Fear…

Amazement…

I could smell it…

I was getting excited…

When I was tired of the stares I turned my sound pod on and went to work. Reading myself in a crouch, with swords raised at my sides ready to pounce at any moment… the beat dropped and I was gone. When I had taken down the ring of people surrounding the Raijinshu I called out to the person or people I could count on, "Hey guys, you wanna take on the underlings while I take on the boss?"

With a poof! Of golden sparkles a horde of celestial spirits surrounded the remaining underlings. Loke with his signature flirtatious grin called out, "anything for my Princess." A chorus of 'Yea's!' were heard from the other spirits.

I heard a low whistle from the second floor to stare into the smirk of the current guild Master Sting. "Pretty feisty one we got here. I'm surprised the Fairy's had someone like you… why haven't I heard of you yet?"

I returned his smirk, "Well I'm surprised as well, as to why you didn't remember a pretty face like mine is astonishing!" I said with mock surprise.

His brows scrunched up in confusion when he asked, "When did I meet you?"

"Two years ago at the GMG's… huh," I said with a sigh. "I guess I was pretty pathetic back then… but then again I did have more blonde hair and less of… this." I said pointing to myself as a whole. Then his eyes widened and he laughed, got you. I thought with an animal-like grin.

"You were that Fairy that got beaten half to death by Minerva!" He said still laughing. "Well then I guess I can't hold back on you can I? Surround her!" This is a pretty good group we got here. Rouge, Rufus, Orga, and Minerva were surrounding me smirking at me imagining their instant win; except Rogue he just stood there emotionless as ever, geez does this guy's face ever change?

To my left I could hear Laxus yell, "Oi! Blondie, do you have a death wish?"

I put on an act, cowering slightly letting my lip quiver giving more confidence to the other side. Then I laughed like a mad man, confusing everyone in my radius. I lazily twirled my swords in my hands, as the others shook of their shock. When they were yet again ready, I attacked.

I didn't move an inch but my swords were no longer visible, when they had returned to my side the four surrounding me dropped to the ground. An 'X' carved into their foreheads, no blood left the skin though because that is just how clean of a cut it had been.

When Sting began to look around frantically two swords reached up from behind him, enclosing his neck into a deathly hold. "I've heard the stories about you…" He said shakily. "Coming into towns plagued by dark guilds and attacking them one by one. Leaving only an 'X' on their foreheads as a reminder to stay in line, pretty clever I must say."

Gasps and mutters could be heard throughout the guild, from those that weren't already unconscious. The Raijinshu received the biggest shock, they had been gone from the guild for the longest time, but even so when they had been their Lucy had still looked like… Lucy. They all thought the same thing, 'what happened?'

One person screamed and yelled, "The Maiden of Life and Death!"

I chuckled darkly, "Well since you aren't a dark guild, I will spare you the embarrassment then. But I will warn you… the next time I have to come back to this guild I want to be welcomed back with a 'hello' not a sword, got me?" Before leaving I whispered into his ear with small smile, "It was nice to see you too." I slipped a piece of paper into his pocket and walked towards the utterly shocked Raijinshu as they watched curiously as I "reattached" my tattoos, letting them slither up my arms until they were back into place. I looked up to see Sting smile as he looked at the note, with that I pushed the Raijinshu out the door. (Note: The wounds are shallow and will heal without scarring, until next time L.H.)

"Now may I ask what you idiots were doing in there fighting with the Sabers?" I said with a very bored expression on my face, hands on hips.

"W-Well we were trying to uh… get information! Yea, that's it." Bixslow said with a forced grin on his face scratching the back of his head, staring anywhere else but Lucy.

Freed on the other hand, with his guilty conscious answered honestly, "La-I! Got mad when a Saber said something about me and… started a fight." He mumbled towards the end. Ah! That makes more sense.

"So its Sparky's fault, that makes sense." Everyone sweat dropped when Lucy turned a glare towards Laxus, who returned a look of indifference. "You know Mavis made me come all the way over here to save your asses and you were only pettily fighting with the Sabers!" I said throwing my hands up into the air in exasperation.

"Shut it, Blondie!" Was all he said, "What I want to know is what magic you were using in there, not to mention the crazy amount of spirits you summoned?" He asked inquisitively.

I smirked at his comment, releasing energy into my tattoo. Only one of the tattoos started to glow though, the red one, "Are you sure you want to know?" I said releasing an untamed growl from the back of my throat.

There were audible gulps heard, a dragon who feared a maiden ever so slightly, and the mad hatter had been released…