Hey guys! Did I scare ya? Don't worry, there was no way in hell that was a one shot. So, here's somethings that you need to know:
The rankings of people in this chapter are based off of the US Army's rankings and how long they take to achieve. Lucy starts off as a Second Lieutenant, that's the entry class of all soldiers. Well, that's what the internet told me anyways. The rankings are the only thing that comes from the US Army, everything else I made up.
Please excuse any spelling/grammar errors. I read over this a bunch of times, but I am only a mere human, and we are not perfect.
On to the chapter!
Lucy had just finished recording her video, and she sighed once it was done. She really missed them all, it broke her heart to think that she made them cry.
"Hey, Blondie," a guy walked over to her, he was a First Lieutenant. "If you're done, we've all got families that we want to send videos to."
"Sorry," she quickly hit send on the computer. "I just miss them a lot."
"Yeah, we all do. It's especially hard once you first get here. My names Josh Samuels," he extended his hand.
"Lucy Heartfilia," she shook it firmly.
"I know. We've heard a lot about you. Top of your class in training, not to mention the heiress of the Heartfilia family. What's a little princess like you doing out here at war?"
"I'd rather not talk about it," she clenched her jaw.
"Alright, family issues, I get it. But since we're all going to be spending a lot of time together, you'll realize that you can open up to us more. We are kind of like a family, so to speak."
"Thanks."
"Now, go report to Captain Thompson for further orders."
"Yes, sir," she saluted, and ran off towards the Captain.
Two weeks later, they found themselves on the front line. Gunshots left and right, blood spilling wherever you looked. Lucy hit the deck, trying to prevent her organs from being blasted out. She held her gun steady, aiming for the enemy. Without hesitation, she fired.
That was the first time she killed someone.
Three hours later, the tanks started rolling in. And they weren't from their side.
"First Lieutenant Samuels!" she crawled over to him, and shielded him from gun fire. "You're hurt!"
"It happens Heartfilia, now get back out there!" he was clutching his lower abdomen, a bullet hit between his paddings. He fired his gun at someone while speaking.
"There's no way we can stop them if we can't take out those tanks! I've got an idea, but you have to trust me."
"No. You're just a newbie Second Lieutenant, you don't know what to do!"
"There's a slight gas leak on one of them, if someone were to throw a grenade then-"
"I said no! It's too risky!"
"I don't give a damn! If we don't do something, everyone will die!"
"Then we die with honor. We fought to protect our country, our loved ones!"
"You've got people you want to get home to, right? So do I. Now give me that damn grenade."
He pulled one out of his belt, and handed it to her.
"You've got once shot. Don't screw it up," he then cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted. "Fall back!"
The rest did as they were told, and Lucy held onto the explosive and ran straight into the line of fire.
"Heartfilia!" she heard Captain Thomas call her, but she ignored him.
The bullets hit her padding and stopped in their tracks. One grazed across her cheek and she hissed, the blood quickly rushing out. Another hit in the thigh, and she gripped in in pain. A slight cry escaped her lips before pushing forward. Then she saw it, the slight gas leak. She could smell the fumes. Enemy soldiers were running towards her, but she just smirked.
"Go to hell," she pulled the pin out, and threw the grenade. It hit its target, lodged between the metal of the tank that was damp with fuel. Then she turned and ran, as fast as she could while ignoring her burning thigh. She counted the seconds until detonation, and threw her body to the floor. The explosion turned into a major one, the entire tank went up in flames. It caused a chain reaction, and all of the tanks were destroyed along with most of the enemy. Her body was thrown back, and she curled into the fetal position. As pathetic as it sounded, it protected her body's major organs.
It was like everything was in slow motion. She couldn't match people's words to their lips, in fact, she could hardly hear them at all. She recognized Captain Thomas shaking her, trying to get her eyes to focus. Her head felt like it was going to implode, and she couldn't think straight. The last thing she remembered was being lifted up into someone's arms.
She stirred slightly, hers eyes going back and forth in her sockets. Like she was reliving something.
"Heartfilia, can you hear me?"
That voice, why was it familiar? Was it Jake? Jacob? Julian? Josh! It was Josh! The last thing she remembered was being on the ground, and since when did the ground have a pillow?
"Come on, open your eyes, Heartfilia."
She obeyed, and quickly shut them when the light hit her pupils. Then she tried again, slower this time. Her vision was blurry at first, but then she could see her surroundings. She was inside a medical tent, and Josh was staring at her.
"You're finally awake, took you long enough. How are you feeling?"
"I'm alright," she lied.
"That's the world's biggest lie. Here, take these," he handed her some pills and water.
She swallowed.
"What's this?"
"Antibiotics. Make sure your leg doesn't get infected. You're gutsy, I give you that. But that was the stupidest moves I've ever seen."
"Wait - you got shot. Are you ok?!" she looked him over frantically.
"Relax, the bullet didn't hit anything major, I'm perfectly fine. You should be worried about yourself. You've got a concussion, and you're lucky you didn't get brain damage or have a limb blown off."
"Sorry."
"You saved everyone though. We wouldn't admit it, but we were badly outnumbered. Just don't try something like that again, ok?"
"No promises," she chuckled
About a year and a half has passed since she left, and Lucy had gotten used to life as a soldier. Captain Thomas, now Major Thomas, had called Lucy into a meeting.
"Sir," she saluted once she saw him.
"At ease, Heartfilia."
She put her arm down and stood perfectly straight, waiting for him to speak.
"I wanted to call you in here for a reason. Normally we would do this under better circumstances, but we cannot. I have made the recommendation to my superior that you be promoted to a First Lieutenant. He agreed. From this moment forward you are First Lieutenant Heartfilia," he handed her the official pin and certificate. "Congratulations."
"Thank you, sir. It is truly an honor," she saluted him again.
"You've earned it. Now, go trade places with Second Lieutenant Phillips for look out."
"Sir, yes sir!" she ran out, quickly placed the pin and paper with her things, slightly bragged about it to Josh, and traded places with the newbie.
"I'm here to relieve you," she grabbed her gun off of her back and held it at the ready.
"Thank you, Lucy," he saluted.
"That's First Lieutenant Heartfilia to you."
"My apologies, First Lieutenant Heartfilia," he saluted, and ran off.
Two years since her promotion had come and gone. That made it three and a half years since she saw her friends. She regularly sent them updates, as well as told them about her promotion. They congratulated her, and told her to be safe. Currently, her troop was back at main camp. Some sort of awards ceremony or something, and they were taking a quick break from fighting.
Everyone was in their fancy uniform, as Lucy called it, with the pins and awards on their jackets. Lucy's First Lieutenant Pin was on hers along with some high ranking awards. She remembered the day that got her one of her awards. They were on the front line again, and a one of the new comers was about to engage in hand to hand combat with the enemy. She knew that kid couldn't handle it, he had been an emotional train wreck since he had gotten there. She couldn't stand there and watch him die.
She sprinted over to him, and told him to run. He did, and she got tackled by the soldier. They went at it with hand to hand, until Lucy managed to get the upper hand. As soon as she saw her moment, she shot him dead. That, along with the stunt she pulled when she first got there, and a few others, made her the clear choice for a handful of awards, even though she believed she didn't deserve them.
Everyone watched people get promoted, people receiving awards, it was a nice break for a change. Then her name was called, and she furrowed her eyebrows together. Slowly, she stood up and walked towards the stage, where she was promoted from First Lieutenant to Captain.
Something else she felt she didn't deserve.
Two years after she was promoted to Captain, she was then promoted to Major. That makes it five and a half years. She had never requested leave, there were other people who needed to see their families more than she did. No matter how much she missed them.
Six months later had made it six years. Lucy was at camp with her troop, they were telling each other stories to escape from their hell hole for a bit. Josh, also a Major, was there. Major Thomas had been promoted to a higher rank and was no longer with their troop. There was a guy named William, he was a First Lieutenant, Tristian, he was a Second Lieutenant, Cameron, he was a Captain, and Adam, he was a Second Lieutenant.
Lucy was telling them about her friends, and they were all listening.
"So now Natsu and Gray are in the NFL, playing for Fairy Tail. Erza is a doctor, and Levy is a lawyer. That's my family."
"I've got a little girl back home," that was Cameron, he was older than Lucy by some. "She writes me letters and sends me emails constantly. It's what keeps me sane."
"My friends all send me care packages every few months. It keeps you going, knowing that you're protecting who you care about," Lucy added.
"My girlfriend is pregnant," Tristian blurted out. "She just told me in her last email. I guess it happened right before I left."
"I'm sorry," Lucy said. "That's got to be tough."
He just nodded. Poor kid, he was only about nineteen or twenty.
"I miss my boyfriend," Adam sighed. "I feel so bad for leaving him. But, I feel like I was meant to do this. You know?"
"I get it," Josh spoke up. "But if he really loves you, he'll understand. You fight to keep him safe, to go home to him."
"I think that's what keeps us all going," William added. "That we'll somehow made it back to them."
Everyone agreed. They were like their own small family, they all cared about each other.
"Say, Lucy," Cameron turned to her. "You haven't been home in six years, how come you haven't requested leave?"
"There are other people who need it more than I do. I don't mind, really," she gave them a not so convincing smile.
"You've never been a good liar," Josh glared at her. "I can see right through that one."
"Shut up," Lucy sat up straight and listened closely.
"Lucy, you know-" he started again, but she held her hand up.
"Everyone, quiet," she ordered.
Josh knew that face, Lucy had ridiculously good hearing. Something was out there.
"Ambush!" she yelled, and everyone scattered.
"Josh, take Tristian and Adam, get out of here! I'll get William and Cameron, go!"
He nodded, and they went their separate ways.
But that didn't stop the grenade that landed right in front of Lucy.
"Grenade, stand clear!" she grabbed it, and threw it into the air. A second after it left her hand, it exploded.
"Keep moving!" they were running right in the open, but they had nowhere to go.
"Damn bastards," she cursed and pulled the gun off of her back. With a quick glance behind her, she shot three enemies dead. That was nothing compared to the swarm coming. She unclipped something from her belt and pulled out the pin before throwing it towards the enemy. The grenade went off, and several other explosions happened.
"What's that?" William asked.
"They've got grenades on them apparently. It's a chain reaction. Keep moving!"
They ran a few more miles, and the enemy stopped chasing them after they skidded down a steep hill.
"What the-" Lucy stopped and looked up at them, they were retreating.
"Did we win?" Cameron asked hopefully.
"No," she took a step forward, and her eyes widened. "Watch o-" she couldn't finish, the ground started exploding underneath them. "Land mines!" she sprinted away from the blast, her comrades hot on her heels.
They didn't know where the trap started or stopped, so there was no way of telling when they were in the clear. But they were going back the way they came, so they were bound to be out of range at some point.
"Guns at the ready, they'll be trying to block us off!" she held her gun tightly, just itching to pull the trigger.
"Yes sir!" they both shouted.
Another mine went off, and Lucy's pant leg caught on fire.
"Damn it!" she kept running though, they couldn't stop.
The fire burned against her skin, it was eating away at her flesh. When she couldn't take it anymore, she dropped to the ground and rolled. William and Cameron swatted at the fire to put it out, and her pants were left smoking.
"It's bad, Lucy," William looked at her leg. It was at least a 3rd degree burn and was heavily bleeding.
"I don't care. Are you guys alright?"
"Just a few minor burns and cuts, but we're fine," Cameron said.
"Where the hell did they come from?" Lucy tried to stand, but fell back down in pain.
"Are you stupid?" William shouted.
"We can't just sit here, we're sitting ducks!"
"She has a point," Cameron was looking at the hill for any movement.
"They can't see us, can they? I've got an idea," she pulled another grenade out of her belt. She pulled the pin and threw it towards the land mine area. Once it went off, a land mine did also. And another, and another, and another. "They're setting themselves off. Now they'll think we really died."
"How come that didn't happen before? We set a few off, so why didn't the others go off?" William helped Lucy get up, putting her arm around his shoulders.
"They might've been placed too far away from the others, we only set off two. I'm not sure. We need to get out of here though."
"And go where?" Cameron's eyes still didn't leave the hill.
"Back to camp."
"Won't they be waiting for us?" William looked at her.
"Not necessarily. We'll freeze to death if we stay out here though, I know that. And with my leg like this, it's gonna take us a while."
"Then let's move," Cameron started walking, William and Lucy slowly following behind.
No one even had time to process the land mine going off. The only thing Lucy knew, was that she was suddenly hundreds of feet in the air and crashing down into a fiery hell.
Ok, so I've never written any fight scenes or war scenes before. I gave it my best shot, sorry if they're crappy. Other than that, what did you guys think? Huh? I know you want to tell me in the review box down below! Go on, leave a review, I dare you! Time for some shout outs!
AvrilHitachin - I give you a giant round of applause for following/favoriting this story about three seconds after I posted it. And I'm glad you like the story! I've changed it around though so that it is no longer based off of the US Army, so now the information isn't really inaccurate!
FairyTailGirl2 - Thanks! And that's for me to know, and for you to find out ;)
duncundog - Yay, I'm glad you want more! And I did forget about Levy, but I went back and added her in. Oopsies, sorry Levy!
MJ - Here you are, I hope you enjoy :D
Rivendell101 - Thanks for the criticism! I changed the story around though so that it is no longer based off of the US Army or the war the US is fighting and stuff.
TwerkingPandah - Wow, interesting name you've got there. It's cool! And I know what you mean, I am SO SO SO sick of those stories as well. I like writing Lucy as a kick ass soldier! Don't worry, there will definitely be more chapters :D
Guest - Hehe, did I scare ya? Sooorrrryyyyyy! Don't kill me please! If I'm dead, I can't write more chapters!
Oh and here's the ages/ranks of Lucy's troop: (they're all guys by the way, if you didn't figure that out...)
William - 1st Lieutenant - 21/22
Josh - Major - 26/27
Tristan - 2nd Lieutenant - 19/20
Cameron - Captain - 35ish
Adam - 2nd Lieutenant - 25/26
Lucy - Major - 24
I'll see you all on the flip slide ;D