"JUVIA WILL NOT LET YOU TOUCH HIM!" The woman came out of nowhere, flailing a pistol wildly around while running straight into the injured Colonel. Screaming in pain and fury the Colonel swung at the blue-haired woman and sent her crashing into a table of surgical tools.

"You dumb bitch!" Mira raised her pistol to fire but was tackled by Juvia sending them both onto the surgical table where Gray lay still strapped down.

A shot of pain in his wrist caused the man to cry out in agony and he instinctively brought it up to his eyes to see what the problem was.

His hand! There was a slice in it right where the strap used to be!

The two fighting women had collapsed to the ground beside the table now, fighting with an animalistic fury. Gray used the distraction to free his other hand and start on his ankles.

"Have to get out of here!" He screamed at himself internally. "Have to warn the others and get the fuck out of here!" He got the legs undone and bolted off the table; only to land flat on his face in pain. His legs wouldn't work. Days of not being used had rendered them all but useless in the moment that Gray needed them the most.

On the other side of the table that Gray had previously been on the women had gotten up and were engaged in hand to hand combat. Juvia was slashing at the Colonel with a knife she had picked up when she was slammed into her surgical equipment.

"I gave you everything!" The Colonel screamed at her while avoiding a slash. "A place to live! Toys to play with! And this is how you repay me?!" Another slash came at her face but this time Mira was ready for it. Grabbing Juvia's wrist she pulled the doctor towards herself letting their hips collide and in one fluid motion, spun Juvia around and onto the table. Juvia was winded by the impact but was still struggling to get up but Mira was the stronger of the two.

"You think just because you surprised me it means you were going to win this fight?!" Mira had the knife in her hand now. "You think you'll ever beat me? NOBODY CAN BEAT ME!" She thrust down into Juvia's stomach making her scream in agony. The Colonel raised the knife again. Juvia screamed in frustration and pain.

"NOBODY!" Squelch.

"WILL" Squelch.

"EVER" Squelch.

"BEAT" Squelch.

"ME!" Squelch.

The screaming of Juvia had stopped. The noise of fighting and gunfire outside had stopped. Everything but the sound of Colonel Strauss stabbing the body of a now dead Juvia over and over again had stopped. Gray had finally gotten the gag off himself as he crawled for the door bleeding and praying that he wouldn't be noticed by the obviously insane woman. He was so close to the door. His hands were in the doorway now. He pulled forward and put one hand on the doorframe and part of the wall beside it to pull himself farther.

The knife went through the back of his hand and into the wall. Gray wailed in despair.

"Don't think I forgot about you." Gray's blood went cold.

"Please. I didn't do anything." He cried.

"You did though. You saw me. You've seen all this. I can't let my grip on this town go. I can't let it go! As soon as my grip goes everything I love goes with it! That's how he died!"

"You mean Laxu-"

"YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO SAY HIS NAME!" Mira strode over to the man. Leaning down so that she was eye to eye with him the crazed woman put the tip of her knife to Gray's chest and slowly started pushing in.

"Once I'm done here, I'm going after your friends. This is all their fault! All of it! If you hadn't come none of this would have happened. If you hadn't climbed that tree it all would have been fine! So after I'm done here it'll be their turn! And then I'm going to kill everyone who just attacked my town. One. By. One." The blade slid deeper into Gray's chest but when he went to scream Mira covered his mouth.

"Ah ah ah. Can't have anybody hearing-"

"Mira?" A tiny voice echoed through the room. Mira stopped pushing the knife. She recognized that voice all too well.

"Mira what. What are you doing? Is that Juvia on the table? What happened to her and what- is that Gray?!" Lisanna was trying to comprehend it all while her sister stood up tall and slowly walked over to her.

"Lisanna. It's okay! It's all okay. I'll explain everything later." The blood-splattered Mira dropper the knife so she could wrap her arms around her little sister. "You just have to turn around and walk away, pretend none of this was ever here. Okay?" Mira pulled back from the hug and looked her sister in the eyes intently.

"Mira I- I don't know if I can!" Tears were starting to run down Lisanna's face. She had seen the look on Mira's face before. It had been on other soldiers' faces. The ones with so much PTSD and trauma that after years of hiding it had just lost it. It was a look that many of the soldiers once under her command had had before taking their own lives. It was a terrifying look.

"Oh Lisanna. Please don't worry." Mira was smiling now. "It's fine. It's all fine!" She couldn't figure out what was wrong with Lisanna! She would explain everything later! Her little sister wasn't even looking at her anymore. What was she looking at then?

Squelch

"Oh." There was pain. So much pain in her back. But Lisanna was now crying and gripping her so Mira couldn't turn around to see what was causing the pain.

Squelch

She needed to see what it was, but Lisanna wouldn't let go.

"I'm sorry Mira. I'm so, so sorry."

Squelch

There wasn't any pain. There was just a dull feeling in her body now. Mira felt her legs go and she collapsed to the floor in a pool of blood; some of it hers, some of it Gray's, and some of it Juvia's. Even Lisanna's blood was mixed in from her shoulder.

"What is this feeling." She had never felt it before. The strange sensation of dying. From where she lay all she saw was tile and blood.

"This is dying...I'm dying. But... I can't die now...I have... so much to do...So much to...To protect...Wait...Who's that..." The world had gone black to Mira. Black except for a single section right in the middle of her vision where it was blonde. A beautiful, golden blonde.

"Laxus...My Laxus...You're here." She finally passed.

Above her a crying Lisanna and Gray stood looking down, the blade still in Gray's hand.

"I'm sorry. You can kill me if you want, but that woman caused me a lot of pain." Lisanna looked at him and finally took in the damage that had been caused. His right hand was missing the ring finger, there were gashes across his entire chest and some on his face, at least four of his toes and probably a rib or two were broken. The man was a real mess.

"It- It's okay. She was pretty gone but. Oh god I can't believe. What are we gonna- GRAY!" The man let the knife drop from his and as he fell forward, exhausted and bleeding to death.

Longest. Cliffhanger. Ever. So I definitely just suddenly had the inspiration to write this and I really hope none of y'all are mad at me for it but anyways here's the ability to sleep better knowing how THAT ended! RnR y'all and REALLY sorry for the year long wait for an update