Lucy's POV

I knew Happy was only trying to help, but he only made it hurt worse. I was fine until he dropped me in front of the team, asking them to let me go with. Then it took everything in me not to scream out, less from anger and more from the physical and mental pain that shot through my body, like I was being thrown into a pit of fire. It was almost impossible to keep it from showing, but thankfully I managed until I made it far enough away that the dragon slayers couldn't hear me scream out in pain. I hid from view in an alley.

"You know, you could make them all sorry. Meanies like them need to be punished." A voice said. But there was no one around. "Who are you? Where are you?" I called out. "Who I am doesn't matter, and I'm not a physical being." A shadow appeared on the wall in front of me. It took the shape of a little girl, resembling me as a child. Just with a crazed smile and mischievous eyes. "Why would I punish my friends?" I asked, looking around. But then I realized, I wasn't in the alley anymore.

I was now in a black room. Classic ballroom music could be heard, but there were no musicians or music lacramas in the room. There were no windows, and only one red door. There was a black table and two matching chairs on either side. Sitting in one of the chairs was a little version of me, with blood red eyes. "They didn't seem like your friends to me. I though friends were supposed to make you feel happy to be around them, not make you hurt." She said, jumping down from her chair that was much too high for her to get down otherwise. She proceeded to dust off her skirt. "Especially that Natsu guy, he did call you weak and all that other mean stuff, and his team seemed to agree. Just like the rest of the guild. You know, minus a select few. So tell me, why is it that you still put up with it?" She asked.

She was right though. Why did I still put up with it? It's not like I actually had reason to. "Why not hurt them back?" She asked. "I could never hurt them!" I exclaimed. "What if you didn't have to? I could do it." She offered, grinning madly. "How would you do that? You said you didn't have a physical form." I questioned. "I don't, but you do. No serious injuries, no one dies. Just ruff them up a little." She said. "But how would you do that?" I asked. "Well, since you asked, how about I give a demonstration." She said. The shadows, if they were shadows, surrounded me, leaving me in complete darkness.

Natsu's POV
After about an hour Happy came back, without Lucy. He silently flew over to where Carla was sitting and sat down next to her. Carla started patting his back, telling him it wasn't his fault. The doors burst open not long after, receiving everyone's attention. Lucy's bangs hid her eyes, an terrifying grin that put Erza's glare to shame plastered on her face. She moved from the doors to in front of me before anyone could even process what just happened. "So..."

Something in her voice seeming off, but I couldn't place just what it was. She lifted head, allowing us to see blood red eyes that screamed danger, but at the same time were filled with an emotion that I couldn't identify. "You're the one that drove her to madness. I think I'll play with you first!" Lucy giggled, in a way that sent shivers down my spine. Before I could respond she was behind me, holding my arm to my back so that I couldn't move. "Now then, since I'm punishing him for her maybe I should do something that she does...no, that wouldn't work, she would just loose her magic...and that would kill him...oh, I know! How about I use this new gift of hers! What better way to release it then to force it out!" She pondered the options with a finger on her lip, then went back to grinning like a lunatic after she decided.

She closed her eyes, and began to concentrate, but was interrupted when Erza connected a punch with Lucy's jaw, sending her flying towards a pillar at full speed. The pillar broke, and Lucy hit the wall, causing her to cough up blood that trailed down her face. She wiped it off with her hand, only for more to flow out. Her grin seemed to grow as she looked at the blood smeared on her hand. "This is so cool! She even has black blood! They must have been crazy when the they started this experiment! But then again, if she didn't have a little black blood in her I suppose I wouldn't be here...oh well! Hey Natsu, you wanna hear a secret? I bet she never told you, 'cus she doesn't even know! Lucy's not human, and she never was. If that were true, the experiments that her dear old daddy let the crazy witches perform would've killed her already...then again, he didn't even know what they were doing either, probably was controlled by them...oh yeah! You know what? I think Lucy must be some kind of god, because you guys make her hurt a lot! This kind of pain can't be good for anyone, it normally kills the person. Hey, pretty fire boy, are you listening?" She asked, making her way over to me.

She leaned next to my ear and held a hand up, acting like it was a wall. "Can you hear them? I know Lucy and I can, and maybe the guy wearing that metal mask with his tongue sticking out, but can you?" She whispered, but it was loud enough for everyone to hear. "And even better, can you see them? I mean the between you and me, the sun and it's constant laughing are a little annoying. And the moon, oh don't get me started! It cannot be good to have constant blood leaking from that grin, right? I heard once that it means someone's been killed." She stood back up.

"You know, this has been fun and all, but I really need to get this over with, so..." Lucy began, but cut herself of. "Stop hurting my friends! Give me back control! And Stop talking about stuff that they can't see!" She said, in a completely different tone. "But Lucy, I though you wanted them to feel it...you know, all the pain that you get just by looking at them." "I never asked you to take over my body, I asked you what you meant when you said that you could punish them for me! I mean that doesn't really sound like something you should tamper with, little demon, now let me back in control!" "Fine, just let me deal with them first and then you can have it back." "NO! Stop it right-!"

Lucy stopped talking for a second, her eyes glowing with the intent to kill. Magical energy forced everyone to the ground, crushing tables, chairs and everything except for the building and the mages inside of it. There were screams of pain, one of them from Lucy. Deep cuts appeared on everyone's bodies, including Lucy herself. The cuts were coming from her, even though she wasn't moving. Her eyes had become black, blood still leaking out from her mouth as she giggled.

"Lucy's been hurt a lot you know. All her life she's been hurt over and over, physically and mentally. Little by little she fell into the madness, and thanks to you, she finally lost it. What little of the sanity she has left is none of my concern." Lucy said. Master finally managed to knock her unconscious, letting her body fall limp on the ground. The magical energy vanished.

Lucy's clothes were torn, same as everyone else. Her body was covered in cuts twice as long and deep as my own. She was breathing heavily. "Whatever that was, it's become clear to me that Lucy is a danger to us all. And as much as I wish I didn't have to say this, I hereby announce that S-class wizard Lucy Heartfilia shall be banished from the guild." The guild mark on Lucy's hand vanished. Wendy began healing everyone as fast as she could, leaving Lucy alone.

No One's POV

Fairy Tail decided that they would send Lucy to a place that specialized in mental recovery and magic restraint, and began repairing the guild. They had left her untouched, not even bothering to wrap her wounds, afraid that she would wake up and attack again. Freed set up a barrier to keep her in until they came to take her away. No one mentioned her, or even spoke of her spirits. They had taken her keys and whip, as well as came back to clear out her apartment of all of her belongings, taking them to the facility where she was kept. There was no news of her health, no news tell them that she was okay, not even a letter saying that she was still alive. Fairy Tail continued with their daily lives, Lucy Heartfilia becoming more and more of a distant memory until finally it was like she was never there at all. But no one truly forgot, simply sealed her in the void of memories that no one could recall.

Some Time Later, Lucy's POV

I woke up in a white room, with a single door. There were no signs of a way to open it from the inside, only a small slot to see out of. I was wearing a simple pale blue sleeveless dress that fell down to just above my knees. There were poorly wrapped bandages on my body, the wounds that I don't remember receiving starting to bleed through them. There was no furniture in the room, only a pile of white blankets and a pillow that I was sitting on. There was some kind of collar around my neck, blocking my magic from flowing. "Hello? Is anyone there?" I called out, slowly standing and making my way to the door, each step making the wounds hurt more. The door opened, revealing a man and a woman dressed in lab coats and two guards. A women in a nurses outfit came in, pushing a cart in front of her. The guards forced me to sit down in a chair that they brought in. The nurse began to change my bandages, at first I tried to fight back, but the collar sent electrical pulses that forced me to submit to them. After the nurse was finished she left, leaving the cart behind.

"Hello Lucy, my name is Dr. Gourmand." The man said. "My name is Dr. Ream." The woman said. "Where am I? How did I get here?" I asked, glaring at them. "Where you are doesn't matter. You were sent to us by Fairy Tail." Dr. Ream said. I looked down at my hand. It was wrapped in thick bandages. I unwrapped them, only to find that my guild mark was gone, leaving behind a burn mark where it once was. "So...they finally did it. They kicked me out." I said, giggling hysterically. "What's so funny?" Dr. Gourmand asked. "They probably couldn't stand keeping me there anymore...after all, what's the use of a mage they thought was weak, right? What's the use of a replacement when the original was right there?" I continued to giggle, tears streaming down my face. I wrapped the bandages around my hand again. "Lucy, don't you remember what you did to them?" Dr. Ream asked. "No. What did I do? Last thing I remember was standing in an alley." I said. Dr. Gourmand left the room, along with the guards. "Lucy, you attacked them, rambling on about seeing things. They all had thick cuts on their bodies." Dr. Ream explained. "I didn't do anything! I swear!" I cried. Dr. Ream wrote something down on her clipboard, then walked out of the room, taking the cart with her. Someone came in to take the chair, at some point I must have made my way back to the blankets, crying myself to sleep.