Fairy Tail Furious

Chapter 10

How is Levy-chan doing at Fairy Tail's garage, Gray-sama?" Juvia asked, knocking him out of his thoughts and look to the waitress holding his new drink out. Not wanting to anger her by not flushing out the alcohol, Gray took the glass from her hands.

"She's working on a new side project, but she won't tell anyone what it is," he shrugged boredly. "She wants to come to the next races and see you, though, so you may want to let the pile of bolts know."

"Why would Nii-chan need to know?" Juvia blinked curiously.

"So he can be less of an asshole when she's around," Gray sniffed and looked to her with a little spark in his eyes, making her flush. "Don't tell me you haven't noticed it from the last few times Levy came to the races."

"N-no... Juvia is very well aware," she blushed with a grin on her face. Holding her own cheeks with both hands, Juvia bit back a squeal, making Gray smirk behind his glass. "Juvia finds it amusing that her very own cousin and step-brother like each other. Even though Nii-chan denies it, he can't keep it from Juvia forever. Juvia always gets Nii-chan to tell her the truth about anything."

"Guess that makes you so special," Gray teased and it made the young woman jump in her heels. He hid his snicker from her as she fixed herself and pouted at him. "You know what I mean, Juvia."

It still didn't fix her reaction, since she refused to look his way when he would try and catch her sight. Behaving like a child, she turned her cheek and puffed air into them. "Gray-sama is just looking for trouble. Juvia knew you would be upset with her about ruining your car!"

Unable to fight back at being stared at, Juvia peeked at his amused face before biting back a fit of laughs behind her hand. Gray drank the last of his water and gnawed on his ice chunks once she relaxed. "Juvia is very happy to see Gray-sama again, too."

"It's -!"

"WHO LET YOU IN HERE, ICE PRICK?"

Gray choked on his bit of ice as Juvia exhaled in a sigh. Twisting his head to the flight of wooden stairs, Gray saw the tall and very pissed off Gajeel wearing the bar's t-shirt and old jeans. He was also donned fingerless gloves with metal nuts sewn into the knuckles of the leather, and a dark, yellowish bandana held his bangs back properly as the rest of his long, spiky hair was pulled in a ponytail.

Swallowing, Gray tried to keep his calm demeanor together. "I-isn't he early..?" he whispered to Juvia, who had a displeased look on her pretty face as she stood politely in her uniform. Everyone else in the bar was watching or multitasked with their play of pool or cards, but waiting for something to happen.

"WHADD'YA DOIN' WITH MY SISTER, HAH? WHAT DID I SAY 'BOUT COMING HERE?" Gajeel roared as Gray stumbled out of his stool, scrambling to put distance between him and the approaching man against the wall. Scooting as quickly as he could to the door, Gray didn't mind shoving anyone out of his way. "Who let ya in here? Get out! Lemme punch ya face first, too! Then, I'll skin you and hang you outside the bar, like a flag! But let me kill you first! Tell that Salamander that he's next when I'm finished with you!"

"Gajeel-niichan," Juvia called out harshly, making the burly man halt mid step of chasing Gray. She watched somewhat sadly as her crush managed to get through the door and have Boze close it for him. Changing her eyes to glare darkly at Gajeel, Juvia snapped her fingers for his attention and he stiffly turned himself around and stomped to the counter. Customers forced themselves out of his way as he launched himself over the counter and stood toe-to-toe with the much, much smaller woman.

"The fuck he was doin' in here again? Don'tcha remember what I said about him being in here?" Gajeel growled lowly down to her, making her roll her eyes. "Who let 'im in this time? Was it Boze? I paid that little shit to keep him out!"