Chapter 22

"Gray!" He fell to his knees, holding his wound. His vision was blurring as his tears filled his eyes.

She crawled over them, falling out the car, "Gray! I'm coming!"

Natsu turned around, "Juvia! What are you-" his eyes widened as he saw his friend falling to his knees with tears flowing out of his eyes and a bullet hole right through his side, "G-Gray..." he whispered.

Juvia reached him and laid him on his back. She stared down at the wound, "It's going to be okay Gray." She started applying pressure to wound.

"This really hurts." He said.

"That's what happens when you get shot through your side."

"Freeze!" The soldiers were surrounding them. Their guns pointing at them, ready to fire.

The sound of high heels clicked as they came closer to them, "I really hope you guys didn't think you were leaving me." She smirked, "I may let you live if you tell me where the alien is."

"Go to hell!" Juvia yelled.

Veena sighed. She summoned one of her guards and took his weapon from his belt. She walked toward Juvia and hit her head with the gun. She pointed it at her, "I'll ask you one more time, where is she?"

Juvia spat at her, covering her face in her blood and spit. She wiped it off, "you'll pay for that." She armed her weapon, with her hand on the trigger.

"Wait!" Everyone turned to the sudden voice, "She's right here, I'll give her to you if you don't hurt them." He came out the car with Luna in his hands, asleep.

"Natsu! What do you think you're doing?!" Juvia yelled.

"She's right here." He said, "lets trade."

"You asshole!" Juvia yelled, trying to get up, but the soldiers were still pointing their guns at her, forcing her to stay in place, "Forget about us Natsu! Don't give Luna to her!"

"I have too. It's the only way to save both of you."

"Forget about us you idiot!" She yelled.

"I'm sorry." He whispered, staring at the ground.

"Come to me boy." She said, still pointing the gun at them.

He closed the front car door, with Luna in his hands still passed out.

Veena kicked Juvia, indicating her to get on her feet, "start walking."

She picked Gray up, putting his arm around her shoulders and supported him to the car.

"Come on! I don't have all day!" She yelled, waving the gun around.

Natsu, Gray, and Juvia were now arms reach from each other. She glared at him, "I hope you don't think what you're doing is right."

"It's the only way." He walked passed her, but not before giving her something she never expected.

A wink.

"Huh?" She thought. She walked to the car and put Gray on his back, "He's lost a lot of blood."

Levy examined him, "I read a book about this kind of wound. Give me some space."

"Are you sure you know what you're doing?" She asked.

She scoffed, "yeah, I read a book about this."

Juvia climbed in the front seat, "What is Natsu doing? Why would you guys agree on giving her Luna?!"

Cana blew a bubble from her gum. She turned to Juvia as her gum popped, "we didn't."

"What do you mean?"

"It's a part of the plan."

Natsu was a couple feet away from the scientist. Fear was struck inside of him as he looked into her empty, lifeless eyes and her wicked smile.

"You did the right thing, meta human. Now give her to me."

He stretched his arms out, bringing Luna closer to her. The wicked smile still plastered on her face seemed to have grown larger as Luna got closer to her.

Natsu stopped stretching his arms out, disappointing the her, "What is it? Why did you stop?"

He pulled Luna closer to him, "you see, about that... change of plans. I won't be giving her to you."

Her face changed, her face frowned as he said those words, "W-What?!" She yelled.

"Now Gajeel!"

He appeared from the shadows, his red eyes glowing and his grin, showing his unusually long canines, stretched across his face. He dug his hands into the ground, making the ground shake in anger.

"What is this?!" She yelled. Everyone fell to the ground from the vigorous shaking.

Metal pipes started spitting out of the ground and wrapped around the soldiers, causing them to become helpless.

A metal pipe began wrapping around the scientist, "let go of me now you monsters!"

Natsu walked toward her, holding Luna as closely as possible, "the real monster here is you."

"Natsu! Let's get going, there's more of them coming." Gajeel said.

He walked backwards, staring into those same lifeless eyes, "also the names Natsu, remember that." He smirked. He ran back to the car, still watching Veena.

She screamed at the top of lungs, her screams sounding like nails on a chalkboard, "I will get what I want! You won't stop me! I will kill all of you! All of you!"

Cana drove in reverse and drove full speed ahead at their next location.

Lucys house.

"Ok, lets try this again, what is the quadratic formula and what's the first step of solving this equation?" Her teacher asked.

Lucy was staring out of space looking pass her teacher and out the window behind her. She was thinking about her adventure yesterday with her friends and how she wishes she could do it again. To feel that rush again, to feel that huge smile creep on her face again, to be around people who she can call her friends.

"Lucy!"

She came back to reality, "Yes mam?"

"This is the third time today, what's gotten into you?"

"I'm sorry, I was just thinking about something."

"Well save it for after my session."

"Yes mam..."

"Now-" the bell beside her went off, "I guess we should take a fifteen minute break." She stood up gathering her books, "maybe it will give you some time to refresh your brain of whatever you're thinking of." She walked off to another room.

Lucy stared down at her diary, gasping at the drawing she drew, "I don't remember drawing these!"She thought. Her face turned a bright red when she kept staring at the drawings.

They were drawings of the crew. Juvia, Luna, Gajeel, and everyone else. She closed her notebook and slammed her head on the table, embarrassed at her sudden actions.

"Why does today feel so dead?" She asked.

"He's losing too much blood." Levy said, trying to apply pressure. She felt like she was at a dead end. She didn't know what to do, all her research from her books weren't working and the bleeding wasn't slowing down anytime soon, "I-I don't know what to do?"

"What do you mean you don't know what to do?! You need to help him!" Juvia yelled.

"I'm trying the best I can but the bleeding won't stop or slow down-" It was then she had an idea, but it was dangerous. She remembering reading an article in a magazine she borrowed from her friend Bisca called guns monthly.

"Gajeel, I need you to pull the bullet out."

Gajeel shivered. Never would he have thought that he would have to do something as gruesome as this. He hovered his hand over the wound and quickly pulled the bullet out. Gray screamed in pain as it happened, but soon felt relieved.

"Anyone by any chance have any alcohol?" Levy asked.

"I have some in the trunk." Everyone looked at Cana, shocked and in disbelief, "What? Sometimes I need to let go."

Juvia reached in the trunk and grabbed the bottle, "here."

Levy ripped off a piece of her shirt and gave it to Gray, "put this in your mouth."

"Why?" Juvia asked.

"Because he's going to need something to bite on while I pour this on him." Gray obliged and put it in his mouth, "now I'm going to count to three and I'm going to pour this on your wound, ok?"

Gray barley nodded as he was in too much pain, "ok, one, two..." She poured it on it without warning, making Gray lash out in pain.

"Hold him down Juvia!"

"I-Im trying!" She said. She wiped a few tears from her eyes, "is that it? All you need to do is stitch it back up, right?"

"No, I have one more step to do." She looked at Erza, "I need a knife."

A glowing light appeared around her hand, making a dagger appear, "here."

Levy took it and looked at Natsu, "I need you to make this knife extremely hot."

"Why?"

"Because I'm going to use it to stop the bleeding." Natsu lit his hand up and began heating the knife. She stared back at Gray, "if you thought that last part hurt, then your really going to hate me after this."

Sweat was dripping down Grays face as he knew what was coming next.

"Juvia, Gajeel, I need you to hold him down." They both held shoulders and his chest to make sure he wouldn't move too much as she was doing the operation, "Natsu, give me knife."

He handed it her. She touched the blade to make sure she had the right temperature, "Ouch! Your flames sure are hot."

"They say my flames are as hot as a dragon." He said.

"Who is they?" Cana said, tying to stifle her laugh.

"...people."

Levy looked Gray in the eyes, "this is really, really going to hurt, but I need you to bear with me, ok?"

He gave a faint nod. He was in and out of it, his face drenched in sweat and his face turning pale.

She kept staring straight into his eyes, never losing contact. She smacked the blade on the wound, causing Gray to go wild. He was kicking, screaming, and tears were running down his face as the heat from the blade sealed the bullet hole.

"How much longer Levy he can't take it anymore!" Juvia yelled.

"When the bleeding stops!" A few seconds later she removed the blade, checking to see if the bleeding stopped. She sighed in relief, "it stopped." She took the cloth from Grays mouth and cleaned the rest of the blood from the wound.

She sat back in her seat, grabbing the alcohol bottle and took a shot, "I can't do that again." She looked back at Gray and saw that he was passed out.

"Is he going to be ok?" Juvia asked.

"Yeah, he's going to be just fine." She said, taking another shot.

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