Levy's hand flashed in the air, quickly writing out a guard spell to protect herself from the oncoming attacks. Ice spikes shattered against iron. With another wave, the shield shrunk in size, just big enough for her to hide behind and yet still carry with her. It would slow her down, but that was a price she would have to take. Besides, it wouldn't last long.
She dodged the next attack, her body bending smoothly. Behind her kneels Gajeel Redfox, her ARM user, her summoner, her partner, her... friend. Her first real friend. Her first crush. Her's.
The next attack comes and rattles the shield. Only one more, she thought as she ran, her magical power decreasing. She powers up her next attack, and jumps, her opponent successfully shattering her shield into a millon small pieces. Her hand almost lazily wrote out one word, grasping it by the handle and running her magical power through the iron blade, a purple-blue glow along the blade.
Gajeel.
She lifts the sword up, running all the strength through it as she cleaved the opponent in two. A wild yell escapes both of their lips as he dies.
I'm so sorry, Gajeel.
One tear trails down her cheek as her form shivers slightly. "I'm so sorry, Gajeel..."
"Shrimp!"
Everything is fading, he's fading away, the blood on his body crimson-red patterened against night-black and snow-white, the battle ground fading away, the forest where they meet fading, but she's not afraid. She knew this could happen, would happen. It didn't matter. She did it. She protected her master.
"Gajeel."
One more sentance. Just one more before she shatteres. "I'm pathetic, but I did it... I... I loved you."
Nothing. Nothing exept blissful darkness that claims her, that tears her apart, a thousand grabbing fingers out of shadows, but it dosen't matter really, does it?
After all, she was never alive to begin with. And everyone knows a guardian ARM can't be with it's summoner.