So Gray and Natsu have started fighting… For real… GO GRAY! PASTE NATSU INTO THE FUCKING GROUND THEN KEEP THE FUCK AWAY FROM JUVIA! WWWWOOOOOOO!

Juvia should still be dead, Mashima's comments on why he doesn't kill characters only annoyed me further. i'll get into Makarov's moment at the end. I have no comment for the more recent chapter other than Erza's hands look fucked...

LET'S READ!

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"Okay, what the hell are you wearing?"

"Clothes, what do you think i'm wearing?"

"That!"

"Well spotted detective Fullbuster..."

"Get changed before I break you!"

"Ooooh, temper temper."

"THAT'S IT!"

Every passenger almost winced at the sound of heavy banging and thud's that happened a few seconds from each other. Some thought a rowdy couple were going at it like horny rabbits, some thought that a wheel was starting to come loose…

But they mostly thought to people were having it off…

But Gray and Vali had no clue. The two just continued their petty scuffle over the Earth Mage's fashion sense. Gray ducked under the older boys deadly right hook before reaching up and grabbing his neck and forcefully slamming his head into the nearby wall, causing Vali grunt in slight pain.

Vali got his revenge however- when he managed to hook his right foot around Gray's ankle, pulling it back and making the Ice mage lose his balance, he quickly followed up by pivoting out of his grasp and sending his left foot into Grays side before finishing his counter by bringing his right foot up and sending it down onto the back of Grays exposed head, effectively sending him to the floor with a heavy 'thud'.

"Are you quite done?! I must prepare for my fabulous reveal in Magnolia!" Vali joked, giggling as he avoided Grays sweeping foot by jumping a few metres back. To add a dramatical flair he begun to mockingly adjust his skin tight black vest, which left almost nothing to the imagination as his toned and more developed body was squashed against the fabric. He pulled the belted and studded leather trousers up higher to sit around his slim waist before checking his sand pouches around the belt.

"Anyway, are you sure you can talk? You look like you've had you chest destroyed and replaced with a giant red lego block." The smile got wider on Vali's face, however, he wasn't fast enough this time as Gray got up and launched himself at the Earth Mage, knocking the two of them down against the trains window.

The two continued to wrestle for victory for another minute or two before they were interrupted by a young voice clearing his throat. Gray and Vali stopped trying to kill each other and looked toward the offending intruder.

The voice was most definitely a boy, he wore a pair of rectangular glasses with black rims that contrasted nicely with his healthy white hair. He wore a thick leather jacket that covered the entirety of his upper body, even his neck. The jacket matched his black boots which were separated by his white baggy trouser that were tucked into his boots, making him look like a farmer to some extent.

He stood at the door, standing perfectly straight with practised ease, looking at the two awkwardly as he saw the position they were in. How bold…

Gray noticed two, seeing as he was on the bottom being held firmly in place by Vali who had his wrists planted on the ground. He yelped like a girl again before kicking Vali off of him who grunted again as he collided with the seat next to him. He shook his head and looked at Gray with a grin.

"I won then?" He asked with the most fake expression of innocence. Making Grays face go the shade of a tomato from pure anger.

"Take a time out you bastard!" Gray screamed, before slamming his hands together. "Ice-Make: Tower!"

Before either Vali or the boy could do anything, Vali found himself being slammed into the ceiling of the train by a pole of ice, which didn't dissipate after, effectively keeping him in place.

Vali just gave a little victory dance from the ceiling and left it at that until Gray calmed himself down.

Gray got out of his position and dusted himself off before looking at the stunned boy in black and white. The boy took the silence as his chance to speak before the Ice Mage got annoyed with him too.

"Um, may I sit here?" He asked, gesturing to the empty seats. He waited for an answer, the atmosphere getting more awkward the longer Gray continued to stand there.

He couldn't get his head around it, the fact that this boy had just seen him and the Earthworm on the ground, trying to abuse each other for the petty concept of clothing articles and then watch as he sent said Earthworm into the ceiling and keep him there before turning to him casually to give him to 'ok' to speak.

And his first question was if could sit with them, despite looking like complete and utter psycho's?

'Oh yeah, this kid probably has issues...' Gray eventually nodded and went back to sitting next to the window. The kid seemed to brighten up at this.

"Thanks! Good afternoon." The bright way he greeted Gray would make anyone think he hadn't just seen a fight occur.

"Yeah, hey..." Gray grunted in reply, looking out the window again, trying to ignore everything around him. Including the calm mumblings to be let free by Vali.

They all continued to sit (Vali lay) in silence, the awkward tension rapidly rising, with the white haired boy not realising a single bit of it.

"Trains are swell aren't they?" He asked, his voice blissfully happy and ignorant of Grays discomfort.

"Mmmhhmmm." Gray grunted. Trying his hardest to ignore the hell he was stuck with for the train journey.

"Say, how far are you headed?"

"Magnolia..."

"Really!" The boy looked delighted. "What a coincidence, I happen to be going to magnolia to!" This caused Gray to inwardly blanch…

'N-No…. I'm already stuck with Vali, please don't make stay with you too….' He shook his head, trying to rid himself of such a trauma inducing thought…

"I'm Pause Lightless, pleased to make your acquaintance." He greeted.

"Waaay to late for that buddy." Vali's muffled voice came from the ice tower. "You've been talking for a full thirty seconds before telling us your name."

"I forgot about you." Gray grumbled, dissipating his ice, causing the Earth Mage to yell as he hit the ground hard with a loud 'thump'. "Next time I'll freeze you whole..."

"Love you to." Was the sarcastic reply he got, tempting him to slam the Earth Mage into the ceiling again. "Anyway." Vali looked over towards Pause with a lazy smile. "I'm Vali, and that grumpy bastard is Gray."

"Fullbuster, Gray Fullbuster." Gray corrected, annoyed.

"Okay, then, my turn." Vali sighed at having his fun ruined… again. "Vali Conway."

That caused Gray to raise an eyebrow… Well, his fake, charm induced eyebrow. 'I hadn't known his sir name… It does suit him I guess. Nice and easy to remember.'

"Nice to meet you." Pause looked at the two of them, easily spotting the differences between them. Gray had been completely anti-social, always annoyed and barely putting any effort into his answers.

Vali seemed much more… eccentric. His lazily extrovert personality combined with his mixed accent made him really memorable. His accent seemed to be mainly aristocratic, but held a tinge of commoner mumble in it to give it an interesting tone and lilt. He had been hard to decipher emotionally, he seemed non-plussed by being stuck to the ceiling like some troublesome fly and even continued to piss Gray off.

These two were not a good combination to be around…

But they seemed like good people at their core. That's what mattered, right?

"Hey Gray..." Vali leaned over, invading Grays space on purpose. "You are ugly."

He got a fist to the face for such a comment. Knocking him out of his seat and onto the floor.

"Worth it."

"You won't say that when I throw you out of the train."

"Hmmm…. No, I probably will..."

The argument was beginning to start up again, soon enough, magic would start to fly, blows would start to be blown, most would connect. If Pause hadn't pulled out a ridiculously huge book, plopping it onto his lap and engaging himself in it's contents.

That caught the attention of the two battling boys. They both whipped their heads over toward the huge block of paper on the boys lap as he flipped through the pages. Both jaws dropping to the floor at it's sheer size.

"What the hell is that thing?" Vali yelled, shock lacing his tone. Pause looked up to meet his covered eyes.

"A book…?" He replied, confused at to why he was acting strangely. But Gray wasn't faring much better.

"That's no book… That's a bloody monster!" He pointed at the offending object, looking at it with a look of shock and fear. Who in their right mind would carry that bastard around!?

But before Pause could reply a loud bark of laughter came from behind them. It sounded male and it also was obnoxious as all hell. Gray winced, listening to it before growling, all he wanted was some peace and quiet!

"Assholes." He steamed, watching as the man on the end of the seat started trying to… Do things to the woman sitting on the opposite side. She tried stopping the advances of the perverts but soon enough they were all trying to force her into their sick little games.

That was when he lost his cool…

"Okay, I've had it with tho- eh?" Gray was all for breaking the bones of scum, but before he could, he watched Pause walk up to the group, who didn't notice the boy until he brought his building sized book down upon one of the men's heads with a force that made both Gray and Vali cringe from the painful thud…

The thugs didn't take to the action to kindly…

Pause whirled around to face the thugs on the left side. Clear annoyance evident in his voice as he spoke. "YOU ARE ACTING TOO ROWDY ON THE TRAIN!" He yelled, a huge mountain of rage evident in his voice as he looked over to the other side to face the rest of the twats. "YOU ARE ALL BEING A NUISCIENCE TO THE OTHER PASSENGERS!"

Vali frowned as when Pause turned to look over towards the first group again. Was his eye twitching?

"And dare I say…? I find you all very much against my liking..." With that ended Pause' mini rant, his left hand clenching his book tightly as visible steam wafted from his ears.

"Gray, this kid has worse anger issues than you, congrats, you ain't the worst." Vali whispered into Grays ear, he managed to avoid the elbow aimed at his gut and snickered before looking over to the commotion again.

Seconds after Pause finished yelling, the thugs began to laugh, even the guy with the book mark on his head. Their laughter caught absolutely no one of guard, Pause didn't come off as threatening in anyway.

Even Vali had a little giggle at the scene…

"Oh you're a funny little shit aren't you?" The thug with blonde hair mocked, a predatory glint twinkling in his eyes for a second as he looked behind him and at his friends for a second, each one of them sharing the same malicious intent. "Hey boys, why don't we shut that yapping mouth up… Permanently?"

The rest murmured in agreement as they began to brandish their weapons, Gray took into account the weapons they all had as Vali quit giggling and got ready to throw down at a moments notice.

'Knives, bats and one Tanto blade. This will be a piece of cake...' Gray got ready to freeze the thugs in place, but just as soon as he was about to make the fools feel sorry for themselves another aura of magic began building up in the train carriage. It was angry, frustrated and somewhat scary depending on the person who felt it's effects…

"With little regard for yourselves, you haphazardly reveal such dangerous weapons." Both Gray and Vali winced at the scathing tone that came from Pause, but were even faster to make their shock clear when various pages began flipping around the carriage at a speed that shouldn't be possible.

Pause spoke again, but his tone got darker and darker the further he went on. "Your incompetence astounds me." He growled, his breathing visibly ragged from the pure rage he was seemingly going through.

"So he's a mage, one with a terrible temper..." Gray whispered, but Vali had heard him, whirling his head to face the Devil Slayer with a raised eyebrow.

"I guess it really does take one to know one!" He yelped, barely catching himself from falling as paper knocked one of his feet from under him. "Pause must be really angry. For some weird ass reason."

"Shut u-"

"BE GONE!" The sudden cry that came from Pause ceased the beginning squabble between the two as they looked back… Only to reel back from the scene before them.

"PULP STORM!" Pause yelled, throwing his arms to his sides as he watched the multi-million pages spiral into one another, creating a huge tornado like storm that had caught the thugs in it's grasp within mere milliseconds.

The force was strong, strong enough to turn up the many seats from there places and force Vali into forming a shield with his pouched earth.

"Pause! This is just a bit too much, stop this you knobhead!" Vali grunted, his feet firmly planted on his wall to stop himself from being flattened against it.

Gray however, stood still with his arms crossed. Vali could understand how he wasn't being chucked about the place but decided against pondering on it.

Then Gray calmly walked up to the raging Pause and quickly formed an icy hammer above him before bringing it down on his head. Knocking the boy to the floor as the ice shattered and disappeared.

This seemed to knock some sense into pause. Vali breathed in a sigh of relief before realising that he was standing on a wall, his earthen wall.

And Gravity existed…

"AHHH!" Vali slammed into the ground and he yelped as his knees took the full blunt force for his inaction. "I knew I should've learned that extra gravity spell! Bollocks that hurt!" He whimpered, rubbing his legs as the wall behind him crumbled and separated, the earth going back into his many pouches.

"Are you quite done now?" Gray looked down on Pause, who stared back in tanks for a reason that neither Gray or Vali could understand.

"Did I slip again?" He asked, making Vali snort…

"I wouldn't call it 'slipping' exactly..." Vali said, unsure of how to describe the scene he had been privy too. "I think a more appropriate terminology for it would be 'Fucking Snapping'..." He spoke calmly, until he got to the end, where he decided to yell the last bit out as if he had just witnessed a murder…

Gray rolled his eye(s), adjusting his charmed ring he turned to go back to his seat. "Pause, if you act like that again, I will use more painful tactics, just letting you know for the future."

Pause nodded. "Thanks, when I lose my temper I also completely lose sight of myself, I think it would be wise for you to take such actions in-case I end up like that again." He smiled gratefully afterwards.

"Sadist..." Vali muttered, earning himself a strong cuff to the back of his head, cutesy of Gray.

"Asshole." Gray spat, getting annoyed with his antics. But on the inside he felt weird, like he wasn't truly angry with the 'antics' his companion continuously created. 'I guess being completely alone would be somewhat boring…' But he shook that thought away as soon as it came, he expression going blank on the outside. 'No, they're only a distraction… If I want to become strong, I cannot afford any distractions, never...'

So he sat back in his seat, more than happy to shut out the rest of the world as he gave into his thoughts about Fairy tail…

"By the way." Vali looked over to Pause, who hummed. "What exactly are we going to do about this?" He asked, gesturing to the train carriage.

Or what was left of it…

Pause shrugged apologetically. "My bad..."

The Earth Mage sweat-dropped. 'I'm stuck with duet of insane bastards… Oh woe is me...'

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(2 hours later)

"Why does everyone tell me this?"

"Because it is true perhaps?"

"So? I keep on saying that I am more than confident in my skills, I don't need to rely on Gravity magic, the one spell I know for it is good enough for me until I think otherwise."

"Vali, if you stay like you are now you will not learn, or improve..."

"Well, when it is possible for me to better myself I shall train 'strictly' again, but until then what's the point? I do the normal amount of training to keep my skills sharp, that is all I need."

Vali was getting really tired of having this conversation…

All he had done to spark this topic was make a joke about his training, Pause didn't get the joke though. He started berating him on his training, or lack thereof.

It was really starting to annoy him, he had this conversation with his old man, again with one of the academy students and then with Gray and Gildarts, now with Pause…

Was he really that much of a nihilist?..

"Vali, a mage always aspires to become as strong as he can." Pause tried again, hoping Vali would see reason.

"Pause, you know that if someone has a cap then there isn't much they can do about it… The older I get the stronger I get, simple logic."

"You are trying to apply logic to magic, that doesn't work."

"It works enough for me..."

"Va-"

Before either can another word in the temperature dropped rapidly, the two shivered before taking notice of Grays glare. His obsidian orbs boaring straight into Vali's before gazing into Pause'.

"Don't egg him on Pause, he'll only get more annoying..." The cool rebuttal caused Pause to shiver slightly, Gray's voice sounded frosty, deadly almost when he was annoyed and it seemed that only Vali had been able to get him into that state.

Of course, said Earth Mage resented that statement, only proving Gray's point even further before sighing and leaning back into the damaged seat before gazing out from the broken carriage, a thoughtful expression plastering itself onto his face for a few minute before turning back to face the two…

"Why in the shimmering shitting hell are we still in this broken carriage?" He asked, his tone conveying his confusion perfectly clear.

"No reason you alliterating twit." Was the response he got from Gray. He got up from his seat and in boredom, began to pace along the empty carriage's walkway.

Vali, looked around as he stretched his legs, the various empty seats and broken counter-tops that had fallen in the way making it harder for him to walk further as he drank up the aesthetic and detail on each compartment. His boredom starting to get the better of him before he heard a slight rumbling noise coming from the right side of the train where the thick woodlands took over.

"You guys hear that?" He turned back to look at them only to see their questioning stares etching into his back...(before he turned of course)

"What are you blabbering on about now?" Gray grumbled in reply. He really couldn't handle anymore of Vali today, if he was just pissing around again then he would be pissing him off… Again…

But unbeknownst to them, Vali heard the faint rumbling noise get louder…

His face lost all humour when the noise began to get more louder and clearer. He could actually hear the earth breaking and being forced apart the louder it got. It was clear to the Earth Mage as to what was happening…

Whatever was causing this sound was getting closer… And It wasn't slowing down…

That was when he tensed up, the realisation dawning upon him with the weight of a tonne of bricks. His eyes looked over to the right and they widened when he spotted the three huge ridges growing quickly like a snake towards the train… Right towards the carriage they were on…

"Guys..." He droned, tension thick in his voice. The tone completely caught the other two off guard, Vali hadn't acted so alert yet stiff. But the next sentence he spoke got them moving.

"GET AWAY FROM THE EDGE!" Vali quickly summoned some of his pouched Earth and threw his arm upwards, the Earth quickly formed a wide wall at speeds almost impossible to catch with the naked eye.

Gray and Pause jumped into action, moving nearer to the wall to avoid whatever danger was coming their way. Suddenly, the wall ended up coming straight to them as they were in mid-air, painfully.

The train had lurched violently again, almost throwing Vali off of the train as he effortlessly regained his balance a few seconds later.

"Can you guys get up now!?" He attempted to raise some Earth from the ground, but the train was simply going too fast for him to keep his control for long, the Earth he got was instantly dropped a few seconds after as the initial ground whizzed by him at the speed of near sound. "Why do these fucking trains have to be so fast!?"

"Nevermind Vali, lets just get off of this carriage!" Gray told him, grabbing Vali's vest by the back and dragging him forcefully away as Pause ran beside him.

"Get off me Cyclops!" The Earth Mage rapidly summoned his own Earth back before trying to pry Grays hand off of his back for the second time that day. But Gray pulled him roughly at hearing the insult.

Finally, the three boys reached the door that lead to the next carriage, Gray being the polite boy he was, quickly threw Vali into the carriage and Motioned for Pause to go next before he entered himself.

"Okay, first off," Vali got up, dusting himself off as he glared at Gray. "Fuck you and maybe you too Pause because why not? And secondly, Gray stop dragging me everywhere!"

"Shut up." Gray Push his hand up and into Vali's face before pushing him onto an unoccupied seat before looking up to where a steel door resided…

"I think we need to see the driver..."

"Driver? it's a train..."

Gray chose to ignore him… For now…

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"And if they're kids then the price goes up exponentially..." Came whimsical voice of a man. "It's practically a living treasure!" His one visible gleamed and twitched slightly, his retracting pupil making him look all the more insane.

This revelation seemed to bring in an atmosphere fit for celebration. As soon as the man, who was seemingly the leader finished his comrades begun to cheer and ramble in complete awe about the Jewel involved.

The leader of the group lifted a slim hand up to his white mop of hair and raked it through his fingers, his red eye twitched viscously once again as he thought about what he could spend the jewel on. Who said the others were getting a share? Certainly not him.

He grinned behind his black face mask, looking at the little bundle of fur holding onto the bars of it's cage. Looking at him with watery eyes as if it was pleading him to let the poor creature go free. This only made the lust for his reward grow further.

However, he was brought out of his revere with a huge clanging sound and a rather large visual of the walls and roof being ripped off of the train.

What a rude awakening…

The two ginormous moles had come into view when the walls and roof were thrown away, their expressions one of pure, smouldering rage as they gazed upon him and the cage next to him. But instead of cowering at the ridiculous size they sported, he let out a little crazed laugh before standing up to face the two parent animals. Quickly reaching behind his back and brandishing his trusty, clean, huge, two-handed, fuck off cleaver and bracing himself for some fun slaughter…

"Aww, did we make you cry?" The sound of growling coming from the moles gave him the response he was looking for. "This is perfect. We'll be able to round them up and sell them all!" He laughed manically, readying his weapon to strike before he looked over and saw the small figures of children to his left. How he didn't hear them getting near them was beyond him, but it didn't matter now…

"What's the matter little boys? Just go on back to your seats eh?"

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It was as he uttered those words, did Pause' unnatural temper get the better of him once again…

"Nope." Vali moaned, jumping past the wary Gray in an attempt to snap Pause out of his daze… Again. "No." He summoned a massive huge ball of Earth from the sides of the train, which was slowing down. They must have found out about the little problem. "Nuh Uh! Not again you angry bastard!"

Aaaaaaannnnnnnnddddd Crash…

Aaaaaaannnnnnnnddddd Thud…

Everything stopped… Even the Moles stopped to stare at the weird spectacle, but the Earth Mages reaction did exactly what it was meant to do, the way Pause got up and gave the Pouching guild a glare but didn't go absolutely ballistic was proof of that.

"There we go.. Now." Vali grinned sadistically, looking over towards the opposing group. "Shall we begin my abysmal looking darlings?"

"You don't what you're getting yourself into, do you boys?" The leader spoke, his tone scathing to the core without losing his sing song lilt. It was rather disturbing to hear. But he was now pointing his weapon at Pause now.

"I think it's you who has no idea what he's is getting into." The area around the group began to frost over and small crystals of ice began to form and shatter in the air due to the moisture from the warm weather, scaring some of the members and causing the others to shiver. Gray simply smirked coldly at them as he walked up to stand aside Vali.

"Let's teach these villains a lesson they shall never forget." With his huge book in his twitching hand, Pause stood up and faced the leader menacingly.

That set the rest off into a frenzy of fear and chaos…

"Fuck! Boss, forget about the jewel! This ain't worth it!" One of his men came up to him and begged him to let them leave. But the white haired man just glared at the minion, disgust and anger brimming in his crimson eyes.

"A little afraid are we?" The unsaid threat was left unsaid. "Well, you'll be very afraid if you don't kill these brats… Do you understand?"

"Please master! Don't let us do this!" Another member cried out, terror filling his frame as he began to shake.

He got no response…

The frost began to become crisper and a huge circle of ice formed under the guilds feet before two slabs of Ice sprout from the ground and bend to face a portion of the members, they had no chance to react before the two icy towers slammed them into each other, squashing them between the ice until the pain knocked them unconscious.

"What? How did!?" The guild leader looked back to see Gray pull his hand out of a pool of ice beneath himself, his arm reflecting off of the light being shone on his… Icy arm?!

The kid was a mage, it was safe to bet that the other two were mages too.

But that power…

"Nice one Grumpy… I had no idea you could do that too!" Vali laughed heartily, clapping the younger boy on the back. "Now, my turn boys!"

Vali, summoned his pouched Earth, but instead of a shield he threw his right arm forward and yawned when the Earth flew toward the remaining members (sans the leader) and splintered off into separate shards of sharp, spiny and hardened boulders.

The enemy force tried to flee, abandoning their orders and focussed on preserving their own lives, unfortunately, they didn't get far before being crippled and smashed to the ground by the almost deadly Earth shards.

"Ahhh, that was almost pathetic." Vali, called back his Earth and stuffed his hands into his pockets before bumping fists with Gray.

And then there was only one…

This time though, he completely understood his members plight. He had under-estimated the kids and now he was going to lose everything.

"You boys are… Yo- You weren't bluffing!"

"Now, you shall perish for your dastardly crimes, fiend!" Pause' veins in his forehead throbbed violently, his anger clearly starting to take over as he jumped into the air and threw his hands in front of him, a magic circle appearing and starting to pulse with magic.

"Pulp Storm!" He bellowed with more force than a kid should have, watching the book in his right fly into the magic circle before opening, an impossible amount of pages blasting out from within it's depths and forming into a huge stream of pulp before crashing into the leader with devastating force.

"GUUAAAHHH!" Came the choked scream from within the deadly pages...

He was well and truly done for, the King Moles were going to be after his blood for his crimes against their family and after Pause' over-powered attack he wouldn't be in the best shape to be running away.

As if they had also figured this out too, the Moles sent their fists straight into Pause' attack, crushing both the pages and the deranged guild leader underneath…

Vali for one, didn't want to be caught in the area as the potential corpse along with the other unconscious men and women scattered everywhere… If the guy was mashed up or not was unknown, but once again…

"I don't want to be seen here dammit!" He cried, performing an axe kick on Pause' head to knock him he immediately grabbed him before latching his left hand onto Gray's collar and dragging him to another compartment with the care and grace of a drunk Vulcan.

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Even though he was being horribly and most certainly abused by an angry Gray, Vali didn't regret getting some payback in the slightest…

Until Gray decided to land a haymaker on his groin…

'Yeah! Okay, maybe now I have some regret! Fuck that hurt!' He cringed, deciding to roll out of the way if the Ice Mage's icy fist, managing to avoid his punishment as his friends fist sailed through the air and even forcing it's way through the trains hard floor…

"You know-" Vali started, grinning as he blocked Grays fist and shoved him back playfully, illicting an annoyed growl from him. "We better not get caught braking the train any more-" He sidestepped the admittedly awfully fast kick before jumping into the wall and kicking away from it to land behind Gray, from where he expertly grabbed his arms and restraining him in a tight grip.

"But just incase we do, I am going to say it's your fault okay? Cool, thanks!" He mockingly saluted Gray, but that was when he realised that he had actually let go of one of his arms. Oh shi-" He couldn't finish his blasphemous phrase as he was elbowed harshly in the face and pushed into one of the seats by his younger travel buddy… Who got up into his face.

"Do that to me again and i'll break your arms..."

"You'll arm my break what?" He feigned confusion, only to smirk deviously when Gray sputtered in rage. "Boy you really do have anger issues. Here I thought Pause here had you beat!"

That almost cost him a huge price of an icy spear through his face… 'Oh what am I kidding, Gray won't actually hurt me… Mostly… Maybe… okay, maybe a little.'

"Ok Gray, thats enough." Suddenly, with strength that Gray didn't expect him to have, he shoved Gray back forcefully and before he knew it, he found himself cuffed to the wall, curtsey of Vali's pouched Earth.

This only served to piss him off even further…

But luckily, just as Vali was about to taunt Gray more, a small groan was heard by the two of them. The faint movement also caught their attention as they shifted their gazes over the the waking form of Pause. Vali, after a moment looked back over to Gray with a questioning glance.

"Maybe I kicked him too hard?"

"Maybe." Gray gave his best attempt at shrugging as he was still stuck on the wall, all previous anger forgotten about…

"It's okay, it still calmed me down fully." The groggy sentence filled the room, making Vali snort.

"Still, I might have overdone it with an axe kick to your head, you shouldn't really use that type of kick unless you really want to render one's self unconscious." Even though he was apologising, Vali didn't sound apologetic…

It was almost like he didn't care…

"Still causing havoc for others then?"

The room froze…

The familiar voice caught the attention of Vali and Gray, who looked at each other with shock for a second, before dread started to take over…

"Oh god, please don't let it be him again..." Vali gulped.

"If it is..." Gray shivered…

Pause just looked flummoxed at the weird(er) behaviour his two companions were expressing.

But after gathering their courage, Gray and Vli took a deep breath and bravely looked over towards the door to their compartment and saw the one guy they really didn't want to see again…

"Sssshhhiiiiiisssssshhhiiiisshhhhhiiii..."

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Jesus this chapter was fucking BORING to write, I really hope it is more fun to read than it was for me to write though. XD

I think the next chapter may be a shorter one because this segment is really difficult for me to write and it is also one of the less impressive parts of Ice Trails.

But don't worry, three or four more chapters before you see the next season of TRE (The Ripple effect). So I can both get back into that series (after how many months? XD) and to give myself a break from TOI…

But anyway…

PHRASES OF AWESOME!

1: 'Spiderman! Look out, it's rolled up newspaper man!'

2: 'I had absolutely no idea that it was impossible when I did it...'

3: 'Isn't it nice watching the royal family wave from the balcony, from the sights of my AK-47...'

(Okay, that one is going to piss some people off. XD)

Tell me your favourite. :) If you want to of course…

Also:

RANT TIME!

(spoilers)

I know that I am horribly late to the scene of Makarov's 'death'. First off, until this arc ends I am not going to get my hopes up for him staying dead… secondly, why did he have to die to fodder of all things, no matter the number Makarov is way more powerful than Juvia or Gajeel so why do they live against stupid odds and he dies to stupid reasons?

Whats next? Gildarts dying to a random civilian?

This and many other reasons 9this arc in general) is why I have lost all respect for Mashima as a story writer… (although I bet the trolls are happy i'd bet.)

But at least he didn't make Natsu one-shot Gray… I feel like the only person who thinks that the battle (if uninterrupted) can go either way. I mean Gray and Natsu are equals… And as much as I like to think that Gray should win It wouldn't make for a good story plot in the end.

Don't get me wrong, if you look at it critically and objectively, Gray has more advantages than Natsu but Natsu holds a massive advantage in magical power and Close quarters combat…

It can go either way as I said…

Rant time over…

Thanks for reading this, I am sorry that this took a long time to get out again… But I am going to stop apologising from now on, what's the point in doing so if I don't do something about it?

Stay cool,

-Viperhat