Lucy awoke to chapped lips and frozen numbness on the tips of her fingers. The worst situation a person could be in was confined in a small space and blinded by complete darkness. Her heart began to thump steadily yet loudly as she shifted uncomfortably. Where was she? After she had managed to pull her hand free and pressed it against the smooth wooden walls did she realize she was inside own of her Celestial Spirit; Horologium. She shifted once again and placed her hand towards where to door would have been. However, she was apprehensive inside her own mind when it would not budge.

"Horologium, is that you? If so let me out! I am stuck and can't get out," the only response was silence, until she heard the familiar voice.

"I am afraid I can not allow you to do that, Lucy," in a such a detached tone, she could feel the rise of her own lungs with each breathe. She frowned and began to try and force her way out with the weight of her constrained body.

"I said let me out now! Horologium, what is wrong with you," what was wrong with him, and why couldn't she see anything, but most importantly where were they?

"I apologize, but it is still too dangerous to come out," she turned completely still, listening to his warning.

"What do you mean...still dangerous," his voiced had lingered from telling her by what she could tell, so she assumed whatever it was, was of grave importance.

Instead he stood up, revealing through the fiber-glass door covered in a light frost, a fierce blizzard in the middle of nowhere. Snow everywhere from miles to the darkness of the horizon.

She had to fight for breathe at what she saw, and immediately many questions ran through her mind, but mostly, Where am I?...Why can't I remember anything?

However, Horologium was not a mind reader, answering a different question that made her wonder more in disbelief. "I had noticed a ominous shift in the balance of time and alignment and immediately came to safeguard you. Luckily I managed to get to you quick enough."

The idea of balance of time and alignment being disrupted was frightful at its fullest, sending an internal shiver at the thought. Then again it could have also been from the cold weather outside still seeping into the confined space of Horologium.

She slowly exhaled with relief knowing she was safe, but wasn't satisfied since the feeling in her gut told her there was more to hear. There were many questions still wanting to be answered immediately but honestly didn't know what to ask first specifically. It was terrifying still for her, and only continued to boggle her mind for a question

"What happened?" secretly, she didn't want to know. She didn't really want to hear what could probably be worse, but at the same time she needed to know.

"The worst I fear," it settled it, she had to know. She lifted her head, and though she could not face him directly was paying extreme focus.

"The worse? What do you really mean? Ah, my head hurts" could something really be worse? Hasn't she been through the worst technically? Could it be fixed or not?

"I can only presume the reason you might have memory problems is because of the cause of the disruption," maybe he was a mind reader, or knew whatever had happened would cause it. Still, he wasn't being direct! Why couldn't he give her a straight answer.

"I don't really understand still. What does my memory have to do with anything," her head began to feel numb trying to think about what she could have forgotten.

"...As I said about the time and alignment has been disrupted, though it is clear what has happened, I feel as if the memory you lost was the reason everything has changed," changed? What changed? Is it that bad? Why doesn't he just spill it?

"What happened, just tell me now!" her voice rose in annoyance. He was always being roundabout things.

"Chaos and Evil have overpowered Good and Order," panic shot through her mind like a bullet to the head.

"Chaos and Evil? Wha-"

"Everything that once was light has now turned to darkness. The four alignments; Good, Evil, Order, and Chaos have a balance in time. All the things Good and Order is being overrun by Evil and Chaos."

Her body froze in shock and fear. Everything that was Good was Evil, everything that was Order was Chaos. So if it was the worst that could happened that probably meant nothing change it, right? If so, then about about everything that she held dear...

"What?Wait, then what about my friends, my home... what about Fairy Tail. What happened to everyone in Fairy Tail?" Her voice was on the danger of screaming her lungs out. All her friends, her family, and members of Fairy Tail Guild. They couldn't be gone, they could not just disappear, especially without her. She couldn't live without them, just like they couldn't live without her.

"I am sorry..." her eyes widen, "I do not know what changes the balance has done to your friends but I can only assume that Fairy Tail at least..."

He paused for a moment.

"Has become a Dark Guild," her lips began to quiver, as she looked down towards the floor of Horologium. He listened in when he could hear a small noise emitting from her mouth.

"no...," she whispered at its lowest before her voice rose again,"no...no...no..no, no no no no no no," she continued to say over again. Her hands raise to the top of her head, grasping her hair in frustration. Horologium, was taken aback by her reaction. As much as he expected it no less from her was still surprised how much she crack within a few minutes.

"Lucy, please calm down," he replied unsure how to comfort her when she was inside of him.

"No! Don't tell me what to do! Let me out right now! I wan't out," she yelled, banging on the door. He began to fret of the idea that she may get out.

"No Lucy don't! You can't! The atmosphere is too hazardous to be out for long. It's corrupted with Evil, enough to turn you on the side of darkness within an hour." She stopped banging and rested both of her hands on the door.

"...What about my friends," she asked quietly but loud enough for him to hear her.

"I apologize, but... I don't know..."with that Horologium stood up in the snow.

His built feature was light enough to walk on top of the snow, despite Lucy being inside, meaning the blizzard wouldn't slow him down. He traipsed through the storm as Lucy continued to wept. He felt sorry for her, all the things that could have gone wrong in a persons life has happened to Lucy.

As far as they both knew, they were lost with no general sense of direction. The Horizon was in darkness from the storm, he knew he couldn't protect her for too long.

"W-where..are we going," she tried to ask between gasps of breathe.

"I am no use to us except to travel as far as I can for a safe place. At least, whatever the safest I can get...," she continued to weep a bit and more softly.

After she had quieted down, all she could really do was watch the storm's endless attack on the isolated barren of snowy land, and listen as the winds roared against Horologium.

She began to feel guilty at the pit of her stomach. Her friend was out there in the cold while she was stuck inside him warmer than him. Though she knew he didn't have a bodily nerve system to suffer from its killing temperature, she wished she could help in some way.

"Lucy, I know you may feel helpless, but you are not. You are strong in your own way, and in time when the time comes it will be your turn to shine. Do not mind me just because I am protecting you from the condition of the air and weather. The only thing I can't count on from you is to stay strong and not give up so easily. I am sure your friends would say and feel the same way, am I right?" he spoke with softness, earning a unseen small smile from Lucy.

She crawled as far back as much as she could in the small space, wrapping her arms around her knees, as she began to stroll down memory lane in her mind.

Erza...

She remember the time when The Phantom Guild were hired to kidnap Lucy by her own father. They attacked the Guild, almost poisoned Master Makarov, and tried to kill Fairy Tail multiple times. Erza... she used her strongest defense armor to block and prevent the strong blast from their moving Guild. It took so much damage to her after it destroyed her armor, everyone was pissed at the enemy. All Lucy could do was stand there like an idiot, watching her friends get hurt.

"Erza hang in there!" Natsu ran to her aid as she began to breathe, heavily wounded from the blast.

"Makarov. And now Erza as well. Both are out of commission," she could see the look of anger in their eyes when the Phantom Master spoke. "You no longer have a chance for victory. Hand over Lucy Heartfilia. Right now."

"Not on your life!"

"Are we a Guild that hands over our friends? I don't think so!"

"Lucy is one of us," their were too much to not want to cry to, and everyone yelling at the enemy in her defense did nothing but put burden on her feelings.

"Hand her over," the voice spoke once again. Her body began to shake in sadness as she tried so hard not to cry, as she tried so hard to remain strong in front of others, for others.

"I..." Lucy tried to speak, but no more words could come out except for the first.

"I..." she tried again, her voice cracking in despair.

"We'd rather die than sell out our friends!" Erza screamed, managing to pull herself sitting up from such incredible anger. Her eyes widen in surprise, and was speechless. Her friends were so good to her...

Natsu...

one of her favorite memories with him was during the Phantom attack, when everyone was hiding in the cellar of the Guild. They found out that she was an heiress and her father was the one who was paying the enemies to bring her back. Happy had asked why she kept it a secret...

"I wasn't trying to hide anything. After I ran away from home, I didn't really want to talk about it. For a full year, he never showed any interest in his runaway daughter. And now he wants me back? My father went to such terrible lengths to take me back...He's the worst!...But when you get down to it, it's originally my fault for running away from home, right?"

"That's not true! Your father's the bad guy here!" Elfman insisted.

"You idiot," replied an annoyed Gray. Elfman realized his mistake of word choice and fixed it.

"I mean, Phantom!"

"Thanks to my selfish actions, I've caused all this trouble for everyone. I'm really sorry. I guess if I went home, it would end this, right?"

"I wonder about that," Natsu finally spoke, bringing her attention to him. "But 'rich heiress' doesn't strike the right in this dirty old beer hall, laughing and making a ruckus while on some adventure...That's the Lucy I know." Her eyes traveled back to the floor, knowing what he meant. "You said you wanted to stay here,right? What's the point of returning somewhere you don't want to go?"

Her eyes widen at his words and she returned her gaze back to him as he continued, "You're Lucy of Fairy Tail! This is your home to return to."

Happy...

she sweatdropped a bit since most of the time Happy would get on her nerves. Even though it was true, it was nothing more than teasing on Lucy for Happy's part. Despite the never ending making fun of Lucy jokes, he was a good friend, especially towards Natsu. She remembered the time he actually helped her on his own, during the mission to destroy a book by kemu Zaleon.

She was in the sewer reading the book, daybreak with the wind-reader glasses, trying to get through the book as fast as she could.

"I can't believe this book contains such a secret," without warning a hand busted through the metal wall grabbing her arms and making her defenseless.

"What did you me the secret to my book!"

"You're the lowest of the low!" she cringed in pain through gnawed teeth. "You're an enemy to literature."

"An enemy of literature? A sophisticated, culture individual such as me, myself, and I?"

"Anyone who's happy to have a collection of those freakish maids isn't cultured!"

"The is nothing to mock of my beautiful blonde maids!" he put more strength into hurting her arms while he stared at the book."A treasure map? A spot to hide valuables? What kind of secret does this book hold? Tell me. Tell me or I'll snap your arms in two!" she gritted her teeth even more before sticking her tongue out at him. "This girly doesn't get her situation! I got Zamu Zaleon himself to write that book for me! Therefore any secret in that book is mine!"

The freak managed to let go of her when he was kicked in the face by a flying and angry Happy.

"Happy!" she was so glad to see him. He grinned at her as she added, "nice one! Cool!" which was true until his wings left and he fell into the sewer water.

Gray...

oh no, no, no, no. Her face heated up in embarrassment when trying not to remember that one time. Instead, she quickly tried to remember another moment she had with gray. One that didn't involve him-she did it again she almost thought about it.

She did remember the one time she felt as if she was being followed and watched, of course it turned out to be her father...father...who told her about the lost of their wealth and movement of her mother's grave. Only after she ran from him even more upset at his selfishness did she get home to see Natsu and Happy guarding by her door.

"Sergeant Happy, is everything normal?" Natsu commanded.

"Aye sir, Captain!" yelled Happy seriously. However, Lucy didn't even react to their behavior. She was still thinking about her father asking for money.

"Hey, welcome home," Natsu continued a bit concerned.

"Lucy, there's no one suspicious around here," said Happy also concerned.

She turned to face them, giving them a small light smile before looking slightly at the ground, "thanks..."

"Captain! This private here lacks enthusiasm,sir!"

"Why am I a private?"

"Yup, seems like it," Natsu grinned as Lucy headed towards her door.

"Everything ok Lucy...huh," she froze as she knew both turned to look at whatever was behind them, hiding. She spun around...

"Don't tell me he's..."

"Captain, I spotted a questionable subject!" Happy had floated to the shed behind them; a hand appeared trying to shoo him off. All of a sudden Natsu jumped from his spot to behind the shed.

"There you are!"

"That hurt, you jerk!" a voice said

"What are you doing, you jerk?" Natsu asked.

Lucy looked to see it was Gray on the floor as Natsu stood over him, "Gray!"

"So it was Gray that was following Lucy!" Happy exclaimed, but Lucy knew who it really was, and it wasn't Gray.

"N-no, it's not..." she said embarrassed.

"No!" she stopped when Gray spoke in a firm defense and her heart thumped. "I heard that Lucy was being followed by someone suspicious, so I couldn't just leave her alone," her heart was definitely thumping at that time. "I came to see how she was doing," her heart began to beat faster. Gray turned his head the other way, also embarrassed.

"He lllllikes her," Happy purred his common saying.

"What kind of running gag is that!?"

She smiled to herself as she remembered the obvious moments how how much they cared for her. Horologium was right, she shouldn't be crying like it was the end of the world, despite it seeming that way. Instead, she should hold her head up strong, and use the lessons and guidance her friends gave her during her adventures to think of a way to fix this.

It wasn't the first time they had stopped the impossible. Each one of them went through so much ruff time, some of them barely managed to see it all the way through. It may sound kind of like bragging if she said she actually believes that they can handle this.

A frown on her face appeared, wondering what would happen if they could not do it. In fact, the more she thought about it the more she began to worry. She didn't even know where her friends were at the moment, for all she knew they could be...

She noticed that Horologium began to slow down in his travel through the difficult blizzard. She watched him, as he slowly made his way to a stop, and patiently waited for him to say something. However, he didn't say anything, which worried her even more.

"What is wrong Horologium...Why did we stop" she asked in a soft tone. Why had they stopped while they were still in a blizzard. She had a bad feeling about it.

"I apologize once again Lucy," that didn't sound like good news.

"Huh? Wha- do you..." she was about to finish her sentence when it clicked in her mind. Her breathing stopped all together.

"...I won't be able to stay in this world any longer," how could she have forgotten, especially since she was a Celestial Mage.

A spirit could only manage to stay in the human world for so long before needing to go back. Loke was one of the few who have actually managed to stay so long. That is when it hit her too.

"Then what about the other Celestial Spirits? What do you know about them? Do they realize what is going on in the human world," she piped up curiously.

"I don't think you understand Lucy..." he was right she didn't. Just because he said that she probably didn't want to hear either.

"W-what h-happened to the Celestial Spirits..." what happened to Loke, Aquarius, Aries, Cancer...the others?

"I cannot sense them anymore...the Celestial Spirits...do not exist...I am the only one left I assume," she tried not to cry, but the tears were building up around her eyes before spilling out.

"T-then..w-what is going to happen to u-us," her voice began to crack.

"I cannot speak for myself, but I only know that I won't be able to help you any longer Lucy. You will need to survive on your own from here on out," though he may have been a clock, a talking one too, she could sense that he was devastated by his broken up tone, though it was always hard to tell.

"N-no! P-please! D-don't leave me too!" she yelled in a hoarse voice.

"I wish I could Lucy. Honestly I wish I could, because I would...again I apologize."

"N-no! Stop apologize please! I already lost everyone! My friends, my family, my old home and even new home Fairy Tail! You are my only connection to them and my old life! I can't lose you too!" she continued to yell, pulling herself as far back as she could, trying to pretend as if it made a difference for him leaving.

"I know...but I need you to continue on. Even when I am gone, even if everyone is gone, we aren't really. We will always be in your heart. I can only suggest that you find the nearest and closest thing to a safe haven if possible. I know you can do it," he was trying to bring strength to her, even if it didn't work so quickly.

"...But...the darkness..." she stated, bringing her face hidden between her knees.

"I honestly do not know. However, you have less than an hour, before the darkness consumes you...other than than I have nothing else to suggest except...live on," she peeked through her knees to see the solid wood, light flashing of transparency.

Her head shot up in fear, as he began to flash in and out slowly, enough for her to fall through. Now she was kneeling in the thick snow, watching as her last company and friend slowly disappeared before her very eyes.

He watched her as she screamed and attempted multiple times to jump and hold him down to reality, still she fell through him.

"Horologium! Horologium! Horologium!," she screamed over and over trying again and again to keep him with her.

However, he only smiled and stood there silently, before finally...he disappeared.

"Horologium!" she screamed sitting up at the highest pitch of her lungs, enough to bring deafness to the darkness if it had ears.

She collapsed with her chest between her legs and cried silently to herself, as the cold blizzard continued it's unsympathetic attack on the land.

She wanted to stay there and die with everyone else, but took Horologium's words to heart and tried to get up. She fell, and tried to get up again. She fell down another time, but with only a few feet of movement.

She slowly made her way through the blizzard, arms wrapped tightly around her shoulders, and legs only going so far without letting the cold come between her somewhat heated thighs.

She had no idea where to go but tried to head towards the direction Horologium went in. Though in the dark blizzard, she could be going in a circle for all she knew. The crying had stopped from the coldness, and the feelings of the nervous system in her body began to numb. Soon, she would die in a matter of minutes. Freeze to death all alone, and with no one to know she was dead.

The only thing good was the fact that Gray had taught her how to handle the cold for a while. However, since she was not a Ice Mage, nor live and breathed cold, the most she could guess she could handle was maybe half an hour.

She was right though and when a bit over half and hour had passed she collapse on the snowy ground. She turned her head to face away from the snow and look out into the no existing horizon of darkness. Maybe it had been actually almost an hour, for she could feel the uninvited feeling of anger surge within her.

It was over wasn't it. It had not even been the first day of trying to save the world and she already screwed it up. Maybe if Horologium had saved someone like Natsu, Erza or Gray even they could have had this place back to normal in a matter of time. She however...she failed.

She was weak, she couldn't even last through a blizzard. She didn't deserve to be saved. The thought of her friends were supposed to give her hope, but with the darkness it only emitted hatred. A false hatred that it was their fault.

That she could have been stronger if they had given her a chance, or believed in her, instead of making surprised expressions every time it was her power that was needed. They held her back. They made her weak. How she hated-no, it was only the darkness, and the only thing she would die was with a smile on her face; thinking of her friends and the joy they brought to her heart.

Her eyes began to phase in an out as she did smile and thought of each one.

Erza, Natsu, Happy...Gray.

She blacked out.


Ah, it took me a while to write this. It is a wonderful story, but also complicated due to it's character's placement for each story. Fear not Graylu fans! It won't end like my other fanfics...I hope, and I don't mean where I never finish. Please read and review! Please Review! XD

Also in case you didn't understand what happened I will explain. Lucy wakes up in her Celestial Spirit, Horologium the clock not knowing it was him or not. He responds and she wants to get out. He tells her no, and shows her pretty much why, they are in a blizzard. She can't remember how she got there, much less the last thing that had happened. He finally tells her the world is now in chaos and Evil, and everyone is 'gone' much of his knowledge. She is heaertbroken thinking her friends are gone, and he tells her if she is outside of Horologium she would probably become evil. They begin to travel for safety while she flashbacks until his time on earth was coming to an end. He tell her that there is no more Celestial Spirits in this world, as far as he knows. She begs him not to leave but he can not, and disappears to both their sadness. She continues to travel on her own and collapse from the cold and the air that is tainting her heart. Finally she blacks out.