I forget to do his; I don't own Fairy Tail. I mean, what would I do with it anyways? I'm not smart enough to run a show.


My Most Special Friends

Chapter 7: Go, Going, Gone

Lucy's POV

"Everyone! Lucy and I are leaving now!" called Lisanna, waving her hands around. I could still tell that she was spooked about something, something she had seen in the basement. A ghost? No, I doubted that Lisanna would be scared by that, she'd probably say hi to it and have a conversation.

"No!" wailed Rainbow, tugging on her short hair. Lisanna took my hand and we walked out the guild and into the dim twilight. Some of the guild members we were closed to followed us out.

"I don't want you to leave!" choked Rainbow. "I wouldn't be the same!"

"Seriously, you guys are way over dramatic," said I. "We'll only be gone for a few days. We'll be back, you don't have to freak out."

Starla ran up and gave me a hug. "Come back soon! I'll keep practicing!"

"You do that," I said, smiling at the little girl. Haru ran up and hugged Lisanna.

"Good luck with your friends," Connyr said.

"And I want to read your story when this Levy girl is done with it," Hannah said to me, pushing her glasses farther up her nose.

"Yes, yes," I said putting my hands up in surrender. I had continued writing with Lisanna to help me when I needed it. It was surprisingly helpful to discuss plots and character development with someone you knew wouldn't judge and be fair.

"Good riddance if you ask me," sniffed Islie, turning her head up snootily. But she gave both of us a hesitant smile and I knew that she would miss us as well.

Rainbow wailed again. "I don't want you to go!"

"Honestly..." sighed Lisanna, shaking her head. "You can fly with us to the border." I frowned. I wanted some alone time with Lisanna but she was obviously avoiding it.

"Yes!" cheered Rainbow.

"Alright, here goes!" said Lisanna. "Full body Take Over: Animal Soul: Griffin!" Lisanna's form glowed and pixelated. She transformed into a snow-white griffin about as large as a horse. (A/N: I'm not really sure if Lisanna could actually do this because griffins might be considered beasts, but I've always thought of them as nice creatures.)

"Ready?" she asked. Her voice was the same and sounded weird on the eagle headed creature. I nodded and carefully climbed onto her back. The white feathers were soft under my hands as I gripped them and her head arched in front of me. Tufts of feathers stuck out on the top giving Lisanna the impression of ears. I nodded nervously. We'd never done this before and I didn't really want to fall off.

"I won't drop you, you don't have to be scared." She sensed my uncertainty.

"You have no room to talk," I said back. Lisanna's face fell, I think.

"I'll tell you later," she said, looking nervous again.

Slowly, Lisanna's wings began to flap, kicking up a huge storm of wind. I tightened my hold on her feathers as we lurched higher in the sky. Rainbow's Aera expanded and she followed us up. We all circled at about 30 feet and waved down at the crowd before lifting higher.

Lisanna's pace began to even out and even though we were higher I felt less like falling off.

"So," said Rainbow, looking uncomfortable.

"What?" I asked. I mean, I like Rainbow and all, but I kinda wanted her to leave right now.

"Nothing," she sighed lowering her head. We flew on in silence.

"This is the border," Rainbow finally said. I peered over Lisanna's shoulder to see the edge of Abarwülé. I narrowed my eyes challengingly it. Would our magic be cancelled? Lisanna seemed to be thinking the same thing because she dropped a few feet and her wingbeats slowed.

We crossed. Nothing happened. I breathed a sigh of relief.

"Goodbye and good luck!" called Rainbow. I looked back to see her hovering on the other side, waving.

"Goodbye!" I called in return.

"Goodbye!" Lisanna echoed us. Rainbow turned and started flying in the other direction. Lisanna and I looked ahead and continued.

When we were a good distance away I said, "So..."

Lisanna cringed. She took a deep breath and told me everything she saw in the mirror. I was stunned by the end of it.

"Wow, not what I expected," I said. "Do you really thing it's that bad?"

Lisanna nodded. "There's no other explanation. That red sky, our blood, I wish I knew."

I sighed. "Let's...let's just forget about it for now. We have other things to concentrate on."

Lisanna took a deep breath than let it out. "Yes, you're right."

Suddenly, I gasped. "Look!" Ahead of us was a steep cliff of stone and on top of that, the train tracks.

"Isn't that were we fell off when we were fighting that dark guild?" Lisanna questioned.

"I think so," I answered. "If we follow the train tracks we should be able to get to a station in the north."

"Hey, I thought you said this line went all the way to Florence!" complained Lisanna.

I shook my head. "Only the train we were on."

"Ah, well, I'll track it." Lisanna swooped up to the cliff side and climbed above it so we would get a good view of the tracks. They were sleek and bright and glinted in the moonlight. I didn't see any trains so we turned left to go north. Since Lisanna's griffin form was bright white it would be easy for people to spot us.

"I feel like I am a train," joked Lisanna.

I smiled. "Oh, there's a town! Are you getting tired?"

Lisanna shook her head. "I'm fine. It's weird to see a place that isn't Gyniside or a farm."

"And there's the train station we have to stop at!" I said.

"Yeah!" Lisanna dived down.

"Hey, watch it!" I wailed, clinging onto her neck.

A little off the ground Lisanna changed back into a human and we both dropped, well, in my case, crashed, to the ground. Lisanna landed lightly and looked around with her hands on her hips.

"Well, what now? You're the Train Master."

"Train Master?" I grumbled, picking myself off the ground with my eyes still spinning. "Why me?" Lisanna giggled.

"Well..." I said, taking out a map. I stared at it for moment, uncomprehending.

"What does it say?" Lisanna asked.

"Umm, I don't know," I said, embarrassed.

"But you were the one who bought it!" complained Lisanna.

"Yeah..." I muttered. "Oh now I get!"

"You do?"

I flipped it over. "It was upside down."

Lisanna groaned and rolled her eyes.

"Let's see," I said. "We're going to take a regional train that will take us about an hour south. Then we'll get off at the station at Haarona, which is a pretty big city. From there we can take a speed train all the way to Magnolia!"

"Wow, you're better than I thought at planning!" Lisanna said, smiling.

"'Thought'?" I raised an eyebrow at her. "I really had to be when I was with Team Natsu. Natsu couldn't do it since he would just try to avoid anything with transport. Grey couldn't because he didn't have the patience and was also not all that much smarter than Natsu. Erza...Erza just sort of didn't get it. So the job was left to me." I placed my hands on my hips proudly than realized what I had said and I covered my mouth. But Lisanna was laughing.

"Oh man," she choked. "That was a really accurate, but really hilarious description of them!" I scratched my head, not getting the humor at all, but glad that I hadn't made Lisanna sad.

"Oh, when's our train coming?" Lisanna said.

I looked down at my watch. "It comes at the 30 minute mark every hour during the day and every second hour at night. So, in 10 minutes if I'm correct."

"'K," muttered Lisanna contently.

A footstep echoed behind us and I jumped. We turned to see a drunk man in his mid thirties wobbling towards us.

"Oh, look, it's a couple of chicks," he slurred, his words barely understandable. He walked forward and I could see the lust in his eyes. I mean, that is to be expected, we are both exceptionally beautiful.

Love wasn't really a big deal in Gyniside, so we didn't get very many perverts, but I guess this is merely an example that we had left the little town behind.

"So, should we deal with this guy?" Lisanna asked.

"Sure. But just knock him out." We looked at each other and instantly knew the battle plan. We charged.

Lisanna slipped behind the drunk and yelled, "Ya!" loudly. He jumped at the loud noise and I moved forward, punching him hard in then gut. He flew back a few feet only to have Lisanna kick him in the place no man ever wants to be kicked. He yowled like a cat and hopped forward. I bopped him hard on the head and he crumpled.

Lisanna and I looked down on him with expression of half pleasure half surprise on our faces.

"That was a nice warm up," I finally said, spreading my arms into the air and yawning widely.

Lisanna snickered with her hand over mouth. I smiled.

We stood quietly in the lamp looking out at the darkness beyond the tracks. It was pretty late but nether of us were bothered by that. We had gotten used to weird climates and bearing through things. One of our neighbors had a huge tree in his backyard (it was over 300 feet) and he let us climb to and then sleep at the top once. It had taken nearly all the waking hours and then some because we weren't using any magic, but it had been totally worth it. The view was amazing. Maybe we'll go up there again some day.

"Is that the train?" Lisanna's voice tore me from my thoughts. Another bright light illuminated through the darkness.

"I think so," I responded. The train's brakes screeched loudly and it stopped at the platform. We approached it and looked up.

"Is this the right one?" Lisanna asked.

"I think so," I said. We could see inside at the few people resting or sleeping on the seats. They looked tired. We climbed through the open doors and settled in seats near the exit.

"Man, I'm having déjà vú," I said quietly.

Lisanna smiled softly. "Wake me when we get to the station." Then she was asleep on my shoulder.

The train ride was about an hour and I had to struggle not to fall asleep myself.

When the train finally stopped, we had to get on another one. I had timed it pretty well so the crossover was quick. Soon we were speeding to Magnolia.

It was dawn by the time we got there and stepped off the train.

"Huh, it doesn't really have the same feeling," commented Lisanna, looking around.

"I have to agree with you on that one," I said.

"Let's go!" said Lisanna, perking up. "I can't wait now that the moments here!" I charged after her and we ran, laughing, down the street.

"That was my old apartment!" I called as we shot past it.

"We'll visit it later!" Lisanna yelled, tugging on my wrist.

"Yeah!" We ran on. Speed was another factor that we had increased during our training so we could now at about 10 mph for long distances.

We ran straight to the Fairy Tail guild hall and skidded to a stop in front of it, dust spilling everywhere.

We were about to enter when Lisanna grabbed my wrist.

"What?" I asked.

"Look," she said, pointing to the guild hall. Except...it wasn't the guild hall. It looked like an ordinary bar.

"Umm, I don't think this is Fairy Tail," Lisanna said, her brow furrowing.

"What?" I exclaimed. "It has to be. I know this is the right place!"

Lisanna nodded. "I know too. But it don't think this is anymore."

"Maybe they moved?" I suggested.

"Let's go ask someone," Lisanna said. I nodded and followed calmly, but one question rang through our minds, 'Where is Fairy Tail?'

"Hey, excuse me," I said to a old lady ambling past. "Can you tell us where Fairy Tail is?"

"Fairy Tail?" she warbled. "There right over there, silly. They would never leave!" She pointed to the not-Fairy Tail guild hall.

"Never mind," Lisanna sighed. "We'll ask someone else."

She tapped a young man about our age in the shoulder. "Could you please tell us how to get to Fairy Tail?"

He jumped and turned around. "Why do you want to go there?"

Lisanna and I looked at each other. "We used to be members."

"What are your names?" the man asked.

"Lucy and Lisanna, sir," I answered. "We came to visit our friends."

He blinked in surprise. "You're the ones who left last year!"

"You know of us?" asked Lisanna suspiciously.

The man looked down at his feet sadly. "Yeah, I used to be quite a fan."

"Used to?" wondered Lisanna out loud.

The guy gave us a sad look. "You'd better find out for yourselves. Fairy Tail has relocated to that hill over there." He pointed.

I frowned at Lisanna and we took off again, waving a vague, "Thanks!" He smiled wistfully at us.

We ran as fast as we could to the guild. After putting together what the guy at the not-Fairy Tail guild hall it was obvious something bad had happened.

"This is it," I muttered, looking at the farm style house with a lopsided "Fairy Tail" written across it. Gripping each others hands, we approached the hall slowly and touched the door. It felt strange and unnatural. This wasn't Fairy Tail.

Slowly, we pushed open the doors and looked inside. There were people there, Macao, Wakaba, Romeo, Jet, Droy, Kinana, Laki, Alzack, Bisca, and a few others.

"Lisanna?" gasped Macao.

"Lucy-née?" wondered Romeo.

"Umm, yeah?" I said like it was a question. "Where is everyone?"

"You came back!" wailed Romeo. "You're not dead!"

"Dead!?" Lisanna and I gasped together.

"We...we...we don't want have to break this to you," muttered Macao and everyone else looked away. "But the core members of Fairy Tail are gone. They were incinerated on Tenrou Island by the Black Dragon of the Apocalypse, Acnologia."

I took a few moments for the words to sink in. Lisanna broke down first.

"N-no, no, NO! I-it c-can't b-be possible. Mira-née, Elf-nii, gone! Natsu, Erza, Grey, no!" She collapsed to the floor, sobbing and crying.

I just stood straight and stared ahead. Natsu, Grey, Erza, Cana, Mira, Elfman, Wendy, gone? No, that couldn't be true. They were the strongest people I knew. They would never let some silly dragon get in their way. They had to be out there, somewhere. As if they could be killed by something do trivial! I laughed at the thought. I thought that I should cry, but I couldn't. It seemed so surreal. It simply couldn't happen.

"Those guys? They wouldn't die that easily." I snickered and everyone's eyes widened in fear and shock. Lisanna stood up and turned to me. For an instant I thought she would blame me for her family's deaths, but instead she just through her arms around me and sobbed.

"Lisanna..." I muttered. Then, something in my mind clicked. Just like that, I knew.

"Lisanna," I said urgently. "Remember the vision in the mirror? I showed Natsu, which means we'll get to see him again and nothing can stop that, it's fate. The people on Tenrou were all together, so if we see Natsu we see all of them!"

Lisanna's blubbering slowed and them stopped. "Really? You think?"

"Really," I said, trying to sound comforting.

"You're right," she said, wiping away tears. "We will see them again." She stared me in the eyes and I knew it was a promise.

"We have eternity," I added, linking pinkies with Lisanna.

I turned back to the remaining guild members. "I wouldn't be too worried. They'll be back, they always are. We're going to leave again, but we'll visit."

"Lucy, Lisanna!' called Droy. He was pretty chubby now. "Jet and I are sorry for forging Levy's letters when she went missing."

I smiled. "It's okay, I guessed as much. Goodbye!" And we left a guild behind for a third time.

"You know," said Lisanna, gazing up at the sky. "We may have not had any chose in becoming immortal, but it does have its benefits. I'll wait forever for my friends."

"Me too," I added. "We haven't changed at all in the past year, except for more hair, so I will wait for my friends too."

"You know, I'm not really sad anymore," hummed Lisanna thoughtfully. "Because they will return."

"How about we get stronger, really strong, while there gone?"

Lisanna nodded. "We need to have something to show for the time."

"Yep, so let's get started!"


I'm sure if I like this chapter, it was a bit rushed at the end. Ah well, you get the point. Read and review!