History FanFic / MeltingHours

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When time is frozen by Eternal Midnight, light stops moving as well. Meaning that there is no image formed on the eye for the brain to see.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Gray, who on his first attempt crashed the flying car and later managed to break the rear lights by reversing into a cloud, a fact which [[MindScrew utterly confuses]] Silver. [[UpToEleven Erza is somehow worse]].

* RealityEnsues: When time is frozen by Eternal Midnight, light stops moving as well. Meaning that there is no image formed on the eye for the brain to see.

* RefugeInAudacity: Natsu's plan to complete the Daybreak mission: break into Duke Everlue's mansion, dress Lucy in a maid outfit with a rainbow luchador mask, and then take everything he feels like to sell to the Yakuza. [[CrazyAwesome It works]].

So you’ve run into this problem, which nobody else can really help you with. You want to die, but the one person who has a chance of making that happen is kind of already dead. Kind of puts a damper on your plans, doesn’t it? So what can you possibly do when faced with such a situation?

[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11096642/1/Melting-Hours Melting Hours]] (also available on [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/melting-hours-fairy-tail-peggy-sue-fic.409403/ SpaceBattles]]) is a ''Anime/FairyTail'' fanfic written by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5334360/EXNativo EXNativo]], starting after the events of an alternate Tartaros arc. When the fight against [[TheLegionsOfHell Tartaros]] ends with the deaths of Fairy Tail’s mages, a despairing [[DeathSeeker Zeref]] sends the last Fairy Tail member left alive back in time. Taking on the name [[MeaningfulRename Silver]], Gray proceeds to try and save his family from the fate that approaches, and very little will be able to slow him down.

* AlmightyIdiot: [[EldritchAbomination Deliora]] was an experiment in pure power by Zeref, but ran off nothing but instinct with no real guiding intelligence. Even Tartaros couldn’t manage to control him and just let him continue his rampage.

* BadFuture: [[TheMagicGoesAway Face]] was successfully stopped in this universe, however Fairy Tail’s war against Tartaros was less successful and the guild fell.

* BigBrotherInstinct: Back when Gray was younger a bandit managed to give him a scratch. The response? Silver [[DisproportionateRetribution punched the bandit’s head off for his troubles]].

* CallingYourAttacks: Justified InUniverse, as it helps to structure and focus magic into spells. Silent spells are accordingly more difficult to cast, especially for Maker type magic whose use is entirely dependent on perfect structure. Masters like Silver, Gray and Ur usually don’t need to do it, so when they do it is usually a good idea to get out of the way.

* CasanovaWannabe: Hilariously, Gray Fullbuster compared to Natsu’s CluelessChickMagnet

* TheChewToy: Laxus, whether it is suffering from Silver’s antics during the S-Class exam or accompanying Makarov to the Guildmasters meeting.

* CloudCuckooLander: After the incident with Bora mentioned below, Natsu concludes that he has just missed him… so he decides that it is time to eat. Yeah.

** Natsu doesn’t realise that Bora is standing right behind him, ''after turning away from him to ask the crowd if they’d seen him around''.

** Chapter 8 begins with Gray complaining to himself how his S-Class mission wasn’t hard; even though the monster was the size of a house, stole children and could breath fire. His fight with it took less than 15 seconds.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Silver’s Devil Slayer Forbidden Technique: Eternal Midnight ''[[TimeStandsStill freezes time]]''. Unfortunately, it also stops his heart. [[NotAfraidToDie He is perfectly fine with using it if he has to]]. He has at least two more of them.

** Ur used to be the Ace of a Guild, before she was a candidate for the Wizard Saints, but she ran away when the Master died. She calls it “just another cluster of memories that the alcohol can’t completely block out.”

* EmpathicWeapon: Erigor’s scythe. After Erigor is brutally defeated it keeps attempting to kill Silver, only to fail every time.[[spoiler: It is actually the sealed and weakened form of [[PhysicalGod Raijin]].]]

* TheGadfly: Ur has entirely too much fun playing with Gray and Leon’s assumption that Silver is her boyfriend. Chapter 6 reveals that whilst staying with Silver and Gray she would [[TheTease walk around nude just to get a reaction out of Gray]]. She also supplies the funds to renovate the girls dorm Fairy Hills. It is now shaped like a [[spoiler: penis]]. Ur's room is located in [[spoiler: the head]]. She regrets ''nothing''.

* GrievousHarmWithABody: [[BadassNormal Mystogan]] casually uses a bandit as a club, then mentally complains that the bandit is too pliable to be a good club and wouldn’t be any good for a high ranked demolition job.

* TheGunslinger: [[AnIcePerson Gray’s Ice-Make]] specialisation, earning him the epitaph “Gunmetal”. He demonstrates it in Chapter 15 by effortlessly [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation Molding]] an assault rifle capable of blowing apart a table in a single shot.
* HatesBeingTouched: Because of the trauma of his past, Silver doesn’t do physical acts of affection.
* HormoneAddledTeenager: The kids of Fairy Tail upon reaching puberty. Especially Gray, much to Silver’s mixed pleasure that Gray lacks his issues and annoyance at Gray getting distracted by Cana’s chest during training.

* IHatePastMe: Downplayed and PlayedForLaughs. Silver internally calls Gray a “petulant little shithead” and “moody little bitch”, but finds him incredibly amusing and cares for him like a real big brother. It won’t stop him from subjecting Gray to TrainingFromHell when he ticks him off.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Ur’s immediate reaction the second Silver mentioned time travel.

* InnocentInnuendo: [[ItMakesSenseInContext "Like Hell you will, Ur! If anything, you’ll be sleeping with Silver!"]]

* IntoxicationEnsues: Laxus spikes Silver’s coffee with sedatives prior to Chapter 8, [[NoodleIncident ''again'']], in an attempt to make him finally sleep. In Chapter 9 he is still drugged and [[HilarityEnsues ends up going on a supersonic flight around the continent]]. Then he wakes up on Galuna Island.
* ItsAllMyFault: Silver specifically blames himself for Erza’s death in his BadFuture, after she took a hit meant for him.
* LoyalPhlebotinum: Mystogan’s staves are loyal to him, and are capable of defending themselves from anybody who isn’t him.
* MagiBabble: [[AwesomenessByAnalysis Gray]] drops into this when explaining how to destroy Erigor’s Wind Wall.

* MyGreatestFailure: Ur’s sacrifice using Iced Shell against Deliora because of Gray’s actions is referred to as the biggest mistake of Silver’s life. Silver reasons that it doesn’t matter if he is in the past or just dreaming, he would never allow it to happen again.

** Makarov observes that a sleep deprived Silver is not a good thing due to previous events involving “ice, and sharp teeth, and disturbing giggling, and incidents reports detailing ritualistic circles and chanting.”
** Laxus complains about everybody thinking he has a thing with Silver, blaming a dare for making Sorcerer’s Magazine believe they are together. He whines that it was one dare and he didn’t know it would feed the tabloids. Bixlow silently notes that Laxus is a dirty liar because it was far more than one dare.

* PassThePopcorn: Makarov and Silver share a bucket of popcorn while commenting on the battle between Erza, Gray, Natsu and Laxus during the former three’s S-Class Trial in Chapter 6.
* PenName: Lucy’s “adult fanfiction” is written under name [=HeartFilledOfYa=].

* RedBaron: Silver was given the nickname “Glacier” by Sorcerers Magazine. It stuck, much to his annoyance.
** Gray later gets the epitaph “Gunmetal”.

* RefugeInAudacity: Natsu’s plan to complete the Daybreak mission: break into Duke Everlue’s mansion, dress Lucy in a maid outfit with a rainbow luchador mask, and then take everything he feels like to sell to the Yakuza. [[CrazyAwesome It works]].

** Starting Chapter 5, the rumours that Silver and Laxus are “more than friends”
** Characters reading Lucy’s “adult” fanfiction of Silver and Laxus with their only qualm being that Laxus has never called the former sempai.
** Silver’s incredibly poor memory and inability to recall information. Though there are hints that this isn’t as funny as it seems, because it is getting worse.

* SoleSurvivor: Silver was the last Fairy Tail mage standing in the BadFuture after Natsu’s death at the hands of [[HeroKiller Mard Geer]].

-->"You seem…very…" Lucy paused, searching through her impressive author vocabulary in order to ascertain an equitable application of diction apposite within this happenstance. "…happy."

* SwissCheeseSecurity: The Headquarters of the Magic Council has security described by Silver as “laughable”. Considering he managed to smuggle out pieces of a massive flying car across multiple visits, he may have a point.

* TooDumbToLive: Bora [[InSpiteOfANail still takes on Natsu’s identity]]. However in this timeline Natsu is a famous S-Class mage, who has his picture featured in popular magazines, with a reputation for utterly destroying things. Even [[IdiotHero Natsu]] thinks it is a stupid idea to pretend to be a celebrity. [[CurbStompBattle Bora regrets it]].

** [[TheAce Laxus]]. During the S-Class Exam, Silver muses that if he was trying he would be able to [[CurbstompBattle curbstomp]] [[LadyOfWar Erza]], [[TheGunslinger Gray]] and [[PersonOfMassDestruction Natsu]] within a few seconds, simultaneously, ''without using his magic''. The reason he didn’t was because he was testing them.

--> Why couldn't he recall all the stories he'd once told Makarov, upon his Master's request? He hadn't simply been making shit up as he went along without even realising it, right? Natsu had ended up eventually kicking Lucy off the team, hadn't he? And then Lucy had eventually been chased from the Guild and ended up somehow receiving training from a Dragon at some point… right?

--> …No, wait… that sounded a little too… farfetched.
* TemptingFate: Silver muses that he might regret confirming that he saved [[spoiler: Ur by slaying Deliora]], but figures it doesn’t matter. Cue the next chapter.
* UndisclosedFunds: It isn’t made exactly clear how rich Silver is, but it is somewhere between ridiculously and ludicrously. Wolfram states that if Silver didn’t constantly pay off Fairy Tail's vast and continuous collateral damage, the entire economy would have collapsed. He is just that rich.

--> “Only you could stumble around the continent in a drugged up haze, and then show up a day later with a Golden Celestial Spirit Key”
* YaoiFangirl: Lucy, who literally squee’s after seeing Silver interacting with Laxus. Gray complains that “Natsu found one of ''them''”. It turns out she wrote at least one Silver/Laxus fanfiction, which Natsu and Happy end up [[HilarityEnsues innocently reading and commenting about in Chapter 12]]. Chapter 13 confirms that it is basically well written smut.

Not updated since October 2016; from the author's page, "Not writing for Fairy Tail anymore, my interest in the series has run further than dry."

!!Melting Hours contains examples of:

* AManIsNotAVirgin: [[spoiler: Silver [[AvertedTrope averts]] this, in keeping with his CelibateHero status.]] When asked directly, he chalks it up to being too busy raising Gray and subsequently never finding anyone he was particularly interested in.

[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11096642/1/Melting-Hours Melting Hours]] is a ''Anime/FairyTail'' fanfic written by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5334360/EXNativo EXNativo]], starting after the events of an alternate Tartaros arc. When the fight against [[TheLegionsOfHell Tartaros]] ends with the deaths of Fairy Tail’s mages, a despairing [[DeathSeeker Zeref]] sends the last Fairy Tail member left alive back in time. Taking on the name [[MeaningfulRename Silver]], Gray proceeds to try and save his family from the fate that approaches, and very little will be able to slow him down.