Hey guys, it's officially May! Wow, we're almost halfway through 2016, that's gone by fast! [It also means I'm turning 20 next year quicker than I'd like ;-;] But anyway, since it is the first day of the month, I have wanted to do something for quite a while but now is the perfect time. So, as the title/summary suggests, this month I will be doing the 30 Day OTP Challenge and of course, since most of my fans seem to be in the Fairy Tail fandom, I will be using my OTP of LyoRay (Lyon x Gray). So, without further ado, let us begin the first drabble! Yeah, for these sort of things I do drabbles (stories of less than 1,000 words) cause it's easier that way.

Day One: Holding Hands

~~LyoRay~~

The only ice mages known to the wizard guilds of Fiore that were still very much alive and well despite all that had happened for them in their lives were currently walking down the streets of Magnolia as the festival currently taking place buzzed around them. Gray wore a rare soft smile on his face as he took in the sunset that was slowly sinking on the horizon and the two males walked over to the wall that had the beach below them. Gray breathed out softly and Lyon caught his eye as they leaned against the wall, watching the setting sun silently. Lyon had his arms folded on the wall and Gray had his hands in his pockets.

The white haired man smiled to himself and wondered just what their lives would be like if the events on Galuna Island had never occurred, or if Deliora hadn't destroyed Gray's entire village. Well, concerning the Galuna Island fiasco, Lyon wondered more about what his life would've been like since Gray would be happily content in Fairy Tail still. Would he have eventually done what Ur told them to and found himself a guild in the end? Would he have travelled around the world, strengthening his magic and helping out locals he passed by or through? And if he'd never met Gray at all then...would he still be at Ur's side even now? What would Gray be doing in Isvan? Would he have a family of his own? A job working behind some sort of counter instead of being a hero day in and day out? It made the older mage wonder greatly about what could've been depending on the scenario.

Gray glanced at his partner and noticed his faraway look in those black eyes. He hummed lightly and took his hands out of his pockets, copying Lyon's position before snaking one of his hands towards Lyon and gently resting it on one of the older's hands. Lyon came out of his thoughts slightly to shift his hand so the palm faced the sky and linked their fingers together. Gray smiled, not being one for physical contact all to much (especially since his various encounters with a certain water mage) and continued to watch the sunset.

Whatever Lyon was thinking about didn't particularly concern him, but it pricked at his curiosity although he knew better than to pry. Lyon would tell him at some point if he felt the need to. It reminded Gray of when he was young and would often hide himself away whenever his family came into thought. He remembered going on a job with Cana once when she had done another search for her father, and it made him sick to his stomach that same night when he had actually celebrated in his head the fact her father hadn't been found by the two of them. Just because he had lost his own family didn't mean others didn't deserve to not have theirs. This also reminded him of Nano Leaf, a girl he had saved from a dark guild named Chrono Noise three days after he and Lyon had parted ways. He had saved her from the guild and destroyed it in turn, but he had been wretched and left without a single goodbye to the sweet girl once he'd helped her reunite with her parents. He'd been jealous and envious of her and had walked away without any sort of parting. He regretted it now. A part of him wished to see his old friends again from his journey to Fairy Tail - so far, Lyon had been the only one to return to his life. He still often wondered what had become of his two closest friends on the journey - Doronbo and Pause. What had become of them? The last he'd heard from Pause was a letter he'd received a year after joining the guild, moments before Natsu had barged into his life. Pause had said that he and Doronbo had also joined a guild and that they would've joined Fairy Tail but he was scared of how Gray would think of and treat him after his betrayal and the fight with Circus Night.

Gray did miss his old friends, a lot since they had helped him get to where he was today - Fairy Tail's ice mage - but he was grateful for his new friends and the ones he hoped to have in the future. A thought then struck him. On Galuna Island he'd immediately recognised Yuka, Sherry and Toby as being former Lamia Scale mages. And yet Natsu hadn't the faintest idea of who they'd been? How could that be? He couldn't remember where he'd learnt about them, but he did. He shook the thought away but then another came to him and make him quake with fear. The three of them had said they'd helped Lyon in his plan of defeating Deliora because the demon had destroyed their lives too. Had that been true? He knew Sherry had been infatuated with Lyon during those times, the same as Juvia had been with him and he'd always put it down to the fact that she had agreed to help the ice mage through love while Toby and Yuka followed because they were all from the same guild. But what if that wasn't the case? What if he wasn't the only person in the world to lose everything he'd known to Deliora? What if there were others out there just like him?

Lyon squeezed his hand comfortingly, sensing his fear and brought Gray out of his thoughts. The younger of the two looked at him and shook his head, silently telling him he was okay. Lyon sighed and gave a tug on his hand, effectively drawing him into an embrace. No words passed between them, just the sounds of the festival behind them as the sun sunk lower and lower into the sea until the stars came out to play that night.

~~LyoRay~~

* - Nano Leaf, Doronbo and Pause (as well as the guild Chrono Noise and Circus Night) are from the spinoff manga, Fairy Tail: Iice Trail - in which tells the story of how Gray made it to Fairy Tail.

* - Sorry I rambled a little with Gray's thoughts but because his character's backstory is shown way more, it still holds a ton of mystery to him and so I like to delve into links between him and other characters and stuff like that