Kick Forty: Funeral Preparations&Gruvia speaks
Previously on FPG:

"He...no." Lucy shoved the hot pink crumpled letter into Mira's hands as she fell to the floor, her screams echoing through the small dorm.

"Natsu..." Mira shook her head, grabbing Lucy and pulling her into a tight embrace, as Juvia read the letter, her mouth dropped.

Natsu was dead.
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After everything that happened that night, Lucy sat in her bed, sitting in a tight ball. Her eyes were dark, and held no emotion but sadness. Her fists were balled, wrapping around her small frame.

Mira watched from a distance, worrying about her best friend. Small tears slid down her cheeks, thinking about Natsu, Lucy, and everything about them that made them, well, them.

Juvia sighed, walking toward the telephone hanging loosely on the wall, dialing the military base in Crocus.

"Hello, Crocus Military Base, how may I help you?" The voice asked.

"May I please speak to Gray Fullbuster?" Juvia quietly asked.

"Yes, please wait one moment."

Gray looked over to the cot next to him, empty, the covers were pulled over the bed, the pillows tossed on lazily.

Gray sighed, his eyes watering. "Natsu... what about Lucy? And what about the future you were going to have with her? Are you just going to leave her there? Alone? With no pink headed fool there to watch over her? You idiot! What were you thinking?!? Running into an explosion? Man, even though you saved him, you died Natsu. You're gone."

His eyes were light, filled with emptiness, not nowing how in the world Lucy was doing with the news she was delivered this morning.

Without any warning, the phone started to ring, making Gray's large body jump. He sighed, lazily slinging his arm over the bed to reach the phone.

"Gray speaking," He spoke.

"Gray-sama?" His eyes lit up at the small voice over the phone, he sat up happily, even if it was just for a moment.

"Juvia!" Gray said somewhat happily.

"Gray-sama, what happened... to Natsu?" Her voice started to shake, her eyes filled to the brim with salt water, ready to cry.

"He's gone Juvs. He ran into an  explosion trying to rescue our general. Natsu saved him, but he died running in." Gray explained, feeling a lump in his throat.

"Gray-sama, how are you feeling?" Juvia asked.

"Not good Juvs, but I'm sure Lucy's doing a lot worse at the moment. Juvia, I-" He stopped, gathering some confidence to swallow the huge lump forming in his throat. "I held him in my arms, and he told me, 'Gray, tell Lucy I love her, and I will come home...' then he stopped breathing, and Juvia I shook him... and-"

"Gray..."Juvia shook her head, "I'm so so so sorry. When is his funeral?"

Gray shuttered at the thought of burying his best friend, and thinking about how bad Lucy was going to feel. Gray sighed, speaking quietly. "Two days, we'll all meet back in Magnolia, and go to the cemetery in Fairy Tail Hills."

"I'll start packing then, oh and Gray," Juvia started to shake, little by little. "We have another guest coming, but she- she's little. Her name is Aki, and well... Lyon.."

"What did he do to you?" Gray's voice grew dark.

"Lyon raped me."