Here is the request for Viperhat. I hoped you will enjoy it. (I don't own Fairytail)
Even if I can't see you, No matter how far away you may be, I will always be watching.
It was just a scouting mission, that was all. Erza didn't know that it would turn out like this! Wendy and Lucy were out, Happy and Carla flew them away to a safe place and Natsu and Gray were battling upstairs; she didn't even know if they were alright. She called the guild on the lacrima not too long ago, so they should be arriving soon. Their job was to scout this dark guild called LionCrest. The council ordered her team to go investigating because across the East of Fiore, they seemed to be attacking certain towns. They didn't kill anyone, although there were a few. They seemed to be collecting items, for something. Lucy said it looked like they were preparing for a spell of some sort, but they didn't know which one. So, they decided to investigate. They decided that Gray would try and infiltrate the dark guilds, while they watched from a Lacrima until it was time to attack. But then Natsu accidentally sneezed, and boy was it loud, it alerted a dark member close by and that's where things went bad.
They attacked from left and right, hey fought with all they had. Natsu and Gray decided to attack upstairs to look for the Master of the dark guilds, while the girls would keep these guys busy, as in fighting them of course. And now it was a full-on battle! Dark mages were everywhere; It seemed like the more mages they defeated, the more seemed to come. Erza was starting to get worried, she didn't know how much longer she was going hold. She knew that Carla and Happy were safe with the girls somewhere, but she didn't about the boys. She just had to trust them not to do anything stupid, and she just had to trust her guild that they would come. She couldn't lose focus right now. She had to battle with everything she has. She took down a guy with wind magic with just one swish of her sword. He fell down with a scream, and he clutched his shoulder. They guy behind him ran towards her with an angry expression.
"YOU'LL REGRET THAT!" He yelled and ran at her with a sword. Erza deflected the sword just in time. She swung her sword to the right, causing the other to move his sword with her. The swords clanged as they battled, making it echo throughout the room. She had to get through this guy, so she could meet up with Natsu and Gray. She deflected a spell the was coming from behind her with her other sword.'
"Hey that's not fair!" The guy who almost hit her with the spell said. He shot her with another green beam, but she pulled her sword over her head, so she could block it. The green beam bounced of it and shot the wall of the room instead; it created a huge gaping hole in the wall. She took a step to the side so now she was able to battle the two dark mages. Great. This is just what I needed. Another imbecile. I hope the guild arrives here soon.
"Let's just finish this already." She said, with a smirk.
"Ohhh, confident, are we?" The dark mage with the sword smirked as well except this one was evil. Reginald-the man holding the sword who Erza just named so it was less confusing for her-withdrew his sword suddenly; stood up straight and pointed the sword at her. Erza toppled forward in surprise, just dodging Sabastian's-the guy with the green beam power who Erza just named for the same reason as Reginald- spell. Erza watched as the spell was about to hit Reginald, but it smashed into little green crystals as he smashed it with his sword.
"You are not the only Master of Swords, Titania." He sneered. Era watched in shock as Reginald turned in a circle, moving his sword with him. Gold specks appeared suddenly from the sword and they spread out across the room, hovering over everyone who was either injured or knocked out on the ground. She watched in reluctant amazement as the slowly moved towards their person and landed on them. Suddenly, they started to get up. She watched as their injuries suddenly disappear. How was that even possible? What the hell was that spell? Now she really needed the guild to come. As if someone had heard her wish, a miracle happened. The dark guilds doors smashed open, knocking down a few of the members along the way. Erza's face lifted with excitement and hope. Yes, finally they were here. Now she knew they would win and now she could finally go and check on her boys. Fairytail got into action immediately. Spells were casted and were shooting at each dark guild member. Some of them were down in an instant. The Master and Mira hurried over to Erza, who just got back into battle with Reginald and Sabastian.
"Master! I'm so glad you're here." She smiled at him. The Master quickly took out Reginald and Sabastian with one quick punch with his overly large hand.
"I'm so sorry we're late Erza. We had to wait for everyone to get from their jobs and-"
'It's alright Master. It doesn't matter, I'm just so happy that you guys came."
"Erza, where are the others. Are they alright?" Mira asked worriedly.
"Lucy and Wendy were knocked out, but they were carried to safety by Happy and Carla. I don't really know what's happening upstairs with Natsu and Gray. Master can you and Mira cover for me down here, while I go upstairs to see if they are alright?" The Master nodded.
"Yes Erza, you can go. But please be careful." Erza nodded.
"Thanks." She headed towards the stairs, slashing at some members with her sword. She ran up the grand stands, avoiding tripping over some of the knocked-out member. As she reached the top of the stairs, she turned her head, looking at bother directions of the hall. Where would they be? She suddenly saw a room that had its door knocked over and it looked like it was thrown in a bon fire. She instantly knew that it was Natsu's fire. She ran down the right hall, heading towards the room. She drew out her two swords, ready to attack whoever they were fighting. But when she entered the room, she dropped her sword and It landed with a loud clang. The world seemed to lose its sound, the sounds of magic and battle cries seemed to fade away. Her eyes widened with fear and distraught as she covered her mouth and let out a high-pitched scream.
Natsu and Gray decided they would go upstairs to go find the Master and leave the girls to fight the guys down stairs. Gray ran behind Natsu, up the stairs. He looked back at the girls one more time, wondering if that was the best solution to leave them there to fight off those guys. Natsu looked at Gray from the corner of his eye and sighed. He didn't see what the problem was.
"Gray, stop worrying about them. The girls, Happy and Carla will be fine, plus Erza's there, so there's no need to worry. You're gonna have to trust them." Gray turned his head and glared at him.
"Of course, I trust them. Who do you think I am?" He asked, accusingly.
"All I'm saying is that they will be fine, but we just have to trust them enough, so we'll be able to focus on our task. I'm worried about them to, but we need to do this if we want to reunite with them. So, don't worry Ice princess." Gray glared at him again and clenched his fists.
"Fine, and don't call me Ice princess, Firebreath." This time Natsu turned around and glare at him.
"Don't call me Firebreath, Icebreath."
"Well don't call me Ice breath, you flamebrain."
"Icebrain"
"Pyr-Stop! We need to focus. What was that all about when you said, "don't worry about them, we need to focus' Huh?" Gray asked, and pointed at Natsu, annoyed.
"Fine. But this is not over yet." They then continued running down the hall. Gray toppled down suddenly, as he ran into Natsu. He landed on the ground with a grunt. He rubbed his head as he slowly stood up and he glared at the fire mage again.
Oi! What the hell flamebrain?" He asked, crossing his arms. Natsu shushed him, as he looked towards one of the doors on his left, listening to something. But Gray wasn't aware of that.
"Oi! Don't you shush me!" (A/n Was anyone's first thought Madagascar?)
"Shhhhh! Seriously." Natsu moved his ear closer to the as quietly as possible. Gray finally understood what he was doing, and he shut himself up.
"What do you hear?" He mouthed to the dragon slayer, who was fully leaning on the door now with a serious expression on his face. That's unusual, even for Natsu. Gray thought that whatever he heard, must be serious.
Natsu listened closely to what they were saying. He really wanted to go in there and pound whoever faces they were. But this sounded like important information.
"Y-yes Master, the plan has been set into action." A shaky voice said.
"That's good. I can hear the battles going on down stairs. Are the two boys with them." This time, it was a deep, gruffy voice. Two boys? Does he mean them? Natsu wasn't sure, but he thought to keep that thought noted.
"Y-yes M-master, they're with them. Are you sure they're going to come to us?"
"Yes. I'm positive." Alright, Natsu had had enough of this. If they wanted them, then they will get them with a flaming kick to the stomach. So, Natsu kicked the doors open. Gray stood there in shock. What the hell was that? What was that about being quiet? Gray shook his head, deciding that was unimportant and he would worry about it later. He got into battle stance and grinned with Natsu.
"Alright Gray, I'm hungry. So, I say we hurry up and beat these guys and be off on our way?" He asked, hitting his stomach to show that he was hungry. Gray nodded in response.
"I think for once you might have a bright idea, flamebrain." He grinned, punching his hands together, forming ice.
"Ice-make: Lance!" Ice shot out from Gray's hands and the beams of ice hit the guy standing up right in the chest. The guy screamed and fell backwards onto the floor, knocked out.
"Well, that was easier than I thought it was going to be." Gray smirked.
"Now time for the Master." Natsu chuckled, clasping his hands together, and creating fire from them.
"FIRE DRAGONS: IRON FIST!" He shouted at the top of his lungs. Natsu's hands lit up with fire and he ran straight towards the Master, who was sitting in the chair behind the desk, with an evil smirk. Wait. Why was he smirking? It must be trap, Gray had to stop Natsu somehow.
"Natsu! Wait!" He shouted, but it was too late. He heard Natsu mumble an 'ow' just as he hit an invisible wall and purple writing suddenly appeared in the air.
"What the-?" Natsu asked in shock.
"Natsu! You alright?" Gray asked.
"Yeah, I am. But there's an invisible wall here." Natsu punched the in invisible wall a few times, but nothing happened. It looked like he wasn't going anywhere soon.
"I think it's runes magic. Like Freed's." Gray explained.
"Hehe." The guy who was 'unconscious' by Gray's magic from earlier got back up again. He wiped his chin and smirked.
"It's going according to plan, Master." Plan? What plan?
"Yes, it is. Extreme darkness!" The master held his hand up and a long, black beam shot from it. Gray watched, paralysed with fear, as it hit Natsu straight in the chest.
"NATSU!" Gray shouted. Natsu was knocked onto the ground and started rolling towards the back of the room. Gray ran towards Natsu and crouched down next to him. He lifted Natsu into his arms and began to shake him.
"Natsu, hey wake you, you idiot. This is no time to be resting!" He shouted. Natsu coughed a bit but made no move to open his eyes. Gray was starting to get worried. Natsu's breathing was shallow and he was very pale, which was very unusual for the fire mage. Natsu could not be down already, it's impossible! Normally he would get up straight away. That must have been powerful magic, Gray thought. Cause Natsu would not get down so easily. He would not let Gray take up all the spot light!
"Thought that was going to be harder, but I guess you can't trust the papers and rumours anyways. Should have known, you Fairy scum, are even weak then we thought." Gray clenched his left hand, the other was supporting Natsu. How dare he! How dare he talk about Fairytail like that! How dare he talk about Natsu like that!
"We are not." He mumbled, looking down at Natsu."
"Mmmh, sorry didn't quit catch that. What did you say weakling?" Gray carefully placed Natsu on the ground and stood up in front of Natsu, protecting him.
"WE ARE NOT?" He shouted. He pulled back his fist and ran straight for the Master. The Master stood up from the chair and just smirked again. It pissed Gray off. Why do they keep smirking like that? It's really annoying.
The Master held his hand up once again and just flicked it. Something like a big gust of wind blew Gray off his feet. He flew across the room and landed on the ground, rolling next to Natsu and landing on his back. It felt like all the air in the world was sucked out from him. His breaths were shallow and uneven. He tried to get up, but he failed. He watched as the Master walked over to him, he was still smirking, and it still pissed Gray off.
"Like I said, weakling." This time Gray did get up. He went to punch the annoying, smirking guy in the face but then suddenly the unconscious Natsu appeared in front of him. Gray stopped his punch just in time.
"What the hell?" he looked back to where Natsu was, but to his surprise he wasn't there. "Put him down!" The master just ignored him, but he turned his head towards the other guy and nodded.
"Do it." The other guy nodded, and he held Natsu in front of him. The Master had blown Gray a few feet back again and he was forced to watch. The other guy moved his left hand in a circle then pushed it forward. A green beam shot from it like before and headed straight for Natsu. Gray couldn't watch. He did not want to watch his friend getting hurt again. He broke from the spell and ran. He ran as fast as he could. It all happened in slow motion. The spell was about to hit Natsu, but Gray dived in front of it just in time. Natsu slowly woke up and looked up just to see Gray get hit by the spell. He screamed Gray's name and watched as his friend hit the floor.
Erza ran straight towards them. She crouched down next to Natsu, who had tears streaking down his face, and was shaking the unconscious Gray.
"Gray? Gray? You gotta wake up. Please. What did I tell you about dying, huh? You can't just give up like that!" He yelled.
"Natsu, what happened to Gray?" She put her hand on his shoulder and shook him to try and get an answer out of him.
"Gray, he- he-" he trailed off, shaking Gray once more. "You are a bastard Gray! Wake the hell up!"
"Natsu! Stop shaking him and tell me what happened." Natsu stopped shaking and told Erza what happened.
"He saved my life. He jumped in front of that bastard's spell and saved me." Erza grabbed Gray's hand and quickly checked for his pulse. There was still one there, but it was very faint. She squeezed he's hand and looked at Gray's face. His face was very pale. Paler then usual and it was twisted in pain. She jumped as she heard gray cough a bit.
"N-natsu?' He whispered. His eyes were still closed as his head lolled to the left. Natsu shook himself out of shock as he answered.
"Y-yeah Gray. I'm here and so is Erza. You're going to be alright, ok. I just need to get you to Wendy." He was about to get up, but he felt a tug on his hand and he looked back down at Gray.
"No."
"What?" Did Gray seriously just say no?
"No. don't b-bother."
"Gray? What are you talking about?" Erza asked, her voice shaking. Natsu could see her hands shaking slightly and tears were starting to form in her eyes.
"It-it's too late f-for me." Natsu was starting to get angry and scared. What did that Icebrick mean it was too late?
"N-no it's not. D-don't think like that." Natsu sniffed, trying not cry.
"I-I just want to tel-tell you guys th-that you are the best thing that has ever happened to-to me. Fairytail is th-the best thing th-that has ever happened to me. I've h-had great adventures w-with y-you guys. I-I just wish that I had more time with y-you." Gray heaved into a coughing fit.
"Gray!" Erza shouted
"Gray! Are you ok." Gray's coughing fit slowed down a bit and he stopped. His breathing was worse than before. He opened his eyes half way and tried to look at Natsu.
"Don-don't blame your-self f-for this. Y-you are-aren't weak. D-don't believe what that b-bastard said. B-but I-I am sorry that I'm leaving, but I-I'm not sorry for saving your life. Er-rza." He looked over at Erza, who was just starting to cry now.
"P-please don't cry f-for me. Smile. I w-would prefer it-it if you were smiling."
"But how can I smile, when your-you're going to-" She couldn't finish her sentence.
'I know, b-but please. F-for me." She nodded.
"I'll try." He gave her a small smile back. He turned to look back at Natsu again.
"Hey flamebrain. P-please look a-after the guild f-for me. Make sur-sure they don't cry much, I w-would appreciate it if the-they didn't. An-and tell them that I love them, all very much a-and I-I'm sorry that I couldn't say a pro-proper goodbye to them, please promise me."
"No! Because you are going to live!"
"Promise me." Gray pleaded. Natsu looked at Gray sadly and sighed.
"Promise. But you are going to have to promise me to hang on for a bit more." This time Gray smiled sadly and chuckled a bit.
"I can't make a promise I can't keep."
"Please Gray." Gray's head slowly lolled downwards, and his eyes were starting to close. Natsu started to panic a little and shook Gray.
"No Gray! Come on. You have to wake up. GRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!"
One Year later.
Natsu walked slowly to the guild one morning. His shoulders were slumped, and his normal signature smile was now a frown. It had been one year. Exactly one year from this day that it happened. One year since Gray died from that stupid mission. He hadn't wanted to get out of bed this morning, but Happy said that it would be good for him to go to the guild instead of being alone on this day.
Happy looked over at Natsu sadly; it had been a tough year for all of them. Out of everyone in the guild, Natsu probably had the worst reaction, Erza even had to drag Natsu out of his bed to go to Gray's funeral. Happy was also very sad when he found out that Gray- that Gray had died. After they finished battling the group of guys down on the first level, everybody heard Erza scream and ran upstairs. Happy gasped at what he saw. Natsu was crying his eyes out as he held Gray in his arms. He was shaking him to get up and yelling, but Gray just laid there, unresponsive. He had flown over to Gray and landed on his head. He watched as Erza check for his pulse, but she shook her head and proceeded to cry.
Happy then started crying too, letting his tears fall onto Gray's head, making his hair all damp. He hugged Gray, he hoped that if he somehow managed to hug so hard, that he would magically wake up and tell them to stop fighting and pick a fight with Natsu and everything would be alright again. But none of that happened. Through his blurry eyes, he watched as Natsu ran up to one of the guys in the room. He yelled at him to tell him what happened. The man said that the reason that Gray died was because he was weak, but then Natsu punched him in the face and the man gave in. He told him that it was a spell that kills people. Natsu was about to punch him again until Elfman came over and held him away.
A week later they had Gray's funeral. After Lissanna's funeral, he hoped that he would never had to attend to one again. It was so hard for him, it took him about half an hour to speak, because he kept crying too much. Natsu helped him though, but it worried Happy, because he wasn't even crying. When Natsu spoke, he did not let a single tear fall. But once they got home, Natsu went to his room and didn't come out for hours. Happy had leant on the door and he was shocked but slightly relieved that Natsu was crying. He was only relieved because he was worried that Natsu was going to bottle up all his sadness or something.
After fifteen minutes of walking, they finally arrived at the guild. Natsu slowly pushed the doors open and walked in. He had his hands clenched and he was looking down at the ground. Usually the guild was a very cheery place, but right now, no one was laughing or yelling. No one was talking or picking fights. There were just hushed voices and all Natsu could he was the movement of glasses and knives and forks. He walked over to the table where Erza, Lucy, Wendy, and Carla were.
"Good morning Natsu. How are you doing this morning?" Erza asked, cautiously. It definitely was not a good morning and he definitely was not alright.
"Fine." He answered. He wasn't bothered to answer properly. All he wanted to do was go back to bed and lie down. He looked up to meet Erza's gaze, he was jerked back a little in surprise. Her eyes were bloodshot red, and her face was pale. She must have been crying all night, he thought. Why was she asking him if he was alright when she wasn't?
"You?" she shrugged her shoulder and gave him a small, comforting smile.
"I've been better." Erza sighed and looked towards the rest of them. "You know, I think we should take a job today." Natsu's reaction was immediate.
"What." He asked, gritting his teeth and clenching his fists. "Why should we do that?" Erza sighed again.
"I just think that it would be a good idea. To help us move past this. I know that it might seem a bit unwise, especially on this day, but I think it would help us." Natsu was about to open his mouth to protest, but Lucy cut him off.
"I think Erza might have a good point." She said, shyly. Natsu turned to look at her I shock.
"Why?"
"I think it will help us move past this grief. And maybe it would help us get over our fear. I mean we haven't been on a team job since then and it's been ages since we went on one."
"And what if I don't want to get over it? What if I don't want to forget about him?"
"Where not saying 'will forget about him'." Erza started. "It's just going to help us move on from this grief and fear. We know that you're scared Natsu, especially today, but we're all scared to do this too. But we think this is what we need to do, it's the right thing to do. So please, let's go on a job." Natsu looked into Erza's pleading eyes and sighed.
"Fine" She gave him a smile. She handed him a piece of paper. "We thought that this one would be good." Natsu read it over.
WE NEED HELP
A Wizard in our town has been tempering with dark magic. It's making the people go CRAZY! We need someone to get rid of him for us.
Reward: 40, 000 jewels.
Mmh, forty thousand jewels, not bad. Well he might as well go along with then. Let's just get this over and done with then. He stood up and nodded and headed out the door with Erza, Lucy, Happy, Carla and Wendy following behind him.
About an hour later they arrived at Camellia. Usually Natsu would be jumping off the train, happy to be off that torture machine, but today he just wants to get this mission over and done with, so he wasted no time. They walked into town for about five minutes until Lucy spoke up.
"So, what do we have to do Erza?" she asked. Erza got out the job request and took a look at it.
"It says here that we have to meet a man named Derek chaser. He would have the information we need." Lucy nodded.
"Ok then." After fifteen minutes of walking around town and asking people for help, they finally reached their clients hotel. The team followed Erza into the hotel and up the stairs and when they finally arrived at the door Erza knocked. A short man appeared. He had black hair that had been flattened, and he was wearing a blue tux.
"H-hello." He stuttered.
"Hello sir, we are wizards from Fairytail. You are Derek chaser, am I correct." She asked, the man gulped and started to sweat a little.
"Uhhh, Y-yes. That's me. Hi, I'm D-Derek chaser." He said holding out a shaky hand. Erza took it.
"We have accepted the request and we are here to help. May we please come in." She gestured inside. The man jerked his head to look inside then looked back at her.
"Uhh, y-yes, of-of course. S-so sorry, where are my manners." He said, dabbing his forehead with a white cloth. He stepped aside and let them through.
"Thank you." They all sat down at the couches in the middle of the room. There was an awkward tension in the air. Lucy looked around, anxiously, at her team. Natsu was staring at the ground, clearly not interested, Happy was staring at Carla who was sitting in Wendy's arms looking at anything besides Happy, Wendy was just doing the same thing as Natsu was (Staring at the ground, but nervously), but Erza was the one who was actually paying attention. At least she hasn't changed. It sure has been a long time since they went on a proper job as team.
"So, there's a dark wizard in town?" She asked. Typical Erza, getting straight to the point. The man nodded.
"Y-yes. We we think-well-we know that he has been doing dark magic. For this past week there has been a dark atmosphere and it's only gotten worse. We would like you to investigate and put a stop to this dark wizard. Please, before he does anything bad to the citizens." Erza nodded thoughtfully.
"Do not worry sir. We will do what we can. Come on gang, let's go solve this mystery and put a stop to this before night if we want to make if back before Mira's famous dinner." She then stood up and shook the man's hand and left. At this statement, Natsu's face seemed to brighten up for the first time that day.
"Oh yeah, that's right. Oh boy, I can't wait now." He smiled a little and bounced out of the room following Erza with Happy.
"Hey, can I just point out the fact that Erza just called us a 'gang'? Since when does she do that?" Lucy asked, getting up. Wendy just shrugged.
"Well that's Erza for you." Her eyes started to sparkle, and she clasped her hands together. "But I'm with Natsu though. I cannot wait for tonight, I hope she did the same as last year. She made me my favourite apple pie." She grinned and walked out with Lucy following behind who was also smiling.
After fifteen minutes of walking, they finally reached the house or should Natsu say Mansion. He looked up at it, it was huge. It could've been mistaken as a castle. Although it looked as though it was a haunted one. It was a dark place. All the plants and vegetables around it looked all rotten and looked as though they died centuries ago. There were vines and mould growing all over the walls and there was this huge dark grey cloud above them. The mansion had two tall towers with crows circling just above them.
Erza walked up the stone steps with the rest of them following behind her. She knocked on the big wooden, oak door.
"Hello! Is anybody in there? We would like to speak with you!" Erza shouted. They waited a few seconds before Erza knocked again.
"Hello?" But there was still no reply.
"Maybe there's no one ther-gah!" Lucy squealed. She jumped as Erza kicked the door down and it went crashing to other side of the room. For some reason, Natsu had a sense of déjà vu.
Erza walked inside, she drew out her sword; preparing for any sign of attack. It was dark inside; there were no lights and no candles. Natsu drew out a flame in his hand, and it lit up the whole room. Natsu looked around the place, it was really nice if there weren't any cobwebs around and a lot of dust. He looked towards the back of the room where there was a really long staircase with a long red carpet. Suddenly, a wave of déjà vu hit him. Why was he having so much Déjà vu today?
"Is anyone else having déjà vu?" He asked, the others shrug.
"I guess I am." Lucy answered, nervously.
"A little, but not that much." Wendy replied, thinking. Erza continued upstairs without answering. They came across a long hallway with a lot of rooms. The doors were all blocked with pieces of wood except for the one down at the end. Erza signalled for them to walk slowly and quiet.
"We have to be careful. This could be where the dark wizard could be hiding." She whispered. The others nodded in response and continued to follow her. Once they reached the door, they stopped. The door was already opened slightly, and Erza carefully peaked through it.
It was a well-lit room with candles floating everywhere. There was a wooden desk and there was someone very familiar standing there.
"GRAY!" She accidently yelled. She covered her mouth and took a step backwards.
"What?" Natsu yelled. She didn't answer, but she just pointed towards the door. Just as he was about to peak through the door, someone walked up to them, blocking the light. Natsu gasped as he recognised the smell.
"Gray!" But it wasn't Gray. Well it was, but he was different. 'Gray.' Pushed the door more open and they were able to see him better. Natsu stood there, shocked. His friend, no his best friend, no Brother is standing there; alive! What the hell was happening? But there was something wrong with his eyes. They were glowing red! He must be under control. Natsu remembered Erza telling him when he was under control that one time, his eyes were glowing red.
"What the-" Lucy asked shocked. Suddenly a fist came down in her direction. Natsu jumped into action and jumped in front of her, blocking his attack just in time.
"Gray." He breathed. Gray didn't respond he just stood there, panting with his fist still in Natsu's. It was as if he was waiting for something. Natsu didn't realise the man in the back until he stood up.
"Gray, attack." He ordered and 'Gray' did just that. He pulled his fist back and brought down his other fist to Natsu's face, who blocked it.
"Gray! You gotta snap out of it. I don't know what the hell is going on here, but please you have to snap out of it!" Natsu yelled, blocking and attacking Gray. Natsu quickly glanced at Erza who was still standing there shocked with tears starting to pour down her eyes. Natsu didn't want to see that.
"Erza. I know this isn't the time to say this but, you have to calm down, I need you and Lucy to fight the other guy. Me and Wendy we'll handle Gray. Got it?" He asked, he just saw Erza nod and ran with Lucy to attack the other guy. Natsu let go of 'Gray's' hand and jumped backwards next to Wendy.
"Wendy! Do you think you could lend a hand?" Wendy looked up at Natsu and shyly nodded.
"I can, but I don't want to hurt Gray."
"It'll be ok Wendy. He's tough, we just have to get him to snap out of it, ok." Wendy nodded. Natsu called Happy into action and Wendy did the same thing with Carla. Happy and Carla both flew Natsu and Wendy through the air and continued the battle with 'Gray'.
Erza and Lucy were battling with the man who was controlling Gray. Erza was slashing with two off her sword while Lucy had called out Taurus.
"What are you doing with our friend. What have you done with him? He was dead! How is he hear?" She screamed questions at him, all the man did was just smirk. Oh, that was getting on her nerves. He didn't reply, he just smirked! And it was getting annoying.
"TELL ME!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, smashing down her sword on the top of his head, but he blocked it.
"I'll tell you." He said in a quiet but calm voice. "I've made him into my pet. That was our plan last year. We were to lure you fairy scum into our guild, so we could kill him. We needed pinky over there, because the spell wouldn't work if we were to just kill him, he needed to protect someone he loved. After that, we were able to resurrect him and make him ours." He smiled evilly. Erza wsa beyond angry. How dare they. HOW DARE THEY DO THAT TO ONE OF HER NAKAMA! HOW DARE THEY DO THAT TO GRAY? They had absolutely no right.
"HOW DARE YOU!" She screamed at him. "HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO ONE OF MY COMRADES! HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO GRAY!" She had enough of this. She smashed her sword against him, moving as fast as she possibly could. She could no longer hold in her anger, she just couldn't. This was just too much to keep in. She screamed every time her sword hit him. The man did not make any move to attack, he just endured it and attacked her even more. She had to defeat him, somehow. Lucy was also really angry. She had called out Sagittarius who was now hitting the man with arrows and she was wracking him with her whip.
She couldn't believe that this man could do this to her friend. She considered Gray to be her older brother, he was special to her. She was just as mad as Erza. HOW COULD THIS MAN DO SUCH A THING!
"GAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" She yelled.
Natsu heard everything that man said. How could he! He couldn't believe it! He stared at his friend with anger and sadness. After all this time, his friend has been in this man's control and they didn't even know?
"Gray please you've got to snap out of this." He tried again and punched him in the face. Gray grabbed his wrist and flipped him over to the side.
"I don't know what you're talking about." 'Gray growled.
"Oh, so you can talk." Natsu said, sarcastically.
"Of course. What do you think I am? An idiot?" He kicked Natsu's legs and he fell down. Natsu thought about it for a moment and shrugged.
"Weell, kinda of. I mean, since you're such an idiot for letting yourself be controlled by someone else then yeah.". 'Gray' growled again and clenched his fists.
"I'm not being controlled!" He shouted and punched Natsu in the stomach. Natsu stood back up and wiped the blood from his mouth.
"Well then why did you wait for an order to attack then, huh. The real Gray I know wouldn't need permission to start a fight with someone." He smirked and crossed his arms. "He'll just start one straight away."
"I said: I'm. Not. Being. Controlled!" He shouted, trying to punch Natsu, but he kept jumping back to dodge them.
Suddenly, Gray stop his punches and kicks and screamed. He crouched down to the ground and clutched his head, panting. Natsu jumped as Gray scream. He looked over to Happy, Wendy and Carla who also wore the same expressions.
"Gray! You ok?" They shouted, running over to him. Two seconds later, Erza and Lucy came running over with the unconscious man.
"Guys! What's happening?" Erza questioned fearfully. She was quickly looking back and forth from Gray to Natsu, who was lost for words.
"I-I-I don't know. One minute we were fighting and the next he was just down on the ground, screaming." Erza was about to open her mouth and reply but a voice she's longed to hear again cut her off.
"Y-you guys…" He grunted.
"Gray!" They all shouted in unison and Erza and Natsu crouched down next to him to help support him.
"Y-you've got to do it. You've got to kill him." He whispered, closing his eyes, trying to control his breathing.
"W-what do you mean?" Erza asked, her hands shaking with fear.
"I-if you kill him, then it will kill me too." He didn't look up to meet his friend's gazes. He just wouldn't be able to bear it.
"No!" Natsu replied outraged. "We are not doing that!" This time, Gray looked up but with pleading eyes.
"P-please. You have too. Because if you don't, then he'll wake up again and he'll make me kill you, all off you."
"Gray. We can't do that! We can't just see you die again!" Lucy shouted. Gray looked down, guiltily.
"I-I'm sorry. I know. But I can't just watch you guys get killed. I wish I had more time with you all, I still have so many things to say with you and the others, but if this man wakes up." Gry pointed down at the unconscious Master. "He will make me kill you and I-I just can't let tht happen. So please, do me on last favour." He asked. Natsu looked at him sadly. He didn't even know if they could do it. I mean, watching him die the first time was hard enough, but now watching him die the second is going to be even harder. Especially since they were the ones who were going to-who were going to do it. But he unfortunately understood Gray.
"O-ok. We'll do it." He replied, shakily. Gray gave a sigh of relief and looked at Natsu straight in the eyes.
"Thank you Natsu." Erza looked at Gray then Natsu, shocked. She couldn't believe what they were saying! How could Natsu agree to this?
"Natsu! We aren't going to do such a thing-." She was cut ff by Gray, who slowly reached up and grabbed her arm.
"Please Erza. You guys must do it, and I'm so sorry for asking such a thing, but can you please be the one to do it? I know it's going to be tough, but I also know that you're the one who's going to be able to pull though this afterwards. I'm so sorry for asking this, but please." He begged. Erza was speechless. How was she going to do it? What did he mean that shew was the one who was going to pull through this? But the look in his eyes blue eyes made her agree to it.
"Gray, I-I will. But please forgive me. I'm so sorry for doing this I-" Gray chuckled.
"It's alright. No need to say sorry, I was the one who asked you to do this, so it should be me saying that, not you." Erza shook her head and chuckled a little, tears streaming down her face even harder.
"Typical fool you are, Gray." He smiled a little. Erza helped Natsu lower Gray down onto the ground so that he was lying on his back. Lucy crouched down beside Natsu on his left and Wendy and Carla crouched down on his right. Happy flew onto his heard and peered down at Gray's face.
"Are you really sure about this Gray?" Happy asked, nervously. He nodded and smiled. He reached up to Happy's face and wiped some tears off.
"Don't cry Happy. It's going to be ok." Happy smiled a little and tried to put on a brave face. He turned to Wendy next and held her hand. Her lips were trembling, and her hands were shaking, Carla was on her lap, trying to comfort her while looking at Gray with fear.
"It's going to be alright Wendy. I'm going to miss you heaps, but don't worry though."
"But Gray. Y-you just can't go. Who's going to be the bestest big brother to me? Who's going to help me find the Easter eggs at Easter and who's going to help me trick or treat at Halloween? Please Gray you can't leave." Gray closed his eyes softly and sighed a little. He sure was going to miss all those good times with her.
"I'm so sorry Wendy that I won't be able to do those things with you anymore, but Natsu's there for you. He'll be great at those things. I'm really am sorry Wendy. But if this makes you feel any better, I've always though you as the little sister I've never had. And I will always remember you. Carla?" He looked down t Carla, wo had just started to cry. "Please, look after her." She nodded.
"I will. I'm going to miss you Gray." She said.
"I'm going to miss you too Carla." He turned to face Lucy, who was holding his other hand. "Lucy. Like I've said: it's going to be alright. You don't need to cry, cause I will always still be here alright? And I just wanted to say that I always thought of you as my little sister as well." He smiled.
"Gray… I will write to you. Every day I'll write. I'm going to miss you so much, big brother." She smiled.
"Same here, little sis." He chuckled, then he turned to Natsu.
"Please Gray. I told you, you can't die. I haven't given you permission to die, so ya can't. Do you here me?" He shouted. Gray sighed sadly.
"I know Natsu, I know. But if I don't then you guys will be- just it's going to okay. It might be hard at first, but you will be able to move on, flamebrain. But I am going to mis you, heaps. And please, look after the guild for me." He asked. Natsu reluctantly nodded, tears streaming down his face like the others.
"I will. I will Gray. I promise, Ice princess." He smirked a little, Gray chuckled and punched Natsu's a`rms slightly.
"Thanks man." Then he turned his head and stared up at Erza. "Erza I'm really sorry that you have to do this. But I really appreciate it. But I am sorry that I've made you cry, all of you in fact. I'm really going to miss you Erza. You're one of my closest friends and I will never forget the times we've spend together. I just hope that you will forgive yourself after this has happened. Please?" He asked. Erza nodded and wiped some tears away.
"I-I will." He nodded and smiled.
"Thanks. I really you guys. All of you, all of FairyTail. It was literally the best thing in my life. Please tell the others I said goodbye and that I love them and thanks for all they've done, for me." They all nodded.
"Thanks." He let go of Lucy's hand just for a second and did the Fairytail signature: Even if I can't see you, No matter how far away you may be, I will always be watching. Lucy smiled at this and did the same thing while she wrapped her other hand around his fingers. He watched as the other did the signature as well and smiled. "Erza do it." She drew her sword out and looked at Gray one last time and stabbed the man straight in the chest.
Before Gray closed his eyes, the last thing he saw, was the faces of all his team mates gathered around him, with small smiles on their faces.
Hello, hope you enjoyed this story, this was literally the longest chapter I have written wow! and I hope that you liked it Viperhat, thanks for suggesting it. Although I did enjoy writing this, but I don't think I will do another one where Gray dies, just not a big fan on writing it. Anyways thanks again and please review.
Graydevilslayerfan101 out~