Chapter 5

Silence rang throughout the halls of the dark guild as the two men stared at Lucy as she slowly walked through her piles of bodies. Just as she walked through a large puddle of blood a hand shot out and grasped her ankle from a pile to her left. The smile never left her face, neither did their eyes. Shivers racked their bodies, but they couldn't stop looking. She moved with a whole new grace. Before, she had moved as a well trained lady, now she moved with ease and slithering movements that spoke volumes as to the kind of person who had taken over her body. Twisting her body violently to the right she ripped the blood caked man out from the stack and watched him heave in breaths. When his chest steadied she leaned down and watched as horror and fear wrote itself across his face, etching itself into every muscle, and she clamped her hand over his mouth and nose, effectively depriving him of any and all oxygen. Gajeel and Laxus didn't snap back into focus until his muffled cries of pain, fear and desperation broke through their reverie.

"Lucy! That's enough!" Laxus said, running forward and pulling her back by the shoulders. But she wouldn't budge. The blood covered mage continued to struggle, clawing at her face and arms.

"Lucy!" Gajeel yelled, helping Laxus with pulling her back, but she struggled, keeping her hand clamped down on his face, watching as his pupils dilated and the lack of oxygen withered his lungs as a single tear rolled down his cheek. Suddenly the smile was gone, and sadness imprinted itself on her face and in her eyes as she withdrew her hand and placed it on her mouth.

"Oh god..." she whispered in horror, but he couldn't hear her words, couldn't see the tears roll down her own cheeks as she saw what she had done. Not again... Pain crashed through her head as if someone had turned screamo metal music on the loudest the speakers could go inside her head. A high pitched screech escaped her mouth as she grasped her head to stop it from exploding. Gajeel and Laxus watched from the floor, not paying any heed to the blood they were soaking their clothes in. As Lucy stumbled close they scrambled to their feet to get away from her as she drew in ragged breaths only to let out another blood curdling scream.

Spinning to the two, tears pouring freely down her face she screamed desperately "HIT ME!"

"W-what?!" They stuttered.

"FUCKING HIT ME!" Her hands slowly reached behind her back, and tightened around the knives that now lived in sheaths at the base of her spine. She straightened up and stood with her head tilted to the side and the smile reappeared on her face, once again sending shivers down Gajeel and Laxus' backs.

"L-Lucy?" They asked hesitantly taking a step forward.

"Sorry!" She cackled, throwing her arms out wide with the knives firmly grasped in her hands, "Lucy has officially left the building!" A sick grin extended her already creepy smile as her voice dropped to deadly levels, "There's only madness here..."

Leaning forwards Lucy launched herself at the two dragon slayers, not a lick of fear in her eyes as they readied themselves for the attack.

"Lucy! Think about what you're doing!" Laxus yelled, dodging her flying knives.

"I don't want to hurt you!" Gajeel said, jumping out of the way of her war path. Swiftly and smoothly Lucy changed course and attacked Gajeel head on. His mind went into overdrive as he tried to come up with a plan to knock her out but not to overly hurt her.

"You think you can!" She laughed at their audacity.

"Fine" they growled, "let's kick it into gear."

"Iron Dragons Roar!"

"Lightning Dragons Roar!" It was like a unison raid made in hell. The metal conducted the lightning, making it supercharged as the special vortex of their breaths combined and made a lethal match deadset on killing her.

Jumping out of the way in just in time Lucy jumped up and sat at the top of a pile of bodies and watched as the entire front of the guild building was blown off in sparkly shards of electricity, metal, wood and stone.

"Well, shit..." she muttered and face the two mages who, thinking they had hit her, high fived each other. "You were actually trying to hurt me!" She yelled, enraged to the point where madness didn't even cover the craziness that filled her body and soul. "You were ACTUALLY trying to hurt ME!" She screamed, and jumped off her messed up version of a seat. Without time to react the men balled their hands into fists and threw a punch into thin air with their eyes closed so they wouldn't have to watch her connect with them. They never landed though. Disappearing into the shadows, she stalked around them as the stood back to back, glancing around them as her laughter echoed, bouncing off the walls. Then from nowhere she appeared in front of Laxus and slashed her blade across his cheek before retreating back into the shadows. Laxus recoiled and a hand went up to his cheek, coming away with blood on the palm.

"Could you at least have gone for the chest?!" His whined, wiping the blood off on his already stained pants while listening to her laugh.

"I think it's an improvement! Always thought you looked a bit lopsided with only one scar! But don't worry, by the time I'm done, no one will be able to recognise you... I can't wait to play my new game."