Sorry for the late update (I usually try to update within a week) But this one was really long.

Anyways, ENJOY!

Just one drink. Juvia snickered. That's what she had told herself when she had proceeded towards the bar, with Lyon still hovering around her like some kind of annoying bird.

Now?

Well let's just say even Cana was impressed.

"You're drunk."Cana stated matter-of-factly
Juvia gave her a scathing look.
"No, I'm just intoxicated by you" she replied sarcastically.
Cana choked on her beer. Even Lyon raised an eyebrow.

Juvia groaned internally, filled with apprehension. Not only was he putting her through mental HELL for the past hour but now was wearing off on her too?

After trying to hit Lyon repeated number of times, Juvia had given up. Especially since Lyon clones kept popping up everywhere. Right now, there were two sitting beside her, another one had managed to fit himself on a shelf, sleeping soundly and yet another one was sitting atop a rotating fan, having the time of his life. And to add her misery, they were all talking in unison, blasting her ears.

Juvia looked distastefully at the Lyons next to her. She briefly considered strangling him to death but dismissed the idea when she realized that one of the primary abilities required for said noble task was walking without falling flat in the face.

"I HATE ALL ALPHABETS BUT I LOVE U!"All the Lyons screamed together.

Juvia sighed. She had gone completely insane.

"ARE YOU AN INTERIOR DECORATOR? WHEN I SAW YOU, THE ROOM BECAME BEAUTIFUL!" chimed the Lyons happily, bursting Juvia's ear drums in the process.

Dark clouds formed above Juvia's head, rumbling dangerously.

"IS SOMETHING WRONG JUVIA-CHAN?" said the Lyons.

It started raining in the guild. Hard.

"SHOULD I HELP YOU? ", asked the concerned Lyons

The guild was literally flooding now. All the mages had to stand on benches and tables to save themselves.

"DO YOU WANT TO COME WITH M—"

"LYON SHUT UP!" screamed half of the guild.

But it was too late. Juvia had heard.

*CRAACK*

"AHHHHHHHH!" Lucy screamed as lightning struck the place where she had been moments ago. Since when did she have THAT power, Lucy wondered. Guess we'd just never seen her pissed enough.

Grey was getting more and more irritated by the moment and more and more confused.(A/N little things like the entire guild being flooded don't bother him) All he knew for sure was that he needed to beat some sense into Lyon, screw the reason. He just did. First act, then think. He told himself. He wasn't much of a thinker anyways.

Juvia couldn't help it. She wanted to stop the rain, of course. The last thing she needed was a bunch of angry wizards chasing her all over Magnolia. But that would mean calming down, which was next to impossible. Especially since more Lyon clones kept popping up.

Lyon was getting exceedingly worried; he didn't get what he did wrong! He was about to start another one of his attempts to reassure Juvia.

"LISTEN JUVIA-CHAN, YOU'VE GOT TO-"

"Oh will you please shut up"

Lyon turned to find Gray staring at him.

"Gray?"

"Can't you see she doesn't want to talk? Besides is it really that tough to see that she does not love you?" Gray didn't know where that had come from. He hadn't meant to be mean. It just happened.

He saw as Lyon's face visibly fell, but he quickly masked it with anger,
"YA? AND WHAT'S IT TO YOU MR. SMARTY-PANTS?"

"I'M NOT A SMARTY PANTS!"

"Well that's accurate, considering you never DO wear pants!"

"That's what UL taught us!"

"And yet you don't see ME stripping naked every half minute"

"Oh please, you're no better than me!"

"I'm better than you in EVERY way possible!"

"yea…keep telling yourself that."

"You're an ASS you know that?"

"At least I'm not a DUMBASS!"

Everyone watched intently, shifting their gazes from Gray to Lyon, as if watching a tennis tournament. Juvia watched too, though it's another thing she thought she was hallucinating (Gray-sama fighting for me?) and vowed never to drink again. Well at least SOME good came of the fight.

Then Gray looked at her and smiled so charmingly that it took all her will-power not to faint right then and there. Juvia spontaneously decided that drinking was the best thing in the world (A/N- not trying to send any wrong message here)

"Why are you fighting with me anyways?" Lyon asked quietly, "I don't want to fight."

"Well….uh…the thing is.." Gray looked meekly from Lyon to Juvia to all the wizards present. He didn't know why EXACTLY. He DID have a theory, which was actually Lucy's, but there's no way on earth he was telling anyone that. He wasn't like Lyon. Gray didn't like admitting it, but when it came to matters like this, he slightly envied Lyon's bravery. Not that he had anything to 'admit'. Or 'confess'. Or 'propose'. PROPOSE? Grey shook his head and looked once again at Juvia. What the hell was wrong with him? Everyone was still looking at him, expecting an answer, expecting something.

"Because you're stupid. ", Gray replied quietly, not knowing what else to say.

"What?"
"I'm sorry, Are you deaf too?"

"If anyone is stupid, that would be you. Who replies to why are you fighting by saying 'because you're stupid'? "
Gray twitched.

The crowd cheered as if Lyon had won a point while Lyon just rolled his eyes and glanced at him smugly.

IT IS SOO ON! Gray thought internally.

And thus started- what the guild members would in future call-the Great, Legendary 'you're-so-stupid' showdown.

"I am stupid? You're stupid enough to get locked in the grocery store and die of starvation."

"BURN!", a few guild members screamed, very much enjoying this.

Lyon's cheeks flushed. "REALLY? Well you're so stupid; you'd probably buy tickets for Xbox live!"
The crowd hollered.

"You're so stupid, you thought Gameboy was only meant for guys", Gray replied coolly.

"THAT WAS A JOKE!" Lyon screamed, outraged.

"Sure, whatever you say" Gray rolled his eyes.

Everyone in the guild just stared at Lyon.

"What? Gray is so stupid he asked me the number for 911!"

"THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SECRET!" Gray yelled.

And so it continued. But eventually, they ran out of witty comebacks, going from, 'if I gave a penny for your intelligence, I'd get change back.' to 'your face is stupid' Even the guild members were bored.

….

"You're so stupid; you can't even tell when people love you!'
That stung. Gray knew perfectly well who he was talking about.

"Ya well, your hair is stupid!" was Gray's wise comeback.

"Your Head is stupid" retorted Lyon.
"At least I HAVE a head."

….
"Your clothes are stupid."
"Your very existence is stupid.
"YOUR ENTIRE GUILD IS STUPID.", yelled Lyon at last, having no clue what he had just done.

That is until he received the glares. The I'm-going-to-stab-you-for-that glares.

"You said something, boy?"

"Uhm- I-I was just going to say what a WONDERFUL guild Fairytail is…"

More pointed glares.

"A-And how absolutely tragic it is to depart from your company, but you know…work."
And saying so, Lyon ran the hell out of there.

"Though he did have a point you know", Natsu piped in.
Everyone turned to look at him.
"I meant about Gray being stupid!"
"Shut up Natsu" Gray replied, rather tiredly.

"OH YEA! YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME?" replied Natsu enthusiastically, apparently disappointed for not being part of the 'action'.

"Not now, please" and saying so, Gray closed his eyes, looking much more mature and serious than the dragon slayer ever remembered Gray being

Everyone was shocked. Some even dropped their beer glasses. For the first time in the history of Fairytail, Gray had been provoked by Natsu and had not reacted.

NOT. REACTED.

"APOCALYPSE!" one wizard yelled and ran out of the guild.
Even Natsu gave him a weird look. As if trying to say you're-supposed-to-be-strangling-me-right-about-no w.

But Gray had other matters at hand. Like how incredibly stupid he was. Lucy had seen it. Lyon had seen it. Heck, even ERZA had mentioned about it once before. But he had continued to remain oblivious. He didn't know WHAT exactly he was feeling. He was in love with his stalker? That sounded completely crazy, and yet there it was.

Juvia kept staring at Gray, in between hiccups. Throughout the fight, all she had done was stare at Gray, having her usual fantasies and not particularly caring about what was going on. She wanted to go to him and kiss the daylights out of him, wanted to put her arms around him and feel—well, you get the picture. Basically, she was being typical Juvia. But then she remembered her resolve. Limit. She had reached hers. All her unrequited love was going to bring was pain. Joyful fantasies too, perhaps. But definitely more amounts of pain.

Then Gray looked at her.

Gray-sama is looking at me! Her heart screamed, doing a little dance.

He looks at everybody, get over it, said her not-so-joyful mind.

I want to kiss him! her heart added.

BOUNDARIES woman! her head yelled

"Juvia, I have something to tell you"

Gray took a deep breath. This was it. He had to do it. He didn't know HOW exactly. You can't just say, 'By the way, just a heads up, I kind of love you'. Gray seriously considered it for a second but dismissed it when her realized how unromantic that sounded. Also, compared to Lyon's pick-up lines-
Gray nearly yelped as realization dawned on him. The Pick-up lines! Gray internally groaned. Sappy as they were, they did prove to be 'competition' ….and some of them were actually good. It would make his 'confession' seem lame. He was NOT good at romance but he had to give it a try.

begin with a cheesy line…..begin with a cheesy line…

Meanwhile, Juvia was having a nervous breakdown.

He has something to tell me! OMG he loves me doesn't he? That's what's happening! Oh god, Oh god, the love of my life! Finally! We're going to get married and then have kids and name them GRUVIA, JUVEY, GREJUV—

Seriously, have you HEARD yourself lately?, asked the still-sane-part of Juvia irritatedly.

I know….limits, acknowledged the Grey's-my-life part.

Because really, who was she kidding?

"Juvia….." Gray's voice echoed throughout the guild. This was really getting rather melodramatic.

His voice caused Juvia's thoughts to fuse in a happy reunion with only one thought running in her mind, MARRY ME!

Hard as it is to believe, what he said next was almost better.

"Can I take your clothes off?-"

"WHAAAT? " Half the guild screamed.

Juvia went into emergency mode. Her thoughts mushed up into gibberish. Her face turned into a cherry. Her heart was beating like crazy. Her mind shut-down and-still hyperventilating- Juvia promptly fainted, with the last words on her lips being Gray-sama!

Everyone stared.

And stared.

"…..that was some confession", was Gray's response, trying desperately to get rid of the awkward silence.

Sadly, that did him no good and everyone continued staring

Seriously, what was their problem?

***2 extremely awkward minutes later***

"OHMYGOD PEOPLE! WHAT I MEANT WAS SO I COULD SEE HOW ANGELS HID THEIR WINGS!THATS THE ONLY REASON I WOULD EVER WANT HER TO TAKE OFF HER CLOTHES—WELL NOT ONLY- I MEAN, I DON'T PLAN ON—I MEAN EVENTUALLY-WHY DON'T YOU'LL JUST SHUT UP YOU JUDGEMENTAL FREAKS?!"And saying so, Gray walked out of the guild, leaving the rest to continue their never-ending silence.

Abruptly, someone piped in, "Why were we all silent again?"
Several wizards face-palmed.

And then, "will someone please wake up Juvia? I want a drinking challenge…" (A/N ok so we all know who THAT was)

Well I decided NOT to continue the story, and so I didn't . And then I randomly remembered the 'poll' I had written here and how I just left it there. So now I feel like shit. Which is why, i'm apologizing To all you guys who reviewed.

P.s- though in my defense it was not due to the lack of trying, the chapters I DID write just didn't seem right. But that's my problem. Anyways I hoped you all enjoyed the story ^_^

~FlamingScarlet