Hello everyone,

My OTP is Grayza and I have just realised that I have not crippled their emotions yet. How could I forget!

I am doing Grayza today and the next pairing is a surprise…

Let's see how horrible I can be to the proper FT pairing.

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"Come on, out you get guys..."

Gray was tired…

he had been lifting many heavy bits of rubble that had fallen on his team mates. Initially, he had an immediate heart attack at seeing his friends buried in rocks and brick but when he heard Erza shout out to him saying they were okay he had calmed down immensely.

He had started moving as much rubble as he could out of the way and after four minutes of doing that, he could tell everyone that it was exceptionally hard work.

The rocks were getting heavier to lift and he couldn't help but remind himself on how he got into this situation…

Flashback

"hey Erza, Droopy eye! Let's go on a job!" Shouted a very hyperactive Natsu.

Gray and Erza looked over to the dragon slayer and his Exceed. Gray scanned Natsu with his eyes to find that the flame brained fool didn't even have a job request anywhere on his person…

"Calm down will you?" Retorted Gray, "You're going wake Wendy up."

"You don't even have a job request on you Natsu." Erza added.

Natsu just grinned…

"Lucy is picking the job today because I didn't want to." he just said.

Gray's face and palm became quickly acquainted with each other. Natsu was just so damn dense and rude sometimes that it wasn't even funny. He was so shocked at Natsu's stupidity that he didn't even see Erza give Natsu her famous death stare.

"Go and help her choose a mission before getting us involved in this." Erza commanded.

Gray just slumped his head on the table. He was thinking about Natsu just leaving Lucy to pick a quest on her own. That was a fair bit of pressure, he knew from experience that only certain missions appeased the Titania and Salamander. Gray didn't really care what they took as he just wanted to get out of the guild for some time and do something.

But before Natsu could do as she said, Lucy came over with a job request. She looked happy with her choice.

"Hey guys." Lucy greeted "I'm sure Natsu invited you guys on this nicely like I told him too." She sent a look to Natsu.

Gray smirked Natsu's stupidity now…

"He came over here shouting at both of us, calling me Droopy eyes and almost woke Wendy up from some well deserved sleep." He answered.

Lucy glared at the salamander with a look which promised pain and suffering for him later. Natsu gave Gray the bird hand gesture in response to his comment.

Erza interjected before Natsu could be rebuked.

"Well, lets see our mission."

Lucy handed her the paper.

After a few moments Gray looked over to see it as well. Apparently Lucy chose an A-class mission. It was about a group of bandits that were attacking people in a random pattern. They had no goal, no motive and no reason to attack people, they just do…

He thought it over and he was sold.

He nodded at Lucy and Natsu. Erza repeated his action a few moments later.

"We will begin in five minutes, so get what you need and get to the station by then. I will get the permission." She stated.

They all nodded and got up to get the essentials as fast as they could. Erza never gave them a whole lot of time to prepare themselves. But as annoying as it was, Gray was more than happy to oblige those rules.

After those hectic five minutes. Gray made a mad dash towards the station. He made it in the nick of time and he was very tired. He found Erza easily since she always had a massive mountain of crap she didn't need behind her.

He walked up to her and saw her standing in one spot, waiting for the others including him. He waved at her and she smiled at seeing him before lifting her hand up in greeting.

"Hey." she said to him.

"Hey yourself." He replied. "Where are the others? I thought they would be here before as they are nearer to the station."

"They're on their way back." She answered. "I told them to get us our tickets whilst I wait for you to get here."

"Oh, thanks I guess?" Gray wasn't sure why Erza would wait for him to get here. She hadn't done that since they were kids.

Erza smiled at his awkwardness…

"I wanted to talk to you anyway." She seemed a bit shy but luckily for her Gray only saw it for a split second. Gray did raise his eyebrows at that but he kept quiet.

"Okay what did y-"

"It's about time you got here Ice princess!" Shouted an annoying and familiar voice. Gray turned around to see Natsu about to throw a fist at him, but before he could hit him Erza punched Natsu in the gut which knocked him out.

"He needed to sleep anyway, the trains here." She defended herself.

Gray didn't care less about Natsu's condition, Lucy and Wendy just looked at eachother and shook their heads. Either way, they all boarded the train.

Present

Gray continued to hold up the rubble as Lucy got up and started to pull up the unconscious Wendy and Natsu. He felt some of the pointy pieces pierce his back and shoulders but he wasn't going to let it go when Erza and the exceeds were still trapped down there.

He remembered why they got into this situation in the first place. They had just got off the train and travelled into a massive building that pierced the skies. They were instantly attacked by the bandits that were troubling the town. They were not hard in the slightest but their leader was something else entirely.

The leader never gave his name or his magic but whatever it was, it was powerful. Powerful enough to knock Natsu unconscious and incapacitate Lucy and Wendy. Gray and Erza were the only ones left who were capable of fighting.

The leader had been laying a beat down on them until Erza had Gray Freeze the ground behind him. She quickly struck the leader with an uppercut that made him step back onto Grays icy platform, slipping up slightly Erza quickly struck him once with her elbow.

Gray held the leaders arms back before kicking the back of his legs in making him fall onto his knees. Erza finished him off with a massive blow to the jaw with her knee.

No sooner had she done that, the whole building started falling down around them. Gray had pushed Erza out of the way of a slab of concrete. Gray was knocked back a few feet before seeing a lot of concrete and rubble fall upon his friends.

And then, the rest is history…

"Gray! Take the exceeds!" Shouted Erza.

Gray managed to hold the heavy rubble and grab the exceeds. Lucy took them, put them down and went to helping Erza out of the deep pit.

As soon as Erza was out, Gray released the rubble with a cry of pain. He felt blood seep from the many punctures his body sustained from the sharp pieces of concrete. Erza and Lucy looked at him with concern.

"I'll be fine." He grunted. "Let's just get the others out of this bloody death trap."

Erza nodded, she was concerned for his well being but she new it took more than a few injuries to stop Gray. He would be fine.

Lucy decided to find a way out of the collapsed building. Leaving the two mages on their own with their unconscious friends.

Erza looked at Gray.

"Are you sure you're okay?" She asked

Gray sighed. He couldn't lie to her…

"I'll be honest, I feel weak and dizzy. None of us have any magic left and I am losing a fair amount of blood. Not enough to kill me but enough to affect me badly." He gave her the truth. He saw her face take on a slightly more pale look and he was confused why. He wasn't dying at any point so why the face?

Then he felt a steel bar connect with his head. He fell to the ground and saw the bandit leader back up and angry.

"Gray!" He heard Erza shout.

Then he heard the the leader speak…

"I have had it with you fools. You ruined everything! I had the village eating out of my hands and you come along and take it all away!" He shouted at the Titania.

"You shouldn't have been doing that in the first place! You got what was coming to you!" Erza replied back with anger in her voice. He had to get up and help her, they only just beat the first time around and now they were in a bad condition and he seemed perfectly fine.

Erza threw the first punch at the leader which he swiftly dodged and delivered a powerful punch to Erza's stomach. Erza double over as the wind was knocked out of her. He then grabbed her by the neck and threw her into a broken piece of rubble.

Gray got up and ran at the leader and punched him in the jaw. The leader stumbled back from the force of the punch. Gray then pinned him to the wall and bashed his head into the rubble, which crumbled every time the leaders face collided with it.

The leader managed to get out of Gray's grip and head butted him, Making Gray fall onto his back and feel dizzy. The leader ran up to try and choke Gray but he was thrown over his body when Gray stuck his feet into his chest, lifting him up and using the leaders momentum to throw him over.

Erza came up behind the leader and kicked him in the head, leaving him open for any attack. Erza stomped her foot into his head, forcing it into the ground.

But Erza had inadvertently left her left leg open for the leader to grab. He did just that. He tripped her up and delivered his own kick to her head which was quickly blocked but it only softened the blow. Her head reeled back and Gray grabbed him and shoved him away from Erza.

But before he could throw any sort of attack at him he was overwhelmed with dizziness. He couldn't believe that the blood loss had got this bad this quickly. He was annoyed that it had chosen to pop up now of all times.

The leader saw this weakness and he used it to his advantage. He grabbed Gray's head and smashed it into the floor. Which had Gray teetering on the edge of unconsciousness. He had next to no strength left and he knew it. It was up to Erza now.

Hopefully; Either Natsu would wake up or Lucy would come back soon…

"Gray! Get up, I can't do this alone!" Erza tried to command but even she could see that Gray's injuries had finally caught up with him. She was on her own now.

"One down, one to go..." Smirked the leader.

Erza and the leader had started fighting once more. Erza had put up a very good fight but the leader had no injuries before the fight. The leader started to gain the upper hand very slowly, beginning to get more punches and kicks in and started to break down her defence as time went on.

A few minutes later, Erza had finally been knocked down and she was unable to find the strength to get up. The leader then walked over to one of the many steel bars sticking out of the rubble surrounding the many mages. He dislodged one from it's concrete prison.

The leader then walked back to Erza and aimed the bar at her. Erza knew what he was going to do, she looked over at Gray, who had woken up but still seemed to be trying to gain his senses back. She had wanted to tell him how she felt about him on the train but the team had continued to interrupt them. She had never got to tell him that she loved him. She felt like crap for not being able to protect him as well as the others.

She closed her eyes and prepared for unimaginable pain.

But it never came…

She heard the sick sound of flesh being pierced and flinched, thinking that it was her flesh but then heard the choked gasp from what was clearly a male voice. She opened her eye's and saw no one but Gray standing in front of her, a pained and shocked expression on his face with a large steel bar protruding from his chest.

If the injuries from before weren't enough to finish him off, this definitely would…

"No..." Erza could only whisper as Gray was hoisted over the leaders head and thrown away from the two once more. She watched Gray struggle to remove the bar from his chest. But before she was picked up from the ground by the leader and she heard him chuckle at her comrades pain and suffering.

She spat on his face.

"You bastard..." She choked. She couldn't keep the tears in anymore as she watched the leader smirk at her pain and scared expression.

"Now I cant most certainly say that one has gone down, now you are the only one to go..." He growled irritatedly.

He lifts up another steel bar and prepares to shove into her skull. But before he could even thrust forward his face contorts into a pained expression as he screams in pain and shock. He then drops down onto his knees and reveals Gray behind him. He looked like death had shown up on his doorstep. His face looked tired and half dead, his was breathing so harsh and heavily that she was sure that Lucy would've heard it if she was within the circle of rubble.

He was struggling to stand and was on the verge of collapsing. The thing that scared Erza more than anything though was the amount of blood that was pouring from his wounds, the wounds from the rubble bled pretty badly but the wound he got from the bar was the worst. It was bleeding so badly that Gray would surely die from the blood loss at any moment, it was already starting to swell up and changed colour form his usual alabaster white to a painful looking purple.

The leader quickly passed out from the amount of blood he lost in the short amount of time.

Erza had looked over to Gray, who was looking at her with a slight smile, before collapsing to the ground, barely breathing.

"GRAY!" Erza shouted. She struggled to crawl to him but she managed it somehow. She got a closer look at him. His breathing was way too shallow and he looked like he was about to go to sleep.

"Hey..." He spoke so quietly that Erza had struggled to hear what he was saying.

"Gray..." Erza spoke "You're going to be fine Gray..." She knew that she was lying but she didn't want to except the fact that Gray was dying in her arms.

"Nice try..." Rasped Gray, his breathing hitching slightly. "I was already half dead before this." He pointed to the new hole in his chest.

"N-No! Don't say that! You will be fine, just p-please..." She was breaking down into tears at seeing her best friend slowly and painfully die right before her eyes.

Gray lifted a weak hand to her lips and place a finger on them.

"Please. Don't make this something it's not Erza." He pleaded to her. "I know that i'm not going to pull through this… I- I- I'm sorry for making you cry." He was struggling to even form coherent sentences now.

He didn't have much time left…

"Gray, please, please fight it! You stronger than this! I don't you to die! Please!" Erza had completely lost her composure now. She couldn't go through this again. Grandpa rob and Simon were both losses that crippled her, but Gray was so much more to her than a close friend who told her to never cry alone. He was someone who had given her life hope once more. He was her light that she would use when she was feeling down on things. He had helped through everything and never asked for anything in return.

Now he was dying.

And she knew that there was nothing she could do…

"P-Please..." She laid her forehead on his blood soaked chest. Her hands holding Gray's own.

Gray felt her tears pooling on his chest. He soon felt his own tears starting to form. He didn't want to leave but he could feel his body dying and he knew that he didn't have a choice in this matter.

Then Erza spoke and he was pleasantly surprised by her words…

"I- I love you Gray" She sobbed. "I love you… So please don't go."

He was truly surprised to hear the 'Titania' spill this to him. Not that he didn't love her back but just that the fact that Erza herself had just told him that she loved him.

But he used more strength to smile weakly at her…

"Now that's a surprise." He laughed, which sounded more like a dry rasp. "Well now I can surprise you." he took In as much air as he could in his dying state. "I love you too."

Erza's eyes widened slightly at the news. She had always thought Gray was more into Juvia than her. Some of her tears were of happiness because of this news.

Gray still couldn't tell the difference though…

"Hey, i'm sorry. Please don't cry, you're tears are to precious to be spilt."

Erza half choked and half laughed at how he could still be more concerned for her even when he was the one on death row.

She shut him up with a soft kiss.

The kiss lasted for a few seconds before Erza separated from his now noticeably colder lips. That bought back the fact that he was dying.

Then he started struggling to breathe…

"Gray!"

She wanted Wendy to wake up right now but she knew that with the blow she took she wasn't waking up any time soon.

Gray was in the final stages of death. And she knew it.

He had little time left…

"Er-za..."

She looked at him with many tears still pouring from her eyes.

"Before I die. Promise me something..." He whispered. It was all he was capable of now.

"A-Anything..." She choked…

"Promise me.." He coughed violently for a few seconds before continuing on. "Promise me…. That you will live you lif...e as happily as you can… Promise me that you w...won't succumb to your despair..." Gray struggled to whisper out. "Please… let me know you will."

Erza nodded shakily, obviously becoming more and more shaken as time went on.

"I-I will Gray, I promise..."

Erza saw Gray smile at her before his face dissolved into pain and he quickly started to cough violently.

"GRAY!" Erza heard Lucy's voice.

Lucy saw Gray and was instantly panicked by how bad he looked. She had never seen Gray this bad before. This time it looked like he wasn't going to make it…

Apparently; Lucy had shouted loud enough to wake up Natsu and Wendy up. They shook their heads rapidly before setting their sights on their dying team mate.

Natsu shouted Grays name and immediately rushed over to the two girls, whilst Wendy had covered her mouth with her tiny hands. Gray smiled at being able to see his friends faces before he died. It was comforting for him to see that they were fine and safe.

Gray was about to try and speak to them but he couldn't find the strength to even lift a finger anymore.

"H-HEY STRIPPER! QUIT DYING! WE DIDN'T GIVE YOU PERMISSION DO DIE! STOP IT!" He heard Natsu shout at him and that gave him enough strength to give Natsu one final insult.

"s-shut up, f-flame brain..." He knew that the dragon slayer heard it. He looked like he had sucked a lemon. But for once he kept quiet.

He saw Lucy in tears and Wendy trying her hardest to heal him but it wasn't doing anything. Natsu looked angry but had tears in his eyes also.

Erza had put her head back onto his chest, crying silently…

He couldn't keep this up anymore, he felt his body shutting down as he watched his friends and girlfriend (he guessed) braking down before his eyes.

Erza felt his breathing become non-existent as she looked up with fright.

That was the last thing Gray Fullbuster ever saw...

He never got out of the collapsed building, he never got to see the guild again and he never got to settle down with Erza. But he felt happy for some reason, as if he had completed everything he needed to in his life. He still didn't want to his friends and family behind but he didn't have a choice.

Just before he passed away he heard Erza scream his name and Natsu's yell of despair and that made him feel bad.

But before he could even think about further, he felt every ounce of pain leave him and his strength return in full force. Then he felt a hand land on his shoulder and he turned around to see Ur and Ultear behind him, giving him a sad smile.

"It's nice to see you again Gray." They both said in unison…

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WARNING!: ANTICLIMAX INCOMING!

So how sad was that for you tragedy junkies (like me)?

I did my best and this took me all day because I constantly suffer from writers block. I hope this is good enough for you guys and now that both Graymi and Grayza are out of the way until TOI is done What other pairings do you want?

Warning: I don't like Gruvia so I won't make a Gruvia fic.

TRIVIA TIME…

1. What is you favourite FT pairing? Mine is Grayza.

2. What is you're favourite movie/film? Mine is Pirates of the Caribbean 3 At worlds end, surprised?

3. What is you're favourite song? Mine is Hello by Evanescence.

Thanks for reading and stay cool,

-viperhat