Knowing it from the beginning.

(A I.-.-.I Kuroyagi I.-.-.I original fan-fiction story.)

Chapter 6: Blend the Future 6 – Freeze the thunder, cut the wind.

(Near Brammingmont's lake.)

Ice vs. Lightning! The battle of the elements! Will Gray be able to defeat someone with Laxus' magic or…! ?

"Good… Then you are worthy, my name is Literio Éclair and you know my magic…" He said seriously, his fist engulfing with lightings again while the roof in which he was standing cracked down for the magical pressure he was releasing.

"Gray Fullbuster, you know that already, as well as my magic…" Gray smirked while gathering his magic and getting ready to cast another set of ice lances. Literio nodded at the statement and started to walk in Gray's direction before switching to run at full speed, his opponent doing the exact same; only that this time, Gray took the initiative. "Ice Make! Lance!"

"Lightning Dragon's Roar!" Literio countered with the Dragon-Slayer's signature attack, generating lightning in his mouth and releasing it in a concentrated, destructive blast, which in contact with Gray's attack provoked a massive explosion.

The building in which they were standing crumbled down from the clashing, both mages exchanging blows on their way down, none of the two losing timing or strength in their blows; consciously and desperately trying to disable their opponent before the other did so. Gray received a kick on the gut, but getting over it quickly he took the chance to grab Literio's leg and throw him hardly to the ground below; falling on his feet, he prepared for the counter that was about to come. The blonde man came running through the cloud of debris with a loud cry and his two fist raise, hitting the ground with them before reaching the ice mage and sending him flying with the sheer force of the attack.

Gray went flying against the wall of the closer home, hitting hard on it and ending up on top of a table that couldn't support the force of the fall and broke before he could even realize he fell on it. Literio came jumping through the whole that he made with the other man's body and instead of finding Gray on the ground, he found him readying another attack. "Ice make! Hammer!"

The blonde didn't have time or space to avoid the attack, so he took the huge hammer full force; receiving the same or twice the damage that Gray received when he sent him flying against the wall of the house, but the ice mage's attack was enough to send the Dragon-Slayer crashing full force through two houses; stopping on an alley and leaving the wall that almost suffered the same fate as the others with a large boulder. "D-damn… him…"

Standing up shakily, Literio tried to see through the holes that his path left and catch a glimpse of the mage moving quickly towards him with his arms covered in ice that looked like blades that were jutting back from both of his forearms, making him smirk wildly at the proposition that his enemy was making him. "You want it to be a close combat? Perfect!"

Engulfing in lightings his arms; from his forearms to his fists, Literio jumped through the last hole he made and meet with the ice mage in sword combat; Gray looked momentarily surprised at the moved of his enemy but quickly concentrated on the new exchange of strikes, avoiding slices that he was sure could have make him lose a part of his body and doing some of his own. Until he started to feel it, the disadvantage of fighting ice against lightning, his arms were starting to feel numb and move slower; which the enemy didn't lose opportunity to take advantage of. He parried the last strike of the ice mage and spin over his own foot to later give a powerful kick on the ice mage's chest, sending him hard against a wall.

"My my, aren't we getting a little slow?" Literio said while closing the distance between them, Gray rising from the ground with support of the wall; one of his ice blades broken and the other close to the same. "Are you going to surrender now? You are a good guy and mage, I wouldn't like to take your life for a mere little insult when you help with… uh, sorry, I almost spilled out something important…"

"G-go on, I won't mind…" Gray said while making another ice blade and fixing the almost broken one, the blonde chuckled lightly before raising both arms that were still covered with lightning shaped blades and shook his head.

"When will you learn?" He shook his head again, he didn't have time to be wasting here when the real challenge was fighting his partner but he needed to make sure that no one interfered with… "Ugh!"

"You lower your guard…" Gray said behind Literio, his arms crossed in an X fashion in front of him and his head down; he stood right and turned to see how his opponent's blades dispel and he turned around with some trouble while holding his chest with one hand. Two large cuts adding to the collection that he had.

"Cheater…" He said in between grunts of pain, a frown on his face and his eyes glaring daggers at the ice maker; Gray shrugged, not really caring for his words and took a step forward, he had a chance to make him talk now that he was in pain.

"Tell me, what are your intentions in Fiore?" Literio laughed while coughing out some blood and saliva.

"It's none of your busi… ugh!" Gray kick him square on the gut and sent him hitting against the wall in which he was supporting himself a few moments ago.

"Tell me or next time I won't be so nice…" Another laugh and a defiant look, Literio refused to say anything about the reason that brought him and the others there so Gray raise up his arms, his ice blades showing that they were still sharp enough to do serious damage. "You ask for it…"

"Yeah, don't worry; I'm sorry about this…" Gray was about what he meant with that when a magic seal appeared down his feet, he looked up back at Literio and saw him concentrating on said circle, looking at his opponent when this one tried to move away. "Good bye, Fullbuster…"

"Shit!" A Lightning erupted from the ground and an explosion followed, a trail of smoke flying out of the place and stopping near the beach of the city could be seen from the place. Gray fell hard on the ground; spinning down the way of sand until he stopped the movement with one hand digging hard on the soft surface. He looked up and as he expected, the blonde haired was walking calmly towards him, he looked to be with enough condition and magic to give the S-class a challenge that could cost him his life; even after all the damage that the mage previously did to him.

"You survived…" He said disappointed, a hint of pain in his voice barely noticeable. "That last one almost kills you, why don't you take my offer now and save your life?"

"Shut up!" The black haired screamed while standing up by sheer strength of will and panting hard. He had enough magic to battle the guy ten times but the side effect of his attacks left his body in a terrible condition, he could barely feel his fingers or his arms and the rest of his body was in terrible pain that didn't allow him to move as fast as he wanted. "Asshole! At least tell me what you meant to say when you told me about my friends' loyalties! ?"

"Just what I said, do you truly believe that they're loyal to you as you're with them?" Literio said before crossing his arms and raising an eyebrow at the mage in front of him. "It isn't hard to understand… Just make yourself this question, are they loyal to me as I'm with them?"

"I will never question my friends' loyalty toward me or anyone in the guild! We're like a family and family trust to each other with their lives!" Gray put his hands together, concentrating on the next magic while Literio just shook his head in a pitiful way.

"You have the brain of a five year old…"

"You're one to talk, lighting rod…" Gray said smirking; Literio felt a vein popping up on his forehead before clenching his teeth in annoyance. "Laughing all the time during combat and trying to talk your way out of the fight, such a lousy Dragon-slayer…"

"I'm just giving you a chance to save your sorry ass, ice stripper!" Screamed the blonde haired after feeling how more veins popped up on his forehead and looking at Gray with irritated eyes. Gray smirked again and then he held his arms up in surrender, an apologetic look on his face.

"Sorry, tsk, you could have told me that you were in that time of the month before starting the fight…" Gray looked at his side with a smirk in place and looking how the dragon slayer was losing his patience, he gave a few steps back and got close to the lake, his feet feeling how the water filtered through his shoes more with each step he took back.

"I'm a man, dammit!" Literio said annoyed, raising a menacing fist at the ice mage.

"Oh! Really? I thought that you were a girl… You know, bitching around like that all the time, can send mixed impressions…" That was it. He was seriously looking to die. Literio felt something snapped inside his head and he couldn't contain the urge to kill the man in front of him anymore; he ran to the black haired with his body filled with killing intent and his entire body engulfed in lightings.

"Shut the hell up!" His magic seal appearing in front of him and creating a giant fist made from thunder which moved forward, the full intention of giving Gray a lesson clear on the magnitude of the attack. "Lightning Dragon's Breakdown Fist!"

Gray frown at the move, having heard about it when Natsu and Gajeel confronted Laxus on top of the cathedral back home during the Fantasia of five years ago, he knew that the attack was one to be feared… but he had a card under his sleeve to counter it. He did the classic pose of his ice make magic and later extended his arms to the sides, palms open to the front and stopping the giant fist from going further stood a mighty wall of ice that covered a good part of the way that lead towards the lake. "Ice make, rampart!"

"What the…!" Literio couldn't believe his eyes, looking at the dimensions of the wall that stopped his attack, it was huge and all but he didn't dwell too much into it, he needed to see if the wall really stopped his attack; the cloud of sand that rose up from the clashing of magics didn't allow him to see the other mage or his state but when it cleared, he looked at the figure of Gray smirking through the untouched ice before turning around to dive into the lake and disappearing from view. The blonde frown at the move, knowing full well the reason behind the other mage's diving in the water; he had an advantage when there was water close for him to turn into ice and was less consuming that making ice appear from thin air. "Clever move, Fullbuster, but you forget that I also have an advantage with water!"

Literio broke through the tick wall of ice and stepped into the water of the lake, unknowingly entering a deadly trap; he put his hands close to each other and started to produce lightings inside the short space that his hands left; these ones forming a dangerous ball of lighting with every second the dragon-slayer concentrated more magic into it. He laughed madly and raised both arms over his head before bellowing victoriously. "Come out Fullbuster! Otherwise, you will be fried with the fishes!"

"I'm here dumbass…" His eyes widened in shock, he heard the voice coming from behind him; how was that possible? Turning his head around he saw Gray smirking with his arms crossed in front of him, he was about to ask how did he do that when another voice sounded from the front; looking back he saw another Gray coming out of the water and starting to meltdown and turned from ice to water before Literio, whose eyes couldn't be more open in shock. "You should check your surroundings before advancing towards an enemy that disappeared from your line of vision…"

"Hahaha! You got me there but you're forgetting something…" He looked up to the ball of lightings that was formed in between his hands and looked back at the ice mage with pity. "You're still on the water! And lightning doesn't affect me as it will do to you!"

"Yeah, good luck with that…" Literio was going to ask him what he meant when suddenly; a pillar of ice shot out from under him and froze him completely. Gray sighed before coming close to touch the ice in which the dragon slayer was sealed and frown at how he could still see him move his eyes around with hatred at him. "Ice make, Ice wall… I was looking to end this with you being able to talk but you're too annoying…"

Giving several steps back, Gray concentrated on the water of the lake and later on the pillar in which Literio was encased and was starting to crackdown by the Dragon-slayer's magic. He called out for his ice make and before Literio could notice it, he was imprisoned in a giant glacier that covered most of the lake and the beach which looked almost impossible to break; there was no way that he could escape from that without losing most of his magic power in the process, since he needed at least half of it to fight with the ice mage and later go for the blonde woman. "Ice make… *pant* Glacier…"

Gray gave two shakily steps back before falling down on the sand, the sudden use of a large quantity of his magic twice playing heavily on his already battle battered body. He looked up, panting hard and feeling how his mind was starting to black out; he tried his best to stay in consciousness but it was futile, his body wanted some rest before doing anything else. He cursed loudly before feeling his eyes shut down, he forgot that the blonde man still hadn't answered his question. "Shit… I… bet… it had something to do with that flame brain…"

Losing consciousness, Gray was lucky in not seeing how the glacier that he created with almost all his magic shattered by a mighty thunder; Literio standing in the same position panting and standing weakly on his feet, most of his energy spent in trying to break out of the icy and eternal prison. He gave a few shaky steps towards the unconscious man on the sand and fell when he reached the border of the ice, his body not responding to his orders of moving ahead to finish off the now defenseless mage of Fairy Tail.

"Shit… I can't move… *pant* my body is tired and froze to the bones…" He moved his head to look at the one responsible for his state and let a dry laugh scape his lips before losing consciousness himself. "Nice one, ice-boy…"

(Brammingmont's forest.)

"So… how long are we going to be hugging each other tenderly?" Natsu asked out of the blue, his cheeks turning a light shade of his hair color when he noticed that a good time had already passed by. He felt Erza moving her arm back and before he could even see what she was doing, he received a hard punch on the gut, the woman going back to hug him after he understood the message of not ruining the moment. "I… I could have get it with words, you know?"

"Natsu… I… You… Do you like me, Natsu?" She asked doubtful to him, brushing aside the question he made, with the urge to bring back the subject that he started in every cell of her body.

"I don't like you, Erza…" He said honestly to her and quickly, which made her eyes widened and separate from him like he was something hazardous to her. She couldn't believe it, then why the hug? The blush and why did he ask her the same question first at all then? She turned around and started to walk straight to the forest, leaving Natsu standing where he was and not getting anything about what happened; 'He is still such an idiot!' She thought furiously, trying to stop the urge to cry because of his answer at the same time.

But just when she was about to reach the end of the boulder, she felt him hugging her from behind, stopping her walk without much effort from his part and lying his head on top of hers; making her realize that he was a little more taller than five years ago. She struggled from his grasp a few times before letting him do what he wanted and give him the chance to say what he was trying to before she left completely. "Talk fast or you'll regret ever meeting me."

"I don't regret it, not much, if that makes you feel better…" He said jokingly, though his joke fell on deaf ears as he saw Erza still not looking at him and frowning at his words. He laughed nervously before stopping and hugging her stronger to avoid she run away. "Look, Erza, I don't like you… I lov…!"

And just then, Asis' little trap took action, the whole area around and inside the boulder engulfing in light coming from the ground before exploding everything that it contained within its inside. Sending both of them flying towards the forest and hitting against a tree… well, just Natsu hit it, Erza's impact was cushioned by his body, leaving him half conscious; much to her dismay, he hadn't finish to say the last sentence, so she was now trying to wake him up to make him say it. "Damn it, Natsu! Spat out of it!"

Though, he wasn't even close to coming back to reality but the exact opposite, since Erza's way of waking him up wasn't exactly a gentle one; she slapped his cheeks restlessly in her attempt, leaving them red and looking like blow-fishes. An just when she was about to shake his body strongly she felt it, the presence of someone watching from on top of the tree that they just hit; raising her head she saw Asis sitting on a branch with an amused face and holding back a laugh with a hand. "Oh! Sorry! Did I interrupt something important?"

The armored mage didn't reply, she just stood up and clenched her fists while her hair covered her eyes; a deathly aura starting to surround her before the now scare Asis. She was going to say something along the lines of 'Sorry, bye-bye.', when the Titania changed to her Purgatory armor, now she was truly frightened. 'Save me Literio!'

And it started again, before the woman knew it, she was hit by the S-class mage on the gut and sent hitting against the ground; making another boulder appear and sending the trees flying by the power of her opponent. Erza just walked calmly towards her, her eyes unreadable and her grip on the big double-edge sword hard. Asis tried to reason in vain with her, telling her that she was willing to let herself be capture and even tell the motives that moved the foreigners towards Fiore, but she got no response; instead, she was ordered to stand up and face her punishment. "Oh please! It isn't a big deal!"

"Yes! It is!" Standing or not, she was sent flying away again when the red head gave an earth shattering strike to the ground; now she was crying waterfalls. She hit the ground a hundred feet away with her face touching the ground first and skidding a few meters before stopping ungracefully, the place where her head was releasing smoke like she was a small fire left unguarded. Hearing her torturer coming slowly again, she turned around and raise her hands up in defeat while imploring the other to stop. "You should have surrendered when Natsu appeared, now, you'll face the consequences."

Asis was about to say something else but she freaked out, thrashed a little and later passed out from the fear; much to Erza's chagrin and surprise. She was expecting to make her pay with the powerful armor a little more before she could even be allowed to do something like that but, well, she was the Titania. She received the same result with most of her weak opponents. So she changed back to her original armor and called a rope in her hand with her ex-quip magic, using it to tie the woman to a tree so she couldn't escape anymore and went back to where Natsu still lied unconscious, kneeling at his side and watching how he was now sleeping soundly. She let out a small smile take over her features before taking his head and laying it softly on her lap, caressing his now spikier hair and watching him sleep like a little kid.

"You are still a kid in your heart, even if you matured as much as you have shown me." She said lovingly while she remembered what Lucy told her years ago, when just a week passed from his departure.

"He'll return Erza, don't worry, and I'm sure that when he does… He'll tell you what he told Gray personally…"

Even if he was sleeping and she was dying for that to happen, she gathered her strength and concentrated on waiting for him to wake up; patience rewards those that listen to her, right? So she looked at the sky, at the trees, at the tied up and passed out Asis and later back at Natsu… a few minutes passed and a frown appeared on her face. She stood up harshly; dropping the sleeping Natsu's head and screaming loud enough for everyone close to hear. "How long will you make me wait! ?"

Natsu woke with a shocked and fearful expression, his hands going to cover his ears from the loud scream that woke him up from his slumber; he trembled in fear on the spot in which he fell and waited a few seconds before shakily turning his around to look at the reason of his sudden wake up. A voice so weak and low coming from him that it made the Titania realize her mistake and look at him in shock. "Y-yes E-erza?"

"Natsu!" She exclaimed half embarrassed and half happy, a distressed look settling over while she kneeled down at his side again with a hand rubbing his arm in an attempt of calming him in less than a second. "I-I'm sorry! I didn't mean to wake you! Oh god, you must hate me! Hit me please!"

Natsu looked at her plainly for a minute, Erza trembled in fear for what he could be probably thinking of her at the moment and before she could even say another apology; he started to laugh hardly on the ground, holding his stomach and rolling over his back. She looked at him in shock for 1… 2… 3… and later kick him hard on the side, sending him crashing and destroying a tree.

"Stupid Natsu…" She mumbled annoyed to herself before going to check if the Dragon-slayer was alright… or even alive.

(In Asis and Literio's unconscious minds.)

"So you two were defeated? It seems like we need to change plans a little then." Asa said before stepping through the two sitting wizards, Asis looking down in shame for the way of her defeat while Literio had an unnerving small smile over his face. "Natsu is left in there and he cannot fight against his friends, so during the short time that he was unconscious, I talk to him about it and he agreed to bring reinforcements to help you."

Both listeners raised their heads in surprised, shocked expressions in their faces at the implication of what Asa said, and before any of the two could even say a word; Asa turned around with a frown on his usually straight face, talking with a hint of worry in his voice when he named those that were going to help.

"Fran will go with Hyde and Pierre to support you." With that said he merged with the darkness around him and left the two alone with their thoughts, the feeling that they screw it for Natsu and his friends clearly on their faces. Remembering the battle that he had, the blonde curled his hands into fists for a second, his anger leaving as quickly as it came.

"He was a pain in the ass but… I really liked fighting with that ice-stripper…" Literio said with a hint of sadness before shrugging and lying down on his back. Asis though, had something different going through her mind and it wasn't how much she wished to fight again with the woman that scared the shit out of her… but something entirely different.

"Natsu-chan… Say it before it's too late…" Literio threw a questioning glance at her before asking.

"What do you mean with that?"

"You wouldn't understand… Idiot…" Literio got back up and eyed her warily before talking again.

"Test me…" Asis sighed tiredly before crossing her arms and looking at him seriously.

"Okay… Where should I start…?"

A few minutes later…

"Holy shit… He's fucked up then, 'cause Pierre might be quiet but if they even ask him who our leader is…" Literio frown at the thought that came to his mind after the explanation that his partner gave him, Asis nodded in agreement, even if she wanted to scream in joy for Literio getting the message.

"Yep! He'll say it, not caring if Natsu-chan's cover is blow up, so we need to go back and recover before they arrive!" She said merrily, much to Literio's shock.

"Oi! Oi! You plan on stopping them! ? That's crazy! Not even I was able to even lay a hand on Pierre! Or Fran for that matter!" Asis smiled knowingly, making it obvious for his partner that she had a plan. "I'm getting a bad feeling about this…"

"Don't worry! We'll make it!"

To be continued.

Here it is. The sixth and I bring it to you with some good and bad news.

Good news: I read the last Fairy Tail chapter of the manga. If you saw the text in bold letters after the title then you are realizing that I'm starting to do those narrative things that the mangakas do at the beginning of their stories. I'm improving at writing romance with humor! And that's it.

Bad news: I read the last Fairy Tail chapter of the manga and its end made some tears drop from my eyes, I cannot believe that Hiro could be capable of doing that to Makarov. So until that situation changes, which I don't thing that it'll happen, the fic is put on Hiatus. Yes, on hiatus.

Enjoy this last chapter, it was good to receive your reviews.

Saludos.

PS: Just kidding, I won't do something like that, though the chapter really cut short my imagination, so... probably the fic is going to be updated slower now. Thanks for understanding. Hehehe!