Chapter 2 A/N: Bwa ha ha! Back for more eh? Good, I'm glad you're likening it so far. SO! Enjoy the show... The next day, Levy was at home when suddenly the door burst open. She spun around. Her eyes widened... It was Ichiya. She moaned inside her head. "Hello Levy! I came here to sweep you off your feet! You are now, the luckiest girl in the world." "What makes me so lucky?" She asked backing away. "You, are the one I have chosen to be..." He paused to do a twirl, get down on one knee, and put a rose in his mouth, "My wife!" "Eh! W-what?!" "Speechless I see!" He stood up and walked towards her. She backed away until she bumped in to the front door. "Actually, Mr. Ichiya I-" "Can't say no?" "Well really I-" "Can't resist me?" She grabbed the handle just as he jumped at her, lips puckered. "I just don't think I'm good enough for you!" She flung the door open, sending the small midget man flying through the air, and into a mug puddle. Once again, Hibiki cracked up at the scene, "Turned down so soon?!" he laughed. Ichiya growled angrily. . . . . . . . . . . . . Levy slammed the door shut behind her. Her face was a little pink, it never got red or even a dark pink, even when she was mad. She huffed across the room and grabbed a bucket full of chicken food, then proceeded out side. "Could you believe him? Asking me to marry him!" The animals gathered around for their dinner. They were only animals, but they listened to their Levy intently, "Imagine everyone calling me Mrs. Ichiya! The very thought of it makes me sick!" The chickens clucked as she continued, "I don't want that life. I want a grand life full of adventure and never ending roads! Not Mrs. this and Mrs. that!" Once she was done feeding the animals, she took a walk about their land. She looked upon the valley before her as the sun disappeared over the hills. She sat on the hill side cooling off, she thought being there would help. Suddenly, she heard the sound of hooves and a horse. She turned her direction to the source. Her eyes widened once again as she saw it was her father's horse, but her father was nowhere to be seen. She ran to it, "Where's daddy? What happened? Quick you must take me to him!" She ran back to the house to collect her cloak and hood. She mounted the horse with not a moment to spare. Soon she was off. The horse taking her deeper and deeper into the dark forest. It was beginning to snow, as white began to cover the blackness of the woods. "Where are we?" she asked herself. The horse suddenly stopped and Levy gazed in awe upon the darkest part of the forest. In the farthest end of the woods, was the gigantic black castle and it's iron gates. She swallowed sharply, then dismounted her horse. She opened the iron gates and crept through to the front doors, (yeah I don't know what else to call them). She didn't bother to knock, she just opened a door and walked inside. She walked down the long hall with a red carpet on the floor. She past by several rooms. One in particular, the little golden man, and the clock man were in. The clock man was scolding the gold man about the events that happened the night before. But the gold man wasn't paying much attention. He happened to see Levy walk by the door. He gasped and shook the other man by his clothes, "Look! Look! Did you see that!? It was a girl!" "I girl!" exclaimed the clock man. "Do you think she's the one?" "Don't get too carried away. Let's follower her..." They both jumped down at the same time and followed her. They could hear her calling. "Daddy? Daddy are you in here? Where are you?" "You hear that? She's the man's daughter!" said the golden man, shaking the other man's clothes again. "Yeah, yeah, I can hear. But keep your voice down!" "Well, we should help her!" . . . . . . . . . . . . A little doll with long dark blue hair and a white dress ran across the room, followed my a small white cat made of china, she too was enchanted. As she ran she shouted, "Erza! Erza! I saw a girl in the castle! A human girl!" Another, larger, doll with beautiful red flowing hair, sat on the kitchen table. She looked down as the other doll climbed up, "Now that's enough Wendy. Come, into bed." "But I don't want to go to bed, I want to see the girl." "There is no girl in the castle. Now off you go." Erza tucked in Wendy and the cat curled up next to her. Soon, she was fast asleep, the cat purring beside her. Ezra climbed down and waited for any sign of a human girl. . . . . . . . . . . . . Suddenly, something bright caught Levy's eye, "Hello? Is someone there?" She followed the glow up some stairs. And into a tower. She saw the glow bright once again, "Wait please!" She reached the top of the stairs, "Huh, that's funny. I could have sworn I saw someone..." The room was dark and cold. She could hardly see, that is, except for a little golden statue of a man, with his head and hands engulfed in flames, which she walked right past. She then heard a small cough, "Daddy?" Then a frail voice call out, "Levy?" She rushed to the cell he was in, "Quick you have to get out of here!" "Oh, your hands are as cold as ice. Daddy what happened?" "Forget about me, you must leave here immediately!" "No I'm not leaving you!" Something grabbed her and pulled her away. And a deep threatening voice yelled, "What are you don't here?" Levy couldn't see what pulled here, it was too dark. She spoke up. "Who's there! Who are you?" "The master of this castle," was the reply. "I've come for my daddy," she tried to explain, "Please, let him out! Can't you see he's very sick!" She pleaded. "Then he shouldn't have come here!" they shouted. "Please! He could die!" she shouted back, "Please I'll do anything!" "There's noting you can do!" The thing turned it's back on her, "He's my prisoner." "Oh there must be some way I could... Wait!" The dark figure faced her once again, though she could not see it. She showed her self through what little light there was coming form the ceiling, "Take me instead..." "You?!" It scoffed. Then there was a pause, "You would... take his place?" It asked a little softer. "Levy no please! You don't know what you're doing!" Makarov pleaded. "If I did... would you let him go?" "Yes," was the reply, "But... you must promise to stay her forever!" She looked up at the figure... "Come into the light..." She held her breath. Her eyes trembled as a creature, made of iron scales and dark light, stood before her. It's eyes were all white and wicked. Black shadows surrounded him. She gasped and turned back to her father, gripping his hand tight. "No Levy!" Makarov protested strongly, "I won't let you do this!" But she stood up and faced the monstrous being. "You have my word." "DONE!" He rushed past her as she buried her face in her hands and fell to the ground. "No listen to me Levy, I'm old, I've lived my life!" Her father pleaded as the beast took him away. "Wait!" Levy called out. "Levy!" "WAIT!" She shouted, but it was no use. The creature had taken him away. Putting him inside a strange contraption which took him out of the woods. Levy watched from the tower window, it is that time, set began to cry.