Fake?

Levy's POV

We opened the guild's doors and were shocked at the state everyone was in. The entire guild had a gloomy and regretful atmosphere and the pressure was thick enough that it was hard to breathe.

"Hey master! What happened here?" I yelled but got no reply. I walked up to mirajane and she instantly broke down crying.

"Hey what's wrong what happened?" Lucy asked her looking around.

"I'm so sorry Lucy-san. I don't know what came over me to act that way towards you for all those years."She said bowing her head. Erza and the rest of team Natsu walked up to us with solemn looks on their faces.

"Luce we are really sorry about what we did to you. We don't know what came over us all of us said the same thing about us having no control our bodies over the past three years. The last thing I remember is us asking you to go on a mission with us but you had gotten sick so we went back to the guild , but Wendy wanted to stay with you. Please believe us!" Gray said with a pleading look.

"Yeah and shrimp remember you were out on a mission by yourself deciphering some ancient texts with Juvia." Gajeel said walking up to us.

"Wait does that mean a spell was cast on the entire guild, except for master and Laxus who were out that day along with us! But then who would want to exclude us and only cast a spell on you guys?" Lucy said looking around. 'That's the thing who would do something like this, but a spell like this would require a lot of energy and whoever did it must have planned it or else why would a spell as powerful as this ware off right as we entered the guild.' I thought walking around and remember feeling a trace of magic leave from this place.

"The only people who weren't affected by the spell were us, Wendy, Juvia, master, and Laxus. But we all were away when the spell was placed so it would have been done by someone else close to us and would have known we were going to be out that day. There are five conclusions I've come up with. One all of us are under a spell just two different ones, two, this is just a dream/fake world, three, someone we know placed the spell on you and we just don't know it, four, there is more than one spell in affect on you guys , and five there's an unknown third party that we know but not good enough. I doubt there is a third party but we should still be on guard and if it was someone we knew only the people that didn't have the spell placed on them would be suspects, I've already ruled out the possibility of it being a fake world or dream because if it was the pain I'm feeling right now," I explained grabbing a knife from behind the bar counter and slicing my hand to prove my point." wouldn't be real and if it was a fake world I would be able to feel the distortion in the air every time powerful magic is used, and if there is another spell on us then that would be very easy to figure out." Everyone stared at my long explanation of the situation but I was busy trying to figure out the situation so I paid them no mind.

"There are only a few people I know that's would have the power to put up a spell like that but the question is why suddenly take it down?" Lucy asked looking at me. I grabbed her arm and dragged her into master's office.

"What if he/she didn't mean to dispel the magic placed on the guild. This is just a theory but what if Zeref's outburst was so powerful that it destroyed the spell but disappeared quick enough that the guild member's didn't sense any traces of dark magic." I told her pacing the room.

"That could be it which brings us back to the question of who? Either the mage was weaker than Zeref or the amount of magic they put into the spell was weak, but the only people of suspicion would be Onyx and mother. They are the only ones I know that could cast a large scale spell like this one." Lucy informed sitting down in master's chair and laying her head in her hands.

"It wasn't Onyx. She would never do something like this to us. If anything I know she would rather die than cause us pain don't suspect her." I said in a stern voice.

"Look Levy I know you and Onyx have a special kind of bond after all the time you spent together, but we can't rule out the possibility that she could be working with the culprit or is actually the culprit herself." Lucy said.

"No! It wasn't her. Do you think I'm lying? Lucifer I swear that Onyx isn't apart of this. She doesn't use that kind of magic also I would have smelt her lies and felt her heart rate increase." I yelled.

"You don't know that! She could be good at covering her tracks and we wouldn't know until she made a mistake. She can't go against us but ultimately she takes orders from the queen and king. Leviathan, please you have to remove your personal ties with her for this small moment and take in the possibility that she might know something. I hope It isn't Onyx either and that she has nothing to do with this but if she is there is nothing we can do about it." Lucy argued raising her voice. 'No, I know it isn't her I just feel it but I don't have any proof. I need proof that I'm right but how? Wait, the king and queen. Mother!'

"What if your right and she did play a part in this but what is her motive?" I asked her placing my hands on the desk in front of her.

"What?" She asked confused at my sudden answer.

"There's no motive. No reason of why she would put all this together unless someone was framing her or she was ordered to by the queen." I explained my head filling with different possibilities.

"Are you saying that mother did this?" Lucy questioned looking at me quizzicaly.

"I'm not saying she did but there is that possibility. Onyx may have the right to talk to the queen normally and scold her when wrong but in the long run as long as father doesn't know anything mother can order Onyx to do anything and she couldn't object to it." I stated.

"But why would mother do this; what does she hope to gain?" Lucy asked pinching the bridge of her nose.

"Entertainment. Knowledge. I mean she's been locked up in that castle with nothing but work to do and when she finally gets out don't you think she'd want to have fun? She hasn't seen her daughter's in so long maybe she wants to test how strong they are and if they're ready to lead an entire kingdom." I replied.

Lucy's POV

'This is weird. I am following everything Levy is saying without my brain crashing but something still doesn't seem right.'

"But for three years. How did she manage to keep up a spell like that only for it to be taken down by Zeref's tiny outburst of dark magic?" I asked still not feeling right about it.

"Spells like this can stay up for a long time no matter how far away the caster is, but it will ware down after time. The magic I felt earlier that left the guild didn't feel like mother's I admit but it's the only thing we can go on for now." Levy answered heading towards the door.

"Lets keep this from the guild and Wendy for a while until we are for sure and look into this ourselves, but first we need to find them." I said following her out. 'I know that this is the only thing we have to go on right now but I feel like there's more to it than what we know.'