There was fire and blizzards everywhere, blood spread across the land, a mysterious woman covered in shadow with a broken and bloody ice chain in her hands, and close to him where three headstones two very small and one large. The two smaller ones were labeled Silver and Ame while the large one was labeled with Juvia. He couldn't believe what he saw before his eyes, he couldn't breath there was so much sulfur in the air. Very soon he felt a pounding on his cheek as the vision started to fade it became lighter, smaller, and felt softer almost pudgy.
As Gray started to wake up his sleep filled eyes began to see a small form on his bare chest. As his vision cleared the blurred shape began to become his son Silver gently patting his cheek with his tiny chubby hand.
"Hey buddy what you doing there?"
"Ba ga." Silver babbled.
"I guess I must have fallen asleep with you here on the couch, though I think it's clear who woke up first." Gray laughed as he lifted Silver in the air causing him to laugh and squirm.
"And striped in my sleep." Gray said as he looked to see his shirt was now gone.
Gray continued to give his son many affectionate kisses and tickles happy to have such a wonderful and happy baby. However as he continued to play with his son Gray began to think about his dream. He hadn't had any dreams like that since after the war, he thought that they had finally stopped after the twins were born.
It was then Silver started to fuss, signaling it was time to be fed. With that Gray got up from the couch at went to go look for Juvia.
"Alright my little Ice Prince let's go find mommy so you can be fed shall we."
Silver giggled and clapped his hands as he sat in Grays strong arms. Shortly as they started going down the hall in the modest little house they ran into Juvia who was holding Ame.
"Hey Juvia I was just looking for you."
"I was to my darling."
As both laughed Ame struggled in her mother's arms as she reached for Gray. Gray notice this and gladly indulged.
"Oh don't think I forgot about you my little sea princess." Gray said as he took Ame in his free arm.
If there was one thing that could boost Grays ego up it was being able to hold both twins in his arms at the same time. Not to mention it made them super happy to both be with their daddy. As Gray held the twins he began to think back to when they were born.
It had been a long intensive labor for Juvia, after all getting out one baby was hard enough but getting out two was twice as hard. Gray remembered how he cried when he heard their first wails
Those next six months were not easy having one baby meant a lot of work but two meant double everything. Double work, double changes, double feeding, etc but it was very worth it pulse him and Juvia had each other to help split up the work.
As Gray reminisced both the twins were starting to get fussy out of hunger. Gray eventually realized this and gave them over to Juvia so she could feed them.
After Juvia went up to the nursery where she could sit comfortably with both of them Gray sat and thought for awhile. He didn't know what he would without his family they were basically his life now nothing seemed to matter as much as them. As he sat there lost in thought a few minutes passed by and Juvia came back and proceeded to snuggle up to her husband.
"Hey where are Silver and Ame?"
"They were tired so I put them down for a nap."
"So we have a moment to ourselves?"
"Yeah I'm sure not a long one but we have one so it's a start."
"Been a long time since we've had that."
"I know I even feel weird just sitting here doing nothing right now."
"You know earlier today I had a rather odd dream."
"What did you see?" Juvia asked worriedly as she sat up.
"It was like I was in the apocalypse there was fire and ice everywhere. Then there was a mysterious woman with a broken and bloody ice chain similar to the one...Invel had." Gray said as he got rather depressed.
"Gray my love you don't have to worry about that anymore,he's gone no one will ever make us do that again."
Juvia then hugged her husband trying to assure him his nightmare would never come to pass.
"That wasn't even the worst part there were three headstones next to me. One was big and had your name on it and the other two had…Silver and Ame's names on them."
Gray wasn't crying but he just couldn't calm down. He was hysterical, but luckily Juvia was there to calm him down.
"Gray you are a loving husband and father and if there's one thing I know is that you would never let that happen. No matter the challenge no matter the hardship you have always persevered and succeeded, so please, stop worrying about such things."
Grays heart beat slowed down and put his arms around Juvia.
"Thanks for being there for me Juvia, you truly know how to make me feel better."
Gray and Juvia then cuddled with one another gladly sinking into their lovers embrace. After a few minutes later they were woken up by the cries of their twins. Both looked at each other and share a sigh. They walked up the stairs and each took a child from their cribs, Juvia taking Silver and Gray taking Ame.
The children quickly calmed down and giggled in their parents arms. After a few changes and some play time it eventually came time to feed, bath, and put them to bed. It had taken them two months after their birth but Gray and Juvia had finally got them both to sleep through the night. So after they put them in their cribs and closed the door Juvia and Gray had decided to relax with a drink of tea before they hit the hay.
As they went down started suddenly Gray froze and stopped Juvia who was behind him.
"My darling what are you doing?"
"Shhh." Gray said quickly.
Juvia blanched for a minute it then felt what her husband was shooshing her for. She felt the rather ominous and powerful magic power that was in their home. Gray motioned her to follow and she did. They both snuck silently down the stairs each ready to defend their family with their magic. They eventually got to the light switch at the end of their staircase and prepared to attack.
Gray took a breath and then slammed the light to attack only to find a woman at the mini table in the kitchen.
She was sitting poised at their table as if she had been waiting for them to get there. She had a long black braid that reached her thigh as she sat, pale skin, dark eyes, a long white cloak with fur all around the edges, a long silver dress that shimmered and had two slights making a sort of loincloth down the middle of her legs, two fingerless gloves that went up to her elbows, and a pair of heeled winter boots that had the same white fur around the top of the boot. She was quite beautiful and had quite the buxom chest along with a slender figure.
"Who are!" Gray growled angrily as he summoned an ice spear.
"Now now need to be hostile I didn't come here to attack you."
"The what are you here for!" Juvia demanded as water hovered angrily around her hands.
"Now we wouldn't want to wake up the babies would we." The woman said as she summoned long ice cycles pointed towards the ceiling which the twins were right above.
Both Gray and Juvia stopped in the tracks and slowly lowered their magic as they made their way towards the small table. As they sat down the mysterious woman made the ice cycles disappear.
"Now that that's out of the way I believe you probably want to know who I am?"
"Yes." they both said simultaneously.
"Well my name is Delilah and I am from Avatar."
Both Gray and Juvia froze at the name and spied the dark guild mark in the middle of her thigh.
"Why are you here?" Gray asked quickly and angrily.
"Oh I see we just want to get to the point. Fine then I'll tell you why I am here. Now one thing I'm sure that has crossed your mind is, if I'm from Avatar then why have you never seen me. Well the simple answer is I'm you replacement."
"Wait my replacement, what do you mean?" Gray asked suspiciously.
"Well once they found out you betrayed them and left, the guild was in search for a new powerful ice wizard. That's how I came in and they sent me here."
"Are you here for me?"
"No no no, you may have betrayed us but you're most certainly not what we are after. I came here for two people actually, two much smaller people."
It took a few seconds but then Gray realized who she was talking about.
"You stay away from them or so help I will-!" Gray yelled as he stood up tensed from the table.
"You'll what fight me, believe me ice pick you would have no chance at winning that battle. Do you know what the call me, the winter storm. For I am just as relentless, mercilessly, and powerful as one."
Delilah sat still cool as a cucumber while the only thing that was keeping Gray from attacking was Juvia holding onto his wrist.
"I don't care who you are, you will stay away from-!"
"Your little sea princess and ice prince."
Gray froze how did she know he called them that.
"You're probably wondering how I know that, well let's get one thing straight I have eyes and ears everywhere."
Gray slowly sat down unable to utter a response.
"What do you want with them!" Juvia yelled.
"Have you ever heard of Ragnarok?"
"The north legend of the end of the world?"
"Yes, that one. Now my guild plans to set that off."
"Why would do something like that all of us will die even you?!"
"Because as you know we are a guild that worships Zeref and what he wanted besides his death was the annihilation of the entire world. As his devoted followers we will make his wish come true."
"But Zeref is gone he was banished from this dimension you don't need to follow his orders anymore."
"Just because he's gone doesn't mean we will not try to complete his final wish. Zeref's will shall be done whether it kills us or not."
"Exactly how do you plan on making this happen?" Gray said angrily as he was finally able to respond.
"Well you see Zeref had invented many things in his cursed time and when he had heard of this legend it inspired him to create a doomsday device if the demons couldn't do their job. It will start off the events of Ragnarok and freeze over the world so it may be burned by fire."
"What do our children have to do with this?" Gray growled.
"Well ice pick the machine requires the magic power of two wizards, one ice the other water, with the greatest potential with their magic."
"And you think my kids who can barely crawl let alone do magic are the ones for this!"
"Now now now Gray we both know that isn't true or do I have to mention the incident about four years ago."
Gray and Juvia tensed up at the mention of that time.
"That's right I know about it like I said I have eyes and ears everywhere. How old were you both mid twenties and your children were teenagers yet it took both of you to beat them. If they were that powerful then imagine what they'll reach when their your age."
"You're absolutely psychotic if you think I'm going to let you take them for this!"
Gray was ready to stab this woman as was Juvia who was very close to drowning her.
"You don't have a say in this matter I'm taking them whether you like it or not. Maybe not today but very soon."
It was then a blizzard started to swirl around the people at the table becoming more intense as the power and moods of Gray and Delilah clashed.
"You stay away from them!"
"Gray please calm down!" Juvia yelled as she tried to resist the storm.
"Oh there's no keeping me away, Zeref's work will be done! Who knows maybe while I'm at it I might just keep them and train them in darkness. Make them all you fear that will be in the future!"
"I want you out of here!"
"Oh I'll leave then but I will return!"
Vidalia started to glow causing Gray to run and shield Juvia. Soon she bursted and the light flooded the room and then was dark.
Gray and Juvia opened their eyes and saw how their whole living room was covered in frost. If there was one thing that was perfectly clear even though he was gone the still could not escape Zeref's wrath.