Next chapter! :D sorry for any mistakes.. I am not sure if I forced my editor/best friend to edit this part of the story yet... And for those who read New Beginning, I am sorry that I haven't updated D': I have two more days to semi-finish this story (I might continue since I like the idea)

I do not own Fairy Tail

A man, who looked in his late 50's had brown messy hair that was already staring to fall out and wore a greasy white sleeveless shirt that hugged his large belly along with black shorts and shoes, walked toward her. Lucy didn't get the best impression of him and decided to do what her instincts told her to do; back away. He seemed like a threat, a killer to be more was also another thing she noticed about the man, he had a pitch black 'x' over his left chest.

"How do you know my name and who are you?" She asked, stuttering a lot with fear. The man smiled sadistically and walked forward.

"I have been watching you for a few days and I have decided that you will be my next meal," this confused the blonde, 'his next meal?' she thought and suddenly got the wrong idea. She was just about to scream for help, but was cut off by someone pulling the trigger of a gun.

The man yelped in pain and clenched his stomach which was stained in red as he fell onto the ground. Lucy looked at her savior and saw a man with blue hair. Her eyes widen in shock and stuttered a small 'thank you' whilst looking at the ground, but was taken back at what he said next.

"Darn it, I missed."

"What?! You were trying to shoot me?!" Lucy exclaimed as he looked in horror at Jellal who chuckled at her reaction.

"My Heavenly bullets never misses their target, I was just kidding," he said as he made his Heavenly Gun disappear into thin air, which stunned Lucy.

All of a sudden, a loud scream of agony filled the halls and a large knife covered in fresh flood was poking out of Lucy's stomach which soon was withdrawn. She fell to her knees, clutching her injured stomach and coughed out blood, which only added more red liquid to the crimson sea.

"What the-?!" Jellal yelled, shocked to see the man that he shot was still alive. He knew that he should have shot him more than once, and he knew that he was the same thing that he was. A zombie.

Yes, a living corpse. Only the real zombies didn't look or smell like rotting flesh; they looked alive and like a normal human. This made it hard for Zeref, Jellal, and others to hunt zombies (even though they are also zombies). There was a difference between legal and illegal zombies. Legal zombies are created by a god of death and chosen to be the reaper's little helpers. Illegal zombies are created by other zombies by biting a normal human being and letting them live. Reaper's little helpers help a reaper to exterminate the illegal pest, since there are actually a lot out there. Another thing about being a legal zombie, it doesn't come free. When a reaper chooses it's helpers, they would appear as the person slips away to the after life and depending on how badly damaged their body is, they would have to pay their master (the god of death) back with money. Whilst zombie hunting, each illegal zombie would be worth a certain amount of jewels, depending on how much lives they've killed or turned into their own kind.

A large black blade sliced through the neck of the illegal zombie and his head fell to the ground. There stood Zeref with his weapon; a scythe. When he summons his weapon (or when he gets angry) his eyes turn red with a thin black circle around his pupil and his scythe is black and had red vines with spikes wrapped around the top of the staff and blade. He called his weapon: Black Death.

Zeref quickly dropped his weapon and he knelt next Lucy who was now laying on the ground, eyes showing that her life was slowly fading away. He lifted her up into a sitting possession and asked a question, also demanding an answer.

"Do you want to live? Please tell me that you want to live! Say it!" He yelled as he shook her almost limp body and tears fell from his red eyes, falling onto the girl's pale face. Jellal was surprised to see his partner cry over a person and actually wanting them to live.

"I want to live.." she weakly chocked out, but then yelled it the second time before everything turned black.