AN: So I plan to update each weekend, but don't hold me to this.

Gray Fullbuster was one of Jellal's finest crew members. A good swimmer, sailor, soldier-a jack of all trades, really. However, even the greatest of men had their strange quirks and Jellal found out quite quickly that Gray was no exception.
Jellal had first met Gray near the beginning of his journey on an island off of the eastern coast of Fiore. Back then, it had just been Jellal and Laxus braving the early sea with a small ship that was barely bigger than a fishing boat. Before Gray joined and made the duo a trio, he had worked as a stripper on Peak Island. This island had temperatures that never went about 45 degrees (about 7 degrees Celsius) and Gray happened to be someone with an amazing tolerance to the cold. When Gray joined Jellal's newborn crew, the clothing that he was wearing at the base of the gangplank had mysteriously disappeared by the time he stepped foot on the deck leaving him in only his boxers. Needless to say, Gray tends to lose his clothes a lot.
Now back to the present. Jellal stared at Gray who was, as usual, wearing nothing but underwear. But unlike usual, there was a half-naked blue-haired woman clinging to his bare torso. The poor guy was almost wearing the girl as a back plate.
"Wasn't she a mermaid, like, one hour ago?" Romeo asked. The boy squinted at the new arrival with confusion while slapping his unconscious father's face. Macao had passed out from his nose bleed.
"Yes she was, and now the poor thing has all of you staring at her with lecherous eyes!" Levy pushed her way to Juvia with Wendy in tow shooing all of the men away. Wendy managed to pry the terrified girl off of the equally as terrified Gray and herd her into the room the girls shared. Levy slammed the door in Jellal's face and called him a pervert.
Levy was Jellal's resident navigator and was an excellent cartographer. She was also one of the crew's few women and a well respected one at that. Levy poked her head out and gave a pointed look at Jellal, "Sorry but not sorry Captain."
He heard a hearty chuckle behind him and turned to glare at Laxus. "And what are you laughing at?"
"Well captain," Laxus drawled, "Such a man of your stature on this fine ship just got called, hmm now what was that word that Levy so eloquently proclaimed." Laxus pretended to ponder the thought and then turned to Levy and motioned for her to help him out.
"A pervert." Levy played along, much to the chagrin of Jellal.
"Ah yes!" Laxus let his face light up and famed excitement, "A pervert!" The blonde man had to hold his stomach because he was laughing so hard. The quirk that the fine Laxus had was that he can be a real prick sometimes (more like all the time) and Jellal found this out and was reminded of it every day.
Levy looked at Laxus with her brow raised and decided that she was done humoring him. "And you're not allowed in either!" That caught Laxus off-guard. He made a questioning face.
Levy continued, "I don't care if you're gayer than a rainbow unicorn. This girl needs her privacy and I will not let her feel like she's being subject to lewd fantasies!" She slammed the door in both of their faces and now, it was Jellal's turn to keel over in laughter.
"So in short," Jellal said thoughtfully, "Levy basically just told you to keep your gay ass out." There were tears in Jellal's eyes and Laxus did not look amused.
"Shove off pervert."
"Make me rainbow unicorn." Jellal was having fun with this.
"She didn't even call me that you dick." Laxus crossed his arms and loomed over Jellal. Well as much as he could because the two were almost the same height.
Jellal snorted into his hand. "But she said she didn't care if you liked said dicks more than a rainbow unicorn."
"You know what man," Laxus snapped his head towards Jellal with newfound vigor, "I came out here to have a good time and I'm honestly feeling so attacked right now."
"I came out here to attack and I'm honestly having a good time." Laxus scowled and stomped upstairs to complain to his friend Bickslow who was supposed to be on lookout yelling, "I spend the night with a dude ONE TIME and now everyone thinks I'm gay!"
Face still smirking, Jellal knocked on the door of the girls' quarters.
"So what are we gonna do with her?" Jellal addressed the question of importance. "I'm fine with keeping her in the crew but that's her decision."
The voice that responded didn't belong to any of the girls on Jellal's crew. "Juvia will follow Gray-sama everywhere he goes! If Gray-sama is a part of this crew, then so is Juvia!"
So in short, Juvia joined the crew and Jellal hoped that there were some extra clothes that she could borrow.
Gray, still wearing only his boxers, was sitting on the deck in confusion. Jellal decided to take the initiative and help Gray come to terms with the situation.
As Jellal neared the half-naked man he asked, "You okay there Gray?"
Gray stood up and dusted off his pant- boxers. "I just don't get why she's here. I mean, was she kicked out for talking to me or something like that?"
Jellal chuckled and pat his underling on the back. Oh, how naive he was.
"Gray, my man," Jellal clucked, "Our new crew member came because she wanted to be closer to you, not because she was forced out of her home."
"But why would she want to be closer to me?" Gray's face contorted in confusion.
"Because she's inspired by you!" Jellal exclaimed. "She wants to be like you!"
"Oh."
"THAT'S NOT WHY SHE'S HERE YOU IDIOT!" Laxus shouted from his perch with Bixlow.
"OH YEAH?!" Jellal shouted right back.
Laxus facepalmed and jumped down. "She's infatuated with you Gray."
"Eh?"
"Huh, I didn't think of it that way," Jellal mused. Laxus punched Jellal in the head.
"You're a fucking idiot and I hope you know that."
Jellal rubbed his throbbing skull and glared at Laxus.
Romeo poked the abused Captain and pointed at the now setting sun.
"Already then end of the day huh."Jellal regained his composure and turned to his bustling crew. "Get the ship ready for autopilot- dinner will be ready in the mess hall when you're done!"
The mention of dinner struck the crew with new inspiration, as it always did, and they hurried to get the ship ready.

~X~

Bisca and Lucy readied their weapons as the "mighty Salamander" loomed over them. One of his blue hairs was on fire, which would have been very comical if the actual situation weren't so concerning. Bisca raised her gun, positioned immediately on the defensive. Her muscles tense with apprehension.
"Listen, Ladies," Salamander spoke as he patted the flame on his head out, "You two were pretty good, but none can truly defeat me-AHHH."
Salamander fell off of his cart and landed on his butt with a resounding "thump". The man winced as he arose, let out a few curses, and rubbed his sore rear with a look of shame.
"Uh, do we take him out again?" Lucy whispered to Bisca.
Bisca nodded slowly and gave Lucy a small nudge. The blonde took the motion as an important signal and flung her whip at Bora, who was still rubbing his ass like a wounded dog and watched it wrap around him as his new set of chains.
Bisca wasted no time and immediately shot all of the surrounding men.
"Well, what do we do now?" Lucy asked as she secured Bora's ropes.
"Let's just take the man back to the ship," Bisca said as she dragged an unconscious dude into the heap of knocked out men, "We can ask Erza what to do when we get there.''
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Lucy did not want to bother an upset Erza, knowing full well that Erza did not want to be bothered.
"It's the only option we have." Bisca put her hand on her hip, "Besides, if we pretend whatever happened back on the ship didn't happen, it might help her mood."
"I guess," Lucy replied begrudgingly. "Now help me put this guy back into the cart.''
The two women made their way back down the streets and to the harbor. Bora tried to escape a few more times, but his attempts were futile and he always wound up with tighter ropes tying him down to the wagon and a loaded gun pointed at his head.
They walked up the gang-plank of their tiny galleon (quite the oxymoron) and tied Bora to one of the masts on the main deck.
"Might I ask a question girls?" a foreboding voice said as a shadow loomed over Lucy and Bisca, the warm temperature becoming icy.
Both women froze, and Bora let out a tiny "eep."
The woman turned and looked up at their fearless leader, the great Scarlet Severer.
"Uh, hey Erza...," Lucy replied meekly.
Erza raised an eyebrow at the tied and gagged criminal that was bound the mast.
Bisca stood up with a look of apathy. "Listen Erza," she pointed at said person, "We couldn't find anywhere to dump this scoundrel." She kicked Bora with the heel of her boot when she said that.
"Who is this man again?" Erza asked, eyebrow still high on her forehead.
Bora sputtered and began to angrily introduce himself. The gag was still firmly secured to his mouth so everything he said came out as a "Mrpph murmphhh."
Erza gave Lucy a look, who had stood up. The blonde untied their captive's gag and held immediately wiped her hands on her skirt.
Bora spat on the ground at Erza's boots and said, "Listen lady, I am the magnificent Salamander, and if I wasn't tied up right now, I would have burned you for underestimating m-urmph!" Erza shoved the gag back on him.
"Salamader's bounty isn't looking finding a station," she said with a stone cold glare.
Bora muffled in protest but was quickly shut up with a glare from all three of the women.
"Then what do we do with him?" Lucy asked. "I don't want to leave him running loose in the streets. He's caused enough trouble for many innocent women already!"
Bisca nodded in agreement, "I don't think we should just simply let him go."
Erza thought for a moment as she looked down at Bora.
"I've got it!" She exclaimed, "We'll tie him to the mast and take him with us!"
"That's a great idea- wait, where exactly are we going?" Bisca asked, interrupting herself.
"We're going to Magnolia," Erza stated as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"Uh, why?" Lucy asked, growing even more confused.
"Because the Fairy Tail crew will be there and I want to see an old friend of mine." Erza winked and turned her back to the two other women and commanded that a course be set for Magnolia promptly, leaving the other two women wondering who Erza's "old friend" could possibly be.

So who is the friendo? Find out next time (because I've always wanted to write a cliffhanger that no one cares about).