AN: Blame Shynii with her wonderful art in which this was based on.

Crossdress!Juvia and lots of OOC (forgive me!), just a warning. :)

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A Prince and a Pirate

By: BonneyQ

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Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me

We pillage, we plunder, we rifle, and loot

Stand up, me hearties, yo ho

We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot

Stand up me hearties, yo ho

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Prince Gray entered his bedroom and was immediately alert, with his hand over his small dagger and ready to call the guards. He felt the person before he saw him. There was a different smell, a different vibe through his room. The Prince turned around to where the invader was, and asked:

"Who are you?" The Prince asked, looking to the man sitting on his comfortable chair. "How did you get in here?"

Juvi's blue hair was framing his face. One of his legs crossed over the other, while resting his head on his left hand and with a smirk in his face. In fact, if someone walked in right then, would've thought that the blue haired man was the owner of the room, not the tall man with a black cape.

"Don't worry, Prince. I come in peace." Juvi raised his arms in mock surrender after a moment, and even though he had a sword hanging from his belt, he didn't move to grab it. "Don't call for your guards, I am here to talk." Gray, the Prince, still had his guard up and Juvia thought that he was smart to do so. The pirate also noticed that his right hand was above his belt, where just underneath the black haired man had a dagger.

'At least he's not stupid to just take my word for it.' Juvi thought and got up from the chair, moving like he had no care in the world.

Gray didn't step back when the man got closer, but kept eyeing him.

His hair was a shade of blue that was close to azure, which was not a common color. The prince only knew one other person with such hair color. The frame of the much smaller man was thin and somewhat petite, but Gray didn't let himself get fooled: he met a few people that were much shorter than he was and could make him sweat in fear.

"You didn't answer my question: Who are you?"

"Captain Juvi Lockser." The man was walking towards the Prince's bed, and turned around enough so he could look to Gray from over his shoulder. "You might know me from my nickname? Stormbringer." The blunette resumed his walk until stopped close to the bed and felt the softness of it with awe in his expression.

"You are the man that has been pillaging the kingdoms from the North down." Gray narrowed his eyes.

"Guilty." Juvi chuckled. "Fun stuff."

"Do you even know how much of a ruckus you've been…?"

"Blah blah blah…" Juvi rolled her eyes and started to move her hand as if it was someone speaking. "Yes, I am a pirate, yes, I steal. But, never from the poor."

"What?" Gray frowned in confusion.

"We'll get into that later." Juvi leaned on the wall with his arms crossed over his chest. "The thing is: you are at war and there's a village, a small island that you send provisions every other week. Am I right?"

"How do you…?" Gray was confused of how that man knew about the deliveries to the island. "Who told…?"

Juvi leaned in and whispered loud enough for the prince to hear: "The walls have ears." And then added louder. "Well, what I propose is that me and my crew go to the Island with the provisions and give to the villagers."

Gray blinked once. Then two more times. "Excuse me?"

"Prince Green, isn't it?" Juvia sighed as if she was talking to someone with limited intelligence while started to walk around the room again.

"Gray." The Prince narrowed his eyes to the pirate.

"Yeah, whatever. You do know that there's a pirate ship that is blocking your merchant ones, right? The Greedy, it's called and it's the one who is giving trouble to your sailors. I know that your army is good and all, but, you can't have your fine marines to deliver bread to people at a village away from the front line. I have a… situation with the captain of The Greedy."

"What situation?"

"He exists while I desire him dead." Juvia opened the Prince's wardrobe and started to touch the fine texture of them. "The bastard wanted to kill me after we were intimate one time, so I take personally to bring him misery."

"Intimate…?" Gray started to ask, but shook his head. "I don't even want to know what you pirates do. This is sick, by the way." The dark haired man pointed out. "And helping my kingdom to smuggle food for the village is…?"

"Payback. He'll see me coming, he'll attack, we'll engage battle and I'll kill the bastard." Juvia turned to see the taller man. "But for that, you need to open the gates for my crew."

Gray had enough of the Pirate's speech. "Listen, I am not stupid; you'll pillage the castle and steal everything if I do that."

"Then just select the damn food you would send to them and put it outside your sweet castle, Prince!" Juvi raised his voice, but controlled himself soon, taking a few breaths. "My crew was there a few days ago before the captain found us. We were not prepared, so we couldn't help those poor souls. You didn't see what I saw. Have you ever looked utter despair right into the eyes? Those people are getting hungrier by the second and have little to do but wait for death! Those pirated bastards are keeping them from fishing, they are purposely starving them."

"Why?" The Prince asked.

"As far as I know, for shits and giggles." Juvi said with venom on his voice.

Gray analyzed the man in front of him. "Why are you supposedly helping?"

"Because, once, I was the one waiting for death." The Pirate raised his chin and Gray could finally see the light brown eyes of the smaller man. They were so pretty. Actually, now that he paid attention, with his long blue hair, Juvi's features were a little more feminine than other men, making him beautiful, Juvi was pretty; and for a man, this was bad.

'You are talking about a man here, Gray! Get a grip!' The Prince thought.

"Stormbringer only steals from the people who have to spare and don't help others. That's why I am asking you to escort the food, not stealing whatever I damn well want. I heard that you do what you can for your person, that's why I am offering my assistance." The pirate chuckled. "Your security needs an upgrade, you know?"

Gray turned around and walked towards the balcony, thinking about the proposal. His mother would kill him if she knew he was even considering the option of having a pirate to help with the realm's problems. But if what the blue haired man said was true, those villagers were starving and the few men they had guarding the castle and not in the battlefield would lose against the pirates and even Gray himself would go to the front lines in two days.

"If, if" Gray turned around just to see Juvi getting up on the balcony wall, the moonlight framing his lean body, while his blue long hair, only secure by a small band or leather, was flying around as he walked. "If I accept your help, how can I trust you?"

"Oh, don't. Never trust anyone; that's a rule in the sea." The pirate looked up to the moon and shrugged. "You can only hope that I am telling you the truth."

"Silver, you…"

"My name is Gray!"

"Really, who name a child after a color?" The blunette rolled his eyes.

"As if your name is the greatest, Juvi."

"Touché." The pirate laughed. "My men and I will be in town, peacefully," Juvi pointed out. "until tomorrow night. You go and research about our doings; always rich people who didn't take care of the poor."

"And if I agree with your terms?" Gray asked and Juvi thought for a moment.

"Tomorrow after dark, we'll be on the south beach. If you don't appear, it's fine…" His features got confused for a moment. "Don't tell me… it's a color… Black!"

"Fuck you." Gray yelled and Juvi started to laugh and for a moment there, he lost balance. The pirate even turned around, but it wasn't good enough, he was going to fall. What a shame for the great Stormbringer.

The prince was fast on his feet, though, and pulled the smaller man by the green vest he was wearing, pulling his small frame towards his chest as both fell onto the ground, breathing fast and with adrenaline rushing through their bodies.

"Are you alright?" Gray asked to the man on top of him, putting a hand on the blunette's chest so he could get up. "Hey, Stormbri…"

That's when he felt. A protuberance that was well hidden underneath the loose clothes. Stormbringer had breasts.

Juvi Lockser, the fearful Pirate Stormbringer; the pretty guy with a voice that was too soft for a man… Only that he was a she.

"You saved me." Juvi was staring intently at him, not at all moving from her position. "Why did you…?"

"You may be a pirate, but you are still a person." Gray ignored the fact that it was scandalous for him to have a woman –who pretended to be a man–, and a pirate on top of him. "Some lives are worth saving."

Juvi frowned and Gray analyzed her face, her hair was loose with the entire ruckus and the prince could analyze the pirate's face. Her eyes were a warm shade of brown; her nose was small and cute, while her rosy mouth was on a small pout. Yes, she was beautiful. He understood then why she had to wear the stupid hat: she needed to hide the feminine traces of her anatomy.

After a moment, the pirate smiled. A real smile, not the smirks she had offered him before.

"The world is going to eat you alive if you keep thinking that way." She sat on his hips and Gray sat too, now looking at her on a different light. "You are a sweet person." The woman looked down. "You can stop groping me, you know?"

The prince looked down and noticed that he was still groping Juvi's new found chest and went immediately red on the face while Juvi blushed a little, but smiled a little.

"Oh, this is so sudden…" She mocked.

"Sh-shut up!" Gray pushed her away and got up, along with the blunette, who started to fix her hair.

"Don't need to be shy. It's been a while, this was more than welcomed." She giggled when the prince got even redder. "Well, now that I almost killed myself and got groped, it's time for me to go." Juvi bended to get her hat from the ground and Gray's eyes were glued to her backside, then, after putting back on, the woman walked towards the balcony once again and put her legs –now that Gray knew they were girl's legs, he could appreciate them even though they were covered in very tight pants, and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and brought him close to her.

"Do we have a deal on the delivery?" She asked and Gray gulped.

"I still have to check…"

"In my country, a deal is only official when both parties kiss, you know?" The Pirate leaned in and their lips brushed together, in a small kiss. The Prince was so surprise that had no action but to blush. The pirate smirked through the kiss, which lasted for a small moment. Juvi stopped it and leaned close to his ear, and whispered:

"Catch you later, Gray-sama." Juvia then, let himself fall down and with the ability of a cat, to grab on a few protuberances, getting on the floor safely.

Gray stared at the small pirate as the blue haired young man looked up, removed his hat and made a girly curtsy, before smile and run her way into darkness.

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The ship was sailing away towards the horizon as the sun started to rise a day later, and Gray sighed with relief and annoyance. She hadn't appear on the beach that evening or during the whole night that his most trusted men put the provisions for the village onto the boats to load the Pirate's Ship, called The Raindrop.

Gray didn't know why, but that Pirate was in his mind. Too often.

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Juvia watched the land disappear and her First Mate, her oldest friend, Gajeel Redfox, or Iron Slayer, by her side.

"He was there." The man with long and unraveled hair said.

"Yes." She bit her lower lip and when she was sure none of her men could hear them, she continued. "He's a good man, saved me from falling."

"He knows you are a woman." Gajeel whispered.

"Yes, he does." Juvia sighed, thinking about him with a silly smile on her lips. "Oh, Gajeel-kun… He is so dreamy! His eyes are so gorgeous! And his arms, so strong and…"

"Oh, shut up!" Gajeel groaned and turned around. "We need to prepare to fight Bora and the other guys from The Greedy. You need to sleep, we'll be there in a few hours and you'll need the strength."

"Yes, yes…" The captain sighed dreamily. "Maybe one day…"

"Dammit, I knew I should've talked you out of fighting Bora and helping those poor souls." Gajeel groaned. "Women."

"Oh, shush."

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Gray was waiting for his crew. They were drinking and having fun, they had won a battle. The war was almost over at that point, and his men were joyful to be returning home. It had been six months since the fateful day he received the news that the pirates of Stormbringer defeated a certain crew that was terrorizing a small village. And given the food, of course.

"Gray-sama." The Prince heard a soft voice call him from behind.

He knew that voice, he had heard it with the same phrase before in the real life and in some very awkward dreams.

Stormbringer.

Gray turned so fast that the chair he was in fell on the floor, but he didn't expect to see the pirate like that. There was no denying that Juvi Lockser was a woman; not on those clothes. She was wearing an odalisque's outfit; a pink bra with a few sparkly things that Gray had no idea what it was called. Plus a skirt with a few see through veils. One of the pink veils was covering the lower half of her face, but those eyes… Gray would never forget about them. She was wearing too much jewelry, like a golden collar that had rubies and diamonds alike, plus a bracelet and a few rings.

"What on earth are you wearing?" The Prince asked, surprised by the amount of flesh the woman was showing.

"Have you seen the women around here? This is disguise." Juvia looked down to her clothes.

"Your crew…" Gray started to look around. He was aware that they had no idea that their captain was a woman.

"Thinks that Juvia is guarding the ship while they party." She rolled her eyes and crossed her arms under the fine perky breasts of hers. "They are in another bar. Juvia knew you would be here tonight."

"Why did you come to find me?"

"Told you last time…" He remembers the sweet 'Catch you later' she whispered before falling into darkness. The petite blue haired woman offered him her hand, which was adorned with a few rings and in her wrists she had a traditional bracelet from the occident, just like all of her clothes. "It's Juvia, by the way; not Juvi."

A little hesitant, Gray took her hand and, as the gentleman he was, raised to meet his lips.

"Gray Fullbuster, as you know."

The blunette smiled and when he let go of her hand, she touched her hair and blushed, suddenly very shy. "Juvia cut her hair."

"I can see that. I liked better when it was longer, though. But it's still nice." He shrugged and smiled. "Did the delivery go well?"

"You know it did, Gray-sama. Juvia is very efficient on her job. Plus, Bora was not even a challenge." The fearful captain stepped closer to the prince, wrapping her arms around his waist, and pressing her body onto his.

"Why you keep saying your own name like that?" Gray asked, trying to let his mind focus on something else other than the feeling he longed for the past six months.

"So you won't forget it." She smiled and tip toed to whisper to him. "How about tonight you just be Gray and I be Juvia? Not a prince and not a pirate. Just us."

"How do I know that you won't kill me in my sleep?" The Prince asked.

"You don't." She giggled.

"As far as I know, you went to fight this… Bora, was it? Because he didn't…" Gray frowned.

"Because he wanted a boy and since Juvia was not one… He couldn't." She woman shrugged and stepped away from Gray. "Are you going to have the same problem?"

"Not at all." The Prince said quickly.

"It's up to you now. You've won a hard battle today, Gray-sama." Oh, the way she said his name. She said it just so… "You can have a night off." The blunette turned around and looked over her shoulder, walking towards the stairs, the invitation pretty clear.

After a minute of internal struggle, Gray looked around and saw many of his men already with a woman in their arms. He could indulge for a night, right? He earned it.

And as his beautiful pirate said, that night, they were Gray and Juvia. Not a Prince and a Pirate. Without regrets, Gray followed the way the blue haired woman did a few moments before.

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AN: Did you like the explanation of why Juvia started to talk in the third person? :)

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