Hello! Welcome to my story, Beautifully Twisted! This story is inspired by Castle on lunaescence's story 'Becoming is Half the Story.' It's an amazing story, you should definitely check it out if you like this! This chapter is pretty short (compared to other stories) but I feel like its a good length for an introduction. I don't have anything else to say, except if you are prone to severe violence, death, gore, and sadistic torture, I suggest you leave immediately. You have been warned! Enjoy!
I do not own Fairy Tail in any way possible, Hiro Mashima does.
One by one, people have disappeared in Magnolia. There have been no traces found of where these people have gone or if they are dead or alive, and being the only investigators who haven't given up on the case, Natsu Dragneel and Gray Fullbuster have been stumped for weeks. But after meeting a humanized demon and a huge flirt, things finally begin to get interesting.
The crack that came from his head was extremely loud.
It was almost too loud for her liking, but that wasn't necessary to worry about at the moment. She swung the hammer down onto his skull again, almost smiling at the visible dent that is creased into the side of his head. With each bash, blood splattered along the alley walls, only adding more and more to the mess. His head was becoming more the shape of a demented kidney bean, his face becoming inhuman.
She smirked, "That's what you get." Now throwing down the hammer on different parts of his body, she chuckled lowly. The way his limbs bursted with blood and his bones snapped was pleasing to her ear. It was almost like music. Music for demons, to be realistic.
Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam.
The sound was repetitive now that she smashed his limbs to what looked like mangled noodles. The corpse sat in its own blood, looking like something right out of a demonic nightmare. The jaw unhinged, skin was more like mashed meat, and there was an indentation in the cheekbone. Bones stuck up out of the skin in different places, skin stringing off of them. It didn't even look like the body was human.
The girl looked down to her clothes, frowning at the amount of blood that splashed up onto her. "Aw, damn, right after I bought these…" she muttered, peeling her shirt from sticking to her skin.
"Oi, you know better than making such a mess." Another voice came in, along with the click of boots walking along the pavement. "You also could've saved some of the fun for me."
The hammer wielding girl laughed, rubbing her neck sheepishly. "Sorry, got out of hand. Next time I'll let you do the dirty work." She turned to the pile of human remains, staring at it with narrowed eyes. "How long till dawn?"
The other girl stepped up next to her, viewing the crime scene with a bored gaze. "Six hours. You finished this one pretty quickly, you know."
A smile came across her face, "Good. I'll start on the evidence, you got the body, right?"
The other shook her head lightly with a small smile, "Yeah, I got it. You never liked touching the bodies, have you?"
"Never liked the feel of mangled meat."
"You're the one who turns them into that."
Waving her hand in dismissal, the hammer wielder said, "Yeah, yeah, let's get going. We gotta do it quick since there are night shifts around here. Don't forget to scatter it."
A scoff came from the other, "Like I would forget. Don't forget the bleach."
"Aw, come on, another one missing?!" A pink haired male groaned, slouching down even more in his chair. The one standing on the other side of the pinkette's desk rolled his eyes, sitting down in a wooden chair nearby. The blinds were open in the office, letting an extremely obnoxious bright light shine into the room.
"Yeah, disappeared yesterday before lunch. Not a single trace left of where he went." the raven haired man informed, flipping through a couple of papers he had in his hand, "No one thought anything was different about the way he acted before he disappeared. No evidence of him being killed or more-less attacked." He chuckled coldly. "Doesn't that sound familiar, eh, Natsu?"
Natsu Dragneel grumbled, "Unless there's some goddamn portal in the middle of nowhere we don't know about, we have nothing to go off of! This is getting repetitive!" His partner, Gray Fullbuster nodded in agreement. The two of them worked in the Mangolia Crime Scene Investigation - MCSI, for short - and were stuck on one case they had for at least a month now. Mysterious cases of people disappearing started coming in and a whole group of people were assigned to work on the cases- none of them could even come up with a lead in where missing personals could be.
After two weeks and nothing happening, almost all the people left the case unsolved and went to work on things they could actually solve. But since someone had to work on the cases since at least one a week came in, Natsu and Gray lingered around to do so.
Which, still, got them no where.
"Seriously, how can someone just disappear from the face of the earth with no trace?!" Natsu complained, putting his hands behind his head as he leaned back in his chair. "You would've thought they would've just stopped caring about it and leave it alone!"
Gray scoffed, "And let families mourn over a loved one who they don't know if they're alive or not?"
The pinkette bit his lip in thought, "That's literally the only reason we haven't just given up on the case, but there is literally nothing we can do to help!"
"You know, lets just go to the bar or something to get a rest from this." Gray suggested, knowing how stressed out his companion was about it. He was too, just wasn't so verbal about it.
"You know what," Natsu said, "yeah, let's go! I haven't gone out drinking in forever!"
"That's because the last time you did, you destroyed half the bar with a chair you took from someone else."
He groaned, "Dammit, stripper, I told you that wasn't on purpose!"
Gray shot a scowl at Natsu as the two walked out of his office, "You were drunk, ashtray. This time, don't down seven barrels of beer!"
"I know, I know, you ice brick!"
"Flamebrain!"
"Frostbite!"
Lets just say, even though they were partners in the case, that didn't stop them from having random brawls every now and then.
"Errrzaaaa! I'm bored!" a blonde whined, tossing herself onto a couch. The redhead she called out, Erza, glanced to the girl but looked back to the newspaper she had in her hands, reaching out for the cup of tea that sat on the table next to her. The two women were in the living room of the apartment they shared, doing nothing in general.
"I can't help you with that, Lucy." Erza said bluntly, flipping through a newspaper, quickly scanning the words that lined the page, no emotion crossing her face what-so-ever. Lucy pouted, sitting up and hugged a pillow.
"Can't we go out and shop?"
"We just went shopping yesterday. Or have you already outworn your clothes after one day?" The redhead asked, sparing a glance and the new clothes that her roommate was wearing. It wasn't too extreme, just a green shirt with a fancy design bordering the hem and some short jeans. Erza found no real reason to go shopping, especially when the blond had almost a whole room full of clothes. Half of them needed to be thrown out desperately, but Lucy never allowed it.
"Not even for some Strawberry cake?~" Lucy grinned, seeing Erza visibly lock up at the mentioning of her all time favorite food. "You haven't had it in a while, right?~ Not even yesterday?"
Erza grumbled to herself, giving in to the bribing. "Fine, let's go…" Lucy shot up off the couch, cheering in victory. Skillfully slipping into some shoes and grabbing her bag, she quickly grabbed something off the coffee table. Sliding it into her back pocket, she gleefully skipped over to where her friend was waiting.
"Thanks, Erza! You're the best!"
"Yeah, yeah, you're welcome."
And the two girls went out onto the streets of Magnolia. It was awfully crowded that day, but it was worth it in the end once they got to the cake shop. Erza marveled at the strawberry cake that was on display, her mouth watering in anticipation of the taste. Lucy laughed at her antics, ordering two slices of strawberry cake. They took a seat nearby the door in a booth before digging in. It looked like Erza could cry from how good the cake tasted.
"Oooh, Erza, I heard there's a sale going on at Fiore's Adorners, we should go there!" Lucy said, making the said woman look up momentarily from her cake.
"That place? I thought you said you never wanted to go back there after that creepy salesman started eyeing your boobs." Erza reminded, pointing her fork at the blond.
Lucy's face flush at how bluntly she said that. "E-Erza, you know everyone can hear you in here, right?" Erza quirked her eyebrow, as if saying 'so what?' Lucy sighed, leaning back in the booth and pushing the remains of her cake across the table. "Besides that, they have really good clothes there! And you know that we need more clothes after we ran out of bleach."
Erza hummed in understanding. "We can always buy more bleach, you know. It's not like thats a million jewels."
Lucy puffed out her cheeks, "I still want to go look..." Erza didn't say anything back, knowing that it didn't really matter if they went or not. After finishing up the rest of the cake, the two went to Fiore's Adorners.
The crowd had cleared up a bit and it was much more easier to maneuver around the streets. There were many times when either one of the two stopped walking to ogle at something in the window showcase. Just as they walked past the entrance to the MCSI office, the door to the place busted open and two people stepped out.
"Dammit, Gray, this better be worth going to the bar! Being near you makes me feel worse than when I hear about the people disappearing!" One shouted loudly, glaring dangerously at his raven haired friend.
"Shut up! You can't go yelling that around!" Gray said back, quickly glancing around them to see if anyone heard.
Lucy stiffened up briefly, but it quickly faded off and she continued to walk. Erza didn't make any motion as to signaling that she heard them. Natsu grumbled at Gray once again before his eye caught on Lucy, seeing something gleam in her pocket. He blinked at her, craning his head as if to see what it was, but Gray caught him looking at her.
"What the hell are you doing?" Gray asked loudly, turning and looking at Lucy and Erza walking away in the distance. "…What? Are you staring at their asses or something?" Natsu gritted his teeth, ripping his eyes away from the girls and glared at Gray.
"WHAT?! THAT'S IT, YOU STRIPPER!"
"BRING IT ON!"