Author's Note:

Just a short note before the story. First off, sorry it so long to get this up. I've been really busy the past couple of days and I also had writer's block for a long time. Secondly, kudos to Kyogre, yes the words were oto and nami, sound and wave. It'll make more sense why later in the story. And finally, Kyogre also suggested that I keep Otnami as Otonami. They both sound weird to me, probably because I don't know Japanese. Anyways I've decided to change Otnami to Otonami, but I'm not going to go back to chapter 2 and change it because I found a way to do it in this chapter. Okay, that's it, hope you like it :)

Chapter 3

Gray woke up on a very cold hard floor. Groggily, still trying to shake off sleep, he looked around and took in his surroundings. Where am I?

Then he noticed that his hands were bound behind his back with magic sealing stone and everything came flooding back. The mission, the fight, and the stupid jutsu shiki. Gray pushed himself up and lightly banged his head against the wall. I'm pathetic.

Then the raven shook his head, clearing it of such thoughts. This wasn't the time for self pity. He had to figure out a way to get out. Gray looked around again. He was in a cell and through the bars in front of him he could see another cell. To his left a wall, to his right was a long empty corridor.

There wasn't much he could do right now without his magic, so for now he decided to wait. Wait for either his captors to come get him or for his Fairy Tail friends to come and rescue him. Gray suddenly cringed at the thought of having to rely on Natsu to save him. The ice mage let out a frustrated sigh, but then he heard a door open and footsteps echoing down the long quiet corridor.

Then a certain green haired lightning mage came into view and looked down at the ice mage.

"So you're awake now," she said.

"Where are we?" asked Gray.

Amelia just shrugged, "somewhere in Fiore."

Gray growled and asked, "Why did you bring me here?"

Amelia smirked, "If you're a good boy and do what you're told, then maybe I'll tell you."

"Like hell I'd ever do anything you want!"

Amelia frowned and raised a finger. Lightning jumped from the wall and shocked the defenseless ice mage. Gray let out a startled scream as lightning engulfed his body. When it finally stopped, he collapsed against the wall, panting.

"That wasn't the right answer," said Amelia.

When Gray didn't reply Amelia shocked him again. Gray just grit his teeth and endured the pain. After a while it stopped and Gray gasped for more air.

Once the pain subsided, the raven refocused his gaze towards the lightning mage. Amelia was looking down the corridor with her magic eye, but then she turned back towards Gray and smiled, "Looks like Max needs some help. Once we're done with the preparations we'll come back."

Then Amelia turned and started walking away. Once the echoing footsteps stopped and he heard a door slam shut, Gray relaxed and closed his eyes as he leaned against the wall behind him. What have I gotten myself into now?

"Gray-sama's been what?" wailed Juvia, not believing what she just heard.

Lucy, Erza, Natsu, Happy, and Levi had just returned with startling news and the guild had already erupted into chaos. Juvia was starting to flood the guild hall with her tears.

"This is all my fault," said Erza, "I should've been more careful."

"Come on Erza, it's no one's fault. So don't go blaming yourself," said Lucy.

"But now Gray's been captured and we have no idea where he is."

"What do we do now?" asked Happy who looked worried.

"We can't just sit here and do nothing! What if he's hurt, or…" started Lucy.

"He's fine," said Natsu with a note of finality, "the stupid ice princess is stubborn and he's going to be perfectly fine until we find and rescue him."

Natsu glared at the guild, as if challenging them to disagree. Lucy couldn't help but let out a small smile, he really does care.

Erza smiled, "Natsu's right. We have to trust Gray to take care of himself. Right now, we have to focus on finding where his captors are."

The whole guild cheered and even Juvia looked more hopeful. Natsu roared and charged out of the guild hall, leading most of the members on an information hunt. Erza cursed and tried to organize the remaining members into search parties.

Once Erza sent out the last party, she turned to Lucy.

"Lucy come with me," she ordered.

"Where are we going?" asked Lucy.

"To where this all started," replied Erza.

Lucy looked at her for more clarification.

"We're going to talk to the band of robbers that we arrested," explained Erza.

That was the most logical place to start, so the two girls went to the train station to get the next train back to the town with the robbers.

Gray had a sudden urge to sneeze. That was weird, because ice mages don't sneeze. Maybe it's this damn cell.

Then he heard a door flung open and footsteps. This time it sounded like two people instead of one.

Then they came into view. It was Amelia and Max. No surprise there. Amelia stopped in front of the cell and looked down at the ice mage while Max leaned against the opposite bars.

"So how have you enjoyed your stay here?" smirked Amelia.

"It's been great, but I have places to go. So if you would kindly let me go that would be great," said the raven sarcastically.

"I'm sorry, but you need to do us a favor first. And once you're done I doubt you'll even have enough strength to stand."

Gray didn't like the sound of that. "What do you want me to do? This has something to do with my devil slaying magic and what was it? Otnami right?"

A look of surprise crossed Amelia's face, but it disappeared as fast as it appeared. "So you overheard us? And it's Otonami not Otnami."

Gray huffed. "Sorry, but I was half asleep because of some coward's jutsu shiki."

"I wouldn't be talking like that if I was you," said Max with just a hint of annoyance while Amelia looked half amused.

"Well you aren't me are you?" replied Gray.

"I advise you shut up before you say something you might regret," said Max who looked really annoyed now.

Gray opened his mouth to retort, but Amelia interrupted him.

"Now, now boys. We could go on like this for hours. Right now we need to focus."

"On what?" asked Gray.

Amelia looked at him as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"On reviving Otonami, of course."

Gray hesitated, not sure if he wanted to know the answer, "Just who is Otonami?"

"A demon."

Author's Note:

I know, it was kind of cheesy how I changed Otnami to Otonami. Hmm, there's not much else to say. I'll try to get the next chapter out soon, but that might be hard cause I have some serious writer's block right now. I probably should have thought this through some more. Anyway thanks for all the reviews, I loved reading them and thanks to all the people to followed/faved it made me really happy. Well that's it, now I better start working out the next couple of chapters.