Forget the love (FairyTail Fanfiction •Gruvia•)

Unfinished bet.

".... Let's make a bet." He smirked. Juvia became cautious but curious now.

"A bet?" Juvia as looking unamused. "What kind?"

"Ya gotta prove to me that the ice bastard really doesn't like ya." Gajeel smirked. Juvia furrowed her eyebrows in anger. "You've got some guts to have that kind of bet huh.." She said and Gajeel laughed.

"Hey, ya just gotta prove me wrong." He shrugged. "If that bastard really doesn't like ya, prove it to me. Cause I ain't believin' that he doesn't like ya."

"If Juvia finds proof that this man really doesn't have those kinds of feelings for Juvia, what will I achieve from doing such a idiotic bet made by an idiot." Gajeel became pissed when he was called an idiot but he's trying to keep his cool.

"If I'm right and he does like ya, you gotta assist me, but if you're right, I'll tell the guild to let ya go. We won't be chasin' ya to go back cause Fairy Tail are persistent bastards and will do anythin' to get back their lost friend."

"So is it a deal?" Gajeel extended out his hand in front of Juvia.

Juvia only stared at his hand and was thinking, will she really accept it? But she doesn't want to be forced back to that rowdy guild but she also doesn't want to feel anymore pain... Juvia accepted it.

She shook hands with Gajeel and said, "Juvia will prove you wrong." She was confident. But snother thought came to mind.

"Hey," she called out to Gajeel who was about to leave, "what did you mean when Juvia has to assist you?"

You could see Gajeel blushing and looked like a tomato. He looked around and came closer to Juvia to whisper. "I wanna ask the shrimp out..." He said shyly.

Juvia was astonished to see him like this. "Oh... Okay..." Was all she could say. Gajeel left and Juvia wondered, who is the shrimp???

---present time---

"Juvia hasn't finished her bet with Gajeel." She muttered. "Then, Juvia will prove it to herself." She said with determination.

Lily and Juvia landed, hidden in the woods behind an abandoned castle. The rain poured roughly and thunders were continuously screaming everywhere around it but not hitting it. "What's our plan now?" Lily asked reverting back to his tiny self

"Juvia has a plan...." She whispered.

Juvia used equip magic and change into the sadistic suit she wore and her hair tied up. "When did you learn to equip?!" Lily asked in surprise.

Juvia grinned and said, "Erza has thought me how. For emergency cases."

Soon, the doors slammed opened by a panicked Eis and ran in front of Zeref. "Master.... Two members died and Zean might have died as well..." He huffed to catch his breath.

Zeref stood, and you can feel his magic leaking. Eis looked up and his face became pale. "Master, I can explain!" Eis said at the angered Zeref.

But then, both men glanced from the door when they heard shoes clacking on its way in the room. It revealed to be Ozean holding up an unconscious black exceed by the leg. "Master~ I'm back~!" She sang.

Zeref began to retract his magic and calmed down. "Ozean, you are safe." He said.

"Of course! How would I be defeated by such a measly light?!" She laughed. 'I didn't know Juvia was good in acting....' Lily thought pretending to be unconscious.

"Yer right. I'm such an idiot." Eis clicked his tongue. "Well, I'll be going back down to continue my torturing." Ozean smirked holding her whip in her unoccupied hand.

"I'm going too!" Eis said but froze in his place. "Huh? Why can't I--"

"Let's have a little chat..." Zeref said eerily causing the Eis to pale once more.

Ozean walked down to the dungeon and as she arrived at the bottom of the stairs, she sighed and has let go of Lily.. "Okay, let's us go rescue our friends!" She whispered and lily nodded in agreement.

In the first cell, she saw Natsu, Lucy, Happy and Wendy. Who were all full of slashes of her whip. Juvia wanted to cry at this sight and beat herself up.

Lucy began to wake up and as soon as she opened her eyes she started to tremble in fear at the sight of Juvia who is currently dressed up as Ozean. "Please.... Stop..... No more..." Lucy cried.

"Lucy calmed down!" Lily said as he got the cell keys on the wall and unlocked it. "Li.....lily...." Happy called quietly.

Lily removed the chains that was binding them and their magic. Natsu felt the chains being remove and woke up. By the  moment he was released he immediately saw Ozean he was burning in anger and he tackled her right away. Natsu was on top of her while she laid down on the ground not doing anything, "Natsu!" Lily called but Natsu ignored him.

"You will pay for what you've done to Fairy Tail! To our family!" He punched her and punched her repeatedly. Juvia said nothing and accepted does punches she deserve.

"Natsu, I said stop!" Lily has transformed and used the back of his sword to throw him away from Juvia. "Lily! What are you doing protecting an enemy?!" Natsu screamed.

"Cause she isn't!" He said.

"No matter how much she was once with us, she's now a demon! A demon can never turn back!" Natsu shouted causing it to echo in the hallways of the cell. Others began to wake up as well.

"She is not a demon!" lily and Natsu fought back and fort while Lucy was unchaining wendi and the others. "Will you stop it!"

Juvia still laid in the ground, staring up at the ceiling. Suddenly, she heard, 'are ya really givin' up now? Man up!' Gajeel's voice echoed in her mind.

'You can't give up Juvia!' Levy's voice followed next after Gajeel.

Juvia can imagine them standing side by side, smiling and held hand together. She glanced at her side and saw Mavis standing and smiled at Juvia.

Juvia stood up.  Natsu saw this and he was about this give another good punch at her. But before he did, Juvia transformed back to her white dress.

"We have no time to waste!" She faced the other members who were out of their cells. "You all need to run! Run away from here!" She said.

"Zeref can see all that is here and before we're too late, run!" She said but everyone stood there bewildered. "He will use your lives to revive Acnologia!" Juvia cried.

She lost all her strength in her legs and fell down to the ground, crying, "please..." She begged.

"Juvia?" Lucy called kneeling in front of her. Juvia looked up with her tears and saw Lucy.