WARNING: This Fanfic contains violence, abuse and gore on later chapters.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Fairytail or any characters that belongs to this fanfic. The images used in this fanfic is not mine as well. I will not earn a cent for sharing this story. This is made intently for the Halloween season.
NATSU'S ROOM
BANG! BANG! BANG!
The sun is up but its bit cloudy. The ambiance inside the manor is cold but this does not trouble the three young members of Fairytail. Natsu and Happy are still sleeping on the bed. Gray is still sleeping on the couch too. They kept on snoring but that did not seem to wake them up. Somebody keeps on knocking on the door and that didn't disturb them as well, except for Natsu. His dragon hearing sense is making him nuts.
"Happy… Someone's knocking." Natsu groaned.
"Fine…" Happy yawned. He lazily walked to the door and unlocked it.
The door ruthlessly flew open and the little Exceed hides beside the closet in fear. A mad Erza stomped inside the room. Veins started to appear on her head when she saw Gray and Natsu still as sleep after all the ruckus she made at the door. She grabbed the pillows and started to hit them with it. They are both forced to stand up.
"What's the big deal Erza!?" Natsu growled and he received a pillow shot on his face.
"Lucy's missing!" Erza shouted.
"What do you mean missing? She was with you last night, right?" Gray yawned.
"She was but when I woke up, she's not beside me anymore. I already looked on her room and the other rooms here in second floor, but I didn't find her." she glared at Natsu "You! Didn't you hear anything last night? You didn't hear her come out the room?"
"No. I'm sorry. I was fast asleep."Natsu rubbed his right eye.
Erza clucked her tongue because of disappointment and puts her hands on her hips. She walks away, gritting her teeth in anger. Unlike Natsu and Gray, Erza is a light sleeper. 'How could Lucy slip out last night on her guard?' Gray started to change his clothes.
"Move it Natsu, we'll go look for her." Gray said while changing.
They searched everywhere inside the manor. Gray and Natsu looked all over the outside grounds and first floor, but the celestial mage is nowhere to be found. Erza and Happy covered the second floor and third floor, still, no sign of her. After the search, they all went back to Erza's room and think of their next step.
"I don't think that she'll abandon us and run away, right?" Gray sighed.
"That's not Lucy at all, Gray. She'll never do such thing." Natsu replied.
"Maybe she's hungry and looked for a fish?" Happy asked and made his way to the bathroom.
"We can eat wherever and whenever we want, remember?" Erza lied down the bed, but sits up when she heard Happy's voice.
"Hey! Lucy is sleeping in the bathtub!" Happy flew outside the bathroom
They all went to the bathroom and saw Lucy lying in the empty bathtub. She has bruises all over her body. Her PJs have small scratches and soiled. Natsu carried her and put her on the bed gently. Erza started to treat Lucy's bruises and cleaned her scratches.
"I thought you already looked here?" Natsu raised a brow on Erza.
"I did, but she was not there before. We all know how Lucy loves to take baths, right?" Erza ticked off.
"What trouble did you got into this time?" Gray sat beside her and pats Lucy's head.
"Let's hope she wakes up soon." Erza finished cleaning up Lucy. "Now, all of you get out! I'll change her clothes!"
They all ate breakfast in the room. While they were eating, they heard noises of beating hammers and saws cutting woods on the ceiling. They really thought they were the only ones in left the manor. Perhaps, they were the ones who hurt Lucy or they must at least know what happened. Erza and Gray stopped eating and decided to look for the people who are causing those noises. Natsu left as well to get some water from the kitchen and Happy stayed with Lucy until she wakes up.
THIRD FLOOR - CORRIDOR
Gray's POV
We went up the third floor and the noise is starting to fade. The map is unreliable. Some rooms are named wrong in the map. The observatory was replaced by a huge library. The electrical room became a bedroom. The storage room turned into another library. Erza compared my map to hers. Nothing is different. She draws her own map at the back of the original one. The noise from workers stopped. We never saw them or the place where they were working. We went inside a room filled with books and files, it sure looks like an ordinary library to me but Erza confirmed that this is the family's archive. We even saw the family tree of that arrogant kid on the wall. He was the last of his line. 'So, if he gets killed. That's the end of his egotistic lineage.' I mentally laughed deviously.
"Hey, don't just stand there. Look for something useful here." Erza's being bossy again while browsing some books on the first shelf near the door.
"Okay." I rolled my eyes.
There were so many bookshelves and file cabinets here. Lucy and Levi will surely love this place. I walked to the last one and looked for something 'useful'. On the top part of the shelves, there are many large scrolled papers. I opened them one by one. It's the blueprints of this manor. I considered them useful so I carried the blueprints with me. "Maybe I should get Lucy something to read." I mumbled while browsing some books. An hour has passed. I only got the blueprints and a diary some lady that lived here. Erza got a few books with her and some old newspapers. She got some history books of the manor and its origin.
I opened the door for her because her hands are full. As I opened it, she stepped outside and so I did. When I closed the door, I heard her dropped her books. She looks really shaken and shocked. I was about to taunt her about her sloppiness, but I realized why she was stunned. We're now outside the courtyard. The sky is dark. A cold wind passed by to us, snapping us out from delusion.
"No way!" I turned around and opened the door behind me.
To my surprise, it's not the archive room that we came from. It's the corridor of the first floor.
"What the hell did happen!?" I shouted in fear.
"Gray, let's go back to my room." Erza picked the books quickly.
We're actually running back upstairs as fast as we can. We stopped in the front of the door of her bedroom, we are both catching our breath. We thought the room has changed too. I slowly opened the door and sighed contently at the sight of my friends. Erza is calmed as well. Lucy and Happy were inside, sleeping on the bed. Natsu is on the chair beside the bed, he's sleeping too. We stepped inside and the dragon slayer woke up. We told him everything about what happened.
*Not inside the Manor*
This room was very dark. Only the light from the monitors can be seen. The views of other monitors are shifting to many angles that show Natsu, Gray, Lucy, Erza and Happy. It appears that there's a lot of hidden surveillance lacrima inside the manor. A silhouette of a girl appeared in front of it. She starts to giggle.
"That's really cute!"
The little girl's eyes gazed upon Erza's expression in the monitor. It's the scene where she dropped the books earlier with Gray.
