I had forgotten to add one chapter to this fic. Check Chapter 21 to read it.

Sloane and the other female vampires stripped Juvia of her clothes and forcibly bathed her in a tub of water mixed with potions that would prevent her from absorbing the water into her body. To the poor rain woman it was torture. She was so dehydrated yet she sat in a tub full of water that she couldn't even put in her body.

"What an exciting figure you have." Sloane said as she scrubbed her roughly. "You're ice mage must really appreciate it."

Juvia gave her a look of pure disgust and contempt.

"Where is Gray?" She asked after a moment of silence.

"Relax he hasn't staked himself. I'm a woman of my word but tonight you'll probably wish that he had killed himself."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"It means that we're giving him to honor of slitting you're pretty little neck."

"No...He wouldn't." She gasped in horror.

"He would and he will."

Once they were done bathing her they dragged her from the tub and clothes in a white dress. Then she was taken to an alter where her wrists were chained in shackles that hoisted her arms up. The entire room was so hot and steam was sleeping in. She felt weak and dizzy. Before long hundreds of vampires started to fill the room, all looking at her with ravenous red or gold eyes. She would be shaking if she wasn't so weak. Juvia looked over and she saw Gray and Lucy just a few steps from her.

"Gray! Lucy!" She called out desperately. "Help me! Please help me!"

"They won't my dear. They can't hear you and they won't listen to you." Thanatos approached her slowly with that same smug grin he always wore. He took hold of her chin. "It really is a shame that such beauty will have to be destroyed."

Juvia didn't have a lot of strength but she did have enough to spit right in the vampire's eye.

"Don't touch me!" She snapped.

His eyes turned red with an undescribable rage but he quickly composed himself. From a distance Natsu and Happy had met up with Sam and Jack. Upon hearing Juvia's voice, they followed it to the room where the alter was.

"That's Juvia." Natsu pointed out in a whisper. "What are they doing to her?"

"They're getting ready to make her a blood offering." Sam said. "We better act fast. Jack hand me my crossbow."

"Just let me load it up."

Thanatos stood before the alter and all the over vampires kneeled before him.

"My subjects, for many years we struggle to find enough blood for ourselves, each attempt becomes harder and harder but at last we have found a temporary solution." He pointed to Juvia. "This woman shall keep us fed for many years and now I implore our newest member the ice mage to take the first strike."

He handed the special knife to Gray who slowly made his way to Juvia. Jack quickly loaded the crossbow with wooden stakes which he handed to Sam. He aimed his weapon at Gray.

"Wait what are you doing?" Natsu asked.

"What do you think? I'm going to destroy that monster before he kills that poor girl."

"You can't! Gray is-"

"Gray is one of them and all his humanity is lost. He will kill her without hesitation! Do you want her to die too?"

"No. Can't you just shoot him with something that will knock him out?"

"Hey boss looky here!" The four of them looked up to see six vampires standing above them. It all happened so fast, they were overpowered and brought to their knees. "We got four more entrees!"

"How pleasant." Thanatos said. "We'll dig into them after the main course."

He then gave Gray the silent signal to continue. With each step he took, Juvia felt her heart beat faster. She had never been frightened in her entire life.

"Gray you can't do this!" Natsu shouted. He tried to stop him as did the others but they were held back by the unbreakable strength of the vampires. "Do you not realize what you're about do?!"

"Silence!" Sloane said before hitting Natsu on the head as hard as she could.

At last Gray came face to face with Juvia.

"Gray please don't do this. Please. This isn't you." She pleaded.

He just looked at her. No sign of remorse or hesitation in his face. He laid the blade of the knife and prepared to tear through her skin with it when something landed on his hand. It was a drop of water. Where did this come from? This room was roofed and it wasn't even raining outside. But looking up he realized that it wasn't rain. It was a tear. So many tears were in Juvia's eyes. She was crying.

"Gray." She wept. "This isn't your fault. If you have to kill me then so be it but just know this...I...I still love you. I will always love you."

"I still love you. I will always love you."

Those words kept repeating themselves over and over again in his mind. Her words, her voice, her tears, it was too much for the demonic vampirism that possessed him.

"What are you doing?!" Thanatos shouted impatiently. "Cut her now!"

"Don't..." Gray struggled to speak and he moved his trembling hand to wipe the tears from her face. "Don't... Don't cry... Don't cry Juvia...I...I hate it when you cry."

"I said now!" Thanatos shouted. But still Gray didn't do her any harm with the knife. Finally he lost his patience. "I'll do it myself!"

He knocked Gray down with a hard punch which sent him smack into a wall.

"Gray!" Juvia screamed in horror.

Her scream was furthered when Thanatos grabbed her roughly by the hair and pressed the knife to her neck. Her fear and her weak body overwhelmed her too much. She fainted.

"Such a weak and pathetic creature." He hissed. "But so full of life and nourishment."

The blade was just about to break through her skin when a glass bottle of holy water was thrown at his backside. The glass broke and the water burned him. He yowled in agony and looked to see that it had been thrown by Gray. His eyes were golden but it had a new kind of rage that neither Thanatos, Sloane, or any of the other vampires had seen in him.

"Don't you dare touch her!" He demanded in a voice that made Happy jump and Natsu shake a little.

"What did you say to me?" Thanatos asked.

"You heard me! Don't you ever lay your filthy hands on her again!"

"Listen you-"

But he didn't have time to finish. In one swift move, Gray charged at the vampire leader, biting him hard on the throat but then spitting out the blood and flesh in his mouth. He then broke the shackles holding Juvia's wrists and caught her falling body. He quickly gathered her up into his arms.

"Don't just stand there!" Thanatos shouted while clutching his neck. "Kill him!"

The other vampires moved to attack but Jack had a little trick up his sleeve. Literally. In his sleeve was a special invention of his. A bomb that releases a mist of garlic powder, as he was struggling to get loose he managed to get the bomb to fall out of his sleeve.

"Everybody close your eyes." He told his comrades.

Boom! An explosion of garlic powder filled the room. Screeches could be heard everywhere and it echoed in such a way that it would make anyone's ears hurt.

"Let's get out of here!" Sam said.

"What about Gray and Juvia?" Natsu said.

"I think I saw them slip out the window." Happy said.

"You guys saw what Gray did right? Do you think he's come to his senses?"

"Maybe." Sam said.

"I hope so because- Oh! All this garlic is hurting my nose! Pew!"

"I'm gonna have to bathe for a week." Happy said.

"Oh Jack! This stuff is just horrible!" Sam coughed. "You couldn't have made a bomb out of holy water?"

"Hey it's saved our asses didn't it?" Jack said. "Now let's beat it before the mist clears."