This is a special chapter!

This chapter is from a third person POV mostly following Grey. As the title says, this is snipits of his life that mainly focus around Natsu until the day she dies.

This is the chapter dedicated to Tharenah, my contest winner, who requested this chapter!

Hope you enjoy!

Note:

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~o0o~= scene change in scene


Grey watched as Natsu entered Fairy Tail. She had kicked the doors open with one of her feat. That was just like her, always trying to be better, and jumping at the smallest thing that could push her ahead in their rivalry.

It had been two years since their rivalry began. It started on the first day Natsu walked into the guild as a five year old. When master had asked her what kind of magic she used, Natsu had said that she was a dragon slayer; a fire dragon slayer to be exact. No one had believed her, how could they? Dragon slayers had been extinct for several centuries, and even then they were few in numbers, just one representing each dragon.

Now, kicking open a door might not seem to be such an issue, but to the seven year old Grey, it was. Especially when he saw what she was holding.

"Ne, Natsu, what's that you've got there?" Lisanna asked cutely, her bobbed white hair shifting slightly. Lisanna, age six, was like a little sister to all of the mages in the group. She was part of the Strauss siblings, a trio of mages that each specialized in a different kind of take over magic. Lisanna herself used take over magic to 'take over' animals.

"Oh, Lisanna, you mean this?" Natsu asked while gesturing slightly with her head to the large object in her hands that was almost as big as she was.

"Yeah. What is it?" Lisanna responded. Natsu grinned.

"It's a dragon egg!" Natsu exclaimed, "It fell on my head in the forest! Isn't it cool?" Grey's eye twitched dangerously, a tick mark developing on his forehead. She found a DRAGON EGG!? How was he supposed to top that?

"Are you sure that's a dragon egg, Natsu? There are many different kinds of animals that lay large eggs." Master said with slight hesitation, not wanting to let the girl get her hopes crushed when it hatched. Natsu scratched the back of her head while looking up at the ceiling.

"No, I'm not positive it's a dragon." the pinkette answered truthfully. "But when it hit me on the head, I got this feeling, like I knew it was somthin' good!" Makarov chuckled slightly, leaning on his cane.

"What ever it is, I'm sure you'll take great care of it." Master smiled at Natsu.

"Yosh! Thanks gramps!" Natsu responded with vigor. Grey scoffed, it was so like her. He turned away and walked out of the guild and into the park. He took a seat under one of the trees. "Hey Grey!" Natsu called out, the egg still in her hands.

"What is it?" he said while sighing and running a hand through his hair. She smiled at him.

"Come on! I want to show you something!" She said. When he didn't move, she took one hand off the egg and grabbed his hand. "Come on!" she tried again.

"Fine." cheering slightly at her victory, Natsu led Grey into the forest. They kept going deeper and deeper. Grey was getting more impatient by the minute. "Are we there yet?" he asked.

"Almost, just a little further."

~o0o~

"TA DA!" Natsu exclaimed. Grey's eyes landed on a small hut made of dried grass. "Do you like it?" she turned to her, smiling.

"Yeah, its great. Did you build this, Natsu?" he asked. She nodded.

"Yep, I sure did! Anyways, I'm glad you like it!" Natsu said as she entered the hut. She carefully placed the egg down in the center of the hut. "Grey," she started a bit nervously, "I wanted to… no.. erm.. I… um…What I wanted to say was… um…" by this point Grey had had enough of her babbling.

"Please just say it." Grey said with an exasperated sigh.

Taking a deep breath she announced, "I wanted to know if you would help me raise the egg. We could be like a family! You, me, and the egg! If you don't want to I understand…" Natsu looked up at Grey with a hope blazing in her sparkling black eyes.

Grey blushed. A family, with Natsu? Even if the two were just raising an egg, it was still a family. They were rivals, so why would she even ask him? He would have thought she would ask Elfman or one of the other guys in the guild. Then another question hit his mind. Did she even think of him as a rival? Or did she consider him a friend?

Coming to a decision, Grey said with a slight stutter, "O-ok, Natsu, I'll help you." Natsu pumped her fist in the air.

"Yatta!" she exclaimed happily. But as soon as her happiness had appeared, it had vanished and was replaced with a look of confusion, Natsu had always been one to wear her emotions on her sleeve. "Ne, Grey, what do we do now?" Grey face palmed. The dense stupid idiot.

"I think you have to keep the egg warm…"


"Is that what I think it is?" Natsu asked. She was staring wide eyed at what looked like a giant plant formation with a door on the front with all kinds of vines twisting and turning. But what really caught her attention, as well as Wendy's, Charlies's, and Happy's, was the giant banner that was hoisted between two of the biggest vines. On that banner was one thing, the Fairy Tail Guild mark. Here in Edolas.

"I-I think so!" Wendy replied shakily, still recovering from the shock.

"Well then! What are we waiting for? Maybe they changed their look again?" Natsu exclaimed. Natsu ran head first into the doors of 'Fairy Tail'. The doors flew open with a bang. "HELLO! I'M BACK!" the dragon slayer- who was now a giant flower- shouted loudly with her fist pumped in the air. After slowly coming back to her senses, she realized that everyone had stopped what they were doing and were staring at her wide eyed. Even Mirajane was spilling the drink she was pouring. Blinking, Natsu said, "Ano, is there something on my face? Did Grey manage to die my hair blue again?" the guild hadn't moved yet. "GAH! Did someone use a time freeze magic on you guys?! Uh, um, where's the off button! Do I have to slap you or something?" panicking, Natsu called for backup.

"HAPPYY! CHARLE! WENDY! SOMETHINGS WRONG WITH THE GUILD! THERE NOT MOVING!" Natsu yelled at the top of her lungs. The guild still dint budge.

"Natsuu," Happy whined, "we were standing right here, you don't need to shout.."

"Nani? OH Happy you're here!" Natsu picked up the blue exceed who was disguised as a suit of armor and hurried over to a corner. "There's something wrong with the guild." Natsu whispered Happy as if it was the most important thing in the world. "it's like they're all under freeze magic. What do we do?"

"Aye, did you try poking them for the off button?" Happy suggested.

"Why would a mage put the off button on the thing they used freeze magic on? Think happy! Don't be stupid." Natsu reprimanded.


"… and Edo-Lucy was all scary! She even wore a black leather suit! She would use her 48 torturing techniques on me! They hurt so much! Especially technique 35: The Bitch Drop! And…" Grey watched as Natsu retold the events of Edolas. He had been there and had met his counter part. That meeting had given him a lot to think about.

Edo-Grey's and Grey's conversation still rung clear in his mind.

~Flash back~

"So, you're the me of this world, eh?" Grey asked.

"Yep. Although I have no idea how you can go around in so little clothes." Edo-Grey commented.

"The same goes for you, but the other way around." Grey paused as he noticed that his team mates from Fairy Tail were gathering. "I Better go Edo-me, my guild is waiting for me." Grey turned to run off but Edo-Grey's next words had caught him off guard.

"You know, rivals and lovers aren't really that different. I know from the Natsu from your world that you two are rivals." Edo-Grey watched with all knowing eyes as Grey's back stiffened slightly. "You should know that even if Edolas is completely the opposite of your world, MY Natsu and I are lovers in this world. Although our personalities may be flipped, I can tell that our feelings are not."

~Flash Back end!~

"Yeah, like that would ever happen.." Grey muttered wistfully as he watched Natsu dance quite stupidly on a table with Happy. Her dance was complete with embarrassing movements and sounds that Happy copied with no hesitation. The mere sight of it sent the entire guild into a fit of laughter. Why was he attracted to her again?


Grey had been to Natsu's house many times before. He knew that she and Happy lived in a rundown little house with little to none of the necessities. Mainly because most of the time she had to use her jewels to pay for the destructions she caused. Knowing this, Grey had taken it upon himself to 'restock' the 'food supply' of the house weekly. Restock and food supply are in quotes because Grey couldn't add to much food or else Natsu would get suspicious, and food supply because Natsu mainly ate fire and Happy, fish.

This night was like any other night Grey had stocked Natsu's house for her. Sneaking in to her house, which had no security, he carefully added three fish and some matches to her ice box and pantry respectively. But before Grey could leave, something caught his eye.

It was a small pink bottle with a note attached to it which was written in Natsu's messy handwriting. The note read,

PINK HAIR DYE! CHAA! Make sure to get into Grey's hair! That'll teach him for making fun of my amazing hair!

Fuming, Grey's shoulders started to shake. She was going to dye his navy hair… PINK!? That was the last straw. Anything but the hair.

A light bulb went off in his head as a creepy grin found its way to his face. He glanced at Natsu's sleeping form. She was going to pay.

~o0o~

The next morning, the peaceful air was ruined by the shrill cry of, "DAMN YOU GREY! YOU GOOD FOR NOTHING POPCICLE PRINCESS!"

From- safe- inside the guild, Grey chuckled. Never challenge the relationship between a guy and his hair.


Once again, this chapter is dedicated to Tharenah!

For any clarification: The second 'scene' where Natsu finds the Edo-Fairy Tail, that was what I always thought would happen if Natsu had acted on impulse and charged into the guild instead of sneaking in. Remember, the guild would probably act like this because, Edo-Natsu has NO backbone at all and has no self-confidence what so ever outside of a vehicle.

Also, this is part one of the Until the Day She Dies specials! I plan on adding another one every few chapters. I think that this one did focus on the NatsuxGrey relationship, but only because it was a request. The other ones in the series will not be fluff (unless I get a request..), they will most likely be snippets of her life before she died.

Thank you all for voting on the pairings!

So far the pairing count is at:

NatsuxGrey- 26

NatsuxAllen- 18

ALLEN HAS ALMOST MADE A COME BACK! I plan to have the next chapter have a lot of NatsuxAllen fluff!

Love you all! R AND R!

~Slayerofthewind