"Come on girls let's go get the bride!" I whispered to Erza and Levy
All three of us run (as fast as we can in heels and dresses with large bags in our hands) up Juvia and Gray's driveway and ring the doorbell. Gray answers the door.
"Hey girls. Why are you dressed like that?"
I grin broadly at him "We have come to kidnap your bride for the night."
Gray chuckles and opens the door further to let us in. "Don't worry Natsu gave me the heads up. I made sure that she was home all day just incase you came earlier."
"Thanks Gray" Levy says making her way in.
"How are you feeling Levy?" Gray asks as Erza makes her way in
"I'm feeling alright. Only a little morning sickness but I'm okay,"
"She is already on strict instructions from Gajeel not to overdo it tonight." I say to Gray who laughs
"Whats going on Gray-sama?"
We all turned around to see Juvia walking down the stairs.
"What are Erza, Lucy and Levy doing here?" Juvia looks at us all in confusion. "Why are you all dressed up?"
Erza walks towards Juvia and lifted the bag her hand. "Go upstairs and get changed. Put these on aswell. We are taking you out tonight for your hen do!"
Juvia cheered, grabbed the bag and ran upstairs as fast as she could to get changed. Gray laughed loudly at Juvia's reaction. "She has been waiting for this for weeks. She was hoping that you guys would eventually throw her a hen night before the wedding."
I laugh "So when is your stag do Gray?"
"Tomorrow night. I promised Juvia that I would be here to help her out when she gets home whenever it happens and look after her and then she would do the same for me tomorrow night when I get home."
"Do you know what you are doing?"
Gray shakes his head "But I know that it is going to be messy. We all went out once to a friends stag do and to this day I still don't remember most of the night. I have no idea whether the groom had a good night or not either. All I remember is the severe hang over in the morning and the slight memory of Natsu, myself and our friend starting the night doing lots of drinking challenges."
I laugh. "Don't worry we won't make it too bad for her" I say walking up the stairs to see how Juvia was doing.
Half an hour later, everyone was ready and Juvia was caked out in traditional L plate sashes and badges with Mrs Fullbuster on them.
As we went from bar to bar, the drinks were flowing and the dares for Juvia just kept going! From getting a kiss on the cheek from a random guy (since according to Juvia, her lips were only for Gray), to dancing provocatively on one of the tables and getting someone to buy her a drink, everyone had a great night. We drank (juice only for Levy) and danced until the early hours of the morning when we somehow managed to stumble back to Gray and Juvia's house giggling like we were high.
"Thank you all so much girls. Juvia has had a great night" Juvia said taking off the L plated tiara that we placed on her earlier."
"You are more than welcome. We had to send you off into married life with style didn't we!" I said grabbing the tiara off Juvia and putting it on my head making everyone laugh.
"Awww Lucy. That looks great on you!" Erza slurs making us laugh.
I laugh as I take off the tiara. "Very funny. It's not probably going to happen for a while anyway."
"That's not true. How do you know he won't do anything like that?" Levy asks.
I look at Levy suspiciously. "Is there something you are not telling me?"
Levy laughed and held her hands up in defeat "Nope. Nothing I promise. But out of interest." Levy said pointing to both myself and Erza, "If Natsu or Jellal proposed to you, would any of you say yes?"
We both laughed awkwardly. To be honest, I had never given that a thought. I mean, things with myself and Natsu have been great so far. He has always been there for me and I know that I will not find anyone else that probably would suit me more. We have been living together for a few weeks now and it has been going well so far….. so I shrug my shoulders. "I don't know to be honest. If it was a romantic way and I was swept up in the moment maybe. I mean Natsu would probably make a great husband and things are going so well between us lately. I think that if that ever happened, it would be a few years from now when we know each other more and everything has become a little more settled."
"But if Natsu got down on one knee right this very minute" Erza said getting down on one knee in front of me making us all giggle "And said to you 'Lucy Heartfilia'" We giggle as Erza puts on a manly voice that was supposed to be impersonating Natsu. I put my hand on my chest playing along and pretending to be shocked "I love you. Will you marry me?" Erza said grabbing a random ring off her finger and holding it up in front of me.
"Oh my God!" I say playing along and pretending to be really shocked. "Natsu. You have surprised me! Yes of course I will!" I say grabbing the ring and putting it on my ring finger. The others laugh and clap as both Erza and I hug and sit back down in our seats giggling.
"So how about you Erza. Would you do that with Jellal?" I ask giving Erza back her ring.
She nods her head slightly. "Maybe yeah if he asked me right. Our relationship is technically newer than the rest of either of yours so I am not sure. It's still too new and is still a bit rocky after everything."
"Well at least one of us is having her happy ending eh Juvia?" Levy says raising her glass of water in the air. As we follow Levy with putting our glasses in the air, we all start to sing the wedding march making Juvia severely blush and laugh along with us.
"So Juvia. Not long now and you will be Mrs Fullbuster! Are you nervous yet?" Levy asks
Juvia shook her head "Not at all. Juvia is really excited and can not wait. Juvia has met the man of her dreams and Juvia can not wait to spend the rest of her life with Gray-sama!" She said shouting at the end, which I am pretty sure woke Gray up.
"You know there are people trying to sleep right!" Gray shouts out walking into the living room causing us all to laugh.
"Speaking of the devil" I shout out making us all laugh. Juvia suddenly got up and started to hug and kiss Gray, almost too much for comfort. "Gray-sama! Gray-sama! Juvia loves her Gray-sama!" She says kissing him.
"Get off!" Gray laughed. "How much have you had?"
Juvia showed the universal sign for 'little' with her thumb and pointer-finger making us all laugh.
"Yeah right. Juvia almost drank half the bar!" Erza argued back.
"Oh dear. You are going to suffer when you wake up later on aren't you" Gray asks rhetorically to Juvia pulling a bit of hair behind her ear. "Have you had a great time?" She nodded leaning into Gray's shoulder and shutting her eyes whilst muttering quietly "Gray-sama"
"I think she is tired girls. I might put her to bed. You all are more than welcome to stay here tonight. Take a sofa or one of the rooms upstairs. I'll text the others to say that you are here" Gray offers taking Juvia upstairs in a fireman's carry.
"Thanks Gray night Juvia!" We all shout out as they walk up the stairs.
We all sigh as we hear the sound of a door shutting as Gray and Juvia go to bed.
"Juvia is so lucky to have a guy like Gray." I said. The girls hummed an agreement.
"I think we all got lucky with the guys." Levy said rubbing her bump.
"What was even more lucky was that they were all in the same band and same group of friends! The odds of that are practically impossible!" Erza said sipping the last of the drink in her hand.
"Anyway girls I am going to sleep. I need to get up in the morning and see Natsu before he heads off with the boys for the stag do. Something tells me that he will not be very sober when he gets back" I say yawning and sitting myself down on the single sofa chair near the fire.
Levy yawned "I agree. Being the only sober one here, I did not know how long I was going to last." She laughed and settled herself down on the sofa she was on.
Erza laid down on the other sofa that I was sitting on previously with her and got a blanket from the back of the sofa and threw it over herself. "Me too. Thank you girls for a great night. We have a lot of things ahead of us soon and it was nice to just spend some quality time with you."
"Good night" We chorused and I got up to turn off the light.
...
We woke up to the sound of shouting. Not general shouting but full on hateful shouting.
"You are not welcome here. How many times have I told you to leave me alone!" Came a voice
"Please Gray. You know that I am a changed man now. We need to let things calm down between us….for Ur's sake" The other voice came
"Don't you dare bring Ur into this. Now I have my fiancee upstairs and her best friends in the other room who are probably suffering from really bad hangovers since it was her hen do last night so leave me alone and never come back here." Gray's voice sounded.
Who the hell was he shouting at. I looked the others noticing that they had all woken up as well to the shouting.
"Please Gray. Let me show you that I can make it up to you!" The other person shouted back.
"You have done enough! Just fuck off and leave us alone! I don't want my fiancee involved with the likes of you in her life. My life has changed for the better, no thanks to you!" Gray's voice shouted again. It was enough time for us to run out of the living room and peak through to see Gray shouting at another man at the front door. He looked about the same height as Gray, quite muscly and had white spiky hair. He looked pretty familiar but I could not place where. I was sure that I had seen his face in a picture around the house somewhere but I have no idea who he is.
"Gray-sama. What's wrong?" We heard Juvia running down the stairs and she came into view dressed in her usual blue dress and hair done up. You never would have thought that she was heavily drinking last night.
"Nothing is wrong Juvia. Just go back upstairs. I'll talk to you in a minute." Gray warned.
"But Gray-sama.."
"Just go Juvia!" Gray shouted back at her. We and Juvia were all taken aback by the sudden tone of Gray's voice. He had never spoken like that to her before. But it was not like he was angry with her….. It was almost like he was scared.
"Gray-sama!-" Juvia started, but she never got to finish her sentence because the man at the door interrupted her.
"Well who would have known it. It's THE Juvia Lockser! I knew that you were engaged to her Gray, but I did not think that I would ever see her in the flesh." The man says almost rushing into the house, much to Gray's annoyance and grabs Juvia's hand.
"You know about Juvia?" Juvia asks in shock.
"Get your hand off her Lyon" Gray said venomously, grabbing Lyon's hand off Juvia's and taking Juvia into his arms, holding onto her protectively.
Lyon laughed. "Yes my dear Juvia. I have known about you for years. I am a huge fan of yours and I have been following you and your band almost from the very start. And to think that now you are going to be my sister-in-law as well…."
"That's enough!" Gray shouted out letting go of Juvia and punching Lyon in the face making him fall onto the floor "Get out! Now! Before I call the police!" Gray threatens again and this time Lyon does not hesitate. He leaves clutching his face and before he shuts the door, he turns around to face Gray who was still holding onto Juvia. "I am sorry Gray… for everything….Ur would not have wanted this" With that he walked away and shut the door behind him, leaving us all in a state of shock and Juvia holding tightly onto Gray who, as soon as the door had closed, had collapsed onto the floor, still sitting upright and was frozen to the spot silently crying, never taking his eyes off the closed door.
I stood there for a while in shock staring at Gray frozen on the spot. Gray was one the strongest men that I knew. He has always been the most calm and collected out of all of us! It would take a lot to effect Gray like that and yet this man did it in the space of a small conversation.
Just who was he?
So what has Lyon done that has made Gray so angry that he wants Juvia no where near him? Let me hear your suggestions!
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