Help him!

"Ze-Zer!" Lucy screamed before she held Zer's unconscious figure in her arms. "He's turning cold."

"Zer! Wake up! What happened?" Lucy kept on talking as she lightly tapped Zer's face hoping to wake him up.

"What-" Lucy trailed off when she looked up to the state of her room with the sudden outburst of her magic. Her furniture got sliced, smashed and teared to pieces while her curtains looked like teared apart by claws. "How did things turn to this?"

She gasped when she remembered Zer's state, hurriedly pulled him up and set him to her bed. She held his hand while fighting back the tears that sprung up and pooling on the corner of her eyes.

"Zer.. Wendy.. Yes! Wendy can help. Wait here Zer. I'll be back with help." Having said those, Lucy bolted right out her door and dashed towards Fairy Hills where she was sure she would find Wendy.

Please.. Goddesses.. Don't leave Zer alone and help him.

Lucy prayed silently as she continued to run towards the hills.

After running persistently despite the prickling pain stinging her throat and her muscles screaming at her to stop, she arrived on the said place and loudly banged their main door.

"We.. WENDY!" She screamed.

Everyone jolted at her voice and Wendy hurriedly peeked from her window.

"Lucy-san? What are you doi-"

"Wendy! Help me!"

Wendy didn't have to look at Lucy's face. She could very well hear the desperation lacing her words. It seemed urgent. Without further hesitation, Wendy flew out of the window with Carla lifting her.

"Please lead the way." Wendy nodded and relief started to flood Lucy's system. However, it was too soon to be completely relieved as she led Wendy back to her apartment.

"Lucy?" Erza, who barely made it out, watched Lucy and Wendy running away. "What's gotten into her?"

"Apparently she came to ask Wendy for help." Levi, who heard their short conversation, said as she popped beside Erza.

"Why?" Erza asked and Levi just shrugged her shoulders.

Lucy and Wendy finally made it back to her apartment as Lucy opened the door while desperately trying to catch her breath. Upon opening what shocked Wendy the most wasn't the state Lucy's room fell into but the emptiness it held. There was no one inside.

"Lucy-san?"

"No.. Where is he? He can't move in his state!" Lucy suddenly panicked.

"He? Who was here, Lucy-san?"

"Zer. He was incredibly weak, Wendy." Lucy answered as her voice quaked with worry and panic.

Wendy felt Lucy's worry as an idea hit her to help her find the said man.

"I can help you, Lucy-san. I can track him by his scent. I am a dragon slayer after all." Wendy suggested.

Lucy's hopes lifted at Wendy's words and started to smile as she nodded her head.

"Thank you, Wendy."

"Let's go."

While on Zeref's end. He was clutching his throbbing chest as he limped forward, towards the town's outskirts and lay low for a while till he can control his magic once again.

Continuously supporting Lucy by sending her bits of his own power gradually sucked him and made his control on his own power go shaky. He couldn't stay on Lucy's apartment because he was sure that he'd rob everything that possessed life there. He can't risk Lucy discovering his real identity and have her hate him.

It was all so new, perplexing, confusing and filling him with anxiety but it was making him happy too- happier than he'd ever been. It seems the all-time, bad-ass and cruel black wizard from 500 years ago had fallen in love with the little celestial wizard of Fairy Tail. The very partner of his younger brother.

"I'm sorry, Lucy. You must not find me." Zeref whispered before he erased everything that might lead her to him. He erased the remnants of his aura, traces of his scent, went to hide in some cave and closed off the only entrance to it. It was just like he vanished off the face of the world all so suddenly.

Wendy jolted and halted on her tracks when she felt everything that she could use to track Zer vanished. She could no longer track his scent.

Lucy turned to her with a befuddled expression and Wendy also turned to her slowly.

"Lucy-san.."

"What is it Wendy?" Lucy asked, already feeling the dread of hearing Wendy's answer.

"I.. I can't track him anymore."

"Why?!" Lucy unconsciously yelled as she held Wendy's shoulders. She gasped when she realized what she did and retreated back. "I.. I'm sorry."

"It's fine. I understand that you're worried for him but I'm sorry Lucy-san. His scent just suddenly vanished." Wendy explained. She felt sorry for Lucy but there was nothing she could do anymore. Any attempt was useless.

"I see.. Tha-Thank you for helping me thus far." Lucy answered and slowly walked backed to where they came from.

"Where are you going, Lucy-san?"

"I think I'll just wait for him back home." Lucy murmured and walked back.

As Lucy dropped her body to her messy bed, she momentarily closed her eyes.

Zer.. Where are you?

Lucy thought as tears escaped from her eyes. The worry was really weighing down on her. Knowing that Zer became that way because he was helping her when her power went haywire was really making her mad at her self.

"Why am I so weak?" She murmured and sobbed.

If only.. I can track him down somehow..

Lucy thought and opened her eyes to the monochrome world once again.

This.. This is..

Lucy thought and abruptly stood up to watch her reflection in the mirror. It was weird because with how everything turned black and white, it was only her right eye that remained glowing with color- a very bright and brilliant gold.

Why is this activated?

She looked down to her hand and saw a black thread coiled on her wrist. It stretched away as it seemed to lead her to something. She unknowingly followed it as it led her on the outskirts of the town, towards a forest and to a hidden cave that was shut close with a large rock.

"A rock?" Lucy muttered as she placed a hand on the rock, contemplating on how to move it when it suddenly rolled to the side slowly, as if giving her permission to enter. "Now this is weird."

She continued to follow the thread when what she found at the end surprised her yet made her incredibly panicked.

It was the unconscious body of Zer laying on the ground, gasping for breath as he clutched his shirt and repeated only one word.

"Lucy."

Well. I'm back~! Semestral Break's here! Wohooooo~! Anyhow, I hope you had fun in my new update. See you some time soon~ Ciao~

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