E.N.D

Of Pain and Self Doubt

Story Title: E.N.D

Author: Hikari Sorayume

Summary: Gray hates Zeref.

Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail. All rights belong to Hiro Mashima.

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Gray's POV

I slammed my fist into my palm, steadfast in my decision of handling the situation. I ignored the cries of the hot headed fire mage whose voice blended into background noise like a steady hum. I kept my intense gaze focused on the book before me, staring at it with a passionate hatred that ran deeper than time. I hated that book. I hated the demon whose soul dwelled within it. But most of all, I hated the man who had created E.N.D in the first place. I loathed him. I detested him. I despised him. And after ridding the world of his horrible demon, I would set out for his blood. If I defeated him, Zeref, what would become of all his demons? Would they also be defeated in their creator's death? That would be the ideal outcome. But if that were to happen... Would not it be a grey world? If the nirvana incident taught me anything then it would have been that the world needs to have an even balance of good and evil... But what even is good and evil? How can we distinguish ourselves to be on either side? Before I can grow to doubt myself anymore... first I must fulfill my father's wishes and destroy this horrid book... for my father... for my family.... For the guild... This... Demon... Will... PERISH!

Consumed with rage, my magic swirled around me in the form of glittering ice shards, dropping the temperature around me to a freezing degree. As my power built up inside me, I released my magic in the form of an ice lance, piercing the demon book and tearing it to shreds even as it lay innocently on the floor. In the middle of a fierce battle, as cries of rage and pain rang around me, all I could feel was pure, undying hatred for the black hired wizard, who had caused so much pain and suffering for all of those in my guild.

Natsu forgotten for the moment, I made a silent pledge.

"Zeref will die by my hands."

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A/N I know this is really short, but I can't write Gray, or really anyone else, so most of this was just what I felt about the situation. Also, I hadn't meant to write from Gray's perspective so I didn't know what to write. And even when I had thought of what to write... it kind of escalated and what I had planned to write didn't even end up being written. So yeah. I'll try to update again soon but I guess that doesn't matter too much anyway huh?

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Zeref. He had created Deliora, the demon who destroyed Gray's village and murdered his friends, family and mentor. He had created the R-system, of which Erza was enslaved to build. He had created lullaby, and Eclipse, and all the demons of Tartarus. He had created E.N.D. Why had he named his demon E.N.D? Was it a joke? Was he saying, "Here is a demon that will end you"? No. That was not the case. But whether it was just a simple coincidence that the demons initials – for he too, as most of the demons from the books of Zeref did, has a full name – added up to E.N.D, or the fact that he had in fact been created to 'end' someone, albeit the creator himself, went unsure by the 'father' or 'master creator'. All he had wanted in life was to see his younger brothers smile again, and he had brought that about, hadn't he?

hadn't he? 

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6/12/2015 unedited

A/N Not really sure what that last part was, but I felt like I needed to update at least once every week, so this is what I come up with (I really only wrote it because the internet wasn't working and I was trying to put off my chores T^T)