Lucy looked down at the book in her hand. She couldn't believe it, Her grandfather's diary. This would be the closest thing she would ever have to learning anything about him. During the trip back to the organization she couldn't resist opening up and reading a few pages. She decided to start with the marked ones first.

March 3rd 1873

My life has always been one of horror and misery. Of tragedy and of loss. Being a vampire hunter is an occupation that fills your life with loneliness and darkness. But at long last I believe I have finally found my light.

Her name is Lucille, I met her when I was called to stop a vampire infestation in a foreign village and she is by far the loveliest woman on this earth. But not only lovely but strong, spirited, kind, and loyal. She defends her village from vampires who plague it and when I arrived to asked to work alongside me during my mission. For months we studied together, fought together, saved the village together, and then something amazing happened. Something I never thought would occur. We fell in love.

She has no family so asked her if she would be willing to return with me to Magnolia and be my partner. To my surprise she agreed. I swear she will want for nothing as long as she is with me.

Lucy flipped to another marked page.

June 15th 1874

I words cannot describe the joy I am feeling. My beloved Lucille has just agreed to marry me. I was sure she would refuse, after all what do I have to offer her aside from all the love in my heart? And what I find even more surprising is that she wants us to be married tomorrow. We don't really need a big wedding. We have no living relatives so all we need is a church, two rings, and a priest. I swear to God above I will cherish her til my last breath.

She flipped to another marked page.

November 1875

I thought the happiest I would ever be was when Lucille agreed to marry me. I was wrong. Because after finishing my most difficult mission yet I returned home to discover that my dear Lucille is carrying a child. I am to be a father. In all the years I had been alive I never once thought I would know joys of having a wife and child but it seems that I have won God's favor. I shall be eternal grateful to him for the two precious gifts he has given me.

The one marked page was a little in the back and that peeked her curiosity.

July 1st 1915

"My Birthday." Lucy realized.

Things have not been very easy for me these passed few years. First my son distances himself from me and then my wife is called back to heaven. I have grown so much older and my health is failing. I can no longer perform my service for mankind, I have tried to find a replacement but it is to no avail. My son no longer speaks to me but his wife, my sweet daughter in-law Layla was kind enough to invite me to witness the birth of my grandchild.

It's a girl and she's the loveliest girl on earth. Layla has decided to name her Lucille after my wife and call her Lucy for short. Though touched by the gesture I couldn't help but ask if she was sure she wanted to give her that name. Because all though the child is lovely like my wife, she has inherited no physical traits from her. But Layla is sure that Lucy will have Lucille's personality. I would like that but I'll be happy with any personality she develops.

However I fear that I may not live long enough to see my granddaughter grow up. I wanted to give her a special bracelet that belonged to her grandmother which would not only prove useful to her in the future but it be something for her to remember me by but my son rejected it and I was forced to give it to a friend of mine for safe keeping.

I do love my son dearly but he's so ashamed of me. I wish I knew what I did to make him feel this way because more than anything I want to make peace with him before I go. If he cannot allow that I hope he will allow me to at least spend a little time with my granddaughter. I love her so much. I loved her from the moment I saw her just has I loved her father the moment I saw him.

Lucy had tears in her eyes by the time she had finished reading that chapter. Judging from what she read, her grandfather was beautiful man. So full of love and appreciation for it. Oh why did he have to die so soon? Or more importantly why was it that no one ever told her about him? Or told her that he actually got to meet her? She had always assumed he had died before she was born but apparently not. And why did her father distance himself from him? Why were there so many secrets?

"Are you alright?" Erza asked upon seeing the tears in the blonde's eyes.

"Yes." Lucy said wiping them away. "I just...I just never knew how much my grandfather loved me."

"Oh no you haven't been reading the diary have you?"

"A little. I've only read some of the marked pages."

"Have you read anything about vampires?"

"No. Everything I've read was just about my grandfather and his family."

"Well don't read anymore. I spoke with Makarov, he and Archibald knew each other back in the day and he says Archibald kept all of his vampire hunting records in that diary and a lot of what he's written is very disturbing and frightening. Stuff that could give you nightmares."

"Really? Why would he keep that in his diary?"

"According to Makarov it was to remind him of the horrors that could take place should he choose to stop slaying vampires. Makarov said he was very stubborn and determined not to quit until his body wouldn't let him do it anymore."

"I wonder how he balanced that out with taking care of my father and grandmother."

"Makarov did say he considered retiring after your father was born."

"What changed his mind?"

"A vampire sneaked into their house one night and tried to drink your father from his crib. Archibald got to him just in time but ever since then he and your grandmother lived in constant fear that another one would go after him."

"So vampires actually feed on infants?"

"Children and virgins are special favorite to them. Their blood is pure, innocent, and untainted. In other words extremely ripe."

Lucy felt a little sick to her stomach when she said that.

"How could they do that to children?"

"That's the thing about vampires Lucy. Most of the time all they care about is their own survival and their own desires. Every vampire has at least once forgotten their morality and focused only on their thirst. Even Natsu."

"Has he ever drank a child?"

"No. He hasn't."

"Not even before the contract?"

"Natsu lacked many morals before I came along but even he couldn't bring himself to harm children. Natsu has very complicated view of people and it was especially complicated before he went dormant. Back then he believed that pretty much everyone is evil in someway even God, but children. They're the only things in this world he believed to be truly innocent which is why he always spared them."

"What does he think of people now?"

"He thinks the most of them are evil but he believes there can be some genuinely good people. He still hates God and that causes a lot of conflict with Gray."

"How so?"

"Well you wouldn't believe it but Gray is very religious. He's protestant an devoted to God."

"A Christian devil?"

"I know it is weird but remember Gray is not a devil by choice. He was born like that and further more he's not dead."

"Does he have a soul?"

"He does but he's scared out of his mind that it's condemned weather he's good or not."

"Is it?"

"I couldn't say for sure but I don't believe that God would damn him to hell. In my eyes he's more human than most."

"How exactly was he born a demon anyway? I mean how is that possible?"

"I don't know the whole origins. Gray and Natsu don't really like to talk about their pasts but I do know for a fact that both his parents were human."

"Again how is that possible? For two humans to have a devil child? You sure they were both human?"

"He had that suspicion once so he asked me to have a friend of mine who's a doctor run a D.N.A test for him and his parents."

"How did he get the D.N.A? Weren't his parents dead by then?"

"Yes but their skeletons still remained even after all that time had passed. We took D.N.A from their bones. It was a perfect match. Silver and Mika Fullbuster are without a doubt his biological parents."

"Huh...Strange. How did his parents react to all this? Did they fear him?"

"He doesn't know. He never knew them. His father was killed while his mother was still pregnant with him and she later died in childbirth."

"What about Natsu's parents?"

"They're dead too."

"I figured but how did they die?"

"Killed by Turks when he was a little boy."

"So if they both lost their parents at a young age who raised them? They couldn't have possibly grown up on their own. At least not Gray, he was a newborn baby when his mother passed."

"I asked both of them and they won't tell me. They're so secretive but I'm sure I'll find out sooner or later. Funny thing is they think if they don't talk their secret is safe but sooner or later all secrets come to light."

"That's true." She said looking down at her grandfather's diary.