F.Y.I. Cobra is the same age as Natsu, Gajeel, Sting, Rogue, etc. Ultear is at the age she was after tenrou, so is Meredy.


"Crap!" Gray exclaimed.

"I'm fighting against a member of Draconem! Can you imagine what Natsu must have told them about me? They'll hate me as much as he does!"

"Not just that, take a look at her profile." Max said, pointing.

Sofie's profile had appeared on one of the floating lacrima screens.

Gray looked up at the screen, next to an image of Sofie's face, was a list of info about her.

"Sofie Cora. Member of Draconem Heart. Lightning Godslayer and Speed wizard. Likes, running, fighting, training and playing cards. Dislikes, slow games, slow people, and ice wizards." Lucy read out loud.

"What! It says right on her profile that she doesn't like me!"

Gray shouted furiously.

"I'm pretty sure thats why they paired you two up." Erza pointed out.

Gray walked onto the field seconds later.

Sofie wasn't there.

"Do I win by default?" Gray asked quickly, wishing to avoid this match.

"No way, ice boy, I'm not gonna let an opportunity like this slip away that easy." Sofie appeared in a bolt of lightning. Reminding Gray of the days he and Natsu would be scared out of their fights by Laxus appearing in a literal flash.

Natsu. Gray thought, and memories of his former best friend slammed into him. Natsu, that fire clown that would do anything for him, Natsu, that idiot that had thrown himself at a demon, just to stop Gray from sacrificing himself, Natsu, that flaming piece of crap that had always been there for Gray, no matter what, he was always there to argue with Gray, he was always there to challenge Gray, to be Gray's rival, to be Gray's closest friend. Natsu, the hot headed moron Gray had just stood by and watched get kicked out of the guild that had been his life.

Natsu, the boy who was alway'd there for Gray, but hadn't had Gray there for him, that Natsu.

"Why do you hate ice wizards?" Gray asked quickly, shaking his head so hard it left a ringing in his ears, attempting to escape another guilt trip about how he had treated Natsu during the aftermath of the dragon attack.

"Because your slow. It takes you forever to cast spells, you have to do a ton of stuff to complete a spell, your almost as bad as rune wizards." Sofie said.

"HEY!" Freed shouted from the Fairy Tail box, scowling.

Gray took this moment to study her clothes, which were bright enough to cause temporary blindness.

She now wore hot pink and green striped running shoes, compression shorts in hot pink, a lime green tee shirt that had, written in bright pink on it.

"COMPETE DEFEAT REPEAT."

She also wore a green baseball cap with the Draconem Heart insignia on it in pink. On her thigh was her guild mark, now visible, in lime green.

"Well? You done checking me out? I've gotta fight to win."

The crowd oohed at Sofie's smack talk.

Then the gong sounded, and Sofie was gone, she disappeared well before Gray's attack struck the place where she had once been standing.

She appeared above Gray and pointed her palms down at him.

"Lightning God's falling thunder!" She shouted, and a huge lightning bolt tore from her hands with the sound of rumbling thunder, it deafened Gray, and lightning bolt arced downward, striking Gray, who screamed in agony.

"Ice make geyser!" He shouted, sending a tower of ice shooting up at Sofie.

He wasn't even close, and the attack missed completely.

"Fullbuster's in quite a pickle ain't he?" Sofie asked, as if she actually cared.

She performed several backflips and landing a few yard from Gray.

"Let me ask you one question, one very important question." She said, suddenly that smack talking smart mouth was gone, she was dead serious.

Gray stared at her, but said nothing and did nothing, so she continued.

"Do you care for your nakama?" She asked.

Deadly silence penetrated the arena.

Gray took a deep breath, he knew that what he was about to say would cost him dearly, but he wouldn't allow the belief of Fairy Tail to be tarnished by Gray not answering the question that was the guilds pride.

"Yes. More than anything."

Sofie exploded with rage, lightning flew from her clenched fists and a magic circle shot out from her feet, lightning dancing from it's edge's.
"LIAR!"

She launched herself at Gray, revenge for her friends all that was in her mind.

She slammed her knee up into Gray's chest, she heard a rib crack.

That was for Gajeel. She thought as she spun on her toe and slammed her heel into the side of Gray's head, making black spots swim in the ice wizards vision.

That was for Laxus. She thought.

She hurled herself forward and brought her elbow down onto Gray, he raised one forearm to block it, she Sofie performed a flip at the last second and brought the hard heels of her running shoes down on Gray's exposed arm.

Gray cried out in pain as his forearm snapped and his arm swing weakly down to his side.

That was for Wendy. Sofie thought and she dodged to one side to avoid Gray's foot as he kicked out at her.

Sofie leapt up into the air brought both hands down in a sweeping motion.

"Lightning gods wave of destruction!" Sofie shouted.

A pure wave of crashing, smashing electrical energy erupted from Sofie's hands and slammed into Gray, sending his reeling as energy sparked all around him. Then the lightning was triggered, and Gray's entire form was enveloped in yellow and black as the lightning erupted into the sky.

And that one was for your 'best friend' Natsu. Sofie thought as she pressed forward, never giving her opponent even a second to possibly get into ice make position.

Gray dodged her flying fists as she attacked him, leaning back farther and farther to avoid her fury.

Finally he managed to get into ice make position.

"ICE MAKE CANNON!" He shouted, forming a cannon out of mid air.

Sofie was so focused on beating the life out of Fullbuster that she had to time to transform and teleport.

The attack shot out and slammed into Sofie's stomach.

She rolled backwards across the dirt.

"How slow am I now?" Gray asked, huffing with effort to recover from the last attack he had taken.

"Very, very slow, still, sorry." Sofie stood back up and stretched to one side to get the pain out of her abdomen.

"Time to get this over with. Speed magic activate."

She said, then she glowed gold and her featured seemed to blur as if she were vibrating yet staying in the same place, she went up onto the balls of her feet and balled her hands into fists.

"She wasn't even using speed magic this whole time?"

The announcer gasped, astonished.

Sofie was suddenly gone, launching herself at Gray as if she was a lightning bolt, hurtling down from a thunderstorm to strike Gray down where he stood. She slammed her foot into his shoulder and was pleased to hear a crunch from somewhere beneath her brightly colored footwear, Gray coughed up blood as her went spiraling back into the wall behind them.

"Ice make make excalibur!" Gray came running back out from the wall, both hands wrapped around an icy sword.

"Oh, a tiny ice sword, I'm so scared." Sofie said, waving her hands in front of her. Gray was torn up and struggling to stay on his feet, even though she was still hurting from that hit Gray had landed, it wasn't as bad.

Gray lunged at her, swinging his icy weapon.

Sofie grinned, "Let me show what a real sword looks like." She said.

"Heavenly sword of the lightning god!" She shouted.

A sword made of crackling electricity bolted from arm and into her hand, she gripped it tightly, took one step, and slammed it into Gray's approaching weapon. The godly sword crushed the simple ice creation, and it's creator was next.

Gray's screams of agony echoed through the arena.

"Gray!" Erza screamed from the box as she watched, putting cracks in the divider she clenched in her still hands as she saw her friend fall to the ground with a thud.

Gray shoved himself up to his knees and took several deep heavy breaths while ripping away the remainder of his shirt.

"I'm, not, finished, y-yet." Gray dragged himself to his feet, he was covered in scratches and wounds. Wendy watched from the tunnel, ready to heal if it was needed as soon as she could. Of course, she was ready to heal Sofie. To heck with that icy traitor.

Gray got back into ice make position.

"Time for my trump card." He gasped.

"Oh? And what might that be?" Sofie asked, putting one hand on her hip.

"Ice make...WAR HAMMER!" He shouted.

A huge hammer appeared, it was so big Sofie could only stare.

"Oh, that." She said simply as it slammed down onto her.

Gray staggered backwards, clutching at his injured shoulder, as if attempting to keep himself upright by pulling on himself.

The hammer melted away and Sofie lay in a small crater in the middle of the field. Gray held his breath, had he done it?

Then Sofie pulled herself up, she was covered in scratches and wounds, her hair had come out of it's ponytail and she had lost her hat, and one of her sleeves had been torn away, sagging down to show one of her tanned shoulders.

"Sofie!" Rogue shouted, leaning over the divider, concerned.

The rest of his guild was as well, were horrified as Sofie struggled out of the pit.

Then, Sofie's eyes went wide and the sky grew darker than a moonless night, her eyes appeared to have a raging storm inside of them. She limped forward, clutching at the wound in her stomach from the earlier ice cannon attack. Most of the bottom of her shirt had been ripped away, now the only word visible on her clothing was the word 'DEFEAT'

Sofie let out a warriors scream and ran at Gray, who was too greatly weakened to move out of the way. All of the clouds and the raging thunder and lightning within them was sucked down in a spiraling tornado and into Sofie's raised arm.

Sofie threw her punch with the same arm, and her fist stopped an inch from Gray's face.

They held this pose for a moment, Gray staring in horror at Sofie, her fist barely avoiding the tip of his nose.

"THUNDERING TORNADO OF THE LIGHTNING GOD!"

She screamed, and the tornado of pure electrical energy in a twisted casing of dark gray and black clouds hurtled forth from Sofie's fist. Gray screamed as the tornado exploded into him, totally enveloping him and sending him crashing backwards, through the first wall protecting the the fans, the second, the third, and finally the forth, he slammed spread eagle into the finally wall before the bleachers and slid to the ground as if he were nothing more than a raindrop, a raindrop thrown from a violent, raging, thunderstorm.

Sofie stood in the center of the field, her fist still outstretched, gasping in several deep breaths.

Then she threw her fist in the air and screamed.

"TAKE THAT! DRACONEM'S GOT THE HEART!" She screamed.

The crowd erupted with cheers and everyone in the Draconem Heart box exploded with jubilant applause that one of their own members had won a fierce victory.

Wendy finally was cleared and she ran onto the field along with the other four members of the Draconem Heart team and Rogue, who vaulted the divider and ran towards Sofie without so much as a glance in the badly injured ice mages direction.

The members of what was formerly team Natsu came sprinting out on the field toward Gray.

"Oh my god, Gray!" Lucy screamed as she dropped to her knees at Gray's side, he was unconscious.

"Why did you take it so far?" Erza shouted at Sofie, she looked full ready to launch herself at the godslayer and take her revenge.

Then Gajeel, Laxus, Natsu, and Wendy were there, block their former guild mates path, Rogue dove forward and caught Sofie as he legs gave out on her from using such a high energy spell, then he promptly lifted Sofie into his arms bridal style, Sofie let out a squeak and turned fire engine red.

"Erza's right, that was SO uncalled for!" Cana cried as she ran to Gray's side from the Fairy Tail box and began using her cards to predict how long it would take Gray to heal, her brow wrinkled in confusion to see that her cards predicted that Gray would be healed by tomorrow morning. Cana swept the thought away at the sight of Gray's dislocated shoulder and broken arm and quickly worked to begin helping him.

"She did what she was supposed to do." Laxus said cooly, crossing his arms.

"She did something that was needed get us our victory." Gajeel pointed out.

"She fought and she won, she's stronger than you'll ever be, Titania!" Wendy cried.

"Yeah, and unlike you, she fought for more than her victory." Natsu said.

The heat behind those words made the stadium go silent.

The two strongest guilds in the Grand Magic Games were staring each other down, full ready to begin a fight that could destroy the entire capital.

Sofie smiled, because it was true, revenge for her friends was all she had had on her mind the moment she found out she was fighting the icy Gray Fullbuster. Wendy turned and healed Sofie with her blue mist and whispered spells, the other wounds, small scratches and such, which were left in the wake of more major lacerations were carefully wrapped with bandages. Rogue still held Sofie in his arms, and, while she certainly wasn't complaining, Sofie turned an even brighter red, while Rogue gave no thought to what he was doing, thinking it to be no more than helping one of his injured comrades.

The terribly injured Gray was gently lifted by Cana's cards and taken to the infirmary.

The Draconem Heart team left to celebrate.

At the last second, unknown to anyone, Wendy glanced worriedly back at Gray, and the memories from before Shadowlogia's attack, the brotherly love he had given her, the way her had saved her life, and protected her from the nightmares of Cait Shelter that haunted her sleep, flooded her mind, it was as if someone had broken down a dam, a dam constructed by what Gray had done nearly a year ago, the things he had done that had and still did overshadow all of the wonderful moments the two of them had shared.

So she broke away from her group, and set off on her personally mission to be rid of the debt she owed him, so she could focus on her revenge without feeling so guilty.

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