Author's note: Alright! Chapter 7! I don't have much to say today but here is the new chapter!

Chapter 7: Battle On The Blood Moon: Part 2

Levy watched with fear as Gajeel stood between her and the other zombie. The effect of The Blood Moon was shining in his red eyes. He looked at the zombie and Levy. It looked like to Levy one of those stand offs she would read about. The suspense was literally killing her.

What is he going to do? She asked herself. Suddenly, Gajeel began to grab his head and scream. It was like he was fighting The Blood Moon. What's going on? His screams continued until suddenly; the other zombie began to strike out at Levy. But Gajeel took the strike for her. He turned his arm into pure Iron.

"S-she's mine!" he screamed. He threw the other zombie across the guild hall. It looked like to Levy the pain he was suffering had subsided. Although he was still clutching the side his head.

"I'm going to grab more bullets!" she screamed "Cover me!" Gajeel nodded. He ran and took a strike at any zombie who dared to get near him or Levy. Levy soon managed to grab enough magic bullets and rushed to the battle field. She shot at any zombie (except Gajeel) who dared looked at her. She slipped away to go find Jet and Droy.

"Guys!" Levy screamed.

"Levy!" They screamed happily.

"Levy," Jet said while shooting at a zombie "I know this isn't the time, but we're sorry about how we acted with that zombie."

"If it weren't for you, we won't be able to have a cure. Best part is; things can go back to normal soon!" said Droy. Levy smiled at the comment. It was true, in a few days the lab results would come back; they would find the source of The Virus and find a main ingredient for The Cure. Then, instead of this mindless "killing" they had to do, they can administer The Cure to every zombie in Magnolia and the rest of Fiore and life can return to normal. But the first (as Levy promised) to receive The Cure would be Gajeel.

"Thank you guys," Levy said with a smile "I forgive you guys. Now! Cover me! I'm going for the big guns!" They stood near her with their backs facing each side and shot at each zombie that got in their way. Levy pulled out from a secret compartment in her left pant leg a magic 416 Assault Rifle. Levy began her assault on the zombies while Jet and Droy covered for her.

Gajeel was fighting away at the zombie who dared get near him or Levy. Although The Blood Moon was still trying to take a hostile control over him, he still felt that urge to protect Levy. As he fought he could hear a voice in his head speak to him:

"So, you're betraying your own kind, huh Gajeel?" said the voice "Your weaker than you appear to be. Protecting a girl? Especially on The Blood Moon, the time for you to kill!"

S-shut u-up. Gajeel croaked out in his head while hitting another zombie.

"Honestly, I never would have imagined it would be a girl that would break you free. Tsk tsk." The voice continued. "Seems to me she's going to be a problem; I can't allow that to happen."

Levy was fighting as many zombies as possible. The Strauss sisters took their Take Over forms and fought many zombies. Everyone fought with all their heart and soul. Levy began to fight when suddenly; she felt something grab her by the scruff of her shirt. Levy looked behind her and couldn't believe it. It was The Bad Zombie. She began to scramble in order to get away. She needed to get away. She had to! The Bad Zombie pulled her up to his face. And stared at her; face to face.

"Well look what we have here." smiled the zombie "The little Fairy who got away." Levy stared at him, wide-eyed from shock.

"Y-you can talk?" she asked.

"Of course I can. I only pretend to be as mindless as the others. While these zombies have a speech impediment, I can speak freely, Thanks to the Master."

"T-the Master?" Levy questioned.

"I've said too much. Let's play a game Fairy. I let you go and you try to run away or defeat me. If you do either, you win. If you fail, I get to kill you." He smiled an evil grin showing off the blood stains on his teeth. He dropped Levy on the ground at that moment "You have two minutes to get the hell out of my sight." Levy looked at the zombie with shock. She needed to find Gajeel. But with all this fighting, it was going to be difficult. He blended in so well with the other zombies. She scrambled to her feet and began to run in the direction she last saw Gajeel.

"Gajeel!" she screamed "GAJEEL!" she blended into the crowd of her friends and began her frantic search.

"Levy, watch where you're going!" Erza screamed "You're going to get killed!" she shot at a few zombies.

"I have to find Gajeel!" Levy screamed.

"You can look for your zombie boyfriend later! Fight now!" Levy's whole face turned as red as Erza's hair.

"H-he's not my boyfriend!" Levy screamed.

"Yeah, right." Levy couldn't argue with her at this moment. She had a minute left and was running out of time. She ran as fast as she could while searching for him all over the battlefield. Suddenly, Levy spotted him. He was fighting off another zombie. Levy smiled. Her search was over. There he was. She was about to run to him when she felt something grab the collar of her shirt; The Bad Zombie.

"Times up." He smiled evilly.

"It was only a minute!" Levy screamed.

"Not by my standards. You should of known better little fairy." He held up his sharpened fingernail and put it near Levy's throat "Say your prayers Fairy." Levy screamed on the top of her lungs.

"GAJEEL!" she screamed. An iron club hit the zombie and at that moment, The Bad Zombie let Levy drop into Gajeel's arms, bridal style. Levy smiled at the zombified dragon slayer. She was so happy to see him. But Levy noticed the look in his eyes. The Blood Moon was taking complete control.

"Gajeel?" she asked. Gajeel began to growl a feral growl. Levy looked at him. Oh no. She thought. She jumped out of his arms and began to run for it. He chased after her while she ran. Gajeel was after her. His arm turned into a chainsaw and was swiping anything in its path just so it can get closer to her.

"That's it Gajeel." Said the voice from earlier "Go for her, she's a nuisance anyway."

"STOP!"Gajeel struggled in his head "W-who a-are you?"

"That's for me to know and you to never find out. Now kill her."

Levy was running for her life. She never had seen Gajeel act like this before. If she didn't do anything quick, she was a goner. She ran to the weapons rack in the back of the guild and found something that could help her out big time; a magic Taser. One with a Lighting lacrima built in it. She grabbed it but soon felt an arm wrap around her waist. Gajeel found her.

"Glad you found me." She said with a smirk "Cause then I can do this!" at that moment, she activated the magic Taser and shocked Gajeel. It had a major effect on him, but he was still standing. He lunged at her, knocking her on the ground.

"Gajeel this isn't like you!" Levy screamed "Don't you recognize me? It's me! Levy, your Mate!"

"You really think he can hear you?" said another voice. It was the bad zombie "The Blood Moon makes him delirious with blood lust. Me, it empowers. But for him; heh, let's say you won't be around to find out." Gajeel then raised his arm and turned it into a sword. Levy looked in horror. She never imagined it would end like this. He lowered it at a fast pace but it missed. Levy was stunned. Gajeel was still fighting.

"Sh-shrimp." He struggled "Run." He screamed in pain again while he tried to fight The Blood Moon. Eventually, he passed out.

"Hmm, he's more of a fighter than I expected." The Bad zombie said "Oh well. I'll kill you instead." He got closer to Levy when suddenly; he looked out the window "Crap! The sun's rising!" he got up, dusted himself off and said "We'll meet again Fairy. This isn't over." He gave her another blood stained grin and said "See you next Blood Moon." He then left along with the other zombies who were retreating from the fight. Levy gulped when she heard that. She has never been so frightened in her entire life. The guild began to notice the zombies leaving and celebrated. The night of nightmares was over. They won by default.

Gajeel began to stir sometime after they left. He looked around and noticed Levy was still pinned under him.

"Shrimp!" he said in a happy tone. He then attacked Levy with a huge amount of affection "S-sorry." He kept on chanting.

"Gajeel, you didn't do anything wrong." Levy said "You were just under The Blood Moon. It wasn't your fault." He gave her a hug which she surprisingly returned "Come on, let's go check the damage."

They walked throughout the guild and helped those who were injured. Wendy was busy healing all the major wounds with her healing magic while Porlyusica used a salve that prevented infections. Levy only had a few scratches and bruises but otherwise she was fine. They found a spot that wasn't heavily damaged and sat down. Gajeel held Levy in his arms and continued to kiss her while Levy began to wonder about the words The Bad Zombie said The Master she thought who is that? Could they be behind what's going on? Maybe Gajeel can give me some light on it. An hour after settling down, Makarov and Erza walked over to the damaged stage and spoke.

"My children," Makarov began "last night was a very hard night. But like always, we managed to break through it!" The guild cheered. It was great to hear it "I have some good news and bad news. The good news is, besides a few injuries, some broken bones, concussions and internal bleeding that was fixed right away, no one was bitten or killed." The guild cheered at those words. They made it out alive.

"Master," Lisanna suddenly asked "what's the bad news?" There was a moment of silence. Makarov looked as if he was struggling to say the bad news. Instead, Erza said it.

"As you can see, the guild received heavy damage." She began "One room in the guild received the most damage; the basement."

"My booze isn't all gone is it?!" Cana screamed.

"Only one barrel but the rest is fine. Most of the damage was on the machines. Some of them don't even work anymore. What was mostly destroyed was The Research." There was a pregnant silence in the room.

"Erza," Lucy asked "What are you saying?"

"It pains me to say this but, all of our research is gone. As of right now, we have no cure or any chances of making one."

Levy felt a pain go through her chest. Gajeel grabbed her before she could pass out. Almost three months of research was gone.