Gajeel's POV

I sped up the stairs, slipping mostly but somehow regaining my balance and managing to get up and away from the zombies.

"Hurry up Gajeel!" I heard from behind me, as well as some gun shots. Levy had followed me, watching my back as I tried to get up the ridiculously small stairs with my big feet.

"I'm trying to go as fast as possible without slipping but it's kinda hard!"

"Then do something about it!"

Remembering that I still had my small handgun I whipped it out and shot a zombie which was coming up Levy's right. She turned back to face me, a look of shock on her face.

"Did you try to shoot me?!"

"No! I took out the guy on you right!"

Within minutes, Levy was covered in zombie blood.

"I hate you so much Gajeel."

"Maybe Shrimp, but it's the apocalypse, no time for enemies."

Finally we got to the roof and saw several other survivors. Juvia was covered in the zombie blood too, holding a golf club. Lucy was sat beside her, hugging her probably calming her down. She had less blood on her and beside her was a freaking shotgun. Cuz that is fair. She gets a shotgun and I don't. So completely fair.

Erza was behind them, speaking to a blue haired guy I've never met before who seemed upset. Natsu and Gray ran in front of the two and blocked my sight.

"Gajeel! Officer McGarden! You guys are alive too? GUYS! MORE SURVIVORS!" A quiet cheer came from the crowd and Shrimp and I sat down near Juvia and Lucy.

"Where is Makarov?" I asked simply.

"He and other high levels are still in the building, trying to get survivors out... Erza hasn't gone though, I don't know why. I guess it has something to do with Jellal's twin brother Mystogan."

I strolled over to Erza and Jellal to see both of them crying.

"Oh sorry, you guys lose someone?" I don't know why, but they both shot me horrid glares, I put my hands up in defence and backed away. "Okay, I'm sorry. Don't kill me, I'm sorry, my bad, okay, I'm leaving, don't worry, I'm going," I darted back to them, "but seriously what happened?"

Erza looked like she was going to hit me hard in the face and possibly kill me. If it weren't for Jellal that is.

"My twin brother, Mystogan, he died getting us out of the building.

'Mystogan! You can make it come on!'

My twin brother, younger than me by a minute looked at me and took a step forwards from the door he was holding closed.

"Take good care of Erza, you two are the cut-" he couldn't finish since the pack of zombies had opened the doors and dragged him through.

"MYSTOGAN!" Both Erza and I called out, but it was useless... He'd gone. "

"I'm sorry man , that must've been tough."

He nodded and looked down so his hair covered his eyes. Who could blame him? He lost one of the people closest to him. Heck I'd cry if I lost Juvia or someone who I was close to.

But, I wouldn't cry if I was the one sacrificed.

To save others anyway, not just for the heck of it.

"Um, Gajeel." Erza tapped me on the shoulder. "I think you should go, we well..."

"I get it. Don't worry." I walked away from the two only to be stopped by Juvia and Lucy.

"You can sit with us still," Lucy started.

"Or does Gajeel-kun want to see Levy?" Juvia asked.

"Nah. I'll sit with you two." I sat down on a nearby stool and asked, "what happened with you guys?"

The two girls exchanged glances then both looked at me and said.

"You should go talk to Levy."

"Why? You guys don't want me around?"

"She lost her friend Droy the other day yeah?" Lucy asked.

"Yeah she did, but she has other people who know him too. They'll be more help to her than me."

"Her other ONLY close friend died earlier. He was with us." Lucy explained. "We were really confused and Jet was with us.

*Flashback*

"Guys?!" I yelled, pointing at the incoming horse of zombies. "How the hell did they get in?!"

"Juvia doesn't know! Juvia thinks that we should run and get weapons!"

"Good idea Juvia!" So Juvia and I ran down the hallway dodging the zombies left and right.

"How much farther until the armoury or a weaponry room Lucy?" Juvia asked me.

"They're usually all around the place! Keep your eyes peeled!"

Eventually we found Jet who happened to have along with his katana, a shotgun and an AK-47. I took the AK-47 and Juvia took the shotgun.

We had no idea where everyone was.

"Check the roof," Jet told us. "I'll come up when I've found Levy. I lost Droy yesterday, I don't want to lose her."

I swear that he muttered something under his breath but I couldn't hear.

"We'll come with you. Levy's out friend too, if you get hurt then that'll be pinned on us."

He agreed to let us come along.

...."

"Gajeel, promise that you won't tell Levy what happened to him okay?"

I nodded. "Losing two people within 24 hours is tough."

The two girls looked at each other, then Juvia whispered. "It's not entirely that. This 'new' Levy as Lucy describes likes to hold grudges."

"What happened?"

"Well," Lucy continued.

"We were wandering up some stairs, towards Levy's room. Jet had already sliced some zombies, one was someone who he knew.

"Oh shit. Not you, please not you."

"What's wrong?" I asked him.

"Nothing. Nothing..." We kept walking but Jet seemed kind of shaky.

Suddenly, the lights stopped working.

"Eek! Lucy! Jet'! Where are you two?!" Juvia called out.

"I'm here!" I replied.

Jet didn't answer, instead all we heard was a faint moan.

I pulled at the trigger of my gun and shot the ceiling, I ran out of ammo within seconds.

I shot the ceiling because if it fell then the zombie would've been crushed. But none of the ceiling fell.

Juvia stood up I think and called out to Jet.

We heard no reply, so we assumed the figure coming towards us was a zombie. So, Juvia shot her gun at the extremely close target."

My eyes widened as I realised what had happened to the two of them...

"You two, killed J-," Juvia put her hand over my mouth and I saw her close up, tears forming in her eyes.

"Gajeel-kun, Levy would kill Juvia if she found out. For Juvia's sake, please hush."

I left the two girls, after promising to keep the secret.

Soon, the sun rose and the time was around six.

Makarov stood on a crate and called out to us all.

"Everyone you see around you are the people who are alive. The base has been taken over by the zombies. We suspect that it had something to do with the Blue Pegasus members who the away team saved yesterday." A few gasps and cries came from the crowd, one which I heard loud and clear although she was far from me was, "NATSU?! NATSU WHERE ARE YOU?"

Makarov coughed and everyone died down. "We have saved some supplies and have called for assistance from our fellow safety groups Blue Pegasus being one of them. And brats..." He sighed then shouted out. "Forget your ranks. Now, everyone is equal. Everyone gets the same information. Nobody is left in the dark. For those of you who don't understand why I'm doing this is because the reason we lost several member today was simply because only a minimum number of people had the walkie talkies which told you all to come here."

"So...?" I heard Natsu call out.

"If everyone had one then-,"

"The people who died still would've died." Erza yelled. "Some gave their lives although we were given the information!"

"W-What?" Makarov whimpered. "They died anyway?"

"Yes!" I called out.

Some others called out 'yes' or 'yeah' as well. I guess that made Makarov feel somewhat better because he started crying.... Wait, no. Never mind. He was crying because people under his protection died.

I'm crap at empathy.

Just thought you should know that reader.

(GAJEEL! HOW MANY FLUPPER NUGGET TIMES ARE YOU GONNA BREAK THE 4TH WALL?!")

"We all love you Makarov!"

"Yeah! It's not your fault!"

"We'll all become stronger!"

Loads of people began shouting support at the old man which made him cry harder.

"Enough of this touching moment!" The doors to the emergency stairs of the building opened and revealed a small girl with long blond hair. She walked through the crowd of people who made a large path for her.

"Master Mavis!" Makarov gasped. "We thought you-,"

"I was dead. You're so silly!" She giggled. "I mean, yeah I was bit on the arm-,"

"YOU WERE BIT?" Someone yelled.

"Have you forgotten fellow human, that I have metal arms and legs?" She whacked her arms together and a loud clanking sound was heard. "I lost my limbs in an accident years ago darling, unless I get bitten elsewhere I am immune."

That's pretty cool. I thought.

"Now, I've been inside the building for longer than the rest of you and found these sorry excuses for soldiers. GET OUT HERE ELSA AND MUSHOO!"

Out walked Gray and Natsu, both shirtless.

"Natsu!" I heard Lucy yell. She pushed through the crowd of people and bear hugged Natsu. He just stood there. Staring at the floor. "Natsu, what's wrong?"

"Lisanna..." He looked down to his hand and Lucy screamed. When I saw what was in his hand I felt like being sick.

It was a hand. A fucking hand.

"She...she fell off the stairs because the banister broke and I tried to help her." Mira-Jane and Elfman came over, both crying at the sight of the hand. "I tried to pull her up, but then a huge group of them jumped at her and were dragging her down..."

Gray continued for Natsu who was too busy crying into Lucy's clothes. "She sacrificed herself to save us. She took her machete and swiped her-," he ran to the edge of he roof and threw up.

"Do we have a medical team up here?" Mavis grimly asked.

"I'm the only one left." A small girl squeaked. Her eyes were red and puffy probably from crying. She had long dark blue hair and was wearing a dark red coat with a black ruffle skirt, as well as knee high socks with a cat pattern on them.

"See if the two boys need any medical attention, then please tend to any others with any injuries." Mavis instructed, "you'll do fine Wendy. And I'm sorry for your loss." She turned to face everyone, "I'm sorry for all of your losses."

As soon as the group of people started to disband, I saw Levy curled up into a ball hiding behind a chimney.

I walked over to her, thinking of ways to cheer her up.

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Levy's POV (First time in all of the chapters! Now we see into the mind of Levy-

Gajeel: JUST WRITE ON YOU HUGE NERD!

So mean... :( )

I didn't want to believe it.

I'd tried so hard to become a strong independent woman. I'd given up reading all of the time, heck I gave up my friends!

All for what? Nothing.

Droy was zombified.

And as for Jet....?

"You okay there Shrimp?" Gajeel was looking down at me with a frown on his face.

"Honestly? No. I want to die now."

"Why?"

I almost exploded at his question.

"BECAUSE MY BEST FRIENDS ARE FREAKING DEAD!"

Tears streamed down my face, my hair was greasy and I was covered in dark red blood which dried quicker than I had expected. I wiped my eyes with the back of my hands and felt even more like a monster.

I killed human like creatures every day. It felt horrible. I wanted it to stop.

"Shrimp? Shrimp. Listen to me." I looked at Gajeel and realised that he had tears in his eyes. "I don't cry so don't expect me to sit beside you and cry along with you, but even though I haven't known these people long they already feel like family."

"Huh?"

"They accepted me, they could've turned me down and given the zombies a meal, but they weren't heartless." He took a deep breath then sat down beside me. "I'm not as sad as you, but I'm still sad."

He put his arm around me and pulled me close to him. I didn't stop him, it felt... Natural. He was calming and I needed that.

"Jet..." I couldn't help but think of him.

"He's not here is he?"

I shook my head.

"I'm sorry."

I stayed silent.

"I'll protect you now Shrimp. I promise, see to it as a request from your friends, they'd want you to go back to the way you were . Happy ShrimpWorm, or BookShrimp."

I couldn't help bit giggle at that comment. "BookShrimp or ShrimpWorm? Original."

He smirked. "Heh, I know right? Anyway, open up a little more to me okay? I'll keep your secrets and soon enough I'll let you keep one of mine."

Looking up at him, I asked "How do you know if I have any secrets?"

He shrugged. "Everyone does. Doesn't matter if you're the President, Queen of England, or anyone. You have at least one secret."

"What's yours then?" I asked, "what do you have to hide?"

"Oh loads." He grinned, "but not yet lil'lady."

I hit him playfully in the stomach and we both ended up laughing. I closed my eyes for a while and soon felt a blanket being placed over Gajeel and I.

"Aw, Levy looks so peaceful." I heard Lucy say.

"Juvia thinks so too."

Juvia.

Ju-Vi-A.

Hmm.

Even in my sleep I still plan things.

I still plan revenge.

I know what happened to Jet.

So, I guess I know Juvia's secret.

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oooooohhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!

Dat twist doe.

Everyone like dying and all.

Sorry about that.

But,

It was to be expected.

HIBIKI WAS BITTEN!

If you knew that, here is one huge high five and cupcake. (You don't get the cupcake. I can't really give it to you can I?)

Dang. I shouldn't of told you all about Hibiki.

Oh well.

Sorry for anyone who liked/likes:

Mystogan

Lisanna

Jet

Droy

Eve

Hibiki

The other Blue Pegasus guy (GOMEN I DONT KNOW HIS NAME)

Macao

Max

Grandine/Polysicura (SORRY IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT I MEAN BY THAT TT^TT )

This'll kill you all...

Carla PantherLily And Happy... *dodges knives which you've probably thrown*

I know I didn't mention the cats, but they uhhmmmm. Didn't live that long to be mentioned.

Okay.

Bai~

(I know I'm the writer but please tell me that someone else felt like crying at one point in this chapter! It was Mystogan and Lisanna's deaths which were horrible :( you may be saying

'Oh OnlyHumanChica why did you write that if you cried and didn't want it to happen?' Well I'm one hell of a butler. Wait wrong fandom. I MEAN, I'm one mean writer.

'But OnlyHumanChica you don't have to be a mean writer' oh but I do dear reader.

What is a good ish book without its misery?)

(Heck that was mean. Sorry. I love you all.

You guys are the best.

Xoxo OnlyHumanChica. ........ Girl)

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