Juvia's POV

I quickly awaken from my slumber. A string of drool lays dangling off of my chin.

"Juvia?" I hear a voice call me from behind the mahogany door.

"Are you decent?" Grays voice sounds the room.

"Juvia is decent!" I pull back the covers and Gray walks in. He is holding onto a bronze tray with orange juice, toast and jam and a toffee roll?

"Here. I made you some breakfast." I smile as he sets the tray down on my chest of drawers.

"You didn't have to." I begin to say.

"No I insist." Gray smiles. I take a bite into my toast.

"Thank you." My cheeks flush.

After breakfast we head on down to the training room.

"Everyone Listen up please!" Our instructor brandishes a dagger.

"I want everyone to be friendly here. Save your brawls for the games." I turn my head to Gray who smirks.

"You will be under surveillance for the up coming weeks. Then you all will be assessed individually." The instructor proceeds.

"Let the training commence." We all walk towards the weapon stand and take our choice of weapon.

There are bows, swords, daggers, weights, maces, hammers and spears. I take a small dagger. Everyone grabs their weapons quickly and starts fighting. You hear screams and the sound of kicks and punches throughout the chrome room. One red haired girl is especially skilled with her blade. She slices through those dummies like they are slices of meat.

"What you doing?" I hear Gray whisper in my ear. I turn quickly to face him.

"Juvia is practising." I reply. He chuckles slightly and takes the dagger off of me.
"Here try this instead," He hands me a slick silver sword. It's blade is shaped almost like an ocean wave, its light, very light. I tie my hair into a ponytail then grip the blade.

"Well, give it a swing." He edges me on. I walk slowly towards a dummy. I breath in slowly then swing. Everyone turns to face me. Even Gray is shocked.

The dummies head rolls onto the ground. I hold the blade in front of me shocked of its power. I turn to gray.

"Good swing." He winks and laughs. My cheeks flush quickly.

Gray walks up to another dummy and picks up a hammer. He swings the piece of lead slickly in the air. Crushing the dummy to the ground.

"It's smooth like ice. I like this weapon." Gray removes his shirt and throws it to the ground revealing his perfect abs. My cheeks burn.
He swings the hammer some more and crushes some more dummies.
"Hey quit showing off you stripper boy." A salmon haired boy storms up to Gray with a sulking blonde haired girl beside him.
"Im sorry, you pink haired pansy." Gray replys. The pink hair boy cracks his knuckles. He picks up a blade shaped like a flame and swings it. Three dummies fall to the floor in pieces.

"Piece of cake." Gray runs up with his hammer and crushes a group of dummies. Their head are all squashed and holes are in some of their heads. So brutal.

I feel scared standing beside him. The Blonde haired girl who was with the pink haired boy has walked off. She is sitting alone on a chair playing with a necklace.

"Hi, I'm Juvia." I walk over and say hello. She jumps back and sighs.

"Lucy." She places her necklace back inside her top then stands up.

"Thats a nice necklace." I smile. She turns her head to face me with her mouth agape.

"It was my mothers." She replies with a smile. She runs on back over to the pink haired boy.

"GRAY!" I grab onto the boys muscular arm and try to pull him away from the pink haired boy.

After hours of fighting and training we finally went back to our rooms.

"Argh I hate that guy." Gray slams my bedroom door over and storms in.

"Who?" I question from my bed. He turns his head and snaps.
"He said his name was Natsu." Gray mocks removing his trainers.
"Juvia thinks Natsu's friend is nice." I take a chocolate out of the heart shaped box on my bed.

"Who the girl?" Gray kicks off his other shoe and jumps on the bed next to me. He sticks his finger in the box and pulls out a chocolate.

"Mmm i love chocolate." Gray moans and takes another.

"Her name was Lucy. Juvia thinks we could be friends." Gray smiles and pets my head.

"At least your making friends." He smiles. He wraps his head over my shoulder and makes me lie back. I stare into his eyes whilst he looks up at the ceiling.

"It's sad to think that everyone back at home is living their poor life, and here we are living in a paradise." Gray turns to face me.

"I wonder how Ultear is keeping up..." Gray ruins the moment. I smile but internally I'm crying.

"She will be rooting you on..." I manage to say. Gray's face scrunches into a frown. He sits up quickly and stares to the wall.

"I don't think so to be honest. Such a pretty girl like her has boys cooing over her, she has probally already forgotten about me and moved on." He mumbles. I hug him from behind.

"Juvia thinks you are being silly." I manage a smile. Gray turns to me and sighs.

"Lets put the cards on the table here. If i somehow magnificently make it back home she will probally be mad and angry at me for coming with you and if I do die she will move on..." Gray slouches down on the bed a d turns to me.

"Either way, she is gone..." he quickly jumps up and walks to the door.

"Im sorry to bother you Juvia..." he turns and walks through the door. How much i would just love to run and confess to him right now. I wish he would realise the pain he puts me through, then we could finally be together. I'm gonna do it. Im gonna confess!

"Gray wait." I call him back. He turns his head round the door.

"I-I'm..." He tilts his head in confusion.

"Ye?"

"You forgot your shoes." I point to the combat boots on the floor.
"Oh" he says disappointed. He picks them up then walks out.

I'm such a coward, I'll be facing death in a few day and Im to scared to confess my love. How will I last?