A day had passed since he surprisingly agreed to stay at some freaky lady's house. He had no idea why he agreed to this, how he was manipulated into agreeing to this. Well he just assumed he was manipulated, to be honest. He didn't have much recollection of what happened the other day. Everything after trying to take apart that robot got a bit hazy. He remembered some of the conversation with a tea cup and a salamander. He didn't have a conversation with a salamander but he had faint memories of one.

When he had woken up that morning with most of his memories stacked away, he had gotten quite confused. He was in a strange house again and his head hurt. His vision was hazy and it was just hard to try and think in general. It was a pain in the butt. At first, he had panicked and tried to get out of bed but it was like a wave of dizziness swept over him, forcing him to lay down again. His head spun and he groaned in the pain that emerged from his head. Fortunately, a talking tea pot that was oddly familiar came into the room and explained to him the situation. At the words, most of his memory had come back and he was able to relax...a little bit at least.

"How are you feeling?" The tea cup beside him asked as he continued to lay in the bed that he had woken up in, not wanting to move. Despite the eery looking appearance on the outside and inside of the castle, the room he was in was a bit...different. It was a tiny bit more colourful, with paintings of flowers hung across the walls. The flowers were mainly black and red, but they were really good. Especially the shading and the shadows. It was unbelievably good.

"Fine." Gajeel mumbled, his eyes tracing around the room still curiously. There was still black and darker colour decor, but it seemed different. Like it was once alive...but had faded away. Yet at the same time, it still felt lively.

"Levy-chan's old boyfriend used this room." The tea cup replied when she saw his eyes move around the room. Examined the room.

"That brat used to have a boyfriend?" Goro asked in surprise, no shame in his words. He didn't bring his attention over to the tea cup when he talked, instead he just kept his gaze in the room. Finding it much more interesting than he should have.

"Yeah. He was...odd." The tea cup answered him with a light nod before smiling again, "But friendly for the most part. He was kind of quiet too and reminds me a little about you. He wore a lot of black too."

"Oh?" Gajeel questioned and glanced over at her, "Am I as odd?"

"Odder." The girl replied confidentially and nodded again.

Gajeel shrugged, accepting that answer. It made sense anyways, he didn't really expect a different answer.

"So what happened to him then?" Gajeel questioned, putting his attention on her again for a brief moment before pulling it back over to the flower paintings. They weren't incredibly detailed, from far away they looked a bit like blobs, but they still...seemed to quite nice even without all the detail. It was odd to think about.

"We don't talk about it..." The tea cup mumbled, her tone become more like a whisper as her eyes fell down, looking at the desk that she was standing on top of instead. Gajeel frowned as she went silent but stopped himself from talking about the subject again. He still curious about it, obviously, but it was hard to push on something when those adorable little eyes looked upset. Was it weird to refer to the eyes of a robot as adorable? Gajeel didn't think much about it.

"So how long do I have to be here?" Gajeel asked her, switching the subject quickly as his finger started to play around with the blanket laying on top of him. It traced circles against the soft fabric then started to pick at it. He felt the tea cup's eyes move over to watch the finger for a moment before moving back to his face. She seemed confused but Gajeel didn't care too much, it was just him letting out some energy.

"Only for a few days." The tea cup assured with a light smile, "You do have a concussion but we can fix it up right away."

"Are you the doctor robot then?" Gajeel asked with a snort since she was the only robot that was helping him out, at least that he knew about.

"Robot?" The tea cup questioned, giving him a curious look. Almost like a lost puppy.

"Yeah. Robot." Gajeel nodded, "Didn't your master ever actually tell you that you're a robot? Or do you just not know the word? If so than she didn't create you guys to be super intelligent, huh?"

The tea cup squinted her eyes at him before a figurative light bulb popped over her head, "Ohhh you think we're robots?"

"Well duh." Gajeel snorted, getting the hint that these guys didn't actually know. In his opinion, that was kind of cruel not to tell them. To let them think that they were alive, normal...well not people. Gajeel had a feeling that they knew they weren't normal people at least. Though he was curious on what story she told them for them to believe that they're alive.

"We're not." The tea cup said, no hint of a lie in her tone. Gajeel concluded the fact that 'Levy' did indeed lie to them.

"Oh?" Gajeel raised an eyebrow, pretending to be interested when he already knew the truth.

"We were once people but due to a curse, we became objects." The tea cup deadpanned, no hint of a lie again.

"Oh really?" Gajeel mused while trying to hide his ever growing smirk.

The tea cup just nodded, not getting his disbelief, "Mhm."

"And what curse was that?" He questioned, playing the game.

"Well it's kind of hard to explain..." The tea cup mumbled with a frown before her eyes looked around for a moment and smiled, "I know! I'll show you!" She exclaimed enthusiastically before finding her way off the desk. She jumped quite a few paces before making it to a small bookshelf that was lying on its side, taking up almost the entire wall. The tea cup searched for a little bit before smiling when she found the book. Attempting to use her body to pull it out, Gajeel reached over a little bit despite his aching head and pulled it out for her.

The tea cup smiled in gratitude before using her head to push the cover open then flipped through a few pages using her head. After flipping through around twenty, she jumped onto the book and near the front.

Her eyes turned completely white before she spoke the words in another voice, a language foreign to Gajeel.

"Ostendere in praeteritis."

Then the whole world around Gajeel dissolved.

Any guesses on the boyfriend?~

Also for anyone that actually knows the language spoken up there, I used google translate. So if anything's wrong with it blame google translate.