Sorry... my 'today after some minutes' turned into 'tomorrow'... o_O I had to do lots of homeworks first... -_-

Well, anyway, here ish the last part~! x3

I think this ish the longest chapter in thie story... xD


Chapter Thirteen

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(Levy's POV)

I woke up late that day, the day when Master Makarov asked me to go to his office, saying he wants me to be a new student's tour guide for a while.

I had a dream; but I can't recall it properly. It seems so close to me, yet vague and distant. Wish. Gajeel. Lily. All I remember are those three words, and the rest are blurred out and confusing. My head hurts a lot from thinking what it really was about already...

And, for some reason that I don't know, I feel like... there's a hole in my chest. I've been feeling like this since last week. I've been feeling as if I've just lost something... very important to me.

What is it? I keep asking myself; I keep thinking; I keep trying hard to remember; but I just can't.

Whatever that is, I feel like it's just... well, right it front of me, just close to me, just near me, waiting for me to be known... but at the same time it also feels like it's too vague and distant for me to know.

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"Sorry I'm late, master," I was standing by the door, slightly panting from all the running I did to get to the office as fast as I can.

"It's okay, child," he said. "You're just in time."

Then Master Makarov nodded at someone. "She'll be your tour guide. I suppose you know her already?"

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Tall, black-haired... with a black cat...

Where... where have I seen them before? I feel like as if I knew them for a very long time; I feel like I've already met them; I feel like I had always been with them... But I haven't, have I?

And within just seconds, he was already in front of me...

... and everything happened so fast that time.

"Levy," he said. Levy... the way he said my name seems really... familiar. I've heard it before. I've known him before we even met here today. But why can't I remember?

My eyes widened in surprise when he suddenly hugged me. "What..." was all that I could say, before tears just suddenly streamed out of my eyes. Thousands of images suddenly flickered unto my eyes.

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I can see it...

I can hear it...

I can feel it...

I remember now.

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...I ran out alone in the forest, crying. I was mad, and sad, tired, angry, and desperate.

And that's where we first met.

"...please." I was wishing and desperate... I wanted someone, something, anyone, anything! to answer me, to tell me that it's okay, to reassure me even just with a lie... but what appeared turned out to be something more.

"Deal accepted." that was the first time I heard from him; the first time I saw him, when he appeared after those black mists faded away...

"I thought you were smart. How long would it take you to know whether or not that I'm real?" and this was his response when I really was in disbelief whether he's really real or not; whether I'm just dreaming or not.

"Heh, don't worry. I'll make you big." the first time I saw him grin was when he said this, reassuring me that he really would help me...

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"I really think that he's a mouse."

"For the last time, Pantherlily is a cat! My cat!"and this one was one of our 'little fights' about just simple things that I kept on repeating and saying.

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"I wish I can take my revenge on them; watch them fall and regret everything they did to me!"Oh... the part where I've been strongly wishing to get my revenge; when I've been consumed by greed and selfishness.

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"Who's that girl?" I heard them... those people from our school...

"Isn't that Levy?"...they were all shocked when they saw me the next day after my first wish.

"You like me, don't you? You always do my homeworks, you always do whatever I say! And I'm handsome, too, no one resists that."And this is where Gray gets too overconfident of himself, proving to me that he really is and was never worth it. He's just someone who thinks that he's so special, even though I think he's just trash, someone who doesn't really deserve anyone with that attitude of his.

"Shut up!" I finally got to courage to say that straight to his face, with my shy and humble attitude gone.

"How dare you talk to Gray-sama like that! You have no right to!" Juvia was yelling at me, saying this as if she could really decide what one would want to say.

"Says who, huh?" If I hadn't made my first wish yet, I wouldn't have the strength to try provoking a fight with just some people not worth it.

"Solid Script: Water."So now we got even - no, I should say, this simple thing that I've done to them still wasn't 'even' to all those that they've done to me... that's why my revenge continued on for three weeks... until I've felt myself loosing to being someone else which was not really what I've wanted.

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"You know... I'm not sure that I'm even me anymore." I wasn't me anymore... Revenge got too much on my mind, that I've never realized it until some weeks had passed.

"They got what they deserved. That what you keep telling me, and yourself, too, ain't it?" This that he told me made me realize that I've really been trying to fool myself ever since I've started my revenge on them... I've been telling myself that they got what they deserved, even though I knew I wasn't right; I knew I was just turning out to be like them as I did my revenge.

"But... I'm also ruining myself, am I not?"

"I've... decided on my second wish now."

"Tell me, then." He grinned, as if he already had figured out what I'll be wishing, or that sooner or later I would be wishing about it...

"I... don't want to be like this anymore; I don't want to keep pretending to be someone that I'm not." That was true; I wanted to be me, not someone else. Revenge consumed me, I blinded myself even more, but at least I woke up from it.

"Your wish is my command."

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"But you told me that you're gonna tell me your story today!"This was when I kept annoying him and asking him about what really happened to him over and over again until he told me his story...

"End of story."

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"I don't want to take anything away from you, okay? I just want you to be happy."He really doesn't, I could see it in his eyes - he means it, but...

"But... when I... when I make my last wish, that would mean... that you and Lily wouldn't be with me anymore." I didn't want them to leave me... I never even really did want to make my third wish, but I knew I had to... it was the least I can do for them.

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"So you'll be wishin' to have nothing taken away from you, right?" It was what he assumed, but it's not what I want... it's not the right thing.

"I can't... I think the final wish I want to make is more important than that." Yes it is, they are important to me, and so are my memories about them...

"I want you to be happy. I don't want to take anything important to you away from you... So just please wish for what I've told you." He was already pleading by this time, but I really can't back out from what I'm going to wish for... I had to do it.

"No matter what happens, make my final wish come true, okay?"

"Promise me."

"You guys... taught me a lot, you know?" I wanted to go and cry around this time, but a part of me made me just stay strong and hold back my tears, to act strong around them...

"You were the only ones who ever cared for me and supported me..."They really were; and I've learned a lot from them... Revenge is not sweet, it's just something bitter that'll consume you; one cannot live strong without having at least one to help them stay strong; and you don't really have to be someone else for people to like you, you just have to be yourself, and see if there are ones who'll like you for who you are, not for who you are not...

"I wouldn't really want you guys to go, but..."

"...I know that'll be selfish of me."

"Right now, I have the option to just wish that you guys could stay with me, don't I?" I did. I could have just wished for that; but they need their own freedom, too; and it's much, much, more important than being with me...

"But then... I want you guys to be happy, too."

"I want you to be free, so..."

"I wish for Gajeel and Lily to be free. Gajeel doesn't have to be a demon that must grant human's wishes anymore; and Pantherlily could now be a real mouse - I mean, cat." They've been trapped in this wish granting business for so long already; and it was about time that they get to be set free... they needed to be free; if I won't wish for that, who would? And also, I... I loved Gajeel; and I wouldn't want to see, to know... that he is still out there, bound on a 'curse', granting wishes for humans, eternally, without someone who could wish him out of that mess...

"What?!" I saw his face turn into shock when he heard my wish...

"I want you guys to be happy, too, so... this is the least that I can do after everything you've done for me." It really was. It was the only thing I could think of that'll be what I can do for them...

"You promised me that you'll make it come true, no matter what, right?" Yeah, I made him promise first before I told him my wish, because I knew that if I didn't, he would disagree to this and might not even make it come true...

"Find out... about the most important thing to her." He said this with hesitation, his eyes sad, and his face trying to cover it...

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"The thing she values most was... her memories about us." That really was true. There wasn't anything else in the world that I've valued other than all the days, every second, that I've been with them...

"All the times she spent together with us - starting from the time when she was crying and ran into the forest where she met us and made the deal; and up until this time that she's with us."

"I don't want to forget about you guys... and I don't want you to leave... But I want you to be happy."

"You shouldn't have wished for us." I didn't want to see him this way, having sad eyes, but I had to wish for it. I had to.

"But I already did... So now you have no choice rather than to make it come true." I still managed to hold back my tears from falling, pretending that I'll be okay, when in truth deep inside it hurts to know that... soon I'll have no more memories of them... no more memories of the man I loved... no more memories of the adorable mouse, I mean, cat... no more memories of all the days that we've spent together... of everything that was important to me... They say it hurts to lose something, but it hurts more when days before you lose it, you already knew that you were going to, you know?

"Thank you..."He mumbled and kissed me... Well, at least I knew that he loved me; and with that I had no regrets. And bright light started blinding us, leaving me with no choice rather than to close my eyes as I thought about everything that I don't ever regret.

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I don't regret ever wishing...

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I don't regret ever having a crush on Gray, I don't regret ever being bullied by Juvia and the other Gray fan club members, I don't regret overhearing Gray and Lucy's conversation... for if it wasn't for those, I wouldn't have been out there deep in the woods, crying, hating, angry, sad, desperate, wishing... I wouldn't have met him.

I don't regret ever wishing what I wished for my first wish. I did enjoy the revenge, even just a bit, after realizing my mistake.

I don't regret ever wishing what I wished for my second wish. On my first wish, I realized that I've turned to someone that I'm not, that's why I wished to be back to my real self and that everyone in school forgets about that. It was better that way. I realized that revenge wasn't really everything it wasn't what I wanted, it blinded me and turned me into someone I'm not.

And I don't ever regret making my last wish. It was for both Gajeel and Lily. And it made them happy, to be free...

...I don't ever regret anything that happened for that whole time.

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(Okie, back to Pantherlily's POV xD) [I felt like I needed to put Levy's POV for you guys to understand what really was happening with the thousands of images flashing Lily was talking about... since I can't really explain what was happening using Lily -_-]

When Gajeel pulled back from the hug, Levy seemed to have snapped out from whatever had happened to her. Her eyes turned normal again, and she wiped her tears with both her hands, then looked at Gajeel. Her eyes are now clearly filled with happiness... Yeah, I guess I still have the skill to see through people with their eyes, just a bit, though... Oh, wait... does this mean... that she remembers him?

"Gajeel..." she muttered.

"You still remember me?" he answered in disbelief.

"I missed you a lot, baka!" she said. "You should've come earlier... then maybe I should've remembered you earlier..."

"Oh? And you say such words now?" he smirked. "Wait, you only remembered just now?"

"Well, yes," she said. "when I saw you, then you approached me, images, sounds, memories, everything about you and us just suddenly flashed before me..."

"Ahem," Master Makarov interrupted. "Since it seems that you two have met already, you may go and start touring around the school now."

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Epilogue

I guess love really is a powerful thing...

Heh, it proved me wrong on how I thought all humans were...

...and even broke the demon's magic.

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Love made her wish for such greedy, selfish, angry, desperate things on the first place...

...But it was also love that made her wish selflessly, for someone that she loved.

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And it was also that love...

...that made her remember.

That same love broke the demon's magic of taking away her memories and returned them to her.

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And that made me come to a conclusion...

That love... once one has it, it can never be taken away... never, not by anything, not by any magic... no one, nothing... can ever make you forget it... it would always make its way to be remembered again.


And there we have it~! xD

Yeah, sorry about the ending and epilogue that kinda seems like it needs more... (doesn't it?)

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