Thank you all for all your wonderful reviews! This story just gets more and more sinister by the moment. I don't really know what to tell you all, but I enjoy messing with Lucy. Let's make her earn love and happiness :P
Now onwards to make my dark desires a reality in text! I do not own Fairy Tail, it is property of Hiro Mashima!
Several days had passed since Evergreen falsely paired off the celestial mage with a wizard from Sabertooth. Biting her usually perfect, manicured nails, Evergreen waited anxiously for Lucy to return. Her little gossip of a lie caused a deadly rift within the guild that she had not anticipated, sure the men were disappointed and mourned Lucy's presence worse than the death of their own families, but the women were walking on eggshells waiting for the traitor of a guild-mate. The general female consensus was how could their beloved friend be mingling with another guild, be in a serious relationship and never once mention it to anyone, especially the script mage.
Evergreen's emerald eyes watched as the blue-haired woman sat adjacent to Gajeel, drinking and spewing nonsense about the guild's renegade daughter. "I receive letters from her everyday, she tells me about her jobs, spirits and even random artifacts she finds with pictures, but not once do I, her best friend... *hic* get the minimal details about her Saber." Levy swung her stein in her boyfriend's face while sporting a heavy red blush.
"When I get my hands on that traitor..." Levy said as she passed out from her second stein of light beer and her iron dragon slayer boyfriend just rolled his eyes in disbelief. Chuckling lightly at her low alcohol tolerance, Gajeel proceeded to pick up his shrimp and take her home, since she obviously had enough. Swinging her over his large shoulder, he sighed at the truth his little lover held. Where did Bunny girl go, why was she avoiding Levy? Then there was the obvious questions that plagued his mind, did he cause her abrupt departure and was woman gossip even a reliable relay for information? Staring at the guild doors, his red eyes dimmed in the agony of the unknown and like his shrimp, he too felt betrayed and abandoned. Just a few weeks ago, Lucy was sitting with him, joking and consoling him while everyone sided with the antics and allegations of the Medusa. The light snoring of his petite blue lover brought him back to his senses as he decided to take her back to her home, but before he stepped out, someone had called out to him.
"Don't take advantage of sleeping beauty, and don't go shacking up with her bed either!" Ever said with a mischievous grin, while waving her fan frantically. Instantly his head shot back, murderous scarlet eyes glared at the witch as he growled a curse and marched off.
Unbeknownst to Gajeel, Ever had been desperately trying to get the duo out of the guild hall, she had been spiking Levy's ale with pure odorless rum. It was just a matter of time before the shorty would be knocked out cold, and before his dragon senses kicked in, she would irritate the man out of the guild.
She had informed the thunder legion, except for Laxus of her grave mistake of fabricating the truth yet again through idle gossip, she begged and pleaded with both Freed and Bickslow for assistance tracking Lucy, but Freed wanted nothing to do with the matter. Bickslow was bored, so he complied easily; seeking some thrill during his forced vacation, he kept his babies on alert at the key points throughout the city of Magnolia. Po Po had informed the seith mage that Lucy was near the northern entrance of the city, and would be reaching the guild hall in approximately 12 minutes. Upon hearing of the whereabouts of the Blondie, Bickslow had informed Evergreen that the celestial mage was close by. Feeling like the fires of hell were starting to consume her from the inside out, Ever excused herself from talking to Mira and headed outside. 'I need to talk to Lucy in private!'
Pink clouds slowly were blanketed by the starlit blanket of night, the residents were all dispersing into their individual homes and the streetlights turned on exactly at 8:00 PM. From within the darkness emerged the long-awaited sunlit haired maiden. Ethereal, sensual, beautiful, Evergreen stared in awe as her guild-mate finally graced the city with her presence, shaking her head violently, she rushed towards Lucy, dragging her into the abyss of night, away from any guild ears.
"Gemini... where is Lucy?" Evergreen asked nervously tapping her high-heeled foot, while revealing yet another one of Lucy's many secrets. First the fling with Gajeel, her mysterious disappearances and now having her spirits show in her stead. Wide mimicking brown eyes stared in disbelief, almost questioning their ability to clone into their beloved master, wordlessly they asked her 'how' and she chuckled and explained the fatal flaw in Lucy's plan. If Bickslow could decipher Loke's existence as a spirit, would not his babies informed him that a mimic Lucy was heading for the guild? Feeling like failures, they cast down the image of their master's head in defeat.
"What do you want Ever, we don't have much time." Gemini, in Lucy's form asked. Already knowing that it was Gemini and not Lucy, she grabbed a pile of jobs beforehand from the guild. Handing over the approved jobs to Gemini, she proceeded to ask where was their master. To the obvious question, Gemini said they were not allowed to give any information about their master or her whereabouts. Sighing, Evergreen expected as much, so she asked if she could relay some information to her. The fake Lucy brought her hand to her temples and rubbed them lightly in thought, 'what harm can a request do, master said we couldn't inform, but receiving information might be helpful.' Nodding, the clone waited for the information their master's guild-mate had.
"Now listen well twins, your master had been misbehaving and causing much trouble in the guild, many were blaming their selves for her disappearance." Evergreen informed the dual spirits pointing at them in accusation. Nodding like scolded children, they asked her to continue, they had limited time and soon their master would question their obedience. Gulping and now feeling guiltier, she held onto the fake Lucy's shoulders, while looking into the curious chocolate eyes.
"I was trying to help... I got caught up in gossip, and now I'm truly sorry. I told the guild that Lucy had a boyfriend in the Sabertooth guild." Emerald eyes shone in desperation as the twins could not understand the gravity of such a lie. Rival guilds did not take lightly to lies and rumors about them, and if not prevented there could be another Phantom Lord conflict, but this time it would be Fairy Tail's fault. Master would most likely have a Salem witch hunt to find the culprit, Freed is Laxus' lifeless puppet, but he was also known to br stool pigeon, so anyway way you look at it, Evergreen was on the edge of exile. Gemini waved their hand in front of the lost and disturbed informant, getting no reaction, they shook her lightly and reminded her they only had a couple of minutes before they had to return.
"Sorry Gemini, I spaced out for a second. Look it's important that you too tell Lucy that she has to find a Sabertooth boyfriend or we're gonna have another Phantom Lord war on our hands. Sabertooth and Fairies aren't exactly friendly and my lie is only gonna make it worse!" Ever yelled at the terrified mimic of her blonde guild-mate, trying to explain the severity of the situation. Wide chocolate eyes shone with understanding, 'this isn't good! Master's in trouble,' Gemini deduced quickly grabbing the job requests.
Walking back to the main road, Evergreen escorted the twin spirits back to the familiar roads that led to the city limits. Hugging the mimic, emerald eyes noticed how the light of the full moon shone brilliantly against the blonde strands, and that's when the sense of doom or perhaps her woman's intuition kicked in. It had been an entire moon cycle since the incident with Gajeel occurred, there was a slight possibility, but she had to warn the spirits.
"Gemini, listen carefully. She might be pregnant, leave now and don't forget about Sabertooth." She whispered into the apparent ear of the celestial mage as a Levy grit her teeth in disapproval as she witnessed her best friend embracing another. 'I won't forgive you this easily, Lucy.' The blue-haired mage thought as she noticed the pair close by from her bedroom window.
In the darkness of night a worried Lucy paced circles around a tree waiting for her childlike spirits, 'what if some pervert tried to hurt them? Maybe one of the dragon slayers held them hostage.' the blonde thought in desperation, as Gemini was later than usual. Virgo emerged from a cloud of light, as she met her anxious master with cup of chamomile tea to calm her down. Taking a seat upon a nearby stump, Lucy took a sip of the warm liquid.
"Do not worry Hime, their stars are approaching us, they come without a spot. Instead of fearing for us, you should be worried for yourself." The maid spirit informed her beloved princess, who incredulously rose a brow questioning the unusual statement.
"There is a disturbance in your constellation, Hime-sama. It appears there is a parasitic magic source-" Virgo was informing her princess, when the rambunctious pair finally showed up.
"Gemini! Where have you two been? Are you okay, are you hurt anywhere?" Lucy asked the two as she jolted to her mimic, checking for any spots or blemishes. Laughing the two separated and embraced their loving master, as Virgo coughed in annoyance at the two insolent children for interrupting her. When they return to the celestial world, she had in store punishment that would put the children in place and teach them a lesson they would never forget. Laughing maniacally at the images of whipping and spanking the two into submission and utter compliance, Lucy smirked and patted her pink head to let her continue with her explanation.
"As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted," Virgo stared daggers at Gemini, who ran for shelter behind their master's protective legs, "there is a disturbance of an unknown magic source sapping your celestial magic, and demanding for more power. I believe that it may be a disease, or maybe an infiltration in the celestial world. I have asked brother to check-" Virgo's eyes shot at the two children who pulled on their master's skirt. "We know what's going on," Gemini chortled as Virgo got ready her whip. 'Insolent children, I am master's only servant!'
Ignoring the starring contest between her spirits, she decided that if she indeed was ill, she should ask Grandpa Crux. Summoning the library of information, she had Virgo explain the situation of the disturbance in her constellation. Gemini had their arms crossed, glaring at Virgo and repeating over and over again that they knew the source of their master's condition. Lucy patted the two on the head and said that they would wait for Grandpa Crux to wake up and give her the diagnosis. Huffing and puffing, they sat on the floor grumbling and wanting their gate close if they were going to be ignored. Minutes passed and the old spirit's sleeping bubble burst and fear consumed his waking features.
"Miss Lucy, I have never seen anything like this in my information bank. The parasite is consuming large amounts of your magic and demanding for more, it behaves like a tumor, except it takes all your magic, but requires more. There are many protective barriers and the celestial library cannot crack the code. From the analysis of the celestial world, it's trapped in your constellation, meaning that the parasite is only within your body, but other than that, I am afraid that I do not know-" The old spirit said, as Gemini tried to interrupt, but were silenced immediately as they were tied up by Virgo, who could no longer stand their insufferable interruptions.
"We know Lucy, we know! Ever told us!" The twins said in unison, catching their master's attention. How would ever know the source of her new illness, when she was just made aware of her condition today. Nodding her head, she instructed her maiden to free the two, who stuck their tongues at her in both delight and defiance. Dusting themselves off, Gemini took both their master's hands and sat her back atop the tree stump. Looking at the two, she laughed at how serious they looked as they pointed their indexes at her.
"Ever told us two things while we were pretending to be you. We couldn't fool her, so he took us aside to talk, Lucy you're pregnant and you gotta date a Saber or Phantom Lord's gonna come back!" Gemini explained not fully understanding what Evergreen meant, but got the main idea of what was going on.
Lucy sat in shock at the not so pleasant news the twins had relayed. Staring in fear at the ever present full moon, she calculated that she had missed her menstrual cycle, the symptoms of a parasitic magic consumer, rang very similar to pregnancy. Running a hand through her soft hair, she trembled as she realized if she was pregnant it would be with Gajeel's child, he would be part dragon slayer and would demand the power of his father. 'No, no, no!' Lucy screamed in her head completely delirious, she was soon going to return back to Fairy Tail and reintegrate back into the guild, she was very lonely and missed her friends. "Oh Levy!" Lucy cried into her palms, this was just another rumor, another lie, just more gossip, she couldn't be. Overwhelmed with all this new information and seriously in denial, Lucy stood up with tears streaming down her face.
"Everyone, go back to the celestial world. I'll be taking care of Lucy from here." Loke informed the three spirits as he picked her up bridal style, and wiped away her tears with his hand. Obeying their leader, the others went back to their world extremely worried for the health and well-being of their beloved master and friend. Lucy's tears seemed to come down with more force as the others left, she held onto Loke with all her strength, as he patted her blonde head affectionately. Strolling along the forest, he hummed her a lullaby to calm her jittery nerves and possibly halt the unnecessary tears.
Nuzzling her lion's neck, Lucy took in a big breath as she finally with a clear head understood her situation. It was something she fear could happen, something she prayed to Mavis wouldn't happen, but now she understood why she was feeling off, why her normal cycle did not show up and why opening gates had left her out of breath lately. She could wait till next month to see if it was an error, but deep down inside the very depths of her being, Lucy Heartfilia knew that she was impregnated the very same night she was accidentally taken.
"Loke... I'm pregnant." Lucy whispered quietly to the all knowing lion. Gently Leo kissed her tired eyes and continued to walk, he was breaking inside with every step he took, as he felt helpless and obsolete to his beloved friend. 'Maybe if I do that... we can get...' Loke thought to himself as he suddenly had an epiphany and changed directions.
Lucy blinked surprised as Loke changed paths. What was he thinking? Where the hell were they going? All of her belongings were in another place, she had to pay the hotel in the morning, she had a series of job requests to complete and she needed to sleep. Rubbing her eyes, she yawned.
"Loke that's not the way to Onibus." Lucy noted as the silent lion, suddenly stopped and looked at the blasted full moon that had become a constant reminder of Lucy's suffering.
"We're not going to Onibus, we're gonna get you a Saber." Loke hissed as Lucy finally fainted from exhaustion.