Levy POV


Once we had finally gotten out of the building, we saw that Natsu and Wendy were walking across the street in the distance.

"Hey Natsu, Wendy!" Lisanna shouted, waving at them to get their attention.

They noticed us, and Natsu waved back before heading over with Wendy.

"So, this is where you guys were," Natsu said. "We've been looking all over for you."

"Why's that?" I asked.

"Oh, you found Levy," Wendy smiled at me. "It's good to see that you aren't hurt."

"It's good to see you too," I smiled back, "but why were you two looking for us?"

"I got a bad feeling a while ago, and I thought something happened to someone," Natsu answered. "But you guys don't look hurt so what the hell was that about?"

"I don't..." Lisanna trailed off. "Wait...you don't think that those four attacked Erza, do you Juvia?"

"That's impossible, there's no way that they would be able to hurt Erza," Juvia shook her head. "Erza is too strong for them, even if it is four against one."

"What are you guys talking about?" Natsu asked, frowning. "And where's Erza?"

"Well..." Lisanna dragged out the 'well' as she shifted her gaze to ground of books.

"You two...what did you do with Erza?" all eyes were on the takeover mage and water wielder now.

"We kinda...sorta...left her with four dream people...because something was bothering Erza, and they wanted to see if they could make her feel better..." Lisanna awkwardly stated.

"But that bad feeling you had earlier Natsu, may be because they attacked her," Juvia continued.

There was silence for a few seconds as we processed what they said.

"ARE YOU CRAZY?!"

"They were pretty easy to defeat, and they said that they're meant to keep dreamers company instead of murder people," Lisanna winced.

"And what was stopping them from holding back their real strength and then lying to you to get one of you alone?" I asked.

"I...I don't know," Lisanna frowned, suddenly looking worried.

"Knowing Erza, she's not going down without a fight. And with how strong she is there's definitely still time to save her," I couldn't stop myself from sighing.

"Then what are we standing around here for?" Natsu asked, clenching his fists so tight his knuckles went white. "We're wasting time! We gotta go before it's too late!"

"Right," Juvia nodded, "follow us."

Juvia and Lisanna led us through the town, weaving in and out between the buildings until we reached a building that I assumed was where they'd left Erza.

"Is this where you left Erza?" I asked, looking at them.

"Yes," the two girls said in usion.

"Everyone get ready for a fight," Gray said, cracking his knuckles.

We all prepared ourselves in case we had to throw down. We headed inside of the building, only to find that there was a truly horrific sight waiting for us. One that I thought I would never have seen in a million years.

"Holy shit!"

There was dark red blood smeared on the walls and floor, even on the ceiling. A faint dripping sound could be heard from somewhere, and intestines were spewed onto the floor in pinkish brown coils. Clumps of hair matted with blood, chucks of flesh, even a few teeth were splattered randomly around the room like a child's grotesque art project.

Crimson-stained books were lying around the room like they had been thrown, and fours plushies laid in heavy pools of blood on the floor. As I looked down in disbelief, the air took the aroma of a butcher shop.

And there was Erza, standing in the middle of the room, facing away from us.

"E-Erza?" Wendy's voice came out as a timid squeak.

Slowly, she turned around to face us, and I inhaled sharply upon seeing the front of her.

She had blood dripping off of her armor, and her eyes were puffy like she had been crying. Her chestnut brown eyes were filled with sorrow and regret, and her mouth was parted slightly.

"Erza? What happened?" Gray asked her cautiously.

"I...I..." she tried to tell us, but her voice came out choked with emotion.

"Did those guys attack you, Erza?" Natsu asked, stepping towards her. "Where'd they go?"

"Stay away from me!" she yelled shrilly, immediately going into defensive mode.

"What?" Natsu stopped.

"I don't care where you stand, just don't come over here!" Erza ordered. "There's something wrong..."

"Erza, you're starting to sound a bit like that other you," Natsu cut her off. "Speaking of which, what happened to her?"

"I..." she tried to speak as she looked down at the floor. "I mur..."

Erza wasn't able to finish her sentence as she bit her lip, most likely stop herself from crying again. Wendy carefully went over to her and placed a comforting hand on her arm, despite all the blood.

"It's alright, Erza," Wendy said softly. "You don't have to tell us right now, you can tell us when you're ready."

"But I kille..."

"You only attacked them cause they attacked ya first," Gajeel cut her off. "And besides, I'm sure that you didn't kill anyone...if you had killed them, then their bodies would be around here."

"And there are no bodies, so I'm sure that they're injured but fine," Gray continued.

Erza didn't respond, just stayed quiet.

"Come on, Erza...let's get out of here and find a place to take a quick rest," Wendy took her hand and began to lead her out of the building.

We got out of the way and Wendy walked past us with Erza's hand held in her own smaller one. The others followed after them, but I stayed behind.

"Shrimp? You coming?" Gajeel came back in.

"I'll be there in a minute," I responded. "I need to find my papers, I think that they're in here. Hopefully no blood got on them..."

"Fine, but if you aren't with us in ten minutes, I'm coming looking for ya cause I am not going through that shit again," he frowned at me. "Understand?"

"Yes, I understand," I smiled at him.

"Good," he said gruffly.

Gajeel left me alone after that, and I began to search around for my papers, being careful not to touch any of the blood. I eventually found them. There were a few drops of red on the pages, but it didn't make the words illegible, so it wasn't that bad.

"Ah, here they are," I sighed, stowing them away safely in my new satchel.

I turned around to head for the door, but I couldn't help but stare at the room that I was in. After a few seconds, I sighed and closed my eyes.

"Yesterday, everything was completely normal...there was no sign of danger anywhere and it was just a happy and nice day in general," I said to myself. "But today, we're in some kind of dream world facing off against a monster that sounds like it just wants to love people."

I opened up my eyes halfway and looked off to the side.

"How can things go from good to bad so quickly?" I asked no one. "I can't say that I understand."

After standing there for a few more seconds, I headed for the door to leave the bloodbath that was this room behind.

I just hope that Lu-chan and Mirajane are alright. I thought to myself as I walked.


Lucy POV


I was sitting up against the telescope tree, looking at a white dove that had perched itself on my hand. Its small black eyes regarded me curiously, while it ruffled its ivory feathers from time to time.

"Well, hello there little guy," I greeted it with a smile on my face. "I can't say that I've seen too many birds around here, especially not a snow white dove like you."

I rubbed its head with my index finger, and it leaned into my touch.

"But that's probably because I'm always sleeping."

It tweeted to me, sounding like it was trying to talk back to me.

"For some reason I get really tired whenever Lisanna comes back, so she always tells me to sleep," I went on, "and when I wake up, she's always gone and doesn't come back for a while...you wouldn't happen to have any idea where she goes, would you? I'm kind of curious."

The dove tweeted again, and I was pretty sure the bird was trying to communicate with me.

"It's worth a shot," I talked to it. "I mean, there's no harm in asking a simple question to anything, right?"

Before the dove could tweet this time,

"Lucy!"

The dove quickly flew away as soon as it heard my name being called, and I looked to see that Lisanna was coming towards me.

"Hi, Lisanna," I greeted her, getting up from where I was seated.

"Hello, Lucy," she didn't look too happy. "I missed you."

"Is everything okay, Lisanna?" I asked her, the corners of my mouth curving down.

"Hm?" she tilted her head. "Why would you think that something's wrong?"

"Well, it's just that you don't look too happy, and you never do look very happy when you come back to me," I answered. "Do you not like hanging out with me?"

"What?! Oh no, no, no, no!" she shouted, looking shocked to hear that. "I love hanging out with you, Lucy! Why would you ever think that I don't?!"

Lisanna's outburst took me off guard, causing me to step back a bit.

"I just said why I would think that," I answered, looking at her warily.

"Lucy," she had a very serious look on her face as she grabbed both my shoulders and looked directly into my eyes. "I love hanging out with you and I love being around you, so don't you EVER think that I don't, because I do...understand?"

I could have sworn I saw her eyes change color for a second there, but I assumed it was only my imagination.

"Then why do you always look unhappy whenever I see you?"

"Because I...uhhhhh..." she avoided eye contact for a second. "Because I don't like it when I can't spend time with you and that makes me sad!"

"Are you sure that's the reason?" I raised an eyebrow, feeling suspicious.

"Of course I'm sure!" Lisanna smiled at me.

"Alright then..."

She took her hands off of my shoulders and looked at my scarf; she smiled upon seeing that I was still wearing it.

"It's nice to see that you haven't taken off the scarf I gave you," she told me gaily.

"Well, you did tell me to never take it off," I responded. "But why did you tell me that, anyways?"

"Because the scarf is a symbol of our friendship, and if you take it off then that means you don't wanna be my friend anymore," she explained to me, "so you can't take it off because if you do, then we won't be friends anymore and you don't want that, do you?"

"No, I don't," I shook my head. "I'd never want to stop being friends with you or any of the others, Lisanna."

"I'm so glad to hear that," she gave me an eyes-closed smile.

Almost immediately after she had said that, the tired feeling came back to me and I yawned.

"Are you tired?" she opened her eyes.

"Uh-huh," I nodded, "why do I keep getting so sleepy?"

"I don't know," she answered. "But come on."

Lisanna helped me sit back down with my back up against the telescope tree.

"Lisanna?" I asked as the tired feeling grew worse.

"Hm? What is it?"

"Are we all going to be friends forever?" I asked her. "Me, you, Natsu, Gray, Erza, Happy and everyone...will we be friends forever?"

"Of course we will! That's a rather silly question to ask!" she chuckled. "We'll be friends forever and ever and ever and ever."

"I'm glad..." I smiled at her softly.

"I'm glad too Lucy, now sweet dreams," she placed a kiss on my forehead.

I closed my eyes and began to fall into a dreamless sleep. Before I fell asleep however, I could have sworn that I heard her say something else, but the only words I could make out were "time in centuries".


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