User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 348: Return of the Demon, Review./@comment-121.54.2.164-20130823143816

I feel a lot a people have really given up on Gray. IMO, he chapter was okay. I felt that Flare's reason for doing the things she did could have been better worded, though I agree that everyone has a sad history in Fairy Tail, there are some that are really sorrowful if you take more time to think about them. Like in this chapter, only Gray remembered about things in the past because his past is sadder than Ezra and Natsu. Igneel may have disappeared but Natsu still carried hope that he'll find him. Ezra on the other hand, only saw the death of one person (Don't include Simon as he died when Ezra was already older) and in the end, she reunited with the people she left behind. As for Gray, he saw his parents get killed and entire village get devasted by Deloria. And the person who took him in ended up sacrificing her life right before his eyes. Gray's past is much more traumatic. With this said I believe that this arc will involve Gray. Right from the start with Walrod Cken, who requested Gray even though the job required for ice to be melted. I also think that the ice that enveloped the Sun Village has something to do with Ur. IMO, the voice Natsu heard was that of Ur's or it could be the demon's dryad. We know that dryads are forest/wood nymphs. When the moon drip was spilled it released a part of the forest from the ice, which I believed also led to the entrapment of the dryad, and allowed the dryad to communicate. We can connect the concept of dryads(wood nymphs) to fairies, wherein the dryad actually belongs to Walrod Cken was the one causing forests to grow near the Sun village but was trapped by someone which caused Walrod Cken to go to the sun village and found about the ice and that this ice could not be affected by his magic. This would lead him to call upon FT.