* Had a dream the other night that I had to choose which anime was my favorite, Fairy Tail or Vampire Knight, and I would own my favorite. Then I woke up before I could answer, so I guess I don't own either.

Fairy Tail

General POV

Everyone was waiting for the arrival of Yukino, Rouge, and their baby girl, Hoshi. They had gotten word that Lucy had sent another message and everyone was excited to read it. Everyone was at the guild, those who had been on missions finished them as quickly as possible and others were waiting until afterwards to go on missions. There were even members from other guilds who came to came just to read Lucy's letter.

When the doors burst open, everyone was surprised to see an out-of-breath Yukino with Rouge running up to catch up to her, carrying Hoshi. Before anyone could say anything, Yukino was calling out something that no one expected.

"Gray is alive! He ended up in the same world as Lucy somehow and he's injured, but she found him! He's alive!" She yelled in a loud voice that few had ever heard before.

For a few seconds no one dared to make a sound or even breathe as what the celestial mage said resonated through the building. Then the entire guild seemed to erupt into questioning Yukino exactly what she knew and if she was sure. The crowd got louder and louder until Laxus called for silence as he made his way to her.

"Are you sure about that message?" He asked her.

She nodded. "Positive. Apparently, it just happened. According to Loke, Lucy had just finished a photo shoot with her friends and they stopped in a town on their way back to Cross Academy to eat and window shop when she felt Gray's magic. He must have been really injured because he was almost killed by something called a Level E vampire when Lucy found him. She killed the vampire and then when she realized it was Gray, she summoned Loke to tell him and send the message down the line to us. She also said that she would be taking him back to the academy with them."

Laxus spun around to look at his mate. "The mage that Gray and Juvia fought, did anyone ever catch him?" From all the research the guild had done since Lucy had disappeared, they knew that the best way to get Gray back was with the mage that had sent him to the other world in the first place. And since he was with Lucy, there was a chance that they could get her back at the same time. They just needed that mage.

Mira shook her head. "Not that I know of, everyone who has fought him has either been knocked unconscious or didn't survived to identify him... We need Juvia."

"Yes, she can ID him and I'm sure that when she hears that we could get Gray back if we find that mage, she'll help us," Laxus said, a plan forming.

"Except no one knows exactly where she is," said Erza.

"We already know that she's in the Northwest corner of the kingdom, as for where she is specifically, I can track her," Gajeel said as he stood from his table.

"Alright then," Laxus said as he climbed up the stairs to the second floor balcony. "Here's what's going to happen. Gajeel, Levy, Natsu and Erza are going to find Juvia and tell her what has happened. They are to immediately make a sketch of the mage and circulate it to all of our allies so that we have a chance to find him. As soon as we have the sketch, we are going hunting. From here on if you go on a mission, your job is to complete the mission as well as search for the mage. If you find the mage do not engage him on your own, have at least two other people with you and do not do any serious damage. We need him in good enough health to bring our family home."

"But what if Juvia doesn't believe us?" Levy asked, catching everyone's attention. "She doesn't even know that Lucy is alive right now, we need proof or else I don't think that she'll come with us."

"Take Lucy's original letter and some of the pictures, hopefully that will be enough to convince her," Mira said as she grabbed the letter and some of the pictures to give to Levy.

"It'll take four days to get to that area and probably a couple more days to track Juvia down," Gajeel called out. "If we're lucky, she'll believe us and it won't take long to convince her to help us."

"Good, if you need to take missions for money, do it now and get back quickly," Laxus continued. "I want everyone here when the sketch arrives, then I'll be dividing everyone up into teams of three to four and assigning missions in different areas to search for him. Keep a sketch with you and ask everyone you can if they have seen him."

"Master Sting has already said that the Sabertooth guild will assist you any way we can," Yukino told them, a small smile gracing her lips. When Libra had appeared at the guild with the news, it had been quite the uproar. Sting had calmed everyone down and instructed them to deliver the news to Fairy Tail right away. Rufus had wanted to accompany them, seeing as he and Gray had become friends over the years, but Sting had ordered him to stay back so they could coordinate with the rest of the guild and their allies.

Master Laxus inclined his head to them. "Please let him know that we appreciate his willingness to help and we will take him up on the offer so that he can assist us in the search for the mage."

"We'll leave as soon as we're packed," Erza stated before looking at Natsu, Levy and Gajeel. Levy was running out the door to pack while Gajeel talked to Lisanna about watching Grace and Renzo. Natsu had stayed long enough to give his mate and kids each a kiss before he was running out the door to grab his bag. Erza turned to kiss her husband and daughter before she was running to their house for her own luggage.

Laxus was hopeful. After Lucy being gone for over fifteen years, and the death of the mage that had sent her away, there had been little hope in bringing her home. But now that they knew that Gray was alive and with Lucy, there was a chance. Even if it wasn't possible to bring them home, at least they were alive and together. If they could bring even one of them home, he would consider that a victory. Lucy, Gray, hang in there. Hopefully we'll be bringing you home soon.

Moon Dorm

Lucy POV

It had been a long drive back to the dorm and I was close to freaking out the entire way. I couldn't believe Gray was here, he was hurt and unconscious in my arms, but he was here and alive. When we got back to the dorm, Senri helped me carry him up to my room and I called out Virgo to patch him us as best as she could and go down to the kitchen and fix some of Gray's favorite foods for when he woke up.

I had expected to be fielding a lot of questions about who he was and what he was doing here, but there were surprising few people. The only ones who came were Lord Kaname, Hikaru, Takuma and Aidou; they seemed unsure of what they were seeing until I pulled the sheets I had covered him with down enough so they could see his guild mark.

"Who is he? I presume that you are from the same guild since you share the same guild mark," Lord Kaname said as he stepped closer the look over my injured friend.

"His name is Gray Fullbuster, he's one of my teammates," I told him as I pointed to the picture of me and my team on my bedside table. "He's the mage that was said to have died about three or four years ago in Fiore, but he must have been sent here the same way I was."

"Are you sure that it's him? It seems more than coincidental that he would end up in the same world as you did and so close to each other geographically," Takuma commented as he looked from Gray to the photo on the nightstand.

I nodded. "I thought the same thing. But if someone was trying to do a double of him from my memories, they would have made him look like he did the last time I saw him. But he doesn't, he looks the age he would have when he disappeared. Plus, he has the scars in all the right places from the fights we've been in, his skin is cool from his magic, and he was missing his shirt when we ound him."

"What does missing his shirt have to do with it?" Aidou asked.

I couldn't help but giggle. "Gray has a stripping habit. He doesn't mean to, but he strips because when his mentor was teaching him and Lyon magic she would have them running through the snow in only their underwear. It got to the point where he got into the habit of doing it unconsciously, he won't even realize he's done it until one of us tell him." I looked back down at my friend, fighting back happy tears. "A fake Gray could try to copy scars and might even have figured out a way to lower his body temperature to match, but I only know of two people who can strip so easily and that's Lyon and Gray. That's not something that you can fake, not when you know them and where they learned it from."

The unconscious mage moaned as he shifted beneath the sheets and reached up to rub his eyes with the heel of his hand. Right away, I was leaning over him. "Gray, are you okay? Can you talk to me?"

His blue eyes slowly cracked open as he glanced around the room before resting on me. He continued to stare at me for a moment before reaching out with his hand to touch my arm. "Am I dead?" He asked, his voice was a bit deeper than I remembered. I smiled and shook my head. "Then I'm dreaming. You died, you died twelve years ago."

I shook my head again. "I never died, I was sent to another world just like Natsu and Wendy told you."

"But it's been twelve years, and you haven't aged," Gray argued as he tried to sit up and grimaced in pain.

I gently pushed him back down onto the bed. "Time moves differently in this world. Remember when we went to the Celestial world? We were there for one day but three months passed in our world. It's like that here, except one day here equals one year back home. So I've only been here for a little over two weeks."

It seemed to take a minute for him to process that information. Then his eyes narrowed on me in suspicion. "If you're really Lucy, then what was the first thing that I ever said to you?"

I laughed and blushed. "I had just walked into Fairy Tail with Natsu and Happy when Natsu started a fight. You jumped into the brawl in just your boxers while I was doing my best to avoid the fight. The next thing I know, you come flying in my direction and crash through a table totally naked while Natsu is grinning at you with your boxers in his hand. Then you look me in the eye and with the straightest expression ever, you ask me if you could borrow my underwear."

I watched as tears fell from Gray's eyes and he sat up to wrap me in a bone-crushing hug. "And you replied by hitting me as hard as you could and calling me a pervert. Lucy, I can't believe you're here."

Hugging him back, I did the best I could to ignore the blushes and drop-jaw expressions from my friends. As far as first impressions go, that was probably the most comical. But then, my first impression of all of them hadn't been the best either.

"I should be saying the same thing to you," I told him as I was trying to hold back tears of my own. "I heard from Fairy Tail that you died on a mission with Juvia four years ago in their world."

Gray sat back to look at her. "You found a way to communicate with them?"

"Only figured it out yesterday, that's how I found out about the time difference and that you had died," I explained. "And before you ask, I already sent word back to Fairy Tail that you're here and you're alive. If you're lucky, they'll find the mage that sent you here and they'll be able to bring you home."

"What happened to Juvia?" He asked me. I could tell that he was trying to sound casual, but there was an edge to his voice that told me that he was worried about the rain woman and what might have happened to her after he disappeared.

"She wasn't harmed but your 'death' really got to her. She disappeared from the guild but they think that she's in the Northwest region of the country. They say that two weeks after your funeral, it started raining there and it hasn't stopped since." The news noticeably affected him, he reached up to touch the center of his chest and it was only then that I noticed that he wasn't wearing his silver cross necklace and I smiled at him. "So you she finally got you to fall in love with her."

He didn't answer, instead he looked past me at the other people in the room. "Who are they?"

"These are the people who found me when I landed in front of their dorm," I smiled at them with affection before I started introducing everyone. "These are my friends Hikaru, Aidou, Takuma and Kaname. Believe it or not, they're all vampires."

After what I had seen, I should have known better than to tell Gray what they were, but if he was going to be staying with us for the next few days he was going to find out eventually. His reaction was almost immediate as he grabbed my arm and pulled me behind him. To their credit, the others didn't react. I had already explained to them when we arrived that Gray was being attacked by a Level E vampire when we found him, so that was all he had to go on.

Grabbing his arm, I forced him to let go of me and then turned his head so he was looking directly at me. "Listen to me, they're my friends and they've been taking care of me since I got here. They haven't hurt me and they won't hurt you either. The vampire that attacked you is something else completely."

"It was a Level E vampire," Kaname said as he watched Gray closely. "They are considered beasts who have lost their grip on humanity and only know how to kill. If I were to guess, I'd say that that was not the first vampire that you have dealt with since you arrived."

Gray stared at Kaname for a moment before answering. "It was the sixth. They've been after me practically since I got here."

"It's because of your blood," Takuma explained. "We've discovered from Lucy that the smell of mage blood is very enticing and can challenge the control of even the strongest vampire. That's why only the four of us are in here, the others were unsure if they would be able to control their thirst and did not want to risk upsetting Lucy by attacking her friend."

Gray's eyes narrowed on the vampires in the room for a moment before he looked back to Lucy. "They haven't harmed you?"

I smiled and shook my head. "Of course not, Kaname gave Loke his word to keep me safe and Hikaru even appointed himself as my bodyguard just in case. This place has become my new home and I've made a lot of new friends too."

He watched my expression closely as I spoke, then he nodded to me before looking back to the others. "Thank you for taking care of her," he said, his voice sincere. "I may not know any of you, but if Lucy says that I can trust you, then I believe her. If there's anything I can do for all of you while I'm here, just tell me."

Kaname nodded. "Lucy said the same thing when she arrived."

There was a flash of light and everyone turned to see Loke standing at the end of the bed. the Lion spirit was grinning as he walked up and gave Gray a gentle slap on the shoulder. "Man, you had us worried. And I should sock you in the jaw for making Lucy cry when she thought you were dead."

"After I'm healed up some more, then the two of us can fight it out," he told him with a smile.

"You might not get the chance," Loke grinned. "I just got word from Libra, they found Juvia and convinced her that you're both alive and in another world. The entire guild and our allies are searching for the mage that sent you here. Once they find him, they'll have the key to bringing you back and they might even be able to bring Lucy back with you."

A thrill shot through me. There really was a chance for me and Gray to go home. I could see Natsu, Erza and all the rest of my family again. I could meet their kids and tell them stories that their parents don't want them to know. I could tell the guild about the world of vampires and my experiences here. Now, if only there was a way for me to not feel like I was abandoning my new friends for my old friends.

A/N: Aren't you all so glad that Gray is alive? I know I am, I just couldn't bring myself to kill him. Next chapter will be another mix between what's happening in Fairy Tail and what's going on with Lucy and Gray. I have a feeling that Juvia is going to be very... motivated to get her beloved Gray back.