Hi! It's been a long time hasn't it? I'm at the library typing this while one of my friends stalks (AKA I threatened him till he cam ;P ) me and looks anime pictures that are so adorable I just want to cry!

Well, without further ado, here is the second, and hopefully much, much longer than the last one!

Previously:

She kisses his cheek then vanishes.

Natsu whips his head furiously back and forth trying to find Lucy. But for some reason no matter where he looks she isn't there. He can't even smell her! When he finally senses her presence she isn't where he thought she'd be. She's behind him!

Lucy comes up from behind Natsu with one fist in front of her face and the other held up and slightly away, her body twisted for maximum power upon impact. Then she launches forward and at the same time punches him with both fists, resulting in him flying into a pillar, crashing through it and into the wall, but he blows through that as though it were msde of paper.

Standing upright, Lucy surveys the damage with an air of distinct satisfaction. When Natsu walked back through the hole though, the smile drops from her face and she looks slightly pained before the expression drops and she growls.

"Looks like it's time to get serious." Lucy said, cracking her knuckles with a menacing aura surrounding her. Much of the crowd was taken aback when suddenly her hair began to bleed through with red and black and her skin around her eyes cracked and red light glowed through them. Her eyes began to turn red as the bloody color seeped out from her pupils, alight with a blood thirsty, manic glow that spoke of untold horrors.

Suddenly, moving so quickly none's eyes could follow,'Lucy' was across the room in front of Natsu, bent low in a crouch. She swept out a leg and hit him behind the knees. Using the momentum of his collapse, the celestial mage kneed him in his face then, knocked him ten feet straight into the air with a swift uppercut. She follows him into the air, jumping just slightly higher than him, then striking out with her foot and sending him throughout the floor into the basement.

Throughout the fight, Lucy's hair had begun to turn red, bleeding from the roots. Her chocolate eyes were also turning red, the color creeping from her pupils out. All of the vein in her eyes glowing with a golden light. The skin around her eyes had cracked open and red light could be seen filtering through.

Lucy looks once at Natsu before a face splitting grin comes across her face and she begins cackling madly. This time, he stayed down.

She turns back to the guild and opens her mouth to speak. "Who's up next?" Her voice is different. Now it is low, and rough, like she is sick.

Gajeel takes one look at lucy and shudders, sliding himself subtly in front of Levy and nudging her gently behind him.

When Lucy suddenly freezes and drops to the floor shaking spasmically, Levy shoves past Gajeel who quickly latches his hand around her tiny wrist. Levy glares back at him and he shrugs and nods his head at Lucy. The coloring and cracks are still there. Once Levy sees this she realizes he was just protecting her from danger and nods to show she understands while also smiling gratefully. Levy turns her attention back to her best friend who is thrashing on the ground as though she is fighting a war within mages relax until Lucy's face and hair are back to normal.

All bets are off now.

Levy rips herself from Gajeel's loose grip and falls to her knees beside Lucy, just as she wakes up.

"Levy?!" Lucy whispers, an expression of horror on her face. "Get back! I might hurt you!" Seeing Natsu out of the corner of her eye, standing and staggering slowly to her, she tenses even further, the color in her eyes and hair flickering.

Natsu ignores her and at the last moment, stumbles and falls to his knees beside Lucy. Lucy tells Natsu to send everyone but Levy, Master, Erza, Gray, Wendy, Mirajane, Freed, and Himself, of course.

When the guild is cleared of all but the chosen ones, Lucy props herself up against Natsu, takes a deep breath to steady herself, and begins her tale.

...

Lucy: Chica, why the cliff hanger?

Me: *shrugs* tired. Sleep time. Zzzzzzzzzz... Fanfiction... Anime... Zzzzz...

Happy: fish... Zzzzzzzzzz...

Natsu: food... Stupid ice stripper... Zzzzzzzzzzzz...

Gray: zzzz... Fire freak... Zzzzzzzz...

Erza: Fighting? Zzzzzz...

Gray and Natsu: nooooo... Zzzzzz...

Lucy: why are you all asleep in my room?!

Me: Deal... Zzzzzz...

Lucy: *shrugs* Zzzzz...

...

no seriously. It's 1 am here. Night.

-Chica