Oh hey! So if any of you migrated over from my bleach fic, sorry about the no update week. This was what I was writing as well as the second chapter for this. Also a one-shot, and the actual first chapter to fairy tail fight club. Writer's block struck and as I was watching the Cursed Island Arc again, my angst opportunity alerts popped up so this is what ya'll get. Hope you enjoy and this is the first time that I've written a pairing fic for this fandom, using this pairing, and my second fic for it overall, so please forgive any mistakes, and point them out in the reviews you leave. See ya at the bottom!
DISCLAIMER I DO NOT OWN FAIRY TAIL OR ITS CHARACTERS, 'cause I can't do comedy and be serious at the same time!

There was no way.

Gray stared at the scene unfolding right in front of him. To him this was like a bad dream, something that his mind would create if only to torture him more for his sins. Why he had thought that he'd be able to have this one pleasure in his life without any repercussions he wasn't sure.

The ice age heard a particularly sickening crunch, causing him to return his full attention back onto the battle below him. He had been severely injured early on, and that idiot having the heroic nature that he was famous for, had carried Gray away from the fight. Which conveniently enough was on top of a rather large statue's head. The moronic Dragon Slayer had returned to the fight after that.

Gray growled in frustration, he'd been badly injured before and still fought. The only difference now was Gray and Natsu were together, yes in that way.

The raven-haired mage was still confused on as to how it happened. The ice mage blamed dragon mating season, he wasn't complaining, and everyone had seen it coming. Mating season was just the push that they needed.

One minute they had been in a brawl, throwing punches left and right, and for once Erza wasn't threating them with death when they fought, and the next minute Natsu was straddling Gray pulled the ice mage into a fierce lip lock.

Gray still had trouble with the occasional cat calls he got from some of his guild mates when he walked into the guild hall.

Stupid flame brain. Gray thought with little venom.

The battle hadn't changed much in the last few minutes. He saw his friends being tossed around like ragdolls and they were almost out of magical power. A few of the mages had to through in the towel as they just didn't have the strength and stamina to be of any more help. Lucy and Wendy were still standing, but looking like they were about to pass out, Gray had to compliment them on their determination to not be left behind.

The giant slammed his foot down causing a shock wave to course through the ground, sending Wendy and Levy flying, and causing Gajeel to lose his cool and send a particularly powerful roar towards the thing. Unfortunately the power acted like it was cut in half.

The damn thing had a resistance to magic.

Most of those still standing were running low on magical energy. Natsu wasn't the least of them. He kept on sending magical attack after magical attack towards the giant.

Gray watched with pain evident in his eyes. Natsu was the type that wouldn't give up until he died, which at the rate he was going would be rather soon. Thankfully the Fairy Tail guild had been able to take care of the giants friends, but that had taken most of everyone's magic, but now they could all focus on one.

Natsu looked like he was fighting at full strength, and that was what was giving the other Fairy Tail members hope to keep fighting, Gray could tell that Natsu was starting to tire. The Dragon Slayer's magic might be at full strength, but there was only so much that a body could take. No matter how strong the spirit of the person was.

As much as it pained the Ice mage to think, there was really only one option that would lead to the least casualties. Gray was the only ones at the guild that knew the horrors of battle first hand and knew that casualties were a part of life when in combat. Even if they had Natsu on their side, the truth of fighting always one out sooner or later.

Gray knew that the course of action he was about to take would save the Fairy Tail members and most of everyone in Magnolia. He'd finally be able to be the one to save Natsu. With his resolve strengthened, Gray stood up shakily. Groaning as his wound protested his movement.

His legs were trembling and it became apparent that Gray was worse off that he had originally thought, he wouldn't be able to stay up for much longer. He moved gracefully into an instantly recognizable pose, no Fairy Tail member would be able to mistake what spell Gray was about to cast.

Summoning up all of his magical power he focused on the target of the spell. The area began to shine around him in a blue simmering light. Not that anyone could see him because of his height. The air cooled considerably around him. Only a person who happened to be looking at his exact location would be able to tell something was going down.

Little did he know that the one person he didn't want to see, was looking straight at the spot. The fight paused momentarily, even the air stilled for a second making it the quietest place on earth. But two voices quickly broke the silence.

One with a heart shattering sound "Gray!"

The other steeled with determination. "Iced Shell-"

Time resumed into its normal speed and the pinkette launched himself towards where he left Gray. He moved faster than he had ever in his entire life. He was drive by one simple thought; I need to get to Gray!

He prayed to every god that he could think of that he'd be able to get to Gray before the spell was finished, he still had a chance. Natsu wasn't about to let that tiny flicker of hope diminish because he was too slow. Out of the corner of his eye he could see that Ice was starting to form around the giant which was attempting crush the ice but the ice was holding much to the guild's pleasure and the giant's annoyance.

Natsu didn't even realize that he was ten feet away. He could see Gray clearly now. The ice mage was weakening at a dangerous level. Natsu could see Gray's muscles protesting their use, and the wound that Gray had was bleeding profusely, there was a large puddle of crimson forming in the center of the magic circle.

Natsu spared a glance at the giant and saw that four magic circles had enclosed the giant and the freezing process was speeding up. The dragon slayer pushed himself to go faster than he thought was even possible. Gray was almost fully enclosed in a blue white light.

"Endless Free-"

The word and the spell were abruptly cut off. All of the light quickly died down, and the air which was starting to become frigid began to return to its normal temperature for the most part. The giant was still halfway incased in ice.

Natsu was consumed with a rage that he had never felt before. One look at the giant sent his blood into a boil. Without giving it much thought, not unusual but now he was acting on pure instinct, he raised his hands to his mouth and let out one of the strongest breaths that he had ever done. Only stopping when he was sure the giant was crispy enough.

Alarm bells were going off in his head. Telling him that something was wrong one look at the giant sent his blood into a boil. Without giving it much thought, not unusual but now he was acting on pure instinct, he raised his hands to his mouth and let out one of the strongest breaths that he had ever done. Only stopping when he was sure the giant was crispy enough.

Alarm bells were going off in his head. Telling him that something was wrong. He was expecting Gray to have begun yelling the moment that the giant was taken care of. Turning around Natsu gasped. Gray hadn't moved at all from the position that Natsu pushed him into. In fact the Ice mage's eyes weren't even open.

Natsu hesitantly stepped towards Gray. He still smelled alive. The dragon slayer knelt down, turning the ice mage over onto his back, placing one ear over Gray's heart. If it wasn't for Natsu's increased hearing he would've missed the very faint fluttery heartbeat. Just the unevenness of the heartbeat was enough to unsettle Natsu, Gray normally had a steady beat. Natsu should know, he spent enough nights listening to it; he loved the sound, it reminded him that Gray was actually there and wasn't going to leave him alone.

Still reacting on instinct alone, Natsu picked Gray up bridal style and leapt down. The moment his feet touched the ground he called for Wendy.

The youngest dragon slayer ran towards her two brother figures. Natsu laid Gray down on the ground, and then sat right next to the Ice mage. Wendy began her healing magic, but found that it was only healing Gray's stomach wound and wasn't restoring consciousness to Gray or replenishing his magical power.

Wendy leaned back, her breathing harsh from using more of her magical power. She looked like she was about to cry, she wasn't able to heal anyone that she cared about.

The rest of the guild had the sense not to get any closer, they knew how Natsu got when Gray was involved. The Dragon Slayer who was already extremely protective of his friend was ten times more so with Gray. Even Juvia quickly learned that she needed to back off if she wanted to keep her life. Besides Lyon had been coming around the guild a lot more, much to Natsu's annoyance.

Though the master, with his face looking grave stepped towards the two dragon slayers. The master placed a comforting hand on Wendy's shoulder. Natsu felt his stomach drop at the action, he had never seen the master look like that.

"Natsu, I assume you know about Iced Shell?" Makarov stared, only continuing when he received a nod from Natsu. "Iced Shell requires the caster to be completely committed towards the goal, if not the spell just saps the user's life force. There is ice that formed, meaning that the ice you see right now contains some of Gray's life force."

Natsu blinked, understanding dawning slowly on him. "So you mean?"

Makarov nodded slowly. "Gray lost some of his life force yes, but not enough to be fatal, apparently. But we do now that he is in a coma, and Wendy's healing magic isn't working on him. I'm not really sure what the future holds of him at the moment."

Gramps couldn't really mean that? Natsu thought silently, his mind reeling.

Gray wouldn't leave me, not knowing what it would do to me! Gray's too stubborn to die!

Natsu stared at Gray's sleeping form. He was suddenly overwhelmed by the news and the exhaustion from the battle. Natsu fainted.

When the dragon slayer came into consciousness the first thing that he smelled was antiseptic. Opening his eyes he was nearly blinded by the light and the white in the room.

Hospital. Natsu concluded.

The next thing to hit his nose was something that he knew could never be replicated. It smelled like pine trees and cool mint. It was so unmistakable, that Natsu bolted upright in the hospital bed. Following the scent to the bed next to him.

The scent of his mate, and seeing steady rise and fall of his chest calmed Natsu immediately. He silently evaluated the condition of his lover. Noting the bandages around Gray's chest and head. Other than that there was no sign of any trauma or any indication that Gray had woken up.

He would claim that it was a dragon thing for as long as he lived, but Natsu couldn't help but want to be left alone at the moment. Right now the only thing that he wanted was to make sure that he wasn't dreaming.

He crawled into the bed next to Gray, inhaling the scent that drove him wild. But as he laid next to his lover he realized that there was guilt gnawing at his heart.

Natsu knew the reason that Gray was in this position was because of him. If he hadn't left Gray alone on top of that statue he wouldn't have had to spend as much as he life force as he did. Natsu had taken Gray out of the battle to protect his mate, but in the end he ended up hurting him more than saving him.

"Gray, forgive me." He whispered brokenly.

Here we are that the bottom. Thank you for sticking around to read this chapter. Please leave any thoughts below, and I'm honestly trying to write something light and happy, like Fairy Tail Fight Club, but its proving harder than I thought. So anyway hope you enjoyed, and the second chapter should be up tonight. I may or may not make this a three shot. Later! ~IF