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.


ERZA'S ROOM

A young woman sat beside Lucy. Her skin tone is really pale, she has a long brown hair and auburn eyes that matches her charming face. She wears a burgundy dress with white apron. She smiled brightly and touched Lucy's face using her pale right hand.

"Time to wake up, my lady." she cheerfully said and vanished through the air.

Lucy's POV

My eyes have opened as the door of Erza's room was brutally closed. I felt a bearable pain behind my head. I sat up slowly and noticed my little Exceed friend sleeping beside me. There's a decanter and empty glass on the side table. I reached for it and fill the glass with water. The water refreshed my dry throat. I stand up despite of the pain that I feel all over my body. I went near the door and switched open the lights.

I saw my bruised arm. In my shocked, I ran in front of the vanity set and saw my poor body. I wore my mini blue sleeveless coat with white chest-wrap, my navy blue skirt with white belt and a pair of black high socks. My visible skin has bruises and small scratches. My teary eyes are asking me what happened while I was asleep. I don't remember anything aside from drifting off to sleep beside Erza and I was wearing PJs, not this one.

"Lucy! You're awake!" Happy flew and hugged me.

Both my eyes have opened wide with the sudden aggression of my little friend. I sat on the bed and put my blue cat friend on my lap.

"We're all so worried about you. Where did look for some fish last night?" Happy asked.

"What? I was sleeping. I just woke up, right?" I said cheerfully "By the way, what happened to me? My whole body is aching."

"We looked for you all over the house because you've been missing since we woke up." Happy looks worried.

"I swear I was just sleeping. I don't remember anything else." I patted the blue Exceed's head.

"Okay… If you say so. Let's just wait for them. I think they can explain you better why you looked for a fish last night." Happy flew on the floor.

"I didn't look for a fish last night! I was sleeping!" I was really annoyed by the fish thing and Happy just laughed at me.

We both ate our dinner in the bedroom. When I finished eating, I search Erza's bag for some painkillers. After taking some medicine, I lay down my aching body on the bed. The pillow feels uncomfortable like something hard is under it. I sat up and lifted my pillow. I found a small old notebook. The cover has old leather on it with a thin strap to hold it close. It looks a bit dusty and wrinkled. I opened the first page but I got disappointed for the first few pages are ripped off. The first entry on the journal is written back in 1860's. 'Wow, this is really really old.' I was amazed for this must be a very important journal to be kept for a century. I stood up and walked towards the bathroom carrying the journal with me.

"Happy, I'm just gonna take a quick bath." I waved at the Exceed who keeps on jumping on the bed.

I just shook my head and smiled. I closed the door in the bathroom and flip the lights on. I really thought the kitchen incident will happen again. I twisted the faucet open on the tub to fill it with lukewarm water. I took off my clothes and fold it neatly near the counter of the bathroom sink.

(Censored Skip)

I began to read the first entry of the journal while she's on the bathtub. As I flipped the pages of the journal, I became horrified with the events happened inside this house. The owner of this diary was the wife of the first owner of this manor. When the construction of the house has began, one of the worker died here. He was pushed by his friend when they are arguing from the third floor. Unfortunately, the Lady who owns this diary saw the whole thing. The blood of the man was mixed with the foundation of the Manor. While the construction is ongoing, some of the workers in the house started disappearing mysteriously while working, but the chief of the workers didn't mind it at all. At 1861, the mansion has finished and a grand opening celebration was made. One of the guests went missing after the party. They search the whole mansion but he's nowhere to be found. Next month, the Lady of the Manor often gets lost in the mansion since it's really big. She ends up in the drawing room inside of her own chambers at the day of this entry. Few weeks later, some of the staffs in the mansion went missing and never came back. The lady of the house was worried about it so she sent letters to their family. She was devastated when she found out that they are all really missing. Next year, 1862, her first child was born. It was a healthy baby boy. Sadly, the one of the coachman died from being stomped by an angry horse during her labor. A month later, while carrying her child in the atrium, a maid had a heart attack while serving tea. In 1864, she got pregnant on her second child and everyone has rejoiced but she caught her husband making out with one of the maids. Her fury got best her, so she pushed him through the stained glass window together with his other woman. But their bodies were gone next morning. In 1865, his husband and her maid were still missing. She was nervous about it because she's the only one who knew that they are already dead. I stopped reading for this is too much for me already. I put a mark on the last entry that I read and closed it.

"This must be a journal of deaths in this house, not the journal of her life." I facepalmed due to exasperation.

I stepped out of the tub and dried myself with the soft towel I got from the bathroom counter. I wore my clothes again and checked myself on the mirror. The bruises do not hurt a lot anymore but it's quite an eyesore.

I walked inside the bedroom but Happy is not here anymore. Something is a little different. Erza's bag is gone and the bed is made. The last thing I remember is Happy is ruining the bed by jumping on it however this one is not even wrinkled.

"Happy?" I looked for my little cat friend.

"Come out Happy, I don't want to play hide and seek."

The hours of darkness has come. The chilling sensation explains a lot when I walked towards the window. Small white flakes are swirling down from the dark sky. The gusts of wind makes the snowflakes dance more in the air. It makes me calm regardless of the fact that we are in a critical mission. My leisure time was disrupted by the person who bursts my door open.

MASTER'S BEDROOM

Natsu's POV

"It was never a good idea to follow the 'ghost's instruction'." Gray exclaimed to Erza.

"But what are we gonna do here then?" I'm really confused with everything.

While waiting for their suggestion, the door creaked open really slowly. The door we are forcing to open a minute ago was now wide open. The bedroom where we left Lucy and Happy is gone.

"What the hell!?" Grey blurted out.

"Come on! Let's get back to Lucy and Happy!" I yelled at them as I run through the door.

We all run through the corridor, we did not even bother to open up the lights. Erza said that this is the second floor corridor. We should be there by now, but the corridor is making us to run in circles. We keep on passing by the master's bedroom. 'How come we're running in circles when the path is straight?' My friends are falling behind so I stopped.

"What the hell is going on here!?" I pointed at Gray.

"How the hell I would know!?" Gray yelled back in frustration.

"You've experienced this before, so you must know who it works!"

"All I know is that the rooms changes on its own! I didn't know that the corridors are included in changing!"

"Arguing isn't going to solve this problem. So shut it and listen to me." Erza's catching her breath. "Let's open up all the doors that we will passed by, maybe one of it is my room."

"And if it doesn't?" I asked being uncertain of it.

"Let's just try, okay?" Erza sighed.

We did open every door that we see but it didn't work. We ended up on the rooms that we should not be. I hate this. We have to find Lucy and Happy. What if we're lost here forever like the maids here before? Damn!

"It's snowing." Gray said looking outside the window. He's goddamn naked again.

"Let's go in here." Erza went inside one of the rooms and we followed her.

As we walked inside, I noticed that this bathroom seems familiar and it looks like somebody has used it just now. 'This is Erza's bathroom!'

"All right! I hope this works." Erza closed the door behind us and waited for a minute.

She opened the door slowly as she peeks inside the room. It worked. I don't care how, but it really worked. I ran inside the room like nothing really did happen.

"Lucy! Happy! We're back!" I chimed in.

My Exceed best friend is sitting on the bed on his own. He's so dumbfounded when he saw us came out of the bathroom.

"Wow, Lucy is really kind to you. She did not yell at you when you went inside the bathroom when she was taking a bath." Happy said.

"Lucy took a bath and she closed the door!?" Gray asked loudly at Happy.

"Hey! Don't you yell at Happy!" I shouted at him.

"Of course, she'll close the door for privacy Gray and where are your clothes?" Erza scolded Gray and made him panicked over his missing shirt.

"Lucy said she'll take a 'quick' bath." Happy said.

"So she just came out of the bathroom, it's still warm in there." Erza stated and thinks more of some facts.

"Wait here." I went outside the bedroom and surprisingly, Erza's room is back in second floor corridor. Which means, Lucy's bedroom would be next to here. I kicked the door open on Lucy's room and there she is standing by the window.

"Luce!" I ran towards her and grabbed her into hug.

"Natsu? What happened? Where did you all go? And where's Happy?" Lucy is so confused.

"I'm glad you're all right Lucy." Erza's standing on the doorway with Gray.

ERZA'S BEDROOM

No one's POV

The snowfall has not yet stopped. All the white flakes are falling with style, gently lands on flurry floor. The blonde wizard is lost in the midst of the amusing snow, ignoring her friends' voice. The ice-make wizard pats her shoulder to get her attention. She dropped the journal as she came back to reality. What was she thinking?

"Are you listening to us?" Gray sounds worried. He picked up the old journal and hands it to Lucy.

"Yeah… I'm sorry." the blonde leans her back on the window.

"Can you at least eat something? You need it for recovering." Erza concerned.

"I already ate with Happy. I just want to know what happened to me." Lucy looks down while playing the strap of the notebook.

"Lucy…" Gray breathed out and puts his white coat on Lucy. "Come sit with us then." He pushed her gently towards the bed, making her to sit on the bed with them.

"We really didn't know what happened to you. You just went missing and when we found you're—" Erza was cut off.

"So… Have you learned anything from that diary that I left you?" Gray smiled and seated next to her.

"You're the one who put this under my pillow?" Lucy slipped her arms on the ice mage's coat. "I haven't finished it yet but it's just a series of deaths and disappearance of the people who lived here before."

"Never mind that Luce. You're still not yourself. I really think you should rest." Natsu reached and touched Lucy's hand.

"I'm fine. I wanna help you guys. Besides, I slept the whole day. I'm not tired at all." Lucy smiled brightly.

"So, we found a secret path on the rich kid's chambers. We will go there together. Again, no one should wander off alone." the requip mage jabbed her finger on her comrades.

"Now!?" Natsu and Gray grunted.

"Yes, now." Erza glared on them.

After a few arguments, they have decided to head out for the noble kid's bedroom. Luckily, the corridors have not changed yet. All they can hear on the hall is the steps they are making on the floor. The snowfall is still light however the temperature keeps on decreasing gradually. Erza got herself a furry jacket that she got from the cabinet on her room. On the other hand, Gray and Natsu don't need one because they're not really cold. Surprisingly, the ice mage is not stripping, he still wears his black spandex shirt and his pants.

They have reached the master's bedroom safe and sound. Nothing out of ordinary. No interruptions and no changes on happened their course, not until they have reached the bedroom. The wall that Natsu accidentally wrecked is already fixed. There's no sign that it was repaired, the corner of the wall looks brand new. The fire dragon slayer's mind is really confused and starts to smash the wall with his bare fists.

"I…already…crashed…you!" Natsu keeps on punching the wooden wall while yelling in between words.

"Natsu…" Happy is worried about his best friend.

Gray helped his friend on taking down the fixed wall, but it did not even cracked. Erza taps both Natsu's and Gray's shoulder. She shook her head when they shifted their eyes on her and they stopped damaging the wall.

"Our strength has been worn-out as well, save your energy. Let's just find some axe to break that thing." Erza said nonchalantly.

The scarlet-haired woman breaks their team into two. Natsu, Erza and Happy are the first group, on the second group, there's Gray and Lucy. They left the master's bedroom and left the bedroom's door open.

A couple of minutes later, a little girl appeared inside the room and slammed the door closed. She fades in the air as her giggles echoes the corridor.

Lucy and Gray reached the two-way doors of the courtyard. The raven-haired mage flipped the switch open beside the door and the wall posts outside the courtyard lit up. He knows that Lucy would be happy to see the elegant fountain.

"Seriously Gray, I don't want to die in cold." Lucy stepped back, thinking how cold it will be outside.

"Tch, don't be such a baby. You already have my coat. We're not staying outside for a very long time." Gray puts his left arm over Lucy's shoulder. "Besides, it already stopped snowing." and he forced her to go outside when he opens the wooden glass door.

Everything is quiet and calm. When they breathe, the warm air becomes visible as they exhaled. They walked like a couple on a date. Lucy stopped for a while in the front of the fountain and leaned, but Gray pulled her gently and walked all the way to the other end of the courtyard until they reached the maze garden.

"I don't want to go in there." the blonde trembled at the sight of the tall bushes of the maze garden.

"Silly, we're not going there." the ice mage released his friend from his grasp. "We're going there." Gray points at the small cottage not far of the maze.

The cottage has no light in it. Good thing Gray brought a lighter and lit the candles inside. It helped them to see the whole room. The cottage is filled with gardening tools.

"Are you sure they have an axe here?" Lucy said holding her both arms.

"Of course, this is where they keep it. I don't know where Natsu and Erza are going to look for it." Gray keeps on searching the shelves and trunks inside the cottage.

Lucy smiled and helped her friend. Not a moment later, they found what they have been looking for. Lucy puts out the light of the candles and runs outside the cottage. Gray carried the axe with him as he walked out the doorway. He chuckled when saw Lucy shivering and breathing a warm air on her hands.

"Come on. Erza will kill me if you got sick because of me." he puts his arm around Lucy's shoulders again.

While walking on the courtyard, Lucy paused again at the fountain. She intertwined her hands in front of her face and prays while clenching her eyes tight. Gray just watched her and did not interrupt. Lucy then tosses a coin in the fountain and smiled at Gray.

"What'd you wished for?" Gray asked and started to walk with Lucy.

"It's a secret! You shouldn't tell anyone your wish otherwise it will not come true." Lucy smiled brightly.

Gray nods and smiled back. He did not want to ruin his friend's mood. Lucy gets lose on Gray's arm and run towards the two-way door.

"It's freezing! Hurry up you slowpoke!" Lucy waved at Gray from the door.

Gray did not mind his friend's taunt and took his time on walking, but he heard someone whispering behind him.

"Gray…"

A voice of a woman was calling his name. He turns around but he did not see anything but a strong gust of wind came through him and it made the door close in front of Lucy.

"Gray…"

"Show yourself coward!" Gray yelled at nothing and tightens his grip on the axe.

The wind becomes strong and lifts up some light snow on the ground. His eyes widen and his pupils constrict when he saw the snow was formed into a human figure. It was not just any other human figure, it was the image of his former teacher shaped from the snowflakes and wind. It walks towards him.

"U-ul?" Gray stepped back slowly.

Lucy is thumping on the door while calling out her friend, but Gray can only the voice of his dead trainer.

"You're not Ul!" he charged the axe he was carrying to the snowy figure.

The shape collapsed but it returns back to Ul's image. The snowy figure opens her red glowing eyes and shrieked in anger. A strong blizzard came to Gray and he flew backwards. He dropped the axe he was holding and hit his head on one of the columns in the veranda. Lucy is yelling on the other side of the door. She feels helpless at the sight of her injured friend. She keeps on barging the door, but it just won't open.

Gray tries to stand up but his sight is blurry. He just falls on the floor lightheaded and holds his throbbing head. When he sits up, the ghastly snow figure sends Gray another blizzard but this time it's not just Gray she was really aiming for. The icicles that formed on the ceilings of the veranda started to shake. When Gray heard the familiar jingling sounds above him, he knew what's going to happen but he was too late. As he lifts his head up the veranda, four icicles fall down on him randomly. The first one plunge on his stomach that made him cough blood. The second one falls on his chest. The third icicle thrust directly through his neck and pushed inside his throat and the last one stabs his right cheek causing his right eye to tear out blood. His blood trickled out his body and it stained the beautiful white snow beneath him. The snowy image vanished and the courtyard returns into a quiet and calm place.

Lucy screams and cries when she saw her friend fell down on the floor.

*Not in the Manor*

The biggest lacrima screen shows Gray's death scene. The silhouette of a cheerful girl touches the screen and looks behind her.

"You're up." she gestured on a girl in her age behind her.

The other girl's silhouette bows politely and leaves the dark room.