Authors note: I do not own Fairytail, or any of these characters.

Chapter 1

If you can come closer,

I can seize my revenge.

If you take one more step,

I can promise you death.

Give her one last kiss,

And I'll take your last breath.

Steal my heart again,

And all rip yours from your chest.

It's only fair to take back what's been stolen.

Gray Fullbuster strolled through the well traversed streets of Magnolia. The newly rebuilt Fairy-tail guild jutted out in the path before him. A rosy haired boy walked parallel to him, keeping several paces between the two mages. On the pink haired boy's shoulder Happy, a small blue, winged cat perched, his brown eyes closing drowsily.

"Why are we up so early again?" The blue exceed complained resting his head on his master's neck.

"Our job is in the next city, the only way we'll make it in time is to leave now." The ice mage explained, tilting his head back lazily to admire the peachy sun that had just begun to creep into the sky.

"So where are Lucy and Erza then?" Natsu Dragneel groaned, trudging forward.

"Lucy and Erza will meet us at the guild." Gray said, a slight smirk sliding onto his pale lips.

"I came to make sure you didn't 'sleep in' or anything" He mused.

"Your one to talk, stripper." Natsu scowled, crossing his arms as he nodded to Fullbuster`s lack of shirt. Gray trudged forward, a look of forced composer on his face as his black eyes fallowing the edges of the cobblestone road, willing himself not to kill Natsu before they had even reached the guild. A few minutes later the pair arrived at the doors of Fairy-tail. Reaching up and grasping the knob in his hand, Gray stopped, a sudden thought flashing across his mind.

That was strange, the door was always open.

He heaved open the door, stepping inside the dimly lit room. The first thing his eyes caught were Levy, Erza, Wendy and Cana standing together in a tight semicircle, their eyes intently fixated on something on the floor. Off to the side Elfman knelt on the ground, Mirajane cradled protectively in his muscular arms.

Natsu rushed to the others before Gray, letting out a startled gasp at what lay beneath him.

"What?"

Gray approached the circle warily, his sooty eyes gleaning for the subject of their attention. He stopped dead in his tracks, his breath hitching in his throat.

'Lucy?'

She lay before the group, her blonde hair strewn across her sallow face, partially hiding the charred trails that had been left behind. Her slender hands rested daintily at her shoulders. He blinked. She didn't stir. When they noticed his arrival Wendy and Erza somberly stepped aside. Natsu had stooped down beside his former Nakama, his finger tips tracing her soft, red cheek.

"She's so cold" He whispered, tears shamelessly pouring down his cheeks onto the wooden floor.

Promptly Gray crouched down, reaching for her arm. A deep weighing dread bubbled up inside him.

Placing his index and middle finger on her wrist vein he held his breath, waiting for the reassuring throb.

"I don't feel a pulse" He concluded after several seconds of waiting, laying Lucy's hand gently on her stomach.

Natsu`s eyes flickered up to meet Grey`s, a deep, unspeakable rage welling up inside the fire mage.

"What happened to her?" The deep growl surfaced from the coral haired boy's throat.

Gray's eyes widened slightly, suddenly snapping out of his trance. A voice from behind answered him.

"I don't know, we just arrived a few minutes ago and saw her lying on the ground."

Natsu clenched his teeth, his eyes visibly blazing.

"Get her to a hospital." The demand was little over a murmur, but the others heard it well, immediately scoopimg the unconscious stellar mage up and hurrying out of the room.

"I`ll-I`ll go too, I'll see if I can do anything for her" Wendy stuttered prancing after Levy and Cana. Gray looked over his shoulder as the limp body of his teammate was carried out the door, a tightening and pulling sensation gripped at his throat.

Ridiculous, I'm not going to cry.

Mirajane was whimpering softly, her long silvery hair rolling down her shoulders like moon beams.

"I saw…I saw it." She whispered amidst a round of sobs. The words lit a spark in his mind, and Natsu`s coal black eyes widened.

"What did you say Mirajane?" The Dragon slayer jumped to his feet wandering over to the pair, his head bent down stiffly and a dark aura surrounding him.

Mirajane clutched onto her older brother tighter, brushing away a stray path of tears.

"I saw what happened." She re-affirmed. Natsu looked as if he were about to grab her by the shoulders and shake her until she told him everything she knew.

"What happened, Mira-chan?" The fire mage hissed impatiently.

Mirajane swallowed taking in a deep wavering breath.

"I was the only one around when she….she grabbed her by the throat and-" She let out another fit of tears, shaking her head as if trying to rid herself of the memory.

Elfman bit his lip awkwardly, glancing from Natsu to Gray, visibly on edge from his sisters crying.

"I could hear her suffocating…S-She looked so afraid-"

Natsu was shaking, purely livid from rage.

"Who Mirajane? Who? Was it a stranger or someone we know?" His mind raced with possibilities.

Who could have ever done something like that to Lucy? Sure she could be a bit bossy, but enough to make someone want to kill her? It was unheard of. Mirajane closed her midnight blue eyes, biting her lip and balling her fists around Elfman`s shirt. Her mouth opened and Natsu impatiently waited for her answer, his jagged teeth bared.

"Juvia." She whispered.

"Juvia Loxar did this."

Nuzzling her face into Elfman`s chest, she let out another soft sob. Natsu shook his head, small wisps of fire dancing in his fists.

"I can't believe that! Why would she ever want to hurt Lucy?" He barked, pacing back and forth. Mirajane shrugged her shoulders, her eyes tracing his movements.

"I have no clue… It was so…so sudden." Grey stood there unmoving, his right eye twitching as he struggled with the concept. 'Was that really possible? could Juvia Loxar, the Juvia he knew ever do something like that? When she had been a member of Phantom he might have thought so but now…Now that she was in Fairytail…She had changed, she was a different person from back then...But even back then… hadn't she given him several chances to escape before attacking?' His head shot up as the main doors of Fairy-tail burst open, revealing a very, very enraged looking headmaster. Only a couple times had Gray seen Master Makarov looking so purely...Livid.

"Where is she?" He demanded his plump face a deep shade of red.

"They just took her to the hospital-" Erza began before being swiftly cut off.

"-Not Lucy, Juvia, where is she!" Makarov demanded, stepping into the middle of the room, his hands shaking at his sides.

"I-I don't know, I haven't seen her yet." Erza stammered stepping out of the head masters way.

"This must be a misunderstanding." Gray insisted, facing Makarov fully.

"Juvia wouldn't do something like this." The short man crossed his arms, visibly still fuming.

"Regardless, Lucy is badly injured and SOMONE did this to her, that someone possibly being Juvia Loxar." He concluded seeming to regain his composer.

"-Who is no where to be seen." Happy added before being silenced by a crippling glare from Gray.

"-I will not accuse anyone until we have tangible proof. " Makarov continued, placing his hands behind his back and looking Gray straight in the eye.

"But mark my words, anyone who hurts my children, even another of my children, will be punished sevenfold."

So first chapter of an idea that popped into my head. The next chapter should be coming pretty soon. (It will contain mostly Juvia`s point of view and will be longer then this chapter) So if you have a moment please tell me what you thought. Were any of the characters OOC? Did it need to be longer? Was the grammar atrocious? (Well we already know it is) Your reviews and comments are very coveted.

Until next time.

~Ebony