Betrayal - Chapter 16

The fairy tail guild is reunited and the crazyness begins once more. Gray tells Natsu about a rumour of dragon spotting and Gajeel tells him it's fake. But Natsu decides to go anyway. It's late and Natsu and Wendy still haven't returned and Gray is nowhere to be seen either, the others are starting to worry.

"As careless as he is Natsu wouldn't stay out this late with Wendy for no reason, right?" Says Nina worried.

"I don't think so. Erza?" Says Lucy.

"I agree. Something must have happened." Says Erza.

"Gray is missing too, oh if something happens to him I'll never forgive myself." Says Juvia.

"Gray not a kid anymore, he can handle himself, it's Wendy I'm worried about." Says Wackaba.

"Hmm." Says Macao.

"Why don't we send out a search party?" Suggests Lucy.

"Me, Lucy and Nina will check out the address and we'll start from there." Orders Erza.

"I must come too." Says Juvia.

"No we need to protect the guild, we shouldn't leave it defenceless, that thing may return." Says Erza.

"Okay, I've got the address." Says Nina running downstairs.

"Let's go then!" Says Lucy slightly trembling.

The girls head on out and reach a deserted place.

"Somethings off." Says Nina.

"The same smell from before," says Erza just the a creepy lizard monster pops out to attack them. The girls become occupied by the lizards outside, meanwhile Natsu and Gray are having quite the showdown inside.

"It's Lucy," says Wendy.

"And Nina." Says Happy.

"And Erza." Says Carla.

They shout for the girls but in vain, the spell blocks out sound as well. Suddenly Natsu falls in a portal and a dragon appears.

"Uhh guys, creepy monster at two o'clock." Shouts Nina.

"What's that." Says Lucy trembling.

"Yes, yes, soon my dragon will be complete, thanks to salamander." Says Daphne.

"Erza!" Shouts Wendy.

"Good to see your alive." Joke Nina half worried.

"Care to tell us what's going on?" Demands Erza.

"Gray betrayed us, and the bad part is he's doing it willingly." Says Happy.

"They lured Natsu here so he could power that dragon." Explains Wendy.

"Whoah, are you sure it's Gray." Asks Lucy.

"Positive, he even stripped down when fighting." Says Happy.

"Well that does sound like Gray." Says Lucy.

"In that case we won't be going easy on him," says Nina. " But I need to ask him myself first, before we take any action."

"It's true." Says Erza pointing to the dragon where Gray is standing. After a chain of events, the guys manage to bring Gray to Fairytail and the others rush to help Elfman, Macao and Wackaba. Cana scolds Gray and Juvia stops her.

Nina locks her fist into a spell, and strikes him with one blow. Juvia gets ready to defend but Cana holds her back. They have some one on one combat, but Gray doesn't attempt to strike, only defend.

"Why aren't you fighting back, if you truly changed sides then you would fight me!" Shouts Nina. As their battle continues they get further away from the others.

"Ice make, shield." Shouts Gray.

"Ice make, lance." Shouts Nina. "Answer me, I can copy your magic, so don't even think about beating me."

"Well that's not a very fair fight." Says Gray.

"Hmm, fine then, I'll use my own magic. Water tornado." She says.

"You choose the one element that compliments ice," he says as he freezes the tornado.

"Dark flames!" She says casting spell after spell until she's mostly out.

"You're all out, give up." He says.

"No, nothing hand to hand combat can't handle." She fights him and manages to land more punches on him than she could with spells. To end the fight he freezes her feet to the ground and calms her down. They take in their surroundings and realise they've ventured quite far away from town.

"Calm down wasting you're energy on me isn't gonna do you any good." He says.

"I want to believe you wouldn't betray us, but they keep saying..." Tears start to form in her eyes.

"Shh." He pulls her into his embrace. "Do you trust me?"

"Yes," she says hugging him harder.

"Well then it doesn't matter what everyone else says. As long as you trust me I don't need anyone else." He says blushing. He quickly pulls away and turns round.

"So that's it, you won't tell me."

"You know I could deal with the rest losing faith in me but when you looked at me like that, it felt like..." He says ignoring her.

"I trust you, so I guess I can wait this time. But promise me you haven't done any of this out of hate for Natsu." She says.

"I've done this because I care about that stupid piece of junk." he says. "Can you teleport us back, master wants to see me."

She runs up to him presses her lips onto his and passionately kisses him until they're both gasping for breath. "You know I don't just do that for anyone." She says.

"Why now?"

"Well if you have betrayed us then, that's the last time I ever can and if not well..." Not sure how to continue she teleport them back and he meets up with master.

"How does it feel to let off some steam?" Asks Lucy.

"Good, I feel much better." She says smiling thinking about their kiss. He smiles to having the same thoughts.