Good Intentions

The Return of Magic

"Anyone I know?", Gray smirked at him. He walked away from the building and headed towards the fire mage. He put his arms around him and kissed him good morning. Natsu leaned in to the kiss and gave a happy hum. He finally broke away and started walking.

"Well come on Slowpoke, we have a mountain to climb.", he started the long trek that would take them to Mt. Hakobe. Gray walked next to him and in no time they were talking animatedly and coming up with outrageous challenges for the climb ahead.

As soon as Happy woke up he flew straight to the guild. He hoped Carla or Lily were there, he needed someone to talk to. Happy was very angry with Gray. He just knew that the ice mage had done something to his Natsu and he could tell that Natsu was not aware of it. He flew into the guild and found Wendy and Carla sitting at the counter talking to Mira.

He slumped on the counter.

"Good morning Happy!", they all greeted warmly, "Where's Natsu?"

"He's off to Mt. Hakobe with that jerk.", Happy grumbled.

"Aww, Happy are you jealous of Gray? That's sweet!", Mira smiled at Happy, she gave the little Exceed a hug.

"I'm not jealous of him, he did something to Natsu.", he mumbled. How could he make them understand?

"What do you mean he did something to him?", Wendy asked carefully.

"I mean he did something to Natsu to make Natsu like him.", Happy said forlornly.

"Happy, Natsu is just growing up that's all. He's in love for the first time and he's going to want to spend a lot of time with Gray but that doesn't mean he doesn't have time for you.", Mira tried to cheer the little guy up, "You could do stuff with them. Did he invite you to go with them?"

"You just don't understand!", tears filled Happy's eyes.

"Happy, why don't we go for a walk?. You can tell me what it is you think that Gray-san did, ok?", Wendy said kindly.

Happy sniffled and nodded. "Can we get some yummy fish?", he asked hopefully in a small voice.

"Of course, let's go!", Wendy and Carla led him outside. They stopped by the market to buy Happy some fish and then they found a quiet place to talk.

"Why don't you tell us what's bothering you?", Wendy and Carla waited patiently.

Happy took a deep breath, "Natsu and I went fishing about two weeks ago. We were having a really nice time and I asked him if he thought that...uhm...someone would accept my fish."

Wendy smiled a little at his awkwardness , she was pretty sure she knew who he was talking about.

"Anyway, he said that he wasn't the best person to ask because he didn't have anyone he wanted to give a fish to. Not even a little! Natsu wouldn't lie to me, so then why is he with Gray now? He said that he only gets one mate and that he wasn't in any hurry to find them. He said he wanted to make sure it was the right one and he wanted to make them happy. How could that have changed so quickly? Gray must have found out and wanted to play a trick on Natsu so he'd be alone forever. I hate him!", Happy was sobbing.