First story I write in english, don't judge too harshly T_T The rating may go higher, but we'll see that later ^^

It was a weird feeling – the whole guild was hot as hell, but still Gray felt like he was inside of a freezer. At first it felt rather normal because he was used to being colder than the enviroment, but when the air temperature rose his body's own was only getting lower. For the first time in many years he was almost shaking because of the freezing breeze inside of him.

Nobody noticed Gray's feelings from the outside, obviously. Everybody was just way too busy lying lazily on their own places and drinking ice cool water or suds, which was not cooled with this ice mage's powers. Mira probably had somehow managed to keep some of the drinks cold, but how, Gray was too concentrated on other things to think about that.

''Cool water?'' a gentle voice offered.

Gray rose his head and smiled a little at Mirajane, who was already offering a glass to him.

''Thanks, but I think I don't really need that'', he said and placed his chin to lean to the wooden surface of the table. It was neither cool nor hot, and that made Gray feel a bit annoyed.

Mira looked suprised by his refusal, but that went unnoticed by the ice mage who just let out a sigh and kept staring into the emptiness.

'God, did he get heatstroke or something? He doesn't look so good...' the woman wondered and put her hand on top of Gray's forehead. Freezing feeling ran at that instant trough her hand and she yelled, mostly because of the suprise and not because Gray had hurt her badly or something.

The ice mage immediatly returned to his senses and bolted backwards eyes large, but lose his balance and feel to the floor with a loud thump.

''Mira, are you okay?'' he asked quickly, and tried to get up but was stopped by a large arm, which grapped his shirt and immediatly raised him off the floor. Elfman looked like he was ready to crush Gray for hurting his sister, but before Gray could even think of freezing some part of his attacker's body, Mira's yell was heard by everybody now inside of the guild house:

''He did nothing! He didn't hurt me, calm down!''

After a moment of staring at Gray, Elfman let go of him and sat back to his seat. Gray fell to his feets and inhaled deeply before letting the air get out of his lungs.

''I'm fine, but are you okay? I think I felt-'' Mira started to speak worriedly, but Gray stopped her calmly.

''Sorry, I acted too hastily. I guess I kinda startled and reacted by my instincts'', he said and scrached the back of his head awkwardly. Mira was quiet for a moment before she smiled back at Gray.

''I should have warned you before I did anything, you just looked like you were sick or something'', she said apologetically.

''It's just this weather.''

''I guess so...''

Silence was between them for a moment, until Gray then started to make his way to the front door. Few guild members asked if he was okay and Elfman apologied for earlier, but Gray just nodded for all of them and tried to keep the twitching smile on his face.

When he finally got to the door and was about to step outside, somebody else opened the door in front of him and so he bumped into that somebody.

''Step aside Natsu!'' Gray snarled when recognized the person in front of him. The young dragon slayer looked a bit taken aback by Gray's behaviour which was a lot more agressive than usual. He didn't move however, so the ice mage just pushed him aside and walked under the hot sun, still miraculously wearing all of his clothes.

''What's wrong with him today?'' Natsu asked as he walked to the bar and sat down. Mira gave him some water and said:

''I really don't know, he accidentally almost freezed my arm when I touched his forehead to test if he had fever or something-''

''So he DID hurt you?'' Elfman's roar was loud and Mira laughed a little at him.

''No he didn't, I said almost'', she chuckled and turned her attention back to Natsu, who was now joined by Happy too. The poor cat was exhausted and most likely it dragged itself the last meters to reach the fire mage, who was drinking his water slowly. Mira gave the blue cat some cool milk, and Happy was more than happy to drink it all at once to cool itself down.

''So, how did the job go?'' she then asked curiously, sitting down too. She took a sip from her own glass and smiled a little when the more characteristic aura returned around Natsu.

''It was a piece of cake! I needed only to get rid of few boars and they paid me 10 000 jewels for that! But I guess they gave me a bit bonus because I fixed them roasted meat for a couple days...'' the fire mage said happily. Mira could only smile for the other's silliness.

''Normally you get more of those jewels'', she pointed out. Natsu sneered silently.

''Yeah, but now it's way too hot to do anything that makes you sweat'', he just snickered.

''Strange thing to be heard from your mouth, you're a fire mage for god's sake!'' Mira laughed. Natsu too started to snicker more loudly, and they both didn't seem to fit in the crowd.

Everybody else were almost panting from the heat, and too lazy to get up from their seats. But these two were laughing and having a conversation just like in normal days.

I guess I will put this in here in rather small pieces, I'm kinda slow writer ^^' But tell me what you think of it!