Gray POV


After a while of chasing after that idiot, he suddenly stopped, which allowed us to catch up with him.

"Are you trying t- mMMPH!?" Gajeel wasn't able to finish his sentence as Natsu slapped a hand over his mouth.

"Shh," the fire wizard commanded, his olive eyes locked like a magnet on something he was viewing.

"What the hell are you doing?" I asked him incredulously. "And what are you looking at?"

"That," Natsu pointed with his free hand at something.

We looked at what he was gesturing to, and saw something that both surprised and shocked us.

"Wha ta fuc?" Gajeel's voice was muffled by Natsu's hand.

There was Cana, standing in her pajamas, talking to a exact duplicate of Erza, who was also dressed in her pajamas; they were talking so quietly, however, that I couldn't hear what they were saying.

"Why is there another Erza? And why is Cana here?" Lisanna asked in confusion. "I know that this is the dream world, and they aren't real, but how did the creature make them?"

"Yeah...I'm pretty sure that it has never seen Cana or Erza, so they shouldn't even be here," I added with a frown. "And I don't think that they can be the creature, because there's two of them."

"Well, it's obvious that they aren't the creature...they don't have any of the features of it," Erza pointed out. Observing them again, I could see she was right. They looked completely normal.

"Do you have any idea on what's going on?" Natsu asked, his eyes looking at Levy.

"I don't know, but maybe there's something in my research," she responded, beginning to shuffle through the papers for any useful information.

"Wood oo get er han oof mah mout?" Gajeel's voice was once again muffled by Natsu's hand. Translation: Would you get your hand off my mouth?

"Huh? What'd you say?" Natsu asked, turning his attention onto the iron mage.

"Get er han oof mah mout," Gajeel commanded. Translation: Get your hand off my mouth.

"What?"

Gajeel just groaned, and I'm pretty sure that he licked Natsu's hand judging by how fire dragon slayer reacted.

"EW!" Natsu yelled as he ripped his hand off of Gajeel's face.

That alerted the other Erza and Cana, causing them to look in our direction and spot us. However, they just stared at us, not saying anything.

"Uhhh...hello?" Juvia awkwardly greeted them after a few seconds of silence.

The two of them didn't speak as they both took off in separate directions; the other Erza ran north as Cana ran east.

"Why'd they run away?" Juvia asked, sounding sad. "Juvia only said hello..."

"I don't know, but they probably have information on where the others are," Erza assumed, standing up with a resolute expression set on her face. "The question is, which one do we go after?"

"The other Erza ran north, and we're already heading north, so naturally we should chase after the other Erza," Lisanna suggested.

"Then what are we standing around for? She's getting away!" Natsu exclaimed, jumping up. Without waiting for a response from us, he ran off to go and chase the other Erza.

"Dammit! Stop running off on your own, flamebrain!" I yelled in frustration.

We sprinted after him, but we were able to catch up with him this time, seeing as he was moving slower than before. Most likely to look for any signs that the other Erza changed the direction that she was running in.

We ran for a while, keeping an eye out for the other Erza, but after some time, we came across something that made us halt in our tracks.

"Whoa..."

The area that we found ourselves had not many trees in it. It had quite a few hills that varied in sizes, with neatly trimmed grass that was a vibrant shade of green. Snap dragons and poppies were planted everywhere, with them being arranged to look like a guild mark that was familiar to me, but I couldn't place my finger on what guild mark it was. I decided I would get back to that thought later.

The sky was a uplifting lazuline, and the clouds in it were wrought like all manner of things, from hearts to dogs to crowns. There were small islands floating in the sky, the breeze felt absolutely wonderful on my face, and mountains jutted up in the distance.

"Is this one of those areas that you were talking about, Levy?" Gajeel asked, not taking his scarlet eyes away from the glorious scene displayed before us.

"There's no way that it isn't," I answered for her.

"But the question, is who's area is this?" Juvia wondered aloud, looking around in amazement.

"I'm not sure, but my best guess would be Wendy," Erza answered. "This does seem like the kind of place that she would like, after all."

"Yeah, it does," Lisanna agreed with her. "This place is truly beautiful though...it's obvious that the creature put a lot of work into creating it."

"Well, the creature wants them to be in a paradise, so of course it's going to put a lot of work into the victim's personal heaven," Levy explained. "I have to agree though, this is really beautiful."

"If we weren't on a mission to save the others, then Juvia would like to spend time here. Preferably on a picnic with Gray-sama~" Juvia cooed, causing me to sigh.

"Okay, okay...we've established that this place is pretty cool...can we get going now?" Natsu asked, a frown etched onto his face. He didn't seem to be hypnotized by the view like the rest of us were.

"Don't you guys remember that we have to save the others from that thing?" Gajeel reprehended them, crossing his buff arms.

"And the other Erza is getting farther and farther away with every second that we waste here. Come on," I added, putting a bit of authority in my voice when I spoke.

"There's no harm in stopping and enjoying the scenery for a bit..." Lisanna mused without thinking.

We stayed quiet, giving Lisanna a few seconds to mull over what she had just said.

"...unless your friends are in danger of getting killed by an ancient dream dwelling creature," Lisanna remembered what was going on. "Okay, let's get going."

"Yes, let's go," Erza stated.

We were about to head into what I assumed was Wendy's personal paradise, when we were stopped by a voice.

"H-hey! Stop right there!"

We paused, and turned around to see who or what had spoken.

Someone was running towards us, and I couldn't stop myself from bursting out laughing at their appearance when they stopped in front of us.

"Stop laughing at me, you jerks!" they sounded angry that I was laughing. Gajeel started to howl with laughter as well, but that didn't seem to make them any angrier then they already were.

The person in front of us was another Natsu, but he was dressed in an animal onesie that looked like Happy. He was also dragging a large red plush dragon along the ground behind him.

"S-squinty eyes! Th-the ot-other y-you i-is we-wearing a da-damn animal on-onesie!" I was stuttering due to how much I was laughing.

"A-and he h-has a stu-stuffed animahaahahal!" Gajeel pointed out, unable to finish his sentence before breaking into fits.

"I'm not blind, you assholes!" Natsu barked at us before turning his attention to his doppelgänger. "What's with the getup?! You look so...so girly!"

"It's not girly! It's cool!" the other Natsu snapped at him. "Fuck you!"

"Juvia thinks it's sort of cute," Juvia voiced her opinion on it.

"Not the exact impression I want of it, but thank you anyway," he turned his attention to Juvia. "By the way...are those two ever gonna stop laughing at me?"

"Give them a minute," Erza stated.

Natsu#2 waited there patiently for Gajeel and I to stop our laughing fit, which we did after a while.

"Are you finished?" he was glaring at us now.

"Y-yeah...yeah, I think so," I was still stuttering a bit.

"Good," he breathed a sigh of relief.

"So what's the matter? Why did you stop us, Natsu?" Levy asked him.

"Wha-? I-I'm not Natsu!" that question appeared to make him very uncomfortable, as he started to fidget with his feet nervously.

"Then who the heck are you?!" Natsu demanded. "And why do you look like me?"

"I'm...uhhh...um..." he furrowed his brows, apparently thinking before his eyes landed on his dragon plush. "Dragon...I'm Dragon..."

"Okay, Dragon...why did you stop us?" Levy repeated her question, including his name this time.

"You can't go in there," he answered. "Master won't be happy at all if you go in there, so you have to go home right now."

"Sorry, but there's no way we're waking up," Erza assumed that he wanted them to wake up. "Our friends are in here and they're in danger, so we aren't leaving unless they wake up too. So if you'll excuse us, we'll be going now."

"No wait!" he stopped us again. "You really have to go home! You have to!"

"Like Erza said...we ain't waking up unless they wake up too," Gajeel repeated part of what Erza had said.

"Uhhh...one moment please!" Dragon pleaded. "Don't go anywhere, okay?"

He didn't wait for a response as he quickly turned around, his back facing towards us.

"Master isn't gonna be happy if they stay...oh no, Master won't be happy in the slightest. In fact Master is gonna be very angry," he spoke to himself. "But what can I do if they won't go home?"

Dragon began to go over plans to get us to leave as his back was turned to us. After a few seconds of listening to him talk to himself, I glanced at the others.

"Psst...guys..." I whispered, trying to gain their attention.

They looked at me and gave me 'what?' looks.

"Let's sneak away while he's distracted," I whispered. "Who knows how long we're gonna be here if we stay."

"Alright, let's ditch him," Natsu was open to the idea.

We turned around and began to sneak away while Dragon's back was turned to us.

"Ah-ha! I know!" he exclaimed.

I didn't need to look at him to know that he turned around to face us.

"Hey! G-get back here!" he commanded, seeing that we had taken the opportunity to sneak away.

We could hear his feet against the ground as he chased after us, causing us to break out into a run. Luckily, this version of Natsu was nowhere near as fast as our Natsu, so we were quickly able to outrun him.

"Come back!" he ordered, his voice starting to get distant.

I heard him groan loudly out of pure frustration and annoyance. Looking over my shoulder to see if he had stopped chasing, I was suddenly smacked in the face by Dragon's -surprisingly hard- dragon plush, which he had thrown at us. Or more specifically, me.

"Ack! What's in that thing?!" I yelled at him as we continued to run. "A freaking rock?!"

"It's just a stuffed animal, you pansy!" Dragon yelled back at me as he stopped to catch his breath. "Don't be such a damn wuss!"

"Even a person that looks like me manages to kick your ass with a stuffed animal of all things," Natsu smirked at me as we ran. "How does that feel, ice princess?"

"Oh shut up," I grumbled. Stupid fire-breathing douche...


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