Warning some mature content ahead

As soon as they got back to the organization Erza started reading Archibald's diary. Lucy wanted to read it too but Erza told her that she wasn't sure if Lucy could handle some of the horrors that could be written in it. Horrors that Erza had actually witnessed so reading it wouldn't disturb her that badly. Of course there was also another reason that Erza didn't want Lucy to read it. She had promised Natsu that she wouldn't let anyone find out what he had done that lead to Archibald finding him and staking him all those years ago and she was sure that his deed was written in this diary somewhere.

She skipped over the passages about Natsu because she didn't want to think about what he had done and she was relieved to finally find something about Regine. According to diary she was the last vampire Archibald fought and slayed but he feared that one day in the near future she would somehow revive herself and unfortunately what he feared had come to pass. What she read on that woman almost made her heart stop. She heard many horrifying things about vampires but nothing like this. If she wasn't used to witnessing such nightmarish things she'd probably be scared to sleep for a year. When evening came she called a meeting to tell everyone what she learned.

"Ladies and gentlemen." She said. "We may just have our biggest and most dangerous target yet."

"You found something on Regine?" Natsu said.

"I did. Archibald encountered this woman years ago and his diary has every record there is on her and dear God above...I don't think I've ever read about any...Thing so evil in my entire life."

"What do you mean?" Juvia asked.

"Regine is no ordinary pure blood vampire. She's the very first of them. Centuries back, a little after Natsu was turned a woman tried to summon Satan so she could make a deal for eternal youth and beauty. But she summoned a bat from hell by mistake, it killed her, took over her body, and then Regine was born. Soulless, immoral, unempathic, blood thirsty, and power hungry. She has killed over a million men, women, and children for their blood and she didn't just drink it."

"What are you talking about?" Natsu said. "Injections weren't around when she was first formed so orally is the only way to get blood."

"No. No there's another way." Erza was fighting the urge to vomit. "None of them had ever seen her like this."

"What exactly does she do to get blood in her system?" Gray asked.

"She'll drink it but other times she'll...She'll...She'll bathe in it."

All four of them were stricken with looks of horror and disgust.

"Ba-Ba-Bathe?" Natsu choked out. "In blood?"

"Oh God! That's so sick!" Gray said. "Why the hell would she do that?!"

"According to the diary it was to...To savor every moment of her victim's suffering."

"Oh that is all sorts of wrong!" Natsu said.

"I think I'm gonna puke." Lucy said.

"I think I'm gonna faint." Juvia said.

Natsu quickly poured Lucy a cup of ginger tea and had a bucket ready for her while Gray sat Juvia down on a sofa and fanned her with a folded newspaper he picked up.

"Keep it together ladies." Erza said. "I know it's nauseating but be grateful you didn't have to read the details of it. By the time I was done reading I was ready to puke and faint."

"Please don't." Gray asked. "There are only two men and three women here."

"Yeah so we can only be a rock to one woman at a time." Natsu said.

"Oh come on boys you know me better than that." She said. "But it was disturbing. Anyway during her time on earth she realized that humans out numbered vampires a hundred to twenty so to speak and she believed that humans were too inferior to rule over the earth so she made her own race."

"How did she do that?" Gray asked.

"She fed her own blood to common bats and it transformed them into pure blooded nosferatu. Vampires who have no humanity and no soul in other words pure evil. Her goal is to wipe out humanity and to have her 'children' take their place."

"But she can't actually do that can she?" Juvia asked. "I mean it's not possible."

"I don't know if she can do it or not but she can try and you'd be surprised how much damage a person can cause just by trying."

"But where do I fit into all this?" Natsu asked. "Why does she want me?"

"It didn't say. Archibald met her sometime after he staked you and I don't think you were ever mentioned in her chapters."

"So now what do we do?" Gray asked.

"For now I think we should get some sleep and tomorrow we should prepare to investigate the train station. If that is going to be the place where they strike next we need to be ready. Lucy, Juvia, do any of you need help getting back to your rooms?"

"We're fine." Lucy said.

"Are you sure? None of you are feeling sick or out of it are you?"

"I think I'm better."

Juvia stood up from the sofa and tried to go back to her room but suddenly she felt a little dizzy again and started to collapse. Gray quickly caught her with his arms around her waist and back. Their faces just a few inches from each other. Now they both felt a little dizzy but for an entirely different reason.

"Uh..." He said finding it hard to speak for a moment. "Are you okay?"

"I...I'm fine." She said. "It's just a brief dizzy spell

"You sure?"

"Yes. Thank you. I guess you'll always be there to catch me huh?"

"I guess you'll always be there to catch me huh?"

Gray felt his heart skip a beat, he shook his head and immediately broke away from her while not looking at her face.

"Whatever. Try not to fall so much."

"O...Kay." She said confused by his change in demeanor. "You know before I go to bed I think I'm going to call Gajeel and let him know how I'm doing."

"The phone is in the next room down the hall." Erza said.

"Thank you. Goodnight everyone."

"Goodnight." Everyone but Gray said. He just watched her figure walk down the hall toward the other room until it was out of sight and then turned to see Erza, Natsu, and Lucy staring at him with confusion and concern.

"Well what are you three looking at?"

"Nothing." They said in unison before Erza and Lucy went to bed and Natsu went for a walk outside. Gray huffed in annoyance and before shaking his head again he went downstairs to retire to his room for the night. Natsu stayed behind a little and spied on him to make sure that he didn't go berserk or something. He went to straight to his room but Natsu still feared that something might happen.

So he slipped into Juvia's room and put a very special stone under her bed. It was called a Sinner's Stone. Centuries ago Jesus Christ had said to his followers "He that is without sin among you let him first cast a stone at her." And some say that when they threw down their stones, admitting that they had sinned and were impure it had given evil's influence strength but in truth it had weakened it for they had humbly acknowledge their faults instead of arrogantly declaring themselves as perfect. Well most of them at least. So those which had been used to signify accepting responsibility for one's sins and acknowledging that one had sinned it gave that type of stone holy power that could put up a barrier against devils and cause them great pain if they tried to break through it.

"I didn't want to do this." Natsu told himself. "But if he refuses to get injections to control those urges then I'll have to use my own way to prevent him from harming her."

With that said he left her room and went out into the night.

...

That night when Juvia opened her eyes again she did not recognize where she was. She was in a room and lying in a bed but it was not her room nor was it her bed. It was a large bed with sheer curtains hanging from it and there were no covers only a white bed sheets. She sat up to get out of bed and figure out where she was but stopped when she realized that she wasn't wearing any clothes. She blushed terribly and covered herself with the white sheet.

"What's going on?" She asked herself. "How did I get here? And where are my clothes?"

She looked around the room. She appeared to be alone so maybe she could get dressed without anyone seeing but just before she could even think about moving she heard the floor creek. It was the kind made when someone was quietly walking and trying not to make a sound. She held her breath. Someone was in here.

"Oh please be female. Please be female. Please be female." She begged in a whisper.

But to her horror she saw that the figure standing across from her was male. Male, wearing only pants, and recognized as Gray. She tightened her hold on the blanket covering herself. Why was he here? Why was he half dressed? And why had her fear of being dishonored if he saw her changed to the fear of him being disgusted with her appearance. He moved toward the bed, sat across from her, and just looked at her. She wanted to either ask him if he knew what was happening or go under the blanket but she could do neither. He had her frozen stiff with those eyes of his those stone cold but gentle eyes.

"Such beauty." He moved his hand to caress her face. She would have objected but his tender touch caused her to lose her senses. "I know you're ashamed of your looks but the truth is you're the most beautiful creature God has ever created."

She had a strange feeling inside of her. It was something she had never felt before.

"I won't touch you without your consent." He said. "But you don't have to be ashamed or embarrassed to let me see you. There's nothing about you that's disgusting."

He tried to get up to leave but she did something unexpected of herself. She gently clung to his arm. His body changed and he started to become more demonic looking but she was afraid. She only laid back down in bed and placed his now clawed hand back against her cheek. With great care he hovered over her and leaned down to kiss her. He kissed her, touched her, he held her, and she didn't want him to stop. She knew this was wrong. She had to be chaste and yet she had forgotten all reason for why that was. He was cold but so gentle. Like his eyes. She wanted his eyes to see all of her. She had just started move the sheet away when...

She woke up. She was back in her room, back in her bed, wearing her nightgown, and completely alone. A dream? It was all a dream? Odd. She had never had a dream like that before. She didn't even think she could have dreams like that. Why did she dream that? She didn't have sexual urges. At least she thought she didn't. And why were they directed toward Gray? A devil? Was she going crazy?