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Chapter 1

Thunder

The beautiful blonde was sitting on her comfy and custom made bay window reading her book on a Thursday night. It was crime novel that she had just recently developed an interest in. She loved solving the cases before she even finished reading the novel to the end and she was always so excited when she was correct about the final outcome.

It was a stormy night in the month of November. The thunder was a bombacious as ever and the lightning as a bright as day itself, but she didn't care. She was completely oblivious of her surroundings. He eyes were fixated on the black and white pages of her book titled "The Heist", a story that follows the main protagonist Arnold, a thief, as well as all of his comrades commit a heist to steal the most expensive diamond in the whole world, The Golden Eye. The index finger was playing with her hair, twirling it around as her face began to cringe in confusion.

"What?" she said under her breath. She quickly flipped onto the next page and saw that she only had a couple of paragraphs left before the end of the novel. "Oh my God". She read quickly, full of angst of what will happen in the end. As she read the final words, her slim jaw dropped in awe, her gaze staring blankly into the book. "He dies?" she managed to say in a hushed voice. "How is that…?" The story was entirely focusing on the specific heist for the diamond, with small hint of flashbacks to help understand the protagonist's background. In the very last chapter, they had managed to pull of the crime, and Arnold was finally able to hold the diamond in his hand when he was shot in the back of the head and out of his left eye, falling dead to the ground. Before he had fully lost his vision, the diamond's glow glimmered in his remaining eye. "But… wh-…" she was huffing, a total lost for words. "But I liked his character." she lightly whined, he voice full of disappointment. She slowly closes the book and had full view of the cover which had a golden diamond glowing in the darkness. She stared at it for a while and lightly shrugged her shoulders. "I guess crime really does have major consequences." she shivered at the thought of brains being blown out of someones head. Then, a small note slipped out of the book and fell on the floor, something that she had not noticed before. She reached down from her seat and picked up the tiny sheet that only held a few words in it. "I was shocked too! -L" Lucy read out loud. "Oh, Levy." she laughed.

She swiftly got up from her seat and headed across her room towards her massive bookcase. Glancing left and right, she found an empty place and pushed the book onto the shelf. Moving away from the wooden compartment, the blonde beauty moved towards her desk and sat down in front of her laptop. As the screen lit up, a picture of her and many of her friends appeared putting a small smile on her face. She then opens up the internet browser and after a few minutes of dozing off, her phone started to ring. With her petite hand she pulled out her cell phone out of her pocket and saw that it was one of her friends calling. With her nicely manicured finger, she unlocked the screen with a quick swipe and answered the phone.

"Hello?" she said with a chirp in her voice.

"Hey gorgeous! What's cookin'?"

"Hey Cana." she laughed at the playful pick up line.

"So did you finally finish that book of yours, Lucy? I've been trying to reach for the last three days." she complained in a playful way, making her laugh.

"Yeah, just now actually." she giggled. "Levy really knows how to pick her stuff."

"I swear, you guys are such geeks. Why don't you guys just drop the books for once and come out drinking with me." Cana whined.

"Oh, Cana…" Lucy said with a bit of hurt in her voice. "You know I can't…"

There was a moment of silence before one of them finally spoke up. "We really miss you… all of us…"

"I do too." Lucy choked on her words, fighting the urge to cry. "Listen Cana…" her voice cracked. "I need to go…"

"No, please do-..." With a press of a button, her friend Cana was cut off and gone. It pained her that she could not see them because of circumstances. She couldn't see anyone or go anywhere. She was locked away in complete isolation but also very safe.

Only with high tech equipment used by the FBI can be used to communicate with the outside world, but only for a limited amount of time before the secret services detect her location. Being reminded again of that, she quickly turns her attention towards her laptop and closes every internet browser and sets up a complete cleaning procedure that runs overnight.

Minimizing the cleansing program, the image of her and her friends popped up on her screen again. Her and Cana were there standing right next to each other, arms wrapped around each other. Levy was there too, holding a book in her hand

shying away from the camera. She was the reason why Lucy started reading mystery and crime novels. They even read together and tried solving the mysteries together. Now, every month, Levy sends her new books that she had read since she can't find any for herself. She moved along toward the left side of the image and saw the Strauss siblings. There was Mira, the oldest of the three, Elfman the middle child, and then Lisanna, the youngest. They were always together. Never had she seen them apart. They all loved each other so much, it almost made her wish she had her own little brother or sister. And then there was Loke, the mischievous one in the group. He was always teasing the girls and on purposefully trying to look under their little skirts, but they still loved him anyway. Last but certainly not least were Erza, Jellal, Gray and Juvia. Those three always seemed to keep to themselves, having nothing to do with them, but whenever any of them were in trouble, they'd always be there to help. This picture was taken on their first day of preschool, so they were all very young but they all stayed together no matter what. She loved her friends very much and it pained her that she had to leave them, thinking that she was betraying them but they knew and assured her that it was for the best and that they will one day meet again.

She put her laptop on sleep mode, still having the program running and headed for the shower. Wasting no time at all, Lucy stripped from her comfy clothing and entered the shower. She was rather annoyed that she was not able to take baths anymore because of the small space of the bathroom, but she could not complain. She turned the valve and hot water started rushing down, completely soaking her wet in seconds. She lathered, rinsed and repeated until she was satisfied and completely squeaky clean.

She exited the shower and wrapped a towel around her curvy body and headed to her bedroom. After turning the lights off and without changing into her normal pajama clothes, she simply dove into her bed and relaxed. She looked up at the ceiling and around the dark room dozing off into space, losing herself in her thoughts. everything in her life had changed so drastically. The fact that she had to move away and into hiding broke her heart, but also those that loved and cared for her. She heard every once and a while from them what has been going on back home. Now all in their twenties they have found love, jobs and new and exciting adventures. Levy has become a world famous writer and has found a new special someone in her life. Cana, even though has developed a drinking problem is doing fairly well in her private assistant to a high class CEO business man. Loke apparently owned his very own jewelry company and uses most of his supplies to woo the ladies. Jellal had proposed to Erza after both becoming famous lawyers and are now married and expecting. Gray and Juvia are also engaged and are waiting for their wedding day in June. It amazed her at how they ended up together since the love was always one sided, but she had to admit, they looked adorable together. Lucy wondered why she had yet to hear from the Strauss siblings. However it was then that she remembered that their family were pretty wealthy people and that they should be just fine. Assuring herself that her friends are doing fine gave her a warm feeling inside that made her smile a bit. "I promise..." she faintly whispered "I'll come back to you." and with those words she finally drifted into slumber.

Laying in her comfy bed in just a towel with a peaceful smile on her face, Lucy immediately woke up in terror at the loud thunder from the stormy night. Even though she did not scream she was still scared of the darkness that still surrounded her. She looked left and right and all around and saw that she was totally alone. Glancing over to her nightstand, she saw that the time read 2:47 which made her groan in annoyance. She was afraid that despite all her efforts they would find her and bring her back. She did not want that to happen. She didn't want to go back.

She got up and realized that she was still in her towel and laughed at herself. "No wonder I'm having nightmares… I'm gonna catch a cold." She moved away from her bed and moved towards her bureau and opened a drawer. She pulled out a simple white T-shirt and a blue pair of shorts and of course, a pair of underwear.

She started to get dressed when she heard a slight knocking noise coming within the living room. Started she stared off into the distance leading into the living room. Breaking off from her concentration, she quickly continued to get dressed and slowly moved towards the doorway. She peeked her head into the room to see if anyone was there and noticed that one of the windows were opened and was being slammed into the window frame, making the knocking sound. She let out a sigh of relief and continued into the room to close the window. She placed her hand on the glass surface and looked out into the night and wondered to herself why the sky looked so clear. Not a single cloud was visible and it did struck her odd for no more thunderstorms could be heard. She thought that it might have been the window that made a loud noise but not as loud as what woke her up.

The next thought that went through her mind drained all the life out of her. "Someone is in here…" She said under her breath. She quickly turned around to see if anyone was there and saw no one. She ran towards the wall and flipped the light switch turning the lights on in the living room and kitchen. Fortunately there was no one there. She then headed towards the bathroom and saw that no one was in there as well. Still confused by the whole situation she sat in the hallway and tried to think what could have happened. Not able to find a solution and being way too freaked out to go back to sleep, she decided to grab a book and read. She went to her bookcase in her living room and went back into her room after closing all the lights in her home. Once she entered her room she noticed she had left her towel and clothes lying on the floor in a complete mess. She sighed and threw her book on the bed before bending down and retrieving all the items off of the floor. The minute she got back up, a strong arm wrapped around her neck and lower jaw muffering her. In whimpers and in struggles she desperately tried to escape but to no avail. She even tried to turn her head to see who her attacker was but it was impossible. She felt the attackers breath against her ear before he finally spoke. "I've been looking for you, you little rat!" he growled with a husky voice.

Realizing what this attack was about, Lucy tried to escape even harder by kicking and squirming even more. Her mouth was finally free and she started to scream. He contained her once again and spoke "It's your fault for hiding in the woods where no one can find you, let alone hear you when you scream."

With that, Lucy was on her front tossed on the bed. Her hands were forcefully pulled behind her back and tied. She tried struggling even more and even kicking but he did not care. He then moved to her legs and tied those together as well and picked her up over his shoulder.

"You better put me down! You hear me!" She yelled at him

"Yeah I hear you, so you better stop!" He barked back.

"Who sent you? Who are you working for!" Lucy demanded.

They were finally out of the house and started to move away. When they were a safe amount of distance away, Lucy saw her home go up in flames. Shocked at the sight, she gave up on struggling. In fact, because of the situation, she had fainted from all of the shock.

The two figures walked deeper and deeper in the forest as the flames started to devour the trees around them, leaving a malevolent red glow in the dark night.

Hello and I am back with a new story! I was writing this since yesterday and finally finished. I'm really happy with this one. It kinda has a different spin to it! Something that I have yet to encounter and use before so hopefully you guys like it :D I am working on everything else too, do not worry my previous readers, I will update everything soon I promise! I am finally done after I write my paper and I am all yours! Share now, don't be mean!

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