Previously: "Long time no see … Gray" Gray's eyes widened, that voice. : "No way" he whispered.
Right before Natsu's feet lay a puddle of blood. Lucy gasped. Natsu knew what he had to do once he looked at Erza. He sniffed and his face fell. He looked at Erza and told her with a sad voice: "I'm sorry, it's not his …" he said referring to the body laying a few meters away. "It's Gray's"

Erza was shocked. This was Gray's blood?! This couldn't have been from that fight between him and those bandits in the ice prison.

She had expected that blood to be from that guy that lay a few meters further away but apparently it wasn't.

Then she noticed that the guy was actually trying to get away. "Oh no you don't!" she growled angrily. If he knew what happened to Gray he would tell her! No one goes free with hurting her friends! No one!

"I swear it wasn't me!" the guy yelled scared.

"What happened here? Where is the ice mage?!" Erza demanded.

"We kinda got into a fight but he easily defeated us and I thought that he was crazy strong but then this girl came!" the guy frantically tried to explain.

"What girl?" "I don't know! She had a black cloak on so I couldn't see her! All I saw was her hands and her skin was really light! Almost as white as snow!"

"Did she say something?" 'If she did that might be a clue' Erza thought.

"Actually she did, it seemed like they knew eachother, or at least I think they did"

"Why do you think that? Why aren't you sure?"

"Well she said: "Long time no see … Gray" so I think they knew eachother but that ice mage didn't really say anything."

Erza thought about this: 'If they knew eachother then the reason that they kidnapped him couldn't be good, maybe they are from some dark guild that Gray defeated and they wanted revenge … No that couldn't be possible. There was no one stronger than Gray from all those enemies that he defeated. If they were Gray wouldn't have been able to defeat them. And most were males anyway … Wait don't tell me!?'

"About that girl with the cloak! Did she were a necklace that looked like one of these?" Erza asked. The male nodded: "I saw one of those pendants, it had a purple light surrounding it"

Erza's biggest fear came true. "No" she whispered. "What are those necklaces for?" Lucy asked.

"There is one dark guild who uses them. They're called The seven deadly sins. Each of their members has one of the sins and wears a necklace with its symbol. At this moment they're the most dangerous dark guild, every wizard who goes to fight them either doesn't return or returns badly beaten up. But the worst part is that they all lose their memories. That means we don't know a single thing about them, not which magic they use nor how many members they have and who. Everything surrounding them is a mystery, one thing however, we do know."

"And what's that?"

"Since recently they began attacking ice mages, why, we don't know. The only thing we know is that they only attack them when they're alone and isolated so I figured that Gray wouldn't be in any danger since we were with him AND in a highly populated village. But I guess I was wrong and now Gray has fallen into their claws and we don't know if we'll ever see him again, alive that is."

"That's horrible" Lucy whispered.

"There's no way Gray would let himself get killed that easily!" Natsu argued.

"Natsu's right! Gray would never let himself be disposed of that easily! But if they knew Gray maybe they met him in his past and maybe Lyon knows something"

"That's a great idea Lucy. You!" Erza snapped at the male. "Y-yeah?" he stuttered. "Is there anything you remember? Anything at all?"

"Uhm no … well nothing special I guess …"

"What is it? Tell us!"

"S-she called him Ira, that's all I just guess it's some sort of weird name."

"Ira?" Erza said. "I don't know anything about a name Ira …"

"Maybe Lyon knows"

"Right, let's go visit him shall we?


Gray groaned, opening his eyes. His head hurts so much! Then he shot up, that girl had hit him in the head when he was preparing to freeze her. He didn't know her name but he recognized her from his dreams and he wanted to know what she knew since she seemed to know him.

"Easy there! You'll only worsen your headache." A soft voice said. He looked to his right and saw a girl with auburn hair, freckles and kind brown eyes sitting next to him. She was wearing a light green dress which complemented her slightly toned skin. She was wearing a pendant which was giving off a light green light, it was in the form of a circle and inside that circle was an arrow that also formed the a circle.

"Who are you?" Gray asked. "Oh, my apologies for being so rude, I'm Individia. But my real name is Lily, it's nice to see you again, Gray."

"How do you know my name? I don't even know you?! I mean, I did see you in a dream of some sort but I don't know you in real live!" Gray said, this was freaking him out! First that weird girl knew his name and now she too!

She was just about to say something when the door swung open.

A guy entered with a stupid grin on his face. "Hey Lily! Sorry to interrupt but I have a little problem!" he said. He was scratching his head with his left hand while his right hand held that hand. Wait what?!

When Gray looked closer he could see that the guy's left arm had been cut off and he was using it to scratch his head.

How could that guy be so calm when his left arm had been detached! Didn't it hurt or something?!

"Seriously Kazuki? How many times did you lose your arm in the past few days?" Lily groaned.

"Hey! It isn't my fault!"

"Yes it is! I'm telling you you're always way to careless in fights!" Lily argued back.

"Whatever, just reattach my arm for me please" he groaned.

Gray blinked, this guy was certainly … unique.

Lily went to sit beside him and took his arm, placing it against his shoulder. Gray watched how the bones grew towards eachother and then transformed into one bone, he watched the muscles reattach themselves to eachother and the skin crawling towards eachother to cover everything.

"There, done" Lily said.

Kazuki moved his arms a few times before grinning. "Thanks Lil'" he said.

"Yeah yeah, whatever." She said.

Gray was amazed, he had never seen healer magic like this. It was even more amazing than that old woman's who healed his guild master after he had lost his magic by that guy who was always crying.

"Hey! Gray's awake!" the guy said bouncing up, allowing Gray to fully observe him.

The guy had dark green hair and emerald eyes, he had the same skin colour as Lily and was wearing black trousers, black shoes and a green shirt. He also had a pendant but his was shining a dark green colour, it was also a circle but in the middle were three lines, forming pi and hanging on the left and right from the line on top were two half circles which reminded Gray a bit of eyes.

And then he noticed that he had a black cloak slung over his shoulder and Lily had a black cloak hanging over the chair she was sitting on. He suddenly realized that they were on the side of that woman who knocked him out.