Chapter 1 (summary)
It all began at the gmg...Minerva causes the downward spiral of the world...Lucy gets caught up in it and is forced to endure many different levels of pain...the guild searches for some hope and come up with...LEMONS (WARNING)!
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It went by so fast and in a frantic blur.
Is Lucy ok?
She's not moving!
Oh no, Minerva released Lucy from her chokehold outside of the water sphere. She didn't do anything except laugh at her limp body.
As Lucy plummeted to the ground, Natsu and Gray raced out to catch her since she made no attempt to do so herself. Seconds before what would have killed her, she was embraced by her two best friends.
Blood was slick on her face, hair and body. Her breathing getting heavier by the second. Then it stopped.
Natsu screamed and Gray became so shocked and filled with despair he shook her with his might and slapped her…once…twice...almost a third before Wendy's small hand gipped his wrist preventing it. She started shouting out orders saying to get Cheria; the godslayer with sky magic as well.
No body moved, too scared to make a move as if the ground would crumble to dust.
That was until all of Sabertooth began laughing and taunting and disrespecting poor Lucy.
That was it.
Erza and Mira couldn't stand it they leapt in for the attack but where held in place by Master Makarov's enlarged hands. Most of Fairy Tail had already gathered on the arena area to support the two kids as they tried with all their magic to make Lucy heal.
Her wounds had closed by now but the internal organs that had begun to heal started to shut down. The same goes for her heart.
"We need to resuscitate her." Wendy cried
Cheria gripped lucy's hand tighter, "But we don't have that kind of equipment here?!"
"We're Fairy Tail, we will manage." The blunette turned towards the crowd of shocked worried and unreadable faces as they tried to deal with the idea of losing their shining light and hope.
Scanning it with determination, and a tactical expression she glimpsed a flash of gold standing closer to the edge of the arena sending death glares at sabertooth.
"LAXUS! Come over here, quick!"
-***Lucy's POV***-
Darkness, that seems to be all I can see.
Sticky red goope stuck to me as I wore a white floorlength, backless, long sleeved, crocheted dress with a pink choker and silver star pendant. I was barefoot and felt the goope like sand through my toes, strangely it was comfortable... (eww).
I bent forward to scoop up the goop...why is this so familiar, almost like I had seen it a lot before?
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.
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blood.
I dropped the blood while it seemed to crawl back from the black floor and attach itself to my blood soaked dress, I screamed, or rather I attempted to. But no scream came, no whimper, not even a scratchy noise that showed my attempt.
Obviously it was pointless to ponder over the dress and blood, I would perfer to find out where I am. I began to do what I would to call 'exploring the endless sea of black', but that didn't help.
Suddenly I felt a heavy presence, almost so heavy I could have dropped to my knees and tremble, but I stood brave.
I turned around only to be met with a legend who was suppose to be made up to scare kids into brushing their teeth and using the toilet before bed.
The legendary black mage...
Zeref.
I had no words for both my actions and thoughts, I was absolutely nothing.
"Who are you and why are you here?" Came the tremendous voice of the evil mage.
Now my brain was working but my mouth wasn't. I just stood there staring like an idiot.
"Hey ditzy blonde, you have some nerve to defy me. But I can change that if you do not speak of your own free will now." His voice sweet and trying to be inviting to the idea of becoming a masochist. He's just as described in the legends; mind blowing, innocent looking, devious, conniving, ulterior motivated, sadist, and most well known as Zeref the master of the black arts from a millinia ago who has become immortal and at the discretion of his own mind. Yup, perfect description.
I soon realized how terrifyingly evil he was. Through his façade he would and could crush everyone, but no matter what I thought my heart seemed to see him as a container for my pity. "This is terrifying." I whispered. His face only smiled at this.
"Of course it is, you know who I am and my capabilities. You're only human." A wicked grin smirked at me.
I took a small step forward towards him, "No, This scares me. To be all alone for so long here in this endless sea of darkness. It's sad and terrifying. And looking at you, I only feel pity. Pity for you having to be trapped here." I stood tall and curious.
He looked baffled at my sudden change in attitude, seemed almost at doubts. A lone tear streaked its way down my right side of my face. I couldn't control them for much longer, it's just so sad. Before I recognized what I was doing I was running towards him wrapping my pale thin arms around his lower torso in the best hug I could manage at our height differences.
"Hey, woah, what are you doing?!" He shouted and tried to get little ol' me off of him. "Get off me you stupid over emotional blonde!" His voice shook the air around me but I just refused to let him go, to feel alone.
"Why?" I asked as I looked up at him through my tear soaked eyelashes and flushed cheeks.
"Huh...Why what?" he seemed startled.
"Why do you act like you want to be alone? If it's painful then don't hide it, things that hurt don't make us weak. actually they do just the opposite. Just look at me and my friends for an example; we've all had something terrible to change our lives but we didn't look at it like a burden or something that would or could prevent us from over coming it. Natsu lost his dad, Igneel, you would think it would break his heart but look at him..Now he's stronger than ever and his goal is to find him. Then there's Gray, his teacher Ul had to sacrifice herself for him to live, it should have made him feel extremly guilty and broken his spirit, it did the opposite too, now he stands tall doing what he was taught and improving his magic just to make her proud and be noticed as Ul's deciple. What made you want to destroy, isn't there anything you want to strive for to make yourself or someone else proud of?" I cried into his chest, why do I feel like this, shouldn't I be terrified? I shouldn't feel like helping him, it's as though some string is attachting me to him.
Soon enough I realised I was still holding onto him, Well this is embarrassing. I took a step back but something latched onto me. I glanced down to where the added weight was and was shocked. Zeref had his arms gripping my forearms. I looked up to his face to see it scrunched up in pain.
"You're different. No one else would have said that let alone approached me. Actually they probably would have turned the other way the second they saw me and ran as fast and as long as they could. How come you act like we're best friends? What happened to you to make you so kind and open to people; some so evil that they could destroy the dimension we live in, in just minutes?"
Put frankly, I was shocked, more so than the last time. He just asked me truly what made me want to fight and not give up.
"I was a kid, maybe six, my mother was Layla Heartfilia. She was known by all as the kindest and most beautiful person they had ever met, I was lucky for that. My father, Jude Heartfilia, was entranced by her persona and quickly they fell in love. Not long after my birth my mom got ill, doctors didn't know what was wrong with her and no magic could heal her. My dad was furious, so he tried to hide his feelings in his work. We rarely ever saw him casually except for twice a week and sometimes at dinner. My mother ended up passing away soon after, she had taught me everything I know; my magic, personality, and life, it was all because of her. My father afterwards changed into a whole different person after she died, he became harsh and vain. I never saw him anymore and whenever I did it was either at job related events or a time when I was depressed and he ended up just making my depressions worst. One time on my birthday, I made him a rice ball thinking he might show a small smile or at least inwardly appreciate it but I ended up interrupting him and he threw it at me and told me that making food is for maids and I should act like a lady. That was the first time I had cried since the funeral for my mother. I grew up mostly in my bedroom or in the small garden and pond hidden in the woods to the left of the house's landscape. When I reached of age, Jude thought it was time to receive an heir and arranged a marriage with the son of some duke, who was as arrogant as they come. It gave me the shivers; the idea of not being able to marry someone I love. Sooooo~ I ended up running away. That was when I came across Natsu, and Fairy Tail, and became a wizard following my mother's teachings and ways. So I guess that's about how it went. Now my motive for fighting is to protect my friends, family, and nakama. I don't want anyone to have to live without someone by their side, like I did. It's what I fear the most you know, being alone." I retold my whole life story to this 'evil' and practically a stranger of a person. I bet he's going to laugh at me, tell me that I got what I deserved and that my fear is stupid…so I hung my head down in shame, small tears racing down my cheeks. No…my mom wouldn't want me to feel shameful of my past, but embrace it. It wasn't nearly as bad as some other's up brings from what I've heard. I've got it easy compared to them. My head shot up with a huge smile.
I saw Zeref flinch at my sudden actions, funny, he seems to be at a loss for words so I'll help him out.
"So...were exactly am I?" I state turning in circles observing the endless sea of nothingness.
"Well, by some miracle or curse you had your conscience sent into a sealed area of my body's mind. This place is not only suppose to be off limits to all outsiders but even my own mind. So to put simply you've been unconsciously teleported into a different dimension that is located in my body's head...How the hell did you manage that?!" Zeref asked incredulously.
"uhhh...donno. But traveling through dimensions is somewhat related to my magic. Although other than that i have no idea of any relations between the two of us." I stated fidgeting with my fingers.
Zeref turned around and began wondering, "So do you plan on standing there night or are you coming with me?"
"Me? follow an evil wizard in a sea of darkness? Sure , why not, it's not long I have plans." I shrugged hopelessly.
Zeref looked back at me with an amused smirk, "So what exactly were you doing before you came here?"
"Hah, yeah... it's a funny story really..." And so we began walking while I told him of the GMG and how the tournaments went, and my losses, and how i appeared here after under going conscientiousness after being brutalized by Minerva. Sure it's not exactly something i would like to tell people, but seeing as how he's the only person here and i don't know anything about this place. i don't exactly look forward to making him hate me.
"So, your telling me, you were chosen, along with some skilled friends of yours to compete and you've lost all of them by unfair cheating and rule breaking? That must suck. You know being mocked and compared to your stronger friends."
"Yup, if I could I'd train until i dropped to make them proud, but there wasn't enough time. I basically only got tp train my grip on my magic around me in the air, before my spirits whisked us all away. Do you think i could ever do that, become a titania of my own?" I looked over hopeful.
Zeref stoped walking and turned to me, "If you try hard enough, all things are possible. If you try hard enough you just be able to do that and escape from the hell too."
Behind him the sea of darkness began to lift replaced with a blood stained sky and molten cracked land with a glistening white dragon bone castle raised from the side of a broken molten lava mountain. in some grotesque way it was breathtaking, but the world seemed dead, like an apocalypse happen and whipped the lands and air clean dry of life.
"Zeref, would you please help me to make this goal a reality? Maybe we can bring the old you back to the world again, and you can be free too? I'm sure if you were to adopt a new name and clothes you could begin anew." i faced the dark wizard once more, holding out my hand. "So black magic wizard Zeref, destroyer of cities, leader of demons, would you do me the honor of becoming my friend?" Smiling like a new sun, bringing warmth to the darkness.