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"Hang in there, Lucy." Bella assured the blonde celestial spirit mage as she tried to pull her out. She grabbed her hand and used her sound waves as a booster. Coco pulled her right hand.

"A little bit more! I could move my body!" Lucy exclaimed as she groaned. Brain ll then sent an attack to them but it was blocked by Natsu. After a few tries, finally she was finally pulled out from the clock. Lucy quickly stood on her feet and dashed to the doll. Michelle.

Lucy took the doll and hugged it tightly with tears in her eyes. Then, her eyes glanced back to her sister. Rae was slipping into the machine. Bella, take Lucy away from here. Go. Bella heard a familiar voice in her head. Shaking her head vigorously, she yelled at the brown haired girl to wake up.

The brown haired girl just stared at the bat with red eyes of nothingness. Bella hugged her body while crying. "Why do you have so selfless, Rae? Damn it!" The bat held her leather jacket tightly in her tiny hands.

"Lucy, do you like it?" Rae lifted her head and saw Jude smiling at little Lucy who was holding the same doll. Then, her eyes snapped to a lady who looked exactly like Lucy. Layla Heartfilia. Her mother. Rae watched Lucy smiled and hugged the doll, telling her parents that the doll was her little sister.

"Rae-neesan, do you really watch over us?" Hearing a voice that she missed for, Rae turned around and smiled warmly. Michelle. The brown haired girl nodded. Michelle looked down on her hands and smiled.

"I had so much fun then with Lucy-neesan. In that big mansion, it was like a castle. Lucy-neesan would make all kinds of clothes for me out of paper and flowers. We went everywhere together. Smiled wherever we went. She always told me that you were watching over us up there. We would play together knowing you were watching us. But--"

Rae looked around when the scenery was changing. Lucy was crying. Rae understood now. When her mother died, Lucy was always in front of her grave, crying. She took it out on everyone and everything, making everyone really worried about her.

"All I could do was watch. It was hard not being able to do anything." Michelle curved a small smile at little Lucy who was crying. Whenever Lucy looked at her, she was reminded of her mother and that was painful for her. That's why Lucy stopped talking to her. Eventually, she left her behind.

"But you waited all that time for her to come back, didn't you?" Rae watched Michelle as a doll was left behind and Jude had taken her in. He even apologized to her. Jude told her that Lucy was so sad after losing her mother.

"I don't know how to talk to my daughter these days. Is this a punishment for my sin, throwing my other daughter away? But, someday, when she gets over her mother's death, will you become her little sister again?" Rae closed her eyes, letting the tears fell once again. She then felt Michelle took her hand.

"That's when I knew what did he do to you. I'm sorry. It must be hard for you to grow up alone. And to think that I am the one who suffered the most. But, my pain can't even compared to yours, nee-san."

"I waited for years after that. The once lively mansion was now deathly quiet. Suddenly, everyone was gone. In the end, the person who came for me wasn't Lucy-neesan." Rae watched Brain ll took her and gave her life as Imitatia. She did as she was told, pretending to be Michelle Lobster.

Her mission was to retrieve the Infinity Clock.

"Before, you said you helped Jude with his work." Rae turned her head and looked at the girl. Michelle nodded her head slowly. It was difficult for her to use him like that, but she wanted to go back. She just wanted to go back to those days.