Gray could see the tension when he entered the guild hall.

The building was unnaturally silent. Not even Juvia greeted him when he entered.

Every pair of eyes in the guild riveted onto one table, intensely focused. Erza wasn't even eating the strawberry cake that sat in front of her. Gray turned his head, seeking what had caught their unwavering attention.

Lucy and Levy sat next to each other at the bar, their stools turned until they faced the other. They locked together in an intense staring contest. Neither of them blinked. Lucy's eye twitched. Everything was dead silent.

Gray crossed the guild hall, walking over to where Natsu sat at one of the tables. He stared at the pair of mages silently.

"Oi flame-brain," Gray hissed, feeling the need to stay quiet, "What the heck is happening here?"

"Lucy and Levy are scary," Natsu whimpered, nursing a large bruise on his bicep.

Gray opened his mouth to speak. Levy broke the silence first.

"Will," She growled, butting her forehead against Lucy's.

"Jem," Lucy snarled viciously, pushing Levy back.

"They got married," Levy barked.

Lucy glared fiercely at the little blue-haired mage, "They got engaged first."

"Because Tessa didn't want to hurt his feelings!"

"That is SO not true!" Lucy yelled, "Tessa was totally in love with him! MY Jem, arranging the meeting at Blackfriar's bridge. She refused Will in the drawing room!"

A visible black aura surrounded the two.

"Will was better for her!" Levy screamed back, "He wasn't going to die young and leave her a widow!"

Lucy shouted back incredulously, "He said she was no better than a prostitute! Will's a jerk!"

"He did that to keep her away! He thought he was cursed! Will didn't want Tessa to get hurt! Unlike Jem who set them both up for a fall when he died!"

"You mean he was honest with her? He told her the truth, and SHE still CHOSE to be with him!"

Lucy shoved the small script mage. Levy fell off of her chair, hitting the ground with a thud. The bluenette recovered swiftly, jumping up and tackling the celestial mage to the ground. Lucy gave an indignant shriek before she began to try to pry the shorter girl off of her.

"Wessa!" Levy cried, being thrown off of her blonde best friend.

"Jessa!" Lucy shrieked back, kicking out at the other girl.

"Wessa!" Levy screamed her battle cry again, leaping back onto the blonde.

Gray watched the two girls brawl in stupefied silence. Since when did Lucy and Levy fight? Lucy, who was always yelling at him and Natsu for their arguments, had started a fight, with her best friend, on the floor of the guild hall. Gray didn't know whether to be amazed or terrified.

The front doors of the guild hall flew open.

"Oi, what's every one so…" Gajeel barked, "Shrimp? Bunny-girl! The hell is happening?!"

Lucy and Levy didn't even bother to acknowledge his presence. They tangled together on the floor. Lucy had her hands fisted in Levy's blue hair, yanking on it viciously, and the script mage had her hands around the blonde's throat.

"What's going on?" Gajeel roared.

"Tessa belongs with Jem!" Lucy crowed, holding Levy in a chokehold.

Levy buried her teeth in Lucy's forearm, causing the celestial mage to let her go with a gasp. "Tessa belongs with Will!" She declared.

Gajeel looked at Gray pleadingly. Gray just shook his head and shrugged. He had absolutely no idea.

"Lucy and Levy are scary," Natsu whispered reverently beside him.

Gajeel growled, "That's it."

He marched over to the wrestling mages and picked them both up by the scruffs of their necks. Lucy had her hand fisted in the front of Levy's dress, and Levy had her arm pulled back to punch her best friend in the face.

"What the hell are you two arguing about?" Gajeel thundered.

Lucy stuck her tongue out at Levy, releasing her shirt front to cross her arms.

"We were reading Clockwork Princess," Levy explained, sticking her tongue out at Lucy in retaliation, "And Lucy said that Tessa should end up with Jem, but she's better with Will."

"No way!" Lucy yelled, "Tessa and Jem were made for each other!"

Gajeel squinted at the pair of girls, "So yer nearly killin' each other over fake people? The hell is wrong with you?"

Both mages snapped their heads around to look at him so fast it was unnatural.

"Fake…" Levy hissed, emanating a dark aura.

"…People?" Lucy finished, pulling her fist back.

In unison, the two crashed their balled up fists into Gajeel's chest, sending him flying into the wall. He slumped to the floor, unconscious. Levy huffed.

"The nerve of him!" She exclaimed, planting her hands on her hips.

Lucy nodded vigorously, "What is wrong with your boyfriend?!"

The script mage blushed a bright shade of red, "Lu-chan! He isn't my boyfriend!"

Gracefully sitting down on one of the barstools, Lucy smirked, "You keep telling yourself that, Levy-chan. Anyway, have you read the Divergent trilogy?"

Levy sat down on the barstool next to her best friend, "I was just about to ask you that! I cried BUCKETS at the end of Allegiant!"

Lucy clapped her hands to her cheeks, "I know! It was terrible!"

They continued chatting about one book or another, leaving the guild in a stunned silence, with Gajeel still collapsed against the wall, knocked out.

Honestly, Gray thought he would never understand girls. And he didn't think that he wanted to.