What Just Happened?
Chapter 1—Jekyll & Hyde: Part 1
Ladies and gentlemen, our story starts off in the peaceful kingdom of Fiore. It's a normal day, just like any other, and our favored guild is well… being their usual selves. Destruction, chaos, flames and ice, swords, strange maids who can dig holes, a flying blue cat, and a whole lot of unintended damages. All for the sake of a book. Yep, that's right! Our favorite team is at it again. Erza, Gray, Natsu, Lucy and Happy left for their job this morning, Lucy was in dire need of rent money, to escort a client with a very valuable spell book. Shortly after leaving they were ambushed by the usual bad guys trying to steal said valuable spell book, and that's when the trouble all started. Let's get to our favorite characters now.
"ERZA, DUCK!" Yelled Natsu as he let out a fire dragon slayer roar. The redheaded requip mage hit the floor barely missing the attack. The attack, however, met its mark and took out the two bandits the requip mage was fighting.
"Natsu, you could have hit Erza!" Lucy called angrily from a few yards away, battling a couple bandits of her own. She had called out Virgo, who was busily doing her best to bury the attackers one by one.
Erza, who was currently getting up, cursed silently and swore that she would get vengeance on the pink haired man. Quickly she took out the last few remaining bandits and helped Lucy tie them to a tree. "Well, now that that's all done…" The red headed beauty swiftly punched Natsu and watched him crumble to the ground. "That was for earlier."
Natsu groaned sinking to his knees, "Come on, Erza, I was just trying to help you out."
Gray snorted, he was busy picking up the scattered items that had fallen from the client's carriage when the whole riot had started, "As if Erza needs any help. Way to be flame brains."
Natsu growled at the already half naked ice mage. With a quick glare from Erza, he had decided to let it go. Natsu quickly recovered himself and started to pick up the items as well. Coming across a book on the ground that had fallen open, he picked it up and began reading one of the pages. Lucy, who was curious as to what he was reading, stepped closer to him to peer at the book.
"Hey, Luce, look at this…" unknowingly Natsu read a spell that would mess up his whole entire week.
"Lucy run away!" Erza cried out, but before the blonde mage could take a step away the spell settled over her. They all watched with utter horror as Lucy's body began to glow odd colors. Just as the colors and lights became too much, they blinked off and Lucy stood there with her eyes closed, deathly still.
"Lucy…" Gray trailed off quietly, not knowing what would happen.
The blonde mage opened her eyes and blinked a few times. She stared at the three mages gathered around her and blinked a few more times. Suddenly a large, scary smile appeared on her face and she threw her head back, letting out peals of maniacal laughter. The mages around her looked utterly confused and started towards her. Before they could touch her she grabbed her whip and began viciously using it against her own friends.
"Lucy! What are you doing?!" cried Natsu as he tried his best to hide from her whip. When had Lucy become this strong? How long had she been able to wield her whip like this? Lucy continued her barrage of attacks.
Erza had had enough at this point. She quickly requipped into her flight armor and dodged all of Lucy's attacks. "Now, Gray!"
Gray, knowing full well what Erza wanted him to, reluctantly put his hands together, "Ice make: Cage!" A beautiful cage of ice suddenly surrounded Lucy, but the blonde mage started laughing even harder. She pulled a key off of her belt and summoned Virgo again, who quickly dug her master out and set her free.
"Puny ice freak! Your stupid cage can't hold me!" Lucy cried out with glee as she once again continued to fight her friends.
"Erza what do we do?" Gray yelled as he put up a shield of ice to block out Lucy's attacks. He didn't want to fight his friend. He blamed the stupid fire breathing maniac who never thought about his actions. He should have encased Natsu in ice before he had the chance to finish the spell.
"We have no choice but to fight her. Just try your best not to seriously injure her," Erza said.
Natsu stood in shock, as he watched his once sweet best friend laugh in glee as she tortured her team mates. He was trying his best to avoid her whip as well, but it seemed like it was everywhere. He suddenly had a bright idea. "Gray! Freeze her! It'll give us enough time to get the job finished and get back to the guild. Levy can take a look at the spell and try to reverse it!"
Gray nodded, he had been thinking about doing it anyway. With a spell technique he had learned from Ultear, which he rarely used, he turned to Lucy and shouted, "Ice make: Rose Prison!" Swirls of ice shot around Lucy's legs and suddenly encased her in a beautiful ice rose. Lucy let out a disgruntled scream before the ice completely covered her.
All three mages let out a breath and looked at each other before they turned to survey the damage. Erza let out a sigh as she turned to see a building window smashed in, a lamp post knocked over, huge craters in the street and several people staring at them. This was by far the least damage they'd ever inflicted but it felt much worse than it looked.
"What in the heck just happened?" Gray said as he walked up to the frozen Lucy.
"I have no idea," Erza replied dryly. "But we have Natsu to thank." Both of them turned to the pink haired man and glared.