Prologue
"The time has finally come..." Lucy mutters to herself, while looking up to the bright blue and clear sky.
"The horizon looks so peaceful…" Her hair flutters in the wind freely, dancing with the wind.
"It is finally happening…" She continues to mumble to herself, strolling off towards the Fairy Tail guild. She observes her surroundings, all she could see were smiles and happiness and all she could hear was laughter.
"…If only everyone new what is going to go down…" Lucy swirls her dear celestial keys around her index finger, whistling a nostalgic tune.
"Everyone is so oblivious" Lucy starts to skip her way to the Guild.
"I need to tell everyone. They need to know…" Lucy pulls a serious expression on her face and throws her keys up into the air, catching them with her hand.
Upon entering the guildhall, all eyes were on Lucy. This makes her feel slightly worried about why everyone was looking at her with pity. Lucy grits her teeth together; she hates people pitying her.
"Do you know where Natsu and the others are?" Lucy asks Mira softly, while leaning on the bar table slight.
"Y…Yeah. They are right there" Mira stutters, pointing to the laughing group sitting on a table. Lucy questions about why Mira would stutter about that but brushes it off for later. Lucy feels if she tells Natsu and the others, it would be all right.
"Natsu!" Lucy calls out in a rush, starting to jog over to the table they were sitting on "I have very important information to tell you!" Natsu gets up and looks a Lucy.
"Us too! Can I go first though?" Natsu grins at Lucy happily, causing her expression to soften lightly. Nevertheless, Lucy still feels uncomfortable about the tense atmosphere flowing in the air. Erza has both of her hands intertwined with each other on the table, facing her head downwards. On the other hand, Gray, from the start, avoided eye contact with Lucy.
Lucy responds gently, letting her guard down a bit, "Alright."
Natsu shifts around uneasily and coughs. "Last night, we decided on a few 'changes' that needed to be made."
Natsu takes in lots of air in one go "We want to replace you with Lisanna!' Natsu says quickly, as if he never wanted this to happen. The very words go right through Lucy's heart, slowly piercing and tearing her up.
"Sure…" Lucy says with a melancholy tone to her voice. Lucy tilts her head to the side, tears threatening to fall from her face. Natsu looks into Lucy's eyes, spotting sadness and… hesitation?
Just at the exact moment, an explosion from outside is heard. "AHHHH!" Screeches of pain could be heard from outside the Guildhalls, making everyone jump and run outside to find the source of the screaming.
"What was that?!" Erza pulls out her sword and exits the building. Each and every person in the guild was frozen solid from the sight; everything was suddenly on fire. Explosions came from out of nowhere, destroying everything. The fire roars even harder with each minute that passes. No one could believe what was just happening in front of them.
"What in the world is going on?" Gray screams in panic as he attempts to put the flames out, only making the fire worse. Juvia as well tries to put the flames out with her magic, but no avail she makes it even worse. Lucy calmly walks forward to the front of Fairy Tail. She takes in a deep breath and all eyes were on her.
"Today is the day where the start of the PROJECT D.A.R.K will start. You can't do anything to stop it…" Lucy says calmly, while the fire is burning brightly behind her. "I'm sorry… Magnolia was their first target from the start. I suggest all of you get to somewhere safe." Lucy bows her head downwards in an apologetic manner.
"I don't understand… What are you talking about Lucy?" Natsu gazes at her with an angry expression.
Lucy just lets out a large sigh in response to Natsu, "Of course you don't understand. You will never understand. You weren't selected to stop this project, therefore you are oblivious to everything" Lucy confesses, hiding her eyes behind her bangs.
"I have to go, I am the only one who can stop this…" Lucy starts to back away slowly from the crowd.
"Wait!" Natsu tries to stop her but Lucy just runs away. Whispering a few words, Lucy transports her way out of Magnolia and into a forest. Leaving behind Fairy Tail, they all look at Magnolia slowly burning away.
"I'm sorry Fairy Tail but the risk of the PROJECT being completed is way too high…" Lucy says running into no certain direction, touching her guild mark that was on her right hand..
"Now that it has started, I have no choice but to use that." Lucy extends her arm outwards, horizontally, creating a white magic circle under her legs. "The last resort…"
"First symphony: The wings of freedom!"
"Are you sure setting Magnolia on fire with eternal flames was a good thing?" A cloaked silhouette cheekily smirks at her other friend.
"Well he did order me to do it so there is no harm done" The other figure swings her legs off the edge of a building, humming a nursery rhyme with joy. "Fire is so pretty!" The stranger throws her arms up into the air, watching the fires dance even higher. The person cups her cheeks with her hands and blushes madly.
"I could watch this scene forever! It has my two favourite things! Fire and… pain" Revealing her blood crimson eyes, her hood falls to her shoulders.
Pointing at a woman screaming, trapped by the fire, she smirks and chirps joyfully, "I don't see her lasting very long"
Two more shadowed figures join the two sitting on the edge of the building. "He is calling us; we have to go back now…" A husky voice rings out from the cloak, emphasising on 'he'.
The cloaked pyro pouts "Already? I want to enjoy the fire a bit more…" She gets up and pats the ashes off of her. Licking their lips in anticipation, she giggles sadistically,
"Do we have to start the project now?"
"Yes…"
"Alright then, see you in a bit!" The figure waves goodbye to her fellow 'friends' and jumps to teleports to a different location.
"I heard that there are going to be people who will try to stop the project," One of them says.
Throwing their head back and laughing sadistically, the multi-coloured eyes of the figure is shown, "Who cares; its not like they can beat us anyways."
"We are the four leaders: Sunrise, Sunset, Morning and Evening…"
End of Prologue
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