Deceptions and Meetings
Eve's POV
I soon reach where Morgan and Leon are. I found them by tracing Morgan's magic power.
Once I get to the doors to the inside of the castle I jump off the motorcycle and leave it lying there. There is no need to be stealthy or quiet; Morgan knows I'm here. He can feel my magic power as I can his.
"Ice Make, Ravens!" I form my arms in a ice creation position in front of me and yell it. My ice ravens break down the large door.
Morgan is standing in the middle of the large room with a wide smile of pleasure and mock welcoming. "Hello Eve, it's been too long." His voice is deep and deceiving. His dark hair falls into his cold green eyes. His build is strong and lurk used the term one time; 'he's build like a fucking bull!'
I snort in fake amusement and stomp over to stand just a few feet in front of him. But I can't concentrate on him and the situation. I have to find Leon and get him out of here as fast as I can. "Where's Leon?" I question hastily and whip my head back and forth across the room in search of him.
A chilling expression comes over Morgan and his face darkens. This does catch my attention. "He's not here. He never was." My breath hitches in my throat.
"What do you mean?!" I stutter and yell at the same time.
"It was all a rouse to get you to come here, Eve." He laughs evilly and slowly circles me. I fight the urge to bite his hand off when he caresses my cheek on the way by, and picks up my long, heavy, dark braid for a second and then lets it flop back down on my back. "I never attacked Lamia Scale, and I have no intentions to. I just want you and your power." I hiss in irritation and whip my head around to see him admiring me from my left side.
"What do you need my power for? You have plenty of your own." I growl and he tsks me while wagging a finger in my face, now facing my front again. I flush in anger at him treating me like a small child who doesn't understand.
Morgan continues thoughtfully, "But you have this spitfire in you that makes me want your power as well." He now speaks like he's on schedule for something important and he needs to get this done as soon as possible, "So, I would like to have you down before your friends get here." Now he speaks in a wistful tone and I'm really staring to get pissed off with him now, "Ah, I haven't had a show in a while, so this one will probably be the best since the last one we had." He laughs again and this time I aim a kick to his jaw, but he catches my foot and in a flash, I'm across the room groaning in pain.
He approaches me and leans down into my face with a sadistic grin, "And your lover and brother will be here this time, so that'll make it even more delicious!" My breath catches in my throat when I hear multiple males yelling outside close to the broken down door. I curse loudly and bang my head against the wall in frustration.
"Let the fun begin!" Morgan declares joyously with his arms spread out around him, and he steps away from me. I take his unblocked moment to spring up and attack him again.
"Ice Make, Arrow Rain!" I shout with my arms in the creation position. Arrows fly down on top of Morgan but he easily dodges them and lands behind me. I just have enough time to whip around and catch a glance at my two best friends, long lost brother, and lost lover.
All of them are standing at the destroyed doors and all their lips forming my name before I scream and collapse to the hard floor with a terrible pain spreading all throughout my entire body.
Three Hours Ago: Zee's POV
We make it to Lamia Scale to check out the damage first there. Luke lands us in front of the guild. We're all shocked to find that there are wizards walking in and out of the doors, joking, laughing, and some messing around. All of them look perfectly fine.
"What the-" I'm cut off when a spiky white-haired guy with narrow eyes spots Gray and walks over to us.
"What do you want, Gray?" He says in a challenging tone and gets all up in his face. Gray is dumbfounded and Lucy's mouth drops open to the pavement stones in shock.
"Leon?! I thought you were kidnapped?!" Gray stutters out in surprise. Now it's Luke and I's turn for our mouths to fall open in shock with Lucy.
"You're Leon?!" I shout which turns some guild member's heads. I ignore them and approach the guy. He and everyone else in his guild, from what I can tell, look unharmed and not shaken up at all. Was this all a trick?
"Yeah, and who are you?" He turns to me, almost lazily. My gaze turns downwards as I think and run my hands through my dark purple hair and realize that we had been tricked once again by that bastard Morgan!
Luke groans next to me and face palms. I'll bet you all the money and IQ I have that he just realized the same thing.
"Oh, I want to kill that asshole even more now Screw letting Eve take care of it!" Luke growls angrily, but then exchanges a nervous glance with me. "Eve doesn't know that they weren't attacked." I close my eyes and yell out in aggravation. To my left, I hear Lucy jump away from me in surprise and I force myself to calm down.
"Gray, you know what this means, right?" I open my eyes and stare at him with a tired look. I feel like I have aged mentally too much for someone my physical age.
After I say this, Gray's face comes to the realization that I already know. "She doesn't know about this." Gray curses and the air around Luke whips around faster than normal.
"What are you going on about, Gray?" Leon frowns deeply at him and looks between all of us.
"Eve came back." Gray grinds his teeth. Shock, joy, and excitement shoot through Leon's face when he hears the name of Luke and I's best friend.
"Where is she then?!" He looks around as if she's hiding from his sight, waiting for him to come and look for her.
I speak up before Gray can, "She's on her way to beat up a guy whom she thinks had kidnapped you just recently." Now confusion is written all over Leon's face.
"What? I was never kidnapped by anyone." He exclaims and I nod in agreement.
"Yeah, that's the bastard's plan. To lure Eve there to him with that dirty trick."
Luke motions for us all to surround him as he does the Group Flight again. "We'll explain more on the way, but we have to get going if we don't to just get there to see Eve's last moments."
Present Time: Eve's POV
A gut-wrenching pain enters my body and writhe on the ground and clutch my head in my hands as I go back an forth in-between screaming and shrieking in distress. The pain is the worst coming from my head. I scream one last time then feel the wind rushing past me and the pain abruptly stops. I gasp and quickly try to get up to my feet, but my limps can't seen to work by themselves.
Strong arms pick me up then slap me across the face once I'm balanced enough with my feet placed on the floor. "What the hell were you thinking?!" Zee yells at me in fury, and I glare heatedly back at him.
"Check that, she wasn't!" Luke lands next to me and glares at me as well.
"Oh shut up bird! I do my business alone! You two have no right to interfere!" I push them away from me and turn back to a fully smirking Morgan.
"Aren't you going to greet your brother and lover?" He mocks and I scoff.
"Yeah, I will. I want to beat your ass first!" I reply and charge towards him with my arms incased with ice. "I'm going to make you a bloody mess that will be hardly recognizable!" I shout in rage and get a good punch to his stomach. He grunts and then I'm flown back into a wall again.
"Eve!" All the guys shot in worry, some in anger. I get right back up and lunge myself at him again.
"HE'S MINE! NONE OF YOU TOUCH HIM!" I make it halfway to Morgan before my body acts on its own accord and throws me up onto the roof.
Morgan puts a hand above his eyes as if he was looking somewhere very far away and looks up at me and chuckles. "That's if you can even get near me!" I fall back down to the ground in front of his feet. I try to get up, but I can't for the time being. "Now, as I was saying, before you so rudely attacked me. I want your power because when I was last fighting you, I noticed that you have some magic power locked in you that would rival my own greatly. Did you know this?" He peers down at me curiously, and I manage to heave myself up partly with my elbow.
I suck in a deep breath and forcefully pull myself up slowly to stand. Right now it looks like he wants to talk, so I'll recover as much as I can during this time. "Of course, I was the one who sealed it years ago. It must've been UI's hard training that got me like this." I smile regretfully, but still continue, "I decided years ago that I do not want this power that I have. If I was in a dire situation where there was no choice but to use it to protect innocents, then I would once again unlock it. I have unlocked it once since the first time. It takes days of constant concentration to seal it away again, and I have to be completely alone." I explain and wipe some blood from my cheek. "It is very difficult to keep it under a lock and key as well. Many times while I was fighting you I almost let it go."
"Oh, so that's why you were going insane and couldn't concentrate a few weeks ago when we were fighting him?" Luke questions and steps towards us. He gets a warning glance from Morgan and slightly backs off. Morgan could kill me in a second if anyone pisses him off, being how close I am to him.
"Actually, no. That was because of you." I reply, then glare at him remembering what he did to piss me off so badly. Zee begins to snicker quietly behind Luke while he shrinks away from my terrifying gaze.
I get a bright red tick mark on my head, "I went insane because, YOU MESSED YOU THE FRICKING STRATEGY I HAD ALL SET UP TO HAVE US WIN, AND WE BARELY GOT OUT OF THERE IN ONE PIECE, YOU ASSHOLE!" In a second, I'm over next to Luke and have him in a very tight chock hold and he's clawing at my arm. His face is quickly turning blue when Zee shoves me off him. Luke slumps to the ground and begins to gasp deeply to take in deep lungfuls of air.
"Would you calm down?!" Zee yells at me, and I glare right track at him.
"What if I don't want to, Zee?!" I yell in his face and our foreheads are now touching.
"Then I'll beat your skinny little ice princess ass!" He shouts at me and I laugh loudly.
"Come at me, I can beat you bloody in seconds!" My eyes flash and he's up on top of a ice pillar with his purple hair brushing the high ceiling.
Zee's eyes meet mine and a shock goes through my body and sends me to my knees. He jumps down from the pillar while I gasp for air and lands next to me, "Stop it, we gotta focus this time on that asshole over there." He gestures to Morgan who is watching us in amusement.
"Fine, but I'm still kicking both of your asses later." I crack my knuckles and a cold fog surrounds me.
"How about it, Morgan? What game are we going to play today? Quite frankly, I'm getting sick of these." Zee's face darkens and electricity surrounds him as he builds up his power like I am doing.
"Oh, I just want all of your to see the expression of pure agony and fear on Eve's face once I take away all her power." He smirks evilly. Luke stands on the other side of me, and I feel both him and Zee tense up. "But, I want some privacy with her first." He snaps his fingers and Luke and Zee drop to the ground by my feet. My eyes widen and I whip around to see Gray and Leon walking towards me with pained expressions then picking me up in their arms and carrying me over to Morgan.
I struggle with all I can, but I can't get out of their iron grips. "Damn you, Morgan, I should've killed you while I had the chance!" I shout in fury then stiffen up completely when I realize I just said that out loud.
Suddenly, Gray and Leon drop me roughly onto the ground then their entire bodies are completely covered with ropes except for their faces.
"Damn it, Eve!" Gray shouts and they both struggle against the ropes but it's no use. I don't pay any mind to them, I am staring in fear at the demon of a mage standing above me with a unearthly furious expression written all over him.
Then I experience the terrible pain of having my leg cut off right after the knee right here and now.
My high pitched scream of agony sends Leon and Gray over the edge. They try biting at the ropes and cotinuing to try and use ice magic.
"Your magic doesn't work in those ropes." Morgan says with a blank eyes as he continues to stare down at my sobbing, badly bleeding form. "And you're as good as dead now, I don't really need your power anyway." He says to me and then he's gone.
The ropes binding Leon and Gray disappear, and Luke and Zee rush over to me and each let out a deranged sob at the sight of my horrible appearance.
I suck in a deep breath and eventually I can stop myself from screaming and crying. I can't stop the blurry, constant tears from dripping down my pale face though.
A blonde girl that looks just like Luke appears next to him and tears start welling up in her eyes while she looks at me.
"Eve….." Zee chokes and slaps a hand over his mouth.
I notice the girl is wearing a belt to hold up her skirt, "Do you mind if I use that?" I grind my teeth and she nods hastily and quickly pulls the belt off, careful to keep her skirt up as she does so. She hands it to me, "Luke, push me into a sitting position." He does so and leans me up against his chest in-between his legs.
I look at Zee and I know he can't do what I'm going to ask. I turn to Gray and he looks like he's about to cry as well. "Gray, I want you to wrap this as tight as you can around my leg and do not chicken out, no matter how much I scream." I stare him evenly in the eyes. He nods and takes the belt from me.
Leon sits next to me and takes my left hand in both of his and squeezes it. I smile weakly and nod gratefully to him. "Ready?" Gray asks hoarsely.
"No. Do it." I say before I think twice about it and decide I'd just rather die of blood loss.
I close my eyes tightly and bite my tongue. A piercing pain shoots up my leg and my mouth opens involuntarily and I scream bloody murder. "As tight as it can go!" I choke out with my eyes closed tightly. It tightens a little more and I shriek and squeeze the life out of Leon's hands. "Now make me a temporary leg out of ice." I grind my teeth. Then my thigh gets just a bit cold and the bleeding stops.
I suck in a deep breath and heave myself up to stand. After a few seconds, I get my balance back and it hurts like hell to walk on the leg, but I have to suffer through it to find Morgan.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Luke grabs my shoulders once I start towards the destroyed door to outside. "Where the hell are you going now?! Your leg was just cut off!" He exclaims in shock.
"I'm gonna go kill that little shit for tricking me and for fucking cutting my damn leg off!" I yell in complete anger and hatred. A freezing fog that expresses my emotions, surrounds me. "He will not get away with what the did! I am not holding back on that bastard anymore!"
Luke looks me up and down in disbelief, "Eve, we're all very pissed about what he did to you. And I want to track him down right now and slice him into a countless amount of pieces with my wind, but we have to get you back to the infirmary back at the guild." He looks steadily back into my eyes.
Zee groans, "That's if the Master will let us back in after directly disobeying him." I groan in aggravation at the reminder.
"As if this situation didn't suck enough!"I rub my temples then glance at Luke, "Sorry man, I know Fairy Tail's your dream guild." I hang my head in shame after realizing what I have done. They most likely will kick us out of the guild now for disobeying the master on the first day that we were there.
Luke sighs, "Yeah, well, maybe we can just go to Blue Pegasus or something. That's what Zee voted for, right?" Luke glances over at Zee and he gives him a WTF look.
"When did we vote on this?"
"Two days after we grouped together, remember?" Luke says, "I wanted Fairy Tail, you wanted Blue Pegasus, and Eve wanted to ditch us and go back to the frozen wasteland she was in before." He teases me.
"Yeah, Eve is the antisocial one in our group." Zee joins Luke in teasing me. I cross my arms under my chest and look away from them, pouting. They poke me and laugh, and I keep on my pouty face.
"You guys are mean!" I whine like a little girl and Gray and Leon stare at me in surprise. All they had seen from me before is cold determination during training, and some kindness and humor. But never acting too much like an actual girl. Even when I was little.
Lucy laughs lightly, "Where were you living before, Eve?" She asks with a wide smile.
"Oh, just where Gray, Leon, and I learned under our master, UI. I'm surprised I managed to find it so quickly when I did." I giggle as I walk/limp heavily in between Luke and Zee, Lucy next to Luke, and Gray and Leon following silently a few feet behind.
"Yeah, you have a terrible sense of direction. I'm surprised you did too." Luke laughs at my expense and I slap his chest in mock anger.
"Says the wind magic user who got us lost ten times on the way to Fairy Tail!" I retort and cross my arms under my chest and suddenly my jacket is gone.
Luke frowns at me then yells, "Put your damn shirt back on!" Lucy and I laugh.
"I don't even know how this keeps happening anymore! They're just gone sometimes!" Then my pants disappear and Zee groans heavily.
"At least her underclothes don't come off." Zee shudders at the thought and I frown at him.
"So you think I'm hideous don't you?" Fake tears begin to well up in my eyes.
Luke grumbles to the left of me, "It's uncanny how quickly you recover from your leg being cut off not much more than ten minutes ago."
I shrug and smile thoughtfully to the blue sky, "It's a gift. I recover very quickly from mostly any kind of attacks." I grin and both of the boys roll their eyes at me.
"I think he must've hit an important nerve or something, because I think, no matter how strong you are, you should be able to feel that." Zee argues and then I just begin to laugh uncontrollably at this one thing.
My laughing is halted when a hand is placed on my shoulder from behind. I turn my waist to have my ice blue eyes meet Leon's own dark ones. "Eve, the three of us need to talk." He says completely serious and I sigh and nod.
"Yes, we do. Just give me a moment." I turn back to my guys and give each of them a hard stare. They gulp nervously, wondering what I'm about to say or do. "I want you two to go back to Fairy Tail and check on everything there. The town, the people, all the guild members, make sure everything and everyone are safe and secure. I wouldn't put it past Morgan to stop by there and try to do something that would hurt somebody, physical or emotionally." Luke and Zee nod in agreement. "Take Lucy with you as well, she obviously knows what it's usually like there, so she can give you the gist on how it is supposed to be." I smile at her and she also nods determinedly. "And if Morgan is there, lurking around the guild, or in or on the outskirts of town; I want you two to kill him." They both freeze in shock.
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