Lucy's eyes widened when she heard where she was. She had questioned if her home region of Fiore were where she was. "What is Fiore?" Orihime questioned. As of yet Ichigo and Uyru were the only ones to speak, the others had remained silent. Lucy smiled at her and relaxed her blade, she could tell Orihime meant no harm. "It's where I come from. It's a place where magic exists, I would show you what I mean by that but somehow I lost my gate keys. And no I'm not making any of this up. Guess I should tell you about myself, huh?" She asked. Toshiro nodded his head, everyone else followed. Lucy sighed and sweat dropped. "Alright fine, I will explain but it will be extremely extremely short and to the point. I ran away at age fifteen from the Heartfilia Kozern, after spending a year on the run doing odd jobs I meant my best friend and partner Natsu Dragneel- that's all you need to know about him- he took me to the place I was trying to reach for the past year: The guild Fairy Tail. After that many things happened one of which put me and the guild to sleep for seven years. After that more events occured, which brings up the last thing that happened. I was fighting to save my friends from a red chrysalis like state by sacrificing one of my friends. Once that happened my friends were saved, right when they had their backs turned to me I lost consciousness due to lack of energy, magic, and blood loss. Next thing I know I woke up here." Lucy explained severly short and to the point.
Silence reigned with the group. They didn't expect something that short, heck, she just made every soul reaper who liked getting straight to the point made them look like they were beating around the bush. Hell they would've gotten more out of Yachiru after she had sugar.
Sighing, Ichigo face palmed. Even he knew what Lucy had just said helped them very very little. Though they did know a little more about her than they originally did. "So, anyone know where my clothes are? I would kind of like to not be in stuffy kimono..."Lucy hung off her sentence. Urahara nodded and left to retrieve her clothes. At least she thought he did. What he came back with was something she wasn't expecting.
Urahara walked back in holding another Lucy. The one in his arms was completely limp, almost like she was dead. Her chest wasn't moving, and what remained of her clothes were just tatters from the battle. Everyone looked at the other Lucy's body, it was littered with cuts and stitches, smeared with blood so dark it almost looked black. But that didn't stop the perverts from oogling her body; they did after all earn the name by getting nosebleeds.
If Lucy hadn't known her keys were missing she'd have assumed the other her was Gemini. She, however, did know that her keys were missing. Getting up she walked over to her body, her right hand tracing the right hand of her body. The place she had had her guild mark placed was empty, no Fairy Tail insignia remained. The blond lowered her eyes, all the memories from Fairy Tail hit her.
Right their and then she knew she could never go back to Earthland. Since she was so smart she figured out how she ended up in Japan in the first place: it was from summoning the Celestial Spirit King. She had long since done her research on the King, she knew he didn't have a key because of the three requirements meant not just anyone could open his gate. A passage of the book also explained that their was a consequence- besides sacrificing that persons closest celestial spirit- to summoning him. She hadn't remembered at the time it came to summon him, but the consequence was the mage disappearing. No one knew where they went just that they disappeared. Now Lucy knew they disappeared far away and were completely unable to go back. The blond took a quick examination of her magic reserves was able to understand why they never reappeared; their magic was completely gone. No she wasn't just drained of magic, hers was completely gone. Nothing remained of her magic, she had none.
Lucy stepped back from her body, her bangs covering her eyes. They were devoid of emotion, just like they were at the Heartfilia Kozern. Everyone tried to look at her but she turned and stocked back to her sword, picked it up, then ran out of the room. She heard everybody calling out to her but that didn't make her pause. Lucy had to leave that room! Before she broke down and sobbed, nobody had seen her cry like that. The only person who had come close to seeing her tears of saddness and loss was Natsu, but even then she hid behind her mask. No, they wouldn't be seeing her cry.
Ichigo P.O.V.
Everyone back in the room tried to follow her but had quickly lost sight of her. She was fast for someone who just woke up and had recieved the biggest shock of her life. Ichigo was the only one still following the blond, he knew how she felt. Losing everything because he was afraid to hurt them, the shock of almost everyone dying by his hand because he couldn't stop those arrancars in the park. He knew how she felt to a degree, when in reality what she felt was ten times worse than he could have imagined. He still had his family and friends with him, she didn't have anyone with her. All of her family and friends were in a different dimension than his. She was completely alone in a situation she never knew she'd be in, surrounded by people and things she never knew existed. Ichigo shook his thoughts when he heard a shrill scream. "Shit!" He cursed, he had a feeling Lucy had just let loose the sound. He just hoped he wouldn't be too late to save her.
Back to Lucy P.O.V.
Lucy kept running despite her body telling her to stop. How could she stop when she had no real destination in mind? All she was trying to do at this point was find a deserted and secluded place so she could let loose all her emotions, just like she did back in Magnolia when she wanted to cry and get angry. But everything that she past was busy with people, her only hope were the forest she saw surrounded Karakura town. Lucy ran into the thick forest line, kept running till she found a tree tall enough to climb. Once she found it her feet guided her up it, difficult to do in a kimono but she didn't care.
Finally her climbing stopped once she saw the branches above her couldn't hold her weight. Lucy straddled the fork in the tree, to make sure falling was limited. Tears poured down her face, her emotions not bothering to wait until she was ready. Her sobs echoed through the forest, she couldn't even hope to contain them. Her body shuddered with every wave of tears, she cried until her tears couldn't come anymore. All that was left was the anger, it was directed at fate. Because of fate she couldn't be with the only people who treated her like family, couldn't be with the one she was going to confess to. And that sent her into a spiraling anger.
Without even thinking the blond jumped down from the tree, she was a good twenty feet from the ground. That height didn't scare her, after all it was nothing compared to when the Infinity clock threw her into the air. Lucy landed on her feet, knees slightly bent to keep her balance. She stood back up and went further in the forest, not wanting anyone to be heard.
Another good hour had passed when she paused. Rocks surrounded her, that was perfect. Letting loose a scream Lucy punched the rocks her knuckles bloody and more than likely broken. She didn't care, she kept on punching them. The pain was nothing close to what she felt. Blood poured down her arm to the ground, she was starting to get dizzy from the blood loss. But that still didn't stop her. Nothing stopped her until an arm wrapped around her waist.
