Chapter 7
Lucy clutches tightly onto the swing's chains, making her knuckles turn white. She grits her teeth from the frustration that she can't do anything to save her friend. She stares into the setting sun and sighs loudly. No one was around to hear her though; the park was deserted, like an abandoned factory.
Lucy didn't realize this but her hand started to heat up, from frustration, and she was slowly melting the chains of the swing. Once the chains became a molten form, she notices what she was doing and starts to panic.
"Shoot…" Lucy stares at the now broken swing and just stands above it.
"Oi! Oi! What are you doing? Don't go around parks destroying things!" A cocky voice proudly boomed from the person behind Lucy. "Who is this blonde chick anyways? I have never seen her around this area"
Lucy whips her head around to see a, blonde hair colored, man who was wearing a cocky smug and a suspicious looking guy in the shadows behind him. Lucy gives them the usual blank stare and just sighs.
"Sting Eucliffe and Rogue Cheney right?" Lucy blurts out their names, uninterested in their business.
"Of course you know us! I am the great Sting Eucliffe!" Sting points to himself proudly with his nose sticking up high in the air. "I am the best!" Sting smugs.
"Alright… I don't really care" Lucy whispers quietly and sighs as she straightens her uniform out. Lucy slings her bag over her shoulder and starts to walk. Unfortunately, Sting heard her.
"HEY! Where do you think you're going?" Sting grabs Lucy's shoulder and pulls her back. "Do you think that you can just walk away from me after ignoring us?" Sting glares at Lucy and looks into her cold eyes. Rogue, who watched from the shadows, huffs at Sting but doesn't do anything.
"I have no interest in talking to people like you!" Lucy pulls away from Sting and shoots a deadly glare, along with a dangerous aura, at Sting. Lucy starts to walk away from the twin pair.
"I bet you are weak! Since you are technically just running away," Sting laughs evilly at Lucy, trying to get on her nerves. This though, annoys Lucy and makes her snap, not many people had the guts to call her weak. She stops walking completely.
"…Are you trying to challenge me boy?" Lucy tilts her head back without turning her body around and pierces into his eyes. Sting shook a little from the look in her eyes; they were cold and full of hatred.
Lucy smirks sadistically at the Sabertooth's top student. "Fine, let's see who is stronger." Lucy blushes lightly from excitement. She wondered if this was going to be a tough fight or an easy one. She hasn't had a good fight in a while.
"I'm just saying Blondie! I won't go easy on you!" Sting shouts as he gets into a fighting stance.
"…Sting…" Rogue just looks at Sting a face palms. Why was he trying to pick a fight with someone he just met? Rogue thought in his head.
Ticking… Ticking… Ticking… In my head…
All I can hear is the repeated sound of ticking in my head…
His time might run out soon…
I have to hurry…
Lucy checks her pocket watch ad stares at the time which pisses off Sting, he hated how she acting so casual even though she was battling against the great Sting Eucliffe!
"If you're just going to check the time then I might as well attack now!" Sting raises both of his hands and creates a ray of light. He charges forward and attempts to attack Lucy. Lucy just sighs and pushes one of the buttons on Lucy's clock.
"Time delay" Suddenly the world blurs and turns black and white for her and time slowed down rapidly. Sting was now slowly making his way to where she used to be. Lucy walks behind Sting and kicks him in the back harshly.
"Time reset" Lucy chants. The world then turns back to normal and Sting falls to floor.
"What the hell?!" Sting screams from shock. Sting steps back as he groans from frustration. Even Rogue looks shocked, his eyes widens.
Sting attempts to attack Lucy with the same tactics for ten minutes but the results were the same, Sting ends up on the floor all the time.
"…I'm bored…" Lucy stretches and extends her hand out to Sting, pointing her index finger at him. In an instant, a streak of lightning was shot out from her finger and headed towards Sting. He then yells out a loud yelp.
"AH!" Sting screams from pain and pants from exhaustion. "How? How did I lose?" Sting argues with himself.
"Who are you?!" Sting questions Lucy. In response, Lucy just smiles sadistically at him and says,
"A weirdo who has no friends" Lucy laughs with no emotion and walks away from them, yet again. "Oh right!" Lucy remembers something and turns around to face them once more. Her hair fluttered in the wind making Lucy look more mysterious than usual.
"I'll be looking forward to working with you guys" Lucy bows and runs off to her house.
"…!" Sting flinches from the realization of who she was. The principal did mention a blonde woman coming to Sabertooth. "Lucy Heartfilia!" Sting grits his teeth and pounds the floor with his fist repeatedly.
"Oh… It's the student who is exchanging into our school" Rogue crosses his arms.
"… I will get my revenge on her!" Sting growls as he glares at Lucy's back. "I will make sure she knows that Sting Eucliffe is the best!"
"And then, I will make sure she will bow at my presence!" Sting roars.
As Sting continues to complain to Rogue, Lucy looks at her pocket watch and smiles lightly.
"Here Lucy! Have this pocket watch! It looks so cool! It would be even cooler if it could stop time though!" Lucy remembers the first time she received that gift from her friend.
"Time to go home then" Lucy whispers to herself. She runs off to her house and jumps onto her bed.
"I thought the top student would be nicer than that." Lucy pouts as she crosses her legs.
"I won't let him beat me!" Lucy shouted to herself with a hint of anger.
Today was Lucy's last day in Fairy Tail but no one knew she was leaving. Jellal and Makarov were the only ones who knew about Lucy's transfer. However, Lucy was fine with that.
Lucy sits down next to Jellal, on the bench, and looks into his eyes. "Thank you for everything Jellal!" Lucy thanks him and hands him a blue box wrapped in a navy blue ribbon. Jellal willingly accepts and opens the box to find,
"A music box?" Jellal questions her choice of the present. Lucy scratches her head in embarrassment.
"Yeah! It plays the piece you played before (Frederic Chopin Scherzo No. 2 Op. 31)." Lucy turns the winding key and it starts to play the piece. "I had a hard time finding it but I eventually found it so please take care of it" Lucy bows her head towards Jellal.
"Thank you…" Jellal says almost silently. He raises his arm up to Lucy's neck very slowly and wraps his arm around. Jellal, who was smiling, brings Lucy closer to him and pulls her into an embrace.
"I guess I will see you next time?" Jellal asks Lucy as his eyes sparkled. The wind started to pick up and the tree's continuously made a rustling sound. The suns rays seem to be so soft today.
"Yeah" Lucy was about to smile brightly but stops herself. "See you around Jellal" Lucy gets up from her seat and waves goodbye to Jellal.
"Alright…Bye…" Jellal tries not to show his sadness as he waves goodbye to Lucy.
Lucy was about Fairy Tail campus until,
"HEY! LUCE!" A cheeky voice cries out. Lucy turns around and glares at the salmon colored student. "Why haven't you gone to class for the past few days?" Natsu asks as he pulls his signature grin.
"I just didn't want to" A shadow forms over Lucy's eyes.
"Also, why haven't you been eating with us lately?" Natsu pouts and points his finger at Lucy. "You have to eat with us!" Lucy suddenly sniggers and laughs evilly at his comment.
"What's so funny Luce?" Natsu, who was confused about why Lucy was laughing, asks.
"Oh… It's just that I won't be returning for a while" Lucy continues to laugh sadistically. "Anyways! It wouldn't matter right? I'm just a socially awkward and weird person according to your friends" Lucy flicks her hair over her shoulder.
"What are you talking about?" Natsu, clueless, looks at Lucy with a confused face.
"Don't pretend that you don't know! You are the only group in this whole school that hangs out on the roof!" Lucy scolds Natsu. "Backstabbing me… Calling me a friend then behind my back you call me names… You aren't different from the others." Lucy runs away from Natsu and uses her 'time delay' to get away form Natsu quickly.
"What the hell was that about? I like Lucy! I wouldn't say that!" Natsu stomps over to where his friends hang out to find out what is going on.
"Acting like he doesn't know anything… I have had enough of this world!" Lucy arrives at her house and knocks her bedroom door down from anger. "Shoot… I have to fix that later" Lucy picks up her broken door and places it in the hallway.
"Lets sleep" Lucy, the frustrated blonde, falls asleep, ending her last day of a member of Fairy Tail high… Temporarily.
The ringing will continue unless he wakes up…
Save him quickly…
Before it's too late…
Lucy… Save me!
Lucy forces her eyes open, shaking from her nightmare. "Calm down Lucy… It was just a dream" Lucy hugs herself and tries to steady her breathing.
"Alright!" Lucy throws herself out of bed getting ready for another typical day of school but this time, it's a little different from usual. She flings her uniform on and fixes her blazer by pulling the sides. She ties her hair in two high pigtails with pink ribbons and smirks while exclaiming,
"Get ready Sabertooth! I will break all the records and become the top student!"
End of chapter 7
Wow! That was an extremely long chapter! I got carried away! Hehe…
Anyways, who do you think the childhood friend is? I don't really know myself. I haven't decided. Do you think the childhood friend should be an OC or an actual character in Fairy Tail? This one is for you guys to decide for me!
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