[GRAYLU] Effet Papillon

1 ~ The Butterfly Effect

The group of wizards stared at the room dreadfully, still exhausted from their earlier mission. Like always, they had destroyed another city, with Lucy denying any involvement, and were tasked to organize the cluttered basement.

The vicinity was huge, comprising of several tall bookcases that grazed the ceiling. Dust collected throughout the room, as piles of books were scattered across the dull concrete floor. The size only made them even more worn out.

"I can't believe I have to do this! I didn't even break anything! I always get dragged into your messes!" Lucy whined as she approached the nearest shelf and swatted the dust from a velvet hardcover.

Gray followed her lead and shrugged. "You say that, yet you're the first one who is cleaning."

A smirk pulled on his lips when he saw her mouth part to speak, but nothing came out. She was rendered speechless and simply scoffed.

"Because I want to get this over with! I don't wanna spend the entire week cleaning this place! I could be doing something much more productive. Like shopping, or finding a boyfriend..."

She didn't know why the last suggestion slipped out of her mouth, but she felt the man next to her stiffen. To mask his unknown feeling of jealousy, he teased the girl who was pouting cutely. "Ha! Lucy? Boyfriend?! In the same sentence? That's funny."

Lucy felt her eye twitch as she huffed and left the ice mage to go climb the ladder that gave her access to the higher shelves. "It's not that far fetched... Plus, who can resist these girlish charms~?" She exclaimed and posed, her mind fantasizing about her ideal man.

"Yeah, girlish charms alright..." Gray mumbled, staring intently at the sight that was conveniently in his line of vision. He could sense Natsu next to him, who also had his eyes glued to a particular blonde mage.

"Panties." Natsu stated and the girl could feel herself blush furiously. She looked down and caught the two men ogling at her undergarments, with a tint of pink spread across their faces. Swiftly, Lucy grabbed two books, assuring that they were real heavy, and hurled it to both of the males faces.

Bullseye.

Natsu and Gray groaned, learning their lesson as they looked away- but still managed to sneak a couple of glances up the celestial wizard's skirt.

"You know, I feel like I'm forgetting something..." Natsu stated and the raven-haired mage rolled his eyes.

"You don't have a brain, so of course you aren't capable of having a long-term memory."

Although Natsu was dense, he always knew when Gray was insulting him. He grabbed the guy's collar, admittedly a bit surprised he managed to keep on his shirt for this long, and gave him a nasty glare.

"Huh?! What was that popsicle?! Says the exhibitionist! I'm surprised you aren't naked yet, you perverted son of a-"

"ENOUGH!"

The bickering ceased as they cowered at the chilling voice of Titania. She gave them a terrifying glare that could make any man fall to his knees and obey.

"You two give me a headache. Just clean this up, so we can get over with it." Erza commanded and watched as the two men nodded their heads and quickly obliged.

Lucy observed the scene from the top of the ladder, smirking at the scene below her. Natsu and Gray were reluctantly organizing the piles of books, with grimaces plastered on their faces.

She felt her nose scrunch as she stared at Natsu's exposed neck, which was usually adorned by his precious white scarf. She squinted and her mouth contorted as she noticed a small discoloring that was engraved above his collarbone.

"Hey Natsu, where did you get that scar?" Lucy inquired, and Natsu looked down at the aforementioned injury. His face went grim as he clutched his hair, a look if pure terror on his face.

"The most terrifying creature gave me this. It was scary!!! Even scarier than Erza! I never want to remember it again!" He shouted and Erza glared at the mention of her name.

"I'm not scary." She seethed, but the malicious look on her face suggested otherwise.

Lucy stared curiously as she leaned back in amusement. "Wow! Natsu is scared of something? How rare!" She mused, grinning at his sulking face.

Suddenly, she realized she was on a ladder, and gasped when she noticed that she was falling from about 20 feet above the ground.

"EHHH?!!" She yelled and the other three whipped their heads to face her, eyes widening as they saw her grasp slip from the ladder.

Gray was the first one to take action as he slid across the floor in an attempt to catch the falling maiden. The other two followed behind him as they did the same, before Lucy fell on all of them- fortunately they cushioned her fall.

Lucy opened her mouth to apologize, but the words quickly left her as the bright purple lights captured her attention.

"What is that?!" Gray exclaimed, who was currently right under the blonde mage, her breasts slightly obscuring his ability to see.

"What the hell is this, can you move?!" He growled, as he pushed aside whatever was blocking his eyes. The girl shrilled and smacked his face, her face red as a tomato. "Pervert!"

Before, Gray could deny the claim, the light quickly blurred their vision as they felt themselves being transported to a different place.

The four wizards groaned as they landed on top of each other, Natsu cushioning the fall for the rest of them.

"What the hell happened?!" Erza growled, as she was the first one to recover from the impact.

"We're outside of the guild... But, how?" Natsu asked, rubbing his back from everyone using him as a safety net.

Lucy looked up and her eyes widened at the sight in front of her. "The guild... it went back to the way it was???"

At the sound of that, the rest of them looked at the building in front of them that possessed an eerily similar resemblance to the guild before Phantom tarnished it to rubble.

Erza was swift to grab her friends and hide, when the doors creaked open to reveal three kids that were strikingly familiar. All of them stared at the children in shock as they realized who these faces belonged to.

"WHO ATE MY STRAWBERRY CAKE?!"