AN: Fairy Tail is owned by Hiro Mashima, and Bleach is owned by Tite Kubo. I own nothing except my own original characters. If you wish to use them for anything, please contact me first (easiest way to do so is to leave a review asking I contact you as I've been harrassed before and typically keep private messaging off). This story is set at the end of "Clarity" which is a sequal to "the girl next door" if you haven't read either story, please go and read them now as you'll have a better understanding.

Natsu Dragneel laid on his back, the blue and white furred exceed, Happy was sleeping soundly next to him. Suddenly something caught Natsu's eye and blinked, trying to focus his vision before he realized exactly what he was watching.

A girl had just randomly appeared in the sky but what's more, she was falling! Not wasting a second the pink haired teen leapt to his feet and began running, clumsily tripping over his feet a little as he kept his gaze trained on the rapidly descending body from the heavens. With a final step he pushed off from the ground, and then felt the familiar sensation of Happy grabbing him under his arms.

"Let's go Happy," Natsu exclaimed.

"Go where? I don't see anything," Happy replied.

Natsu gave Happy a look of pure disbelief, how could he not see her?

"Happy, there's a girl falling from the sky! Don't tell me you've gone blind?" The pink haired teen was now pointing in what appeared to be a random direction, far as Happy was concerned. He couldn't see anything. He gingerly placed Natsu down on the ground, finding out that Gray had also been in the forest.

Now the demon slayer was looking in the same direction but he was able to see what Natsu was seeing. It was also very clear to him that neither of them would reach the girl before she landed. Both men raced towards the location, but upon arriving where she should've been looked to each other in disbelief.

Grey scowled at Natsu and asked, "did you burn her into ash flame brain?"

"What about you Ice Princess? You could've made her ice shards for all I know," Natsu shot back.

"Fire and ice just don't mix it seems. Good thing light and shadow go hand in hand," Lector's voice exclaimed.

"Fro thinks so too," Frosch added.

Rogue's eyes scanned the grass before he turned around and wondered out loud, "where'd she go?"

Sting sniffed the air, and glanced around he knelt down low to the ground and dabbed at a red fluid that had fallen onto the blades of grass there. He felt the liquid between his fingers, and brought it up to his nose. The copper scent tinged with a hint of strawberries and lilies told him all he needed to know. It was definitely blood, and what was more, it was female blood.

"She's bleeding," he announced.

"You'd have to be an idiot to not see she was injured," Natsu pointed out.

"Yeah, but that could've just been she was out cold," Grey countered as he glanced around before letting out a heavy sigh before inquiring, "well what do you guys think? Split up and look?"

"We'd need more people. The larger the search the more ground we can cover," Rogue suggested.

As if on que, Wendy's young voice floated to them, "is she here?"

"I'm telling you child, you're seeing something that isn't there," Carla objected as she landed next to the others.

Gajeel's rough voice was the next to join into the frey, "Hey! Did you guys see it too?"

"I know we did," Lucy added as she and Yukino arrived.

"Well from what we can tell, she's injured and bleeding," Sting began.

"Rather a lot of blood," Rogue chimed in as he spotted several more spots of blood in the grass, now leaving a trail.

"Well it seems rather obvious then. If there's a trail, we just follow it," Grey stated as he headed off, keeping his eyes to the ground. The others followed behind him.

Far off at the heart of the woods a girl with long white hair, stained near her bangs with the red hue of blood grimaced, holding her stomach as she forced herself to her feet. Her breath was coming out in short pants as she forced herself forward towards the edge of the woods. Blood oozed over the hand that held her stomach and the fabric of her pink kimono was already saturated below her own hand with the crimson liquid.

She wet her lips by darting her tongue out along her lips as she kept moving. 'Come on. You've been hurt worse than this and lived to talk about it,' she coached herself as she pressed on.

She gritted her teeth and found herself positioning her body to sit on a nearby rock. 'Damn it. The soul is willing and able but this body is just too fragile. I'm not strong enough to seek help in the this body with these injuries.'

She heard voices in the distance although they seemed distorted as if time were slowing down. She spotted a blue cat walking on its hind legs.

'A cat with blue fur who walks on its hind legs? What a strange world,' she thought, then immediately after, 'how is everything flipping onto its side?' Her vision darkened before going black.

Natsu and Sting both looked over in the direction of the rocks near a cave before they took off in a fast paced run.

"You heard it too?"

"Of course I heard it! Don't be stupid," Sting answered as he ran. They both came to a skidding halt when they saw the girl laying in the grass, it was evidently the same girl they'd seen falling from the sky but her clothes were different.

"Wendy! Hurry," Natsu yelled as he knelt next to the girl, trying to find any sign of life in her.

Sting watched her intently before stating, "She's breathing—but only just." The blue haired girl moved arrived beside Sting. She placed her opened palms out in front of her and began using her sky magic to heal her.

"She's pretty beat up. I'm thinking we should get her to Porlyusica," Natsu suggested.

"Not yet. You move her right now she won't survive it," Wendy objected. Her face softened considerably as tears pooled in her eyes while she added, "but of course—I'm not sure I can be much help either. I've never even heard of someone taking so many injuries before, let alone seen it. I'm not sure I can save her."

"Just give it your best, kid. That's all you can do," Gajeel offered.

Wendy gave a small nod of her head in understanding, thought it did nothing to quiet the nagging feeling at her heart that she was missing something.