Chapter 1

The day had started off normal enough. Gray looked behind him to see Natsu and Erza beating the crap out of their enemies. Lucy wasn't too far off using Virgo to make her opponents fall into holes. Then three people tried to jump the ice mage from different sides.

"Ice Make: Cold Excalibur!"

Spinning around while swinging, Gray knocked out all three of them with the giant ice sword. The job was supposed to be nice and easy. A group of robbers were running around causing trouble. All they had to do was show them who's boss, collect the reward money and head back to the guild.

Saddly things didn't turn out the way they should have. The robbers were no problem. There were more than expected, but most of them couldn't use magic and the few that could were really weak.

Something was off. The raven haired boy couldn't shake off this feeling that he was being watched ever since they left Magnolia. At first he thought it was just Juvia, but when he asked Natsu as they walked through the forest, the dragon slayer said that he couldn't smell anyone following them.

Gray shook his head. Probably just my imagination the raven thought to himself.

"Natsu! Gray!" Erza yelled, bringing Gray back into the present. "There are more of them that fled that way. Lucy and I can handle these people over here. I want you two to chase those people down."

"What? Why me and droopy eyes?" complained Natsu.

"Just do it," glared Erza.

"Aye!" said Natsu and Gray together.

Once they were out of ear range Natsu and Gray instantly bashed their heads together.

"Why do I have to work with you pyro?"

"That's what I wanted to know Popsicle."

"Flame for brains, this is your all your fault."

"What? How is this my fault ice princess?"

"Wow. They sure are a loud bunch," said a crisp female voice.

Natsu and Gray stopped their name calling and looked towards the direction of the voice. Leaning against the wall was a tall woman with thick curly green hair and a man in a suit with stiff blond hair. These two were different from the grunts from before. They had strong magic energy flowing off of them.

"Who are you?" asked Gray.

"Hmf, my name is Amelia, and this is Max," said the green haired woman.

"Nice of you to show yourself, saves me the trouble of looking for you," said Natsu, fists ablaze.

Amelia rolled her purple eyes and said, "Well you sure are confident."

"Of course, cause we're Fairy Tail," beamed Natsu.

Max suddenly disappeared and reappeared behind Natsu. Surprised, Natsu was caught off guard and Max punched him, sending Natsu flying towards the wall. Natsu twisted mid air and kicked off the wall, propelling him towards the man in the suit.

"Fire Dragon Iron Fist!"

Max teleported again and Natsu ended up punching Gray in the face.

"Ow! Watch it pyro, can't you tell the difference between friends and foes?" grumbled Gray.

"You were in the way!" retorted Natsu.

Before Gray could reply Amelia shot lightning out of her fingers towards the two mages.

"Ice Make: Shield!"

A shield of ice appeared in front of Natsu and Gray, blocking the lightning attack.

"Fire Dragon Roar!"

The lightning mage jumped out of the way before she was scorched. While she was still in the air Gray attacked.

"Ice Make: Lance!"

Lances of ice sped towards the airborne woman, but before they could make contact the Max suddenly appeared behind Amelia and teleported them both out of the way.

"This could get annoying," muttered Amelia. Then she looked at Max and said, "You know the plan right?"

He just nodded. Before Natsu or Gray could inquire further, they disappeared. The two Fairy Tail mages braced themselves for an attack, but after a couple of tense seconds nothing happened.

"Did they just...RUN AWAY!?" yelled Natsu angrily.

"Those cowards," muttered Gray, "well we better find them before Erza comes back."

Both Natsu and Gray shuddered at the thought of what Erza would do if she found out they let someone escape. Natsu sniffed the air, trying to pinpoint where the two had run off to.

"The lady is on the roof and that guy in the suit, Matt or something like that, is somewhere over there," said Natsu pointing, "I'll go after the guy, he punched me. You go after the green haired creep."

"Why do I have to deal with that chick?" complained Gray, but Natsu was already running towards the direction he pointed towards earlier.

Gray sighed and started looking for stairs or something that would lead him to the roof. Instead he found a window and got an idea.

"Ice Make: Stairs!"

The curved ice staircase lead all the way to the roof. Why look for stairs when you could make one yourself? Climbing out of the window, Gray started climbing up the stairs. When he finally reached the top Amelia was waiting for him.

"I didn't expect you to find me that quickly," she said.

"Never underestimate a dragon slayer's nose."

"And devil slayers don't have the same sense of smell?"

The woman smiled at Gray's surprised face.

"Oh, we've done our homework. Gray Fullbuster, ice devil slayer."

Amelia strolled up to Gray and stared into his eyes.

"You are our target."

Author's Note:

Hi! I'm a new beginner writer and this is the first story I've ever posted online. I don't know how often I'll update, hopefully soon. I might write a couple more stories, all about Fairy Tail and most likely Gray.

I wasn't really sure how to write this fight scene because they name all their moves. If you have advice, I could really use the help. I'll try to keep spelling/grammar mistakes to a minimum, but I'd really appreciate some feedback.