Hey guys! Oh just a heads up, when Lucy came to Fairy Tail High, it was like, September, so school had just started for everyone else a few weeks before. Now it is October. Also, I was an idiot and sprained my arm. I will never look at gym class the same way again… *Sigh* So this chapter took a bit longer than I thought it would take, in hours, to write, because I have to immobilize my one arm. So that's my tragic sob story lol, let's get to the fun part. This is going to be a really descriptive chapter for the most part, but we'll have to see how long I can hold out. Also, this chapter, I would like to send a special thank you to whichever reader commented on the chapter! I'm so sorry I didn't see a name. Your review made me feel great, and happy that people, no matter how few, like what I'm writing. (Does no username mean that the person doesn't have an account? *clueless*)

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Juvia was walking out of the school a few moments after them, when she saw Lisanna going in the same direction, but something was off. Lisanna walked with a slouch, and her step didn't have its usual bounce. Juvia walked over to her.

"Lisanna? Are you feeling ok?" Juvia put a hand on her shoulder, and she turned. Her mascara was smeared, tear tracks clearly visible. In her hand, she clutched her phone so tightly that her knuckles were white. There was a text from someone on the screen, but with Lisanna's fingers in the way, Juvia couldn't see who it was from.

"What is it Lisanna? Here, Juvia will help you." Juvia carefully pried Lisanna's fingers off of her phone. She looked at the text on the screen. It was from Natsu.

"Lisanna?" Juvia looked at her in worry. She looked back down at the phone. The text read, Hey, do you want to come over later today and talk through everything with me? I want to know why you are spending so much time with Bixlow. He's not good for you.

That was overreacting in Juvia's opinion. She hung out with him at lunch one time and suddenly Natsu was getting all overprotective. Let the girl be happy for the love of god! Juvia was so caught up in her own thoughts on this that she didn't notice Lisanna flop down on the bench.

Juvia looked down at her. "Juvia will tell him no, ok Lisanna?" she asked her, waiting for a nod of approval. None came, but a shake of disapproval didn't come either, so Juvia decided to text him for Lisanna. The dance was tomorrow night.

As Juvia and Lisanna later sat in a booth at the coffee shop in town, Juvia awkwardly squirmed there while Lisanna calmed herself down.

When Lisanna stopped breathing so heavily, and her throat loosened up enough for her to talk, she looked up at Juvia. "Thank you," she whispered, eyes darting around nervously as she grasped her steaming coffee cup, not raising it to her mouth.

"Why would Natsu do something like that?" Juvia asked her, mentally hitting herself when she saw Lisanna flinch at 'Natsu.'

Lisanna shrugged helplessly. "I'm guessing it had to do with jealousy. He, Gajeel, and Laxus have always been like that. They should start a club." She and Juvia shared a bitter laugh. "I mean, it's not that I don't have a crush on him," she suddenly blurted out, looking sheepish.

Juvia cocked her head.

"Ever since childhood, I've had the biggest crush on him. We did everything together, and so I, being the young, wishful girl that I was, slowly began to fall for him. It got to the point where not an hour went by that I didn't think about him. I think I became so emotionally attached because of when our parents-" Lisanna took a shaky gulp. Juvia made a note that it didn't take very much to get her worked up now, she was fragile.

"He always responded in what I found a positive way," Lisanna looked back at her coffee. "That cute little blush and a small nod. As I grew older, I began to more openly flirt, doing little things like dropping my pencil in front of him and making a cute sound of exclamation, or maybe pushing him lightly in the arm and giggling if he told a joke."

Juvia nodded slowly. "Juvia agrees, those methods are very effective. In fact, Gray-sama responded to the-" She stopped herself. "Please pardon Juvia. Juvia believes that this conversation is more important than Juvia's Gray-sama."

Lisanna blinked at her, quite surprised. "Juvia are you feeling ok?" This startled her so much that she forgot her problem with Natsu. She smiled. "I really wish I had gotten that on recording."

Forgive me Gray-sama, Juvia silently pleaded. It worked. Her objective was to use Lisanna's constant mood swings to her advantage. She figured that if she said something that would never usually say might have this kind of effect on Lisanna, and in turn, startle her out of her depressed, dazed state.

"Yes Lisanna, Juvia is feeling quite satisfied."

"One of these days I need to teach you how to use pronouns." Lisanna smiled a little. Clearly, she felt a bit better now. A smile was a good start.

Later that day, at Juvia's apartment, Juvia was sitting on her couch, texting Lisanna and thinking about her Gray-sama, when she saw a new text pop up. It was from Lucy, to a group chat with all of the girls on it.

Lucy- Hey guys, I was wondering if you guys wanted to go shopping for dresses to wear to the Halloween dance tomorrow?

Erza- Dresses! 3 Yes Lucy, what time should we go shopping?

Lucy- I was thinking give me 20 minutes, and meet me at the new store that opened up by 8-Island?

Juvia- Yay I'm positive that I will find the perfect dress for Gray-sama!

Lisanna- Yeah I'm game. Mira-nee says she would love to come as well.

Levy- See you all in 20! And Wendy is going to come with me.

Juvia put down her phone, already smiling as she imagined what she was going to wear to this Halloween dance. It was tomorrow, and she was so excited.

When Juvia got to the mall, she saw Lucy, Erza, Levy, and Wendy standing there chatting happily. She casually walked over to them, still on high alert in case her darling Gray-sama could be shopping nearby. Juvia's not stupid, she thought suddenly, Gray-sama wouldn't go to these stores anyway. Best to look just in case though.

"So what will we be buying?" Wendy looked up at Erza, who just smiled mysteriously at her. They walked into a nearby store with a picture of a woman dancing on the front of it, a long, pure white bridal dress swishing around her.

As Lucy walked through the clustered aisles, she noticed a theme. Most of these outfits seemed slightly more halloween themed. She supposed that seemed reasonable. Mira walked into the building, followed closely by Lisanna, and smiled at Lucy before running to browse.

Juvia was walking through the row of ripped, more torn up, distressed dresses, when a shimmery fabric caught her eye. She pulled out a light blue, form fitting dress that seemed to flow like water as she stared at it. She was hypnotised. The dress had a lower V-cut, and was sleeveless, held up by two skinnier straps. The bottom of the dress fanned out in a ruffle. She immediately rushed to the changing room to try it on, disregarding the high price on the tag completely. She had enough money.

In the room, Juvia put on the dress, and her breath caught. As she moved around the small room, the dress seemed to move even more, and it fit her form so tightly that it looked like she herself were made of water, or clothed in a never ending rush of a waterfall. The blues in the dress seemed to shift, matching her eye and hair color perfectly. Gray-sama would love it.

I mean, sure, the dress was the least halloween themed item in the store, but she wasn't complaining. Nobody said she had to go in costume, it was just highly recommended.

An aisle or two down, Erza stood in the middle of a crisis. In one hand, she held a classic devil costume, in the other, a yandere getup, such as one worn by Yuno Gasai.

"I love the look of the devil, but this one comes with a weapon…" Erza was muttering to herself, clearly very conflicted. Eventually, the temptation of a knife included in the costume won her over, and she took the cute yandere schoolgirl one to the changing room to see if it fit, seemed satisfied, and left with a little smirk on her face. She was going to have some fun the next day.

Lisanna and Mira stood together, in perfect symmetry, backs to each other, one hand at their chin, same skeptical face. In unison, they sighed, and picked a costume from the rack. Then they turned around and looked over at each other.

"Mira-nee is this-?"

"Lisanna is this-?"

Then they both giggled. In Mira's hand, she held a cute Alice in Wonderland dress, except a bit more mature looking. Lisanna, on the other hand, held out a more feminine cheshire cat one, complete with ears, whiskers, and a tail. It was actually strapless shirt and a short skirt, and she would later find that the tail on the skirt swished as she moved.

One aisle down from them, Lucy and Levy were having a difficult time deciding what to wear. Levy held up a short, orange dress, open backed, a stark contrast from the usual darker gray clothing she wore to blend in. She was fighting with herself, and was in the process of scolding herself mentally for cursing at her other half, when Lucy moved her into a changing room, spun her to face the mirror, left, and slammed the door. Ok then… Levy thought to herself, looks like I'm trying it on.

After a few moments of impatiently looking at herself from all angles in the mirror, Levy came to the conclusion that she would wear it, but only this once, to this dance. She didn't fancy cosplay much anyway, so the option for a halloween costume was out in her opinion.

As she exited the changing room, she saw Lucy browsing nearby, a slight smirk on her face.

Lucy was waiting to see what Levy would think of the outfit when she had actually tried it on. When she saw Levy make her way to the cash register, she smiled. Now to focus on her own problem. She had no idea of what she was going to wear. Nothing was appealing to her. As she looked up, she saw Wendy rush past her, giggling, to the changing rooms as well. She sighed and kept searching.

Wendy was very pleased with herself. She had found a fluffy, pure white angel costume on the rack. That seemed very cliche, but in the feathery wings and golden halo, she seemed to radiate pure light. The wings rustled lightly as she turned, the feathers whispering. The dress was form fitting, like most of the others in the store, and was a little above knee-length. The very bottom of the dress had tiny, shimmery silver-white embroidered feathers on it, just bold enough to be noticeable in light. It was quite modest and prim, despite the fact that it was indeed a sleeveless and open backed dress.

To go with the dress, a pair of knee length stockings were also included. These also were that strange, yet intriguing silver, though they had small white feathers at the top.

Wendy skipped to the front to add her purchase with Levy's just in time. She had promised to pay Levy back later. Now, Lucy was the only undecided one of the group. She felt awkward holding everyone else up, so she suggested they go get ice cream while she decided. The girls in the group eagerly agreed.

Lucy stood there, in front of a bunch of more distressed looking dresses, which was, in fact, the exact place that Juvia had been standing earlier. She ran her hand through them absentmindedly, when she suddenly came across a perplexing one. It looked like an angel's costume, sort of, but not. The fabric was ripped and torn at the edge, despite being all different shades and occasionally small patterns of white fabric, stitched together. It was like a patchwork angel. There was no halo, though there were a pair of small horns, meant to barely protrude from the wearer's hair. It almost looked like she was a cast out angel, no longer in heaven. One that needed to use odds and ends to stich herself back together to the point of living, even if that meant going a little onto the dark side.

Lucy fingered the tiny horns carelessly. She liked that idea a lot. It reminded her of back when her mother had died, and she had to stitch her whole life back together. So did her dad.

A few minutes later, Lucy met up with her group, the bag containing her costume clutched tightly in her hand. They joked about what their respective crushes or dates would say once they saw them at the dance, and ate their ice cream. Erza revealed that she and Jellal would be going together, which startled nobody there.

They all left for home that day, excited and ready for the next day in school, and after that.

Lucy woke up, stretched, and grinned. Today was Halloween! The day of the dance! The principal had told them to feel free to wear their costumes to school, and they would get extra credit if they partook in this fun holiday. Still, everyone knew they weren't going to wear their actual costumes for the dance to school of all places, so this left them to throw together last minute costumes, because who doesn't need extra credit?

Levy sat in her room, getting ready. She wasn't going to wear a costume. Who needed extra credit anyway? She started to throw on just whatever, when she heard a small meow from her door, and some scratching. She finished dressing herself, then slowly made her way to the door, perplexed.

She cautiously opened it, and was quite surprised to see a small black cat purring at her. He had a scar over one eye, and to Levy, he looked like the cutest thing ever.

Never being able to own a cat, when Levy saw this one, all thought whooshed out of her head, and she immediately picked it up and began petting it. The cat didn't seem to mind at all. That was when she saw the thing in its mouth.

"What's this?" she tickled the cat's chin until he opened his mouth. A small headband dropped into her open palm, and she saw a small pair of red horns on it. There was a tag on the headband. Wear the red dress.

Levy blushed. There were only a few people ever who had seen her wear the deep berry red, short devil dress. It had a little pitchfork tail on it, not big enough to be a hazard, but big enough to be noticed, and to some people, cute.

The cat was clearly from Gajeel. He was the only person that was at that party that she knew, except for Juvia. It was a Halloween party shortly after Juvia and Gajeel came, and Levy was the one lucky enough to be Juvia's first friend, and introduce her to the group. And Juvia was completely on board with not wearing a costume to school, so that she could 'amaze her Gray-sama even more at the dance that night.' Though… Levy speculated, Juvia probably needs the extra credit the most.

As another rash, last minute decision, Levy threw on the dress and the horns, and got ready to leave the house. The cat followed her out the door, down the street, around the corner, and smack into Gajeel, who was awkwardly standing there. When her saw her, his face brightened. "You wore it!"

Just looking at Gajeel made Levy want to laugh. He had crammed himself into an old clown costume, one that looked like it was meant to be worn by a six year old. He looked down at himself. "It was a dare," he grumbled, "Salamander and Ice Princess were nice enough to remind me." He said 'nice enough' in a way that Levy took to mean 'were nasty sadistic demons who wanted me to suffer.' At that, Levy did in fact, let out a small laugh.

"I think you look fine. Come on Gajeel." Levy began to skip ahead, grinning. Of course, it only took Gajeel a few steps to catch up with her.

By the time Levy got to Lunch, everyone else was already there. "Sorry I'm late guys,, I-" Suddenly, she burst out laughing. Everyone looked so ridiculous in their costumes.

Lucy in her black and purple witch costume, sat next to Natsu the badly dressed werewolf, who was arguing with Gray of the day of the dead sombrero and mask, and Gajeel, who she already knew was a clown. Lucy was ignoring them, and instead was talking to Erza the police officer, while she held the hand of Jellal the convict. Juvia and Lisanna sat a ways off, being the only two smart ones not wearing any costumes to school. Mira and Ever were also talking to them in their beautiful, flowing, purple and green victorian era dresses. Laxus sat sulking next to Mira, in his ridiculous fox ears and tail. Romeo the mummy and Wendy sat talking, seemingly oblivious to the fight going on behind them, or maybe they were just pretending not to notice, like Lucy. Levy had to say, Wendy's school costume was the most impressive. She was dressed as a creepy doll, in stark contrast to the angelic look she would take on later. Freed, Bixlow, and Elfman were nowhere to be seen though.

"Levy-chan don't laugh!" Lucy whined, then giggled. "Have you seen yourself? I don't think you've ever worn such bright colors. Are you feeling alright?"

Levy just shook her head and sat down next to her, ducking as a potted plant flew over her head.

So what did you guys think? Good? Bad? I should never attempt to write again lest your eyeballs explode? Yeah I know I started Halloween a wee bit early, but don't worry, the Halloween dance will be posted on Halloween. If I lost you with all of those costumes, I'm sorry. They will be wearing different ones for the Halloween dance, which is why I made the girls go shopping. I tried to give them all costumes that fit them pretty well, but the Gajeel's school one was one I decided to make as one of the dares that happened after Lucy had left to go eat with her dad. Did I lose anyone yet? And yeah her mom died, I'm not changing that from the anime, only the fact that her dad is nice now. Also, I actually finished this a few days ahead of schedule somehow, so yay! I'm sorry, this chapter didn't end on much of a cliffhanger, but I want to save the gloriousness that is getting ready and going to the dance for the next chapter. Please comment your constructive criticism, and what ships you want to be the biggest part of the dance. I'll see you all in the next chapter, bye!