AN: Wow I must be dedicated or I love you guys. Eh I'll take the first one (:P) I come home from school, read, then write XD It takes me forever to write. Welp no motivation at all, This takes up so much time I can't even play league of legends XD I can play Undertale because I can quit when I want to. (One thing I hate about league...) But read ahead! c;

Curiosity and shame gnawed at me.

Remember it's him not your precious one.

But what if it wasn't? What if it was her? What if the first one was her? What am I doing here? How did I even get here? Her death seemed so far away. Why were we even fighting anymore. Why did we even fight? Too many have already suffered. You can't fight violence with violence, it just makes things more worse. I slumped to my knees completely exhausted. But I have to keep fighting, for the people I love. It was just so hard, how do people hold their head up high knowing that there was no reason for it. Nothing for you to be proud of, except the flashes of hate and jealousy. All you were doing was trying to set an example, silently sending a message to those in hurt screaming, 'Be strong, this will end. We just have to be strong and hold on.' It was so hard.

They outnumber you, you might as well give up now.

It's fruitless, no matter how many times life beats you down, you would get up. Well I'm done, I've tried so hard. I've had to live without you and now he taunts me with this….This seemed even more hopeless. Did I really want to die?

No, I want to live

But what is there left to live for, my world has been flipped upside down. Then someone decided to spin my globe before dunking it into a hoop.

There's always-

I sighed feeling two people behind me. I felt a shove before I fell onto the ground. A few beatings later I felt someone yank onto my hair lifting me up by it. I groaned quietly, injuries still fresh. I was too tired to fight to the end. The world was cruel and I just gave up. The world could do what it wanted. I was done with it. It never occurred to me that while we were fighting, not once did his hood actually fall down. But now, he stood with that stupid tattoo on his left eye and it was blue. He had blue ocean eyes. They were disgusting as if consuming your very being watching each move calculating every little thing. Don't get me started on his hair, it was sprawled everywhere like it was in more pain than what he had endured. "How the hell does you hair even stay on your head?" I blurted before blushing, oops.

He rose an eyebrow in amusement. I fought the rising bile. His eyebrow rose into his hair making it disappear. I held back the laughter as my train of thought somehow wandered into how he would look if he was bald. (AN: Well that was OOC oops XD I had to add that :P) A look of irritation passed over his looks. "How did you flip the tattoo?" I spouted.

He rolled his eyes as if obvious. He waited as if debating on something. I looked around. By now I was able to keep my balance on my knees. The rough hand had let go of my hair and was now glowering at me. I quivered internally as a fear gnawed at me, maybe I would die. Of course I would, when I came here I was prepared to die. Something (AN: Maybe it was nothing c:) flew into my eye making it water. This was it. Was I really going to give up?

"Are you really that ignorant?" He spat.

I jumped startled out of my thoughts. I hesitantly asked, "Then who are you, because you almost look exactly like Jellal."

He laughed as if I was telling some sick joke. A joke that started with her death. Then ended with my family being captured. "What's so funny? You think this is funny? You think people dying is funny? You think losing the one person you loved, the one person you woke up for everyday is funny? You think losing the reason you look forward to each day is funny? Do you know how hard it is to wake up with an empty bed? Do you know how hard it is to function without her? Do you know how hard it is to continue doing what you used to do together?" I hissed out of breath.

He stared at me contemplating before laughing once again. Rage consumed me. He did not deserve to laugh at everything I worked for. I tensed waiting holding back the ocean crashing against my dam. It flung itself harder wishing to twist that neck. I clenched my jaw, hopefully I could hold it back. Deep breaths through the nose. In lieu of enforcing pain upon me he walked over to an unconscious clone of him. "Oh yeah," he said as if he remembered something. He snapped his fingers.

As if I had been looking at everything underwater, it changed. No longer were there thousands clones of him, but of Erzas. Of course! I had completely convinced myself that she wasn't possibly, not in a year, going to be her….. Of course the truth hurts. A pair of arms held me as I realized what was happening. Panic ran around in my brain as I tried to think straight (AN: That didn't work out well did it now? ;) Sorry I just had to put that there. I just had to. c; Ok I swear I'm good.) What if that was a clone? What if that was the original one? What if none of them were the right one, what if she was already dead? These thoughts ran through my head taking up my space. I tried to get my breathing under control. That doesn't make sense. If she was a clone why did she act so weird? Wait, her eyes were brown. But now his eyes are blue, wait- I groaned. Please don't tell me. Oh my god. I felt a sick feeling rise up. It stayed in the back of my throat ready to fling itself out of my throat. Why did life have to be so complicated? Everything seemed to freeze up once he touched her.

A body dropped beside me was audible but barely. I glowered at him attempting to burn holes into him watching as he squirmed in agony. I hadn't noticed I was mumbling until I heard a familiar voice state something. "Don't give up Lucy."

My head jerked towards Natsu distracting me. "Why," I whispered. "Why should I keep trying? Everything I loved has been taken. There's no hope. There was no hope from the beginning!"

He grinned weakly, "You're wrong, you fight because you hope one day you'll be reunited with them. The guild isn't dead, just captured. Whether they live or not is not any of our concern right now. We fight for those we love and want to protect. You can fight for the people of Fiore. You can fight for the future generations yet to come. You can fight for those who can't. You can fight to preserve the memory of those fallen. You can fight to protect in everything you believed in."

By now the Jellal(?) had her by the neck slowly cutting off her oxygen. He grinned in my direction making him look like a crazy mad man. That was the last straw. I jerked my right elbow connecting into someone's jaw. Adrenaline pumped into my veins filling my being with energy. I grabbed the arm holding my other hand before flipping her forward. "Sorry," I mumbled.

I threw a glance at him before I saw his hands tighten around her neck. A rage flashed before my eyes. I clenched my fists and focused the rage towards him. I threw a shard of water at him. He yelped before it connect with him. He dropped Erza abruptly before the water splashed him. He felt his body before laughing in relief. "All you got? A water trick?" He taunted.

I narrowed my eyes. Something cracked. He glanced down. I smiled as I saw the water harden and spread. He whispered something before it broke away. He cackled at the defeat in my eyes. At that moment I wanted to hide away in a hole and just die. I felt tears prick at my eyes in shame. A flush of blood came to my cheeks. I looked away to Natsu he pat my shoulder nodding in understanding (AN: XD I put understandment at first before autocorrect was like, "Dafuq? That's understanding. Oops oh sorry :c my bad.) Suddenly, all the clones kneeled down before bursting into pieces of light. "What!" He exclaimed baffled.

A mess of red moved.

AN: Just gotta say, I enjoyed writing this.. Sorry but most times I force myself to do it... XD oops. Welp hope you liked it. Thanks for all the views! I am honored to have your attention (for how long I guess doesn't matter?). c; Read review! Also have have a nice day :)