Okay, I really hope that this all saves and doesn't fuck up on me… -_-
So I have begun to binge write this entire arc out since this year has been slow and I would like to consider this act of self-buggering an apology to you all for being slow and inconsistent. And since my computer started to act up it has given me some perspective on how poorly I have been treating my work ethic…
Also, before we get started, I made a slight mistake in the height for both Vali and Gray. So I will correct that…
Gray: 4ft 8inches (age at this point: 9)
Vali: 5ft 4inches (age at this point: 11)
Sorry if I had confused you last chapter.
So prepare to gaze upon the shit that is my newest and shittiest chapter yet! I am deeply sorry for the wait.
LET'S READ!
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(Three minutes earlier)
"Hang on!" Gildarts warned his passengers before taking a giant leap off of the docks and onto the boat, causing the girls to scream as he took into the air for a few seconds. Vali just held onto Mary, trying not to groan in pain from the awkward way he was holding her.
He looked at the Crash mage and raised an eyebrow. "Isn't that all we can do?!" He grunted out. "It's not like they can throw their shoes at the guy if he shows up again..."
"Fair enough!"
With that being said, Gildarts landed on the boat loudly and with all the grace of a drunk troll. He could swear that the wood splintered underneath his feet as he steadied himself. He let go of Amelia who instantly rushed to Mary, who Vali had let go of.
Said Earth mage was busy tending to his aching arm. Muttering about gravity being a bitch and how his arm felt like a lead weight. "Can we get this thing going? The sooner we leave the better." He looked over towards Gildarts, rubbing his sore shoulder as he continued to speak. "Didn't sir smiley say he was an ice mage? Surely he can just freeze over a path… I think."
Gildarts shook his head. "I don't want to leave the kid behind, no matter how capable he is." He looked over to Vali, tearing his gaze away from the sisters. "Why do you ask?"
He shrugged his shoulders. "That had some influence in my decision..." He pointed behind him and into the expanse of the river. Where the huge form of a marine creature began to rise out from the depths. "He seems to have a way with words doesn't he?" He sarcastically remarked before he lightly jogged over to the sails. "Come on Ginger beard! Grumpster will be fine… Hopefully..."
"That doesn't fill me with confidence you know!" Gildarts retorted, but seeing the creature slowly rising he could easily see the truth in Vali's stupid remark. But still, he didn't have to be so sarcastic about it. His yawn of boredom only added to the kid's weird behaviour…
"Okay, i'll make a deal with you." The Earth mage sighed, looking at the older man with an exasperated expression plastered on his face, completely ignoring the two sisters looking at him weirdly. "If the big bad fishy tries to eat us for lunch then I will apologise and promptly smash it's face in." He held his hand out, smirking. "Deal?"
Gildarts resisted the urge to facepalm. 'That doesn't help Gray in any way…'
But before he could reject the kids dumb deal the resounding thud of a huge object colliding with stone filled the air. Causing the occupants of the boat to look over to the source. Then they saw the huge giant that had chased had been knocked down, causing a huge cloud of dust to erupt from the ground and into the clear sky above.
'Then again, he seems to be doing fine…' With that thought Gildarts smirked, impressed at the kid's achievement. Sure the kid managed to overpower Drum Bee but the giant was clearly stronger physically…
The kid would definitely become a great mage in the future…
"Huh, nice one..." Vali whistled before looking back over to the left. "But we can gush later, it seems I have to follow through with the deal."
"We didn't even shake on it." Gildarts muttered but quickly letting the sails loose, knowing that sitting in the docks was a bad idea for everyone involved. He motioned for Amelia to take the helm and despite her protests she ended up taking control in the end as Gildarts ran up to the deck where Vali was leaning over the side, bored out of his damn mind…
"Hmm… it is a lot bigger than I first thought." He flipped his hair, trying to move it out of his view but only succeeded in moving it further in the way. "Unfortunately though it hasn't gotten close enough for me to do anything about it."
He wasn't lying about it being bigger. The hulking figure rose out of the water menacingly, quickly enveloping a good portion of the big town in a big black shadow. It's grey-ish scales gleamed in the sunlight as it's eyes set there gaze on the boat they were on.
It was heading straight for them…
"Just a little closer now."
Gildarts looked at Vali with curiosity. "What are you planning to do, suspend it in the ai-"
"Clamp!"
Before he could finish he was suddenly interrupted when Vali spread his arms out to his sides before bringing them together just above his head. But the thing that stumped Gildarts into silence was that movements were mimicked by two gigantic twin towers of Earth from both sides of the lake. The end of both towers separated into two giant pincer-like claws which quickly intercepted Unicol's sudden jump from the water, easily reaching around it's sides and clasping the creature in place. Holding it in suspension above the water where it thrived.
Noticing the Crash was satisfyingly flummoxed, Vali sent him a lazy grin…
"Does that answer your question?" 'Bitch?'
He waited a few seconds to get a response before Gildarts sent him a grin.
"I'll admit worms." Vali merely rose an eyebrow at the nickname. "You had me going there for a second."
"No kidding!" The two were interrupted by Mary's amazed lilt. "I thought that you wouldn't ever stop that fish but then you bravely force the earth to stop it from hurting us!" The two could swear that the girl had stars in her eyes. "You were so amazing!"
'Praise?' Vali almost physically reeled back when Mary gushed towards him. 'This is rather new… But it isn't bad that's for sure.' "Uh, cheers?" He rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment. A small blush adorned his cheeks.
Luckily no one saw, his pride would be dealt a massive blow if it were not the case…
Amelia then pointed behind them towards Unicol again. "Well, impressive as it may be it doesn't seem to be holding to well." Her words caused Vali's eyes to widen behind his hair, turning around he saw that the earthen clamps were beginning to crumble under the immense weight of the marine animal.
"Shit, we are halfway too." He muttered, he forgot about maintaining the magic within the earth. Well, he can't revert any magic back into the arms now.
Of course, Amelia glared and covered Mary's ears at his use of language, to which he tutted and looked over to the other side of the lake. Then back to the monster.
It was too close. If the clamps were to break now the boat would be submerged in water and the crew (I,E himself and three others) would be vulnerable to Mr. big bad fishy.
Then the first clamp crumbled away…
"Oh, bollocks..."
Then the second one…
And as the creature slammed into the body of water it created a huge wave to form, easily towering over the boat and speeding in quickly.
"Vali! I am blaming you for this!" Gildarts yelled, he wouldn't be able to hit Unicol when it was shielded from his attacks. But he wouldn't be able to dodge this, not that it would do anything to him, but the girls were not mages. Their screams only made their vulnerability even more obvious.
Vali didn't seem to see the problem. "Don't worry your pretty little heads off." He reassured the group before throwing his arm up and over his head, which was followed by a wide wall which spanned the length of the ship and saved it from the tidal wave threatening the ship.
But that didn't stop Unicol from tearing the ship into bitesize pieces. Literally bursting from the underbelly of the ship and snapping the wood and causing the ship to become useless. The force sent all four of the occupants up into the air.
Gildarts luckily managed to catch Mary but still had to deal with the water, but Amelia had been flung away from the group, sending her into the water before anyone else.
"Hang on guys!" Gildart's heard Vali yell, looking up he saw the earth mage swing his arms around tightly and before his very eyes a platform of earth appeared out of nowhere right under the three. Thanks to Vali's contribution Gildarts managed to land on the hardened surface anf quickly put the yelling Mary down.
"Sis! Sis where are you!?" She looked over the sides only to see the disturbed water 7 feet below the platform Vali made.
"Good job Vali! But please focus on the platform now!" Gildarts took off toward Unicol. But the creature refused to go within 10 feet of the platform, it understood it's strengths and weaknesses. "Damn it!"
Suddenly the fish took a daring leap at the platform, smirking Gildarts clenched his fist and got ready to strike. But before he could another wall of earth formed and caused Unicol to face-plant it before another huge chunk of hardened earth slammed into the wall, breaking it and knocking the giant creature away.
Gildarts looked back at Vali who had his arm raised in front of him, irritated. "Why did you do that!? I could have beat him!"
"I know who you are Ginger beard." The mage in question rolled his eyes at Gildarts. "If you hit the beastie you would have taken this platform apart. Crash magic is rather dangerous to other forms of magic wouldn't you agree?"
The Crash mage had no response for that, he was fairly accurate…
Unicol then erupted from the water once again, it's deadly roar heard throughout the entire town. But Vali threw his right arm down harshly, which caused a big rod of Earth to come crashing from the sky and connect with the huge fish's head, slamming it back into the ocean.
Which turned out to be a bad idea…
After a few seconds, the platform below the group violently exploded up and outward, sending them into the air with Mary letting out a scream as she began to arc in the air and fall.
"Oh for fuck's sake!" Vali threw out both of his arms quickly, trying to form a platform underneath them all. But the sheer distance between them made it impossible. His eye's bulged, realising this fight was going to get a tad more desperate. He quickly formed a stratagem in his head, before grinning lazily, his half liddled eyes covering up any small frustration he had previously.
'Come on… Come on you little prick.' He focussed intently, looking over to the other two. Gildarts trying to both reach Mary and call out to him to do something. He knew what he needed to do next…
"Platform..." He muttered under his breath, before flinging both of his arms out again, but this time, he flung one out in front of him thus forming a small platform to develop under Gildarts and Mary, his other arm under himself, repeating the process below him. "Hey Oldie-locks!" He yelled over casually to Gildarts, who was starting to get a tick mark from the nicknames. "You know I can't keep these things in the air for too long, that fish has too much weight and force behind it. It has left me almost empty!"
"Why are you telling me this!?" He got in response. He only shrugged…
"Don't know, maybe you can do you're One Punch attack on this beastie! We are above it now and it is waiting for us to land in it's gob. Look!" He flopped his hand downward and extended his finger, to show the two on the other side Unicol's huge mouth opened wide and ready for their doom and destruction. The water around it now highly disturbed and thrown about the place as it roared out once again. The maw was so wide and vast it pretty much covered and shielded all of the fish's body. Except for the slight trace of visible forehead.
Or in Vali's mind: 'The one specific thing I am trying to fucking point out...'
Luckily for the three, Gildarts managed to spot it too and sent a confident smirk over to the young boy turning to face the even younger girl. "Stay here alight?" Mary nodded.
"Hang on you two, this may get messy!" He shouted before diving off of the platform. Vali sending him a mock wave as he plummeted down towards Unicol. After a while of streamlining himself he was reaching terminal velocity, a small cone developing around him as he rocketed towards the marine creatures gaping maw.
"Here we go you big bastard." He grinned wider, raising his fist as he got closer. "Crushing evil," He whispered, or maybe he couldn't hear it, but he was aware of Unicol jumping out of the sea once again. "Spreading the truth," He raised his voice, but he still couldn't tell the difference as he was now scraping past Unicol's mouth and heading straight for the exposed forehead. "EMPYREAN!"
He bellowed out, before slamming his metal fist straight into the centre of Unicol's forehead. He booming thud was heard, along with a magical shock-wave which knocked down half of the town's fishing industry and damaged some of the residential housing as the attack from Gildarts sent the poor beast barrelling back into the sea, creating a big tidal wave around it as it continued to plummet to the bottom of the lake and even then it didn't stop as it began to form a Unicol shaped hole in the earth below as it proceeded to blast further into the earth before disappearing from Gildarts' sight.
Then the water covered over the sight and began to calm down…
"There we go guys, all done! Let's-" It was at this point in time Gildarts realised one majorly important detail.
There was no ground beneath him…
"H-Hey, Vali! Make some ground, I could really use it!" But Vali and Mary were still too high up to hear him and he knew it. Oh well, maybe he could find A- "OOOF!" He was cut off by slamming into something hard, smooth and very, very cold. So cold in fact he could feel his fingertips beginning to go numb. Looking underneath himself, he saw a huge smooth sheet of… light-ish purple?
"Ice…?" He muttered, eye's widening when he realised what this meant.
"Be more careful next time Old man..." Gray's young yet masculine voice rung out and reached his ears. He looked over to see the boy (missing both his shirt and trousers now) walking towards him. His expression still as grumpy and hardened as ever. "I don't need to waste anymore time fishing you out of the lake with those metal limbs of yours."
Before Gildarts could retort, he saw the figure of the missing Amelia right behind him (holding both Grays shirt and Trousers). She looked to be fine, if not wet and somewhat tired, but overall perfectly healthy. He looked to Gray for a response and all he got was an eye roll (like he could roll his removed left eye anyhow), but Amelia answered for him.
"He pulled me out of the lake and we began to make our way here." Gray butted in and continued on, making Amelia glared softly.
"But my magic is used to fight, not create, and my Ice-Make Doesn't reach over 100 feet yet. Soon maybe but not in the near future." He looked behind the kneeling Crash mage. "Hey, where are t-"
He was then interrupted by a huge crash and a large dual-tone scream, that just so happened to be from right behind Gildarts. After said mage stood up and stood aside he was given sight to the best thing he'd seen all week.
Vali and Mary were both safe and sound… However, the earth mage seemed to have run out of magic and consequentially, ended up falling along with Mary. Unfortunately for Vali though was that he was the one who ended up on the bottom and his face kissed the icy surface roughly as Mary landed safely on top of him, only adding to the weight he had to deal with.
It was so good in fact that Gildarts started guffawing loudly, Amelia began to giggle at Vali's expense and even he himself cracked a small smirk at the sight.
Vali on the other hand, didn't share the same mirth…
He demonstrated this vocally for the next five minutes before Gildarts whacked him around the head. But the Crash mage hadn't meant to send the poor boy/teen through the ice and into the water…
It thanks to this that two more people got soaked that day, and Gray was going to make Gildarts pay... No one made him fetch for them, especially if they lost it or in Gildarts cased smashed it away.
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(30 minutes later)
"I am telling you Sir. Ginger..." Vali, awake from the older man's earlier assault had managed to get the group from almost silent to mostly vocal. Except for Gray of course, who had taken the lead in forming the pathway to the other side of the lake, it was larger than they all expected. "Crash magic is bloody dangerous." Another glare from Amelia. "The magic itself is revolved around breaking other types of magic based elements. Hell just standing there you are playing with fire."
"No, I'm no-"
"Prove it then..." Vali grinned, he'd fallen right into his trap. Gildarts started sweating slightly.
"Uuuh, no thanks kid, I would rather stay nice and dry." He chuckled nervously. Trying to hold back a shiver.
"Nope, either prove or I will start to get REALLY annoying."
"I thought you already were pip-squeak."
"Pip-squeak? I am two years older than happy Mc-Smiles over there. I am 11 years of age."
"Still young and tiny, little man."
"Ha, you called me man."
"I use the term very lightly."
"Whatever, I know you don't want me to get worse than I already am..."
"Well-"
"Nope..."
"But I-"
"Nope!"
"Will you j-"
"Nope!"
"Okay! Fine!" Gildarts finally relented, startling everyone in the group. "Here, watch me tear this ice a new one!"
"Don't you dare..." Gray growled out.
But it was already too late, Gildarts immediately amped up his magic and within a few seconds he was slamming down on the magical ice like there was no tomorrow.
"Ha, you see!" He yelled triumphantly. "My magic is easy to control! I can waaah!"
However, he quickly realised that he wasn't controlling it. He found himself falling through a circular hole he had made in Gray's ice before he fell straight into the water below, which was pretty cold due to the ice above it by mere inches. "God-dammit, help me!" He shouted as he flailed around in the water.
Gray sighed in defeat…
He was about to jump in but Vali held out his arm and shook his head at him, grinning with smugness that rivalled Lyon's in Gray's books. Only nicer and less murderous than the silver haired wanker.
"I'll get him." Vali walked towards the hole where Amelia and Mary were, watching the grown man shout and splash around like a complete kid. He sat down and formed a fishing rod, having gathered some of his magic back before plunging the hook into the water.
He heard a loud yelp emanate from the man's throat before violently wrenching him from the water below, hoisting him through the circular hole he made and into view of everyone where they could see why he yelped as loud as he did. Vali, being the mean son of a bitch he was, hooked the earthy line near Gildarts ass. The hook poking painfully against his cheek.
The sight made the group laugh for the second time that day. Even Gray once again shared a small smirk the man's predicament…
"I will take great pleasure in saying 'I told you so' Ginger beard." Laughed Vali, before moving him over and away from the hole where he proceeded to make the rod vanish without warning and let Gildarts land face first on the icy ground again.
The Crash mage glared at the Earth mage for the rest of the trip…
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(10 minutes)
After what felt like forever (in Gildarts' case at least) the group managed to traverse to the other side of the lake. Vali looked around excitedly, finally being able to get out of Mone was a refreshing and amazing prospect to him that he had been starting to lose hope on experiencing. He really felt like he owed Gray and Gildarts for their service to him.
"I can't wait to see what I can fuck up on this side of the country!" He exclaimed suddenly, somehow managing to not scare the shit out of anyone. But Gildarts look at him, alarmed for a second… "Again, cheers you two, I really couldn't budge out from there. So thanks."
'That was sudden…' Gray simply ignored the moment of genuine thanks from the eccentric Earth mage. He just wanted to get to Fairy Tail and become as strong as he possibly could. He couldn't get there by being all smiley and happy… It was as simple as that.
"Whatever..." Was all he said, knowing that he needed to respond anyway, Gildarts would be annoyed if he didn't and being on the receiving end of a man like that when he is annoyed? Not something he wanted…
"I know you love me Sir. Sunshine." He teased…
"Again, I reiterate… Whatever." He growled, he couldn't stand listening to his voice grating on his nerves. Vali was really good at annoying people, something the guy took great pride in. "Now shut it so I can concentrate." He turned his head back to the end of the ice pathway.
Vali just snorted. "You know, I have seen angrier guys grumpster, I know how you all tick. All I have to do is push the right buttons at the right time!"
'You're doing a good job at making me tick, by that I mean you are ticking me off!'
As if reading his mind Vali grinned and spoke again. "Oh soon enough you'll warm up to me. I had this kid in the academy who was always angry like you."
Mary looked over from her sisters side curiously. "You went to an academy?" She asked excitedly, seemingly jumping with joy.
Vali nodded with a smile. "Yeah, it was really good for learning spells. But I wouldn't recommend the teaching practice. Which is rare, usually it is the opposite way around." He flicked his hair the side again, but made sure to keep enough around his eyes to hide them from the others view.
"Is that where you learned to use Earth magic?" Amelia was the next to ask a question. Looking at him looking for an answer.
"Well, in a way yes." Vali inclined his head, squinting as if trying to formulate a coherent answer. "You see I was in the academy since I was very young, the deputy headmaster found outside on the streets one day and took me in, he never told me anymore than that, but I got the gist of it pretty much." He saw the expressions on the grown up's and sighed. "It isn't hard to find out that I was homeless, I must have hurt myself because I was wrapped in bandages but I didn't feel pain, or maybe I did? Ah fuck it, I don't remember." He laughed.
"But why did you leave then?" Gildarts looked confused. "After-all, you had everything from the sounds of it, a loving parental figure, good education and from what I see a happy life overall."
"Ah you see, I wasn't entirely happy, but maybe that's because of the bullies..." He pinched his chin in thought. "But then again, they feared me soon enough, as I said earlier I was a prodigy, they couldn't touch me!" He grinned at Gildarts. "All 10 of them, considered some of the best in the school and they had no chance! Brilliant right!?"
The mage in question nodded. "Is that why you take everything in stride?" Vali looked confused. "I mean, you haven't been offended by anything Gray has said, you were completely calm and bored looking when Unicol attacked and you are now giving us some rather private and somewhat dark information about you and you are more than chipper."
"Ahhh..." Vali understood what he was asking. "Admittedly, I have only been like this for a year or two. Before then I was somewhat of what I called a reactionary bully. Someone talks shit on me I beat them down, you know all that cancerous shit scum like that do." He looked away for a second to take a breath, he didn't like talking about his old self. "Then I had an incident and realised 'Hang on. I am being a dick to these people and they have done nothing wrong, if I want to be treated normally then I should stop being a twat, just because this happened to me doesn't mean I should dish it to others too.'."
He sighed. "After that, I stopped being a wanker and begun to utilise my skill and knowledge to become the best in my academy, not intentionally though, I just ended up being the best. Turns out being hard to offend makes it easier to ignore actual physical pain, or maybe there is something wrong with me."
That got a giggle out of Mary. "Are they still there? The bullies?"
"Nope, scared them out after the third fight, somewhat displeased they actually helped me kill time." He grinned at her. "Why?"
"I was thinking-"
"Mary no." Amelia instantly stopped her in her tracks. Mary looked at her with surprise and sadness.
"What? Why?"
"Because we don't have any kind of jewel to get you in, secondly It would be too far away from mother and fathers."
"Where do you live?" Vali asked. Amelia glared suddenly at him.
"That real rude to ask you know?"
He just rolled his eyes, ignoring Gray's groaning when he heard Gildarts tell a bad joke. In general, like what town? Not your actual home, I am not some creepy deluded stalker intent on making your life uncomfortable as all fuck." He teased, smirking as Amelia pouted lightly.
She 'hmph'd' at him before looking away for a second. But answered anyway. "Locktide..."
He paused to think for a second scrunching up his face in concentration before he relaxed and grinned. "Okay, it isn't too far from there actually. Maybe a mile away at the most."
Mary jumped for joy. "Yay! See Sis I can go!"
She still shook her head. "We don't have any jewel Mary. But if you want to so much then I can try once we get home."
Before Mary or Vali could reply Gildarts suddenly leapt into the air, shouting his goodbyes to them before disappearing beyond the horizon, leaving the three startled. "What just happened?" Vali shook himself out of his stupor, realising that Gray hadn't stopped or slowed down. Quickly coursing the girls to keep up he swiftly had them near enough to the Broody devil Slayer. But he has questions like why did Gildarts suddenly just bugger off? What made him bugger off? And finally, how did he bugger off to the other side of the lake when they were still a minute away from reaching the land on the far side?!
Utterly confused, he looked over to Gray, who was still mechanically forming an icy platform without any strain. He opened his mouth to ask what had gotten into the Crash Mage but Gray seemed to see his expression as he replied to the lingering question.
"It seems the old man has some trouble with the rune knights around here." His voice was it's usual grumpy sounding yet clear mumble as he focussed on the pathway. "Of course he would have pissed someone off somewhere else..." He sighed irritably, he did a good job with doing that to him.
Or maybe he was easy to piss off…
After-all, he had found Vali's cynical, snarky and sarcastic, long winded remarks to be particularly nerve grating. But he knew from the moment he heard his slightly deeper voice that he was going to be a pain in his ass.
He found that dealing with most people ended up with him gritting his teeth in one way or another. Hell, even Nano had annoyed him at first! Mary's high pitch voice grounded against his ears like metal scraping against metal, Amelia's constant reprimanding of Vali was starting to really rub him the wrong way and the constant annoying chit chat emanating from the people around him made him wish for a deafening silence.
'I really wish people wouldn't be annoying…' Gray shook his head, casting his disturbed thoughts into the abyss of his mind as he casted his eye slightly up from the formation of the pathway to see the land on the other side incoming. He sighed, relief flowing through his veins at the thought of not casting a constant stream of magic. A nice rest sounded good, and who knows? Vali may even be tolerable as he takes a break. One could hope right!?
Those thoughts were enforced by the older boys yawn, fatigue filling him to the brim as it did with everyone else… The sky was slowly beginning to set as a peachy red hue filtered through the clear sky, signalling the world that twilight had come.
"Well..." Gray mumbled quietly. "I guess it wouldn't hurt to rest for a while." He slumped against a big, smooth rock and brought his knees up to his chest before he started to drift off. But not before Mary used his side as a pillow…
He sighed silently at the knew pressure on his right arm. 'I better not get any pins and needles tomorrow.'
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So this wasn't a chapter over 6 to 7 thousand words. But to be honest the chapter in Ice trials called 'River' is pretty much just one big fight scene… But you have probably noticed the...'slight'… differences to the fight. First off the lack of Gray and secondly the amount of Earthy awesome possessed by Vali.
Don't worry, Vali won't be an unbeatable mage, he will grow and become strong and powerful yes, but at the moment his body and mind are still developing and I have yet to implement certain qualities into him yet. His character isn't nearly done yet, like sonic06 but not utter shite. I think.
But now…
Rant time:
I have seen the current chapter and I am slightly disturbed...(498 since this will go up in October or maybe when I finish it if my computer doesn't fuck me over again.)
It isn't about Grays Devil Slaying Magic and how Invel seems to know a fair bit about it. (which was actually rather fascinating yet foreboding… he Is rather scary just by being calm… damn XD)
It isn't about how Mashima blatantly disregarded Gray's now innate ability to eat Ice and enemies ice attacks. (Which annoyed me somewhat but overall I let it pass over)
But I get the feeling Mashima is about to do one of two things.
1: Gray and Juvia will somehow bullshit their way out of this conundrum due to the power of friendship or love (which will kill me inside… poor Gray) and annihilate Invel. Confessing their love to eachother since you know, forcing characters together ALWAYS works flawlessly…
or...
2: One of them die (if so then hopefully it is Juvia) and the other will defeat Invel but confess their love for the other before their death. (Hopefully this happens since then at least there is a chance that Gruvia won't happen)
Now we all know that Mashima has once again forced Gray to be lumped with Juvia. We all know what he is going to do. I am not even going to try and speak out against it though because the shit will still be put on a pedestal and made canon. Gruvia will happen and it truly pains me to say this, Mashima will ruin a portion of Gray, he will cater to the Gruvia fans desires on this and he doesn't care how forced it is he will do it.
I mean come on, It seems stupid that Brandsh would only take Natsu and Lucy and leave Juvia behind (I won't lie, i'd leave her behind too but still think of poor Gray) If she is good and needs help, she would have taken all three since you know, strength in numbers.
But if she is evil then she would still take Juvia so she could finish her useless ass off… It makes literally no sense, Gray is more than capable of beating Invel, in fact if it wasn't for Juvia not getting the fuck away from him they wouldn't be in the situation he is in now. Yet another problem she is causing for Gray.
Remember… People ship this… Actual, physical human beings on the same planet as us, actually pair these to together for some unknown reason…
Damn, I should make a rant dump! XD Like Viper's venom laced Rants! Nah… I will stick to being a cunt over the chapters of these stories. Much more dumb for me. XD
So if you see this and it isn't October then It has probably been uploaded on another computer. But know that I will either A: have this arc finish by then or B: I will have a better computer by then to actually start writing again. :)
so see you next chapter…
-Viperhat
