Hello boys and girls. I'd like to tell a story.

This is actually my 50th story. It's a milestone for me and what better couple to be my 50th than Gray and Juvia.

I'm going to be participating in Gruvia Week 2016. So these will be seven quick oneshots of my favorite FT couple.

And there's something else. I am competing with a friend of mine to see how many reviews I can get each chapter and for the entire series so if you can leave me a review, one I would appreciate the feedback and two, you are going to help me win lots of money.

So enjoy these short presentations

Memory

On one slow morning in the Fairy Tail guild, Juvia decided to take a day off from missions and spend it in the guild library. Of course, Levy was there. It is her second home. The water mage had never been in the library before... well, on purpose anyways. She may have come here on accident once or twice. So this is a big deal for her.

"Good morning, Juvia." Levy greeted happily. "What brings you here?"

"Good morning, Levy-san." Juvia replied. "Juvia was just here to... well, she doesn't know... maybe to see what is here."

"Well there are so many books." The bookworm laughed. "You can't go wrong here. What are you looking for?"

The water mage sighed. "Juvia doesn't know. She hasn't found anything that catches her attention."

"Well, is there a specific genre that you like?" Levy giggled happily. She could get real enthusiastic when it came to books. "Me, I love horror and fantasy novels. But sometimes I like some history books or maybe a cheap romance novel. What do you like?"

"Juvia doesn't really read all that often." She admitted as if she was committing a cardinal sin. "Whenever she does, it's often whatever they sell on the trains as I go on missions. Juvia isn't looking for anything exotic or complicated, just something that she can absorb herself in for the day."

Levy put a thoughtful finger on her chin. Then, an idea popped into her head. "Well, if you are looking for something to do for a day, why don't you look at some of our family albums?" She suggested.

"We have family albums?" Juvia asked.

Levy said nothing. Instead, she went looking through the stacks. The petite mage found what she looking for, two large albums. It was rather heavy. Juvia wanted to help but the Solid Script mage shook her head. With great difficulty, Levy dropped the albums on the table.

"Take a look at Fairy Tail Past." She invited.

Juvia's eyes lit up. "Can she really?" Without a second thought, she opened the first album. It was just a bunch of old photos of men and women she didn't know. She recognized Mavis Vermillion in her usual attire along with the founding members of Fairy Tail. She flipped through the pages. As she progressed through the pages, she started recognizing some of the people in these photographs. She instantly identified the Master immediately. There was also a young Gildarts, Reedus, Macao, and Wakaba. In the proceeding pages, she could see many of her friends.

"Ahh, you finally got to the good part." Levy smiled.

Juvia pointed to a picture of Natsu holding a giant egg. Gray was to his side, shirtless and in his undies. (Even as a child, Gray-sama was cute, she thought.) Lisanna was sitting next to Natsu. Everyone else was in the background. The water mage recognized almost every person there.

"What is this?" Juvia asked.

"Natsu found what he believed to be a dragon egg." Levy chuckled, reminiscing the memory.

"A dragon egg?" The water mage was skeptical.

"Yeah. Silly, wasn't it?" The petite mage said mirthfully. "But we were children. Natsu said that it was a dragon egg because dragons lay eggs and no one had ever seen an egg so big. So, at the time, it made sense."

"Did the egg hatch eventually?" Juvia pressed.

"Yep. And out popped Happy." Levy explained.

That threw Juvia for a loop. "Happy was born from an egg?" She asked.

The Solid Script mage just shrugged her shoulders. "Don't ask me about the biological properties of Exceeds." She said almost dismissively, as if she didn't believe it as well. "I understand where you are coming from, a warm-blooded mammal hatched from an egg. But I was there. I saw Happy come out of that egg."

Juvia processed this for a while. But, seeing as she wouldn't be able to comprehend such a matter, she decided to let it go. Instead, she continued looking through the photos. She saw how they started progressively getting older and more like the people they are today. But in particular, she was looking at her beloved Gray. The cute boy was slowly and surely becoming a man...the man that she loved with all of her heart. She wasn't sure if she was sad that she didn't grow up with him or grateful because she wasn't sure her young heart could have taken being around him for so many years without bursting.

Juvia had finished the first book almost as quickly as she began it. She grabbed the second album and started flipping through it. This is when she got to the pictures of memories she knew about. She saw the picture of her joining Fairy Tail. Then there's the picture of her eating Caramade Franks with Gray, the S-class exam picture. All great memories.

"So you're going through the album?" A voice behind her murmured. That voice definitely didn't belong to Levy. It was a male's voice, deep and sensual.

"Gray-sama?" She only shrieked slightly. Gray took her by surprise. "Juvia didn't mean..." Then she looked around. The Solid Script mage was absorbed in a book and was no longer paying attention to either of them.

Gray smirked. "I didn't mean to interrupt you." He said. "And while Levy's body is here, her mind is worlds away. Are you enjoying looking into the past?"

Juvia nodded. "Looking at these pictures makes Juvia happy." She smiled. "It shows that Fairy Tail was and is a place of joy."

The ice mage shrugged. "I guess you're right." He drawled. "I mean, it wasn't all good times but I wouldn't trade my memories of Fairy Tail for anything else."

"And young Gray-sama is very adorable." She smiled.

Gray looked away, blushing.

"If you have any photos from your past, you can add them here." Gray said, still not looking at her. "I'm sure no one would mind if you did. In fact, they would be happy that you did."

Juvia sighed, a downcast look on her face. "Juvia doesn't have any pictures from the past." The water mage admitted. Gray could see how pained her countenance appeared. "Juvia had no friends, no family, no one. She was alone. There are no happy memories from the past."

Making Juvia sad was not something Gray wanted to do. She should be happy, not sad over something that wasn't her fault.

"Gray, what did you do?" Levy chastised the ice mage.

"I didn't do anything." He complained. "I just said that she could add photos in the album if she wanted."

"Gray-sama didn't do anything wrong." The water mage defended her beloved. "Juvia just wishes that she had happy memories from when she was a child. She wishes that she could have grown up in Fairy Tail. Then she would have had friends."

"You have friends now." Gray told her. "All of us."

"Gray-sama is right as always." Juvia replied.

"I've got an idea." Levy announced suddenly. "Don't move."

Juvia looked at Gray in surprise as the Solid Script mage ran out of the library. She wondered what Levy was going to do when she returned with something in her hand. Then, without warning, Levy pushed Gray in closer to Juvia. The water mage, very shocked by this sudden turn of events, was decidedly confused. So was Gray but he was started to see what Levy was trying to do.

"Gray, put your arm around her." Levy directed. "You know, like you are friends."

With a bit of hesitation, the ice mage wrapped his arm around her shoulder and pulled Juvia in close.

"Smile for the camera on three." The petite mage said.

"Ehh?" Gray and Juvia said in concert.

"One, two, three."

A flash came from the camera Levy was holding. Then, in a couple of seconds, a photo popped out of the machine.

She handed Gray and Juvia the photo. Levy was right. It did come out good. Gray had a small smirk on his face while Juvia had a wide grin.

"Not bad." Levy smiled. "This will make a great memory. Years from now, we will look at this and smile."

With reverence, Juvia placed the photo into the album. She didn't need a photograph to remember this. The memory has been burned into her mind and will stay there forever.

And that's the end of that chapter.

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Until tomorrow,

A. Angel.