User blog comment:Yamhi78/Best Fairy Tail Arc and worst arc in your opinion.. xDD/@comment-24.213.242.194-20130417005349/@comment-7418318-20130417082949

No, she definately needed a dragon slayer as power source for her dragnoid and with Natsu being the most renown, he was her natural target.

The reason why Gray did what he did was to remind Natsu of his promise to the village of invisible people.... apperently he though it's better to endanger Natsu's life and risk the destruction of Magnolia rather than just saying something like "Yo Natsu! Remember that villiage near the broken dragon eggs? Didn't you promise to lift their curse?"....