"Run levy!" She heard her father scream behind her pushing her out her bedroom an onto the roof.
"Dad!" She said shaking tears running down her face.
"Climb down the escape ladder and hide in the forest."
There was a banging in the hallway outside her bedroom door.
"Dad I'm scared!"
He reached out the window and kissed her on the forehead. "I know. Run and keep running, go to Magnolia, a place called Fairy Tail and give Master Marcov this." He put a metal locket around small neck, it had her families crest of an open book with a dragon in it. She recognized it instantly of it being the one he always wore that had belonged to her mother. He'll now what to do."
"Dad."
"What did I say?" The banging and yelling were getting closer to her door.
"Go to Magnolia, Fairy Tail, give this to Makarov. But daddy-"
He pushed her gentle. "Good. Now go, I love you. Run and Live Levy. Stay alive. You need to live."
She nodded, crying, she climbed down the vines that grew on the wall until her small feet hit the ground.
When they did she heard the door blast open. She cringed and ran into the forest. She hid behind a tree and watched. She saw her fathers back in the window.
"Jose!" Her father yelled. "I've payed you in full! What more do you want?"
"You now why I'm here." Came a sharp angry voice. "You took something very important to me. And I need it back."
"I don't know what your talking about."
"Silence!" The man hit her dad and he fell and landed on the edge of the window. He looked out and she knew he saw her.
She had never seen her father so scared. She saw him mouthy the word run but she couldn't move, her feet frozen in terror.
The man grabbed his shirt and spun him around to face him again. "I know you're lying, now give it here."
"Never."
Jose laughed. "Very well. Die, I can find it on my own."
There was a black light and the opened window shattered and a body fell out. Levy looked at her fathers died mangled body on the ground in front of her.
"Master." She heard over head and looked up and saw a shadow with red eyes starting at her out the window her father had been tossed out of.
Jose looked out the window. "Do what you like with her, she's of no importance. Jut like her worthless father."
Levy sucked in her breath and sprinted into the forest. What is happening? She was still unsure. All she knew was her dad, her only family, was dead and something was chasing after her.
Run. Was all she told herself to think. She shouldn't have stayed that long.
She heard sounds of her assailant after and then nothing but her own breath. She dared to glance back once and did see him.
Has he given up the chase? She wasn't about to find out.
She never stopped until she lost her footing and tripped over a root.
She fell hard on the ground tumbling with her momentum and when she looked up a pair of black boots stood in front of her.
She looked up and in the moonlight saw two red eyes stare down at her.
How?
He laughed, he wasn't even out of breath. "Gihihi, what do we have here? You're a hard one to follow."
"Don't, kill me." She begged through gasping breath.
"Kill you." He reached down and grabbed her by the hair and lifted her up. "That would be to boring."
He looked her over, his face gave nothing away. He was tall, we being at least a foot and a half taller then her. "Tell me, how old are you?" She didn't say anything an he shook her tugging her hair till she was sure it would pull out. He pressed her against a tree.
"Speak or maybe I will kill you." One of his fingers turned into a metal knife and he tapped her throat.
She swallowed. "Thirteen."
"Hmph. Not much to play with then. But still. I need a new slave." He lifted her over his shoulder effortlessly.
"Let me go!" She squirmed. And he squeezed her side painfully claws digging sharply into her side.
"Shut it," he growled. "Either die here and now or shut the hell up and keep quiet. Your choice."
She stopped struggling. Stay alive. Live Levy. Her dads last wish.
Is this what he meant? She clenched her fists and forced her tears to stop as she went limp.
He laughed. "Wrong choice. You're mine now."
She cringed at his words, please protect me dad.
From all the adrenalin, fright, and running levy soon passed out on the red eyed mans shoulder her last sight of her freedom and past was cloud of smoke coming from her once safe home over the tree tips.
The next time she woke up she was laying on a thin mat with a ragged blanket on top of her.
"Good you're up. Put those clothes on and follow me."
Levy looked up at a older girl with black hair in a plain old red dress, brown belt, and boots. "Where am I?"
"Phantom Lords Guild, or our own personal slice of hell, whichever way you want to look at it."
"Where will you be taking me?"
"To your new master. Now get dress."
She looked down on her night gown. It was torn and covered in dirt and ash, not decent to be walking around in. But she didn't want to put on the other clothes, they were plain and harmless but they scared her.
Shaking slightly she pulled on the Dull blue dress that was much to wide for her along with a pair of worn down sandals.
She brushed some of her tangled wild blue hair out of her eyes Looking around she couldn't see anything to put her messy hair up. but only seeing the ragged muddy night gown, her father had given it to her from his last trip. She bent down and tore it into long strips, it would be useless for anything else and it kept part of her old life with her.
One she used as a bandana for her head band and the thicker one for a tie around her waist so the dress didn't hang off her so awkwardly.
"Hurry up! You don't want him angry." Levy tucked her mothers pendant in her dress, thankful she still had it, and follows after the older girl. "Why's you're name?"
"Levy."
She nodded. "Call me Cara. Now Listen carefully, I'll only say this once, don't make eye contact, don't stand out. Though that may be hard with your hair color but your size will help them over look you. Why do they bring small girls back?"
She said that last part to herself but it made Levy shivered at what she might be going at. She was thirteen but she wasn't ignorant. "Do not talk back and it's better to refer to them all as Master. Even the lower mages." She pointed to a large building where levy could hear men yelling and fighting. "If you can, keep away from there, it's the main Guild area, stay away especially at night and early morning until you get older, it's when they are at their worst."
Levy only nodded.
"You are to be Gajeel Redfox's personal slave girl, he needs a new one."
"Ah, what happened to his old one?"The girl only looked at her sadly and didn't say anything. And Levy grew even more scared.
"Just obey him and you'll do fine. Back where you woke up is the laundry, the slave girls, like us, sleep behind there. Never venture out at night, it's for your own safety. Up ahead is where you will work. His area is in the top left tower." Levy looked up at a large building like castle. It was larger then her own home and that had been huge! But while her place had been sunny and warm this seemed dark and cold. A large cloud hung over the other side of the building.
"Why is one side of it covered in a rain cloud?"
"That's Mistress Juvia, she is one of the top Guild Members, you'll learn who they are. And Juvia, she's always in a bad mood. Much like everyone else around here. You now how to cook? Clean?"
Levy nodded, she and her dad cooked all the time and she help out the maids many times when her father wasn't around and they were taking care of her.
"Good, it will help. Oh and one last thing." She knelt down and grabbed her shoulders. "I may not know you but I see you're a good, smart girl, so I'm warming you. If he ever tries to, have you," Levy's eyes grew big. "Stay calm, don't react at all. And just say anything, you aren't good enough, you'd break, you'd only be a disappointment and am untrained, tell them you'll call another girl. Anything you can think of to get him to not do it. But Don't tell him no, or get scared. Men like that."
"I am scared."
"Don't start crying though, never cry."
Levy blinked her dry eyes. She hadn't even thought of crying. Could she still cry?
"Now, I have to go to the bar. Go through that back door, never the front. Go up the stair case and at the top turn left, his is the metal door. Knock on the door wait for him to let you enter and keep your eyes on the ground. Do what he says except if he asks you to do what I warned."
Levy nodded. "I don't want to."
"You have to." She stood up. "Welcome to your new home. You will probably die here like the rest of us." She turned and walked away.
Levy reached up to her mothers pendant under her dress. -live Levy, stay alive-
I will dad, I'll escape this place. And survive this Gajeel. She looked up at the windows that were suppose to be his. But in scared daddy. I don't think I can.
She shook her head and let in a shaking breath before walking up the stairs and found the metal door and knocked.
"Enter."
She slipped in the door and looked down like Cara warned her. She didn't say anything.
"Finally woke up, should punish you but I'm in a good mood."
She heard him get up and walk over to her.
"Now," he grabbed her chin and lifted it up. "What should I have you do first?"
She met two red eyes and her legs felt weak but she kept her ground. It was him, the one you caught her last night. In the new light she realized he was younger then he thought. Eighteen was her guess, but that didn't comfort her in the slightest. He was grinning at her with those Razor teeth and red eyes. His black hair somehow kept his face in a shadow and his huge form towered over her. He looked ready to kill. A good mood?
"I don't care." She said giving him a hard look. Wrong move.
He leaned in close. "Don't defy me you weak scum." He back handed her across her face. And she fell to the ground holding her cheek. "Now, go get my food. And don't be slow. I hate to have to find a new one so soon."
She got up from the floor. And looked down on the floor. "Yes Master."
He snickered. "That's better, now move it."
She walk out of the room and half way down the stairs she fell her legs giving out. She collapsed on the steps finding it hard to breath.
So scary. She wanted to cry but couldn't. She caught her breath and touched her stinging cheek, still no tears. I'll find a way out. Soon enough I will.
She stood up and walked down the stairs.
Two year later. (15 years old)
"I found her!" She heard a man yell behind her and then laughing.
No, She didn't stop running though and pushed her body farther through the forest.
Got to keep running. Live.
It had been two year till she found her escape. And it had been two years of nothing but orders, fear, worry, and bruises. The low ranking mages of the guild where vile and crude creatures. Cara had kept her away from most of it but it still effected her.
A blast of something hit a tree next to her. She didn't scream but kept on running.
And she couldn't use her solid script to protect her, not that it was much in the first place. She had tried that the first month she had been there but she was so weak they easily caught her and they attached two bracelets that sent waves of shock if she used even the littlest magic. She had been able to escape but she couldn't get the bracelets off her wrists
Suddenly those bracelets sent a charge on energy through her arms.
but hadn't used any magic. She fell onto the ground in a spasm.
"I grow tired of this chase." she heard Jose greasy voice spoke up behind her. He must have a way to activate them without magic. She cursed herself, Why didn't she think of it?
"You know I don't like it when something from me is stolen or runs away. It makes me angry. Even if its one little girl." Jose grabbed her hair and lifted her by it. She screamed and kicked out at him. Another shock went through her bracelets and she went still. "Still after two years you have yet to learn your place. Just like your dead and useless father."
"Don't talk about my father like that." She hissed.
"Ho, ho, still has some fire in her." He tossed her to one of the Phantom Lord Grunts who hooked her arms painfully begins her. "We should teach her a lesson eh boys?"
"No!" She yelled as them laughed and carried her back to the Guild. She saw Gajeel in the back of the crowd giving her a nasty glare.
She looked away. He had warned her many times escape was inevitable, even if it was more of a threat then a warming. He had even caught her by himself on a few feeble attempts and it was then he would beat her badly.
They pulled her into the guild house and up the stares.
"Let me go!"
"Silent." He slapped her. "I don't like it when weaklings like you think they can defy me." He turned to the crowd of men under him. "It's about time we showed this pet, what we do to those who misbehave."
"No-" she knew what that meant.
"Strip her."
"No!" She struggled. But hands held her down while others tore her dress off, even her necklace was tossed somewhere into crowd. When she was naked they laid her down on her chest on the table, in font of the whole guild.
"Please, no! I won't do it again. I'll never step out of line again." And it was the truth.
"To late for that." She looked over her shoulder at Jose and saw him standing by the fire. He held a rod into the fire.
"No!" She struggled and a hand pressed her head down.
"Just like a mustang, you have to keep with them, until they break. And the first step is to brand them." He pulled the rod out of the fire and at the end was a red hot emblem of the phantom guild. He brought it over and she could feel the heat before it touched her.
When it did she let out a horrible scream and she heard the guild laugh around her. She collapsed in pain. It was as if her back had been charred to the bone. Probably was.
"Next we ride them until they break."
"No." She barley was able to say through the pain as she felt something press next to lower self and her legs spread.
She looked around the guild desperately. No one would help her. Cara wasn't there and even if she was she knew the other girls or even Cara could do nothing for her. Her eyes finally locked onto Gajeels. He was standing in the back corner of the guild next to the door. His eyes where deadly and staring at her.
"Help." She whispered a finally useless plea before shutting her eyes. He wouldn't help. No one would she knew this day would come eventually, it happened twice when she'd been here and while she never saw what happened she saw the result. Cana had always warned her that it would happen if she stepped out of line, something she couldn't stop doing. Maybe she'd pass out before it happened.
Then she heard a punch and the pressure behind her lifted.
"That's my slave." Growled a voice and her eyes flickered open for a second at recognizing it. "And I hate sharing."
"Gajeel." Said Jose in a stern voice.
"She's mine to break." Gajeel interrupted with a low growl. "It's no fun when they're broken. You owe me from the last one."
It was silent. She faintly heard Gajeels growl.
"Fine." Jose said in a bored voice. "Just don't let her do anything again. I know how you Dragons are so possessive about your items. Even the lowly ones."
A hand grabbed her ruffly and flipped her onto his shoulder the movement made her injury shoot pain through her body, so much it hurt to even scream or react.
"If you don't mind I'd like to play with it in private." He slapped her rear and she heard the guild cat whistle and laugh around but she hardly felt it from the pain of the marking.
He carried her out of the guild and through the cold air completely naked and then finally up to his room. He laid her on the bed and walked away.
She cringed and felt herself falling into darkness but she forced herself to stay awake. She was still in danger.
She heard him come back and sit on the bed and she flinched.
"Please." She whispered, Cara had warned her never to beg but that was all she could do at this point.
She felt him touch her back and she was about to scream out when she realized his hands felt cool and slick. He slid them over her new burn mark.
She let out an involuntary moan of relief. It felt wonderful. Her mind went numb as the relief washed over her, the pain lessened as he added more of whatever it was onto her back on the injury.
When he pulled away she came back into reality and realized exactly who was doing that to her. She tried to move away but he held a hand down on the small of her back and pulled a blanket over her lower body. She cringed again as He trailed a hand over her lower back and up her side and she shook and tried to move away.
"Keep still." He ordered and She obeyed. Waiting nervously for his next move.
She didn't expect it. His hand trailed her back for a while sometimes coming very close up her sides to her chest where she involuntarily would shiver. But before long he pulled away and stood up.
"If you try that again I'll let them have you." He said harshly and she cringed. That was all he said before he stormed out of the door and slammed it shut.
She stared at that door a long time, half fearing he would come back, half...
She didn't know what to think of it and she couldn't come to a conclusion, but from the events of that day Levy soon passed out despight not wanting to.
R&R!
I have authors notes after the second chapter that I'd like you to read! Just goes over a couple things.
Thanks for reading!