This is my first fanfiction, I just kinda had a random idea and decided to write it. If theirs anything I need to improve on, please tell me because I don't really know.
Disclaimer: I don't own Attack on Titan, Fairy Tail, or Sword Art Online.
Lucy's POV
I opened my eyes to the familiar sound of Natsu yelling about a mission. I hopped out of bed, about to yell back at him for breaking into my apartment. AGAIN. I stopped when I realised it wasn't just Natsu, but Erza, Happy, Gray, Wendy, and Carla too. I stood there wide eyed for a moment, usually its just Natsu.
"Huh? What are you guys here for?" I asked. I wasn't stupid enough to yell at Erza. That would take someone denser than Natsu.
"Well, Natsu found a job saying something about investigating some ruins where people have been disappearing. It doesn't sound all that interesting, but the reward is a Platinum key and 50,000,000 jewel." Erza paused for a moment to let the huge prize sink in. I couldn't help but wonder how insanely dangerous this probably was if they were not only giving a huge sum of money and a platinum celestial spirit key. Wasn't it usually SS ranked missions that payed that high? I know I'd never seen a reward that high on the mission board downstairs. Erza started to continue so I left my thoughts to listen," We got up a couple hours ago, but its 4 in the afternoon so we figured you'd be up and we'd stop by." Erza stated in her general, serious tone. I looked outside my curtains, and it seemed she was right. I sighed, it seemed I had indeed slept through the day.
"Hehe Lucy slept in!" Happy chimed in. I glared at the smiling blue exceed with the most Erza-ish look I could muster. The exceed's grin just got bigger. I finally managed my anger, and ignored the obnoxious blue cat. I walked over to my closet to pick out an outfit for the day. Or the next three. That was something I hated about long missions.
"Wait for me either outside or in the living room. I'll be right there." I changed into a cute orange cutoff tank top with little red flowers embroidered onto the neckline and a dark red pair of shorts. I fastened my belt with my keys around my waist, and ran a brush through my hair, fastening up part of it into a mini ponytail to hold it out of my face. It had only taken me a few minutes to get ready, but I could already hear Natsu and Gray getting heated about something. I hurried out to meet them hoping to get out of the building before they broke anything, and by anything I mean the building. I sighed as I realised it was probably too late. I could already feel the temperature changes.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY ICE PRINCESS?" Natsu shouted as I opened the door. I sighed, it had begun. A small ray of hope sparked when I remembered Erza was there, surely she would solve this. But that hope was immediately crushed when I saw Erza was across the street, drooling over some strawberry cakes she saw through the window of the bakery. I began crying anime-style tears, it was over. I started to hear more of the argument, but I missed the beginning so I had no idea what had started it. Judging by Gray's flaming clothes lying in a pile in front of the building, I'm guessing it was probably Natsu.
"IT'S NOT LIKE I BURNED ANYTHING YOU ACTUALLY USED, POPSICLE BREATH!" Natsu screamed at Gray. Yup, my assumption had been correct. It was true though. The clothes had probably been piled in the corner long before the Natsu lit them on fire.
"I MAY NOT WEAR THEM, BUT I SURE AS HELL LIKED 'EM! ITS LIKE I HAVE TO CONSTANTLY DEAL WITH A LIVING BARBECUE!" Gray shouted at the pinkette, not registering the fact he had admitted he didn't wear clothes. I guess everyone already knew that though.
"I DARE YOU TO SAY THAT AGAIN, STRIPPER!" Natsu yelled, slamming his forehead against Gray's. An aura of fiery orange surrounded Natsu and the street surrounded him began turning charred black before bursting into flames.
"I'D NEVER DO WHAT YOU SAY, FLAME BRAIN!" Gray became surrounded with an ice-blue aura, and the ground around his feet began to freeze as ice crystals formed in the air surrounding him. My anime tears froze, so I ran over to where Erza had just turned around when her breath had froze against the glass….. after the glass melted from Natsu. I tried to tell her what was going on, but my tongue had frozen to the top of my mouth, and my hair and clothes were singed from the street-flames. Before I could move my tongue and tell Erza what was going on she had already pounded Natsu and Gray's heads together making a painful cracking noise.
Their protest was cut short when Erza gave them the 'death glare'. They then proceeded to act like best friends and do the 'friend dance' they did when I first met Ezra. And every other time that Erza used her 'death glare'. It only took a minute for the atmosphere to calm down but the seconds in between sent a shiver down my spine. I almost had to face the landlady. I shuddered at the thought. After the fee I had to pay after the Tenrou Island thing…. I really did not want to go through that again.
The calm mood continued until the train station. Apparently the ruins were near some town called Rose. Which was 10 hours away by train. It took less than 10 second for Natsu to turn green and start groaning. I was glad I chose the seat farthest from him, though it was definitely not coincidence. I grinned evilly, I had the best seat out of all of us. When it came to transportation, Natsu was every shoe's nightmare. Nothing much happened on the train ride, I ended up falling asleep halfway through it.
I awoke when the train screeched to a stop at three in the morning. As I got out of the train with a still recovering Natsu, closely followed by Wendy apologizing for her troia spell not working and a Carla scolding Wendy for caring so much, I started to take in the odd scenery of the building. The train station was all done in a light red wood, with slightly darker floors and small round skylights allowing some faint starlight to shine in. As we left I noticed the door was also round.
The rest of the town was pretty similar, all pale red, as if faded from years in the harsh wind that was blowing, making me wish I had worn warmer clothes. The town was arranged in a swirling shape, reminiscent of the rose it was named for. I started to wonder what came first, the town or the name. In my thoughts I stumbled over a rock and almost landed on my face. I reached out and grabbed onto what I assumed was an oddly carved bench.
"Huh?" I mumbled when the part of the bench I grabbed broke off and left me to run into a building. I picked myself up, and when my eyes hit the sight, I was mesmerized. I had run into the of the largest building in the town. It was modeled after a castle, with the odd red wood replaced with pink tinted stones that glittered in the faint light of the moon and stars. There was a lovely crystalline bridge made of the same stone, that lead to the huge doorway I stood beneath. It was very swirl, with stylized heart motifs carved in every swirl and on top of every arch, pillar, and spire. The bridge crossed over a moat of what looked like blood, though I was fairly sure it wasn't. I was thinking that the rich red color of the liquid actually added a unique appeal to the castle, until I saw Natsu almost faint, covering his nose. I started running over to where he was, as he was a long way farther up the street. Erza had gotten their first though, trying to comfort him. When I got close enough I could hear what they were saying, my thoughts of the liquid being enchanting transformed into making the cute castle look terrifying, every heart turning darker, haunting my thoughts.
"So much… I can't take it…" Natsu was mumbling.
"Are you okay Natsu?" Erza asked in a very worried tone. I could tell from where I was that he was most certainly not okay.
"Blood, nearby. Lots of it." He coughed out, still covering his nose. He looked sick, worse than any motion sickness I'd ever seen him have. His face was red, and he was sweating, which was especially odd since it was almost freezing. He was twitching every few seconds, and it looked like it was getting worse every time.
"Natsu, me, Happy and Wendy will go back to the inn and wait. Lucy, Carla, and Gray go on to the mansion and accept the mission. We'll go on it tomorrow, it's late and Natsu..." Erza trailed off at the end. I wasn't stupid enough to oppose her when she was like this. Apparently Carla was though. The kimono-wearing white exceed was fuming.
"Why do I have to go with these two? I shouldn't be leaving Wendy!" Carla exclaimed before she calmed down a bit, returning to her usual composure.
Erza sighed, "I guess you can go as their escort instead of me Carla. Or we could just skip this and all go back to the inn and get the mission tomorrow. It might be better if we all got the details." I smiled, I liked the last option. When I started thinking about it though, Natsu might not be any better tomorrow. I guess there was a chance though. Plus it didn't really make sense to barge into the creepy building at 3am.
"I vote we just go tomorrow." I said, and everyone nodded. Erza picked up Natsu, and we started back to the inn we had passed earlier. As soon as we got there, I went to my room and collapsed onto the bed, but I couldn't seem to fall asleep. I couldn't help but wonder if that moate had been filled with blood. It seemed too likely for me to be comfortable with the thought of returning there, but I was curious. Natsu had been on some pretty violent missions, was there really enough blood in one place to make him that sick? I sighed.
As I layed there, I heard the faint sound of Wendy using some healing spells on Natsu in the next room over. I started to think more about the mission. It made sense it would be crazy dangerous, this was the highest reward I'd ever seen on a mission. 50 million jewel was a ton of money, plus a platinum key. Celestial wizards were rare now days, so it was odd that they added that. I finally faded into unconsciousness thinking about all the things I could by with such a huge sum of money. I hoped that Natsu, Gray and Erza didn't destroy too much this time so we could keep most of the reward.
When I opened my eyes, the sun was just topping the hills outside my window, the clouds turning lovely shades of pink, gold, and orange. I got out of bed, and took a quick shower in the small bathroom attached to my room. I put my hair into low pigtails and put on a short cream colored sweater and a pink skirt. I put my key belt on and waited for the rest of Team Natsu to wake up.
Several hours later, after everyone was up, we set out to the castle place again. The town looked much different in daylight, the faded red looking more pinkish. Also, there were a lot more people in the streets. When we finally got to the castle, the red water had turned to a crystal-clear state, and the pink stone had turned pure white. Natsu seemed fine, and we walked in to talk to the mayor of the town so we could head to the ruins, as my thoughts were filled with wonder on the odd transformation.
The interior of the castle was just as lovely as the exterior. It was filled with roses, in bouquets or just growing in the corners of rooms. The furniture was all a deep red that contrasted beautifully with the white marble floor and walls. I couldn't help but continue to wonder why the castle changed so much overnight, and how.
We finally arrived at the mayor's office, which was clearly marked by a gold plaque over the door. I sat down in one of the wine-colored armchairs in the room, which were in a semi-circle surrounding a large red desk.
"We are the Fairy Tail mages that accepted the job request." Erza said, and the mayor spun around in the large wine-colored swivel chair to face us. He was a tall old man, with thick white hair and bushy eyebrows. He had green eyes and thin lips, and his face was layered with wrinkles.
"Ah, you've finally arrived. I must warn you, every mage we have sent to investigate has disappeared, you are the 30th team. Are you sure you want to go through with this?" The old man asked, I looked at the plaque on his desk, his name was Genki Laro. I nodded, but before I could open my mouth to assure him that we would do it, Natsu had already responded.
"Oh yeah! Don't worry we'll be fine old man!" Natsu was grinning, he was definitely back to normal. Or as normal as Natsu got.
"So where are these ruins?" Erza asked. just smiled.
"We shall have one of our citizens guide you there, but they will leave as soon as you get close. We don't want to lose any more people." The old mayor smiled, "They should be here any minute actually."
After about two minutes a young girl with dark silvery long hair tied back in a braid and big green eyes wearing a frilly brown dress walked in. She waved, and looked at the mayor.
"Are these the mages I will be guiding to the ruins ji-ji?" The young Laro girl smiled up at her grandfather and gestured towards us.
"Yes Aka. Be careful." The mayor addressed his granddaughter, who I knew now as Aka. I guess the name Red made sense as the granddaughter of the mayor of Rose town.
"Okay. Follow me, mages of Fairy Tail!" She giggled and motioned with her hand. We got up and followed the girl. She looked about Wendy's age, and the two actually started talking as she navigated through the town, heading through the round buildings past many stalls selling various items. I had to force myself not to stop when I saw a booth displaying a beautiful red dress.
We finally got to the edge of the town, heading down a dirt road through a field of wildflowers. In the distance I could see a huge hill filled with crumbling buildings, topped with a giant cherry tree. I guessed those were the ruins, and from this distance they really didn't look very frightening. As we walked, the scenery changed to a light forest of birch trees then to grass that was far over my head, then back to the wildflowers. It seemed Wendy and Aka were getting to be friends they had been talking for the whole trip which was about four hours. I smiled, it was good for Wendy to have some friends her own age. Carla was following closely behind Wendy, and behind her was Erza. After Erza was Natsu, Happy, and Gray. Natsu and Gray were arguing about something as they walked. I was last, just enjoying the warm weather and beautiful scenery.
Aka stopped, and I walked forward to see what was going on.
"This is where I'm supposed to stop. The ruins are right up ahead. I'll be back later, probably an hour or two after the sun sets. Bye!" Aka waved and ran off with a grin. Wendy waved back and grinned. I waved too, then set off to finish the walk to the ruins. It wasn't much longer before we reached the ruins. They had lost their color years ago, and were all a beige color with cobwebs hanging from their empty doorways.
"We should head towards that cherry tree at the top so we have a better view." I said.
"Good idea Lucy." Natsu said, heading off towards the top of the hill.
"Aye sir!" Happy called out, racing up after him. Soon we were all following the headstrong pinkette and little blue exceed. I smiled, this mission was actually quite enjoyable. It didn't seem as dangerous anymore. The ruins were really quite peaceful.
We finally reached the cherry tree, and I noticed some odd carvings in it. They looked like they were in a different language.
"Erza, Natsu, Wendy, Gray, Carla, Happy! Come look at this!" I called to them.
"What is it?" Gray asked.
"Duh its some carving in a tree, frost brain!" Natsu answered.
"What did ya call me, charcoal face?!" Gray shouted back. I groaned, I didn't want them to obliterate the carving before I knew what it meant. It could help with the disappearances. It was too late though, Natsu was already flying at gray with a flaming fist. Gray sidestepped and Natsu rammed into the tree, obliterating it and lighting the remaining chunks on fire. Erza gave him a death glare, and Natsu's eyes swelled up to the size of dinner plates.
Before anything else could happen, the world started changing. Everything remotely dark in color turned pitch black and everything light colored turned pure white. The world started spinning, and I grabbed onto Erza and Wendy. Wendy held onto Carla and me, Carla pulled Wendy closer and held out her paw for Happy, Happy grabbed Carla's hand and held Natsu's head which he was already sitting on, Natsu held Happy on his head and grabbed Gray's arm, and Gray grabbed Natsu's arm and Erza's hand. The whole world started to turn grey, then green. The details slowly started to refocus, and we were standing somewhere entirely different. It was a large grassy plain, with a giant wall in the distance. As my stomach began to calm down from the nauseating experience, I noticed what looked like a naked person running towards us. As they got closer I realized they were huge, at least ten meters tall.
"Uh, you guys? What just happened? And what is that?" I said nervously, pointing at the naked giant running towards us, with its arms flailing behind it and a giant grin plastered on its rather creepy face.
"I don't know… I-I'm sorry. I think me destroying that tree might have did this." Natsu said, sounding sad and kind of embarrassed.
"Its fine Natsu, I think we may have been sent to a new dimension again. It's weird though, going to Edolas didn't feel like that." Wendy said. The giant thing was right behind her now. It lifted her into the air, and up to its mouth.
"WENDY!" I screamed. Erza jumped into the air and cut off its hand. When the dismembered limb hit the ground, it sizzled then disintegrated. Carla swooped Wendy out of the air, pulling her far into the sky so the giant couldn't get her again. Happy did the same for Natsu, and I heard Natsu screaming on how he wanted to fight this thing. Erza equipped into her Heaven's Wheel armor and started launching swords at the giant. It just grinned and started to reach for me, its hand regenerating in the minute we had been preparing. I reached for my keys, grabbing the one for Loke.
"OPEN! GATE OF THE LION, LEO!" I yelled. Nothing happened for a minute, but then a small lion plushie appeared in my arms with a flash of light. There was a note tied to its neck. I put it in my key bag, I would read it later. I was worried something had happened to my spirits, and I realised I would be no help in this fight without them. I started to run towards the wall, hoping to get help. It would be better for me to do that then just sit there as a burden.
Suddenly, I froze. There was another giant crawling towards me. Within seconds it was above me. A single tear escaped my eye, this would be the end. I felt its hand lift me up, almost crushing me with the pressure. It lifted me to its mouth, and I could feel its hot breath. I got a lungful of air, and screamed at the top of my lungs, even though it wouldn't do me any good. My last moments were spent in agony as its teeth closed on my head. Then everything went numb and I was sent into a blissful peace, to end up who knows where. Who would've thought 'Lucky Lucy Heartfilia' would die alone in a place she didn't know.
Gray's POV
I whipped around after I heard a scream. I looked up to see Happy flying towards a crawling giant with blood covering its grinning face. I looked at Natsu's face, seeing tears I ran towards the blood-covered crawler. That scream, it had belonged to Lucy. I hadn't seen it, but I knew that beast had eaten her. My surrogate little sister, one of my best friends, was dead. Tears welled up in my eyes as I charged the demon that killed her. I left the other giant to Erza, knowing she could deal with it.
I got to the beast before Natsu. I summoned a sword of ice, cutting off the things hands and feet. I proceeded to remove its arms and legs, then its head. I was openly crying at this point, but when I saw the dead giant I smiled softly, before my eyes turned as cold as the ice I used. Lucy had been avenged. The demon disintegrated, and I turned to where Natsu and Happy had just landed.
"Natsu, go get help. I bet theres people in those walls, they probably are better at dealing with these things than us." Natsu nodded and flew away. I smiled slightly, I didn't really think that there were people I just wanted my best friend/rival to go there so he wouldn't get killed by these giants. I turned to go help Erza, but she was running towards me with her flight armor, screaming something about regeneration, and monsters.
I looked behind her, seeing the first giant regenerating each if its limbs. It looked like it had been cut in thirds, but they were quickly reforming. Its legs and torso rejoined its shoulders and it picked itself up and started running towards us.
I turned to Erza, and smiled softly. "Erza, run. Go get help with Natsu. I'll fight it off, I killed the last one. I might not make it, but make sure you get home. Take care of everyone. And if I die, don't blame yourself." She looked like she was gonna grab me and keep running, but I knew I would only be dead weight. I mumbled 'ice make: excalibur' and ran at the giant. I looked back at her and winked, so she turned and ran towards the walls. I saw Wendy and Carla following her, with tears streaming down Wendy's face.
I leapt into the air, realizing you probably had to cut off their heads to kill the giants. I added more ice to my sword, and it tore through its neck, sending its already-disintegrating head far into the distance. Its lifeless body dropped to the ground and I started to run after the rest of Team Natsu. It wasn't long before I ran into more of the giants. I prepared my ice-sword and started annihilating them. There were so many though, a huge crowd had gathered. I guess the scent of Lucy's blood had drawn them to the area.
I approached a 5 meter one, charging it before launching myself into the air. My sword hissed across its neck, slicing its head off. I didn't even watch it disintegrate before turning to the next one, using the barely-there back of the dying monster as a spring pad launching myself to the next one. My leg crunched as I landed on the next, and I cursed under my breath realizing I had probably broken something. I ignored the pain and cut the head off of the current before jumping to the next. As I continued, I sustained many more minor injuries making me weaker as time went on. The never ending giants would get to me eventually, so I silently apologized to everyone as I went about killing every beast in sight, not thinking of anything but their annihilation.
I must have killed at least 100 of them before one finally grabbed me, crushing the rest of my unbroken bones, swallowing me whole. I looked around in its stomach, noticing that it was completely empty except for a thin layer of bubbling reddish liquid, the only way out being its mouth. I sat down in pain, realising that unlike Lucy's quick death I would either be disintegrated by the giants stomach acid or die of starvation. I chuckled, at least it would be peaceful. It was too hot to summon ice, so over heating could be another cause of my death. I leaned against the side of its stomach, simply thinking of everything I'd never got to do. I guess I too would die in this world, just like Lucy.
Carla's POV
I sighed and pulled Wendy a little closer to me. She had just witnessed the death of two people she considered her older siblings. I started to fly a little faster, despite the strain on both my wound and my magical energy. Earlier when I had swooped down to pick Wendy out of the air, the giant's hand had hit me, and pushed one of my ribs into my lungs, and I knew my life wouldn't last much longer, I could feel my punctured lungs slowly fill with my own blood. I added even more speed and we began to draw very near the giant wall.
Before I died, I wanted to tell Wendy some very important things. I had seen a bit of the future, and it wasn't pretty. All I knew was that the giant's weak spot was the nape of their neck, and that she would meet her soul mate in something called the 'Survey Corps', I also knew that there would be a lot of death and darkness down her path. I sighed, I wouldn't be around to watch her grow up. For the first time in a long time, I felt tears well up in my eyes. I hoped she would turn out okay.
We finally reached the wall, and I landed softly on top of it. Happy and Natsu were already there, both had tears pouring out of their eyes. As we landed, Erza raced up the wall in her flight armor with tear stains on her cheeks and watery eyes. I sighed, I only had a couple of minutes left. I cleared my throat to draw attention to myself and all of their heads turned.
"I apologize, I do not have much longer to live, please do not interrupt. As we were flying I had a vision. I saw a large group of people in green capes with wings on them slicing off the nape of those giants necks to kill them, and I saw the deaths of many many people. Wendy, you must join something called the 'Survey Corps'. Do not ask why, and no I don't know what it is." I sighed and looked at the young girl, before flying over and landing on her shoulder, patting her head softly. "I apologize Wendy. I never planned on dying so early in your life. I will leave you with a gift, some knowledge. In the Survey Corps, there will be four people you can trust with your life. There names are Eren Jaeger, Mikasa Jaeger, Armin Arlet, and Levi Ackerman. They will help you, as will most people they trust. Your path will be dark and soaked in blood for a while, but it will be bright and lively after. Help the people of this world, they need you." I whispered into her ear.
"Carla why don't I just heal you? You don't have to die Carla! I don't want you to die!" Wendy sobbed. I smiled softly and pet her head.
"Wendy, exceeds are different than people. Your magic wouldn't work on me, save it. There will be many in this world in need of you help." I whispered back to her, before feeling the pain in my chest spike. I coughed up some blood then flew to Happy.
"C-Carla! D-don't leave u-us!" Happy was sobbing. I kissed his cheek.
"Happy, don't worry. Tell Natsu that Gray might be able to be saved. He also needs to join the 'Survey Corps' to achieve this. Don't change Happy. Don't let the darkness you will encounter consume you, make sure you don't change. I love you the way you are." My wings sputtered out of existence, and I coughed up some more blood. Happy caught me, and a single tear escaped my eye. "Good bye everyone. I shall see you all again someday." My consciousness faded, and I saw Lucy, and everyone from Caisthelter beckoning to me. I walked forwards, leaving my life behind.
Wendy's POV
My eyes widened. Carla was dead. In one day I had lost three members of my family. My expression hardened, I knew this day would change me forever. This world's creatures had taken three of my nakama, I could not permit them to take the rest. I turned to the three other living members of my nakama present in this world. Happy was glowing, and shifting. I blinked, did all exceeds have larger forms? I almost giggled at the thought of Happy as some giant muscular cat man. It would be hard to make me laugh though, with all the death I had just experienced. And according to Carla, the darkness of my blood-soaked future.
I looked on in shock as the glow expanded, and put a hand over my eyes when it got too bright. When I blinked my eyes back open, a much different Happy was standing there. He was tall, about 6 foot. He was wearing a green robe with pictures of fish weaved onto the edges of the sleeves and the neckline, surrounded by swirls. His backpack had turned into a darker green cape that stopped just above the ground, and had a much leaner build than PantherLily. In his hand was a large wooden staff, topped with a faintly glowing crystalline ball. I wondered where these clothes came from, but that thought was soon replaced with wonder on why Happy was chanting.
"Σας καλώ, πνεύματα ενός άλλου κόσμου!Αντικαταστήστε τη ζωή του αγαπημένου μας ήρωα!Ψυχή για την ψυχή, την ανταλλαγή των κόσμων!" Happy finished his chant, and the glow returned, softer now, shrinking him back to his chibi-ish form.
My eyes widened as two glows appeared in front of him, before shaping into two humans. One had black hair, charcoal eyes and was fairly short wearing a long black coat with lots of belt-like details. He looked to be very young, a couple years younger than Natsu. He had two swords strapped to his back in an X shape, one icey blue, one black. The other newly appeared human was a girl, looking about the same age as the boy. She had long orange hair with part of her bangs braided behind her head. Her eyes were an amber that was just barely a shade darker than her hair. She wore a long white sleeveless coat that also covered up her shirt, with little red crosses at the waistline and a long flowy skirt like piece under that. She wore a red pleated mini skirt as well as thigh high white boots. She had a sword strapped to her hip.
"Is this a new floor?" The girl asked the boy. He shook his head.
"No, I don't think so based on their reactions. I-I don't know where we are." The boy answered her. I realised the rest of team Natsu was too shocked to say anything so I stepped forwards.
"Hello. My name is Wendy, the pink haired one is Natsu, the redhead in cheetah is Erza, and the little blue cat is Happy. We believe Happy called you here. Where here is, we don't know." I bowed my head slightly at the end.
"Hello," The girl said smiling softly, "My names Asuna, and he's Kirito. Is this part of the game?" She asked. I wondered what she meant by game, I knew she hadn't just seen three of her family die, didn't even know they were dead, but I still felt insulted that she thought it was a game. That she could smile. I scowled, all pretend happiness vanishing from my face.
"No. This isn't some game. This world is DEATH. I'm sorry Happy summoned you here, we were hoping for someone who could help us avenge three of our family." The other worldly duo seemed quite shocked, before Kirito stepped forwards, the darkness in his eyes mirroring my own.
"We shall help you, I know what its like to have friends killed. Seeing as you don't know that the game Asuna was speaking of was a death trap, I'll assume that we have escaped. We still have our items and sword skill though, so we won't be useless." He sighed at the end, looking like he was remembering something terrible from the past. I looked at the rest of Team Natsu, and my expression softened. We all had tear stains, Happy was passed out with a dead Carla in his arms, and Erza had requipped into her usual heart cruz armor.
"Welcome to Team Natsu Kirito, Asuna." I held my hand up in the Fairy Tail symbol over my head, soon everyone else repeating my action. I turned to look out on the side of the wall opposite the one with the giants. I saw some people in brown jackets with roses on them running towards us. "I guess this is where our new lives begin."