Hey guys, sorry for not updating this last couple of days. I just really had no time. Well I am glad to hear that some of you like my stary. You guys are awesome. Love you 3
"Don't look at me like that! Don't worry, they won't die, as soon as they see their worst nightmare and overcome it they will be able to get out. Unless they fall in the pitch of darkness and die of course." E.N.D said with an evil smile on his face, his eyes even sparkled. He really enjoyed this. The only problem was that he couldn't hear their screams when they were in that ball. And he really wanted to hear it, whenever he heard someone scream and cry his whole body tensed with joy. Then, he was happier than ever. That's why he would rather like to see the girl get out of it, they will have such painful faces. Yes, that sounded a lot better than them dying out of nowhere. So yeah, maybe he won't that hard on them.
"Maybe I should put you in one too. We can watch how your teacher died trying to protect you. Or maybe how your friends died, or maybe even that water girl over there. I can maybe create something like how you need to kill her, or you maybe just killed her by accident. Just imagine that agony, oh I love it." END was talking more to himself then to Gray. He was playing with his fingers, trying to figure out what would be more painful to Gray and more amusing to him.
"Hey flame bastard. You said you want to fight me. So fight me, don't put me in a ball like a coward." Gray shouted but the truth is he was really shaken up by the thought of him having to face his worst nightmares. Seeing Ul die, seeing Natsu, Lucy, Erza die and maybe even seeing Juvia die. No, don't think about it Gray, nothing like that will happen they are all going to be fine. But he then traced his eye to the ball where Juvia was. They are probably going to make her watch me die, damn it. And wait, is END able to control everything inside it, like he said earlier he could make me kill Juvia, does that mean he can make her kill me too. Damn it. She couldn't even forgive herself for killing my father there's no way she will survive this. Fuck. Fuck you END. I will get you out of there, both of you. Don't worry. He then looked at END and saw his angry face, his eyes were shining red and his teeth were showing, okay not teeth, fangs, they looked sharp like razors. But the problems weren't his fangs, it was the demon's powers. Even though he had devil slayer magic maybe it wasn't enough. If he failed here now.. No he didn't want to think about it. He can make it, he will make it. He will defeat END and get Natsu back. No matter what.
Juvia was laying on the ground, she couldn't move, but then someone picked her up. She slowly opened her eyes and realized she was in Gray's arms, bridal style. "G-Gray-sama!" she said in surprise with blush covering her cheeks. "Oh Juvia, I am glad you are awake. Come on, we have a lot of stuff to do. Can you stand?" she couldn't even answer, she just nodded. He put her slowly on her feet and then took her hand. "Come on, Let's go!" he said and started running pulling Juvia with him. "Where are we going Gray-sama?" "Well I promised you that we will go out to have something to eat, but then Lion interrupted us, so I thought, we not go now?" he said with a small smile. "Juvia would really like that!" she said and started running with him still holding tightly onto his hand.
After dinner at a restaurant they grabbed some ice cream and went to park. "The stars are beautiful tonight." Juvia said as she sat on the bench. She threw her head back so she can see those beautiful starts better. "Yes they really are." Gray said looking into Juvia. "Gray-sama. Juvia has a question."
"Yeah, what is it?" Gray asked coming a little bit closer to Juvia, to which she just blushed and continued talking. "Why is Gray-sama suddenly showing interest to Juvia. It's not like she's never tried to get closer you before, but you always just ignored you. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's not like Juvia doesn't like this attention, but it somehow seems weird to her." "You know you used to be such a bother, always following me around and just being annoying." Juvia knew all this, but coming from Gray's mouth it hurt much more than she thought. "But then, somewhere along the way, I don't know. I started respecting you and.. You have just always been there for you and I really appreciate that." "G-Gray-sama.." Juvia was speechless, she imagined Gray saying this so many times but now when she heard him she had no idea how to react. She just sat there motionless. "If you tell Natsu or anyone about this know that I will deny it." Gray said kind of staring at the distance. Juvia was sure she saw a blush on his face. She just smiled to that. "You got it Gray-sama." She then stared at the sky again. It really was beautiful. They just sat there in silence for couple of second and then Juvia started talking again. "Juvia is glad she is not a bother anymore to Gray-sama. That really makes her happy. Now they can really be friends."
"And maybe more." Gray said and in that moment kissed her. It took her couple of seconds to react, but she did. Gray put his hand on her back and pulled her closer and she wrapped her arms around his neck. Her whole body tensed. Having Gray's lips pressed on hers was something she dreamt about since the first time she saw him and now, now it was happening. This was probably the happiest day of her life.
"My, oh my, It looks like we have some love birds here." someone said and they both looked up. A guy in long black robe was standing in front of them, he had no face, there was just a skull. Juvia recognized him from somewhere. "Keith." She said and jumped up. "What are you doing here?!" she screamed. "Oh I just come back for a little revenge. I hope you want mind me killing you." He said, and he had face expression now would be the time when his face pulls up in a big smile.
"Tartarus." Gray just said annoyed. "You bastards!" he then turned to Juvia. "Don't worry we will take care of him together." He gave her such a smile that she was sure that everything will be okay. God, was she wrong. They both stood there, ready to attack any moment. Keith made the first move, He moved his hands and suddenly skeleton stared popping out of the ground. There were so many of them, no matter how many times they killed them just more of them showed up. They knew they needed to kill Keith if they wanna stop this, but there were so many skeletons they couldn't even get to him. After a while Juvia started getting exhausted. How long have they been fighting? It seems like eternity. She couldn't handle much more of this. In that moment a skeleton jumped at him, she pushed him away with water nebula but that took it's toll. Juvia fell on the ground with barely any magic left and that was what Keith was waiting for. He started flying above others skeletons and was now standing in front of Juvia. "Now I can finally get my revenge." Juvia was on her knees, she used up so much magic she couldn't even move, no this I not the end, this can't be. She had to the something, she had to move. But before she even managed to move a finger Keith hand was going right to her. She put up her hands trying to form a water wall or something, anything that would protect her. She then closed her eyes, she was just waiting for the impact but it never happened. When she opened her eyes she realized why. Gray was standing in front of her, staring deeply into her eyes. She was so happy to see him and then she traced her look down, on his chest, where she saw Keith's hand sticking out. In that moment Gray started coughing blood, Juvia just looked at him in horror. "Ha, I finally got you ,you bastard" Gray said and grabbed Keith's hand. "Now die!" suddenly ice stared going down Gray's palms up to Keith's hand until he was completely frozen. He then broke Keith's hand and fell on the ground. Juvia finally came back from shock. "GRAY-SAMA!" she shouted and got in top of him. Somehow this seemed as déjà vu, but she didn't know how that was possible. "Gray-sama! Gray-sama! You're gonna be fine! Evrything is going fine!" she was yelling desperately looking around trying to find someone to help, but there was no one, they were alone and her loved one was dying right in front of her. "Why did you do that Gray-sama? You idiot!" she said and tried to somehow stop his bleeding, but it was impossible. She was franticly moving around "We need to find someone, to take you somewhere! We need to-" "Juvia stop, it's too late." Gray said looking at her. "No it's not!" "Juvia please.." "No! Juvia is not going to live her life without Gray-sama! She can't! There is no way!" Now she was sobbing. This was all her fault, if she was stronger, if only. "Juvia, listen to me. You are going to be fine okay." Gray said and put his hand on her cheek. Juvia just put her hand on his. "The important thing is that you are safe, you can live on." He said with a smile. "THERE IS NO LIFE FOR JUVIA WITHOUT GRAY-SAMA! There just isn't. Juvia loves you with all her heart, she can't take this." The tears just wouldn't stop falling. She could barely talk over her sobs. Gray then pulled his hand from her cheek and up behind her neck, he then pulled her closer to him and kissed her, one last. "I love you too." In that moment his hand fell on the ground and his eyes closed. Juvia couldn't hear him breathe anymore. It was over. "Nooooooo!" she shouted and lay on top of him. She thought this might be the worst thing that could happen to her.
On the battlefield, Gray was fighting Gray. Even with his new magic he was no match. He was down on his knees. Trying to get up once again. And then he heard something crack and turned to his left. He saw the black ball cracking little by little. Finally it shattered to pieces and Lucy got out.
"Lucy!" Gray shouted in surprise.
"What?! That's not possible?! You can only get out if you accept your nightmare and overcome it. How did you?!" END asked furious. No one has never gotten out of it so fast. There's just no way.
"Well you see, that was the problem. I accepted my worst nightmare even before I entered the ball. So when I got in I just needed to use enough magic to break out of it. It's not even that hard."
"No, don't tell me. Your worst nightmare was seeing Natsu like this and being forced to fight him. Oh You bitch. I will enjoy turning you to ashes." And said and spread his wings. He underestimated him, but now he was going on full power.