My mind was foggy as I drifted in the darkness that was my mind. My body hurt all over, as if someone, or something had torn me from it. But I smelled her, in the darkness, I knew she was there, the one thing that could save me from this hell I was in.

"Blon-die," I said softly to myself as I realised her scent fade. "Don't leave me," I added when her scent completely left me, leaving me alone in the darkness. My fear beginning to take control of my body again.

Breathing became difficult as I floated onward. The pain was all I could think about, and Lucy's scent. She left me alone again, left me in the darkness that was loneliness.

"It took me so long, to find myself again," her voice reached me, even though her scent was long gone.

"Where did you go," I asked softly, but no one answered. There was only silence in the place. "Lucy, please, don't leave me here," I said softly. Then I saw her face, the woman who promised me love, the woman who promised I would never feel the pain Lucy put me through.

"I won't leave you here, Laxus," her voice was soft, and sweet, but now I knew better. Her voice, her soft, sweet voice, was just a lie of her true intentions. "I won't let you be alone in this darkness," she held her hand out, as if to help me out of the darkness, out of the hole of loneliness I had found myself in. But I only saw more darkness past her, but my heart said I could trust her, but I knew, I knew it was all a lie, a facade of what she really was. But, why would my heart lie to me.

I reached for her hand, even though I didn't want to. "It's hard to be alone like this, Laxus," her voice was drawing me in, like it had done many times before, a false sense of hope that I would finally be freed from the darkness, the depression, the loneliness that had plagued me since that day.

"Come with me, and let me take you out of this darkness," our hands were mere inches from each other. "Let me make you my pet," she added just as our fingers brushed each other. I quickly retracted my hand, but it was already too late, she had her hold on me.

"No," I gasped, I couldn't breath. Everything was becoming darker, she was pulling me deeper into the one thing I was wanting to escape. I struggled, using all my strength to escape her cold, icy grip that had been ingrained into my mind since she first touched me.

"Laxus, I'm sorry," her voice reached me again, and I could breath again. I felt tears prickle my eyes, she was sorry. She told me she was sorry. For a second I could smell her faint scent on me, and the pain she inflicted on me. But she was sorry. She was sorry.

"You don't have to be sorry," I said softly as the cold grip tightened on me, and wrapped me in it's cold, lonely darkness. "It should be me, apologizing, Lucy," I couldn't breath anymore as I gasped out her name. The name I never called her, the name that she insisted I called her but never did. "I'm sorry, I couldn't help you," my vision was going blurry from lack of air. "Couldn't help you, be who you are," I reached my arm out, only to feel the cold embrace that was the person who was suppose to save me from my loneliness.

Then I felt a spark of warmth, and I grabbed onto the warmth as tightly as I could. I was tired of being cold, and alone. Tired of being lied to, and led around as a pet with no free will. That warmth, my heart wanted to reject, my heart sought the refuge of the cold, darkness that I was already embraced in.

"She will only hurt you again," she said, her voice was no longer soft and sweet but cold and harsh, like it usually was when she spoke to me in the privacy of our room. My body began to hurt again, was it the warmth that cause all the pain.

"She left you alone, after all you've done," the voice was trying to show me reason, but I still held on tightly to the warmth my hand felt, the only warmth I felt in a long time. Her scent entered my nose, and I could hear her soft laughter.

"She will only bring more pain," she was trying to pull me back into the darkness, but the warmth kept me still, kept the cold from taking my body yet again.

"Laxus, I'm sorry," her voice rang out, and the warmth spread to cover my forearm instead of just my hand. My heart was still rejecting the apology, but my mind knew what she said was genuine.

"She's not sorry," my heart wanted that voice, the voice that had only lied to it. The voice that had left it in the cold, and darkness for so long.

"You, will no longer control me," I breathed out, the warmth spread to my entire arm. I could again breathe, and I could feel the pain. "You will no longer lie to me," half of my chest was warm, and filled with pain. "I will no longer let you control my heart, and my feelings," I felt the warmth finally reach my heart, and the rest of my body.

It was the warmth I had been craving since she first left me, the warmth of love, the warmth of care, the warmth of another person who understood.

I knew it was the warmth that only Lucy could give me.

The darkness faded, and was replaced with a field, filled with pastel colored flowers, and green grass. The sky looked as if there was a storm coming, but it didn't bother me. The smell of the oncoming rain and electricity calmed my mind, and body.

In front of me stood a shadow, it's hand extended towards me as if I would still join it. "She will only cause more pain," the voice was no longer human. As if on cue I felt the pain of my body, but even that didn't bother me.

Thunder cracked, and the shadow cringed in fear of it. A light rain began to fall, but the sun never truly faded from the sky, leaving the land only slightly darker than before.

"I will survive that pain on my own then," I said sternly as another crack of thunder sounded, sending the shadow away from the land.

My eyes fluttered opened, and I saw the rubble I layed in, my body was in as much, if not more pain than last time I fought an S class wizard. After several long moments of struggling, I managed to free myself from the rubble, and stumbled towards all the fighting I heard.

For anybody wondering, this is Laxus POV.