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Chapter 4
Lucy stood gawking at what the demon had said, the demon was actually offended by what she blurted out, when she thought she was going to die.
Lucy stared at the demon who seemed to have a hurt expression, its canine teeth melting into a frown. Lucy was awestruck at how her comment had made the demon stop in its tracks, and she was determined to keep stalling until she could find a way to escape.
"You heard me, you are a sorrowful and pathetic excuse for your kind! You should be ashamed of yourself, you ugly pig!" Lucy yelled, okay that one was a little harsh, but she could see a visible vein popping out from the demon's forehead, meaning her plan was working.
The demon seemed completely fed up with her behavior, before it casted out many beams of light from its hand. A giant ball of light floated above their heads, illuminating the room they were standing in. Lucy flinched as the bright light stung her eyes, but she was still plastered to the wall from the demon's last attack.
"I am not ugly, quit being so mean!" The demon whined, even though the light filled the room, the demon's features were cloaked in a deep shadow. All Lucy could see were the demon's horns, tail, teeth, and glowing red eyes poking out from the giant shadow.
"Behold, the true face of beauty!" The demon said, posing underneath the light and giving Lucy a good view of its body.
"I can't see any part of you, show your face if you aren't a coward!" Lucy taunted, as the demon's face fell into a frown.
"What do you mean you can't see me? Oh, I see what you mean!" The demon said with almost a happy tone in its voice.
Lucy watched as the shadow melted away, and the demon's features started to fill in with color other then black. Lucy noticed that the demon wasn't actually that scary compared to the shadow it hid itself with.
The demon's skin tone was very tan, and it had long straight black hair falling down to its shoulders. It was wearing a black hoodie with a silver dragon etched on the stomach area, and it had long strings hanging from the sides of the hood. The demon also had a pair of light blue skinny jeans on, and on the knees the clothing was ripped in a punk fashion.
The demon had two black horns poking from its head, while a long scaly tail wrapped around the demon's right leg, the scales were black, and at the tip there was lots of blue and black feathers lining up to look like the shape of an arrow head.
"You're a girl?" Lucy asked, blinking in confusion as the girl put her left hand on her hip.
"See that's exactly what's wrong with the economy now days, people don't think women can be powerful too!" The demon scoffed, crossing her arms and pouting with her bottom lip hanging out.
"Why are you attacking the village? What did you do to all those poor wizards that came in the cave to stop you?" Lucy asked with a furious look in her eye, the demon just yawned and turned to her lazily.
"Are you kidding me, I just walked into the village one night hoping to get something to eat, and they all went ballistic calling me a monster from hell! So I had to flee in this cave to get away from everyone, but I couldn't get any rest because wizards from all over the world came and attacked me!" The demon barked, rolling her eyes a few times during her comment.
"What did you do to those wizards that attacked you?" Lucy asked, even though she was terrified, she might as well get some information out of the demon, so she could help the villagers in some way even though she failed the mission.
The demon just looked at Lucy, blinking in confusion as if she didn't understand the question.
"Tell me!" Lucy roared, as the demon covered her ears in an attempt to subdue the loud noise bouncing off the cave walls.
"Chill out, I only took their souls!" The demon said, shrugging off the comment as if it were something normal.
"You stole their souls?" Lucy squeaked, now fearing the demon even more, it didn't seem possible, how could this girl steal other wizard's souls right out of their bodies?
"Yeah, what is that bad or something?" The demon asked, shaking her head and laughing heartily.
Lucy was at a loss for words, she couldn't believe that the girl STOLE souls, she didn't even want to know what the demon did with them either. But the demon didn't seem to be a threat anymore, but Lucy still kept her guard up.
"So you just kill innocent wizards, and collect their souls?" Lucy yelled, the demon shook her head as she stepped towards Lucy, Lucy gulped.
"Take a chill pill, trust me they are far from dead," The demon replied, giving her a large grin while flicking her tail at Lucy.
"Also remember, everyone was attacking me, I was only defending myself. I am the sad and defenseless victim here! Not them!" The demon said, giving Lucy a pouty lip. Lucy snorted at the demon, defenseless was the total opposite of what the she was.
"Why don't you tell my spirits how "defenseless" you truly were," Lucy said, her stomach boiling with rage. This demon had singlehandedly wiped out her strongest team without even blinking an eye, or without trying very hard at all.
"Um excuse me, your little friend attack me first!" The demon said hissing through her gritted teeth.
In a way the demon was right, Lucy's spirit had attacked the demon without warning. Lucy learned right then and there that you shouldn't engage an opponent in battle without knowing their story, she was acting like Natsu, punching first than asking questions later.
Lucy bowed her head, she still was angry at the demon for attacking her spirits, but perhaps she could talk her way out of this situation, instead of fighting her way out.
"I'm very sorry for attacking you, could you find it in your heart to forgive me?" She asked the demon, she tried very hard not to spit venom at the demon, but she knew that the girl would probably respond to reason more than force.
"Eh, don't worry about it." The demon said smiling a pleasant smile, Lucy could see her sharp canine teeth shining in the light, but they no longer seemed to force fear into her heart.
The demon's glowing red eyes started to calm down, and instead a beautiful sea-blue color took over her iris. The demon blinked twice before adjusting to the new change in her eyes.
The demon walked over to Lucy and helped her out of the dent in the wall, Lucy felt her bones shifting as the demon carefully removed her body. The demon then took Lucy's hand, and started to chant something softly.
"Healing pulse," The demon whispered, as a bright blue light trickled from gaps in the demon's hand. The light traveled up Lucy's arm, and traveled up her body until it reached her head. It felt like a cooling pack of ice was pressed against her sweaty forehead, and she slowly started to feel her pain melt away.
Lucy was suspicious of course, but she couldn't think of a spell that was named "healing pulse" that did damage instead of healing, and Lucy had to admit the power emitting from the demon's hands felt nice.
Lucy sighed in satisfaction, as she felt her magic power being restored and her bruises and cuts were completely healed. The demon's hand stopped glowing, and she stepped back to admire her work.
"I did a darn good job didn't I?" The demon said, smiling once again while scanning Lucy up and down for any more injuries.
"I have to admit, it did feel kind of nice." Lucy said, she felt re-energized and she felt like she could fight the demon once more if she wanted to.
She pondered that thought for a moment, she could have another go at the demon, but her chances of beating her were very slim. The demon had just healed her enemy too, so perhaps the demon wasn't all that bad.
"My name is Lucy, what's yours?" Lucy asked, dusting herself off with her hands. Even though her wounds were healed, her clothes remained in bad shape. She had just bought her outfit too, and it made her sad to know she had to throw it away.
"You can call me Nightfire," The newly named demon said, Nightfire looked off to the side clearly wondering if she should have given up her name so easily.
"Tell me a bit about yourself, Nightfire." Lucy said, trying her hardest to get acquainted with the demon. Perhaps the demon could become an ally, instead of staying an enemy.
"Let's just say I'm not really from around here," Nightfire chuckled, scratching her head awkwardly with her hand.
"Oh, well where are you from exactly?" Lucy asked, very curious as to where the demon came from, perhaps from a distant city?
"Erm," Nightfire squeaked, clearly not able to spit out the words she needed to speak. Lucy cocked her head in confusion as Nightfire stumbled to find the words she was looking for.
"Look, I'm just from very far away, okay?" Nightfire said, she seemed to clearly not want to talk about it, so Lucy decided not to pry her anymore.
"Well I'm from Fairytail as you probably guessed, and I live in a little apartment in Magnolia." Lucy said proudly, showing Nightfire her prized guild mark on the back of her hand.
"Is that where that person named Natsu is?" Nightfire asked, raising an eyebrow with a smug look on her face.
Lucy felt her cheeks heat up, she had forgotten that she had called out to Natsu when Nightfire was stealing her soul. Lucy's face was extremely flushed, she could already see questions forming in Nightfire's mind.
"Is he your brother? Friend? Or perhaps something more?" Nightfire giggled, she quickly slapped her hand over her mouth, trying to hide the furious laughter that was about to burst out of her chest.
"NO, I don't like him like that, we are just friends!" Lucy said defensively, making a giant X with both of her arms.
Lucy started breathing normally again when Nightfire seemed convinced and happy with her reply.
"I like you, you are very entertaining!" Nightfire said, her smile giving Lucy a nice warm feeling.
Lucy blushed at the comment, the demon wasn't that bad for a creature written in books as a bloodthirsty monster. She definitely was more understanding than the demons from Tartaros.
"So tell me, what kind of magic do you use?" Lucy asked Nightfire, who seemed like she was spacing out a little.
"Magic? Oh, I don't use magic, I just have abilities that I can use." The girl said, Lucy was shocked, she never heard of someone who was as powerful as Nightfire who didn't use magic.
"That's impossible, you have to be using some kind of magic!" Lucy said, Nightfire just laughed at her comment.
"It's completely true I don't use magic, I got my power from Gods and let me tell you right now, they were not very happy about it." Nightfire giggled, clearly enlightened by a memory she didn't share.
"Gods?" Lucy asked, she always wondered if there were really Gods out there, I mean there were Godslayers out there, Natsu just happened to fight one that used fire magic, and his flames were black just like Nightfires.
"Yeah, I hope you don't anger them, they can get pretty nasty at times." Nightfire said shivering at the thought of an angry God.
"So you are telling me you actually met a God?" Lucy couldn't help but not believe Nightfire, I mean it was a freaking God! There was no way that she could have met one, and Lucy still wasn't entirely convinced that they existed.
"It's totally fine if you don't believe me, most humans believe that their world is the only one out there in the universe. I cannot tell you how many atheists I've run into these days, all claiming it was impossible for a God to have created all that they see." Nightfire said, as a small flame appeared in her hand she seemed to be playing with it.
Lucy knew there were other worlds, her whole theory about being alone shattered when she went to Edolas. Nightfire seemed to be talking like she had visited several worlds other than this one, and it started to look like Nightfire wasn't exactly from this world at all.
"You aren't from this world are you?" Lucy asked, Nightfire extinguished the flame on her palm and looked at Lucy with a serious expression.
"I am not from this village, nor from this world, I'm from a different universe entirely." Nightfire said, Lucy was awestruck at the words that Nightfire had spoken. Edolas was a different world, and it was hard to wrap her head around just that, but a different universe was mind blowing.
"Do not worry, I have not come to hurt your world or your universe in any way. I am simply taking a vacation from my universe." Nightfire said, putting her arms behind her head as she tried to relax.
All this talk about Gods and other universes were starting to give Lucy a headache, she would give anything to have Levy here with her, perhaps Levy could help clear things up.
"Well I'm sorry that you received such a rude welcome to our world, as long as you don't try to destroy us, I think Fairytail will be okay with your stay." Lucy said with a nice smile, Nightfire seemed happy that she had accepted her unlike other wizards.
"I won't try and destroy you, as long as I keep this in my wrist." Nightfire said, pulling up her sleeve and exposing a rocky looking thing with a glowing orb in the center. The rough stone was black, and the orb in the middle was a bright blue color, the rock stretched out around Nightfire's arm to create some sort of a twisted bracelet.
"What's that?" Lucy asked, stepping closer to inspect the object on Nightfire's arm.
"It's kind of like a seal, keeping a barbaric creature at bay." Nightfire said, letting her sleeve back down and gazing at Lucy with a look of concern.
"What happens if it's removed?" Lucy asked, watching as Nightfire shivered but Lucy felt no cold draft from anywhere.
"If she comes lose, your world is as gone as gone." Nightfire said, tenderly rubbing the spot where the strange bracelet on her arm was.
"Well that sounds scary!" Lucy quivered, shaking off the scary feeling and trying her hardest to change the subject.
"We should probably head back into the village and clear things up with them, you don't seem to be a threat anymore, so they need to understand your reasoning behind everything." Lucy said, Nightfire nodded at her before raising her arm.
"Dimensional hole!" Nightfire said, as the air before Nightfire shifted and split open, revealing a beautiful series of colors in the hole.
Nightfire took Lucy's hand and started marching towards the rip in the air, the colors were blinding, as Lucy shielded herself with her hand. Once they broke through the barrier of light, Lucy stood in awe as she looked at what seemed to be a starry sky all around them.
"Where are we?" Lucy asked Nightfire who seemed to be enjoying her reaction.
"We are crossing dimensions, I'm like way too lazy to walk all the way back to the village, so I took a shortcut." Nightfire said, guiding Lucy as she looked at the scenery around her.
She could see several galaxies all bursting with their own colors, the stars were bright and lively, Lucy wanted to stay here forever if she could.
Suddenly a bright light appeared at the end of their path, and Lucy shielded her face once again as Nightfire lead her through the light. A burst of cool air hit her face, as the smell of pine and smoke filled Lucy's nose.
Soon enough the village was in sight, but all the windows and doors were boarded up with bright silver nails knocked into the wood.
"I had no idea they were this terrified, seriously I'm not a monster!" Nightfire protested, scoffing at the many trinkets and items decorating the village that was supposed to ward off demons.
"Garlic, really?" Nightfire said, picking up a line of garlic hanging over someone's door.
Lucy saw that the town hall had several lights inside, meaning that all the villagers must have been crowded inside the hall. Lucy started to approach the town hall when she noticed that Nightfire wasn't following her.
"What's wrong Nightfire?" Lucy asked, Nightfire scratched her head nervously.
"Just tell the villagers that I won't bother them anymore, I would rather not go in there and be chased out with torches and pitchforks." She said, quickly opening another dimensional hole above her, which seemed to be sucking in air, making Nightfire's hair stick up in the current.
"Alright I understand, but please release the souls of the other wizards, some of them were from a guild that is friends with my guild." Lucy said, Nightfire nodded swiftly before opening her hand as ghostly figures leaked out of her body.
The ghostly figures moaned as they moved through the air and made their way towards the guild hall, Lucy watched in awe as the creatures eyed her before moving towards the hall without a word.
"Wow, those are souls?" She asked, watching as the last of them disappeared in the night.
"Yeah, they are quite tasty!" Nightfire said, laughing and giggling at herself.
Lucy didn't notice Nightfire coming up to her, until Nightfire tapped her on the shoulder. Lucy turned to look at the demon, as she dug through her front pocket that was in the front of her hoodie.
"Here, this is a little present from me." Nightfire said, handing Lucy a silver whistle with a little hole at the top for a string to go through.
"What is this for?" Lucy asked, looking at the silver whistle that seemed to have mysterious markings on it.
"If you ever need help in the future, blow on that whistle, and I'll come running." She said, and with that comment she leapt into the hole above her and disappeared into the night leaving Lucy alone with her thoughts.
"Wow, what a night." Lucy whispered to herself, as she approached the town hall, clutching the whistle she received from the mysterious demon.