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Dark Shadows AU

So Gray has black hair and pale skin so I can't be the first person to picture him playing a vampire. Anyway this will be based off of the adapted versions of the Gothic Soap Opera. Such as the 1991 revival TV series, the 2004 pilot for the attempt of making a second revival series, and the 2012 Tim Burton film.

Barnabas Collins - Gray Fullbuster

Victoria Winters/Josette Du Pres - Juvia Lockser

Angelique Bouchard - Ulter Milkovich

Elizabeth Stoddard Collins - Erza Scarlet

Willie Loomis - Natsu Dragneel

Carolyn Stoddard - Lucy Heartfilia

David Collins - Romeo Conbolt

Dr. Julia Hoffman - Cana Alberona

Rodger Collins - Laxus Dreyar

Daphne Harrige - Daphne

Sarah Collins - Wendy Marvell

During the 18th Century Gray Fullbuster is the handsome and carefree young heir to his family's rather wealthy shipping and merchant business. He lives a charmed life with his father, older brother Lyon, and younger sister Wendy. His mother had died giving birth to Wendy so his father hired Ur Milkovich to serve as Wendy's nurse and her daughter Ultear to work as a maid servant.

Unknown to the family Ur and her daughter are witches but while Ur is a wise, kind, and good witch who uses magic to benefit the family that has always been so kind to her, Ultear is selfish, manipulative, and wicked who uses her witchcraft to raise her position due to her jealousy of the family's wealth and her infatuation with Gray. She attempts to seduce him on several occasions but he always rejects her.

Eventually Gray falls in love with and becomes engaged to a beautiful young woman who comes from an equally wealthy family. He gives her a music box and promises to love no one but her as long as she lives. This causes Ultear's jealousy to increase. After failing to use witchcraft to make him love her, she curses the entire Fullbuster family to suffer tragedy. First she causes Gray's father to die in a shipwreck, next she causes Wendy's death through a fatal illness, then she curses Gray to become an immortal vampire, but before she can do anything to Lyon her mother figures out what's going on and manages to save him.

Gray now a vampire goes to see his fiance but Ultear puts visions in the innocent young woman's head that show Gray as a monster killing her savagely. This horrifies her so much that when she sees Gray she becomes afraid and runs from him. He chases her and tries to explain but she's so overcome with fear that she doesn't listen and she blindly throws herself from a cliff, dying.

Heartbroken by the loss of so many people he loved and ashamed of the monster he's become, Gray goes to his brother Lyon and begs him to kill him. However Lyon cannot bring himself to do it so he instead chains Gray inside of a coffin and has it sealed away in the family mausoleum. Realizing what her daughter has done, Ur disowns Ultear and places a curse of her own on her daughter. That she may never be loved by anyone other than her until she relinquishes her jealousy and repents for her sins against the Fullbuster family. Ultear leaves the house while Ur stays behind to protect Lyon for the rest of her life.

Years later during the 1970's, the house and business of the Fullbuster family has been passed down to Lyon's descendants Erza Scarlet a solitary but caring woman and her ruthless business man cousin Laxus Dreyar. Living with them in the house is Laxus's orphaned nephew Romeo, Erza's high spirited and rebellious stepsister Lucy, their alcoholic live in doctor Cana, and their loyal yet slightly timid handyman Natsu who has a secret crush on Lucy.

The family thinks that Romeo has an imaginary friend who he talks with too much and Laxus refuses to allow him to go to school due to his fear of what other people think so Erza puts out an add for a tutor. The add is answered by Juvia Lockser a beautiful and gentle young woman who believes that there are forces out there that can't be explained. When she arrives she is well liked by Erza, forms a friendship with Lucy, and bonds with Romeo especially when she believes him about his friend being real. However his imaginary friend is actually the ghost of Gray's beloved younger sister Wendy who warns Romeo that her brother will soon return. 

One night Natsu and his greedy girlfriend Daphne who mistreats him discover some old notes that reveal that their might be a treasure hidden in the mausoleum that's just a little ways from the house. Daphne forces a reluctant Natsu to help her look for the treasure in the mausoleum which leads to them unlocking the chains to Gray's coffin and reawakening him. He kills Daphne and drinks her blood but spares Natsu (In this vampires can sense if you're a good person or not). He then introduces himself to Erza and reveals to her that he's a vampire. At first she's afraid of him but he assures her that he would never harm anyone in the family and only wants to live with them peacefully while restoring his family business which has gone to ruin. She agrees but insists that no one know who he really is or what he really is other than herself and Natsu.

Gray moves into the house and almost immediately falls in love with Juvia who happens to look exactly like his deceased fiance. She feels instantly drawn to him especially when he gives her the music box and he begins romancing her while also making things better for the members of the house hold. He helps Natsu become more confident, pushes Lucy toward him so she'll have decent guy who will care for her instead of her lowlife boyfriends, looks out for Romeo's well being, and convinces Erza to get out and socialize more. 

Unfortunately his vampire urges can't be helped and he quenches his thirst by feeding off of criminals and thugs but he becomes more dangerously close to losing control and attacking someone in the house. To make matters worse Ultear is still alive and she will do whatever it takes to either have Gray or destroy everything he loves.