First of all, I deeply apologize. I know I've been very sloppy with this new chapter, and that some of you were waiting. I don't have any excuses, I've had time but I was preocupied with many other things. But, there it is, finally. New , penultimate chapter. Next chapter will be the last one... thank you, all of you, it was fun and you were great. :)

Voice of destiny

Gray was lying on the field, alone. His voice cracked from the yelling and right now he felt a stab in his neck, a horrible and painful feeling of helplessness making his throat sore. Not knowing what he was waiting for anymore, Gray continued lying down. Juvia was… gone. She was gone, just like that. He would've continued lying until withering down from hunger and thirst, if he hadn't heard somebody coming.

"Gray-sama?!" he heard Juvia's voice. Raising his head, he saw his girlfriend walking close to the field where he laid down. With cracked voice, he started yelling.

"Get out of here! Now! I don't want to see you!"

"Gray-sama?! What's wrong?!" Juvia ignored his yelling, running close. Gray's face was swollen, his eyes were red and his clothes were all dirty.

"Get away! Get away from me! I don't want to see you!"

"That's strange, Gray-sama. Just a minute ago you were yelling Juvia's name like you really miss Juvia."

"You've just dumped me! What kind of fucking joke is this?! Why are you coming here right now like nothing has happened?!"

"Juvia… dumped Gray-sama? Nothing like that has happened! Juvia would never dump Gray-sama! In her whole life! Juvia loves Gray-sama, really, really, a lot!"

Juvia took his head, clutching it in her lap. Gray looked her in the eyes, sobbing a little bit.

"What the hell, Juvia? You've just been here, and you broke up with me! What kind of sick joke is this?"

"I don't know what Gray-sama has seen, but it wasn't Juvia. Juvia will never leave Gray-sama. She will love him, for his whole life."

Gray felt like a little child. He was tired of losing people in his life, and as the despair left his body suddenly anxiety kicked in.

"You won't leave? Promise you will never leave!"

"It's a promise, Gray-sama. Juvia will never leave."

Gray hugged Juvia tight, not wanting to let go.

"I don't care what I've seen. It was weird to begin with. You would never say such a thing."

Suddenly Juvia's eyes widened, like she realized something.

"Gray-sama… we need to find fake Juvia, soon!"

"What's wrong?"

"It's just a hunch, but Juvia believes Wendy tried destroying her love."

"Wendy? Why the hell would she do that?"

"Wendy wasn't here for a long time. And I've overheard Erza talking with Sixth Master few days ago. She said Wendy's cursed. And Juvia's heard that Wendy has to destroy love between Juvia and Gray-sama. Juvia was so angry! But now it all makes sense! Please, Gray-sama, let's go and meet Wendy. We have to make sure she doesn't hurt herself!"

Suddenly Gray realized something. Wendy's a good person, and doing such things is taking a toll on her. And with all the other things she must have done until now, this was all too much for her. There was no telling what Wendy must have felt right now. She probably felt there was no turning back to where she was, before.

"Let's go! Let's just go!" Gray pulled Juvia, running towards Magnolia.

It was a horrible feeling. Wendy ran so long that her feet went numb. Finding strength to pull herself up to some dirty alley, she rested with her back against the stone, dirty wall. She went with her fingers around her body, feeling it. It brought her pleasure, so she continued touching herself, not even caring about the risk of being found out. As the pleasure built up, instead of losing her mind like before suddenly everything came back in a flash.

Cana hated her. Erza probably hated her too. Mavis is no more, she's who knows where. Gray and Juvia are no longer together – Wendy had seen his tears as he begged her not to go. So, instead of feeling pleasure the horrible feeling of guilt took over Wendy and she pulled her fingers out of her panties, screaming in pain. It was so disgraceful, so disgusting, so low being like this. Like some rag, left to rot on the street.

"Charla…. please…. help me…" she sobbed with a weak voice, turning around herself. But Charla wasn't around. She was…gone.

"Charla… are you really gone? Have you also left me? I don't hate you, Charla… please come back." she talked to herself. Alas, only cold silence answered her pleadings, answer as cold as the ice which lingered in traces everywhere around. It was unbelievably cold already, the autumn was passing and the winter was coming – Wendy shivered, and not only because of cold.

Realizing that Charla will never come, ever again, Wendy tried screaming. She screamed loud, but there was no answer. In the end, her voice betrayed her and her scream became a whisper, just a little whiff of air coming from her lungs. It was too much, the feeling of guilt was overwhelming. She felt like she reached the point of no returning.

"Is it really over..? My life? Yeah! I can go to the waterside! It's night already, I can sit under the moon! I will become normal! Hahaha!" she screamed, standing up on her shaky legs. Wendy stammered around the streets, walking to the designated place.

It was already cold night, and the moon was out. Wendy sat on the riverside, screaming in the pale darkness around her.

"I've done all that you've asked of me, moon! Return me back to the normal!" But nothing had happened. She raised her hands high in the air, screaming again.

"What's wrong?! I've done everything you've asked of me! Return me back!" she screamed, but nothing had happened. It was then when she lost all of her hope. A feeling in her chest right now was indescribable. Whereas she felt only despair before, right now she felt emptiness. She was absolutely devoid of any pleasant feelings, of any emotions whatsoever. She lost her life, her friends, everything. And right now, she's stuck in this new body, having to build everything from the start, without even knowing how. She was too young to know how to live, and yet she looked all grown up.

"I'm sorry… everyone… I'm done." she whispered, getting up.

Wendy walked again, somehow finding herself in large Cardia Cathedral in the end. Silence was grave inside, mesmerizing kaleidoscope of candles reflected on vitrines. Everything had a strong scent of incense, but she just ignored everything, walking up to the largest tower. She had it all planned out now. The way out, the way to solve everything, everything was clear in her mind now. The only way to atone for her sins was to destroy this body which gave her such pain.

So, she stood on the edge of the fence which decorated face of Cardia Cathedral, in Magnolia. Holding herself with both hands, she cried, looking down at the crowd which was becoming bigger and bigger. More and more people came out, some were screaming, some were yelling for her to "come down". She didn't recognize most of them, some of them she saw just sometimes. Suddenly, she saw Natsu and Lucy running close, along with Happy and Charla.

"Natsu, where is she? Where is she?!" Charla yelled. As she saw Wendy, she screamed in horror, flying up to meet her.

"Wendy, Wendy, stop this, please!" Charla screamed as she neared her friend.

"Charla, go away! Please! Don't make this any harder! I'm a monster; I do not deserve to live! Please, let me die!"

"Wendy, I'm not angry at you, at all. If it's because we had a fight, it doesn't matter. Just come down." Charla softly said, floating next to her.

"I can't turn back to normal human being, Charla! I've destroyed Gray and Juvia, I've destroyed Cana and Erza! Even first master, Mavis, is sad because of me. Besides, I've been horrible to you! Even if I revert to normal being, nothing will be the same! I'm a failure of a healer! I've hurt my friends! I deserve to die!"

With last words, she let herself go. Charla screamed, trying to grab her but Wendy fell fast. It was almost as like some voice of destiny was calling her, pulling her down. Almost as like invisible hands sprouted from the cold, icy concrete, pulling her in one last, final embrace. Wendy let a sigh of relief - feeling of brisk air on her face was somehow refreshing. Her mind was shut down, totally ignoring sounds of screaming and pain. She saw the concrete getting closer, and closer. Her heart was at peace in this last, final moment. And then, just as that, she stopped. It was over.