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Juvia was devastated that the man she was in love with had to kiss another girl for the play while she was in charge of costumes and design, "why must Gray-sama kiss Lucy out of all people!" she sprouted enormous tears, "do you think Lucy is Juvia's love rival now?! She's Juvia's love rival!"
Levy smiled nervously and patted the swimmer on the back, "well if you want I could try and change the script so they won't have to kiss," she said reassuring. This was like killing two birds with one stone for her. Lucy doesn't have to kiss Gray, and everyone would be satisfied.
"You would do that?" Juvia stopped crying and stared at her with glazing eyes.
"Sure, I'll try and convince the princi-" before Levy could finish her sentence, Juvia tackled her with full gratitude and happiness.
"Thank you!"
'This is going to be a long cultural festival'
Lucy yawned in tiredness. It has been three days after the announcement for the cultural festival and she has been practicing her lines every night to master them for the play. She really wanted to be part of it and not make a fool of herself. She would sometimes work all-nighters. She also had to broadcast tonight. The blonde couldn't waste any time these days especially since the play was just a few days away.
Right now, she was practicing on stage with the stripper at the part where the moment princess Lori treats Blaze's injuries. Lucy and Gray were positioned sitting down with the blonde wrapping a white bandage around Gray's right arm as if he was bleeding.
"... Why did you save my life when I tried to end yours?..." Gray spoke the lines with convincing guilty eyes.
Lucy finished wrapping the bandage and gave a small sad smile like the script told her too, "I don't know myself... I felt like if I left you to die..." the blonde shook her head, "Never-mind, I think I got all the major injuries covered."
The raven haired grabbed her wrist and made eye contact, "why would you save me? What if I just killed you right after you patched up by wounds?" he pinned her against a near by wall and spoke in a dangerous tone, "you are a strange one..."
The blonde had a emotionless face on, "call me whatever you wish, but I am going to show myself the exit."
Before she could leave, Gray grabbed her shoulder and placed his face just inches away from her's, "and why do you think I would just let you leave?" he asked darkly.
"Anndddd perfect!" Levy interrupted in her special chair that said on the back DIRECTOR, "that was amazing! Now let's practice the chase scene where Fang and Lori run out into the woods one more time."
Loki immediately ran to Lucy's side after hearing he would be doing a scene with her. He offered her his hand which she replied with a death glare.
Gray sighed at his friend's desperate attempt to capture Lucy's heart... again... He walked to backstage grabbing his water bottle and drinking from it. It was hard to act out such an intense moment. Remembering all the lines and acting them out as perfectly as possible was life draining. He had to give it his all since Ulter, Lyon, and his parents were coming. This was one of the rare moments all his family members were actually coming in one place after the divorce, so he had to make it perfect...
"You were as amazing as ever Gray-sama!" Juvia tired to tackle him, but he dodged on time. He stared at the swimmer with disappointment, "why Gray-sama?" she cried waterworks laying on the ground.
The raven-haired sighed at the action the bluenette just performed. It was strange why she kept on doing that. He had played with many girls hearts before, and she knew how unloyal he could be to a women. Why was this girl always trying to get close to him? Was it because she was crazy?...
Yea that must be it...
"Leave me alone," he sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose.
"Juvia can't!" she replied happily, "because Juvia loves you!" the swimmer once again hugged his arm.
Gray stared at her and only gave in. She sure was something... Something he couldn't explain...
But maybe that wasn't such a bad thing? All he knew was that when she was with him, he felt tense yet... Happy? What did that mean?
Her feet were pacing at a faster rate than usual and her vision was getting blurry. 'What the hell is wrong with me? Maybe I have a fever, my face is hotter than usual.' Lucy checked her face through her phone and checked her forehead. It actually was feeling very warm.
Levy, Erza, and Juvia were entering the stage room together to do more work for the play. The Bookworm noticed the radio girl, but simply gave her a small smile. It wasn't rude. Lucy even requested that she didn't talk to her during school or near her friends to protect her identity.
Lucy entered the same room the trio did and sat down calmly on a random seat with her head on the table. She felt terrible. Her head was spinning, she felt cold and hot off and on, her senses were weak, and she felt like she could faint anytime. She clenched onto her hand hard, and it felt extremely sensitive and cold.
Natsu and his gang came in with some girls drooling over them. The rosy-haired man took a glance at how terrible the blonde looked. It was weird to see her so vulnerable and weak. He felt like he had to protect her...
"I never thought I'd see the day when Heartfilia would look like that," the stripper commented to Natsu as he observed her condition, "she looks half-dead," he added shrugging his shoulders.
"You're right. This is a golden opportunity my friend," Natsu smirked patting the stripper's shoulder. His words didn't match what he was feeling though. He was either also sick, or he actually didn't want to hurt her. Right then, he did not want to harm the sick girl. Was it because she looked pitiful? His chest felt tighter every second he stared at her.
Without warning, Lucy fell out of her seat and fainted on the ground. She was huffing hard like she could barely breath, and she clenched onto her hand hard. But that wasn't the worst part, the worst part was so little people payed attention to her or cared she was in pain.
Juvia looked at her in worry but didn't do anything just like his crew. Levy and Erza walked over to her and checked her forehead to see how bad it was. The Bookworm was extremely worried about her, but the scarlet-haired didn't care as much as she did but enough to help the Danger Class. Everybody else didn't do as much as glance at this sight, and if they did it was to mock her or laugh. The teacher to help sort things out didn't even care about her.
It must of been terrible to be treated like that...
So many people not caring, it was terrifying and scary... Nobody caring if you were hurt or sick or maybe even died... That was the worst feeling of all... Like you didn't matter...
Erza hissed at the teacher for not doing anything to help out, "you are in charge of the stage room! Why are you not doing anything thing?!" she hissed venom. Loki started to help out too by insisting that he would take the blonde to the nurse's office. The girls started to mutter bitchy things about her because of the attention the ginger was giving her.
All of that irritated the hell out of Natsu. Why was that girl getting him to feel like that?...
Was it because he knew how she felt?...
To be alone?...
His legs unconsciously headed toward the teacher, and he tightened his fist and hit the man as hard as he could. That punch was like letting all those confused feelings out of him. Why did he even do that? This situation had nothing to do with him. Everybody looked at him with surprise. He hit many people including some teachers at rare times, but he had never done it out of nowhere like how he just did.
In a rush, he took the blonde from Loki and Levy and picked up the blonde by putting his arm underneath her legs and put the other on her back and lifted her with ease. The entire stage room went silent by that action from the King of Royals.
The Danger Class and King were suppose to hate each other so why was he helping her? Levy tried to get her back thinking Natsu would hurt her, but Gajeel put his hand over her shoulder as a sign to stop what she was about to do. The scarlet-haired was struck with shock seeing the rare sight like everyone else.
"I'm taking her to the nurse," the Star Class announced and left the room with the others confused and shock.
Even he didn't understand the action, he was doing. He stared at her pale complication. His hand felt her forehead to check how bad it was. It was hard to know how hot it was with his unusual body temperature, but he knew it was high. Looking closer at her, the rosy-haired noticed how beautiful she actually was. Skin so smooth, hair so silky, and lips so perfectly curved.
His chest felt tighter every time he stared at her...
When they reached the nurse, he put her onto the closest bed next to them. The nurse was nowhere to be found. He gently placed her on the white sheets and turned around. Natsu was about to just leave her, but the blonde started to mutter out something. He heard her barely able to make words in her unconscious state and decided to sit next to her.
The Star Class grabbed a stool near him and sat on the right side next to the bed with the girl resting on. His head was turned away from her. Despite Lucy being unconscious, he didn't want to face her with his cheeks bright pink. Why the hell were his cheeks pink?!
Suddenly, his hand was grabbed. Natsu didn't jump when he felt the blonde's hand placed on top of his. It wasn't an annoying or bothering feeling. It was... warm and kind...
"...D...D...Don't..." Lucy muttered still unconscious, "d...don't le...leave," small tears started to form and fall down her red cheek.
The rosy-haired man's cheeks became red hearing those words coming out of her mouth. He never seen her cry or look so defenseless... "... what the hell is wrong with me?" he asked himself while using his free hand to go through her golden hair. His face came closer to hers. Lips just inches away from touching each other "...you can be actually... cute when you're like his..." he mumbled.
She was strong...
He admitted that...
She was always alone but stayed strong...
That was why he hated and envied her...
She was strong enough to face loneliness while he could not even overcome his...
He hated that she could do what he could never...
She was always alone...
Girls loved him, and he had his friends, but that didn't mean he was not alone...
But he knew how she felt...
There was a big difference of being alone and feeling alone...
The whole world could be your friend, but it could never understand how you feel...
Alone...
The scariest feeling in the world...
The worst feeling...
His mind remembered the tragedy that befallen on him years ago... The color red splattering everywhere...
"Don't! No! Please!" a small boy wearing a scaly scarf yelled with tears covering his face and shivering. He couldn't help but tremble in fear for there was a man with a deadly weapon pointing it at him
The man with the gun was covered with blood, and the surrounding was painted with red. The smell of rust was disgusting and nearly made him vomit. The small boys eyes trailed out to see his mother's body lifeless and white. That too was painted red...
"You're next you fucking brat," the man said pulling the trigger.
The rosy-haired man almost threw up remembering his terrible past. He covered his mouth with his free hand and tasted something bitter close to coming out. He was sweating hard and was about to throw a tantrum in anger and terror, but he didn't after he noticed that the grip on his hand Lucy was holding on had became harder.
He slowly calmed down. All the stress inside his body slowly melted away as he saw Lucy looking so peacefully. Nobody has ever stopped him from breaking down, she was the first one... The blonde wasn't even conscious, yet she stopped him from throwing a tantrum...
A smile crept out of the girl's mouth and the grip became loose. Her body turned to the other side of the bed.
Natsu stared at her in amazement... what was with this girl?
He leaned towards the blonde one last time admiring her figure and beauty. The Star Class's eyes widened when he noticed something shocking...
She smelled of vanilla...
Gray watched amazed as his best friend ran out with the Danger Class in his arms... What the fuck was that?! Was he missing something or what? He never seen Natsu react that way! He was going to go after him but a certain bluenette stopped him before he could exit the door.
"Are you going to see love rival?!" she questioned holding onto his arm tightly.
The raven-haired sighed, "no, and even if I was why should you care?"
Juvia said with determination, "but Juvia has to save you from Lucy's evil bewitching looks! What if you fall in love with her?! Gray-sama please don't!" she grabbed his collar and shook him with tears coming out of her eyes once more, "please just let Natsu take the part!"
Let Natsu take the part... He couldn't... If he did... "ENOUGH!" Gray yelled, "this has nothing to do with you!" He wanted to play the main role. This way he could see his separated family once more. He hasn't seen his mother since he was ten-years-old. He was always afraid to visit her because Ulter and Lyon blames him for the divorce. This was an excuse to at least see his family again... There wasn't a day he didn't stop feeling guilty for destroying his family... He wanted to see them again...
"G-Gray-s-sa-"
"Stop this," Gray said bitterly, "just leave me alone for Mavis sake! Don't you understand why I always sigh or yell at you?! I hate you! Do you finally understand?!" why was he saying such cruel words to her? He was angry at himself, but it looked like he wanted to let all that anger out on her... He didn't have the balls to face his brother and sister so that is why when he got this opportunity he couldn't let it go. He knew he was a coward for doing all of this... Yelling at Juvia, not facing his family problems... everything... he was such a coward... "do me a favor and never talk to me again you stalker!"
Juvia's eyes widened with tears of despair flowing out. Her mouth was slightly opened in shock of everything she heard... Questions were overcrowding her mind. Did he hate her this much? Was she just a bother to him? Did he only see her as someone to always get in the way? She was trembling in fear from the thoughts. She couldn't do anything but cry and try to hold her agony in. She was so pathetic to think she actually had a chance with Gray...
"Leave me alone..." the stripper muttered heading for the roof... he need some space. Natsu was probably fine...
The bluenette clenched onto her hands and managed to force a smile, "...Juvia understands..." she spoke with such a sad voice, "Juvia will never bother you again..." she headed for the stage room which was the opposite direction where he was going, "...Juvia is very sorry... Gray..."
Gray felt his entire body stop and his stomach drop... She didn't add sama to it like she would alway did. He hated the title 'sama' but still... He turned his head to see she was no longer there next to him... He broke her heart and self...
His own heart started to feel tight
It was hard to breath
He wanted to cry for being so horrible
... No...
For being such a coward...
He wanted to take all those harsh words back...
He wanted Juvia by his side again...
He wanted...
Gray fell to his knees and placed his hand on the wall to try and get back up. His other hand covered his face in shame, "what do I want?"
Satan Spawns and Assassins
By: Lenasaurous
Magic was outlawed and we had to find new way of living, some of us chose... unusual options. However when I had to find a serial killer, with no choice in the matter, I didn't quite expect what would happen afterwards.