The night was peaceful and quiet. It seemed that all of the forest creatures were asleep tonight. She didn't know how far she went from the site, nor how long have she been walking in the woods. All her body knew is that all of her muscle is tight with tense, while her feet were killing her with ache. It's not that she was exhausted physically, but emotionally. "There's no point pushing myself to the limit anyway." she sighed. She was about to stop when she saw something glisten nearby. Curiosity struck her, even though her body rebelled against her, she continued to move forward. When she arrived where the glistening place, she was awestruck by what she saw. It was a little lake which was lighted by the moon’s soft glow. There was something in this place that gave her a piece of serenity. Attracted by its beauty that seemed to lure her, she went to the edge of it and dipped her hand to feel the water. It was kind of warm. Suddenly an idea popped from her mind. She looked around from left to right, looking if anyone was there to watch her. She knew that a long, warm bath could cure her tension and aches. So she put her luggage aside, then she just noticed she was still holding a key from the bunny incident. She instinctively drew the key to her eye level. It was Loki’s key.
Something pinched her from within. She always thought of him but, she never called him except for emergencies. She made him stay in the Spirit world by force and made him stop poofing up whenever he wanted. She admitted to herself that she had feeling for him, and him to her. But she knew it was futile to have a relationship with him, even if she wanted too. He was a Celestial Spirit after all, and she a human. She’ll grow old and die, while he, ever young and immortal, would watch her suffering and die. No. She couldn’t, wouldn’t and will not let it happen. She cared for him too much to let him endure such torture for the sake of what they have. It was better this way. She already decided that it was the best if they didn’t have anything between them except their friendship. Breaking her trail of thought she put the key back with the others and put it at the top of her backpack. She then stripped her clothes slowly from her blue overcoat that was short enough to call a blouse with her, then her white strapless bra with a blue heart in front, her blue mini-skirt to her stocking and boots. After stripping her clothes, she recalled that this was the same clothes that she started to wear since they came back from Tenrou when they were inside the Fairy Sphere.
Master Mavis still lingered in the old fairy hall that they were able to regain. All worked hard and sacrificed almost everything to just to reclaim their old home. At that time it was mandatory to give a part of their rewards from quest to pay back 7 years worth of mortgage. She was almost broke since every mission their group went, there were always unnecessary damage included that they have to pay for. But they were all able to put through. But Master Mavis returned to Tenrou because of something bad. They weren’t told what was the “bad” thing was. Feeling the night chill to her body she was zapped back to reality. She went back to her bag if there was extra undies incase she wanted to go with her underwear on. Unfortunately there wasn’t any. What she was wearing was the last clean undies she had. So she took off her undies and went straight to the lake. *splosh, splosh* the water was good on her tensing body. It was really relaxing to her whole body. She submerged until she couldn’t breathe anymore, then she resurfaced her head again. She gazed at the stars again and continued her train of thought from before.
Gray was next in their groups to break away. She and Gray were together for 3 years when she started to notice something. It was summer and Erza and Jellal invited the gang to go to the beach in celebration of 2 years of marriage. Levy dragged Gajeel and Juvia along. Lucy didn’t know how they manage to persuade Juvia but they did. When Juvia came and greeted them, Gray was next to her hugging her from her shoulder. Then she felt Gray’s hand slowly breaking his hold. This made her turn around and saw that Gray’s face suddenly light up like she never saw him do. Gray looked like that through the whole day. She might be young at heart but, she knew what love looks like. Even if he didn’t admit it to her, he still had feelings towards Juvia. The only thing that was bothering her was what was keeping Gray from admitting it. Why? Was it because he didn’t want to hurt her? Then she remembered that even before they were “on” Gray started to act more coldly towards Juvia. She knew something was off so she decided to confront Juvia if she had the chance.
