So a new story... I kinda felt like writing a story about a female Gray with Natsu, so I finally did it. I really like the relationship the ice and fire mage have, 'cause at first sight they hate each other, but deep down inside they actually really care for one another. So I though that maybe one of them is turned into a woman, these feelings will surface and change into love.

I hope you like it.

Chapter 1

Naked truth

By Neko Erza

"So what is it exactly that we have to do now?" Natsu asked as he turned around in the large library. Books were stacked on shelves that reached all the way to the high ceiling. Large rolling stepladders were provided for reaching the highest books and except for a small desk, the immense room was completely filled with bookcases.

"Do you ever listen, Natsu? I've explained 10 times already." Lucy said annoyed while she flipped through a book.

"But I forgot due to that stupid train ride. It made me sick and so I forgot."

"You're just sick in the head, matchstick." Gray said annoyed as he pulled out a book on ice magic one off of the shelves.

"What did you say, droopy-eyes?!" Natsu yelled, lighting his fist on fire.

"You two, calm down!" Erza yelled angrily.

"Aye!"

Both men quickly calmed down in fear of the scarlet mage, yet whenever she wasn't looking, angry glares were flying through the room.

"Go ahead and explain it again, Luce." Titania said.

"Thank you. We were asked to check out this library since some dark guild put spells on certain books. Due to the spells, every now and then monsters and demons escape from those books and we're here to break those spells. Well, Levi is here to break the spells; we're here to fight any possible monsters."

A few meters away the small bluenette sat between piles and piles of books. She had a large old book in her hands and her eyes were glued to the pages. With her special glasses she could read the content in no time, trying to figure out if the book was cursed. The last few hours the team has been collecting all the books from the library that contained magical power. Now Levi had the task to search for the cursed books, which wasn't an easy task since a lot of the books contained some kind of magic and if she found a curse, she still had to figure out how to break it.

"How's it going, Levi?" Lucy asked as she squatted down next to the solid script mage.

"It's really tough. This book is full of magic and I've seen some traces that look like a curse, yet I can't find it. Every time I think I got it, the magic slips away and transports to different part of the book. I'm not even sure if it IS cursed." The bluenette said with a troubled look on her face.

"What is the book about?"

"It's about transfiguration magic and the effects it can have upon bodies, I think." Levi said, her intense gaze still focused on the words.

"You think?" Lucy asked unsure.

"It's written in some old language and I don't really recognize the script. I only understand some words and parts. The rest I deduced from the drawings. The book is almost completely about therianthropy, but the last part isn't, which is quite interesting. I wish I could read all of it… But anyway, I'm still not entirely sure what the contents are of this work. Maybe Freed would understand…" The bluenette explained, obviously troubled by the fact she couldn't figure it out.

"This library does have some interesting, rare and… unpredictable works. I'm not sure Freed would know it either." The blonde said while she looked over Levi's shoulder.

The small solid script mage tried to discover the mysteries of the book for some time, although after a while she let out a frustrated sigh and closed the book with a dull thud. "I can't figure this one out! It's giving me a headache!"

"I'm sure you can do it, Levi-chan." Lucy smiled encouraging. "Just leave this one for the last."

Levi nodded, but still felt a bit defeated. She reluctantly reached for the next book and adjusted her reading glasses. She kept busy with the large piles of books, every now and then encountering a cursed one and setting free a demon, of which most of them were dealt with quite fast by Erza. A few hours passed like that and to Levi's displeasure she had to put aside some other books too because they contained the same kind of magic as the transfiguration book.

"I'm so bored!" Natsu cried out. It had been a while since a demon escaped from one of the books and because of that the team was out of work. Only Levi was quite busy; still engrossed into the books and manuscripts.

"Just sit down and read something then." Lucy said looking up from her book. The rest of the team sat around flipping through some books trying to kill the time.

"I don't like to read!"

"That didn't come as a surprise." Gray mumbled while he kept his eyes on the ice magic book.

"Put some damn clothes on before criticizing me, perverted exhibitionist!" Natsu pointed out since the ice mage once again had scattered around his clothes.

"What did I tell you guys?" Erza interrupted with a threatening glare to both of them, which immediately shut them up. She nodded in approval

"Aww man… hey Happy, wanna play a game while waiting?" the pinkette turned towards the little blue cat. "What?! You're reading too?"

"Aye! It's a book about fish!" Happy said with hungry eyes.

Titania just rolled her eyes, then turned to Levi. "How is it going?"

"Okay I guess. I haven't encountered a cursed book in a while, so maybe we're through with it." The script mage said with a tired smile. Still she glanced over at the books she had to put aside.

"You're still worried about those?" The scarlet mage asked when she saw the bluenette's attention was still focused on the transfiguration book a few meters away.

"Yes! It stresses me way too much that I can't find out if they are cursed or not. Maybe there's nothing wrong with them but then again… maybe those are the most dangerous of all." The bluenette said with a sigh.

"Can't we finish this up already and go home?" Natsu huffed as he slumped down still feeling bored. The next moment a book was thudded on top of his head. "Ow!"

"Idiot, we can't leave before we make sure all the books are safe. Levi is doing the best she can." Gray said as he opened his book again to continue reading.

"But I'm so bored! Why can't some demon come out already."

"Isn't here any kiddy-literature for him to read or where he can watch the pictures?" Gray sighed annoyed while he picked up his clothes.

"Just shut up, droopy-eyes."

"I can read it out loud for you, squinty-eyes." The ice mage said with a mocking voice while he put his shirt back on.

"Read it out loud?" Lucy said looking up from the book she had picked. "Gray! That might be a good idea!"

"WHAT?! Lucy, are you on his side? I can read you know!" Natsu said hurt. Gray just chuckled.

"Although I would agree, I don't think that's what she meant." Gray chuckled.

"Of course that's not what I meant, Natsu. What I meant is that maybe we should read those books out loud." The celestial mage explained. She walked over to the pile of books the script mage had put aside and picked one up. "Levi can't figure those books out by just reading them, but maybe reading them out loud will. I've heard about written magic being combined with spoken magic. This might be one of them."

"That might actually be not such a bad idea, Lu-chan." The bluenette said regaining her excitement. She grabbed one of the books. "If I see the magic I couldn't catch before and I say the words it's hiding behind out loud, the hidden magic might open up and if it's a curse I'll be able to write a counter spell!"

The team got excited about the plan while Natsu just stood there uninterested, not really paying attention to what the rest was talking about. He let out a bored sigh and turned to his exceed.

"Come on Happy, stop reading for a moment and let's get something to eat. I'm starving." Natsu said uninterested in all the book- and spell-talk. He just wanted something to do, like fighting monsters. Everything except just sitting around between all the dusty old paper.

"Aye! I got hungry from looking at all the fish." Happy answered before flying along with the dragon slayer.

"Okay I'm going to try it." Levi said breathing in deeply. She grabbed the book about transfiguration. "I hope I'll be able to read it. Like I said, I can't understand it and I'm not entirely sure how to pronounce the runes."

"I'm sure you can do it, Lev." Gray said with an encouraging smile. The script mage smiled happily and flipped the book open. Lucy, Erza and Gray watched over her shoulder as she searched through the pages.

"There it is!" Levi said. She ran her fingers over the words, trying to understand them and then closed her eyes. She focused all her attention on the runes she had just read and tried to say them as accurate as she could. "Kanta en' endainme, edan n'uma an!"

Suddenly the words lit up and a little orb of light formed above the book.

"It's… It's not a curse! Apparently that book is a spell-book!" Levi cried out in shock as she dropped the book on the floor. "I think I activated a spell!"

The next moment the whole building started to shake and books were falling off of the shelves. Cracks were forming on the walls and gravel fell to the floor.

"We gotta get out of here!" Erza yelled as she covered her head for the falling books. At the meantime the orb of light kept growing bigger and bigger, like it was taking energy. The team ran towards the door to get to safety, since the building was about to collapse. Halfway through the room Lucy tripped over a pile of books and fell to the ground, her foot getting stuck. The ice mage noticed she wasn't following anymore and turned around. He saw her lying on the ground, with her foot stuck.

"Lucy!" He quickly ran back and squatted down next to her. "Erza, take Levi out of here, I'll take care of Luce!" Gray yelled to the scarlet mage, who nodded. Gray turned back to the celestial spirit and saw her lower leg got stuck in a crack that had formed on the floor. He grabbed her knee and started pulling. "Now pull your leg as hard as you can."

"It hurts!" Lucy squealed as she tried to pull it.

"Well it's gonna hurt a whole lot more when the roof falls on our head!"

"I know!"

"I'll try to make the crack wider. This might be cold, but deal with it." The ice mage said as he placed his hands at the sides of the crack. He made a lever out of ice to try and pry open to floor further. "Stay still now, or it will give you ice burn."

"Okay, please be careful." The blonde said as she looked around to see the building slowly breaking down around them. In the distant she saw the open book and the orb of light, which got even bigger. "We really gotta get out of here, Gray."

"I'm almost done." The ice mage gave one last pry and pulled Lucy's leg free.

"Thank you!" Lucy got up and looked back at the light gathering orb. Suddenly it started to move and flew towards them. Her eyes went big with shock. "Gray! Watch out!"

The ice mage quickly turned around to see the blinding light of the orb fly towards them. "Luce, run! I'll make a shield."

The celestial mage ran towards the door as quick as she could, dodging falling books, stone and gravel. The ice mage turned to the orb and bought his arms up. "Ice make: shield!"

A large wall of ice appeared just before the light orb reached them, but to Gray's horror the orb crashed right through it and hit him in the chest, knocking him to the ground.

"What the hell happened?" Natsu screamed as he ran towards the collapsing building. While he was searching for a shop to buy some food, he heard the rumbling and saw the building forming cracks so he had immediately turned back.

"One of the books was a spell-book and I activated one! The impact made the building collapse!" Levi sobbed.

"Where's Lucy?" Natsu asked worried.

"She got stuck, but Gray stayed behind to free her while Erza dragged me out." The little bluenette sniffed.

"There they are!" Erza pointed as Lucy ran out the building. A few seconds later the whole building gave in and everything went deadly silent.

"Where's Gray?" Titania asked as she saw it was only the celestial mage.

"Gray got hit in the chest by the light orb!" Lucy cried. "I couldn't get back to him! He's still…" The blonde glanced back at the ruin that was left of the library. A shivering sob escaped.

"He's still in there?!" Natsu shouted disbelieving. Before anyone could stop him he ran off and jumped on the remnants of the library. Books, paper, broken pillars and so on lay everywhere. The dragon slayer frantically started searching for his teammate, screaming his name while he dug into the ruin. He might think the ice mage was a foulmouthed pervert and they might fight a lot, but they were still teammates. And the thought that Gray was somewhere beneath this rubble frightened him more than he thought it would.

"Gray, where the fuck are you?!"

"He's… he's gonna be okay, right?" Lucy asked, tears still flowing down her face.

"That damned droopy-eyes better be, 'cause if he's dead I'll bring him back alive to kill him again!" Natsu screamed while kicking a piece of pillar to the side.

"Natsu, calm down! We're not going to find him like this, we need to think rationally." Erza said holding back the dragon slayer to cause more damage. She pointed to the place they stood before. "That was where the entrance was. So Lucy got stuck somewhere over there." She pointed to a place a little further. "We should start looking over there."

The Fairy Tail members quickly went over to the place Titania had designated, while she held back all people that had gathered to see the damage.

"Natsu be careful, don't just throw stuff around." Lucy said to the dragon slayer that frantically kept on searching through the rubble.

"We have to hurry up! There was a second story in this building, so this layer of stone is heavy as fuck, we can't let him be under it for too long! At least I have already cleared most of it!" The pinkette snapped.

"I… I know that, but still you might hurt him if you're too savage!"

The dragon slayer suddenly held up his hand to motion to wait, while he sniffed the air. "I smell ice!" He quickly pulled away some more gravel, stones and bookshelves then he hid on a small dome of ice. "Gray!"

Natsu carefully melted a hole in the ice and a second later the ice mage came crawling out, coughing and covered in dust. His back was turned towards them and when they wanted to approach him, he motioned them to stop with his hand, while light coughs kept escaping his mouth. A few meters away he sat down on a part of a broken pillar, his back still turned to the rest of the team.

"Maybe we should make him come to a little." Levi whispered to the rest. "He's probably still a bit shocked by what happened."

"Yeah, but… shouldn't we make sure he is okay? Lucy said he got hit in the chest with some magic orb." Natsu said, more worried than he would like to admit.

"I think we should give him some time first." Lucy said trying to smile.

They decided to wait and give him some breading space, although they were all worried. The ice mage had laid his head in his hands, occasionally light coughs left his lungs.

"Are you sure we shouldn't bring him to a doctor? He did get hit by magic and he almost got a whole building on top of his head." Levi said to Lucy with a worried tone.

"Yeah… I wasn't able to see his face, tough. I don't know if he's injured or not."

"Just give him some time. If that would have happened to me, I'd like a minute for myself too. He's been stuffed in that ice with gravel and dust for quite some time before we found him. He's probably just enjoying the clean air." Natsu said looking over at his friend. "But… now that I look at him, he does seem a bit… off?"

"What do you mean?" Lucy asked, locking her eyes on the ice mage a few meters away.

"I know this must sound weird but… don't you think he looks… smaller?" Natsu asked, doubting his own perceptive.

"Natsu, what are you talk-… you're right!" Lucy said with a small gasp as she looked over at the raven man. "Maybe that magic did something to him after all, maybe we should rush him to a doctor after all. His coughs sounded weird too by the way."

Suddenly the ice mage let out a deafening scream. Although the word 'shriek' would be a better description. It was high pitched and nothing like the normal voice of the ice mage. Gray was pulling his hair while still screaming.

"Okay, maybe we should check on him." Natsu quickly said as he, Lucy, Levi and Erza ran over to their friend.

"Gray, what's wrong? Are you in pain?" Lucy asked carefully when she reached the ice mage. He had stopped screaming and had hidden his face between his knees, his hands clawed in his hair.

"I… have a problem, guys." The ice mage mumbled, but even with the mumbling they all heard it wasn't Gray's voice.

"What's wrong with your voice? It's sounds kind of-"

"Girly." Natsu interrupted.

"It's not just my voice." Gray looked up. Instead of the manly features and the strong jawline he had the typical soft features of a woman: rounder cheeks, soft jawline, light eyebrows, long eyelashes, … But the dark raven hair and clothes were unmistakingly the ice mage's.

Their mouth fell open with surprise and shock. Before them sat a strange woman that should have been their male friend.

"What the hell did you do with Gray?" Natsu suddenly shouted as he grabbed the girl's collar.

"It's me, you stupid squinty eyes!" She screamed. "Put me down before I freeze that stupid mouth of you shut!"

"Natsu! I think this really is Gray!" Levi said, trying to calm the dragon slayer down.

"Of course I am! How the hell would I be wearing these clothes and be buried under that fucking rubble if I wasn't? I said put me down!"

Still not completely convinced, Natsu reluctantly put the 'girl' down.

"How did this happen?" Lucy asked astounded.

"Must have been that light orb, the book Levi was reading was about transfiguration, wasn't it? It hit me in the chest and knocked me to the ground. I was just in time to make my ice shield and after that everything went black as I passed out. When I came to I saw my reflection in the ice, nonetheless to say that it freaked me out. I thought I was having some weird dream, but then Natsu freed me and… I guess I have no other choice than to believe it now." The mage explained, the last part sounding a little desperate.

"We… we gotta break this spell. 'Cause this is just fucked up." Erza said, still not able to believe the girl in front of her was the ice mage.

"How?" Lucy asked.

"I have no idea… we should bring him… her… him, whatever! To the master." Erza decided. "He'll know what to do."

"I still don't believe it." The dragon slayer said, staring at the black haired woman. "Gray is taller than me, you don't even reach my armpit!"

"Well, I freakin' shrank in the process, you damn flamebrain! Just believe it."

"It's Gray alright… he's the only one that can argue with Natsu like that." Levi whispered to Erza.

"You smell somewhat different." Natsu continued.

"I've been lying under a layer of ice covered in dust, gravel and god knows what else for quite some time. It shouldn't be surprising I smell a bit different!"

Natsu just kept staring at Gray with a disbelieving look on his face.

"I'll prove it, I still have my Fairy Tail stamp!" as proof, Gray lifted his shirt up, uncovering the dark guild crest on his chest. To his surprise the dragon slayer's face went all red and he quickly looked away. "What, isn't that enough proof?" The ice mage asked annoyed.

"Uhm… Gray?" Erza started. She also had a blush on her face and pointed to the ice mage's chest. "I think you should lower your shirt."

The raven mage looked down and understood what she meant. He had lifted up his shirt, without thinking about his current state… two full mounds that were hanging from his chest were exposed to full view. He felt a blush creeping up his face and quickly pulled the shirt back down.

"I… I believe you… that's Gray's crest indeed." Natsu said, still crimson red.

"I think we should go to the guild as fast as possible." Lucy said in a soothing voice, breaking the awkward moment.

"I'll go settle and explain things to our client. I think he'd like an explanation about… this" Erza pointed to what was left of the library. "Although he should have let us know the library contained books that not only had magic in them, but also could activate a spell."

"We'll go on ahead than and try to settle… this." Levi said with an uncertain smile as she pointed to the pouting female ice mage. Still standing next to him was Natsu, his face still almost as pink as his hair.

"I'll hope you have found a cure when I come back, it's really weird seeing… him like this." Titania said.

The team was starting to make their way to the train station to get back to Magnolia and the guild. Before they left the scarlet mage grabbed Lucy by the arm to hold her back.

"Keep an eye on Gray, please."

"Of course I will, but I think he's able to defend himself." The blonde said with a smile.

"I know but… he's not use to being a woman and well… he might get into trouble with men."

"What do you mean?"

"Luce… what's Gray's most common trait?"

Lucy got what Erza meant and nodded. "Stripping habit."

End of chapter 1

So how was it? Should I continue it or not?

The second chapter will probably be about the guild seeing their 'new female member' and well... a certain dragon slayer that isn't used to seeing naked girls run around the guild.

Please review and let me know what you think!