Hello everyone,

Before we start I just want to let you know that I have a very important poll up on my page that yu will want to vote on. It's about TRE and TOI. I felt that I should let you decide which one I do before the other.

But this one is a Gray/Ultear pairing… I just think they need more love as a pairing. (they aren't exactly brother and sister. One was the student of the other ones mother.)

I hope you enjoy what ever I can come up with.

Let's read!

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

The rest of Team Natsu had finally gone through the painful process of gaining their second origin and Gray was about to get his fill suffering in a few moments. He wasn't sure whether or not it was worth it but he didn't want that flame brain gaining any advantage over him so he was going for it.

"Are you ready Gray?" Asked Ultear. She had been watching Natsu and the others go through the nerve splitting pain but for some reason she didn't want to see Gray in that state. Even if it was just temporary.

Gray paled, knowing what was about to come but nodded.

Ultear made some quick hand gestures and Gray felt the most painful sensation he had ever felt before. It felt like something was grounding his whole body into fine dust and then proceeded to melt it by pouring molten magma all over him.

"AHHHH! F**K! ARGGHHHH!" Gray couldn't comprehend how sad Ultear looked at his pain since he was too busy writhing in pain from the spell she had put on him. But if he had looked up he would've seen her face twist into a sad and guilty frown.

"you're doing well Gray, but you have a lot more time to go before you're finished." Instructed Ultear. Gray either wasn't listening or was unable to hear her over his screams of suffering.

"F**K, F**K, F**K! THAT'S NOT MUCH ENCOURAGEMENT YOU KNOW!"

Okay, he did hear her…

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

Natsu and the others were still recovering from their less than pleasant upgrade. Natsu was back up and running and Lucy was close but Erza, Wendy and co' had been absolutely knackered and sapped.

They had all heard Gray begin to scream and they all winced at how painful it must nut be for him. They weren't able to scream as the pain had instantly lowered their ability to do anything but growl and breath In painfully. Erza. Lucy and Wendy looked at eachother with tired eyes.

Gray must have a high tolerance to pain if he was still able to scream. They couldn't even function properly because of the pain so when they heard Gray's screams of pain they were very impressed. Natsu on the other hand was both giggling at hearing his rivals screams and wincing at them at the same time.

"ha! Sounds like the Ice princess is finally getting his turn. About time to." He announced his thoughts to the others, snapping them out of their impressed revere and leaving them looking at him with a questioning glance.

"What do you mean?" Asked Lucy.

"Didn't you guys see Ultear looking at him before calling us up?" Natsu began. "I mean she chose me first-"

"Probably because of you're comment from earlier." Erza glared at him…

"Yeah, yeah but honestly, I was next to Gray and then she skipped over him and went straight on to Lucy, then you, then Wendy. She has only started doing him now. Not to mention that she has started his a bit later than ours." Explained Natsu. He was subsequently hit over the head for ignoring the Titania, knocking him out for the next couple of Hours.

His explanation had brought questions to the table that the others wanted answered. Lucy decided to to ask why Ultear would leave Gray for last.

"Does anyone know why Ultear would do Gray last?" She did exactly what she decided to do and get the question out.

"Maybe she just forgot about Gray-San?" Wendy chirped.

"Perhaps she left him last because she wanted to get us out of the way because she knew about Grays pain tolerance." Erza stated, bringing what she knew into play.

"Or maybe she didn't want to see him hurt, maybe something more..." Lucy was beginning to become intrigued with the whole situation Natsu had inadvertently brought up.

Suddenly, Grays screaming started to die down and the less than pleasant slurs were becoming less frequent as time went on. Lucy knew that when Gray woke up, he would get a massive punch to the head for his words being heard by Wendy. Even Lucy didn't know half of the words that Gray had shouted out.

He certainly had an extensive vocabulary, on that would end him up with a lump on top of his head tomorrow.

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

Ultear had finally got through to Grays second origin and she was ecstatic too see that he had the best improvement out of the group. But she was even more pleased to know that Gray was done and she didn't have to see her saviour in pain anymore.

She wouldn't be where she was now if it wasn't for him. She and Meredy would still be with Grimore heart and she would have doomed Meredy to a life that she was trying to keep her from. She owed her life to him. But she wasn't stupid enough to know when she cared about someone more than the average person. Meredy made sure to tease her about her continuous ramblings so she wouldn't forget about him or her feelings for him.

But he was seven to eight years her junior and that was a massive age gap in comparison to the last time she saw him. She was also wanted for crimes against the council and as well as murder. Sure she regretted everything she had done to everyone but that didn't make her any better than the common murderer.

What she didn't know however that regret meant that she still had some good in her. She also forgot about the good she had done the past seven years after Gray showed her the many flaws in her way of thinking and her way of doing things.

She wanted to let her feelings be known but she wasn't going to ruin any chance Gray had with the people who deserve him. She knew Erza was looking at him with something more than friendship as well as that blue haired women. She felt jealousy rise as she thought of them but then she thought about her chances with him and theirs.

Gray didn't seem to into Juvia but Erza and him seemed to share something special. She couldn't tell if it was love or just a very close friendship the two shared.

Either way, she had no chance with him and she wasn't going to let him know how she felt for both the fact she was (dare she say it) shy about it and also the fact that in her line of work she didn't have much of a chance to settle down or live long enough to even consider doing such a thing.

She just watched Gray get up with a sway before going over to help him keep his balance.

"That was absolutely f**king awful..." Gray said with heavy breaths. Ultear couldn't help but laugh at his choice of words.

"I am sorry, but that was the only way too get you ready enough too be a threat in the Grand magic games." She replied.

"Yeah I know."

Gray decided to lift the tension (that was not much).

"So, how are you and Meredy doing?" He asked Ultear looked him.

"Good enough, I'm surprised by how lucky we have been. Being wanted criminals on the run doesn't give us the best opportunity to wind down and relax." She answered and saw Gray look a bit sheepish at his impulsiveness.

"Sorry, still mentally recuperating from that F**king horrid sensation of pain and suffering." He replied and was delighted to hear her laugh from his vulgar description of the second origin unlock method.

"It's not very pleasant is it?" She asked, smirking at his his that clearly said 'Really?'.

So she did have a sense of humour…

one more thing he liked about her…

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

(8 Days later)

Gray felt the dragons lasers pierce his chest, he pushed Juvia out of the of a dragons attack and in turn had taken the blow for her. He then felt five more lasers drill through his body and he felt himself falling to the floor. He thought he had cheated death once more until he saw the last laser rocket towards his forehead.

'Bugger' Was his final thought as he felt the laser begin to penetrate his head. He thought about how he should have told Ultear his feelings towards her but he knew that now it was no longer an option.

He saw Juvia and Lyons horrified faces and then looked over to Meredy who was going to have to bear this news to her mother figure. She looked scared and hysterical…

Little did he know, that fate to cruel to him to let him just die.

Oh no, it had to go to the next step…

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

Ultear was almost done completing the time arc spell. She had found out about Grays death and was instantly mourning his death. Then she realised that she had this spell and she had quickly started to activate it.

Time arc wasn't going to let her live and she knew that. But the former was better than the latter and she could at least die knowing that she had repaid her life debt to her light in the darkness.

She knew about Ur sacrificing herself for Gray and she could easily see why. She knew that Gray had something special about him that people just were drawn to. He was loveable in a so many ways.

She felt guilt on what she was about to do to him. He would be devastated when he found out what she was doing, but she wasn't going to let him die. Not in the way did.

She loved him too much…

She felt her body age to the breaking point, her hair started to go grey, her skin began to wrinkle and her life span shorten to at least 24 hours at the very least.

But it was worth it. For him it was worth it…

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

And that just goes to show how bad I am at Gray/Ultear.

I had a really hard time writing this one. I don't know much on Ultear. I have seen her in the anime and manga but I have never managed to correctly copy her personality and as I have stated before, I am bad at ad libbing.

Don't forget about the poll on TRE and TOI. You will want to vote on what you want first…

TRIVIA TIME!

1. You remember 'the leader' from the last one-shot. If he and Team Natsu saw him again or faced him again, what do you think they would do to him? If you guys want I will make one more one-shot for the previous chapter.

All I can say is "there will be blood".

2. Do you have a favourite comedy duo? Mine was Rick Mayall and Ade Edmonson. From 'Bottom'.

3. You is you're favourite author on this site? Mine would have to be 'Mini Mcgiggles' He/she does the best Gray stories. (This one is going to backfire, I just know it.)

Be aware that I do read you're stories too when I get the chance and I like them all the same. But Mini Mcgiggles was the first author I had clicked on to view a Gray-centric story so I guess it has more to do with him/her being the first one to show me my now favourite sort of Gray story.

Also, a big thanks to Grayzaforever990 for filling me in more on Ultears character. Because of Grayza here, I was able to make this one-shot less crap. So three cheers for Grayza!

(three cheers later)

anyway; thanks for reviewing and stay cool,

-viperhat