Hello everyone! Thank you all for the support, it makes my day everytime I see your comments or the story stats. ^^ Fast update huh? This is the chapter where we learn Juvia's secret! I think this is gonna be a pretty big bomb falling at the end of the chapter! Hope you enjoy it! :D Read and review to tell me your opinion. Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail (even if I wanted to :P) And sorry if it's too long, but when I have inspiration I just can't stop writing. Enjoy :)


Everything was total black. Juvia could see nothing further than her figure. Her eyes struggled to adjust to the darkness, but she just couldn't do it. She wandered around trying to find an exit but there was nothing. She felt empty and sad into this black hole and she didn't know how she got there. The last thing she remembered was falling asleep right after Totomaru's mysterious visit into her prison cell.

"Is this one of Master Jose's wicked tricks?" she murmured to herself walking slowly through the darkness. She lost track of time being into this black mess and she had started to feel the despair devour the inside of her body.

"Hello? Is anybody there?" she yelled into the unknown, but she got nothing but silence as a response. She was completely alone.

After a long time that seemed like forever, she felt a light breeze stroke her hair and a sudden chill creep under her skin. Suddenly a dark figure that came out of nowhere started to emerge from the shadows. She forced her eyes to see through the dark filter, but she failed miserably.

"Who are you?" she asked desperately, but the figure didn't respond.

"Please help me! I wanna get out of here!" she was so stressed she didn't understand that she was talking in first person.

When she didn't receive an answer she tried to approach the figure in vain. As much she was trying to approach him, so much he was moving away. Like they were connected with an invisible stick and the distance between them couldn't get reduced. Before realizing it, she felt her feet stick onto the ground. She couldn't move anymore and the figure stood safely into the shadows.

"Please help me get out of here. I have to warn my friends. They are in danger." She felt hot tears fall onto her pinkish cheeks and sweat crawling under her blue hair.

"What's your name?" she heard a deep male voice asking her and caught her by surprise. She tried hardly to process his voice; it was the first time she heard the figure speaking after all. The voice seemed familiar, like someone she knew very well. Like…

"My name is Juvia." With her response, the figure came immediately out of the shadows revealing the true face of her company. She felt like losing her voice when she saw who the dark figure was. She blinked and pinched her arm so as to exclude the possibility of dreaming. When she was sure he was real, she tried to approach him one more time. This time the man didn't run away. She stood a few feet opposite to him and stared at him intensely with watery eyes.

"Gray-sama?" she asked, her voice almost a whisper.

"I had a friend once with the same name. Juvia Lockser. She was a water mage." He added like he hadn't heard her. "She looked a lot like you." The sentences were colorized by the sadness in his voice.

"It's me, Gray-sama. It's Juvia!" She couldn't restrain her tears anymore.

"She looked a lot like you. But now she's dead." He said ignoring her again.

"No Gray-sama. Juvia is alive!"

"She abandoned me, you know. She left me all alone facing the difficulties by myself. She told me that she loved me, but she left without thinking twice. What woman would do that? What woman will let her supposed love of her life alone and depressed?" his eyes were full of sorrow and disappointment.

"It's not like that, Gray-sama. Juvia only wanted to keep you safe. She loves Fairy Tail. She loves you."

"It's a lie. All of it was a lie. She tricked me to fall in love with her and then she told me that she hated me. She had been sent to torture me."

"No! No! Juvia would never do that! Juvia would never want to torture you!"

"She left me all alone…" his voice trailed off and the icy temperature made Juvia shiver.

"Gray-sama, please look at Juvia. Look at me!" his eyes finally reached her and met with her ocean blue eyes. His expression started to change and instead of happiness, acknowledgement and love, Juvia saw his sorrow change into hatred and revenge.

"It is you." He hissed towards her, his tone full of anger.

"What is it Gray-sama?"

"How do you dare to face me? How do you dare to talk to me? Even look at me?"

"Why do you talk to Juvia like that, Gray-sama?" she tried to take a step backwards, but her legs couldn't move because she was too frightened to do so.

"You are such a little sneaky, scoundrel, cunning bitch! You pretend that you don't know what I am talking about?" he took a step forward and came closer to Juvia.

"I don't know what you are talking about." She tried hard not to cry again.

"Let me fill you in then." He growled ironically. "I hate you! I hate you with all my existence. Every pore of my body despises you! You hurt me so much! I will never forget what you've done to me!" he yelled with his angry voice echoing into her ears.

"No, this can't be happening…" Juvia couldn't believe what she just heard. She tried to remember the time she said that she hated Gray, but the memory slipped continuously through her mind. No way was she so harsh with him. She certainly hadn't talked to him that way! Why he was talking to her like that right now? She felt her heart crumble into million pieces. This couldn't be happening.

While she was lost in her own thoughts trying to understand what she had done to Gray and he hated her so much, she felt a firm hand on her arm and a cold blade penetrating her stomach. When she realized what happened it was too late to change her body into water. Maybe she didn't want to. Gray had just stabbed her with his Ice Make Dagger and he seemed to enjoy it. His eyes were full of hatred and disgust and another sentiment that scared Juvia the most. It was pleasure. He felt pleasure while killing her! "What have I done to deserve a fate like this?" she thought into her head before collapsing in front of her love of her life.

"You should have stayed dead!" Gray laughed hysterically. "Anyway, I finished the job now and you will not bother me again." He turned to leave but he felt something dry onto his leg. Juvia, with all the strength she had, tried to hold on to him.

"Please Gray-sama don't go! Don't leave Juvia alone! You wouldn't do such a thing. This is not you!"

"You don't know me at all. Now that I got rid of you, I will finally leave happily. I exchanged your death for my life." He threw away her hand from his leg and he left from the scene, leaving Juvia alone, bleeding and scared. She was watching Gray walking away when her vision started to blur and she finally sank into darkness.

Juvia opened her eyes screaming. She was once again into her cell prison, tied onto the bed with the rope that cancelled her magic. She felt the sweat roll on all over her face and fierce tears threaten to pour out of her eyes. That was only a dream. A very bad nightmare. She was relieved to think that this was only a dream. But it felt so vivid. She remembered Gray's touch onto her arm, Gray's harsh voice, the hatred into his eyes, his dagger sinking into her flesh ripping her apart. What had just happened?

"Why you mess with my toys Cobra?" a young male asked quietly. Juvia looked quizzically around the room and found two young men sitting near the door.

"We need her alive, Midnight. She will be no use if you kill her." The man with the crimson hair named Cobra told to the man with black and white hair named Midnight.

"I was just messing around. Her brain is quite interesting and I was getting bored watching over her sleeping form. So I thought that I could play a little bit. She amused me a lot you know. She loves an ice mage and I made her worst nightmares about him come true." He let a loud laugh come out of his mouth.

"If you mess up with Jose's plans, your father will kill you and I will not do anything to stop him." He giggled.

"Who are you?" Juvia asked out of a sudden, surprising the two young men who were guarding her. So this creepy man with the red eyes was the one who created this illusion into my head, Juvia thought and vowed to get revenge from this bastard.

"My toy woke up. Look what you've done Cobra." Midnight said pretending to be dissatisfied.

"Tell me who you are!" Juvia demanded.

"You are in no place of demanding something, you little sneaky fairy." Midnight laughed ironically on his own comment, while Cobra watched him pretty amused.

"I am Cobra and this is Midnight. We were from a very powerful dark guild called Oracion Seis. But after our defeat from the Fairies and the other light guilds, the rest of the dark mages started to humiliate us, make fun of us. They made us feel like trash because we couldn't win the disgusting Fairies. But now we have joined forces with other two dark guilds and we are invincible." Cobra's voice sounded very pleased.

"Well, it seems that you don't learn from your mistakes. Even if I die trying to stop your evil plans, my friends will stop you. And then you are going to regret every single crime you committed." Juvia growled angrily. She was mad because she knew that Midnight was the one messing with her mind. She couldn't control the anger that was rising inside of her and she felt the urge to turn into her Sierra form. But those damn ropes that held her back didn't let her use her magic.

"I think that we can play a little more with her Midnight." Cobra hissed to Midnight pretending to ignore Juvia's comment. "I am sure Brain won't mind." He added and threw poison at Juvia's open wounds.


~Inside a room far away from Juvia's prison cell~

A man with long black hair caught in a ponytail and a blue-white uniform entered Jose's office and he was clearly irritated.

"I think we have a problem." the man said to Jose who was sitting relaxed behind his office and was enjoying Juvia's screams that echoed through the whole building. And this was a huge building, so imagine how much pain Juvia endured at the moment.

"Don't worry Bluenote. Everything is under control." Jose sighed.

"These idiots from Oracion Seis are going to kill her if they continue like this. They torture her severely. We need her alive."

"I know very well that we need her alive. But she is very powerful. She will endure it. Let them enjoy their game for now."

Bluenote didn't like the idea of letting those pathetic excuses for mages to torture their enemy. If they wanted to call Acnologia and take revenge, they had to keep her alive. He hated to back off, but he could do nothing more at that time.

"If she dies, I will kill them with my own hands."

"Believe me, I will be the first to beat them to death. I will not let anyone to mess with my plans." Jose stated calmly and turned his back to Bluenote so as to watch out of the window. The huge waterfall rolled fiercely into the lake and the cave with the pattern of the teardrop emerged graciously behind the water. On the edge of the lake an enormous metallic cross was built with an inscription engraved on it and a huge gold bowl below it. "On this huge cross this little disgusting worm will be sacrificed and I will finally get what I deserve." he thought and let a sly smile form onto his face.


Everything was ready for the ritual. The cross had been stabilized next to the lake, the bowl that would collect Juvia's blood had been polished and purified and almost all the members of the dark guild had been gathered to the grounds of the ritual. Jose was watching carefully the preparations by the window when Erigor came running into his office.

"Master we have a problem." He growled impatiently.

"I knew it was too good to be true." He murmured to himself. "What happened, Erigor?"

"The Fairies are approaching, Master. They are half an hour away. They will be here for the ritual." He hissed angrily.

"Inform the mages that use the runes and tell them to make an impenetrable barrier around the grounds of the ritual. We have the best. They will not be able to go through it."

"Maybe I should take some mages with me and go after the fairies…" Erigor tried to say, but Jose cut him off.

"No, let them come. I want them to see the true power that I will unleash." Jose smiled slyly. "Moreover, I need every mage available for the ritual. This is going to be very dangerous and I need all the support I can get." With a nod from his hand Erigor left the room. Jose who was still staring at the big metallic cross smirked ironically. "We will meet again Makarov. And this time I will make you regret the day you were born."


After two days of travelling, Fairy Tail finally reached its destination. The trip was very tiring, but fortunately the Fairies had the opportunity to rest for the night. They were ready for battle and determined to take their nakama back. Gray felt a little less desperate when he saw the waterfall rising behind the hill and knew that they were finally where they had to be. They would save Juvia no matter what. He watched more carefully the scenery that unfolded in front of him and spotted a huge building near the waterfall. "This is probably the building where they hold Juvia." Master Makarov stated. "Juvia needs us. Let's not make her wait." He added and he walked decisively ahead with the rest of his children following him. "Juvia I' m coming for you. Please fight for me and stay alive." Gray murmured to himself and felt his heart beats rising.

While approaching to the ritual's grounds, the fairies got shocked seeing the scenery in front of them. In front of the lake where the waterfall landed its water, a huge metallic cross was built and Juvia was tied on it. She seemed exhausted and she had some serious wounds all over her body. She was currently watching, with her ocean blue eyes full of tears, the huge bowl that was placed below her, ready to accept her blood. A huge mass of people was surrounding her fragile form, but they could not recognize anyone because they were still far away. They approached the ritual grounds with the sentiments of anger and revenge boiling inside of them. No one could imagine what Juvia had to endure during the past two days. The only thing they wanted was to take her back and avenge for her torture.

When they were close enough to Juvia, they examined their enemies' faces and got even more shocked when they came to recognize who their enemies were. Jose from Phantom Lord, Brain from Oracion Seis and Bluenote from Grimoire Heart were standing next to her waiting for the right moment to cut her vains and let her blood slip into the bowl. They also recognized all the remaining members from the three dark guilds that they have fought before standing into the crowd of mages and humans. Aria, Sol and Totomaru from Phantom Lord were standing lazily under the cross until the ritual begins. Midnight, Cobra and Angel from Oracion Seis were standing skeptically on the edge of the lake. Finally, Rustyrose, Kain Hikaru, Yomazu and Kawazu from Grimoire Heart were guarding the perimeter always being in alert.

Gray couldn't believe what he had just witnessed. All their previous major enemies were reunited so as to take revenge on Fairy Tail? What possible threat they would face? He remembered that every time they fought with each dark guild they had won with a slight difference. How they would possibly win if they faced the three of them simultaneously? Just for one second, he felt uncertain of their fate but he dismissed that thought immediately. They were Fairy Tail. They fight for their nakamas and that is what matters in the end. It would be difficult at first, but they would definitely win.

"What the fuck is going on?" Gajeel yelled and got the attention from their enemies.

"What are you doing here Jose?" Master Makarov asked with a very angry voice.

"Welcome fairies. Have you come to witness our ritual?" the ex-Phantom Lord said calmly.

"We have come to take back Juvia, you bastard!" Gajeel was ready to explode because of his anger.

"Calm down Gajeel. It is not good to get angry. But again, I do not really care. You cannot do anything to stop the ceremony." The fairy Tail mages watched Jose laughing hysterically with disgust.

"We will see about that!" He yelled and run with all his might towards Juvia. Before running a long distance, Gajeel fell onto the invisible barriers that forbid him to move forward. When he touched the invisible barrier, purple letters started to appear in the air forming words only a rune mage could understand.

"What the hell is this?" Gajeel hissed angrily.

"They are runes. And they are very powerful ones." Fried pointed out with a serious tone.

"You thought that I would let you mess up with my plans again?" Jose continued to laugh.

"Give us Juvia back and we will spare your lives." Master Makarov stated surprisingly calm.

"I don't think that we will do that." Bluenote added with his face blank from any sentiment or expression.

"I will break through this fucking wall." Gajeel started to punch the barrier with his iron fists but he could not make even a scratch.

"This isn't going to work." Erigor came out of nowhere and approached Gajeel from inside the barrier.

"Erigor what are you doing here?" Gray asked even more surprised.

"Are you surprised to see me Gray?" Erigor asked ironically. "Where is Natsu? I have to close some open business from the past. This time I will be the one who wins."

"I am sorry that I will let you down but Natsu is not here. Let me be the one who kicks your ass instead." Gray threatened Erigor, but he just ignored him.

"Levy and Fried get to work. We have to get through this barrier to save Juvia." Master Makarov ordered and the two mages started to read the runes.

"You will not make it in time. We will complete the ritual before you can save your precious water mage." Brain smirked.

"We will get her back and then you will gonna end up dead. And you know how I know that? I know that because I am going to kill you with my own hands!" Gray yelled with rage boiling his guts. He wanted to go to Juvia, to take her down from that creepy cross. He wanted to hug her and comfort her. He wanted to tell her that everything is going to be alright. But before doing that, he had to deal with all those assholes that dared to hurt her. He would make them suffer ten times more than they made Juvia suffer.

"Juvia! Juvia we are here! We have come to save you! I am here for you!" Gray yelled with all his might and Juvia heard him. At first she believed that she was dreaming again, that Midnight messed with her head, but her heart told her that it was true. She raised her eyes and saw all of her friends standing across the lake and watching her with worried faces. She recognized Gajeel hitting the air with his iron fists, Master Makarov with Cana and Mirajane beside him and all the other members of Fairy Tail waiting patiently an order from their master. Finally she saw Gray standing next to Laxus and watching her with worried and sad eyes. She was relieved to see his face once more and anxious at the same time because she didn't want anything bad to happen to him. She loved him so much she couldn't stand the possibility of someone hurting her ice mage. If he ended up wounded, her sacrifice would have been done in vain.

"Gray" she whispered, trying to save all the strength she had left for an upcoming battle. Her friends had come determined to take her back and they wouldn't leave without her.

"Give her back you bastard!" Gray yelled furiously and joined Gajeel at punching the rune barrier. He punched, he kicked, he used his ice make magic but he couldn't even make it crack. He felt his magic power reduce but he had to continue. They didn't have much time. While kicking a part of the barrier next to Gajeel, he felt a warm hand onto her arm. He turned his face and saw Mirajane smiling worryingly at him.

"Stop it you two." She said at her nakamas. "You won't be able to help her if you run out of magic power." Gray and Gajeel growled but silently agreed.

"Why do you need Juvia for the ritual?" Cana asked a question that should have been asked from the first second they arrived.

"It seems to me that you don't know how special your friend really is, huh?"

"What do you mean, disgusting worm?" Gajeel was ready to explode because of his anger.

"Well, let me just fill you in then. It will be very entertaining to see your faces when you'll find out how strong Juvia really is, even though she doesn't remember it." Jose smiled slyly once again.

"Tell us why you need her Jose!" Makarov asked. He had started to lose his patience and this was obvious into the tone of his voice.

"Let's start from the beginning, shall we? Don't be impatient Makarov. I will get there." Jose seemed to enjoy the whole situation.

"It is possible that you don't remember it, but a long time ago, when dragons ruled this earth, the most powerful family of the dragon's element made a blood contract with him and could use his help when they were in need of him. The Lockser Family was the most powerful water mages in Earthland. Juvia's ancestors were the strongest elemental mages and because of their power, they made a blood contract with the Water Dragon. Juvia's family was well-known for their relationship with the water dragon and every water mage respected them and admired them."

"And why are you teaching us history right now, you jackass?"

"Gajeel be patient please. I think I know where Jose is getting it." Master Makarov suggested.

"You will learn soon enough what I am talking about." Jose smirked ironically and continued his lecture. "A year before the dragons' disappearance, the water dragon died in a fight with Zeref and Acnologia. Because of the dragon's death, the world's balance got disturbed and it had to be restored before Acnologia would destroy the world. The time came and Juvia's parents decided to sacrifice their lives and turn themselves into the next water dragons. They could do it because of their blood contract with the original water dragon. They gave away their daughter to people they trusted, even though they didn't want to lose her. After saying goodbye to their beloved Juvia for once and for all, they made the ritual that turned them permanently into dragons and went to face Zeref and Acnologia.

It was a cruel battle and Juvia's parents won with a slight difference, wounded seriously Acnologia and put Zeref to sleep. But an unpleasant event overshadowed their victory. Juvia's father died because of his deep wounds. Juvia's mother tried to bring him back to life with her tears but she didn't make it. You see, a dragon tear can bring a human back to life. But it doesn't work on dragons. Neither Aquamarina can bring a dragon back to life nor can Acnologia kill a dragon with death magic. She buried him in the bottom of this very lake and she put herself to sleep into this cave." He stated and showed the cave with the teardrop shape behind the waterfall.

"My mother's name was Aquamarina? And we are standing next to my father's grave?" Juvia was shocked from what she had just heard as well as the rest of the fairy Tail members. No one could believe what they had just heard, expect for Master Makarov.

"Yes water mage. What you heard is true." Brain stated simply.

"Why do you need her now? All those facts belong to the past! They are ancient history!" Makarov was the only one who could speak from the Fairy Tail part. The others were too shocked to even make a sound.

"Water symbolizes life and a water dragon is the only one that can beat Acnologia. But for summoning the dragon we have to use a certain dragon slayer's blood and chant the magic words that can put her under our control. After the end of the ritual, the dragon has to defeat the dragon slayer and kill him so as to stay awake. That's why we need Juvia. We will use her so as to wake her mother from her deep sleep."

"You mean that…" Gray couldn't even finish his thought before Jose speaks again.

"Yes you pathetic ice mage. Juvia is the water dragon slayer."


A/N: I don't think that you saw that coming! Juvia is the water dragon slayer! Are we gonna see her mother awake in the next chapter? Will there be a fight between mother and daughter or the disaster will be avoided at the last minute? Let's wait and see what will happen ;) ... RxR :D