It was close to two in the morning when Erza and Jellal arrived at Juvia's house. It was dark inside, which of course made the two draw the conclusion that Juvia's was probably asleep, as most normal people should be.

"I figured as much," Erza pulled her phone out of her jacket pocket and quickly, she dialed Juvia's number. She waited patiently for her friend to pick up, "come on Juvia, answer."

"Hello?" Juvia asked sleepily with a yawn.

"I understand that it's late but I have something important to say and it just couldn't wait," Erza explained.

Juvia yawned again, "hold on then," she hung up.

Erza began walking towards Juvia's door and motioned for Jellal to follow. He nodded and began walking after her, only to see that Juvia was already downstairs and opening the door.

"Hello Erza-san, Jellal-kun," she rubbed her eyes and allowed the two inside her home.

They walked in and Erza sat down in the chair while Jellal stood. Juvia proceeded to sit down on the couch and she looked at the two of them, "what is it you needed to talk about Erza-san?"

She, still holding Jellal's phone in her hand, looked at her boyfriend and then back to Juvia, "it's about Gray and Lyon," she held the phone out to her. Juvia was puzzled, but she took the phone. She didn't seem to understand the whole situation, mainly because she was half asleep, and partially because she really had no idea what was going on.

"Now before you say anything allow me to explain," Jellal spoke softly. Juvia looked at him, "that's who killed them."

"Why?" Juvia asked. She actually had to double take at the name that was displayed on the phone's screen.

"Simple," Jellal looked fown, "jealously and hatred. Before the whole ordeal happened I was told that they planned on doing it. Personally, I thought they were kidding so I didn't really consider it to be anything. And then just like that, out of the blue-"

The stairs creaked, which caught hold of everyone's attention. Erza's eyes, that looked so sad just moments before, lit up, "Gr-Gray?"

"Oh, h-hey Erza," he responded with a soft grin. "Why're you here this late?"

"Gray-sama," Juvia spoke, "I know who killed you and Lyon-san thanks to Erza-san and Jellal-kun."

"You... you do?" He looked at her.

Juvia nodded. Gray then pulled all of his attention to Erza and Jellal, "who? Who did it?"

"Ultear," Juvia's voice was quiet.

"What?"

"Allow me to explain," Jellal spoke.

Gray looked at him, "you were there."

Jellal nodded and he opened his mouth to speak but Gray beat him to it, "I remember."


Eleven years ago (January):

"I don't think Natsu's showing up, Gray," Lyon spoke as he threw the baseball in his hand to his brother.

"He's not very good with time," Gray responded as he caught the baseball,

"Obviously."

The two continued their banter back and forth, throwing the baseball to one another.

"The rain seems to have cleared up some," Lyon grinned.

Gray nodded. The rain never really bothered him much anyway. Then, as Lyon caught the ball that Gray had thrown to him, the two stopped what they were doing.

"I hear something," Lyon spoke with a nervous tone in his voice.

Gray nodded and his eyes scanned their surroundings, "nice to know I'm not hearing things." When Gray's eyes stopped on a certain figure, Lyon turned to see what he was looking at. When the figure came into view, Gray couldn't help but scoff, "oh, it's you."

"You're so nice to your big sister, Gray," the woman wearing the hood gave a malicious grin towards the two boys.

"You aren't exactly the nicest to us in all honestly, Ultear. I mean really," Lyon responded in a cold tone as he walked over to Gray and stood behind him.

"Oh zip it Lyon," she spat back at him, "now I'm here for one reason and one reason alone."

"And what reason is that?" Gray asked as he pulled a cigarette and a lighter out of his pant's pocket. Ultear watched as he lit it and then placed the lighter back in his pocket. Without a word, the woman pulled out a pistol, pointing it at the two.

"Whoa, whoa! Calm down Ultear," Lyon tried to reason with her.

"Okay, what the hell is this Ultear?" Gray asked as he blew smoke out of his nostrils.

"You two took my mother away from me!" She yelled loudly, "if she wasn't with you two when you had that accident then she wouldn't be dead right now!"

"That accident wasn't Lyon's fault!" Gray spat back at her, "I mean really Ultear, if you're so pissed off about that accident this much then why the hell don't you go after that son of a bitch who did kill your mother? We did absolutely nothing wrong."

"Gray!" Lyon needed to stop his brother before he got himself shot.

Ultear only grinned slyly.

"Seriously, I'm going to get help," Lyon started to run off but barely managed to get ten feet away before Ultear pointed the gun at him and shot it twice, hitting him in the back. Lyon fell to the ground and suddenly his body was surrounded by a pool of his own blood.

"LYON!" Gray yelled before he pulled all his attention to his dead brother, and then he glared over at Ultear with anger brewing in his eyes, "what the hell did you do that for you cold hearted, statistic bitch?!"

She took four long strides before she reached Gray, parting his lips with the pistol, positioning it firmly in his mouth. His cigarette fell to his feet and Ultear stepped on it.

"Ultear," Gray spoke with fury in his voice.

"Uh uh uh," she wagged her index finger back and forth, "you move or say a single word, I'll shoot. Trust me Gray, that's a promise." She glared into his eyes.

"Ultear!" A voice cried out from someone who was running down the street. The purple haired woman scoffed, not even turning around to face the voice's owner.

"Oh, it's only you," she sounded cold.

"Ultear you ca-" He noticed Lyon's lifeless body laying on the ground, "I'm too la-"

"Looks like you're too late... Jellal."

Jellal looked at Gray, who was looking right back at him, his dark blue eyes were wide and filled with fear.

"Ultear this is just insane. Killing..." he remembered that Lyon was already dead, "killing Gray won't solve anything, and killing Lyon obviously didn't do anything either."

"They killed my mother Jellal! That's unforgivable!"

"Ultear," he began walking towards her, slowly.

"Stop," she didn't even look at him as she pulled out another pistol and pointed it right at him, "move and I'll shoot you too. You can speak all you want though however, but don't you dare move."

He gulped, "okay Ultear, listen to me. Gray, nor Lyon, killed your mother. Why do you feel this urge to kill them?"

"Thye stole her away from me as a child Jellal. Gray and Lyon got all of her attention and that simply killed me inside. They stole my mother away and I can never forgive them for that." She turned to face him, still holding the gun in Gray's mouth, "you don't get it do you?"

"I'm trying to reason with you. Seriously Ultear, look what you did to Lyon. Look at Gray. Ultear, put the guns down."

With her attention all pulled towards Jellal, Gray took this as his golden opportunity to get himself free. He balled one of his hands into a fist and lifted it to swing at her face but he never even got the chance to make contact. Jellal's eyes widened as he watched Gray fall backwards into the dirt.

"Ultear... why?" Jellal asked.

Sirens could be heard in the distance. Ultear began to panic and then she started to run away from the scene of the crime with Jellal right on her tail, "tell anyone about any of this Jellal Fernandes, and I'll kill you."


"That's... that's awful," Juvia spoke softly.

"I was scared," Gray responded, "I've never been that scared before in all my life," he rubbed the back of his head and felt where the bullet had made contact with the back of his skull.

"That's horrible," Erza said.

"Ultear doesn't let it bother her at all. I saw her at the ice festival and she was acting as if nothing was wrong," Jellal explained.

"Wait, you've actually seen her recently?" Gray asked as he raised a brow.

He nodded, "yeah/"

Now Gray was angry, "pardon me," and instantly, just like that, he was gone.

"Gray," Erza's voice was soft.

Juvia smiled, "he loved you very much Erza-san."

She smiled softly. Her heart was at ease, but now she wanted Ultear convicted of the crime she had committed, "we need to get her to confess."

"Leave that to me," Jellal spoke.

Gray had now returned with Lyon right at his side. As Jellal noticed their return, he began to explain what he was thinking to everyone.

"Think that'll work?" Lyon asked, puzzled.

"It better, otherwise I'm completely out of ideas," Jellal responded.

Gray grinned, as did Lyon. Juvia seemed pleased and Erza kept her eyes locked on Gray, knowing he was finally at peace with himself.


Author's note: There you have it. This story is coming to a close soon so I hope everyone has been enjoying it so far. Anyway, continue to leave your reviews. Love you all so much and I'll see you again next week.