What Happened to Our Futures

The Attack

Lucy POV
My vision is starting to come back into frame. I'm laying on the cracked, dusty floor. When I get up. I feel the floor board creak loudly under me. "Lucy is that you ?" I can hear Juvia call. "Yeah- yeah it's me" I cough out. The hallway outside Juvia's apartment is basically destroyed one of the support beams is hanging loosely above my head. Dust is everywhere, and clouding my lungs.
"Juvia believes that we had some kind of earthquake"
"Yeah I have to agree with you but I don't think the cause was natural" I reply
The lights are flickering on, and off as Juvia walks towards me. Juvia gives a me one over "nothing too bad , we'll get you back into my apartment" she says firming grasping my hand leading me into the apartment. "Nashi, I need to find her!" I protest. "Lucy we aren't sure what happened, Juvia will contact the guild with her lacrima." I want to protest but Juvia practically pushes onto the couch.  Storm looks at me visibly shaken but proudly holds out an old white doll with a black stitched on face. "He helps me when I'm scared" he say then pauses "I think you need him more than me right now" he says handing it to me. "Thanks" I smile before gently grabbing the doll. Juvia had already been gone for a few minutes, and I'm chomping at bit to leave. Juvia shuffles in from the other room "The guild was attacked". My heart is sinking, and starting to go into panic mode. "But"she says "Everyone is fine Erza scared it off"
"So we still don't know what "it" is" I say in response.
"The guild has some ideas of who but you know that already"
"Yeah" I respond glumly
I watch Juvia carefully walk over to the kitchen. She runs a rag under some warm water before coming over to press it against my bloody scratches. Within a few seconds I hear her say "done", and the last bandage is placed. I hand Storm back his doll with smile "Thanks that really helped." "Your welcome" he says before running off in the direction of his room.
"Storm get ready to go, we're going to the guild with Aunt Lucy" Juvia calls.
"You don't have to come with me if you don't want too" I say walking towards the door.
"No, Juvia wants too ... Juvia wants to be there for her guild mates"
I could tell Juvia was tired, and distressed. She was even talking in the third person again. Though she still wanted to come be there for the guild mates.
When we got to the guild a significant amount of damage had been done to it. Bricks scattered about on the front porch. There was a visible hole in the side wall. I was about two feet into the guild when I was tackled by Nashi. "Mama, you're here" she said. "I know I'm sorry... that must have been very scary" I say holding her closely.
"It wasn't too bad, Auntie Erza kicked his butt"
"Oh really" I tell her. Nashi catches a glimpse of Storm, and breaks my grasp ,running over to him.
"Ice boy, you're back" she shouts.
Storms only rolls his eyes at that comment but allows Nashi to drag him off to introduce him to Gaius.
Erza looks dead tired which is understandable. She's out of armor with her head lying against the wood table.
"You feeling okay" I say walking over to her.
"Oh Lucy" she says startled, I guess she was sleeping. "Yes-yes I'm fine" she repeats. "This whole thing is making me sick. With Mest who were unsure of his condition, and now an actual attack on the guild."
"You should get some rest" I say encouragingly
"Yes I'll try" she mumbles tiredly. The lacrima was flooded with calls one after another. Erza's now resting in the infirmary thanks to Mira's insistence. Lisanna's taking most of the calls which are mostly other concerned guilds asking if we needed anything. "I'm not quite sure what to tell them." Lisanna says sitting down next to me. "I would love to tell them we need all the supplies you can bring bricks, and manual labor but I don't think that anyone quite has the resources at the moment."
I chuckled "Most guilds are on the verge of bankruptcy, and lack resources since the "war."
"Yeah I wish I could say otherwise" she says glumly.
"How is Avilyn? You know after the attack?" I ask.
"You know she was pretty scared but I had her, and was trying my best to protect the others."
"Thank you for that Lisanna, knowing my daughter she just focused on how amazing Erza's fighting style was."
"Well she is Natsu's daughter" she responded bluntly.
"Hopefully she won't rush into battles like he did."
"Yeah let's hope" said Lisanna
"Or we'll be having pretty big debts for damage repair" I said as we both laughed.
Mira drags an old tarp out to cover the hole, and Cana's helping her. Juvia making sure a game of tag doesn't turn into a brawl. Levy's reading over her paper work. Then's it's me, and Lisanna it almost seems somewhat peaceful. Since mostly everyone lives in the old fairy hills building with the exception of Erza, we agree to walk home together. The front door was flung open, and smacked against the wall loudly. There was a little boy now in the doorway. He looks no older than 5 , and was covered in small scratches. The boy's hair was spiky, and dusty brownish white color. "I lost my mom , and I need your help!" he said panting heavily. His glasses looked as if they were about to fall off his face. I see Mira already walking towards the boy. His breathing became only more erratic, and could tell what was about to happen next. That's when I heard a thump. Mira was now holding the boy up with his legs buckled beneath him.