A/N: This is a special chapter that is totally unrelated to the plot but simply here because I love Edolas. Also for me to have time to write the other chapters (I've written the next few but want to keep writing. When summer vacation comes I'll post more often hopefully).

Sorry for not updating last week, I was sort of busy. ^_^;

Note the first part is 3rd person, Lucy Ashley POV. Any Avas are referring to Edolas Ava, and our Ava will be referred to as Earthland Ava.

Assuming that Edolas and Earthland's time flow the same (which probably is the case considering Lisanna's age matching up to the time she missed in Earthland), everyone in Edolas should be older. From this, I feel that Edo-Ava would be a lot more immature simply because in this world she had Team Natsu to rely on while Earthland Ava had the whole Tenroujima incident which made her more mature. So that's my reasoning behind Edo-Ava's personality.

This is literally Lyon/Ava and Gray/Ava fanservice with a dash of EdoLucy/EdoNatsu. XD

I swear that I made Edo-Ava a total sempai-obsessed yandere. She'll get better.

Thanks for reading~

Lucy Ashley, in all her blonde glory, groaned wearily as she stretched her limbs before giving a sigh, crossing her legs as she played with her golden locks, her feet spread out wide as she sat on a wooden table. "Oi, Gray, what are you doing?"

"I'm following Juvia~" The heavily clothed man sighed dreamily as his eyes suddenly narrowed, his expression turning stormy. "I can't believe that she agreed to go on a date with Lyon of all people!"

"Well, he did honestly ask her out and unlike you she actually likes him." Lucy stated bluntly, the man's aura turning gloomy as he sulked in a corner. That statement was sort of a lie: the man was just as weird as Gray was, and according to Juvia she had gone out with him because she 'felt sorry for him'. Lucy bet that they wouldn't even last a fortnight. "Why don't you just ask Ava out then?"

The man shuddered as he thought of his guildmate. "Never, I'll stay loyal to Juvia-chan forever!" Fire lit up in his eyes as he pumped his fist, although his eyes darted nervously to his black haired teammate who was sitting down on a wooden bench until that moment.

Ava's amber eyes teared up, her cute black pigtails swinging as she asked with a trembling voice, "G-Gray-sempai, you don't like me?" She looked like she was about to start wailing and crying as all the males of Fairy Tail glared at Gray, and the man quickly shook his head. Ava was after all the guild's lolita girl, and brought a lot of jobs to the guild just because of her cute appearance. Although her cute appearance made her look seemingly innocent, Lucy and Gray were wise to know that behind the kind exterior was a true manipulative demon to behold.

"O-of course not!" Gray panicked, holding up his hands.

Before they could continue, the doors of the strange shaped guild were thrown open courtesy one red head. All of Fairy Tail was in a panic as they realized that Erza Knightwalker of all people were in their guild, running away as Lucy stood up, barely noticing Ava flinging herself on Gray, crying, "Gray-sempai, save me!"

"What the hell do you want? The whole Earthland debacle is over and I thought we agreed to have peace." Lucy scowled, crossing her arms over her chest.

"Ah, that's not it…" Erza Knightwalker's eyes looked down guiltily for a moment before she nodded firmly and looked at Lucy eye-to-eye. After her counterpart had beaten her, Erza had gotten...kinder, if that was even possible, Lucy noted. Although she supposed that her counterpart and Earthland Natsu had softened herself as well. "Jellal-sama wanted you guys to watch this girl. Apparently she's from Earthland."

She moved to reveal a woman with short black hair, and Lucy's eyes couldn't help but widen as she couldn't withhold a scoff as she turned to see how Gray and Ava were taking it. The short, petite black haired girl's eyes had also widened as she realized who Erza had brought, and Gray was simply open mouthed.

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"Hi. I'm Ava Lucioni, or at least the Ava Lucioni from Earthland. I was in the crystal most of the time when the rest of my guildmates were here, so I'm afraid I haven't really met you all. It's a pleasure." The woman drawled, a slightly bored expression on her face as her eyes scanned the guild before a small smile tugged on her face.

Lucy's brown eyes narrowed. "We closed the opening between Earthland and Edolas. How could you get here? It's been years since we've last had any of you guys here."

Earthland Ava shrugged. "I was practicing with my team when a Rune appeared, and then I suddenly was teleported to Edolas's royal chambers. Mystogan-sorry, I mean Edolas Jellal, wasn't very inclined to let me stay in the palace and felt I would feel more comfortable with you all. My friends are probably either panicking or working on getting me back right now, so you shouldn't worry too much."

Stepping inside the guild, her eyes landed on her Edolas counterpart and Earthland Ava suddenly smiled. "So this is me? Heh, I never had to deal with this kind of situation before."

"N-nice to meet you, Ava-san." Ava played with her fingers nervously as her other and admittedly more confident self bent down to pat the girl on the head.

"It seems like there's a big personality difference," Natsu, who had been silent the whole time, observed. Lucy was slightly surprised the shy man even decided to spoke up, but then she remembered that despite his...cowardly side, Natsu could be strong when he wanted to be. Turning to Earthland Ava, he asked, his eyes darting around a little nervously as he played with his fingers. "How's my Earthland counterpart?"

"Ehehehe, well, you see they sort of got caught in a time stopping spell and-" Earthland Ava rubbed the back of her head sheepishly as she went on to explain that yes, now they were officially 7 years older than their counterparts if their counterparts had been at Tenroujima and yes, they were doing fine and were just as lively as ever.

It was strange, really, and Lucy was sure she was not the only one surprised at Earthland Ava's appearance. It was like Wendy's counterpart all over again except the other way around.

It seemed like Gray was taking it quite harshly, looking back and forth from Ava and Earthland Ava. Earthland Ava turned to Gray, her eyes widening with surprise before a snicker left her lips. "You look so lame, Gray!"

Lucy swore every jaw in Fairy Tail dropped at those words as Ava looked faintly insulted. "Gray-sempai looks amazing!"

"What's with all those layers of clothes?" Earthland Ava drew closer, poking his jackets cautiously as Gray looked simply stupefied.

"He gets cold easily," Lucy explained for her guildmate as she rolled her eyes, recalling that Earthland Gray had been the exact opposite. She wondered if their Gray would look like that if he took off all his clothing: maybe then Juvia might fall for him like Earthland Juvia had fallen for Earthland Gray.

"Interesting. Yo, I'm Ava. I was your counterpart's teammate for a few years, but now I'm part of Blue Pegasus although I do meet your counterpart and other teams like Lyon's sometimes…" Thinking about that, Earthland Ava couldn't help but wonder how she always managed to meet other teams on her missions. It was like some god out there wanted her to have a dramatic life.

"You look...nice…" Gray stammered as Ava wailed behind him 'sempai, notice me~', his eyes staring at only Earthland Ava as the woman gave him a bright smile that made her look more like her counterpart, a small blush spreading over her face as she rubbed the back of her neck sheepishly. An alarm bell rang in Lucy's head as the woman suddenly gave him a devilish smirk, her eyes sparkling mischievously as she sensed Gray's nervousness around her. It seemed like the manipulative side of Ava hadn't changed between the two worlds.

"Thanks! Gray rarely compliments me nowadays."

"Wait...did you mention Lyon?" Natsu, who had been silent and working on his new idea of how to fuel his car (Lucy had been helping with that: the pinkette had been completely devastated after his car stopped working because it ran on Magic Lacrima) asked.

"Yep! He's one of my closest friends." All of Fairy Tail fell silent as Lucy recalled the many times when Ava had nearly beaten Lyon to death for insulting her dear Gray-sempai. Seeing Lyon all beaten up afterwards was definitely not the best sight in the world. Usually the two got along and were like siblings, but if Lyon dared speak wrong of Gray...well, that was a different story for another time.

"Actually, he's heading here right now to pick up Juvia for a date." Lucy remarked as Earthland Ava's golden eyes widened with shock as she managed a 'w-what?'.

"Ah! That's right! My dear Juvia-sama's date!" Gray pumped his fist in the air, fire in his eyes once more. "I must crash it."

"I'll join you," Earthland Ava said grimly as Lucy wondered what kind of relationship she had with Earthland Lyon.

(Edolas Ava POV)

Ava stared in simple amazement as her counterpart began laughing and talking with Gray as if they had been best buddies forever. The short, petite girl had always tried to get close to her idol with no avail, and her attempts at getting closer to Gray had always backfired and he became even more wary of her.

She was the epitome of cute, with a small, petite stature, beautiful golden eyes, and long black hair usually tied in her signature two ponytails. She usually used her appearance to her advantage to manipulate people, but it seemed like her counterpart was similar as Earthland Ava teased Gray about his constant staring of her (sempai was not staring at her! He was simply...surprised at her counterpart's appearance!).

Ava was very good at convincing herself about certain things.

Gray would be her knight for sure: he was perfect! Beautiful obsidian eyes, perfect hair, and a sexy voice...perfect! Not to mention he was super hot when he wasn't wearing all those clothes (Ava obviously didn't know that because of that one hotsprings trip...definitely…)

"Gray-sempai, why are we stalking Juvia-chan and Lyon-kun's date?" Ava asked innocently, her eyes sparkling with intelligence although she gave him the look of a child, pouting and all.

"Because we are going to stop them if Lyon dares to try to touch Juvia-sama!" Gray growled at the same time that Earthland Ava said, "Because Lyon's an idiot in both worlds if he thinks love at first sight actually happens."

Both Gray and Earthland Ava stared at each other for a moment, blushes evident on their faces as they realized they had a common goal and Ava couldn't help but feel a tinge of jealousy. No matter what she did, Gray always treated her like a creepy child (she couldn't deny the creepy part-ah, she meant child part, but did he have to always scoot away when she was near?).

They both nodded in unison, understanding flickering through their eyes before they turned back to the scene of a certain bluenette and sky colored haired mage, who were at the moment standing fairly close to each other and chatting amicably.

Just then, Lyon leaned closer to Juvia as their hands reached for each other, but before either of them could do anything Ava's eyes flickered to see the hopeless look on Gray's face that she knew meant he knew it would be useless to interrupt them because Juvia would hate him even more. Ava could relate to that feeling: after all, she experienced it everyday herself with Gray.

She decided to put her personality and talents to best use, standing up from the bushes and strolling casually with an air of arrogance as she popped up between Juvia and Lyon just before they linked hands, missing the slightly(pleasantly) surprised look that came over Gray's face as her counterpart snickered and whispered, "After all, my counterpart and I am quite similar in some ways."

"Juvia-chan! Lyon-kun! How are you doing?" Ava blinked innocently as Juvia shot her a slight glare. They didn't get along too well because of Ava's constant love of Gray despite Juvia's utter hate of him. Lyon shot her a kind look: he was sort of like the older brother Ava never had.

"Good. I'm on a date with Juvia-chan right now, so-" Lyon tried steering the couple out of the way, but Ava wouldn't have it. She would not just stand around and let her Gray-sempai's love be taken right out of her grasp.

(If she had been thinking right she could have remembered that Lyon and Juvia hooking up was good, so Ava could hook up with Lyon, but she honestly felt that as long as her loved one felt happy she would be fine.)

Stepping out from the bushes and dusting her pants off casually as if she hadn't been doing anything incriminating, Earthland Ava offered a casual, "Hi. I just wanted to introduce myself to you two since I'll be staying in this world for a little. I'm Earthland's Ava Lucioni."

Lyon and Juvia seemed to size her up for a moment before they nodded in assent, and Ava's chest couldn't help but puff out proudly. She was beautiful, confident, and independent in both her world and the other.

"Marry me," Lyon suddenly zoomed over to Earthland Ava, his eyes sparkling as the black haired woman blinked for a few moments before her golden eyes widened and a slightly pink tint rose to her cheeks.

"W-what do you think you're doing?" The woman managed as Ava barged into their conversation, huffing slightly.

"Lyon-nii, stop being an idiot." Her counterpart sent her a thankful look as she ran a hurried hand through her messy black hair. She turned to Juvia, gritting her teeth a little as Ava said, "Juvia-chan, I'm so sorry for myself interrupting your date! Gray-sempai and I didn't mean it, right Gray-sempai?"

Ava nudged Gray not-so-subtly as the man winced and rubbed the back of his head nervously. "That's right! But it seems like Lyon's left you for Earthland's Ava, Juvia-chan, so why don't you stay with m-"

He was sent a dry look by Juvia before she turned, letting out a 'hmph'. "Why would I go out with either of these losers anyways? I just felt sorry for Lyon-san."

Ava twitched, along with Earthland Ava. Her counterpart let out a sigh and muttered something that sounded suspiciously like 'less troublesome in my world' before Earthland Ava grabbed both Juvia and Lyon's hands. "Well, since I'm new to this world, can you two show me around?"

Earthland Ava dragged the two away from Ava and Gray, turning around for one moment as her amber eye winked at her counterpart before continuing on her merry way.

It was strange, to say the least.

Ava blushed as she realized she was left alone with Gray, and rubbed the back of her head nervously as she laughed. "Well, that was strange, right Gray-sempai?"

"Mm." Gray's eyes trailed her counterpart as Ava felt a pang of annoyance.

"Gray-sempai?"

"Mm." He still wasn't paying attention to her, his eyes somewhere far away and all that Ava wanted was for his eyes to be on her, for him to actually look at her and notice her as an individual. She took a deep breath, inhaling before exhaling as she spoke heavily.

"Gray."

At the lack of honorifics the man finally looked up, and he flinched at what he saw. Ava...she wasn't teary eyed as she usually was whenever she wanted to manipulate the man for him to do things her way, even though he expected her to act like a spoiled child at this time. Instead, he saw her for what she was: a 22 year old woman who had a slight superiority complex, tapping her foot impatiently and scowling.

"Gray, why don't we head somewhere since we have some free time?" Ava gestured at the shops that surrounded him, smiling slightly as she tugged on the sleeve of his jacket, undoing her two pigtails as she let her black hair fall to her waist instead, making her look a lot more mature than she usually acted.

For the rest of the day, Gray was dragged around by Ava, the two entering numerous shops with the woman exiting the shops triumphantly as Gray was pulled down by the weight of all the bags of clothes she had chosen.

Of course, even though the man wouldn't ever admit it, it was sort of fun. The way that Ava's eyes sparkled as she came out of the fitting room wearing a beautiful sunset orange dress that matched her eyes made Gray want to smile himself, and he had to admit the pure delight on her face when he had bought her a necklace had been adorable.

...he was sure that if he ever told his guildmate that, the woman would totally freak out and begin planning their wedding without a moment's notice. That was why he stayed quiet.

Finally, night time was arriving and they headed back to the guild, and as their arms moved to open the doors a blinding light nearly ruined Gray's vision as he covered his eyes, squinting through the cracks as he recognized a startled looking Earthland Ava staring down at her hands which were beginning to fade.

"Leaving already? Such a shame, I would have liked to hang out here for a little more…" She muttered as the woman shrugged. "Ah, well. Hibiki and the others are probably waiting."

She turned, meeting her counterpart's eyes as she grinned, and Ava smiled back at her as they shook hands, Earthland Ava leaning in and whispering something into Ava's ear that made the girl flush a serious shade of red as she nodded, her eyes a little teary as she whispered, "Thank you."

The woman gave her another warm smile as she gave an acknowledging nod to everyone else, saluting mockingly as she bowed. "Thank you for having me."

And with that, their unexpected visitor was gone.

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"I'm not giving up right now, so you don't give up either. Understand? Heh, you'll be wonderful someday. I know you will."

A/N: Again, sorry for not updating last week. I hope you enjoyed this special chapter~