BlackLynx17: Hi everyone! I fixed my summary, the last time I was in such a rush to get the story posted that I made it super short and to the point. I've gone back and fixed it though, hopefully for the better. I received tons of reviews and I'd like to thank you for your support. I'm super excited about this story and have finished most of the plot line. All I need to do is go back and revise, so no need to worry about it suddenly dropping or late updates.

Honestly I just read the summary again and decided that it's not good. I'm going to be changing it again one more time and hopefully that will be the last. Lol. Well, without further ado please enjoy this chapter and remember to review. It makes authors really happy when you do, as I'm sure you all know. Just a reminder, this story has multiple couples so if you don't like the one we're on now, power through until you get to that special couple that makes you fangirl/fanboy.

Elements Of The Heart

Chapter 2

Great Grandfather Fullbuster

She thinks she loves him. She wasn't for sure, but when she saw him... it was strange. She's never felt this way before in her life with anyone else. It was fate that they met, it had to be. How could their meeting be anything else other than by the hands of fate, or her savior? How else could you explain her sudden want to take a swim that day and adventure into the distance, where she saw the flickering light. Curious, she started swimming towards it and that's where she saw him. Gray. Gray. Gray. How had she lived so long without him? Without knowing about his being? His existence?

He wasn't a Water Element like her, but an Ice. They were different; he lived in a whole different world than her, breathed a whole different air, probably even ate completely different foods and did completely different things. Honestly though, what did that matter? Love was love, and Juvia had fallen in love with Gray after one meeting.

The Water Element couldn't sleep a wink that night. Thoughts of Gray swam all through her head until morning rose, the waters getting a little bit warmer and brighter. She was out of the house before anyone else even woke up and swam to their meeting spot with speed that could match a dolphins. There was no light guiding her this time, so when Juvia got to the general area all she could see was the ice wall. It ran far, as far as her eyes could see in every direction. Her gut was telling her he was located somewhere around here, she couldn't really know for sure though until he got here.

So Juvia relaxed and became one with the small waves, closing her eyes and finally getting that rest she so desired knowing that her beloved was resting below her. She dreamed of the sky she saw just behind Gray's head, the white snow that fell on the ice covering her view of him, but mostly Gray talking to her. She dreamed of his voice, what he might sound like, could of sounded like. Something magical, loving, beautiful. Something different.

There was a shift in the waters when she woke up. It felt like she's been sleeping for hours and yet there were no cracks of light below her. Where was he? Was it still too early? Juvia slowly drifted down to the ice wall and laid on it, cold to the touch. After a while she saw a light peeking though the ice in the distant and raced towards it. Her heart was singing when she got near and finally, when she was swimming directly above it, below her was Gray's face looking right at her. He smiled and waved, her heart fluttering as she smiled and waved back.

Juvia came prepared today to speak and communicate better with him. She dug inside her sash and pulled out several small green seashells from it. She could feel Grau's eyes watching her as she crushed the shells up until it was nothing but dust. She let it float through the water, shaping the now green water so it could spell out words that her beloved could not hear her speak.

'Hello Gray.'

She stared up and saw him blink, probably amazed with her powers, his jaw dropping a little bit. After she blinked she saw him moving the snow off the ice all around him, making a big circle of space. It might not have been his intention, but Juvia was able to see his full body now and blushed lightly; he was kneeling below her shirtless, the ice only making it sparkly and enhance each muscle and every curve. How could she not have noticed before? Suddenly the water felt warm around her as he started writing in the snow.

'How are you doing that?'

"I can control water, it's my element." Juvia said as she formed the words with her green water.

Gray grinned and held his hands up, icy spikes suddenly appearing out of his palms. It was Juvia's turn to be amazed, her eyes widening as she reached for it, only to be stopped by the wall between them. He just made ice appear out of his hands, he could control his element ice just like she could control hers. All this time, her whole Element has been living right next to the Ice Element. They've been living right underneath their noses this whole time.

'I can control ice.' Gray wrote her.

Juvia laughed and started clapping her hands underwater. The two of them stared at each other for a while, wondering what was going to happen next. Nothing did. She smiled lightly and reached a hand out to him, who in return Gray held out the same to her.

"Does everybody in your section look like you?" She asked, forming the words in the water.

Gray blinked and shook his head. He had to remove his hand from hers to write back, saying it as he wrote.

"Sort of, we only have people with black and white hair, sometimes dark blue and gray. Other than that though I guess, our eye colors are always brown and black. What about you?" He asked.

Juvia smiled and nodded her head, "we have people with blue hair too! My color blue though, and white hair! No black like yours, our eyes are brown and blue though! We have a connection!"

Gray chuckled, he drew a happy face in the snow. It was cool that they had been able to find a way to speak since they couldn't hear each other, but this language barrier was killing him. He couldn't create ice words as easily as she could create words in the water. If only this ice wall barrier wasn't between them, then they could speak and hear each other so much better... maybe he should try breaking the ice again, but this time actually give it a real try.

'Move back a little, I'm going to try something.' Gray wrote.

Juvia raised an eyebrow curiously, but nodded and started swimming away. Once he spotted her a safe distance away Gray stood up and got into position, placing a closed fist on his open palm.

"Ice Make: Hammer!" He yelled forming a hammer and smashing it on the ice.

The wall vibrated underneath him; other than that nothing happened. Juvia understood what he was trying to do though and nodded to herself. Maybe if they broke the barrier they could meet person to person, she could talk to him, touch him, hear what his voice sounds like. She dreamed that it was a dark voice, like her father's or uncle's maybe. In order for her to help though, she needed more distance. Storing the green fragments of the once seashells inside her sash, she swam away from the barrier even more and started gather water into her hands. With a sudden burst, she shot the water with the force of a killer whale against the ice wall.

Nothing.

Gray felt the shaking and saw the water splashing. He walked back to the open spot and waved for her attention.

"On the count of three." He said holding up three fingers.

Juvia understood and started gathering more water again while Gray positioned himself once more.

"One." He said.

"Two." She whispered.

"THREE!"

"Ice Make: Hammer!"

"Water Nebula!"

Getting hit from both sides you would think would have done something, nothing happened though. Gray and Juvia both ran to see if there was the slightest crack or anything, the ice wall separating them didn't seem hurt in the least. Both Elements sighed and looked at each other sadly, they were wearing small smiles though.

'I guess we're stuck talking like this.' She wrote in the water.

'I guess.' Gray wrote her.

Juvia stared at Gray, biting her bottom lip as she did so. The disappointment was clear on his face and she started wondering if wanting to see and meet him... might not be what he wanted. To go through all of this just to talk to one Water Element... it seemed like a lot.

'You don't have to do this you know. You don't have to stay here and talk to me.' She wrote, the words in the water drifting slightly as fear crept inside of her.

Gray was surprised and shook his head as he wrote in the snow, 'I don't mind talking like this at all! I really want to in fact!'

She smiled and Gray suddenly felt embarrassed, messing up the snow that held his desperate words as he looked another way. Juvia giggled into her hand and reached out, tapping the ice wall to catch Gray's attention. He looked and she mouthed words to him, bubbles escaping her mouth.

"Thank you."

"Hey Lyon, ever wonder why we we're separated from the other Elements?"

Lyon Vastia, a fellow Ice Element, was Gray's best friend, or the best he'd ever get, and childhood friend. They were also pupils from the same teacher growing up, the list went on and on about how these two knew each other. Although everyone here in the Ice Section lived under one roof, the Vastia's home was built right next to the Fullbuster's, them being connected to each other. It wasn't strange for them to just walk right in and make themselves at home, their families being such good friends after living near each other for so long, which is exactly what Lyon did when Gray got home. Maybe his busting in was actually a good thing this time. Lyon was just... he was someone Gray felt he was closest too... or well at least the only person he felt like he could talk about this.

"I don't know what you mean by that Gray." Lyon said bored.

"Remember back when we first had our tour of our Ice Kingdom? Mimori was explaining about the different Elements and how we were the only Element that lived under one roof." Gray tried to jog his memory.

"Ao Mimori? Oh yeah! You're talking about the other extinct Elements! Fire, Light, Earth, I think Sky was one, and our Ice and Water? Those Elements?

"You missed a few, but you get my point. Yeah, now have you ever wondered why we can't visit those Elements? How we've never seen them?"

"Bro, what are you talking about? I just told you Gray, their extinct Elements. Everyone knows that ice is the only Element alive and still kicking on this planet. We were the only survivors."

"Survivors? Survivors in what?"

"You got me, I'm just repeating what I heard from Mimori. It's pretty obvious though that none of them exist if we haven't seen any Element for so long."

"So you don't think our world is just... not connected with the others?"

Lyon gave Gray a blank stare and sighed out loudly. There was that look in his eyes that meant he wasn't going to drop the subject until he got some answers, any kind of answers to his questions. There wasn't a lot Lyon knew, he had something that might help his friend though and stood up from his comfortable spot on the icy couch to go retrieve it. Gray called out to him as he left and stared at the thick book he returned with a minute later. Lyon chucked the thing at Gray, who quickly caught it and prevented a black eye or injury from happening.

"Here, you need to reeducate yourself about our history because I don't feel like wasting my time being your teacher for an afternoon. If you don't feel like reading the thing though, you can always go visit Mimori and ask her personally or maybe even your Dad, he is our leader. While you do all of this though, I'm going to go visit Ul and create something. Come join us when you're over this obsession." Lyon said walking out of the room.

Gray sighed and looked at the old history book, remembering it from his childhood. Their savior was drawn on the cover, that being the only thing Gray really remembered from it. He cracked the book open and started scanning through it, trying to find the answers he sought. There was no beginning in the book, just history and past. It briefly explained about all Elements living together for a brief time before they disappeared, before all Elements disappeared except for Ice. Gray narrowed his eyes as he read the same passage over and over again.

Disappeared? How could that be right?

"How can you explain millions of Elements dying by just disappearing?" Gray asked himself turning the pages.

He read further into detail of his Element's history and mainly the ending, about Ice being the only survivors. There was nothing in the book though that said what they were the survivors of. This book was useless Gray came to the conclusion of as he closed it. He glanced at the spine of the book, trying to see if there was an author's name to know who wrote the piece of garbage, there was nothing there though. He reopened the book and looked at the first few pages, the initials G. and F. appeared on one page.

"Well that helps a lot." Gray mumbled closing the book again.

So apparently all anyone knew about their history was that their savior, the sacred Iceberg, created their home and their kind flocked to it, learning from the Iceberg how to control the ice we lived on. That was it. There was no knowledge of anything about the worlds being connected or how they ended up being closed off from each other. Not how everyone else just died except for their race, just them being the survivors.

"How come no one has questioned this before?"

Because no one had seen a Water Element so no one thought anything of it. Gray sighed as he pushed the book on the table, staring at it. He hadn't learned anything new from this book at all. He thought there must have been a war or something that killed everyone else and Ice just won.

"So Juvia, she must be the only survivor of her people." He mumbled to himself.

But she talked as if she wasn't, as if she had family and friends. She spoke happily and proudly of her Element, living Element. Gray stood up from his chair quickly and raced out of his home, passing his mother on the way as he planned on asking the oldest and wisest Ice of all. Many familiar faces said hello, Gray was on a mission though. He quickly ran through the elegant gates with shapes and symbols curving and beautiful stairs glistening a pearly dark blue under the sun, to the highest point of their Ice Castle. There, guarded by six guards, though Gray was sure that those guards weren't there just for the ice, was the great iceberg of their history standing tall and unmoving, the same way it look once his people first saw it, and his father right next to it.

"Dad?" Gray asked walking in.

The guards let him pass, seeing as how that was his son, and Gray Sr. stood up from his resting spot, smiling at his son. He was dressed in armor, as always, his cape fluttering viciously in the wind that seemed to pick up out of nowhere. The grin on his face stayed true whenever he saw his son and he welcomed him in with open arms, shielding his son from the cold world in his warm arms for a few short seconds.

"Gray, my son, how I've missed you."

"You just saw me last night Dad at dinner, and stop it. Your guards are looking." Gray mumbled, his face turning red.

Said guards started chuckling and turned their backs to their King and future heir, taking a few steps forward to give the two rulers their privacy. Gray Sr. just grinned down at his son and ruffled his hair.

"That may be true, but you've been out of sorts lately. I haven't been seeing you walking around our kingdom either, have you been training with Ul and Lyon outside the kingdom walls?"

"Something like that." Gray mumbled, not wanting to lie to his Dad, but not wanting to tell the truth either. Juvia... Juvia was his secret. His and well soon, their saviors.

"It's rare seeing you seek me out, unless your mother sent you for me?" His Dad asked, paling.

Gray chuckled, "no Dad. She didn't."

"Great, phew. I guess that leaves two other options, you have something to say to me or you have something to ask Icy."

"Does he ever answer?" Gray asked, walking around his father and towards the iceberg.

"Son, when you are King you will know the answer to that. If he does not answer though, you know you can always come to me."

"Yeah, thanks Dad."

Gray Sr. stared at his son who didn't even glance back as he placed his hand on the iceberg.

"Is there something on your mind son?"

Gray hummed lightly, "I'm just wondering about our history, there's not much in our books and I was hoping that our savior could fill in the blanks."

"My grandfather once told me that we were all once Water Elements."

Gray froze, his heart beating erratically in his chest.

"That one day, while swimming around-"

"Swimming?" Gray asked, turning to his Dad.

"Yes, it's how the Water Elements move in water. We simply walk my son, they swim though."

Gray nodded and, waiting for his father to continue, started thinking back to Juvia. She did walk different from himself, almost with grace like she was dancing. She wasn't dancing though, she was swimming. Gray Sr. nodded back to his son before continuing.

"One day, while swimming around they came across land. Our ice land to be precise. It was our great-great-great-great something grandfather, Gray Fullbuster, who took the first step and found our savior. He walked over to the iceberg and simply touched it." Gray Sr. said walking over, touching their savior as he explained it.

"Then instantly, he knew the iceberg was alive. That it was feeling everything he felt, knew everything he had been through, and understood that he was looking for something else other than what the Water Elements were giving him. He found it in the iceberg and the two of them made a pact. For giving us the power of ice, we were to create a kingdom in glory of the power he gave us and always love ice. Our great grandfather, let's just keep it short, returned back to the Water Section and started spreading the news fast, asking all who wanted to join him in a new place should come. He gathered nearly half of the Water Elements and they all lost their water ways, for ice. My grandfather told me that the ice called to his great grandfather, that while swimming around he heard him call so that's why we believe the ice is real. It saved us, gave us a better place and a more beautiful power to create something out of nothing." Gray Sr. said in amazement as he created an ice crystal in his hands.

"Our great grandfather was made King because the iceberg chose him, just as the iceberg chose his son, and his son, and his son, and my son. The day you were born your mother and I brought you here and laid your hand on our savior. It began to snow from the sky inside this room and we could hear music, softly in the winds while our savior glowed. We're not chosen to be kings because of our bloodlines, but because the iceberg knows who will bring great prosperity to its kingdom and people. It may not speak all, but it knows all that is well for its people and feels every single one of us connected to its kingdom."

Gray looked down at the iceberg, seeing its shards connected with the icy floors. The floors connected to the roofs and walls, all the way down to the stairs and lower levels of the castle and still even further down as people kept connecting and creating more and more things to their home.

"What did you come to ask him Dad?" Gray asked

"I came to give my thanks, as I do everyday for these blessed lives and keeping our Element save."

Gray nodded and turned back to the iceberg, sitting down just as he saw his father had when he walked in. Gray Sr. watched his son before turning around, dismissing his guards as he left the room. Gray waited until he heard them leave before he laid down on the floor, placing a hand on the ice.

"Hello?" He asked.

There was no response.

"If what my father said was true, then you know everything I know and feel. You know that I don't wish to be a Water, that I love my Element very much and feel lucky to be born as an Ice. I do wonder why we don't talk to the Water Elements anymore, why we're cut off from them. I met one and she... what happened? Why are we cut off from the Water Elements? Is anyone else out there, still alive? How did this happen?"

Gray could have been talking to a block of ice, but he knew he wasn't. He knew their savior Iceberg could hear him, that he just wasn't responding. Gray sighed and closed his eyes, scooting closer to the ice. He fell asleep right next to it, not waking up even when his father came to retrieve his unconscious body and bring him home.