Recommended: Double Dad Dilemma by LoneStorm

I found a flaw in my one chapter is one person's P.O.V., so I will start doing multiple P.O.V.'s where I see fit. Also, I will not put cussing into my writing. At least for now. Also, as I've previously mention, I'm using the manga as a reference. Here's a message to everyone: NATSU ISN'T STUPID! Reread the mange and see how he outsmarts his opponents and how he solves problems in the fights! He isn't as oblivious or stupid as people make him out to be. Also, if I accidently put Lyons instead of Lyon, please forgive me. Lyon is so close to my last name, that I type Lyons as a reflex.

~ Lucy's P.O.V. ~

"I know those marks," Sherry says. "They're from Fairy Tail."

"I understand now," bushy brows said. "The villagers petitioned them for help."

"What are you waiting for?" Reitei asked. "Eliminate the village." My eyes widened. Why does he still want to destroy the village? He knows that we're the intruders! The guy with dog ears looked surprised too.

"Huh?" I asked.

"Why?" Happy askes in shock.

"Intruders," Reitei said, "and those that plot with them are all our mortal enemies."

"Why?" Erza asked.

"Dang it!" Gray yelled as he ran past us and at the enemy. "Stop this half-baked ceremony right now!" Gray slammed his hands on the ground. Ice shot up from the ground and was heading toward Reitei.

"Ice?" Shelly asked in shock.

Reitei held out one hand and slammed it on the ground. Ice shot up from the ground and rushed towards Gray's ice.

"He makes ice too?" Happy asked.

The two waves of ice collided. The two ices stopped each other from going any further. They had nowhere to go but up. They created what looked like a giant field of ice crystals. Once Gray and Reitei stopped putting more magic in their ice, the ice field crumbled. Gray and Reitei stared at each other for a few seconds. Do they know each other?

"Lyon," Gray said, "do you have any idea what you're doing?"

My eyes widen. He does know him. How close were they since he knows who he is just by hearing his voice?

Reitei laughed. "It's been a long time, Gray," he said.

"You know that guy?" I asked. If their acquaintances, why is Reitei, no Lyon, doing such horrible things while Gray is trying to stop him?

"What?" Happy asked in shock.

"What's the meaning of this?" Gray asked angrily. At least he didn't know of the plan. I felt Natsu nudge me back a bit. Is he trying to get between me and the enemy?

I was brought out of my thoughts when Lyon started talking again. "The mages the villagers petitioned to get couldn't be you, could it?" he asked. "Did you come here on purpose, or is this a coincidence?" He smiled at Gray. "Not that it matters," he added.

"Reitei Lyon knows these people?" bushy brows asked in shock.

Lyon turns his attention back to dog ears, bushy brows, and Sherry. "Carry out my orders," he commanded. "I can handle things here."

"Yes, sir," Sherry said. They turned around and started to walk away.

"I won't let you get to the villagers!" Erza said as she ran towards them.

"Stop!" Gray yelled. "Erza, don't move!"

"What?" Erza asked. Magic swirled around her.

I stood up to run to help her. Natsu wrapped one of his arms around my waist and pulled me into his chest. "What are you doing?" I asked frantically. "We need to help Erza."

"There's nothing we can do right now," Natsu said. "If you try to help her, you'll be caught up in the magic as well."

"Happy," Gray called. "Take Lucy and go!" My eyes widened. They want me to leave them here? Do they think I'll just get in the way?

Natsu let me go and stepped away just in time for Happy to grab my shirt and take off. "Aye," Happy yelled.

"Wait!" I yelled. I saw Lyon watch us as we flew away. Gray suddenly shot ice at him. Lyon held out one hand and made an ice shield.

"Dang it!"Erza yelled. "I can't move!"

"Happy, you have to take me back!" I yelled. "We can't just abandon everyone here!"

"Erza's completely wrapped in ice magic," Happy yelled. "If we stay there, we'd be the next to freeze!"

"But," I said shakily, "we can't just leave everyone like that."

"If we're killed, who's going to protect the village?" Happy yelled.

My eyes widened. He's right. I looked up and saw tears in Happy's eyes. "Happy," I said quietly. I smiled sadly at the ground. "Sorry," I said. "You want to help everyone too, but you know your duty."

"I'm sure everyone will be fine!" Happy said.

~ Gray's P.O.V. ~

"So you created a diversion to allow the woman and the cat to escape?" Lyon asked. No matter," he said. "Those two have no chance stopping Sherry and the others." Lucy is stronger than he thinks. I took a quick glance around. Dragneel was gone. I think Dragneel went after Lucy. It may all be an act, but he does that act well.

"Don't underestimate Fairy Tail mages," Erza commanded. I couldn't help but chuckle a little when I saw her. Ice encased her from the bottom of her neck to below her knees. Her arms were sticking out of the ice. Sorry, Erza. Don't kill me later. I kicked the ice she was encased in.

"Gray!" Erza bellowed as she rolled down the hill covering the ruins.

"You were way too impetuous," Lyon said. "Wasn't she your ally?"

"You wrapped her in that ice so you could shatter the ice and her as well, right?" I asked.

"I see," Lyon said. "Thus you sent her somewhere I can't reach her to make the final blow. Even you can make a good decision, boy." Anger flared in me. Did he just call me boy?

I glared at him. "Don't call me that!" I yelled. "We're not training together anymore!" I took a step towards him. "Lyon, you are no longer Ur's student!"

Lyon started to take off his helmet. "Neither are you, Gray," he said calmly. "That's because Ur isn't a part of this world anymore."

I snapped at that. "She gave her life to seal up Deliora!" I screamed. "And you want to destroyer the only thing Ur was able to leave behind!"

"You're confusing your memories," Lyon said calmly. "You're the one who murdered Ur, Gray." I trembled in shock. "How dare you shamelessly go on living?" He glared at me. "I'm surprised you have the nerve to even mention her name." He suddenly shot a giant ball of ice at me. It was too fast for me to dodge, so I was hit.

I flew back and smashed into the wall the others and I were hiding behind earlier. "Lyon," I mumbled.

"What's wrong?" Lyon asked. "Does your guilt prevent you from striking? If so, I'd rather you not interfere. I am going to revive Deliora."

I glared at him. "I won't let you do that," I said.

"Very well then," he said as he threw down his helmet. "We'll face off again after so long." He smirks at me. "Ice make eagle!" Birds made of ice flew towards me. Really, Lyon? A frontal attack?

"Ice make shield," I yelled. I gasped when the ice birds flew around my shield.

"Your specialty in ice make magic was always static, inanimate objects," Lyon said smugly. "Whereas my ice make was motion, living creatures. Did you forget my ice can move?"

I yelled out in pain as the birds hit me. I rolled away. "Ice make hammer," I yelled. A giant hammer made of ice formed above Lyon.

He looked up at it calmly. "Ice make ape," he yelled. A giant ice ape held up its arms to protect Lyon from the hammer. Both the hammer and the ape crumbled. "You're such a waste," Lyon said. "You haven't changed. You still have to use both hands for your magic."

"That's how Ur taught me," I said. "Creations made with one hand have bad balance."

"You'll find that I am an expert," Lyon said. "I have long since surpassed Ur's power."

My anger rose. "Don't give me that," I said.

"I should say those words to you," Lyon said. "Have you touched me once with those attacks?"

My anger flared. "Don't even think I'm still like I was back then!" I yelled. I slammed my hands on the ground. "Ice geyser!" Ice shot up from the ground.

As my ice crumbled, I heard Lyon say, "Neither am I." My eyes widen. I thought I won with that attack. I thought that I would at least hit it with it! "I was the elder student and was always stronger than you. I was able to do creation magic with one hand, which you could never do." The dust cleared, and I finally saw Lyon. He didn't have a scratch on him. "Nothing has changed." He held his hand up. "Though our paths may have diverged, our positions remain the same, as if time were frozen in ice!" I looked under me in shock and yell out in pain as a dragon made of ice attacked me from below. "That is why I will melt that ice," Lyon continued. What does Deliora have to do with who's stronger? "So that I can walk paths that had been closed," Lyons said. I cried out in pain as I hit the ground.

Ur smiled as he looked at Lyon and I. We had our arms crossed as we glared at each other.

"Ur was always my goal," Lyon said. "It was my dream to surpass her." I looked at Lyon and saw him trembling. "But you destroyed that dream!" he yelled. "I will never get a chance to best Ur head-to-head. However, I do have one final method." I glared at him. "Something that even Ur couldn't defeat." My eyes widened in shock. I understand now. My glare intensified. That doesn't mean I'm going to agree though. "If I can take down the great Deliora, then I will have done what Ur could not do! I will see the continuation of my dream!"

I snapped. "Are you insane?" I yelled. "That was what you were after? You should know just how terrifying Deliora is!" Lyon's eyes widened. "Don't even try! You don't stand a chance!" Lyon glared at me. I cried out in pain as I was bombarded with ice.

"Don't even try?" he asked. "I don't stand a chance?" The attacks intensified. "Back then, we said the same thing to you! You cannot have forgotten!" My eyes widened. "It's because you challenged Deliora that Ur died! You have no right to even mention the name of Ur! Be gone! Be gone from my sight!"

I don't know how long I was lying on the ground, unable to move. I saw a person wrapped in ice tower over me. "I'm disappointed in you, Gray. That was very reckless. You're lucky you weren't killed," Erza said.

"Where's Lyon?" I asked shakily.

"I don't know. He isn't here anymore, and I don't see any ceremony," Erza said as she picked me up and set me over her icy shoulders. "We have to hurry to the village. Lucy will need assistance, and I'm not sure that Drag-," she cut herself off. "I mean I'm not sure that Natsu will be there with her."

"No!" Ur said sternly. "There's no way you could beat Deliora!" She glared down at me with her hands on her hips. "You don't stand a chance, Gray!"

I started to cry. "Stop crying, Gray," Erza commanded. My eyes widened a little. "You're a Fairy Tail mage. It doesn't matter if you lost this time. Get back up and fight until the very end."