So sorry I haven't updated in a while my weirdos, yes I am calling you guys that from now on. I just got back from Europe a couple days ago, and school starts tomorrow!!!!! NO!!!! Anyway, I'll get to that in a sec, but I do have a reason for not- you know what? I have no excuse, kill me now. Just kidding, please don't, you still want to know the rest of the story right? Hopefully... Anyway, about school... I'M ENTERING FREAKING HIGH SCHOOL!!!!!!!! I CAN'T DO THIS!!! NO!!! Well, I guess I just gave you guys an idea of my age, whoops! XD Anyway, I am super stressed out because since I go to a french school (thus how I know french), at the end of 9th grade we have a gigantic test called the Brevet that tests us on french, english, math, history, geography, and this year they of course had to add science, chemistry, and TECHNOLOGY to the mix! CAN YOU BELIEV IT! I hate technology, mostly because our teacher has no idea how to teach. Hate this. Anyway, I've ranted for a bit too long, so without further ado, here is chapter 12!

Lucy woke up, again to complete darkness, but this time she knew why. She looked, more like felt, the arms wrapped around her waist and the chin resting on her head. She felt her heartbeat speed up. Natsu mumbled something in his sleep and squeezed her closer to his bare chest. He really needed a shirt, then again it would be hard with his wings, even if there were slits in the back. Well then no shirt, not that she really minded seeing him bare chested all the time, it's not like he looked bad or anything, he actually pretty good. Stop it, Lucy!! You are not allowed to think those thoughts!! She mentally yelled at herself. But it is true... AH! STOP!

Lucy sighed and just thought back to last night and everything Natsu had told her. The poor guy, if only she could do something to help him... Wait! How could she forget?! Lucy grabbed Natsu's shoulders and shook him.

"W-What?" said a sleepy Natsu.

"Natsu, wake up! This is important!" Lucy said.

"Five more minutes," he muttered.

"No! Not five minutes! Wake up now!" Lucy said, shaking Natsu even more.

"Fine, fine," he grumbled, unfolding his wings with a wince.

"Oh! I forgot to change your bandages again!" Lucy exclaimed.

"That's ok, don't need it."

"Yes, you do. Anyway that's not what I woke you up for," Lucy said hurriedly.

"You'd better have a good reason," he said with a scowl.

"I do. Listen. I know where Gajeel is!" she said excitedly.

Natsu's eyes widened and all his attention was now focused on her.

"Are you serious?" Natsu asked, grabbing her by the shoulders.

"Yes! I've known for a couple days now, but I kinda forgot about it... ahahahahaha..." she trailed off, laughing nervously.

"What?" he growled.

"I'm so sorry!"

"You'd better be! How could you forget?!" He yelled.

"I don't know!" she cried.

"Well where is he?"

"He's at my best friend Levy's house," she said.

"Say what?" she asked, confused.

"She found him injured as badly as you are in the Eastern mountains, and she took him in," Lucy explained.

"You mean he's in the city?!" he asked, alarmed.

"Yeah, but Levy's not letting anyone into her house, and no one has found him yet," she assured him.

"That iron bastard better not get himself caught," he growled.

"I'm sure he won't," Lucy said, "Not with Levy monitoring him."

"Do you know where Wendy is too?'' he asked hopefully.

Lucy shook her head sadly.

"No... Sorry."

"That's ok, at least now I know where that Metal Brain is," he said.

"Yeah."

"Thanks a bunch, Lucy!" he said, grinning his goody smile at her.

Lucy felt butterflies in her stomach.

"N-No problem, I'm just sorry I didn't tell you sooner. Anyway I gotta go!" she said as she grabbed the bag and basket.

"Already?" he whined.

"Yeah, sorry, but you've got that book to finish, remember?"

"Yeah, but still," Natsu said, crossing his arms.

"Don't worry, I'll be back before you know it," she said, ruffling his hair.

"Ok," he said, smiling at her.

"Great, see ya!" she said, running off.

"BYE!!" he hollered behind her.

She grinned as she ran deeper into the forest.

Lucy swung herself over the balcony, hurried into her nightgown, threw her night clothes in their hiding place, and swung herself into the bed. Her bed was comfortable, but it was nothing compared to sleeping outside enveloped by Natsu's wings and his abnormal body heat. Lucy had an idea, maybe she would surprise Juvia by getting ready herself. She hopped out of bed at the idea and ran into her closet. She looked through the multitude of gowns she had, and finally decided on a pale green one with a plunging neckline and darker green ribbons lining her waist, the sleeve cuffs, and the hem at the bottom of the dress. She grabbed dark green flats to match and quickly put the whole combo on. She looked at herself in the mirror and decided she looked rather good, but what should she do with her hair. Lucy didn't normally do her hair herself, but she decided she wanted to try. Lucy grabbed a hairbrush and several hairbands before looking at herself in the mirror in a determined fashion.

A while later Lucy was quite satisfied with herself as she looked at her hair in the mirror. She had French braided both sides of her hair until past her ear where she braided the rest normally and let the rest of her hair down. She finally tied a dark green ribbon over the hairband connecting her braids. She was pretty proud of herself. Her mother had taught her how to braid when she was five and French braid when she was six. Juvia had let her practice on her when she had first arrived at the castle, and she had gotten quite good at it. Speaking of Juvia... shouldn't she be here by now?

Lucy looked at the clock, it was past the time Juvia normally came to wake her up, and she had kept a steady arrival schedule ever since she had become Lucy's lady in waiting. Then she remembered what she walked in on last night, and she smiled devilishly. Lucy opened the door to her room and snuck down the stairs to the guard's quarters. She went to the door marked Gray Fullbuster, and slowly opened the door. There she was, not naked at least, but sleeping comfortably in Gray's arms as he was shirtless and probably in his boxers right now. If they had had sex, Lucy would have killed Gray, Juvia too, but Gray the most. Lucy had to put her hand over her mouth to contain her giggles. She had to get Mira Jane to see this, she was going to flip!

Lucy ran through the hallways to the kitchen where she knew Mira would be, helping prepare breakfast. She flung the door open and stood there panting, while all the cooks in the kitchen stared at her. She regained her breath and squealed girlishly. Mira's eyes instantly lit up, and she ran to her.

"What happened, Lucy-chan? You never squeal and when you do it's usually good! So tell me, what happened?"

"I came here to tell you that I, yes I, Lucy Heartfilia, just made one of your best and most accurate ships happen," Lucy said proudly.

"Which one?! Which one?!" Mira asked like an excited puppy, Lissana walking over as well.

"You'll see," Lucy said, smiling mischievously. "Grab your camera and follow me."

Mira squealed and ran to get her camera, which she always had around her in case anything memorable having to do with her ships happened.

"Can I come?" Lissana asked.

"Sure, you just have to be quiet," Lucy said, leading them back to the guard's quarters.

When they got to the hallway Gray's room was in, Lucy put a finger to her lips, signaling Mira and Lissana to be quiet. She tiptoed to the door and eased it open. Mira and Lissana had to cover their hands with heir mouths to stop Mira from squealing and Lissana from gasping as they saw the couple in bed before them. Mira lifted her camera and snapped a picture, the flash waking the two lovers up. Gray blinked his eyes open as Juvia stirred and he muttered, "What the hell?"

Then his eyes widened as he saw the camera in Mira Jane's hands, then he looked at Lucy whose grin could reach the sky.

"LUCY!!" he yelled, enraged, as Juvia yelped as she awoke.

Gray flung himself out of bed and ran towards her. Lucy yelped and ran as fast as she could back to her room, where Cana and Erza had just entered and ran behind Erza. Erza took one look at Gray in nothing but his boxers with an enraged look on his face, and turned to Lucy asking, "What the heck did you do?"

"I may or may not have let Mira take a picture of Juvia in Gray's arms in his bed," Lucy said, smiling innocently.

"Y-You were in bed with her?" Erza asked, clearly shocked things had escalated so fast like this.

Cana raised her bottle and started singing, "Gray and Juvia sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g!"

"Shut up!" Gray said, flushing a deep red.

Erza clapped her hands down on his shoulders and he gulped in fear.

"Did you do anything dirty?" she asked in complete seriousness.

"No! Of course not! What the fuck, Erza?! We just started dating!!"

Erza nodded approvingly as Cana just looked disappointed.

"Now that that's over with... GRAY GO PUT ON SOME DAMN CLOTHES!!!!" Erza yelled.

Gray was out of her room in a millisecond and Cana and Lucy laughed. Just then Juvia walked in looking quite embarrassed, but still smiling slightly.

"Did you have fun last night? Huh?" Cana asked her, leaning on Juvia's shoulder.

"Y-Yes," she replied.

Cana whistled.

"And now everyone will know, you ok with that?" she asked.

"Yes, in fact Juvia is very happy that everyone will know," she stated affirmatively.

Now this shocked everyone.

"Really? Why?" Lucy asked.

"Because that way everyone will finally know that Gray-sama is Juvia's and Juvia's only," she said, smiling.

"Of course..." Lucy sweatdropped.

Author's note: Sorry for the abnormally short chapter, but hopefully you guys were pleased with my little Gruvia chappy. Actually, you weirdos know what? I'm gonna post another chapter right now! Just to make it up to you guys. 

Gray: Why am I here and where am I?

Author-chan: Ah, Gray, just in time. 

Gray: Oh no, am I talking to one of you weirdo fanfic authors again?

Author-chan: Yes, and though I know it's true, you don't have to be so mean, Gray. 

Gray: Tch, whatever.

Author-chan: I guess you guys are wondering what the hell I'm doing, well I though it would be a good idea to invite characters to my end of chapter author's note just to know what they think.

Gray: You wanna know what I think, this is a waste of time, I'm leaving. *starts to walk away*

Author-chan: Oh no you don't! *Writes a cage into the story and makes it trap Gray*

Gray: What the-IS THIS SOME KIND OF JOKE?!

Author-chan: No, you need to stay and state your thoughts on this fanfic, and do the disclaimer that I never do. 

Gray: Why? You never did anything for me! I owe you nothing! 

Author-chan: Oh, yeah? *smiles slyly and wiggles eyebrows*

Gray: *gulps* What's with that look? What did you do?

Author-chan: Well, I did make you and Juvia make out.

Gray: *blushing like an idiot* W-What?! 

Author-chan: That's not all... *laughs maniacally*

Gray: W-What else did you make us do?

Author-chan: You slept in the same bed with her on the first night of asking her out. Still think you don't owe me now?

Gray: W-What? I-I don't like her like that!

Author-chan: *rolls eyes* Sure you don't. 

Gray: I don't!

Author-chan: Stop being a tsundere and admit it already!

Gray: ...

Author-chan: Whatever, but you will be coming back and when you do, you will confess your love for her!! Now do the disclaimer!

Gray: *whines* Do I have to?

Author-chan: I'll make Erza come out here.

Gray: *yelps* Author-chan doesn't own Fairy Tail, Hiro Mashima does. If she did Gray would have confessed his feelings to Juvia after she told him she defeated Keys and thus "killed" his father... Did you really have to bring that up?

Author-chan: Sorry, Gray, but it's true. Not the whole killing your father part, but you cried into her chest, a tsundere like you, that should prove to you more than anything that you two are made for each other. I am extremely sorry for your loss by the way, and I cried during that episode.

Gray: ... I think I'm gonna leave now. 

Author-chan: I understand. Sayonara and say hi to the gang for me!