The bat in Lucy's hand was the first thing Gray saw. The second thing he saw was the dark circles under her eyes, yet she still looked as beautiful as she always had. Gray stood there as she turned to him her face swollen with sadness and hurt. She covered it up with an evil smile that screamed revenge. He took his first step towards her then.

"Lucy put the bat down, please. " Her face hardened immediately at his words. Her eyes started into, his a way of her to yell at him, the words he knew she was thinking.

Traitor.

She turned away from him and looked down to the ring in her hand. Natsu was beside Gray his hands up in some form of surrender. She was wielding a bat in her hands, they knew she was pissed, and she just gave them a wicked smile; there was no calming Lucy now. She was about to hockey puck her ring across the canal, where they were, in fact, standing in front of.

She lifted the ring up getting, what Gray knew, one last good look at it. Jellal took a step toward her before flinching back when she swung the bat at him. "Lucy-" he said slowly. She narrowed her eyes at him.

"I'd advise you to stay your ass the hell back." Gray winced a little at Lucy's wording, She never used words like that until now. She was more than angry, and the fire in her eyes was starting to scare him. He wanted to take another step forward, follow those with a few more and grab the bat out of her hands and throw that into the canal instead. Then take her home and forget him any the guys were so close to be assassinated by a baseball bat.

Yet, his legs wouldn't more. He couldn't. As much as he wanted to stop her, this one thing that was going to change her and maybe someday make her regret this one day, and lord god for bid it, blame them for not stopping her, but he couldn't. He knew this was a way for her to release all the stress she was feeling at the moment. He had to let her.

But the moment she threw the ring up in the sky and brought the bat up, hitting the ring and making a loud crack from the moment the two came into contact, Gray new that was a mistake. All three of the boys jumped forward as if in attempt to stop her, knowing good and well, it was too late. The ring plopped into the canal and left nothing but the slight rippling on the surface be it's presence.

They all stood there for a moment until she turned around her face washed clear of the evilness they just witness to her usual cheerful smile. She handed Jellal the bat, patted Natsu on the shoulder, blew Gray a kiss and then walked off sashaying as she went, her heels clacking on the pavement.

"I have a kid to pick up" she said with her hand coming up and waving slightly as a sign she was really leaving. "kiss the kids for me." They watched her walk off with stunned looks on their faces. Jellal took the bat and very smoothly dropped the bat into the water. Natsu snapped his head to him with a look saying, "What the heck man?"

"What?" Jellal mumbled. "I don't want to be the one with the evidence." Gray looked back in the direction Lucy walked off in and could still she her walking off. He thought that maybe any minute now she was going to turn around and come running to them begging them to help her get her ring back but she didn't. He watched her until he could no more.

Natsu held his hands up again and whistled. Jellal just cringed and tucked his now empty hands in his pockets. Gray took his and waved them in Lucy's now gone retreating figure. "She just Babe Ruth'd her wedding ring into the canal!" Natsu and Jellal looked at each other before Natsu pulled out his phone.

"should i call the police or and ambulance reporting Sting's murder?" Jellal shook his head.

"Call the exterminator and tell them there's a new species of dark widows around town." Gray stared at them.

"Are you two serious?"

They both nodded.

"You two are stupid."