Midnight.. huh." Gray said to himself. He was walking towards school, holding his bag over his shoulder. He remembered what Natsu told him back when he was still in the hospital. Apparently, during their fight, Gerard mentioned Midnight and him telling him about Natsu, which peeked his curiosity to why Midnight did it, and to why is he even back in this city. "Whatever it is, it can't be good." Gray muttered with a sigh.

It was the start of December in Fiore, and all of Magnolia's already full of snow. Everyone was getting ready for Christmas, a lot of houses already had decorations on them. Gray never did like the start of winter, because he knew that a certain hot-head would surely go out of control soon after it started to snow.

"Graaaaay!" he heard a familiar voice calling him, he turned around to see his girlfriend, Juvia.

"Hey there." Gray smiled as she caught up to him, they hugged, kissed, and made their way to school while holding hands.

"What happened? You seem.. disturbed by something." Juvia wondered as she looked to Gray, seeing him lost in thought. "You've been spacing out this whole time.."

"What? Oh, hehe.." he tried to rub it off, 'It's better if she doesn't know about Midnight.' he thought, "It's nothing, just trying to figure out something about a game.." he said, while laughing and scratching the back of his head. 'Shit, she doesn't look like she believes me..' he thought while sweatdropping as Juvia was looking at him, suspiciously, but she only sighed.

"You and your games." she pouted.

"What was that supposed to mean?"

"Nooothing" she replied as she snuck a kiss in, making Gray blush.

"Don't do that! It's embarrassing!" he cried out, but Juvia only chuckled.

"How are those two?" Juvia asked.

"Who?"

"Natsu and Erza." she smiled.

"Oh..." Gray muttered as he started to shake, remembering what he had seen and what happened after that...

..."I'm baaaaack! Natsu, let's play Pro-" Gray was interrupted by what he just witnessed, his eyes widened. Natsu was laying on the couch, Erza on top of him, their faces half a millimeter from each other. 'Oh shit..' he thought.

Ten minutes later after Natsu regained his composure and tried out Prototype. "Oh.. wow.. this is actually pretty good!" he said with a grin on his face.

"Told you." Gray started laughing, but he froze after he felt the piercing glare and killing intent behind him. He turned around, it was Erza:

"If you tell anyone.. YOU'RE DEAD!" she spoke directly into his mind..

"...Dunno." he replied while sweatdropping.

"Really?" Juvia persisted.

"Yes! Really! I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING!" Gray shouted while his body started sweating all over at the thought of what would happen to him if Juvia found out.

"Are you okay?" Juvia asked him.

"Yes! I'm fine!" he replied.

"You don't look like you're f-" she was interrupted by a certain blondie.

"Heeeeey! Juvia! Gray! wait up!" Lucy shouted while catching up to them.

'Thank God for that' Gray thought, "Yo, Lucy." he waved at her and they started moving to school again as she caught up.

They were already near the school, where they met a certain redhead.

"Hey Erza." Lucy smiled.

"Good morning," she smiled at the girls, then glared at Gray, "You didn't tell anyone, DID YOU?" again she spoke directly into his mind, Gray shook his head and raised his hands in defense of this Demon that was before him. She nodded, "Good."

"Hmmm?" Both Lucy and Juvia tilted their heads, curious to what just happened.

When they entered the school yard, they saw Natsu, waiting for them, his hands crossed, his expression dead serious. "Gray!" he shouted while pointing at him, "Duel me!"

Lucy and Juvia facepalmed, but Erza was baffled because of what she just heard. She stepped forward, about to lecture Natsu about fighting in the school, and probably smack him some more, definitely smack him some more, but Gray raised his hand, indicating that she was to not interfere. "Fine." he replied.

"After school. The park." Natsu stated while turning around and walking towards the school, "You better show, popsicle" he added.

"What just happened?" Erza asked, still surprised and unsure.

"Don't ask." Lucy sighed, "You'll see after school." She said, knowing that Erza was intrigued enough to come and watch.

School was already over, Gray was walking towards the park, Juvia, Erza and Lucy behind him. He thought the weather wasn't bad, it wasn't cold, but enough to keep the tons of snow from melting. Once in the park, Gray saw Natsu, his hands in his jacket pockets. The girls stood under a tree, Erza was curious to see what would happen, and if a fight ensued, she'd kick both their asses, but Juvia and Lucy were only hoping they would get this over with so they could go home.

Gray sighed as he stepped forward, "You'll lose again, fl-" but before he could finish, Natsu took out a snowball from his jacket pocket and threw it, landing directly on Gray's face, which made Natsu grin.

"Back up those words, sn-" but before he could finish, he got hit by a snowball to his forehead. He was surprised to see how fast Gray was.

They started throwing snowballs at each other. In about ten seconds, about fifty snowballs were already in the air, some hit, some didn't.

"Ohhhhh!" They both shouted as they continued the barrage.

Some snowballs even made their way to the girls, but they dodged, barely.

"This is a warzone!" Erza exclaimed while dodging a snowball.

"Yup." Lucy nodded, "This happens every y-" she wanted to say, but a snowball made contact with her face, "Sorry Luce!" Natsu shouted as he continued to batter Gray with as much snow as he possibly could. Lucy only sighed as she wiped the snow off her face, then dodged another.

By this point, Natsu was going berserk, he started throwing snowballs everywhere, almost at the speed of light, Gray barely able to dodge.

One made its way to Erza's face, a slight tick formed on her head as she was about to kick Natsu's ass, but another ball hit the trunk of the tree the girls were standing under, making the snow from the branches fall on them. Both Gray and Natsu turned around to see what happened, only to start sweating. Only one thought was going through their heads: 'Oh shit.. we're screwed.'

"NATSU!" The mountain of snow exploded as Erza shouted in anger, a dark aura around her, snow in her hands. Both Lucy and Juvia were in the same state.

After realizing what had happened, both Natsu and Gray started running for their lives, as it seemed a machine gun was firing snowballs at them, flying left and right.

"Team up!" Natsu said as they fist-bumped and covered behind trees.

Suddenly, a snowball went straight through the tree Natsu was standing behind, almost hitting his head. He looked through the hole the snowball had made, only to start sweating as he saw Erza charge at him. "You almost killed me!" he exclaimed as he started running.

"That's the point!" Erza shouted in a demonic voice as the chase began, snowballs still flying at Natsu, hitting him all over.

After a few minutes of running, Natsu got to a frozen lake which was all covered in snow, he almost slipped, then realized where he was, 'I've got an idea!'he thought with a mischievous smile.

Erza finally caught up to him, "You're going to get it now!" she threatened him.

"Yeah yeah, whatever." Natsu said while slipping his tongue out, trying to annoy her even more, which worked. A tick formed on her head as she charged forward, slipping on the ice, "Kya!" she shrieked as she fell headfirst into a mountain of snow.

'Kya...?' he couldn't believe what he just heard. "DAHAHAHAHAHA!" Natsu laughed, almost crying.

Suddenly, Erza stood up, then picked up the mountain of snow she fell on. Natsu had never seen this much snow in someone's hands, it was probably enough to kill him.

"E-E-E-E-E-E-Erza.. Stop.. please?...please? ERZA!" he shouted when the snow hit him face first, causing an explosion.

Gray had heard the explosion, he started running to the cause of it, still dodging the snowballs sent by Juvia and Lucy. He hoped that Natsu would be uninjured, hell, he knew that he would be injured, he hoped he'd still be alive. But right before he could step on the ice, two snowballs sent by the girls hit the back of his head and another one sent by Erza hit him straight on the face, causing him to fall on the snow, temporarily losing all of his senses.

The girls met up, happy for their achieved victory as they high fived, but that happiness was short lived as Natsu slowly stood up:

"What the hell are you celebrating? We're still up!" he shouted with a triumphant laugh, "Get up you slacker!" he called.

"Yeah yeah, I'm up." Gray said, already standing, calm, "You're in our territory now, don't expect such an easy victory!" he then said.

Both Natsu's and Gray's expressions changed, they looked like something out of a horror movie and the girls couldn't help but get scared.

"Ahhhhhh..!" Lucy shrieked as millions of snowballs were flying their way.

"Retreat!" Erza ordered and they started to run the opposite direction.

After the girls were finally out of sight: "Wow, that was close." Gray sighed with relief as he was trying to get back his breath.

"Aye.." Natsu replied, he was in the same condition as Gray was.

"They'll probably dig in." Gray said.

"Yeah, but I've got an idea." Natsu grinned, mischievously.

"Payback time." Gray started to laugh.

The girls were running as fast as they could, trying to not look behind them. Finally, they got tired and hid behind trees.

"We need to build a wall!" Juvia suggested, Lucy and Erza nodded as they started to collect snow and eventually built a five-meter wide wall, then reinforced it with water Lucy had with her, which froze.

"Haha! Try us now." Lucy smiled.

"Don't let up now! We need as much snow as we can get to retaliate!" Erza ordered. And so they did.. or overdid is more like it. They collected three whole mountains of snow, making palm-sized bullets out of them.

Suddenly, a snowball crashed, destroying one of the three mountains the girls had, "Mortar fire!" Erza shouted, when another of the snowballs hit Juvia and they hugged the wall they made.

"Bwahahahaha! That stupid wall won't help you!" Natsu shouted as he kept throwing snowballs into the air, barraging them. A few almost hit Erza.

"Why you!" She exclaimed as she threw a few snowballs over the wall, but to no effect, because Natsu hid behind a tree. Then moments later he continued the barrage.

"Don't move!" Erza ordered, "We're safe as long as this wall is separating us from them!"

And suddenly another snowball hit her shoulder, it was Gray, he flanked them with another barrage from their left side. "Thought it was gonna be that easy, did you?" he laughed as he kept throwing snow into the air, ignoring the wall and landing direct hits.

Eventually the girls were overwhelmed and started running to different sides of the park.

"Gray! Now!" Natsu shouted, Gray nodded, as they both started throwing snowballs at the trees, causing the snow on their branches to fall on the running girls, pinning them to the ground.

Erza managed to get away, running towards the lake. "You take care of these two, I'll get Erza!" Natsu shouted as he started running after her.

Gray sighed, 'I hope that idiot doesn't get beat, I can't stand a chance against Erza alone' he thought as he started sweating all over at the thought of what she'd do to him, not to mention what Juvia would do to him.

Erza just kept running, she knew nothing good was waiting for her if Natsu caught up, but she wasn't about to give up, she hid behind a tree and waited for the right moment.

Eventually she heard footsteps and jumped out just to see Natsu right in front of her as she burst a handful of snow directly on Natsu's face, causing him to fall on his back to the ground.

She pinned him down, climbed on top of him, and started throwing snow under his clothes. Then she took another gash of snow and stuffed it in his mouth, making his eyes pop out, almost choking him.

Natsu tried his best to resist the cold and the snow in his throat, and when he saw Erza stop for a second to catch her breath, he instantly grabbed her shoulders and flipped her around, pinning her down. He started to tickle her all over, not letting her rest.

"Ahahahahahaha! Natsu.. Ahahahaha! Stop.. AHAHAHAHA!" she said between laughs, tears forming in her eyes.

"Fine.. ahahahaha... Natsu, stop... ahahaha... I surrender.. ahahahahaha" and after those words, he couldn't help but smile and stop. He found Erza's blushing face cute as she rubbed the tears of her cheeks.

And then their eyes met, Natsu was gazing at her, passionately, Erza couldn't help but blush, even more so as his palms connected with hers, placing his fingers in between hers as he slowly leant towards her, closing his eyes. Erza remembered the moment they had at his place, before Gray interrupted them, she was waiting for it, she wouldn't admit it, but she was.

As he got closer, her heart started beating faster. She closed her eyes and was ready for what was comming next, waited for their lips to finally connect, but what came next, was what she never would've expected.

Snow from Natsu's hair fell directly on her face, a huge tick forming on her forehead, the only thought running through Natsu's head was 'I'm gonna die..' and after the thought, he was instantly punched and sent flying while she got up, her face red as a tomato, her head itself steaming as she stomped off, leaving Natsu as he just landed on the ground, his leg twitching from the punch.

A good ten to fifteen minutes later Natsu wobbled back to the site where he left Gray, only to see him pinned to a tree, scared for his life, seeing how Juvia and Lucy were threatening him to surrender.

"Natsu! Help!" Gray exclaimed.

Natsu sighed, "No need, we won."

Both Lucy and Juvia turned to him, surprised at the claim when the winners were apparent.

"You didn't." Erza said, calmly.

"What? We did! You surrendered!" he glared at her.

"I didn't!" she raised her voice.

"You did!" He shouted.

"Prove it!" she shouted back.

"Wh-" he was interrupted by the people around them, looking at them, "ohhh, a lover's quarrel!" they heard, Natsu and Erza started blushing, but the other three only laughed.

They looked at their friends, surprised by the reaction. But soon the two started laughing as well. Natsu fell on his back, looking at the slowly moving clouds. 'Christmas is coming, huh..' he thought, 'It's gonna get real busy soon at school..'he sighed.