Hello everyone,
Just so you guys know I will be continuing The Ripple Effect as the poll suggests. But I also stated that I would be publishing the first chapter of Trials of ice before going back to The Ripple Effect.
This is the big story and I will look forward to making this when I have completed TRE, but until then I leave you with this.
Warning: This story is likely to contain depressing themes, language later in, gore and sporadic updates… You have been warned.
Disclaimer: I don't own FT for if I did Gray wouldn't be dicked over all the time and he wouldn't be forced to get with that useless stalker he has to put up with. Nor do I own the 'Grayson Lee Fullbuster' name, the credit goes to Chemical Violets for the great name.
Let's read…
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Grayson 'Lee' Fullbuster (prefers just Gray) was a seven year old child who lived with with his farther in the town of Brago. He was described as energetic, funny, cheeky, loyal and caring. He had never met his mother as she had mysteriously disappeared just a few days after he was born.
His father, Silver Fullbuster had told him the truth on why she had left all those years ago. He was both shocked and angry at hearing the news…
He was a devil slayer, he was one of the few left from what his father had told him. His element was ice and Gray felt happy to know that as the was his favourite element. His father told him that such magic can only be obtained through inheritance I,E from his father. It was the exact reason his mother left, she couldn't take in the fact that her son was a demon.
Silver had never told her about his slayer side and on the day she left, she had been spotted trying to kill her son by Silver. In rage, he kicked her out and told her to never come back. Gray saw his father physically flinch and tense as he told him the sad story.
He was only five at the time, he was never the same afterwards but for a kid his age he was very intelligent and understood that it was better to be changed and alive than the same and vulnerable...
After his father told him everything Gray had asked him to teach him how to control his magic as he wanted to protect those who were in trouble. He may have been intelligent but he was still very naive.
Silver had promised him though and his days were spent training to become as good as he could be, messing around with his friend Jade and reading through his fathers collection of books to learn every weakness of his magic.
He knew he couldn't be a normal child anymore after his fathers words but he still found the time to have fun like every other normal kid his age.
He spent his time like this for the next two years and here he was now.,,,
"Come on Gray! Has you dad been teaching you to be a slow coach or something!" Shouted the young voice of Jade. She had been his friend from the start of school. She put up with his antics and in turn he put up with hers. The two were as close as you can get.
"That's it, you want me to catch you then? I was just giving you a fair chance!" Gray shouted back to his best friend.
With that said he started to pick up the pace, catching up with his friend in no time. Jade's eye's widened as she saw him rocketing towards her. Gray jumped at her and managed to grab her arm. He grinned as she yelped at his sudden action. Thing that made him really laugh was her pouting at him, trying to get him to let her run off again.
But Gray was an asshole She knew it and so did he…
He shook his head at her.
"Uh-uh, nope you're not going anywhere now." He said confidently.
"Please..." She whined.
He rubbed his chin in mock thought.
"Ummmmm, nope!" He chirped in a high tone. Enjoying her pout increase…
He finally let her go after he looked at his watch only to find the time to be a hour past his routine. Cursing, he let her go and ran back towards his house. He Shouted a 'SEEYA!' over his shoulder and he saw Jade grin in deviousness.
He had just been punked…
His father was never going to let him live this down that was for sure.
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Silver Fullbuster was waiting impatiently for the brat to get back home. It was an hour past the training session he had set up for them and he was looking forward to adding an extra hour to Grays overall time he would force him to train for.
"Dad!"
Ah, here he is…
"Dad I am so sorr-" Gray stopped and looked at his fathers devilish grin (no pun intended) and paled.
"What time do you call this?" Smirked his father.
"Time to train?" Gray tried to avert his fathers attention but he wasn't having any of it.
"Nope," Silver started. "Its time to explain why on earth you are a whole hour late again."
"Jade tricked me." Gray said and all of a sudden, Silver laughed at how silly his son could be at times. This was priceless.
"Again?" He laughed out. "How many more times are you going to fall for that?" He was on his knees now.
"No more." Gray stated, but Silver knew he would be making the same mistake again next week.
He bet it was going to be Wednesday this time. But he sobered up before leading his son into the arena for their lessons.
"Now Gray, you have learned a massive amount of stuff over these two years and I am very impressed." Silver began. "But I only have one more thing to teach you. It will be very tiring and tedious to complete, not too mention very dangerous to the town folk but I know for certain that you will do just fine doing this technique."
Gray looked shocked to hear that this would be the final lesson on Devil slaying magic. He had been doing the lessons for a few years now and has mastered over twenty different spells but he had never heard of a secret technique before. It must be powerful if it was secret to even most slayers.
Devil slayers that is…
"It is called 'Satan's final judgement' and is an attack that could very easily kill a person if you are not careful. Are you ready?" Silver asked carefully and slowly.
Gray gulped at hearing the dangers of the Satan's final judgement but felt like he could not be more prepared for his final lesson.
He nodded slowly.
"Good. I have put up some basic runes to block off most of the force and damage so feel free to give this you're all.
Gray walked into the arena and felt the gate close behind him. He turned around to see his father looking at him excitedly. He knew he was going to enjoy this.
He stood in the centre of the ring, closing his eyes and focusing on the inner devil inside him. He channelled his magic into his clamped together hands and suddenly opened his eyes.
"Devil Slaying secret technique!" He jumped into the air which because of his magic being used he jumped fifteen feet high. "Satan's final Judgement!" His fist collided with the ground and he found out that the attack was and area effective type. Shock wave after shock waves of unmeltable ice escaped from Gray and quickly expanded until Gray willed it to stop at a distance. The 'Ice waves' as he called them kept together in a ring like fashion.
Then as the shock waves continued on, Gray felt icy shards begin to swirl around the massive area that the ice waves covered, bring sharpened projectiles into the chaos that was his secret technique.
Then bodies of animated ice began to form and search for any enemy in the 'icy' area. They all were different, one being an eagle, a half dragon half snake hybrid, a giant and a Wyvern.
More and more animated ice creatures formed and Gray was starting to feel slightly drained. This was a lot to control and keep in order.
He found himself cocooned in ice. He smirked, the secret technique was both offensive and defensive. He didn't have to see the threat and innocent to tell them apart, he just felt the presence of anything within the ice area.
He managed to keep the spell up for five more minutes before dispelling it and falling into a sitting position. He saw the gob smacked look on his father and he felt smug.
Silver was very impressed. When he had first used the spell he couldn't keep it up any longer than 2 minutes when he was his sons age and here was his son, trumping him on the first go.
Even if there were imperfections he couldn't really say that they would hamper Gray much. And Gray would perfect the spell in all good time anyway, so he wouldn't worry.
"So, how was that huh?" He heard Gray asked tiredly.
"I am more than impressed Gray." Silver spoke. "I hadn't even been able to keep that spell up for that long at you're age. You have a lot of control and excess magic as you have just kept up the most powerful devil slayer attack longer than others you I can recall."
Gray beamed in pride at his fathers compliment.
"Thanks Dad. I promise to be responsible with this technique." He said, determination lacing his tone.
Silver expected no less from him and he knew that he could trust Gray to be responsible, no doubt about that.
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Gray woke up from his slumber and grumbled irritatedly from the sun light glaring into his eyes. He had planned to sleep in today but now that the big ball of crappy light had interrupted his plans he would have to make do with the day passing by normally.
He got up slowly, rubbing the sleep away from his eyes and made his way to the shower. His small yet strong form slowly entered the bathroom and almost immediately entered the shower.
He turned up the water temperature to a more lukewarm degree and turned on the shower.
His thoughts consisted mainly of 'What am I going to do today?' or 'what should I have for breakfast?', then an idea came to him.
Why not have a quick strum of the guitar before going over to Jade's for a few hours?
He thought it all over and finally decided to begin his master plan for today…
After he had finished his shower, he went back up to his room and put on a black sleeveless shirt and blue jeans, he took out a pair of black and grey shoes and quickly slipped them on. He tucked in the sleeveless shirt and set his sights on the shiny black acoustic guitar sitting on its stand a few metres away.
He went over and picked the instrument up and got into position.
(AN: Imagine Ewan Dobson time 2)
Gray's thumb and fingers quickly got to work creating a quick and complex rhythm that would start off the song he had in mind. He always was a fan of music, in fact he had learned how to play the piano as well as all types of guitar he knew. He singing wasn't the absolute best but it did sound good overall but he wasn't a fan of singing as much as he was a fan of the music itself.
He quickly moved his thumb up to the second string and started to do the same thing he did with the last high note string. This added to the build up of the music and he felt pleased with the flawless execution he made.
Soon, he started to strum the first and third string whilst keeping his fingers in the correct position. He moved his fingers up and down the neck of the guitar to create the final piece of build up before rapidly moving his fingers up and down and to many different chords. This was the chorus and Gray enjoyed this part of the song the best, it sounded like organised chaos that sounded very energetic and very powerful in a sense…
He repeated the same chords in the same order as before once more before ending the song off with a slow strum of all the strings.
He set his guitar down, feeling more optimistic than before he started playing. Then he heard a squeal of joy and jumped at the sudden high pitch piercing the lovely silence he had made.
He knew of only one person who was able to make that squeal…
"Jade?" He asked out to the seemingly empty room. He sighed and thought he was hearing things when he looked back and saw Jade behind him with a funny face being pulled.
Gray had stuck himself to his ceiling with his ice when he saw jade behind him. He was never going to live down now…
Jade was crying tears of mirth from her friends reaction to her prank, she had heard him playing the guitar and was (as always) mesmerised when she heard him but she took the time he was playing to sneak into his room and hide behind his bed. Silvers orders of course.
Gray just took a deep breath and glared at her. He knew that she didn't grow up like him and kept a normal childlike personality but it was a day where he was slightly more grouchy than normal.
She just grinned at his annoyed face…
"Ahahahaha! That was awesome! I was like 'RAWR' and you were just all 'AAAHHH' hahahaha!" She was laughing so hard that it hurt to breath but Jade didn't care. This was worth it.
Gray however disagreed with her thoughts.
"Oh ha ha very funny…" He said in reply to her statement. "Now one: How on earth did you get in? Two: Why are you here and Three: What was the point in that scare?"
Jade just pouted…
"Oh cheer up grumpy pants and get you're but up so we can go outside and play!" She shouted excitedly.
Gray was annoyed by how loud she was but conceded and followed her out into the busy streets of Brago.
'Just the regular routine' Gray thought before waving to his dad and closing the door behind him…
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That was harder than I thought it would be…
Okay, this may seem like a bad place to start off a story but it was better than starting from when Gray was little and this means I can use the past I made up later in the story…
Although this wasn't the 5,000 words per chapter story, I want to stick to my cap of two to three thousand words for any story otherwise I could lose interest. I don't want that and I am guessing neither do you guys.
But I guess you guys will have to wait until TRE is done to see more of this. Also do you guys want me to make one more chapter to 'He won't harm you'? This has been on my mind for a while but again you guys get the final say. You're opinion is what I want on this…
TRIVIA TIME…
1: What movie are you looking forward to seeing the most the next year?
I am stuck between Deadpool and Captain America: Civil war.
2: What is you're favourite drink?
Mine would definitely have to be a limeade…
3: What do you think of Gray playing a guitar and piano.
I like the idea of it as it means he is more complex than any other character in fairy tail. Well, with the exception being Zeref.
Thanks for reading this first chapter of Trials of Ice and stay cool (no pun intended),
-Viperhat