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(3 Days later…)

"Hey kid, wake up." Gildarts gently removed the sleeping Gray from his back and stretched his arms out, sighing in comfort as his muscles slowly drained out the tension from them. The Crash mage felt his back come into contact with the solid rock wall behind him as he slid down and brought up one leg up to his chest. "Time to eat." He grinned.

"No it isn't." Was the response he got. The grumpy tone along with the truth behind his slightly mumbled words was infuriating. Gray rubbed his right eye and looked around, he struggled to adjust to the piercing light, but he could see the massive hills in the background. Looking in front he could see the town they were headed to. "The hell?"

He swirled his head around to come face to face with the lazy bastard responsible for this outrage. Gildarts seemed to be content with sleeping here, even though the town was a four minute walk away.

"Hey, dozy-ass. Do you know that we are actually next to the town!?" He exclaimed. Startling the older mage out of his half asleep state. But Gray learned a valuable lesson.

Never startle Gildarts Clive. Especially when you're next to him…

The poor rock wall they had been leaning on suffered for his mistake as Gildarts; upon being frightened out of his wits, swung his metal arm into the rock wall behind them, his magic flaring up for a second.

The poor wall never stood a chance. The flying fist had decimated the solid wall within nano-seconds. Bits of tiny rubble and chunks of hardened bedrock were careened into the atmosphere it seemed. Gray coughed and sputtered, eventually covering his face to defend himself against the lethal particles.

After a minute, then dust had 'mostly' settled and the need to cover one's face was becoming less and less necessary. Gray decided to risk his health due to this major fact, and it appeared to be a worth it dice roll. First thing he noticed was that he didn't die from Gildarts attack, nor was he dead due to the thick dust around him.

Naturally, Gildarts followed suit, uncovering his face and looked behind him to see the huge hole in the wall. 'Well' He thought. 'At least these people have a short cut through the mountains now.' The crash mage laughed nervously.

It definitely didn't have anything to do with Gray's bewildered and stiff expression…

"What. The. Fuck!"

"What!?"

"Don't 'what' me!" The boy yelled, half-heartedly mocking his older acquaintance's shrilly voice. "You know what you just did!"

"You scared me half to death!" Gildarts waved his arms everywhere, thinking that it was making his point any more effective. "What did you expect!?"

"Some control!"

"Well I can-"

Suddenly, the two mages felt something wrap around their legs, unable to react in time, the tendrils trapping them shot up into the air, bringing the two along with it, leaving them hanging upside down.

"Oh come on! Can't I get a break!?" Gray shouted, his annoyance and irritation because of the last few fights he had gone through finally reached it's boiling point. "First some psycho bomber midget tries to birth a demon, then some escaped twat in a mask tries to take over a prison block, now this shit!?" He went to freeze the ice but the thick tentacle like pole (which was very earthy) began to spin the two mages around. Causing the icy blade to completely miss it's intended target. He almost threw up, his stomach taking the sudden lurching motion very hard before the earthy tendrils stopped spinning them. "When can I get some fucking rest!?"

"Right after you tell me why you decided to have a boxing match with the mountain next to you." Came a well articulated and deep voice. Gray looked up and instantly saw the figure of a young boy around a year or two older than himself.

Even thought he was upside down, Gray could easily see the long brown hair that draped down and covered a fifth of his face. The boy appeared to be around 5 feet and 10 inches tall and was wearing a pair of black cargo trousers and heavy duty combat boots which fit tightly around his toned stomach, which was visible as he only wore an open red and black checked long sleeve shirt.

He walked with a long content stride and kept his hands in his deep pockets as he slightly slouched over. Seemingly unfazed by the huge, monstrous earth appendages. Gray couldn't hear much over the sound of earth crumbling and scraping against itself but once it got to a point where the noise was reducing for a short space of time he still couldn't hear the boy's footsteps.

Yet, despite the wind blowing his hair away from his it, Gray had trouble making out any feature on the kids face, due to the heavy swinging he was subjected to. But for a kid with no obvious slayer magic, he certainly had a body and a half… The muscle was clearly showing through the thin fabric of the shirt.

Then he noticed something he had overlooked. The kid had a heavy duty belt around his waist with loads of medium sized pouches lined up around the entire belt.

He also noticed a small trickle of earth form another tendril out of one of the pouches….

This guy was a mage! An Earth mage!

"Hey kid, are you quite done checking me out?" The mysterious mage asked, visibly grinning in mirth at Gray's loud reaction, which was to shout at him to 'shut up', whilst waving his arms trying to make himself seem intimidating. That however was rather difficult, seeing as he was winch up into the air by his feet. No matter how scary one may be, once they are trapped like Gray and Gildarts were they became as scary as a newborn kitten.

Without the cuteness of a kitten…

"Listen, I know I am fabulous to look at but can you snap yourself out of your stupor and answer my question?" He took a few more steps closer, all whilst keeping an eye on the two mage's.

Then Gildarts decided to intervene… It seemed that he could only take so much animosity and talking before losing his patience.

With the speed and strength of a million vulcan's, the kid found himself somersaulting away from a sudden burst of crushing magic, it had engulfed his earth tendril's and he watched with a flummoxed expression as they quickly crumbled and slammed back into the ground faster than they had risen.

Both Gray and Gildarts both landed safely on he ground. Both took a moment to check themselves for any bruises or injuries before Gray suddenly looked up at the boy who just watched them.

"What's your problem!?" Gray growled, he forced himself onto his feet and began to make his way towards their attacker. Even though there was about 20 feet of ground to cover, Gray found himself up and in the boys face. He could now make up the rest of the boys facial features.

He was pale. Very pale, almost snow white but not an unhealthy white, he clearly wasn't ill or under any sort of emotional stress so it must just be his normal skin tone. The boy sighed in boredom, breathing in Gray's face, but it didn't smell bad by any means. But not good either, in fact his breath had no smell to it.

But dragging his eye away from the weird skin tone, Gray looked up and saw his eyes, they were a cold steel looking grey colour that seemed to showed no emotion. Despite the boy's clear emotional expression earlier.

Then Gray noticed the thing that made him shiver…

The boy's eye's were both slashed in an 'X' like fashion, leaving scars around his eyes but not a trace of damage to the eyes, but they looked deep and painful, still red and sore looking.

How did he manage to get scars like those?…

Then he blinked harshly, his nose had picked something up.

The scent of fresh strawberries and mint suddenly hit him like a tone of bricks, it wasn't what he was expecting. He expected to smell either meat or sweat for some reason. But he quickly deemed this as a better result.

Who'd want to smell like sweat?…

The kid shifted slightly, as if uncomfortable with his current posture. He removed his hands from his pockets and rubbed the back of his neck with the right before he looked down at Gray, who had noticed that he had been wrong with the assumption on his height, he wasn't 5 - 11.

He was 6 - 4!… Gray was tall, around 5 - 8, but this kid dwarfed him by miles in comparison!

"My problem, hmm." He paused to think about Gray's question with a really puzzled expression that couldn't be genuine. And it wasn't as he suddenly smirked and opened his mouth to answer. "ADHD, ODD and maybe a trace of OCD." He laughed, thinking that the answer was funny before winking cheekily. "Although I don't think they are problem's, I mean, everyone has their quirks."

This kid was really starting to piss him off…

"Listen, I really don't have the time to be wasting it on you, so just back off and let us pass." Gray gestured to Gildarts behind him, watching the taller kid with wary eyes. But he didn't stay quiet.

"Listen kid, what the grumpy guts here is trying to ask is why did you attack us?" The crash mage didn't let his guard down though as he questioned the brunette.

The kid looked at Gildarts with a raised eyebrow. "I didn't attack you." He scrunched his face up, thinking about something. "It was more of a precaution if anything."

At seeing their expressions, the kid elaborated…

"Look, for all I knew I was about to be dealing with bandit's or something. Now I can handle myself rather well, but I am not stupid enough to not take any steps to keep myself safe from harm." He took a deliberate step back and away from the ice mage. "Personal space super-frown." He rebutted, causing Gray to growl.

Gildarts seemed to find the kid's answer acceptable, letting his rigid guard drop as he relaxed. "Okay, what's your name kid, I like to remember the names of those who surprise me."

"What?" Gray gave a him weird look. But the kid answered over him and the ice mage couldn't help but think he did it on purpose.

"The name's Vali. That's pronounced Vah-Lei. Just so were clear." Vali Gave the two a twist of the wrist, sticking his forefinger and middle finger out. When Gray gave him another look the earth mage sighed. "You really love your stares don't you?"

"No!" Gray waved his arms up and down quickly as he raised his voice. "I just want to know what 'this'" Gray mimed Vali's motions, sticking his finger out only near the end instead of before. Vali snorted.

"Oh, that's just my way of greeting people…." He gave Gray his two-fingered salute once again and Gray just shook his head and turned away to face Gildarts.

"Let's get going."

The crash mage looked like he was about to argue, but a look from Gray stopped any sort of reply he had. He trudged over to where he put the sack and checked it too make sure that nothing had been taken before slinging it over his shoulder and walking over to Gray.

"Fine, come on then." Gildarts motioned towards Gray, who followed.

But before they began to walk away, Vali called out to them…

"Hey! Wait!" He jogged over to them as they turned around to face him. Gray looked annoyed and Gildarts confused. "Where are you guys going? I haven't seen you around before."

Gildarts just grinned.

"Oh, well, I am on my way to my next job. Gray here is looking to join Fairy tail. So we need to catch a boat to the other side of this town." Vali's eyes widened at the answer he got.

Just what he needed...

"So wait, you-" He pointed at Gray. "Are going to join Fairy Tail?" He got his answer in the form of a nod. "Well, how coincidental. I happen to be trying to get there myself!"

"What?" The ice mage looked at Vali with a shocked stare. "You want to join to?"

"Yeah, I finished my course in the academy a while back and I was told that with my skills that should join the No: 1 guild in all of Fiore." Vali stuffed his hands back into his pockets before looking at the crash mage with pleading eyes. "Mone is the a border town that separates the East and West, yet I can't get out of this town because my cash flow is practically non-existent and my skills aren't exactly needed here."

The earth mage was in slight shock and a bit of apprehension. Was this guy going to help him out? Or was he going to waste away here for millions and millions of years? Okay, that was a slight exaggeration… But he wasn't getting anywhere here and he couldn't get the money he needed to get across with starving to death or dying of thirst. The help would really be appreciated.

After what felt like an eternity of time had passed, Gildarts smiled, nodding his head.

"Sure, feel free too. I am sure Gray could use the company of someone his age around anyway." Gildarts answered kindly, ignoring Gray's sigh.

"Again, Old man I don't need company." But he looked at Vali and grinned slightly. "But I guess you can follow me when we part with the old timer here." He laughed, dodging Gildarts fist and moving out of his reach.

Vali laughed too. "Cheers you two, I don't think I would have ever got out of this town without help." He briskly jogged up to the two mages and when he caught up with them they all set off towards the town.

"Oh and sorry for attacking you two earlier..."

"I thought you said it wasn't an attack."

"Yup..."

"...Never mind..."

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The town was certainly busy…

And by busy, I mean busier than the council on spring break…

The town was almost completely vacant. A few people still roamed the streets but there was plenty of room to move and spread your legs. Vali took advantage of that fact and began to taking long strides to keep up with Gray and Gildarts.

Gildarts looked around, trying to spot any docking area in the area but all he could see was a big lake. He turned around and looked at the earth mage, who stopped and looked back with a confused stare.

"Vali, you know this town. Where are the docks?"

Vali leaned to the right and squinted. Before he lifted his finger up and pointed to the left, just behind the white house at the end of the street. "Down there, to the left, it will take a minute or two to make it there but they always have boats coming in and out." then he stopped and paused to think. "Although, lately they haven't been as frequent… Not too sure why though. Mone has never been so low in it's shipping industry..."

He looked over to his left, thinking he heard something only to see a piece of clothing hit the ground as soon as he laid his eyes on it. He raised his brow in confusion, looking up to see the culprit.

"Gray…?" He called over, gaining both Gray's attention as well as Gildarts. "Listen, I am sure you like the look of yourself. But do you really need to strip out in the open?" He pointed to where the crumpled jacket lay and snorted. "I am going to have to tease you now." He fiddled with his belt, grinning whilst he did so. "You know that right?"

"Shut up earthworm." The Devil Slayer shoved past Vali, trying to block out the sound of laughing as he bent down to pick his jacket up. "Just keep 'that'-" He pointed at Vali's mouth. "Shut and I won't turn you into a popsicle."

"Ouch. That's 'cold' man."

"You call yourself an earth mage, yet you have your head so high up in the sky it's impossible to get through to you." In a fit of irritation, Gray threw his discarded jacket at Vali, which went further than it should have.

But even with the unforeseen feat, Vali still caught it with ease...

"My, my how clever. I can just see the originality oozing out of your comment." The earth mage chuckled, throwing the jacket back and pivoting back to catch up with Gildarts who had seemingly gone on without hearing or seeing the transgression between the two boys. Soon enough they found the docks. The only boat left was fairly bug by boat standards and had more than enough room to get the three across with no trouble.

Then Gray spotted a poster sitting on top of a stack of crates. The paper hung over the edge and was slightly torn at the side but it wasn't enough to make the writing illegible.

"Hey old man." Gray walked over to the poster and picked it up, studying the contents. He heard Gildarts behind him, complaining about being called old once more before hobbling over to where he stood.

"What's it say?" Vali asked from the other side before going back to rummaging through the open crate.

"Let me see." Gildarts quickly snatched the poster out of Grays hands, eliciting a scowl from the one-eyed boy.

It read out:

Warning!

A giant marine creature nicknamed 'Unicol' has been skulking around our bay for many months, swallowing up ships and the people along with it. Travelling through this route is extremely dangerous and you heavily advised not set sail through these waters until further notice!

Down below the description was a picture of the beast. But it was clear that whoever had taken the picture was either really bad at his job or he was too late with the shot. All that was clear was the huge shadow lurking under the water, everything else was completely twisted and horrifyingly distorted to the point where anything else was an indistinguishable blur.

The crash mage blinked at the poor quality of the poster. Although the thought was very nice indeed he had already known of the Unicol. Then he remembered….

He didn't let Gray or Vali know about that slight detail…

'Oh christ, i'm in so much shit….' Gildarts cast a quick glance over to where Gray had walked off to help Vali, who had somehow managed to trap his shirt on the many sharp hooks spilling out and over the open crate. The sight was amusing, but knowledge of the auditory drilling he would get from the Devil Slayer drained anything laugh that possibly could have risen.

Gray could be very intimidating when he wanted to be...

"Hold still will you!?"

"I'm trying! The hooks are digging into my back!" Vali gave Gray a glare and continued to twist and turn as he tried to wriggle free from his captives grasp. But the hooks were relentless…

And Gray got tired of dealing with them gently. "Screw it. Vali, this might sting a little."

The earth mage turn to look at him questioningly, but before he could ask him what he meant by that, he felt a strong tug on his shirt and yelped when the hooks scraped across the small of his back and tore away from the red and black cloth.

He fell to his knee from the sudden action, taking a moment to let his body catch up with his brain before shambling on to his feet with a wobble.

"You just ripped my shirt!" He exclaimed, roaming his hands across the torn fabric with a wistful sigh. Gray just scoffed.

"You can get a new one when we get out of Mone." Gray placed the offending hooks back into there respective box and looked back to Gildarts was absolutely flummoxed by the fact that he was pale and looking at him with an overly strained grin. "What's up with you?"

He felt a tinge of suspicion twinge within him when the crash mage jumped in fright.

"Oh, n-nothing! Absolutely nothing!" Gildarts then began to walk away from the docks in a hurry, motioning for the two to follow him. "The time we need to be here by to meet the owner of this boat is in 2 hours." He told the two boys.

Gray and Vali nodded. Making their way to the restaurant near the docks. Gildarts then grinned, food was always a good way to kill time.

The way his stomach growled harshly may have been a key player in his decision...

"Hey! Wait up."

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(2 hours later)

"I'm fuuuuulllllllll…."

"I most definitely shouldn't have ordered that Steak… Bad decision."

"I told you both."

Gray crossed his arms, shaking his head as let out an exasperated sigh. At first he was only going in to check the place out, waste some time. Then Vali followed him in, tailed by Gildarts. The older man being him, ordered a boatload of Spaghetti, Pizza and the all-round favourite Steak.

Vali finally joined in, finally giving in to the temptation of a proper meal. Gray guessed that the earth mage had not eaten a whole lot during his travel, probably not wanting to spend it all at once.

But obviously, he went slightly overboard…

"Fair enough, but at least give me some leeway. I haven't eaten anything worth being called food for a good few months. Like my Gravity magic it sort of becomes a thing I end up neglecting, not willingly might I add!" Vali stated, adding the last bit of the sentence on when he saw the alarmed expression pop up on his face.

"Good, I thought I would have to keep an eye out on you, umm..." Gray realised the joke he had inadvertently made and blushed in embarrassment. Vali just sniggered at the unintentional pun.

"How did that happen anyway?" He asked and almost immediately regretted doing so. The room suddenly felt a lot colder and looking at Gray, he blanched. He wasn't angry or sad or anxious. He was just… Blank.

"Nothing you need to know about okay?" The Devil Slayer felt cold, and not in the usual way. Instead of that normal and familiar coolness he almost shivered at the harsh, fleeting sensation of an uncomfortable cold. Unforgiving and utterly foreboding. He made an effort to shake the feeling off, trying to focus on something else other than the mental elephant in the room.

Then it hit him…

"Anyway, never mind me." Gray spoke after a few chilling seconds, the cool temperature finally settling back down to a comfortable level. "You said something about your Gravity magic. I thought you were an earth mage."

Vali paused, thinking how he could get his answer across. "I am, primarily I mean. But my academy encouraged us to learn and learn we all did. I just happened to be in town one day and this guy was selling a few books from a local library. Saying he was giving them away for the newer manuals." He grinned. "I just happened to buy one certain book that happened to be about gravity magic. I found out that it is rather useful if you can use it right, taking down flying opponents and blasting people in multiple directions. Overall, good for making distance and inflicting damage. But uhhh, I haven't really been practising with it all that much since I started." He rubbed the back of his head awkwardly when admitting that he didn't keep up with the training.

Gray raised an eyebrow. "Wait you don't train it?"

Vali shrugged. "I don't train that much at all in general." He replied, taking a sip of his drink and swallowing with a gulp before carrying on. "I'm just not motivated enough, I have never felt the need to exert myself too much when the right amount of exercise can still get you through the day?"

"But what about those people you can't beat?" Gildarts suddenly chimed in, looking at Vali with a perplexed expression. "After all, some people can out-smart or over-power you if you don't push yourself."

Gray nodded in agreement. "Not too mention you won't find out your limit, not knowing your limit means you don't improve."

Vali didn't seem to be persuaded…

"As I said, I am not motivated enough. If I cannot motivate myself, then how can I push myself to the limit? Eitherway, I am confident in my skills and abilities. Are you guys?"

Gray open his mouth to respond, but the more he thought about it the more Vali's words made sense. He knew that wanted to get stronger, meaning that he wasn't happy with his current strength. More than likely was that even if he did make to a point he was confident with he would just want to get even more stronger.

He inwardly shuddered. 'I sound like a damn Megalomaniac…'

Looking at Gildarts, he could see the thoughtful expression on his face. But almost as soon as it appeared had it gone, replaced by a grin.

"Well, you have definitely given me something to mull over Vali, thanks." He laughed. Vali just looked confused.

He looked over to Gray. "Did I say something funny?"

"No." Gray shook his head with a sigh. "He is just completely mad."

"Agreed..." Vali got up after a moments hesitation and motioned for him to follow. The action caught Gray off guard, but he followed his lead any way. The two squeezed past a few waiters and customers and avoided being smacked in the face by the door before exiting the establishment.

"Follow me quickly." Vali stalked off down an alleyway and crouched behind some crates. Confusing Gray.

"What are you doing Vali?" His tone suggested that he was confused. But Vali only motioned for him to get down too. "Tell me first then I will." 'I can't believe I am doing this.'

Sighing with annoyance, the brunette boy turned around to face Gray. "I just saw some guy dragging a girl somewhere. Now get down."

"Wh-" He didn't get to respond as a dark green door opened suddenly and the forms of one man and a little girl came into view.

The man was clearly manhandling the poor girl. Shoving her into a wall and insulting her countless times before ordering her to take a stack of bottles somewhere before noon. Gray noted with surprise that Vali seemed to go extremely tense when the entire scenario played out, clenching his fists rapidly and breathing more heavily. Gray decided to keep an eye on him and make sure he didn't lash out or do anything stupid.

Then again, he wouldn't blame him…

In fact, he would've encouraged it if they knew how they could help the girl. The man surely deserved a pounding for treating a minor like trash on the side of the road.

"I swear..." Vali's voice ricocheted through Gray's ears, the furious undertone laced with venom hit him like a ton of bricks Yet it was obvious he was trying to keep his voice down. "If he doesn't leave right this instant I'll-"

"Vali, trust me I want to ring his neck just as much as you do, but when he leaves then we can help her." Gray interrupted, his voice leaving no room for argument.

The earth mage growled, but conceded to reason. "Very well."

It took one more minute before the guy left the girl to her impossible job. Vali turned and nodded his his head before moving out of his place behind the crate.

"Hey, you need help?" He called out, almost startling the girl. But Gray came out just in time to watch the show.

"I can lend a hand if I need to." He offered.

"Th-Thanks..." The girl nodded her head, accepting any help she could get. Running a hand through her light brown hair.

Vali, hoisted five of the heavy crates into his arms and asked the girl to lead the way. Gray on the other hand took the remaining eight.

The girl took one…

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"Thanks for helping me with those." The girl happily thanked the two boys.

Vali placed down the crates and let out a sigh, wiping his forehead and nodding. "Happy to help." He replied, taking in deep breathes.

"Sure, couldn't let you do these on your own." Gray gently put his crates down and stood straight back up completely unfazed by the heavy load. Vali looked on in disbelief but didn't bother commenting, it wasn't worth risking his pride.

"I'm Mary!" The girl 'Mary' Chimed.

"Vali." Vali, greeted, giving Mary his twits salute.

"Gray."

"Oh, by the way." Vali stood up straight, looking at Mary inquisitively. "What were those words you were mumbling back there?" He asked.

"Uh, those are my magic words, they give me good fortune if chant them a lot." She then giggled. "I mean, it must work. I got to meet you guys after all."

Gray didn't have an answer for that. Magic existed sure, but he didn't think that what she was told was strictly true. You couldn't forge good luck out of magic, if you could he would have been living the high life with his parents in Brago. But here he was, with a life full of pain, a body with hidden scars and a mind full of regret.

He didn't know how it worked, but it always seemed to be the ones close to him that ended up dying. He couldn't let anyone know, nor could he allow anyone in. For their good more than his own. In a way, he sort of resented meeting Nano, Grog, Endebar, Gildarts and Vali. He resented Nano, for being so kind and sweet. He resented Grog and Endebar for needing his help. He resented Gildarts for being kind enough to help him on his way to Magnolia and he resented Vali for joining him for the rest of the journey.

If he could have stayed cold to people then he would have been fine. But these people reminded him about what he would lose if he went down that root.

Of course, he remembered Jade kicking him off a cliff for not helping her father and Ur's abandonment. But Jade was emotionally unstable and he was in a way to blame for being stronger, further correlating to Vali's comments about his lack of training. Ur on the other hand pissed him off, but on further thought he could see the sense in her judgement.

He was a menace, plain and simple…

'God…' The young boy shook his head, cupping his face in his hands. 'How did all that come from someone talking about a lucky charm?'

However, he wasn't able to continue on this trail of thought he felt a rough hand land on his shoulder cautiously. Startled, he jumped back, yelping as he looked up only finding the confused frown marring Vali's expression. The feeling of his chest rising and falling brought his attention to his heavy breathing.

"What's up with you all of a sudden?" The earth mage shook Gray gently, trying to bring his attention back into reality. "Why are you stuck in la la land?" He continued to bring Gray out of his stupor few a few more seconds before giving up.

However, the twinge of defeat he felt was quickly replaced with elation as Gray shook his head and his un-patched eye focused…

"W-What?" Gray looked around, trying to hide his emotions behind the stone face he'd practised. "W-"

"Welcome back buddy..." Came the sarcastic reply from Vali, Mary looking at him with worry from behind him. "How was your intergalactic adventure?"

Gray chose to ignore him…

"You okay?" Mary's voice lilted into his ears and her concern was made evident.

"It's nothing, I just space out sometimes. It's rare for it to happen anyway." Gray explained it as simply as he could, trying not to give them away. "Funny though, Vali is the first person to call me out on it." Gray chuckled suddenly. "I have been snapped out of it but by coincidence. I think the girls who first did it was named…. Lucy?"

He paused… That night in the town had almost slipped by in his memory. Then it all came back, grumbling all the way into the store, buying the usual goods, sitting by the fountain, ENDING UP IN THE FOUNTAIN and making a shoddy replica of the constellations, somehow pleasing the blonde.

He grinned, that night was memorable, he should try to keep it in mind more.

"Lucy? Hmm, not the worst name I have ever heard." Vali, smirked smugly, a teasing edge in his tone. Gray dead-panned.

"Really, earthworm? That's the thing you try to use against me?" He shook his head and turned around. "For the record I don't even know her, even so, I don't have time for things like that."

"Sure, sure…..." Vali followed behind, taking over dramatic strides to draw Grays attention from walking away to his stupid motions.

"Wait up!" Mary almost tripped over herself when she tried to catch up with the two boys. They both caught her before she could actually trip luckily. She asked if she could keep around them for some time, to which the two complied.

"Hey Mary." Gray looked over to the little girl. "You couldn't possibly be on your own here right?"

Mary shook her head, smiling. "No, my big sis also works in the same bar as me. She's great!" She sounded so happy and carefree. From what he had seen of her boss it flummoxed Gray, how was she so happy? It didn't make much sense.

Before he or Vali could respond to her statement though, the doors to the restaurant blew off there hinges with suddenly loud crash. But it didn't stop there. Not only did the doors blast off but so did most of the wall surrounding it.

The destruction was so sudden and loud, it caused Mary to squeal in shock. Vali's eyes shot up, jumping back to a safe distance and shielding Mary, Gray and himself with a thick earth barrier.

Gray however, just sighed, only one person he knew of could do this… "Gildarts! I thought we agreed on not destroying anything!"

Vali, hearing Gildarts name, forced the earth back into his pouches and forced the leftover earth back into the cracks in the marble ground. "You mean to tell me that Gildarts did this!?"

Gray gave him an incredulous look. "What? Who do you think punched the hole into the mountain back there!?"

"I don't know! It took me a minute to get to where you both were!"

"That's no excuse!"

The continued to bicker back and forth, arguing over Vali's knowledge (or lack thereof) before Gray caught a glimpse of Gildarts. He ignored the babbling from Vali and looked over the taller boys shoulder… Just about.

From what little Gray could see, Gildarts was standing in the middle of the building, with an arm draped over some women who looked flummoxed and uncomfortable. He wasn't surprised at this as Gildarts was a huge pervert. He wasn't shameless about it, yet if you asked him about it he would deny it. Yet, seeing as he had just broke down part of the buildings wall he obviously wasn't chasing tail and the rules being the rules meant there was only one thing.

They needed to run… now…

"Old man!?" Gray sweat-dropped at the lazy grin plastered on the over-powered man's face. "What did you do!?"

He did didn't get an answer… He was simply ignored as Gildarts looked over his shoulder towards the short, fat man with black sideburns.

"This woman's coming with me." He stated. Causing the angry looking fat guy to grow tick marks all over his face. But before he sputter out anything he was engulfed in a cloud of dust that Gildarts had kicked up as he launched the girl and himself at the hole, picking up the three kids as soon as he turned the corner.

Vali would have yelped if he didn't have his arms around Mary, keeping her from falling out of the older man's grasp. He settled for a loud grunt and focused on holding Mary, who had let out a yelp for him. "Hey! Careful you old git!" His warning fell on deaf ears however. He grunted as a dull pain began to set into his left arm. His grip on the girl was awkward and painful, he was fighting to keep his right arm from bending too far back as his left was getting the stretch of it's life as it was flung across the front of his body to keep it's grip on Mary's smaller shoulder.

It was very hard to keep the position...

Gray had managed to free himself from the strong grip Gildarts had on him, choosing to use his new-found freedom to hold on to his shoulders and keep a look out behind them. Obviously, he couldn't hear anything as the girl in Gildarts left arm was shouting frantically at the girl in Vali's grip, who seemed to be having trouble holding on at the awkward angle.

"What the hell is that!?" His blind eye was facing the huge figure of something and Gray couldn't make out any details, not until he could get a better view. With that in mind, The Devil Slayer twisted his body around so it was back to back with Gildarts, still holding onto his shoulders.

"GET BACK HERE YOU RODENTS!" Screamed the rounded figure on top of the…. The….

Huge version of himself?….

What he saw was the bald fat bloke from the restaurant riding on top of a huge over-sized being that looked like an over-sized baby.

And it was running towards them….

"Oi! Gildarts, keep on running to the boat!" Gray commanded, Gildarts looked at him for a second like he had grown a second head, but after a few seconds, conceded. "I'm going to keep him busy for a while and I'll need both hands to do that!"

"I trust you kid, just don't get to carried away." The older man flashed him a grin before turning away. Then he felt the pressure on his back lift and he continued to the docks.

:::-((x))-:::

"Okay big, bald and ugly." Gray watched as the raging man commanded his bigger thrall to run him down, he found it quite pathetic. He balled up his right hand into a fist a slammed it into his open palm. He had to be careful with what he used though, he couldn't destroy anything in the town or he may end up with a jail sentence for the time being. But an idea came to his head just as the huge opponent got within range.

"Hopefully this pays off." Closing his eye, he began to picture what he had in mind. It was intricate and hard to get right, but he had spent some time getting it down to make sure he could do it…

It didn't look to bad either…

"Ice-Make: Maneuver gear!"

No sooner had he flung his arms to there respective side had a strong layer of ice begun to form and shift around Gray's upper body, the cool material giving him a comfortable temperature. The ice covered his chest and also formed a belt like vice around his waist, protecting him slightly also. But the ice didn't stop forming there, it also formed two big, long cylinders on the vice, a small condensed hole could be visibly seen on the bottom and they opened and closed quickly like they were gasping for air. Finally, the ice formed some armour around the arm and away from the joints before forming two big square's on the boy's wrists, both came with an icy grappling hook each with sharp edges.

Again, the 'maneuver gear' was complicated…

Gray quickly inspected the icy formations and smirked smugly, it had worked, hopefully he could swing around and propel himself from place to place if he needed. The sharp hooks could also come in handy to attack his enemies…

But he's settle for his devil ice for his offence any day of the week..

"Let's go, bastard." Gray waited for the right moment before taking a huge leap and firing his left hook at the big guy's shoulder. His target gave a loud grunt as the hook sunk into his flesh and Gray quickly used the icy chain attached to the hook to hoist himself up.

He saw a huge hand come for him during mid-air, trying to knock him out of the sky. Anticipating such an attack, Gray dispelled his hook and chain (it appeared right back into it's original spot above his wrist) and twisted his body, nimbly dodging the hand as he flew in-between the fingers before firing his right hook at said appendage, grappling onto it quickly and riding it up to towards the top of the huge man-child thing.

He could just see the smaller bald man's shocked expression as he used the cylinders to thrust his body forward, landing on top of the giant and in front of the bald man controlling it.

"Try this on for size!" Gray yelled as he punched the man right in the gut before he could even move, rendering him unconscious with a wheezing breath. "Now to take care of this guy." He said to himself, but as he was about to move, the giant's he turned to face him and it let out an angry roar, forcing Gray to cover his ears.

He didn't get to react as the hand from earlier came back with a vengeance, slamming down on the giants shoulder hard and on top of the startled boy.

But what the giant didn't expect was the sudden wave of strength to fight back, the giant looked at it's shoulder, it's eyes widening in confusion when Gray suddenly emerged from under it, not even braking a sweat in holding the giants hand up, despite the powerful strength the giant had.

'If I can fight Deliora and not die then a mere giant is a piece of fucking cake!' Gray's mind casted itself back to his fight with the demon, it's flames felt just as scorching and cruel as they did back then and even further back when he received his scars.

Luckily, the ring had held up, as long as he kept the ring on he would be fine…

He shook his head and stared at the giant for a moment with a bored look, angering the creature before throwing the hand off of it's shoulder and rushing towards the back of it's neck. He took a great leap off of it and quickly turned to face the nape of the giants neck.

"Say goodnight big guy!" He yelled at the giant before firing both hooks into the giants nape and retracting the chains quickly (not dispersing them) and slamming both of his feet into the back of it's neck, sending the giant toppling down and into the shallow part of the lake nearby with a huge splash.

The resulting mix of dust and water took a moment to calm down but once it did Gray hopped off of the giants neck and dragged the bald man out of the water. He sighed in annoyance.

"I guess something was going to brake." He grumbled, looking at the boathouse, or what remained of it. But he didn't have time to even do anything else as the resounding roar of a huge creature pierced through the entirety of Mone, causing several citizens to scream in terror.

"Run for you life!" Shouted one of men.

"It's Unicol!" Shouted another.

"Get the children inside!" A women's voice protruded through the crowd., making most of the men filter the young kids indoors.

The Devil Slayer looked behind him quickly and his one eye shot open…

There it was, Unicol as the people were calling it. In it's huge and slimy glory.

Attacking the ship he was meant to board…

"Shit" Gray gulped and began sprinting to the docks…

:::-((x))-:::

Before I delve into the cringe A/N I guess you can notice the first new things in this chapter… So I will address the elephant in the room.

Vali… Yes, he has a sir-name and you will find out soon enough. He is an Earth Mage and seems rather… Unique, for a kid a year or so older than Gray. His unmotivated approach to his magic, his back story (again, more to come) and his slightly odd reactions to events.

He will be a remaining feature in this story and will have his own arc to explain his story and such like the others will. Tell me what you think of him and how you think I can improve him. Sorry if my description seems crap, again, I have trouble with that sort of thing.

Okay, I know this chapter hasn't really moved that far, in fact I don't think I even got halfway through the fifth chapter from the manga. I am sorry for that but you have probably noticed that this chapter took longer to post than the last. And THAT one took me almost a full month…

Well… Blame my weird ass sleeping habit. I have taken to staying up for two days straight and getting a low amount of sleep, maybe 4 hours or more… I won't say it has effected me badly, but I am constantly adjusting.

I'll leave that there…

And yes, I made Gray create 3DManeuver gear to fight the giant or milk boy (I got confused with the bald man and his giant, which one is milk boy?). Let's just say I finally got around to watching the rest of Attack on Titan and I am officially a mini fanboy… I just had to include a reference.

I mean, I did a One piece reference… and I hate that anime…

But enough with that, I am sorry about the slow as fuck chapter and the next chapter I will make it up to you, but personal things as well as a lack of motivation has struck me hard. But again, I cannot stress this enough I will finish this story.

PHRASES OF AWESOME!

(Special episode about the EU Brexit thing because controversy and all XD)

1: 'The animaniacs? More like aniremainiacs…'

2: 'VoteLeavethebaryouarecausingaruckasinmybar'

3: 'Brexit? Sounds like a bloody chocolate bar.'

Just in case you are wondering, I don't care about all this shite. It was funny the first few days then it got boring, pls save me…

Anyway, controversial topics to start arguments in the review section aside, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, reviews are appreciated and criticism is even more so. :)

Stay cool,

-viperhat