Hey so long time no see well no write, I know it's been a while but hey new update but it is the last one but I've finished so yay. Enjoy. ( I don't own Fairytail)

Chapter 6

Natsu shuffled Gray a bit on his back, who was still sleeping. He decided that he'll carry Gray while Lucy carried Happy in her arms. They walked in silence, still shocked from Gray's outburst from earlier. Natsu was so glad that Happy was able to calm him down. That was the first time in his life, that he had no clue what he was supposed to do. But he was glad that he managed in some way. He felt Gray shift a bit and looked over to see Gray rubbing his eyes. Gray blinked slowly and looked around him.

"N-Natsu?" He questioned. He still looked really tired, but at least he was calmer now.

"Yeah?" He asked, cautiously.

"I just wanted to say, thanks for the help." Natsu smiled.

"That's ok. Happy helped more though." Gray chuckled a little.

"Yeah, I'll say thanks to him when he wakes up." He smiled, and closed his eyes again.

They continued waking down the street for what seemed like forever for Natsu. Natsu pondered on what Gray was saying earlier. 'He maybe gone, but he's never going to be gone from my mind' That sounded horrible. All this time, has Gray really been this upset and scared? He didn't know. He thought that Gray was happy now days. Maybe it was worse because this was just part of his personalities. Yeah, that could be it. But that does mean he has thought of it before. Maybe it was a long time ago, this part of his personalities is like eight years old, so maybe he thought it then. But then that wouldn't be good, because he knew Gray when he was eight as well, does that mean Gray has been thinking about Deliora when he was eight. Now that's a stupid question, of course he was, it had only happened that year. And yet he hadn't known. Man, he's a terrible friend.

"Natsu-Natsu! Are you alright?" Lucy asked, putting her hand on his shoulder. Natsu jumped a little, causing Gray to slightly shift off a little. Natsu quickly straightened up Gray, and took deep breaths to calm down. He was going in circles. He needed to take a deep breath and calm down.

"Y-yeah. I'm alright." He replied. Lucy didn't look convinced.

"What's the matter?" Natsu sighed, and turned to face the opposite direction.

"It's just-it's just we've known Gray for years, but I never knew he thought about this stuff. About all the things his personalities have said to us. A-and I have never known." He said, solemnly. "I just feel like a bad friend, that's all. I mean he's been there for me, but I haven't been there for him.

"Listen Natsu. You are not a bad friend, but I know what you mean. I know that I haven't known Gray, as long as you have, but I can't help but feel bad. But I don't think that we haven't done nothing. I think that we have all helped him in different ways. We might not be able to see it, but I'm sure that Gray sees that we've helped him." She smiled at him. Natsu looked over at her, and smiled a little.

"Yeah, I think you're right Natsu." Natsu suddenly felt a shift on his back, and looked over to find Gray trying to get down. Natsu put down Gray, who was blinking the tiredness out of his eyes.

"You guys have helped me more than you will ever know." He smiled. The others smiled back at him.

He opened his slowly; the world coming into view-except, it wasn't exactly the world. It was a face-an angry face at that. It was glaring at him, furiously. The man scrabbled to get away, only to find that he was tied to a tree.

"Please! Don't hurt me!" He wailed. The face moved back an inch, her eyes still bored into his. She looked as if she was ready to strangle him. He bet ten thousand jewels she was going to.

"Tell me. What did you do to my friends?" She questioned, glaring at the man, while pointing a sword at him. He felt like he was going to faint at any second, not from her sword, but from her glare.

"Why would I tell you that?" He asked, trying to regain his composure. She moved her sword, so it was just touching his chest. He gulped in fear.

"Alright, alright, alright. I'll speak, I'll speak." He held his hands up in surrender. He then proceeded to explain everything that happened. Erza listened, her eyes widening with fear and outrage. She wasn't angry like a child who was asked to go clean their bedroom, no. She was angry, as angry as you will ever be.

"Undo the spell." She said, as soon as he finished explaining.

"I can't." He replied, hands shaking a little.

"Do it!" he shook his head again.

"I mean I can't do it, because they have to find their the only one's who are able to get out. They have to find the exit in whatever place they are in the boy's mind, and escape." He explained, hoping that Erza wouldn't hurt him.

"You better hope they wake up." She glared at him. If looks could kill, then he would be a dead man right now. Erza removed her sword away from the man and walked back to the three mages and the cat, who were unconsciousness. Carla sat down next to Happy, while Wendy sat in between Lucy and Natsu, and Erza sat next to Gray.

She took in his appearance. He had a pained expression on his face; Erza had asked Wendy if she could do anything, but she couldn't. Erza thought that something might've been going on in his mind. She just hoped that they weren't hurt or anything. She brushed some of his hair off his face. He still had the scar that he received from Galuna island. She told him he could always ask Wendy now to remove it, but he declined saying that he didn't mind having a scar on his face. Erza sighed. She was worried about her comrades-will they ever get out and wake up? What would happen if they didn't, would they still be asleep, or would they be-? She shook her head. How could she think like that? They are Fairytail, of course they're going to be alright. They wouldn't go out like that from some thief.

"Where did that little bastard go!" Natsu shouted, looking side to side furiously around the place, as if he was trying to shake off an annoying fly.

"We really shouldn't have looked to see where he pointed. We should really know that by now." Lucy sighed as she laid her head in her hand.

"Aye." Happy agreed, watching Natsu go on a rampage.

"Well, we might as well continue. Maybe this time we'll find the real Gray. I mean-there are four main emotions: Happiness, Fear, Anger, and Sadness. So that means we must be close to the exit." She explained happily, hitting her hand with her fist. Natsu stopped his rampaging and turned to look at Lucy, hope filling his eyes.

"You mean… We finally get out of here?" Lucy nodded. Natsu's smile grew larger and he jumped in the air and cheered.

"Yes, we finally get to leave this place! Woohoo!" he started to dance with joy, fists punching the air as if it was punch bag.

"Aye!" happy agreed.

"Well, let's keep moving and hopefully we'll find Gray and the exit." Lucy said and proceeded to walk. Natsu-who was still grinning as if he was offered millions of candies-followed her with Happy on his head.

They walked down the path through the town for another hour. Nothing really happened, except that it did start to snow. Natsu did try and sniff Gray out but he couldn't make out where he was; his scent was all over the place!

"GRAY! WHERE ARE YOU, YOU BASTARD!" He shouted randomly, which made Lucy jump.

"NATSU!" He shrugged.

"What? I'm trying to find Gray." Lucy sighed in annoyance.

"Just warn me next time will you, you nearly gave me a heart attack."

"Alright, alright, jeeze. GRAY!" He shouted again which it made Lucy jump again.

"NATSU! I said warn me next time."

"Alright I'm sorry." He sighed. He just wanted to find Gray already, so they could get the heck out of there. He was starting to get sick of this place, it wasn't because he was worried about the ice mage, no it wasn't that at all. He just wanted to get the hell out of there. They continued walking again for another hour, until he suddenly saw something in the distance ahead of him.

"Hey, is that-Gray?" He asked, and narrowed his eyes further, trying t see if it was Gray or not.

"You know, I think it is. HEY GRAY!" Lucy called out, getting the ice mages attention. Gray swung around to find his name being called

"Hey guys, there you are. I've been trying to find you." Gray said as he ran up to them. Lucy jumped and gave him a big, ginormous bear hug, which startled Gray, making him stumble backwards a little.

"H-hey Lucy." He said unsure of what to say.

"Oh my god, I am so glad that this is you. Wait, it's really you Gray isn't?" She asked, looking up at him. Gray looked down at her confused at first until he realised what she was talking about.

"Yes, it's me. I'm guessing you guys have met the other personality things?"

"Yeah and man it was such a pang. I think your mad personality was most annoying. He just picked a fight with me all the way. I mean, what's with that?" Natsu asked, looking slightly irritated and Gray just laughed.

"Well, you do that to me to you know?"

"Yeah, but that's different." He said, waving his hand up and down at him.

"How?" Natsu was about to reply but suddenly everything went dark and Gray's mood changed drastically. He was at first happy to see his team, but then he was suddenly terrified, Natsu could see it in his eyes. Gray's eyes widened with fear and started to dart around the place.

"Gray, what's the matter?" Happy asked, looking up at him worriedly.

"It's-it's-" He replied.

"Gray?" Lucy asked, then suddenly something appeared in front of them. It was like a shadow, one giant shadow. It grew and grew until it towered over them.

"It's that." Gray replied, barely a whisper, stepping back a bit in shock.

"What is that?!" Lucy shouted, Gray was about to answer before it spoke, it's voice booming across the place.

"You're weak! You couldn't even protect your friends from the spell that mage casted. Pathetic." It shouted, Natsu was confused. What the hell was going on and what was it?

"No, no. it wasn't my fault. I tried." Gray said and shook his head, stumbling back a bit more.

"Gray-?" Lucy asked, worriedly.

"It's all your fault that they're trapped in here."

"No, it wasn't my fault." He shouted, clenching his fists.

"It's also your fault that your Master died." It shouted and Natsu's eyes widened. What was it going on now? It wasn't Gray's fault, that bastard thing. How does it even Know about Gray's Master.

"Shut up, it wasn't Gray's fault!" Natsu shouted, stepping forward with his hands clenched with determination.

"Natsu-" But Natsu cut him off.

"No Gray, it wasn't your fault, you've gotta understand that."

"What are you talking about, it was always his fault. He's a curse."

"No, his not. How dare you say something like that?" While Natsu and the giant shadow were 'talking' Lucy was staring at Gray worriedly. He had his head facing down at the ground, with his hands clenched so tight that blood started to pour. Lucy thought of something suddenly. The shadow, what this has been saying. Is this is self-doubt? Because it definitely sounded like it.

"Natsu!" She called out to him, getting his attention. "This shadow-it's apart of him. It's apart of Gray. It's his self-doubt!" She yelled. Natsu's eyes widened and turned quickly to face Gray who still had his head down.

"Gray, is this true?" he asked him, hoping the answer was no. But Gray nodded to Natsu's disliking.

"Gray, you have to know that this thought," He pointed towards the shadow who moved I like a shivering way. "Aren't true. None of it was your fault, not your master's death and not this. You are not a curse. Do you hear me Gray?" He asked but got no response.

"Oh, so this is Natsu. The great fire dragon, the one who you can't beat in a fight, the one who you are second to. I can't believe you are even friends with him. His probably lying to you right now, he might not even like you. How could you call yourself his rival? You're not even worthy" Gray clenched his hands even tighter and gritted his teether and looked to his left, as if trying push the words away if he were to look somewhere else.

"Don't you dare listen to that thing Gray. Of course, you're worthy to be rival just as you're worthy to be my friend. You are not second to me, ok we are even. And, I. Am. Not. Lying. Do you hear me Gray? Does my voice reach you?!" He asked, and at this he got a response. Gray's head snapped up in surprise and gasped a little, his eyes widened, and his hands unclenched a little.

"Gray?" he asked, unsurely. Gray didn't reply again, but he put his right foot in front of him, then he put his left foot in front of him and he started walking towards the shadow. Natsu, Lucy and Happy were watching in awe.

"I here ya, Natsu. I won't let these thoughts control me any longer." He shouted. "I know what's happened in the past, and I know what's happened now. I know that I've never been able to beat Natsu in a fight, but I also know that he hasn't either. We are even. And I know that you can't keep these thoughts up any longer, cause I will defeat you. And don't you worry Natsu. Your voice has reached me. Ice make: Lance!" Gray shouted, and Ice lances shot in the middle of the shadow who growled in pain.

"You're just-"

"I said no! Ice devil RAAAAAGGGGGEEEEE! He shouted, and Ice was flown everywhere, covering the whole palace in white like a blanket and the ls at thing Gray saw was the shadow exploding in front of him.

Gray opened his eyes slowly, but quickly covered them as light blinded them. He tried again, and he slowly opened them to find Erza! Standing sitting next to him and looking at him with worried expression on her face.

"Ah, Gray. Are you ok?" She asked, hurriedly and helped him sit up a bit.

"Yeah, I guess so." He nodded. "Wait, what about Natsu, Lucy and Happy? Are they alright? Where are they?" He asked

"There alright Gray, there just waking up?" She said and pointed to where the others were with Wendy and Carla.

"Huh, what happened? Where are we?" Natsu asked as his eyes opened.

"Ah, Natsu. You're alright?" Wendy gasped happily, also helping Natsu up and Lucy.

"Yeah, I'm fine Wendy thanks. Gray? Where is he?"

"I'm here Natsu." He replied, coming over to them and sitting crossed-legged in front of them.

"So, "What happened to you guys?" Erza asked and Gray and the others explained everything to them what happened from the very beginning. After they explained everything, it was silent for a little while before Gray spoke

"Thanks, for back there. I probably would never have defeated that thing if you weren't there. And thanks to you too Lucy and Happy." He smiled and patted Happy. "Thanks, you guys for being there with me." He smiled, and they smiled back.

Hi guys, so first completed story yasss. I can't believe that I actually completed wow heh. Hope you enjoyed it and thanks for reading it and the reviews, hope you had fun. Thank you.

Graydevilslayerfan101 out~