"You can't be serious. You can't go." Natsu told Erza as they hid behind a desk with Erza holding a spear made out of cardboard.
"I have to. No one stands oppose to this knight." Erza said as she stood up. "I'm going to..." She stopped when she saw a camera aimed at her. "I... I'm not afraid... I... I'm Knightwalker..."
"Cut!" Gray called as he acted like a director. "Erza, we're burning daylight and running out of time. This is the millionth time we had to do this shoot."
"Fourteen to be exact." Cana said as she was in charge of the clipboard.
"Erza, I gave you the benefit of the doubt, but the competition is coming and we still have a lot of work to do." Gray said. Lucy's class is entering in a film making competition. There film is about a a strong female warrior that goes by Knightwalker. Erza's suppose to play that part of Knightwalker, but she has a serious case of stage fright whenever she sees the camera.
"It's okay, Erza. When you don't look in the camera, you're doing great." Jellal said to try and support his girlfriend.
"As if." Taylor said as she was the only one not being supportive. "What kind of actress can't act in front of the camera? She loves the theater, but she can't even perform? You really thought you could do this? How pathetic and ridiculous, utterly ridiculous." She really got to Erza there. Erza loves performing and theater, but she's too scared to actually perform.
"Taylor, that's not nice." Natsu said, but Taylor just brushed it off.
"I'm sorry, but I need a moment." Erza said as she walked out of the class as she felt so mad at herself.
"Erza, wait!" Jellal said as he chased after her.
"Poor, Erza." Lucy said.
"I know. It must be hard when you can't do something you love." Levy said. Erza ran all the way downstairs as she was beating herself up on the bench. Jellal followed after her and tried to cheer her up.
"Don't let what Taylor says get to you, Erza. You're doing fine." Jellal said.
"I hate to say it, but she's right. How can I play a knight-like figure when I'm terrified in front of the camera?" Erza said.
"Maybe there's something we can work out." Jellal suggested.
"No. It's pointless. I'm just ruining everything." Erza said. She ran off towards the bathroom as she felt like she was a failure.
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Black Wizard
"It's no fun being scared all the time." Black Wizard said as he could sense Erza's distress. "I think it's more fun to spread fear." He held out his hands and had an etherious be filled with his dark power. "Flyaway, my little etherious. Turn her into something people should be afraid of!" As the etherious flew through Paris, fear was flying towards them as well.
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The School
"Way to go, Taylor. You just had to scare away our leading actress." Gray said.
"Who cares?" Taylor said as Samantha was doing her nails. "She was a terrible actress to begin with."
"You're terrible!" Jellal shouted as he came in. "Erza's upset and could be crying in the bathroom because of what you said, you brat."
"Really? I thought she was a tough one. Guess not." Taylor said as she laughed. Jellal looked like he was ready to attack her, but Lucy stepped in and stopped him from doing anything.
"Easy, Jellal. We don't have time to turn against each other; no matter how much of a brat Taylor is." Lucy said. "I'll go talk to Erza and get her to comeback."
"Wait a minute, Lucy." Gray said. "I gave Erza the benefit of the doubt, but we are wasting time. We still have much to do. Loke's working on the illustrations that go with the movie, Hibiki's acting as my assistant, but Erza is making us lose valuable time. I hate to say it, but we might have to give her part to someone else."
"We can't do that. Erza was looking forward to this." Jellal said. "Who would even take her part?"
"That's easy. I will." Taylor said as she stepped forward.
"You? Now who's being utterly ridiculous? You haven't even read the script." Levy said.
"I do know there's a kiss scene between Knightwalker and Natsu's role." Taylor said as she gestured to Natsu as Lisanna fed him and Juvia worked on his makeup. The thought of Natsu and Taylor kissing terrified Lucy.
"What?! That can't happen!" Lucy said.
"Hold on." Levy said as she looked over her script. "There's nothing like that in there. Lucy and I wrote the script together. There is no kissing scene."
"Fine. I added it in, but what movie doesn't have a kiss scene." Taylor said.
"It's not happening. Knightwalker is a strong and independent woman that has no interest in men during the movie." Levy said. "You can't just add whatever you like."
"Look, it doesn't matter. We need to start filming." Gray said.
"Besides, this role means a lot to Erza." Lucy said. "I'm the producer, it's my job to make sure things work well. That's why I'm going to go find her." Lucy didn't even get caught in an argument with the others. She just hurried down and went to get Erza. As for Erza, she was crying in one of the stalls.
"What is wrong with you? Why can't you act when you love it?" Erza said to herself. As for the etherious, it got to her first and went into the prop of her weapon. She found herself connected to Black Wizard.
"Knightwalker, I'm Black Wizard. Rather than feeling fear, you will bring it. All I ask in return is that you bring me Celestria's and Salamondra's miraculous."
"Thank you, Black Wizard. I'll make them all fear me." Erza said as she was overtaken by his power. She smashed the stall door open and slashed her very real weapon against the wall. She'll have others fear her rather than her being afraid.
"Erza?!" Lucy called as she entered the bathroom. When she got in, she didn't see anyone, but she saw the scratch through the wall. She walked over and examined it. "What could have done this?"
"Lucy!" Levy called as she came in. "Did you find Erza?"
"No." Lucy said.
"Well, you better hurry. Some kissing is about to go down. I couldn't hold it off." Levy said. That was what Lucy was afraid of. The two of them hurried to stop them before Lucy's worst fear happens.
"Knightwalker, take fifteen." Cana said as they started filming.
"I'm not afraid. I'm Knightwalker." Taylor said, but couldn't care less about the actual script. "Now, kiss me." She tried kissing Natsu, but he wasn't looking forward to this. That was right when Lucy and Levy arrived, and just in time.
"Cut!" Lucy shouted as she opened the door.
"Hey! I'm the director! I'm the one that says cut." Gray said. "What's the big idea ruining the scene in the first place?"
"What's the big idea giving Taylor Erza's part?" Lucy said.
"I told you that we're wasting time. We need to start filming something, and there is still much we've got to do." Gray said.
"It's true." Hibiki said as he was in charge of the deadline. "We only have about six hours left to submit our film."
"But this part means a lot to Erza. You can't just give it away." Lucy said.
"Urgh, who really cares?" Taylor said as Lisanna handed her some water. "We need to film this, don't we? I've got another great idea. How about we make Knightwalker a nurse? That would fix everything."
"How does that fix anything? Knightwalker is suppose to be a fierce and brave warrior. How is her being a nurse fix anything?" Levy said.
"Don't know, but I would look great in a nurse's outfit." Taylor said.
"We are not changing everything!" Gray said. "We lost too much time as it is! We need to get the work done now!"
"If we do any more of Taylor's crazy ideas, I'm not putting those names on those credits." Levy said.
"No one cares about you." Taylor said.
"What did you just say?!" Levy said. Everyone was arguing around about how the film should be done. Lucy couldn't take this anymore.
"Quiet!" Lucy shouted and got everyone to stop. "Let's not turn on each other. Remember that this is a team project." Lucy did some quick thinking. "Your nurse idea might work, Taylor."
"Of course it will because it's my idea." Taylor said.
"But Taylor, you don't have a uniform." Lucy said to play at Taylor's idea.
"That's just one reason why that crazy idea won't work." Levy said.
"Samantha, help me get a uniform! Gajeel and Hibiki, you're coming too as my bodyguards!" Taylor said. The four of them just walked out of there and managed to get Taylor out of the picture.
"Great. Now what do we do?" Gray said.
"We go find Erza." Lucy said.
"How many times do I have to remind you about our time?!" Gray said as he was getting annoyed.
"Lucy can do it. She knows the lines since she helped write them." Levy said. "In fact, the kissing scene might actually work." Now Lucy was shaken to the core. That means she can kiss Natsu. It sounded too good for her to resist.
"I'm only doing this until Erza gets back." Lucy said as she read over the lines.
"She'll understand because you get to kiss Natsu today." Levy said. Lucy looked towards Natsu's direction as Juvia was prepping him with makeup. Lucy's heart was beating like a drum now.
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Taylor
Taylor went down to the nurse's office to get that uniform. She was full of herself again since even Lucy liked her idea. When she reached for the door, she realized something.
"Wait a minute. Lucy never likes my ideas. Gajeel and Hibiki, you get the outfit just in case." Taylor said as she and Samantha went back to the classroom.
"Did you hear something?" Gajeel questioned.
"Like what? Hibiki asked. That was when they saw the reflection of someone jumped down from behind them and gave them a good scare.
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The Classroom
"Knightwalker, take sixteen." Cana said as they started filming.
"I'm Knightwalker. I'm not afraid." Lucy said as she was taking the part and added in the kiss scene. Natsu went with it this time as the two of them were about to kiss, but Taylor came in at the worst time.
"Cut!" Taylor shouted as she interrupted.
"Come on!" Gray groaned with annoyance.
"Bravo, Lucy. All your talk about teamwork was just more acting to get me out, but you can't do your little form without me because my daddy is one of the judges!" Taylor said. Before Lucy could argue anymore about this, they heard screaming.
"That sounded like Gajeel and Hibiki." Lisanna said.
"They sound like they're in trouble." Lucy said as she hurried to check it out with everyone else following.
"If this is another one of your tricks..." Taylor warned her. All of them hurried and spotted a web-like substance around the nurse's office.
"What is all this?" Lucy said as she looked around and felt she stepped on something. She looked down and spotted a phone. "Wait a minute. This is Hibiki's!"
"You mean, he and Gajeel just disappeared?" Loke said.
"They're probably just pranking us." Levy said.
"I don't think so. I saw something strange in the bathroom." Lucy said. "I think we better get Principle Conbolt. Gray, stop filming." She said as she noticed Gray still had his phone filming.
"No way. We need something." Gray said.
"Fine. Whatever." Lucy said as she just brushed it off. As for Natsu, he was making his way back to the classroom.
"Natsu, where are you going?" Gray questioned.
"I'm going to grab a few props just in case." Natsu said as he hurried up there while everyone else when to see Macao. Meanwhile, someone stood on the roof. She held out her staff and was firing webbing all around to block all exits.
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Natsu
Natsu could see someone was behind all of this and that Salamondra was needed. When he was alone, he removed his shoe and tossed it to the floor.
"There. They'll think I disappeared too." Natsu said as Igneel came out. Now he can get to work. "Igneel, Fire Up!" Natsu became the hero of this little horror story.
...
Principle's Office
Lucy and the others went into Macao's office, but they saw he was gone too. All of them looked around to see what was going on, but Lucy took the opportunity to disappear herself. She let Stella out of her purse and dropped it to make it look like she disappeared and ran off with Stella. As everyone was looking around the office, Gray noticed Lucy's gone.
"Where's Lucy?" Gray said with all of them noticing. Levy stepped outside and spotted her purse.
"Oh no!" Levy said as she grabbed it. "This is Lucy's! This is getting serious. I think we should go get help."
"Uh... That might be a problem." Juvia said as she looked to the window and saw that it was being blocked. They all looked around and noticed the whole school was covered in a web. This was starting to look like a real horror movie now. All of them began to panic until Celestria jumped in.
"Is everyone okay?" Celestria asked.
"Celestria in the movie? Awesome!" Gray said.
"And for my blog!" Levy said as she started filming herself.
"Don't worry. We'll find a way out of here." Celestria said.
"Easier said than done." All of them looked to see Salamondra arrived as well. "That web's indestructible. I couldn't get through it. It also looks like all the exits are blocked. There doesn't appear to be a way out."
"Someone has clearly been etheriouized by Black Wizard. Looks like the only way out is to find whoever's doing this." Celestria said.
"I love it when you read my mind." Salamondra said. "I'm telling you, it's you and me." Even in scary situations, Salamondra still manages to flirt with Celestria.
"Hey, Natsu's been gone for a while." Jellal said as he just noticed that Natsu's been gone for too long. All them were getting scared of that. They all hurried back to the classroom to find him, but Taylor and Samantha stayed back.
"I say we find our own little place to hide." Taylor said as they separated from the group.
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The Classroom
Fearing on what might have happened to Natsu, all of them hurried inside the classroom.
"Here!" Gray said as he spotted Natsu's shoe. "That's Natsu's shoe. He must have been taken as well."
"Weird. It doesn't look like there was a struggle." Celestria said. Suddenly, they heard something move against the desk.
"What's that?" Loke said as he was brave enough to have a look. That was when the desk was kicked towards Celestria and Salamondra. They jumped out of the way, but someone grabbed Loke and lifted him off the ground. They all saw a woman with wavy red hair with a loose knot. She wore provocative armor with a cloth hanging around her waist with a blue scarf and carried a spear with four curved edges on it.
"About time you found me. I was getting a little tied of playing hide and seek."
"Erza?!" Celestria and Salamondra said as they were shocked to see it was her.
"I'm not Erza anymore. I'm Knightwalker. I would ask for the miraculous, but where's the fun in that." She aimed her staff at them and fired a laser that caused an explosion. Celestria and Salamondra were blown out of the classroom with everyone else running out of there. Knightwalker stood over them as she had Loke trapped in webbing. She jumped down and faced the two of them.
"We better find the etherious fast" Celestria said.
"I bet it's in that weapon of hers." Salamondra said. Celestria tossed her whip and grabbed a hold of it, but Knightwalker was much stronger. She pulled Celestria in just to kick her back all the way to the other side. Salamondra tried attacking himself, but she used her staff and grabbed him with it. She tossed him through a window and into a classroom.
"Erza!" Jellal called. "You need to stop! This isn't you!" She walked over to them with all of them getting anxious.
"Sorry, Jellal. I'm not Erza anymore, but I promise I won't hurt you." Knightwalker said. She grabbed a hold of Cana with her staff and carried her and Loke away.
"She's got Loke and Cana!" Lisanna said.
"And I thought this Erza was tough before." Salamondra groaned.
"This is certainly turning into a real horror movie. Let's just hope this one ends well." Celestria said.
...
Taylor
"See? Aren't I genius?" Taylor said as she played around on her phone while Samantha was barricading the door. "Let them do a little monster searching while we stay safe." Taylor thought she was safe, but she was proven wrong when part of the ceiling broke off and Knightwalker landed in the room.
"Still think I'm some sort of coward?" Kngihtwalker taunted. Taylor and Samantha screamed that the top of their lungs.
...
Celestria and Salamondra
Everyone heard the girls screaming. They hurried to the room they came from, but they couldn't get the door open.
"What the heck?" Salamondra said as he tried to push the door open. Celestria looked in the window inside and saw the door barricaded, but it was empty.
"We're too late." Celestria said. "Knightwalker has got to be holding the captives somewhere."
"The only place we haven't looked yet is the boiler room." Gray said. "Places like that are usually the lair for the bad guys in films anyway."
"Good idea. That's got to be where she's taking everyone." Levy said. All of them were thinking the same thing. They head for the boiler room to see if that really theory is true. They all moved into the dark boiler room and saw they were right. The place had a large web in it with tons of pods in it.
"Hello?!" Celestria called.
"Celestria, it's me! Taylor Allard!" She called from one of the pods. "Hurry up and get me out of here! My outfit will be ruined!"
"Looks like we found all the captives, but where's Knightwalker?" Celestria questioned. Suddenly, they heard something behind them and saw the only exit was blocked by the webbing as well.
"You fools!" They all looked up and spotted Kngihtwalker. "Nowhere to run and hide now! I have you all right where I want you!"
"Excellent, Knightwalker. You have them trapped." Black Wizard said. "Now take the miraculous and claim victory."
"Not all horror movies have happy endings. This is it for all of you." Knightwalker said. "You better say your prayers while you still can."
"Even horror movies have great moments." Celestria said. "Open the Celestrial Gate!" She used her powers and it formed a rope. "Virgo rope?"
"Figure it out. I'll buy you some time." Salamondra said. He jumped his way to Knightwalker and tried fighting her off. The two of them clashed their weapons against each other, but Knightwalker is much stronger as she thrusted her weapon forward and tried pushing him back. Celestria looked around to see how she could use the rope. She spotted the rope and a couple pieces of equipment in the boiler room.
"That's it!" Celestria said. "I'm going to need some help." Jellal and Levy offered to help her as they hid themselves. Levy grabbed on end of the rope with Celestria tossing the other end to Jellal. Celestria signaled Salamondra and got him to see the plan.
"For a knight, you're not very gallant or elegant." Salamondra said as he pushed Knightwalker back. "Are you just trying to hide the scared little girl your really are?"
"You'll be the one scared!" Knightwalker said as she went on the attack. Salamondra moved his way through the boiler room with Knightwalker following him. Salamondra soon passed Jellal and Levy. They pulled the rope and caused Knightwalker to trip with her weapon being thrown in the air. Celestria grabbed it with her whip. She pulled the weapon in and smashed it against the ground with the etherious flying out.
"No more evildoing for you, little etherious." Celestria said as she activated her whip. "Time to de-evillize!" She tossed her whip and caught the etherious with it. "Gotcha!" She caught it, purified it, and released it. "Bye-Bye, little guy. Miraculous Starlight!" She tossed the rope and turned it into stars with the damaged repair and the web disappearing. Knightwalker also turned back to Erza with her confused on what happened.
"Pound it." The heroes said as they celebrated. Jellal walked over to Erza and held her tight and Erza was feeling much better as the two of them kissed.
"Awesome." Gray said.
...
City Hall
Gray was able to take everything he shot and turned it into a film. He showed it to the mayor for the results.
"What do you think?" Gray asked, but it wasn't what he was thinking. "Unbelievable! By that, he meant that it wasn't believable. You've got to be kidding me with that." He vented to his friends.
"Sorry, Gray." Natsu said.
"That's how show business is." Levy said. "Especially since that kiss wasn't the one we wanted it to be." Lucy was a bit upset about that, but she's just glad Erza is a lot better. Fear might be a powerful force, but it takes real power to be able to face what seems scare. This horror story actually did had a good ending.
