Chapter 3

Naked examination

By Neko Erza

"… and that's why we came to you, Porlyusica. We have no idea how to turn him back." Master Makarov finished the odd story of his guild member turning into a woman.

The old medical advisor of the guild eyed the raven female before her from head to toe. The big clothes hang all baggy around the small body, the pants almost falling down from his hips. "You're that ice mage, aren't you?"

"Yes, you recognized him?" The master asked.

"Yeah, it's one of the annoying bugs that have come to bother me before." The woman's eyes looked accusingly at the other Fairy Tail members. "I recognized the scar above the eye and that messy raven hair… The fact that he is about to throw his shirt off is kind of giving it away too."

All the eyes turned to the ice mage who was halfway through lifting the shirt off his body, again almost exposing the voluptuous chest.

"Dammit Gray, at least try a little bit to keep your clothes on!" Lucy hissed as she roughly pulled the shirt back down and slapped the raven's hands as a reprimand.

"Yeah, damn stripper." Natsu mocked, gaining an angry look from Gray. The latter was just about to say something back and took a step towards his rival, but was stopped by a warning look from Titania.

"That's not what we are here for." Erza said with a stern voice, not tolerating any contradiction.

Porlyusica grumbled something about don't liking people before continuing. "So this was due to a spell from the book. Why don't you just get the book and search for the counter spell?

"The whole library collapsed. There's not much left of it, I guess…" The master explained before silently adding "and we got expelled from the village."

"As expected from Fairy Tail." The mage grunted.

"The book was also written in a dead language. Even Levi couldn't decipher it. We wouldn't be able to read it, let alone find a spell to turn this one back." Lucy added with a sigh. Levi knew countless languages and runes, to find one she couldn't read was exceptional.

"That's a problem indeed. I'll examine him and see what I can find out. Although I'm not sure I'll find something. This is the first time I've seen this kind of transformation magic." The pink haired woman huffed. She turned to Gray. "Sit down on the table."

The ice mage quickly obeyed and sat down.

"First of all: did you notice any changes in your magic?" Porlyusica said as she moved in front of Gray.

"No, everything seems fine with it."

"At least one good point. Now for your body... first of all your voice has clearly become way higher." The old healer started, continuing with an inspection of his facial features. She inspected his throat, ears and eyes to see if everything worked fine or if there was anything out of the ordinary. After that she slowly ran her finger across his cheeks, feeling the smooth skin.

"How old are you, boy?" She asked the uncomfortable ice mage. Gray could feel everyone's eyes on him, feeling like they might burn through his skin. But he tried to forget about that for the moment and focused on Porlyusica's questions.

"I'm twenty."

"So you should already have a decent beard growth." The woman stated at which the raven mage nodded. Porlyusica continued. "How often do you need to shave?"

"Practically every day."

"Gray having a beard? I don't think that would fit." Lucy mused. Picturing the ice mage with a beard resulted in an odd image.

"It doesn't. That's why I shave, Luce."

Natsu started snickering. "I bet you'd look like an idiot."

"At least I can grow a fucking beard, stupid sulphur breath!"

"Hey! I can grow a beard too!" The dragon slayer screamed in his defense, getting ready to charge towards his rival. Two seconds later though, he was hit on the head by Erza.

"Calm down and let Porlyusica-san do her job!"

"This is why I hate humans!" The woman huffed.

"We're sorry Grandine-san… Maybe some of us should go outside." Wendy whispered.

"I'll come with you. Before I feel the need to knock Natsu unconscious again." Erza said as she thought about all the bickering that was sure to come. Master Makarov followed the two girls outside to grant Porlyusica some more space, leaving Lucy and Natsu behind.

The healer turned to the ice mage again. She ran her fingers over the smooth skin of his cheeks one last time. "I can't find the slightest bit of hair growth on your cheeks anymore. I'm gonna need to take a blood sample to check the testosterone levels in your blood and see if they have normal values."

"Is there any sign as to how we can reverse this curse?" Lucy asked concerned.

"First of all I'm making sure if there aren't any threats for his health and just how far the curse has invaded his body." Porlyusica explained as she stuck a needle in Gray's arm and filled a small tube with blood. When it was completely filled, she put it a special magical device labeled 'MBE ET', which could carry out various tests within no time. After setting everything up she came back to finish the physical.

"Is there anything out of the ordinary until now?" Gray asked a bit unsure. He felt pretty good and normal, but that didn't mean there wasn't anything wrong.

"I haven't found anything weird yet… for a woman that is."

"I hope the blood results bring up something useful." Natsu sighed. "It's just weird seeing him like that."

"Now, on with the examination." The pink haired woman said as she turned to Gray once more. "How far has the curse spread? Is it just the facial features or are your genitals changed too?"

The question made Gray's cheeks turn as red as Erza's hair, not expecting it to be stated so blunt and sudden, he couldn't answer it immediately. He glanced over at Lucy and Natsu, the blonde already knew the answer to that, but nonetheless had a slight blush on her cheeks again due to the blunt question. The dragon slayer on the other hand looked just a bit too curious to Gray's liking.

"I take that's a yes to the latter." Porlyusica said after the long silence. The ice mage slightly nodded to confirm. The healer saw the young mage's discomfort. "Don't be so down about it. Wouldn't it be weirder to be part woman, part man?"

"Guess so." Gray mumbled, still not really cheered up as he sat fidgeting in his seat.

"Now could you please take of your pants, so I can do a gynecological examination."

"What?!" Gray jumped up. He looked at his two friends panicky then back to the old woman. "I- I don't want that!"

"What? NOW you're gonna get embarrassed about stripping your clothes?" Natsu pointed out.

"It's not the stripping I'm concerned about!"

"It's important to know that your whole body is healthy, Gray." Lucy tried to calm the raven down, patting his shoulder.

"No, it's important to find a cure!" He panicked. Natsu just did his best to try and hold in his laughter. Seeing his rival in an embarrassing situation like this was really something he could enjoy. Gray shot him a warning glare before turning back to the healer. "No way in hell I'm doing this."

"Fine, but don't blame me when there's something wrong." Porlyusica said annoyed, not wanting to get into a discussion. She didn't want to prolong this visit, wanting her peace and silence back.

"G-good." Gray nodded, a bit surprised by the easy victory. He quietly sat back down.

"Okay, so we're skipping the gynecological examination, so I'm going to do some other tests." The healer immediately pulled the ice mage back up. "I do need you to strip your top at least. Maybe the male mage should leave the room."

A teasing grin appeared on the dragon slayer's face before mockingly saying "I'll leave, so I don't make our Gray-chan nervous."

"I'm not embarrassed because of you, flame brain! More so, I think you're the one that would get nervous!"

"No, I wouldn't." Natsu sneered.

"Yeah, right." Gray huffed back.

"Fine then why don't I just stay?"

"Fine, matchstick!"

"Fine, frostbite!"

The two mages kept on bickering and Lucy just shook her head at her unmanageable friends before giving Porlyusica an apologetic smile. When the rivals were finally done with insulting each other, Natsu slumped down on a chair.

"Can we finally continue?" Porlyusica asked. "Now please take of your sh-"

Before the woman could even finish her sentence the shirt had already dropped to the ground and a bare-chested Gray sat on the table.

The woman just shook her head to the strange stripping habit of the ice mage. She stepped closer and inspected his upper body. "Stand up and turn around please."

Gray hopped from the table and stood before the healer and turned his back to her. He was now facing towards Lucy and Natsu, the blonde giving him an encouraging smile. The dragon slayer had an almost blank expression plastered to his face, yet it was done to naught since his cheeks showed a faint pink blush. And every once in a while Gray could see his eyes flinch down to his chest. This gave the ice mage a small feeling of victory that the pinkette was indeed nervous being around his naked new body. But now that he thought of it that way, his body making Natsu feel embarrassed, he could feel the dragon slayer's eyes on his naked skin, making him also slightly uncomfortable. He cursed inwardly, wishing the other male had gone outside after all.

When he felt the healer's hands on his back he was snapped back to the examination, deciding not to pay attention to Natsu and just focus. Porlyusica ran her hands over his spine and muscles to check if everything worked fine. She turned him around again and looked down at him, since he now barely reached her shoulders. "The one that always strips, huh? I seem to remember you being taller."

"Yes, I kind of… shrunk." Gray sighed. He hated it that practically everyone suddenly became taller than him. He definitely wasn't used to that. Levi and Wendy were probably the only ones smaller than him, even Lucy looked like a giant to him now and Erza became only more intimidating.

"Curious."

"Normally he is a bit taller than Natsu, I guess." Lucy said to the healer.

"Come here, boy." The woman ordered Natsu, waving him over. Gray subtly crossed his arms before his chest, covering the most delicate parts. The dragon slayer hopped from his seat and went over to the raven and other pinkette.

"Stand beside him, please." Porlyusica pulled Natsu next to Gray to see the difference in height.

"Haha, you really are tiny!" Natsu snickered and rested his arm on the raven's head with ease.

"It's quite a change indeed." Porlyusica mused. She turned to Natsu. "You can sit down again."

The healer turned around and walked over to the device which was done with running tests on the blood. The room went silent as the older pinkette looked through the results. Nobody dared to say anything, afraid they might interrupt her concentration with which she scanned every outcome. After a while she finally sighed and put the results down on the desk.

"Have you found some kind of indication how we can change this spell back?" Lucy asked with a hopeful tone.

"I haven't found the slightest." The older woman sighed. "I've never seen this kind of magic and it doesn't seem to have a time limit so there's no way this will take off on its own."

Gray's heart sank. "You gotta be kidding me…" He hissed between his teeth.

"It really just seems that the ice mage has turned into a woman and after that the magic vanished completely. I don't know how to fix this so I'm going to give you some advice to deal with this while I search for a solution. It might take a while before I find something." Porlyusica explained as she finally handed Gray his shirt back.

"You really don't have anything to change me back? Nothing?"

"No, like I said I'm gonna look for it once you bugs leave me alone." The woman huffed annoyed. "There are some things you have to take into account, for example the physical part: I don't know if you've already noticed this, but your physical strength will probably have gone down a lot. You still are as fit as when you were a man but now in female standards and with less strength. Quite logical actually, since women just don't have as much muscles as men, hence not as much strength."

"I already noticed, I can't block punches as good as before and mine aren't as strong." The ice mage shot an annoyed look at Natsu, remembering the painful punch he had given him.

"You have to be careful to not push your limits. You're not used to this body, so don't just rush into every fight without thinking." Porlyusica said in an accusing tone, knowing the mages of Fairy Tail all too well. Next to destroying things, fights were Fairy Tail's speciality.

"Fine." Gray sighed as he played with the hem of his shirt.

"Your blood results did show some interesting facts. Do you know how the MBE ET works?" Porlyusica pointed to the machine that she used to test Gray's blood.

"No, not really." The three Fairy Tail mages said in unison while shaking their heads.

"The MBE ET, or Magical Blood Examination and Evolution Tester, will find everything that any other blood tests would find but the MBE ET can also calculate how the blood is most likely to evolve. So now we don't have to wait before we can compare different results. That's the easiest way to explain the process."

"I think I've read about this." Lucy nodded, faintly recalling.

"Now, your blood values were pretty normal. The testosterone levels are within a normal range for a male, but the Evolution Testing came out with results much more like the levels of a female."

"So according to this machine even my hormones are turning into those of a woman?" Gray asked let down and slightly dumbfounded.

"According to these results: yes. The MBE ET has an accurany of 95% so the chances are really small the machine has it wrong. In response to the results, I have to warn you: you might feel somewhat different in a while. Your body will probably do a lot of changes, so be prepared for that." The healer continued. "I need to know a couple more things before you can leave, to make sure you're at least a bit prepared. First of all: are you sexually active?"

The mages were again slightly startled by the woman's sudden questions. Gray wasn't the type to share a lot about his personal life with anybody. Even his closest friends didn't know that much about him and he wasn't so keen about talking about relationships, let alone his romantic ones. However, not answering the questions wasn't really an option.

"Yes." He sighed.

"Male or female?"

"Female."

Natsu started laughing. "I didn't even think of it like that, but basically you're a lesbian, Gray!"

"Shut up, flame brain."

Porlyusica coughed to get the attention back to the point and continued. "This probably won't be a problem since you're straight, but I'm going to say it just to make sure. If you should have intercourse with a male, use protection. I can't be sure since you didn't let me do a full physical exam, but there's a risk that you're able to get pregnant."

"Pregnant?" The ice mage sputtered out. "Don't worry about that, I'm not the slightest bit interested in guys."

"I just said it to make sure." The woman nodded. "I don't think I've got anything else to tell you at the moment. If I find something, I'll contact Makarov as soon as possible. Now you can send him in so I can explain everything to him."

"Thanks." Gray grumbled let down. He had really thought Porlyusica of all people would be able to find a cure.

"Thank you Porlyusica-san." Lucy said before stepping out with her fellow members.

"If I haven't found a solution within a month I want you to come back for another checkup."

It was already dark when the group walked through town, returning to their guild. The lighted roof of the building was already visible in the distance. Among the group there was one raven mage that slumped behind, depressed about the fact that there didn't seem to be anybody who could revert this embarrassing spell.

"Come on Gray, I'm sure we'll find a cure." Lucy sat as she gave the mage an encouraging pat on the back. "Porlyusica-san will surely find some way to turn you back."

"Thanks, Luce." Gray smiled half-heartedly.

The closer they got to the building; the more they could hear a lot of tumult. It wasn't hard to guess where all the noise came from, since there was only one place in town that could cause such ruckus: their guild.

"What the hell is going on now?" The master huffed, afraid to find yet another problem that had to be taken care off. He pulled the doors open and a large wave of water washed over them, flushing them back down the street.

"What the hell was that?" Lucy coughed when they finally could climb out of the water.

"I have a feeling." Erza sighed. There is only one person in the guild that could cause half a city to overflow.

When they finally reached the guild again, the water had slowed down. The group walked in and saw the origin of the flood.

"Gray-sama was turned into a girl!" Juvia cried, tears pouring out at a dazzling speed. When she opened her eyes again, she saw the ice mage standing in the doorway, easily recognizing his clothes. "It's true!"

The girl stormed over to Gray and jumped him, knocking him to the ground. She clutched to his body while mumbling and sniveling stuff he couldn't understand.

"Juvia get off of me!" The ice mage screamed annoyed, his new voice not sounding quite as demanding as he had hoped.

"Juvia will become a lesbian, so she and Gray-sama can stay together forever!" She sniveled while smothering Gray.

"Somebody, a little help please!" The raven begged. The next moment the blue haired girl was lifted from him, giving him some breathing space. To his surprise it was Natsu who had freed him from the smothering embrace.

"Didn't you hear Porlyusica? Watch out with your new body." Natsu sighed as he held Juvia from jumping on him again. A few seconds later Lisanna came running over and took Juvia with her.

"Come Juvia, let's calm down a bit first. Gray has had a rough day." The white haired girl said as she led the sniveling water mage away.

"Thanks Natsu." The ice mage said a bit dumbfounded when the fire mage reached his hand out to help him up.

"No problem, Gray-chan." The pinkette said in a teasing voice.

Gray just nodded his head, not in the mood to counterattack. "I need a beer." He slumped over to the bar and sat down, kicking off his oversized boots. They had been bugging him all day and was glad to finally lose them.

"I take it that Porlyusica didn't know a solution either?" Mirajane asked with a small smile.

"No… It might take a while before this gets turned back."

The rest of the group that went to Porlyusica sat down and master Makarov told the story of what happened.

"… so better get used to this for a while." He hummed when he finished. Gray slammed his head against the barcounter, hating how things had turned out.

"No need to be so down, Gray." The voice of Loke sounded. The ice mage turned around to see the spirit standing right behind him.

"When did you get here?" The raven sighed, remembering his previous flirt session.

"I also wanted to know what happened." The lion answered, slightly insulted by the annoyed tone in the tinkling voice of the ice mage.

"Like you can see, nothing happened." Gray grunted as he put his head back on the counter. "This really is the worst."

"Come on, at least you're a cute girl." Loke snickered as he sat down next to his friend.

"Loke is right, Gray! It could be way worse." Happy said as he landed on top of the ice mage's back. "You could have looked like Lucy!"

"Neko-chan!" The celestial wizard screamed angry as she tried to grab the cat's tail, but missed when he flew away. Gray looked back up, only to see most of the guild staring at him.

"You sure aren't bad looking." Bixlow said as his tongue lolled out of his mouth. He stepped up closer and grabbed Gray's chin to have a better look at his face. "I wouldn't mind trapping you in one of Freed's runes again. Just think of all the 'fighting' we could do."

The ice mage slapped Bixlow's hand away, not wanting to be reminded the time he got trapped in the runes and he surely did not want to imagine 'the fighting' Bixlow was insinuating. "Is there one man in this guild that isn't a pervert?"

"So you're staying like this for a while?" Mirajane asked, trying to distract Gray from all the preying eyes of the male guildmembers.

The mage nodded reluctantly. "Unfortunately yes."

To his surprise the white haired mage clapped excited in her hands with a big smile on her face. "Wonderful!"

"What the hell is wonderful about that?" Natsu said before Gray could.

"Now we can choose a cute new name for Gray!"

Natsu's and Gray's mouth dropped to the ground before saying in unison "You did not just say that."

"Why not?"

"Why would I have to get a new name? Gray is fine!"

"Oh what about Grace?" Loke skipped in, ignoring the ice mage's protests. "It sounds as cute as he looks and it sounds like 'Gray'."

"Or Gracy!" The bartender said even more excited. "Oh this is so much fun!"

From everywhere within the guild people started shouting names. "What about Gris? It means Gray, so that would fit her." Freed said pondering. Gray shot him a venomous look, very annoyed about the fact the rune mage had referred to him as 'her'.

"What about Grell?" Laki contributed.

"Laki, that doesn't sound cute at all!" Mira waved the idea away. "Maybe Grayko…"

"I don't really see the purpose of finding him a new name, Mira-chan." Lucy soothed, seeing Gray was about ready to explode. Although she was surprised Natsu hadn't skipped in with insulting names. She shook her head. "He's not going to stay like this forever." Erza nodded in agreement.

"Oh, you guys are no fun." Mira pouted.

"I need to get out of here…" Gray sighed.

"Maybe we should go for a mission." Natsu suggested. "We didn't get any money for the last one since… well the library collapsed and all… So I'm sure Lucy is up for another one, she has to pay her rent."

"Might not be such a bad idea." Erza said, overhearing the conversation.

"Didn't think you'd come up with something useful, flame brain."

The teasing grin reappeared on the dragon slayer's face. "Don't insult me, Gray-chan."

End of chapter 3

I hope you liked the chapter! Even though I didn't feel like changing Gray's name, I still asked if I should or not last chapter and I'm happy to see most of you voted no! I like Gray's name and I only planned on changing it if the readers wanted it, but for those who did vote a name, I've processed them all in this chapter!

Please let me know if you liked it and what you'd like to happen next! I already have the story plot planned out, but I always take suggestion into account.

Thank you for reading!