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Chapter 2. Wrath/Anger

Have you ever been so shocked that you couldn't even move? Your mind screams "Come on! Do something!", but your legs are like jelly underneath you? That was how Lucy felt.

Natsu caught Erza in his arms and his mouth moved like crazy, but Lucy didn't catch most of the words. Erza was pulling in rasping breaths while staring at Natsu with huge eyes. The man that had stabbed Erza stood frozen to the ground and stumbled over a hundred excuses and explanations.

Gray was gone. He had probably hurried to get some help. A whoosh of air sounded beside her.

"Such a pity," a smooth voice said. Lucy turned her head quickly and found herself staring right into a pair of glowing eyes. Lucy opened her mouth to say something, but was still too shocked.

"This is no fun at all," The lady in the white dress said and almost looked offended. "You're making this way to easy for me."

"P-please," Lucy got out, "don't let her die."

"Well, she's actually already dead," the woman said, and gestured to the scene. The world had suddenly frozen. Natsu had his mouth open in a silenced plea, while Erza stared at him with blank eyes. "She's just waiting for me to pick her up."

"Pick her up?" Lucy said, her mind blurry from the situation.

"Hallo. Reaper!" the woman said and pointed at herself, while rolling her eyes.

"Please, just this once," Lucy said, downright on her knees. The Reaper sighed and scratched her hair.

"Well… this is rather boring, so you know," she said with a teasing smile. "Fine, I'll give you a way to get her back."

"W-what?" Lucy said with a hint of hope fluttering up inside her

"I'll take her with me for now," the Reaper explained and grinned. "And I'll have you solve my other sins. But! You can only let 2 more people die before you lose. You know, like a game. 3 lives."

'A game? Do you see this as a game?' "What do you mean… lose?" Lucy said and suppressed her urge to scratch the Reapers eyes out.

"There are 6 more sins. If 2 more people die… I'll kill your whole Guild," she said casually and shrugged.

"What?" Lucy said breathless and staggered to her feet in shock. "T-the whole Guild?"

"Yeah," she said and grinned. "You included."

"What if two people don't get killed?" Lucy asked with small voice. "What if I save the last 6 people... or at least 5."

"Then I'll spare your Guild. And! Bring back the people that were killed," the Reaper said and Lucy almost gasped for her air. The whole Guild was on her shoulders, because this Reaper was bored.

"That means I have about 30% chance of winning and about 70% chance of losing!" Lucy said and tried to reason with the Reaper, but it only resulted in a bigger smile on the woman's lips and she nodded.

"You better save them then," she said with a chuckle. "I'll take the redhead for now. If you ever want to see her again – you better play wisely."

"No, wait!"

"Let's get to the next day, shall we?"

"STOP! PLEASE…"

"…WAIT!" Lucy sat up in her bed. Sweat covered her face and she pulled in deep amounts of air. Her throat felt dry, her mind was blurry and she felt like puking.

"Lucy?" Natsu yelled surprised and stepped into her bedroom, followed by Gray, who had a blue toothbrush in his mouth. They both looked flustered and surprised.

"Whi arg yu scriming?" Gray muffled with the toothbrush in his mouth. White toothpaste showed in the corner of his mouth. Natsu shifted back from his tense posture and Gray looked around the apartment for any signs of danger. Lucy held a hand over her chest and tried to control her breathings. (She ignored their most unwelcome present in her apartment for now.)

"N-nothing," she said and both boys glanced at each other, looking for answers, but neither seemed to have an explanation, so in the end Natsu asked:

"Nightmare?"

"Y-yes… what happened? Is Erza in the hospital, is the curse gone?" Lucy murmured and rubbed her eyes.

"Curse?" Gray asked and wiped some toothpaste from the corner of his mouth.

"Yes, the curse that Erza was under," Lucy began, but stopped when she saw the boys give her flustered glances. "That's just great… you don't remember? Of course not, that would be too easy." Lucy sighed.

"Are you okay, Lu-chan?" Natsu said nervously.

"I guess… Where's Erza?" Lucy said and looked up.

"Who knows," Gray said and shrugged. He looked at Natsu, but he just shrugged too.

"Haven't seen her all day," Natsu answered.

"But she was probably just smart," Gray said and Natsu's expression suddenly changed to uncomfortable and he shivered.

"What? Why?" Lucy asked surprised.

"Um…let's just say that Juvia woke up on the wrong side of the bed," Natsu said and Gray nodded and shuddered. "I have never seen her like this."

Lucy tensed.

"When you say ´wrong side of the bed´…"

"SHUT UP!" Juvia roared and clenched her fists. Levy jumped backwards and held her arms up as a protecting shield.

"J-Juvia?" she began, and really doubted that this was the kind water-girl she knew. "What's wrong? Why are you so mad?"

"Its all his fault!" she growled and swung her hands around in frustration.

"W-who?" Levy said, horrified, and found herself backing away. Juvia uttered another roar of anger and kicked a chair so hard that it flew across the room and shattered against the wall. A few mages had to jump for their lives.

"Gray!" she said and clenched her teeth.

"B-but you like Gray," Levy stuttered and had already found a safe spot under the table, where Jet and Droy had hurried to join her. Most mages in the room held their distance from the angry girl, and admired Levy for trying to reason with her.

"He is just so… clueless!" She almost spit the word and stamped her foot so hard into the floor that the wood broke.

"Where's the Master?" Cana cried out.

That was when Lucy opened the door. She almost dragged Gray by the collar, while he pleaded for her to let go. Natsu would have smirked, but he was also nervous to go in there.

Juvia turned when she heard the door open. Lucy gasped when she saw her eyes. They were a dark red, almost shining in the light. Not like Erza's orange ones. When she spotted Gray her eyes went even darker and made them almost seem black.

It had not been a dream. Again. She really had to save everyone; she couldn't let Juvia get consumed by her anger. She had to save her, before she unintentionally killed herself – and Gray.

"Gr-ay. Full-buster." She said with a threatening voice.

"Please! Let me go!" Gray pleaded and struggled to peal Lucy's fingers off his collar. "Why is my shirt on, when I don't want it to!"

"It's all your fault!" Juvia said with a dark voice and started to walk toward them like an evil shadow. They all backed out of the guild, out in the open.

"What did I do?" Gray asked desperately and Lucy finally pitied him enough to let go. He hurried to back more away, so he was behind the others.

"Juvia, relax!" Lucy insisted. "You're mad, but we can make it better so…"

"Shut up, blondie!" Juvia said and her eyes suddenly stopped on Lucy and narrowed. Lucy found herself flicker and thinking "Oh Crap!". "Love rival…" Juvia hissed and Lucy could almost see her wondering if she should let her anger loose on Lucy or Gray.

"Natsu…" Lucy whispered over her shoulder, but Natsu just shook his head with a pitiful expression and backed away. "Coward!" Lucy snapped.

"I would rather fight a dragon," Natsu said simply.

"Gray!" Juvia yelled and he stopped in his tracks. He had tried to sneak away while Juvia had snapped at Lucy, but now he looked back with unease.

"Oh, come on Juvia, I'm not going to fight you," he begged and turned. He would never be able to be seriously fighting against Juvia. Maybe he had been able to when he saw her as an enemy a long time ago, but now?

"Fine! That will make it so much easier!" Juvia yelled angrily and send a stream of hot water toward him, catching him off guard and sending him in a backward spin to the ground. He stretched his arm and stopped the fall with his bare elbow – Oops, clothes gone again.

Natsu's jaw dropped and he looked like Juvia had just grown two extra heads.

"D… did she just hit Gray?" Natsu asked,astonished not that he wouldn't have done it himself, but this was shy-little-love-struck Juvia they were talking about.

"She's cursed with…" Lucy looked at her and immediately guessed the curse. "Wrath."

Natsu looked confused, so Lucy added, "Anger."

"Um… I believe you," Natsu said, immediately convinced.

"Nice! Now, help me!" Gray shouted, annoyed, and blocked a new attack from Juvia. This time he was prepared and without problem staggered to his feet. A stream of water came from all sides. He had fought against her before and knew her attacks. He made a wall of ice between himself and the water. Steam rose around them and Gray took the chance to lunge toward were she had just been standing.

"Gotcha!" Gray yelled and remembered last time they fought. He could capture her water-body in his ice and hold her captured until-

His thoughts were interrupted when Juvia melted in front of him. A water clone.

"Gray!" An angry yell cut through the air and suddenly Juvia shot from above him.

"Shi-" Gray began, but was immediately pinned to the ground when Juvia pressed her hands into his chest and released all the water energy she could manage.

Luckily he was an ice mage, or else the hot water would have burned him so much that he would have fainted. He gasped when all air was pressed out of his lungs and bit down on his lip so the metallic flavor of blood spread in his mouth. She was really serious, damn it. Was she expecting him to also fight that… hard?

Rage shone from her eyes, and it seriously started to freak Gray out. He reached for her shoulder and shoved her off his body. He rolled onto his stomach and coughed heavily to get new air down his lungs.

"Gray? Are you okay?" Natsu yelled. The steam had slowly started to fade and clear the area. Natsu and Lucy were already running toward the ice mage on the ground. Lucy looked horrified.

"Is Juvia alright?" She yelled. Gray looked at her with irritation.

"Oh, I'm fine! Thanks for asking!" Gray snapped angrily. Lucy groaned and looked around for Juvia, but she was gone.

"What did you do?" Natsu asked while watching Gray sit up, rubbing his collarbone and clearing his throat.

"Nothing… I think," Gray said.

"Then, what triggered her off like that?" Natsu said and raised an eyebrow.

"I told you," Lucy tried again. "She is cursed with anger. It's not her fault. We have to find her before she hurts herself."

"Or me! Thanks, but you two can go ahead," Gray said sarcastically.

"You're not going to help?" Lucy asked, stunned.

"She hates me!"

"Only because she's cursed," Lucy said stubbornly, then her expression turned nervous. "I really need all the help I can get to capture her. She is a former Phantom 4 member, the only thing that can really capture her is probably your ice."

"I'm not going!"

"Scared?" Natsu teased.

"I didn't see you help!" Gray immediately snapped and smacked his forehead toward Natsu's.

"Changing the subject?" Natsu bit.

"You stupid fire eating-"

"Guys!" Lucy yelled and got between them. "We don't have time for that! Gray, you. Are. Going!"

"Am not!" He said with his arms crossed. Lucy glared at him, but he just shook his head determined. "I am not going! Definitely not! Nothing in the whole world could make me go!"

Moments later Gray was walking a few steps behind them with an unsatisfied expression on his face.

"Juvia!" Lucy and Natsu called with their hands by their lips. "Juvia!"

"I hate you guys," Gray murmured and let his eyes search around the area for the blue haired girl, but kept his arms stubbornly crossed. Natsu and Lucy ignored him and kept calling. They had reached the big tree in the middle of Magnolia. Gray let his eyes glide over the shadows around the tree and saw a small shaking person.

"Guys!" he called to catch their attention.

Juvia POV.

My whole body shook in anger. I hated him. Hated him! I had suppressed my feelings for so long and now they all seemed to come to the surface. I had loved him for so long, but he never noticed. Why didn't he notice?

'He doesn't care. He probably noticed long ago, but wanted to hurt you,' the voice said. The voice had been speaking to me all day. Telling me not to hide it anymore, not to hidethe anger that I had hidden deep within my heart.

'I cannot make you do anything. I can only bring your anger out. Everything you keep locked up in your heart, I can let it all out,' the voice told me, and I could almost hear the smirk in its voice. It was true, the voice had only brought the anger out in me. I had been conscious all the time. I had snapped at Levy and Lucy, I had growled those nasty words and I had hurt Gray, whom I loved. That was why I had to run away in the last second.

I could have finished it, but I didn't. Maybe I should have. I was just so… angry!

I needed to get the anger out. From being hurt in my childhood, for not fitting in, for being a cursed water-woman, for being ignored by my true love, for everything.

My body shook and I tried to steady myself.

'No, don't stop it! That will only make it hurt more. Let it out! Let it all out.'

"Juvia!" a voice sounded. A familiar one. I turned my heavy head and new anger washed over me immediately. Lucy and Natsu were running toward me, Gray a little behind them.

"Let it out," My own voice uttered the voice's words.

'Yes, on them! Fight it out on them!'

"Get away from me!" I suddenly yelled and grabbed around my head. I was so angry. So. Angry.

The three mages stopped in their tracks and slowed down to a walk.

Normal POV

"Get away from me!" Juvia cried out angrily. Natsu, Lucy and Gray all slowed down, and Gray came up on the side of the two others.

"How do you want to do this?" he whispered in Lucy's ear. She bit her lip – yep, a plan would have been nice, but there were always the traditional…

"We distract her, and you capture her in your ice when you have the chance," Lucy murmured.

"How original," Gray mumbled. Natsu nodded in a sign that he had heard.

"I said. Get. Away!" Juvia hissed and instantly shot cascades of water after them, but her aim were so random that the mages barely had to dodge.

Natsu and Lucy moved in.

"I hate you! Hate you all! Hate it all!" Juvia rambled, blinded by rage, and shot her water around her so wildly that it cut through branched above her and made the leafs rain down like green snow. Nearby houses got huge holes in their walls when the water hit hard enough. She screamed louder in madness and her eyes becoming a dark red again.

"We can't get close," Lucy said and covered her eyes. The water hadn't hit them directly, but the warmth from the boiling water still made sweat appear on their faces.

"Heat doesn't bother me!" Natsu said breathless and walked closer. Slowly.

Lucy was stunned to see the sweat break out on the Dragon Slayer's forehead too. He growled in annoyance and kept walking closer. A splash of water hit his face and he gasped in shock, but kept going.

Lucy looked at Juvia from under her elbow and widened her eyes in shock. This was how Juvia would kill herself.

Her whole body bobbled of heat and her eyes had rolled to the back of her head, leaving her eyes completely red. She was overheating.

"Gray! Use your ice!" Lucy yelled in a panic.

"I'm on it!" Gray yelled from behind, punching his hands together, but was knocked down by a stream of hot water.

Juvia screamed. Not just from rage, but also pain. Her skin oozed and Lucy swore she was… melting. Now Natsu jumped into the air, his hands forming a round shape around his mouth.

"Roar of the-"

"No! Natsu! No heat!" Lucy screamed, but it was too late.

"-Fire dragon!" he yelled, and a ball of fire escaped his lips and flew toward Juvia with incredible speed.

"ICE MAKER CAGE!" Gray's voice broke through and a large cage of ice appeared around Juvia, but was immediately broken when the fireball hit. Steam rose once again.

Lucy tried to look through the foggy air, but it was a pretty impossible task. The attacks of water had stopped and everything had turned horribly quiet.

The fog lifted and Lucy's eyes widen and filled with relieved tears.

"Now I got you," Gray said with a smirk and gestured to the square of pure ice where Juvia were beautifully sculptured inside. Natsu stood on the other side and slapped Gray a high-five.

"You guys," Lucy said with a deep sigh. Her legs collapsed under her and she closed her eyes. "Thank god for rash teammates." Gray and Natsu smiled smugly.

She opened her eyes and looked into the sculpture. Juvia had her mouth widely open and her eyes had turned back to white though they were still rolled to the back of her head.

"Thank you… Gray… Natsu," she said, exhausted, and heard the running steps of her friends and then felt their hands help her back on her feet.

"No problem," Natsu grinned.

Juvia opened her eyes slowly and was thankful that her room was covered in darkness. Her head hurt terribly. What had happened? Her eyes opened in shock and she sat up with a quick movement. Tears welled to her eyes.

"I hurt Gray-sama," she wanted to yell, but her throat were dry and she felt totally dehydrated, something she usually never felt. "How could I? Why? Why?" she covered her eyes and cried into her own palms.

"Juvia," Gray's voice said smoothly and he touched her hand gently. She let her hands drop immediately and looked up at him with shocked eyes. His dark eyes looked at her softly. His shoulder and chest was bandages by the burns of her water, but beside that he looked alright.

"Gray-sama!" she said and her eyes twisted in pain. "Forgive me. Please, forgive me."

"It was not your fault… you were cursed," Gray murmured and gave her a reassuring smile. "Don't even give it another thought. The doctor said you should rest. They already let me go."

"You're wrong," she said with a small voice, ignoring his cheerful words. "I knew I was cursed, all the time, but… I still did everything… I was there, in my head. All the time."

"What do you mean?" Gray asked and pulled his eyebrow together in wonder. He sat down on her bed and his eyes shone in the dull light.

"The voice came to me in the morning…" Juvia said with a rasping voice. "It told me that I would hurt people, that I would possibly die, but it could lift every burden I had hid in my heart. Gray, I – I never wanted to hurt you, but the voice… the voice, it made everything sounds so, obvious. It all just made sense."

"The voice?" Gray asked and didn't know how to respond.

"The voice talked to me," Juvia said sadly. "It didn't hypnotize me or trap me in my own mind… it made me… mad… insane."

Gray stared at her for a moment. His eyes were large in shock. A voice.

"Please, don't hate me," Juvia begged and lifted a hand toward his cheek, but he moved out of her reach.

Gray wanted to tell her not to worry, but he was too shocked and hurried for the door.

"Gray-sama!" Juvia called more surprised than sad, but he was already out of the door. The world had started to spin around hi, and he had to support against the wall. He could hear his own breath so much louder than before; he could even hear his own heartbeat echo in his head. Then he heard steps behind him.

"Gray?" A cheerful voice said.

"Lucy?" he said and turned. Sweat had broken through his skin and he felt dizzy, but she didn't seem to notice.

"I just wanted to say thank you for helping me today, I think we have a good thing going. If I find out who's cursed every day you can trap them in your ice and we don't have to hurt them."

"Yeah, sure," Gray said and used all his control to keep his voice steady.

"Thanks, you will be a great help," she said with a smile and ran off. He lifted a hand in goodbye and watched her run away. When he couldn't hear her steps anymore he collapsed on the floor, just as the clock hit midnight.

'Hello, Gray Fullbuster,' a voice sounded inside his head. Gray gasped and widened his eyes.

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BTW. I'm not a huge JuviaXGray fan, but no one can disagree when I say it's kinda obvious that Juvia likes Gray, right? xD That's why I thought she would be a good anger/wrath.

Thank you to Silhouette The SANVAE for betaing me. : D

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