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CHAPTER ONE

“..ay....”

“.ray....”

“Gray Fullbuster!”

I jumped out of my own thoughts and turned around, looking back into my house and seeing my mother standing at the bottom of the stairs. Her long black her all tied up into a ponytail, and wearing her usual black flannelette shirt and worn out jeans that she wore during what she likes to call her “Cleaning day”.

“Yes mum?” I said, looking away from her scary demon eyes.

“Where are you going? You start school again on Monday remember! Do not be out too late tonight! Oh well you can be, but don't get smashed, or do drugs or anything stupid like that do you understand!?” She shouted, continuing on with her rambles.

“Mum.....it's only Lucy's party and if it gets out of hand, I will call you or Lyon to come pick me up, okay? Now I have to go because I'm already late!” I said running outside, looking up at the sky an noticing a few clouds here and there. I ran out my gate and making sure it was locked and pulled out my phone.

“Where the hell is he?” I said, dialling the number I needed and waited for the person to pick up.

“Yo Gray! I'm nearly at your house, sorry I'm running a little late. I was uhhh busy....”

“Loke, I don't wanna hear about what you done with a girl in your spare time, just hurry up and get here!”

“Turning onto your street now, be there in 3.....2....1! Get in!” My friend Loke shouted, opening is car door, I quickly got in as he decided to start driving when I was half way.

“You're an ass.” I said putting my seatbelt on and looked over at my friend, noticing straight away his usual flat hair, looked like a lions mane, instead of his usual glasses he had James Bond style glasses and was wearing a black suit,

“Why do you look so fancy?”

“Lucy asked me to dress nicely today, so I pulled this out.”

“You know your hair looks like a mess......”

“Yeah, I only woke up ten minutes before I go to yours!”

It was silent for a couple more minutes, as we turned the corner to Lucy's street, another car drove past us. It was as if one of those moments in a movie when the person is driving and the see someone and the whole thing just slows down. The car that drove past, I noticed there was someone who was about the same age as me, with olive eyes and pink hair. For that one second I swore I knew him somewhere, had I met him before? Before I could say anything more the second was up and we were continuing on our way to Lucy's.

Once we got there, Loke nearly raced out and inside while I slowly got out and walked over to Lucy's door and walking into the already loud place. Lucy only just managed to convince her parents to allow a small group of her friends to attend her party along with her family.

Following Loke through the crowd of people giving us strange looks, we made it out the back and saw Lucy sitting with our scary red haired friend, Erza Scarlet. I took a deep breath and walked over to the two with Loke.

“You two are late.” Erza said with a stern voice, not even looking over at us.

'Okay how does she know we're here?' I thought, looking over at Loke to give an explanation. But the wuss just went straight to Lucy, hugging her and saying happy birthday.

“Gray? Why are you late?” Erza said turning around, her glare staring right into my soul.

“Well you see, Loke was kinda running late to pick me up........and.......I....WE......uhhhhh....okay stop staring at me like that!” I said turning away from her stare but regretting it straight away.

“Gray-sama~!”

“Shit.” I said hiding behind Erza.

“I'm not here, I'm not here, I'm not here!” I dodged the possible glomp coming my way and ran over to Lucy.

“Happy Birthday, hope you have an awesome day, here is your present. Sorry I can't stay around any longer!” I said giving her a quick hug, hearing the echoing 'Love rival' Behind me and running off and away from Lucy's house.

As soon as I thought I was far enough, I proceeded to catch my breath.

“That was too close this time. God damn Juvia...” I mumbled sitting down on the ground and looking up at the sky, watching the clouds gather. I was staring up at the clouds for about another ten minutes before my phone rang, jumping I pulled it out of my pocket and saw it was a private number.

“Who is this?” I said to myself before answering, I waited for a reply, but all I could hear was nothing but some slight breathing.

“Hello? Who is this?”

….........

“Hello?”

….........

I sighed and went to hang up when I soft whisper caught my ear.

“How do the clouds look from there?”

My eyes widened and I quickly hung up and stood up looking around as fast as I could, feeling the panic racing through my heart. I had to try and calm down but I really couldn't, this was the eighth time in two days I have gotten a weird call like that.

I heard a twig snap behind me, looking I saw nothing. After a minute of silence, there was multiple twigs snapping. Before deciding to calm down, I ran. Something I was told not to do, but I felt like it was the only option I had.

'I shouldn't have left Lucy's.......I should have just stayed there......who was that on the phone? Is someone following me? Who is it?' I thought as I ran to the clearing, ignoring the twigs snapping and I quickly pulled out my phone and rang the first person I could think of, they answered on the first ring.

“What's up Gray?” The voice said, I could hear the soft music of his car stereo in the background.

'Thank god he's finished.' I thought, trying to speak I couldn't get my words out, my heart was racing and it felt like my vocal cords had been ripped out of my throat, all I could do was take deep breaths, trying to calm myself down.

“Gray? Where are you?” I heard the worry in his voice, but I still couldn't speak.

“Hang on, you've most likely left Lucy's party.....try and find your way to the end of her street. I will get you from there. Just hurry please.” The voice said before hanging up.

I heard small laughter behind me and another twig snap, jumping, I started running as fast as I could. I needed to get back as fast as I could, I picked up my pace and saw the street there already. I got there and leaned against the light post, trying to get my breathing back to normal.

I saw the familiar black car pull up next to me and I got in as fast as I could and getting a bottle of water thrown at me and my medication. As soon as I had my seatbelt off, the car started moving and I started drinking my water.

“Gray, take your medication as well.....”

I looked over at my brother and shook my head.

“Gray, please. You just had another attack, you need to take them.”

Rolling my eyes I took my medication and finally felt my heart stop racing and my breathing getting back to normal.

“Thanks Lyon....” I mumbled looking out the window.

“No problem, now what happened this time?”

“I got that call from the private number again.....”