Book 1: Fragments of Crystal (Fairy Tail Fanfic)

Chapter 13

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Third Person's P. O. V:

Gray jerks upright, thrusting out his arms and starts calling out, "ICED... Sheeelll—!"

"SHUDDUP!!" Natsu screams as he punches the right side of Gray's face, causing his eyes to jerk wide along with Lyon's and Akira's as he drops in a crouch, one hand on the ice covered floor for balance, the other resting on his left knee. Natsu's own eyes has become angry white triangles as he breathes heavily from anger.

"Natsu...?!" Gray snaps, jerking his head up at the pinkette.

Natsu shouts back indignantly, "You can't just bust in and steal the scene with a bunch of fancy talk! Get to the back of the line, pal!"

"N-Natsu-kun...!" Akira sighs, a sweat drop forming on her forehead.

"Back of what line?!" Gray demands to know.

Pointing at himself with his thumb, Natsu clarifies, "Aki-chan and I were here first, so it's our fight!"

"What?!" Gray snaps, jumping to his feet as he whirls on his comrade.

Sweat dropping again, Akira mutters, "D-Don't drag me into this argument, Natsu-kun!"

Gray reminds the pinkette, "When I got here, the first words out of my mouth were 'Leave him to me!'"

"G-Gray..." Akira stutters nearby.

Crossing his arms over his chest stubbornly as he jerks his head away, Natsu retorts, "Yeah, and I said 'No way, man!' like, a second after that!"

Gray growls, glaring daggers at Natsu, "Why, you...!"

"What? You want some?" Natsu taunts, smirking.

"Gray!" Akira tries again, a bit louder this time, but still the two boys ignore her.

"I don't care who said what! I've gotta a score to settle with him, you understand?! And I'm ready to die if that's what I gotta do!" Gray yells, eyes wide as he grips Natsu's scarf tightly.

Akira's pink eyes widened at that. Natsu reaches up and grips Gray's wrist just as tightly. Natsu questions, "Yeah? And how's dying gonna settle it, huh? 'Cause it sounds like you're running away to me."

Gray's eyes grow wide in shock at this, and he gasps slightly.

"Gray!" Akira's voice thunders through the room, startling Natsu, Gray and even Lyon, who can't help but feel a bit surprised that such a small girl could have such a loud voice. Gray jerks head up only to see tears of anger in Akira's pink eyes.

"Don't...! Don't you ever scare me like that again, Gray Fullbuster! Do you have any idea how frightened I was?!" Akira breathes heavily as she clenches her fists. "I thought... I thought I was going to lose you."

Gray stares in silence at the blonde, understanding her anger.

Gray walks up to the young blonde and rests a hand on her head comfortingly. Akira flicks her gaze up to Gray's face as he says, "I'm sorry, Akira-chan. I didn't didn't mean to scare you like that."