Star-Crossed in Parallel Lines

Key of the Starry Sky Arc

Gray, Shadow and I arrive at the guild. It looks like Lucy is teaching Natsu how to slow dance. I was excited as I pulled Gray with me. I decided to wear a new outfit of brown boots, black shorts, lavender vest with a white tank top inside. The lining was white of the vest as I wore loose sleeves starting from my upper arm, same colour code. Lavender bow to match.

I greeted Lucy and Natsu as she asks me if I still remembered how slow dance since I was taught for a couple of days with her back then in her mansion. I replied that I remembered a little as I took Gray by the hand.

I attempt to slow dance with him until he started stripping unknowingly. Why am I not surprised? He kept stepping on my foot as I snorted at him. He really wasn't good at dancing. I teach him how to do the stepping as he slowly was getting in. He starts smiling at me as he got the steps down. I giggled as he tried to do the dip with me and earn a kiss on my lips, but I dodged and release my arms from his waist and back bended, crawling away as I flipped back up to standing position. He complains as he crossed his arms, I giggled. He's such a fun person to tease.

I glance over at Shadow as he partnered up with Lily for the dancing. Interesting pair, I'm not complaining.

We arrive at the Balsamico Palace. Warren compliments Aceto, the daughter of our client as I sighed from his telepathy. Erza and Natsu speak up as Warren compliments her again as I yelled his name once again.

She leads us inside to meet her father. An interesting face he has. I stand with Gray, Elfman and Warren as the father explains the details. Natsu gets punched to the wall for his immature behaviour, I don't even flinch.

I tell the father we'll make sure we finish this job without a scratch before we headed to go change into our proper attire. In our dressing room, I change into an indigo strapless dress that spreads out just bit with white ruffles at the bottom. My indigo bow to match as well.

Lucy, Erza Wendy and I wait at the entrance before Erza tells Warren to give us a heads up. We meet up with them as Erza is asked to dance. I feel bad for him, she's too crazy.

Lucy and I are also asked to dance next as I took his hand and accepted. He was a nice man, he knew how to dance too. As we danced, I laughed with him too as I completely lost sight of the mission for a bit as I glanced down to see Gray showing off his magic with a lady before Erza goes over to stop them.

I chuckled, they were going overboard I told my partner.

Aceto has come out as I watched her walk down with her father. I gazed at her beauty as she asked Erza for a dance. Why not?

Velveno comes out of hiding as I joined my team at the floor. He has the ring too. Before I was able to prepare my magic, Velveno confesses that he wanted to marry her this whole time. I smiled as she said yes.

I grabbed ahold of Gray's hand as I took in the romantic scene, it was lovely, my heart fluttered. Gray snorts, knowing I loved these kind of romantic scenes as I nodded, telling him that we should do it more often. I glance at his face, his flustered cheeks as I smiled, knowing he didn't reject it.

I applauded with the crowd as I whistled too, this was true love. I grabbed Gray's hand as I pulled him onto a platform. I told him how much I wanted to dance with him this whole night with a cheeky smile. He sighs as he pulls me against his chest. Even though I didn't know he was looking, he started asking me about the man I was dancing with beforehand.

I chuckled, he was always the jealous type.

The next day the entire guild is off on a tangent about Lucy. I sit at the bar as I started feeling a weird presence. Like, someone has become one with the air. Shadow asks me what's up as I turned to a specific part of the room. The boys start fighting as I tilted my head. I got up and dodged some furniture and the boys as I looked at the bottom of the wall.