Took me a while, but here's chapter 4 :)
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By lunch time, Lucy had perfected two other forms of her youth magic. Now she could permanently erase new memories and temporarily make people forget how to use their magic. She had found out that she could only erase something new to people, like memories and even damage to the body. All she had to do was erase the newer steps that she saw when she looked at their youth. This however did not work on old parts of people, she could only momentarily take away the steps.
"We've been at this for 2 hours now, how about you take a break." Afza looked at her with concern, she was working herself way too hard, she may be eager but she had only just gained these powers.
She was breathing hard, she had been practising fighting with him. They were evenly matched and the fight had gone on for half an hour. "Yea, thats a good idea. I think I might just walk around first."
Lucy turned in the opposite direction, "Wait, I just remembered, I have to give you your god mark."
The image of the rune tattoo flashed through her mind, she turned back to Afza, he was begining to pull water from the waterfall. She looked down to her left side, her top had ripped during the fight and it left her waist completly exposed. Afza turned the water into the rune pattern and gently pressed it against her side.
It left a black mark that went from her chest to her hip directly down the side. It curved sightly around her hip, creating a backwards L shape.
"There we go, now you are completly a god. Well then, see you at camp, don't be too late." He waved and turned away, going towards the campsite.
Lucy walked in the opposite direction, towards the beach.
He had swum towards the island from the boat. He hated being in the water, lightning and water were never a good mix. He easily passed through the barrier onto the island, it was completly visable now. He followed a stream for a couple of minutes, stopping when he heard noises.
"Fucking redhead and her stupid pancakes, I feel like I'm going to barf." The person growled as they continued to walk.
He could sence a large amount of magic coming from the man, it was equal to the magic that was left on Natsu. He was surprised when the man stopped.
"Get out of that tree." He jumped down to see a purpled haired boy staring daggers at him. "What are you doing here."
Laxus stood his ground, "I want Lucy."
"You want the stupid little blond girl?" He snarled at him, "Well too bad, she's going to be staying here for a while."
Sparks started to circle Laxus, "You better hand her over before I fry you."
The boy grinned at him, black fire started to come from his hands. Laxus turned his head to see that there was a circle of fire around him, he was completly surrounded.
"You sure you want to do that kid?"
Laxus bolted away from the circle, instantly stopping when he went straight into a wall of black fire. He attacked the boy with lightning, he managed to dodge it, never before had somebody dodged his magic.
"You're going to regret stepping foot on this island."
The fire began to close in around him, It burnt far worse than Natsu's flames. This magic was stronger than he imagined it to be. He tried to squirm free of the fire that was holding him there but he had no luck.
"Jamaga, stop it." Lucy's voice rang through his ears. He was overcome with releif as the fire started to die down. Lucy looked at him in the eyes, "What are you doing here Laxus?"
His eyes widened, she didn't sound happy, infact her voice had no clues to how she felt.
"I came here to see if you're ok." He looked her over, her clothing was torn and dirty and her hair was a mess. He focused on the tattoo that was on the side of her stoumach. He couldn't recognise it. "What happened? You're pretty messed up and you have some weird tattoo."
"I'm fine, I was practising my fighting and this tattoo is..." she paused, looking at the boy. He finished the sentence for her.
"It's the mark of the gods." He looked at her with disbeleif and then he began to laugh.
"Lucy's a god? You've got to be kidding me, what is she? Some kind of celestial goddess?"
She looked up at him smiling, "So you don't believe me? How about I show you?"
He grinned at her, "Bring it on blondie." He began to get his thunder and lightning ready.
She closed her eyes and opened them to reveal her golden-yellow eye. He looked at her amazed, it was just like Freed, Ever and Bickslow's eyes. He suddenly fell to his knees, on instinct he tried to attack her, but he couldn't, his body just wouldn't listen. He looked up at her, only seeing her right eye before he was hit by a large amount of magic.
He had rolled back 10 metres. He looked up to she her still grinning at him, "You give up lightning boy?"
Laxus stared at her with a mixture of amazment and fear. What happened to the helpless little Lucy he knew? "You've won that round." He stood up, happy that his body finally listened to him.
"I want you to leave, go back to Fairy Tail." Her words stunned him.
"But I went through so much to get here, there's no way I'm going back."
The boy stood up from the tree that he was sitting on, "I talked to your guild master about a week ago, he knows that nobody is to come to this island. He definatly would have told you that coming to this island is useless."
"Well sorry fireboy, I'm staying with Lucy."
"Did you just call me fireboy!?" His body was engulfed in flames.
Lucy put her hand on the boys shoulder, "I'll take care of this." She put her hand up to Laxus, "Memory erase, blackout."
The world went black and he fell to the ground.
She had taken away his memory of finding out she was a god, she didn't want him telling her guildmates. She wanted to surprise them when she want home. She had allowed him to remember finding her and seeing her immense power, she even let him remember Jamaga.
She turned towards the boys, she needed to get Laxus back home. Turning towards the sea, she could see a boat arriving, "Can you take Laxus to that boat and tell them to turn around."
"Yea sure, but just because I'm doing this doesn't mean you're free to boss me around."
He grabbed Laxus and took him to the boat.
There was a pink hair boy on the floor of the boat, he dropped the blond next to him. The pink boy quickly got up and started to become a ball of fire.
"Who are you?"
"None of your damn buisness kid, now you guys have to turn around and take this idiot with you.
The fire around the pink boy largened, "No I'm here to find Lucy, there's no way I'm turning around."
Jamaga laughed as he blew out the flame that the boy held, "Whats with you guys trying to find the blond girl?"
"You know where she is?"
"Yea, she's somewhere that you're not going."
He slammed the pink boy in the top of the head, knocking him out, turning to the ship caption he frowned, "You know what to do."
Turning into a flame, he traveled back to the island, he watched the boat turn and go back to where it came from.
Cana and Gildarts were still at the port, Wendy must of left. He looked down in shame as he dragged an unconsious Laxus towards them.
"What happened to Laxus, he looks like a mess." Cana walked forward to help carry the man.
"I have no idea, some purple haired boy teleported him to my boat and left."
"Where'd he come from?"
"I don't know, we were in the middle of nowhere."
Gildarts grabbed Natsu's shoulder and began to walk to the guild, "You've got some guts going against masters orders."
Natsu looked up at him, "All I did was follow Laxus, there's nothing bad about that."
"Laxus was going out here on his own? That seems pretty weird." They looked down at Laxus, they took in the large amount of cuts and dirt on him. Somebody did this and It was probably the purple haired guy.
Erza had only just gotten back to the guild when Natsu walked in.
"Where have you been?" She glared at him.
"I was following this guy." He chucked Laxus down onto the floor, instantly waking him up.
"What the hell Natsu! You don't go chucking people on the floor."
Natsu ignored him, "What happened to you?"
Laxus looked down at his clothing, it was completly ruined. "God damn it Lucy, this was my good coat."
Natsu and Erza's eyes widened, "Lucy? You found her! Tell me where she is."
Laxus got up onto the seat behind him, "You don't need to go looking for her, she doesn't want to be found."
Natsu looked shocked, "But Lucy loves being around us, why would she want to be alone?"
"She's not alone, there was that purple boy and I wouldn't be surprised if there was more."
Erza began to walk around the table, Lucy had done this to Laxus. "You never answered Natsu's question, what happened to you?"
People stopped what they were doing, all eyes were on Laxus, "I landed on a island and say the purple boy, I tried to attack him but he dodged me. He covered me in black flames."
"Black flames, just like Zancrows!"
"Woah, calm down Natsu, this magic is way stronger than a normal God Slayer. Anyway, it wasn't him who messed up my clothing, it was Lucy."
Natsu's fist slammed down onto the table, tears began to fill his eyes, "Lucy would never hurt another member of Fairy Tail."
"Well sorry Natsu, she did. She seems to have a new power, my legs wouldn't work and neither would my magic. She managed to hit me with some major amount of magic."
Erza's stared out of the door towards the harbor, "This isn't our normal Lucy."
She had waited for Jamaga to come back.
"They're going back now."
"I can tell."
They walked back to the campsite in silence, Lucy noticed that Jamaga wasn't being too mean today. He was swearing less and he was actually talking to her like a normal person.
"You did pretty good back there, maybe you could fight me soon, I've been waiting for a challenge."
She grinned at him, if she could beat him then she could definatly beat Natsu. "Sounds like fun."
"How about we fight tonight, on top of the rock?"
"Sure."
They both sat down at the fire pit, there was some bird roasting over the fire. Ian and Gira walked out of their cabin.
"How'd your training go?"
"Great I..."
She was cut off by Jamaga, "One of her guild mates found the island today."
The boys looked at them with shock. "It's ok, I got rid of him."
Gira studdered, "Did you kill him?"
"What no! I just knocked him out!"
He calmed at the thought, "Oh, good then. So did you fight him?"
"Yep, and I won. I also made sure he forgot about my tattoo and the fact that I'm a god."
Ian smiled at her, "Thats very smart of you, they need you do help describe it to your guild, if one man says you're a god, then they may interperit it the wrong way."
They all went silent, their minds wondering away from those before them.
"Where's Afza?"
"Asleep, that fight you guys had seriously worn him out."
Lucy smiled at the idea that she gave him a run for his money. "Well a bit of sleep isn't a bad idea, I'll just take a little nap."
She walked into her cabin and touched her keys, she pulled out the key to the gate of the maiden. Virgo appeared before her.
"What happened to you Lucy?"
"I've gained some powers and I want you to tell the other spirits about whats going on." She described the situation in detail to the spirit.
She felt calm and happy when Virgo left, she had finally gotten the information to her spirits about what was happening to her. She climed up to her bed and began to fall asleep then she remembered the boat. She had seen a pink blur when Jamaga got on. She knew Natsu had almost found her and she didn't know what to feel about it. She just shrugged it off, she could worry about that later.
Natsu had gone home soon after he arrived at the guild, he couldn't imagine Lucy ever hurting somebody like she hurt Laxus. Apparently she didn't even touch her keys during the fight. It was all her. He didn't know whether to be happy or sad, Lucy had powers and could fend for herself but she was keeping herself away from him and had these powers she never even told him about.
He trusted she was making the right choice, it may be saddening that he wont see her till she comes back but atleast he knows she's coming back. It annoyed him that she was with another fire mage that seemed to be stronger than him, maybe he was being replaced with these weird mages.
Happy flew over to him from his little bed, "Whats going on with Lucy?"
He looked at him, surprised that he hadn't heard the news, "She wants some time away from us and I'm going to allow it."
Yay! I've finally finished the chapter :D
I just want to add that during the week I'm only able to write stories on sundays, mondays, tuesdays and sometimes fridays and saturdays. This excludes the time I spend on homework so thats why some times it may take a few days to upload a chapter.
Can't wait to write the next chapter though, I love this story.