Gray's POV

"Get away from him Natsu!" Natsu kept walking towards Sting until he was in his arms. Like he was always meant to be there. Like he was in love with him. I saw red. There was no way that I was going to stand for this.

"Sting! Let him go!"

Sting smirks at me. "Why would I? I have everything I want now."

"Oh no you don't. Natsu! Get away from Sting. Remember what you said to me last night! You said that you love me! Not him!"

"Oh I wouldn't bother trying to talk to him Gray. He is not listening to anyone but me right now. That's the joy of this spell. He is totally devoted to me. He now loves me and when we do the ritual in a few weeks time, it's permanent! I've won Fullbuster. Just accept it!"

"Never!" With that, I run towards Sting, my magic at the ready to throw an ice punch his way, not caring if it hits Natsu in the process and hopefully break him out of this compulsion to be near Sting.

"Ice-make-"

"Fire Dragon's punch!" I hear before I am thrown back and landed on the opposite wall, a hot glow appearing on my cheek.

Sting sniggers "I wouldn't try getting near to me right now Fullbuster. My little dragon is here to protect me now so people like you can not go near me. It is the rules you know."

My eyes widen as I remember what Natsu had told a while back about mates. "No harm shall come to a dragon or his mate" It is the law. Mates protect each other and make sure that neither are harmed. Shit. I can't get near to him.

"Natsu please you have to listen to me! Remember what you told me. You told me that no matter what you will still love me! Remember that?" I direct to Natsu. I caught his eye slightly twitching as I spoke to him. It was like he was remembering something but something was stopping him.

"Don't listen to him Natsu. He is no one of importance. He just wants to get in-between us." He said caressing his face.

"I said get your hands off him Sting!"

"Sorry no can do. He is my thing now, not yours."

"He is not a thing! He is a person!"

Sting smirks "For now. He is mine to do as I wish. He is my mate. I got there first and now you get to spend the rest of your life with someone you are not forced to love. Isn't that what you've been saying right?"

I gasp. "How did you-"

"I heard you talking to Natsu when you first confessed. It was sweet I must say but I knew from then that I needed to make my move and have Natsu all to myself no matter what, and anyway, you are now free to live your life as you so wish. No more forced love. Dragon slayers are meant to be with their own kind anyway. Nothing that a human like you would understand"

I grit my teeth and balled my hands into fists as Sting turns his back to me, getting ready to climb out of the window. I wait for Sting to almost be out of the window and I grab Natsu who was about to follow Sting. Nothing ever said about me touching Natsu. I spin him around and lock eyes with him, hoping more than anything that I could get through to him.

"Natsu. Please. This is not you. You told me that you love me. You have for years and I love you. More than anything in this world. Please look into yourself and know who you really are inside. You don't love Sting. You never have. You didn't like it when Sting was around me remember? Because I am YOUR mate! You are mine and I am yours! Forever!" I saw Natsu slightly twitch as recognition. A glimmer of hope rose in me as his body started to twitch as if to make a move towards me. His hand started to rise slowly towards me before Sting immediately shut him down by placing a hand on his shoulder. Natsu looked at Sting who shook his head and returned his gaze to me.

"Sorry Gray. We must be going. We have a busy few weeks to prepare for." He jumped up onto the window ledge. "Natsu." He called. Natsu had returned to staring at me and I broke down inside at the sadness in his eyes. As much as I wanted it to be, this was not a fight I could win unless Natsu mentally broke down the barrier himself. I could only encourage him.

"Natsu" I said holding my hands out to him. "Please. Don't leave me. You promised you would never leave me" My lip trembled as I tried to fight back the tears. For a moment I looked right into Natsu's eyes and saw…nothing. There was nothing there that I could cling onto. No emotion, no fire, nothing…..

"Natsu! Ignore him and come here! It's time for us to go home!" I heard Sting say, breaking our eye contact.

As Natsu had turned to walk away, I had decided that law or no law. I have had enough. So I ran towards him, arms out to grab him, hoping the physical contact could knock Natsu into his senses.

The next thing I saw was a flash of white…

Then everything went to black.

Hey guys!

Hope you liked this chapter. I know it is a little short but I hope you like it anyways!

Im trying to find when I am free to write and update but that has now become quite limited so the updates will be take a while. I will hopefully eventually finish this story in maybe a few more chapters (probably 5/6 max)

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