Summary: Ice Mages are going missing, disappearing in alleyways next to words written in dripping blood. Gray was their next target, now he's gone and Fairy Tail isn't too happy about him missing. How will they get him back? How long will they have until he is gone forever?

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Warnings: Cussing, a little OOC (hopefully not), slight grammar and spelling errors (sorry)

Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail, but if I did there would be more friendship moments between Gray and Natsu.

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The world was quiet, the sounds that he could hear moments ago halted along with his breath.

In a burst of orange and red, small flames crackled to life. The small flames rocked and rolled, floating above his heated skin and the tips of the orange waves flicked with irritation. They started at his enraged clenched fists, before quickly racing up his arms and turning to smoke as it touched his clothing.

His head was cast downwards so shadows could hover over his eyes, almost as if they had wanted to shield him from the sight - but they couldn't. The scene before his was forever drawn into his mind, locked and sealed away. Though is eyes burned with rage and anger, they danced with confusion.

Blank. His mind was blank. He couldn't think, couldn't feel, couldn't smell, couldn't hear, couldn't understand what the hell what he was looking at. So, he clenched his jaw in frustration and developed a hellish snarl that rattled his throat. Then he felt a pinch of pain and he looked down at his left hand. His fingernails were pained in red. Small ovals of crimson liquid sprouted from his palm. Nonetheless, he ignored it and found panicked words floating in the air.

"Oh god…oh god – god," Chelia repeated in dread. Her hands were now covering her mouth in fright and she took an unstable step back, "This, oh god…Natsu."

Natsu tore his eyes away from the dry puddle and looked at the frightened girl.

Chelia felt tears prick the corners of her eyes, "Natsu," she whispered, "It's…it's – oh god – we just thought."

"What?" Natsu whispered his voice dark and shaking, his jaw clenched again as he looked up revealing a chilling eye from the shadows.

"We – I - just thought...I didn't think – at all!" Chelia suddenly collapsed to her knees and she kept her eyes on the blood caked cracks between the stone. "I heard they found those words on the wall…I just – I didn't." She slowly leaned forward and placed her head on the ground. Feeling the tears rush down her face, she let out a sob. "I didn't think it had to do with Lyon."

Natsu then raced his eyes to the writing. It was dry and with dripping letters written in blood. With each line that formed themselves into words, Natsu couldn't hold back the snarl in vehemence.

Ice Dragon.

Then the word shattered before his very eyes after he charged his fist into the building. He was angry, furious, pissed, fuming, enraged, hell he wasn't just one stage of anger, he was multiple. Pulling out his brick debris covered fist, Natsu slowly breathed in. He couldn't, he just couldn't lose his cool now, because Gray was hurt and missing – maybe he was even… Natsu shook his head while he intertwined his fingers in his salmon pink locks. No, Gray was alright, he had to be.

As he bent down and tore the shimmering red caked necklace from the puddle of dry blood, Natsu couldn't help his hands from shaking and a dark feeling wash over him as it left his throat clenching in fear.

Ten day since Gray disappeared.

His limbs felt like lead. Arms, fingers, feet, toes, head, eyelids, they all felt so very, very heavy. He tried to sit up, but even with all his might he couldn't even lift a finger. Then, to his surprise, he could blink, his eyes fluttered open for a single comforting moment, before a harsh light attacked his sight and he forced his eyes shut. It wasn't every day that this happened, so Gray started to worry.

Without opening his eyes, Gray studied his surroundings, though he stopped as soon as he started. All he felt was a cold surface below him, so he allowed himself to panic, but only to an extent. Gray willed his breath to slow. He blinked open with precaution and took in his surroundings.

There wasn't much to look at.

A bright bulb of shimmering yellow hovered above him, no string held it in place as it jumped up and down in a snail like pace. Looking beyond the gleaming ball of light, Gray could only gaze so far into the darkness before the light was sucked away and turned into a back splash of ghostly shadows.

He felt his limbs move in flustered awareness.

Gray willed his lead filled neck to the side and took in the mud dripping walls. Dirt filled water droplets fell down the aged tarnished walls that were pained a grime filled silver. Picking up his left shoulder, Gray slowly rolled over, only to fall off of the cold platform beneath him and onto the puddled flooring. Gray landed on his side with a harsh smack, though before he could stop himself a whimper flew past his lips – however it was to quite to register in his ears. He shut his eyes quickly when he felt his side slide in different direction. Then he felt a small tear and he shot his eyes open in panic. Looking down at his side, the edge of a wound ripped and blood sprouted from between the reddened skin. Shit, Gray thought.

After a few minutes of work, Gray managed to push himself up to his feet, despite the shaking of his legs. He felt like an idiot as he leaned heavily on the steel table and his legs shook like a newborn fawn. Pressing his hand, that had been stained by the muddy puddle, to his newly open gash, Gray looked around the room before setting his sights on a door. However, before he could take a step forward, the door squeaked open and a man stepped through.

The man smiled warmly before opening his mouth to speak. However, Gray raised a brow in confusion as no words reached his ears. Blinking, Gray knitted his eyebrows together and stabilized himself into an attack stance.

Raising a brow, the man spoke and then paused. Gray watched as the man stepped forward and took hold of his chin. Smiling again the man snapped his fingers and sounds boomed in Gray's ears. Gray's eyes shot open in fear as a scream of pure agony reverberated around the room. Gray yanked his chin out of the man's hold in a quick tug, but quickly fell backwards as he was unable to keep his balance.

"My, my, you are quite jumpy," the man spoke.

"…what the hell?" Gray touched his right ear and glanced around the room, trying to locate the never ending scream.

"Calm down, you are not going next," the man spoke as he lifted his top hat and bowed slowly. "I presumed you were going to sleep for the next day or two, but since you are awake…" The man trailed off and looked at the floating ball of light. "But," he looked back at Gray, "Since you are awake, we can make arrangement for you to go next."

Gray swallowed thickly before grabbing onto the table and hauling himself back up. "What the fuck is going on?"

"My, you do seem to still have spunk." The man looked at the bleed side of the Ice Mage. "Yes, we will need to use you soon, that wound will surely be the end of you if we do not clean it soon. You were quite banged up when I brought you here. Many of my doctors were able to heal you but not to the extent were they could close that gash." The man placed his hat on the table as another scream ripped through the walls. The man studied Gray's features as he heard the sound. The Ice Mages shoulders trembled, his grip on the side of the table tightened and dark blue eyes shot around the room in what seemed like panic. "I will…speak with my people and see what they think. We don't want your power going to waste."

Gray shot his eyes toward the man and growled, "My power? What the hell are you talking about, bastard." His voice began to shake with rage, "You ass, what the hell is wrong with you? Fuck, goddammit – what the hell did you do to me?" Before he knew where the gust of wind came from, Gray was smashed into the wall and the crash echoed throughout the room. His feet left the floor and a cold boned hand wrapped around his neck – lifting him off the ground. Forgetting the dripping gash on his side, Gray tried desperately to pull the hand away from his neck, but to no avail. He choked and saliva sprang out of his mouth as he gasped for the air that was taken from him.

"You are a helpless little runt," the man whispered harshly, his eyes burning with rage. "I might as well kill the silver haired Ice Mage right now, so you can take his place."

"…W-what?" Gray's eyes shot open in fear, "What did you…say?"

"Forget saving you for last," the man spat, his face drawing down into a devil like sneer. "You are not worth the trouble." Growling, the man lifted Gray higher into the air before slamming him into the ground with such force, the tile below caved in and cracks raced across the floor in alarmed lightning bolt lines. Standing up, the man fixed his jacket and curled the tip of his mustache, "Looks as if I will need a different Ice Mage to replace this filth." Looking away from the panting Ice Mage, the man looked back towards the floating ball of light and smiled. "Aide, please let Lyon rest for the next day or two. I would like to drain this one before he makes more trouble."

Sorry for the shortness :(

A/N: I was going to continue from here with Erza, Lucy and Natsu to how they are doing after ten days of not finding Gray. However, to me the work seemed too enforced so I didn't want to leave you guys with what that. Also, I couldn't (and currently) really think, so the paragraphs were short and not really flowing like I wanted them to. Anyway, if you enjoyed it please tell me what you enjoyed. If you have suggestions for the next chapter on what you would like to read, I will look over it and hopefully be able to put it in the story. Plus I didn't look over the last section with Gray…because I'm tired and lazy…so sorry and please forgive the bad writing if there is some.

A/N(2): My updates will usually be either Friday or Saturday, and if I miss a week I will hopefully be able to come back the next week and update that. I may have a good reason I or I may just be like, "I'm lazy…shrugs." Anyway!

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