A/N: I was already overwhelmed that I got 17 followers from the original first chapter (the second chapter), and then after updating the new first chapter I got 20 followers! And of course all the faves. Thanks so much! Although I kind of feel like I did something wrong since there's only 4 reviews since the previous chapter...hmm...hopefully I'll get some reaction (positive or negative) after this chapter.

Shout out to the reviewers from the previous chapters! PinkKoala213, AmantesPatriae, Absolute-ZERO999 Iceberry2666, SkyDragonSorceress, and That Awesome Indian Girl.

Don't be too surprised at the implied pairings in this chapter and the future chapters! It's all for fun! Hope you guys enjoy and stick to the story till the end!

Lie Detector

Chapter 3

All Gray wanted to do was to run away, find a secluded spot and dig up a hole to bury himself.

Cana was no doubt taking pride in her attempt to humiliate him.

"What's bothering you, Cana?" Erza asked.

The card mage was internally smirking. "I heard you always had a special kind of friendship with ice boy here, if you know what I mean."

She raised her eyebrows up and down, obviously trying to imply something that never existed! Gray internally screamed.

"Special?" Erza repeated. She looked over to Gray who was shrugging, trying to act nonchalant but Cana obviously saw through him. She didn't miss the sweat forming near his forehead.

He's a terrible liar, Cana thought. Especially around someone as intimidating as Erza.

"The drunkard here doesn't know what she's saying, Erza. I say we ditch her and…you know what? Let's go out for some cake. It's on me." Gray nervously tried to encourage Erza into leaving.

Cana gaped at him. He was using the cake card!

Well played, Gray. Well played.

There was no way Erza was going to deny that offer.

"Actually I just got back from the bakery." Erza said, not noticing the slouch of Gray's shoulder and Cana who was now beaming in front of her.

Take that, stripper!

"But I hope your offer stands tomorrow." Erza faced Gray and said hopefully.

Ugh. Erza had that little light in her eyes and that dreamy facial expression every time she talked about her passion for cake and now she was directing it to him. Very rarely did she show that expression to anyone. It was times like this that Gray thought she was kind of cute. Just a little. Gray's chest almost fluttered at the thought. Almost.

How could he say no now? Damn.

"If-If you want." He stuttered, turning away with a faint blush.

All of a sudden Cana laughed.

"What now?" Gray said, annoyed, his blush gone.

"Oh nothing~" Cana said, opting to tease Gray about their miniature flirting another time. "So is it true, Erza?"

"What's true?"

"That you have a special relationship with Gray, duh."

Erza's brow furrowed. She glanced at Gray beside her, who looked nervous for some reason. She turned to Cana, "Gray is very special to me." She admitted, not sure why Cana was asking the obvious. Gray was the reason she stopped pretending to like being alone way back when they were kids after all. "Is that what you wanted to ask me?"

The brunette tried to contain her giggles. Erza was the girl who liked reading erotic novels in her past time, but was a little dense sometimes.

Gray on the other hand was praying that Cana wouldn't try to humiliate – oh who was he kidding? She was having so much fun with this.

"Close, but not quite." Cana smirked, leaving Erza in confusion and Gray feeling a huge sense of dread. "You see this?" Cana showed off her new magical cards.

Erza smiled, proud. "New offensive magic cards?"

"Actually they're cards that have the ability to look at someone's past. I was testing them out on some of the guild members including Gray here."

"I see. I'm sure you'll master them in no time." Erza said proudly.

"But the thing is," Cana pretended to sigh disappointedly, "I really want to see how far I've progressed, and I think I'm getting good at it, but the stripper here says one of my readings are wrong, and I think he's lying."

Gray gulped.

Erza frowned at him. "Is it really wrong?"

"Uh – "

"- So, Erza…since I know you're such an honest person, I was thinking maybe you could confirm to me that my reading about Gray is correct." Cana said.

"I don't think I can confirm something about Gray though…"

"You can since you were involved~" Cana said, she couldn't hide the smirk now.

Gray was sending mental messages to Erza to not bring that up.

She didn't get it.

"Okay then." Erza agreed. "What did you see?"

"Is it true you let Gray grope you three years ago?"

Erza's eyes widened shocked. "When did that –"

"- See! Cana's spouting bullshit. We should just go –" Gray interrupted nervously ready to take off until Erza's had stopped him. "Wha -?"

"- Can you be specific?" Erza asked seriously.

"Are you saying it happened more than once?!" Cana asked ecstatic, practically jumping from her seat.

"NO!" Gray shouted in denial, an embarrassed blush obvious on his face.

"No, I'm saying there were accidents in the past, one that I acknowledged so I didn't punch him for it." Erza said, disappointing Cana, prompting her to sit back down.

"Was it really an accident? I could clearly see in my vision that you let him feel you up. It's probably a different situation."

Feel me up? Erza thought.

Gray was literally fidgeting in his seat. He couldn't contain his nerves. His reputation was in Erza's hands now.

It was enough he was dubbed by everyone in the guild a literal pervert for always stripping naked, wherever, whenever. But Gray knew his friends didn't really mean it. They knew his habit was unconscious and he didn't purposely want to give a show to all the girls (and the gay males, if there were any in the guild). So it never bothered him if Natsu called him a pervert for stripping. He knew his intentions and it wasn't to try and attract any of his friends (female or male).

All in all, Gray was still considered a gentleman (if you ignore his habit). At least more of a gentleman than Macao and Wakaba. He was no flirt, pretending to be nice to every girl on the street, but he cared for his friends, and felt protective of his female companions.

But if word got out that he had felt up Erza as a horny fifteen year old boy going through puberty, no doubt he'd be a laughing stock. It didn't matter that it happened three years ago, his friends were definitely going to think of him as a true pervert. Especially Cana, that little drunkard. What if he'll never be able to show his face again? What if his friendship with Erza became awkward? What if Erza found out that he used to -

"It was a wrong reading." Erza confirmed. "Nothing like that happened."

Cana gaped. "Really?" But she was so sure that -

"HAH! Told you!" Gray jumped out of his seat and pointed accusingly at her. He was internally cheering. His heart was beating so fast but the moment Erza said the word "wrong" he was immensely relieved but disguised it as a "told you so" grin to Cana.

Erza raised an eyebrow at him.

"I won the bet! I already gave you a chance to do another reading but your time is up!" Gray smirked.

Cana grunted and glared at Gray. "I was so sure though…"

"If that is all I'm going to head off to –"

"GRAY-SAMA! JUVIA IS FINALLY BACK!" Juvia Lockser squealed as she burst through the guild entrance, followed by Fairy Tail's one and only iron dragon slayer with his black exceed behind him.

"Stop doing that every time we come back, rain woman. You're gonna make my ears bleed." Gajeel grunted.

"Mine too." Pantherlily agreed.

Gajeel, who knew that the rain woman was obviously going to pester the ice bastard, went to Mirajane to report on their job's success.

"It wasn't that hard was it?" Mirajane smiled. who was sitting near the barmaid casually looked up at Gajeel in acknowledgment.

"You got me and Juvia. Nothing we can't handle." Gajeel responded gruffly.

Gray who was still sitting with Erza and Cana nervously waved back at Juvia who was making her way towards their table. "Oh, welcome back."

Juvia who just noticed her beloved Gray was with two other women gaped shockingly. She hurried over to Gray's side, pushed him slightly to make room for her, sat down next to him and asked in despair, "Gray-sama! Does Juvia have two other love –"

" – no, you don't." Gray interrupted and sighed.

"C'mon Juvia, don't be like that! We're all just friends here, right?" Cana laughed.

"Yes. How did your job go, Juvia?" Erza asked, smiling.

Juvia pouted. She wanted to be alone with the ice make mage, but couldn't bring herself to tell Cana and Erza to go away.

For the second time that day, the guild doors burst open loudly, this time with a different shout. "LOOK WHAT WE GOT!" The sound of Natsu and Happy shouting happily echoed in the guild hall prompting everyone in the guild to look at them.

"Ara, ara. What's that you got there?" Mirajane asked, welcoming the pink-haired dragon slayer and his blue exceed.

"You guys run too fast!" Lucy panted heavily as she finally caught up with Natsu and Happy, only to pale as she saw them running up to Mirajane.

Uh oh.

"Wait!"

"It's a lie-detector lacrima!" Natsu shouted happily.

"Aye! By the way, Carla's not here? I don't see her."

"LIE-DETECTOR LACRIMA?!" Almost all the members of Fairy Tail shouted at the same time.

"She's out with Wendy shopping since you guys have a day off." Mira smiled at Happy who was deflating.

"There goes the idiot flame-brain and his nonsense again. There's no way that thing's real." Gray commented for across the guild hall.

"Juvia agrees with anything Gray-sama said."

"Oh? Interesting." Erza got up from her seat and went over to the crowd currently surrounding Natsu, Lucy and Happy near the counter.

Juvia internally screamed "YES!" as she now waited for Cana to also leave the table as then she would be able to be alone with her Gray-sama who looked like he couldn't careless about Natsu-san and Lucy.

"Where did you get this?" Mirajane asked as Natsu had already handed over the strange contraption to her.

"An old lady gave it to me." Lucy proceeded to tell Mira and the members who were currently interested in her story of how she had gotten the lacrima. "Actually I just wanted to test it out for a bit."

Mirajane's eyes twinkled. "Oh? A lie-detector?"

Oh no.

Mira's eyes were twinkling in a way that Lucy knew she was planning something that the blond knew would be a bad idea. Why did she agree to have it tested out in the guild again? She could have just used Natsu repeatedly for testing. "After testing it out, what are you going to do with it, Lucy?"

Lucy looked at Mira nervously. "Well, I was gonna sell it, since I needed some extra cash. You know how I'm always craving some extra cash for rent."

"Lu-chan, you know you can always come and ask me for help if you're in a pinch." Levy appeared at her blond friend's side. "I know how much Natsu's draining you from your hard-earned jewels." She said sympathetically.

"HEY! THAT ICE BASTARD AND THE REDHEADED MONSTER HELPED DESTROY THAT VILLAGE TOO! " Natsu shouted.

"Village?" Mirajane echoed.

Said ice-bastard and redheaded monster (if it was okay to refer them that way, especially Erza) appeared by Natsu's side in a flash, both with darkening features.

"You son-of-a" Gray grabbed Natsu by the neck but was stopped by Erza who had already landed a punch on the dragon slayer's cheek, which sent him flying towards the nearest wall.

Lucy and Happy face palmed.

The guild members who were watching the whole thing laughed at Natsu's expense. They probably would have started a fight if the dragon slayer had crashed into any of them.

Gray gaped at her. "I was gonna –"

"-we did help destroy that village, anyways."

"But then why'd you –"

"- He called me a monster. I'm a girl." Erza said with a straight face.

Of course you are, Gray felt his sweat dropping.

The barmaid of Fairy Tail chuckled at their interaction. "Since Natsu's down, I'll have to try Lucy's lie-detector on someone else."

"You already decided that you were going to try it, Mira-san?" Lucy asked nervously.

"I can't?" Mira asked, a hint of terror in her tone.

"No, no! Go ahead!" Lucy agreed panicked, flailing her arms around.

"Try it on Lucy!" Happy suggested to which Lucy denied furiously. "Or maybe on me!"

"Eh…there are no secrets worth digging from you, Happy. And we already know you like Carla." Mirajane said, almost carelessly.

"WAAHHH! Natsu! Look at them teasing me!" The blue exceed sobbed and went off to his dragon slayer companion who was still out unconscious in the clinic. Who sent him there again? Who knows.

"Wait a minute, Mira-san. What's that supposed to mean?" Lucy asked nervously.

Mira gave a winning smile and asked loudly, "so who wants to be the lucky tester?"

Almost immediately everyone turned away, pretending to mind their own business. Max and Warren suddenly mentioned that they were late for a job. Nab suddenly said that he had agreed to join Max and Warren on their job to which Max and Warren shouted "Don't suddenly decide to go on a job now with us!"

Levy went back to reading her book, claiming that there's this part of the chapter that she had been dying to read. She mentioned she'd like it better if she read at her room in Fairy Hill's instead. Macao and Wakaba hurried to the exit saying that their wives were calling them, to which Romeo retorted that his mother wasn't coming back any time soon. Everyone suddenly had an excuse to leave the guild, even Gray, who said he just lost his pants and said he was gonna go home and find another one.

"You didn't lose it. It's right here." Erza said, handing over his boxers that he took off purposely for once in public! "Don't think you can fool me."

Gray eyed Erza distastefully as she calmly sipped her tea while sitting at the counter.

Out of nowhere, Mirajane cried.

The just-now cheerful barmaid was now crying.

What. The. Fuck.

"Mira-nee!"

"M-Mira-san?!" Lucy asked worried. Even Happy was startled.

Almost immediately everyone that intended to escape from whatever Mira was planning with that lie-detector halted their steps by the guild entrance.

Laxus who was sitting by the counter nearby, initially intending to stay quiet as usual now glared at his guildmates. Half of them looked guilty, and the other half looked panicked seeing Mira was actually shedding tears.

"No one wants to help me and Lucy!" Mira sobbed.

"Ehhhhh…?"

"HOW DARE YOU MAKE NEE-CHAN CRY?! AND YOU CALL YOURSELVES MEN?" Elfman shouted.

"Who knows what she's up to!" Gray pointed out.

"The stripper's got a point." Cana commented as she gulped down her third barrel.

"You're not one to talk." The ice-make wizard eyed her irritatingly. Cana smirked.

From that point on everyone was blaming everyone else for making Fairy Tail's favorite sweetheart cry. And when there is pointless "It's your fault!" and "NO YOURS!" there was also bound to be arguing and of course, fighting.

Bixlow had his hoard of dolls blaming Freed while Freed told him to be the tester since he lost their arm-wrestling match? What?

Evergreen was busy boasting on how a Fairy Queen like her should have the right to order someone to be Mirajane's tester, to which all the other girls present quickly retaliated.

Laxus just watched bored as his guildmates started the first brawl that day. Gajeel also got caught up in it, even though he didn't particularly feel guilty for the barmaid or anything. Salamander was out, so he wanted to fight someone else?

That was the reason of the first brawl that happened that day.

Erza who was enjoying her cake and tea peacefully was eventually triggered to joining the brawl after someone had accidentally knocked down her cup of tea, causing it to spill on her cake, thus making her cake unsuitable to eat any longer.

Lisanna frowned looking at Mira and her friends. She glanced at Lucy who was doing her best to calm everyone down. She knew her sister was up to something. She sighed heavily. "Mira-nee, look at what you've done. Now everyone's guilty."

Mira pouted. "Not guilty enough."

"See! I knew you were just acting!" Lisanna accused.

"But no one wants to try it! Not even Elfman who's usually there to help me when I cry." Elfman was busy getting angry at his fellow guilmates for not being men to accept Mira's challenge yet he wasn't accepting it either. Huh.

"Pretend crying." Lisanna deadpanned.

"Still."

Lisanna had a bad feeling about this. But everyone was making a ruckus and they didn't even notice that her sister wasn't even crying anymore.

"EVERYONE STOP! I'LL DO IT!" Lisanna shouted, her voice echoing in the guild hall, causing everyone to immediately stop punching and kicking whoever the hell they wanted to.

Mira's eyes twinkled again. "You will?"

Lisanna whispered to her beaming sister, "I don't want Mira-nee to keep guilt-tripping our friends like this." Then she said normally, "If anyone can handle my sister, it should be me, at least. I don't think I have any secrets worth to get embarrassed about." She sighed heavily again, to which Mira's eyes twinkled mischievously.

Once again, almost immediately everyone surrounded the sisters, the look of guilt gone and now only replaced with excitement.

"Hurry up, Mira-chan! Try it on her."

"Oooh, Lisanna-chan's secrets!"

"Let's bet on whether it's a lie or not!"

"I thought all of you said you had something to do?" Lucy muttered, but still loud enough for them to stop what they were doing and looked at her, all at once saying "You didn't really believe that, did you?"

The blond gritted her teeth, irritated. These guys...

"Okay okay! Let's test it out now. How does it work again, Lucy?" Mira asked, a hint of mischievousness in her tone.

Lucy was dreading this, as she explained how the lacrima should work to everyone there. "Only one statement, Mira-san!"

After understanding the simple instruction, Mirajane quickly placed the lacrima on her younger sister's head.

Lisanna couldn't help but feel nervous. Everyone was looking at her in anticipation, even Gajeel and Pantherlily! Laxus was looking over them curiously as well.

"Okay, Lisanna. Say no to the following statement." Mira said, almost seriously. Everyone gulped at the same time, wondering what kind of lie did Mira intend to expose about her little sister.

"Yes…I mean no." As soon as Lisanna said that, the lacrima lighted up, a small glowing white magic circle was seen.

"Oooohh…"

What are you all so impressed about? Lucy thought weirdly.

Lisanna smiled nervously, knowing that that statement didn't count as one.

Mirajane smiled happily and stated in a loud tone, having a strange confidence that the lacrima would work.

"My first crush was Natsu Dragneel…"

A/N: Is it a lie? Is it the truth? You probably guessed what Mira was gonna ask right? xD

So, there's a poll in my profile page and I would really like the readers to drop by and vote there. It would help tremendously with the story. Basically, it's my theory on who's first crush was who between the Fairy Tail members. Don't worry about your current ship too much. Really think about this certain character and who they might have had a crush on in the past. Think back to when they were kids too. Does this particular character look like they could have had a crush back then? It's just a past crush, it doesn't affect your current ships (unless the first crush is lasting till now that is)

Example: Erza - Jellal (First crush, first love, this is too obvious)

Or even Lucy - Jellal/Siegrain (he was on her top boyfriend list! Maybe it was a first celebrity crush?)

The choice in the votes are all based on my opinions. You guys can suggest some to me if you don't think any of them are correct and you think they should be someone else. Winners will be featured in the upcoming chapters. Keep in mind that no pairing is going to magically get together in this, as I have stated before that I pictured this to happen after the GMG arc (which is why I didn't tag it as Romance even though the topic they'll be talking about is that, for the most part).

Some theories are 100% my beliefs (if you know me you'll know who's crush I'm talking about) so I will include them whether or not they win the poll. I made the poll mainly because there are certain characters I'm not sure about. Like Cana. And Lucy.

So uh...this is definitely a long author's note. But don't forget to review and vote! I'll be super motivated!

-10:59PM

-28/10/15