Wendy Marvell said:

If I haven't had fear, then I also wouldn't have been able to know what it's like to have bravery in my heart. Bravery that awakens is when you're being consumed by fear.


Lucy sat where a wooden cross stood. The other day, she had buried her mother. She found a big branch that fell from a tree and carved it into a cross. She was all alone now. Her father left her and mom to fend for themselves years before. Getting up, she kissed the cross before walking into the forest. The little girl wanted to go back to 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' again. She wanted to see the man again and ask him what was going on.

It didn't take long for her to find it. When she entered it, the atmosphere turned ice cold. Shivering, she continued to walk forward. "Hello?" she called out, walking forward through the streets. A ghostly figure suddenly caught her eye. She gasped when she saw who it was. Her mother was who she saw. She was walking through the streets pale looking. "Mom!" she called excitedly gaining the ghosts attention.

Her mother just simply smiled and waved before disappearing. "No! Don't go!" she cried. But her mother didn't come back.

That night everything turned dark and when she woke up back in her bed, she was bloodied. The same thing happened every night.


Loke walked the streets of Fairy Tail. He was called from his house earlier. It wasn't like his parents would mine, because he had none. It was the council who called him. Deaths have been happening every night for the past week, that's why he was called to meet them. He was a fighter, probably why. Coming up to the big building, he walked up to the front doors. Entering he made his way to the front desk. The secretary looked up, "Yes?"

"I'm here to see the council."

"Obviously, name?"

"Loke,"

"Ah, lion from Oz?"

He rolled his eyes. "Yeah, sure, whatever. Can I go in now?" she nodded before going back to her work. Going through the door on the side of the desk, he walked into a big room full of the council members. Standing in front of them, he bowed, "You have called me?"

The man in front nodded. "Yes he have an assignment for you." Loke held his tongue from saying 'no, really?'.

"And what is this assignment?"

"To kill the killer."

"You mean the one who's been killing everyone lately?"

"Yes that one."

"Fine, I accept."

"Your assignment starts now. Good luck boy." Nodding a bye, Loke exited the council room and made his way home to gather weapons.


Loke had been following bloodied footprint for the past hour. He was guessing the killer had left them behind. Sighing, he continued walking up the hill where the footstep let to. He was apparently was walking up a mountain at the moment and he had to be impressed. It was a perfect place to stake out for now.

After another hour or so he slumped against a fleetwood tree. How could the killer walk up this thing every night? It was so tiring! That's when he heard crying. Scrunching his eyebrows together, he peered from the side of the tree. On the other side of the tree was a blonde haired girl, washing off in a near by creek. Stepping out of his hiding spot, he made his way over to the girl. "Oi, why are you out here alone girl?" he asked.

Shrieking, the blonde haired girl spun around. He held his hands up in alarm. "Sorry, did I scare you?" she nodded, tears continuing down her cheeks. He then noticed the blood on her clothes. Bloodied footprint behind her. He jumped back in realization. She was the killer.

Taking out his pocket knife he pointed it out in front of her scaring her again. "Wha-what are you doing?" she stammered.

"You, killed all those people."

Her eyebrows furrowed when she heard that. "I don't know what you're talking about."

"You know exactly what I'm talking about." he spat.

Tears welled up in her eyes making Loke's eyes widen. "Please, I'm so confused. My mother is dead, my father abandoned me. I wake up every morning with blood all over me. And I cry blood from my dull eye." she pleaded, pointing to her dull eye that was recently dripping with blood. His eyes widened again at the sight. Walking towards her, he brushed the tears and blood away.

"You really don't know what's happening?" he whispered. She shook her head. Sighing, he held out a hand out for the young girl. "Come on, let's go." grabbing his hand he pulled her up. "Do you live around here?" she nodded again. "Can you take me there?" she tugged his sleeve, taking that as a yes he started following her down a grassy path to a cabin. Looking to the side, he saw a cross standing in the middle of a flowery patch. Turning his attention back to the cabin.

It was like any other house down at Fairy Tail. A concrete house with a wood roof. Windows sat on either side of the dark wood door. Entering along with the girl, the first thing he saw was a wood floor, wall, and furniture. Everything instead of the couch, chairs, and fireplace weren't wood. "So, you live here all by yourself?" Loke asked, the blonde nodded. Sitting down on the ranch couch, he patted the spot next to him. Sitting down next to him, she started drying off her torn blue dress.

"Tell me about yourself blonde." she gave him a wary look. "Don't worry, I'll tell you about myself as well." Nodding in agreement, she opened her mouth to start explaining.

"My name is Lucy Heartfilia. I'm nine years old and have lived up here with my mother since I was born. I don't know what fairy tale I'm from, mom didn't get a chance to tell me. A year after I was born, my father left my mom and I to fend for ourselves. After five years of living, mother got ill often. I would go down to Fairy Tail to get more food and play with my friends since mom was always in her bedroom, sick. One day, I was going to pick raspberries to make raspberry tea for me and mom. When I got there the bush was dead, and a figure appeared and called my name. I started following to a town called 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams'. A man in a cloak came out of no where and said he was finally free from a curse.

"He put a hand on my head and everything went dark. The time a woke up, I was back here and my mom laid dead in front of me. Blood covered my dress along with my tights. For the past few days I've been waking up the same way. I've been living up here for a while but I am planning on moving down to Fairy Tail." Lucy explained. Loke was surprised, he didn't expect that from this little girl. "It's yours turn. Tell me who you are." she whispered, making the lion snap out of his thoughts.

"Oh right. I'm Loke Stellar. I'm eleven and have no parents. People say I'm from the story of 'The Wizard of Oz' but I don't believe that, it's stupid if you think about it. My parents abandoned me when I was young then got adopted to a woman called Karen. She died later on in a car accident. So for the rest of my life I've been training to protect the ones I love. I recently came here to..." he stopped. Lucy tilted her head for him to continue. Loke started to sweat nervously, how was he supposed to tell her that he came all the way up a mountain to kill her. "To...study the Fleetwood trees." he finished lamely but the blondes eyes lit up.

"Don't worry about that. I can tell you all about them." she cheered. The orange haired man smiled softly at her. She looked so innocent. Maybe later, tonight, he'll really see if she's killing people on purpose.

"Lucy, can I stay here tonight?" he asked.

She smiled, "Of course, we're friends after all." that surprised him right when she said that. They just met and she considered him as a friend. That made his heart swell.

"Thank you!"


That night, Loke heard shuffling in the other room. Groaning, he got up and opened the door of his bedroom. He saw Lucy walking down the hallway but her dull eye was glowing red. He watched her walk down the hallway to the front door. Grabbing his switchblade a shotgun, he followed her out of the cabin and down to Fairy Tail.


The next morning a moan came from the blonde on the bed. Blinking open her eyes, she immediately saw the lion boy sitting on a chair that was set next to her bed. "Loke?" she called, coughing a bit. He looked over at her sadly. He was her last night, kill the man who was running the fruit booth. He knew it wasn't really her. When she was killed she past out really quick. He carried her back up to the cottage.

Looking down at her blue nightgown. She wasn't her nightgown though, instead she had on a black skirt, shirt, and leather boots and jacket. Blood spatters on all of it. Tears welled up in her eyes when she saw the mess making Loke panic. "H-hey, what's wrong?"

"Why do I always wake up like this?" she whispered.

He smiled a bit. "How 'bout this? If you allow me to stay here, I'll protect you."

She looked up at him hopefully, "Really?"

He nodded.

"Pinky promise?" she held out her pinky.

"Pinky promise." he wrapped his pinky around hers.


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