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Ch. 3
"Mest said Erza and the others had caught the dark wizards we annihilated." Jellal informed the others. Lucy smirked and chugged the sake in her hand.
"You still didn't stay to talk to her? How pathetic." Lucy muttered.
Jellal sighed. "I can't. I still need time."
Lucy gulped her drink and slung her arm at Midnight who's just listening to them with closed eyes. "Time..ah which reminds me!" Lucy's eyes twinkled before getting up. "Can I be excuse for like..two days?"
Jellal raised his brow. "Where are you going?"
"Is a secret!" Lucy slurred.
"I can't Lucy. Yer like a fugitive or something like that to the Magic Council. I can't let you roam around."
"Hey! I attest to that, good sir. I've been hiding for almost a year and nothing happened. Just two days please?" Lucy pleaded with puppy eyes.
"That doesn't work on me, Lucy." Lucy snorted. "Of course. It only works on Erza right?"
"S-Shut up!" Jellal blushed.
"C'mon! Just two days, dammit!"
"What are going to do?"
"It's Meredy's birthday in two days. I just..want to give something." Lucy looked away when she heard Meredy gasped.
"You don't have to do that, Lu-nee." Its been a habit to Meredy to call Lucy as her older sister which Lucy didn't mind.
"Naw, its fine." Lucy patted her head."Jellal! I'll bring Richard with me of you want."
Jellal shook his head. "Richard and Sawyer have something else to do tonight. Bring Erik with you."
"Oh, hell no! Im not bringing that snake head with me."
"Like I want to go with you, you lacrima bitch."
"Oi oi. Seriously, you two." Jellal sighed. "Its only that or you don't go at all, Lucy."
Her shoulders slumped. "Fine. Snake, we leave tomorrow 7am sharp."
Cobra's eye twitched. "I didn't even agree to go with ya!"
"Whatever, snake." Lucy walked towards her tent and slumped down immediately.
"Yer whipped." Sawyer commented, snickering.
"Yeah. You're not usually like this ya know. You won't put down a fight." Sorano supplied.
"It's love, yeah!" Richard cheered.
"Fuck youse!" Cobra growled at his team mates. Im not fucking whipped, I didn't fuckin' change and I am not absolutely in love! She's just among team mates. What the fuck are these idiots shitting about? Tch, obviously another nonsense.
"Tch. Denial, Erick-chan!" Meredy clapped her hands together.
"Shut up, pinky."
"What?" Cobra asked when he saw the dark gleam on the blondie's eyes.
"You have motion sickness right? Like all the other Dragon Slayers."
"I don't have such thing!" He said indignantly.
"Be quiet. Ah, there it is." Lucy smirked and held Cobra's hand. "Don't take this personal snake. I don't want to hold your hand honestly but I need to..."
"Fuck you."
"Deep breath..let's go!" Before Cobra could say a word, they both disappeared from the shadows.
They'd been dropped in front of a small house with no villagers insight. Lucy breathes heavily and remained sitting on the grassy floor. She looked to her right and found Cobra staring in a space before he snapped his head towards her.
"What the fuck was that, Goldilocks?!"
"Shadow Travel, duh?" Lucy snorted. "Its one of the Lost Magic of a Shadow mage. Rogue of Sabertooth can do this to but not as good as me."
"Damn it! Next time a little bit of a fuckin' warning! That shadow of yours have thousands of souls wailing." Cobra frowned when Lucy ignored him. "Where the heck are we anyway?"
Again Lucy ignored him.
"You just going to ignore me?!"
Lucy smirked at him. "What? Does the mighty Alpha wants my attention? I didn't know that one single hug I gave you, you'd crave for more."
Cobra's eye widened and she launched at Lucy. The latter's eyes growled and aimed a punch at him. The duo started a brawl in the open area unaware of a pair of eyes watching them.
"Wait..ugh!" Lucy grinned when she landed a punch on Cobra's face. They both removed their hands on each of their collars and snapped their head on the intruder.
Standing not few inches away from them is an old woman who's smiling at the duo. The woman's height reach Cobra's chest and her hair was gray-ish due to her age.
"Ultear.." Lucy started. The old woman's eyes widened and she gasped.
"Ultear?" Cobra repeated. "You mean the woman that Meredy and Jellal kept talking about?"
"Yes. Hello, Ultear-san." Lucy greeted. "You are aware of Meredy's upcoming birthday right?"
"Where are my manners? Do come inside first please." Ultear lead the way with the two following her.
"What the fuck happened to her? She's fuckin' old! That's the second in command in Grimoire Heart? Fuckin' laughable." He snorted in mild amusement.
"She sacrificed her life during the battle with the dragons you ingrate!" She hissed.
"She used a forbidden spell and let everyone caught a minute glimpse from the future. If its not for her, Gray, Erza me and others would have been dead by then."
"I wouldn't mind if you're dead, Goldilocks." Cobra suggested.
"Fuck you. Who'd give you some attention if I'm already dead huh?"
"You're not going to live that down are you?"
"Fuck no."
"Such foul language." Said the Ultear once she'd set the tea for the both. "You kissed your mother with that mouth?"
"I don't have a mother, old hag." Cobra snapped.
Lucy just stared blankly at her. Ultear shrugged and smiled at the two. "Meredy's birthday huh? How have they've been? Is Jellal still a brat?"
"Meredy's a nosy fuckin' kid and Jellal's still a pussy who can't profess his fuckin' desire to the red headed hammer wielder bitch." Lucy snickered to his side while Ultear's right eye twitch. "And we are the new members of Crime Sorciere. Goldilocks here need to talked to you."
"New members huh? Glad they're doing fine." Ultear smiled and then faced Lucy. "So how did you know I became old?"
"Gray mentioned once that he saw you as an old woman." She started. "Made some research about Time Ark and saw some forbidden magics in the list. During the battle with the Dragons I knew I saw a minute of my future and from then on, I looked everywhere for you."
Ultear looked shocked before nodding, "I wanted to compensate things. I thought my sacrificed was useless, that I didn't saved anyone."
"Not true. Gray was supposed to be dead if its not for your magic."
"I'm glad."
"Right, anyway, lets do this shit." Lucy stood and stretched. "Lets get you back to normal."
Cobra snorted. "As if you can turn her back."
Lucy feigned hurt, "That hurts my pride, Snakey. I'll make you watch and fuckin' learn."
"W..Wait!" Ultear shouted. "Turn me back to normal? Not possible."
Lucy shrugged. "Not quite. Where's your globe thingy?"
Ultear retrieved her globe inside a cabinet and handed it to Lucy. "Hey, Cobra. If I passed out, carry me please? I know you want my attention so I'm giving it later."
"Fuck you. Not gonna carry you, bitch."
Lucy muttered an unknown enchantment and her eyes glowed black. Ultear and Cobra widened their eyes in surprise before they shiver from the hefty amount of magic that is circling around Lucy's body.
"I, Black Lionheart had you summoned Cronus, King of Titans, Ruler of Time, to grant an access to the void of yours and give me full authority to pass down a spell to a friend."
A black swirl of smoke appeared in front of them and there stood a few feet taller than Cobra, a guy wearing a golden crown, dressed as a Roman warrior, grinning maniacally at Lucy. "Princess of the Void, how nice of thee to show up. What would be thy request?"
"Ultear Milkovich sacrificed her life to save her friends. I want you to give back her time where she's just a few years older than me. Four years gap with my age specifically." Lucy commanded with a stern voice.
"Anything for the Void Princess." Cronus vowed and held out his palm towards Ultear. "I, Cronus, King of all Titans, Father of the three great Olympians, allow thee Ultear Milkovich to turn back time. May thou used this second life as compensation of thy past."
Black smoke covered Ultear's body before she dropped on the ground completely back to her normal self. Her eyes snapped towards Lucy's direction who's now floating in the air. Cronus bid them farewell and vowed to Lucy before the latter also face faulted on the floor. Cobra cursed and turned Lucy around before throwing insults at the blonde mage. Her left eyes was bleeding profusely and Ultear sat there looking shocked at what happened.
"Oi you shocked bitch. Help me with Goldilocks! If she dies, remember this is yer fuckin' fault!" Ultear nodded and scrambled towards Lucy. She took out her first aid and Cobra put Lucy on the couch.
They applied medication on the blonde wizard as they cleaned up her blood stained cheek.
"Tell me what the hell's going on here? Why can she summon a god? Why is her eye scarred and why is it bleeding?" Ultear bombarded Cobra some questions.
Cobra groaned before slouching on the floor with Ultear. "Goldilocks is beyond crazy as fuck that's why."
Ultear narrowed her eyes. "Tell me now."
"Tch. That bitch implanted lacrima on her left eye," he paused when Ultear gasped. "infiltrated the Magic Council to get a hold of a damn book filled with Lost Magic. Bitch here, took the privileged to gather the Aethernanos of the wizards she killed and put it the Etherion lacrima." Cobra growled, "and she's not my girlfriend. Fuck off!"
"You can hear my thoughts?"
"Souls."
They heard Lucy groaned and they both stood. "Kill...not..weak..anymore..kill.."
"What'd she say?" Ultear asked.
"Hell if I know. That bitch's blocking me. Don't know how she does that." Cobra hissed. "And stop askin' me. Asked Goldilocks when she wakes up. If she wakes up." He smirked and went outside the house.
"Wow Lucy, you've changed so much. You..you look so, so pained. What is the real deal behind this all Lucy?"
Ultear stroked the unconscious mage and couldn't help but let a tear fall, grateful for the second chance she received. Never she had thought that she can go back to normal just like that. All she knew, the only time she can see herself is when another mage had the same magic as hers, or someone who can travel through time. Vowing to herself that she'd offer her life to save Lucy whenever if its needed.
"Ugh..fuck! My head hurts!" Lucy groaned.
"Maybe from excessive thinking." Cobra said from the door.
"Yeah, riiight." drawled Lucy. "Because unlike me, you don't think at all."
Cobra made a 'tch' sound. Lucy sat up and rubbed her temple before staring at Ultear.
"Oh good yer back!" Lucy smiled softly. Lucy touched her left eye and inwardly smiled sadly.
Ultear hugged the Celetial mage and cried, "Thank you, Lucy."
The latter gave a small smile and patted Ultear's back. "You're welcome. Guess we're ready to go."
"What the fuck? You asked Jellal for two days! Its only been 6 hours at most." Cobra snapped.
"What? You wanna go shopping?" Lucy smirked.
"You know what? Fuck you."
"You've told me that a lot of times since we've met. Why haven't we done it yet if you want it so badly." Cobra widened his eye and glared at Lucy.
"Why would I fuckin' want a girl who became slave for someone else? Bet you gave yer virginity to your masters to get those magic. I don't want a filthy bitch to be my mate..." He was cut off when he heard a drop of tears on the floor and found the Celestial wizard crying. Her left eye turned black again and gave the deadliest glare she could muster.
"Find a fuckin' way to go back to our camp asshole." Lucy grabbed Ultear's hand and both disappeared from the shadows.
Cobra sighed, already feeling guilty. "Shit! Jellal and Meredy's gonna kill me. And Sorano too! Fuckin' Macbeth also."
"I still don't get it." Sawyer scratched his head. "This list that Mest handed looks incomplete. And the words are too hard to understand. Ancient writings. Only Jellal and Cobra could read this, well aside from Lucy."
"Yeah," Sorano agreed. "Looks so complicated. How can we train her if we don't even know some of this?"
"Don't worry, I'll rewrite everything and hand the list to you-!" Jellal and the others jumped in shocked when Lucy appeared from the shadows, holding another woman's hand in hers.
"U-Ul..." Meredy's lips trembled and slowly stepped forward. "Ul! Its really you! We thought you died during the battle with the dragons!" Meredy hugged the black haired woman tightly, her face buried in Ultear's bosom. "Lucy..is this.."
"Hn. Advance happy birthday, Meredy." But before Meredy could thanked the older mage, she run away from them and towards the dark forest.
"Where's she going?" Richard asked worriedly. "And if I am not mistaken, is she..crying?"
Ultear nodded. "Snake bastard said some hurtful words. She left him at Crocus. He'll be back around midnight if he catch the last train."
"Damn that Erik!" Sorano hissed. "Should we follow her?"
"Leave her be." Midnight suggested. "She needs to cool off or else she'll kill Cobra if she caught sight of him."
"Hey hey. That's going too far." Meredy butted in. "Lucy-nee would never kill a friend."
Midnight shook his head. "As of right now, she won't consider anyone her friend. Her mind's in a haze. Even if we connected her lacrima to her system, it doesn't mean that she gain full access to her magic." Sorano gasped in horror to which Midnight nodded. "The stronger the magic, the more it tends to choose its user. But if the wizard's mind is weak, the magic will take over and destroy them."
"W..What do you mean by that?" Sawyer asked.
"Lucy's magic is strong. We can attest to that. And Lucy's mind is between getting weak or getting strong. Weak in a sense that her past actions were eating her, feeding her magic, in which case, it could destroy her." Midnight paused when they heard a loud scream from the forest. "Right now, its a battle between Lucy and her magic. May the strongest win."
"You basically mean that..Cobra just caged Lucy's magic?" Jellal asked, incredulous. "Why didn't you say earlier?!"
Midnight yawned. "That brat is determined that she could beat her own magic. She's a former Fairy Tail wizard. Those fools doesn't know how to back down even if it kills them. She can do it, I know she can..after all, she's a member of this guild." Midnight went to his carpet and closed his eyes. "Wake me up when Erik gets back so I could beat the living shit out of him."
"You've found bunch of..smartasses and scoundrels in your guild, Jellal." Ultear said with a smile.
Jellal pulled the wizard and gave a hug. "Oi oi. Erza might get jealous."
"Shut up." Jellal pulled away and his face turned serious. "We need explanations, now."
Ultear nodded and asked Jellal to gather everyone around to introduced Ultear and hear her story.
After a long explanation, Jellal and the others were staring at her in shocked. Maybe shocked was an understatement, it was like Lucy brought her back alive. Jellal and Meredy really thought that she was dead during the invasion even though they couldn't find her body that time. They just thanked Lucy silently on their mind and was glad at the second chance that Ultear had received.
"Where's Goldilocks?" Meredy jumped out of her seat and threw a punched at Cobra that had him stumbling. "Fuck, I deserved that."
Meredy's eyes filled with tears. "If you make Lucy cry again..not even Jellal can stop me from killing you." A menacing dark aura surrounded her and Ultear glared at Cobra. "Don't make Meredy bring out her inner demon you asshole."
"We know that you hate people Erik." Midnight started and fixed his gaze to his old friend. "Sometimes you try to kill me when your bored, make the pinky's blood boil, and even make Sorano turn into a demon. You do that to pass some time. But seeing you always arguing with Lucy, I know you are intimidated of her." Cobra growled at him.
"You don't let other people touch you aside from your friends, or when you let then touch you. For Lucy, you are in constant contact with her. Allowed her to hugged you the first time, you even let her sit in your lap for a long time when you got defeated with your stupid shenanigans. The thing is Erik, you're scared. Scared of the fact that you can't understand Lucy, scared that she's wittier and more sarcastic than you, scared that your starting to feel something. Punched me if I'm wrong but I know that yer starting to like Lucy."
"Ha! He wouldn't punch you coz its true. Erik's starting to like humans!" singsonged Sorano.
"Shut it feather bitch." Cobra snapped but his voice was low and his eye was darting towards the forest. He shook his head and said, "Nah, I don't like her."
Lucy came out from a shadow holding several plastic bags with her knuckles bruised. She slumped on the floor and breathe deeply. "I think I'm dying."
"What?!" Jellal gasped.
Lucy sighed, "Jeez relax. It was just an expression. Here, I brought food. I'm just gonna fixed this wounds on my fingers."
"Did you..kill someone?" Sorano timidly asked.
"Yes." Lucy smiled devilishly before grinning. "Just kidding. Punched several trees imagining it that it was Snake bastard's balls. Worth it."
Everyone sighed and opened the plastic bags. The scent of food hit their nostrils and took out their spoon and forks. Lucy sat a few inches away from them fixing her bloodied knuckles. Cobra took the privileged to sit next to her.
"Who told you to sit next to me?" Asked Lucy without looking up.
"Its not like your name's written on this side of our camp." Cobra said back.
"Hn. Is that so? Guess I'll move myself." Lucy stood up but Cobra held her leather jacket. "Wait. I..I wanted to.."
"What? Apologized?" Lucy mockingly said. Cobra glared at her. "Your ego's too big to do that shit, Cobra. You know what you need to do? Stop being a nosey motherfucker for once. The reason why I didn't let you hear my soul is because of what your going to see. Like you said, I'm filthy and a fucking mess. There happy now?"
Cobra was left there stunned. Everyone was gaping at Lucy for her outburst. It just confirmed that Lucy was still hiding a lot of awful things from them. But of course they won't pressure her on telling them. The girl's got a lot in mind and she might blow up again if they intervene. Lucy sat next to Midnight and took her food, eating quietly.
"Um, Lucy..thank you for bringing Ultear back." Jellal meekly said.
Lucy nodded, "Yeah yeah, you're welcome. I do have a request though Jellal."
"Anything."
"I need to test out something tomorrow and I'm gonna need you and Midnight." Jellal nodded while Midnight yawned.
"Whatever."
"By the way, heard rumors outside the village. Sabertooth, Lamia Scale, Quatro Puppy-!"
"Cerberus." Sawyer corrected. "Right, Blue Pegasus are all going to move to Fairy Tail. Some sort of alliance I think."
"Hmm, well, Fairy Tail is about to be reunited a week from now. Someone sent me a letter that we should visit them soon." Jellal said, looking away.
"And by someone, you meant Erza." Lucy smirked and wiped her mouth with a napkin to which they took notice. Even if Lucy had changed, she was still a proper girl inside and out.
"It's not Erza!" Jellal blushed. "That's preposterous."
Lucy gave him a deadpanned look. "What? Natsu sent you letter? That idiot can barely write. You don't need to be shy, Jelly bean. After a year your gonna see Erza again."
"S..Shut up! I..I didn't missed her a bit." He stuttered.
"I didn't say you missed her." Lucy cooed. "Ultear should definitely go there to see Gray and Lyon. You too Meredy, bet that Juvia missed ya. Jura would be there too, Richard. You might as well visit. And of course, Yukino will be there."
"Y-Yukino.." Sorano whispered, tears gathering in her eyes.
"Learned that she's your sister." Lucy snorted and stared at Sorano's costume. "Feathers, predictable."
"What about you, Lucy?" Ultear narrowed her eyes at the blonde wizard. "Aren't you going back to Fairy Tail?"
"Go back?" Lucy snorted in amusement. "That's a good joke Ultear. Haven't crossed my mind yet."
"You're a Fairy Tail wizard." She insisted.
Lucy held up her hand and showed her right hand where her insignia is. "No guild mark. Makarov disbanded the guild, thought I should get rid of the mark myself by cutting the flesh."
"Psychotic bitch." Cobra muttered from Midnight's side.
"Wasn't talking to you asswipe." Lucy narrowed her eyes at the Dragon Slayer.
"Anyway," Ultear shot Cobra a glare which he only shrugged. "Lucy, you need to come with us at Fairy Tail."
"Nu-uh."
"Lucy-nee, Ul's right. We're family now. We should stick together." Meredy insisted.
"Sorry twerp." Lucy smiled. "I have to do something else. I'll go visit from time to time anyway."
"But.."
"Oh look at the time!" Lucy said while stretching. "Time to go to sleep."
"Ya don't sleep, Goldilocks." Cobra said. Lucy halted in her steps before she delivered a punch at the back of his head.
"Oops! My hand slipped!" Cobra growled but everyone shot him a glare.
"Later then." Lucy entered her tent waved goodnight to everyone.
"So you want us to attacked you with all our force?" Jellal asked, confused. "My Sema can kill you!"
"Its fine." Lucy insist, rubbing her hands together. "Give your best shot."
"You have a death wish, Lucy?" Sawyer asked from the branch of a tree where the other members are looking at.
"Fine, I'll attack first. Dodge this one!" Lucy heaved a breath and whispered, "Shadow Clash." A good amount of shadows surrounded Lucy before they launched in every direction towards Jellal and Midnight.
Everyone anticipated that Midnight could dodge the attacked since he's magic consist of deflecting any physical attacks. But unfortunately, Lucy's shadows were made up of entirely dark souls and grab Midnight's collar before he got slammed on a tree.
"Grand Chariot!" Lucy's eyes widened before she got rained down hundreds of Jellal's powerful attacks. She got hit in her arms and hissed in pain. "Fuck. That was fast."
Lucy closed her eyes before she summoned someone. Meredy and Ultear's eyes widened when they saw it. "Z-Zancrow! How—?"
Lucy jumped away when Midnight launched an attack behind her. She growled softly before summoning another soul. Midnight froze and shivered in fear, "F-Father..."
"What the actual fuck?" Cobra said in a louder tone. "Zero's...alive?"
"No. Lucy's summoning their souls. Its an illusion. A very powerful one at that." Ultear said in awe. Jellal and Midnight all dodge the attacks of the summoned souls when they saw Lucy's eye bleeding again.
"Cobra! Lucy's eye is bleeding! Stop her, now!" Cobra cursed and jumped down from the tree and landed softly behind her when Lucy craned her neck and attacked him as well.
"Calm down, Goldilocks! Its me, Cobra!" Cobra hissed when a shadow bumped into him. "Shit, this shadows of yours is starting to creep me out."
"Oi! You psychotic bitch, stop this shadows now!"
Suddenly all Lucy's summoned shadows are gone even Zancrow and Zero. She craned her neck and lifted her right hand in a form like she's clutching someone's neck. Everyone watched in horror as Cobra started wailing as if he was being choked. Lucy's eyes turned pitch black and she was laughing maniacally. Jellal and the others launched at Lucy and tackled her to the ground before Midnight knocked her out.
Cobra gasped for air as he stood up with the help of Sawyer. "Fuck! What on Earthland was that?! She almost fucking killed me!"
"Something's definitely wrong with Lucy's magic. Its unstable." Sawyer commented as he watched Meredy wiped Lucy's bloodied cheek.
"It looks like the spell we cast on Lucy is not good enough. We're going to need Fairy Tail's help." Jellal muttered.
"But she doesn't even want to go there." Sorano said.
"We don't have a choice," Richard said in stern voice. "Lucy needs to get treated immediately."
"Yeah. We'll bring her to Fairy Tail...even if its by force." whispered Ultear.
"Next time, you pussies stop Goldilocks by yourselves. She definitely wants to kill me." Cobra groaned still clutching his bruised neck. "I didn't know Telekinesis is a Lost Magic."
Jellal narrowed his eyes, "I didn't know it either. There was a record I've seen before when I was still in the Magic Council though. There is this group of dark wizards who uses Telekinesis. But if you'll scan their records, it was said that they are a group of mutants."
"Mutants?" Meredy asked.
Jellal nodded, "Mutants experiments themselves. They are people who don't have magic so they try to mutate their selves with the use of technologies. Sometimes mutation takes process by torturing their se.."
"Shit! You don't think..." Midnight trailed off his eyes widening as he stare at Lucy's unconscious state. Everyone was silent for a minute before realization dawned on them.
Lucy's a mutant?! They all thought in horror.
Author's note: Hey guys. Updated late so it's more than 4k words. Btw, I have to bring Ultear back since she's going to be an asset in the story soon. And the major plot twist of course. See ya.
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