeing the dark-haired one squirm in Juvia's embrace rivaled any comedy film and the pink-haired male made her entire being feel warm...but that was beside the point.
"Sorry Juvia. I'm just gonna go home..."
The bluenette looked up in surprise at her blonde friend. "Oh..o-okay Lucy-san." She frowned as the girl stalked off in a different direction, was it something she had said?
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~Arigato, Mari :)