Delays-Ends-Veins

Chapter Three

I awoke to a throbbing pain in the left side of my head. I was in a room identical to the room I was in before except it was half the size and the words 'Delays-Ends-Veins' were not written on the wall. Juvia was still unconscious on the floor and Natsu was sitting in the corner with his arms crossed.

"Hey!" Natsu said noticing me sit up. "Finally someone else is awake!" He walked over to me and held out his hand for me to grab. I accepted it and he pulled me up.

"Where are the others?" I asked, a headache had started forming from the amount I had slept in the past 24 hours.

Natsu shrugged his shoulders. "It was me, you and her when I woke up." He motioned towards the door behind us. "The door wont open either."

"This is so weird." I muttered to myself.

"You're telling me!" Natsu smiled. I don't know how someone can be so happy in a situation like this. I wish I had his optimism.

"Ughhd" Juvia stirred before lifting her head and scanning the room. "Gray-Sama?" She muttered before the realisation hit her and she jumped up onto her feet. "Where is Juvia's Gray-Sama?"

No one answered.

We stood there in silence for a couple minutes -wondering what to do- when the door clicked and swung open. Natsu darted towards the door shouting a nonsensical hurray of some sort. Me and Juvia followed him silently.

I was expecting for the door to lead to the garden type room but instead it was a classroom. A completely ordinary classroom. There were three desks positioned in front of a blackboard. The chairs behind the desks were weird and had two curved metallic pieces jutting out from the back. I guess it was a take on a modern chair or something. A door was next to the chalkboard. Natsu walked over and jostled the handle and cursed under his breath. "Shit. No luck."

I walked over to the desks and our names were on little cards sitting neatly on the surface, which I'm guessing meant we had to sit down in the correct desks.

"What the hell is this!" Natsu shouted picking up his name card. Juvia picked up her own and examined it carefully.

"I think we have to sit down." I sat down in my chair and rested my arms on the desk. I tried to act calm and collected but inside I was kicking and screaming to get out of here. The others followed me in sitting down in their own chairs and a loud whirring sound came from behind me. I went to turn around but the two metallic pieces had moved from the back to the front so they trapped me in the chair. I looked over to the others and the same thing had happened to them.

"The fuck is happening!" Natsu exclaimed. I attempted to wiggle free but it just resulted in the metal cutting into my arms which hurt like hell. Then the weirdest thing yet started happening.

The chalkboard started writing by itself. It looked like someone was definitely writing on it but if I was not mistaken there were only three people in the room and all of us were strapped onto chairs.

L

After a second or so after the letters were written on the blackboard the metallic strips moved back to the back on the chair and we were free. I rubbed my arms and walked up to the blackboard. I rubbed my hand over a letter and nothing happened. This was too weird.

"What does it mean?" Juvia asked, her eyebrows were knotted together in frustration. She had her finger up in the air and she kept pointing to each letter and mouthing them, no doubt to try and find out what it meant.

Natsu walked up the board and rubbed his chin. "Sksed eht rednu kool?" His pronunciation was a bit off from how I would've said it but there's no one way to pronounce random letters. Then a thought popped into my head from no where.

"Backwards?" I muttered. Juvia and Natsu shot their head's towards me, their mouths hanging slightly open.

"That's weird I just thought about that." Natsu said, a small laugh escaping his lips.

"Juvia too." Juvia sounded less enthusiastic about this. That was a seriously weird coincidence.

I looked at the board more carefully and spied myself a piece of chalk on the floor. I picked it up and began printing the letters out backward.

S

"Sweet!" Natsu exclaimed. He rushed to his desk and crawled under it. "Guys, there's a button under here! Check yours too!"

"Juvia would never be seen crawling under a desk!" She shrieked and crossed her arms over her chest. I walked past her and crouched. There was a giant black button under my desk too. "F-Fine! You guy's aren't looking at Juvia now so Juvia might as well." I rolled my eyes and pressed the button. A small beep sounded followed by another two. I stood back up and patted the dusk off my skirt.

The door clicked and swung open. Lucy, Gray, Gajeel and Erza walked in smiling. "You guys did it!" Lucy grinned.

"A door opened on our side but I thought it would be best to get you first." Erza said, I could tell she was trying hard not to smile but it kept crawling onto her face. Juvia had already ran off, grabbed Gray's arm and began squealing. Erza shot a glance at Juvia and coughed. "Well shall we get going?"

"Are you not going to explain what happened with you guys?" Natsu said, a look of confusion on his face.

"It's better if we explain it later." Gray said attempting to pry Juvia off of him. The three of us nodded our heads and followed the others through to the other room.

There was a window with 'LOOK UNDER THE DESKS' written on it, explaining why it was written backwards on the blackboard if the window was indeed one way. There was a small metal box next to the window. I stood there examining it for a second before Lucy beckoned me through one of two doors.

The door led back to the big white room with the words 'Delays-Ends-Veins' on the wall. We all stood in a circle-like huddle and Erza started explaining what the others had gone through but mid explanation a loud click interrupted her.

"Well done." A distorted voiced boomed out from somewhere. "You have all passed the first trial. That's one less trial before you all can leave." We all stayed silent. Lucy shot her head around probably trying to locate where the voice was coming from. "No response? That's fine." The voice let out a little laugh before erupting in a coughing fit.

"Why did you bring us here?" Erza shouted, to nowhere in particular.

"I had to complete my experiment and you lot fit the criteria." They had a certain cockiness in their voice; it made me dislike them straight away. "I take it you're wondering what this experiment is." They paused, no doubt for dramatic effect. "It's for mi..." They cut them selves off with another coughing fit. "I just had an amazing idea! For now, you guys don't need to worry your silly little heads about it but you will find out in your own time. Ciao!" The use of Italian there confused me a bit but I think they're just a bit eccentric. Wait... why am I focusing on the odd use of Italian! I should be focusing on the fact that I part of some sick freaks experiment!

"Hey!" Gajeel shouted, walking away from us. "What the fuck is this 'experiment'!" After there was no response, he grunted and punch the wall before he stormed out.

AN:

Short shitty chapter sorry. I had writers block and it didn't help that it's too freaking hot here in england but I might rewrite this chapter when it cools down cuz it seriously sucks. I also really just wanted to update it as it had been over a week or something and it needed updating but I will most likely re write this soon.

Also I get to go to comic con next week end! Super excited! I hope I see some hot Gray cosplayers :3

I'll hopefully upload sometime next week but after that it might take me a while since I'm going on holiday and I don't know if I'm going to bring my laptop or not. I probably will as I can't go 10 minutes not on it!

(Also if anything doesn't seem right please send me a message so I can correct it!)