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Previously:

''Well, I'd better go and…'' She was tired and couldn't come to remember what it was called. ''… uh… you know'' As she stood up, she lost her balance, both from her foot and her lack of sleep. Lucy fell forward right onto Gray, on his chest, faces inches apart from each other. Their eyes widened before Gray gripped her arms and gently, not to hurt her, laid her down on the ground beside him. ''You should probably sleep before you do anything else… I'll be with the others if you want to ask something!'' He smiled at her as he stood up and dusted some dust from his pants. Lucy closed her eyes, and for the first time in a year, felt safer than ever.

Three days had gone by since Lucy and her friends ''moved'' in with Gray and his gang. Three days had gone by since their home was invaded and three days had gone since Natsu ran away with the kids to safety.

It was kinda stupid to say that they had run off to safety. They could have run off to a worse place, a nest with adults. Yukino, Sting and Rogue's cousin, was gone, so she guessed that Natsu had taken her with him. It was good to know that he wasn't alone out there with the kids. And he wouldn't be able to take care of himself either, knowing him; he would probably be one of the first to die if he didn't have the rest of them.

Deciding to be a little social, Lucy walked over to the others by the burning campfire. It was night, so something had to light the big meeting room up. Lucy spotted a small dark purple head in the middle of all teenagers. Wondering who it was since she hadn't met this one before, she walked up to the purple head.

''Hey!'' She started and the purple head looked her way. ''I haven't seen you before, what's your name?'' She smiled as she saw that it was a young boy, probably around Wendy's age.

The boy smiled back at her, not so big, but it still counted as a smile. ''Romeo. You're Lucy right?'' He looked her in the eyes and then glanced over at a group of three teenagers. Lucy looked over to where he was looking and saw that it was the three best friends. Levy, Sting and Rogue. ''They mentioned you.'' Romeo once again looked at Lucy.

''I see.'' Lucy nodded at the kid. She studied him a little and noticed that he had a weapon in his belt. She was surprised, after all kids shouldn't fight dangerous thing like those. ''Do you fight?'' She wanted to know if he really fought or if it was just a décor to make him look tougher.

He shook his head. ''No, but I'm going to when I grow up!'' He grinned at the thought. Lucy frowned a little at this. First of all, maybe he wouldn't even have the chance to grow up and second, that wasn't anything to be so excited for. But she smiled back at him anyway, knowing that fighting was a dream every guy had. She thought of Wendy again, they would probably make good friends. If not something more developed than good friends.

''You know. Back at our base before it was invaded, I used to have a little sister called Wendy, she's around your age. I'm pretty sure that you would make good friends!'' She said to him.

''Is she dead?'' He wondered. Lucy had after all talked as if she were dead. She shook her head.

Before Lucy had the chance to talk to Romeo further, Gray decided to break in. ''Time to search for food! I want…, Sting, Rogue, Gajeel, Erza and Laxus with me!'' He shouted out from the big doors, waiting for the ones he chose to come. Lucy pouted a little, feeling depressed for not being chosen. But she knew the reason and decided to stop sulking and be off some help. She was going to help here while the others were gone.

Gray wanted to see if Sting and Rogue were good or not. If not then the others just had to protect them for a while. They would never be picked again if they ended up being bad, that would only drag the others down and maybe, cause more deaths.

When everyone was ready, including the thrilled and over excited twins, Cana opened the doors to let them out. Before Sting and Rogue walked out into the suffocating air they looked back at Lucy, grinning like no one else could. In these times.

Well, the only one who grinned was Sting. Rogue just waved a little before following the group who had begun walking. Lucy smiled back at them before turning around to look back at the others. A bang could be heard as Cana closed the door, not wanting uninvited guest to start a food war as they walk in.

Lucy limped a little when she walked towards Mirajaine and her sister Lisanna.

''Is there anything I can do? I hate being useless.'' She said to the Strauss siblings when she reached them. They looked at her for a moment, probably thinking about what a wounded person could do. After a while Mirajaine smiled and put her hands on Lucy's shoulders.

''Why not check on your wound before doing anything?'' She suggested and forced Lucy to sit down on the dirty ground. Lucy thought that it was a good idea, so she didn't struggle.

Lisanna lifted her shirt just so that the hem of her tank top reached the beginning of her chest. Lucy couldn't see her wound since Lisanna's arm and Mirajaine's hair were in the way.

Mirajaine covered a troubled expression as she had taken off the bandage and saw the wound. It was swollen and festered, a typical sign on an infection.

Lucy saw through her cover and knew that it was infected. ''Lucy, I'm sorry. It's infec-'' Mirajaine began to apologize, but Lucy held up a hand and shook her head.

''Why apologize? It wasn't your fault now was it?'' She started and stared at Mirajaine who looked at the wound once again. ''I'm not afraid anyway. This happens often in the current life, so why should I be any different?''

Lisanna looked troubled, but she knew that it was true. Now that they didn't get so much food, their bodies grew weaker and couldn't put up a good defense against bacteria.

Lucy started to wrap up the bandage around her waist again, not a new one tho. To make less bacteria come in to the wound, they could at least take a new bandage. But they couldn't afford it and had to take her old, dirty bandage again.

''Well, thanks for your help anyway!'' Lucy said and smiled at them as she let her tank top fall down again. They smiled back, but didn't feel much better. They had known Lucy for three days or so, but she had been kind to everyone here. ''back to the help thing, is there really nothing I can do?''

The sisters thought for a while. Lisanna's face broke up in a small smile. ''Well, both Mirajaine and I have to count all our supplies, so why not entertain the kids?'' She said.

Lucy nodded eagerly and beamed at them. She loved kids and finally had the time to be around them.

Lisanna and Mirajaine started to walk towards their storage, talking a little along the way.

Lucy walked over to the kids and played all kinds of games with them. At least those she could play, she watched and cheered when she couldn't participate in their small but fun games.

Gray was sweating a little as the sun glared down at them. Before he had loved the summer, but now he hated it. The burning sun only made the air thicker, the smell more unbearable than it already was and the bastards hungrier.

''this fucking weather…'' He grumbled grumpily under his breath as they, much like the adults, walked down the deserted streets. In the middle of course.

''Oi! Shouldn't we check out the cinema or something?'' A voice that Gray didn't recognize asked in full spirit. He looked back at the group that he had taken with him and saw Sting stare at him. He didn't seem tired or hot at all, nor his twin brother.

Gray grunted. ''Too dangerous, let's go to the store over there instead.'' He pointed at a store a few meters ahead.

The windows were whole and that was a good sign. But there were always risks, so he didn't let his guard down.

Gray could here Sting groan a little too loud. ''What? Got problems?'' He really wasn't in the mood right now and the weather wasn't doing anything better at all.

''No, not at all!'' Sting hurriedly answered back, knowing that Lucy wouldn't be happy if he made their leader dislike him. Gray nodded, not wanting to waste his breath anymore.

As they stood outside the store, everyone checked for any signs of bastards. Everywhere except the back, that would also be too risky. Who knows how many there could be there if there were any.

Everything seemed good so far, so Gray made a sign for Laxus to step forward. He did. '' I want you to crush the windows, OK?'' Gray asked and heard another groan, but only the beginning of it.

Rogue had smacked him, Sting, on the arm, knowing that one more groan would put their current leader on the edge.

Laxus crushed the window with his iron pipe and everyone stepped in, listening to the glass as it made noises when they stepped on it.

The shelves were untouched and tons of food was on them and in the broken fridges. But the smell told everyone that it was mostly rotten or moldy.

''Ok everyone, take everything that's edible, useable or that we need, such as bandages and that shit!'' Gray said to everyone. He laid a black sack in the middle of the shop where they could drop everything. He started to go through the shelves, glancing at some and carefully watching others.

He found some batteries, only two or three but they were important. Gray didn't let go of his axe as he took the batteries with his left hand. Batteries weren't something that they found every time they searched for food; it was something they found once in three months.

He glanced to the right and saw the twins. They were about to open the storage room's door when they suddenly stopped. Sting grinned as he raised his hand to them and winked three times. The sign that adults were nearby.

When everyone became silent, small rasping sounds could be heard and metal meeting the ground, probably food cans falling of the big shelves.

For the first time in these three days, Gray saw Rogue smile a little. Gray didn't know about their game, so he just thought they were really fucked up in their heads to be happy when the adults were coming. Sure, Gajeel was excited about them and all, but he wasn't happy. He just held the lust to hit something so that a cracking noise could be heard and then it fell limp to the ground. He was angrier at them, really.

Soon everyone had raised their weapons, ready to defend themselves when the weak wooden door would fall.

A few minutes later, 3 or 4, the door started to bend inwards. And it broke, revealing fucked up and ugly faces moaning and groaning.

''Mmah…''

Sting and Rogue being the closest to the door, started to smash their heads, one after one. The bastards would stick their heads out of the door, only to get their heads cut off or brutally smashed by a hammer.

All Gray and his gang could do was to watch them and listen to their counting voices.

''7''

''9''

And on and on. Soon the bastards stopped coming, so they stopped. Sting turned around to smirk at them, wanting to act cool.

He heard a shallow moan beside his ear. A smart adult had waited for them to drop their guard. But Rogue hadn't turned around yet, so he saw it happen and just sliced the monsters throat with his long kitchen knife.

''13'' Rogue smirked. Another victory to him.

Sting looked rather stunned, this had never happened before. Lucy's talk about them being more intelligent had been right. But Sting being Sting, he forgot it in 5 seconds.

''Rogue! That isn't fair!'' He tried to come up with something to blame it on but couldn't come up with anything.

''But it was.'' Rogue once again smirked before going back to collecting food.

''Next time I'll show you how awesome the great Sting Eucliffe really is!'' Sting shouted back at his twin before following Rogue to help him.

All the others could do was to stare at them. They were odd, but great in fights.

Those three will be coming with us next time to. Gray was really amazed by both their childishness and strength.

Lucy continued to laugh as she tickled a 4 year old. The child really laughed as he was tickled by Lucy and he kicked his feet around, in hope for Lucy to stop if he did so. But Lucy didn't stop and soon all children up to 7 were on her back, begging to be played with.

She was going to have as much fun as possible in the little time she had left.

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