Gray POV

I could feel it, the emptiness in my body, my magic that I had worked so hard on strengthening under Ul's guidance was gone. The rage filled my body, making my vision blurry. How could this happen? Why did this happen? Questions with no answers overflowed inside me. We are doomed. Now that Face has been activated we won't be able to fight back against the demons. Fairy tail will be a destroyed. Magnolia will be destroyed. Fiore will be destroyed. The world will be destroyed. Pain, despair, exhaustion, suffering, death. No one will know happiness anymore, just sadness. The innocent will be turned dark and the dark will be turned evil. Not one person will be safe from the destruction that is going to come. We will all die. Mothers, fathers, wife's, husbands, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins, friends, everyone. Dad... I feel onto my knees and rested my forehead on the ground. No, no, no, no, no.

"NOOO!" I screamed us I pounded my fist against the ground.

Dark thoughts were swarming around in my head and I couldn't stop them. The blackness started to take me, slowly I felt myself slipping into it. I was engulfed in the darkness, no light present in the slightest. It felt nice, now I wouldn't have to worry about anything, I can just stay in my darkness for the rest of time.

"Gray-sama."

Who is trying to call me out of my dark home.

"Gray-sama!"

The voice called at me more persistently. It was anoying.

"Gray-sama!" The voice screamed.

Light started to fill inside my darkness. The light came down and encircled my body, warming myself. The darkness was disappearing rapidly as the light took over. The darkness was gone and I started gaining consciousness. I felt something wrapped around me holding me close to them.

"Gray-sama, I am so sorry. I... I am so sorry. So sorry!" A voiced quivered right by my ear.

I opened my eyes slowly so that they could adjust to the light. When they did I was taken back at what I found. Juvia was hugging me tightly against herself as she cried and apologized over and over again. I lifted my arm and placed my hand on the top of her head.

"You don't need to apologize Juvia." I quietly whispered into her ear.

She pulled back quickly with amazement in her eyes and also deep sorrow.

"But Gray-sama your dad... I..." She fumbled with her words.

"Juvia." I pulled her back into a hug. "Thank you."

"Gray-sama" She cried.

We sat there awhile like that, just holding onto each other. I had never realized how much I needed Juvia and how much she had a affect on me until that moment. She had pulled me out of the darkness, she had fulfilled my fathers final wish, she brought happiness into me life, I needed her. Juvias's body went stiff in my arms.

"What is it?" I questioned.

"Face, Juvia... Juvia doesn't have any magic anymore."

"Yeah I know, neither do I."

"But Gray-sama, your arm."

I looked down at my tattooed arm that was a reminder of the demon slaying magic my father gave. Wait my fathers magic, demon magic!

"That's it Juvia, my demon slaying magic! It should still work since my father gave it to me and he was a demon in a way."

I raised my arm and called upon the magic. Ice spread across the ground by my feet. A smile spread across my face.

"The fight isn't over yet!" I yelled.

"Gray, Juvia!"

Juvia and I looked over and saw Levy running towards us with Gajeel behind her trudging along with his hands stuffed in his pockets.

"You found him!" Levy exclaimed.

"Yes, Juvia found Gray-sama." She smiled up at Levy.

I then noticed the position that Juvia and I were still in. I quickly let go and stood up trying to keep the blush from appearing on my face. Gajeel looked at me and raised his eyebrows.

"Gihee," He grinned down at me.

I rolled my eyes and looked at Levy.

"Is everyone else alright?"

"Yes, everyone's magic is gone, but other then that mostly everyone is okay." She answered.

"What do you mean by mostly everyone?

Levy looked down at the ground sadly. Gajeel looked at me in the eye but this time not jokingly.

"Salamander and bunny girl are missing." He replied solemnly.

"Missing?"

"Yeah no one can find them. And Mard Geer is also no where to be found."

Natsu.. Lucy... please be okay.

"We should probably go meet up with the oth-"

A loud noise came from behind us. We all spun around quickly to see if we could find the source of the noise, but it was to far away. It sounded like the highest and most pain filled scream that I had ever heard and it was soon joined in by another high agonized scream.

"What the hell!" Gajeel cursed covering his ears.

Then suddenly everything went quiet.

"Well that was weir-" I started saying before another terrifying thing happened.

A huge column of fire blew up into the air turning the sky a orangish red. Even from here I could feel the warmth of the flames as they licked up into the sky.

Fire. A flame demon. E.N.D. My fathers last words rang through my head. I started walking towards the pillar of fire.

"Gray-sama, what are you doing?" Juvia asked.

"I'm going to crush E.N.D."

Lucy POV

Fire. The world had been engulfed in fire. Natsu... E.N.D was surrounded by the fire as he observed his body. He looked more like an animal then a human as his wings beated back and fourth and his black eyes looked at his surroundings. Fear paralyzed my body, I was so scared. Mard Geer was off to my left laughing still as he watched Natsu, no E.N.D, examine himself.

"Now it is your turn to play your part." Mard Geer smiled gleefully as his eyes settled on me.

What could he possibly want with me? What did he intend for me to do?

"I am not doing anything for you." I spat at him as my eyes kept on watching Natsu.

"Do you want to die?" Mard Geer asked me.

I swallowed and took a breathe full of ash. Of course I didn't want to die, but if I had to do something that would hurt my friends to live I would rather die.

"If you don't all you have to do is one little thing."

I stayed quiet.

"I want you to seal the other half of E.N.D that is good."

"What do you mean."

"Your little friend that calls himself the son of a dragon, I want you to take that part of his personality and seal it in the celestial spirit world."

"Even if I wanted to I wouldn't be able to do that. There would be no pathway to send him that."

Mard Geer then smiled and pulled the book out from his cloak.

"What do you think this is?" He grinned.

No way. A portal to the celestial world was there. Does that mean that when Mard Geer opened the book, he opened a portal from the celestial world and that is how E.N.D got out? But that would also have to mean that E.N.D was sealed there beforehand by a celestial wizard. Also Mard Geer would not be able to open the portal to the celestial world to let E.N.D himself. He would need a celestial wizard present when he opened the book for the portal to open. Realization dawned on me. I was the celestial wizard that was present for the portal to open, I was the one who let E.N.D out. I was the one who did this to Natsu.

"NO!" I cried out.

Mard Geer just kept on chuckling.

"Oh yes. You were the one who made this all possible for me. You have brought on the destruction of the world."

"I will never seal that part of Natsu up. If you think I will then you are crazy! I don't even have my magic anymore you took that away from me yourself with Face. Even if I had my magic though I would never do that, I would rather die."

"Well that can be arranged." He snarled.

He released the thorn cage that I was in and started walking towards me. I closed my eyes tightly and dug my nails into the skin of my hand waiting for the piercing pain that was sure to come.

"You are stupid, just like your mother!"

I waited for the blow and then blackness but it never came. I slowly opened my eyes.

"Natsu!"

The horror that I was looking open made my stomach churn and my head throb.

Natsu was standing in front of me looking down on what was left of Mard Geer. He cocked his head to the side then raised his claw to his mouth licking the blood of the king of hades off of it. I leaned to the side and spilled my guts onto the ground next to me. Was this really Natsu? The Natsu I knew would never do anything remotely close to this. No, I reminded myself this isn't Natsu this is someone for some reason shares the same body as my Natsu. Nat- E.N.D looked down at me and then he bent down and picked something up from the ground. He held it up like a trophy and then he crouched down in front of me and sat it down in my lap. Again in that moment I threw up for on my lap was the head of Mard Geer. E.N.D looked down on me and then he smiled. It wasn't a smile that filled me with warmth but a smile that sent chills throughout my body. Natsu's signature smile was gone and in its place was something far more evil and sinister. E.N.D started to lean down and he reached out one of his clawed hands towards my face.

"Stop right there!"

E.N.D stopped what he was doing and then slowly started to stand up again and look over at the voice.

"Gray," I breathed. Thank god he would fix everything and somehow turn Natsu back to normal.

"Please help him Gray, I can't think of a way to turn him back to normal. Please save him." I pleaded.

"I'm sorry Lucy but there is only one way to save Natsu."

"What is that?" I questioned cautiously.

" To Kill him."