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Chapter 51, What Matters

I filled out this quiz thing that's on my profile now, copied and pasted it off of someone. You guys should try it, it was quite amusing to fill out.

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail

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It was as though the very arrival of the princess had caused ten degrees more than it already had from Gray's ice, but Hisui would be the only one who could feel such a thing, considering Lucy was numb to such feelings and Gray was trained to be immune to it.

Yet the temperature didn't have to be the symbol of how tense the room became. However it was broken when the King arrived, and he looked agitated by the interruption the two mages have caused.

"What is the meaning of this?!" He demanded, daring the two mages before him to reply. However, neither replied but words were not used to express the next movement Gray made by kneeling. Lucy however, made no move to do so and instead stared straight at the wall, an expression that would send the wall into flames if Lucy had such an ability.

"Lucy!" Gray hissed out, but Lucy didn't reply. It was as though she was locked inside trying to hold a beast back, and with the disappearance of her aura Gray knew something had ticked Lucy off, he just didn't know what.

The King looked ready to call more guards, but was interrupted by the sound of a body falling which was the result of Gray freezing the floor beneath Lucy causing her to fall face first to the ground. Lucy picked herself up, and everyone expected her to be furious but instead she grumbled something under her breath before she was kneeling, her leg feeling even weirder by the movement.

"I'm sorry, my King. We did not mean to cause such a mess." Gray began, and his words seemed to be a mockery to the King who's expression deepened a dark red in anger.

"Then why did you trespass here and fight our guards?" The princess asked, saving them temporarily from the King's wrath.

This time Lucy answered. "We came to return something, but your lovely guards wouldn't even allow us to explain ourselves for coming this far." Her tone had become a void, and Gray internally prayed she wouldn't muck this up.

The princess took a few steps towards them before stopping and asking, "And what would that be?" She asked, yet in a commanding tone that had Lucy want to throttle her. However, she instead took in a deep breath and kept her aura in check before pointing over to the temporarily forgotten body of Renzou.

"My partner and I were sent out on a job to take out some bandits and capture this bandit leader." Lucy began but was interrupted by the King, "And do tell why that involves us." Lucy continued as though she wasn't interrupted. "The client however also asked us to retrieve a heirloom of his, but when we confronted the bandit leader, Renzou." Lucy pointed at the unconscious thief again, and continued. "We discovered that out client had lied about the ornament being his heirloom. The client's name was John Horker, and he had planned to use us to gain himself up a few seats in political power."

"You haven't told us why this involves us, girl." The King barked, and Lucy had to bit her tongue to keep her from tossing the tiny King out the window like a baseball.

"My king," Lucy said his name in such a gust of mockery and disdain it caused the King to freeze, the princess to stare in horror, and Gray to sweat ice-bullets. "If you continue this, I will destroy the ornament and be done with you. Or, we can handle this civilly." Gray took a sharp breathe in Lucy's words, terrified of the situation she has earned them in.

"As you will." The King supplied, taking caution in the mage before himself. He knew this one had something against the royal family, and if she and her partner really meant good, then he will listen.

"So, it turns out the ornament is a necklace he stole from your daughter and planned to sell it. Fortunately for you, we prevented that from happening by bringing the thief to you along with the stolen necklace." Lucy told them, rudely not saying the princess but instead as the King's daughter while she was in the room. Though this seemed to not matter as Lucy pulled out the jeweled royal necklace from her cloak and held it in front of her.

Hisui the princess practically ran up to Lucy and slowly offered her hand to Lucy to take it, after seeing the void in the blonde mage's black eyes.

Only a few seconds had passed, yet the look in Lucy's eyes that Hisui received made her feel weird and question the girl in front of her but those thoughts were silenced when the necklace was dropped into her hand gently.

When Hisui looked up, Lucy had her back to her and was walking away. She grabbed Gray from under one of his arms and hauled him unto his feet as she headed to the door.

"We're done here. In return for all the damage we caused you don't need to pay us. I won't apologize for my actions however, just keep the bloody necklace, do whatever you want with the bandit, and let us go with a free pass." Lucy said, letting go of Gray who she had practically been dragging to re-kick open the humongous doors.

Lucy left without another word, with Gray right behind her, leaving an astounded Hisui and King while the building was rendered in silence.

Once Lucy and Gray were completely out of the castle territory, Gray stopped and stared at Lucy. Lucy who sensed Gray's hospitality and deliberate stop, stopped as well and turned to Gray.

"You have no idea how much you screwed up do you?" Gray said, deadly calm.

"It's fine."

"No! It's most definitely not fine!" Gray barked, grabbing Lucy's shoulder and looking her in the eyes, who stared back a void.

"You just made an embarrassment out of the King!" Gray shouted at her, pushing her away, who stumbled slightly because of the numb feeling in her leg.

"They did that themselves." Lucy replied, tonelessly.

Gray growled under his breath. "You know this isn't only about you, Lucy! You're apart of Fairy tail meaning you represent us. And you just put us on their shit list! You don't even seem to care, you don't deserve a family that you won't look after!"

A dangerous flame sparked in Lucy's eyes, and she almost lost her hold on her aura. Almost.

"Then I should have never joined, not at this time." Lucy said, calmly in return.

Gray stared at her, silent worry building up inside of him from the look he was receiving from Lucy, or rather the look that she wasn't giving him, but instead to the sky. Like she was seeing something he couldn't.

"Go back to your home, Gray." Lucy said suddenly, as she began to walk away from him.

He watched her walk away for a few seconds before he ran after her, and stopped in front of her in hopes she would hear him out. "Look I'm sorry, It's just that he's the one person Fairy Tail cannot overcome if he choses to go against us." He started, but the effect wasn't what he was going for.

"Then I'll go."

"What, no!" He took a step back when she made a move to walk around him.

"I'm sorry okay! First I thought you died, and then you show up perfectly fine. I think we could get out of this alive and then you go one and mock the royal family. I was just worried, alright!" Gray told her, his voice quickening as he tried to get through to his partner and guild mate.

Lucy didn't say anything, but she didn't move either which Gray took as a positive sign.

"Just.. just please don't do that again, Lucy." Gray asked her, putting a hand on her shoulder as he looked into his partner's eyes.

Slowly, Lucy nodded and Gray let go.

"We should get to the train station, I think the next train leaves in an hour." Gray told her, this time him walking ahead of her, with Lucy trailing behind with her eyes straight ahead, shoulders tensed but appearing relaxed while she kept her hands shrugged in her pockets.

"Hey, Gray?" Lucy asked him, as they neared the train station.

"Yeah?" He replied, giving her a glance to show he was listening.

"Thanks."

"Huh?" He was confused by her now, "For what?"

Lucy didn't answer right away, causing Gray to think she wasn't going to reply, but she did.

And she said,

"For being there, and that matters to me Gray."

Sorry for such a short chapter! I just wanted to shove this in as a last minute, before I head to bed tonight.

Again, thanks so much for everyone's support. I'll try my best not to disappoint you guys!

Shadows guide you.