The sun rose and the team three wizards and two exceeds rose early. Natsu rising with the sun and Gray from Eclipse waking him up. Gray gave a short lived soft smile. He was glad she was awake she was one of the only constants in his life now.

Grabbing her he got up ate some of the food the villagers were kind enough to give to the team and set out. Lucy and Natsu weren't happy at going to early thou.

"Well you brought me along so deal with it. I didn't want to be here."

At his statement they walked into the forest going up the mountain. Lucy called Horologium to walk around with her in him. As they continued to walk Gray stopped. Something smelled off.

"Hey Natsu you smell that?"

"Hmm? Smell what?"

Gray huffed being an ice dragon his nose was one of the strongest having to be able to smell prey while in a blizzard. Letting go of Eclipse who unfurled her wings and hovered like Happy. The smell got stronger.

It stunk horribly. That's when a ginormous rat and I mean as big as a medium sized snow bank cast a shadow over the group of mages. And not to mention it was wearing a ridiculous maid like thing on itself.

The rat reared back and Gray brought his hands together. He called out the spell he cast to block the incoming attack.

"Ice Dragon : Frozen Mist Shield!"

In front of all of them ice mist came from Gray's mouth forming a shimmering wall in front of them.

"Gray that's not going to shield anyone!"

"Just wait a second!"

In no time flat the area the mist the air froze and made a large shield of ice. But the shield did nothing when the rat blew out the most foul odor from its mouth. The smell knocked Gray off his feet along this Natsu.

Horologium coughed at the smell and poof-fed back to the spirit realm making Lucy, Happy, and Eclipse to pop out. Everyone now exposed to the danger they ran.

The rat chased them breathing its foul stench called breath till Gray turned again.

"Ice Dragon : Permafrost!"

He stomped the ground and a magic circle formed. His magic rushed across the ground and frost it leaving nothing but ice. The rat ran on the ice till it slipped and fell to the ground on its back.

Natsu mocked Gray about using that from the beginning. Gray simply punched his shoulder and told him to shut up. Lucy looked around and saw a temple with moons all over it.

"Quick let's take shelter in there."

Gray nodded but Natsu was beating up the rat. Huffing Gray grabbed Natsu's arm and tugged him to the temple. They walked inside the temple. It was old and crumbling like no one was around to take care of it.

As they looked around Lucy remembered something from her dragon book.

"Hey Gray aren't ice dragons affiliated with the moon?"

"Yes."

"So do you thing this temple was used to worship them?"

Thinking it over while looking at the carvings. All of them were red exempt for one. It was small and insignificant if you didn't know what you were looking for but it was there.

In a corner of the temple was an ice blue colored moon. It was significant for another name ice dragons go by and that was the dragons of the moon. But by the ice blue moon was a red sun.

"That shouldn't be here."

As he was about to touch it Natsu stomped his foot on the ground. The ground shook and they fell through the new hole.

"Natsu you idiot!"

Quickly twisting his body Gray saw the fast approaching ground. Not wanting any one to go splat on the rock he brought his hands before him and called his magic.

"Ice Dragon : Snow Blanket!"

The air on the ground grew colder till powdery snow blanketed it. Everyone more or less had a 'soft' landing. Getting out with minor bumps and bruises. Natsu was the first to pop his head out of the white powder and gave a wide smile.

"Yeah alright we're alive!"

"No thanks to you you numbskull!"

Natsu smile faltered slightly at Gray's comment. Gray slowly lifted his head out of the snow and glared at Natsu.

"This is a perfect example of what not to do in old ruins. If it looks like it's going to crumble under any weight it most likely is!"

Lucy sat up and rubbed the back of her neck. Looking up above them Lucy saw the hole them came from and asked if the exceeds could fly them out.

"I don't think so. Based on how far we fell and then add in the risk of more falling rocks. It'd be an risk to fly back up to the temple."

"Aye."

Ignoring the obvious risk of being stuck down there with no way out Natsu ran off happy as can be to explore the cave under the temple.

"Stop running around acting crazy yol brain you're gonna end up dead if you do!"

Lucy, Gray, and the exceeds ran after Natsu. But further down the tunnel Gray faltered.

'Why do I smell ice? And for that matter why does it smell so familiar?'

Jogging to catch up Gray reached the large cave room to the smell and saw Natsu staring at something.

"Hey why'd you stop? Something wrong?"

"Guy what is that?"

Taking a step forward to get a more clear look at what was bugging Natsu. Gray stopped when he saw it. A huge chunk of ice holding a monster he only now sees in nightmares.

"No. . . no . . . nononononono! This isn't possible. This shouldn't be here. Why is it here!? Why is Deliora here of all places?!"

"You've seen this thing before Gray?"

Natsu asked seeing the fear in Gray's eyes. Instead of their cool cobblestone color they were a scared and fearful dark blue. His skin started to pale and scales started to breakout on his skin.

The scales were there because Gray was feeling insecure and threatened. It was a way to protect himself. Natsu was worried as he saw Gray start to slightly pant and shake. Eclipse seeing his fear too hovered in front of him.

Gray grabbed Eclipse and held her close like a frightened child holding their teddy bear. She was warm and started to silently purr. She only did this so he could feel the vibrations to help calm himself down. Her tail wrapped around his arm and squeezed gently.

Slowly he slightly calmed his breath as he shook and looked to the huge blue creature. Lucy asked how he knew it and he replied shaking and wanting to revert to dragon tongue.

"It's Deliora. . . the demon of destruction."

"Demon of construction?"

"Destruction Natsu."

Gray nodded his head never taking his eyes off the ice encased horror. Unconsciously he started to shuffle closer to Natsu wanting to hide behind him. He could distantly hear the roars it made in the back of his mind.

"But why is it here? It doesn't make sense. Why would anyone want to go near that thing?"

Natsu sensing Gray's distress and seeing how he was inching towards him. Natsu was about to grab Gray and step in front of him and do anything to take his mind off the demon that was making so upset.

But that was stopped before he could do anything by Lucy pulling them to sit behind an outcrop of rocks. Down the tunnel footsteps came to their current location. Two voices were heard and then they walked into the large cave.

One was tall and the other was short. The tall one had a slight tan, brown hair in a surfers bob, and had pointed ears poking out of it on the top of his head. His face looked like it had a muzzle on it. He also wore jeans, no shirt, and a black collar with white circles on it.

The shorter one had hair the color of Happy and really thick eyebrows. They were talking and the short one was joking with the tall one. The tall one got offended till he was told it was a joke.

They discussed about something called 'Moon Drip'. Lucy wondered what the name held significance to the curse on the island. Then another person entered the cave calling the two there already by their names. Tobi and Yuka.

The newcomer had a darker color of pink hair than Natsu and was female. She was wearing something similar to the rat that chased them in the forest. But of course it actually fit. She talked mostly with an exaggeration on the word 'love'.

She spoke about killing the infiltrators because they saw Deliora and how it was almost time to collect moonlight. The sound of something being knocked came from down the tunnel and the three ran down it to see what caused it.

Coming from the tunnel was Happy cloaked in shadows by Eclipse. Lucy praised him and Natsu confirmed that the three people were foreign to the the island. Natsu wanted to go beat some answers out of them but stayed to hear Lucy say they need to investigate more.

"Man this job just keeps getting more and more complicated."

"Aye. But who's this cold emperor guy?"

Gray glanced at the sealed demon and a shiver crept up his spine. Eclipse rubbed her head on his arm and started purring to ease his nerves. It worked to a degree.

"Deliora. I don't understand what they want with it or why they brought it here in the first place. How'd they even find it?"

"Was it hidden somewhere?"

"Not exactly. It was sealed away. You see on the northern continent of Isvan is where I lived when I met Isis. That immortal demon ravaged the land destroying everything in its path. So many people lost their lives to it.

When Isis took me in she told me about a friend she had named Ur and how she was a very talented ice molding wizard. I even met her and her pupil a few times in every town we went to.

But in one of the towns on our way to Fiore, Deliora showed up and destroyed it. The only reason I'm still alive after that day is because Ur saved me. She told me it was a way to repay Isis for saving her life. She sacrificed everything just to keep me alive to see my mother again."

Gray's fist was shaking in anger. Ice was creeping from where he stood. When he spoke again the anger was clearly heard in his voice.

"I don't know who this cold emperor guy is and I don't care. He's not going to taint the memory of the woman who was my mother's friend and who saved my life. Whoever he is . . . he's going to pay."

Calming down the ice melted. Gray turned to the others. His eyes were cobblestone gray with a mix of dark blue. Turning back to the outcrop of rocks Lucy sat down. They were going to wait for the moon to raise.

Natsu protested at first but when he saw Gray stare at the demon sealed in ice he shut his mouth and waited. It was the middle of the afternoon and it would be awhile before the moon rose.

"Hey why don't we listen to some music?"

At the word music Gray perked up. Lucy already had one of her silver gate keys opened. The spirit was named Lyra from the harp constellation. When he saw the harp she had he got the urge to sing. Singing always made his emotions more clear and when ever Isis sang to him it always made him happy.

The spirit was happy to be out and about and was happy to take requests. But Gray cleared his throat to get its attention. When he got Lyra's attention he formed his dragon shaped ice harp and Eclipse made the strings.

"Oh wow you can play too?"

"Mmhmm."

"Oh I know let's do a duet. Do you know any songs?"

Gray looked up and thought of a song. When he glanced at Deliora, Ur came to mind. Once when she came to visit Isis and him with her student she sang both of them to sleep. What was the name of that song she sang again?

Oh right it was Tsumetai Heya, Hitori. It was quite a lovely song.

"Do you know Tsumetai Heya, Hitori by any chance?"

"Yes is that okay?"

Gray nodded and started strumming his harp. Lyra was amazed that is sounded like bells and other instruments. Also with the strings not being real strings they didn't seem like they would snap if plucked too hard.

(Here's the link to the male version of the song. I suggest that you listen to it all the way through it is quite lovely. P.S. I took me awhile to find a male version to this.)

Both played their instrument as Gray sang the song. Natsu had never heard this before and it took his breath away seeing Gray strum and pluck the harp strings made of moonlight as he sang the beautiful song.

His thoughts traveled to an image of Gray sitting in a comfy arm chair singing softly. When Natsu walked to see the front of Gray he saw him with a large swollen stomach smiling softly and gently rubbing it.

He was glowing with happiness and pride. When he looked up at Natsu he smiled wider and took Natsu's hand to touch his swollen belly. When his warm hand touched the warm skin of Gray's belly he felt something moving.

The feeling made him smile as he kissed Gray's temple. He spoke with his voice full of love and sweetness.

"Can't wait for them to be brought into this world. I'm sure you did a great job yukihime."

He rubbed Gray's belly and placed his forehead against Gray's purring.

But as the song ended so did Natsu's vision. With the music ended he was brought back to reality. When he looked up at Gray he saw some tears coming down his cheeks.

Natsu wanted to go over near him and make everything better. He wanted his little imagination to come true. Gray's stomach swollen with his children and happily singing to them. And both of them happy and in love.

He didn't care how long it took him he was going to have Gray as a mate. It would just take time and careful planning. One wrong step and that vision of what he wanted his future to look like would be gone faster than smoke.

(A/N : Ohhhh. Looks like Natsu's starting to get a clue on what he want's to do. This will be getting interesting. Also I kinda changed my mind. Gray does know Ur but Ur is going to be Isis' friend. Also he does remember Lyon they kinda trained together when they were kids but Gray was learning dragonslayer magic and Lyon maker magic. I think that's all I have to say besides I hope you like this chapter. Oh and next chapter I will put above how the different dragons behave for courting and the people who helped me and where they are from. Well till the next update enjoy the hunt my wonderful pack. ^w^)