7Chapter 5: A night of Snow
It was nighttime and Gray has gone home safely at his he opened the door, Juvia quickly ran passed by him and enters the room first. She ran to the couch and there she sleeps like she owns it. Gray quickly covers her with the light blue blanket and took off her hat and head straight for the kitchen to have a midnight before sleeping. He took a can of soda and sat at his bed. Behind the couch lies his bed so he watched the couch. He took the marker and crosses the date today. It's been 2 weeks since that day when the Mage turned herself to a child and he has to take care of it. Gray lies on his bed and watches the ceiling and he slowly drifted to sleep.
A flash of lightning and thunder appear and suddenly the ice Mage wake up by the sudden tackle of him.
"J-Juvia?" Gray asked sleepily as Juvia was sitting at his stomach. She was holding her doll tightly on the left and her blanket on the other.
"Juvia...hungry and scared." Juvia muttered.
Gray blinked lazily and nodded. Juvia went down so that Gray will grant her request. He went to the fridge and took a bread and milk and prepares a sandwich for the girl. He looked at the clock and it's midnight. He looked at Juvia curiously at how awake she has been while she eats her snack. The ice wizard took a heavy yawn as his eyes slowly closes and begins to sleep.
Meanwhile, as Juvia was eating, he saw Gray already sleeping as he rest at the table. She ignored this, grinning and quickly headed out.
As a few minutes passed, thunder roared and woke up the ice wizard. "Huh, where's-oh no..." He said worriedly as he saw the door swinging open due to the heavy wind outside. He quickly took his coat and headed out in the storm.
He searched for Juvia a few minutes later. He searched around town but couldn't find her. The rain was getting stronger. He stood in front of their guild hoping to invite to begin a search party but once he saw Erza pounding Wakaba and Macao.
"I almost forgot the reason why I'm not allowed in that party." Gray pouted. He was forced to go home because Juvia needs to sleep and got Gray to babysit as usual. "If I make an entrance there, I'll get beat up for sure." He said and continue his search alone but something caught his eye, a small shadowy figure sitting at the roof. He knows who that was and goes there to investigate.
There she is, Juvia, sewing her doll as she smiles. The heavy rain gets stronger and stronger and Gray quickly approaches and put his cloak at the young girl's head but he still wears a shirt.
"Papa's here." Juvia cheered as she watched Gray sat down beside her.
"What are you thinking going outside? it's raining." Gray asked with a worried look.
"I just wanted to see if it rains snow." Juvia answered innocently.
Hearing this, Gray almost fell at that reply. It's still autumn, and probably snow will be coming in the next two months. Gray looked at Juvia stupidly. "Snow wouldn't be arriving until autumn's over." He said simply.
"Will that take long?" Juvia asked with teary-eyes.
"Yeah." He said simply. "Hey, don't cry, I'll make it snow if you like." Hearing this, Juvia wiped her tears and nodded excitedly. Gray stood up and pointed at the sky and zaps a part of the raincloud and minutes later it began snowing but only on Juvia's area that's snowing. He watches the girl played as she cuffed her breathe, builds a small snowman and such.
"Juvia, why do you even think about snow all of the sudden?" Gray asked.
"Well, I like Christmas, I like playing in the snow and I like when snow melted and turned into puddles to jump and play at it." Juvia said as she throws a snowball at the ground below.
"But you can jump at puddles now." Gray defended.
"It's not cold enough, that you can actually breathe the white stuff coming from your mouth." Juvia defended as well.
"True, you can't see your breathing when it's rain." Gray said and he watched Juvia play. The Rain woman who he battled years ago and now became one of his trusted friends like snows as much as his childhood one and rival, Lyon. The woman who he thought only like rain and water is actually a fan of ice and snow and that woman turned into a child and now under his wing who can annoy a grown up in any seconds is now here outside on a cold rainy day is hanging out with him and probably play a little snowball fight afterwards.
"Hey Papa, look at me." Juvia called making Gray's thoughts break. Gray saw that the young girl can slowly control the snowball left and right.
"How do you even do that?" He asked but Juvia shrugged. He touched the soft snow piled on the roof and noticed how wet cold it is. It's probably the snow is inches from melting and can control water Mage. He then heard a loud crash from a certain glass guessing it's a window and realized Juvia accidentally throw her recently controlled snowball to the window.
"It's Cold! Someone threw a pile of wet snow!" Natsu yelled.
"Aww Salamander has a wet diaper now." Gajeel's voice was heard as he laughed.
"Only one person can do this… GRAY I TOLD YOU TO KEEP AN EYE OF MY PRECIOUS NIECE!" Ezra yelled.
"And here comes the cake monster." Gray said snickering as he took Juvia and put her at his shoulders and ran far away from the guild as possible.
"Cake monster?" Juvia repeated. "Let's lure the monster for some cake back at the guild." Juvia said looking back at the guild and saw Erza breaking the door, followed by aburning Natsu "Auntie Erzzy?"
"Erzzy?" Gray repeated and laughed. "Let's get away from monster Erzzy then." He said and started running making his way like a winter slide which Juvia thoroughly enjoy.
As they reached home, Gray slipped and fell at the floor with Juvia at his back safely. Natsu and Erza then witnessed Gray's epic penguin slide and laughed.
"Hey idiot, wear something penguin my the next time you slide on the floor." Natsu teased.
"Juvia, are you alright, did you catch a cold?" Erza asked.
"ACHOO!"
"I think Gray's the one who got a cold, not Juvia." Natsu confirmed. "I mean, who goes outside wearing just a shirt?"
"Says the guy who was attacked by wet diapers, only wears a light jacket who's showing his abs and his white dumb scarf." Gray said after he let another sneeze.
"This is is not dumb, it's cool!" Natsu said. "And I'm not on wet diapers.
Erza sighed and picked Juvia. "I guess I'll babysit Juvia until you're completely healed so take a rest until then." She said and looked at Natsu. "And you should take a heat up after we got back at the guild."
"Take care and get plenty of rest Gray!" Erza said and left with Natsu and Juvia.
Gray then closed the door and went straight to bed.
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