Cloudy days...

Summary: you'll only truly begin to miss something when it disappears from you, and then you'll begin to realise its worth to you in life.

Juvia was walking into a train to get to complete her mission that morning. She had a large grin plastered on her face while walking around to find a spare seat. She walked up to the top level of the train, then finally found a seat and sat down. She was feeling strangely exhausted today, but continued her mission with much enthusiasm. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a shopping list her beloved gray Sama had given to her earlier.

She scanned it again and smiled fondly at the shopping list. There were a bunch of weird items on the list, but if it was what gray Sama wanted, then she would travel to the ends of the earth to find them! Juvia laughed to herself and folded the slip of paper into her skirt pocket. Her mind wondered back to the mission.

It was a recon mission from master himself, and it was off utmost importance. It would take her about half the day to complete- at the latest. To investigate the rising new dark guild: Tartaros, who was slowly showing their true colours and rising to the top. She could easily ask the towns' people of where they situated their guild, and get some information, that would be the end of the mission.

Her eyes held determination as they stared at the passing scenery. Finally getting accepted into Fairy Tail was the one of the happiest thing that's ever happened to her, and she wouldn't let her guild down. It was the guild that accepted gajeel, her only friend, it was the only guild that felt so warm and happy, and it was the only guild with her beloved Gray Sama.

Despite today also being an important day, Juvia waved off the trivial thing and focused on her mission. She looked at the incoming stop and calculated how long it was before she had to get off. It'll be quite a while. Juvia yawned and her eyes began to droop. Her vision became blurry as her eyes got heavier. A little nap wouldn't hurt, and soon she fell asleep...

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The train grinded to a sudden stop and the recoil was what woke Juvia up from her short nap. She rubbed her eyes sleepily and looked around. Here already? The sounds of screaming alerted her, and she was on the defence. The people in the train were huddled with fear, and her eyes grew suspicious. She looked around and noticed that all train doors were opened.

What was going on?

The water mage prepared herself and hoped outside. A strange man was sitting on the fence with a lollypop stick sticking out of his mouth. She could sense something evil about him. He didn't notice Juvia standing there and shot his hands out. He moved his hands upwards and to Juvia's amazement the people's shadows began rising with his hand motions.

Juvia looked at the shadows stand up by themselves without a body attached to the end. Shadows: didn't have a definite shape, dark and mysterious. Just like her water. Juvia watched amazed as the shadows began to morph and stretch. In an instant it shot out and grabbed a passing person and held them by their neck and squeezed.

Juvia's eyes widened. It was acting as if it was a solid material, yet it was translucent. Juvia shouldn't be so surprised. Despite the awe of his powers, he was hurting another human being and the magic mage just couldn't stand there and tolerate that.

Juvia summoned her water and fired them at the stranger. He turned around, and his shadows immediately dropped the person he was trying to kill. He turned around, and Juvia was poised to fight. The stranger regarded her serious eyes, and he turned his shadows onto her.

"Water slicer"

Her pressurised water blades went straight through the shadows. Two coming from her left and one from the right, the water mage used her water to propel herself into a summersault and leaving the three shadow figures running into each other. The shadows merged into one larger shadow and headed straight towards Juvia. She barely dodged it, when it extended an arm to strike her.

Juvia began to calculate quickly, and then ran towards the shadow master with all her might. She brought her hands up and aimed it at the stranger.

"Water lock!"

Before the stranger had time to react he was enclosed in an orb filled with water. The water was highly pressurised and the stranger could no longer move his body. He had difficulties breathing. Despite that, his eyes looked like they were shining. Juvia raised an eyebrow, but remained in her position. Any minute now he would be unconscious and she can take him out.

Despite that he grinned at her, as if saying goodbye and his facial expression baffled her. Her eyes widened as a cool hand struck the back of her neck and her whole body became paralysed. The water lock dissipated and he was now strolling towards her. The same hand wrapped itself around her neck, lifted her up and cutting her oxygen supply. Juvia began to feel dizzy, but her body wouldn't respond to her thoughts.

But how? He couldn't move was sure of it. How was he able to control his shadow without using his hands? I couldn't do that. That's impossible... Her surroundings became hazier, as her need for oxygen grew.

A human hand touched her cheek as Juvia was losing conscious. "Don't worry I'm not going to kill you,"

Juvia closed her eyes and darkness welcomed her.

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Juvia woke up suddenly and looked around the unfamiliar room worriedly. She had a headache, and found that she was bound to a chair.

Soon footsteps could be heard coming closer and closer and she was face to face with a young boy. She was about to turn her hands into water to go free herself from the strings tied around her, but the young boy brought her face up to look into his eyes.

They began to glow red and her body refused to move. Hypnotism? Her eyes became heavy and she could feel herself losing all train of thought.

"Lifted your arms up"

And she did just as she was told. The cute little boy smiled and stepped back.

"You will forget everything about the guild you were in, and when you wake up, you will know yourself as being one of the mages of the dark guild Tartaros"

Juvia finally lost conscious. The water mage could feel her memories slipping away. She wanted to cry out to them to come back but they continued to fade away.

"Fairy tail! Don't leave Juvia alone!"

Every one of her newly made friends started fading away. Smiling faces, crying ones, all the missions she's done, one by one disappearing before her very eyes. An image of Gajeel came up and he too began to disappear. She cried out for him to stay.

Her mind was clouded, and as hard as she tried she could not remember anyone. One last image came up. Memories of her beloved gray appeared and he too started to vanish. She began to cry out desperately for him to come back. Every one of her memories with him began to disappear, until she was all alone, shrouded in darkness crying alone, yet she didn't know why...

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Gray looked around the guild as balloons and streamers hung from every corner of the large room. The mages of fairy tail were laughing and chattering cheerfully as they got ready. He glanced at the clock and then frowned. She was late.

The ice mage walked up to Gajeel and crossed his arms. "Are you sure it was today"

"What kind of idiot do you take me for?" He huffed, "of course I'm sure!"

Gray shrugged. The mission wasn't supposed to be hard at all. She was meant to be back by now.

Cana burst into the guild worriedly. "She's gone! I found out, the train she was in got attacked!"

The card mage gushed into tears. "Me and Erza went to investigate the site, and one of the citizens came rushing up to us. They told us a blue short haired mage was taken by a man who could manipulate shadows!"

The guild was deathly silent. Makarov strolled up to Cana and placed a hand on her to calm her down. "Look, calm down. There are many mages with short blue hair. For all we know Juvia could be returning from her mission right now"

Cana brought out a hat. Makarov's eyes became grave and looked at the water mages hat. The guild became restless. Some suddenly became angry, and aggravated. Some burst into tears, and were extremely upset. Some were emotionless and silent.

Makarov yelled and everyone directed their attention towards their master. "Alright everyone, let's go and do an extensive search. She can't have gone missing for long. We WILL find her!"

The assuring words calmed the guild down and everyone began to move out of the guild. Gray stood there shocked at the new, and his eyes darkened. He moved out, with Gajeel, who was looking extremely frustrated.

Whoever decided to take one of their nakamas will pay dearly.

Gray looked back into the guild with a banner stretched across the stage. 'Happy birthday Juvia'.

He clenched his hands, turned around and continued walking.

Despite the day being clear and sunny day, it was gloomier than any rainy day...

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NEW STORY! Don't worry, I'm still working on my old story, but since i love this pairing ALOT, then yeah xD Please tell me what you think! IT would be very much appreciated, i tried for an action genre, but i dunno if i did well or not xD hahaha. Should i continue?

Til next time: Marina chan.