Before you guys start reading the chapter, I just want to say (Early) Merry Chrismas to you all and I'm on Chrismas break so that means more time to focus on writing my stories.


Next Morning...

Auberon and Iris were waking up from their nap last night. But in a mere coincidence, Gray enters the tent and saw Erza was sitting down on a small chair with Lucy and Happy beside her while not noticing Auberon and Iris

"You made me wait, Not smart," Erza said, glaring at the Ice-Make Wizard

"Erza!" Gray shouted, noticing Lucy and Happy "Why are they tied up?"

"Lucy got me up to speed with everything that has happened," Erza explained, "I thought were sent to stop Natsu and these two fools. Needless to say, I'm disappointed"

"Where is he anyway?" Gray asked

'That's what we all want to know, but unfortunately, you don't know where he is' Auberon said which made Gray turned to his right and saw the two. Auberon was frowning to him while Iris was sitting down on a crate

"Auberon! Iris!" Gray yelled in surprise "What are you two doing here?"

"We simply tagged along with Erza to find Natsu," Iris replied, "But to be honest, I'm quite disappointed too when you got involved in all of this"

'I feel the same' Auberon added,

Lucy then explained to Gray about the last time she saw Natsu when he fought against the Cold Emperor's lackeys last night. After discovering he wasn't there anymore, Happy did some scouting in air and saw storage area where the villagers moved in

"Okay, We'll search the entire island for Natsu and then we'll go back to the guild," Erza said, walking past Gray

"But we can't just leave this island just yet," Gray said, "If Lucy had already filled all of you in. Then you should know what the villagers are exactly going through right now,"

"And what would be your point?" Erza asked, making Gray silent for a moment

"I simply came here to this island to apprehend these fools for breaking the rules of the guild. Anything else is none of my concern" Erza explained while Auberon and Iris simply stayed silent

"Rules? Have you even saw what's happened to the villagers?" Gray asked

"I have, and the same goes to those two" Erza said,

"And you're still just going to turn your back on them?" Gray argued

"Their request is posted in every guild, The villagers would be better served with Wizards who are cleared for S-Class," Erza pointed out "You're not qualified for it"

"How can you be so heartless!" Gray yelled

Iris' eyes twitched at Gray's words while Auberon remained calm to the situation. As for Erza, She didn't appreciate the comment and glared at Gray with a dark look on her face

"What did you say?!" Erza asked,

"That's no way to tell that to the Great Erza!" Happy commented in panic

"You suck up," Lucy muttered

Erza then used her Requip magic to pull out her sword "Have you chosen to defy the guild's rule as well?"

Erza then points her sword at Gray's neck "You'll face the same punishment," She said

"Hey Erza, I think you should-" Iris was about to say something to Erza but was interrupted when Gray grabs the blade and points it at his Heart where his Fairy Tail Guild Mark was placed

"Do what you must," Gray said "For me, there is no other choice to be made. I can't walk away for what is right"

Erza flinched a little while Gray lets go of her sword and walked past her towards the exit

"I'm seeing this through the end, and you can't stop me," Gray said, whose about to leave the tent... Until

'But I can,' Auberon said, grabbing Gray by his belt and pulled him back into the tent while he blocks Gray's only way out 'Do you really think I'll let you do this quest as you please? Not on my watch'

Gray stands up and grits his teeth in anger "What's wrong with you, Don't tell me you're just going abandoning these villagers too?!"

Auberon slightly reveals his quiver and then suddenly whistles and his arrow went straight out from his quiver and then it was pointing on Gray's forehead

"What the heck was that?!" Lucy exclaimed

"It's Auberon's Whistle Magic! it's a special type of magic that allows him to control his arrow every time he starts whistling. Gray is done for!" Happy exclaimed

Auberon glared at Gray with his arms crossed together while the Ice-Make Wizard couldn't move at the same spot due to the arrow near his forehead

'Gray, You should know that I'm fully aware of the events that happened to these villagers, But the reason why my sister and I came here. Isn't because I want to drag all of you back to the guild' Auberon explained, surprising Gray 'The reason why we're here...'

'Is because Natsu stole this quest from us' Auberon revealed, shocking Gray at his reason for coming

'And since this is quest is still reserved for me and my sister. You have no choice but to follow every order we give as we all go and finish this job and don't think for second that I will listen to any of your complaints or objections about this. Cause whether you're right or wrong, I will drag all of you back to the guild should you go against our orders. Do you understand me?' Auberon demanded

Gray stayed silent for a moment while Auberon waited patiently for his answer. Then the Ice-Make Wizard sighs and admitted defeat

"Fine, It's not like I have any other choice when it comes to you," Gray agreed and Auberon nod once

'Erza, Cut Lucy and Happy's binds' Auberon ordered and Erza cuts through their ropes 'The same applies to both of you, Do you understand?"

"Yes! We understand!" Lucy and Happy said in unison

"This has become the weirdest day I've ever been in," Iris muttered,

Soon after that, Auberon and Iris were on the move alongside Erza, Gray, Lucy, and Happy. The siblings were informed about a certain temple somewhere deep within the woods where the 'Cold Emperor' known as Lyon, and his lackeys performing a ritual called Moon Drip that's been melting a large chunk of ice sealing one of Zeref's demons known as Deliora, The Demon of Destruction. But there was more to the Cold Emperor's plan

"Are you serious? He's melting the ice just to fight that demon?" Lucy asked, concerned

"But why would he go with all this trouble just to fight Deliora?" Iris asked

"Lyon always wanted to surpass Ur when we were kids back then, and since he can't challenge her directly. He decided that fighting Deliora was the only way he could surpass her, Cause it's the one thing she couldn't do" Gray explained

"Well yeah, I guess that be the only way to surpass someone whose already dead," Lucy said,

"Aye," Happy followed

'But his plan has a few flaws in it' Auberon said, and everyone except for Gray turned to him 'What happens if he couldn't beat Deliora? That would not only cost his own life but as well as the people that are on this island'

"But there is something, Something I never got to tell him though," Gray said, and all eyes were on him this time "I kept it a secret, Ur promised me to never let him know. But I have too,"

"Ur may not be with us, but she's still alive" Gray revealed, surprising everyone a bit

After that, Gray started telling them about his history between him and his Master Ur as well as his relationship with Lyon. Gray was the only survivor from his hometown and was raised by Ur as her disciple with Lyon by side until Gray left them to face Deliora all by himself. However, Ur and Lyon followed him and faced Deliora. Only to get themselves defeated by Deliora

Lyon tried to use an Ice-Make spell called Ice Shell to defeat Deliora. Unfortunately, Ur stopped Lyon by freezing Lyon's entire body while she performed the Ice Shell herself on Deliora at the cost of her own body becoming the Ice Shell itself.

After Ur sealed Deliora with Ice Shell. Lyon and Gray went their separate ways until they met up with each other once more last night.

Everyone was a bit speechless upon Gray's history with Lyon and Ur. Until Auberon sighs and crosses his arms together

'Gray,' He called out to him, 'Since you have a history with Lyon, I'll allow you to go and face him yourself. But under the conditions that you don't lose the fight AND never use the same spell your master used on Deliora. Do you understand?'

Gray was surprised by Auberon's order and turns to Iris. But she nodded her head to him and agreed with Auberon's order as well

"Alright, and it's not like I'll lose the fight between me and Lyon," Gray said

'Then let's get going already, Because time isn't on our side right now' Auberon said, and all of them headed off to the location where the temple is located in.

But when they got there, they noticed that the temple was somewhat tilted to the right

"Why is the temple tilted?" Iris asked,

"Yeah, It wasn't like that when we first came here," Lucy asked

"I'm guessing Natsu did this," Gray guessed,

"Me too," Erza followed,

'Ditto,' Auberon followed,

"I don't know how he managed to pull it off, but he's the only who'd something that crazy," Gray said, "It's a pretty great idea if he did it on purpose. Since the temple's been tilted none of the Moonlight would hit Deliora"

"So his habit of destroying things actually came in handy for once?" Lucy said,

"My head's stuck! looking sideways at this crooked temple hurt my neck," Happy said, trying to tilt his head back but ends up overdoing it by tilting it to the left and made a crack sound. Startling Lucy

"Hold on, Happy. I'll help you" Iris said, approaching the cat. Until she stopped when she along with Auberon and Erza sensed something and saw multiple blades being thrown straight at them

"Watch out!" Erza yelled, pushing Lucy and Happy out of the way with her fist

Gray and Erza easily dodged the blades while Iris made an Earth Wall with her magic with Auberon by her side.

"We've tracked you down, Fairy Tail," A hooded figure said as several of them appeared from the bushes and surrounded them

"We won't let you interfere," Another hooded figure said

"Not these guys again," Gray complained

"Lyon's Minions?" Erza said,

"They've surrounded all around us!" Lucy exclaimed, and it true. As several of them were surrounding all six of them

'Gray, go to the temple immediately. We'll take care of these guys' Auberon ordered, readying himself against them.

"He's right, We'll take these guys" Erza followed, using her Requip to summon her sword "You go and settle things with Lyon,"

"We'll fight with them as well," Lucy said, readying her whip "You go and do what you gotta do, Gray"

"Aye!" Happy said, raising a fishbone as his weapon

"We've got this handled. Just go and do what you need to do" Iris said, preparing her magic against Lyon's minions

Gray nodded once and heads out to the temple to face Lyon while Everyone else stayed behind and faced Lyon's followers

'Let's show these people the strength of Fairy Tail' Auberon declared,

"Right!" Everyone said in unison,

The hooded figures then straight at them and faced the Wizards of Fairy Tail...

To be Continued...


Before I go. I would like to add a few more details in the upcoming chapter. One, I'll only be focusing on Auberon and Iris so there won't be any Gray POV and Two, The Galuna Island Arc will be short since I can't wait to get started with the Phantom Lord Arc. But I'll also include the filler episodes of the anime for more fun

That's all for today and I'll see you guys in the next chapter