Nobody POV


Lucy seemed torn, she stared at the begging dream dweller with unblinking eyes.

"I..." she tried to say only to trail off.

She shut her eyes with a sigh, she opened them again and turned her head to look at Natsu.

"Let's go..." she decided to leave.

The dream dweller was unable to hear them as the storm raged on but the people around Lucy did.

"Then let's get out of here before it's too late, Luce...," Natsu wanted to end this nightmare. "Take off the scarf, we'll be right behind you..."

Lucy nodded and took off her scarf causing her to disappear, the others quickly followed as they either took off their scarves or pinched their cheeks to wake themselves up leaving Paw all alone.

She didn't notice until she raised her head to see if they were there only finding an empty space and a few scarves littering the ground where they once stood.

"No... No..." her turquoise eyes widened.

Paw roughly slammed her head into the ground.

"NOOOOOO!" she let out an agonized scream at the pain of losing her best friend.

The dream world began to quickly fall apart around her until the pleasant world that she had built around herself for the dreamers had been reduced to nothing more than an endless black void which Paw fell deep into.


!~In the Real World~!


Lucy was the first one to wake up, she cracked open her brown eyes looking at the ceiling above her.

"Huh?" she thought to herself. "I'm not in my apartment..."

She drowsily yawned which didn't go unnoticed especially not when Lucy began to slowly sit up.

"So where am...?" she thought.

Her thoughts were cut off when a furry blue blur slammed into her almost knocking her back down.

"LUSHY!" it cried.

"Happy?" she was surprised.

Happy was hugging her tightly, Lucy put a hand on his back as she looked around only to see that she was in the guild.

"Welcome back, Cheerleader!" Bixlow greeted her. "Although I guess I can't call you that anymore... I think Sleeping Beauty is a better nickname now!"

"Sleeping Beauty, Sleeping Beauty" his 'babies' repeated.

"Why am I in the guild?" she looked around.

"Do you not know what happened?" Carla asked.

"No, I do... I just remember falling asleep in my apartment and if I was gonna wake up in the guild then I thought it would be in the infirmary, not in the middle of the guild..." Lucy answered.

"You'll have to ask the others when they wake up," Mavis answered. "Speaking of which... Where are they?"

"They said that they were right beh..." she tried to say.

She was cut off when one by one, the others began to wake up as well.

"Why am I on the floor?" Gray sat up.

"I put you there..." Rogue nonchalantly answered as he sat up.

"Why?" he asked.

"So I could put Sting on a bed" Rogue answered.

"Then why am I on the floor too?" Gajeel sat up.

"So I could lay down on a bed..." Rogue answered.

Before anyone could respond Frosch climbed onto Rogue's bed with a happy look on it's face.

"Fro missed you, Rogue!" it exclaimed before hugging the shadow dragon slayer tightly.

Rogue just hugged the small exceed back and Carla climbed onto Wendy's bed.

"Are you ok, Wendy?" Carla asked.

"Yeah, I'm ok...," Wendy answered. "Did you stay here the whole time that I was in the dream world?"

"Of course I did," she nodded. "I couldn't and wouldn't leave you alone when you're in danger."

Everyone that had been in the dream world had some kind reunion with someone in the guild.

"I'm glad to see that everyone's awake" Mavis spoke up after a few moments. "How are you all feeling?"

"I'm honestly tired..." Lisanna yawned after saying that.

"Seriously?" Evergreen asked. "You were sleeping for hours..."

"Now that you mention it, I'm kind of tired too..." Laxus yawned as well.

"Maybe you all experienced the same thing that the monster was putting it's victims through?" Freed guessed.

"Maybe..." Levy spoke tiredly.

"How about we all go home and get some rest?" Mirajane suggested. "We can all enjoy being out of the dream world... Besides it does seem to be quite late."

"That sounds like a good idea." Gajeel was all for it.

"If anyone sees something that doesn't seem right in your dreams though either run, fight, or try to wake yourselves up," Erza advised. "Just don't let yourself become another victim of it."

"Don't need to tell any of us twice..." Sting spoke for everyone when he said that.

Everyone then got up and went their separate ways with Mavis waving at them from the entrance to the guild.

"Have a nice night!" she called.

Lucy walked alone on the street as she headed back to her apartment, she breathed the fresh air and looked up at the starry sky overhead.

"Everything feels so different comparred to the dream world that I was kept in..." she thought. "It feels and looks a lot more natural..."

She smiled to herself as she walked and let out a breath of relief.

"I like it..." she was happy.

Lucy walked down the street and reached her house, she changed into her pajamas and turned out the lights before falling asleep underneath her pink comforter.


!~Time Skip~!


It had been a few months since the victims had been rescued from the dream world, there had been no suspicious activity in anyones dreams and everyone had gotten used to the fact that the dream dweller was gone so everyone was enjoying the peace.

Currently it was early in the morning and Lucy had just entered into the guild and went over to sit down at the bar.

"Good morning, Lucy." Mirajane greeted her.

"Morning, Mira," she smiled. "How'd you sleep?"

"I slept good, thanks for asking," Mirajane smiled back. "What are you doing here so early though?"

"Well me, Natsu, Erza, and Gray are leaving for a long mission so we decided to try and wake up early so we could get it done quicker," Lucy frowned. "I didn't see them when I entered into the guild though so I guess that plan is entirely out the window."

"Oh don't say that... I'm sure that everything is fine and they're already on their way to the guild as we speak..." Mirajane reassured the blonde.

"I hope so..." Lucy sighed.

Lucy began to have a conversation with Mirajane while she waited for the three of them to arrive at the guild.


Gray POV


I opened my eyes and found myself standing in a completely dark world, there was nothing here other than a small patch of glass shards scattered across the invisble platform that I was standing on.

"What the?" I looked around myself. "Where am I?"

The glass shards crunched and broke even more when I stepped on them.

"This place feels real enough so I don't think it's a dream..." I thought to myself.

The sound of a bell rang out nearby causing me to raise an eyebrow but my eyes widened when I heard something.

"Gray! Erza!" I heard Natsu's voice call out.

"Natsu?" I thought.

"Gray?! Natsu?! Are you here?!" I heard Erza's voice call out. "Say something if you can hear me!"

"Erza?" I thought. "They're in this place too? Where are they?"

I tried to look for a way to continue and for a while, there was nothing until more glass shards fell from above and landed on a path that would have been completely invisible otherwise.

"This might get me killed but I don't care, I have to find them..." I thought.

I walked along the path following the glass shards that were crushed beneath my feet, more glass shards fell from above making me able to see the path.

The path lead me in so many different twists and turns until it brought me to a bigger platform full made visible by glass shards littering it.

"There's no where else to go..." I thought looking around. "Where are they?"

I was about to call out for them when two paths made visible by broken glass became conected to the platform that I was standing on but that wasn't all as Erza came from the path on the right and Natsu from the left.

"Erza, Natsu." I was glad to see that they were safe.

"Gray? You're here too?" Natsu asked. "And you too, Erza?"

"Yeah, we're both here," Erza confirmed. "The question is though... Where is here?"

"I don't know, I just opened my eyes and I was here...," I answered. "I'm guessing that's how you guys wound up here too?"

They both nodded.

"Do you think that this could be a dream?" Natsu asked.

"No, this feels way too real to be a dream..." I answered.

"Then what is it?" he asked.

"How do you expect me to know?" I asked back. "I'm just as lost as you right now."

"Then do you know what this is Erza?" he turned to her.

"I don't know anymore than you and Gray do, Natsu," she told him. "I'm just as confused."

"Great... What are we supposed to do?" he asked. "No one else is here but us, we can't see anything other than each other and this glass, and the only other paths are ways that we've already gone."

"I don't know but we should just try to come up with any kind of plan as soon as possible," she suggested. "We have to prepared for anything that might happen."

For a while, the three of us just tried to come up with a plan on what to do but we weren't having any luck whatsoever and a small thought popped into my head.

"Are we even going to make it out of this place?" I wondered before quickly shaking my head to dismiss the thought. "No! What am I thinking? I can't think like that! We'll make it out of here!"

Erza and Natsu didn't seem to notice me shaking my head and I joined back in on trying to come up with something but after a while, we were interrupted by the sound of a bell ringing.

"Hey! There's that bell again!" Natsu looked around.

"You heard it too?" I asked him.

"Yeah." he nodded.

"Then that means all three of us heard that bell." Erza had heard it as well. "Where is it coming from?"

"Is anyone there?!" we heard a very familiar voice call out to us.

"What the? Was that?" that surprised me,

"Luce! Is that you?!" Natsu didn't hesitate yelling out.

"Natsu?! Hold on! Stay where you are!" she exclaimed. "I'm coming!"

We could hear the sound of crunching glass and I began to see an appearing pathway in the distance made up of glass, running along it was Lucy and she wearing a strange bracelet made up of a purple string that had a bell hanging from it.

"Guys, I'm so glad that I found you!" she seemed happy as she reached where we were.

She opened her arms to hug us but this didn't feel right to me.

"Stop!" I stopped her.

"Huh? What's the matter, Gray?" she looked confused.

"I'm just testing something... What's the first mission that we all went on?" I asked her.

"Gray? What's with you?" Natsu asked.

"I'm trying to make sure that this isn't some dream and she's not some monster." I answered.

"That's ridiculous! Lucy isn't a-!" Natsu tried to argue.

"No, Natsu... It's ok... After what happened this sort of thing is perfectly understandable...," she reassured. "And the first mission that we all went on was when Erza returned to the guild to recruit you and Natsu to help her investigate a dark guild called Eisenwald."

"Ok so you are real but what's with that bell on your wrist?" I asked.

"This?" she held up her wrist.

"Yeah, that." I nodded.

"Well when I woke up here, everything was covered in darkness and there was glass but there was also this and when I put it on everything was normal again... I guess that we got some kind of spell cast on us or something to make us see things like this..." she explained.

"Did you find anymore of those?" Erza asked.

"As a matter of fact, I actually did," she answered pulling out three more. "Here."

We each took one.

"Just put it on your wrist and I'll meet you at the guild, ok?" she asked.

"Got it," Natsu nodded. "See you there, Luce."

"See you there." she smiled.

We each put our little bell bracelets and the world around us all immediately changed, I was brought back to my house where I was sitting in my bed.

I looked at the bell bracelet on my wrist and had a strange feeling.

"I have a bad feeling about this..." I thought to myself. "But why? This isn't a dream..."

After trying to figure out what was giving me this bad feeling and failing, I just shrugged before I got out of bed and starting to get ready for the day.


Nobody POV


Back with Lucy, the dark world full of glass around her began to change to the guild but something was off about it.

Lucy was the only one standing in the guild and although after a bit people began to appear in the guild, there was something off about them as well as they each wore one of the bell bracelets.

"Guys, hide those," she commanded. "They'll know that something is up if they see you wearing those."

Collectively each one of the guild members took off their bell bracelets and put them somewhere where they wouldn't be seen.

"Ah... Perfect...," she was happy. "Everything is going according to plan."

Slowly Lucy's eyes turned a vivid purple color instead of their normal brown and her teeth began to slowly become sharp as well, her form even flickered between that of Lucy and that of a shadowy creature.

"Soon I'll have friends and they'll never leave," she smiled. "I just have to make sure that they don't figure out that this place isn't real and if someone comes looking for them, I'll make them look like the monster... Literally..."

She let out a contented sigh and her form slipped to her shadowy form.

"That Gray one though... I wouldn't mind spending the most time with him to be completely honest with you though..." she talked to herself.

Her happiness was cut short when she noticed that she no longer looked like Lucy which surprised her.

"Oh! I didn't even notice!" she exclaimed.

The illusion people around her faltered around her for a moment but quickly stabilized as she regained concentration and changed her form to look like the blonde haired mage once again.

"There we go..." she thought to herself. "Now to just sit down and wait..."

She headed over to the bar and was served a drink by "Mirajane", she took a drink and awaited her friends arrival in the guild with excitement.

Little did the three of them know however is that the world that they were currently living in was nothing more than a giant illusion and reality lay where their bodies are fast asleep in their respective beds with no intention of waking up anytime soon.

The real Lucy sat at the bar with the real Mirajane, she had a bored look on her face as she rested her head in her hand and tapped her fingers against the counter.

"Where are they?" she thought to herself unknowing that she would probably be waiting there for a long time.


And that's the Leave ending, it's bad I know and I'm sorry that it is bad but I'm not good at writing happy things. I'm a more feels kind of person.

But anyways if you were wondering who that other dream dweller is then you can find out by going and reading the Stay ending but if you don't want to then that's ok.

Also I was setting up for a sequel that I probably won't wind up writing so if you guys want one then it's probably gonna take a rather long time so I'm sorry but I didn't know where else to take this ending other than setting up for a sequel. Does that make me a bad writer? Probably but ok.

Anywho, I've talked for long enough so one last time for this story /or second to last time if you're gonna read the other ending as well.

Review plz?