Hello everyone! Here is the chapter you have been waiting for! Now you get to see my first attempt at a battle scene. Let me know what you think of it!

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Journey to the Beginning ch.6

Fight and Flight

Previously: What Laxus saw next froze his blood in his veins. The monsters had begun to climb the walls of the cavern, towards Lucy.

Laxus unfroze in an instant, everything in his body screaming at him to get to the other side, while his inner dragon sends that he should have never let her out of his sight. Laxus does his best to speed up his progress, but he was hampered by his mode of transportation. Looking above him at the stalactites he has an idea. Laxus pulled himself up and balanced on top of the rope, using the stalactites to stabilize himself. He hurried down the rope using the stalactites to keep him on top of the rope. Almost within sight of the other side, he heard a sound that made his blood run cold, Lucy's scream. He slipped and nearly fell off the rope but managed to regain his balance using the stalactites, and ran the remaining distance to Lucy, afraid of what he might see.

When she came into Laxus's view, it was not as bad as he had feared, but it was still not good. One of the monsters was already dead, the arrows peppering its corpse telling how it died. A second monster was being beaten down by Loke. And Lucy was dodging and whipping at a third, while a fourth was climbing up over the edge. Without thinking, Laxus launched himself onto the third monster, heedless of its tail, and killed it with his lightning. Lucy looked up at him with gratefulness in her eyes, and then shrieked in pain. Leaping off of the dead monster Laxus runs up to Lucy, seeing no sign of injury he pulls her close and looks around. He finds the source of her pain when he spots Sagittarius. He was impaled in the tail of another monster, while the fourth one that he had spotted slipped back over the edge, dead and full of arrows, colliding with other monsters and bringing them down with it.

He looked back at Sagittarius just as he disappeared, "I apologize Miss Lucy, I cannot stay and help any longer." Lucy cried as he disappeared, and reached down and grabbed Taurus's key, she called him out, "Mooo! I will protect Lucy's beautiful body!" Wiping away her tears as Taurus charged forward, Lucy assed the situation. It was not bad, but not good either. She and Laxus were whole and still mostly unharmed, and Loke was taking down a third monster, while Taurus and Laxus each struck down a monster in one blow. Loke launched back towards her after finishing of his monster, "Lucy, I have discovered that these monsters have a weakness to light. They collapsed after a single, barely powered Regulus punch. I think that if we get outside into the daylight, they will not pursue us." Lucy nodded, "Laxus, Loke and I have a plan."

Laxus went towards her as he finished off the monster he was fighting, "Loke says that the monsters are weak against light, and the exit is right there," Lucy motioned behind them and Laxus saw what she meant, the exit was only a little ways behind them, "so if we can get out, they most likely won't follow us," he finished for her. Lucy nodded and saw Taurus backing towards them, having heard the plan. The group started backing towards the exit and were almost there when the light was blocked. Lucy turned to see what had blocked the exit and saw that one of the monsters had somehow gotten behind them, blocking off the exit, "Taurus!" Taurus turned to see why she was calling and seeing Lucy motioning towards the monster, he charged forward, "Mooo!" Lucy turns back to see that the monsters behind them are coming up fast, and has a moment of panic. She looks around desperately for a solution, and then she remembered her second origin, she always kept it in reserve in case she needed it instead of leaving it open all the time. Now she opened her second origin, "Second origin, release!" using the power, she pulled it together and grabbed Scorpio's key. Seeing what she was about to do Loke shouted, "No Lucy don't, you don't have enough power. Stop!" Lucy continued on undaunted despite Loke's warnings and calls out Scorpio, "We Are! I've got your back Princess!" With that Scorpio joins the fight. Lucy collapses, and Loke shouts, "Look out Lucy!" She turns to see one of the monsters right on top of her, tail poised to strike. She barely stumbled out of the way, but the tail still scraped her shoulder and she felt a shock as the poison from the tip entered her system. She managed to stumble away before falling and Loke leapt over her, beating down the monster, his form and Laxus's lightning arcing over her the last things she saw before she blacked out.

Loke turned from the dead monster to face Lucy, but she was unconscious. Then Taurus rushed forward and picked her up carrying her out of the now-clear exit. The rest of the group following. They burst out into the late afternoon sunlight, and Loke watched as the first of the monsters tried to follow them out, but when the sunlight hit it, it started to burn and let out an unearthly screech that made the hair on the back of his head stand up, and the monster scuttled back inside the tunnel. Turning back to the group he sees Taurus give Lucy to Laxus, just before he and Scorpio disappeared. Loke and Laxus looked at each other and came to a silent agreement. Together they rushed into the forest, just outside the mountains, safe for now, but with Lucy and her condition, weighing on their minds.

AN: All right folks let me know what you think of this chapter. R&R please! Praise and criticism alike are both welcomed!