"I need to take a job! I can't pay my rent at this rate", Lucy whined.

"Then I suppose this is great timing for me to arrive", Erza appeared next to her: "I have accepted a job for the whole team."

Lucy suddenly looked very bright, everyone in the room had to shut their eyes for a moment since the light was too bright to see.

"Really?!" she squealed, "That means I can pay my rent and won't be thrown out of my house!"

"I wouldn't really call it a house, it isn't that big", Happy interrupted.

"Shut it, cat" Lucy glared.

Happy immediately complied and flew back to Natsu.

"Let's get going!" the latter exclaimed excited.

"Wait! Where's Gray?" Lucy asked.

"Who cares about him? Let's do this mission!" Natsu suddenly cowered under Erza's glare: "Did you say something? Are you fighting again?"

"No ma'am" he laughed nervously "I was just saying that we should go look for him, right Happy?"

"Right!" Happy quickly yelled and in a second they ran out.

"Great, they left me alone with Erza, I hope she won't find anything to be angry about that involves me" Lucy sighed.

"As for you, Lucy Heartfilia!" Erza glared, towering above Lucy.

The people who lived five blocks away from the guild suddenly heard a frightening scream from a certain blonde celestial mage.

Gray sat up in his bed, blankly staring at his sheets. He remembered that he had a dream he didn't understood but it was a very important one, like a memory from a long time ago that could mean the difference between life and death. Of course he didn't know if the memory was really a case of life and death but it felt like it was just as important. But Gray couldn't remember what it was about.

He remembered having different kind of feelings. But what had happened in the dream itself was a complete mystery. He couldn't even place which feelings it were.

He was so deep in thought he didn't even realize that Natsu and Happy just entered his house … by breaking down the door and screaming Gray's name pretty loudly.

Only when Natsu punched him with his dragon fists, did he realize they were there.

"What are you doing here?! Go away and repair my door would you?" Gray growled, he wasn't in the mood to deal with Natsu right now.

Natsu frowned at him: "Erza told me to go get you since we're going on a mission." Natsu then narrowed his eyes: "But you were in such a deep thought that you didn't even realize me kicking down the door. Besides it's almost lunch time, it isn't like you to still be in bed at this time. What's wrong?"

"Don't act like you care" Gray snapped and went into the bathroom to get ready before Erza would be even madder.

"Yeah, you're right, I don't. Now hurry up and get ready or Erza will kill us", Natsu said walking outside to wait there.

"That was pretty mean Natsu. Why did you say to Gray that you didn't care? You do care, … right?" Happy asked flying after him.

"Of course I care, but did you see his eyes. He was on the defensive mode. If I just asked he wouldn't tell me a thing. If I acted like I don't care he'll think I dropped the subject and his guard will lower a bit which will allow me to find out what's bothering him" Natsu said, proud that he had come up with a genius idea.

"Did you just say that was your plan, that you actually thought about something?" Happy asked. "I sure did" Natsu grinned proudly.

"Help! We need a doctor! Natsu has gone crazy! Fast before it's too late and he'll grow smart!" Happy was panicking, Natsu thinking didn't mean anything good.

"Geez, thanks for supporting me", Natsu groaned.

"What's going on here?" Gray asked when he walked out of the apartment.

Before Natsu could stop him, Happy spoke up: "Natsu said something smart! He was thinking just now!"

Gray's eyes widened. "The idiot was thinking for once?"

"Shut your trap, you ice-block"

"Who're you calling an ice block, flame brain?"

"At least I have a brain!"

"You? A brain? Don't make me laugh!"

And that's how they ended up arguing all the way to the guild and when they arrived there, getting their heads slammed into eachother by Erza. Reminding Lucy why she wanted to be on her good side.

"Ice-make: Ice lance" Gray yelled and killed some of the beasts that were terrorizing the island. The beasts itself weren't that powerful but if they were in group then their strength was doubled four times, especially when a few fussed together. Which was the reason a normal wizard couldn't do the job.

Gray looked up when no more beasts attacked him, Erza just slayed another 20 beasts and Lucy had also finished her part. Natsu was just about to use his fire dragon roar on a big group when Gray suddenly grinned, thinking about how to irritate Natsu.

"Ice make: Ice hammer!" Gray said and crushed all the beasts with it. "Hey!" Natsu yelled angrily. "Those were mine you filthy stripper!"

"If I recall you killed 124 of them, well I killed 169" Gray smirked.

"That's because you killed all my targets with that stupid hammer of yours!"

"Those were hardly twenty beast which means that I still would've killed 25 more than you"

"Why you …" Natsu growled.

"What? Wanna fight?" Gray asked also walked towards the other with his hand raised.

"Gray! Your clothes" Lucy reminded Gray.

"Oh, crap" Gray exclaimed looking down to see tha the had stripped again.

"You really are a pervert" Natsu said grinning.

"Whatever" Gray said and started walking away. Natsu frowned, it wasn't like Gray to just walk away from a fight, especially with Natsu.

Gray couldn't believe the part of his dream that he had remembered, there was no way that that was possible.

He was walking through town, aware that he had left his teammates in the forest but he couldn't help it. He had seen a glimpse of that person, but that had to be an illusion. It couldn't be anything else but still, his brain refused to believe that.

He definitely saw her, watching the fight and after that she disappeared. Her black cloak making her look very mysterious.

"Hey! What're you doing here? Looking for what fun?" Gray heard a voice asking from behind him. He turned around and saw a group of thugs, without knowing he had walked into the shady part of the village.

Gray snorted and started to walk away.

"Hey! Don't ignore me!" the male who had yelled at him growled. He grabbed Gray's shoulder, turned him around and shoved him into the wall.

Gray's head banged into the wall making him see stars. He groaned.

"Ice make: Lance" Gray growled making lances shoot out of his hand to pin the guy that had slammed him into the wall to the wall opposite of the one Gray was leaning on.

"Why you!" the other males said attacking Gray all at once.

Thanks to having his head slammed into the wall, Gray's reaction's weren't as fast as normally but he still managed to dodge the attacks.

"Ice make: Prison!" Gray yelled making a prison around the gang.

Gray stood on the prison and smirked at how pathetic they looked when he suddenly felt someone behind him.

He quickly turned around, seeing a guy with a pipe a meter before him ready to slam his head in. He had no time to react, his head was hurting too much.

The guy was swinging the pipe towards Gray's head, Gray's eyes widened. He couldn't possibly lose to a stupid guy with a pipe, no way.

And then suddenly, the guy was immerged by flames, he stood literally in fire. How was that possible? Was it Natsu? No, he would've seen that idiot attack. But then, who?

"Long time no see, … Gray" Gray's eyes widened, that voice …

He turned around and there she was, standing on the roof behind him, her head hidden by the cloak's hood but he could still recognise her. "No way" he whispered.

"Where is that ice block?" Natsu groaned, they had found Gray's letter but he said that he would be back in an hour, that was three hours ago.

"Don't worry, I'm sure we'll find him" Erza said, right now they were walking into the dark alleys where all the gangs hung out.

"I hope we'll find him quickly, I'm not planning on walking around here for fun" Natsu groaned while Lucy was looking around.

To be honest, she was scared, not only because they were walking in a shady part of the village but also for Gray. She didn't know what happened to him and that scared her. She had a bad feeling about this.

"Hey! Look over there!" Happy yelled. They all turned their heads towards the place Happy pointed out and saw … ice!

"Gray!" Lucy yelled happily running into that direction.

Then she stopped, before her stood an ice prison, filled with thugs, but no Gray.

Natsu began sniffing. "Gray has been here alright, and not so long ago, I would say five minutes ago."

"That means he hasn't gotten that far yet!" Lucy said optimistic as always.

"Wait" Natsu said, jumping on top of the prison. Right before his feet was a puddle of blood. Lucy gasped.

A few meters away was a guy lying. Erza nodded towards Natsu, and he immediately understood what he had to do.

He sniffed. And his face fell. He looked at Erza and then back at the blood. "I'm sorry, it's not his … It's Gray's"