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Chapter 5

SURREAL REALITY

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"Gray!" Erza, Natsu, and Happy were running after the ice mage for fear that he might still be dreaming. But Gray doesn't have a minute to spare; he must hurry and save Lucy. Well at least that's what his heart is telling him.

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"What's happening to me?" Lucy wanted to ask Loke but she doesn't have enough strength to move her lips nor to open her eyes. After drinking the wine, she suddenly collapsed to the floor without any strength left to her fragile body.

"My princess…" she heard Loke say and she felt him hugging her. "Loke what happened?" She wanted to ask her trusted spirit.

"I love you so much, Lucy. I have loved you for so long…"

"Loke what are you saying? What have you done to me?" But her lips wouldn't move. She felt him lift her left arm then something thin and cold wrapped around her wrist.

"Gray please save me…"

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The ice mage finally arrived at her beloved's apartment but was shocked to see all the lights were off. "Lucy!" With a gigantic jump, she broke into Lucy's apartment window. "Lucy!"

He stumbled in the dark as he was trying to look for her angel. He was too scared that his brain wouldn't function properly. Two more crashes followed as Natsu, Erza and Happy entered through the already broken window.

Erza wisely turned on the light. "Lucy!"

Gray had found Lucy lying on the kitchen floor, Loke holding her. "What have you done to her?" the ice mage bellows.

"I promise I won't hurt her." The lion answered. Gray was confused. "What do you mean?"

But Loke instead answered him with a smirk, his forehead touching Lucy's. "Give her back!" Gray was too angry and too scared (scared of the inevitable pain of losing her) that he couldn't move.

"Lucy…" Loke brushed the hair from the celestial mage's face. "Lucy was too perfect for you, Gray. Only I can love her more than you do. I love her in a way that she deserves to be loved. I love her more than my life."

And the room was filled with a blinding light. Gray's dream poisoned his reality. He felt so helpless… The eternal ice was melting in the light.

What happened to Lucy? They did not dare to ask. The answer unfolds in front of them, in a vacant kitchen, in a vacant apartment, where once rang Lucy's laughter.

A stunned ice mage kneels at the vacant space where the celestial mage's body disappeared; his strength, hopes, and dreams abandoned him, and they all shed a silent tear.

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"Look, a shooting star!" Levy's eyes widened as she points a fast falling yet radiantly beautiful falling star.

"Make a wish, Levy-Chan!" Jet and Droy called in unison.

"I already did…" a smiling Levy answered.

"Say, Levy-Chan, how do you connect the stars to make a constellation?" Jet asked; his eyes still on the bright stars.

"Well, it's hard to explain but Lu-Chan taught me somehow, look…" and the blue-haired mage points to a cluster of stars, "that one is Leo the Lion."

"Wow, so those are Loke's stars." Jet and Droy again said in unison.

"Yup," a questioning Levy approved. Her eyes narrowed and her brows met as she was looking at another cluster of stars beside the constellation Leo. "But I'm pretty sure I have never seen those stars before…"

Then a realization cleared her face but leaves a stunned expression. "It's Lucy…" she whispered.

But it's weird so she discarded the thought. The little mage decided to ask Lucy tomorrow instead, because for sure, at this very moment, the princess was with Gray, gazing at the same star-studded purple evening sky.

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oOo END oOo

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Yah I know it sucks. Well, maybe no. It's a total crap.

I Suck hehehe.