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"Hey Gray, are you okay?" Natsu asked the raven haired teen sitting alone on the terrace floor. The boy was sitting with his arms folded on top of his knees. Gray turned around to see Natsu sitting beside him.

"Yeah…" He whispered looking up at the stars which finally shined through the blue sky. A cold wind swept slowly, sending a wave of chill down the boy's spine.

"I think you're sensitive to cold." Natsu said, looking up at the sky as well.

"Nah… I'm not. It's just that… it reminds me of my mother." Natsu noticed the visible sadness in Gray's blue eyes at the mention of his mother.

"Clarissa Fullbuster? What exactly happened to her?" Natsu asked turning his face to look at the boy's face.

"She died four years ago… And since then I and my brother were living together." Gray said, his eyes focused on the hard floor.

"Laxus Fullbuster? I don't know why you left. Was it the same reason as Lucy? She left her family because she felt like someone had trapped her inside a golden cage. Lucy Heartfilia, the heiress of one of the wealthiest families. Are your families the reason why you know her? I mean Fullbusters are also one of the richest families… No wonder Erza thought I kidnapped you. But it was stupid to think so, even for Erza." Natsu rolled his eyes at the memory of the incident which took place recently.

The raven smiled and chuckled.

"But Natsu-Chan-

Natsu groaned at that but Gray kept giggling and continued,

"You and Erza-san do love each other a lot, don't you? And I think Loke likes Lucy… but I think Lisanna-san and her both like the same person." Gray said.

All the while Natsu just kept staring at how adorably this guy spoke.

"-An? Natsu-Chan?" Hands were waving in front of his eyes. Natsu blinked and shook his head to clear the weird ideas from his mind.

"Sorry about that. What were you saying?"

"I was saying who is this LS you were talking about." Gray said.

"Oh LS, you'll know it soon." Natsu smiled. Gray nodded and stood up. Natsu stood up as well and they both walked towards the other side of the terrace where the view was clearer. Gray leaned against the wall, his chest feeling the front of it. Natsu stood in the same position.

"Ne Natsu-Chan, don't you think life's weird?" Gray asked suddenly. Natsu was taken aback at the sudden question but sighed and replied,

"Yeah. It makes us what we don't want to be and snatches away the ones we love a lot."

Gray wondered why Natsu was lost in thoughts all of a sudden. He kept a hand on the man's shoulder and asked,

"Are you okay? If there's something bothering you, you can share it with me." Gray said, concerned for his new friend and savior.

"You know, this house is really precious to me. It holds the memories of my parents, Igneel Dragneel and Grandine Dragneel." He said smiling slightly when a small piece of memory flashed through his mind of a woman and a man with two kids in their arms.

"What happened to them?" Gray asked curiously. Natsu looked at him and replied.

"They both died when all of our family had planned to go to our village. The house we were staying at was directly hit by the landslide. Mom and dad decided to save me and Erza, and chose to sacrifice themselves for us, who weren't even their children."

"You both were adopted?" Gray asked with a layer of shock coating his face.

Natsu nodded and looked away. Gray squeezed his shoulder gently and reassured him that he was there.

"I understand how you feel. But you've got Erza-san, right?"

"Yeah. Forget that. By the way, why did you run away?" Natsu asked curiously raising a brow.

"I… actually my brother wanted me to love him back the way he did… but I just couldn't. It kept on repeating every night. He would force himself on me and I'd plead. And finally, when everything was okay, every dream was coming true and our relation had improved… he-he arrived home drunk and beat me." Gray said, slightly shivering at the fearful memory.

Natsu didn't know why but he felt he wanted to crush something. His fists clenched on their own without his knowledge.

"That bastard…" He mumbled. Gray thought he heard something but let it slide away. He smiled to brighten up the atmosphere and wrapped his fingers around Natsu's wrist.

The taller male looked at Gray who was dragging him down the stairs now.

"C'mon, it's getting late and I forgot to tell Lucy had instructed us to not miss the dinner."

Natsu nodded and followed, wondering briefly why he had shared his past with someone who just came in his life a few hours ago… only few people knew about it.

When they reached down, nice aroma was lingering in the whole hall. Natsu, in an instant was dragging Gray now. The raven was thoroughly confused as to what happened all of a sudden.

"Luce! Did you cook something special?" Natsu asked running towards the kitchen. The blonde smiled brightly at his direction and nodded.

"Geez… why do transform into an over-excited pup in an instant from a stone faced man at the mention of food?" Loke asked entering the hall from his room.

"Shut up!" Natsu snapped and his hands were at the blonde's shirt's collar in a moment. The latter smirked.

"Fight, eh?" As if he heard the most exciting news ever, Loke grinned. Natsu smirked and left the collar, earning a pout from the blonde.

"C'mon guys! If you want to fight LS, you need some energy. Please everyone, sit down already!" Lucy shouted.

Natsu was the first one to be seated, followed by an amused Erza.

"Well Lucy, I don't think Natsu needs to eat food for energy. He's energetic enough at the mere mention of it." He snickered only to be glared by the salmon haired man.

Gray hesitantly sat beside Erza. She smiled at him and initiated,

"So Gray, as I doubt that my stupid brother or Natsu-Chan as you might like to call him," She paused to smirk at Natsu who was gritting his teeth in annoyance, "had kidnapped you."

Okay, so this time Natsu was definitely not going to leave his sister. Why in fucking hell would he kidnap Gray?

"Listen Miss I-never-leave-a-chance-to-annoy-my-brother, I did NOT, and I repeat DID NOT KIDNAP HIM!"

Poor soul was only ignored though.

"Yeah, as I was saying, my apologies for not properly greeting you and the very bright welcome others provided- she glared at the embarrassed people- by the way, do you know how to fight?" She asked, her one hand busy with the fork.

"Fight? Why?" He asked completely confused at why he needed to know how to fight. Lucy set few more dishes on the table and sat on Gray's other side.

"Oh forget that. He can accompany us like me in the fights, but he can work with me in the café during the day. That'll work." She nodded to herself and continued with a cheerful smile,

"Oh by the way, you guys forgot to introduce yourselves." She chuckled when everyone stopped eating.

"I'm Natsu." The head of the group said.

"I already know you." Gray said.

"I'm Loke; you can call me your knight in shining armor." Loke said, and winked at him. Gray rolled his eyes and said,

"I know you too!"

Before Erza could introduce herself, Lucy decided to do the job.

"Fine, let me tell you, Gray. This is Natsu, our leader."

"I still don't know why Erza can't be the leader. I'm just forced." Natsu said rolling his eyes.

Ignoring him the blonde continued,

"This is Erza, his sister who manages the café. The blonde flirt who is winking at you even now is Loke, the biggest flirt and womanizer you'd ever meet. That white haired girl is Lisanna who is the most annoying person here. That girl with brown hairs is Cana, and next to him is Gajeel. And at the last it's me whom you already know." She smiled after finishing.

"So overall you are seven people?" Gray asked eying everyone.

"Nope. Now that you're here, we're eight! Let's have a celebration!" Cana said standing up.

"Yeah, let's dance. I'm gonna impress Gray with my amazing skills." Loke said.

Natsu just groaned and stood up after finishing.

"That can be done later as well. For now, let's go and beat the pulp out of those people of LS!" Everyone cheered at that and Lucy shook her head giggling.

"Oi Bunny girl, you still need to tell us how you know this newbie." Gajeel asked standing up.

"We are friends. I'll tell the rest to you on our way." She said and they all locked the house and started walking away.


"So, you both know each other because of your families. And after two years, you found out each other?" Cana asked. The blonde nodded.

"That's just awesome! Gray, let's be friends, ne?" Lisanna sweetly smiled. Lucy 'huffed' at that and muttered, "Fake".

But Lisanna heard it and turned around. As the pairs of brown and blue were busy glaring at each other, a certain scarlet haired woman was deep in her thoughts.

'I hope that I can beat that bastard Fernandez today.' Unknown to her, everyone was staring at her awkwardly when she was grinning like an evil witch.

"Geez… I know you're weird Erza, but at least don't grin like that when you're imagining about your crush." Natsu said casually with his hands folded behind his head.

Erza glared at him and Loke snickered.


At reaching the place, Gray was greeted by a sight of few people standing, sleeping on the bikes and a few were looking like they were bored to death.

"Reitie." Natsu stopped in front of a bike, on which a figure was probably sleeping. That proved wrong as the person immediately sat up as if they were waiting for Natsu.

"Salamander." He stated with a smirk on his face.

"LYON!" Gray screamed. The silver haired guy or Reitie looked at his direction and his mouth left wide open.

"Impossible…" He whispered. And in an instant, his arms were wrapped around the raven's body as he crashed into him.

Surprisingly, what all of them expected did not occur. Reitie didn't push Gray; instead he was fighting the tears threatening to fall from his black eyes.

"Oi! Stay away from Gray!" Natsu glared at the silver haired man and was about to punch him straight in the gut, but Gray turned and smiled, with his eyes full of tears.

"No Natsu-Chan, he's Lyon, my best friend."

"Lyon?" Everyone stared at the leader of the rival team.

"Yeah, my name is Lyon. But I'll like it if ya all continue to call me Reitie. Just like Heartfilia." He smirked at the blonde who was having her arms folded over her chest.

"Heh, I won't call you Lyon at all. He wasn't heartless like you. Just because you had a fight with your mother, you left that place and established this group! I hate you; you're no more what you were once, Reitie…" Everyone stared at Lucy, then at Lyon, then again at Lucy, then at Lyon. The process continued and Cana broke it,

"Ouch! My neck hurts." The brunette made a disgusted face. Natsu was still glaring at Lyon. He didn't really mind Gray to be this close to Lucy, but maybe he wasn't much acceptant to let his new friend befriend with his rival. Especially after Gray told him about his past, he really didn't want to take any chance.

"Hey Lucy, Lyon, what's wrong?" Gray asked utterly confused at the recent conversation between the blonde and the silver head.

Lucy's eyes saddened for a second and she shook her head.

"It's nothing Gray. Really." She smiled. Lyon just looked away.

"Okay everyone; remember we had to decide who was going to win the match. Although it's strange that we are sorting out matters so peacefully for the first time." The white haired girl chuckled while finishing. She looked at the blonde who smiled in gratitude, and received a smile by Lisanna.

"We are ready." A girl spoke. Her eyes were blue and beautiful. Her pink hairs reached down till her waist and a bit of makeup were put up.

"But Lisanna, I think you and Sherry can't really fight." A blue haired girl came and rested her hand on Lyon's shoulder, giggling all the while.

"What did you say about her, you frickin'water woman? Miss Juvia toaster?" Lucy came forward with a fist ready to punch the said girl.

She was ready to punch back but a blue haired guy stopped her.

"You know what, even Sherry is better than you, muddy eyed blondie!" She kept yelling and the guy kept trying his best to stop her.

"Thanks Juvia. And Jellal, please let us fight." Sherry said who was gripped by another guy with blonde hairs.

"Okay everyone, stop it now." Natsu told his team, and so did Lyon.

When everything calmed, a certain raven haired guy was looking in both the directions.

"Reitie, Gray is our new member." Natsu smirked and Lyon's eyes widened. He looked at his best friend who was smiling.

"NO FREAKING WAY! I'M NOT GONNA FIGHT YOU GRAY!" Lyon yelled. Gray crossed his arms and pouted,

"Then why don't you join us as well?" He muttered and received a stern look.

"Ya think I'm gonna join Team Natsu and leave Lamia Scale? LS is my life!"

"Oh please, Reitie, we aren't even interested in taking you…" Natsu crossed his arms on his toned chest.

The raven looked at both the guys and then at Lucy, and started,

"Lucy, you remember I once read a book which Levy suggested you?"

"Yeah, but don't talk about it, Gray. They'll faint." Lucy chuckled.

"Whatever." Both Lyon and Natsu muttered together.

Gray clapped and said in an over excited tone,

"It's true! Natsu-Chan and Lyon, both are like those characters in book who keep fighting and fall in love at the end!"


"Erza Dragneel here, can you please send an ambulance. Two guys are probably dead here."


A/N: So nothing much special in this chapter. And I still find it weird at some points. But I really promise that the real story will start soon with a lot of turns and twists! Thanks for all the reviews and favs and alerts! I love you guys! ^.^

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