"Where Am I?" Lucy muttered

She looked around her and all she saw was a creepy, suspicious, abandoned building in front of her. Lucy knocked on the door… No answer. She walked inside, curious of what was there, and she searched for a source of light. Then out of nowhere, the lights clicked on. She jumped to the sound of the door slamming shut. Horrified of what might come next, she braced herself.

"Please don't hurt me!"She cried.

Lucy lowered her arms and looked around the room… no one was there. She then noticed she wasn't in the same room as she entered before, she was in a dining room. A drop of something cold dropped on her head and ran down her cheek. She wiped it off her face, looked at her hand, and said in fear as she looked up, "B-blood?!" She looked up to find two familiar bodies hanging from a chandelier.

"N-Natsu! Happy!" She screamed,"N-No y-you c-c-cant be de-dead!" She fell to the floor, hands full of tears. Not aware the room has once again changed. She felt a cold presence looming over her, almost as if it was an apparition. She quickly uncovered her eyes and turned around to find no one was there.

Heartbroken and torn, she wiped her eyes and mumbled, "I-I never got to t-tell him how m-much…How much I loved him…"

Cautiously, she looked around in terror of what might happen next, and headed toward what she thought was the front door. Moonlight filled the cold room as she entered. She looked around to find all the furniture covered in plastic, and a man in a white gown. He mumbled to himself words she couldn't understand. She trembled in fear as she asked the man," H-Hello, c-can y-you help m-me?"

"Get out," the man mumbled in a fierce voice.

The man turned around with his hair as black as the night sky. He lifted his head to reveal, yet another familiar face, but something was wrong…

"G-Gray is that you?" she looked at his face, "W-what happened to y-your eyes?!"

His eyes glowed ruby red as he yelled, "Get Out!"

Lucy backed up into what she thought was a doorway, but yet again the room behind her changed. It was now an opened window. She screamed as she fell through the opened window. She fell into a tree with a *snap* of a branch or two. Her achy body lied uneasily in a nest of branches. She barely opened her eyes to find herself falling into the icy cold pond below. She floated there in the cold freezing water for a minute, gathering her thoughts. Lucy swam to the edge of the pond. Her eyes were full of fear, anger, and sadness, as her cold, damp, body shivered. For some reason she felt the need to walk back to the building's front door. When she got back to the front door, she saw a light dancing in one of the windows. A scream broke the silence of which Lucy entered the horrid building once again. She knew that scream, she couldn't believe her eyes, the room she entered before was now a dark hallway…and at the end of the hall stood two figures. Paranoia struck her as she thought to herself.

"No, this can't be real. What… No she can't be here too? Why am I-," she stopped to the familiar voice.

"L-Lucy I-is that you?!" Called a fierce, but helpless voice.

"Erza… Is that you," Lucy ran down the hall, tears of joy filled her sad eyes as she made her way down the dark hall.

As Lucy tried to reach out to her friend, the sound of two swords clashing filled the hall. She then ran faster to where her dear friend was backed up against a wall clutching at her stomach. Erza's face was full of fear as the other dark figure Lucy saw disappeared into shadows. Lucy didn't understand why this was happening, nor did she remember how she got to this dreadful place at all. She collapsed next to Erza, realizing her dear friend was as cold as a winter's night. Tears filled her achy, weary, eyes as she examined Erza's wound. Lucy then realized that her friend…committed suicide. She screamed in agony and pain, pulling her hair in frustration.

"First Mom, then Dad, "Lucy cried, "now the rest of my friends… WHY DO THE ONES I LOVE HAVE TO DISSAPEAR!?"

She got up and leaned against the cold, thin wall. She looked behind her to find the body of her friend gone, and the hallway extended. Still sobbing, she entered one of the rooms to the left. The lights flicked on and Lucy jumped to the sight of her friends and their voices as they yelled…

Happy Birthday...

Lucy stood in the door-frame confused, pondering if this was all just a bad dream. Her eyes started to tear up as Natsu, Happy, Gray, and Erza walked towards Lucy laughing as if what just happened was just a joke.

"So how did you like your present?" Natsu questioned Lucy with his quirky smile.

"But I thought, Didn't you-"Lucy got interrupted.

"Flame-Brains over here decided to give you a scare you'll remember for your birthday," Gray implied in an icy voice.

"What did you call me?!" Natsu retorted back in fiery voice.

While they fought, Lucy started to cry. Erza grab Lucy's hand and asked her what was wrong. Lucy explained how she thought they did die and how it felt real. Lucy stopped crying and hugged Erza. She realized that her friends wouldn't go down that easy. She smiled and headed towards Natsu, she then pulled him by his long, white, scaly scarf, and kissed him. She then said she forgave him. Natsu was surprised and his face went 3 shades of red as he tried to to hide his blush by digging his face into his scarf. Everyone else including Gray, Happy, and Erza's jaw dropped, then Happy decided it was a good moment to say "You LOVE him," in a teasing sort of way. Lucy stopped, and looked at Natsu…

"Y-you know what Lucy," Natsu muffled from behind his scarf.

"Hmm?" Lucy smiled as she realized Natsu's cheeks were pinker than his hair at that moment.

"You're a weirdo," Natsu pulled his mouth out from the comfort of his scarf and let out quirky smile, and this time pulled Lucy towards him and gave her kiss on the cheek, again hiding his blush within his scarf.

"So how did you come up with this idea," She asked as she looked at everyone else, trying to hide her blush.

"Well I don't really know, I just thought since your birthday was coming up, to just do something you will remember to be one of your best birthdays ever." Natsu spoke, with his scarf over his cheeks still trying to hide his blush.

"So everyone here helped you with this plan?"

"Yep you got that right!" as he lifted his mouth from behind the scarf and let out a smile. His cheeks still tinted pink.

Natsu explained to Lucy how most of the things she saw were illusions, such as how Happy and he were "hanging" from the chandelier, they were actually held up by a harness. He also explained lots of things, like how Gray's eyes glowed red, and how Erza felt cold as if she was actually dead.

"Lucy? What's wrong...?" Natsu inquired as he looked at Lucy's terrified expression.

"N-Natsu...Then who... who was the young man in the shadows..." Lucy announced.

"What...What do you mean?"He responded.

She explained how she saw a dark figure fighting with Erza, and how she heard two swords clash and not just the sound of Erza's sword dropping. Erza them jumped in and said how she was trying to prepare for her scene when that thing started to attack her, by then Lucy had been half way down the hall when the thing disappeared and Erza had to improvise to save the reality of the prank. Out of nowhere smoke started to fill the room, Natsu grabbed Lucy's hand and yelled at everyone to get out of the mansion as fast as they can. Everyone ran down the hall, down the stairs and out the mansion. Soon the mansion blew up in flames and all but a single shadow stood in the now broken window of where they had surprised Lucy.

*Coughing*

"N-Natsu...where are we," she looked at Natsu in a worried way.

"Umm let's see...oh yeah," He lightly pounded his fist into his hand and smiled, "We're at the... the umm...That's it, we're at the Hunted House of the Fiore host!"

"You idiot, you mean the Haunted House of the Fiore Ghost!" Gray shouted.

Natsu paused for a second and realized what that meant, "It's not like I believe in that stupid myth anyways!"

Everyone, but Lucy yelled at Natsu for being an idiot.

"Umm...I don't know maybe...uhh," He tried to think.

"YOU LED US TO A DEATH TRAP!"Erza shouted pulling out her sword as if to threaten him.

Lucy couldn't handle them treating Natsu so she jumped in front of Natsu,"Erza stop, Natsu didn't know okay, I forgave him and you should too!" Lucy barked back.

***2 Days Later***

Levy, another one of Lucy's dear friends, held up an old book covered in dust, she wiped it off, and the book read The Legend of the Fiore Ghost.

"Hey, Lucy I found it!" Levy shouted from the top of the ladder in the public library.

"Really? Let me see!" Lucy said amazed on how quickly Levy was at finding books.

Levy tossed the book down to Lucy, and she read the book out loud to the rest of her friends, "Alright the book basically says that "a young boy the age of 15...died in the mansion due to a couple of his friends playing a prank on him which didn't end up as they hoped...and that he soon took revenge on them after supposedly being resurrected...by doing so he burned the whole mansion down along with him and the rest of the kids," She paused, "It also says that whoever enters the mansion cannot leave until they prove their forgiveness to anyone they might have caused pain to, in doing so you will lift the curse on the mansion and it will burn to the ground letting the spirit of the young boy finally rest in peace."

"Didn't you and Natsu show forgiveness by kissing each other," Levy teased from the top of the ladder climbing down.

"Good thing we did, or else we could've all died in the fire."Lucy blushed, "I think I... I think I like him..."

Lucy handed the book back, and Levy pointed behind her, and when Lucy turned around all she saw was the rest of her friends with their jaws dropped just starring at her as if they didn't hear her correctly.

"So all you had to do was forgive me for almost making you believe we were dead?" Natsu interrupted the silence with a confused face as he walked in the room.

"Well no more like playing a prank on m...WAIT! ...Uhh...umm you didn't hear that last part, did you Natsu..." her face went red and she lowered her head in embarrassment.

"I totally didn't hear you say that you liked me." He said sarcastically.

"Thank goodness that was-... wait you heard what I-"

Natsu pulled Lucy towards him and gave her a kiss, "I'm glad you forgave me," he smiled a toothy grin.

"I'm glad I did too," she kissed him back.