Prolouge:
I felt nothing, no wait... Pressure. Extreme pressure behind my someone was applying so much force, pushing my eyes back into their sockets. I tried to struggle but someone held me down by my neck.
"The more you struggle, the more you sink,"
A cruel voice sang to me. I tryed to struggle again, but i began to be choked and my mouth filled with a sticky metallic voice laughed, i began to see a white light behind my eyes.
"See you on the other side, Brother"
Chapter 1: A Stolen Necklace
"See you on the other side,brother"
I continued to have those dreams for days, each getting more and more vivid. I could almost see who it was but yet couldnt.
Lucy comes by each day to see if im fine. It feels good to be fussed about every once and awhile.
I pulled myself out of my bed and yawned a toothy yawn.
"Good morning, Natsu!'' Happy rubbed his eyes and went to stand in front of me.
"Good morning Happy."
Happy frowned, "Are you feeling ok ?"
"Ive had that dream again..."
" Maybe you should talk to someone? Ya know?"
I turned around, not even taking into consideration what Happy said. Im not gonna talk to someone about something personal to me... thats just wierd.
I walked into the guild hall this morning still with a puzzled look on my face.
"Whatsa matter Natsu? Hmmmmmmm? Cant solve your own bitty problems?" Gray walked up to me.
"Look who's talking! The one who cant even keep his shirt on half the time!"
"You wanna go Rosie?!"
I tightened my fist." ROSIE?!"
( Erza's POV)
"ROSIE?!"
I rolled my eyes as Gray and Natsu tussled past me. This time I didn't try to stop them. They've done this for years.
I strolled up to the request board, and glimpsed at some of he different ones i could take... Bring down a crazed lunatic, Help retrieve a stolen necklace, dispell a ghost in a haunted forest.
My eyes wandered back to the 'Help retrieve a stolen necklace'. I looked down at the price.
"800 MILLION JEWEL?!"
Gray and Natsu stopped fighting and Lucy looked up too.
I looked at who the client was.
Dracheus Morbus...
Ive heard that name somewhere before... I just cant remember where.
"LUCY, GRAY, NATSU WERE GOING ON A JOB!" i yelled to them and went past. There was no address given on the request, but after we got ready, i could swear i knew exactly where I was going.
(Gray)
800 MILLION jewel? Just for returning a necklace? These people must be desperate to get it back or somthin. I followed Erza out, well, we all followed her. She seemed to know something more about this job, and i thought i did too, i just cant put my finger on it.
She said that the clients name was Dracheus, man... that name does ring a bell, though i just cant remember where i heard it.
We strolled up to a big extravagant gate, there were people, who must've been the guards, that were watching us as we came in. They didn't stop us... just let us go past, as if they knew who we were.
They closed the gate behind us and Erza followed a path surrounded by magnificent flowers and fishponds.
"Ooohhh fissshhh!" Happy paused to look at them.
"No Happy!" Natsu nudged him along.
We came in sight of a humongous house. It was about the size of a castle but of corse, it didn't look like one,it was a mansion of a mansion.
Erza strolled up to the door and nocked as loud as possible.
As if expecting us, the door opened.
(Lucy)
" Dracheus?"
"Erza?"
Me and Natsu took a step back.
" Have you been spying on us?!"
The man shook his head and looked into Natsu's suspiciously narrowed eyes. the man looked to be around the same age as us and had bright yellow hair and red swirly eyes. "I know you... weren't you on Tenroujima? Part of Grimhair Art? Or something like that?"
He shook his head again.
"You are being mistaken with someone else, but, thats not why you are here... you're here to accept the job request? Right?"
"Yea we are." I answered this time.
" Good, please do come inside!"
We all followed him into the house, it was extravagantly decorated with crystal chandeliers and furniture that would be fit for a king.
He gesture for us to sit down and we did.
"Now, when exactly did the theft take place."
"A few weeks ago actually, it was one o my Lady's favorite possessions."
"May we speak to her?" i asked.
I was prepared for Dracheus to answer but Erza did instead.
" She dissapeared about... 14? Years ago.
So Erza DID know about this job... I wonder how.
"After the necklace was stolen there were reports..."
"What kind of reports?"
He hesitated for a second before responding, "they reported seeing her, but, not... in a... physical form."
"So like a ghost?!" Gray leaned up over the table.
" I don't know really. I cant believe that she is dead."
He got up from the table and grabbed a book. " Now i you'll excuse me, i have somewhere i need to be. I wish you Fairys the best of luck!"
We walked back down the path from the house to the gate. This place was much prettier than when i lived in the Heartfelia mansion! The trees all were in full blossom and there were splendid fountains and fishpools an…
"HEY! WAIT UP!"
We all looked back to see a fluffy gray, black, and white exeed following us. When he finally caught up he stood there to catch his breath. " I wanna tag along and help find her necklace too!"
We all looked questioningly at eachother. "Im strong and my magic is pretty powerful too!" the cat looked up at Erza.
"You are Aos' exeed right?"
" Yah, im Crease. And if there's anything i can do to help find out what happened to her or where she is i will do it!" he paused to wipe his eyes.( he had begun to cry after he said 'anything I can do to help') "Cause i miss her, and you and Gray were one of her best friends before she dissapeared."
I stood there dumbstruck.
" Of corse you can help!" Erza lifted Crease and shook him.
We began our travel by the outskirts of Magnolia, which according to Crease, is where he chased the theif to before he used magic to get away. Happy and Crease were chatting away, Natsu and Gray were insulting eachother, and i was just standing there…