Wow, this story is almost over, anyone excited? I hope so, because most of the questions you're asking yourself now, will likely be answered in this chapter. Enjoy! :)
Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail.
(In the forest where Lucy and Natsu are)
"Wendy, stay with us!" Natsu begged as he ran faster.
"Wendy, are you still awake?" Lucy asked as she tried to keep up with Natsu's insane speed.
"Mm.." Wendy nodded tiredly.
"Okay, good. Don't fall asleep, okay? You need to stay awake until we get to the hospital." Lucy declared, knowing if Wendy fell asleep, she would most likely die.
"Uh-huh.." Wendy said in a quiet voice. Although she was tired, if she fell asleep, she wouldn't be able to help Natsu and Lucy with their case. Apparently, Wendy found out some interesting things, but at the moment her head was aching and she couldn't think straight.
Finally, Natsu sighed in relief when he saw his oh-so-precious guild. After all, the hospital was really far away from here, and he just had to hope that someone knew something about this medical mumbo jumbo.
"Need help?" Mira asked, accidentally frightening Lucy and Natsu.
"Oh, it's just you, Mira. You really scared us." Lucy laughed.
"Definitely, anyway, did you just say you could help Wendy? Because she got really injured..." Natsu asked with high hopes as he gazed down at Wendy's wound.
"Of course.." Mira nodded in reply as tears dripped down her cheeks. And she whispered ever so softly to Wendy. "I'm so sorry this happened to you.."
(Where Erza is)
Erza stirred in a hyper manner when she heard the echoing of footsteps. It sounded so similiar to their leader's footsteps, but Erza wasn't sure if it was the leader or not. Finally, the echo stopped, leaving Erza scared for her life. No sound and no sight, due to the blind-fold covering her eyes, all she had at the moment was the ability to hear, smell, feel, and taste. But she couldn't really taste her way out of this.
"Erza.." A man's voice called, though it was probably just the voice changer's voice.
"Who's there?" Erza asked, shifting around fearfully.
"It doesn't matter who it is. I need you to tell me everything about your "plan"." The voice emphasized, causing Erza to make her eyes widen into a nervous breakdown.
What was she supposed to say? If she was caught..wait! This could be her chance to save Wendy. She gulped down her fear, and gained some of her courage back for Wendy's sake. She then cleared her throat and began to speak.
"I was going to tell everything I know about this case to Natsu and Lucy. Though, I didn't have too much information about it, so I..forced..Wendy to help me." Erza lied, though she hoped the voice couldn't tell she was lying.
"You forced her to help you?" The voice asked to make sure of this.
"..Yes..I forced her.." Erza answered.
"How did you force her to do this?" The voice questioned with disbelief.
"I told her if she didn't help me, I would frame her for everything I did." Erza replied, hoping that the lie worked on the voice.
"I see..continue explaining the plan." The voice demanded in an oddly soft tone.
"Anyway, after a few threats, she agreed to help me. So, I told her the plan, which was; Distract the tattlers, while I give Natsu and Lucy the information they need to know. In order to give them the right amount of answers, I had Wendy ask the tattlers the same questions Lucy and Natsu asked. Though, I couldn't give them all the answers they needed due to the fact that the tattlers and I didn't know the answers." Erza explained some more.
"Is there any more to this plan?" The voice questioned.
"Yes. In order for us to not seem too suspicious, I told Wendy to alarm me with a time limit-." Erza started explaining, but the voice cut her off.
"How could Wendy alarm you? Are you not giving me all the info to this plan?" The voice asked, now in an angry tone.
"No, that's not it. Me and Wendy had devices to help us communicate. I gave her a speaking device, and I got a hearing device." Erza answered, trying to quell the voice's anger.
"I see..continue." The voice urged.
"To make this short. Wendy distracted the tattlers, and asked them the same questions Natsu and Lucy asked me. In order to communicate with me, she talked to me with the speaking device while I used a hearing device. When it seems like the tattlers are getting suspicious, Wendy would send me a time alarm to show me it's time up." Erza finished explaining.
"I understand your plan, but why, why did you do it?" The voice queried, wondering why Erza disobeyed the leader's wishes.
"..Because..I want the leader to be found out..." Erza answered.
(In the storage room for drinks)
"Mm.." Wendy moaned tiredly as she rubbed her eyes. "Huh? I'm alive?"
"Yes." Mira replied as she squeezed some blood out of Wendy's washcloth. "Here, you look hot."
"Thank you." Wendy smiled and rubbed it on her forehead.
"Do you feel better?" Mira asked with a concerned tone.
"Yes, I assume you took care of my wound?" Wendy questioned curiously, wanting to know if Mira healed her.
"Indeed I did.." Mira smiled sweetly in reply.
"Thank you very much." Wendy said after putting down the now warm washcloth.
"No problem.." Mira smiled more, though her voice was shaky, as if she had been crying not too long ago. In fact..her cheeks were tear-stained and her eyes were really red.
"Mira.." Wendy started to say, but Mira quickly noticed Wendy's realization to her tears.
"Ah! Darn allergy season!" Mira laughed, trying to cut off Wendy's worries for her. "Here, have this pill."
"Is this a pain-killer?" Wendy asked, eyeing the oddly cool, green color.
"Yup. I hope you feel better soon." Mira said and began to walk out of the room. "After you swallow the pill, you can come over to my house and I'll have cookies ready for you."
"Really!?" Wendy asked excitedly and rushed to get a glass of water to gulp down the pill.
"Haha, of course~!" Mira replied with a real smile and walked to her house to get the cookies ready.
"Cup..cup.." Wendy repeated as she looked for just about any kind of cup.
(Back to Erza)
"GAHH!" Erza yelped in pain after being stricken by a whip.
"Nobody will ever find out who killed Jazzie! NOBODY!" The voice shouted and hit her once more, but harder.
"KEH! Ha...ha..gah.." Erza coughed, spitting out some blobs of blood aimlessly. She grinned even in pain and spoke to spite the voice. "I don't...hah..ah..care..what you say..the murderer..hah..will be found out.."
Erza heard odd movement, and got prepared for another hit, but oddly enough, she felt nothing. Apparently, unknown before by Erza, the voice dropped itself on the ground and..wept? The voice sniffled endlessly as tears rushed down its cheeks. Erza listened, feeling bad for the voice.
"I'm so sorry...I'm so sorry..." The voice wailed and got up quickly. "I'll..be back.."
Erza sat there, shivering in fear. The voice had left, and more importantly, the voice had wept for her. What was going on here? Erza's eyelids began to close instinctively, and she grew tired.
"I'm..so..sleepy.." Erza said softly as she slumped down and closed her eyes. She wondered why the voice cried for her..why would it? Did it feel bad? Was the voice really coming back?
As Erza began to fell asleep, her eyes drooped down slowly as she saw a bright light.
"..It's so..warm.." Erza said, getting closer to the light.
(Back to Wendy)
Wendy gulped down the pill giddily as she thought of the cookies Mira made for her.
"I wonder what kind of cookies Mira made?" Wendy thought, smiling brightly as she hoped they was chocolate chip.
Wendy then walked out of the room, skipping out of the storage room. She was stopped abruptly after hitting a wall, face-first. She retaliated quickly and got up, her eyes fixed onto the wall she ran into. Her head cocked to the left once she saw something odd about the wall.
"Is that..a rip?" Wendy asked herself and began ripping at it more.
When she was ripping it more off the wall, she noticed something really odd. It was..really easy...too easy. After she ripped off the rest of the wallpaper on the wall, she saw the hole was in the shape of a door. With an even further analysis, Wendy realized that this..was a passage way.
"There's more rooms? That's odd.." Wendy said skeptically and walked in. "I don't think it would hurt to check things out..after all, there might be some clues in here."
She walked further into the room, seeing multiple doors. She wasn't sure if she should go inside any of the rooms, but she came in here to find clues, so she felt like she had to. She went a little farther, and then stopped right in front of a door after she saw blood on the floor, with the corner of her eye.
"There's some blood under this door..is there someone in here?" Wendy thought aloud, instantly thinking of Erza. "She might be in trouble.."
Wendy swallowed her fear down for the sake of her friend, and ran into the room without a second thought.
As soon as the door was opened, she saw blood all over the room, and a passed out Erza. Her heart stopped for a moment due to the horrible shock that raged through her. She began to step closer to her knocked out friend, even though she was scared for a minute, she had to see if Erza was okay.
"Erza..Erza!" Wendy repeated, hoping to reach her thoughts.
"Erza..that's me, isn't it?" Erza said in her thoughts as she was being drawn closer to the light. "I wonder why they're calling me.."
"ERZA! PLEASE! LISTEN TO ME!" Wendy screamed as she frantically shook her. "ERZAAAAA~!"
"Tears..someone's crying for me..I wonder who.." Erza said in her thoughts as she was one step closer to the light.
"ERZA! DON'T LEAVE ME!" Wendy shouted as tears flew down her cheeks. "WAKE-!"
Wendy's pulse stopped, hindering her from waking up Erza. Her throat began to close up, and she choked up as she began to slowly lie on the floor.
"Er..za.." Wendy said once more and then fell to the ground. "Please..wake..up.."
The teary-eyed sky dragon mage then closed her eyes, and the light began to surround her.
Just to make things clear, the light is a way of saying that the person is about to die.
Yeah, I'm going to leave you in utter suspense, again.