I'm back with chapter 36. Please R&R and I shall see you at the bottom of the page.

POV: Lucy, Natsu, Lucy, Natsu

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail

The music is loud enough to leave me deaf with the beat pulsing like a giant's heart causing the whole building to shake with it. People are dancing below on the first floor while I sit and watch them from my seat on the second floor balcony table with no one else to make me company. Yukino had been with me earlier but ended up being lead away to dance by a guy that seemed all too familiar to me. He had blonde hair and piercing blue eyes that seemed to glow whenever he looked at Yukino. His costume consisted of a sabertooth tiger and the scar on his right eyebrow only made him look a bit ominous, but otherwise Yukino seemed all too eager to go and dance with him. I watched them dance for a bit before moving my gaze around and spotting the others as they either dance in partners in groups and at one point I even spot Cana dancing by herself looking completely drunk out of her mind.

Sighing, I close my eyes and place my cool hand to my warm forhead feeling out of breath with my heart racing a thousand miles an hour. About an hour ago I had been dancing with Erza when I suddenly got this intense feeling in the pit of my stomach that almost had me doubled over in pain. I had probably almost fainted when that awful feeling hit me causing Erza to hold onto me with a worried expression adorning her beautiful face. I had tried smiling it off but she had Gray help me up to our table and I've been here ever since trying to calm down and get better, but no matter how many deep breaths I took my heart would just not slow down. After a while Yukino had come to keep me company and we had amused ourselves by watching Erza forcibly make both Gray and Natsu dance with her no matter how much they complained. It was a funny sight, but I think I would have enjoyed it more if I wasn't feeling so bad.

After Yukino had left I started feeling uneasy and wanted anyone to come and stay by my side. My head even started throbbing and somehow it felt as if a storm were about to hit, but the skies outside could not have looked more clear when I had been out trick-or-treating with both Yukino and Wendy. My already healed arm even started to throb a bit with the idea of a weather change and I rub it feeling weird in not having my cast on anymore and somehow the thought of my previously broken arm sends a sharp chill down my spine leaving an unsettling feeling deep within me.

"Hey," Someone yells over the pounding music and I turn around when I feel a large warm hand press down on my shoulder lightly.

Turning to get a good look at the person I stare at them for what seems like a lifetime before I recognize the disguised boy in front of me, "K-Kageyama?" I ask, surprised, and he smiles wide while taking a seat next to me making my slight uncomfortable loneliness go away.

"Hey there Lucy," he says cheerfully , his smile not faltering making me feel more at ease by the second and I thank the higher power out there somewhere for sending him to me, "What are you doing here all by yourself?" he asks while looking around at the clearly empty table before looking back at me.

"Oh, umm, I got a bit tired so I came to rest for a bit," I lie with the brightest smile I can muster and he nods seeming to buy it. I mean, there's no reason to worry him when I am obviously fine, "So, I didn't that I'd be seeing you here," I say and he chuckles brightly. Seriously, every time I see this guy at school he's always smiling so happily and he's always so kind that if I could I would be suspicious around him, but he's given me no reason not to to trust him at all.

"I couldn't resist not coming," he says with his smile still beaming a thousand watts, "I mean, the chance of there being such gorgeous women like yourself around would be a harsh thing to pass." I instantly feel my cheeks burn up and I quickly look away to avoid him noticing my blush. It's still too dark for him to notice, but it's also embarrassing nonetheless.

Feeling my cheeks continue to burn, I spot Levy dancing below with Gajeel and I think it's absolutely adorable on how huge he is while she is petite. They couldn't have looked more cute together and it kind of takes me back to that time when Natsu and I had first had our suspicions of them both going out last year...

But I didn't know Natsu last year...

And hadn't Gajeel also killed Levy when we had been in Balsam Village?

"Do you want to dance?" Kageyama asks breaking me from my vicious thoughts.

I look at him as he looks back at me curiously and I nod mentally shaking my thoughts away feeling cold all over. His smile grows brighter, if that's even possible, and he offers his hand to me to which I accept gratefully as he leads me away from the table and down the short flight of stairs to the first floor. The entire walk down the steps I mentally pray that I don't trip and fall while we're dancing. That would be completely embarrassing.

"I swear, one day that woman is going to kill us fromexhaustion," Gray grumbles as we both quickly walk away from the dance floor and towards the stairs before anyone can catch up with us and take us out to dance again. After dancing with Lisanna, Cana, and Erza I've clearly had enough for one night, "Forcing us both to dance even though she knows that we don't like to dance and threatening our lives if we don't obey, who the hell does she think we are, her slaves?" Gray continues to rant, "It's just like when we were kids and she would boss us around whenever she felt like it. She hasn't changed once."

I roll my eyes at his pathetic complaining, "At least thank Makarov for not signing her up along with us. Imagine then how worse our jobs would be if she became in charge instead of Juvia," I say and he freezes seeming to be thinking the same thing as me.

"You're right," he says sounding relieved, "I will never question Juvia's methods ever again,"

Nodding, we continue to quickly make our way to the stairs and when we get there I look up in time to see Lucy coming down and unknowingly passing us with a guy I don't recognize laughing and smiling along with her. He's dressed as a werewolf with his face completely painted and a fake dog nose covering his own making it a bit hard to identify him. Even then I can't shake the feeling that I know him from somewhere but I can't seem to put my finger on it. They pass by us pretty quickly making it even harder to place a name to the guy and seeing Lucy's arm tucked safely in his arm makes my insides coil furiously and I just want to throw up. It feels like that time that I found Loke stealing a kiss, but instead of wanting to go and beat the crap out of the guy I just want to fall in a ditch and never come out. Ignoring my morbid thoughts, I turn around and race up the steps without a backwards glance at the retreating couple as Gray follows me without saying a word and I couldn't have been more thankful.

I'm only supposed to watch over her and protect her from the shadows without anything else in between. That's it. I have no right to get jealous over her dancing with another guy, especially when she doesn't belong to me or remembers me the way I wish she would.

But even so, jealousy set aside, I can't shake the feeling that there's something up with that guy that she's with.

We dance for three songs straight and all the while I feel perfectly fine. I don't trip once or fall over while dancing and after half of the first song Is over I quickly learn that Kageyama is a pretty good dancer and he doesn't hesitate to pull me in when a slow song suddenly starts playing. I let him twirl me around the dance floor along with the other couples around us as I try to keep my mind focused. He's been able to distract me from my uneasy feelings so far to the point where I completely forget all about it as he holds me tight and continues to lead me around and around to the smooth music.

Through the slow dance we pass by Gajeel and Levy who both send us questioning looks. Levy sends me more of a curious who's-the-cutie-you're-dancing-with kind of look while Gajeel sends a more who-the-hell-is-this-guy kind of threatening look that kind of has me worried. I stick out my tongue at them as we turn away from their sight and Kageyama looks down at me sending me a kind warm smile that just fills me with warmth. I turn to look away and suddenly I'm looking into a pair of hard amber eyes that seem to be following our every move with angry fixation. The glare that Natsu has on his face sends harsh chills down my spine and I can only wonder what has made him so angry. His arms are naturally crossed across his chest and after weeks of watching him from my seat in class I know that this is a sign that he's either bored or really really pissed off. Usually when he has his hands crossed across his chest it usually means he's trying to hold back from a fight or just really is bored, but the intensity of his gaze signifies the first option.

Kageyama follows my gaze up to where I'm looking and his smile disappears leaving behind a plain emotionless look. He then turns to look at me with his bright cheery smile back on and leans down close enough so that his lips are only inches away from my ear, "Hey Lucy,I need you to do me a favor," He says loud enough for only me to hear, his warm breath tickling my ear as I hold in the urge to shiver, and suddenly my stomach tightens sharply and all I want is to leave. Never do I ever expect Kageyama to say what he says next, "I need you to wake up."

I instantly feel myself freeze in his arms leaving us both standing in the middle of the dance floor. His words hold no special meaning in them and I don't understand what he's asking of me, but even then I can't help feel my stomach drop to the bottom of my body in dread as I continue to stand there with a dumb expression. I stare up at him, utterly confused, and I search his dark eyes for any hint of the joke that he's probably playing at. I mean, it is Halloween and it wouldn't be Halloween if someone didn't scare you, but this was beyond a simple prank, especially since he knows that some part of me that I don't understand is asleep. I want him to be joking, I want him to smile and laugh it off, but instead he looks down at me with a hard look and I've never been so scared of this boy who I met not too long ago. He had been sweet, kind, and fun to be around but the boy standing before me was a complete stranger and I don't know what to do.

"W-what do you mean that you need me to wake up? I'm clearly awake," I say feeling my mouth dry and his arms suddenly feel as if they're suffocating me and keeping me imprisoned like an unfortunate prisoner.

He finally smiles down at me, but it's not the happy-go-lucky smile that I had grown to know. The light, unlike before, doesn't reach his eyes and he couldn't have looked more sinister to me, "You silly girl," he purrs as he twirls me around without warning causing me to almost fall but he pulls me back in harshly and starts leading us around once again. He stays quiet for a few minutes before looking back down at me with the same dark smile, "I'm going to tell you a secret, my sweet Lucy. A secret that will surely help wake you up once and for all. It's also an answer to a question that you've been asking yourself for a really long time..."

And then the bells begin to blare.

The warning bells ring so loud in my head that I almost fall and cry out in pain, but Kageyama's hold on me is so tight that my hand even starts to go numb. A loud piercing voice cries out over and over again seeming to get louder and louder every single time and I instinctively want to get away from this strange man. He is dangerous and I can't believe that I was fooled into believing that he was good.

Don't accept answers when you haven't even asked a quesion, This sentence rings over and over in my head like a never ending mantra and my head sears in pain wanting to explode. The pain was like nothing I had ever experienced, and yet I somehow felt that I had known pain much greater than this, but where?

Squeezing Kageyama's shoulder with my left hand, I search around desperately to see if anyone could save be, but no one is looking at us. Then a face pops in my head and I search feverently again with one name on the tip of my tongue, Natsu. I needed to find Natsu because somehow I just knew that he would come and save me. He'll make the bells stop blaring, he'll silence the incessant voice, and he'll also make the eyes go away...

Kageyama turns me round and roughly clutches onto my shoulders to keep me in place as I look around confused. It doesn't take me long to see that he has me looking up at where Natsu is sitting with his back facing us up on the second balcony and my heart throbs at the sight of his back to me. The sight causes tears to burn the backs of my eyes but I hold them in not wanting show weakness in front of Kageyama. It didn't matter that Natsu had his back to me, he would always be able to hear me scream...

"He's a liar Lucy," Kageyama's cold dark voice whispers in my ears and my heart stutters in paralyzing fear. My whole body is as cold as ice and the defeating dread I've been suppressing seems to be creeping up and wanting to take over me to leave me completely helpless and it's getting so hard to stay strong. Kageyama's words also don't help but make me see Natsu as a traitor even when he's only said so little. Somehow him calling Natsu a liar seems to be right, "He promised to catch you if you were ever to fall, but when you fell he wasn't there to catch you," I feel myself stiffen and a single tear finally escapes as if rushes down my cheek and hits my overflowing dress, "He also promised to make the eyes go away," I flinch as if he just slapped me and all I want is for him to shut up, why can't he just shut up? "But the eyes never left, no, the eyes are still very much there."

I look around, my heart hammering against my chest and it's so hard to breathe and I can't believe that I'm not gasping like a fish out of water. My terrified eyes scan the room and sure enough, they are everywhere.

They're on the dance floor, up on the balcony, in the decorations hanging everywhere, and most of all they all. Looking. At. ME!

He had said that they would be gone and I would no longer have to fear them, but they were still there and they were still watching me, and he was nothing more than another liar.

Always know that you're being watched.

"Wake up Lucy Heartfilia," with those final horrible words I turn and push my way through the thick crowd of monsters only thinking of one thing.

I need to get away.

Sighing, I look back down at the dance floor after I've somewhat cooled my head a little feeling much more relaxed after holding my breath for more than a minute. I don't know why I'm so angry but I need to get my head under control. The last thing I need is to lose my temper and start a fight that will untlimately destroy Max's party... again. Yes, I'm a destructive force waiting to happen. It's been like that since I was a kid. You can ask Gray and Erza about it and they'll surely testify on it.

Looking back down I immediately spot Lucy among the crowd, but she's not dancing like I thought she would be with that werewolf guy. In fact, he isn't anywhere in sight and Lucy is pushing her way through the crowd of dancers. Her movements look desperate and by the way some of the people caught in her path are looking at her I can already tell that something is wrong.

Once she's free from the hold of the crowd she makes a mad dash towards the main exit of the building and stops under the doorway before she looks back and her eyes catch mine. At first she looks confused and there's tears streaming down her eyes, but once she recognizes me looking at her, her gaze immediately turns dark and the glare she shoots at me leaves a bad taste in my mouth. She then turns and disappears into the cold night outside.

"Something's wrong," I growl as I turn to Juvia who is at my side and looking down at the place that Lucy just disappeared from. Her emotionless gaze seems to be calculating on what could be wrong, "I'm going after her," I say as I start to jump over the railing. Unfortunately Gray grabs a hold of my tail and pulls me back down right before I jump causing me to fall onto the floor.

"Are you insane?! There's far too many witnesses around to be jumping off of a second story balcony and into a sea of dancing teenagers." Gray yells down at me, "Run down the stairs like a normal person."

"But hurry," Juvia insists as she helps me up before pushing me towards the stairs, "I have a bad feeling about his and you need to get to Lucy before anything bad happens to her. Gray and I shall go and look for Gajeel and we'll all meet up with you as soon as we can."

I nod and instantly dash down the stairs and towards the exit while pushing people out of my way without apologizing as I do so.

Please don't let this be another damsel-in-distress kind of scenario.

I swear that Hiro Mashima has just torn my heart out of my chest, smashed it into little pieces, and shoved the broken shards back into my chest. How dare he mess with my heart and drag it around like a rag doll. I am furious beyond words and I have cried my eyes out for a few days now. If you don't know what I'm talking about then read the manga, better yet, don't read it. It'll save you a massive heart ache. For those of you who've already read the recent chapters, tell me what you think.

Anywho *takes deep breath* now that I've got that out of my chest I hope that you liked this chapter. It may possibly be the longest chapter that I've ever written, I'm too sure just yet, but it is filled to the brim with suspense that I hope you all enjoy. We're finally getting places and it wont be too long before Lucy finally remembers. It should be in the upcoming chapters and boy is she going to be MAD! Well, I guess we'll all just have to wait and see.

On a random note, because I feel really chatty today, I just recently got the app for trivia crack. It's a lot of fun and it's cool how you can suggest questions and then have people rate your questions to see if they make it into the game. Well I started rating people's questions and there are a few Fairy Tail related questions on there that got me super excited and I just wanted to share that because, you know, I can.

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