Welcome To Fright Night

Chapter 16

Despite the sound of glass shattering from the window, Juvia still slept peacefully. She also did not wake to the door creaking open then closing or the footsteps that walked on the floor of the room. She finally awoke when she felt a cold hand caress her cheek. Opening her eyes, she saw that Gray was in the bed hovering over her. She smiled.

"Gray you're alright." She said. "I was so afraid that they had killed you."

He just kept staring at her, shirtless, quiet, calm, and staring while not saying or doing anything.

"Is something wrong?" She asked. "Why are you looking at me like that? Are you-"

"Shhh." He hushed her. "Don't be afraid."

He lowered his head down slowly, not stopping until his lips met hers. She became stiff, shocked by what he was doing to her. Gray was kissing her. He was actually kissing her. She couldn't believe it. Was she dreaming? When he broke the kiss he went back to staring at her. It was as if he wanted to see if she liked what he was doing to her.

After looking uncertain for a moment, her hands went to his cheeks and she brought his face back to her own. This time she kissed him and he responded very passionately, pouring all he had into that kiss.

When they parted he brought her hand to his lips and kissed it. The touch of his lips against her skin was wonderful but she couldn't help but feel like something was wrong about all this. It's not that she didn't want this but she never thought that he would do it here of all places and now of all times.

"Gray are you...Are you feeling alright? You don't seem like yourself."

"I feel fine." He assured her with a smile.

"But...But you've never touched me like this before."

"Let's say that I've come to an important revelation about you."

"Revelation?...I...I don't understand and I...I don't think now is the time and place to do this."

"Don't think. Just feel."

She started to protest but lost all thought of doing that action when he took her into his arms and began to place gentle kisses in her hair, on her eyes, her cheeks, her chest, her arms, her fingers, wherever he could put his lips on her.

"My most precious life." He whispered with each kiss he gave her which caused her to give out a tiny gasp.

Juvia's sense that something wasn't right about this was soon overshadowed by the feelings she felt in this moment.

"You're so beautiful." He told her. "So beautiful."

She moaned and sighed as he continued to kiss and caress her. He was so gentle and the way he held her made her feel as if her heart was ready to burst. Little did she realize that he was doing this because he had been ordered by Sloane to bite and abduct her so he decided to seduce her.

"Juvia can you do me a favor?" He asked before kissing her hand again.

"Anything." She replied.

"Take off your necklace for me."

Her senses told her not to do it but her feelings urged her to obey. She undid the chain of her crucifix necklace and dropped it to the floor. Gray then moved his lips to her delicate neck, he kissing it many times.

You really are so very beautiful." He bared his fangs, getting ready to bite her just as he was ordered to do.

"Gray." Juvia said softly having become caught up in her feelings and his touch.

"Yes?" He brought his fangs to her, they were centimeters apart from her skin. This was it. The time to strike was now because soon the others would regain consciousness and be running in to stop him. He was just about to dig his fangs into her flesh when...

"I love you."

The very instant those three words fell from her lips Gray felt as if he had been knocked in the head by Erza. For a brief moment his senses started to resurface and he realized what he was doing.

"No." He gasped. "No. No! Don't make me do it to her!"

He released her.

"Gray? What is it?" She asked.

Gray clutched his head as he felt a terrible pain in his mind along with an equally terrible voice.

"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Leave me alone!" He shouted. "Get out of my head! Stop it!"

"Gray what's wrong with you?"

Juvia received her answer when she saw his fangs and the marks on his neck.

"Oh no." Her eyes filled with tears of horror. "They turned you! And they did because I left you! Oh my poor dear Gray what have I done to you?!"

"Juvia." His voice was shaking as was his entire body. "You have to get away from me! Go! Run! Find Natsu and the others!"

"And leave you to suffer by those monsters again?! Never! I won't abandon you! I won't!"

"Please Juvia! I can only ignore their voices for so long! They're trying to make me hurt you! You have to leave! Before they get control of me again!"

"Gray please!"

"I'm begging you! Run away! And for the love of God put your necklace back on and don't take it off ever!"

He could feel his will starting to fade again. He forced himself to go out the window and get as far away from the rain woman as possible. Once he was gone she found herself breaking down again. Shortly after this Natsu and everyone else came to and went back to the house where they found Juvia weeping on the bedroom floor.

"Juvia are you alright?" Natsu asked. "What happened? Did Gray hurt you? Did he bite you?"

"No!" She sobbed. "No he didn't bite me! He...He was trying to stop himself!...He was in so much pain...Oh this is all my fault! I did this to him!"

"No Juvia." He said kneeling down to hug her in comfort. "If you had stayed you probably would have been bitten too and you would be suffering the same kind of hell as him."

"I don't care! I don't mind suffering if I'm suffering with him! Now he'll have to go through this evil alone!"

"Don't panic." Jack said. "There's still time. We can save him. We just need to kill Thanatos before the week is over."

"If Thanatos was the one who bit him." Sam said.

"What do you mean by that?" Natsu asked.

"I mean Thanatos isn't the only vampire who can turn people. Gray might have been bitten by one of his millions of followers."

"How can we know who bit him?"

"That's the tricky part... There's no way of knowing unless he tells us."

"You think he would tell us if we found him?"

"I don't know."

"We have to save him!" Juvia wept. "If we don't then I...I...I'll never be able to forgive myself!"

Natsu and Happy both comforted her while she cried. Jack brought her some ice water to keep her hydrated.

"Feeling better?" He asked.

"No but I am hydrated." She told Jack. "Thank you."

"Here, I'll help you back into bed." Jack said lifting her to her feet and leading her back to his bedroom.

"Where will you sleep?" She asked.

"Don't worry, I can sleep on anything."

"As for you Natsu." Sam said. "I hope that being thrown out of a window has made you realize just how powerful vampires are and how important it is that you're well rested when you go up against one or more."

"Yes sir." Natsu said.

So finally Natsu decided to crawl into bed, lie down, and sleep. It wasn't an easy sleep but at least he was able to get some rest.