~Lucy~

Something was different to what I'm seeing....Hey, it's a little cute girl. She's running around an icy garden as her mother laughed at her silliness...wait.....is this...me? I-It's my memory!

Then there was a sudden knockings on the door. "Oh," Mom said. "I'll just go get it. Lucy, Michelle, stay here, okay?" I watch her tell those to her little two children as she left the garden and entered the mansion.

"Hm!" The two girls nodded happily in reply. I followed her out and suddenly something hit me. This memory, this part of my life.....I know what's gonna happen next....N-No! I ran to my mom. "Stop!" I exclaimed, but she doesn't seem to hear it, I leaned forward to grab her wrist, but....What..? My hand just passed through her. I looked up at her and she was already opening the door. No! Mother! No!

"Oh well, Hello. Who are you?" She asked, smiling at the unknown visitor. She looked down to see three more kids. Three girls, one was white haired, another was black haired and the next was a little red head.

"Are you Layla Heartfilia?" The man asked.

"Yes I am.....What...is your business here?" She asked, her face getting serious. She clenched the door knob, ready to close it just in case.

"I'm here to pay back what I owe." The man looked up and I noticed my mother gasp in horror as she recognizes the man. She quickly tried to shut the door, but the man blocked it with his foot.

"Go ahead, Girls! Apply what I taught you!" They all smiled and mother exclaimed in surprise, taking a step back as the three little innocent looking girls attacked her mercilessly...I can't watch this! Tears started to drip down as I covered my face with both of my hands.

"Stay here, Michelle, I'll be back." I heard the voice of a little girl in the midst of a blood curdling scream from the other side of the room. Then I saw the younger me, running here and paused as she witnessed the horrors of the real world. The murder people called that was unknown to her. "Mother!!!" She called, but no use, when they noticed her...

"Crap! She has children??" The man said, covering his face. "Come on! Let's go home. You did good, girls!" Then the three girls ran out, but the white haired girl caught a glimpse of the crying little girl, and so did the red head. "What are you waiting for?!?" With that being said, they both ran away with the other one. Then the man smile sadistically. Slamming the door and said. "Well, I'm glad you know what happens to you when you don't listen!"

"Mother!" The younger me ran to her bloody dying mother as she laid in her own puddle of blood, tears dropping from her eyes to the red crimson floor. "Mother! Mother!" Her voice was trembling and her pain could just strike through your heart.

I don't want to see this! "Mother!!" I exclaimed, sitting up in a bed. Huh? Where am I? Then I noticed that I was in a hospital room. I have an oxygen mask? I removed the mask looked aroun. What happened to me--Ouch! I touched my head and it was wrapped in bandages...what happened in the room?

"Oh no! Natsu! I gotta save him!" I stood, feet a bit wobbly, but managed to do so. I ran down the halls with haste, but no luck. With these many people, it's going to be difficult. I went to a corridor where people don't usually pass through and My eyes caught a glimpse of the color red spilling on the floor at the edge of the corner.

Blood...? What the helll...?

~Mira~

"What did you want us to do, Mira?" Erza said. I turned to look at Minerva and she shrugged in reply.

"Didn't Minerva explain it to you?" Erza shook her head. I patted my skirt, as if it would make both of us ready to what I would tell her. "Lisanna's after Lucy, the blonde." I told them.

"What blonde?" Erza asked. Minerva placed a hand on Erza's shoulder.

"The Blonde." Erza's eyes widened in shock.

"N-No...She's going after her??" Erza stammered.

"That's why we need to find her and stop her!" I told them. Kagura had no idea of what we were talking about but even so, stepping forward, she looked at us with a focused and determined expression.

"Whatever it is. Bring it on. If Lisanna's planning something again, I'm here to help." I nodded in reply, turned my back against the three of them.

"Let's go!" I commanded as all of us swiftly ran through the crown with incredible speed, but Kagura was a bit behind. I looked around and my eye finally caught strands of blonde hair flowing in the air, I noticed the leg, she was wearing a patient's white pants. She was running...

"It's her!" I called and we ran towards her, following her as she turned every corner. I stopped and everybody followed as Lucy paused at the corner, slowly peaking at some part of the floor that has been tainted in blood. I ran towards Lucy as she jolted up a surprised spark and turned to face me.

"Mira!" She exclaimed. I gently pushed her back and leaned back to see what it was. I gasped and my eyes widened in shock. It was....Laxus...!!

"Erza, Kagura!" I called and they ran towards me. "Take Lucy somewhere safe! Now!" Then both nodded and grabbed Lucy away, but she resisted.

"No!" She turned to look at me. "Mira! What's happening here?"

I hesitated on answering. "Mira!" She insisted.

"This is something you shouldn't be a part of..." I stated and the both led her away from us. Minerva then approached me and saw Laxus. She touched his neck to see if there was still a pulse. And I waited there to know if he is alive...or not.

~Lucy~

"Hey!" I called. "Let me go!" I struggled to break free from their grip as they dragged me away. I looked at both of them and was surprised to see the red haired girl on my right. Without me noticing it, I was staring at her, as if I was trying to scan her face. She was familiar in her hair, but she's just a stranger, right? She quickly turned to the left, avoiding my eyes.

"Tell me what the hell is going on here?!?" I demanded an answer.

"Believe me! I don't know much either!" The other girl with brown hair replied angrily, her tone sounded full of stress and something...

~Mira~

I waited in silence, waiting, nerve-racking to the very bone!

"Mira...He's---Laxus is....He's......" She gasped. "He's still alive! But he's loosing too much blood!" She exclaimed, with that being said, I knew I had to do something and so I quickly grabbed a roll of duct tape from a metal table near the wall and ripped parts of it with my teeth and wrapped it around his head that had an open wound, this is dangerous...we need to hurry!

I took his arm and wrapped it around my neck, and so did Minerva. "Let's hurry!" I told her, she nodded and ran to the Emergency room, informed a nurse in the most inappropriate way.

"This man needs help!" I called for a nurse. Someone approached me and asked what was going on. I paused for a moment. "What the hell do you think is happening??? This man is covered in blood and your asking what's going on?!?"

"Nurse! Rush this man to the ER! Now!" He exclaimed and many nurses ran to us and took Laxus and placed him on a stretcher and rushed him to the ER. Both of us watched them as they disappeared in the busy corridors.

"Now..." I stated seriously, turning my back around and Minerva followed. "Let's find the demon's spawn and end all of this!"

~Lucy~

They brought me inside the private room I was in before I woke up, locked the door and barricaded it with the bedside desk.

"What the hell is going on?!?" I demanded an answer, yet, again.

"This has nothing to do with you! For now, we need you safe!"

"It has everything to do with me!! Now tell me what's happening!" I asked again. The red haired sighed and turned to the other one.

"Kagura, you keep guard here. I'll talk to her." She said, and---she called her Kagura---Kagura followed orders and sat on top of the bedside desk that was blocking the door.

"Look, I think we've met before, but now's not the time. I'm Erza." She introduced. My serious gaze never left my side as I looked at her hand, offering a handshake. I pushed her hand aside and stared her straight in the eye.

"Let's skip the introductions for later. Now, you need to explain something to me."

"Alright, I know you're worried." She tried to calm me down, but it's obviously not working!

"Like hell am I worried!" I exclaimed.

"Okay calm down. There are something you shouldn't know, but I believe there are somethings that should be revealed from the start before everything gets dirty..."

"What is it...?" I asked again.

"Erza!" The brunette guarding the door shushed the red-head for what she was talking about, but she didn't.

"We.....We killed your mother, Lucy.."

~Mira~

"Come on, Minerva, Let's find them before they get to Lucy." I stared at the floor of where we found Laxus before, finding any clue, both of us were. This has never occurred to me! Lisanna never tried to do this, but.....Ah...This is a do or die time now...

"Mira!" Minerva called out. "Look at this note." She handed me a piece of paper with little drops of blood spilled on it. I read it, the note saying:

"Hi Mira-nee! I know your looking for me, and I knew you would call up your murderous gang. So I want to make it more fun. Natsu even agreed to the idea! I'll be making leaving notes like these and clues to know where we are. If you don't find us in the next 5 minutes after you've read the note. I'll be killing someone in this building." I read out loud as Minerva listened carefully.

"Just what the f*ck is that woman planning....?!?" I stayed silent, not knowing what is she planning. What in the world has gotten into her? This has gotten way out of hand than I've expected it. Then my phone rang and an unknown number flashed. I answered it.

"....He...Hello?"

"Long time no see, Mira-nee!" The voice of a cheerful girl was heard from the phone, but from what I know...that's not a cheerful girl anymore.

"What the hell do you want!?! Lisanna please stop this!" I pleaded for her to stop before anything get more unruly than it already is.

"There's no use asking for that, Mira." Minerva told me as she takes one step forward.

"She's right, Mira-nee. No matter how much you beg or plead, this'll go on until one thing is settled. Oh--I'm taking too much time! Let's get on with your clue, shall we?" She said cheerfully on the other line. The pressure inside me seems to add up every second that passed. This is agitating.

"What clue?"

"Read the note carefully sis, I'll give you a clue to where me and Natsu is hiding and if you don't find us in the next five minutes, we'd kill someone in this building. So here goes." She stopped and the phone had a thud sound, as if someone passed the phone to someone else. "You read that, Natsu." She said softly and gently as if it wasn't her at all.

"U-uhh...Okay. I'm here to where the dead comes back to life and the living dies in struggle. Where someone awaits outside in bright lights, but afterwards a hollow dark tunnel. Where am I?" Said Natsu on the other phone. With his tone, it was obvious he was reading from a note and of course, it was also obvious that he was having a hard time at it.

"You're time starts...now! Hurry up Mira-nee! Hahahaha!" She laughed in the most ill-mannered way I've ever heard her laugh before. I hung up the phone and looked at Minerva who was already thinking where it was.

"The dead comes back to life? The operating room?." I asked.

"Maybe....and outside in bright lights, but afterwards a hollow dark tunnel must mean the waiting area in the corridors outside it!" Minerva added.

"We don't have much time. Let's go!" I ordered and we ran swiftly to the room. From the first floor to the fifth floor, we ran up the stairs as fast as we could! Two minutes left and we're only at the fourth. I stared at my watch.

"Hurry!" I told Minerva and we dashed through the flooded corridors. Then we were at the front of the operating room's doors. I pushed it opened, causing it to fly opened quickly and....

"Oh no..." I muttered as I stared at the bloody puddle that was caused by Lisanna, no other. I looked at the time and it was....we were two minutes late! Damn!

"We're too late." Minerva said, as it followed with multiple curses from different languages. Then a note flew by from the window... The window. Maybe that's how they got out so quickly and in time. Minerva picked it up and read it out loud.

"Second clue! Me and Natsu have separated, I am where they stay, and he is where they wait. Where are we? The time starts when you run out those doors."

"This is bad. If we're late, she might kill someone again....we can't let that happen!" I said. I looked around and ran to the fire alarm. Pulling it quickly, The bell instantly rang, signaling everyone to exit the building. Minerva nodded, agreeing to my decision.

"I'll evacuate everyone now, before it's too late." Then she ran out those doors.

"Wait no!" I called, but I was too late, the time started once she went out. I have to find them now. So from the fifth floor, I jumped down each stair cases and three minutes left and already in the ground floor, the waiting room. Natsu's in the waiting room. I kicked the doors down and there was one still silhouette in the middle of the running crown. And as the crowd grew thinner, the light finally shown down on him.

It...it was Natsu!

"Natsu!" I exclaimed angrily. "I found you! Now stop this!" The light crawled from his feet up to his head. And there, his eyes gazed deeply at me menacingly, eyes almost clouded with anger.

"You still haven't found, Lis." He said with a deep, whisper-like voice.

"What...? Natsu, what the hell are you doing?!? Do you even know what you guys are doing?!?? You're killing innocent people, Natsu!!"

"I know...but so have you, didn't you?" I was silent for a moment. How...how did he know...?

"All silent cuz' I caught you, ain't it?"

"T-that was in past!" I replied bashfully. Oh no, I'm loosing my composure...this is bad. I bet Natsu learn that from Lisanna.

"Well, this is about to be in history anyway."

"I don't get you! You know this is wrong and yet your doing it!" My anger and confusion is mixing with each other. This is just...wrong! Everything is just as screwed up as Natsu and Lisanna!

"I don't want to hear that from someone like you!" He replied. Then clapping from deep in the corridors behind me echoed repeatedly and footsteps got louder and louder until that person reached the light. With one foot stepping through the light, I saw her whole body. Her expression had a hint of being impressed and yet still looked like this sadistic psychopath, with blood spread on her face like make up. Her clapping made more of the atmosphere than the shrieking patients just now.

"Pulling the alarm trick, eh? Sis? Smart. But you're all alone now, are 'ya?" I turned around to face her.

"Two against one." Said Natsu. I was surprised to here him be included in this. I turned to face him and it was two against one....I'm all alone now. I...Think..Think Mira think!

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How did you like that! Was it pretty intense? Tell me what you think! And with a long comment, alright? I want to know your suggestions so that I can write quicker.....that has nothing to do with it, but still. I want to know what you think!

Thank you so much for reading this and I sincerly apologize for updatig in such an extremely late time.

And the photo of the day is Lucy being a perv towards Natsu....or maybe other way around.

-HeartInTheKeys 💟🔑