"And the way the man jumped through a hoop of fire, Juvia has never seen such a thing."
Juvia went on and on about how the circus performers were amazing and beautiful. She held on to her large bear close to her so it was safe and dry from the rain.
Gajeel on the other hand wasn't really paying any attention to what she was saying. He held a dark blue umbrella courtesy of Juvia's grandma. It was still raining, but it seems to be only drizzling. He looked down at Juvia who was still going on about what she saw during the performance.
"Gajeel-kun are you hungry?" she asked.
Shrugging his shoulders, Gajeel just kept on walking with Juvia following.
"They're still some of granny's left," she said looking into the pouch. "Oh, Juvia knows a great place to get cake." Grabbing a hold of his hand, Juvia pulled Gajeel down the sidewalk.
"Oi! Would you let go I don't need to be dragged around."
It didn't take long for Juvia to find what she was looking for. It was a small café with a variety of baked goods displaying behind the glass windows.
As soon as they entered, Gajeel's sensitive nose was hit by a wave of chocolate and sugar.
Finally letting go of Gajeel's arm, Juvia ran up to the counter and looked at the large assortments of cake.
"This is Juvia's favorite place to eat," she said sound overly excited. "Juvia's loves the ice cream cakes."
Walking up next to his water companion he stared at the baked goods. Honestly, he preferred a nice piece of iron instead of all these sweets.
Since Gajeel didn't really give an answer she decided to order for the both of them.
As they waited for their order, the two sat a nearby table placing their umbrellas on the legs of their chairs.
Juvia held onto her bear resting her head on top of its head.
Gajeel sat back in his chair resting an arm behind him.
"What was Gajeel-kun's favorite part about the circus?" she asked.
He gave her a blank look, he was mostly asleep throughout the whole performance.
"Aw, Gajeel-kun is so boring." Juvia teased.
"Boring? I'm not boring." He defended.
Juvia nodded her head, she hid behind the bear and started to talk in a thick accent.
"Gajeel-kun is so boring." She said behind the bear pointing a paw at him.
Gajeel turned his head, ignoring her teasing.
Juvia let out a small giggle as she watch Gajeel pout.
After a few minutes, their orders finally came out. Juvia decided to get Gajeel the same thing she always get a chocolate ice cream cake. Juvia happily started to eat her portion while Gajeel looked down at the dessert.
He picked up his spoon and scooped up a small amount and took a bite. There was a surprising crunch in it and it tasted pretty good. He dipped his spoon for another scoop and bring it to his mouth, but only to see that the tip of the spoon was bitten right off.
"Gajeel-kun." Juvia said. "You can't just eat other people's silverware."
"It was an accident." He said trying to defend himself.
"Well you shouldn't-"
"Juvia?" said voice from behind Gajeel.
Juvia froze up, curious, Gajeel turned around to see three kids standing at the entrance of the café. The only girl of the group walked over to their table.
"Juvia what are you doing here?" she asked.
Juvia started to hide her face behind her bear.
"Hey I asked you a question?"
Without looking up, Juvia answered her through muffled words.
"Hello Perry, Juvia thought that she could bring Gajeel-kun here since it taste so-" The sound of glass bowl falling onto the ground cut her off.
"What did I tell you about coming here?" Perry said with a mocking voice. "It's bad enough that your rain makes everything so depressing, why don't you just stay home with your grandma and stay there."
The other two kids agreed with Perry nodding their heads.
Juvia start to shake as the trio started to verbally assault her.
Gajeel who was watching the whole thing started to grind his teeth.
"Oi?"
Perry turned her attention to Gajeel who had a dark look in his eyes.
"Who are you?" she asked as she looked at his attire. "What are you just some homeless kid Juvia found to be her friend?" She and the others started to laugh unbeknownst to them of the sinister smile growing on Gajeel's face.
"Gihi, if you think that's funny then this will knock your socks off." He said standing up from his chair.
"What are you-" Before Perry could finish her sentence she saw that Gajeel's face and arms started to be coated in iron scales. The tips of his fingers forming into sharp daggers and his eyes losing any sign of his pupils leaving only an empty white chasm.
The trio began to shake at Gajeel's new fearsome for.
He made a fake gesture of advancing towards them, it was enough for all three of them to run out of the café.
"Tch." Gajeel watch as the door slammed shut, slowly he formed himself back into his original form. He could hear Juvia sniffling under into her bear and stared at her cake that was splattered over the ground. Sitting back down, pushed his cake towards her. "Oi, I thought I told you to stop crying?"
Juvia looked up with teary eyes and saw that Perry and her friends were gone.
"Where did ~sniff~ they go?" she asked.
"Who cares," he said. "They're gone now, hurry up and finish your cake so we can go home."
Juvia looked down surprised to see that "her" cake was still on the table. She could've sworn that Perry knocked hers onto the ground. Looking up, she saw that Gajeel was cakeless.
"Gajeel-kun what about your cake?"
"It was too sweet for me anyway." He said turning his face away. He was surprised to see a spoonful of the ice cream cake in front of his face. He looked back at juvia was leaning over the table.
"Juvia can't finish it by herself." She had a small smile on her face as she offered him the spoonful of ice cream.
"I said it's too sweet for me."
Juvia started to give him pleading look.
"Please Gajeel-kun, Juvia feels bad that Gajeel lost his cake," she said. "Please just this one bite?"
Letting out a small sigh, Gajeel leaned in and bit down onto the spoon accepting the portion that was given to him.
Juvia let out a happy smile and started to eat her cake, but was shocked to find her spoon's tip bitten right off.
"Gajeel-kun ate Juvia's spoon too!"