Years had passed since that last event. Six months afterwords that fight between Jude and Natsu, Lucy finally regained her sight fully. All of them had grown some. Like Gray's white wings started to develop blue speckles on them making them look a bright blue more than white anymore. He had also got ice skills, it worked almost exactly as Natsu's fire. Erza had gained the power of summoning weapons to her side whenever needed. Of course, since of the size of her cage, she could no do so summon them. Natsu's wings had become bigger and wider than Gray's that had grown. The scientists said it was because he was supposed to originally be a alpha in his breed, making the other two just snort in jealousy or empathy, but yet, all of them were amazed that he was considered an alpha of their kind now. Lucy had really not changed at all, unless you counted all the new special skills she got like mind reading and night vision.

All of their cages were upgraded into bigger ones. All of them were in their late teens, Lucy the skinniest out of all of them and the smallest, making her look the weakest. Natsu and Lucy still shared a cage. Not that they mined, before they realized it, they both fell in love with each other since that day that Natsu had made the move to save her from her father. Gray along with Erza were in the process for waiting to have the scientists to find themselves mates to breed with. Yet, no prevail had came, making them think that the other two mate together but yet were still hesitant about it.

Today, it was still dark out and all four were sleeping peacefully in their own cages. The alpha's wings were wrapped around the blonde as his strong arms held her small body and was pulled up into his chest. His nose was buried into her hair as they all slept. Erza and Gray had their wings wrapped around themselves as they leaned agains the walls of the cage. Hearing the door to their room slam open, all of them immediately snapped out of their sleep and glared at Jude who stood there with a male scientist at his side. "Why good morning everyone!" the blonde man smiled at them, waving to the other man to move.

When the scientist stopped at the alpha's and Lucy's cage, Natsu's rusted wings snapped open in front of Lucy in a protective motion, the middle of his wings poking their way out of the cage. Pausing at this, the man slowly opened the cage and grabbed one of Natsu's hands as he gently dragged him out for Jude to hold him down. When Jude's hand met the boy's wrist, the blonde clenched down onto his wrist tightly snickering. Lucy trembled in the corner of the cage as the man grabbed her shoulders and pulled her forward. Jumping forward at this, the alpa howled. "Stop this! Let go of her you bastard!"

Ignoring him, the scientist put a metal collar around her neck before locking it and throwing her out of the cage. Finally having his wrist free, he jumped forward and gathered Lucy into his arms. "This way," Jude snickered, the other man poking a gun at the hybrids backs. Moving out of the room, they walked down the white halls to only walk into a dark room with a single bed in the middle. Pushing them in, Lucy's father gave them a sickly smile. "Now listen here. This is the breeding room. I know both of you know what to do, and how to do it. And if you both refuse, this," he held up a small remote and pressed a small button on there. Suddenly, Lucy let out a high pitched scream as jolts of electricity flew through her body, the color on her neck buzzing and glowing with life. "will happen to your dear Lucy, Natsu." at this, he waved as the door closed.

Running up to his mate, he checked her all over before sighing in relief. In the corner of his eye, he saw the red glowing of a camera. "L-let's just do this, Natsu..." the blonde croaked, tears streaming down her cheeks.

"What?! No way I'm doing that to you, Luce! I can't hurt you..." he whimpered, looking at his loved one sadly. At that response, the collar glowed and buzzed as the said girl screamed again, holding her neck painfully. Looking at her mate with pained eyes, Lucy shook her head.

"I-it's the only way,"

"But Luce-"

"It's okay Natsu...I'll be okay." she whispered, reassurance glowing in her eyes. Biting his lip, he closed his eyes.

"I'm sorry..." leaning down, he captured the girls lips as he pushed her down onto the bed.


Walking back into their caged room, Natsu carried a sleeping Lucy in his arms, sweat covered their bodies, clothes were a mess on their bodies, along with their hair. When they got back in their cage, the alpha gently laid her down, sweeping some of her hair away, showing off a burnt ring of her skin on her neck. His roommates looked at the two sadly. Tears were streaming down the pinkettes eyes as he leant down and kissed his mates head. "I'm so sorry my love..." he whispered.

"You had no choice, Natsu..." Gray said softly, looking at the couple painfully.

"Gray's right...you did the right thing." Erza nodded, her hands clenched into fists.

"No one should go through that..." the ice hybrid muttered, shaking his head.

"You're right..." Natsu growled, putting his hands on the bars of his cage. "That's why we're leaving this stupid place."


Feeling wind rush against her face, Lucy forced open her eyes as she looked up to see Natsu looking straight ahead. "N-Natsu?" stopping, the said man looked down at her with relief. Setting her down on her feet, she looked around to see Gray and Erza smiling at her. "W-whats going on?"

"We're escaping," Gray explained.

"You're mate here, melted the bars of your cage and unlocked ours." Erza laughed, shaking her head. Grabbing her hand, Natsu gave the blonde a small smile.

"C'mon, let's go." running down the hall, they finally saw an exit. Slamming it open, a sudden ring of alarms burst out. Motioning them to keep moving, Natsu led them all to the edge of the building to the edge of the woods. Snapping open their wings, they took off into the air, their feathers glimmering into the light. Looking behind him, Natsu saw all of his friends flying behind him, worry still onto their features. Almost turning his head back forward, it snapped backwards again when a gun shot was heard and his mate cried out. Gray and Erza, spooked by the noise, both snapped in different directions and flew off as fast as they could.

Cursing under his breath at this, he swooped down to where Lucy had fallen, holding a part of her shoulder, one of her wings bleeding as well. Panic swept over him as he heard footsteps and yelling coming from where they were standing. Picking her up, he launched off again, him as well going off into a different direction from where the others had flown off to.

Screaming, Jude glared at where all of them had escaped.


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