【Re:Freezing】 | Gray Fullbuster x OC

20. A Battle Against Kin For The Sake Of Kin

On October 15th, a week after the mind control incident, the three day long Harvest Festival was finally here. For the past few days, Karissa and Gray had been time together hanging out since they weren't going on jobs for a while with the Harvest Festival and the Fantasia Parade to prepare for. It was always fun spending time with him.

Karissa adjusted her hood on her head. Today she was wearing a black and white jacket with below elbow length sleeves on top of a cobalt t-shirt with a white Heart Kreuz symbol. She was wearing black fitted pants and blue high cut sneakers.

Next to her was Gray who wore a dark blue jacket with a a white fur collar and some light colored jeans. The two of them were walking together to the guild after running into each other on the way.

"Are we still going around with the others?" Karissa wondered curiously as she walked next to him. A few days ago, Team Natsu decided to hang out together after the Fantasia parade and eat together celebrate the festival.

Gray grinned. "If things go as planned, then yeah."

"Ooh!" Karissa suddenly gasped and looked at him with excitement. "I wonder if they're still going to be giving out oden?! I like those!"

"Pretty sure they're still going to since a lot of people like it."

"Thing I hate is that they keep moving around every year! Like god, choose one place to settle down forever!"

"Well, it's first come first serve. You can't just take whatever place you want." Gray reminded her with a shrug.

She eyed him with an arched brow. "You don't get annoyed when your favorite barbecue stand just switches places every year?"

He instantly frowned when she said that since it made a certain memory resurface. "I do. I get annoyed every time when that damn lava brain tool gets there before me and practically inhales all the food!" Gray spat in annoyance which only made Karissa chuckle in amusement.

Last year, when Gray, Karissa and Van found the barbecue stand, Natsu was holding a bunch of sticks with Happy and was cackling about how he beat Gray to the food. That only served to piss off the ice mage for his lack of consideration and they ended up brawling in the streets. When Erza overheard the commotion, Karissa and Van stood on the sidelines munching on some takoyaki while Erza was beating them to a pulp for ruining the mood. It was pretty funny.

"Fine, I'll help you look for the damn stand so you can get some before Natsu." she pursed her lips at the thought of food. "Because I wanna eat some too."

Gray blinked in surprise with when he remembered something, he turned to her. "I heard there's also some new stands that weren't there last year, you wanna check it out? It's somewhere on Crescent Moon street... I think?"

With a small smile, she nodded. "Sure."

They were already looking forward to the night after the Fantasia parade.

"Gray-sama!"

The two ice mages stopped walking and looked back to find a smiley Juvia running towards them. Gray raised his hand to greet her back and then another voice called both their names. When Karissa turned, she found Lucy walking up to them with a wave.

Karissa waved back. "Hey, Lucy."

By now, Karissa completely warmed up to Lucy and was more talkative with her like when she was with Cana and Gray. They easily became good friends with each other.

Juvia stopped in her tracks and gave the two girls an intense look while they weren't looking. "Love rivals..." she mumbled.

Lucy sweat dropped when she heard this and chose to not respond and ignore it. She just smiled and pointed at the street that would lead straight to the guild with her thumb. "Let's walk together."