Gray Fullbuster

For Gray's Edolas counterpart, see Gray Surge.

Gray Fullbuster is an Ice-Make Mage, a member of the Fairy Tail Guild and of Team Natsu, and one of the main male protagonists.

Appearance
Gray's most prominent feature is his spiky black-colored hair. He has black eye color, his eyes instead being solely the color of his black pupils, and his body is toned and muscular.

After the Galuna Island mission, he gets a scar on his forehead above his left eye that is only partially covered by his hair. His member stamp is below his collarbone on his right pectoral muscle, dark blue in color.

Unlike almost all other characters, Gray does not consistently wear the same type of clothes (that is, when he is wearing some), though is often shown wearing some kind of white coat.

Still, his most constant part of clothing is his necklace, which looks like a sword with a stone in it (this is similar to the Rave Stone in Rave Master) and a metal bracelet and similar chain attached to his pants.

More Images can be found in Bonus Gallery.

Personality
Gray has a laid back personality, but he will often get serious when the time calls for it. He and Natsu have a friendly rivalry, and while they can often be seen fighting one another verbally or physically, they are actually concerned about each other. Gray was quite obstinate and reckless when he was younger. Overtime, he has attained a more cautious attitude towards life and deals with problems carefully. He is really concerned about his comrades and is truly loyal towards the guild but tends to trash talk every now and then. Also, he has a disturbing habit of unconsciously removing his clothes at inappropriate moments.

History
Gray was from a village up in the North but the entire village was destroyed by the demon, Deliora and Gray's parents were killed in the incident as well. Lyon and Ur, a powerful ice mage who Jellal claims could have been one of the Ten Wizard Saints, investigating Deliora's destruction, found Gray alive among the ruins. Ur took Gray in as her second student and taught him and Lyon Ice Make. Gray accepted the training in order to eventually avenge his deceased parents by killing Deliora using her unorthodox methods. Gray also inherited the unusual habit of stripping unconsciously from Ur.

When Gray heard of Deliora's current location, he decided to challenge it, ignoring Ur and Lyon's warnings. Gray collapses from battling Deliora and wakes up to see Ur battling it. Ur tells him to take Lyon and run. Gray carries Lyon and sees that Ur has lost her leg and replace it with ice. Suddenly, Lyon wakes up and tries to cast Iced Shell but Ur stops him by freezing him. She explains to Gray that Iced Shell is the only thing that would beat Deliora and was surprised to know that Lyon tried to do what she planned. She then uses Iced Shell which causes her body to be destroyed. Before turning into ice, she made Gray promise to tell Lyon that she died and tells her to step into the future since she will seal his darkness. The next day, Lyon wakes up and discovers Deliora covered with ice and Ur's sacrifice and he blames Gray for killing Ur.

Following Ur's advice to find strong wizards in the west, Gray arrives at Fairy Tail and asks the master a way to reverse the effects of Iced Shell. But Makarov tells him that the only method that is possible to reverse it, would kill Ur in the process.

Macao arc
Gray first appeared when Natsu and Happy brought Lucy Heartfilia to Fairy Tail. He was sitting in his shorts - he forgot to wear his clothes - and he immediately got into a fight with Natsu. He stopped when Makarov ordered them to do so and he got scolded by him about his accidental nudity during his missions.

Daybreak arc
Gray found out the reward for Natsu's latest mission and he quietly wished him luck, saying things were going to be interesting.

Lullaby arc
Gray was about to get into a fight with Natsu yet again but hearing about Erza Scarlet's return from Loke made them stop. Later, he was forced to go on a mission with Natsu and Erza, much to his chagrin, but he went anyway. On their way to their mission, he showed Lucy his abilities as an Ice Mage. Lucy then believes that Gray's ice abilities and Natsu's fire abilities are what causes their quarrels; Erza starts to believe this as well.

When they get off the train, they continue to discuss the mission they are going to do when they realize that they forgot to bring the motion sick Natsu with them. As they were reunited with Natsu, they learn that Natsu had a confrontation in the train with a member of Eisenwald, Kageyama, with Natsu telling them he had a strange kind of flute. Lucy then pipes in at this moment, saying that she had only heard about it in books, but that it might be the "Death Lullaby" flute.

Eisenwald takes over the Oshibana train station and the five of them force their way in quickly encountering Eisenwald and fighting them. Erigor, however, has other plans and flees the scene with Gray and Natsu in hot pursuit. However, the two decided to split up and Gray runs into one of Eisenwald's elite members, Rayule.

While the two are fighting, Gray learns about the plan to kill all the guild masters at their regular meeting. Gray promptly freezes Rayure's face ending their fight. He then informs Erza of this and then they go to find Kageyama so he can dispel Erigor's wind wall. But Kageyama is stabbed in the back before he can help them.

After Lucy summons her new Celestial Spirit, Virgo, Gray compliments Virgo for being cute and as they escape, Gray is the only one to notice that Virgo and Lucy's skirts are flying up due to the wind. They then realize that Natsu and Happy are missing again. As they chase Natsu and Happy, with Kageyama, Gray gives him a speech about life and death but the atmosphere is ruined when Lucy yells at Gray to kill Kageyama after he harasses her.

They caught up with Natsu and Happy to see that Natsu has beaten Erigor. Gray, as usual, insults Natsu for having difficulties in the battle and insults him for his choice of clothes. As Erza congratulates the group for a job well done, Kageyama grabbed the Lullaby flute and uses the Magic Four Wheel Drive to get to Clover Town much to everyone's surprise. Chasing after him, they arrive and sees Kageyama with Makarov and was about to go to him when they where stopped by guild master Bob and Goldmine. They then see that Makarov has persuaded Kageyama not to use the Magic. Suddenly, the flute itself starts to talk and transforms into a giant demon.

Gray teams up with Natsu and Erza to defeat the demon. When the demon attacks Natsu, it misses and heads for the guild masters instead. To protect the guild masters, he uses Ice Make: Shield, and is complemented on how fast he can create the shield. He then proceed to attack the demon with his Ice Make: Lance. With the three's combined efforts, Lullaby was defeated. However, they manage to accidentally destroy the Guild Master's Meeting Building in the process, forcing the team and Makarov to hastily escape.

When they return, Gray arrives in Lucy's apartment, much to her dismay, to remind her that Natsu and Erza are about to begin their fight. As he watched, he was shocked to hear that Erza was to be arrested for property damage by the Magic Council.

Galuna Island arc
Gray waited for Erza's verdict like everyone else, but he learned that it was all a hoax and he voiced his displeasure about that. Gray then fell prey, like everyone else, to Mystogan's sleep magic as he walked in. After Mystogan left and lifted off the Sleep magic, Gray explains to Lucy about Mystogan's actions. When Natsu, Happy and Lucy took the S-Class request, Makarov orders Laxus to go after them, saying that he is the only one who force them to come back. Gray stood up and volunteers to get them back.

Gray caught up with the three in Hargeon looking for a boat to take them to the island. Gray tries to persuade them to go back, but when Natsu resists, Gray tries to use magic. Bobo, the boat owner, then spots them using magic and tells them that he will take them to the island. Natsu sees this as an opening and knocks Gray unconscious, ties him up and brings him along. On their way to the island, Bobo shows them the island's demonic curse. Bobo then vanishes and although Happy checks to see if he had fallen into the water he is nowhere to be found. All that is rendered irrelevant when a large wave hits their boat and washes them ashore. Gray now agreeing to help, they go towards the the island's village and meet its mayor, Mocha, who asks them to destroy the moon.

Deciding such a task impossible they instead investigate the island's forest, getting attacked by a gigantic mouse which they defeat and in the process locate an abandoned temple. Natsu, commenting on the decayed floor, begins to slam it with his foot causing it to crumble and hurtle them downwards into a cavern, also making Happy almost swallow a bone he had found. Lucy saves him from choking by pulling it out his throat. In this cavern they discover the frozen demon Deliora along with three Mages: Sherry, Yuka Suzuki and Toby. Gray explains to the others what Deliora is: it is an immortal demon that destoryed Ishban 10 years ago, and that it is was sealed by his teacher, Ur at the risk of her life. The group decided to wait for the moon to come out for them to see the its involvement with the frozen demon. Lucy brings out her Celestial Spirit Lyra to pass the time, Happy wants her to sing a fish song but Lucy tells Lyra to sing anything she likes. When night arrives they discover that the moonlight is hitting the demon via the ritual Moon Drip which would melt the ice. As the team is hiding, Reitei Lyon, Sherry, Yuka and Toby arrives. Retei Lyon inquires about the Moon Drip ritual and orders the other three to obliterate the village.

Enraged by the order given by Reitei Lyon, Natsu jumps out from hiding and attacks alongside Gray. Natsu is frozen, and Gray tells Happy to escape with Lucy while he continues to fight Lyon. After Happy and Lucy leaves, Gray kicks Natsu down the hill to protect him from Lyon's magic. Gray then argues with Lyon about their motives saying that Ur died to seal Deliora and that he is trying to destroy Ur's Legacy. Lyon then asks him how he can live with the knowledge that he killed Ur. The two then do battle. While battling, Lyon reveals that he would resurrect Deliora in order to surpass Ur, he will defeat the thing that killed Ur. Gray tells him its impossible but Lyon reminds him that that was what tey said to him, but he challenged Deliora anyway, resulting to Ur's death. Overcome with grief, Gray loses the battle and falls into unconsciousness. When he woke up, he sees Natsu who carries him back to the village. On their way to the village, Natsu comforts him for losing, saying that they are from Fairy Tail, a guild that doesn't know when to stop.

While returning to the village, Gray falls unconscious again. When Sherry, Yuka and Toby arrives to at the village, the villagers took Gray and leaves Natsu and Lucy to fight them. The next morning he awoke to find Erza had come to return them to the guild. However, he tried to tell her the severity of the situation but she stated that she didn't care. This caused Gray to insult Erza for making him sick, he then told her that he will save the people of the island whether Erza likes it or not. After his lecture, Gray storms off to find Natsu. While running towards the ruins, Erza, Lucy and Happy caught up with him, Erza now agreeing to help. He was explaining Lyon's motives and reveals to the group that Ur is still alive.

They see that the ruins were tilted thanks to Natsu. Suddenly, they were attacked by the Deliora survivors. Erza tells Gray to go while she, Lucy and Happy holds them off. Gray arrives at the ruins, and tells Natsu to stand back. He then confronts Lyon and tries to use Iced Shell. Gray begins to use Iced Shell, but Lyon thinks his bluffing so he stands his ground. However, Natsu, knowing what Iced Shell would do to Gray, punches Gray causing him to stop. The two then bickers, Gray says that he is willing to die to stop Lyon, but Natsu says to stop running away. Suddenly, the ruins begins to retilt to its original position thanks to Zalty. Angered, Natsu runs after him leaving Gray to deal with Lyon. Gray tries to persuade Lyon to stop fighting by telling him that Ur is still alive as the ice. However, Lyon stabs him with his sword and says that he knew it all along. Gray falls to the ground and looks at Lyon, with his eyes full of hatred and anger.

An angry Gray attacks Lyon, saying that he gave up on trying to save him. Lyon is surprised by the amount of energy Gray has left and counter attacks by using his Ice Make: Dragon. Lyon says that Deliora will be revived soon because of Zalty, but Gray tells him not to underestimate Natsu. As the two continues their battle, the ruins starts to shake. Lyon tells Gray of everything they did in order to achieve this. Gray thinks it’s pointless, and when Lyon chastises him for playing in some guild, he simply counters by saying he followed Ur’s advice of finding more powerful opponents to the west. He then tells him of his first day at Fairy Tail, when the master told him that Ur’s condition was eternal. He then proclaims his disgust at Lyon’s actions, who can only see his ambitions. He attacks, but Gray disarms him, and blocks his Snow Tiger using his Prison. The tiger cannot release itself, which Gray explains that it’s because Lyon's creatures are out of balance, having been created with one hand. He then uses his Ice Cannon to finish Lyon off. As he does a cacophonic noise fills the air. Deliora is free, and Gray’s apparent only choice is Iced Shell.

Gray is face to face with Deliora. Natsu tells Gray that they should take it down, but Lyon interrupted saying that he will defeat it to surpass Ur. Gray knocks him unconscious and starts to cast Iced Shell again. However, Natsu steps in front of Gray stopping Gray from continuing the spell. As Deliora was about to attack Natsu, it starts to crumble into dust much to everyone's surprise. Deliora was long dead, and Gray cries thanking Ur for sealing his darkness.

Back at the newly restored village (thanks to Zalty) Erza explains that the villagers' transformation into demons was false. She clarifies when she gets Natsu to help her "destroy the Moon" but what they really do is to destroy an amnesia-causing barrier around the island that made the villagers think they were humans when they were actually demons.

Phantom Lord arc
Returning to the guild, everyone but Lucy is displeased at Erza not letting them accept the reward of 7 million jewels. Lucy's exclusive happiness is due to her receiving the gold key; Happy suggests that they should sell it. Erza then reminds them of their punishment, believing it will surely be "that" although what "that" is not explained. That's soon put out of their minds when they discover that the guild has been attacked by their long time rivals, Phantom Lord. The team then confronts Makarov about the damages but, after hitting them on the head, Makarov tells them to ignore it. Gray and the others surprise Lucy when they welcome her to her own apartment with Erza telling them they have to stick together in case anyone gets attacked. However, this has already happened to the members of Team Shadow Gear, Levy McGarden, Jet and Droy and when Makarov discovers this he proclaims war against Phantom Lord. Gray attacks Phantom Lord alongside most of Fairy Tail, but they are forced to retreat when Makarov loses his Magical power.

Back at the guild, Gray and the others are surprised at the revelation of Lucy's history and comforts her when she was depressed. Just then, they feel the guild quaking and rush outside to see what the commotion is: a six-legged Phantom Lord guild has literally walked to their guild. It attacks with its Magical cannon Jupiter but Erza narrowly stops the powerful bullet for obliterating guild rendering her incapable to fight. Jose Porla calls out, demanding that they gave Lucy to him but receives an adamant refusal. In response, he tells them to quiver for 15 minutes as Jupiter reloads. Rather than wait to be destroyed, Gray and Elfman follow Natsu and Happy to destroy the walking guild.

In retaliation to the sabotaged cannon, Jose orders the guild to enter its more powerful form: Phantom MK II. Gray and Elfman arrives just in time to save the motion sick Natsu from Totomaru. Happy flies outside to see what's going on, and returns telling them that the guild has become a gigantic Mage that is beginning to cast a spell that would destroy half of Magnolia. They then decide to split up to find the moving guild's power source.

Gray goes to the roof where he meets Juvia Loxar, one of the Element 4, and she shows romantic attraction to him. She begins by declaring her loss to him and begins to leave. However, she changed her mind and attacks Gray with her Water Lock. He quickly freezes his way out but not without opening his wound from Lyon in the process. Gray strips as usual, causing Juvia to think that they're relationship is going to fast. Gray then uses his Ice Make: Lance on her but becomes surprised that the attack went right through her. As she tries to convince Gray to stop and hand over Lucy, Gray announces he'll never give up a comrade even if it means death. Juvia takes this the wrong way and believes that Lucy is Gray's girlfriend.

She then gets angry at Lucy, confusing Gray, and attacks him with boiling water. He tries to freeze her water and he succeeds but, in the process, he accidentally grabs Juvia's breast. He quickly let's go and apologizes to her which surprises her. She then tries to confess her love for him but he mentions how the rain is depressing before she can say it. This sends Juvia into a rage and she attacks him again, but Gray prevails and defeats her, stopping the rain around her in the process.

Later, he tries to fight Phantom Lord leader Jose Porla alongside Erza, Elfman and Mirajane, but given their already weakened states, Elfman, Gray and Mirajane were easily defeated while Erza tries to fight alone. Makarov then reappears and Gray leaves with Erza, Elfman and Mirajane to let him fight Jose.

With Phantom Lord's defeat, Gray helps rebuild the guild, almost noticing Juvia spying on him. He then becomes surprised when he gets a lunch box from Juvia, not knowing it was her, when he said he was hungry. Fearing what it was, he gives the lunch box to Natsu. When Loke gave them Lucy's keys, Gray, together with Natsu, Erza and Happy visit's Lucy at her house only to find a note saying I will go home. The team then went after Lucy. Upon arriving at Heartfilia mansion, they find Lucy leaving her house and was surprised to hear that Lucy's family owns the place. The team then returns to the guild.

A few days when the guild was accepting job requests again, Team Natsu became official and decided to take their first mission as an official team. While doing the request they managed to destroy half a road.

Loke arc
Noticing Lucy worrying over her little amount of money, Mirajane suggests they do a simple acting job at a theater. Happy is given the task of carrying a dragon suit that Natsu is in and they are given a week to rehearse. Their show is atrocious, makes little sense and they eventually destroys the theater but despite all this they are hailed as a success to the point that they're kept there for another week doing three performances a day.

They go out on another job and chance upon Loke after swiftly completing it. Seeing how they completed it so quickly they decide to stay the night in Balsam town. Natsu, Erza and Gray have a pillow fight. Apparently, Gray won but Natsu was being a sore loser about it and they both asks Lucy to back them up. An agitated Lucy silences Natsu and Gray's bickering, a feat only Erza could do.

Later when Lucy goes back to her apartment, Gray suddenly barges in saying that Loke had left Fairy Tail. After hearing this, they all go to look for him.

Tower of Heaven arc
Shocked by the announcement that Loke is a Celestial Spirit, Lucy explains to Natsu, Gray and Happy that he is a Lion spirit. Considering he can no longer spent long periods of time in the human world any more Loke gives the four of them, as well as Erza, a ticket to a fancy resort. Juvia followed them and secretly spied on Gray. She then took her approach to Gray in the casino. While chatting, they were attacked by Simon, a tall and ruthless mage who specialized in Darkness magic who asks them for Erza's whereabouts. Gray was able to escape the ambush with Juvia's help, by being hidden inside her water body.

With Erza and Happy kidnapped, the team plus Juvia decided to rescue them using Natsu's nose to track Erza. As they got to the island, they found Erza and she explained her past to them. After Erza finishes telling her story, Simon and Sho arrives and joins the team to stop Jellal. When Jellal activates the Heaven's game, Sho traps Erza into one of his cards in order to protect her and runs off wanting to fight Jellal himself. Simon leaves the group to follow Sho leaving Gray, Juvia and Lucy to find Natsu. But Gray goes after Sho and entrusted to Lucy and Juvia the task to find Natsu.

Later, he runs into the Death's Head Caucus Guild's Trinity Raven member, Fukuro, who had absorbed Natsu and began using his flames on Simon and Happy and the two begins to battle. Gray was able to withstand the heat of Natsu's stolen fire attacks and was able to freeze the flames, though Gray commented that Natsu had a stronger fire. Soon, Fukuro tried to absorb him but Gray managed to freeze him enough to make him withdraw. In a fit of rage, he then uses Ice Blade: Seven Slice Dance to defeat Fukuro and free Natsu. During the fight, Gray took a fair amount of da Mage and Simon asked Happy to take him outside the tower to recover. They flee on the island on a boat along with Juvia, Lucy, Wally and Millianna and watch as the weaponized satellite Etherion strikes the tower.

Thinking that Erza and Natsu might have died, they are all highly relieved when the two of them arrive on the shore. They recover in a hotel where Natsu has been sleeping for three straight days and wakes up after Gray belittles him - but this is only for a moment. He eventually stays awake and they socialize with their previous enemies before sending them off with a fireworks display.

Fighting Festival arc
When they return to the guild they find its reconstruction complete and Cana Alberona shows them around. Makarov startles them with the introduction of two new members: Juvia and Gajeel, their previous enemies. After settling down, they sit down for a a song from Mirajane; this calm state doesn't long as the two Dragon Slayers soon cause a large brawl. A reporter comes the next day to write about the guild, and asks Gray why he was always undressing to which he angrily replies that he is not a pervert. The master also instructed Gray to accompany Juvia on a mission since she is a new member.

During the Miss Fairy Tail Contest a week later, Gray is seen watching the girls showcase their talents until a member of the Raijinshuu, Evergreen, appears and turns all the girls to stone. Soon the other two members, Bixlow and Fried, make their entrance along with Laxus. Laxus proposes a game to find out who is the strongest in Fairy Tail, Natsu replies with much enthusiasm. Laxus is holding the girls as hostages and threatening to smash them if they don't participate or break the rules. With a time limit of three hours to find and defeat them before the girls crumble to dust, the members of Fairy Tail rush out and the Battle of Fairy Tail begins. However, Makarov isn't able to go through the door because of Freed's runes. Gray then leaves to find Laxus, promising that he will beat him even if he was the master's grandson.

Gray goes and fights Bixlow and quickly starts to overpower him. However, Bixlow starts to use his dirty tricks and traps Gray in one of Freed's enchantments where no one is allowed to use magic leaving Gray with no other choice but to try to attack with his fist. Since Bixlow's magic allows him to attack from the outside, Gray was defeated.

After Laxus activated his Hall of Thunder, Gray manages to recover and find Warren Rocko. Using Warren's magic, they were able to explain the situation to the other recovering Fairy Tail members. After initially bickering, the guild members were able to get along and destroy Laxus's Hall of Thunder spell and save the town. However, due to the Living Link magic Laxus put on them, which causes the spell to counter back with a lightning strike, all the guild members took more damage but manage to live through it and are happy to survive.

After Laxus was defeated, the guild decided to still participate in the Fantasia parade. During the parade, Gray and Juvia performed on the same float as the king and queen of a frozen kingdom. Gray, along with the rest of the guild, also signals the excommunicated Laxus that they will always be looking out for him.

A few days after the festival, Team Natsu decided to take a job: to capture the escape convict Velveno. Gray is seen surprised when Lucy suddenly leaves to head to Acalypha. Gray, along with Team Natsu, followed Lucy to the LOVE & LUCKY guild and were surprised to learn that she defeated the Naked Mummy Guild by herself and informs her that because she ran off, they cancelled the mission.

Oración Seis arc
Gray assists Lucy in paying the rent by helping her at a restaurant, and when they return to the guild Mirajane explains about Dark Guilds and their power over the Magical underworld. Makarov then arrives and announces that an alliance of guilds are going to take down one of the strongest three, Oración Seis.

Makarov chooses Gray together with Natsu, Erza, Lucy and Happy to act as their delegates. At the meeting place, Gray is surprised to see his former training partner Lyon, now a member of the Lamia Scale Guild and also one of its delegates, and was even more surprised when Cait Shelter Guild's delegate arrives which happens to be a 12 years old girl named Wendy Marvell. Her talking cat also appeared and tells them that despite her appearance, Wendy is a powerful mage. After the matter settled, the group discuss who the Oración Seis are and their plan to stop them, then headed off to find them.

When the alliance unexpectedly find their target, Gray tries to aid his allies against the six mages by fighting Racer and Angel but he ultimately fails like the others. When Brain spots Wendy and grabs her, Wendy tries to reach for Charle but grabs Happy by mistake as the two are kidnapped. After being saved from death by Jura Nekis and Ichiya Wanderlei Kotobuki, the group notice that Erza been poisoned causing the members to argue among themselves on how to handle the situation. Charle however is the one who calms everyone down, revealing that Wendy is the Sky Dragon Slayer and her healing magic could fix the problem. But to rescue her the group has to work together to achieve their goal. The others agree and rally together before splitting up to find their kidnapped comrades.

Gray goes with Natsu and Charle as they explore the area, Natsu taking the time to ask Charle about Wendy's Dragon Slayer magic before the three are ambushed by members from the Naked Mummy Guild (whom the Oración Seis had allied themselves with). While Gray and Natsu were fighting the guild, Charle hangs back to watch. After all guild members were defeated, they try to interrogate the members about the location of the Oracion Seis' hideout. Later, they reach an cave entrance to the Oración Seis base, but come into confrontation with Racer. Gray holds him off while Natsu and Charle enter the cave to look for their friends.

Racer says that Gray has stopped him twice and at this rate his name will be sullied; he then appears behind Gray then back in front of him, taunting and now starting the Dead Grand Prix. Gray is hit a few times by charging motorcycles and by Racer riding on one. Gray then hops onto one as well and they race through the forest, battling until they stumble upon Lyon and Sherry. Lyon then hops onto the same bike as Gray and they manage to knock Racer off his.

However, Racer also knocks them off and they start attacking, although they are not able to hit him. Racer then counters them but Lyon says he's found his weakness and whispers to Gray before using ice magic on him. After Lyon and Racer move away and Racer is about to kill Lyon, Gray unfreezes from where they were previously and shoots Racer with an ice arrow. As Gray makes his way to Lyon and Sherry saying they had won, Racer gets back up attempting to suicide bomb the others but Lyon tackles him over a cliff before the explosion, killing Racer in the process and presumably Lyon as well.

After Gray and Sherry watch in horror, he decides to go looking for Lyon not believing he is dead (while Sherry is being affected by Nirvana). While Gray searches, Sherry appears from behind having been completely turned to darkness and attacks Gray with her wood doll, seemingly knocking him unconscious. However he later stops Sherry who has fallen to the Darkness, as she was just about to attack Lucy and Natsu. Lyon also shows up to be alive, and a relieved Sherry is freed from Nirvana and is returned to her normal self. Gray, along with Natsu and Lucy, is caught up in the activation of Nirvana's second stage and they climb up one of its legs.

As he enters Nirvana, Jura and Hoteye (now good) arrive and explain to them the power of Nirvana; however, as they leave to assist Natsu, Midnight appears. Hoteye then tells both Gray and Jura to leave with Lucy to the King's area while he holds Midnight off. While the three of them manage to reach to Natsu's location where he had defeated Cobra, Brain, the leader of the Oración Seis, shows up and reveals his intentions until Jura defeats him. Hearing Brain's speech about the king's room, Gray along with the group heads there only to realize that it was a trap set up by Brain, and becomes caught up in a huge explosion. Gray wakes up along with Lucy and Natsu to find themselves safe and to see that Jura had protected them from the explosion but falls unconscious from his injuries. He is then attacked by Klodoa, Brain's staff and 7th member of Oración Seis. After wards, Klodoa realizes that all of Oración Seis has been defeated and reveals that when the six are defeated, Brain's other, more destructive personality, Zero, awakens. Zero walks in right after and comments on how interesting things have become and how refreshing it is to have his old body back and reveals his desire to kill Jura for what he did to it. Gray, sickened that Zero would even think of attacking the already wounded Jura, creates a shield of ice to protect him, though the shield is easily destroyed along with Gray by Zero's power.

As Hibiki Laytis reveals the weakness of Nirvana, Lyon wills Gray back up and he moves to the second Lacrima to destroy it. He is later seen successfully destroying the Lacrima along with everyone else, and the Nirvana crashes down.

Everyone is then re-united when the New Magic Council's law enforcer Rahal shows up to arrest Hoteye for being part of the Oración Seis, and Jellal for his crimes in the past. As Jellal willingly gives himself up to the Council just like Hoteye, an enraged Natsu starts attacking the Council and tries to bring Jellal back for Erza and for him to join them as he is already "one of us" when he helped defeat Brain. Gray soon joins in and this convinces all the other mages to help fight for Jellal back, while Jellal and Erza can only look on painfully. As the Council fights back ordering them to arrest every single mage rebelling against them as well, Erza suddenly yells for everyone to stop. With that he is taken away, and everyone is shown to look on sadly.

Edolas arc
Gray returns to the guild amid the celebration of Wendy's induction into Fairy Tail. He is especially greeted by Juvia, who, after initially almost drowning him and a few other Fairy Tail members by expressing her worry (and therefore unleashing large amounts of waterfall tears), asks him if he has been unfaithful, much to his confusion. He then realizes Alzack Connell and Bisca Mulan have been marveling at his and Juvia's growing relationship. He also explains why the bells chime to Juvia as they witnesses the return of Gildarts Clive. He then spends more time with Juvia teaching her how to eat some sweets as he gets sucked into Edolas by Anima.

Gray re-appears just when Edolas Erza is about to kill Happy. He and Earthland Erza beat up a few guards and declare Edolas Erza an enemy of Fairy Tail. Although a few soldiers mis-recognized him as Gray Surge, he didn't care and demanded to know where all of their crystallized companion went, while attacking the soldiers of Edolas. After hearing Wendy's scream, Gray freed Lucy of her handcuffs and proceed to where the Dragon Slayers were held captive. While running, Gray revealed that the Lacrima that was at the center of the Capital was trapping both him and Erza, and revealed that Gajeel was the one that released them from the Lacrima state, stating that Dragon Slayer Magic have the ability to release their trapped companion. With that, he asked Happy to support Gajeel and release their trapped Companion near Extalia. Arriving at the room, Gray, Lucy, and Charle found both Natsu and Wendy both fainted on the ground. Gray immediately feeds Natsu an 'X-Ball', a medicine that allows Earth Land mages to use their magic in Edolas. After Wendy woke up and Natsu ran to stop the King's plan, Wendy explained to Gray, Lucy, and Charle that the Royal Army is trying to use the Giant Lacrima stationed near Extalia as a bomb to destroy the Kingdom of Extalia.

Natsu runs into Gray and the others. At first Natsu is confused about the situation until Lucy and Wendy explain that Earthland Gajeel, Gray and Erza showed up. Now cleared up, the group splits into two; Gray traveling with Natsu and Lucy. Natsu asks where the king is. Gray and Lucy suspect in some important place, but Lucy starts to wonder since the courtyard and prison were in such strange locations for a castle. Natsu and Gray then say that in short the place has a strange layout. Lucy responds by saying she wouldn't be surprised if there was an amusement park, and to their surprise her prediction really came true a few seconds later. However, Sugarboy and Hughes are inside the park, and they prepare to battle the three. Hughes starts the battle by sending a viking ship straight into their path, but Gray blocks it with his Ice Shield. As Natsu then flies off to battle Hughes, Sugarboy then traps both Gray and Lucy by making the ground soft, sinking them waist-deep. Gray then uses his strength to throw Lucy up, freeing her to help Natsu. He then creates two grappling hooks and escapes, before making a giant death scythe to crash down on Sugarboy. However, his magic proves ineffective because Sugarboy's weapon, "Rosa Espada", makes anything limp and soft which includes ice.

Later, when Sugarboy steals the key from Coco and slides away, Gray reappears while riding a motorcycle (made of ice) and begins chasing after Sugarboy. Sugarboy tries to stop Gray using Rossa Espada on a section of the ground, but Gray merely dodged it and continued. As the chase continued, Gray asked how Sugarboy could keep sliding, to which the latter has no idea as well. He then asked the purpose of the key, which Sugarboy explained that it's meant to activate the Dragon Chain Cannon. Gray then froze the ground, which caused Sugarboy to slide out of control as Rossa Espada can't change the properties of the materials that it softens. With Sugarboy stopped and distracted by the motorcycle that he threw, Gray took the opportunity to grab and freeze the Key, hoping it would shatter, but to no avail. Realizing that it won't shatter that easily, Gray decides to freeze it so that it can never be used. Sugarboy said that he can just soften the ice to get the key, but hesitated to do so when Gray explained that he may limp the key as well. The both of them then began to fight again, but when the key begins to crack, Sugarboy tried to stop their fighting. Gray didn't stop, as it concerns their companion, which Sugarboy then told him that the cannon can return their friends back to normal if fired on the Lacrima itself. As Sugarboy tried to buy some time, Gray shatters the Key. Angered by what Gray did, Sugarboy attacks Gray with Rosa Espada, but is defeated with Gray's new technique. While Sugarboy yells at him for Gray's recklessness, the latter created a duplicate of the key using Ice Make magic. Natsu later catches up to him and learns that Gray can make a copy of the key. He then explains that they need to use the cannon and fire it on the Lacrima instead of the island it is floating on so that the Dragon Slayer magic will transfer on the Lacrima and destroy it, thus releasing their friends.

Shortly Erza Scarlet shows up as her counterpart and Gray and Natsu intentionally got captured so they can get past the gate where the cannon is located. He then enters the room planning to release everyone through the cannon but couldn't find the aim for the cannon. After the cannon fires, he soon flies off with everyone to stop the Lacrima and help to hold it back long enough for Mystogan to send the Lacrima back to their home. After the arrival of Dorma Anim, he, along with Erza, Lucy, Coco, Happy, and Charle helps to save the Exceeds. When they were ambushed by Erza Knightwalker, they find themselves fighting the Royal Army. The sheer numbers of the Royal Army and the Legions nearly defeats them until Edolas Fairy Tail Guild arrives to reinforce them. After the dragon slayers defeat Faust, Mystogan starts taking magic away from Edolas. The Royal Army flees knowing they can't win without magic. Gray says they won, but nobody seems to care since Edolas is crumbling apart.

Once Mystogan starts taking all the magic away from Edolas, Edolas Fairy Tail starts to panic saying they can't have a guild without magic. Once all the magic is sucked out, all beings with magic in them start leaving via the Anima. This includes everyone from Earthland and the Exceed. On the way out Gray tells Edolas Fairy Tail they can still be a guild without magic as long as they have each other. As they leave through the sky, Gray waves goodbye to the world of Edolas. Upon the return, he becomes shocked alongside Erza and Natsu when Pantherlily captures Lisanna from Edolas who has been brought to Earthland by Anima.When Lisanna revealed that she is the Earthland.Grey alongside with Natsu and the others help Lisanna to return to her siblings.

S-Class Trial arc
Following everyone's return from Edoras, Gray tells all the guild members about edoras and their fairy tail guild members. During the process he can't stop thinking about Cana's counterpart and how she dressed, to the point he tried not to laugh. Shortly after he enters a giant battle between the guild members and ended up overexerting himself. A few days later, he like several other guild members started taking up numerous jobs to gain recognition for the annual Fairy Tail event. The next day the master appears alongside, Erza, Mira, and Gildarts to announce the start of the annual S-Class Wizard Promotion Trial. Gray is announced as one of eight candidates who will be participating.

After the ceremony, he is seen talking to his friends about the contest. At first Juvia wants to quit the trial because she was wanting to be Gray's partner, he crash her idea showing he already have made a promise to participate with Loke as him shows up with them telling Lucy he cancels their contract during the trial period.

Gray along with the other participants head towards the island and complains about the scorching heat despite it being winter. He strips so much that he even removes his underwear. After the master appeared and told the teams about the first trial, he becomes trapped in Fried's rune along with several others. After the rune was removed, he froze the ocean to make a path and slide to the island. He path he and Loki chose is unknown, but they met Mest and Wendy as their opponent. Their fight ended somewhat quickly as they managed to knock out Mest and went on ahead.

As they were walking through, they started talking about Mest. They mention that although Mest came close to winning last year, they expected him to be stronger but Loki says that they also gotten stronger. They later wonder who his partner was last year, but neither of them seem to remember. When Gray and Loki met up with the others, the master shortly arrives. When the master announces how Cana and Lucy defeated Fried and Bixlow and how Natsu managed to clear Gildarts barrier and passed, he express great surprise. He later asks master about how Juvia was doing, and is somewhat disappointed/freaked out when the master says they met up with Erza and lost. Shortly after they realize Elfman is the only one left and that he had to have met up against Mira. Shortly after Elfman and Evergreen appear and the master says its time to start the second trial. Shortly after Natsu comes to terms with what Gildarts told him, he challenges Gray and the other remaining contestants to see who will be the new S-class mage. Gray simply replied that Natsu was the only one he doesn't want to lose to and that he accepts his challenge.

When the second trial to find Mavis's grave begins, Gray and Loke get chased by vicious birds. With a scared expression on his face Gray brags that the challenge isn't hard yet if it means becoming an S-class mage. Loke just remarks on how Gray is acting tough.

Later Gray with seen with Loke overhearing what Lucy said about the second exam about intelligence.Then they decide to follow Cana and Lucy. Gray tells Loki that the second exam is also about greed.

Then Gray and Loke notice the warning signal that was launched by Erza that indicated that the exam was on hold and that everyone must prepare for battle against an enemy. They first emerged from their hiding spot near Cana and Lucy and are seen scolding Cana for wanting to continue the exam, and telling her that they should head back to the emergency meeting spot together. However, bubbles arrive from the sky containing numerous Grimoire Heart Guild members, whom the four mostly dispatch with ease. The remaining Grimoire Heart members are suddenly transported away by Caprico, who has come to fight them. Right at the start of the fight, Caprico pummels them all with powerful kicks, prompting Gray to comment on his strength.

The group then questions Grimoire Heart's goals, and as everyone prepares to fight, Loke tells the others to leave so he can fight their opponent one on one. Gray says that all four of them are having a difficult time fighting their opponent, but Loke explains that their opponent uses Human Subordination magic, which weakens the battle and magic power of humans (but not Celestial Spirits). He then tells them that their opponent is the Celestial Spirit Capricorn, surprising Gray. Loke then yells for the others to go and though Lucy is reluctant to leave his side, Gray and Cana persuade her to trust him and the three depart.

As the three walk together, Cana suggests that they split up. Although he is reluctant to, he agrees and walks off alone. While walking, Gray states Cana has a bad sense of humor, then he realizes that he never saw her drink since she entered Tenrous Island, making Gray wonder if she is just sober. Suddenly, he senses someone's presence. He hides behind a tree and notices Ultear walking speaking about Zeref. He at first mistakes her for Ur but realizes that she is not but a member of Grimoire Heart, and wonders who she is and why she resembles Ur.

As Gray continues spying on Ultear and Zeref from behind a tree, he wonders where they plan on heading and guesses that they are heading back to Grimoire Heart's master. Suddenly, from the skies, Gray is hit by a jolt, which unbeknownst to him, is a sensory link magic between him and Juvia used by Meredy, causing any pain taken by one of them to be delivered to the other one. When Meredy slices Juvia's arm, Gray feels the pain too, and his yell almost attracts the attention of Ultear. Later, when Meredy adds herself to the link and takes damage, Gray again feels excruciating pain and reels over.

When the Sensory Link cast on him disappears and he begins to wipe away the tears caused by them, Ultear appears behind him, and asks if he was following her. She then goes on to explain that she is the daughter of Ur and that he shouldn't fear because they are comrades.

A skeptical Gray questions what Ultear means that they are allies. She tells him she holds no grudge against him because she knows that he didn't kill Ur, and in the end it was just pride, which provokes Gray to remark that she's done evil things and that she shouldn't say that what she did was Ur's pride. Ultear then states that everything she did was the will of Ur, which suprised Gray.

Magic and Abilities
Caster Magic User: Gray is a powerful mage, and an S-Class Candidate whose abilities are said to rival Natsu's.


 * Ice-Make: A form of maker magic that creates shapes or objects out of ice. In Gray's case, he uses Static Ice Make, meaning he can shape his ice into weapons or attacks. Gray's skill in Ice Make is skillful enough to completely freeze Juvia when she was in a state of boiling water, as well as freezing an object faster than Sugarboy's Rosa Espada could soften it. After the fight with Sugarboy, Gray also demonstrated the ability to manufacture an exact replica of objects using his ice as the primary material, as seen when he produced a flawless copy of the Dragon Chain Cannon Key.


 * Ice Make: Knuckle: Gray freezes the ground under his opponent and creates a tower of ice fist that strikes his opponent. (Anime Only)


 * Ice Make: Shield: Gray creates a large shield in front of him that shields everything behind it.


 * Ice Make: Lance: Gray creates ice lances that he shoots toward his enemy from the ground, impaling them.


 * Ice Make: Fishnet: Gray releases icy winds from his hands to freeze his opponent. (Anime only)


 * Ice Make: Floor: Gray simply freezes the floor, which makes anyone in the area slip. Gray can also make a way for him to slide on.


 * Ice Make: Hammer: Gray creates a large hammer that floats above his opponent and drops it with great force.


 * Ice Make: Geyser: Freezing the ground in front of him, Gray creates a tower of ice spikes that impales opponents.


 * Ice Make: Arrows: Gray creates a bow and releases multiple arrows from it that shoots at enemies at high speed.


 * Ice Make: Sword: Gray creates a sword of ice that he uses for melee combat.


 * Ice Make: Prison: Gray creates a large square cage made out of ice that can be used to trap enemies.


 * Ice Make: Cannon: Creating a large hand held cannon, Gray is able to fire a cannonball made of ice that causes massive damage to his opponent.


 * Ice Make: Battle Axe: Gray creates an axe out of ice for melee combat and swings it around him slicing his opponents.


 * Ice Make: Dummy: Gray creates a copy of himself made out of ice, that can be used to avoid attacks or create a distraction for a surprise attack.


 * Ice Make: Saucer: User creates a giant spinning ice disk that he launches at his target cutting through like a buzz-saw. (Anime only)


 * Ice Blade: Seven Slice Dance: After making a sword made of ice, Gray rapidly slashes his enemy seven times.


 * Iced Shell: Gray also has knowledge of this forbidden magic.


 * Unison Raid: Gray and Juvia also succeeded Unison Raid during their fight against Dragonoid. Both magic seals created one and they fused their magic together.When Juvia and Gray's magic were fused together there was water and ice shreds of needles. (Anime only)

Expert Hand to Hand Combatant: Gray has been shown some skill in hand to hand combat, as he managed to overwhelm Lyon when the latter angered him in battle. He also skilled swordsmanship with his ice-made sword.

Enhanced Endurance: Gray also has shown tremendous endurance during battle. Gray managed to continue fighting after being hit by boiling water, he survived Fukurou's stolen fire attacks, and endured several dozen energy blasts from Bixlow's dolls before passing out. He also took the blasts from four lightning Lacrima from the Hall of Thunder despite just recovering from previous injuries.

Relationship
Surprisingly for a Team Natsu member, Gray is pretty normal and thus gets along well with most people in the guild.

Appearances in Other Media
Gray is a playable character in the first Fairy Tail video game, Fairy Tail Portable Guild and is an unlockable character in its sequel, Fairy Tail Portable Guild 2. Gray also makes a cameo appearance in the game Sunday VS Magazine: Shuuketsu! Choujou Daikessen!, along with Erza, Happy, and Makarov.

Trivia

 * Gray's boxers are much longer in the anime, and are usually always black unlike the manga.
 * As Gemini transforms into Gray and Angel gathers information about Lucy from his mind, Gray's opinion of Lucy is as follows: "Newcomer to the guild, pretty damn cute, possesses some skill. More naive than she appears, and celestial spirit wizard".
 * He is seen smoking in the first few chapters of the manga.

Quotes

 * (To Erza) "I'll do what I want till the end. Cut me down if you want."
 * (To Lucy) "I don't care where I get hurt, as long as my injuries are visible." ''
 * (To Juvia) "Sorry, but it doesn't matter if you're a woman or even a child. I don't go easy on anybody who hurts my comrades."
 * (To Juvia) "Lucy's our comrade. I won't hand her over even if I die."
 * (To Racer) "Ice can even stop the time of life itself. So, you'll never be able to catch up, for eternity. You'll always be eating the dust of Fairy Tail."