Erza looked to the scoreboard. The score showed 107 - 108, with Saber Tooth in the lead. It was a tight match. She watched as Jellal was currently defending with Gray against their opponent in a man to man defense. Sting against Gray and Jellal versus Rogue, they were the only one currently in the way of Fairy Tail winning. Jellal was trying to dribble past Rogue, and he looked like he was suffering out there.
Jellal had to win. He had to defeat Rogue. What was she doing this whole time? She came to cheer for Fairy Tail. Erza took a deep breath.She came to cheer for Gray's team. Twenty seconds left. She took a deep breath from her diaphragm and shouted on top of her lungs. "Jellal Fernandez, if you don't beat the crap out of that emo bastard, Mavis help me, I will murder you!!!!"
Then there was silence.
The whole crowd practically turned all the way to search for the loud, intimidating voice that defeated the noisy cheers of the fan girls, the sound of the ball hitting the ground and the squeaking noises of basketball shoes on the battlefield.
Even Gray and Jellal as well sting and the said emi bastard Rogue paused their glaring battle to look at the currently flushed Erza Scarlet, not quiet embarrassed by the crowd looking at her but for interrupting the game. She was looking at Gray, maybe for the first time since she arrived at the game. Gray smiled. Jellal was surprised to see a very beautiful woman who just told him what to do and just threatened to kill him. It was the first time that a girlfriend treated him as someone inferior since all girls are throwing themselves to him. It was odd yet caught his attention and her having an amazing body and a beautiful face is just a bonus. Jellal found himself smiling at the red head.
"What the heck did she just do?" Gray was internally laughing, he was suddenly reminded that Erza was just as crazy as before. "Maybe she hadn't changed after all."
Jellal had broken out of his daze faster than the dark emo bastard that was on him a few seconds ago and dribbled past him smoothly. Erza watched as Rouge looked baffled as he realized that Jellal had just dribbled past him. Finally Jellal made his finishing touch. He jumped slightly backwards and threw the ball in the air almost gracefully, and the ball landed in the basket smoothly. The buzzer was heard at the same time. Jellal had just beaten the buzzer With a three-pointer. The crowd erupted and cheered. Gray looked up at the score board, breathlessly.
FairyTail- 110
SaberTooth- 108
FairyTail won against SaberTooth that had been the champion for the past years. The crowd cheered loudly
"FAIRY TAIL! FAIRY TAIL!"
Natsu, Uvogin, Feitan, and Gray all ran up to Jellal and slapped him on the back. All of them acknowledged his final counterattack. "You did it as expected!" Natsu cheered. It was quite surprising that he wasn't whining about not being able to make the last basket. "That was a great game." Feitan commented. "It's too bad the Laxus wasn't here to see it."
Uvogin added "We might not have won if Erza wasn't here actually." Feitan commented again turning to Gray. "She did a great job of distracting that ace from the opposing team to give Jellal an opening, and attending to the injured Gray"
Gray didn't say anything. He was happy but he wasn't quite proud that he was injured and that Jellal made them win instead of him. He also is feeling jealous about how Erza and the blue haired boy looks at each other, he just starting to get her back and here he is trying to snatch her away. He had to admit to himself that if it weren't for Erza causing the confusion that she had just now, they might have lost. "I'm fucking tired." Uvogin grunted, but nonetheless the team could tell he was happy. They all agreed with him.
The whistle was heard and they saw SaberTooth Academy's team coming up to them. They shook hands with Fairy Tail being awfully respectful for the first time. Gray noticed that the dark shadowy emo bastard Erza was referring to was gripping his hands a little rougher. Fairy Tail's circle of friends was already running up to the team, offering words of congratulations to everyone. Hisoka, and Illumi went up to Jellal to give him a "good job greeting". Chrollo walked up to his best friend Gray to celebrate their win. "Erza! Let's go too!" Nobunaga encouraged. Erza's foot had been stuck on the ground. She was nervous. She is a little embarrassed on how she made a scene, but still she steeled herself and marched up to them.
"Lucy!" Natsu ran up to Lucy. "Did you see me?" He asked, grinning. His hand was up, ready for a high five. The blond responded his high-five with a cheerful smile. "Yeah! You guys were amazing!" Then Natsu started bragging that he was the best with Lucy pointing out that Gray was the star in that game. Natsu of course whined endlessly and the gang laughed at their antics.
The fan girls finally walked up to Gray and congratulated him in a very "fan-girling" manner, if that made any sense. Juvia was especially happy, watching her beloved Gray-sama the entire time. She continued her endless praise, with Gray just nodding and muttering "Thanks."
"Gray!" Gray turned to see Erza approaching him. "Erza."It was slightly amusing to see the fan girls surrounding Gray slowly clearing and making a path for Erza to walk towards him. It wasn't like Erza's fierceness was forgotten. She smiled at her dark-haired friend proudly. This was the second time in a while seeing this smile on Erza. Gray's heart skipped a beat. That was strange. "You were amazing" she commented "Thought you weren't gonna show up."Gray answered with a smirk "I wasn't planning to, if kendo club was not assigned to keep the place in check I wouldn't be here and... I keep my promises." Erza said sternly. "You promised?" Gray didn't remember her saying that. "I promised myself I'd be here." She said, causing Gray's smile to broaden. "I'm glad I came. You were really hurt but still you did a great job" she added. A swell of pride rose in his chest. It was a different than how he would usually feel when his fan girls, or even his teammates would praise him. He wasn't sure why; maybe because Erza giving praise was so rare. Since when did they start talking with each other comfortably like this? It was like magic. They both didn't realize it happening. They also didn't realize their friends and Gray's fan girls were just staring at them. Juvia didn't even cut in, which was strange since she'd always try her best to interrupt Gray's conversation with other girls.
Their small moment was interrupted when Machi Komacine suddenly slung an arm around Erza's shoulder.
Machi is a short young woman with a petite build. She has pink mid-back hair that is usually tied into an updo, and blue eyes. She said it loudly for all of them to hear. "If it weren't for Erza, you would have totally made the team lose, Gray." Everyone laughed hearing Cana's remark to which Erza smiled again and Gray turned his head away, slightly blushing."And I don't think you two have been formally introduced" the pink haired team manager added looking at Erza then to Jellal. "Erza this is Jellal" she said extending her hands to the blue haired guy "Jellal, this is Erza" she added pointing at the red head beside her. The two looked at each other. "It seemed like you were really afraid of getting murdered by me." Erza said smiling. "I have to be alive you know."Jellal responded scratching his left cheek smiling back. "Pleasure to meet you. I should say I was quite surprised when you shouted" Jellal introduced himself. "I'm sorry, I just felt like I needed to do something" she answered sheepishly "well, thanks you still helped the team, although I'm not an official member of the team. I'm only a replacement for their team captain, Laxus is injured and can't play at the moment so yeah" Jellal said. "This Jellal guy is kinda cute" Erza thought to herself and just stared at him and he noticed how she stares at him. He took some of her hair and played with it in his fingers "I like your hair, it reminds me of someone" he said to the blushing Erza and smirked at her "Thanks, I guess?" She answered. "Erza, let's go" her attention was called by her captain Nobunaga and she bowed at the guy "I have to go, see you around" she said smiling and walked away, Gray and chrollo looked at the two Chrollo felt pain and annoyance but unsure why. Gray ran up to Erza and grabbed her hand which made her stop "hey Erza wanna hang out later? I'm buying you cake" he said Erza's eyes sparkled at the sound of cake and agreed "cute" chrollo muttered.