Fairy Tail Space Mage

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Gray finally realized something was wrong; the two seemed to be on completely different wavelengths!

He had no idea that back in the Spectre guild's quest hall, the water elemental, one of the Spectre's four elements, had already fallen in love with him at first sight!

Juvia doesn't dislike Fairy Tail. In fact, you could say she really likes it, and she's quite envious of Gray and the others being able to stay there!

As a child, Juvia was very unpopular. Back then, she couldn't control her magic; wherever she appeared, it would rain. And the nickname "Rain Woman" stuck with her from that time on.

She deeply understood how painful it was to be rejected by others and to be all alone!

So when Juvia discovers that the president is sowing discord between Lucy and Fairy Tail, yet Lucy is still not rejected by Fairy Tail, she is shocked by the warmth and inclusiveness within Fairy Tail and can't help but feel a sense of longing!

Because of her fondness for "Fairy Tail," Juvia found herself finding all the mages in the series increasingly appealing. Especially the man before her... powerful, intelligent, handsome, gentle, and considerate, and ultimately, willing to do anything for his comrades...

Unexpectedly, after her heart had just begun to flutter and she had finally managed to suppress the "inappropriate" thoughts in her mind, Juvia went to the watchtower on the top of the castle to clear her mind, and there she ran into Gray!

"This is fate! Fate's arrangement! This must be the goddess of destiny telling me that he is the person I've been searching for!! Ah! No, no!! He's the enemy, I can't betray the guild leader, I can't betray everyone in the guild!"

Juvia appeared and spoke to Gray under these complex emotions.

Sadly, despite Gray's utterly harsh and hostile words, Juvia's heart pounded harder and harder. Her face flushed crimson with each word Gray spoke.

"Hey! Are you still going to fight? Let me make this clear: whether it's a woman or a child, anyone who dares to harm my companions or disrupt my guild is an enemy to me! I won't show you any mercy!"

He didn't understand why the other party hadn't shown any clear hostility yet... To be honest, Gray felt it was difficult to make a move against an opponent who wasn't hostile, especially a young and beautiful woman.

That's why he said those words, hoping to bring the girl in front of him back to the normal battlefield atmosphere.

However, these words, coupled with Greg's slanted eyes, his disheveled black hair, and the cold, untamed indifference as rain streamed down his cheeks, seemed to pierce Juvia's heart!

Chapter 197 The Calamity of Water and Women (Part Two)

"Oh...I see..."

Juvia was surprised to find that his heart could beat so fast! His face turned completely red, his mind was a mess, and he couldn't muster even the slightest fighting spirit.

"Well... fine, I give up. Take care!" Juvia immediately turned around. All she wanted now was to leave immediately, to escape to a place where no one could find her. But...

"Hey! What are you doing... are you messing with me? Wait, don't go..."

"Don't go... even if you say that..."

"Don't go. If you do, tell me the location of the elemental crystal ball first..." Gray's words were cut short as Juvia sealed him inside a giant water sphere. That was Juvia's magic, [Water Binding].

There was no way around it; Gray had grabbed her arm, and Juvia, who was already on the verge of being incredibly shy, finally exploded because of this sudden physical contact!

"Waaaah... Bang!"

Surrounded by water, Gray exclaimed in surprise, blew several bubbles, and then used ice magic to turn the water sphere into an ice sphere before shattering it!

In this situation, it's amazing that he was able to muster the strength to break the ice puck from the inside out!

Perhaps Gray didn't turn all the water in the water sphere into ice.

If it's just a mixture of ice and water, the ice puck will be very fragile because of its uneven structure.

"Wow! That's amazing! You actually managed to break Juvia's [Water Flow Restraint] like that!" Juvia, of course, also realized how ingenious Gray's solution was, and exclaimed like a fangirl.

But Gray, who was being praised, didn't feel happy at all.

"You bastard... So that's how it is. All that strange behavior before was to lull me into a false sense of security? Looks like I'll have to get serious from here!" Gray said, casually ripping off his shirt to reveal a well-proportioned physique that would make most men envious.

Because he maintained a distance close enough to reach Juvia's arm, even though Juvia had taken a few steps back out of shyness, he was still very close to Gray.

A man suddenly took off his shirt, revealing his bare upper body to her. For a young girl, this was incredibly shocking!

"Take off your clothes? Huh? Why are you suddenly taking off your clothes! No... I'm not ready at all..." Juvia was probably imagining something, gesturing wildly, at a loss, trembling (why was she "trembling"? Was she scared? Nervous? Or was she excited?).

"Since you've already started attacking, then I won't hold back either! Watch out, [Ice Form - Lancer]!" Gray didn't know why he reminded her, nor why he deliberately took a few steps back to create distance between himself and the woman.

At that distance, wouldn't it have been more appropriate to use the [Ice Form - Ice Demon Sword] for close-quarters combat?

Gray instinctively sensed that the woman in front of him was very troublesome!

Despite Gray's warning, Juvia remained unresponsive due to her confused state of mind.

She only regained a little sense of clarity when Gray tried to stop but it was too late, and the Lancer's spear pierced her head-on.

"He attacked me... Yes, we're enemies. Juvia isn't sad... because this is war!" Though she said she wasn't sad, Juvia looked more dejected than anyone else. She looked... yes, this is what a woman looks like when her dreams are shattered!

"What...did you just do?!" Gray was shocked! Of course he was shocked. Because his Lancer had clearly pierced through the opponent's body! But the opponent was completely unharmed? Utterly unscathed!

"Juvia's body is made of water... Drizzle! Well then, Juvia is about to make her move. Watch out, [Water Slash]!"

"【Ice Form - Battle Axe】!"

The two magic spells slashed at each other horizontally and vertically, and then naturally collided in the middle, blooming into a beautiful cluster of ice flowers between them!

"You can't possibly defeat me! No amount of physical damage will work on me! Hand over Lucy, and I'll persuade the guild leader to stop the war!" Juvia still believed that the reason the two guilds were at war was because of Lucy.

Even Usagi Maru understands this better than she does.

"You're dreaming! Lucy is our comrade. I will protect her even at the cost of my life! I will never hand her over to anyone!" The recent Alcatraz incident had made Gray completely accept Lucy.

For Gray, Lucy is now just as important as anyone else in the guild. When he said he would risk his life to protect Lucy, he was absolutely not joking!

"Sacrificing your life + protecting her + never handing her over to anyone = a love rival!!"

Juvia's umbrella fell to the ground. The rain on the castle rooftop and in that area suddenly intensified!

then……

"Ugh! Unforgivable! Absolutely unforgivable!!" Juvia had truly exploded this time. Or rather, for Juvia, jealousy was the real catalyst that set her off!

For the first time in her life, Juvia entered "boiling water" form! Her entire body turned bright red, and steam constantly rose from her body; even her breath was puffs of steam!

Juvia's eyes were bloodshot; she was no longer a girl in love, but a dragon that had crawled out of the abyss! Well, with her long, flowing hair, wouldn't "sirens" be a more fitting description?

However, fueled by "jealousy," the girl changed more than just her appearance; her fighting power also became completely different from before!

"【Ice Form - Ice Shield】!" Faced with Juvia's massive boiling water dragon, Gray had no choice but to release an ice shield to defend himself.

However, the ice shield that had always worked so well was completely melted away in an instant today!

"Hey! You must be kidding... Natsu's fire doesn't even go that fast!"

Shocked, Gray quickly dodged to the side, but still got half his body scalded by boiling water... Ah! The pain made Gray jump around on the spot, gasping for breath!

"Juvia is burning with jealousy! Lucy is absolutely unforgivable!" Muttering these words, Juvia simply turned her body into boiling water and swept towards Gray!

"What are you talking about? What did Lucy do to you?!" Gray was completely bewildered as he dodged Juvia's attack.

Juvia, of course, didn't answer Gray. Instead, because Gray mentioned that name again, his attack became even more ferocious! Gray felt the pressure increase dramatically!

"No, this can't go on! Find an opportunity to freeze the boiling water attacking us, including her! Don't underestimate my magic! There's nothing in this world I can't freeze except fire!"

Gray muttered to himself for a moment, then seized an opportunity. He appeared to be standing still, but in reality, he was adjusting his breathing and gathering his strength.

As Juvia, transformed into a long, boiling water dragon, brushed past him, Gray instantly made his move, unleashing the compressed and gathered magic power in his right hand… This principle is the same as the "magic compression point" of Sora's "seven-inch punch." And of course, the effect is absolutely reliable!

The boiling water dragon beside him was instantly frozen into an ice dragon. Even more astonishingly, at the top of the ice dragon, where Gray's right hand was grasping, was a girl's chest…

Chapter 198 The Calamity of Water and Women (Part 3)

"This...this is..." Gray stared in disbelief. He even instinctively gave it a light pinch.

"Ah!" Juvia, her face flushed, couldn't help but exclaim softly.

“This…no, no…I…” Gray quickly backed away, looking even more flustered than Juvia.

"Ugh... Juvia is so shy... I might as well just let Juvia stay in the ice forever!" With only her head sticking out, Juvia wished she could burrow her whole body into the ice.

"Damn it... dispel the spell!" Gray finally managed to dispel the ice spell. Juvia was released.

"Why did you have to break the spell?" After the spell was broken, Juvia, who was temporarily powerless due to the freezing, lay on the ground and looked up in surprise.

"Just now... um... I didn't mean to, I'm sorry!" Gray said somewhat awkwardly.

"Let's start over!" After thinking for a moment, Gray decided to fight again. This time, he would defeat his opponent normally. Perhaps that way, he could find out the location of the elemental crystal ball.

“You…are so gentle…It’s a pity that Juvia can’t hurt you.”

"What?...Why?"

“Because… Juvia… I like Juvia…” Juvia became shy, and her voice became very soft.

"What did you say?... This rain is so strange, why is it getting heavier and heavier?" With the rain so loud and Juvia's voice so soft, he obviously couldn't hear what Juvia was saying.

"The rain is so heavy because Juvia is in a hurry!" Juvia couldn't help but shout this time.

"What... so the rain here is related to you?" Gray wasn't stupid, of course he noticed that it was raining only in this part of the castle on the entire battlefield.

In the distance, Gray could clearly see the shimmering sea through the rain. It was a very strange feeling, well, even a little eerie.

"..."

"Yes, Juvia is the 'Rain Woman.' Wherever Juvia appears, it always rains. Juvia only brings trouble to others..."

Upon hearing Gray's words, Juvia lowered her head and remained silent for a while before finally admitting that the rain was related to her. She looked dejected, as if she believed that the man before her would hate her because of it.

"Oh, I see... That must be inconvenient. But don't worry about it. It's just raining. Compared to the person I know, you're in much better shape. The person I know can't even get close to others..."

"Lord Grey! Don't you dislike Juvia?" Juvia raised her head, her face full of surprise and anticipation.

“Of course I hate it!” Gray answered decisively.

Juvia's expression immediately darkened.

"As long as you're a member of 'Phantom Lord,' as long as you're helping 'Phantom Lord' attack my guild and hurt my comrades, I will always hate you! Look at what your guild is doing! If [Jupiter] is launched, not only will our guild suffer, but the ordinary people in the city will also be doomed! I will never approve of such a mage guild!"

Gray was filled with righteous indignation. He truly loathed the way the Phantom Lord guild operated. How were their actions any different from those of the Dark Mage Guild!

Gray was once an ordinary person too. He experienced the helplessness of an ordinary person when faced with magical attacks when he was a child!

He absolutely cannot let this happen to the people of Magnolia!

"Does Lord Gray dislike Juvia simply because Juvia is a member of the 'Wraiths'?"

"That's right!"

"Then Juvia should just leave 'Phantom Troupe' and join 'Fairy Tail'... That way, Lord Gray will like Juvia!"

"Hey! What are you saying? You can't just leave a guild and join another as you please..."

"Same guild...partners...and then lovers...the guild's world for two...I'm here, Lord Gray!" Juvia could no longer hear Gray's words and pounced on him like a lovesick fool.

"Hey!" Gray quickly dodged aside. He suddenly realized that he had messed with a very formidable being.

Come to think of it, Kana once divined for him, saying he would face calamities related to water and women in the future. Could that be referring to now?! Oh no!