AN: This is the first time I've tried a story like this so suggestions and advice would be appreciated. Hope you guys enjoy.
A blue hair girl struggled to keep her blonde friend from falling as the struggled through the woods, completely lost. The blue haired girl was petite and was tired and sore, while the blonde was struggling to stay concuss. "Hang in there Lu-can," the small girl said to the blonde, "we'll find the way out and then some medical help."
"I know we will Levy-can," Lucy said forcing a weak smile that faded quickly for the blonde toppled over unconscious.
"Lucy!" Levy cried falling to her knees besides her friend, the world spinning around her. "Somebody, please, help us," Levy called hoarsely before falling to the ground.
XxXSix Hours EarlierXxX
"Lu-can!" Levy cried running up to her desk with a paper in her hand.
"Hey, Levy-can," Lucy said with a smile, "what's that?"
"Our next assignment," Levy answered handing her the paper, "we're suppose to someplace called the Endless Forest, it's on the edge of Fiore, and report on an archaeological discovery."
"Sounds fun," Lucy said, "but what's the discovery?"
"They discovered the remains of an ancient village that belonged to an unrecorded race," Levy said practically bouncing with excitement.
"Cool," Lucy said.
"Cool? This is awesome," Levy said, "We're going to be the first people to report on this ever."
"You're right," Lucy said getting excited, "we could be famous, people will read our work everywhere and we'll finally get recognition!"
Levy sighed suppressing a giggle, "That's not the point but okay."
"What are we waiting for, let's get going!" Lucy said grabbing her messengers bag.
Levy smiled at Lucy's enthusiasm and grabbed her bag and the paper with the assignment and map, before fallowing Lucy out of the Sorcerer Weekly's News Department and toward the train station. After riding the train for two hours Lucy and Levy got off their train at a small town on the edge of the Endless Forest. "Wow," Lucy gasped, "those trees are huge!"
Levy nodded in agreement staring up at the trees before turning to the small map. "Alright if we follow this path we should be able to find the sight easily," Levy said taking the lead.
"Are we there yet!" Lucy groaned after ten minutes.
"Almost," Levy answered not looking up from the map, "it's just past this tree."
Levy and Lucy pushed past the tree and found themselves in a clearing full of tents, ancient stone buildings, and four men running about. Lucy and Levy found themselves in awe as the looked around. One of the men spotted them standing there and ushered them over. "You two must be the reporters from Sorcerer Weekly," he said smiling, "I'm Jean-Luc Neville, the heard archaeologist."
"Nice to meet you," Lucy said with a smile, "I'm Lucy and this is my partner Levy."
"Why don't you two get settled, we have a ten set up for you two already," Mr. Neville said, "there is just a few rules though, don't wander from camp unless your following the path, never leave the path so you don't get lost, try not to go in the buildings that are marked off because their unstable, but other than that you have unlimited access to the area."
"Thank you, sir," Lucy said with a polite smile before leading Levy to their tent.
Lucy put her bag down and sat down on her cot sighing, "It's so hot and their's no air conditioning."
"Well if it makes you feel better it's said to drop towards freezing at night," Levy said.
Lucy groaned flopping backwards into a laying position. Levy giggled, "I'm going to look around and see if I can get any pictures before the sun goes down."
"Alright, I'll be here dying of heat stroke," Lucy mumbled.
"I don't think that's going to happen to you," Levy said as she pushed the flap of the tent.
Levy looked around and walked over to one of the stone buildings. As she got closer she noticed that there were carving on the stone that were covered by the tall grass. She pushed them aside and looked at the pictures. There were no words as far as Levy could tell but there were carvings of what looked like a dragon and a women but before Levy could look closer she heard a scream coming from her tent. Levy ran towards there tent to find Lucy standing on her coat as a snake slithered through the tent and past Levy. Lucy jumped down and grabbed Levy by the shoulders before peering out of the tent towards were the snake slithered. "Are you really using me as a shield," Levy demanded pulling away.
"Um no of course not Levy-can," Lucy said rubbing the back of her head.
Levy was about to say something but she noticed that Lucy was looking past her into the woods. "What are you looking at Lu-can?" Levy asked following her gaze.
In the shadow of a tree almost out of sight stood a small girl, her brown eyes seemed to glow in the shadows. Levy blinked and she was gone. Levy turned to Lucy but before she could ask her Lucy said, "Did you see that?"
Levy nodded and Lucy ran into their tent and came out with her bag. "What are you doing Lu-can?" Levy asked.
"I'm going after her," Lucy said stubbornly, "she could be hurt, or starving, or lost."
"But we can't leave camp unless we're following the path," Levy pointed out, "not to mention the fact that the sun is going down."
"I don't care, I bet we can find our way back," the blonde said placing her hands on her hips.
"Fine," Levy said, "but we're not going far, if we don't find her after ten minutes we're coming straight back. Also we only walk straight that way we don't get turned around and lost."
"Got it," Lucy said smiling victoriously taking the lead.
Levy sighed following her blonde friend. Levy shuddered as she felt something brush against her leg but she didn't dare look down. She kept her eyes trained on Lucy who was searching desperately for the girl. Levy understood why Lucy wanted to find the girl so desperately. Lucy's mother died when Lucy was small and her father shut her out. Lucy probably looked at that girl and saw herself, alone and scared. Levy shook her head trying to stay focused on where they were going. Suddenly Lucy let out a cry and scrambled to grip a thin tree. Levy quickly looked passed her to see a sudden steep drop. Rocks littered the ground and Levy couldn't see the bottom through the darkness. Lucy whimpered the tree she was hanging to for dear life gave a violent shudder under Lucy's weight. Levy scrambled to grab her friend's hand but it was to late, the tree snapped dragging Lucy and Levy down into the darkness. Both girls let out hopeless screams as they rolled down, clinging to each other. Finally the world stopped spinning and Levy sat up, inspecting herself. Her arms and legs had an uncountable amount of bruises and cuts, some deep and other barley there. There were cuts in her dress and Levy could feel a cut about her eye, blood peeking through the corner of her eye. Levy looked around for Lucy and found her a few feet away. Lucy's jeans were ripped around her knees and her sweatshirt was completely shredded. Lucy crawled over to Lucy who was groaning. Levy hovered over Lucy and looked her over, cuts were everywhere on her friend but that wasn't what concerned her the most. Lucy's right leg was twisted in an off angle. Levy pulled off Lucy's boot to get a better look.
"Levy-can?" Lucy groaned trying to sit up.
"Try to stay down for a moment," Levy said trying to stay calm.
"My body hurts everywhere," Lucy said pain in her voice.
"I know," Levy said her voice shaking a little, "it looks like you've twisted you ankle."
"Give me a hand," Lucy said stubbornly sitting up.
Levy forced herself to stand, ignoring the pain in her legs. Lucy held out her arm and Levy pulled her up making sure Lucy put no weight on her hurt ankle. "What are we going to do Lu-can?" Levy asked shaking slightly, "there's no way we can make it back up there, we've lost our bags, we're lost in a place named the Endless Forest, and you need medical help."
"We'll find a way out," Lucy said, "there has to be a way out."
Levy looked down doubtfully which encouraged Lucy to continue, "I'm sure if we keep going we'll find some help, who knows maybe we'll be lucky and that path will be just around the corner."
Levy forced herself to nod but doubt clawed at her stomach. "Come on Levy-can help me walk."
XxXPresentXxX
Two shadows hovered over the two unconscious. "Well would you look what we found," one of them said amusement in his voice.
"Gihi," the other laughed, "wounder what we should do to them."
"We're going to help them," a girls voice said, "because they need our help."
"Aw come on," the first shadow said, "I say we should teach them not to trespass in our home."
"Don't even think about it," the girl said, "they're in bad shape as it is, now come on and help me."
The two shadows grunted and picked up the two girls before fading into the darkness.