Chapter 6

Rogue's P.O.V.

Bella was standing barefoot in a long dress on the beach. "Do you promise?"

"Yes," I said instantly. If it was for Bella, I would do anything. "I promise to protect you."

The scene changed and the sky became a muddy red. She was there again but her dress was torn and blood was splattered on her. "Then why haven't you?" she cried, tears trickling off her face.

I woke up, panting. Feeling a sense of urgency, I quickly got out of bed and walked down to Bella's room. I cracked the door open and realized that there wasn't anything in the room. I opened the door all the way and an empty room stared back at me. "Bella?" Where could she be? It was really early. I walked in and found a still warm spot on the floor. She must have left not too long before I woke up. A bird chirped on the windowsill. I opened the window, watching it. Why didn't it leave? Most birds were scared of humans.

"She ran away," A voice behind me made me turn. Skiadrum was there, sitting in the empty room.

"Dad?" What did he know about her disappearance? "What happened to her?"

"We dragons are wise. We praise those who sacrifice everything for the good of the world. Unfortunately, we don't support her situation. Bella saw the future of Earthland and left. By doing so, she changed the fate of many people but gave up her freedom." He shook his head. "It's costing me a lot of magic to stay. I should go."

He disappeared as I collapsed on the floor. Bella left? Just yesterday, she was partying with Fairy Tail. I realized there was something about her smile, a slight grimace behind it. I knew there was something different about her! I stared out the window. "Bella, I'll come for you." I whispered as the wind blew again, shifting the scent of cherry blossoms and peaches in my direction.

Bellalyse's P.O.V.

"Tierraaaa!" I stretched out her name, cranky. "Are we there yet?"

She glanced at me, unsatisfactory with the complaining. "I was expecting you to be a lot more…patient on the trip."

"Patient? Oh no, I reached the boundary of patient five hours ago!" She was really testing my limit.

"Oh, we're here." Tierra finally stopped at a portal. We've been walking around portals for ten hours. I stepped through and suddenly a large looming castle was in front of me. "Welcome to my house."

"I think you mean castle." I muttered.

"There will be a servant here to show you to your quarters." She said briefly and headed off.

I crossed the threshold of the castle and glanced around. A girl with blonde hair and blue eyes stepped up. "Princess, if you will, I will show you to your room."

I nodded. "Please don't call me Princess. What's your name?"

She seemed taken aback. "The servants aren't supposed to speak about personal matters to the people residing in the castle. And I call you Princess because all demigods are like royals to us. All of the servants here will probably call you princess as well."

"Psh, rules here rules there," I said, "It would be fun to have a friend in this castle. Just tell me your name. I'll make sure you don't get punished for saying your own name."

"I am Charlotte." She stated. "Only personal servants may talk to their mistress about these kinds of things."

I winked at her. "Then you're my personal servant!"

She smiled at me and I felt like I just made an accomplishment. I bet she hasn't had any friends ever since Tierra made her a servant.

We walked and talked up the stairs until we reached the last floor. Also known as the tenth floor. She led me down the hall, took a left, walked a short distance, turned right and opened a door. "This is where you will be residing."

I walked in as she used magic to get my bags. It was giant. There was no other way to put it. The room I was in was twice the size of the living room. A desk lay in one corner with a chair. A couch was set up in a compression in the middle of the floor and there was thick carpeting. Two matching chairs were parallel to each other next to the couch. A surveillance lacrima shaped like a square was facing the couch. There was a white canopy bed in the corner with a nightstand next to it. There were four doors. A closet and a pure white grand piano in another corner.

"Pretty dandy isn't it?" She followed my gaze to the other doors. "There are separate rooms in which you will live in. There's the walk-in closet, kitchen, exercising room, and animal stable. In the closet, there are other musical instruments. I hope you find this room to your liking, Bella."

"It's really nice." I said. It was quite grand for me. "When's dinner?"

"It gets boring to live here." She laughed. "And Tierra has personally requested that you eat all of your meals in here. I will bring you the food. Check the closet. We need to get you dressed."

"What?" I was already dressed in a halter shirt and skirt. "I'm already dressed though."

She laughed again. "Sorry Bella, but if you are a demigod, you must wear dresses."

Dresses. "Seriously, Charlotte? Can't I just wear what you are wearing right now?" I asked. Charlotte wore a very simple outfit. She wore black pants and a V-neck red shirt.

"Nope," Charlotte answered and pushed me into the closet. In there, I groaned. It was full of dresses, long and short ones. Another section contained nightclothes and a lot of nightgowns. Shoes were piled up in one corner and in another were accessories. "Here, this is what you're supposed to wear for your first day." She tossed me something very froufrou and dark blue.

I smoothed it out and stared at it. It was an off the shoulder long dress with a bell skirt, ribbons and flower embroidery. "No way. This is way to girly. Can't I wear one of the short ones?"

She sighed impatiently. "The short ones you could wear later. Right now, the long dresses are best to make a good impression." After I got in the dress, she put white choker with a heart pendant around my neck and straightened my hair.

I looked at myself in the mirror. "What's the occasion today anyway?"

"Well, you're here. That counts." Charlotte shook her head. "And today, you're getting introduced to the demidemons. Putting on non-formal clothes would be preposterous!"

"Yeah, yeah," I nodded. "When can I go to Earthland?"

She looked horrified. "The soonest you can go to Earthland is a month, at the least. At the most, a year."

"Wait, what?" Tierra didn't mention anything about a stupid time limit! "Then how can I check on my friends?"

She bowed deeply. "I will go to Earthland daily and catch up on the news in your stead."

"Sure, I guess," I said uncertainly. I really was feeling uncomfortable in the dress though. It looked like what Lucy would wear had she stayed as the Heartfilia heiress. "Can you go today?"

She nodded. "I will go as soon as your introduction is over. You may spend some time alone now."

I sighed and sat on the window seat. I let my gaze linger on the musical instruments. I had always wanted to learn music; the previous Creation Demigods before us were exceptionally talented at music. And the only part of music I was good at was singing. I gazed out the window and used telepathy magic, hoping that Fairy Tail could hear. "Sorry. But this is one part you won't be able to save me."

Normal P.O.V. (At the main guild hall)

"What do you mean you can't find her?" Master asked, frantic. "The Grand Magic Games are tomorrow!"

"Furthermore, she has to participate in the sealing of the demidemons!" Esmerella said, "Right now, we're short of one demigod. And all of the gods will participate and the remaining demigods, who are basically me, Ash, and Luke, are already helping! There's no time for the gods to create another demigod as well!"

"The gods will have to be sent back to the Upper World," Ash concluded thoughtfully. "And Gray was about to make it to the Grand Magic Games Fairy Tail Team right? He could take Bella's place."

A breeze swept through the guild along with the words, "Sorry. But this is one part you won't be able to save me."

"That was no doubt, Bella using long distance telepathy," Xena said. "She must be very far away."

"But telepathy like that has some requirements used too. Like how the sender must be in the same universe as the receiver." Luke said. "She's somewhere in Earthland, that's for sure."

Rogue looked up from his seat. "Should we start looking for her?"

Esmerella shook her head. "After the Grand Magic Games. The gods have no reason to stay now that the sealing is incomplete."

"You can't seal Tierra in?" Wendy questioned.

"No, at least one of us would die before it's even halfway complete. Bella holds the power of two demigods; it's the result of sharpening and training her natural connection." Ash confirmed, shaking his head. "Her participation was crucial to the operation."

"The only thing we can do is waiting then." Matt concluded frustratingly. Bella was the only person who reached out to him when he was in the dragon form. "I don't want to just wait!"

Master nodded. "We could do the same thing that we did in the last Grand Magic Games. But the people on the rescue team probably won't find her on the same day."

Aflame shook his head. "Haven't you guys noticed?"

"Noticed what?" Lucy asked, curious. "I think we've covered all of the problems."

"Ahem," Lucinda coughed, "But you failed to realize that we haven't seen Tierra once since Bella disappeared."

A long silence filled the guild. "That's true, there have been no signs of Tierra ever since we found out Bella was missing." Amy noted.

"Then in some way, Bella's disappearance is linked to Tierra's vanishing." Icestorm concluded thoughtfully, one arm around Xena. "I don't think this is just a coincidence either."

"We all don't," Erza said.

Bellalyse's P.O.V. (Four days later…)

Four days. It's been four days ever since Tierra brought me to this castle. I sat on the window seat again. On the second day, I grew in love with the window seat. When I come home to the apartment one day when Rogue and Sting are gone, I think I might install a window seat. If I came home. I was still wearing my nightgown. The sleepwear here was quite flimsy so I made a point of covering myself up. It looked like something Lucy might have worn. I sat at the piano. Charlotte managed to get me some music books from Earth. I was currently working on a song called 'Dearly Beloved' and it matched my style quite well.

Charlotte burst in with an aura of enthusiasm. I couldn't help but smile at the amount of energy radiating from her. "Bella! What a lovely morning it is!" She bustled around, getting my clothes ready. I had also adapted to wearing dresses, though Charlotte said maybe some time would be appropriate to wear long black pants. It would still be formal with a blouse and everything but it was better than wearing a dress.

"Okay, Charlotte. What happened?" I asked. I had the time to get to know her and her personalities. "Did another demigod come or something?"

"No," she exclaimed, excited. "I got permission to accompany you to Magnolia!"

I stood up, still wearing my nightgown. "Are you kidding me? I thought I had to wait a month though?"

"If I was kidding, would I be in different clothes?" She questioned and I got a second look at her. Instead of her usual black pants and white blouse, she wore a pair of jeans with flower vector designs stitched into it and a long sleeved dark green shirt. "You will be closely watched, of course. Despite Tierra's objections, the Council of Elders thought you were going to burst one day being cooped up in here. Every week, if you do so wish, you will be permitted to go to Earthland for one day! And I get to go with you!" She finished laying out the clothes and motioned me to put them on.

"Um, Charlotte, isn't this a bit formal?" I asked again. I was wearing a strapless red silk dress. It was short in the front but a layer of silk was cut so it fanned out to the sides and grew longer at the back. It wasn't straight cuts, more like wavy subsections with only one portion. I had a pure white crystal heart with black diamond shadows streaming at of it on a chain around my neck. Charlotte sorted through my clothes and tossed me a short jean jacket and a pair of black ballet flats. "I'm just going to go to Earthland for a day, right?"

"Of course not," she muttered as she sat me down on a chair and started brushing through my hair. "You're forgetting something, aren't you?"

"What?" I looked at myself in the mirror. I looked normal. I had clothes on. "I'm fine."

She sighed, exasperated. "No, silly, you have to disguise yourself!"

"Huh?"

"You can't possibly think you can walk past your previous guild looking like the girl that they dearly miss and lost?" Charlotte drew out a deep breath.

"Fine," I huffed. I dyed my hair black and put in emerald green eye contacts. "Is that good?"

"Perfect," she smiled, "Let's go get breakfast."

"Wait what?" Usually breakfast was brought to me, not the other way around.

"On days you visit Earthland, you eat with Tierra and the demidemons."

"Um, okay." Hopefully they weren't in the mood to lecture me.

An Hour Later…

I was feeling a bit cranky. After breakfast, Tierra drilled me with information about the past four days. We haven't even left yet! Well, now we were going, but I was in an extreme mood by now.

"Okay, we're here!" Charlotte exclaimed. I looked around. Huh. They teleported us right next to the Fairy Tail Guild.

"Joy." I muttered. I wasn't sure about how I should feel. Happy, yet guilty and sad, my emotions were a mess. And the demigods, my siblings and the gods must have left by now.

Normal P.O.V. (In the guild)

"We haven't searched these parts of Earthland." Esmerella pointed out on the map. "There's a giant stretch of water between the ports of Fiore and the ports of this weird island."

"Isn't that weird?" Ash noted. "The water sources are as big as a country."

"Skip that." Erza said. "We can't go diving down to look for something."

He sighed. "True."

Matt nibbled on his cookie. "I miss the taste of Bella's Star and Constellation Dragon cakes."

Wendy nodded. "The food she made for us dragon slayers was very delicious."

Sting stared at them. "I think we should sharpen our skills again." Since Bella left, the dragon slayers decided to occasionally fight one another, and train the techniques she taught them. "Wendy, do you want to go at it?"

"Sure." They faced each other. "Secret Dragon Slayer Technique! Wind Gathering!" She yelled and air outside gusted inside.

Everyone who was a dragon slayer snapped their head up. Esmerella and Ash looked like they were on the verge of crying.

Cherry blossoms and peaches lingered in the air, still strong. Along with the scent was apples and earthy like scents. Master raised his head, curious at what the dragon slayers were doing. They were frozen, their eyes wide.

Bellalyse's P.O.V.

"How do you plan on approaching them anyway?" Charlotte questioned. "You could become a member."

"And have my butt kicked for joining them?" I countered. "No way." I rubbed my chin. "It's hard to be subtle."

"By the way, what magic are you going to use?"

"Only three," I answered, thinking. "Air Merge Magic, Water Dragon Slayer Magic and Requip: the Knight."

"All of them are pretty rare," she glanced at the guild door. I had put a sound barrier around us so the dragon slayers wouldn't hear. "Anyway, your name is Alena, you use three types of magic and I'm just Charlotte. You left your Dragion and Immortal keys back at the palace right?"

I nodded. Then the guild door burst open, revealing all of the dragon slayers. Crap.

Author's Note: YES! I got it updated before Tuesday! I will post another chapter this week. Thanks for reading! Please review!