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CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: WATCH OUT FOR THE GUY YOU LIKE!
It is raining in Magnolia. Under the falling rain, Juvia approaches a mysterious shop where she asks for a way for him to notice her. The shopkeeper gives her a potion, and assures her that for 60,000 Jewel, the one she likes will give her passionate gazes. Initally apprehensive over the price, Juvia is eventually convinced upon hearing the claim that it is completely effective.
Meanwhile, back at the guild...
"Nothing to do!" Lucy complained, resting her head on the bar table.
"Why don't you go on a job?" Mira suggested.
"Well, Natsu said he wanted to rest for a little while." Lucy replied.
"Couldn't you go by yourself, or with some other people?" Mira asked.
"But I have the responsibilty to him since we're on the same team." Lucy said.
"You guys get along well. Like you're a couple!" Mira teased.
"We are not!" Lucy disagreed.
"But Natsu might really love you, Lucy." Mira said. Lucy turns around to see Natsu, who is dancing the Plue dance, along with Happy and Plue.
"Even if that's the case, I think I'll pass." Lucy's embarrass to see Natsu.
"I think you two would be a good match, though." Mira teases her more with hearts around her.
"Hey, Natsu! We'd better go on a job soon, or else..." Aira's already annoyed with Natsu.
"Did you use too much fire to turn your brain into charcoal, Natsu?!" Erza asked.
"Hey, give it a rest! You gotta take a day off once in a while, right?" Natsu continues to dance as the guild mates around him laugh. "Isn't that right, Happy?"
"Aye! Refresh!" Happy replied.
"And to refresh, you do this!" Natsu and Happy wave their arms like birds. Erza and Aira twitch their eyebrows, wanting to kill Natsu.
"Yeah, I don't think so." Lucy said.
"I think you two would be a good match, though." Mira commented.
Juvia's hiding behind a pillar, stalking Gray. "Gray-sama... May your passionate gaze only be aimed at Juvia!" She thinks about Gray being fabulous. "Ah, this is so nerve-wracking!" Her hand is too shaky. "Even Juvia's hands are shaking! No!"
"I think you two would be a good couple, though." Mira continues to tease Lucy.
"Not a chance." Lucy refused.
Lucy returns home to find Natsu in her room. For some reason, she thinks about the word "love". Lucy blushes madly, causing Natsu to look at her weird. Lucy demands Natsu to leave which he does so. Lucy wonders why she feels this way.
The Next Day...
"Nothing to do..." Lucy relaxes at a table reading a book.
"Hey there!" Natsu comes and puts a hand over her shoulder. "You feelin' better?!"
Lucy's entire face goes red. She pulls herself away from him. "Get off! Stop being all over me like that!" She leaves the guild with a red face.
"Hey, Lucy..." Natsu calls out for her.
"This is bad. This is real bad. I'm totally self conscious..." Lucy leaves the guild.
"Natsu! That's about enough! How long are you planning on playing around?!" Aira orders him to stop slouching.
"What's that?! You wanna go, buddy?!" Natsu asked, preparing his fist.
"There they go again..." Gray said, sighing.
"Fight!" Happy yelled, ringing the bell. Natsu and Aira start fighting each other as Gray, Happy, and Cain watch them.
Juvia watches Gray from behind the pillar. "Gray-sama... Yesterday, Juvia was too nervous, she couldn't... But today, Juvia has made up her mind!" She holds the potion in her hand. She remembers the words of the shopkeeper, who said Gray should ingest just a little of the potion. "Gray-sama... This passion bringing within, growing stronger and stronger as long as you are out of reach... Love... The closer Juvia gets, the more impatient she feels!" She remembers about herself stalking Gray while he went on his jobs. "But today, that will all be over. Starting today, Juvia and Gray-sama will be together as one, as lovers! Oh, my!"
Natsu stops the fight, remembering something. "Oh, right! I don't have time for this!"
"What's that suppose to mean?!" Aira asked.
Meanwhile, the guys from the guild are speculating that Natsu likes someone in the guild.
"Natsu! Where the hell do you think you're going?!" Aira wants to continue his fight.
"Take a break, Aira. You'll break the guild if you take it to the next level." Gray said.
"What?!" Aira shouted.
Juvia opens the potion. "Now, Gray-sama... Your passionate gaze!" Purple bubbles come out and Juvia blows them into Gray's direction.
"That bastard... Wait, Natsu!" Aira runs after Natsu.
"I'm going home for the day." Gray leaves the table which means the potion misses him. The bubbles going into Master Makarov's nose, making him sneeze.
"Look at Juvia!" She blows bubbles at him, but it misses again. Instead, it goes in Macao, Wakaba, Freed, Bickslow, Evergreen, and Levy. Juvia does it again, passing Gray and going into Erza, Aira, Satsuki, Mira, Elfman, Cana, Jet, and Droy. "Stop moving, Gray-sama! At this rate, everyone is going to be looking at Juvia passionately! No one needs that!" Juvia calls out for Gray, acting like a baseball pitcher. "Gray-sama!" She blows once more and goes into Gray's mouth while he was yawning. "I did it!"
After a moment, Gray blushes looking at Juvia's direction. "What is this feeling?"
"Finally... Finally..." Juvia gazes at Gray. "Ah! Gray-sama's... passionate gaze..." Gray walks past Juvia to Happy. Happy turns to look at Gray.
"You're always... You're always flying as you damn well please in the sky!" Gray angrily shouts at Happy.
"What?!" Happy drops the fish.
"I'm strong, but I can't fly! You're weak, but you can fly! So in the end, we're even! Happy!" Gray points at him. "You are my rival!"
"What are you talking about, Gray?" Warren asked.
"I challenge you, Happy!" Gray shouted.
"Natsu, I'm scared! Gray's acting all freaky!" Happy looks for Natsu. "Where's Natsu?!"
"N-No... Where's the passionate gaze?!" Juvia's confused about the potion's effect.
Macao punches Wakaba, but he catches the fist. "Wakaba, how much you make last month?" Macao asked.
"A lot more than you, I bet!" Wakaba grinned.
"There's no way I could lose to you!" Macao shouted.
"You, especially, I won't lose to!" Wakaba shouted back.
"What are we to each other, again?" Macao asked with his head against Wakaba's forehead.
"Rivals, of course! That's how it should be!" Wakaba replied. They evilly chuckle at each other.
"Drink alcohol, but don't be drowned by it! You listening, alcohol!" Master Makarov yells at a barrel. "I ain't gonna lose to the likes of you! It is you that is my fated rival!"
"What do you mean, your rival is alcohol, Master?" Max asked.
"Alcohol isn't a person. It can't be your rival." Warren sweat dropped.
"I won't be drowned! I won't be drowned by you! We battle!" Master Makarov pours alcohol in his mouth.
"You, pillar over there!" Erza points to a random pillar. "Why must you always obstruct my path?! All I ever wished for was to pass through here, unhindered, and yet, why?! Why must you challenge me so?! Do you intend to make me your rival?!"
"Uh, being rivals with a pillar is... That's not happening." Max sweat dropped.
"Alcohol is one thing, but a pillar is right out there." Warren commented.
"Well, maybe if it pilloried her..." Happy added.
"I'll just let that sit there." Max said.
"Erza! Let's fight like we used to back in the day! I'm not gonna lose, no way!" Mira asks for a battle with Erza. "Because you are my lifelong rival, Erza!"
Aira and Satsuki clashed their heads together. "You're always annoying me, Tsunami!"
"Oh, yeah? What are you going to do about it, dirt eater?" Aira insulted, smirking.
"Let's fight!" Satsuki challenged, her fist turned into rocks.
"Bring it on, rival!" Aira accepted the challenge, his fist was covered in water.
"And I thought Aira and Satsuki were getting along." Max commented.
"Just be glad that Natsu is not here." Warren added.
"Hey, what's going on?! Where are you, Natsu?!" Happy flies around the guild.
"I challenge you, Happy!" Gray then wants him and Happy to have a flying contest. It turns out the shopkeeper swindled the money out of Juvia as he doesn't actually know the effect of the potion he sold her because he just mixed random forbidden ingredients in it and after selling the potion, he fled town.
Lucy is taking a bath. She thinks of the date she has that night, but, even though she loves Natsu as a comrade, she decides to turn him down. Then, Lucy gets herself in a monologue, where she decides on and then criticizes every outfit choice she makes. She imagines a scene in which she and Natsu have babies, and the babies look like Happy. Back in reality, she scolds herself for thinking that.
"Master! Let's have a drinking contest! I always wanted to challenge you!" Cana points at the Master.
"You are not my rival! My rival is alcohol itself!" Master Makarov replied.
"I won't lose!" Cana pours the alcohol in her mouth.
"Three against three. Don't go thinking that because we're equal in number, we're equal in ability." Freed declared with Bickslow and Evergreen next to him.
"When you talk about teams of three in Fairy Tail, it always means us!" Levy and Jet and Droy face off against the Raijin Tribe. "Let's battle!"
"Is there no real Man here?!" Elfman shouted. "If there's a rival for me, show yourself! I am saddened! I am violently saddened!"
"Ah, so he thinks he has no rival." Max thinks to himself.
"Where does he get that self-confidence from?" Warren asked.
Macao and Wakaba are comparing their monthly earnings.
"We Raijin Tribe versus you Shadow Gear!" Freed and his team do a weird pose. "We'll decide who is the best three-person team in Fairy Tail!"
Levy and her team do a pose as well. "Don't be surprised when you see our skills!"
"Damn you..." Freed muttered as Levy yells.
"They're having a posing competition?" Max and Warren thought.
"Not yet!" Master Makarov and Cana are pouring alcohol in their mouths.
"Earth Dragon's Roar!" Satsuki shouted as she let out her breath attack.
"Water Dragon's Roar!" Aira yelled, counter attacking her attack.
"Please, stop! You'll destroy the whole guild!" Max pleaded.
"Where is a Man?!" Elfman shouted.
Lucy's outside of her apartment, looking at herself in the river's reflection. The sailors compliment that she looks cute for her date. Lucy thinks about herself and Natsu's relationship, blushing more. She thinks that she'll be with him forever.
"Requip! Heaven's Wheel Armor!" Erza attacks the pillars with her swords.
"Erza, stop this!" Max ordered.
"We just rebuilt the place! Don't go destroying it!" Warren said.
"Silence!" Erza demanded. "This pillar is constantly standing in my way! It especially makes me angry when I wish to go further inside without delay! It's impossible to go further in without going around it! It is this pillar that is always standing in my way, in other words, my rival!"
"Yeah, but you just have to go around it a little..." Max said.
"I know you like to take things straight on, but sheesh..." Warren commented.
"Erza tends to not look where she's going." Happy said.
Mira punches them away. "Erza, fight me! Your rival is right here!"
"I'm facing down my lifelong rival right now!" Erza refused.
"Uh, it's just a pillar." Max commented.
"I can't believe this!" Mira gets irritated. "Satan Soul!"
"Stop it, already!" Max and Warren yelled.
"Requip! Purgatory Armor!" Erza yelled. Max and Warren beg her to stop.
"Wildcat... Punch!" Mira punches both Max and Warren away.
"Where's a real Man?!" Elfman transforms into a beast.
"Punch!" Mira punches him as well. Erza is attacking the pillar countless times as Max and Warren give up.
Outside, Happy is still dealing with Gray.
In the evening, Lucy arrives at the old tree and meets with Natsu. She feels embarrassed up until the point when Natsu reveals that he called her because he needed to dig a hole to find an album of embarrassing photos of all the guild members, and the girl he was referring to was in fact Virgo because he needs her to dig up the album. Lucy is shocked by this revelation, and slaps him, as she calls herself a total idiot.
The Next Day...
Erza finds her swords stabbed into the pillar. "What in the world happened?" Everybody turned back to normal.
"Thank goodness..." Max and Warren cry a waterfall together.
Gray is sleeping in the water, when Juvia materializes and apologizes to him. She cries and Gray wakes up, but in the heat of the moment, she makes him drink the whole potion. Gray has his strength back, and this time, he declares the horizon as his rival.
A Few Days Later...
Lucy still complains as she rests her head on the table. "Nothing to do..."
"Hey, Lucy." Mira approaches Lucy. "I was just thinking... Don't you think Aira loves you, Lucy?"
"Please, just leave me alone!" Lucy begged.
Juvia is consulting another potion master, who tells her that "a potion that creates feelings" is impossible to mix, and Gray finds himself on Galuna Island. The chief believes that Gray is afficted by the moon's curse.
A/N: There you go!
Another chapter done!
We have one more chapter until the next arc!
Hope you enjoyed!
~Kyle