"I'll meet you and the others at Lucy's in a little while Gray. I'm just going to take a walk around Magnolia." Gray nodded.
"Fine, just be careful. Chances are, that some of those Phantom jerks are still hanging around here." Nyx hugged her brother.
"Don't worry Gray, I'll stay safe." He smiled, hugging her back.
"Alright, see you in a little while." Nyx made her way through the dully lit streets, trying to get her emotions about the guild's destruction sorted out. She stared up at the star sprinkled sky, and sighed. It pissed her off, and saddened her to no end, and like Natsu, she was frustrated that Master Makarov wasn't going to allow anybody to do a thing about it.
"Maybe I'll walk around the park..." she muttered to herself. As she made her way there, she heard a girl shriek. She gasped, her eyes widening. "That sounded like..." Without a second thought, she raced in the direction of the scream. "Levy!" She turned a corner, and was terrified to see both Jet and Droy laying, unconscious, on the ground, beaten and bloody. A man with long black hair stood over them, his back facing Nyx. He was holding a limp Levy off of the ground by her neck. "Leave them the hell alone!" she demanded, charging at the man, a diamond dagger forming in her hand. As she went to plunge it into his back, it shattered. She gasped, seeing that in the split second of time she had given him, he had grown steel scales all over his body. He dropped Levy on top of her partners, and the scales receded. He turned to face Nyx, his blood red eyes glinting maliciously, and a wicked sharp toothed grin spread across his pierced face. "Y-you're...Kurogane Gajeel...the iron dragon slayer!" He let out a spine chilling laugh.
"So you've heard of me?" Nyx's eyes flicked back and forth between her fallen comrades and their attacker. "What's wrong, dragon got your tongue girlie?" he asked in a harsh whisper, bringing his face an inch from hers. He laughed again. Slowly, her fear melted away into a boiling rage. As he laughed, diamonds formed across her knuckles. Before he knew what was coming, Nyx slammed her crystallized fist into the side of Gajeel's head. He stumbled back several steps, surprise written across his face. He shook his head to snap out of his daze, and chuckled. "You know, I was considering letting you go."
"Shut the hell up! You have no right being here!" she yelled, and threw a second punch at him. He grabbed her fist.
"I think you have it all wrong..." He threw her to a ground. "You people have no right calling yourselves a guild! You're all so weak, it's pathetic!" Nyx staggered to her feet.
"At least we aren't cowards!" she snapped. Gajeel smacked her to the ground again.
"Shut up!" Once again she stood. Gajeel smirked. "Looks like you aren't going down quite as easily as the others." He jumped back, puffed out his chest, blew up his cheeks, and cupped his hands around his mouth.
"Oh no..." she murmured. She recognized that position. It was the same position that Natsu took before using his breath attack. She quickly surrounded herself with a shell of diamond.
"Tetsuryu no hoko!" A gray flame erupted from his mouth, hitting the shield forcefully, but not Nyx. She let out a sigh of relief, though it was a moment too soon. The left side of her shell suddenly shattered under the pressure of the attack. Nyx screamed in agony as a searing pain ripped through the left side of her body. She collapsed, her vision and hearing both fading. She could make out the dragon slayer's cruel laugh. "You damn fairies are worthless..."
"No!" Nyx yelled as she bolted up, her fingers clutching her sheets tightly. Her skin was coated in a thin layer of cold sweat. "It...it was just a nightmare...that's right...Gajeel would never do something like that now..."
"Nyx!" At the sound of her name, her head whipped around to face her doorway. The shout had come from Gray's room.
"Gray!" She jumped out of bed, and ran down the hallway towards her brother's room.