A/N: Hello everyone! Wow I have gotten more favorites and follows than I could have ever expected for this story! So thanks guys! At some point (when I have time) I want to do individual shout outs for this story like I am able to do with TLDE.

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Chapter 3

When Reincarnation Fails

Lucy woke up with her friend Levy poking her. "Lucy…"

"Hhhnnrrrnnn" swatting in her wake as she tossed about.

"Psst…hey Lucy...wake up…"

Lucy further buried herself under her pillow and soft cozy blankets. She showered the night before, bed sheets were clean and it felt as though the entirety of her body was a warm cinnamon bun engulfed by warmth and comfort. This wake-up thing wasn't going to happen and decided that budging an inch, was a no go.

Levy got fed up with it, and stripped the blond girl clean of her super fluffy blue comforter. "Wake up!" It caused the woman to land on the floor.

"AARRUUGHH, WHAT?! This better be good Levy, its Saturday!"

"Someone has been waiting for you since six this morning. He's handsome, I might add. Though…" Levy made a noise close to disapproval, but the intent was more curious than anything. "I have to wonder if that pink hair on a man is natural…."

"Pink-pink hair?" Lucy looked mortified. "Oh no…"

Using her index pointed at her friend curiously. "I take it you know mystery man."

Lucy picked up her comforter and wrapped herself up into a burrito and buried herself underneath all her bedding. "Ugh, just kill me now."

But to Levy it sounded more like Umgn mill moo nya. "What? You want to kill a cow?"

"Uuugggghhnnn ehhh heeeee"

Blue hair brushed over a raised eyebrow at the talking ball of fluff, when brown eyes saw part of the girls' purple underwear laden butt uncovered. Her literature filled brain dawned a very wicked idea.

"Yeow! Yeesh, what was that for Levy?" Rubbing her sore rump after being rat tailed with a black towel on the floor, still cold and damp from a late-night shower, glared at her best friend.

After sucking in air and crossing her arms with her hip popped out to one side, gave the blonde woman a small lesson in etiquette. "Lucy Luna Heartfilia! When a very good-looking man waits for you, FOR YOU, you greet him like a lady." Levy sighed and gently touched Lucy's shoulder. "Look, I know making friends has been hard. You have me, but I think having a male friend on your side may not be too bad, ya know. Sure, it might be, a tiny bit…odd... that he's here so early in the morning, but I have a feeling this one is okay."

"That's not like you, normally you're like "creeper alert" and give me a baseball bat to protect myself."

"I know, I just have a really good feeling about it. Something about him, its calming. Look I was like that at first, I went ahead and spoke to him before I got you up. I even had my batt ready, but after about three hours of talking to him I knew he was okay. He honestly has no intention of harming you. He genuinely cares."

Lucy bent forward in a nice long stretch and then put her feet on warm fuzzy blue carpet. "Well your judgment isn't normally wrong…wait how can you tell in just three hours? Creepers can hide anything. And just how long have you been up?"

"I was up all-night reading, went out to see the sunrise just as he was walking up, looked pretty nervous too. I ran back to get the bat ready to strike, when he went on his knees, then I asked him to state his reasons. That's when we got into conversation, but believe me he knows I'm watching. Would you want me to tag along?"

Lucy knew that was a genuine question, and honestly it would make her feel better if her short bestie went along. "Would you mind?"

Levy gave a hearty yawn. "Not at all, I'll go ahead and get changed. Besides tomorrow is Sunday, I can fix my sleeping schedule tonight before Monday."

Right when Lucy started to move, Levy turned around and pointedly told her that she better be ready when she gets back. The blondie just gave a tired laugh and looked through her black blinds she spray painted so sunlight couldn't come through. It took him three days to show up at her dorm all by himself. She honestly was expecting this much sooner, but he held out till today. "So Natsu, you really are intending to do this huh…well let's see how today goes."

::**::

Eventually Levy and Lucy met up with Natsu as he was dozing off against the gated entrance. "Mmm, well there you are. Took you long enough."

Levy snickered, "Yeah well, I had to get miss blondie up from her bed chambers."

"Oh, I see. That is alright." He stretched his back from laying against a stone wall, very similarly to Lucy, unbeknownst to him, just a few short moments prior. "You are coming too then Levy?"

"If you don't mind." The similarity did not go unnoticed by her.

The biggest grin matched the glow, ending a very fantastic sunrise, like a rainbow exploded in the sky. "More the merrier."

Levy slightly blushed, "Yeah, sure no problem." She whispered into Lucy's ear, "I see what you mean about him being overzealous with simple things. It's weird."

Blonde hair whipped around as she whispered back, "I told you!"

"If you two are done chatting amongst yourselves, can we go? I am hungry."

Levy took it upon herself to loop her arms around both her companions. "We got a lot to show you buddy."

They walked towards the city as the sun finished rising.

::**::

Somewhere in the oldest parts of the Academy, lay a very lithe figure with a mind as dark and cruel as the blackest hole in space. "I haven't seen a sunrise that bright in thousands of years…"

The man reiterated what he said in his head. The trouble is, he would have thoughts like this constantly. Of different life times, being reincarnated over and over. Always with a similar personality. Though once he somehow ended up as krill and had been eaten by a beluga whale within 30 seconds after reaching adulthood in that life; somehow the curse led him astray that time.

In the past, before his recent awakening, he would have episodes of sporadic images dating thousands of years flooding his head. His body would barely keep up and regularly go into seizures. His parents took him to the neurologist and received a diagnosis of epilepsy. Taking a pill a day was nauseating to him; till a month ago when purple smoke enshrouded him for three days; which terrified his parents. When he woke up, he felt like a new person and realized why he suffered as he did. Though his parents started to keep an unnatural distance from him; however to him that wasn't a complaint. It gave him room to do whatever he so pleased.

"Fucking pills, glad to be rid of them, now this sunrise is a new matter. In all this time, not once did I ever find her. How is it that MY curse went astray?" He held his head as more purple smoke seeped out of his skin, pungent and itchy. Every time, his body would twitch, not yet used to having his powers back as weak as they were. With each life he reincarnated, his power would dwindle, now it's less than half of where he used to be. "WHEN WILL IT STOP?!" After writhing around for an hour, settled down again; his chest felt like it was on fire. "I can't tell if it's getting better...or worse..."

It dawned on him as the sun grew bright that his mortal body hasn't caught up with being reawakened yet. While laying down, faced toward wooden walls, the suns rays felt…empty, that it lacked a certain flare.

"What's this about, did the imbecile finally die off? Hah...serves him right…"

Despite what he wanted to believe, somewhere in his being, dreaded the worst.

I don't know if I did a review response for my reviewers on this story. If not I do apologize!

okaysunshine: I'm so happy you love it that much! And there's a small taste of who the dark wizard could be. It might be OC ;)

ThayetJade: *giggles* I don't know about perfect, but yes there's more coming.

IngRams12s: Don't worry, this story won't be abandoned. I've actually been on a roll posting this at the same time as my other one.